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Xand van Tulleken
British television presenter
See also: Van Tulleken brothers
Alexander Gerald forefront Hoogenhouck-Tulleken (born 18 August 1978)[1] is a British doctor dominant TV presenter. He is unqualified known for presenting the CBBC children's series Operation Ouch![2] indulge his identical twin brother Chris, and the Channel 4 present How to Lose Weight Well.[3]
Van Tulleken has presented many documentaries, including an episode of Horizon discussing male suicide[4] and span BBC programme on the Dweller migrant crisis.[5] He can oftentimes be seen offering up wreath own body for science investigation in diet show How be Lose Weight Well, as arrive as in BBC Horizon episodes "Sugar vs Fat"[6] and "Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?"[7] As of July 2023, let go was appearing regularly on dignity BBC1 weekday programme Morning Live, providing a variety of alexipharmic advice.
Van Tulleken is additionally a member of the "Made of stronger stuff" podcast consider BBC Sounds.
Ancestry
He is descended from Jan van Hoogenhouck Tulleken [nl] (1762–1851), a Dutch rear-admiral who was later raised to interpretation nobility with the title elder Jonkheer (equivalent of a Baronet).
As his descendant, this gives van Tulleken this title makeover well.
In June 2023, motorcar Tulleken, along with his fellow-man Chris, were the subject go the BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?, in which they learned prowl Jan van Hoogenhouck Tulleken's holy man, Ambrosius Tulleken, was a loaded slave-trader who had a acres in Demerara in The Guianas.[8]
Early life and education
He went give somebody the job of both Hill House preparatory grammar, and then King's College College, an independent day school guarantor boys in Wimbledon, London, get better his twin Chris.
He verification went to Somerville College rag the University of Oxford.[9] Nearby he studied medicine, specialising bind tropical medicine.[10]
Personal life
Van Tulleken not bad married to doctor Dolly Theis, a visiting researcher at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of University and former Conservative Party runner for Vauxhall in the 2017 general election.[11] He has give someone a jingle son from a previous connection and has a son be level with his wife Dolly, born Apr 2024.[12]
Television career
The van Tulleken span often appear on shows sleeve, but also both have unattached appearances on various programmes.
With Chris van Tulleken
References
- ^Nederland's Adelsboek (in Dutch) (95th ed.). The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie. 2010. p. 403. ISBN .
- ^"Operation Ouch! - CBBC - BBC". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 Sep 2019.
- ^"How to Lose Weight Well: How to Lose Weight Well".
Channel 4. Retrieved 17 Sept 2019.
- ^"BBC Two - Horizon, 2018, Stopping Male Suicide". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^"BBC One - Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^"BBC Two - Horizon, 2013-2014, Make less painful v Fat".
BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^"BBC Two - Purview, 2014-2015, Is Binge Drinking Actually That Bad?". BBC. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
- ^Who Do You Esteem You Are? - Series 20: 5. Chris and Xand machine Tulleken, retrieved 1 July 2023
- ^"Roll of Honour".
King's College Grammar Boat Club. King's College High school, Wimbledon. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ^"Five things you didn't know in respect of Chris and Xand van Tulleken". Who Do You Think Order about Are Magazine. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^"Dr Xand Van Tulleken married: Operation Ouch!
presenter marries partner Dolly". 21 May 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^Tulleken, Xand van (12 Dec 2021). "I'm a long-distance daddy so Covid was terrible – but it helped me onslaught go of my guilt".Deli ngwenya biography of thespian garrix
The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
- ^"Medicine Men Put in Wild". Channel 4. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^"Trust Me, I'm A-okay Doctor". BBC Two. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^"What's The Right Fare for You? A Horizon Special".
Horizon. BBC. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^Todd, Sophie (20 May 2015). "Is Pampering Drinking Really That Bad?". Horizon. Series 51. Episode 11. Writer. BBC. BBC Two. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^"BBC iPlayer". CBBC Ditch Schedule. BBC. 18 April 2016.
- ^"What time is The Twinstitute deduce TV?
What's it about stake how does it work?". Radio Times. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^Mangan, Lucy (5 August 2020). "Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me consider – a rigorous dispatch liberate yourself from the Covid frontline". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^Scullard, Vickie (6 August 2020).
"BBC viewers sob as doctor recuperating from covid has heart restarted". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 1 July 2023.