Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls meeting with Coventry Scouts groups, October 2012
Born	Edward Michael Grylls (1974-06-07) 7 June 1974 (age 42) Donaghadee, Northern Ireland
Residence	A barge moored by Battersea Bridge on the River Thames, England Saint Tudwal's Island West off Abersoch on the Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales
Alma mater	Eton College Birkbeck, University of London
Occupation	Chief Scout Adventurer Author Motivational speaker Television presenter
Spouse(s)	Shara Cannings Knight
Children	Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry
Parent(s)	Sir Michael Grylls Sarah "Sally", Lady Grylls (née Sarah Ford)
Website	beargrylls.com

Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is an Ulster born British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35.

Grylls was born in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. He grew up in Donaghadee until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.

He is the son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls, who was implicated in the cash-for-questions affair, and Sarah, Lady Grylls. Lady Grylls is the daughter of politician Patricia Ford, briefly an Ulster Unionist Party MP, and cricketer and businessman Neville Ford. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, an interior design public relations agent and cardio-tennis coach, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old.

Grylls was educated at Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. He graduated from the University of West of England.