Calum Best

Infobox actor


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name = Calum Best
birthdate = birth date and age|1981|02|06
location = flagicon|USA San Jose, California
height = 6'2"
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birthname = Calum Milan Best
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notable role = "Celebrity Love Island"

Calum Milan Best (born 6 February 1981 in San Jose, California) is a Northern Irish/American former fashion model turned celebrity, and television personality.

Early life

He is best known for being the son of Irish football legend George Best from his father's marriage to Angela MacDonald-James. His personal life has been occasionally featured in tabloid newspapers and celebrity based magazines in the UK. His cousin is the actress Samantha Janus.

He has the middle name Milan, after his godfather, Milan Mandarić, his father's lifelong friend, the chairman of Leicester City F.C. He once had tryouts for Manchester United, and even Sir Alex Ferguson, the team's manager, went to watch him play, but he chose to pursue a career in modelling instead of football.Fact|date=July 2007

Television work

In 2005, Best was named "Company" magazine's "Bachelor of the year".Best has taken part in the Reality TV shows "Fool Around" on E4 and "The Match" on Sky One, featured as a guest panelist on an episode of "Big Brother's EForum" and in 2005 and 2006 he was featured in ITV1's "Celebrity Love Island", winning the second series on 28 August 2006. Around the same time he played himself in the last ever episode of ITV1's cult drama series "Footballers' Wives". [ [http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0829/loveisland.html RTÉ.ie Entertainment: Bianca and Calum are Love Island winners ] ]

In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series "Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan", in which he was seen traveling with fellow "Love Island" Alumni Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America's U.S. Route 66.

In late 2006, Best launched a limited edition men's cologne called "Calum". [ [http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/second-best-at-scoring-and-boozing-134909.html Second Best at scoring and boozing - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie ] ]

In June 2008, Best and MTV announced their new venture Totally Calum Best: The Best is Yet to Come. Best will have to go without sex for 50 days and 50 nights, starting on the 17th June 2008. His friends will set up honeytraps to try and tempt him. He will undergo lie detector tests at the end of each week. [http://www.mtv.co.uk/channel/mtvuk/news/11062008/424510/calum_best_comes_to_mtv Calum Best Comes To MTV | MTV UK] ]

Best also wants to use the programme to portray himself in a new light and to attempt to get his acting career off the ground without any 'distractions'. [http://www.capitalradio.co.uk/Article.asp?id=744042 We Chat To Calum Best - Capital 95.8] .]

Personal life

Calum has a daughter, Amelia Lucie Hogan, who was born on 19 December 2006 in London, from a one night stand with model Lorna Hogan. [ [http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/2006/12/24/exclusive-georgeous-bestie-s-first-grandchild-98487-18321986/ Exclusive: Georgeous: Bestie's First Grandchild - Sunday Mirror ] ] .

In January 2007, online reports rumoured that Calum had only been left a watch by his father George in his will, because all the money that would be left after debts were finalized would go to Calum's aunt, Barbara McNarry. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/6303533.stm BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Best leaves son World Cup watch ] ] In May 2007, British tabloids published photographs of Best having sex with two female prostitutes in a London hotel, as well as snorting cocaine with them. This came only a week after his fling with Lindsay Lohan ended. [ [http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,4-2007240687,00.html Calum's coke-fuelled orgy | The Sun |HomePage|Showbiz|Bizarre ] ]

Calum has also had a relationship with swedish television host and model Carolina Gynning, which Gynning told about in her 2006 book "Ego Girl".

References

External links

*imdb name|id=1682285|name=Calum Best
* [http://www.myspace.com/calummbest Calum Best's MySpace Page]