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Australia
Australia ( /əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.

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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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Adam Hills
Adam Hills (born 10 July 1970) is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks. He has been nominated for a Perrier Comedy Award and Gold Logie Award.
He began performing as a stand-up comedian in 1989 at the age of 19, and since 1997 has produced ten solo shows which have toured internationally. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Montreal Just for Laughs festival, earning three consecutive Perrier Award nominations for his Edinburgh shows in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
In 2002, he scored a minor hit with his single "Working Class Anthem", in which he sang the lyrics of the Australian National Anthem to the tune of "Working Class Man", a famous song by Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes.
Originally from the Sydney suburb of Loftus, Hills developed an interest in comedy after discovering an inflight comedy channel on a plane at the age of eight. Hills was born without a right foot and wears a prosthesis, which has become a frequent source of comedy in his act. He studied a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) at Macquarie University, graduating in 1991.

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Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Emuukha Rodan Zappa (born May 15, 1974) is an American writer, producer, and publisher.
Ahmet was born in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, California, the third of four children born to businesswoman Gail Zappa and musician Frank Zappa. Ahmet's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab and French descent and his mother is of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry. Ahmet has released several albums with his brother Dweezil Zappa, as well as writing the song "Frogs With Dirty Little Lips" with his father. He also has two sisters named Moon Zappa and Diva Zappa and has also appeared in a few feature films and television programs, sometimes appearing as a program host in the latter (see Robotica, But Can They Sing?).
In the late 1990s, Ahmet appeared on Channel 4 UK's The Adam and Joe Show, in a regular segment called 'Vinyl Justice', in which hosts Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, dressed as policemen, examined his vinyl collection for 'criminal records'.
In 2000, Ahmet appeared in the film Ready to Rumble. Along with his brother Dweezil, he also performed a cover of Britney Spears' song "...Baby, One More Time" for the film's soundtrack.

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Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.
Alan Yentob was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in London. Soon after he was born, his family moved to Manchester where his dad ran a textile business, Dewhurst Dent, in which he still owns a 10% share. He grew up in Didsbury, a suburb of Manchester, and returned to London with his family when he was 12 to live in a flat on Park Lane. He was a boarder at the independent The King's School in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He passed his A Levels and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and spent a year at Grenoble University. He went on to study Law at Leeds University, where he got involved in student drama. He graduated with a lower second class degree (2:2) in 1967.
He joined the BBC as a trainee in the BBC World Service in 1968 as its only non-Oxbridge graduate of that year. Nine months later he moved into TV to become an assistant director on arts programmes.
In 1973, he became a producer and director, working on the high-profile documentary series, Omnibus, for which, in 1975, he made a famous film called Cracked Actor about the musician David Bowie. In 1975, he helped initiate another famous BBC documentary series, Arena, of which he was to remain the editor until 1985. The series still returns for semi-regular editions as of 2006.

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Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey (born Mark Bailey; 13 January 1964) is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his role in Black Books and his appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.
Bailey was listed by the Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in 2003. In 2007 and again in 2010, he was voted the 7th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
Bailey was born in Bath, Somerset and spent most of his childhood in Keynsham, a town situated between Bath and Bristol in the West of England. His father was a medical practitioner and his mother was a hospital ward sister. His maternal grandparents lived in an annexe, built on the side of the house by his maternal grandfather who was a stonemason and builder. Two rooms at the front of the family house were for his father's surgery.
Bailey was educated at King Edward's School, an independent school in Bath where he was initially a highly academic pupil winning most of the prizes. However, at about the age of 15 years, he started to become distracted from school work when he realised the thrill of performance as a member of a school band called Behind Closed Doors, which played mostly original work. He was the only pupil at his school to study A-level music and he passed with an A grade. He also claims to have been good at sport (captain of KES 2nd XI cricket team 1982), which often surprised his teachers. He would often combine music and sport by leading the singing on the long coach trip back from away rugby fixtures. It was here that he was given his nickname Bill by his music teacher, Ian Phipps, for being able to play the song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" so well on the guitar.

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Bob Mortimer
Robert Renwick "Bob" Mortimer (born 23 May 1959 in Middlesbrough) is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves (see Vic and Bob). He owns the independent production company Pett Productions with Vic Reeves and Lisa Clark and is the voice of Churchill the Dog in adverts for Churchill Insurance.
Mortimer's biscuit salesman father died, very young, in a car crash and as a result he and his three brothers were brought up by their mother, Eunice. He attended Acklam High School on the site of Acklam Hall in Acklam, Middlesbrough. He trialled for local professional football club Middlesbrough, but was not able to take the sport up due to arthritis. He left school with three A-levels and went on to study law at the Universities of Sussex and Leicester. There, Mortimer became involved in political causes and the punk movement, starting a band called Dog Dirt. After leaving university with an LLM in Welfare Law, he moved to London and became a solicitor for Southwark Council. He then moved to a private practice.

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Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter-guitarist Steve Diggle.
They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a "punk masterpiece". The widely covered "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" remains one of their best-known songs, along with "Harmony in my Head".
The name "Buzzcocks" was chosen by Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley after reading the headline "it's the buzz, cocks!" in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "cock" is Manchester slang meaning "mate" (as in friend/buddy). They thought it captured the excitement of the Sex Pistols and nascent punk scene.

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Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate (born Catherine Ford on 12 May 1968) is an English actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTA Awards. Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who and later reprised her role, becoming the Doctor's companion for the fourth series in 2008. In 2011, she began a recurring role as Nellie Bertram on The Office.
Tate was born in Bloomsbury and brought up in the Brunswick Centre. Her mother, Josephine, was a florist, and Tate has said that the character of Margaret in The Catherine Tate Show, who shrieks at the slightest of disturbances, is based largely on Josephine.
Tate never knew her father, as he left very early on in her life, and consequently, she was brought up in a female-dominated environment, being cared for by her mother, grandmother and her godparents. As a child, Tate suffered from an obsessive-compulsive disorder which centred on word association. For example, Tate was not able to leave a jumper on the floor or it might have brought misfortune to her mother whose name began with the letter "J" like jumper.

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Chantelle Houghton
Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born 21 August 1983) is an English glamour model and television personality. She was the first 'non-celebrity' to feature in the Channel 4 reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother in 2006.
She emerged as the winner of series 4, beating 10 celebrities: (Michael Barrymore, Maggot, Samuel Preston, Pete Burns, Traci Bingham, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Rula Lenska, Faria Alam and Jodie Marsh), winning a prize of £25,000.
Following a much-publicised on-screen courtship, Houghton married former fellow Celebrity Big Brother 2006 contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys in August 2006. The couple announced their separation in a joint statement on 27 June 2007, and divorced on 21 November 2007.
In October 2007, Houghton was named "TV's latest reality millionaire" and experts reported that her true wealth easily exceeds £1 million.
She is currently dating actor and mixed martial artist Alex Reid with whom she is expecting her first child.
Houghton was born in Wickford, Essex, to Allan and Vivien, and has an older brother Gregg. She attended Bromfords School in Wickford, the same school that Big Brother 2007 winner Brian Belo attended. She left school at 15 with seven GCSEs, then worked in a bank and as an insurance telesales rep. Houghton is a vegetarian.

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Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Anne I. Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality and journalist.
Winkleman was born in Westminster, London, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Eve Pollard, former editor of the Sunday Express, and Barry Winkleman (born 1939), former publisher of The Times Atlas of the World. Her parents divorced when she was three; both remarried in 1979. Her stepfather is Sir Nicholas Lloyd, former editor of the Daily Express, and her half-sister, from her father's second marriage, to children's author Cindy Black, is actress Sophie Winkleman, wife of Lord Frederick Windsor. She has a younger half-brother, Oliver Lloyd, from her mother's second marriage, to Nicholas Lloyd.
Brought up in the London suburb of Hampstead, Winkleman was educated at the City of London School for Girls and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, obtaining an MA Hons degree in History of Art.
Winkleman's first major television job was in 1991, on the regional discussion programme.Central Weekend. In 1992, she began frequently to appear in the long-running BBC series Holiday, and this continued throughout the mid-1990s. This culminated in a special documentary in which she travelled around the world for 34 days reporting from Japan, India, Costa Rica and Dubai.

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Dale Winton

Dale Winton (born 22 May 1955) is an English radio DJ and television presenter.
Winton's father, Gary, died when Winton was 13, on the day of Winton's bar mitzvah.^{[citation needed]} Winton was brought up by his mother, actress Sheree Winton. Sheree was often referred to as 'the English Jayne Mansfield'. She committed suicide by drug overdose in 1976, after a lifelong battle with clinical depression.
Winton started DJ'ing in clubs in Richmond in 1972, where he met Steve Allen. The two have remained best friends since. From there he had a selection of menial jobs including selling time shares abroad. In 1982, Winton moved to London and began his entertainment career on the London club circuit, where he DJ'd at weekends. This led him to United Biscuits Industrial Radio where he did a variety of jobs, before getting his own morning show. From here he joined Radio Trent in Nottingham, where he presented a weekend show, moving to the weekday mid-morning show, before leaving in 1985, and going on to work at a number of other local radio stations.

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David O'Doherty
David Nicholas O'Doherty (born 18 December 1975 in Dublin, Ireland) is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for his work at the festival. O'Doherty has also written a children's book, composed two plays and released two comedy CDs, the first of which Giggle Me Timbers (Jokes Ahoy) was recorded at his home in front of 35 people. O'Doherty's second more recent CD release called Let's David O'Doherty was recorded in Whelans of Dublin and released in December 2009. His television series The Modest Adventures of David O'Doherty was broadcast on RTÉ Television in 2007. In 2006 he claimed that it took him "about three years to get a decent hour together and seven years to achieve this level of fame where (he is) the number three ranked person called David O'Doherty on Google".

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David Tennant
David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the TV serial Casanova (2005) and as Barty Crouch, Jr., in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).
Tennant was born in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, the son of Essdale Helen (née McLeod) and The Rev. Alexander McDonald (known to family and friends as Sandy McDonald). He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father was the local Church of Scotland minister. Tennant's maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were staunch Protestants from Derry in Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, and were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912; William was a member of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes's daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City.

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Davina McCall
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall (born 16 October 1967) is an English television presenter, currently hosting Channel 4's game show Million Pound Drop Live and Sky1's reality talent show Got to Dance. She is best known as the presenter of reality series Big Brother during its run on Channel 4 between 1999 and 2010. Having fronted the shows weekly live eviction shows every summer since the beginning, she decided not to return as host after it was dropped by Channel 4 and relaunched by Channel 5 the following year.
After a difficult childhood, by her early twenties McCall had pursued various jobs including solo singer. Having recovered from a drug problem, she embarked on a career in television with a first job presenting for satellite music channel MTV in 1992. After further work on terrestrial channels she became a household name thanks to Big Brother, while also continuing to work with other hosting vehicles on various channels, from game shows to talent shows. From 2005 she has also been a regular co-presenter for the Comic Relief annual telethons.

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Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary (born Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr.) (born 24 May 1973) is a television and radio presenter. He established himself as a presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother on Channel 4 before moving on to The X Factor on ITV. O'Leary has also presented on the BBC and has his own radio show on BBC Radio 2. He is also notable for being the last person to introduce Michael Jackson in public before his death.
O'Leary was born in Colchester, Essex, England to Wexford-born Irish parents Sean and Marie,He is "extremely proud" of his Irish roots and he carries an Irish passport. He attended primary school in Marks Tey and later St Benedict's Catholic College in Colchester, graduating with two General Certificates of Secondary Education, and Colchester Sixth Form College.
O'Leary studied at Middlesex University, achieving a degree in Media and Television with Politics. He achieved a 2:2.^{[citation needed]} Whilst at Middlesex University he developed an interest in comedy and was involved in various gigs in the students' union. He was also a member of the university's chess society.

