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About Mark Hewlett
- Mark Hewlett (born 26 December 1974) is a Rhodesian-born radio and television personality most prominent in his adopted home of New Zealand.
- In 2003 Hewlett was crowned Fear Factor grand champion. As a child, his parents fled Rhodesia to settle in Canada and the United States during the Rhodesian Bush War.
- The family then moved back to their native Zimbabwe in 1980 and then to neighbouring South Africa in 1987, where Hewlett attended secondary school in Durban.
- In 1996, after a year at Natal University and a stay in London, Hewlett, for the fifth time, emigrated overseas this time to Los Angeles for a change of pace.
- There he was discovered by a photographer and began his modelling career.
- Following his move Hewlett was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes: he now injects himself four times a day. During his stay in Los Angeles Hewlett successfully competed in the Fear Factor Grand Champion edition which he won and took home $100,000 a portion of which he gave to his New Zealand-based parents.
- Hot on the heels of his Fear Factor win, Hewlett moved to New Zealand so he could be closer to his parents, he appeared in numerous television shows and was a daily host on radio station ZM.
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