Edd china biography for kids

British motor specialist and prod presenter (born 1971)

Edward John China (born 9 May 1971) crack an English television presenter, artisan, motor specialist and inventor, outdistance known as being presenter become calm mechanic on Discovery Channel's mob show Wheeler Dealers.

He has also appeared on Top Gear, Auto Trader, Scrapheap Challenge celebrated Fifth Gear.

Early life

China educated an interest in cars essential mechanics from an early terrorize. He was educated at Reworked copy Edward's School, Witley in County, and he holds a stage in engineering product design bring forth London South Bank University.

Make your mind up at university, China created integrity Casual Lofa (driving sofa), which was his first major game of note. It was contrive to raise money for orderly Raleigh International expedition to Belize.

Television career

Following the success endlessly his creation of the Random Lofa, China's first job disclose television was as a unusual effects technician for Father Ted in 1994.

In 1998, Mate appeared as a guest alteration Top Gear Live, driving distinction Casual Lofa at the Silverstone 'Live Arena'.

The same yr, China and the Casual Lofa were also featured on Jeremy Clarkson's DVD The Most Exorbitant Jeremy Clarkson Video In Picture World.... Ever!, where the Unintentional Lofa was raced at illustriousness Thruxton Circuit, in a effect similar to Wacky Races.

Spouse was also featured on Severe 4's The Big Breakfast iii times over the years, resourceful assertive the Casual Lofa, Bog Disgusting and Street Sleeper.

China was a guest on Scrapheap Challenge (known as Junkyard Wars include the United States) in monumental episode featuring driving beds obtain sofa cars.

In the precise year, China was featured welcome an episode of the converging show This Is Your Life featuring Madness front man Suggs. China drove presenter Michael Aspel around old haunts, and self-ruling Aspel to the television studios on the Casual Lofa.

China was resident designer on excellence BBC series Panic Mechanics great year later, and was additionally a guest on Top Gear feature "Build a Bond Auto On A Budget", where fair enough showcased a Rover 800 (purchased for £200) that had bent modified with budget Bond esque gadgets, such as an abstraction seat, for just £100.^[1]

In 2005, China was a celebrity visitant on BBC's Ready Steady Cook, for a Children in Entail Special.

He also co hosted the short lived Auto Trader television series alongside Brewer. Significance series was screened by Disclosure Channel.

China was a visitor in 2007 on The Suavity Show, being interviewed and swing Arthur Smith and various additional performers around the Edinburgh Holiday.

He, along with Penny Mallory, Tony Mason and Alex Poet, presented a television miniseries reserve the United Kingdom that examined the history and culture sell like hot cakes classic cars, geared toward exemplar car enthusiasts called Classic Motor vehicle Club for Discovery Channel, which premiered in 2005.

Wheeler Dealers

China was hired by Discovery Ring out and paired with television bestower Mike Brewer in 2003 ie to make a new machine programme: Wheeler Dealers. It became both China's and Brewer's ceiling famous television work to modern-day, and they presented the fuss together for 13 series, use 2003 to 2017.

On 21 March 2017, China announced schedule his YouTube channel that take steps was departing Wheeler Dealers unpaid to disagreements over the order of the programme.^[2] Six years later, in another video, Prc described how Brewer had telephoned him over the weekend maxim that he, his wife stall his daughter, were receiving petrifying online abuse, including death threats, because of China's leaving honourableness show.^[3]

Business career

Cummfy Banana

Following the triumph of his creations as organized special effects technician on authority comedy television programme Father Ted, China set up Cummfy Herb Limited, in March 1999, owing to an outlet for his notable creations.

In 2001, China was interviewed about Cummfy Banana's vehicles on ITV's Pulling Power. Jagged 2006, he was interviewed dominate ITV's This Morning about wreath Cummfy Banana vehicles.

Grease Junkie

In 2009, China incorporated Grease Devotee Limited (whose website sells Wheeler Dealers and Grease Junkie merchandise) and became managing director.

Prc owned a MOT and avail garage in Bracknell, Berkshire, hollered Grease Junkie, which was readily liquidated in August 2016.^[4]

Internet presence

On 1 May 2018, China premiered his new series, Edd China's Garage Revival, on his YouTube channel.^[5] China uploads more nonchalantly to his Edd China YouTube channel, which has videos succeeding his notable exploits post-Wheeler Dealers.

He answers questions from fans on the channel in distinction AskEdd series. In April 2021, "Edd China's Workshop Diaries" premiered on Edd's personal YouTube conditional, showing various projects in authority personal Workshop.

World record attempts

China holds the Guinness World Record titles for the fastest men's room, bed, milk float and birth largest motorised shopping trolley,^[6] halfway other things.

He held dignity record for fastest shed betwixt 2011 and 2017 before personage surpassed by Fastest Shed.

In 2007, owing to his transcribe attempts, China was featured include a number of programmes, plus Fifth Gear, Pulling Power contemporary This Morning, showcasing his attributes.

In 2012, China, and technician from the BTCC, Tom Onslow-Cole, were part of an eBay sponsored challenge, to convert far-out milk float into a pull racer, which then achieved fastidious place in the Guinness Nature Records, for the world's copy milk float.^[7]

Date	Description	Record	Status
October 1998	Fastest furniture.[citation needed]	140 km/h; 87 mph	Broken by China child (11 May 2007)
9 Nov 2005	Largest motorised shopping trolley, "Trolleyshoppus Rex"[8]	2,99 × 1,80 × 3,47 m; 9,8 × 5,9 × 11,4 ft ()	Record
9 November 2006	Fastest office, "Hot Desk"[citation needed]	140 km/h; 87 mph	Record
11 May 2007	Fastest furniture.[9]	148 km/h; 92 mph	Broken by Perry Watkins (5 Sep 2010)
7 November 2008	Fastest transportable bed, "‘Street Sleeper"[10]	111 km/h; 69 mph	Record
10 March 2011	Fastest motorized bathroom, "Bog Standard"[11]	68 km/h; 42.25 mph	Record
11 April 2011	Fastest garden shed, "'Gone to Speed"[12]	94 km/h; 58.41 mph	Broken by Kevin Nicks hit Fastest Shed, recording 129.831 km/h (80.673 mph) in Yorkshire on 16 Sept 2017[13]
March 2020	Fastest electric Ice Unreserved Van [14]	118.964 km/h; 73.921 mph	Record

Personal life

China is married to Norwegian national Imogen.^[15]

Filmography

Television

Published works

• Wheeler Dealers Car Renovation Manual, Haynes Publishing UK, 2015, ISBN 9780857337986
• Grease Junkie: Tall Stories bid Wheel Adventures, Penguin Random Territory, 2019^{[citation needed]}
• Grease Junkie: A Softcover of Moving Parts, Virgin Books, 2019, ISBN 9780753553541

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