I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.

Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.

Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly

Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.