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  1. Sep 14, 2023 · Eddie The Eagle was born into the family of his parents, Janette Edwards and Terry Edwards. His family would use his given name, Micheal, instead of Eddie. Eddie is something his schoolmates derived from his surname. Eddie’s father used to be a plasterer, and he was the one putting the bread on the family’s table.

  2. Updated on 17 December 2018. Michael David Edwards (born 5 December 1963), [1] better known as Eddie the Eagle, is an English ski jumper and Olympian who in 1988 became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping, finishing last in the Normal Hill and Large Hill events. He held the British ski jumping record from 1988 ...

  3. Mar 5, 2016 · Former Olympic ski jumper Eddie the Eagle has revealed that he has divorced his wife of 13 years. Michael Edwards, 52, from Cheltenham, met his wife Samantha Morton while working as a part-time ...

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  4. At the height of Eaglemania, he sang before 70,000 at a rock festival near Helsinki. “I was backed by a heavy metal band called the Raggers,” he reports. “Every member looked like a serial ...

  5. Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards' Cinderella story. Edwards had made it to Calgary despite limited resources. All money made from his plastering job was ploughed into chasing his Olympic dream. With no external funding, money-saving scenarios such as sleeping in cars, barns, and even, temporarily, a disused hospital in Finland, added to his lore.

  6. Feb 28, 2016 · No. In researching the Eddie the Eagle true story, we learned that washed up former ski jumper Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman), who becomes Eddie's coach in the movie, is an almost entirely fictional character. In the film, it is revealed that the ex-pat American Peary could have been great if ego and alcohol hadn't got in the way.

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  8. Feb 26, 2016 · 4. Lived briefly in a Finnish mental asylum. Eddie wasn’t mentally ill, but rather, the asylum had the cheapest room and that was all he could afford. 5. Jumped in secondhand gear. Because he ...