Shaun Anthony Linford Wallace (born 2June 1960) is an Englishtelevision personality and a barrister. He is best known as a "Chaser" on the ITV quiz show The Chase, where his nicknames are "The Dark Destroyer", "The Barrister" and "The Legal Eagle". Wallace is also a part-time lecturer and often visits schools, colleges and other institutions to educate students on the many aspects of law. In 2004, he won Mastermind and was ranked 286th in the World Quizzing Championships in 2012.
Wallace is of Jamaican heritage. He is also a keen football fan and is a Chelsea supporter.
Career
Law
Wallace has worked as a barrister since 1986. He has taken part in hearings held at both the Old Bailey as well as several Magistrates' Courts located in England and Wales and also in Scotland. He used to be a member of Farringdon Barristers Chambers, until February 2012 when it was announced that he joined Great James Street Chambers.
Wallace is a senior criminal defence advocate. He has worked with Operation Trident cases, manslaughter, serious sexual offences, fraud, money laundering, firearms and drug trafficking. He has lectured in environmental law, health and safety and road transport law and regulations.
Shaun Wallace (born 20 November 1961) is a British former professional cyclist who competed in two Olympic and three Commonwealth Games and rode for multiple American-based teams.
After successes in his native Great Britain in track cycling, including winning British Championships over distances of 1km, 4km and 20km, Wallace moved to the USA where he continued his career as an amateur, and from 1986 onward as a Professional Cyclist for a variety of teams and sponsors:
1987: Alfa-Romeo
1988: Sunkyonk SKC
1989 Wheaties-Schwinn
1990: Schwinn/Pure-Power/Bowflex
1991: Scott-BiKyle Cycles
In 2003 Wallace was one of the inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome in Pennsylvania, where he had based from during most of his cycling career. A tribute night had been held in his honor there in 1997.
As a masters cyclists, Wallace returned to the UK in 2002 to compete for the first time at the World Masters Track Cycling Championships where he won both the 40-44 age group Pursuit, and the Points race events.
The Chase star Shaun Wallace has revealed how much he earns from both the hit ITV quiz show compared to his sideline as a barrister - while also admitting what he spends most extravagantly on.
THE Chase’s Shaun Wallace has revealed his question ‘kryptonite’ – saying he’ll ‘just guess’ if the category comes up ... Shaun Wallace (2009 – present).
Puzzles. Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Crossword. Polygon. Sudoku. Shaun Wallace may be one of the nation’s best quizzers but the boy from Brent, northwest London, failed O-levelEnglish four times ... Now 64, he lives in north London ... Money ... .
For years the fix came with a cost. a day or two of debilitating altitude sickness ...Larry Kutt and Shaun Wallace founded Edwards-based AltitudeControlTechnology, and created their own oxygen-controlled altitude simulation system, in 1995 ... 21, 2024 ... .
Wallace and Gromit still long to fulfill these basic roles, Chicken Run’s Ginger and Shaun The Sheep’s Shaun both long for a similarly unburdened creativity; for Aardman’s stop-motion animators, the ...
In 2007, Aardman produced the stop-motion TV series Shaun the Sheep, a spinoff of the Wallace and Gromit franchise, starring the clever, enterprising Shaun, who first appeared in A Close Shave.
'New Wallace and Gromit movie tonight so excited ... The film, made by animation powerhouse Aardman, follows the latest Shaun the Sheep caper The Flight Before Christmas, a Wallace & Gromit spin-off which aired on BBC One in 2021.
Air is primarily composed of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen, explained Shaun Wallace, founder of ATC and olympic cyclist who developed the technology while training for the 1996 Olympics... “This is the dream scenario,” Wallace said.
The man behind Wallace and Gromit has revealed exactly how Wallace cam to love cheese so much ... The film follows the latest Shaun The Sheep caper The Flight Before Christmas, a Wallace & Gromit spin-off which aired on BBC One in 2021.
It comes as Wallace and Gromit gears up for a return to the big screen with Vengeance Most Fowl ... The film follows the latest Shaun The Sheep caper, The Flight Before Christmas, a Wallace & Gromit spin-off which aired on BBC One in 2021.
