This month we feature paralympian, spokesperson and television personality Ade Adepitan
Adeptitan is an accomplished wheelchair basketball player, and as a member of the Great Britain team, won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens and the gold medal at the 2005 Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Adepitan has featured on many television programs and series as an actor, presenter or guest, particularly for the BBC. He often uses television as a platform to campaign against racism and disability discrimination. Adepitan was appointed as one of the main presenters on Channel 4 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
In 2013, he presented a Channel 4 Dispatches program, 'Britain on Benefits', and also presented a documentary for Channel 4's 'Unreported World' about Cuban basketball players, 'Cuba, Basketball and Betrayal'.
In 2014, he became one of the presenters of the new BBC travel series The Travel Show. He also anchored the Winter Paralympic Games for Channel 4 and Invictus Games for the BBC.