Calum Best His High Profile Life

Would Calum Best have made a good footballer like his father? Born in California in 1981, Calum grew up being known as George Best’s son. This Irish football legend married Angela MacDonald James, a rather well known Playboy Bunny as well as a model. Calum means ‘dove’ and indicates a gentle character – how incongruous is that! Calum’s middle name, Milan, was given to him to honor Milan Mandaric, his godfather and a life long friend of his father, also famous because he was the Chairman of the Leicester City Football Club. It is said the Alex Ferguson of Manchester United came to watch Calum play when he was trying out for the team.

However, we will never know if Calum could have made it to legend status like his father in football. Rather than make it to the team and constantly be compared to his famous father, he decided to step out of his shadow and follow in his mother’s footsteps. The world of modeling beckoned and he answered the call. Well, he had the looks and the personality for it so it seemed the next best thing to being a footballer.

Came 2005, Calum Best was declared ‘Bachelor of the Year’ by Company magazine. The world of TV was another door through which he decided to go and he was featured as one of the guest panelists on the Big Brother’s EForum episodes during 2005 and 2006. He also made appearances in Fool Around and The Match but his best appearance was in ITV1’s Celebrity Love Island in which he won the second series on August 28th, 2006. It was also around this time that Calum Best played as himself in the very last episode of ITV1’s cult drama, the vastly popular Footballers’ Wives. In the latter part of 2006, Calum Best launched the limited edition of ‘Calum’, a limited edition men’s cologne.

Calum has always been in the public eye – from being accused of fathering a daughter and not acknowledging her, to being caught on film with prostitutes and cocaine, from his very famous fling with Lindsay Logan and of course, all the many beautiful female celebrities that are seen around with him. His reputation is probably termed notorious on both sides of the Atlantic and it bothers him not one whit. If anything, it just spurs him on to even more atrocious acts. Is it who he really is or is it an act? Is it just a ploy to get into the newspapers and tabloids or is it really him? With Calum Best, you never can tell – he just loves to keep everyone guessing.