{"id":601091,"date":"2026-05-24T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601091\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T08:00:09","slug":"steve-backshall-deadly-60-star-speaks-about-surrey-upbringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601091\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Backshall: Deadly 60 star speaks about Surrey upbringing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">TV adventurer Steve Backshall has traced his adventurous streak back to the influence of his parents and his Surrey upbringing ahead of his upcoming shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backshall, from Bagshot, says he grew up chasing wildlife on the heaths before a career involving swimming with whales and filming with mountain lions, among other adventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, the 53-year-old is preparing to bring his Deadly Live stage show to the South East, playing the Brighton Centre in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC Radio Sussex, the Deadly 60 presenter said: &#8220;I started out on the Surrey Heaths looking for adders and skylarks and that passion has taken me to the Antarctic and the Himalayas, and all of these incredible places.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV adventurer Steve Backshall has traced his adventurous streak back to the influence of his parents and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}