Charley Boorman Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Charley Boorman (born 23 August 1966) is an English TV presenter, travel writer and actor. He is known for his enthusiasm for motorbikes, as demonstrated in several documentaries of his travels, including two with his friend, actor Ewan McGregor.
Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, Mister Frost, Beyond Rangoon, The Serpent's Kiss, The Bunker, I, Cesar, In My Country, I Dreamt I Woke Up, Two Nudes Bathing
TV Shows
Long Way Down, Race to Dakar, Long Way Round, By Any Means, Right to the Edge: Sydney to Tokyo by Any Means, IRT Deadliest Roads, Charley Boormans Extreme Frontiers, Celebrity Masterchef
Star Sign
Virgo
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Fact
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Charley's father John Boorman is a huge friend of Jon Voight. Charley was the first male to hold Jon Voight's baby daughter. The daughter grew up to become Angelina Jolie!.
A non-fatal brush with cancer in 2010 necessitated the removal of a testicle which was replaced with a prosthesis. Boorman quipped, "I had it whipped out and I have a false testicle in there now. If I bury myself, the only thing that will probably be left is a silicone testicle lying in the coffin".
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Served as a pageboy at the wedding of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand during the Deliverance (1972) shoot. When Bertrand gave birth to her second child June 4, 1975, Boorman ended up being the first-ever male to hold Angelina Jolie in his arms. Boorman was 8 and Jolie was but an infant.
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First motorbike that he ever owned was a Yamaha DT100. Because he was too young to hold a license, he could only ride the bike off-road.
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Drives a Toyota Prius but confesses that cars don't have the same effect on him as motorcycles. [2008]
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Charley and Ewan McGregor first met on the set of The Serpent's Kiss (1997). It wasn't until both men discovered they shared a mutual passion for motorcycles that their friendship was finally sealed.
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Is dyslexic.
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Motorcycle of choice is the Italian Ducati 748 sports model, but Boorman and pal Ewan McGregor each rode a BMW 1150GS Adventure for their marathon trip around the world in Long Way Round (2004).
$8 million
