Ross Kemp: Reluctant eco-warrior

James S Murray
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The actor and journalist insists he is no treehugger, but he has made a hugely successful environmental film

Ross Kemp is not an environmentalist. He says so right at the start of his new documentary Ross Kemp: Battle for the Amazon, and then spends much of the next hour at pains to let the viewer know that he...

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