He was asked to audition by one of the Blue Peter directors he met whilst eating out with colleagues; he had previously intended to go into documentary-making and radio.
In June 2011, he set a new world record for the deepest location for an open water swim, when he swam more than five miles across the Palau Trench in the Pacific Ocean – the first person to have done so.
[citation needed] In January 2013 he appeared in a special series of The Great British Bake Off for Comic Relief which was won by Warwick Davis.
In 2016 Akinwolere was a contestant on Celebrity Master Chef in which he competed with Rylan Clark Arlene Phillips, Kimberly Wyatt and Craig Gazey.
In 2014, Akinwolere became the presenter of the BBC's current affairs program Inside Out for the West Midlands for which he has won the Best Factual Royal Television Society Award for his documentary on extremism.
[5] Panelists on the UEFA Europa League edition of The Golazo Show include Nicolás Cantor, Lianne Sanderson and Julien Laurens.
[citation needed] He is an amateur photographer and has had pictures published in National Geographic Kids Magazine and the 2010 Christmas edition of Vogue Bambini.