Rico Daniels is an English television presenter who has his own show, The Salvager on Discovery Real Time. A passionate recycler, the second series (similar in content to the first) saw him relocating in France and was called Le Salvager. Born in 1952 Daniels was brought up in Basildon and left school at 15 to become a civil servant, but soon realised this was not for him and enrolled as an art student. Disliking the formal tuitionDaniels embarke...
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Rico Daniels is an English television presenter who has his own show, The Salvager on Discovery Real Time. A passionate recycler, the second series (similar in content to the first) saw him relocating in France and was called Le Salvager. Born in 1952 Daniels was brought up in Basildon and left school at 15 to become a civil servant, but soon realised this was not for him and enrolled as an art student. Disliking the formal tuitionDaniels embarked on a range of jobs before settling for the life of a market trader. In 2002 he was invited to screen test for a new programme about men and their sheds. While he was not quite suitable for this assignment, the producer liked his idiosyncratic style and commissioned him for a series of programmes showcasing his imaginative talent for changing something unwanted into a distinctive piece of furniture.
In September 2009, Rico announced that he and his Moustache were to split. The Moustache was approached by the Bavarian Biscuit Federation to...
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