Calum Best

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Calum Best
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Calum Best in 2010
Born
Calum Milan Best

(1981-02-06) February 6, 1981 (age 40)
San Jose, California, United States
OccupationTelevision personality
Parents
RelativesSamantha Womack (cousin)

Calum Milan Best (born February 6, 1981) is a British-American television personality. He is the son of footballer George Best.

Early life[]

Best was born in San Jose, California, the son of parents from the United Kingdom: Angie Best (née Angela MacDonald Janes), an English model, and George Best, an acclaimed Northern Irish footballer.[1] He was raised in Los Angeles, where he became a model in his mid-teens.[2]

Best is a patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics ("Nacoa"), a UK charity providing support to children affected by a parent's drinking. He moved to his parents' native United Kingdom when he was 21.[2]

Career[]

Best has taken part in the reality TV shows Fool Around With on E4 and The Match on Sky One. In 2005 and 2006 he was featured in ITV's Celebrity Love Island, winning the second series on August 28, 2006. Around this time he played himself in the final episode of ITV's Footballers' Wives. In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen travelling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

In late 2006, Best launched a men's fragrance called "Calum", stating "I had all the input into the smell. I chose the smell, I chose the bottle, I chose the packaging, the whole thing",[3] the product is being made by Jigsaw ESL.[4]

Best went on to launch his second fragrance, called "Best". After that success, Jigsaw ESL also manufactured his third fragrance called "Day and Night".[citation needed]

In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ's Livin' with Lucy. Later that year, he featured in MTV's Totally Calum Best. The show detailed Best's attempts to remain celibate for fifty days.[5]

In 2009, he appeared as a guest judge in reality television show Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, in which he tested the contestants' flirting abilities. In November 2009, he presented the BBC TV Documentary Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special, which highlighted the plight of children brought up by alcoholic parents. Best drew upon his relationship with his own father in the making of the programme, which the BBC described as a 'raw and often distressing journey'.[6]

In 2010, Best appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me, where he dined with Janice Dickinson, Samantha Fox and presenter Jeff Brazier.[7]

Calum hosted via webcam an Online bingo session at Bingocams UK on April 20, 2012.[8]

In 2012, he won Celebrity Bainisteoir, managing Moy Davitts of Mayo.[9][10]

In January 2015, he took part in the fifteenth series of Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother.[11] He came third.[12]

In 2016, Best was a member of the cast of the E! series Famously Single, which follows eight single celebrities in their search for love. He also returned for the second season of Famously Single which premiered June 25, 2017.[13]

On January 3, 2017, he returned to compete on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother,[14] in which he finished in seventh place.[15]

On March 22, 2017, he presented the documentary , directed by .[16]

In 2017 Best appeared in of Celebs Go Dating. [17]

In 2020 Best appeared in Ex on the Beach of Ex on the Beach. [18] In December, Best appeared on the Iain Lee Twitch stream where they talked about a "Loose Women" style show they are working on as a pilot for the TV channel Dave in the UK for 2021. The programme for middle aged Men called "Daily Males" is going to film in February 2021.

Filmography[]

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Celebrity Love Island Contestant Series 2 Winner
2010 Come Dine With Me Himself
2015 Celebrity Big Brother 15 Contestant Series 15
2015 Autopsy: The Last Hours of...George Best Himself Channel 5 Documentary
2017 Celebrity Big Brother 19 Contestant Series 19
2017 Celebs Go Dating Contestant Series 3
2017 My Best Himself
2017 Retribution Demeteri Direct-to-DVD film
2017 Dangerous Game Chris Rose Direct-to-DVD film
2020 Ex on the Beach Contestant Series 11
2021 Narrator

References[]

  1. ^ The Eternal Portal. "George Best (The Belfast Boy) Online Memorial Tribute". theeternalportal.com. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b This Morning, January 17, 2014.
  3. ^ Nolan, Emma (September 24, 2006). "Second Best at scoring and boozing". Irish Independent. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  4. ^ Barriaux, Marianne (August 27, 2007). "Jade and Jordan boost the less sniffy end of scent market". The Guardian. London. Retrieved February 18, 2010.
  5. ^ "Calum Best Comes To MTV". MTV UK. June 11, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  6. ^ "BBC.co.uk Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special". BBC. November 11, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  7. ^ "Come Dine with Me – Episode Guide – Channel 4". Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  8. ^ "Calum Best to celebrity host at Bingocams UK". bingocams.co.uk. April 20, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  9. ^ "Watch out girls, Calum signs up for 'Celebrity Bainisteoir'". Evening Herald. Independent News & Media. June 13, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
  10. ^ "Calum Best is Moy Davitts Celebrity Bainisteoir". Mayo Today. July 23, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  11. ^ "Who is Calum Best? Meet the Celebrity Big Brother 2015 contestant". The Telegraph. January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  12. ^ "CBB final 2015: Calum Best becomes third housemate to be evicted – taking THIRD place". Mirror Online. February 6, 2015. Retrieved February 8, 2015.
  13. ^ "Meet Calum Best From 'Famously Single'". Bustle.
  14. ^ ""Who is Calum Best? Celebrity Big Brother 2017 profile"". Radio Times.
  15. ^ "Calum Best in shock eviction from Celebrity Big Brother missing out on live final". January 31, 2017.
  16. ^ "'My Best' - interview with Luigi Maria Perotti - LIDF - Documentary Film Festival". www.lidf.co.uk. Archived from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  17. ^ Tutton, Charlotte (August 23, 2017). "Celebs Go Dating series 3: Who's on the line-up, when does it start?". OK! Magazine.
  18. ^ Edwards, Chris (December 9, 2019). "Celebrity Ex on the Beach confirms Joey Essex and Love Island's Georgia Harrison on official line-up". Digital Spy.

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