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Calum Milan Best (born February 6, 1981) is an English-American television personality and entrepreneur. He is the only child of footballer George Best. He is also the chairman of the Dorking Wanderers women's team.
Best is a patron of Nacoa (the National Association for Children of Alcoholics), a UK charity providing support to children affected by a parent's drinking. He moved to his parents' native United Kingdom when he was 21. This Morning, January 17, 2014.
In late 2006, Best launched a men's fragrance called "Calum", made by Jigsaw ESL. Best also launched fragrances called "Best" and "Day and Night".
In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ's Livin' with Lucy. Later that year, he featured in MTV's Totally Calum Best. The show detailed Best's attempts to remain celibate for fifty days.
In 2009, he appeared as a guest judge in the reality television show Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, in which he tested the contestants' flirting abilities. In November 2009, he presented the BBC TV Documentary Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special, which highlighted the plight of children brought up by alcoholic parents. Best drew upon his relationship with his own father in the making of the program, which the BBC described as a 'raw and often distressing journey'.
In 2010, Best appeared in Channel 4's Come Dine with Me, where he dined with Janice Dickinson, Samantha Fox and presenter Jeff Brazier.
Calum hosted via webcam an Online bingo session at Bingocams UK on April 20, 2012.
In 2012, he won Ireland's Celebrity Bainisteoir, managing Moy Davitts of County Mayo.
In January 2015, he took part in the fifteenth series of Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother. He came third.
In 2016, Best was a member of the cast of the E! series Famously Single, which follows eight single celebrities in their search for love. He also returned for the second season of Famously Single which premiered June 25, 2017.
On January 3, 2017, he returned to compete on the nineteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother, in which he finished in seventh place.
On March 22, 2017, he presented the documentary My Best, directed by Luigi Maria Perotti.
In 2017, Best appeared in third series of Celebs Go Dating.
In 2020, Best appeared in Ex on the Beach.
In 2022, Best appeared in and jointly won the fourth series of . Described as a "brutal" final, 3 other surviving celebrity contestants also won the shows final tasks.
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