Ashley Hames
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Ashley Martyn Hames is an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 television presenter, director and writer.

Presenting & Direction

Hames presented three series of Bravo’s Sin Cities
Sin Cities
Sin Cities was a British sexually-oriented travel television series. It originally broadcast on Bravo from 2000 to 2007. It has also been broadcast on Showcase in Canada. Series 1 and 2 were produced by Visual Voodoo while Series 3 and 4 were produced by Class Films.The first season was hosted by...

, two fifteen-part, and one ten-part series about international sex and sexuality.

"Man's Work", was also presented by Hames, a show about dangerous and difficult jobs. In one programme, for example, he trained with the Colombian anti-narcotics police. He apologized to Major Fernando Buitrago, the officer who trained him, about taking drugs in the past after seeing the damage it was doing to Colombia.

He has also been seen on Five as the co-host, along with Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn is an English actor, presenter, and writer. He is best known as the mechanoid Kryten in the hit sitcom Red Dwarf, and for his role as presenter of Scrapheap Challenge.-Early career:...

, in a ten part series called Top Trumps
Top Trumps (TV Programme)
Top Trumps was a 10-part British television series based on the famous card game. It aired on Five in 2008. It was produced by Lion Television and presented by Robert Llewellyn and Ashley Hames....

in 2008.

Other work includes Channel 4's Bad Trip in 2000 (which he directed and presented), which dealt with his adventures in Austin, Texas with a former Playboy pin-up, Jeannie Millar.

He also starred in Bravo's Cops Cars and Superstars about the Bullrun car race from LA to Miami, where he interviewed Paris Hilton in a toilet.

Team PKR

Hames is a part-time poker player, and currently commentates for PKR
PKR
- Codes :PKR is:* the IATA airport designator of Pokhara Airport, Pokhara, Nepal* the ICAO airline designator of Pakker Avio, Estonia* the ISO 4217 code for the Pakistani rupee...

TV. He was an original member of Team PKR Pro, a team of players gathered from the online poker website, PKR.com.

Literary work

A book about his experiences filming Sin Cities - Sin Cities: Adventures of a Sex Reporter, was penned by Hames.
He has also self-published a book - Seven Days to Say I Love You - about the death of his father which is available on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005227BJO He is currently trying to fund a printed version of the book by way of small monotary donations.
He also writes for the Huffington Post and does blogs and interviews on his own website, www.ashleyhames.tv

External links

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