Ashley Hames
Ashley Martyn Hames (born: 19 November 1970 in Stourport, Worcestershire, England) is an English television presenter, director and writer.
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[edit] Presenting & Direction
Hames presented three series of Bravo’s Sin Cities, two fifteen-part, and one ten-part series about international sex and sexuality.
"Man's Work",[1] was also presented by Hames, a show about dangerous and difficult jobs. In one programme, for example, he trained with the Colombian anti-narcotics police. He apologized to Major Fernando Buitrago, the officer who trained him, about taking drugs in the past after seeing the damage it was doing to Colombia.
He has also been seen on Five as the co-host, along with Robert Llewellyn, in a ten part series called Top Trumps in 2008.
Other work includes Channel 4's Bad Trip in 2000 (which he directed and presented), which dealt with his adventures in Austin, Texas with a former Playboy pin-up, Jeannie Millar.
He also starred in Bravo's Cops Cars and Superstars about the Bullrun car race from LA to Miami, where he interviewed Paris Hilton in a toilet.
[edit] Team PKR
Hames is a part-time poker player, and currently commentates for PKR TV.[2] He was an original member of Team PKR Pro, a team of players gathered from the online poker website, PKR.com.
[edit] Literary work
A book about his experiences filming Sin Cities - Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter,[3] was penned by Hames. He has also self-published a book - Seven Days to Say I Love You - about the death of his father which is available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005227BJO He is currently trying to fund a printed version of the book by way of small monetary donations.[4] He also writes for the Huffington Post and does blogs and interviews on his own website, www.ashleyhames.tv
[edit] References
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://pkr.tv/
- ^ Publisher: Tonto Books (1 Jul 2008, ISBN 0955632609 ISBN 978-0955632600
- ^ http://www.indiegogo.com/Ashley-Hames-New-Book