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Dweezil Zappa
Dweezil Zappa (born September 5, 1969) is an American rock guitarist and occasional actor.
Zappa was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of musician Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa, who worked in business. He is the second of four siblings: his older sister, Moon, younger sister Diva and younger brother Ahmet. He is the cousin of actress Lala Sloatman. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek, Arab and French descent and his mother was of Danish, French, Irish and Portuguese ancestry.
Dweezil's registered birth name was Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa. The hospital at which he was born refused to register him under the name Dweezil, so Frank listed the names of several musician friends. "Dweezil" was a nickname coined by Frank for an oddly-curled pinky-toe of Gail's. At five years old, Dweezil learned that his legal name was different, and he insisted on having his nickname become his legal name. Gail and Frank hired an attorney and soon the name Dweezil was official.
In the 1980s, Zappa worked as an MTV VJ and was promptly fired after badmouthing MTV on The Howard Stern Show. He also recorded some solo albums, as well as playing for other artists. Zappa can be heard playing lead guitar on The Fat Boys' "Wipe Out" (1987) and can be seen in the music video for Don Johnson's top 40 song, "Heartbeat". He also played co-lead guitar (along with Reb Beach) on Winger's cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze". Dweezil has said that Eddie Van Halen was his favorite guitar player, and he began copying Van Halen's distinctive guitar style. He also had a part in the futuristic Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man as Stevie ("Don't touch that dial!"), and gave his most famous cameo role in John Hughes's Brat Pack film, Pretty in Pink (starring Molly Ringwald), as Andie's friend, Simon.

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Emma Griffiths
Emma Willis (née Griffiths; born 20 March 1976 in Birmingham)^{[citation needed]} is a British television presenter best known for her roles on former shows Big Brother's Little Brother in 2010 and co-presenter on Live from Studio Five the same year. Willis currently presents Big Brother's Bit on the Side on Channel 5.
Willis grew up in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. She has an older sister.
Willis began modelling at the age of 17, and during her career has worked for magazines, retailers, and companies such as Marie Claire, Elle, Vogue, GAP and Chanel.
In 2002, she became a presenter on MTV UK. Her work across various shows included interviewing stars of film, TV and music.^{[citation needed]}
She co-hosted live backstage coverage of The Prince's Trust's 30th birthday celebrations for ITV2, and a special homecoming gig for Kasabian as part of Channel 4's Vodafone TBA gigs.
Willis presented Red Bull Flugtag on ITV alongside Dougie Anderson in June 2008.
She co-hosted I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! for ITV2 alongside her husband Matt Willis. Guests included Ant & Dec, Faith Brown, James Bourne, David Gest, Holly Willoughby, McFly, Myleene Klass, Dave Berry and his girlfriend Heidi Range. OK! Magazine covered the wedding for July in their 605 issue. She hosted Big Brother shows like the online show, Big Brother Digital, and also guest hosting one episode of Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth.

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Jack Dee
James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee (born 24 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer known for his sarcastic, witty, and deadpan humour. He won Celebrity Big Brother 2001.
Dee was the youngest of three children born to Rosemary A. (née Stamper) and Geoffrey T. Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee & David Simon Innes Dee. Jack Dee was born in Bromley, Kent and grew up in nearby Petts Wood before moving with his family to Winchester when he was young. His father, Geoffrey, was a printer and his mother, Rosemary, was the daughter of two unsuccessful repertory actors, Henry Lionel Pope "Lionel" Stamper (1906–1985) & Edna May Howard Innes (1904–1969) (and the great-niece of Charles William Stamper, motor engineer to King Edward VII).
Dee was educated at both independent and state schools. His first school was The Pilgrims' School, a junior independent school in Winchester, followed by the state Montgomery of Alamein School for his secondary education, for some time he attended Frensham Heights School. He took his A-levels at Peter Symonds' College, and left with a D and an F grade. Following this, he planned to attend drama college, but his plans were scuppered when his mother persuaded him to get a vocation, and so he entered the catering industry and became a waiter.

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James Corden
James Kimberley Corden (born 22 August 1978) is an English actor, television writer, producer and presenter. He is co-creator and star of BBC comedy shows Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden, and acted in the 2009 film Lesbian Vampire Killers. He attracted attention for his performance in the lead role in the award-winning comedy play One Man, Two Guvnors, which transferred from the National Theater to the West End and then to Broadway.
Corden was born to Malcolm and Margaret Corden in Hillingdon, Greater London, and grew up in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire. He has an older sister, Andrea Henry, and a younger sister, Ruth Corden.
Corden obtained his first part at eighteen years old in the musical Martin Guerre. He then starred in the British television series Fat Friends as Jamie Rymer, and played Gareth Jones in the series Boyz Unlimited. His television work includes a credited minor role as Razor #1 in Renford Rejects (Series 1 Episode 2, 1998), a role playing a bookish student in Teachers (Series 1, 2000) and he also made a guest appearance in Little Britain. Corden's film credits include Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999) and Mike Leigh's All or Nothing (2002).

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Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. He also writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun.
From a career as a local journalist in Northern England, Clarkson rose to public prominence as a presenter of the original format of Top Gear in 1988. Since the mid-1990s, Clarkson has become a recognised public personality, regularly appearing on British television presenting his own shows and appearing as a guest on other shows. As well as motoring, Clarkson has produced programmes and books on subjects such as history and engineering. From 1998 to 2000 he also hosted his own chat show, Clarkson.
His opinionated but humorous tongue-in-cheek writing and presenting style has often generated much public reaction to his viewpoints. His actions both privately and as a Top Gear presenter have also sometimes resulted in criticism from the media, politicians, pressure groups and the public.

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Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country. To date, he has sold over 24 million albums worldwide, and is the top selling classical artist of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Groban originally studied acting, but as his voice changed, it developed into a "significant instrument". Groban attended the Los Angeles High School for the Arts, a free public school where students received a conservatory-style education. His life changed when his vocal coach, Seth Riggs, submitted a tape of Josh singing "All I Ask of You", from The Phantom of the Opera, to Riggs' friend, producer, composer and arranger David Foster. Foster called him to stand in for an ailing Andrea Bocelli to rehearse a duet, "The Prayer," with Celine Dion at the rehearsal for the Grammy Awards in 1998.Rosie O'Donnell immediately invited him to appear on her talk show. Foster asked him to sing at the California Governor's Gray Davis' 1999 inauguration. He was cast on Ally McBeal by the show's creator, David E. Kelley, performing "You're Still You" for the 2001 season finale.

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Lauren Laverne
Lauren Cecilia Fisher (née Gofton) (born 28 April 1978), known professionally as Lauren Laverne, is a British radio DJ, television presenter, author and singer. She currently presents a radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music, and has presented a variety of television programmes including 10 O'Clock Live for Channel 4, and The Culture Show and coverage of the Glastonbury Festival for the BBC. Laverne has also written a published novel entitled Candypop: Candy and the Broken Biscuits.
In her previous career as a musician, Laverne was best known for being lead singer and sometime guitarist in pop band Kenickie, although her greatest chart success came when she performed vocals on Mint Royale's "Don't Falter" single.
Laverne was born and brought up in Sunderland. She first attended St. Mary's R.C. Primary School in 1982, where she befriended Marie Nixon, later to become a fellow Kenickie guitarist, and then St. Anthony's R.C. Comprehensive School between 1989 and 1994, where she and Nixon met Emma Jackson. Laverne went on to study at City of Sunderland College from 1994 to 1996.^{[citation needed]}

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Lemmy
Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister (born on 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England) is an English heavy metal musician.
He is best known as bassist, vocalist, songwriter and founding and sole constant member of the rock band Motörhead as well as a member of Hawkwind. His appearance, including his friendly mutton chops, prominent facial moles, and gravelly voice, has made him a cult icon.
Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England. When Lemmy was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain, separated from his mother. His mother and grandmother settled in Newcastle-under-Lyme, then moved on to Madeley, Staffordshire.
When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along. The family moved to a farm in Benllech, Anglesey, North Wales and it was during this time that he started to show an interest in rock and roll music, girls and horses. He attended Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in Amlwch, where he was nicknamed Lemmy, although he is unsure why and it would later be claimed that it originated from the phrase "lemmy a quid till Friday" because of his habit of borrowing money from people to feed his addiction to fruit machines (slot machines).

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Magne Furuholmen
Magne 'Mags' Furuholmen (Norwegian pronunciation: [mɑŋnə fu:ɾuhɔlmən]) (born 1 November 1962) is a Norwegian musician. He is best known as the guitarist and keyboardist of the pop band A-ha.
Furuholmen has been the keyboardist with A-ha since their formation in 1982, though he also plays guitar. He has co-written many of the band's hits with Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, including "Stay On These Roads", "Manhattan Skyline", and the band's first and biggest hit "Take on Me". When A-ha went on hiatus in 1994, Furuholmen began working on other music projects. The band reconvened in 2000, though announced they would split in 2010.
Furuholmen's projects outside of A-ha include Timbersound, formed in 1994 with Kjetil Bjerkestrand, and later, Swedish singer, Freddie Wadling. Their work has been used on film soundtracks such as Ti Kniver I Hjertet (1994), "Hotel Oslo" (1997) which also featured vocals by Anneli Drecker, 1732 Høtten (1998) where the album Hermetic is featured.
Furuholmen also recorded "Past Perfect Future Tense" in 2004, with appearances from Guy Berryman and Will Champion of Coldplay, and from Andy Dunlop of the Scottish band Travis.

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Marc Maron
Marc Maron ( /ˈmærən/ MAR-ən; born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian and radio and podcast host.
He has been host of The Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition, and Breakroom Live, all politically oriented shows, produced by Air America Media. He was also the host of Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater for a year, replacing Jon Stewart. Maron has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made over 44 appearances on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, more than any other stand-up performer. He was also a regular guest on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and hosted the short-lived American version of the British game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks on VH1.
In September 2009, Maron began hosting a twice-weekly podcast titled WTF with Marc Maron, in which he interviews comedians and celebrities.
Maron was born into a Jewish family in Jersey City, New Jersey, but lived in Wayne, New Jersey and Pompton Lakes, New Jersey until he was six. Maron's father then joined the US Air Force for two years, and Maron and his family lived in Alaska. When his father left the Air Force, he moved his family to Albuquerque, New Mexico and started a medical practice.

