Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls is a Northern Irish, Television Presenter, Author, Motivational Speaker. Bear Grylls was born on Friday, June 07, 1974 at Donaghadee, Northern Ireland and his real age is 45 years 9 months .

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Name	Bear Grylls
Real Name	Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls
Pet / Nick Name	Bear
Sex	Male
Nationality	Northern Irish
Profession	Television Presenter, Author, Motivational Speaker
Origin	Not Sure

Age, Dob, Birthplace, zodiac, star sign

Bear Grylls Age (Current)	45 years 9 months 29 days old
Date Of Birth (DOB)	Friday, June 07, 1974 (M/D/Y)
Birthplace	Donaghadee, Northern Ireland
Zodiac Sign	GEMINI
Star Sign (Nakshatra)	Not Sure

Death Details

Alive Or Dead	Alive
Date Of Death (DOD)	-- Not Applicable (M/D/Y)
After Death Timeline	0 years 0 months 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds 0 Total days

Personality, Physical Appearance

Body, Height, Weight

Body Type	Slim
Body Measurements	Chest: 40 Inches - Waist: 32 Inches - Biceps: 14 Inches
Zero Size	N/A
Bear Grylls's Height	in centimeters- 182 cmin meters- 1.82 min Feet Inches- 5' 10"
Weight	in Kilograms- 72 kg in Pounds- 158.7 lbs

Face Properties

Face Shape	Oval
Eye Colour	Black Eyes
Nose Type	Perfect
Hair Colour	Black
Hair Length	Medium Length
Dimple Status	No
Beard	N/A

Attitude

Nature	Openness to Experience
Character	Bystanders
Positive	Kind, Loyalty
Negative	Not Known

Father, Mother, Family Details

Bear Grylls Father	Sir Michael Grylls
Mother	Sarah (Sally) Grylls
No. Of. Brothers	0
No. Of. Sisters	1
Brother(s)	None
Sister(s)	Lara Fawcett (cardio-tennis coach)

Family Photos and Details

Father – Michael Grylls

Mother – Sarah Grylls

Sister – Lara Fawcett

Brother – N/A

Relationship, Affair, Wife-Husband, Girlfriends-Boyfriends

Bear Grylls Relationship Status	Engaged
Interested In	Not Known
Marital Status	Married
Marital Type	Love Come Arrange Marriage
Spouse	Wife: Shara Grylls

Affairs / Girlfriends -Not Known

Wedding Details

Bear Grylls's Wedding Date	-
Together Timeline	- 0 years 0 months 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds 0 Total days
Divorce Date	-
Separated Timeline	- 0 years 0 months 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds 0 Total days

Son-Daughter, Children Details

No.Of. Male Kids	3
No.Of. Female Kids	0

Children Details

Sons – Jesse Grylls, Marmaduke Mickey Percy Grylls, Huckleberry Edward Jocelyne Grylls

Daughters-  N/A

Caste, Religion, Community, Mother Tongue, Languages Known

Religion	Christianity
Bear Grylls's Caste	Father - Not Revealed Yet
	Mother - Same As Fathers
Community	Not Known
Mother Tongue	Not Revealed Yet
Languages Known	English, Hindi

Address, Native, Hometown, Current City

Native / Origin	Not Sure
Home Town	Donaghadee, Northern Ireland
Bear Grylls's Current City	Same As Home Town
Address	Address Untraceable

Education, Qualification

School	Ludgrove School
College	Eton College, University of the West of England
Bear Grylls's Qualification	Graduation in Hispanic Studies
Other Education Notes	Not Known

Facts

Life Style

Does Bear Grylls, Consume Alcohol?	Not Sure Yet
Does Bear Grylls, Smoke Cigarettes?	Not Sure Yet
Will Drive?	Yes
Is Bear Grylls, Swims?	Not Sure Yet
Is Bear Grylls, Yoga Practitioner?	No
Does Gym?	Yes
Is Bear Grylls, a Jogger?	Yes
Eating Habit?	Non-Vegetarian

Hobbies, Interests

Bear Grylls's Hobbies	Art / Handicraft
Food	Not a foodie
Music	Techno
Sports	Bowling

• His father, Michael Grylls was implicated in the cash-for-questions affair, a political scandal of the 1990s.
• His father was a member of prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron.
• His sister, Lara Fawcett gave him the nickname when he was a week old.

