In recent years he made guest appearances on Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity Ghost Stories and a tribute documentary to Australian "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin.

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Meanwhile, US captain Corey Pavin put world number one Tiger Woods alongside Hunter Mahan while Steve Stricker, who won all four matches alongside Woods in the Presidents Cup a year ago, joined Zach Johnson.

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The TV personality Steve Irwin, who was nicknamed The Crocodile Hunter, but died in 2006, took part in the study.

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But the last word on Steve Irwin seemed to belong to Africa's greatest crocodile-hunter, Khalid Hassen, bagger of 17, 000 crocs the easy way, with a rifle, who said it simply didn't seem right that a fish should have killed him.

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