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Mark Lamarr
Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on 7 January 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian, radio DJ and television presenter.
Lamarr was born in the Park South area of Swindon and has three elder sisters. His father is Irish. He passed five O-Levels at Park School (renamed Oakfield School) but dropped out of school at 17 and moved to Harrow, Middlesex, which was the centre of the early 80s British rockabilly revival scene. After his poem Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Work was published in 1987, his act developed from poetry to stand-up comedy. He took to performing at The Comedy Store, London in 1985, was spotted on the touring circuit for the launch of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast in 1992 and co-presented The Word.
Lamarr first came to the public's attention as a co-presenter of the early 90s late night variety show The Word. The magazine format of the series allowed for interviews, live music, features and even game shows. The flexible late-night format meant that guests could do just about anything to be controversial. Talking about his TV career to Jo Brown of Cheers Magazine, Lamarr said The Word was:

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Mark Ronson
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English DJ, musician, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. He currently works with his band under the music alias of Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.
While his debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts, his second album, Version included three top ten hits and won Ronson a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist in 2008. His third studio album, Record Collection, was released on 27 September 2010.
Ronson was born at the Wellington Hospital, St John's Wood, to writer/socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time band manager and real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson. His parents are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, with ancestors from Austria, Russia, and Lithuania, and Ronson was brought up in Conservative Judaism. Ronson's family name was originally Aaronson, but his grandfather Henry Ronson changed it to Ronson. Ronson is the nephew of property tycoon Gerald Ronson. Ronson is related to British Conservative politicians Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Brittan, as well as Odeon Cinemas founder Oscar Deutsch. Ronson has twin sisters who are two years younger than him, Charlotte Ronson, a fashion designer, and Samantha Ronson, a singer and DJ. Ronson also has five younger half-siblings. Alexander and Annabelle, through his mother's remarriage to Mick Jones as well as Henrietta, David and Joshua, through his father's remarriage to model Michele First. After his parents broke up, his mother married Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, which contributed to a childhood surrounded by music.

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Martin Freeman
Martin John C. Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe-winning comedy The Office, John in Love Actually, Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dr. Watson in Sherlock and Paul Maddens in Nativity!. He has been cast in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of The Hobbit.
Martin Freeman was born in Aldershot, Hampshire, the youngest of five children. His father, Geoffrey, a naval officer, and his mother, Philomena separated when Freeman was a child, and when Freeman was ten, Geoffrey died of a heart attack. Freeman was raised Roman Catholic. As a child, Freeman was asthmatic, and had to undergo a hip operation due to a "dodgy" leg. He was schooled at a Catholic comprehensive before attending London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
In an edition of Who Do You Think You Are? aired on 19 August 2009, he discovered that his grandfather, Leonard Freeman, was a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II. Private L W Freeman, a Territorial Army volunteer in the 150(N) Field Ambulance Regiment, was killed in Northern France on 24 May 1940 in a Stuka dawn attack. His unit was evacuated from Dunkirk two days later.

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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.

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Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.
Moby gained attention in the early 1990s with his electronic dance music work, which dabbled in the techno and breakbeat hardcore (also known as "rave") genres. With his fifth studio album, the electronica and house-influenced Play, he gained international success. Originally released in mid-1999 to an unflattering response, it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and slowly became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and eventually selling over 10 million copies worldwide.
Moby followed the album in 2002 with 18, which was also successful, selling over 5 million copies worldwide and receiving mostly positive reviews, though some criticizing it for being too similar to Play. His next offer, 2005's mostly upbeat Hotel was a stylistic departure, incorporating more alternative rock elements than previous albums, and received mixed reviews. However, it still sold around 2 million copies worldwide. After 2008's dance-influenced Last Night (2008), he returned to the downtempo electronica of Play and 18 with 2009's mostly-ambient Wait for Me, finding higher critical acclaim and moderate sales. Moby's latest album, Destroyed., was released on May 13, 2011.

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Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973) is a British surrealist, comedian, actor, artist, DJ and musician. He is known for his role as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, which he co-wrote with comedy partner Julian Barratt, and as a team captain on the music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. His solo comedy sketch show Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy began broadcasting in January 2012 on the UK's E4.
Born in Westminster, London, Fielding performed regularly as a stand-up comedian during the late 1990s, and appeared repeatedly on the television stand-up showcase Lee Mack's Gas. His highly animated stand-up routine included surreal stories, physical comedy, characters, and songs, much like his later work in The Mighty Boosh.
In 2010, Fielding was to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled, however, so he could concentrate on writing The Mighty Boosh film and album with Barratt. Fielding announced via Twitter that he was too busy to do the tour.
In 2010, Fielding took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

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Paloma Faith
Paloma Faith (born Paloma Faith Blomfield; 21 July 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she released her debut single "Stone Cold Sober" and her debut album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, which was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her album stayed within the top 40 album charts for over forty weeks. The album spawned five singles: "Stone Cold Sober", "New York", title track "Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?", "Upside Down" and "Smoke & Mirrors". Faith also recorded the theme song to the 2010 British film 4.3.2.1 and appeared on the charity record "I Put a Spell on You". Faith made her feature film debut in the 2007 remake of St Trinian's. She has since appeared in two more feature films, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Dread. In March 2010, Faith revealed that she was working on a second album. Almost two years later, Faith announced that her second album would be called Fall to Grace and that it would be released on 28 May 2012. The album was preceded by the single "Picking Up the Pieces", which became Faith's highest charting single to date.

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Peter Fincham
Peter Fincham (born 26 July 1956) is a British television producer and executive, currently the Director of Television for the ITV network. He was also formerly the Controller of BBC One, the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, until his resignation on 5 October 2007, following criticism over the handling of the A Year with the Queen debacle.
Educated at the independent Tonbridge School, Fincham studied at Churchill College, Cambridge. He joined the Cambridge Footlights production team as musical director, alongside a committee which included Griff Rhys Jones, Jimmy Mulville, Rory McGrath and Clive Anderson. After leaving Footlights, Fincham composed songs, none of which were picked up for recording, and then worked on the touring version of Godspell. During a period of increasingly common unemployment, Fincham was walking on Wandsworth Common in the rain and thinking to himself: "Oh my God. What have I done? I have made the wrong decision?" Fincham applied for a job at the BBC in 1984, a position as a researcher on The Late, Late Breakfast Show that had recently been vacated by his friend Helen Fielding — later author of the Bridget Jones novels — when she left to concentrate on her writing career. However, Fincham was unsuccessful in this application.

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Philip Oakey
Philip Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English composer, singer, songwriter and producer.
He is best known as the lead singer, lead songwriter, frontman and co-founder of the famous English synthpop band The Human League. Aside from the Human League, he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers. He is also an occasional DJ.
Oakey was one of the most visually distinctive music artists of the early 1980s. His synthesiser composition and song writing helped make his band The Human League one of the highest profile pop bands of the early 1980s. At the height of their success The Human League released the triple platinum album Dare and Oakey co-wrote and sang the multi million selling single “Don't You Want Me”, which was a number one single in both the U.S and UK, where it remains the 25th highest selling single of all time.^{[citation needed]} Oakey has been a key figure in the music business and has been lead singer of The Human League for over 30 years, with whom he has sold more than 20 million records worldwide. He continues recording and performing internationally to this day.

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Phill Jupitus
Phillip Christopher Jupitus (born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster.
Jupitus has been a team captain on BBC Two's popular music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks since its inception in 1996 and also appears regularly as a guest on several other panel shows, including QI and BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Born Phillip Swan in Newport on the Isle of Wight, he took his stepfather Alexander's surname, Jupitus, when he was 16. The shortening of his first name to 'Phill' arose due to his mother's reminders that the name 'Phillip' is spelled with two Ls, something he carried over to the shorter form.
'Jupitus' is an anglicised version of the original surname Šeputis (pronounced [ʃəputis]) ascribed to the Jupitus family by an immigration officer when they migrated to Britain from Lithuania in 1917.
Phill attended Northbury Infants and Junior schools in Barking and later attended Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich as a boarder on a scholarship.

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Rachel Stevens
Rachel Lauren Stevens (born 9 April 1978) is an English singer-songwriter, actress, presenter, dancer, television personality and model. She is a former member of the successful pop group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005. In 2008, she came second in the sixth series of the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing with her dance partner Vincent Simone.
Born in Southgate, London, she attended Osidge JMI School and Ashmole School in London. Stevens has two brothers, Jason and Leigh. Stevens is Jewish, and has stated that she "observe[s] some of the holidays and I’ll go to the synagogue on special occasions".
In 1993 she first caught attention while beating out 5,000 competitors and winning a modelling contest sponsored by UK teen magazine Just 17.^{[citation needed]} Following her first modelling jobs, she decided to study at the London College of Fashion, where she achieved a diploma in business. During that time she also worked in a film company and later ended up working in public relations, but began to lose interest and decided to pursue a career in singing instead.

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Rhod Gilbert
Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, (born 18 October 1968) is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy (as the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were then branded).
He appears on television and radio panel shows, has performed stand-up on the Royal Variety Performance, and hosts a weekly show on BBC Radio Wales.
Gilbert was born in Carmarthen, Wales, one of three siblings to two teacher parents and studied languages at Exeter University. For the first three weeks, such was his painful shyness that Gilbert was unable to eat with other students in the canteen or even make friends with the student in the next room.
After graduating, Gilbert travelled for a year and a half around Australia and Asia before returning to Carmarthen and working as an admin assistant for the Welsh Office. After this he worked as a qualitative researcher for a number of different market research agencies in London.
Gilbert got into professional comedy in 2002, after taking a comedy workshop course, but only "thanks to a girlfriend’s constant nagging". Within 18 months, Gilbert had already won several different talent competitions and was nominated for the Perrier Newcomer award for his first solo show in 2005 at Edinburgh Fringe entitled 1984. He has since performed worldwide.

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Richard Fairbrass
Richard Peter John Fairbrass (born 22 September 1953) is an English singer and television presenter.
Fairbrass was born on September 22, 1953 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, in England, and raised in East Grinstead, West Sussex. He is the lead vocalist of the band Right Said Fred which he formed with his brother Fred Fairbrass. The band became very popular in the UK from 1991.
Fairbrass is open about his bisexuality and once co-hosted, with Rhona Cameron, a TV series aimed at a lesbian and gay audience called Gaytime TV (1995–1999) on BBC2.
In 1984, Richard appeared in Jazzin' for Blue Jean, a David Bowie video, as the bass player, which can be found on Best of Bowie. This video appears as an Easter egg on that DVD.^{[citation needed]}
In 1994 he was joint winner of Rear of the Year with Mandy Smith.^{[citation needed]}
In 2001 he co-presented the television game show The Desert Forges with Gabrielle Richens for Five.
In April 2007 Fairbrass was reported to be planning to run for Mayor of London in the 2008 election.

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Robert Milton
Robert A. Milton is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc., the parent company of Air Canada. He is also a former Chairman, President and CEO of Air Canada.
Milton completed his high school education in Singapore at the United World College of South East Asia, before going on to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1983 with a certificate in Industrial Management.
After graduating, Milton became a founding partner of Air Eagle Holdings Inc., and later worked as an independent commercial aviation consultant to British Aerospace.
Milton became involved with Air Canada in 1992, initially on a consulting basis. He was appointed Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer in 1996, and then became President and CEO in 1999. Shortly after he became CEO, American Airlines and Onex initiated a hostile takeover bid for Air Canada, which Milton helped to successfully defeat. Milton led Air Canada through significant restructuring. In 2004, he became Chairman, President and CEO of ACE Aviation Holdings – a parent holding company under which the reorganized Air Canada and separate legal entities including Aeroplan, Air Canada Jazz, Air Canada Technical Services, Air Canada Cargo, Air Canada Groundhandling, Destina.ca and Touram (Air Canada Vacations) are held.

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Robert Webb (actor)
Robert Patrick Webb (born 29 September 1972) is an English actor, comedian and writer, and one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell.
Webb was born in Boston, Lincolnshire and grew up in the village of Woodhall Spa. Webb's parents divorced when he was four and he lived with his mother. He has said that as a child he was "hugely spoilt". He has two older brothers: one became a bus fitter, and the other became a potato wholesaler.
Webb was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Horncastle. Having grown up watching The Young Ones and Blackadder, he became interested in drama and poetry while in school and began writing parodies. While Webb was in the lower sixth form preparing for his A-levels, his mother died of breast cancer, and he moved in with his father and re-sat his A-levels. He went to Robinson College, Cambridge at the age of 20 where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights. He met David Mitchell at an audition for a Footlights production of Cinderella in 1993.

