Dirk Bach (23 April 1961 – 1 October 2012) was a German actor, comedian and television presenter, best known as the co-host of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, the German version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.

[2] After school, he worked in theatres in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, New York, Utrecht, and Vienna.

Starting 2004, Bach and Sonja Zietlow presented the German edition of the show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.

In 2010, he appeared as Pastor Hinze on the soap opera Verbotene Liebe, in which he performed the first church wedding between two men ever dramatized on German television with characters Oliver Sabel and Christian Mann.

[4][5] Bach was an LGBT activist[citation needed] and member of the LSVD organisation (Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany).