Kamal Ibrahim: The sky is my happy place and there's nothing like flying

National Lottery presenter Kamal Ibrahim chats about fatherhood, Mr World, and rediscovering his love of flying in lockdown

Kamal Ibrahim

Kamal Ibrahim’s CV is impressive. Along with TV presenting, he has a Mr World title, a skydiving license, and scuba diving qualifications. It also turns out that his happy place isn’t in front of a camera, but in the sky.

“I wanted to join the Royal Air Force and be a fighter pilot,” says the Limerick native. ”But because of the war at the time, they changed the requirements and you had to be British. I was really gutted, because by that stage I had already served nine years in the Irish Defense Forces.”