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Seann Walsh
Seann Walsh (born 2 December 1986) is an English comedian signed to Off the Kerb Management. He is a graduate of Jill Edwards' Comedy workshop and performed his first gig in November 2006. He has won several awards, including Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (2009) and Chortle Best Newcomer (2009). Walsh has supported Stephen K. Amos on his 2009 and 2009/10 tours entitled Find the Funny and The Feelgood Factor respectively, as well as the 2010 Reading and Leeds Festival. He is the resident compere at Komedia’s Comic Boom, Brighton every last Thursday of the month. He currently resides in Brighton, East Sussex and is a staunch QPR fan. Walsh has also been an audience wrangler for QI.

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Seasick Steve
Steven Gene Wold, commonly known as Seasick Steve, (born 1941) is an American blues musician. He plays (mostly personalized) guitars, and sings, usually about his early life doing casual work.
Wold was born in Oakland, California, USA. When he was four years old, his parents split up. His father played boogie-woogie piano and at five or six years old, Wold tried to learn but could not. At age eight, he learned to play the guitar (he later found out that it was blues) from K. C. Douglas, who worked at his grandfather's garage. Douglas wrote the song "Mercury Blues" and used to play with Tommy Johnson.^{[citation needed]} Wold left home at 13 to avoid abuse at the hands of his stepfather, and lived rough and on the road in Tennessee, Mississippi and elsewhere, until 1973. He would travel long distances by hopping freight trains, looking for work as a farm labourer or in other seasonal jobs, often living as a hobo. At various times, Wold worked as a carnie, cowboy and a migrant worker.
Of this time he once said:

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Simon Amstell
Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November 1979 in Gants Hill, London) is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter and actor, best known for his roles as former co-host of Popworld, former host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks and co-writer and star of the sitcom Grandma's House.
Amstell was born in east London in 1979 and was raised in Gants Hill, London, in a Jewish family. He was educated at Beal High School, a state comprehensive school in Ilford, London. When he appeared on Family Catchphrase, his aunt Kim mentioned that he was the eldest of four siblings.
Amstell's first television appearance was in 1993 when he appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 game show GamesMaster. He also appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick performing an impression of Dame Edna Everage,. In 1994, he appeared in an episode of Family Catchphrase, describing himself as a budding magician and showing one of his tricks to the show's presenter Andrew O'Connor, himself a magician. Amstell and his family won a television and a video recorder.

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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club.
After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature.
He first came to public attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster.
As an actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones and appeared as rogue TV host Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V For Vendetta. He has also written and presented several documentary series including the 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 US states. Since 2003 he has been the host of the quiz show QI.

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Terri Walker
Terri Walker (born Chanelle Gstettenbauer, 14 April 1979) is an English R&B and soul singer–songwriter. Walker has released three albums in the United Kingdom, Untitled, L.O.V.E, and I Am. She also provided the majority of the vocals for Shanks & Bigfoot's debut album Swings & Roundabouts. Walker's fourth studio album Walk with Me is due for release in 2011.
Walker, born in the Wimbledon district of London, England, to Jamaican parents, moved to Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, when she was four. She speaks fluent German. In a 2007 interview with Soul Culture, Walker stated that "I love Deutschland, it’s moulded me into what I am. I love here [London] too and I came back to go to boarding-school in London when I was 11. The thing is I still lived in Germany and didn’t actually come back proper till I was 17″. At the age of seventeen, Walker moved back to the UK permanently to study at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, which is a performing arts centre of excellence. Here, she she began to study and sing opera. Walker stated that "I started to study opera when I was about 15 and I started to sing it professionally from about 18. It was always a life-long ambition of mine. I think classical training is the best kinda training you can get."

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Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL (born 3 August 1938), also known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship. Wogan has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, it had a regular 8 million listeners, making Wogan the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation. He began his career at Raidió Teilifís Éireann where he presented shows such as Jackpot in the 1960s.
Wogan has been a leading media personality in the UK since the late 1960s and is often referred to as a national treasure. He is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, the original host of the BBC game show Blankety Blank (before being replaced by Les Dawson), a presenter of Come Dancing in the 1970s, and as the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on radio and television from 1971 to 2008. Wogan currently hosts a two hour Sunday morning show, Weekend Wogan on Radio 2.

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Tim Minchin
Timothy David "Tim" Minchin (born 7 October 1975 in Northampton, England) is an Australian-British comedian, actor, and musician.
Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia, Britain and the United States. After growing up in Perth, Western Australia, he attended the University of Western Australia and WAAPA before moving to Melbourne in 2002. His breakout show, "Dark Side", launched him into the public eye, achieving critical success at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Minchin has a background in theatre and has appeared in various stage productions, in addition to some small acting roles on Australian TV. A documentary film about Minchin, Rock N Roll Nerd (directed by Rhian Skirving), was released theatrically in 2008 and broadcast by ABC1 in 2009. He is the co-writer of the Olivier Award winning hit musical Matilda the Musical, based on the Roald Dahl book Matilda.

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Tim Westwood
Timothy Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood.
During his career Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new and somewhat innovative national Radio 1 Rap Show. He was the Radio 1 Rap Show's first presenter and has been its only permanent presenter; he is now one of Radio 1's longest-serving broadcasters.
His first broadcast on a legal station appears to have been on 23 March 1985, when he was already working as a pirate DJ.^{[original research?]} He was a guest on a BBC World Service programme called Meridian where he discussed early hip-hop culture in London. After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S21 EP04 ( Full Episode )

Noel's Team: Kristen Schaal and Richard Fleeshman. Phil's Team: Bobby Davro and Roy Stride...

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S24E10

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S19E01 (Part 1)

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S26E01

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S26E02

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S25E01

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S26E04

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S25E10 Cellia Black Hosts ft. Holly Willoughby, Rizzle Kicks

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Never Mind The Buzzcocks Season 26 Episode 7 Part 1

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Doctor Who Special

Never Mind the Buzzcocks, The Doctor Who Special. Oh how I adore Dr. Who!...

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Best of Simon Amstell on Never Mind the Buzzcocks

I adore Simon Amstell so I decided to compile some of my favorite moments of his from Neve...

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Never Mind The Buzzcocks S22E04 (Part 1)

Aired: 23 October 2008 Phill's Team: Rhys Darby, Harry Judd (McFly) Johnny's Team: Kate Ja...

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Never Mind The Buzzcocks S02E06

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Never Mind The Buzzcocks S08E01

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S09E06 no copyright infringement intended....

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S19E05 (Part 1)

Aired: 26 November 2006 Phil's Team: Robin Ince, Daniel Bedingfield Bill's Team: Kelli Yo...

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S19E05 (Part 2)

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S20E02 (Part 1)

Aired: 7 February 2007 Phil's Team: Philip Olivier, Donny Tourette (Towers of London) Bil...

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S20E02 (Part 3)

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S21E02 part 1 of 3

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S21E02 part 2 of 3

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S21E02 part 3 of 3

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks S19E01 (Part 1)

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Never Mind the Buzzcocks
300px Never Mind the Buzzcocks title card (Series 25-present)
Genre	Comedy
Format	Panel game
Presented by	Mark Lamarr (Series 1–17) Simon Amstell (Series 19–22) Guest presenters (Series 18, 23–present)
Starring	Phill Jupitus (Series 1–present) Sean Hughes (Series 1–10) Bill Bailey (Series 11–21) Noel Fielding (Series 21, 23–present) Guest captains (Series 22)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	25
No. of episodes	239 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Peter Fincham (1996–2003) Jim Pullin
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two
Original run	12 November 1996 (1996-11-12) – present
External links
Website
Production website

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game television show with a pop music theme, currently without a permanent presenter. It stars Phill Jupitus and Noel Fielding (from 2009) as team captains. The show is produced by Talkback Thames for the BBC, and is usually aired on BBC Two. The title plays on the names of punk rock band Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album, and the pop punk band Buzzcocks.

The show is noted and known for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the music industry. It has also had some controversial guests throughout its 15-year run.

1 History
- 1.1 Rounds
2 Cast
- 2.1 Walk-offs and non-airings
3 International versions and similar shows
4 Merchandise
5 Transmissions
- 5.1 Original series
- 5.2 Specials
6 References
7 External links

History [link]

The show has been running since 1996. From its inception until December 2005, it was presented by Mark Lamarr (who also produced the show, from 2004 through to his departure). Simon Amstell started hosting in October 2006. Regular team captains include Phill Jupitus, Sean Hughes (until May 2002), Bill Bailey (September 2002 – February 2008), Noel Fielding, and also the guest captains (October 2008 – January 2009). Bill Bailey had appeared as a guest in series 4 on Phill Jupitus's team and series 5 on Sean Hughes's team.

At the end of 2005, it was announced that Mark Lamarr was to take a break from the show after 150 episodes, to concentrate on other projects. The series that aired in spring 2006 was hosted by guest presenters, before being permanently handed over to Simon Amstell, who had appeared twice as a panellist (series 13, episode 8 and series 16, episode 11), and once as a guest presenter (series 18, episode 2). The first time Amstell appeared as a panellist under Lamarr's tenure, coincidentally, Lamarr jokingly accused him of "stealing his act".

Following series 20 (Amstell's second as regular host), a highlights show was broadcast, presented by Alan Yentob as a parody of his own arts series Imagine. The highlights programme was sub-titled Imagine… A Mildly Amusing Panel Show.

Series 20 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks concluded on 7 March 2007. The show began its 21st series on 15 November 2007^[1] with Simon Amstell as host and Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey as team captains, although Noel Fielding temporarily replaced Bill Bailey for three episodes of series 21.^[2] Series 21 concluded on 14 February 2008.

On 18 September 2008 the BBC announced that Bill Bailey would be leaving the series to concentrate on other commitments after 11 series on the show. While Simon Amstell and Phill Jupitus returned for the show's 22nd series, Bailey was replaced by a series of guest captains, including comedians Bob Mortimer, Jack Dee, Frank Skinner, Stephen Fry, James Corden, Mark Watson, Russell Brand, producer Mark Ronson, and television presenters Dermot O'Leary and Davina McCall.

On 25 April 2009, host Simon Amstell announced via his internet mailing list that he would not be hosting another series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks because of his desire to concentrate on his live tours and performances instead.^[3] The new series began October 1 with Noel Fielding as a new permanent captain. Guest hosts included Alex James, Dermot O'Leary, Jack Whitehall, Rhod Gilbert, David Walliams, Claudia Winkleman, Frank Skinner, Frankie Boyle, James Corden, Mark Watson, Martin Freeman and David Tennant.^[4] Phill Jupitus is the only performer to have appeared in every 'standard' episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks since its inception although did not feature in the special episode filmed as part of Comic Relief's 24 Hour Panel People, and missed the recording of the episode aired November 7, 2011. On that occasion, Frankie Boyle filled in as team captain.

In 2010 guest hosts continued to present the show's 24th series, including Mark Ronson, Jack Dee, Josh Groban, Terry Wogan, Tim Minchin, Robert Webb, Tim Westwood, Catherine Tate, Frankie Boyle (hosting for the second time) and David O'Doherty, who also hosted a compilation show transmitted on 11 January 2011.^[5] On 16 July 2011, the first ever live Never Mind the Buzzcocks special was hosted at Latitude. It lasted roughly two hours, was hosted by David O'Doherty, had the team captains Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding, and featured guests Seann Walsh, Charlie Baker, Paloma Faith and Seasick Steve (who was supposed to be there but never arrived so Robert Milton stood in for him).