• As a child, Bear joined Cub Scouts.
• Bear’s love for adventure was rooted by his father. His earliest memories with his father are of climbing on the sea cliffs and making boats with him.

• His parents and grandparents used to take him backpacking in the Appalachian Mountains and to their rustic cabin in Lake Hartwell, where he learned setting up camp, fishing, starting a fire and cook on it, and hunting wild berries.
• He wanted to become Robin Hood and John the Baptist in his childhood.
• Bear was bullied in his school. Years later, he decided to learn Karate and earned a black belt. He went to Japan to be trained as the youngest member of the Karate Union of Great Britain.
• Bear is a religious person. He is an Anglican and has described his faith as the ‘backbone’ of his life.
• Bear always had a natural faith as a kid, where he considered god as free, pretty wild, and natural. When he went to school, it all became religious and was all about going to church. He even said that he wasn’t really ‘interested in the God of endless school assemblies.’ He said that he had lost his faith until, his godfather died, who was like a second father to him. He was 16 then. When he lost him, he wanted to pray for him but couldn’t. He sat under the tree and prayed – Will You be that friend to me that You were when I was like five or six and it felt natural? Amen.”
• He can speak English, French, and Spanish fluently.”
• After leaving his school, Bear decided to join the army and spent a few months hiking in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal.
• After his free-fall parachute accident, he spent his 18 months in and out of military rehabilitation at Headley Court before being discharged. During those 18 months, he spent his time directing his efforts to achieve his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest. On 16 May 1998, at the age of 23, he finally achieved his dream. At that time, he became one of the youngest people to climb the summit of Mount Everest.
• In 1997, he became the youngest Briton to climb the peak of Ama Dablam, Nepal, a peak that was once described as ‘unclimbable’ by Edmund Hillary.
• In 2000, to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), he led a team to circumnavigate the British Isles on Jet Skies in 30 days.
• To raise fund for his friend, who had lost his legs in a climbing accident, he rowed naked in a bathtub along the river Thames.

• In 2003, he led the team of five, including his childhood friend, SAS colleague, and Mount Everest climbing partner, Mick Crosthwaite in an open rigid inflatable boat on an unassisted crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean. They journeyed from Halifax, Nova Scotia to John o’ Groats, Scotland.
• In 2005, he created a world record of having the highest open-air formal dinner party, alongside the balloonist and mountaineer, David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, leader of the Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Display Team. The party was held under a hot-air balloon at 7,600 metres (25,000 ft), dressed in full mess dress and oxygen masks. He made over 200 parachute jumps to train for the event.

• In 2007, Bear set the record of paramotoring in the Himalayas over Mount Everest. He took off from 4,400 metres (14,500 ft), 8 miles south of the mountain and eventually, reached 9,000 metres (29,500 ft), almost 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) higher than the previous record of 6,102 metres (20,019 ft), coping with the temperature of −60 °C (−76 °F).
• To raise the funds for children’s charity Global Angels and to promote the use of alternative energies, he led a team of 4 to climb one of the most remote unclimbed peaks in the world in Antarctica in 2008. The mission also aimed at exploring the coast of Antarctica by inflatable boat and jetski powered by bioethanol and travel across the vast ice desert by kite ski and electric powered paramotor. Unfortunately, Bear suffered a broken shoulder while at the speed of 50 km/h across the stretch of ice, due to which, the expedition was cut short.
• Bear and Shara met for the first time on the New Year’s Eve in Scotland, when he was running naked around the beach. Shara helped him find his clothes. They had met just a few months before Bear went climbing Mount Everest.

• He is the ambassador for the ‘The Prince’s Trust,’ an organisation which gives training, financial, and practical support to young people in the United Kingdom. Apart from that, he is also the ambassador for the ‘Care for Children,’ an organisation that partners with the many governments in Asia to help create a positive alternative to institutional care through local family-based care for disadvantaged children.
• In 2014, he was announced as the global ambassador for Jaguar Land Rover.
• In 2015, Bear Grylls was interviewed for the cover of GQ Magazine and became the monthly columnist for the publication.

• In December 2015, the 44th American President Barack Obama came on a televised journey along with Bear Grylls in Alaska.

