Ian Wright (traveller)
Ian Douglas Wright (born May 17, 1965, Suffolk, England) is an English television host and comedian. Wright was host of Pilot Productions' travel/adventure television series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet). He also hosted the short-lived program Ian Wright Live, a show filmed before a live audience and featured discussions on various travel topics.
A seasoned international traveller, Wright is perhaps the most recognizable host of Globe Trekker. He is known for his witty banter and amusing interactions with locals. For the past 7 years, he has hosted over 50 episodes of the program, including more extreme locations like Arctic Canada, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, Russia, Armenia, Nepal, Australian Outback, and even northern Norway. To date, Wright has won three U.S. Cable Ace Awards for Best Magazine Host.
Wright now also stars in the cable channel Discovery Travel & Living show VIP Weekends with Ian Wright.
In 2008, Wright appeared in America the Wright Way which aired on the Travel Channel. In this series, Wright travels to American cities and does his usual bit of visiting interesting locations and interacting with locals.
In 2010, he presented "Eurovision Countdown" for the European Broadcasting Union, previewing the songs that are to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
The latest of Ian Wright series is called Invite Mr Wright. The second season started on March 2012.
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“Jesus would recommend you to pass the first day of the week rather otherwise than you pass it now, and to seek some other mode of bettering the morals of the community than by constraining each other to look grave on a Sunday, and to consider yourselves more virtuous in proportion to the idleness in which you pass one day in seven.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)