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England
England
i/ˈɪŋɡlənd/ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, while the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separate it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Palaeolithic period, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's first industrialised nation. England's Royal Society laid the foundations of modern experimental science.
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Islington
Coordinates: 51°32′38″N 0°06′10″W / 51.5440°N 0.1027°W / 51.5440; -0.1027
Islington (
/ˈɪzlɪŋtən/) is a neighbourhood in Greater London, England and forms the central district of the London Borough of Islington. It is a desirable residential district of Inner London, spanning from Islington High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the area around the busy Upper Street. The name is often applied to the areas of the borough close to Upper Street such as St Mary's, St Peter's, Barnsbury, and Canonbury, developed in the Georgian era.
Islington grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough. This gave rise to some confusion, as neighbouring districts may also be said to be in Islington. This district is bounded by Liverpool Road to the west and City Road to the south-east. Its northernmost point is in the area of Canonbury. The main north-south high street, Upper Street splits at Highbury Corner to Holloway Road to the west and St. Paul's Road to the east.
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Ali Bastian
Alexandra Louise "Ali" Bastian (born 27 February 1982) is an English television actress, best known for playing Becca Dean in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2007, and PC Sally Armstrong in long-running ITV drama series The Bill from 2007 to 2009.
Born in Windsor, Berkshire, to Paula C. Marriott and Nicholas P. Bastian. Bastian has one younger brother, Nicholas Ruel Bastian (born 13 March 1986). Bastian was raised in Cookham and Maidenhead in Berkshire, and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
Bastion attended the Redroofs Theatre School at Maidenhead from the ages of 10 to 13, and started professional acting with a role in Jane Eyre[disambiguation needed
] aged 10. She then attended Claires Court school, the College, Maidenhead.
Bastian joined the Channel4 soap in 2001. She was involved in a controversial storyline in Hollyoaks where her character was fired from her teaching job and sent to prison after having an affair with one of her students – Justin Burton played by Chris Fountain. In December 2005, alongside her Hollyoaks cast mates Jodi Albert and Sarah Jayne Dunn, Bastian appeared in an exercise video called Hollyoaks Get Fit. At the 2006 British Soap Awards Bastian and Chris Fountain won the award for best storyline. She departed the show in 2007.
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Amy Childs
Amy Childs (born 8 June 1990) is an English model, beautician, reality television contestant and television presenter from Essex (though born in East London). Childs rose to fame after appearing in the first two series of the award winning ITV2 series The Only Way Is Essex. Childs came 4th place in Celebrity Big Brother in 2011.
Amy Andrea Childs was born in Barking but relocated to Brentwood, Essex at the age of six. She attended Raphael's Independent Private School and was appointed Head Girl, but suffered from dyslexia. She left the school with four GCSE qualifications and went on to study at 21 Briarwood with Kieth Allan as one of her fellow students where she received a Level Two and Level Three Diploma in Beauty Specialised Techniques before working as a therapist in Harmony Health and Beauty at Epping Forest Country Club for two years. Amy is one quarter Irish as her maternal grandmother was born in Ireland.
Childs became well known in 2010 while appearing in the ITV2 semi-reality programme The Only Way Is Essex where she brought the word "vajazzle" – the adornment and decoration of the pubic region – to public notice. Childs later signed to Can Associates management agency, the same agency that represented Jordan, Childs's heroine: "Jordan is definitely my idol. Her looks, her career, her businesses – she's fantastic." Childs puts her name to a ghost-written column for New! magazine and presents a regular fashion segment on ITV1's This Morning. She has also posed for the fashion magazine Vogue and attended the 2011 ceremony of the British Academy Television Awards, at which The Only Way is Essex received an award. The Sun revealed a list of the richest The Only way is Essex stars current and previous with Childs holding the top spot with £1.5 million followed by Mark Wright.
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Anne Diamond
Anne Margaret Diamond (born 8 September 1954) is an English radio and television presenter and journalist. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter. Currently Anne presents a phone-in show on BBC Radio Berkshire on weekday mornings from 10am to 1pm and makes regular appearances airing her views as a panelist on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 and BBC London, and is a regular columnist for the Daily Mail. She is most well known for her successful campaigning for research into cot death following the death of her third son Sebastian. A campaign which she co-founded in 1991 was reported to have cut the incidents of cot death in the UK from 2,000 a year to close on 300.
Diamond's parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was raised in Scotland. She was born and grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and she attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls. She is the cousin of Scots singer-songwriter Jim Diamond.
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Anthea Turner
Anthea Millicent Turner (born 25 May 1960) is an English television presenter and media personality.
Turner was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and educated there at the independent St. Dominic's High School (since demolished) in Hartshill.
Turner joined BBC Radio Stoke as a runner, eventually joining breakfast show presenter Bruno Brookes as part of his crew. The couple became romantically involved and employed Peter Powell as an agent through his management company.
Turner moved into television through Sky Channel presenting live music programmes from July 1986 to 1989. Her debut on national television was with the BBC on But First This, which led to her fronting two series for the BBC on the Saturday morning show Up2U.
The short-lived Saturday morning children's show UP2U was a flop, and is chiefly remembered for a motorcycle stunt that went wrong. Turner suffered burns and temporary hearing loss, which led to her successful lawsuit against the BBC.
She was the only non-Radio One DJ to regularly present Top of the Pops, remaining with the programme for three years.
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Basshunter
Jonas Erik Altberg (born 22 December 1984 in Halmstad, Sweden), better known by his stage name Basshunter, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, record producer, and DJ. He is best known for his number one hits "Boten Anna", "Dota", "Now You're Gone" and "All I Ever Wanted". Basshunter has so far released a total of six albums, two of which have been released in the UK. His UK single, "Saturday", was released in July 2010, and he also competed in hit reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother in January 2010. His song "Sverige" was also used as Sjölunden's International Day song in 2008. Basshunter is working on a fourth studio album to be released this year.
Jonas Altberg was born in Halmstad and lived with his parents and younger brother near Tylösand. He began producing music under the stage name "Basshunter" in 2002, using Fruity Loops, and released his first albums, The Old Shit (1999) and The Bassmachine (2004), through his own web site. After that he started working as a DJ. In April 2006, he signed with Warner Music, releasing his first single, "Boten Anna". In 2007, he released a re-recording entitled "Now You're Gone," featuring entirely re-written lyrics to appeal to a foreign market. The song charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and stayed there for five weeks.
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Ben Adams
Ben Adams (born Benjamin Adams, 22 November 1981, Ascot, Berkshire, England) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the boy band, a1.
Adams attended Westminster Under School, where he became head chorister of the school choir, . He later attended Bedales School, leaving aged 16 after completing his GCSEs.
Adams was a member of four-piece boyband A1, who won a BRIT Award in 2001 for Best Newcomer and had two number one singles, "Take On Me" and "Same Old Brand New You", before separating. Whilst in the boyband, Adams also scooped a Smash Hits Poll Winners Party Award for Most Fanciable Male in 2001.
It was announced in 2009 that A1 were to reform to compete to represent Norway in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.
Adams was a member of boy band A1. The band was around from 1998 to 2002. Since then he decided to become a solo star and released his album Sorry. He has worked with Har Mar Superstar and Alexandra Burke. He also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother 2009, and became friends with Michelle Heaton. He has been romantically involved with Miss Norway 2009 Sara Skjoldnes, meeting her right before she took part in the Miss World Pageant.
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Bianca Jackson
Bianca Butcher (née Branning; previously Jackson) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Patsy Palmer. The character was introduced by executive producer Leonard Lewis and appeared initially from 1993 to 1999, when Palmer opted to leave. In 2002 executive producer John Yorke brought the character back for a special spin-off show. She returned to EastEnders as a full time character in April 2008, reintroduced by executive producer Diederick Santer. Palmer took maternity leave in 2010, and Bianca was temporarily written out on 21 January 2011. She announced her return on 19 July and made her return on 15 December 2011. Palmer took a temporary departure from the show again in 2012, and Bianca departed from the series on 27 April 2012. She will return in the later half of 2012.
During her first run on the show during the 1990s, she was known for her bizarre sense of style, her sharp tongue, fiery temper and for screaming "Rickaaaaaaay!" at her husband. Bianca has been featured in storylines including affairs, feuds, bereavements, family problems, spina bifida and abortion, a problematic marriage to Ricky Butcher and the revelation of her 15-year-old adoptive daughter Whitney Dean being sexually abused by her fiancé Tony King and his subsequent arrest for paedophilia.
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Billie Jackson
Will "Billie" Jackson (known as Billy until 2009) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Devon Anderson from 1993 to 1997, and by Bluey Robinson for a brief return in 2004. The character returned in 2010, along with other members of the Jackson family. It was confirmed in November 2009 that Anderson would reprise the role, 13 years after he was last seen on the soap. He made his return on 4 February 2010. The character was killed off in October 2010, and made his last credited appearance on 14 October.
Billie is the only son of Carol and Alan Jackson and he arrives in Walford in 1993 along with his half brother Robbie and his half sisters Bianca and Sonia. He is very close to his father and when Alan has an affair with the malicious Frankie Pierre (Syan Blake) and moves out of the family home, Billie takes the separation badly. On Christmas Day 1996, he becomes so upset that Alan is not there for the festivities that he runs away from home, prompting most of the Square's residents to abandon their Christmas dinners to search for him. He is found by Nigel and Clare Bates (Paul Bradley and Gemma Bissix), hiding in a derelict building. They return him to his worried parents and the Jacksons eventually have a happy Christmas together, including Alan.
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Brigitte Nielsen
Brigitte Nielsen (born 15 July 1963) is a Danish model, actress, musician and reality television personality who began her career modelling for Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton and several years later acted in the 1985 films Red Sonja and Rocky IV. She is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone, with whom she starred in the 1986 film Cobra. She played Karla Fry on Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), co-starred Eddie Murphy and played the Dark Witch in the Italian TV Series Cave of the Golden Rose between 1992-1996.
Her exploits were well-covered in the entertainment media in the 1980s, and the world press started referring to her as an "Amazon" because of her tall stature (verified by the Guinness Book of World Records at 6 ft 0, or 1.82 meters).
She later built a career appearing in B-movies, and in the 2000s, for appearing on reality shows such as Flavor of Love. In 2008, she appeared on the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted her and several other celebrities dealing with recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
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British people
British people (also referred to as the British, Britons, or informally as Brits or Britishers) are citizens or natives of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, of any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants.British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by birth in the UK or by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, the term British people refers to the ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain south of the Forth.
Although early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity. The notion of Britishness was forged during the Napoleonic Wars between Britain and the First French Empire, and developed further during the Victorian era. The complex history of the formation of the United Kingdom created a "particular sense of nationhood and belonging" in Great Britain; Britishness became "superimposed on much older identities", of English, Scots and Welsh cultures, whose distinctiveness still resist notions of a homogenised British identity. Because of longstanding ethno-sectarian divisions, British identity in Northern Ireland is controversial, but it is held with strong conviction by unionists.
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Caprice Bourret
Caprice Bourret (born October 24, 1971) is an American born model, actress, television personality and businesswoman. She resides in London, England where she runs her company, By Caprice Lingerie Ltd.
Bourret grew up in Hacienda Heights, California. In 1996 she moved to the United Kingdom to launch her modelling career. Bourret is Jewish.
Bourret has appeared on over 250 covers which have included Vogue, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Maxim, FHM and the Swimsuit Issue of Sports Illustrated. She was voted worlds sexiest woman by the News of the World, GQ magazine's Woman of the Year and Maxim's International Woman of the Year for three consecutive years. She has been featured in television ad campaigns for Diet Coke and Pizza Hut alongside Jonathan Ross.
In 2000, Bourret entered into a licensing agreement with Debenhams, giving her name to a lingerie range. However, in 2006, Bourret bought back her license, invested her own money into the business and subsequently founded 'By Caprice Lingerie'. Since then she has expanded into swimwear, sleepwear and bedding, amongst other products
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Carol Jackson
Carol Ann Jackson (née Branning) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Lindsey Coulson. The character was introduced in 1993 as part of a new problem family. Coulson decided to quit the role in 1997, but she returned temporarily in 1999 as part of a storyline that marked Carol's daughter Bianca's exit. On 25 October 2009 it was confirmed that she would return along with other members of the Jackson family, Sonia, Robbie and Billie, on 15 February 2010, although her first appearance in 2010 is in EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford, an episode released exclusively to DVD on 8 February 2010. Carol is depicted as a tough, working-class grafter, fiercely defensive of her four children. Carol's storylines include relationships with several men including David Wicks, Alan Jackson, Dan Sullivan, Eddie Moon and Connor Stanley, and the death of her son Billie from binge drinking. Carol, along with the rest of her family are currently on a break from the show, returning later in 2012.
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Carole Malone
Carole Anne Malone (born 14 October 1954 in Newcastle) is an English journalist, commentator on current affairs and occasional broadcaster.
Malone started life as a journalist before moving into television. She hosted her own light hearted court show, Guilty!, on Sky One from 1997 to 1999.
In 2005 Carole was a guest panellist on Loose Women, later returned as a guest anchor covering Jackie Brambles' maternity in 2007.
Between 2006 and 2010 Carole was a regular panellist on The Wright Stuff.
In 2006, she appeared on the ITV reality show, Celebrity Fit Club. She was made team captain of Bobby, Sharon and Micky, and lost three stone.
In 2007 Malone was the seventh celebrity housemate to enter Celebrity Big Brother UK in January 2007 and was second to be evicted from the Big Brother House, on Friday, 12 January 2007. Malone had often been critical of Big Brother and on her entering the house, host Davina McCall read out many of Malone's criticisms, to jeers from the live crowd. After spending 10 years at the Sunday Mirror, she then wrote for the News of the World until its closure in July 2011. In an article earlier in 2011 Malone had written of how proud she'd always been of the News Of The World, despite spending ten years working with its deadliest rival at The Sunday Mirror.
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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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Chris Eubank
Chris Eubank, Lord of the Manor of Brighton (born Christopher Livingstone Eubanks on 8 August 1966)[citation needed] is a British retired boxer who held world titles at middleweight and super middleweight. He was a world champion for over five years, undefeated in his first ten years as a professional, and remained undefeated at middleweight.
Christopher Livingstone Eubanks, is one of the sons of Rachel Scollins (later opting to delete the 's' from his surname) was born on 8 August 1966, in Dulwich, South London and spent his early days in Jamaica (from two months old to six years old). On his return to England, he lived in Stoke Newington, Dalston, Hackney and then Peckham; largely impoverished.
He attended Bellingden Junior School, and then Thomas Carlton Secondary School, from where he was suspended eighteen times in one year and then expelled, despite claiming he was gallantly trying to protect other children from bullies. He then attended Peckham Manor School, from where he was suspended five times in four weeks and then expelled. He was then put into care and spent time in various institutions under the care of Social Services. Some time was spent at Orchard Lodge Regional Resource Centre, Anerley in 1981. When he was 16, his father sent him to New York in the U.S. to live with his mother in the tough South Bronx district.
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Chris Hollins
Chris Hollins (born 20 March 1971) is an English journalist, presenter and sportsman, currently employed by the BBC and best known for being the sports correspondent for BBC Breakfast, and for winning Strictly Come Dancing 2009.
Christopher Jonathan Hollins was born into a footballing family in Bromley, South London. His father is John Hollins MBE, the former Chelsea, Arsenal, QPR and England footballer. His uncle David was a goalkeeper and played for Newcastle United as well as Wales, winning eleven caps.
Hollins was educated at Bickley Park School in Bromley and Tonbridge School, Durham University, Hild Bede College, and Keble College, Oxford.
After leaving Tonbridge School in 1989, he played football for Charlton, Queens Park Rangers, and Aldershot Town. He then attended Durham University and subsequently Oxford University for whom he played first-class cricket and gained a blue.
Hollins started his media career at London TV station Channel One TV, then owned by Associated newspapers, he then moved to Sky Sports in 1994 followed by spells at GMTV, Meridian and Five TV.
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Claire Sweeney
Claire Jane Sweeney (born 17 April 1971) is an English actress, singer and television personality, best known for playing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside and her appearance on the first series of the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.
Born in Walton, Liverpool, she is the daughter of a butcher who had a shop in Toxteth. She trained at the Elliott-Clarke Theatre School in Liverpool, and worked on the weekends in her fathers shop.
Her first singing gig, at the age of 14, was in the Montrose Club in Liverpool. She was then educated fulltime at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. In 1987, she was a member of the Southport Summer Youth Theatre Workshop's production of the musical Hair. Following this production, she auditioned for a part in the Southport Arts Centre's Centre Stage Company production of Chicago but was turned down because she was considered too young; she later went on to star in a West End version of the same show.
After leaving stage school, Sweeney had many singing engagements before landing the role of Lindsey Corkhill in Brookside in 1991. She entertained cruise ships for P&O as a singer for four years before returning to England. On her return, Sweeney reprised her role of Lindsey and remained on the show as a leading character until its demise in 2003.
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Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos (born 24 July 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[citation needed] is a UK-based comedy actress and television/theatre producer and presenter, best known for appearing on The Kenny Everett Television Show. She is of Greek and English descent. Her father was Greek, and her mother was English.[citation needed]
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Rocos appeared regularly on television, from a minor role in the TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to being a roving reporter for the consumer affairs show That's Life!. She was most frequently seen in Everett's BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show, in which her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect as a focus for drooling, lascivious men - a role echoed by her similar appearances in the 1985 TV sketch series Assaulted Nuts. She also appeared alongside Everett in BBC1 science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant.
Rocos' autobiographical book Bananas Forever: Kenny Everett and Me (co-authored by Richard Topping) detailing her relationship with Everett, was published in 1998 but later reissued under the title Kenny and Me.
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Coolio
Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (born August 1, 1963), better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American Grammy Award winning musician, rapper, actor, and record producer. He is best known for the song "Gangsta's Paradise", and the theme song for Kenan & Kel a Nickelodeon show from 1996 to 2000.
He recorded two singles in the late 1980s, titled "Watcha Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me". Neither single was successful, but Coolio had made connections in the Los Angeles rap scene, and ended up joining the group WC and the Maad Circle in 1991. WC was the group's lead rapper, but Coolio was another rapper in the group. He had a few verses on the group's debut album, Ain't a Damn Thang Changed, including on the single "Dress Code". The album was regionally successful, but did not make much impact on a national scale.
Three years later in 1994, Coolio signed to Tommy Boy Records and released his debut solo album, It Takes a Thief. The lead single "Fantastic Voyage" was put into heavy rotation on MTV, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Fantastic Voyage" would become one of the biggest rap singles of the year. The album also contained a few minor hits in "County Line" and "I Remember". It Takes a Thief eventually peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 200, becoming certified Platinum. The album received praise for bringing a humorous and lighthearted perspective to often violent and profane themes of typical gangsta rap.
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Dane Bowers
Dane Leon Bowers (born 29 November 1979)[citation needed] is an English R&B singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. He was a part of R&B boyband Another Level between 1997 and 2000 when he performed on seven Top 10 singles. He then went on to perform solo projects, working with Truesteppers and Victoria Beckham and has made TV appearances on Celebrity Big Brother and the celebrity version of Come Dine With Me.
Bowers was born in Sutton, London, England. He was educated at two independent schools for boys: at Cumnor House School in the town of Croydon in South London, followed by Trinity School of John Whitgift, at Shirley Park in the London Borough of Croydon. When he was fifteen years old, after leaving school, he enrolled at a Croydon-based performing arts college, the BRIT School.
After leaving the BRIT School, Bowers joined British boy-band Another Level, where he performed as a part of the group for three years, between 1997 and 2000, with fellow members Mark Baron, Wayne Williams and Bobak Kianoush.
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Danielle Lloyd
Danielle Lloyd (born 16 December 1983)[citation needed] is an English glamour model. The former Miss England (2004) and Miss Great Britain (2006), she first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain title after posing nude in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged affair with one of the pageant's judges, her then-boyfriend, footballer Teddy Sheringham. Her title was reinstated in 2010.
As a participant in the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother, Lloyd was accused of using bullying tactics and making racist comments directed against the Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. She won the celebrity edition of The Weakest Link in 2008 and Total Wipeout in 2010.
Lloyd was born in Liverpool, England, the daughter of Jackie and Arthur Lloyd, a bank manager and engineer, respectively. Lloyd claims she was bullied in school; however, Chris Yates, the headmaster of one of Lloyd's old schools, St Hilda’s, refutes these claims. Upon finishing school, she decided against continuing a career in chemistry and biology to pursue a dual career in modelling and as a beautician specializing in massage. She is a qualified nail technician.
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Darryn Lyons
Darryn Lyons (born 19 August 1965) is an Australian paparazzo, media personality and entrepreneur, best known for his work in Britain.
Lyons' grew up in a "cathedral-like" house, designed by his father who was an architect, in Melbourne, Victoria.
Born in Geelong, Victoria on 19 August 1965, Lyons graduated from Geelong East Technical School, then began work as a professional photographer at the Geelong News and Geelong Advertiser. At the age of 22, he moved to London, where he gained a job at News of the World after a chance meeting with Rupert Murdoch. Two years later, he left to take a position with the Daily Mail, for whom he provided coverage of the Bosnian War.
In 1992, Lyons founded the picture company Big Pictures, which supplies paparazzi-style photography for news organizations. He gained widespread media attention when his company sold a photograph to News of the World, which was used to support a claim that football star David Beckham was having an affair with his personal assistant Rebecca Loos.
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Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a Welsh-born British actress, writer and comedienne. She is best known for starring in and writing for the comedy sketch show French and Saunders with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and also for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley. She has been nominated for seven BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA along with Saunders.
French was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales to English parents Denys Vernon French and Felicity "Roma" O'Brien of Irish origin from Plymouth. She was educated at the independent St Dunstan's Abbey School (now absorbed by Plymouth College) boarding school on North Road West in Plymouth, Devon, England. She has a brother, Gary French, who was born in 1955. Her father, Denys (5 August 1932 – 11 September 1977), was a member of the Royal Air Force, being stationed at RAF Valley. The RAF partly funded her private education. When her father was stationed at the former RAF Faldingworth, she attended Caistor Grammar School in Lincolnshire, boarding in the school's Lindsey house. She later won a debating scholarship that brought her to study at the Spence School in New York.
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Dean Gaffney
Dean Martin Gaffney (born 14 February 1978 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actor most notable for his role as Robbie Jackson on the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders from 1993 to 2003, when his character was axed. He has since made guest appearances in the soap in 2004 and 2010. Gaffney went on to appear in various reality television shows, such as I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. He has appeared on stage and on television in comedy, drama and advertisements. He is a father of two and lives in Surrey.
Gaffney trained at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, as well as the Corona Theatre School in Kew Bridge. He is best known for playing the role of Robbie Jackson in the popular BBC soap opera, EastEnders.
