Bomb disposal expert pushes limits feats of animals.. but don’t call him

Telly action man Andy Torbet refuses to describe his job as dangerous.

For his latest series, Andy has been filmed holding his breath while diving under giant icebergs, plunging head first from a plane with jet rockets attached to his legs, going jaw to jaw with the world’s fastest shark and even being engulfed in a burning fireball.

But the former paratrooper and army bomb disposal commander says it’s nothing compared to military service in Afghanistan and Bosnia.

And while others might describe him as a daredevil, he is no adrenaline junkie.

Andy, 41, who was in the Army for 10 years, said: “When you have been sent to Afghanistan to defuse bombs, it gives you a dif ferent perspective on what a dangerous job actually is.

“I’m a control freak, which is what you have to be when you work in bomb disposal and spend your days with bullets whizzing past your head.

“I’ve got zero interest in killing myself, so while the challenges I’ve taken on as a TV presenter look super- dangerous, I was always confident that what I was doing had been thought through.”

Andy, who grew up in Turiff, Aberdeenshire, has just spent the last seven months filming Beyond Bionic, a new adventure series for CBBC, where he attempts to match the skills of many of the world’s strongest, fastest and most incredible animals.