Jeremy Wade

Jeremy John Wade (born 23 March 1956) is a British television presenter, an author of books on angling, and a biologist. He is known for his television series River Monsters, Jungle Hooks and Mighty Rivers.\n', '

Wade was born in Ipswich and brought up in Nayland where his father was a vicar. He attended Dean Close School and has a degree in zoology from Bristol University and a postgraduate teaching certificate in biological sciences from the University of Kent. He has worked as a secondary school biology teacher in Kent.\n', 'At various times during his journeys abroad Wade has been detained as a suspected spy, caught malaria, been threatened at gunpoint, and survived a plane crash.\n', 'He is fluent in Portuguese, which he studied during the many years he spent fishing in Brazil, and also speaks French, and Spanish.\n', '

Wade\'s interest in fishing began as a child when he was liv…