Gaffney's first appearance in the show aired in November 1993 and he remained in the role for eleven years. In 2003, executive producer, Louise Berridge, made the decision to axe Gaffney along with the actress Bindya Solanki, who played his on-screen girlfriend Nita Mistry. In a press report Berridge commented, "we do feel that the characters have reached the end of their natural course in the show, and they will both be leaving in Spring 2003". Since his initial exit Gaffney has made one further appearance in the soap, returning for a brief visit in 2004 for the wedding of his on-screen half-sister Sonia Jackson (played by Natalie Cassidy).
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Denise Welch
Jacqueline Denise Healy (née Welch; born 22 May 1958) is an English actress, dancer and television presenter best known for her roles in Coronation Street and Waterloo Road, and for presenting on Loose Women from 2002 onwards. Welch had been a contestant on Dancing on Ice, in January 2011, partnered with Matt Evers. In January 2012, Welch was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother, beating Frankie Cocozza. On 6 February 2012, Denise acknowledged, live on Loose Women, that she was now separated from second husband Tim Healy despite spending Christmas together for the sake of the family. It was claimed Denise had an affair with a middle aged man and this was reasoning for the separation, although she has claimed that nobody else is involved.
Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann (née Ridley, died 22 May 2012) and has a younger sister Debbie. She attended Bygate School Whitley Bay, La Sagesse Roman Catholic School Newcastle upon Tyne, and from the age of 13 Blackfyne Grammar School Consett where she passed five GCE exams. She developed a penchant for acting at the age of 14 after being cast in a school production of Finian's Rainbow. At the age of 17, she contemplated going to a teacher training college in Crewe; however, her father and drama teacher suggested she apply for the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. She was successful in her application and remained at the school from 1976 to 1979, gaining her Equity Card while teaching dance at Watford Theatre.
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Dennis Rodman
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, he was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Playing small forward in his early years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships (1989, 1990, 1996, 1997, 1998). His biography at NBA.com states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's #10 jersey. Later that same year, Rodman was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Rodman experienced an unhappy childhood and was shy and introverted in his early years. After aborting a suicide attempt in 1993, he reinvented himself as a "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics. He dyed his hair in artificial colors, presented himself with many piercings and tattoos and regularly disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. He famously wore a wedding dress to promote his autobiography. Rodman pursued a high-profile affair with singer Madonna and was briefly married to actress Carmen Electra.
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Devon Anderson
Devon Carlo Anderson (born 25 August 1987) is an English actor who has been acting since an early age and became a CBBC presenter on BBC One and the CBBC Channel. Anderson is best known for his roles as Billie Jackson in EastEnders, Taj Lewis in the CBBC sitcom Kerching! and Sonny Valentine in Channel 4's Hollyoaks.
Anderson made his acting debut when he played three year old Glenn in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. He then went on to appear in the BBC soap EastEnders where he played the character Billie Jackson from 1993 to 1997. He made an appearance in the 1997 film Spiceworld as one of the competition winners ghat falls into the river during a video shoot. He then played David in the television drama, The Greatest Store in the World. In 2002, he appeared in the film Thunderpants playing the character of Dan. His next role was in 2002's CBBC Ace Lightning where he played Pete, the English friend of the main character, Mark. The character appeared in internet talks with Mark at the start of the programme and sometimes at the end.
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Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. She is considered a sex symbol and an icon of 1960s feminism.
Rigg was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire to Louis Rigg and Beryl Hilda Helliwell (1908–1981); her father was a railway engineer who had been born in Yorkshire. Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India, where her father was employed as a railway executive. Rigg speaks fluent Hindi. She was then sent to a boarding school, the Moravian School in Fulneck, near Pudsey. She disliked her boarding school, where she felt like a fish out of water, but she believes that Yorkshire played a greater part in shaping her character than India did. She trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955, aged 17.
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Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict (born March 1, 1945) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.
Benedict was born Dirk Niewoehner in Helena, Montana, the son of Pricilla Mella (née Metzger), an accountant, and George Edward Niewoehner, a lawyer. He grew up in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. He graduated from Whitman College in 1967.
Benedict's film debut was in the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia. When the New York run for Butterflies Are Free ended, he received an offer to repeat his performance in Hawaii, opposite Barbara Rush. While there, he appeared as a guest lead on Hawaii Five-O. The producers of a horror film called Ssssss saw Benedict's performance in Hawaii Five-O and promptly cast him as the lead in that movie. He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. Benedict starred in the television series Chopper One which aired for one season in 1974. He also made an appearance in Charlie's Angels.
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Donny Tourette
Donny Tourette (born Patrick Brannon on 4 March 1981) is an English singer-songwriter best known for his work with the punk rock band Towers of London. He first became famous after appearing in the 2007 edition of Celebrity Big Brother.
Tourette was the eighth Celebrity Big Brother 2007 contestant to enter the UK Big Brother House on 3 January 2007. He swore at the crowd and made rude gestures, some crowd members chanted 'Who are ya?'. The host, Davina McCall, said that he "smelled like a brewery".
On his first night in the house, Tourette jumped into the Jacuzzi fully clothed. Later on, Jo O'Meara of S Club 7 pop fame, grabbed the double bed in the bedrooms, stated "I'm not sharing with Donny. I'd rather sleep on the floor. I can't sleep with a guy like that".Leo Sayer offered to swap with O'Meara, but after a while entered the diary room, saying "Donny's all right, but seeing him sprawled stark naked is not appealing". In the end Tourette had the bed to himself.
The house was later divided into "servant" and "master" quarters with Tourette as part of the servant section. Tourette scaled the garden wall to freedom after fewer than 48 hours in the house, stating "I'm not waiting hand on foot, on some fucking moron and her family", in reference to Jade Goody and her mother, as his reason for scaling the wall.
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Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English actress and occasional screenwriter. Born in 1934 she has worked in the theatre, film, and television consistently since 1953. She has been nominated for and received many professional awards and was created a CBE in 1990 and later a DBE in 2001.
Atkins was born in the Mothers' Hospital in Clapton, a Salvation Army women's hostel in East London. Her mother, Annie Ellen (née Elkins), was a barmaid who was 46 when Eileen was born, and her father, Arthur Thomas Atkins, was a gas meter reader who was previously under-chauffeur to the Portuguese Ambassador. She was the third child in the family and when she was born the family moved to a council home in Tottenham. Her father did not, in fact, know how to drive and was responsible, as under-chauffeur, mainly for cleaning the car. At the time Eileen was born, her mother worked in a factory the whole day and then as a barmaid in the Elephant & Castle at night. When Eileen was three, a Gypsy woman came to their door selling lucky heather and clothes pegs. She saw little Eileen and told her mother that her daughter would be a famous dancer. Her mother promptly enrolled her in a dance class. Although she hated it, she studied dancing from age 3 to 15 or 16. From age 7 to 15, which covered the last four years of the Second World War (1941–45), she danced in working men's club circuits for 15 shillings a pop as "Baby Eileen". During the war, she performed as well at London's Stage Door canteen for American troops and sang songs like "Yankee Doodle." At one time she was attending dance class four or five times a week.
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Faria Alam
Faria Alam (born 13 February 1966) is a former Football Association secretary.
Faria Alam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh to a moderate and educated Muslim family. Her father was a Pakistani bank employee and her mother Bangladeshi. She has two brothers and one sister.
In 1970, Alam and her family emigrated to England, and she was grew up in the North East, living in Bradford, Northumberland and Newcastle, she attended Ponteland High School. When Alam was 19 years old, her mother took her to Bangladesh and arranged a marriage for her to a Bangladeshi businessman there. Alam left her husband and came back to England.
Later her mother moved to Seattle, United States after her parents divorced. In 1997, her father died and she was left with her family friends. She moved to London, there she was described as spending nights partying with friends.
After doing some part-time modelling work, Alam took at job at The Football Association in July 2003 as personal assistant to executive director David Davies, based at the organisation’s headquarters in Soho Square, London.
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George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West. He was previously an MP for the Labour Party, for Glasgow Hillhead and then its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin from 1987 until 2005. He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 because of his strident public opposition to the Iraq War. He subsequently became a founding member of the left-wing Respect Party, and was elected as the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005. In 2010, Galloway unsuccessfully contested the seat of Poplar and Limehouse, and in 2011 he unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow list for the Scottish Parliament, before being elected as an MP in the Bradford West by-election, 2012.
Galloway is well known for his campaigns in support of the Palestinians in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In the late-1980s Hansard records him delivering a ferocious assault on the Ba'ath regime, and Galloway opposed Saddam's regime until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991. Galloway is known for a visit to Iraq where he met Saddam Hussein, and delivered a speech, which ended in English with the statement "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." He has always stated that he was addressing the Iraqi people in the speech. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations' Oil for Food Programme.
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Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, and a significant feminist voice of the later 20th century.
Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her book The Female Eunuch became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her into a household name and bringing her both adulation and opposition. She is also the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991); Shakespeare's Wife (2007); and The Whole Woman (1999). She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick.
Greer has defined her goal as "women's liberation" as distinct from "equality with men". She asserts that women's liberation meant embracing gender differences in a positive fashion—a struggle for the freedom of women to define their own values, order their own priorities and determine their own fates. In contrast, Greer sees equality as mere assimilation and "settling" to live the lives of "unfree men".
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Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie (born 19 September 1965) is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist. His acting credits include the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Guy Ritchie's Snatch and the British soap opera EastEnders. He has appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows including Celebrity Big Brother UK, Strictly Come Dancing and Come Dine With Me.
He is of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. He was put up for adoption and raised in child-care homes and by several foster parents. Price was a member of the breakdance crew Westside, based in the Whitmore Reans and Heath Town areas of Wolverhampton, in the 1980s. He later joined a breakdance crew called the Bboys, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands.
His artwork around Birmingham and Wolverhampton was featured heavily in Afrika Bambaataa's documentary Bombing. He took part in the largest ever British graffiti art battle alongside Bristol artist Robert "3D" Del Naja, who later formed Massive Attack. He is mentioned for his graffiti in the book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, which contained several samples of his art.
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Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam, and also a columnist and television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media. She ran a prostitution ring based in Los Angeles, California, and is often referred to as the "Hollywood Madam".
As of 2012, she resides in Pahrump, Nevada.
Fleiss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, Paul M. Fleiss and Elissa (née Ash), are divorced. Her parents adopted Elissa's sister's baby daughter Kim, then adopted Paul's sister's baby daughter Amy (born 1965). Heidi was born later the same year. Paul and Elissa then had Shana (born 1967), Jason (1968–2009) and Jesse Fleiss (born 1977). On December 28, 2009, 41-year-old Jason drowned in the sea off Hawaii.
At the age of 22, Fleiss began managing a prostitution ring under Madam Alex after meeting the famous Madam 90210 in 1987 via film director boyfriend Ivan Nagy. Fleiss stated in 2002 in an interview with Larry King that her relationship with Alex was "a very intense relationship" and that she "was kind of like the daughter she loved and hated, so she was abusive and loving at the same time." In the same interview, Fleiss said she was a prostitute for a short period.
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Ivana Trump
Ivana Trump (born Ivana Marie Zelníčková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɪvana ˈmarɪjɛ ˈzɛlɲiːtʃkovaː]); February 20, 1949) is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.
Ivana was born to Milos and Maria (née Francova) in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, now Zlín, Czech Republic. From a very young age, her father nurtured and encouraged her skiing talent. In 1972, Ivana Zelníčková was selected as an alternate on the 1972 Czechoslovak Olympic Ski Team which allowed her several opportunities to travel outside the Communist Bloc. A year earlier, she married Austrian skier, Alfred Winklmayr, in order to obtain a foreign passport so that Communist leaders would not deem her a defector.
