Ben Shephard

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Benjamin Peter Sherrington Shephard (born 11 December 1974 in Essex) is an English television presenter. He was educated at Chigwell School, and further achieved a 2:1 BA Honours from Birmingham University in Dance, Drama & Theatre Arts. Ben lives in South West London with his wife Annie and son Samuel (born May 2005).

As well as being a huge West Ham supporter (he famously got Britney Spears to admit that she was a fan of the Hammers), he also has representative honours in both rugby & football.

He started off his career presenting on MTV and then went on to present The Bigger Breakfast and T4. In his early career he appeared in the video game Hardwar as the character Syd.

In 2000 he joined GMTV as a presenter on Entertainment Today. Today he still presents this programme (with Jenni Falconer), though he is also a fairly regular co-presenter of the main programme, where he is required to wear a tie - something he said he would never do! He also presents The Xtra Factor on ITV2, a spin off from The X Factor.

Then, in 2006, along with co-presenter Fern Britton, he presented the reality TV show Soapstar Superstar. But Britton and Shephard were both sacked from hosting the second series of the show and were replaced by Zoe Ball. The reasons's for the sacking are unknown, but it more than likely happened because the show wanted a bigger impact, and with Zoe Ball being a bigger star and having more status than Shephard and Britton, this is probably why they were replaced by Ball.

Shephard has also reported for ITV's All*Star Cup.

During the second series of ITV's Dancing on Ice, Ben presented the spin off show, Dancing on Ice Exclusive along with Andi Peters.

He also presents Saturday Morning Magic from 7am to 10am on London radio station Magic 105.4.

On a recent edition of the Paul O'Grady show, Ben modestly admitted to have been voted as the 73rd sexiest male in the world.

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