The wheelchair basketball star turned TV presenter on swimming with sea cows in Mozambique, a vegan-friendly Nigerian restaurant, and a brilliant podcast about race in America
March 2024
The moral response to racism and hatred
Letters: Gillian Dalley and Wiesner Vos reflect on Ade Adepitan’s article about visiting a whites-only town in South Africa and the subsequent trolling he faced
Sunday with Ade Adepitan: ‘A fusion of Nigerian, Scottish and Italian cookery’
The TV sports presenter tells Rich Pelley about breakfasting late on waffles and cream, terrorising his posh neighbours with his son in the park, buying in fusion dishes, then finishing up with a box set
Visiting a whites-only town in South Africa was difficult. Even sadder was the racist backlash in the UK
Ade Adepitan
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure; 3 Body Problem; Palm Royale; Jordan North: The Truth About Vaping – review
TV review
Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure review – a woeful failure to challenge racism
December 2023
TV review
The Big British Beef Battle review – this utterly shoddy climate documentary is an insult
Presenter Ade Adepitan’s attempt to highlight the environmental impact of beef is totally clueless. It’s stupid, shouty and patronising
December 2022
Celebrity how we met
How Ade Adepitan met Linda Harrison: ‘I was like, if he’s going to stalk me, I’m going to stalk him’
TV presenter Adepitan, 49, met Harrison AKA the singer Elle Exxe, 32, at an awards ceremony in 2010. They married in 2018 and have one son
July 2021
Majority of Channel 4’s Paralympics presenters will have disability
Broadcaster reveals plans for its Games coverage, with Ade Adepitan to host highlights show in Tokyo
April 2021
The week in TV: Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline; Seaspiracy and more
Ade Adepitan and Greta Thunberg showed how to reach people rather than preach at them
April 2019
Mrs Noah fights back: 'It's about extinction. There is no bigger story'
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah’s family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama
February 2019
TV review
Africa with Ade Adepitan review – at last, a diverse BBC travel show
The Lagos-born Paralympian takes us on a moving odyssey across Africa, starting in Senegal. Thank goodness the BBC have moved on from the endless procession of white presenters in ‘colourful’ foreign lands
May 2018
The balance
Ade Adepitan: ‘I’d like to be the British Oprah’
Thebasketball player, TV presenter and author on pancakes, planning his wedding and living for holidays
November 2017
This much I know
Ade Adepitan: ‘Sporting success healed my relationship with my dad’
The TV presenter, 44, talks about triumph on the basketball court, and surviving both polio and prejudice
September 2016
My family values
Ade Adepitan: ‘At Sydney my dad saw me playing basketball for the first time. That’s when he got it’
The wheelchair basketball player and Paralympics presenter talks about moving from Nigeria to the UK when he was three and being estranged from his parents for several years
May 2015
Sportblog
AFL: five things we learned from round seven
North take a step in the right direction, St Kilda carnage, poking the bear, the Eagles have a nose for blood, and anger and finger-pointing at Port Adelaide
August 2013
Observer TV reviews
The Great British Bake Off; Ade Adepitan: Journey of My Lifetime; Under the Dome – review
The Bake Off is back and dangerous, writes Euan Ferguson
Ade Adepitan: Nigeria polio drive has been hit by mistrust of 'white medicine'
The Paralympian and polio survivor returns to Nigeria where he finds conspiracy theories have hampered eradication efforts
The G2 interview
Ade Adepitan: 'We got up to crazy things – disabled kids were wild and cool'
The Paralympic hero and TV presenter on his London childhood and becoming a basketball champion
August 2012
Paralympics organisers feel London is launchpad for mass-market Games
Ticket demand and a real buzz spread belief that London will give impetus to fully establishing the Paralympics on the world stage