I was born in 1973, the son of actress Julia Foster and broadcast vet Bruce Fogle. After completing my A-levels at Bryanston School in Dorset, I went on to spend a gap year in Quito Ecuador where he helped in an orphanage and taught English.I went on to spend a second year on the Mosquito Coast of Honduras and Nicaragua where I worked alongside the American Peace Corps on a Turtle conservation project.
I eventually settled down to a degree in Latin American Studies at the University of Portsmouth where I also enrolled as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, as a midshipman, I was deployed to Norway, Spain, Gibraltar and France and as Officer of the Watch aboard HMS Blazer, I was responsible for escorting HMY Britannia into Portsmouth Harbour for the last time.
After a year at the University of Costa Rica, I found myself the picture editor for society glossy magazine, Tatler, for whom I worked for just over a year before I volunteered to be marooned on an uninhabited Scottish Island for a year as part of BBC 1's Castaway 2000.
I spent a year on the remote island of Taransay, where I and thirty five other men women and children became totally independent and self sufficient.I returned to reality as the roving correspondent for a glossy magazine. Assignments took me to Japan, the Falklands, Nepal, Zambia, Bali, East Timor, the Arctic Circle and Barbados, and as a regular presenter alongside John Craven and Michaela Strachen on BBC 1's Countryfile.
I went on to co-present BBC 1's Animal Park with Kate Humble, which returns to your screens for a fourth series in the Autumn.
I have presented numerous other programmes including Big Screen Britain, Crufts, One man and His Dog, Inside Out, Death By Pets, What Are We Like, the Abyss Interactive, Heaven and Earth, and Holiday and have made numerous TV appearances including So Graham Norton, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, The Big Read - Battle of the Books, Restoration, The Kumars at No 42 and Rise.In 2004 I beat Eastenders actor Sid Owen in a three round charity boxing match for BBC Sport Relief.I recently recorded my first talking book, Anna Sewell's, Black Beauty available from CSA Telltape at WH Smith'sI have also become a regular writer for numerous magazines and newspapers including The Times, The Guardian, The Sun, The Express, Glamour magazine and The Evening Standard, and have recently published my first travel book, The Teatime Islands, Journeys to Britains Faraway Outposts, published by Penguin.I have been shortlisted as GQ personality of the year and nominated as best new talent at the RTS Midland awards, most recently my book has been shortlisted for a the WH Smith's peoples award.
I am regular skier and a keen horseman . Also i have my NAUI/PADI SCUBA diving certificate, coastal skipper sailing certificate and am a qualified dingy sailor. I am fluent in Spanish and am currently undergoing my PPL - Private Pilots License, training
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