The Last Leg host Adam Hills will be helping front Channel 4’s Paralympics Games coverage (Picture: Ken McKay /ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock)
As the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games kicks off, one familiar face will be helping front Channel 4’s coverage of the event.
From tonight until the event ends on September 8, Adam Hills will be giving updates each day after the sporting action concludes, with his show The Last Leg airing nightly from 10.30pm.
The Australian presenter, 54, will be joined by co-hosts Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe, with the trio to ‘give their unique take on the day’s events, all with their usual comedic twist’.
They’ll also be joined by a variety of guests and a live studio audience.
Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, Adam has presented the late-night talk show since 2012.
Before we next see it on screens, here’s everything we know about the beloved presenter.
What is Adam Hills best known for?
He began his career as a stand-up comedian (Picture: Ken McKay/ ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock)
Born in Sydney in 1970, Adam started his career as a comedian at the age of 19, going on to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs festival.
From 2005 until 2011 he hosted the Australian music quiz show Spicks and Specks, which was then revived in 2021.
He also had his own talk show, Adam Hills Tonight, from 2011 until 2013.
Inthe United Kingdom, he has hosted the talk show The Last Leg since 2012.
The series originally ran alongside the 2012 Summer Paralympics every night following the main coverage on Channel 4 and was an instant success, regularly pulling in more than a million viewers each night.
Adam was awarded an MBE in 2022 (Picture: PA)
It was then commissioned to run as a weekly show, which now also looks at political and other events in the news each week.
Adam has described the series as ‘three guys with four legs talking about the week’, as he was born without a right foot and Alex had his right leg amputated when he was a baby.
Over his career Adam has been nominated, and won, several Bafta and RTA awards.
In 2022 he was also appointed an MBE forservices to Paralympic sport and disability awareness.
How long has he been presenting the Paralympic Games?
He has hosted The Last Leg since 2012 (Picture: Channel 4)
Adam co-hosted coverage of the 2008 Summer Paralympics for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Four years later The Last Leg saw him return to covering the sporting event.
In a recent interview with Radio Times, Adam said he felt like a bit of a ‘fraud’ as he never saw himself as disabled.
‘I’m really only missing a tiny bit. I was born with one foot and my parents were told by the first specialist they met that I’d never walk. My mum was devastated. But I caught a bug as a baby and she took me to the GP – and he told her I could have a prosthetic made and I’d be absolutely fine,’ he explained.
‘They were advised to treat me like any normal kid – if I fell over, I had to pick myself up, no fussing over me! I never even used the word disabled.
‘At the 2008 Paralympics, I realised no one considered themselves disabled, they were all just cracking on with life. It was a real eye-opener. I saw my tribe – fit, young people playing sport. And then, in 2012, when ParalympicsGB came into the stadium and there were fireworks going off and Heroes was playing to 80,000 people – I thought, ‘I want to be part of that crew.’ And then I realised, “Oh, I am! I’m disabled”.’
Is he married?
He shares two daughters with his wife, opera singer Ali McGregor (Picture: Ryan Pierse/ Getty Images)
In December 2009, Adam married opera soprano Ali McGregor.
The couple have two daughters and lived in London until just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, when they moved back to her hometown of Melbourne.
They now split their time between the U.K. and Australia due to the filming schedule of The Last Leg.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games’ Opening Ceremony begins tonight at 6:30pm on Channel 4.
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