Paul Heiney Biography
Paul Heiney is a British radio broadcaster and television reporter best known as the former That’s Life! host. In 2005, he participated in the single-handed transatlantic OSTAR race on the family boat, and authored an account of the race’s history and his own delayed crossing in The Last Man Across The Atlantic.
How old is Paul Heiney? – Age
He is 74 years old as of 20 April 2023. He was born in 1949 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Paul Heiney Family
He was born as the son of Evelyn Mardlin and Norbert Wisniewski. In 1971, he adopted the Heiney surname. He went to High Storrs Grammar School for Boys and Parson Cross Primary School on Halifax Road in Sheffield.
Paul Heiney Wife – Children
Heiney began conventional farming in Westleton, Suffolk, in 1990, and now lives there with his wife, Libby Purves. Rose, the couple’s only surviving child, is an actress and writer who has also written columns on occasion. Their first child, Nicholas, died on June 26, 2006, at the age of 23; he committed suicide at the family home due to a major mental illness.
Paul Heiney Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of £7 million.
Paul Heiney Career
In 1971-74 he was one of the pioneer telecasters on BBC Radio Humberside with his program of music, visit and current issues named Scunsbygookington, mirroring the critical towns in the Humberside area of Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole, Kingston-upon-Body and Bridlington. In 1974-76, he was a columnist for Newsbeat on Radio 1, then, at that point, in 1976-78, a journalist for the Today program on Radio 4. Somewhere in the range of 1983 and 1985 he introduced the Radio 4 customer program All of you and later was a periodic moderator of the week by week cultivating magazine program On Your Ranch.
His TV debut was on Such is reality! in 1978; he remained on the program until 1982. He dealt with In At The Profound End in which Heiney takes on a scope of difficulties and new positions. During the creation of one episode (1984) Heiney significantly meets the Hollywood film entertainer Oliver Reed for acting tips yet Reed turns out to be progressively bothered with Heiney’s efforts to assume a part and suddenly stops the recording of the program and truly mistreats Heiney out of his home. Heiney likewise introduced The Movement Show, Food and Drink and, on BBC Radio 4, All of you lovely people. He later introduced BBC One’s buyer undertakings program Guard dog and furthermore introduced the ITV early evening show Countrywise from 2009 to 2015.
In September 2011, Heiney co-facilitated an early evening Lineage series Missing Millions close by Melanie Sykes on ITV. As a component of his undertakings for the television series In At The Profound End, Heiney played a talking part as a German hired soldier leader in the 1985 film Water inverse Michael Caine.
For quite some time Heiney worked 36 sections of land (15 ha) with Suffolk Punch ponies. He composed a journal of his exercises for The Times as well as a few books. He likewise gave two recordings about cultivating ponies, Bridled to the Furrow and Initial Steps to the Wrinkle, working with his guides, Roger and Cheryl Clark.
He has likewise introduced A Victorian Summer for Anglia TV, eight half-hour programs about conventional cultivating: the greatness of working the land with ponies as well as the afflictions and troubles that Victorian ranchers confronted.
