Ben Fogle Interview:
Written by Chloe Randall
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en Fogle is an awardwinning broadcaster and adventurer. He has written 9 Sunday Times best-selling books and is the United Nations Patron of the Wilderness. Nerve spoke to him about his adventures and what he is still hoping to achieve… From a young age, Ben knew he wanted to do something out of the ordinary. Growing up with a famous mother, Julia Foster, and a father who is a vet, we asked what Ben wanted to do when he was younger. “A kind of vet, an animal rescuer was the dream. My dad is still a practicing vet. I used to spend my afternoons after school watching Dad operate on animals and it was fascinating and inspiring and I wanted to fix animals myself. On one hand there was that and 23 | nervemedia.org.uk
then with a mother who was a very famous actress at the time, I’d come back and I’d have tea with Michael Caine. It was very normal but it also meant that when Mum went off to the theatre I spent afternoons in her dressing room watching the excitement of the stage and fake buckets of blood when she was doing Shakespeare plays and I think I also wanted to do that because it looked so exciting so I think that’s where my aspirations came from.” Due to not meeting the academic grades for vet school and not pursuing acting, Ben didn’t follow directly in his parents’ footsteps. The year of 2000 saw the launch of Ben’s television career when he appeared on the BBC’s Castaway, a social experiment reality show where Ben was on a Scottish island for
