Ben Fogle reveals naked truth about filming outdoors!

BEN FOGLE is planning another big adventure after putting his daredevil days on hold for his kids.

But now the action man TV presenter will push himself to the limit again.

In the past, he has rowed the Atlantic and raced to the South Pole, suffering serious frostbite along the way.

But having taken the safer option lately as a family man, he insists his latest adventure will also be for Ludo, seven, and Iona, five.

“I’ve always had a wanderlust and a fascination for pushing myself,” said Ben, 42.

“That’s still there. It’s what makes me who I am so I think I’ll do something in the next year or two.

“In the past few years, dad has been my most important role.

“I’ve had a more 9-to-5 job making TV shows.

“When you have kids, you have an absolute responsibility to be there during their precious, fragile early years.

“But they become more resilient and I don’t want my children to always just hear stories of what I did before they were born.

“I’d love them to love some of my adventures.

“It’s an important message for them about not having any regrets and about seizing the moments.”

While Ben hasn’t been at the other end of the globe for months on end, he’s still been away from the impressive London home he shares with wife Marina and the kids plenty.

A fair chunk of that has been for the filming of ITV’s Countrywise series, which he presents with Liz Bonnin.

The summer shooting schedule has taken him all over the country and he’s been getting stuck in.

“I learned to free dive off Cornwall for the show,” he explains.

“I’ve done a lot of scuba diving, but you don’t have any of that equipment.

“If you’ve even dived in a swimming pool, it’s quite hard to hold your breath for any length of time, but the goal was to get me down deeper than 10 metres.

“Your body is telling you that you need to take a breath.

“It’s very different from holding your breath on land when you know you’ll be fine as you can breathe whenever you need.

“With this, you’re going vertically down under water and you have to control the panic.

“Not having any of the cumbersome scuba equipment was quite liberating, though.”

Caving and sheep shearing were a couple of the other things Ben tried during the course of the series.

And fans could have got a real eyeful had they happened across filming one day in North Wales.

That’s because Ben had gone skinny dipping for a report.

“Apart from the crew and my skinny dipping buddy, I think only a couple of sheep would have seen my white bottom, which is probably just as well really,” laughs Ben.

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