In the early 1970s she earned a master's degree in physical education from Charles University of Prague. In 1975 she left Czechoslovakia for Canada to be with a childhood friend, George Syrovatka, who owned a ski boutique there. For the following two years she lived in Montreal and worked as a model for some of Canada's top fur companies. In 1976 she divorced Winklmayr, left Syrovatka and moved to New York to promote the Montreal Olympics. It was in New York that she met Donald J. Trump, son of prominent real estate developer Fred Trump.
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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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Jack Tweed
Jack Andrew Tweed (born 9 June 1987) is Jade Goody's widower and was a contestant in the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother.
Tweed was born in Waltham Forest, London, and has a younger brother, Lewis. He entered the Big Brother House on 5 January 2007 as a member of Goody's family. He courted controversy over allegedly referring to fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty as a "cunt" and "Paki" and suggested that she should remove objects from the toilet with her teeth. When Goody apologised to Shetty, Tweed confessed that he was very disappointed with Goody for apologising and used the abusive terms "dick" and "wanker" to refer to Shetty. Following Goody's eviction, he spent more time with former Miss Great Britain Danielle Lloyd, who was said to be flirting with him and told him "I love you" when she was drunk. In May 2007, Endemol released previously withheld material in which Jo O'Meara, Tweed and Goody constructed a limerick which Endemol claimed was based around, although it did not directly use, the word "Paki".
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Jackie Stallone
Jacqueline M. "Jackie" Stallone (née Labofish; born November 29, 1921) is an American astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of women's wrestling who is the mother of the actor Sylvester Stallone and singer Frank Stallone. She is also the mother of actress Toni D'Alto (by her ex-husband Anthony Filiti).
Stallone was born Jacqueline M. Labofish in Washington, D.C., United States, the daughter of a Breton socialite, Jeanne Victoria Anne "Adrienne" (née Clerec), and a prominent attorney, John Labofish. Her paternal grandparents, Rose (née Lamlec) and Charles Labofisz, were Jewish immigrants from Odessa, in the Russian Empire (in present-day Ukraine). Her mother was born in Brest (Brittany) in 1901. During her youth, Stallone was a trapeze artist in a circus and a chorus girl in a nightclub. She was also a hairdresser. Stallone lived a relatively quiet life for most of her years. Even after Sylvester starred in the film Rocky in 1976 she remained unknown to the general public.
Stallone appeared on the 1980s wrestling program GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Stallone was shown rapping with Americana, Mt. Fiji and Susie Spirit behind her. She rapped about Aunt Kittie's girls and making them kitty litter. Stallone became famous in her own right during the mid-1990s, by publishing astrology books, making television appearances, and setting up a psychic hotline where she would charge telephone callers for the advice of her and other operators. She also invented the term "rumpology", which, according to her, is an art similar to that of palm reading except that the procedure is done by examining pictures of people's rear ends. She also claims that she can consult dogs to find out about the future. She also became involved in the cosmetics industry, launching facial masks and other products that she claimed cured skin problems.
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Jade Goody
Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009) was an English celebrity. She came into the public spotlight while appearing on the third series of the then Channel 4 reality TV programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction from the show. In 2003, following her public appearance in Big Brother, Goody was voted by the public as the fourth worst Briton in the British TV station Channel 4's 100 Worst Britons as inspired by the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons.
In January 2007, she was a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother. During the show she was accused of racist bullying against Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. Following her eviction from the show, she admitted her actions had been wrong and she subsequently made many public apologies. In late 2007 and early 2008, several public polls put Goody in an unfavourable light.
In August 2008, she appeared on the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss, but withdrew early from the show and returned to the UK after being told she had cervical cancer. In February 2009, after the cancer metastasised, she was told that it was terminal. She married Jack Tweed on 22 February 2009 and died, one month later, in the early hours of 22 March 2009.Sky Living have aired four tribute shows to Goody from 2009 to 2011 documenting her early life to fame and her final months. The final ever episode of Big Brother on Channel 4 featured a 15-minute tribute to Goody hailing her as the ultimate Big Brother contestant.
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Jade Johnson
Jade Linsey Johnson (born 7 June 1980, London) is an English athlete, specialising in long jump.
She is allergic to sand.
Johnson came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships. Her personal best is 6.81 metres, an Olympic qualifying distance, achieved in 2008 during the European Cup, where she placed second.
In 2006 she had a public spat with fellow British athlete Kelly Sotherton with the media claiming they openly threw insults at each other. Kelly Sotherton had been British number one at the long jump and heptathlon at the time, with Jade just having returned from a serious injury. In November 2007 she had her lottery funding removed making it harder for her to return to top rank competition. However, since then, she has set personal bests in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprints and in the long jump. She has also stated that she is now enjoying the sport more.
She came seventh in the final of the long jump in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, jumping 6.64 metres. She was very frustrated with her own performance and expressed a dissatisfaction that the winner the Brazilian Maurren Higa Maggi had previously tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
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James Alexandrou
James Alekos Alexandrou (born 12 April 1985) is an English actor, best known for playing Martin Fowler in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. He is currently the presenter of Bizarre Crime on BBC Three.
Alexandrou was born in Islington, London, to a Greek Cypriot father and an English mother. He has a twin sister, Antoinette.
Alexandrou was educated in Waltham Forest at Chingford Foundation School, and the Anna Scher Theatre School.
In 1996, he successfully auditioned for the role of Martin Fowler in EastEnders. The character had actually been created shortly after the show's inception in 1985, but the role had become vacant following the departure of the previous actor Jon Peyton Price.
Alexandrou appeared in the short film Blessed Burden. In 2003, he won a celebrity edition of The Weakest Link.
On 14 April 2006, it was announced that Alexandrou wished to leave EastEnders in autumn 2007. He and Natalie Cassidy, who played his on-screen wife Sonia Fowler, left on 2 February 2007 (to tie in with the exits of Wendy Richard and Ray Brooks); although the door has been left open for a possible return in the future. He said "I've decided to leave the show to experience other aspects of my industry. Having turned 21, I felt it was a good time to leave. I owe everything to the show and would love to come back one day - that's if EastEnders would have me."
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Jedward
Jedward are an Irish pop duo comprising identical twins John and Edward Grimes (born 16 October 1991 in Dublin, Ireland). Widely known for their blond quiffs, they first appeared as John & Edward in the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009, generating a phenomenon described as "the Jedward paradox". They finished sixth and are now managed by Louis Walsh, who was their mentor during The X Factor.
Jedward have released two albums, Planet Jedward and Victory, both of which went double platinum in Ireland. They have released seven singles, including "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)" (a mash-up of "Under Pressure" by Queen and Vanilla Ice's track "Ice Ice Baby"), "Lipstick", the song with which they represented Ireland at Eurovision 2011, and "Waterline", with which they represented Ireland at Eurovision 2012.
Jedward are also known for their television work, including hosting children's series Jedward's Big Adventure, OMG! Jedward's Dream Factory, and for participating in Celebrity Big Brother 8. Jedward's combined net worth was estimated at £4.5 million in April 2012.
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Jeremy Edwards
Jeremy Edwards (born 17 February 1971 in London) is an English actor and television presenter, who has appeared in the TV shows Hollyoaks and Holby City. He lives in Belsize Park, North London with his wife Lydia.
Edwards has a degree in Public Administration from Manchester Metropolitan University and his previous jobs have included modelling and a television researcher. He also delivered fish on roller skates in Soho and washed up at the canteen at Reading railway station for a short time. In his own words, Edwards "was a merchant banker once... walked out within a month... couldn't stand the snobbery, the wine bars, the suits and the Tube in the morning."
Edwards played Kurt Benson in the soap opera, Hollyoaks on Channel 4 from 1995 to 1999 before appearing in the BBC medical drama television serial Holby City, in which he played Danny Shaughnessy from 1999 to 2003.
In January 2005, Edwards took part in the third series of Celebrity Big Brother. He finished in fourth place, behind Brigitte Nielsen, Kenzie from Blazin' Squad and the winner Bez.
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Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine LaJuane Jackson (also known as Mohammad Abdul Aziz) (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5 and occasional film director. He also produced and recorded duets with American singer Whitney Houston in her early years as a recording artist and was also a producer for Bobby DeBarge's band Switch.
Jackson is the fourth child of Joseph and Katherine Jackson, born in Gary, Indiana after his brother Tito Jackson. His brothers and sisters are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, La Toya, Marlon, Michael, Randy and Janet. He was raised as a Jehovah's Witness by his devout mother (though he later converted to Islam in 1989 after a trip to Bahrain). Jermaine was the original lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Jackson Brothers—an earlier incarnation of The Jackson Five—until 1968, when younger brother Michael began assisting with lead vocals. He remained the lead vocalist with Michael for many years. Jackson graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California in 1973.
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Jo Wood
Jo Wood (born 15 March 1955, née Karslake) is an English model, television personality and entrepreneur. She is the ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.
Wood was born and brought up in Essex. Her father was an architectural model maker and her mother was an Avon lady and a doll maker. Wood worked as a model until she was 22, and was The Sun's "Face of 1972".
She met Ronnie Wood in 1977; they were married on 1 January 1985. She accompanied him regularly on tour, looking after his wardrobe and diet.
Wood has travelled the world, and has lived in Los Angeles, New York and is now settled in London. When living in New York, Wood designed clothes for the fashion label No Scruples.
Following a serious illness in 1989, Wood began to follow a strict organic lifestyle. In 2005 she launched her own range of organic fragrance, bath and bodycare products, Jo Wood Organics. The range has won many awards, including being Highly Commended in the Marie Claire Prix d'Excellence de la Beaute Awards.[citation needed]
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Jodie Marsh
Jodie Marsh (born 23 December 1978) is an English media personality, bodybuilder and glamour model. She has appeared topless in some tabloid newspapers and has appeared (clothed) in her own reality show, Totally Jodie Marsh.
Jodie Louise Marsh's parents are John and Kristina and she was born in Brentwood, Essex. Her father runs a building contractors company, and she was educated at the independent Brentwood School. She has a brother, Jordan. She first came to prominence in the reality TV programme Essex Wives in 2002.[citation needed]
At the beginning of her career, Marsh often posed for magazines such as FHM, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo.[citation needed]
Marsh was a page 3 girl for The Sun on six occasions.[dead link] She also appeared in photo shoots for the newspapers The Daily Sport, Daily Star and News of the World.[citation needed]
In June 2009, Marsh appeared on the cover of Zoo, In November 2010, she appeared on a special edition double cover for the magazine.
In April 2011, Marsh completed another photoshoot for the same magazine; she appeared on the cover of the magazine for a special 3-D edition of the weekly.
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Joe Calzaghe
Joseph William "Joe" Calzaghe, CBE, (pronounced /kælˈzæɡi/ kal-ZAG-ee; born 23 March 1972) is a retired Welsh professional boxer. He is a former WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA & The Ring Super Middleweight Champion and The Ring Light Heavyweight Champion.
Calzaghe is the longest-reigning world champion in recent years, having held the WBO Super Middleweight title for over ten years and made 21 successful defenses. He relinquished the title to move up to light heavyweight. As his super middleweight and light heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active fighter. He is part of the Team Calzaghe based at the Newbridge boxing club.
Between 2006 to 2008, he was rated by The Ring magazine as a top ten pound for pound boxer. On January 2009, Calzaghe was ranked #3 in the world by The Ring. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record and as a reigning World Champion. Calzaghe is rated by Boxrec as the 11th pound-for-pound best British boxer of all time.
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John McCririck
John McCririck (born 17 April 1940) is an English television horse racing pundit. He is notable not only for his racing opinions but also for his old-fashioned style of dress and mannerisms. With his trademark deerstalker hat, tweed jacket and large sideburns, which he calls his wackers, he affects the part of either Sherlock Holmes or a well-dressed gamekeeper, and he happily acts the role of a country gentleman. He also uses the traditional tic-tac signals when commenting on odds before a horse race. His public comments have often been attended by controversy, and have occasionally been interpreted as derogatory and offensive, particularly towards women.