• In 2019, the 14th Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi also appeared along with Bear Grylls on his show, “Man vs. Wild.”

• Bear says that when he gets back home from filming, all that he needs is a cup of tea and bubble bath.
• According to Bear, the most disgusting thing that he had ever eaten was raw goat’s testicles and frozen yak eyeballs.

• He has two residences; one is a restored barge on the Thames and the other one is a private island in Wales. His home in wales is around 20 acres in area and is five miles away from the shore with no electricity or running water. It has a lighthouse and cottage.

• Bear Grylls is a fitness enthusiast. He trains 40 mins a day, six days a week. He does yoga, circuits and running, and exercises that keep his flexibility.
• He likes doing yoga and follows his yoga routine everywhere including airports, deserts, and middle of the jungle.

• He says that his least favourite destination is, Copenhagen. Describing his experience in Copenhagen, he says- We went for new year and almost everything was shut. We finally found a hot chocolate shop where the cleaners were fans of the show and we got a lock-in, so it wasn’t all bad.”
• He plays the guitar and chose guitar as his one of the three things that he would need to survive if he would get stuck in an island.

• Bear considers his competitor Lee Stroud, the Canadian survival expert, filmmaker, and musician as ‘a real hero.’
• He credits his 50% of survival knowledge to his father and 99% to his military training. Talking about it, he says – But as for the training, 99% was from the military and I learned a bunch as a kid with my dad, who’d been a commander and a climber and loved all this stuff. He’ll be turning in his grave if I only credit him with 1 percent… He’s about 50%! But he taught me the love of it, which actually counts for everything.
• He is the founder of the first mountaineering club at Eton College, England.
• Bear Grylls never go out in the wild without his knife, Firesteel, and a small laminated picture of his family, which he keeps tucked in the sole of his shoes.
• Sometimes, Bear has faced situations that are close to the call of death or too difficult for him. At those times, Bear felt nervous but he kept on moving. Talking about it, Bear says – I have learned that it is fine to feel like that —you gotta then put your head down and keep going — and that attitude has helped me so often.
• He has eaten animals from almost every species on the planet. Still, he has never told his wife about it. When asked about the reason for that, he said- My kids just laugh because they love all of that sort of stuff…they’re always trying to get me to eat some worms with them that they found in the garden. I don’t tell Shara [his wife] too much, otherwise she’d never kiss me.”
• The worst place he had to survive was the Black Swamps in Sumatra, Indonesia. It is the place where the tsunami had hit in 2001, and the whole place had turned into 65,000 stinking and rotten corpses with crocodiles feeding on them. Recollecting his memory of that place, he says- I remember just before going in there the search and rescue guy saying ‘listen if you got any sort of cuts or grazes, give it a day to heal before you go in there because this place is stinking.’ … When I was first roping out of the helicopter, just before I hit the water, the rope caught my nipple and took all the flesh off. I went smashing into this stinking water and that was it for the next however many days. I thought, ‘this is great, isn’t it…yea.
• According to Bear, the hardest place for him to shoot in was Scotland.
• Bear considers passing his SAS selection, climbing Mt. Everest, and his family, as the things that have made him the proudest in life.
• He has been declared as the Chief Ambassador of World Scouting.

• In 2019, his animated feature film “Bear Grylls Young Adventurer” was released. The story of the film revolves around the 13-year old Bear and his adventures.

Gossips, Controversies

• In 2007, Bear Grylls was found embroiled in a controversy after one of the programme consultants of the popular series “Man vs. Wild” claimed that Bear Grylls had spent his nights in a motel instead of wild and all the scenes were set for him. Bear Grylls had to apologize later for this, he said- If people felt misled on how the first series was represented, I’m really sorry for that.”
• In 2012, the Discovery Channel terminated all the productions with Bear Grylls due to contractual disputes. However, Bear was seen working with them again.
• In 2015, he was criticised by Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) after he left his eldest son Jesse on Saint Tudwal’s Island along the North Wales coast as a part of their weekly practice mission.
• In 2016, Bear was criticised by Sir David Attenborough and various animal charities for killing animals for filming purpose in the show “The Island with Bear Grylls.”
• In 2017, Bear Grylls faced a potential fine after he was seen killing and cooking a frog while filming the episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” in the Rila National Park with Derek Hough.

