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Bear Grylls Net Worth
Bear Grylls's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million
Edward Michael Grylls was born on the 7th June 1974 in Donaghadee, Northern IrelandUK. He is a well known adventurer, television personality and writer, and as ‘Bear’ Grylls rose to prominence as a star of the television series “Born Survivor / Man v Wild” (2006–2011) which is one of the most significant sources of his net worth. He is also one of the youngest Britons to have climbed Mount Everest, which he did that at the age of 23. More, he is well-known for being the chief scout, and a motivational speaker.
How much is the net worth of Bear Grylls? Reportedly, his wealth is as much as $10 million, earned from his various activities over a period of 20 years, as described herein.
Bear Grylls Net Worth $10 Million
Until the age of four Bear was raised in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland, then the family moved to Bembridge, Isle of Wight. He is te son of the politician Sir Michael Grylls, and Sarah Ford. His extended family was rich in politicians, teachers, soldiers and clergy. Bear Grylls is a graduate from Eton College and Birkbeck, University of London. He served in the Territorial Army for three years until 1997. As an adventurer, he took part in, or was the leader of many expeditions, including climbing Mount Everest in 1998, circumnavigation on jet skis of the British Isles in 2003, setting the record for the highest open-air formal dinner party (under a hot-air balloon in 2005), crossing the North Atlantic in an inflatable boat in 2006, para-motoring over the Himalayas in 2007, setting the world record for the longest indoor free-fall utilising a wind-tunnel in 2008, and other adventures.
Most of the expeditions organized by Grylls had a philanthropic idea, to raise funds for various organizations and charity funds. However, the main sources of Bear Grylls net worth are television programs and books. Despite being the face of various commercials, and the guest on a number of talk shows, Bear landed lead roles in various television series. His first lead role was in a four part television show “Escape to the Legion” (2005), in which Grylls with a team participated in the French Foreign Legion’s training, based in the Sahara Desert. Later, he starred in the survival series “Man v Wild” (2006–2011) aired on the Discovery Channel. The main idea of the series was to drop Grylls into dangerous places, and showing the viewers the possibilities of surviving.
Other series that featured Grylls were “Worst Case Scenario” (2010), “Bear’s Wild Weekend” (2011), “Get Out Alive” (2013), “Escape From Hell” (2013) and “The Island with Bear Grylls” (2014–2015). Currently, the series “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” (2014–present) and “Bear Grylls: Mission Survive” (2015–present) are being broadcast. More, “Bear Grylls: Mission Survive” has started filming in August, 2015.
Another source of Bear Grylls’ net worth is writing. His debut book “Facing Up” (UK)/“The Kid Who Climbed Everest” (USA) (1999) was about his expedition to Mount Everest. William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award the author won for his second book “Facing the Frozen Ocean” (2004). Among the other books written by Grylls is his autobiography “Mud, Sweat and Tears: The Autobiography” (2012).
Last but not the least; Bear Grylls has been married to Shara Cannings Knight since 2000. The family has three sons.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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