McCririck was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Harrow School. He was originally a racing journalist with The Sporting Life and also wrote for Grandstand; he began his career as a television pundit on ITV's horse racing coverage in 1981 although he did appear in a debate about fox hunting on the ITV children's programme Saturday Banana in 1978. During 1984 and 1985, horse racing moved to Channel 4 as referred to as Channel 4 Racing. In 2002, Channel 4 launched its own digital television racing channel, attheraces, which was sold to BSkyB in 2003. He is famous for his outspoken opinions; in particular, he has risen to the defence of punters when he thinks they are being given bad value[clarification needed]' and is highly critical of jockeys when he doesn't think they have ridden well. He is best known to American racing audiences for his annual appearance on the Breeders' Cup telecast, in which he invariably touts British horses over their American rivals. During the 2009 Breeders' Cup telecast on ESPN, McCririck said that Conduit had no chance to win the Turf, and that people betting on Zenyatta in the Breeders' Cup Classic were "giving your money away". Both horses proceeded to win in dramatic fashion.
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Keith Duffy
Keith Peter Thomas Francis John Duffy (born 1 October 1974) is an Irish singer-songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter. He began his professional music career as part of Irish boyband Boyzone alongside Ronan Keating, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately in 1994. The band decided to focus on solo projects in 2000 since which Duffy has achieved critical acclaim for his acting roles, particularly in soap operas such as Coronation Street and Fair City. He has also presented The Box and You're a Star.
Duffy has been an autism awareness campaigner since his daughter was diagnosed with the condition at age 18 months, and acts as the patron for Irish Autism Action holding regular fundraising events and informational talks.
Duffy was born on 1 October 1974 in Donaghmede, Dublin to parents Sean and Pat. He is the second oldest of three children, with an older brother Derek and younger brother John. He was raised Roman Catholic. As a young child he contracted pneumonia. Between the ages of 7 and 18 he played Hurling and Gaelic football, representing Dublin county in Under 16 hurling for three years. At the age of 16 he bought a drum kit and played in bands called Toledo Moon and This Burning Effigy. Duffy studied Architecture for a year at college, before dropping out.
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Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church. His films often dealt with the lives of famous composers or were based on other works of art which he adapted loosely. Russell began directing for the BBC, where he made creative adaptations of composers' lives which were unusual for the time. He also directed many feature films independently and for studios.
He is best known for his Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969), The Devils (1971), The Who's Tommy (1975), and the science fiction film Altered States (1980). Classical musicians and conductors held him in high regard for his story-driven biopics of various composers, most famously Elgar, Delius, Liszt, Mahler and Tchaikovsky.
British film critic Mark Kermode speaking in 2006, and attempting to sum up the director's achievement, called Russell, "somebody who proved that British cinema didn't have to be about kitchen-sink realism—it could be every bit as flamboyant as Fellini. Later in his life he turned to making experimental films such as Lion's Mouth and Revenge of the Elephant Man, and they are as edgy and 'out there' as ever".
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Kenzie
James Victor MacKenzie (born 6 January 1986, Chingford, London, England), better known as Kenzie or MC Kenzie, is a British rapper and former member of 10-piece UK pop-rap band Blazin' Squad. He now makes a living as a personal fitness instructor in Fairlop.
Kenzie grew up in Chingford, East London and attended Highams Park School.
Blazin' Squad was a ten-piece UK pop-rap vocal group. Despite avoiding the typical 'boyband' image, they appealed to a similar pre-teen female fanbase. They enjoyed moderate success in the UK, achieving six consecutive Top 10 hits, including a UK Number One single 'Crossroads'; a cover version of the Bone Thugs-up Now or Never failed to reach the UK Top 40 Album Chart. While in the Blazin Squad, he went by the name MC Kenzie.
The group subsequently split in 2005. MC Kenzie, MC Flava and MC Strider, went on to form the band, Friday Hill (as Kenzie, James and Mus). Friday Hill split up and on 14th June 2009 five of the original Blazin' Squad members released a single ('Lets Start Again') after reforming. It peaked at No. 51 on the UK Singles Chart .
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Kerry Katona
Kerry Jayne Elizabeth Katona (born 6 September 1980) is an English media personality and singer best known for her television work, predominantly in light entertainment and reality shows. She has also been a pop singer with girl group Atomic Kitten, a magazine columnist, an actress, and the author of ghostwritten books that include an autobiography and several novels. She has appeared in television commercials, notably for Iceland and Asda supermarkets. Katona was the runner-up of Celebrity Big Brother 2011.
Born in Warrington, England, Katona was brought up partly by her mother, Sue Katona, and partly by her stepfather, foster grandmother and others. Katona's surname is Hungarian. As a young girl, she was placed in care and brought up by four sets of foster parents. During that time, she attended eight different schools.
She left school at age sixteen to become a lap dancer. She then joined a dance troupe that toured Europe. She attempted to become a glamour model in her teens and posed for nude photographs. In 2001, some of these photographs resurfaced and were published in Britain by tabloid newspaper The Sunday Sport.
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Kirk Norcross
Kirk Norcross (born 21 April 1988 ) is a British promoter for Sugar Hut, a nightclub in Brentwood, Essex. He rose to fame in 2010 after appearing in the television series The Only Way Is Essex before leaving the show after the third series was screened.
Norcross was on the front cover of the March 2011 issue of Attitude Magazine.
Kirk was a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother 2012 alongside Romeo Dunn, Gareth Thomas and Denise Welch. He was evicted from the house on day 16 after being up against other housemates (except for Gareth Thomas).
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La Toya Jackson
La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family. She maintained a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to music in 2004 with her Billboard charting songs "Just Wanna Dance" and "Free the World". An EP called Starting Over was released on June 21, 2011.
Born on her sister Rebbie's 6th birthday on May 29, 1956, in Gary, Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet. Growing up, La Toya was a shy homebody. After her mother became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1965, La Toya, along with the rest of her siblings followed. She would spend some of her time (alongside her mother) preaching door-to-door. "Every morning, Michael and I witnessed, knocking on doors around Los Angeles, spreading the word of Jehovah." By 1972, at sixteen, La Toya joined her brothers in the spotlight with a tap dancing routine when her father arranged for them to perform shows in Las Vegas, among other cities. Jackson aspired to be an attorney specializing in business law. She attended college for a short time before her father insisted that she pursue a career in show business like the rest of the family.
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Lady Sovereign
Louise Amanda Harman (born 19 December 1985), better known by the stage name Lady Sovereign, is an English rapper and grime artist. She is noted for her professional success in performing styles of music generally dominated by males. In 2010, she appeared on the seventh series of the UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother, being the third housemate to be evicted from the house.
Lady Sovereign was born Louise Amanda Harman in 1985 to Colin Adien Harman and Nicola Parsons (née Wood), in Wembley, northwest London. She grew up in the run-down Chalkhill Estate — a council estate that has since been demolished — with her parents and two siblings, older sister Chloe Christie (born 1984) and younger brother Richie Colin (born 1987).
Lady Sovereign was a tomboy who played football and hated wearing dresses. She had difficulty fitting in at school and was expelled from Preston Manor High School at 15 because of her abysmal attendance record and bad behaviour. A number of menial jobs followed, until she decided to pursue rap after hearing Ms. Dynamite on the radio: "When I heard Ms. Dynamite's track 'Boooo!' in 2001 it inspired me. I hadn't heard a female MC before that... she's real... her presence... her image... the way she does everything... she opened so many doors for us girls, MCs are real, they write their own stuff, they rap about what they know, the stuff around them."
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Laila Rouass
Laila Abdesselam Rouass (born 22 June 1971) is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Amber Gates in the British television drama Footballers' Wives (2004–2006) and as Sarah Page in the third season of Primeval (2009).
Rouass was born in Stepney, London to a Moroccan father and Indian mother.
Rouass worked as a VJ on Channel V in India in the 1990s. While on Channel V, she appeared in a music video for the band Colour Blind, directed by the then creative head of the channel, Shamin Desai.
After moving back to the UK, Rouass became famous for playing the role of Bollywood actress Amber Gates in the cult ITV1 series Footballers' Wives between 2004 and 2006 and, albeit briefly, on the ITV2 spin-off series Footballers' Wives: Extra Time. She also played recurring roles on the British soaps Family Affairs and Hollyoaks, as well as appearing in episodes of I Dream, Casualty and Meet the Magoons. She starred alongside Meera Syal in the television adaptation of Syal's novel, Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee.
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Lauren Cooper
Dame Lauren Alesha Masheka Tanesha Felicia Jane Cooper is a fictional character in The Catherine Tate Show. Lauren is one of the show's main characters and is played by Catherine Tate. The character is "killed off" in the 2007 Christmas Special which aired on 25 December.
Lauren is a fifteen to sixteen year old schoolgirl with a surly attitude and was most widely known for her phrase "Am I bovvered?" (i.e. bothered - the "v" in the word takes the place of the "th" that should be there; see th-fronting). When feeling angry or embarrassed, she frequently replies with defensive responses such as "Am I bovvered?", "Do I look bovvered?" or "Are you disrespecting me?", among others. As demonstrated through her clothing and mannerisms, Tate portrays Lauren as a caricature of Britain's Chav subculture.
She claimed to have been made a Dame at the end of her sketch on the Royal Variety Performance 2005.
In series one, sketches feature Lauren arguing with authority figures such as train conductors and teachers, as well as her best friend Liese Jackson (played by Niky Wardley) and love interest Ryan Perkins (played by Mathew Horne). She normally utters her trademark catchphrases only after being provoked or embarrassed. Lauren is one of the most popular characters with fans, and is arguably the most recognizable from the show. She is listed as "Fly Girl" on the series one DVD.
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Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948) is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s. His first seven hit singles in the UK all reached the Top 10 – a feat first registered by his one-time manager, Adam Faith.
Sayer was born on 21 May 1948 in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England. He was initially discovered by musician David Courtney, who then co-managed him with the singer turned manager, Adam Faith.
Sayer began his music career co-writing songs with David Courtney, including "Giving It All Away", which gave Roger Daltrey of The Who his first hit without The Who in 1973.
That same year, Sayer began his career as a recording artist. At the time of his initial chart breakthrough in the UK, with his second single "The Show Must Go On", he wore a pierrot style costume and make-up and the song went quickly to number two. He had several subsequent single hits including, "One Man Band" (1974), "Long Tall Glasses" (1974) and "Moonlighting" (1975). In 1976, Sayer recorded three Beatles songs, "I Am the Walrus", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" for the film, All This and World War II.
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Les Dennis
Les Dennis (born Leslie Dennis Heseltine; on 12 October 1953) is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. He was best known as the host of Family Fortunes for 15 years.
Dennis was born in Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire. His father worked in a betting shop after service in the Royal Navy during World War II and a period as a football player on the books of Liverpool F.C. (but did not play for the first team), whilst his mother worked in a factory. He attended the Stockton Wood and Joseph Williams primary schools and then Quarry Bank High School after passing the Eleven plus exam. He had a Saturday job in Burton's clothes store whilst still at school and started in entertainment as a stand-up comedian in working men's clubs.
As a comedian Dennis worked the North West social and working men's clubs. In 1974, he won "New Faces", an ITV talent show and appeared on numerous light-entertainment shows. In 1982, he joined as one of the team on Russ Abbot's Madhouse and The Russ Abbot Show before forming a comedy partnership with fellow impressionist Dustin Gee, which in turn led to a series of their own, The Laughter Show. Following Gee's death in 1986, Les carried on The Laughter Show as a solo performer and became the third host of Family Fortunes for a fifteen-year run from 1987 to 2002.
