Kate Humble on 20 series of Animal Park: 'I feel like everybody's great-granny' katehumble
BBC One’s Animal Park returns for its 20th series this week, with Kate Humble back at Longleat in Wiltshire to visit its array of fascinating animals.
The series follows the lives of the keepers and animals at Longleat Safari and Adventure Park, from the endangered Amur tigers to an elephant rescued from the circus. It’s not just her animal friends that bring Kate back to the show year after year, but also her colleagues. Ben Fogle joined Animal Park in 2001 and hosted alongside Kate for the rest of the original nine-year run before returning for the show’s revival in 2016.
But it was the park’s koalas that won Kate’s affections this series – all because they wouldn’t co-operate with their camera crew. “I met Monty, the first male southern koala born in Europe, and he is completely adorable. I defy anyone with the hardest of hearts not to be won over by this little thing,” she says.
Fans will know it’s not only Kate and Ben in the presenting pack, with Springwatch’s Megan McCubbin and Strictly winner Hamza Yassin also on board. “I think we all bring something different, which allows Animal Park to be a series that still seems to appeal to people of every age and every demographic,” Kate says.
While Kate doesn’t see Hamza often, she did watch him every night on last year’s Strictly, which he won with professional Jowita Przystal. Has his success convinced her to sign up this year?
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