Ade Adepitan

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ade Adepitan
Occupation	Paralympian
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1973(1973-03-27)
Age	51
Birthplace	Nigeria
Country	Nigeria
Horoscope	Aries

Ade Adepitan Biography

Ade Adepitan is one of the most popular and richest Paralympian who was born on March 27, 1973 in Nigeria, Nigeria. Paralympic star who won gold medals in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, and dance.

At the 2012 Paralympics in London, he led his team to wheelchair basketball gold, while LeBron James led his team to Olympic basketball gold.

Adedoyin Olayiwola “Ade” Adepitan MBE (born 27 March 1973) is a British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player. He uses a wheelchair as a result of contracting polio as a child which led to the loss of use of his left leg.

Adepitan has featured on many television programmes and series as an actor, presenter or guest, particularly for the BBC. He often uses television as a platform to campaign against racism and disability discrimination. He was one of three wheelchair basketball players featured in the 2002 BBC One ident Hip- Hop. He was one of the main presenters of the children’s programme Xchange produced for CBBC and has appeared in the soap opera EastEnders. He starred as wheelchair basketball coach, “Baggy Awolowo”, in the TV series Desperados.

He was born in Maryland, Lagos, Nigeria, but moved to Newham, London, when he was three.

Ade Adepitan Net Worth

Ade Adepitan is one of the richest Paralympian from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ade Adepitan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He contracted polio at six months old, which resulted in the loss of the use of his left leg, but didn’t deter him from his athletic dreams.

In 2010, he was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the University of East London.

Adepitan was born in the Maryland district in Lagos, Nigeria, on 27 March

1973. At the age of fifteen months, Adepitan contracted polio which resulted in the loss of function of his left leg, and ultimately prevented him from walking.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Ade Adepitan Dating?

According to our records, Ade Adepitan married to Linda Harrison. As of December 1, 2023, Ade Adepitan’s is not dating anyone.

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Adepitan does a lot of charity work, particularly supporting many charities to help other people with physical disabilities. He is a patron of Go Kids Go (formerly known as Association of Wheelchair Children). He is also a great supporter of the National Society of the Prevention of the Cruelty to Children Charity (NSPCC) and the WheelPower Charity. Adepitan travelled to Ghana in support of Comic Relief. He also participated in the Disabled Motoring UK Alps 2011 Challenge. Adepitan is also an Athlete Ambassador for Right to Play, the world’s leading sport for development charity.

Facts & Trivia

Ade Ranked on the list of most popular Paralympian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Ade Adepitan celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.

Adepitan has also worked with the BBC, having presented the Invictus Games, guest-presenting an episode of The One Show alongside Alex Jones. In 2016, Adepitan co-presented three-part BBC Two series New York: America’s Busiest City alongside Anita Rani and Ant Anstead. Since 2016, Adepitan has co- presented the BBC’s Children in Need appeal. In 2017 he co-presented World’s Busiest Cities with Anita Rani and Dan Snow and in 2019, Adepitan presented a new four-part series for BBC Two Africa with Ade Adepitan, traveling across Africa, from West Africa and city of his birth – Lagos in Nigeria – through Central and Eastern Africa and on to the deep south of the continent.

Does Ade Adepitan have a child?

Ade Adepitan’s son was born in January and more than three months on the TV presenter and Paralympian still cannot stop gushing, happy to admit he is “obsessed” with his baby boy. Lockdown gave Ade, 48, and his wife Linda Harrison, 30, precious time to be together with Bolla.

Does Ade Adepitan speak Spanish?

I’m fluent in Spanish , having lived in Spain for two years.

What age is Ade Adepitan?

49 years (March 27, 1973)

Where was Ade born?

Maryland, Ikeja, Nigeria

How many children does Ade Adepitan have?

Ade Adepitan welcomes baby Bolla Around two and a half years since their wedding, Ade and Elle welcomed a son named Bolla. Their firstborn child was born on January 4th, 2021.