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Lindsey Coulson
Lindsey Coulson (born in London, 1960) is an English actress, best known for her role as Carol Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Coulson was a hairdresser for six years, before studying acting at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduating in 1982. She went on to appear in such works as an experimental production of Hamlet, in which she played a 33-weeks pregnant Ophelia.
Her TV debut was in A Bear Behind (1989), a children's series in which she and a puppet bear called Boz adventured round the country in their horse-drawn caravan and lived on a houseboat.
Her big television break came in 1993, when she became a household name afrer being cast in the part of Carol, the feisty battleaxe of the Jackson family, in the successful BBC serial drama EastEnders. She remained in the role for four years, but a desire to try her hand at other roles prompted her to quit the role in 1997.
Coulson went on to star in Out of Hours alongside John McArdle, but after the medical drama failed to get commissioned for a second series, she rejoined EastEnders for a 3-month stint to help facilitate the exit of Patsy Palmer, who played her on-screen daughter Bianca Jackson. It was during this 3 month stint that Coulson received the best dramatic performance at the British Soap Awards.
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Lucien Laviscount
Lucien Leon Laviscount (born 9 June 1992) is a British actor and recording artist best known for his portrayal of Jonah Kirby on popular BBC One drama Waterloo Road. He is set to release his debut single 'Dance With You' with US Hip-Hop aritst Mann in April 2012.
Lucien Laviscount grew up in Ribble Valley in Lancashire. He attended Ribblesdale High School in Clitheroe, where he was awarded 10 GCSEs, and was also a member of Carol Godby's theatre workshop in Bury. His parents, Eugene and Sonia, have two other sons, Louis and Jules. In 2010, he took part in a charity football match alongside Jack McMullen, Lyndon Ogbourne and other actors in aid of Sport Relief.
At the age of 10, Laviscount appeared in an advertising campaign for Marks & Spencer Laviscount secured roles in programmes such as Clocking Off and Johnny and the Bomb before becoming a series regular in BBC One series Grange Hill. He was then cast as religious swimmer Ben Richardson in Coronation Street.
He appeared as Jonah Kirby, a school pupil in hit TV show Waterloo Road.
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Lucy Pinder
Lucy Katherine Pinder (born 20 December 1983) is an English glamour model, from Winchester.
In the summer of 2003, Pinder was spotted by a freelance photographer Lee Earle while sunbathing on Bournemouth beach. As a result of the photographs taken that day, she signed a professional modelling contract with the Daily Star tabloid newspaper.
Pinder was regularly partnered with Michelle Marsh, with whom she made magazine, television, and corporate appearances. She has also been featured with other glamour models, including Danielle Lloyd, Sophie Howard, Jana Defi, Lindsey Strutt, and Saskia Howard-Clarke. Her photo shoots have appeared in magazines such as Loaded, Maxim, Nuts, ZOO, Ice, Carnoisseur,Redline and Fast Car. She has appeared in prominent adverts for PlayStation 2, Yellow Pages, the National Lottery and in 2010 she was head of the Bennetts Babe squad.
For the first several years of her career, Pinder, unlike most other glamour models, did not fully reveal her breasts in photo shoots, often posing while covering her nipples with her hands or hair. While she often appeared exposing part of the areola, her first completely topless photographs appeared in Nuts magazine in April 2007. In the accompanying interview, Pinder explained that she was initially reluctant to go fully topless "because of the way I was discovered on a beach. It was all a bit sudden and the idea of getting [my breasts] out straight away was a bit daunting."
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Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham (born Meredith Lee Hughes[citation needed] on 31 May 1948) is a Canadian-born English actress, broadcaster and author.
Bellingham was born to a single mother in Montreal and adopted by an English couple at the age of four months. She was brought up in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England and was educated at Aylesbury High School and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Twice in the 1960s Bellingham appeared in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival. She got her big break as a nurse in an ITV afternoon soap opera of the 1970s, General Hospital. She went topless for her roles in Confessions of a Driving Instructor and Sweeney! (1977).
She is best known as the head of the family in the Oxo television adverts during the 1980s. Other prominent roles included the James Herriot drama All Creatures Great and Small (where she was the second actress to play Helen Herriot on television, replacing Carol Drinkwater) and the situation comedy Second Thoughts and its sequel, Faith in the Future.
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Mark Owen
Mark Anthony Patrick Owen (born 27 January 1972), is an English singer-songwriter. He is a member of pop band Take That. The band were hugely successful during the 1990s and have enjoyed even more success since their reunion in 2005. As a solo artist, Mark Owen had sold over 400,000 records worldwide and 80 million with Take That.
Take That formed in 1990 and during his time with the group, Owen sang lead vocals on "Babe", which was released in December 1993 from the Everything Changes album. It reached number one in the UK, but was knocked off the top spot at Christmas by Mr Blobby. He also sang lead vocals on "The Day After Tomorrow" from the Nobody Else album, and that concludes Owen's vocal contributions to the band the first time around. Despite this, Owen was the most popular member of the group, on account of his boyish good looks and sweet demeanour, regularly earning awards such as Smash Hit's "Most Fanciable Male in the World" and "Best Haircut".
After Take That split, Owen became the second of the band's ex-members to release a solo record. He reached number three in the UK Singles Chart with his debut single, "Child". His second single, "Clementine", also went to number three. In 1997 his album Green Man was released, charting at a number 33. After another single, "I Am What I Am", charted at number 29, Owen was dropped by BMG Records in late 1997.
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Martina Hingis
Martina Hingis (born 30 September 1980) is a retired Swiss professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles (three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open). She also won nine Grand Slam women's doubles titles, winning a calendar year doubles Grand Slam in 1998, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title.
Hingis set a series of "youngest-ever" records before ligament injuries in both ankles forced her to withdraw temporarily from professional tennis in 2002 at the age of 22. After several surgeries and long recuperations, Hingis returned to the WTA tour in 2006. She then climbed to world number 6 and won three singles titles. On 1 November 2007, Hingis announced her retirement from tennis after testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon in 2007. She denied using the drug, but decided not to appeal the imminent ban.
In June 2011, she was named one of the "30 Legends of Women's Tennis: Past, Present and Future" by Time.
Hingis was born in Košice, (then part of Czechoslovakia, now in modern Slovakia), to accomplished tennis players Melanie Molitorová and Karol Hingis. Molitorová was a professional tennis player, who was once ranked tenth among women in Czechoslovakia, and was determined to develop Hingis into a top player as early as pregnancy. Her father was ranked as high as nineteenth in the Czechoslovakian tennis rankings. Hingis's parents divorced when she was six, and she and her mother relocated around a year later to Trübbach in Switzerland. Her father, who continued to live in Košice as a tennis coach, said in 1997 that he had seen little of his daughter after the split.
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Melinda Messenger
Melinda Jayne Messenger (born 23 February 1971) is an English ex-glamour model, Page 3 Girl and a former presenter on the magazine programme Live from Studio Five. She is currently co-broadcaster of the reality show Cowboy Builders.
Messenger was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, the middle child between two brothers, Jamie and Warren. Her parents Terry and Avis divorced when she was aged five. After attending different schools, one of which, Dorcan Technology College, she spent six months working as a flight attendant for Britannia Airways. Messenger later joined a local marketing company, rising to become customer services manager, overseeing a staff of 50.[citation needed]
Deciding she wanted to become a model, Messenger was advised by her agent at the Jason Paul Modelling Agency to enhance her breasts, which she enlarged to a 34DD cup. She then took a job modelling for Gloucester-based double glazing company Glevum Windows, dressed only in knickers and a bra. After being put up as part of an advertising campaign with the slogan "Class Behind Glass", the posters quickly began disappearing from bus stops, taken by local lads. After a complaint at the lack of clothes on Messenger, the Advertising Standards Authority banned the campaign, claiming they were not as "classy" as they claimed to be.
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Michael Barrymore
Michael Kieron Parker (born 4 May 1952), known by the stage name Michael Barrymore, is a British comedian who appeared as a presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s and 1990s. These included Strike It Lucky, My Kind of People, My Kind of Music and Kids Say the Funniest Things. He headlined the 1993 Royal Variety Performance and was voted the UK's favourite TV star several times, becoming one of the highest-paid stars on TV.
Barrymore has appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and other shows including The Friday Night Project, The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton, This Morning, The Sharon Osbourne Show, Celebrity Coach Trip and The Saturday Night Show.
Barrymore, was born Michael Kieron Parker in Bermondsey in 1952. He lived on the Dickens estate, Bermondsey, for the first 18 years of his life. His parents, George and Margaret, had moved there in 1950 with Barrymore's brother John (born c. 1944) and sister Ann (born c. 1946). His father, a violent heavy drinker, left when Barrymore was 11; they never saw each other again.
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Michael Madsen
Michael Søren Madsen (born September 25, 1957) is an American actor, poet, and photographer. He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin City. Madsen is also credited with voice work in several video games, including Grand Theft Auto III, True Crime: Streets of L.A. and DRIV3R. In January 2012, Madsen was a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother (UK).
Madsen was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Elaine (née Melson), an Emmy-winning poet, television producer, and playwright who often works for PBS, and Calvin Madsen, a firefighter. Madsen's mother left a career in corporate business to pursue a writing career. Madsen's paternal grandparents were Danish and his mother has Irish and distant Native American ancestry. His sister is actress Virginia Madsen, and he also has an older sister, Cheri.
Madsen's acting career began at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he served as an apprentice under actor John Malkovich.
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Michelle Heaton
Michelle Christine Heaton (born 19 July 1980) is a British pop singer, television personality, and recently a glamour model as well. She was married to former boyband member Andy Scott-Lee.
A former student of Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead, Heaton began her singing career in the band Sirens with other girls from the northeast of England. She auditioned and made the final ten for girl band Girl Thing and then rose to fame when she took part in the ITV reality television show Popstars. Heaton reached the final ten but was not selected for the five member band Hear'Say. Soon after, she and the other four unsuccessful applicants formed Liberty X which consisted of herself, Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Kelli Young, and Jessica Taylor, signing a record deal with Virgin Records.
Liberty X enjoyed seven Top 10 singles from 2001 to 2005. Their biggest hit, "Just a Little", reached Number 1 in May 2002. "Thinking It Over", "Got To Have Your Love", "Song 4 Lovers", and "Holding on for You" all reached the top 5 in the UK Singles Chart. Their debut album, Thinking It Over, reached Number 3 in June 2002. Liberty X released another 2 albums, Being Somebody and X, which reached Numbers 12 and 27, respectively. Liberty X won two Brit Awards: for Best British Single and Best British Breakthrough Artist. From 2004 until 2007, Heaton contributed a regular column to the Hotstars section of OK! magazine. In 2004, she appeared in the fitness DVD Liberty X-Toned.[citation needed]
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Mutya Buena
Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena (born 21 May 1985) is an English recording artist who rose to fame as a member of girl group the Sugababes. With the Sugababes, Buena had four UK number one singles, an additional six top-ten hits and three multi-platinum albums. After leaving the group in December 2005, she released her debut solo album, Real Girl in June 2007. In October 2010, Buena released a compilation album dedicated to British singers, titled Sound Of Camden: Mutya Buena.
Buena was born in Kingsbury, London and attended Kingsbury High School. She is of Filipino and Irish descent. On 23 March 2005, Buena gave birth to her daughter Tahlia. Buena dedicated a song to her late sister Maya on the Sugababes album, Three.
