Dara Ó Briain 12Foot6. In 2013, Ó Briain joined Jack Dee, Chelsee Healey, Greg James, Melanie C and Philips Idowu in "Through Hell and High Water", a Comic Relief challenge which involved British celebrities canoeing the most difficult rapids of the Zambezi River. They raised over £1 million for the charity. "Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure", a 2015 three-part fly-on-the-wall television series, followed Ó Briain and Ed Byrne on their journey by car down the Pan-American Highway. In June 2015, "Dara Ó Briain Meets Stephen Hawking", in which Ó Briain travels to Cambridge for a series of interviews with theoretical physicist Stephen
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