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The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight.

Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: June 7
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Edward Michael Grylls
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