Rounds [link]

The show usually consists of four rounds. The first round has changed multiple times over the course of the show. It now usually consists of the teams being asked a question concerning a unique fact about a musical artist or artists, such as "Why did Girls Aloud once have to cancel a show?" or "What have we pixelated in this still from a music video?" Sometimes the teams are given options to pick from and other times they have no help. Alternatively, the first round is 'Connections' in which the teams are asked to identify the connection between two bands or artists.

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Publicity shot for Never Mind the Buzzcocks, episode aired on 13 March 2005 Front row: Phill Jupitus (team captain), Mark Lamarr (presenter) and Bill Bailey (team captain) Back row: Emma Griffiths, Magne Furuholmen (a-ha), Terri Walker and Richard Fairbrass (Right Said Fred)

The second round is the Intros Round, wherein two members of a team are asked to convey the introduction of a song a cappella (but using vocal sounds for instruments rather than words) for their team mate to guess. During the Christmas specials, the teams are often given instruments with which to play, though they are usually inappropriate or toy instruments.

The third round is usually the Identity Parade, though this has occasionally been replaced by a few other alternative rounds. The audience is shown a video of a usually old musician, and the teams have to pick the correct person from a line-up of five people. The audience and people at home are the only ones to see the video, making it harder for the contestants.

The final round is called 'Next Lines', in which the host will speak a line of a song and the team must name the next line of the song. Often the songs chosen will be ones mentioned in earlier rounds and ones recorded by panel members. In the latter case, guests often prove incapable of reciting the lyrics to their own songs; for example, Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers failed entirely to recognise a line from a song which he joked was "like the B-side from our first single".

For the Christmas Eve 2006 Bumper Edition, the Next Lines round was omitted in order that the teams, plus a guest band and members of that show's Identity Parade, performed a particular song (chosen, in a short skit, by a dreidel). Phill's team, with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, performed Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls", and Bill's, with the Bollywood Pandits (a Bollywood Bhangra band), performed the Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe".

In the first series of 2005, Mark Lamarr introduced a new segment after the end of the quiz proper, wherein Lamarr tells the audience out-of-context punchlines which weren't used during the show. Often these have included incongruous references to fingerless gloves.

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Phill Jupitus with guests Dale Winton (left) and Moby (right)

In most of the episodes in the Spring 2006 series, there was an intro or outro sketch where Phill, Bill and Athelston Williams (a frequent member of the lineup in the Identity Parade round) played in a pub band called "Fat, Gifted and Black" (a play on Young, Gifted and Black), or "Athelston, Lake and Palmer" (a play on Emerson, Lake & Palmer). The guest presenter would usually be the lead singer for this segment (e. g. Lauren Laverne and Ricky Wilson).

Cast [link]

Role	Series
Role	1–10	11–17	18	19–21	22	23–present
Presenter	Mark Lamarr		Guests	Simon Amstell		Guests
Team captains	Phill Jupitus
Team captains	Sean Hughes	Bill Bailey			Guests	Noel Fielding

Until series 18, Never Mind the Buzzcocks was chaired by Mark Lamarr. Until series 10, the team captains were Phill Jupitus and Sean Hughes. After series 10, Hughes departed and was replaced by Bill Bailey. Lamarr left after series 17, and series 18 was chaired by a series of guest hosts. One of these, satirical comedian and former Popworld presenter Simon Amstell, took over as presenter from series 19 to series 22. Amstell sent an email to his fans on 24 April 2009, stating "I am Simon Amstell. Here is some news, should you be interested in this sort of thing. I will not be hosting another series of the fun pop quiz, ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’. When I first took on the role of hosting ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’, my only hope was to bring joy and laughter to the world and if I was lucky, put an end to war, disease and poverty. Now that I have achieved that, I plan to concentrate on my live work. " Series 23 was chaired by a series of guest hosts which continued for Series 24 because "none of the guest hosts were good enough" according to the comedic voice over on the first episode of Series 24.

At the beginning of series 21, Bill Bailey was unable to attend filming, so Noel Fielding provided cover for three episodes starting 22 November 2007.^[6] Bill Bailey officially left the show after series 21 to pursue other commitments.^[7] His role as team captain was filled by several 'guest captains' for series 22 and permanently filled by Noel Fielding from series 23 onward.

Walk-offs and non-airings [link]

There have been some instances of guests walking off the show, or episodes being pulled from broadcast due to guest behaviour:

In episode 2 of series 3, Lemmy of Motörhead walked off the show near the end of the episode, purportedly after he realised that Mark Lamarr and most of the other panellists' jokes were making fun of him, although by this time the show had finished the main recording and only retakes were being shot.^[8]
In episode 3 of series 20, The Ordinary Boys' lead singer Samuel Preston walked off the show after Simon Amstell read extracts from the autobiography of Preston's then-wife, Chantelle Houghton.^[9] He was replaced by audience member Ed Seymour, picked out by Bill Bailey (on the grounds that he was of the closest physical resemblance that could be found), and credited as "special guest". Bill's instructions to Seymour were "look surly and every time [Amstell] mentions Chantelle say 'that's out of order'".^[10] Coincidentally, Preston had been sitting in the same seat as Lemmy, leading it to be called the "ejector seat" by Phill in the next episode. In an August 2009 interview, Preston admitted that he regretted walking off the show and said that he would return to the programme if asked, saying "I'm struggling to think why I would have acted so weird".^[11]
Russell Brand recorded an appearance as guest captain for series 22, but due to the Andrew Sachs prank call scandal surrounding him, and his suspension—and then resignation—from the BBC, the episode was not broadcast until 19 January 2011.^[12]

International versions and similar shows [link]

In 1998–1999 the Dutch-language Belgian TV Channel Canvas had one series of the pop quiz Nonkel Pop that was based on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, featuring an intros round, next lines, and similar panels of contestants. The show was hosted by Bart Peeters. The name of the show, which translates as 'Uncle Pop' was a play on Nonkel Bob (Uncle Bob - real name Bob Davidse), a legendary kids' TV presenter of from the early days of Belgian television. Bart Peeters made his television debut as a kid on one of Nonkel Bob's shows.
In 1999 Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa hosted a short-lived one-hour music-themed game show with a somewhat different format on the USA network called Happy Hour (not to be confused with the sitcom of the same name).
In 2002, an American version of the show on VH1 with the same title, hosted by comedian Marc Maron, lasted for a month. VH1 has since played airings of the classic episodes with Mark Lamarr.
An official Dutch version, Doe Maar Normaal (which translates to "Just act normally", part of the Dutch proverb "Just act normally, that'll be silly enough", and is also a combination of famous Dutch bands Doe Maar and Normaal), started in June 2007 and is in 2012 reached its fifth season. It is broadcast by BNN. Regular panel members include TV presenter Dennis Weening and comedian Ruben van der Meer and it is hosted by Ruben Nicolai.
A popular Australian show, Spicks and Specks, hosted by stand-up comedian Adam Hills and presented in a similar style but with different question formats was broadcast on the ABC from 2005 until 2011. Adam Hills appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2005.
ProSieben, a German network, aired Popclub between 2002 and 2003. Hosted by comedian Thomas Hermanns, the show's major difference from Never Mind the Buzzcocks was the absence of constant team captains. Every episode featured two teams that had to present a name and a battle cry for themselves. Additionally, at the start of each episode, each member showed the very first record they ever bought.

Merchandise [link]

In 1999, BBC Worldwide published Never Mind the Buzzcocks: The Book, the CD, the Brief Intense Rush (followed by a feeling of paranoia and insecurity). The book includes famous moments from the first five series of the show, from selected Identity Parades, I Fought the Law, Word Up and Connections rounds, along with collections of Mark Lamarr's one-liners from the show. The book also features new material, including comic strips (one explaining the origin of The Human League frontman Philip Oakey's hairstyle) and "Great Moments in Rock History", in which photos of famous musical moments are altered to imply that line-up regular Athelston Williams was present. The CD features several Intros rounds from the show, in the format of a game to play at home.

In 2000, Paul Lamond Games released the Never Mind the Buzzcocks board game, licensed from the BBC and Talkback. The board game is played as follows: the players arrange themselves into two teams. They have two counters each on the board—one as a point marker along the edge of the board and the other to select the round they have to play on the roll of a dice. There are six rounds that can be played:

In the Style of…, where the team leader has to sing a song in the style of someone notable, e. g. "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the style of Mick Jagger, or "Start Me Up" in the style of Jeremy Clarkson.
When I Was Famous, where the team leader asks a trivia question, and the other team members have to guess the answer.
Intros round, the only surviving round from the TV show. Each team gets one intro per round.
Vital Vinyl, where the team leader asks a trivia question about a song or an album, and anyone from either team can answer.
Songs in One Sentence, where the team leader divides their team into two, and one section of the team has to describe a song without mentioning the song title or any lyrics in the song, and the other section has to guess what the song is. This game was played once in the first series of the TV show.
Your Number's Up, where the team leader reads the category on the card to the opposite team, for example, name four songs that mention American states in their titles, for which you might answer "New York Mining Disaster, 1941" (The Bee Gees), "Hotel California" (The Eagles), "Ohio" (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young), and "Sweet Home Alabama" (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

The teams earn the number of points given for the round on the card. For "In the Style of…", it is always one point for the song, and two points for the artist they are doing the song in the style of. At the end of their turn, the team moves their counter on the outer ring clockwise, by the number of points they scored.

The team that overtakes the other on the squares on the edge of the board wins the game.

A best of DVD including some of the unbroadcastable scenes from the Simon Amstell series' was released on the 16 November 2009. The DVD contains 3 specials including:

Never Mind the Buzzcocks - Technically, the Best Series Ever
Never Mind The Buzzcocks – A Moving Tribute
Never Mind The Buzzcocks… Imagine a mildly amusing panel show

The DVD also includes best of clips and scenes which weren't broadcast with a compulsory commentary by Simon Amstell and Phill Jupitus.

