He has wrapped himself in venomous snakes, scaled the Eiger, been bitten by crocodiles and chucked in a Colombian jail. But nothing has tested Steve Backshall more than the sleep deprivation inflicted by his six-week-old twins. “Caffeine is like gold dust,” he says, apologising for delaying our interview as he had to stop off at a coffee shop.
Battling through a double dose of new-baby exhaustion has left the TV naturalist and adventurer and his wife Helen Glover knackered.
In fact Steve and the Olympic rowing legend were so shattered that they were unable to think of names for their tiny son and daughter, who were known as The Boy and The Girl for a whole month. “When you start thinking about choosing baby names, particularly when you get
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