BBC star Colin Stafford-Johnson has an attention-grabbing life away from Wild Gardener – right here, we take a more in-depth look.
Colin Stafford-Johnson has been a BBC star for years (Picture: BBC/Crossing the Line Productions)
Colin Stafford-Johnson, maybe finest recognized for presenting Wild Gardener, was raised in Dublin, and his father, Barney Johnson, was the primary gardener to seem on Irish tv. The star, who has labored on a variety of BBC nature documentaries, moved to England in his twenties and studied biology on the College of Derby. On the identical time, he educated to be a wildlife cameraman.
He went on to movie animals over the globe, together with tigers in India and jaguars within the Amazon, in addition to birds of paradise in New Guinea. He is even labored with Sir David Attenborough on the beloved BBC sequence, Planet Earth. He isn’t all the time labored amongst nature. Colin’s first paid job was washing dishes in a Dublin restaurant for simply 85p per hour. He advised the Irish Unbiased: “I used to be attempting to save cash to go away, so I scrubbed from morning to nighttime and hardly noticed daylight.”
Colin commonly posts updates and movies on Instagram from his travels; nevertheless, he just lately shared the unhappy information of his mom’s passing. Sharing an image of the pair in a backyard collectively, he wrote: “My great mom, Dorothy (‘Dor’) Stafford-Johnson, left this world yesterday. What can I say? She was fabulous.”
Following her demise, he is been importing photos and movies of tigers, telling his followers his subsequent journey to Ranthambore, in India, might be this November.
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