Ade Adepitan

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How Ade Adepitan met Linda Harrison: ‘I was like, if he’s going to stalk me, I’m going to stalk him’
TV presenter Adepitan, 49, met Harrison AKA the singer Elle Exxe, 32, at an awards ceremony in 2010. They married in 2018 and have one son

Emine Saner

21, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

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The week in TV: Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline; Seaspiracy and more
Ade Adepitan and Greta Thunberg showed how to reach people rather than preach at them

Euan Ferguson

18, Apr, 2021 @8:30 AM

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Mrs Noah fights back: 'It's about extinction. There is no bigger story'
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah’s family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama

Arifa Akbar

14, Apr, 2019 @2:00 PM

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Africa with Ade Adepitan review – at last, a diverse BBC travel show
The Lagos-born Paralympian takes us on a moving odyssey across Africa, starting in Senegal. Thank goodness the BBC have moved on from the endless procession of white presenters in ‘colourful’ foreign lands

Chitra Ramaswamy

03, Feb, 2019 @10:00 PM

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Ade Adepitan: ‘I’d like to be the British Oprah’
Thebasketball player, TV presenter and author on pancakes, planning his wedding and living for holidays

Susan Gray

12, May, 2018 @6:59 AM

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Ade Adepitan: ‘Sporting success healed my relationship with my dad’
The TV presenter, 44, talks about triumph on the basketball court, and surviving both polio and prejudice

Mark Bailey

11, Nov, 2017 @2:00 PM

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Ade Adepitan: ‘At Sydney my dad saw me playing basketball for the first time. That’s when he got it’
The wheelchair basketball player and Paralympics presenter talks about moving from Nigeria to the UK when he was three and being estranged from his parents for several years

Interview by Susan Gray

02, Sep, 2016 @12:00 PM

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AFL: five things we learned from round seven | Kathryn Kernohan
North take a step in the right direction, St Kilda carnage, poking the bear, the Eagles have a nose for blood, and anger and finger-pointing at Port Adelaide

Kathryn Kernohan

17, May, 2015 @11:52 PM

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The Great British Bake Off; Ade Adepitan: Journey of My Lifetime; Under the Dome – review

The Bake Off is back and dangerous, writes Euan Ferguson

Euan Ferguson

24, Aug, 2013 @5:00 PM

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Ade Adepitan: Nigeria polio drive has been hit by mistrust of 'white medicine'

The Paralympian and polio survivor returns to Nigeria where he finds conspiracy theories have hampered eradication efforts

Mark Tran

19, Aug, 2013 @1:38 PM

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Ade Adepitan: 'We got up to crazy things – disabled kids were wild and cool'

The Paralympic hero and TV presenter on his London childhood and becoming a basketball champion

Simon Hattenstone

18, Aug, 2013 @6:00 PM

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Paralympics organisers feel London is launchpad for mass-market Games
Ticket demand and a real buzz spread belief that London will give impetus to fully establishing the Paralympics on the world stage

Owen Gibson

25, Aug, 2012 @9:00 PM

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