The Sugababes were formed in 1998 by Siobhán Donaghy, Keisha Buchanan and Buena. Their debut album, One Touch, was released in November 2000 and peaked at number twenty-six on the UK Albums Chart, eventually earning a gold certification.One Touch spawned four singles, three of which reached the top twenty, while the album's lead single "Overload" was nominated for a BRIT Award for "Best British Single". The album's sales did not meet the expectations of London Records and the group was subsequently dropped. The group's second album Angels with Dirty Faces was released in August 2002 through Island Records. Influenced by the New Wave, dance, and pop music of the 1980s, the record enjoyed success in the UK, where it reached number two and went triple platinum. It produced two number one singles and was nominated for "Best British Album" at the 2003 BRIT Awards.
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Natalie Cassidy
Natalie Ann Cassidy (born 13 May 1983)[citation needed] is a British actress. She is best known for her role on EastEnders where she played Sonia Fowler for twelve years. She also appeared in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville was a contestant on the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing and the ninth series of Celebrity Big Brother. On 9 April 2012 it was announced by Cassidy that she would become a regular on Loose Women as of 13 April 2012.
As a child, Cassidy attended the Anna Scher Theatre. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1993, playing Sonia Jackson. In 2006, she played a rival to Lauren Cooper in an episode of The Catherine Tate Show screened on BBC Two. On 9 April 2006, the BBC announced Cassidy's departure from EastEnders with her final scenes being screened in February 2007. She then concentrated on work in the theatre, appearing in extensive UK tours of The Vagina Monologues, Bedroom Farce and Gertrude's Secret opposite Prunella Scales and a run of The Cherry Orchard at the Chichester Festival Theatre opposite Diana Rigg.[citation needed]
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Nicola McLean
Nicola McLean (born 16 September 1981) is an English glamour model and media personality. She finished in sixth place on the eighth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! and has been a housemate in ninth series of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK.
Before becoming a model, McLean was an Army cadet. She modelled for Page Three of The Sun between September 1999 and July 2004, and the Daily Star from 2000 until 2006. One of the UK's most successful glamour models, she appeared on Page 3 in The Sun and Daily Star almost every week for around five years - notching up almost 300 appearances in total.[citation needed]
After having her bust increased from 32C to a 32E in 2004, she left The Sun and continued doing Page Three for Daily Star, until she became pregnant in 2006. In November 2007, she underwent her second breast enlargement, which took her up to a 32G. McLean came fourth in The Sun poll for the "Best Page 3 Girl Of All Time" beating Samantha Fox, Jo Hicks, Leilani Dowding and Jordan, whose rivalry with McLean has been widely publicised.
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Nicola Tappenden
Nicola Tappenden (born 2 December 1982), also known by her modelling name Nicola T, is an English former Page 3 Girl and glamour model.
She is also known for appearing in the 2010 edition of Celebrity Big Brother. She was the sixth contestant evicted, in a secret eviction on 27 January 2010. Tappenden is also a singer, with her first single "Drunk" released in March 2010.
Tappenden was born in Croydon, London. She began her topless modelling career as a Page Three girl at the age of 20 in 2002 after winning The Sun's first ever 'Page 3 Idol' competition whilst working for Citigroup asset management - even though press reported inaccurately that she worked at Merrill Lynch investment bank. She has become a regular fixture since, as well as undertaking other glamour and retail fashion modelling assignments. In May 2007, she entered the Miss Great Britain contest as Miss Croydon along with Michelle Marsh as Miss Oldham. Tappenden came in 10th place, with Marsh reaching 4th place.
She went to Shirley High School in Croydon.[citation needed]
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Nina Wadia
Nina Wadia is an Indian British actress, best known for playing Zainab Khan in the British soap opera EastEnders.
Wadia first came to prominence in BBC sketch show Goodness Gracious Me, playing characters such as Mrs "I can make it at home for nothing!" and one half of The Competitive Mothers. She took over from her Goodness Gracious Me co-star, Meera Syal, in the role of Rupinder in the sitcom All About Me alongside Jasper Carrott and Natalia Kills.
In 2007, Wadia was cast as Zainab Masood in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. She also had a minor role in the show in 1994, playing a nurse named Viv who treated Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) when she was hospitalised with a gunshot wound. She also appears as Zainab in the 2010 spin-off EastEnders: E20.
Wadia has also made several guest appearances in various British comedies and dramas, such as 2point4 Children, The Vicar of Dibley, Thin Ice Chambers, Holby City, Murder in Mind and Doctors. She was a regular presenter on the ITV topical chat show, Loose Women (2005–2006). Wadia has most recently appeared in the E4 teen Comedy/Drama Skins, playing the mother of Anwar Kharral, and, in March 2008, she appeared in the BBC Three pilot West 10 LDN, she also appeared in New Tricks once. In 2011 Wadia appeared in Would I Lie To You?
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Pamela Bach
Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff (born Pamela Ann Weissenbach; October 16, 1963) is an American actress from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Like her ex-husband, David Hasselhoff, Bach-Hasselhoff receives more attention in Europe than she does in America,[citation needed] and is one of the recipients of the yearly Otto Award as one of German teens' favourite actresses. This is an award given by the German teen magazine Bravo. She participated in the 2011 UK Celebrity Big Brother, and was in the house from August 18–31, 2011. She was the second celebrity to be evicted from the house, and was evicted on Day 14.
On March 11, 2009 Bach-Hasselhoff was arrested in Los Angeles for the felony of Driving under the influence (DUI).
Bach-Hasselhoff was arrested again for DUI on November 28, 2009. The arrest came a day after Hasselhoff was hospitalized after he was found passed out at his home. Bach told TMZ she was trying to comfort the couple's daughters earlier in the evening and then went out for dinner where she had a few drinks.
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Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer (born Julie Anne Harris; 26 May 1972 in Bethnal Green, London) is an English actress and glamour model. Palmer made an early television appearance on the children's drama show Grange Hill, but is best known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular British television soap opera EastEnders. Originally in the cast from 1993–1999, Palmer returned to EastEnders in April 2008. She has also appeared in a number of TV dramas, and released an autobiography, All of Me, in 2007. She lives with her husband and four children in Brighton, East Sussex, UK.[citation needed]
Patsy Palmer was born and grew up in Bethnal Green, East London. She attended Columbia Primary School and then Haggerston Girls Secondary School.
She was brought up along with her two elder brothers, Albert and Harry, by her mother Pat. It was her mother who first spotted her acting talent and encouraged her to go to Anna Scher's famous acting school in London (where many other EastEnders stars such as Sid Owen, Gillian Taylforth, Susan Tully, Phil Daniels, Jake Wood and Adam Woodyatt also trained). Palmer was bullied at school, and has said that acting was a form of escape.
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Pete Burns
Pete Burns (born 5 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter, author and television personality, who founded the band Dead or Alive in 1980, in which he was vocalist and songwriter, and which rose to mainstream success with their 1985 single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". He later rose to further celebrity status in the British media following his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother 2006 and his own television show, Pete's PA in 2007.
Burns was born in Port Sunlight, Bebington, Wirral, to an English father and German mother. His mother Eva was Jewish and born in Heidelberg, Germany. She had fled to Vienna, Austria to escape the anti-Semitic laws of the Nazis. It was in Vienna that she met Burns' father, then a British soldier, at a soldiers' tea dance.
When talking about his late mother in an interview for television programme Psychic Therapy, he said "as far as parental skills go in the conventional, normal world, she certainly wasn't a mother, but she's the best human being that I've ever had the privilege of being in the company of, and I know that she had a special plan for me. She called me Star Baby and she knew that there was something special in me. Just an incredible German woman; tiny, five-foot-one, but she could move a fucking wardrobe, she could lift a wardrobe." Burns also told that for the first five years of his life, he and his mother spoke to one another in German. "I grew up until I was five speaking German and a bit of French. There was no English spoken in my house. My father spoke to my mother in French, she spoke to me in German."[citation needed]
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Phil Tufnell
Philip Clive Roderick Tufnell (born 29 April 1966) is a former English cricketer turned television personality. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, "Tuffers" as he is known played 42 Tests and 20 One Day International matches for England, as well as playing for Middlesex from 1986 to 2002. With 121 Test wickets, Tufnell is as of 2009 35th in the list of most wickets by an England bowler, and his average of 37.68 is considered high for a genuine bowler, however Tufnell's personality, trademark behaviour and "great control of flight" when playing made him a popular sports personality. Following his retirement in 2002, Tufnell has built on his popularity with several television appearances. These include I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! which he won, They Think It's All Over, A Question of Sport and Strictly Come Dancing. He was presented with an honorary doctorate by Middlesex University on 20 July 2011, recognising his achievements in sport and the media.
Tufnell went to Highgate School where his cricketing prowess was recognised and he was appointed captain of the Junior School's First XI despite the fact he was not yet in the top year. On leaving Highgate he attended, and played cricket for, Southgate School. He then trained as a quantity surveyor and was faced with the tough decision of whether to play cricket professionally or to continue surveying quantities. He chose to do the former.
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Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales (born Prunella Margaret Rumney Illingworth) CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's wife Sybil in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.
Throughout her long career, Scales has usually been cast in comic roles. Her early work included the second UK adaptation of Pride and Prejudice (1952) and Hobson's Choice (1954).
Her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers. In addition to Fawlty Towers, she has had roles in BBC Radio 4 sitcoms, notably After Henry, Smelling of Roses and Ladies of Letters; on television she starred in the London Weekend Television/Channel 4 series Mapp & Lucia based on the novels by E. F. Benson. She played Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution. In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in the (original) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a series called Seven of One, also for the BBC. Her film appearances also include The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), Stiff Upper Lips (1997), Howards End (1992), and BBC Theatre Night in Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw (1987) playing Mrs Prentice, where the cast included husband Timothy West with Dinsdale Landen and Tessa Peake-Jones.
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Rav Wilding
Rav Wilding is an English television presenter, whose former professions include security guard at Harrods, soldier, police officer and from June 2004 to December 2011 was a presenter on Crimewatch.
Born in Canterbury, Kent, Wilding is the second of five children born to a Mauritian father and an English mother who were both nurses. He attended Fulston Manor School in Sittingbourne, Kent.
After secondary school he took an apprenticeship in construction before joining the British Army at seventeen. Due to his stature and physical fitness he was selected to undertake parachute training, but a broken leg sustained on a training run cut short a career in the Parachute Regiment. After four years he left after medical staff advised him that it would be highly unlikely that his leg would ever be back to full fitness.
On leaving the army in 1999, Wilding started working at Harrods in Knightsbridge as part of the security team. After approximately nine months at Harrods, Wilding's application to join the Metropolitan Police Service was accepted and he started training school. Wilding joined the Service at the start of 2000 and was posted to Peckham in South London. While based at Peckham in Southwark, he was involved in the high profile police investigation surrounding the death of Damilola Taylor. Wilding was part of a specialist unit specifically created in the aftermath of the murder where he worked on the tough North Peckham Estate where Taylor was killed.
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Richard Dunwoody
Thomas Richard Dunwoody MBE (born 18 January 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a retired British jockey in National Hunt racing. He was a three-time Champion Jockey, riding 1699 British winners in his career. His father was a leading Point to Point rider. Family all from Ireland and England.
His big race victories include the King George VI Chase four times - twice on the legendary grey Desert Orchid in 1989 and 1990 and twice on another grey One Man in 1995 and 1996. He also won the 1986 and 1994 Grand Nationals on West Tip and Miinnehoma respectively, and the 1988 Cheltenham Gold Cup on Charter Party. He received the Lester Award for Jump Jockey of the Year on five occasions.
He is Patron or Trustee for the charities; Sparks, Spinal Research and Racing Welfare.
