MATT BAKER:
FROM THE ONE SHOW TO OUR DREAM FARM
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Ahead of this year’s Three Counties Show, we have been privileged to speak to celebrity headliner, Matt Baker, a true farming enthusiast, to get all the scoop on his farming background, TV antics and hopes and dreams for the future.
What inspired you to pursue a career in television presenting, and how did you get started in the industry? Yeah, it's interesting, actually, so I was a gymnast when I was younger and it was my gymnastics that led me to a college production of the musical Grease to do some back flips and somersaults in the production. And it was a very opportunistic experience be- cause it turns out that the guy that I was doing a bit of body doubling for, and being a little bit of a stunt man for, he got laryngitis and ended up not being able to perform. So I took his part and that led me to swapping my A-levels. I changed over to one of them being theatre studies. And then this whole world opened up to me, and my whole sort of tack changed, really.
And then one thing led to another. I ended up at drama school up in Edinburgh. I was only there for a short amount of time when I heard that Blue Peter were looking for a new presenter. I literally rang up the BBC, got the telephone number from directory inquiries and that was it. Here I am now talking to you 25 years on. That's how long I've been in television for now. But I'd never really, you know, aimed to go on to television or it was never really a dream of mine. It just sort of unfolded in front of me.
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