Lee Dainton (born 22 August 1973)
is a Welsh stunt performer, skateboarder, and filmmaker best known as the star and co-creator of
MTV UK
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's ''
Dirty Sanchez''.
Career
Early life
Dainton is a native of
Pontypool
Pontypool ( ) is a town and the administrative centre of the county borough of Torfaen, within the Historic counties of Wales, historic boundaries of Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire in South Wales. , it has a population of 29,062.
Locat ...
, Wales.
He attended
Abersychan School and
West Monmouth School
West Monmouth School (Welsh: ''Ysgol Gorllewin Mynwy''; colloquially: West Mon) is a state-funded and non-selective secondary school in Pontypool, Torfaen, south Wales.
Admissions
Pupils who attend the school generally live in the Torfaen area. ...
.
He studied carpentry at
Pontypool College. He started skateboarding at the age of 12. He first met
Mathew Pritchard in
Cardiff
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in 1990.
He met
Michael "Pancho" Locke by participating in various skateboarding competitions. He met
Dan Joyce
Daniel Buck Joyce (born 2 June 1976) is a British professional stuntman, skateboarder, filmmaker, and one quarter of the '' Dirty Sanchez'' crew. He has also been made a Reverend for a ''Dirty Sanchez'' prank on Mathew Pritchard and Michael " ...
after he saw him on ''
The Vanessa Show'' and decided to film with him for a video he was making. He worked as a carpenter with Torfaen council before he left the job and bought a
video camera
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to film the four skateboarding, doing stunts and practical jokes for 18 months. He then made a
DVD
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out of the footage titled ''Pritchard vs Dainton'', which was released in 2001.
During, and a little after the first season of ''
Dirty Sanchez'', he worked for a skate store.
''Dirty Sanchez''
When ''Dirty Sanchez'' first aired in 2003, it became clear that Dainton is the one who always messes with his friends, mainly with Pancho and Pritchard. The rivalry between Dainton and Pritchard got worse as the series went on. He is usually the one who performs stunts with
piercings, most notably slamming his
forehead
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on a lot of
thumbtacks
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, and performing
body suspension. He and Pritchard hosted the first ''Dirty Sanchez'' spin-off titled ''Wrecked'' in 2007. In 2008, they both starred in another spin-off titled ''
Sanchez Get High''.
Personal life
Dainton proposed to his girlfriend Amy in 2017 after 22 years of dating.
They got married in 2018 and have two daughters together. He has his own skate store called Kill City.
Filmography
Film
Television
Web series
Music videos
References
External links
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1973 births
Living people
Welsh skateboarders
British stunt performers
Welsh television presenters