Never a stranger to a challenge, Eddie made his pantomime debut in Cinderella and is very excited to be returning to the stage again this Christmas.
Michael David Edwards, better known as Eddie, the Eagle, is an English ski-jumper and Olympian who in 1988 became the first competitor since 1928 to represent Great Britain in ski-jumping at the Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, where he finished last in the Normal Hill and Large Hill events.
He held the British ski-jumping record from 1988 to 2001. He also took part in amateur speed-skiing, running at 106.8 km/h (66.4 mph), and became a stunt jumping world record holder for jumping over six buses.
Fame followed for the self-funded Olympian, with appearances across the globe, including an invitation back to Calgary to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the games, and, in 2010, he was chosen as a torchbearer in the relay for the Vancouver Olympics.
Eddie went on to win the first series of Splash!, in which he was mentored by Olympic diver Tom Daley. He returned to the ski slopes in Channel 4’s The Jump and has been unmasked as Rubber Chicken in the UK version of The Masked Dancer and danced his way into the semi-finals of the ITV hit Dancing on Ice.
He has kept busy with after-dinner speeches, conferences and cruises, inspiring and entertaining audiences throughout the world. The smash-hit big-screen biopic, Eddie The Eagle (2016) starring Taran Eagerton and Hugh Jackman, has introduced Eddie to a whole new world of admirers.
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