Net Worth, Earnings, Salary and Assets

Bear Grylls's Salary	(approx.)
Assets	Million USD (approx)
Net Worth	$20 Million

Movable and Immovable Assets

Cars Collection – Land Rover

Favourites and Preferences

Favourite Actor	Yet To Update
Favourite Actresses	Not Sure
Favourite Film(s)	Yet To Update
Favourite Director(s)	Yet To Update
Favourite Food	Avocado
Favourite Drink	Not Sure
Favourite Fruit	Coconut
Preferred Outfit	Yet To Update
Preferred Perfume	Not Known
Favourite Destination(s)	Nairobi and Ho Chi Minh City

Bear Grylls's Favourite Colour	Banana yellow, Tickle Me Pink
Favourite Musician	Yet To Update
Favourite Singer(s)	Yet To Update
Favourite Song(s)	Not Known
Favourite Sport(s)	Bowling

Social Media

Facebook

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Instagrm

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Twitter

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Youtube

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Wikipedia

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Career

Military Career

Bear Grylls served in the British Army reserves with 21 SAS as a trooper trained in unarmed combat, desert and winter warfare, survival, climbing, parachuting, and explosives from 1994 to 1997. As a survival instructor, he was twice posted in South Africa.

In 1996, during free-fall parachuting, his canopy ripped at 1600 feet (500 m) above ground. It caused him to fall and land on his parachute pack on his back, which partially crushed his three vertebrae. Talking about the accident, he says- I should have cut the main parachute and gone to the reserve but thought there was time to resolve the problem.”

As a result, his service in SAS ended in 1997. In 2004, he was awarded the honorary rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. In 2013, he was awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve.

Television Career

He made his first television appearance in an advertisement for Sure Deodorant, which featured his conquest in Mount Everest.

He has hosted many series including Escape to the Legion,Bear’s Wild Weekend,Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls,Escape from Hell,Running Wild with Bear Grylls,Bear Grylls Survival School, Survivor Gamesand You vs. Wild. The most famous one being Man vs. Wild, which was broadcasted on British Channel 4 as Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, as Man vs. Wild in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and the United States, and as Ultimate Survival on the Discovery Channel in Europe, Asia, and Africa

As a Motivational Speaker

He works as a motivational speaker, giving speeches at corporations, churches, schools, and other organisations.

As a Writer

He released his first book “Facing Up (UK)/The Kid Who Climbed Everest (US),” which described his voyage and achievements climbing to the summit of Mount Everest.

He has written many books about his expeditions, which includes Facing the Frozen Ocean, Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, Bear Grylls Outdoor Adventures, A Survival Guide for Life and  True Grit. In 2012, he wrote his Biography titled “Mud, Sweat and Tears: The Autobiography.”

He has written a series of children survival books titled “Mission Survival.”

He has also written thriller novels titled “Ghost Flight,” and “Burning Angels.”

As an Entrepreneur

Bear Grylls Ventures (a management company based in the UK, which manages television, books, films, licencing and endorsement deals for Bear Grylls) and NM Capital purchased “British Military Fitness” in September 2018 and rebranded it as “Be Military Fit with Bear Grylls.” It is led by the former or serving members of the British Armed Forces with recognised fitness training qualifications. The company is the largest outdoor fitness company in Europe with 140 public parks and outdoor spaces across the United Kingdom.

In 2012, he launched Bear Grylls Survival Academy in the UK, which offers a variety of survival courses to parents and their children, and adults.

Honors, Awards

• Appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to young people, media, and charity
• Honorary Doctorate by Harvard University
• GQ Best TV Personality of the Year Award in 2016
• GQ Men of the Year Award in 2016

Achievements

• In 1997, he became the youngest Briton to climb the peak of Ama Dablam, Nepal.
• In 2005, he created a world record of having the highest open-air formal dinner party, alongside the balloonist and mountaineer, David Hempleman-Adams and Lieutenant Commander Alan Veal, leader of the Royal Navy Freefall Parachute Display Team.
• In 2007, Bear set the record of paramotoring in the Himalayas over Mount Everest.
• In 2008, he set another Guinness World Record for the longest continuous indoor freefall along with the double-amputee, Al Hodgson and the Scotsman Freddy MacDonald.
• In 2009, at the age of 35, he was appointed as the youngest ever  ‘Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories.’

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