Who is 60 Days With The Gypsies host Ed Stafford?...

ED Stafford kicked off his career in the Army before moving to TV.

He is now back on the box with new Channel 4 show 60 Days With The Gypsies.

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Who is Ed Stafford?

Ed, 46, is a former British Army captain born on Boxing Day 1975.

In 2010 he became the first human to walk the entire length of the Amazon River.

His feat took him 860 days and earned him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Ed is now a presenter and adventurer on the Discovery Channel.

He is also the author of Walking The Amazon and Naked And Marooned.

What TV shows has Ed been in?

Ed has built quite a career for himself on TV, with his work mainly on the Discovery Channel and Channel 4.

His shows on Discovery include Marooned With Ed Stafford and Ed Stafford: First Man Out.

In Marooned he was dropped in locations from a Fijian island to the freezing cold Arctic Circle, with no tools, food or knife.

Ed also fronted Channel 4's 60 Days On The Streets.

In 2022, he is back on Channel 4 with 60 Days With The Gypsies, which kicks off on February 7, at 9pm.

Ed has admitted to having "prejudices'"against the Traveller community before filming.

However after being embraced by the community, he ultimately felt he had misjudged the group and says he felt a "great sense of pride" after discovering his own Romani roots. 

Ed says on the documentary: "I was naive. All I knew about gypsies was negative or hearsay. 

"Like a lot of people, I had prejudices, but it is so difficult to live as a nomadic person in the UK."

Is Ed married and does he have children?

Ed lives in Leicestershire with his wife and three kids.

On September 3, 2016, he married fellow explorer, Laura Bingham.

The couple have a son named Ranulph, who was born in 2017.

Then in 2020 his wife gave birth to twin girls – Mary and Camilla.