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Ade Adepitan (Adedoyin Olayiwola Adepitan) was born on 27 March, 1973 in Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria, is a British television presenter and sportsman. Discover Ade Adepitan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

Popular As Adedoyin Olayiwola Adepitan
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Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 27 March 1973
Birthday 27 March
Birthplace Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality United Kingdom

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1973

Adedoyin Olayiwola "Ade" Adepitan (born 27 March 1973) is a Nigerian-born British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player.

As a presenter, he has hosted a range of travel documentaries and sports programmes for BBC television.

Adepitan is a disability advocate and one of the first physically disabled television presenters in the UK, with a career of over 20 years.

Adepitan was born in Lagos.

As an infant, he contracted polio, resulting in damage to his legs that left him a wheelchair user.

At the age of three, he moved with his family to the United Kingdom, where he grew up in East London.

2000

During the 2000s, Adepitan began appearing on British television.

His early appearances included as an actor in the shows Casualty and Desperados.

He also moved into presenting, initially primarily for sports programmes during the 2000s.

2002

He was one of three wheelchair basketball players featured in the 2002 BBC One ident Hip-Hop.

He was one of the main presenters of the children's programme Xchange produced for CBBC and has appeared in the soap opera EastEnders.

He starred as wheelchair basketball coach, "Baggy Awolowo", in the TV series Desperados.

2004

Becoming a wheelchair basketball player, he was part of the British team that played at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, securing a bronze medal.

Adepitan is an accomplished wheelchair basketball player, for his club Milton Keynes Aces and as a member of Great Britain team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.

Adepitan has featured on many television programmes and series as an actor, presenter or guest, particularly for the BBC.

He often uses television as a platform to campaign against racism and disability discrimination.

2005

Involved in a range of charities promoting access to sport for disabled people, in 2005 was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to disability sport.

In 2005, Adepitan participated in Beyond Boundaries which was a four-part documentary in which Adepitan trekked through rainforests, deserts, rivers and mountains in Nicaragua and made his own video diary filmed in London and Spain, talking about his sporting aspirations and how he coped as a London boy living in Zaragoza unable to speak any Spanish.

2010

From the 2010s, he increasingly appeared on travel documentaries, initially for episodes of the Channel 4 series Unreported World and then for the BBC series Africa with Ade Adepitan (2019) and Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline (2021).

In 2021, he was chosen to present open-access meetings of an unaffiliated scientific group set up to report to the public on the changing state of the global environment, following in the footsteps of Independent SAGE.

Adepitan was born in the Maryland district in Lagos, Nigeria.

At the age of fifteen months, Adepitan contracted polio which resulted in the loss of function of his legs, and ultimately prevented him from walking.

At the age of three, Adepitan and his mother migrated to the United Kingdom to join his father; who lived in the London Borough of Newham.

He was educated at Southern Road Primary School in Plaistow which he credits with helping him with his disability and problems at home.

From an early age, he had aspirations of becoming an international sportsman.

He also attended Lister Community School.

2012

Adepitan has become increasingly involved in making documentaries for Channel 4; he was appointed as one of the main presenters on Channel 4 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and co-presents That Paralympic Show with Rick Edwards.

2013

and in 2013, he presented a Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Britain on Benefits, as well as a documentary for Channel 4's Unreported World about Cuban basketball players, Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal.

2014

He was also part of the Channel 4 2014 Winter Paralympic Games and the Rio 2016 Paralympics presenting team alongside Clare Balding.

Adepitan has also worked with the BBC, having presented the Invictus Games, guest-presenting an episode of The One Show alongside Alex Jones.

2016

In 2016, Adepitan co-presented three-part BBC Two series New York: America's Busiest City alongside Anita Rani and Ant Anstead.

Since 2016, Adepitan has co-presented the BBC's Children in Need appeal.

2017

In 2017 he co-presented World's Busiest Cities with Anita Rani and Dan Snow.

2019

In 2019, Adepitan presented a new four-part series for BBC Two Africa with Ade Adepitan, traveling across Africa, from West Africa and city of his birth - Lagos in Nigeria - through Central and Eastern Africa and on to the deep south of the continent.

In 2021 he was one of the BBC presenters for the Global Citizen Festival, a panelist with the BBC game show Blankety Blank and celebrity contestant of Catchphrase on 30 October, competing against his Paralympics co-presenter Clare Balding.

On 17 May 2023, Channel 4 commissioned Ade: My Week in the Whitest Place on Earth (w/t); an upcoming film in which Adepitan travels to Orania, a whites-only town in South Africa.

Adepitan does a lot of charity work, particularly supporting many charities to help other people with physical disabilities.

He is a patron of Go Kids Go (formerly known as Association of Wheelchair Children).

He is also a great supporter of the National Society for the Prevention of the Cruelty to Children Charity (NSPCC) and the WheelPower Charity.

Adepitan travelled to Ghana in support of Comic Relief.