Monty Don

Quick Facts

Full Name	Monty Don
Occupation	Tv Show Host
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1955(1955-07-08)
Age	69
Birthplace	Iserlohn
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Cancer

Monty Don Biography

Monty Don is one of the most popular and richest TV Show Host who was born on July 8, 1955 in Iserlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a television host best known for his work with the BBC’s Gardeners’ World. He was also a columnist for The Observer and hosted Channel 4’s Lost Gardens and Real Gardens.

He took over He replaced Alan Titchmarsh as the host of Gardeners’ World.’s role as host of Gardeners World.

Montagu Denis Wyatt “Monty” Don OBE (born George Montagu Don; 8 July 1955) is a British television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture, best known for presenting the BBC television series Gardeners’ World.

In 1981, Don and Erskine started Monty Don Jewellery, a business that designed, made, and sold costume jewellery. In 1986, they operated from a shop on Beauchamp Place in Knightsbridge, London and the company grew to have 20 employees, hundreds of outworkers, and 60 outlets across the US, including Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Liberty, and sold their products to Boy George, Michael Jackson, and Princess Diana. However, the 1987 stock market crash caused an almost complete bankruptcy as it cut off American sales, their biggest market. The situation prompted Don to embark on a career in writing and broadcasting. Reflecting on the experience, he wrote: “We were lambs to the slaughter and we lost everything, […] we lost our house, our business. We sold every stick of furniture we had at Leominster market”. He was unemployed from 1991 to 1993, and spent all of 1992 on the dole. Some of the jewellery is kept at the V&A Museum in London.

His parents were English and he was born in Germany. He married Sarah Don and had three children.

Monty Don Net Worth

Monty Don is one of the richest Tv Show Host from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Monty Don 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before being accepted to Magdalene College in Cambridge, he attended Quidhampton School.

He and his wife founded Monty Don Jewellery, a company that makes costume jewelry.

Don was born George Montagu Don on 8 July 1955 in Iserlohn, West Germany, the youngest son of British parents Denis Thomas Keiller Don, a career soldier posted in Germany, and Janet Montagu (née Wyatt). A family dispute over his name caused his parents to remove “George” from his name and his birth certificate changed to Montagu Denis Don. At age 10 Don added his mother’s maiden name of Wyatt to it. Both of his paternal grandparents were Scottish, through whom he is descended from botanist George Don and the Keiller family of Dundee, inventors of a brand of marmalade in 1797. On his maternal side, he is descended from the Wyatt family, who were a prominent dynasty of architects. When Don was one, the family moved to Hertfordshire, England. He had a twin sister and three other siblings; his twin suffered a broken neck and blindness after a car crash at the age of 19. Don describes his parents as being “very strict”.

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Who is Monty Don Dating?

According to our records, Monty Don married to Sarah Don. As of December 1, 2023, Monty Don’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2005 Don himself dedicated a whole column to this subject, commenting:

Facts & Trivia

Monty Ranked on the list of most popular TV Show Host. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Monty Don celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

Don has written of his struggle with depression since the age of 25 and Seasonal Affective Disorder. He describes in his memoir “great spans of muddy time” in which there is nothing but depression. He noted “‘Earth heals me better than any medicine”. He has had cognitive behavioural therapy and took Prozac before favouring a lightbox, now a recognised aid for Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers. He had peritonitis in 2007 and a minor stroke in

2008. Shortly before he fell ill with his stroke, Don had launched the Monty Don Project, a charity to help persistent offenders and drug addicts heal themselves by working the land.

Is Monty Don retiring from Gardeners World?

Gardeners’ World: Monty Don announces end of series The popular BBC Two show has been presented by horticulturist Monty Don since 2003, who ended the series finale with a profound message to the programme’s loyal fanbase.

Does Monty Don have a wife?

Sarah Don

When did Monty have a stroke?

In February 2008 , Don suffered a minor stroke at home. He had been feeling unwell since the Christmas prior, mostly due to exhaustion from travelling to film Around the World in 80 Gardens.

Why does Monty Don leave gardeners world?

In fact, the reason why Monty couldn’t present the show was because he was giving talks and gardening demonstrations to visitors at this year’s RHS’s Malvern Spring Festival – the same place where the latest episode of the show was presented from!

Is Sarah Raven married to Monty Don?

Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has two daughters and three stepsons.