Transmissions [link]

Main article: List of Never Mind the Buzzcocks episodes

Original series [link]

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	12 November 1996	7 February 1997	9
2	15 September 1997	3 December 1997	8
3	27 February 1998	10 April 1998	7
4	11 September 1998	16 October 1998	6
5	12 February 1999	9 April 1999	8
6	10 September 1999	18 February 2000	9
7	15 September 2000	10 November 2000	9
8	26 February 2001	30 April 2001	10
9	10 September 2001	5 November 2001	9
10	7 January 2002	4 March 2002	9
11	23 September 2002	11 November 2002	8
12	13 January 2003	17 March 2003	10
13	8 September 2003	27 October 2003	8
14	5 January 2004	15 March 2004	11
15	20 September 2004	25 October 2004	6
16	2 January 2005	20 March 2005	11
17	31 October 2005	12 December 2005	7
18	13 March 2006	24 April 2006	7
19	26 October 2006	30 November 2006	6
20	31 January 2007	7 March 2007	6
21	15 November 2007	7 February 2008	12
22	2 October 2008	11 December 2008	12
23	1 October 2009	9 December 2009	11
24	21 October 2010	3 January 2011	12
25	3 October 2011	19 December 2011	12

Specials [link]

Date	Entitle
21 February 1997	The Best of Series 1
30 December 1998	Christmas Special
29 December 1999	Christmas Special
28 December 2000	Christmas Special
30 December 2001	Christmas Special
20 May 2002	Eurovision Special
29 December 2002	Christmas Special
6 January 2003	100th Episode Special
28 December 2003	Christmas Special
20 December 2004	Christmas Special
20 December 2005	Christmas Special
31 December 2005	150th Episode Special
24 December 2006	Christmas Special
14 February 2008	The Best of Series 21
16 January 2009	The Best of Series 22
16 December 2009	Doctor Who Special
23 December 2009	The Best of Series 23
5 January 2011	The Best of Series 24
18 November 2011	Children in Need 2011 Special
19 December 2011	Christmas Special
29 December 2011	The Best of Series 25
23 March 2012	Sport Relief 2012 Special

References [link]

^ "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". Radio Times. http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=105&programmeId=69436727&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details_fullpage.jsp. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
^ shtml "Fielding to guest captain on 'Buzzcocks'". BBC Press Office. 2007-10-29. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/29/fielding. shtml. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
^ "Amstell quits Buzzcocks". Chortle.co.uk. 2009-04-25. http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/04/25/8788/amstell_quits_buzzcocks. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
^ shtml "New look Buzzcocks returns to BBC Two". BBC Press Office. 2009–09–14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/09_september/14/buzzcocks. shtml. Retrieved 2009–10–09.
^ http://twitter.com/jupitusphillip/status/24558920095
^ RadioTimes - TV listings
^ shtml "All new Buzzcocks as Bill Bailey bows out". BBC Press Office. 2008–09–18. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/18/buzzcocks. shtml. Retrieved 2008–09–18.
^ http://www.motorhead.ru/int35live4metal.htm
^ "Singer Preston storms off TV quiz". BBC News Online. 2007-01-11. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6251913.stm. Retrieved 2007-02-13.
^ "My night on Never Mind the Buzzcocks". BBC News Online. 2007-02-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6361035.stm. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
^ Preston 'regrets' show walk out, BBC News, 6 August 2009
^ "Russell Brand's Buzzcocks to be screened". BBC News. 2011-01-17. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12205396.

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Buzzcocks

Background information
Origin	Bolton, England
Genres	Punk rock, pop punk,^[1] New Wave^[2]^[3]^[4]
Years active	1976–1981 1989–present
Labels	United Artists, I.R.S., Cooking Vinyl, ROIR, EMI
Associated acts	Flag of Convenience Magazine
Website	www.buzzcocks.com
Members
Pete Shelley Steve Diggle Chris Remmington Danny Farrant
Past members
Howard Devoto Garth Mick Singleton John Maher Barry Adamson Steve Garvey Mike Joyce Tony Barber Phil Barker

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed in Bolton in 1976, led by singer–songwriter–guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter-guitarist Steve Diggle.^[5]

They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock. They achieved commercial success with singles that fused pop craftsmanship with rapid-fire punk energy. These singles were collected on Singles Going Steady, described by critic Ned Raggett as a "punk masterpiece".^[6] The widely covered "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" remains one of their best-known songs, along with "Harmony in my Head".

The name "Buzzcocks" was chosen by Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley after reading the headline "it's the buzz, cocks!" in a review of the TV series Rock Follies in Time Out magazine. The "buzz" is the excitement of playing on stage; "cock" is Manchester slang meaning "mate" (as in friend/buddy). They thought it captured the excitement of the Sex Pistols and nascent punk scene.^[7]

1 Career
2 Members
3 Discography
4 Notes
5 External links

Career [link]

Early years [link]

Howard Trafford, a student at Bolton Institute of Technology (now the University of Bolton), placed a notice in the college looking for musicians sharing a liking for The Velvet Underground's song "Sister Ray".^[8] Peter McNeish,^[9] a fellow student at the Institute, responded to the notice. Trafford played electronic music^[9] and McNeish had played rock.

McNeish assumed the stage name Pete Shelley, and Trafford named himself Howard Devoto, after a bus driver in Cambridge. In late 1975, Shelley and Devoto recruited a drummer and formed an embryonic version of Buzzcocks that did not perform in front of an audience and which dissolved after a number of rehearsals.^{[citation needed]} The band formed as Buzzcocks in February 1976 and performed live for the first time on 1 April 1976 at their college. Garth Davies played bass guitar and Mick Singleton played drums. Singleton also played in local band Black Cat Bone.^[10]

After reading an NME review of the Sex Pistols' first performance, Shelley and Devoto travelled to London together to see the Sex Pistols in February 1976. Shelley and Devoto were impressed by what they saw and arranged for the Sex Pistols to come and perform at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, in June 1976. Buzzcocks intended to play at this concert, but the other musicians dropped out, and Shelley and Devoto were unable to recruit other musicians in time for the gig. Once they had recruited bass guitarist Steve Diggle and drummer John Maher, they made their debut opening for the Sex Pistols' second Manchester concert in July 1976. A brief clip of Devoto-era Buzzcocks performing The Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" appears in the Punk: Attitude documentary directed by Don Letts. In September 1976 the band travelled to London to perform at the two-day 100 Club Punk Festival, organised by Malcolm McLaren. Other performers included: the Sex Pistols, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, The Vibrators, The Damned and the French band Stinky Toys.

By the end of the year, Buzzcocks had recorded and released a four-track EP, Spiral Scratch, on their own New Hormones label, making them one of the first punk groups to establish an independent record label, trailing only The Saints' "(I'm) Stranded". Produced by Martin Hannett, the music was roughly recorded, insistently repetitive, and energetic. "Boredom" announced punk's rebellion against the status quo while templating a strident musical minimalism (the guitar solo consisting of two repeated notes). The demos recorded while Devoto was in the band were later issued officially as Time's Up. Long available as a bootleg, this album includes the alternative takes of all the tracks from the Spiral Scratch EP as well as early version of tracks that later appeared on the official debut Another Music in a Different Kitchen.

After a few months, Devoto left the group; he returned to college for a year, then formed Magazine. Pete Shelley continued as vocalist; his high-pitched, melodic singing stood in stark contrast to the gruff pub rock vocal stylings of many punk contemporaries. Diggle switched from bass to guitar, and Garth Davies rejoined on bass as Garth Smith or Garth. Garth appeared on the band’s first Radio 1 Peel Session, in September 1977, but due to his alcoholism he was quickly replaced with Steve Garvey, joining Dirty Looks in New York. This new line-up signed with United Artists Records.

Signing to United Artists [link]

Their first UA Buzzcocks single, "Orgasm Addict", was a playful examination of compulsive sexuality that was (and remains) uncommonly bold. The BBC refused to play the song, but the single sold well. Later, more ambiguous songs staked out a territory defined by Shelley's bisexuality and punk's aversion to serious examination of human sexuality. The next single, "What Do I Get?" reached the UK top 40 charts.^[11] "Lipstick", the B-side to "Promises," shared the same ascending progression of notes in its chorus as Magazine's first single, "Shot By Both Sides," also released in 1978.

For more details on this topic, see Pop punk.

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Their original career produced three LPs: Another Music in a Different Kitchen, Love Bites, and A Different Kind of Tension, each supported by extensive touring in Europe and the U.S. Their trademark sound was a marriage of catchy pop melodies with punk guitar energy, backed by an unusually tight and skilled rhythm section. They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs ("A Different Kind of Tension"), declaiming their catechism in the anthem "I Believe", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard ("Radio Nine"). In 1980, Liberty Records signed the band, and three singles were released. However, only one of these, the double 'A' side "Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore/Are Everything" made the Top 75.

In parallel with Buzzcocks, Pete Shelley formed a more experimental and post-punk band, The Tiller Boys, along with Eric Random and Francis Cookson, while Steve Garvey joined The Teardrops in 1978, along with The Fall's Tony Friel and Karl Burns; both bands were releasing material in late 1970s and broke up at the same time as Buzzcocks.

Break-up and reunions [link]

After recording demos for a fourth album the group disbanded in 1981, when Shelley took up a solo career. Diggle and Maher formed Flag of Convenience, who released several singles between 1982 and 1989. Garvey formed Motivation and joined Blue Orchids, moving to New York, shortly afterwards, to continue with the first band. Maher had joined Wah! by the time Buzzcocks broke up. Shelley and Devoto teamed up in 2002 for the first time since 1976, producing the album Buzzkunst, 'Kunst' being the German word for 'Art'. The album was a mix of electronic music and punk.

John Maher now owns and runs John Maher Racing, a vintage Volkswagen performance tuning workshop located on the Isle of Harris, Scotland.^[12] He has built and raced several Volkswagen Beetles. In 2005, Shelley re-recorded "Ever Fallen In Love" with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel. Proceeds went to Amnesty International. Shelley also performed the song live, with Plant, Daltrey, Gilmour, Hook and Jeff Beck at the 2005 UK Music Hall of Fame.^[13]

Buzzcocks have reformed several times since 1989, featuring Shelley and Diggle with other musicians; initially with Maher and Garvey for a world tour, then briefly replacing Maher with Smiths drummer Mike Joyce. In 1992, Tony Barber joined on bass and Phil Barker on drums. This line-up toured on one of Nirvana's last-ever tours in 1994. Buzzcocks toured as the opener for Pearl Jam in 2003. In April 2006, Barker left and was replaced by Danny Farrant. In March 2006, the band released their eighth studio album, Flat-Pack Philosophy, on Cooking Vinyl Records, the supporting tour found them playing on a leg of the mid-2006 Vans Warped Tour.

They made an appearance for Maxïmo Park's homecoming gig in Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 December 2007.

In April 2008, Barber left and was replaced by Chris Remmington.

In January 2009 the band embarked on a UK and European tour, the "Another Bites Tour", in which they played their first two albums in full, as well as an encore of their other hits.^[14]

In July 2009, Buzzcocks played in Serbia for the second time, at the EXIT festival in Novi Sad. Their song, "Why Can't I Touch It" was played in the second episode of the sixth season of TV series Entourage.

On 9 November 2009, Buzzcocks gave a very rare performance on a small balcony overlooking Dame Street in Dublin, for the music viral show BalconyTV.^[15]

In December 2009 they played as the main support act for The Courteeners.^[16]

In August 2011 they headlined the first night of The Rhythm Festival in Bedfordshire.

In November 2011 it was announced they would be playing two shows in 2012 that will feature the original line-up as well as the classic line-up of the band reunited for the first time in many years; these shows will take place on 25 May 2012 in Manchester at the O2 Apollo and on 26 May in Brixton at the O2 Academy. It was announced on the 26th of May 2012 that they'll will for the first time ever headline Thursday night in the Empress Ballroom at the Rebellion Festival in Blackpool sharing the stage with the likes of Rancid, Public Image Limited and Social Distortion.^[17]

TV show title [link]

Buzzcocks' name was combined with the title of the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the Bollocks to create the title of the long-running UK comedy panel game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Diggle claimed in his autobiography that he and Shelley had only granted the BBC use of their name under the impression that it would be a one-off, probably unsuccessful pilot, and that they are now mildly disgruntled that the name is more readily associated in Britain with the TV series than with their band.^[18] Shelley himself appeared on the programme in 2000, where host Mark Lamarr introduced Shelley by saying that without Buzzcocks "there'd be no Smiths or Radiohead, and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading!"

