Ashley Hames
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Ashley Hames (born: 19 November 1970 in Stourport, United Kingdom) is a British Presenter and Director with a wide range of credits to his name: he was the original News Bunny on L!VE TV.
More recently and indeed, certainly more acclaimed, Ashley has fronted three series of Bravo TV’s highest ever rating show, "Sin Cities", two fifteen part and one ten part series about sex from around the world, and "Man's Work", a series he presents for Bravo TV.
Ashley made his mark at Channel 4 where he directed and presented Bad Trip, a controversial documentary uncovering his exploits with a Playboy model, a homeless alcoholic and other lethal weapons in Texas, USA. He also filmed and edited a documentary about cocaine for the channel’s launch of 4Later, as well as directing E4’s Posh Rock, a series about wealthy teenagers in Cornwall.
In 2006 Hames hosted a show called "Man's Work" in which he entered many "extreme jobs" to test his physical and mental capabilities.
Ashley is currently filming a new four part travel series for BBC Two, to be broadcast in autumn 2007. Guilt Trip takes lovers of luxury goods to see the real ecological and human costs of their vices. In each episode, three members of the public, with their own extraordinary obsession with luxury goods, are sent packing on a potentially life-changing journey tracing their object of desire back to its roots. Guilt trippers must first meet hard-line ethical expert Lucy Siegle and a panel of activists, who devise a tailor-made journey – their own personal guilt trip. The panel sends the guilt trippers into a new world – designed to make them see the light. Alongside Ashley, their trip will take them to far-flung corners of the globe where they are shown the dark underside of their luxuries, from the illegal gold mines of Ghana to the grim sweatshops of India. But they also meet people who benefit from their obsession: workers who would otherwise be unemployed and communities that would be obliterated without their Western purchase power. When the guilt trippers return from their two-week journey they must face the panel – and a complex and difficult decision.[1]
His book, Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter is released on 07 July 2008 and available for pre-order on amazon.co.uk. [2]
