Background
Best was born in San Jose, California, the son of English model Angie Best, and George Best, a football player from Northern Ireland. His father, George Best, was a football legend.
Best was born in San Jose, California, the son of English model Angie Best, and George Best, a football player from Northern Ireland. His father, George Best, was a football legend.
He was raised in Los Angeles, where he became a model in his mid-teens. Calum Best is a patron of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics ("Nacoa"), a United Kingdom charity providing support to children affected by a parent"s drinking. He moved to the United Kingdom when he was 21.
Best has taken part in the Reality television shows Fool Around With on E4 and The Match on Sky One.
In 2005 and 2006 he was featured in ITV1"s Celebrity Love Island, winning the second series on 28 August 2006. Around this time he played himself in the final episode of ITV1"s Football players" Wives.
In September 2006, Best appeared in the ITV2 series Calum, Fran and Dangerous Danan, in which he was seen traveling with Paul Danan and Fran Cosgrave from Texas to Los Angeles on America"s United States. Route 66. In late 2006, Best launched a men"s fragrance called "Calum", stating "I had all the input into the smell.
I chose the smell, I chose the bottle, I chose the packaging, the whole thing", the product is being made by Jigsaw English as Second Language. Calum went on to launch his second fragrance, called "Best".
After that success, Jigsaw English as Second Language also manufactured his third fragrance called "Day and Night". In 2008, Best appeared on RTÉ"s Livin" With Lucy. Later that year, he featured in Music Television"s Totally Calum Best.
The show detailed Best"s attempts to remain celibate for fifty days.
In 2009, he appeared as a guest judge in reality television show Paris Hilton"s British Best Friend, in which he tested the contestants" flirting abilities. In November 2009, he presented the British Broadcasting Corporation television Documentary Brought up By Booze: A Children in Need Special, which highlighted the plight of children brought up by alcoholic parents.
In 2010, Best appeared in Channel 4"s Come Dine With Maine, where he dined with Janice Dickinson, Samantha Fox and presenter Jeff Brazier. Best filled in a spot for Ian Wright on Live from Studio Five on January 8, 2010.
On October 2, 2010, Best appeared as a celebrity on All Star Family Fortunes along with Denise Welch, who was on the opposing team
Calum hosted via webcam an Online bingo session at Bingocams United Kingdom on April 20, 2012
In January 2015, he took part in the Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother. He came third.
Best dated Lindsay Lohan and Georgia Salpa. He was also a member and regular at the London nightclub, Chinawhite.