Xand van Tulleken
{{Short description|British television presenter}}
{{See also|Van Tulleken brothers}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific-prefix = Jonkheer
| name = Xand van Tulleken
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| caption = van Tulleken in 2015
| birth_name = Alexander Gerald van Hoogenhouck Tulleken
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|8|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| spouse = {{marriage|Dolly Theis|2023}}
| children = 2
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| nationality = British
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| television = Operation Ouch!
| education = King's College School, Wimbledon
| alma_mater = Somerville College, Oxford
LSHTM
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Alexander Gerald van Hoogenhouck-Tulleken (born 18 August 1978){{cite book |title=Nederland's Adelsboek |date=2010 |publisher=Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie |location=The Hague |page=403 |edition=95th |language=Dutch |isbn=978-90-5802-081-9}} is a British doctor and TV presenter. He is best known for presenting the CBBC children's series Operation Ouch!{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/operation-ouch|title=Operation Ouch! - CBBC - BBC|website=www.bbc.co.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-09-17}} with his identical twin brother Chris, and the Channel 4 show How to Lose Weight Well.{{Cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-lose-weight-well|title=How to Lose Weight Well: How to Lose Weight Well|website=Channel 4|language=en|access-date=2019-09-17}}
Van Tulleken has presented many documentaries, including an episode of Horizon discussing male suicide{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgv82g|title=BBC Two - Horizon, 2018, Stopping Male Suicide|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-17}} and a BBC programme on the European migrant crisis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b073jh6b|title=BBC One - Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-17}} He can often be seen offering up his own body for science experimentation in diet show How to Lose Weight Well, as well as in BBC Horizon episodes "Sugar vs Fat"{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h|title=BBC Two - Horizon, 2013-2014, Sugar v Fat|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-17}} and "Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?"{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wdfhk|title=BBC Two - Horizon, 2014-2015, Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-09-17}} As of July 2023, he was appearing regularly on the BBC1 weekday programme Morning Live, providing a variety of medical advice. Van Tulleken is also a member of the "Made of stronger stuff" podcast on BBC Sounds.
Ancestry
He is descended from {{ill|Jan van Hoogenhouck Tulleken|nl}} (1762–1851), a Dutch rear-admiral who was later raised to the nobility with the title of Jonkheer (equivalent of a Baronet). As his descendant, this gives van Tulleken this title as well.
In June 2023, Xand, along with his brother Chris, were the subject of the BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are?, in which they learned that Jan van Hoogenhouck Tulleken's father, Ambrosius Tulleken, was a wealthy slave-trader who had a plantation in Demerara in The Guianas.{{Citation |title=Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 20: 5. Chris and Xand van Tulleken |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001nbhz/who-do-you-think-you-are-series-20-5-chris-and-xand-van-tulleken |access-date=2023-07-01 |language=en-GB}}
Early life and education
He went to both Hill House preparatory school, and then King's College School, an independent day school for boys in Wimbledon, London, with his twin Chris. He then went to Somerville College at the University of Oxford.{{cite web |title=Roll of Honour |url=https://sites.google.com/site/kcsboatclub/rollofhonour |access-date=15 November 2014 |series=King's College School Boat Club |publisher=King's College School, Wimbledon}} There he studied medicine, specialising in tropical medicine.{{Cite web |title=Five things you didn't know about Chris and Xand van Tulleken |url=https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tutorials/tv-series/five-things-you-didnt-know-about-chris-and-xand-van-tulleken/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Who Do You Think You Are Magazine |date=22 June 2023 |language=en}}
Personal life
Van Tulleken is married to doctor Dolly Theis, a visiting researcher at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge and former Conservative Party candidate for Vauxhall in the 2017 general election.{{Cite web |title=Dr Xand Van Tulleken married: Operation Ouch! presenter marries partner Dolly |date=21 May 2023 |url=https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/read-this/dr-xand-van-tulleken-married-operation-ouch-presenter-marries-partner-dolly-4151257 |access-date=2023-07-12}} He has one son from a previous relationship and has a son with his wife Dolly, born April 2024.{{Cite news |last=Tulleken |first=Xand van |date=2021-12-12 |title=I'm a long-distance dad so Covid was terrible – but it helped me let go of my guilt |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/12/i-am-a-long-distance-dad-so-covid-was-terrible-but-it-helped-me-let-go-of-my-guilt |access-date=2023-07-12 |issn=0261-3077}}
Television career
The van Tulleken twins often appear on shows together, but also both have individual appearances on various programmes.
= With Chris van Tulleken =
- Presenters of Channel 4's Medicine Men go Wild (2008).{{cite web |title=Medicine Men Go Wild |url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/medicine-men-go-wild |access-date=12 January 2013 |publisher=Channel 4}}
- Presenters of CBBC's ''Operation Ouch! (2012-2021).
- Presenters of BBC Two's Trust Me, I'm A Doctor (2013) alongside Michael Mosley.{{cite web |title=Trust Me, I'm A Doctor |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dgd9c |access-date=12 January 2013 |publisher=BBC Two}}
- Presenters of both What's The Right Diet for You? A Horizon Special (2015),{{cite web |date=19 December 2014 |title=What's The Right Diet for You? A Horizon Special |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02flxvc |access-date=14 January 2015 |series=Horizon |publisher=BBC}} and also Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad? (2015), testing the effects of sporadic alcohol consumption compared to regular alcohol consumption.{{cite episode |title=Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad? |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wdfhk |access-date=8 June 2015 |series=Horizon |series-link=Horizon (BBC TV series) |first=Sophie |last=Todd |network=BBC |station=BBC Two |location=London |date=20 May 2015 |series-no=51 |number=11}}
- Appeared on Series 5 of Hacker Time.{{cite web |date=18 April 2016 |title=BBC iPlayer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/schedules/cbbc/20150803 |series=CBBC Channel Schedule |publisher=BBC}}
- Presented a documentary series called The Twinstitute.{{cite web |date=4 December 2018 |title=What time is The Twinstitute on TV? What's it about and how does it work? |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-04/the-twinstitute-air-date-bbc2-chris-xand-van-tulleken/ |access-date=26 December 2018 |website=Radio Times}}
- Presented Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me (2020). The show explores how Xand was left with an irregular heartbeat after catching COVID.{{Cite news |last=Mangan |first=Lucy |date=2020-08-05 |title=Surviving the Virus: My Brother and Me review – a rigorous dispatch from the Covid frontline |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/05/surviving-the-virus-my-brother-and-me-review-a-rigorous-dispatch-from-the-covid-frontline |access-date=2023-07-01 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |last=Scullard |first=Vickie |date=2020-08-06 |title=BBC viewers sob as doctor recovering from covid has heart restarted |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/bbc-surviving-virus-viewers-sob-18724714 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Manchester Evening News |language=en}}
- Assisted Chris on the first of the 2024 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2893642}}
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Category:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
Category:English people of Dutch descent
Category:People educated at King's College School, London
Category:British television presenters
Category:Jonkheers of the Netherlands
Category:21st-century British medical doctors
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