Early career Pritchard worked for
Globe Shoes for six years and later designed his own signature shoe, a Sleep When You're Dead model named after his motto. He began skateboarding at the age of 15. His first sponsor was City Surf skate shop in Cardiff.
Dirty Sanchez and Balls of Steel Pritchard filmed the skating video
Pritchard vs Dainton, in which Pritchard and
Lee Dainton skated against, hit, and pranked each other. This formed the basis of
Dirty Sanchez, an
MTV stunt programme starring Pritchard, Dainton,
Michael "Pancho" Locke, and
Dan Joyce. This ran from 2003 to 2008, and in 2006 the four released
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie, in which they traveled around the globe doing stunts and pranks that related to the
Seven Deadly Sins. Pritchard was also involved in multiple spin-off series. Dainton and Pritchard hosted MTV's 2007 stunt-based game show
Wrecked, and
Sanchez Get High was a spin-off in which Pritchard and Dainton visited
indigenous peoples and took
traditional medicines.
Dirty Vegan Pritchard became vegan in 2015 after watching
Cowspiracy. In 2017, he launched a YouTube-based cookery series called
Proper Vegan Cookin. In 2019, he hosted
Dirty Vegan, the
BBC's first vegan cookery show. He also produced tie-in cookbooks for the series:
Dirty Vegan and
Dirty Vegan: Another Bite. His third book, titled
Dirty Vegan: Fast and Easy, came out on 7 December 2023.
Other works In 2018, BBC Wales filmed a documentary titled
Wild Man to Ironman in which Pritchard performs a 14-day ironman challenge in Wales. ==Personal life==