Ade Adepitan

Adedoyin Olayiwola "Ade" Adepitan  (born 27 March 1973) is a Nigerian-British wheelchair basketball player and television presenter.

Life

As a presenter, he has presented many travel documentaries and sport programmes for BBC television. Adepitan is an award-winning disability advocate. He is one of the UK's first physically disabled television presenters, with a career about 21 years. 

Early life
Adepitan was born in Lagos. When he was a baby, he contracted polio, which caused damage to his legs that made him a wheelchair user. At the age of three, he moved with his family to the UK. This is where he grew up in East London. 
Works
Sports
Becoming a wheelchair basketball player, he was part of the British team that played at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He obtained a bronze medal. Involved in many charities promoting access to sport for disabled people, in 2005 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his services to sport for the disabled. 
Television
During the 2000s, Adepitan began appearing on British television. His first appearances included as an actor in the shows Casualty and Desperados. He also went on to present for sports programs during the 2000s. Beginning in the 2010s, he appeared more and presented in travel documentaries and television specials. At first he worked for episodes of the series Unreported World of Channel 4, then for BBC Africa with Ade Adepitan, Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline and Children In Need.

Category:1973 births
Category:Living people
Category:Black British actors
Category:Black British sportspeople
Category:British basketball players
Category:British people with disabilities
Category:English television presenters
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
Category:Sportspeople from Lagos

Category:Sportspeople from London
Category:Wheelchair basketball players