Steve Edge

He shared his childhood home with cross-eyed chimp called Primo – and that’s one of the more mundane things about Steve Edge’s extraordinary life. Poverty-soaked East End urchin, 12-year old magazine contributor, creative design-world prophet, he’s brave enough to climb Everest – but his wife and five kids won’t let him.

He’s connected with the Muppets, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark and his hero is Tommy Cooper. Steve Edge: you couldn’t make him up.