Members [link]

Current band photo, at the Cropredy Festival, 13 August 2009 Photo: Brian Marks

Feb 1976	Peter McNeish (Pete Shelley) Howard Trafford (Howard Devoto)
1976	Pete Shelley – guitar Howard Devoto – vocals Garth Davies (Garth Smith) – bass Mick Singleton – drums
20 Jul 1976 – Feb 1977	Pete Shelley – guitar Howard Devoto – vocals Steve Diggle – bass John Maher – drums
11 Mar 1977 – 7 Oct 1977	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar Garth Smith – bass John Maher – drums
Nov 1977	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar Barry Adamson – bass (on loan from Magazine) John Maher – drums
Nov 1977 – 6 Mar 1981	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals, keyboards Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Steve Garvey – bass John Maher – drums
1989	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals, keyboards Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Steve Garvey – bass John Maher – drums
1990–1991	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Mike Joyce – drums Steve Garvey – bass
1992	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals, keyboards Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Steve Garvey – bass John Maher – drums
1992	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Steve Garvey – bass Steve Gibson – drums
1992–2006	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Tony Barber – bass Phil Barker – drums
2006–2008	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Tony Barber – bass Danny Farrant – drums
2008–present	Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals Steve Diggle – guitar, vocals Chris Remmington – bass Danny Farrant – drums

Discography [link]

Main article: Buzzcocks discography

Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978)
Love Bites (1978)
A Different Kind of Tension (1979)
Trade Test Transmissions (1993)
All Set (1996)
Modern (1999)
Buzzcocks (2003)
Flat-Pack Philosophy (2006)

Notes [link]

^ Buzzcocks: Biography : Rolling Stone
^ "Buzzcocks Get Philosophical On New Album". Chart. 14 February 2006. http://www.chartattack.com/news/40420/buzzcocks-get-philosophical-on-new-album. Retrieved 9 August 2009.
^ phillyBurbs.com | The Must-Have Music Guide
^ John Cooper Clarke – New Musical Express Review 1978 Review
^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas; Allmusic.com profile of Buzzcocks; URl accessed 6 Jan 2007
^ Raggett, Ned. "Singles Going Steady (review)". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r3051. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
^ Gimarc, George (2005) Punk Diary: The Ultimate Trainspotter's Guide to Underground Rock 1970–1982, Backbeat Books, ISBN 0-87930-848-6, p. 27
^ "Pitchfork: Buzzcocks interview". Pitchfork Media. 29 January 2009. http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7583-buzzcocks/. Retrieved 15 April 2009.
^ ^a ^b Aidan O'Rourke (12 August). "Event Review: An Evening with Buzzcocks". Urbis Manchester. http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_urbis_buzzcocks.htm. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ "Discography" (TXT). buzzcocks.com. 24 February 2004. http://www.buzzcocks.com/buzzcocksdiscography.txt. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
^ "Chart Stats – Buzzcocks". chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=2903. Retrieved 31 July 2009.
^ John Maher Racing: VW Performance
^ Dickson, Andrew; agencies (23 September 2005). "Music legends unite for Peel tribute single". guardian.co.uk (London: Guardian News and Media). http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1577076,00.html.
^ "Live Dates". buzzcocks.com. http://www.buzzcocks.com/site/livedates.html. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
^ "BUZZCOCKS – Video Archive – BALCONYTV – Over 20 million video views – Music with a View". Balconytv. http://www.balconytv.com/v/buzzcocks--2. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
^ "Niet compatibele browser". Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=8520432&id=30118565360. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
^ "Announcement of Back To Front tour". ents24.com. http://www.ents24.com/web/news/Buzzcocks_are_back_00178165.html. Retrieved 29 November 2011.
^ Diggle, S and Rawlings, T, Harmony In My Head (Helter Skelter, 2003, ISBN 1-900924-37-4 )

External links [link]

	Book: Buzzcocks
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Official website
Buzzcocks at Allmusic

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Steve Diggle Danny Farrant Pete Shelley Chris Remmington Tony Barber Barry Adamson Phil Barker Howard Devoto Steve Garvey Mike Joyce John Maher Mick Singleton Garth Smith

Studio albums	Another Music in a Different Kitchen Love Bites A Different Kind of Tension Trade Test Transmissions All Set Modern Buzzcocks Flat-Pack Philosophy

Compilations	Singles Going Steady Parts 1-3 Product The Fab Four The Peel Sessions Album Operator's Manual: Buzzcocks Best Chronology I Don't Mind The Buzzcocks Time's Up Ever Fallen in Love? Buzzcocks Finest Inventory The Complete Singles Anthology

Extended plays	Spiral Scratch I Am the Amazing Buzzcoks Alive Tonight EP

Singles	"Orgasm Addict" "What Do I Get" "I Don't Mind" "Moving Away from the Pulse Beat" "Love You More" "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" "Promises" "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" "Harmony in My Head" "You Say You Don't Love Me" "I Believe" "Are Everything - Part 1" "Strange Thing - Part 2" "Running Free - Part 3" "Innocent" "Do It" "Libertine Angel" "Jerk" "Sick City Sometimes" "Wish I Never Loved You" "Sell You Everything" "Reconciliation"

Related articles	Discography Martin Hannett Martin Rushent

Related bands	Blue Orchids Flag of Convenience ShelleyDevoto The Teardrops Luxuria Magazine Motivation

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Holly Willoughby

Born	Holly Marie Willoughby (1981-03-10) March 10, 1981 (age 31) Brighton, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Residence	Clapham, London
Nationality	British
Ethnicity	English
Occupation	TV Presenter, Model
Years active	2000–present
Employer	ITV BBC
Television	Presenting: This Morning (2009–present) Celebrity Juice (2008–present) The Voice UK (2012–present)
Spouse	Dan Baldwin (m. 2007)
Children	Harry James Baldwin (born 11 May 2009) Belle Baldwin (born 14 April 2011)
Website
OffficialHollyWilloughby.com

Holly Marie Willoughby (born February 10, 1981)^[1]^[2], is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK. In 2006, she won a BAFTA and was chosen to present Dancing on Ice, a UK celebrity talent show, shown on the ITV network which drew in an average of 8.9 million viewers in the 2010 series. She later stepped down from the role in 2011 due to new commitments and was replaced by Christine Bleakley.^[3] In July 2009, she was selected as a replacement for Fern Britton on This Morning.^[4] She began presenting on This Morning on 14 September 2009, alongside Phillip Schofield. On 23 November 2011, it was announced that Willoughby would be hosting the singing show The Voice UK on the BBC along with Reggie Yates.^[5]

1 Early life
2 Media career
- 2.1 Children's TV
- 2.2 Mainstream TV
3 Filmography
- 3.1 Guest appearances
4 Bibliography
5 Awards
6 Personal life
7 References
8 External links

Early life [link]

The younger of two daughters of the manager of a double-glazing company and an air stewardess,^[6] Willoughby was educated at the independent Burgess Hill School For Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex. She went on to attend The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, at the age of 14, Willoughby was spotted by talent scouts at The Clothes Show Live exhibition. Storm Model Management signed her up.^[7] She appeared in teen magazines for girls such as Mizz, Just Seventeen and More!. From 1998, at the age of 17, she started modelling underwear for various clients including Pretty Polly. She appeared in various adverts and posters.

Media career [link]

Children's TV [link]

In 2000, Willoughby won an audition for a show on CITV featuring S Club 7 called S Club TV.^[8] In this show actors represented an alternative S Club.^[9] She also acted in a show called S Club 7: Artistic Differences. She played a character called Zoe alongside the regular members of the band.^[10] and after these shows, she worked as a receptionist for a while and then as a runner for the defunct shopping channel Auction World TV.

She also took on menial jobs and started an Open University course in psychotherapy. Then eventually she found work as assistant manager during which time she persuaded a friend to make a show reel of her. This show reel secured her an agent who then contacted the BBC.^[8] Later in 2000, she presented a factual entertainment programme for children called Xchange. She went on to host several other children's shows for CBBC: X-perimental, and CBBC at the Fame Academy (CBBC's version of the BBC-TV talent show Fame Academy).

Her breakthrough as a children's entertainer came when she re-joined CITV in 2004 to co-present their flagship entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem which was aired on Saturday mornings. It was on this programme that she met her future husband Dan Baldwin, one of the show's producers. In 2006, the show's title was changed to Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown in order to reflect the popularity of its co-presenters, Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern. During the final episode of the show (1 July 2006), Willoughby accidentally revealed one of her breasts during a particularly energetic routine. CITV received a small number of complaints, though the wider audience merely wrote the occurrence off as unfortunate. In 2005 Willoughby presented Feel the Fear, a children's entertainment programme in which the presenters are set unnerving challenges. She has also had a number of minor appearances on other children's programmes and programmes relating to children. She co-presented the final of the children's version of Stars in Their Eyes in 2004. The programmes listed below were broadcast on CITV in 2000

Mainstream TV [link]

Willoughby presented CD:UK for a short while in the spring of 2005, replacing Cat Deeley before Myleene Klass became the regular presenter. Her major breakthrough as a mainstream family entertainer came when she was chosen to co-present the flagship ITV talent show Dancing on Ice, alongside Phillip Schofield, in 2006.^[11] In this show, celebrities from the UK are partnered with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing routines which are then judged by a panel of experts and voted on by the public. She stepped down from the role in 2011 due to new commitments. She was criticised for her choice of costume in January 2008.^[12]

She has presented a number of other ITV programmes, especially spin-off shows such as Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On, Greased Lightnin and most recently, The Xtra Factor. She has also presented shows exploring celebrity gossip such as Lip Service and the comedy show Celebrity Juice. In 2007, she took over from Davina McCall as the presenter of Streetmate, a dating game show in the UK. She presented sections of The National Television Awards in 2007 and 2008.

She co-presents Holly & Fearne Go Dating alongside Fearne Cotton. In this show the two hosts, who are also best friends, attempt to find dates for single people that they meet in various situations in in UK. She has also presented Here Come the Boys, a show celebrating the achievements of popular UK male singers of the past 50 years.

Willoughby has co-presented ITV's morning show This Morning with Phillip Schofield since September 2009 after she took over the role from Fern Britton.

On 23 November 2011, it was announced that she would present The Voice UK in 2012, along with BBC Radio presenter Reggie Yates.

On 30 March 2012 she won celebrity cleavage of the year^[13] in a competition sponsored by Wonderbra.

Filmography [link]

Year	Programme	Role
2000	S Club TV	Presenter
2000	S Club 7: Artistic Differences	Presenter
2000–2004	Xchange	Contestant
2002–2003	CBBC at the Fame Academy	Presenter
2003	X-perimental	Presenter
2004–2006	Ministry of Mayhem aka Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown	Presenter
2004	Stars in Their Eyes Kids	Presenter
2005	Feel the Fear	Contestant
2005	CD:UK	Presenter
2005	Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On	Contestant
2006–2011	Dancing On Ice	Presenter
2006	Lip Service	Presenter
2006	Tricky TV	Presenter
2007	The Westlife Show: Live	Presenter
2007	Greased Lightnin	Presenter
2007	Streetmate	Presenter
2007	Holly & Fearne Go Dating	Presenter
2008–2009	The Xtra Factor	Presenter
2008–Present	Celebrity Juice	Presenter
2007–2008	The National Television Awards	Presenter
2009–Present	This Morning	Presenter
2009	Cheryl Cole's Night In	Presenter
2010	James Corden's World Cup Live	Presenter
2010	Magic Numbers	Guest
2010	Agatha Christie's Marple
2011	Text Santa	Presenter
2012–Present	The Voice UK	Presenter
2012	Surprise Surprise	Presenter

Guest appearances [link]

Panel Member Never Mind the Buzzcocks (31 October 2005)
Contestant Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (29 September 2007)
Contestant All Star Family Fortunes (3 November 2007)
Guest presenter This Morning (5 December 2008)
Contestant All Star Mr and Mrs (2 January 2010)
Contestant Chris Moyles' Quiz Night (29 November 2010)
Guest presenter Britain Unzipped (24 April 2012)

Bibliography [link]

Willoughby and Fearne Cotton have written an advice book entitled The Best Friends' Guide to Life published in October 2010

The Best Friends' Guide to Life. Vermilion. 14 October 2010. ISBN 978-0-09-193540-5.

