# Calum Best

Calum Milan Best (born February 6, 1981) is an American television personality and entrepreneur. He is the only child of footballer George Best. He is also the chairman of the Dorking Wanderers women's team.

## Early life

Best was born in San Jose, California, the son of parents from the United Kingdom: Angie Best (born MacDonald-Janes), an English model, and George Best, the Northern Irish footballer. He was raised in Los Angeles, where he became a model in his mid-teens.
Best is a patron of Nacoa (the National Association for Children of Alcoholics), a UK charity providing support to children affected by a parent's drinking. He moved to his parents' native United Kingdom when he was 21.

## Career

Best has taken part in the reality TV shows Fool Around With on E4 and The Match on Sky One. In 2005 and 2006, he was featured in ITV's Celebrity Love Island, winning the second series on August 28, 2006. Around this time he played himself in the final episode of ITV's Footballers' Wives. In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.
In late 2006, Best launched a men's fragrance called "Calum", made by Jigsaw ESL. Best also launched fragrances called "Best" and "Day and Night".
In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ's Livin' with Lucy. Later that year, he featured in MTV's Totally Calum Best. The show detailed Best's attempts to remain celibate for fifty days.
In 2009, he appeared as a guest judge in the reality television show Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, in which he tested the contestants' flirting abilities. In November 2009, he presented the BBC TV Documentary Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special, which highlighted the plight of children brought up by alcoholic parents. Best drew upon his relationship with his own father in the making of the program, which the BBC described as a 'raw and often distressing journey'.
In 2010, Best appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me, where he dined with Janice Dickinson, Samantha Fox and presenter Jeff Brazier.
Calum hosted via webcam an Online bingo session at Bingocams UK on April 20, 2012.
In 2012, he won Ireland's Celebrity Bainisteoir, managing Moy Davitts of County Mayo.
In January 2015, he took part in the fifteenth series of Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother. He came third.
In 2016, Best was a member of the cast of the E! series Famously Single, which follows eight single celebrities in their search for love. He also returned for the second season of Famously Single which premiered June 25, 2017.
On January 3, 2017, he returned to compete on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, in which he finished in seventh place.
On March 22, 2017, he presented the documentary My Best, directed by Luigi Maria Perotti.
In 2017, Best appeared in third series of Celebs Go Dating.
In 2020, Best appeared in Ex on the Beach.
In 2022, Best appeared in and jointly won the fourth series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. Described as a "brutal" final, 3 other surviving celebrity contestants also won the shows final tasks.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | The Match | Contestant | |
| 2005 | Fool Around With | Contestant | |
| 2006 | Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan | Himself |
| 2005-2006 | Celebrity Love Island | Contestant | Series 2 winner |
| 2008 | Livin' with Lucy | Himself | Series 1 |
| 2008 | Totally Calum Best: The Best Is Yet to Come | Himself | |
| 2009 | Paris Hilton's British Best Friend | Guest Judge |
| 2010 | Come Dine with Me | Himself | |
| 2011 | Celebrity Salon | Contestant | Series 2 |
| 2012 | Celebrity Bainisteoir | Contestant | Series 5 winner |
| 2015 | Celebrity Big Brother 15 | Contestant | Series 15 - 3rd place |
| 2015 | Autopsy: The Last Hours of...George Best | Himself | Channel 5 documentary |
| 2016-2017 | Famously Single | Himself | Series 1 and 2 |
| 2017 | Celebrity Big Brother 19 | Contestant | Series 19 |
| 2017 | In Therapy | Himself | Series 2 |
| 2017 | Celebs Go Dating | Contestant | Series 3 |
| 2017 | My Best | Himself | |
| 2017 | Retribution | Demeteri | Direct-to-DVD film |
| 2017 | Dangerous Game | Chris Rose | Direct-to-DVD film |
| 2018 | Just Tattoo of Us | Himself | Series 3 |
| 2020 | Celebrity Ex on the Beach | Contestant | Series 1 |
| 2020 | Celeb Ex in the City | Himself | Series 1 |
| 2021 | George Best: True Genius | Narrator | |
| 2022 | SAS: Who Dares Wins | Contestant Joint Winner (4) | Celebrity Series 4 |
| 2022 | Squad Goals: Dorking 'Til I Die | Himself | BBC Three Documentary |