Awards [link]

In 2006, Willoughby won a BAFTA in recognition of her abilities as a children’s TV presenter.^[14]

She has also appeared in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women poll every year since 2005, ranking at #51 in 2010, #74 in 2009 and #100 in 2008.^[15]

On March 30th, 2012, on the National Cleavage Day, Holly Willoughby was awarded the title “Best Celebrity Cleavage”,^[16]^[17] based on a poll of 1000 women who chose her as the first celebrity to get into the Wonderbra Cleavage Hall of Fame.^[18]

Personal life [link]

Holly Willoughby is dyslexic.^[19] Her sister, Kelly, also works in the television industry.^[20]

On 4 August 2007 she married Dan Baldwin, a producer on Ministry of Mayhem. Her son, Harry James Baldwin, was born in May 2009.^[21] Her daughter, Belle Baldwin, was born in April 2011.^[22]

References [link]

^ http://www.bio27.com/tag/holly-willoughby-age
^ http://www.talktalk.co.uk/celebrity/biography/person/holly-willoughby/221
^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a351698/christine-bleakley-replaces-holly-willoughby-as-dancing-on-ice-host.html
^ "Willoughby new This Morning host". BBC News. 15 July 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8152780.stm. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15856579
^ Holly Willoughby on 'that breast incident' Mail Online, 19 October 2007
^ The 20 most powerful celebrity makers: 6. Sarah Doukas The Observer, 22 June 2008
^ ^a ^b Bio Holly Willoughby
^ Off the Telly Reviews^{[dead link]}
^ Holly Willoughby IMDb
^ Holly Willoughby ITV: Dancing on Ice
^ Good Golly, Miss Holly Orange Entertainment News, 29 January 2008
^ http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/894724-holly-willoughbys-boobies-see-her-come-top-of-national-cleavage-day-list
^ Children's Awards BAFTA
^ Holly Willoughby at FHM.com
^ Deborah Arthurs (30 March 2012). "Simply the breast! Holly Willoughby's cleavage named nation's favourite in Wonderbra poll". Dailymail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122302/National-Cleavage-Day-Holly-Willoughbys-cleavage-named-Britains-favourite-Wonderbra-poll.html. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
^ "Holly Willoughby encabeza el ranking del mejor escote" (in Spanish). El Nacional. 5 April 2012. http://www.el-nacional.com/noticia/29746/21/Holly-Willoughby-encabeza-el-ranking-del-mejor-escote.html. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
^ "Holly Willoughby In Wonderbra's Cleavage Hall Of Fame". contactmusic.com. 30 March 2012. http://www.contactmusic.com/news/holly-willoughby-in-wonderbras-cleavage-hall-of-fame_1312571. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
^ "Holly Willoughby tells Twitter followers who criticised spelling 'I'm dyslexic'". Daily Telegraph. 6 November 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6510511/Holly-Willoughby-tells-Twitter-followers-who-criticised-spelling-Im-dyslexic.html. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
^ Mum’s the word, Holly Mail Online, 22 November 2008
^ Holly Willoughby Delivers Baby Boy Mail Online, 12 May 2009
^ Holly gives birth to baby girl

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Simon Amstell
Simon Amstell at One Big Laugh, Bloomsbury Theatre, 2006.
Born	Simon Marc Amstell (1979-11-29) 29 November 1979 (age 32)^[1] Gants Hill, London, England
Occupation	Stand-up comedian Television presenter Script writer, actor
Years active	1993–present
Website
simonamstell.co.uk

Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November 1979 in Gants Hill, London) is a BAFTA-nominated,^[2] award-winning English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter and actor, best known for his roles as former co-host of Popworld, former host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks and co-writer and star of the sitcom Grandma's House.

1 Early life
2 Life and career
3 Popworld
4 Never Mind the Buzzcocks
5 Writing and acting
6 Stand-up
7 References
8 External links

Early life [link]

Amstell was born in east London in 1979 and was raised in Gants Hill, London, in a Jewish family. He was educated at Beal High School, a state comprehensive school in Ilford, London. When he appeared on Family Catchphrase, his aunt Kim mentioned that he was the eldest of four siblings.

Life and career [link]

Amstell's first television appearance was in 1993 when he appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 game show GamesMaster.^[3]^[4]^[5] He also appeared on Good Morning with Anne and Nick performing an impression of Dame Edna Everage,^[6]. In 1994, he appeared in an episode of Family Catchphrase, describing himself as a budding magician and showing one of his tricks to the show's presenter Andrew O'Connor, himself a magician.^[7]^[8]^[9] Amstell and his family won a television and a video recorder.

Amstell started performing on the comedy circuit when he was in his early teens and later became the youngest finalist to appear in the BBC New Comedy Awards. His first professional television appearance was in 1998 as a presenter on the UK children's channel Nickelodeon. He claims he was sacked for being "sarcastic and mean to children"^[10] although the potted biography on his website also, in jest, claims:

"He started his TV career at Nickoledeon where he was fired for making pop stars uncomfortable. He then began presenting the Channel 4 show, Popworld – where he gained a huge following for his groundbreaking work in making pop stars uncomfortable."^[11]

His sexual orientation (openly gay) and Jewish-influenced upbringing occasionally figure in his work.^[12]^[13]^[14]

[edit] Popworld

From 2000 to 2006, Amstell presented Popworld on Channel 4 with Miquita Oliver. He voiced the characters "Timothy the Popworld melon" and "Richard the Popworld horse" and developed a highly ironic, surreal and left-field style which gained the show a cult following but angered many of its guests. One example was a mock interview with singer Lemar called "Lemar From Afar" in which Amstell shouted questions into a megaphone from one end of the world's largest car park while Lemar stood at the other end. Another was a "Si-chiatrist" interview with Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris of The Kooks in which Amstell played the role of psychiatrist and Pritchard and Harris his patients. During his time presenting Popworld, Amstell was at the centre of several controversies, including making Britney Spears cry after asking her if she thought she'd "gone a bit nuts".^[15]

[edit] Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Amstell first appeared on the comedy pop quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks as a guest during Mark Lamarr's tenure as host, in 2003 and 2005. Following Lamarr's departure, he was one of the series' guest hosts before being appointed as permanent host beginning in October 2006. He said at the time that he hoped to beat "the universal, exceptionless rule that when a new host takes over an old show it is a horrible, embarrassing disaster".^[16]

In June 2007, Amstell and long-term collaborator Dan Swimer wrote Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show, a spoof version of Alan Yentob's arts programme Imagine. Yentob and Amstell play themselves in a mock interview between what a number of commentators described as "overtly sexual"^{[citation needed]} clips taken from Amstell's Never Mind the Buzzcocks episodes. It was followed in February 2008 by Never Mind the Buzzcocks: A Moving Tribute, which jokingly implied that Amstell had either died or retired from the show.

On 25 April 2009, Amstell announced via his internet mailing list that he would not be hosting another series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks because of his desire to instead concentrate on his live tours and stand-up performances.^[17]

Amstell won several awards for his work on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In March 2007, he won the 2006 Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment Performance.^[18] In December 2007, he won two British Comedy Awards for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality and Best Comedy Entertainment Series for Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In addition, Never Mind the Buzzcocks won the Best Entertainment Programme^[19] award at the Broadcast Awards 2008. Amstell's era was the reason why Never Mind the Buzzcocks was chosen as the 36th-best TV show of the decade by The Times.^[20]

Writing and acting [link]

Amstell co-wrote an episode of Channel 4 teen drama Skins in 2007, entitled "Maxxie and Anwar".

In 2009, BBC2 commissioned a six-part series entitled Grandma's House from Tiger Aspect Productions, written by and starring Amstell, co-written by Dan Swimer. The show was commissioned after the airing of a pilot earlier the same year. Filming started in February 2010^[21] and broadcasting began in August 2010.

In 2011, Amstell appeared in the independent film Black Pond.^[22]

In April 2012, the second series of Grandma's House began airing.

Stand-up [link]

Amstell also performs as a stand-up comedian. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009. He has also appeared at the Carling Festivals in the Cabaret and Comedy Tent for the last two years. In 2008, Amstell completed his first UK tour. He appeared at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2009. His entire run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2009 at the Bongo Club sold out. He took part in his second national tour in the autumn of 2009.^[23]

Amstell performed Do Nothing in 2009 at the Royal Court Theatre, raising money for their young writers programme.

In May 2010, Amstell recorded Do Nothing in Dublin's Vicar Street venue for a November DVD release. In December 2011 and April 2012, it was shown on BBC3 and the BBC iPlayer.^[24]

In April 2012, Amstell will be performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. From May to June 2012, he will be touring the UK. Amstell is calling the tour Numb.

References [link]

^ "Simon Amstell – Biography". Talktalk.co.uk. 1979-11-29. http://www.talktalk.co.uk/celebrity/biography/person/simon-amstell/185. Retrieved 2010-05-15.
^ "Baftas – 2008 nominations". The Guardian (London). 18 March 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/18/television3?gusrc=rss&feed=media. Retrieved 18 March 2008.
^ The TV game is kids' stuff for Amstell, The Guardian, 7 November 2008.
^ Simon Amstell on Gamesmaster, part 1 on YouTube.
^ Simon Amstell on Gamesmaster, part 2 on YouTube.
^ Simon Amstell Embarrassed by Child TV Appearance – Never Mind The Buzzcocks – BBC Two YouTube
^ Simon Amstell on Family Catchphrase, Part 1 on YouTube.
^ Simon Amstell on Family Catchphrase, Part 2 on YouTube.
^ Simon Amstell on Family Catchphrase, Part 3 on YouTube.
^ Lynskey, Dorian (2 August 2006). "I always want the funny line (interview)". The Guardian (London). http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1835165,00.html. Retrieved 4 June 2007.
^ Simon Amstell – who
^ "Simon Amstell 'No Self', Edinburgh Festival Fringe review". The Edinburgh Blog. 2 August 2007. http://www.theedinburghblog.co.uk/edinburgh-festivals/simon-amstell-no-self-edinburgh-festival-fringe-review/08-02-2007/. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
^ "Simon Amstell: The gay UK comedian courts laughter and controversy". AfterElton.com. 19 February 2008. http://www.afterelton.com/taxonomy/term/2617. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
^ Teeman, Tim (October 25, 2006). "The next big thing: a gay, twisted geek from Essex". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article611487.ece.
^ List of Buzzcocks quotes, Series 18, Episode 2, Quote 2.
^ BBC Press release – Simon Amstell is new host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks
^ "Amstell quits Buzzcocks". Chortle.co.uk. 25 April 2009. http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/04/25/8788/amstell_quits_buzzcocks. Retrieved 25 April 2009.
^ RTS Archive
^ Broadcast Awards 2008 in Broadcast magazine.
^ Billen, Andrew; Chater, David (19 December 2009). "The top 50 TV shows of the Noughties". The Times (London). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6955835.ece.
^ Broadcast Now
^ Black Pond Film
^ Simon Amstell – Do Nothing
^ http://www.dublinevents.com/events/comedy/simonamstell-donothing.php

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