On 18 January 2008, it was reported that he and American explorer Doug Stoup had reached the South Pole following a 48 day trek raising money for charity. Their route followed one which had previously been attempted by Ernest Shackleton and was both the first successful completion of that route on foot as well the first successfully completed new route to the South Pole in ten years.
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Ricky Groves
Richard "Ricky" Groves (born 23 April 1968) is an English actor best known for playing Garry Hobbs in EastEnders from 2000–09. Before his role in EastEnders he appeared in the series Burnside, a spin-off from The Bill. He trained at The Poor School in London.
Groves appeared on BBC's School's Out on 28 July 2007, and won £1600 for his school.
He participated in the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing and was paired with professional dancer Erin Boag. They were voted out in week 10.
He and his family appeared on the sixth series of All Star Family Fortunes. On February 18th, 2010 Groves appeared on The Weakest Link Eastenders Special. He was the second contestant voted off.
Ricky took part in TV series Celebrity Coach Trip partnered with friend Alex Ferns.
Also Portrayed in one episode of Holby City 12th July 2011.
He participated in the 2011 series of Celebrity MasterChef.
Groves became engaged in 2005 to girlfriend and EastEnders co-star Hannah Waterman who played Laura Beale. The pair married in a ceremony on 2 September 2006, in a country church on Dartmoor. In January 2010, it was announced that Groves and Waterman, were to separate after 3½ years of marriage.
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Ricky Whittle
Ricky Whittle (born 23 November 1981) is a British actor from Oldham, Greater Manchester.
The son of former Royal Air Force serviceman Harry Whittle, Whittle grew up travelling with his father's career around the world, with a home base at Burghfield Common near Reading, Berkshire.
A keen sportsman, Whittle represented England and the United Kingdom at youth level in football, rugby, American football and athletics. After having been watched by Arsenal and Celtic, an injury brought about the pursuit of a degree in criminology at the University of Southampton.
At university, Whittle began modelling, becoming the face of a Reebok campaign in 2000. This brought him to the attention of casting agents for Sky One's Dream Team. Cast as Ryan Naysmith, Whittle left university to pursue an acting career. Carrying on with his sports ambitions, in the third series Whittle broke his leg in seven places, and was forced into a long hospital stay. The writers wrote a broken leg into the Dreamteam script, allowing Whittle a slower recuperation.
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Robbie Jackson
Robert "Robbie" Jackson is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Dean Gaffney from 1993 to 2003. The character was axed in 2003 by executive producer Louise Berridge. He made brief returns in 2004 and 2010 for two family weddings.
Robbie was the product of a whirlwind romance between teenagers Gary Bolton and Carol Branning. Carol already had a daughter, Bianca, from a previous relationship and upon discovering that she was pregnant again she and Gary got engaged and began living together before she gave birth to their son at just 16. They were happy for a while, but Gary soon began to feel tied down at such a young age and walked out on Carol and her two children just months after their son's birth. Robbie and his half sister Bianca saw many surrogate father figures during their childhood, one of which led to the birth of their half sister Sonia before Carol entered a relationship with the steady and reliable Alan Jackson in 1987. They became parents to Billie in 1988 and not long afterwards Alan adopted Robbie and his sisters, resulting in them all taking on the name Jackson.
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Rula Lenska
Rula Lenska (born Rosa Marie Leopoldyna Lubienski, 30 September 1947) is an English actress. Best known for her work in the United Kingdom, she is remembered in the United States for a television advert that presented her as a celebrity, even though she was not widely known in the US at the time the advert was produced (see below). She is divorced from British actor Dennis Waterman.
She was born in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England. Her father, Major Count Ludwik Maria Lubienski, had led Radio Free Europe in Poland and was the chief of the Polish military mission in Gibraltar during World War II. Her mother was the former Countess Elzbieta Tyszkiewicz. She has two sisters: Anna, an actress who appeared in a few films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Gabriela. Lenska was educated at the Ursuline College in Westgate-on-Sea.
Her big break was as Little Ladies' band member, "Q," in the British TV series Rock Follies (1976) and its sequel Rock Follies of '77 the following year. By this time, she had renounced her title as a Polish countess; she has said of the decision, "In England it doesn't count, if you'll excuse the pun."
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Sally Bercow
Sally Bercow (née Illman; born 22 November 1969) is the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow. She was a housemate on Celebrity Big Brother 2011 and was evicted from the house on 26 August 2011.
Sally Illman attended Marlborough College public school, as a contemporary of the British Prime Minister's wife, Samantha Cameron, and went on to attend Keble College, Oxford, dropping out after two years. The fact that Bercow did not finish her studies at Oxford became a minor controversy in 2009 when it was revealed that she had been sacked from a City public relations firm for trying to conceal this on her CV.
She was the social secretary of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) while at the University. It was subsequently reported in the Daily Mail that during her time with OUCA, she was involved in a social event for which OUCA booked strippers. She met her future husband at a national Conservative Students Conference.
In a 2009 interview Bercow spoke about alcoholism and one-night stands in her twenties.
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Shilpa Shetty
Shilpa Shetty (born 8 June 1975) is an Indian film actress and model. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar (1993), she has appeared in nearly 40 Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films, her first leading role being in the 1994 film Aag. Although she has been through years of decline during her career, Shetty has been willing to reinvent herself quite often. Her performances in Dhadkan (2000) and Rishtey (2002) were appreciated, while her portrayal of an AIDS patient in Phir Milenge (2004) won her many accolades. Her younger sister Shamita Shetty is also a Bollywood film actress.
After taking part in the British Celebrity Big Brother TV show in 2007, Shetty was crowned the winner with 63% of the final vote, after an international racism controversy involving her and fellow contestants Jade Goody, Jo O'Meara and Danielle Lloyd. This was followed by a re-establishment of her status in the film industry in 2007 when she appeared in two successive movies, Life in a... Metro and Apne, with her performance in the former drawing positive reviews.
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Sisqó
Mark Althavean Andrews (born November 9, 1978), known by his stage name Sisqó, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer and actor. He is lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and has also released solo material, including his successful first solo album Unleash the Dragon which included the single "Thong Song". Sisqó also calls himself "The Dragon".
Andrews attended Mervo, graduating 1994. He has a daughter, Shaione, who was born in 1995.
After Woody Rock left Dru Hill in 1999 to pursue a solo career, it was decided that the other three members would do the same. Sisqó's solo debut, Unleash the Dragon, was released on Def Soul Records in November 1999. Unleash the Dragon sold moderately at first, until the February 2000 release of its second single, the novelty "Thong Song". A runaway hit, "Thong Song" and its follow-up, "Incomplete", were major hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with "Thong Song" making it to number three, and "Incomplete" going to #1. The success later got Sisqó a doll made of himself by Play Along Toys in 2001.[citation needed]
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Sonia Fowler
Sonia Ann Fowler (née Branning; previously Jackson) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Natalie Cassidy. Her first appearance was on 21 December 1993 and she made her final appearance on 2 February 2007. However, she returned briefly in 2010 along with other members of the Jackson family and re-appeared on the soap from 8 to 18 February 2010. She returned again for a single episode on 21 January 2011.
Trumpet-playing Sonia Jackson arrives in Albert Square in 1993 with the rest of her family. The third of Carol's four children, Sonia was the result of her mother's fling with Terry Cant, whom Sonia never knew. During her early childhood, she forms a close friendship with Clare Tyler and the two are inseparable until Clare falls in with the wrong crowd at school and starts bullying Sonia. They manage to patch things up before Clare leaves Walford in 1998. Sonia herself briefly leaves Walford in 1997, following her brother Billie's kidnapping, but she returns to visit her family, eventually moving back permanently to live with her sister Bianca, in 1998.
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Stephanie Beacham
Stephanie Beacham (born 28 February 1947) is a British television, film and theatre actress. Making her film debut in 1971's The Nightcomers opposite Marlon Brando and becoming more well-known on British television in the BBC series Tenko (1981–84) and the ITV series Connie (1985), her worldwide breakthrough came as a result of playing the very bitchy and very rich Sable Colby in the ABC series The Colbys (1985–87) and in the final season of Dynasty (1988–89).
Beacham, one of four children, was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the Grosvenor estate.
Shortly after birth, she was diagnosed as being completely deaf in her right ear, as her mother had contracted chickenpox during her pregnancy.[citation needed] She has about 75% of normal hearing capacity in her left ear.[citation needed] She attended a Catholic girls' school (although she was not brought up as a Catholic) and later travelled to Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, France to study mime with Étienne Decroux, before attending Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.[citation needed]
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Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Andrew Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and author. In film, he is known for his roles in Threesome (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Bio-Dome (1996), Fled (1996), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), and The Flyboys (2008); in television, as William F. Cody in the western show The Young Riders (1989–1992), and in reality shows, such as Celebrity Big Brother 2010. Outside of acting, he is known for being the youngest of the Baldwin brothers, and for publicly expressing his evangelical Christian faith.
Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York. His mother is Carol Newcomb (née Martineau, born 1930), who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990 and had a double mastectomy. His father was Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., (October 1927–April 1983), who died of lung cancer. Baldwin is the youngest brother of notable actors, Alec, Daniel and William, sometimes collectively known as the "Baldwin brothers". Baldwin was raised in a Catholic family of Irish, English, and French descent. Baldwin has two sisters, Elizabeth Keuchler (born 1955) and Jane Sasso (born 1965).
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Sue Perkins
Susan Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969, East Dulwich, London) is an English comedian, broadcaster and conductor.
Perkins was educated at Croham Hurst School, an independent school for girls in Croydon in South London, at the same time as the BBC Breakfast News presenter Susanna Reid. She later studied English at New Hall at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990. While at Cambridge, she was a member of the Footlights, where she met Mel Giedroyc. She was Footlights president during the academic year 1990/91.
Perkins first came to notice with Mel Giedroyc as Mel and Sue. The duo were short-listed for the Daily Express Best Newcomers Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993. After a few years writing for French & Saunders (and occasionally appearing on their BBC series), they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch, and an early evening version, Late Lunch.
Perkins has been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE and appeared in Celebrity Big Brother during 2002 in aid of a number of charities. During the series she had some notable dancing moments with eventual winner Mark Owen of Take That. She has made numerous appearances on BBC TV shows Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI, Room 101, Celebrity Weakest Link, Question Time and Newsnight; she has often joked that the BBC pay her a regular wage for "blabbering on random shows". She made notable appearances as a 'field reporter' for Armando Iannucci vehicle The Saturday Night Armistice.
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Tara Reid
Tara Donna Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. Reid has acted on television shows such as Saved By The Bell: The New Class, Days of our Lives, California Dreams, and Scrubs.
Her screen debut came in A Return to Salem's Lot (1987), followed by The Big Lebowski (1998), Urban Legend (1998), and American Pie (1999). She has since portrayed supporting as well as lead roles in several films, including Dr. T & the Women (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), American Pie 2 (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), Alone in the Dark (2005), and American Reunion (2012). She was a housemate in the 2011 series of British reality television show Celebrity Big Brother.
Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom were teachers and day-care center owners. She attended St. Elizabeth's Catholic Elementary, Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Ramapo High School, John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills, and graduated from Barnstable Academy, an alternative high school. She also attended Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, along with fellow actors Christina Ricci, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. Reid has twin younger siblings, Colleen Marie and Patrick John and another brother, Tom.
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Terry Christian
Terry Christian (born 8 May 1960) is a British television and radio presenter whose credits include Channel 4's late night Youth Entertainment show The Word and ITV1 moral issues talk show It's My Life. He also presented six series of It's My Life, two series of Turn On Terry and numerous other programmes for ITV, MTV, VH1, Channel 4 as well as a variety of different local and national radio programmes on stations including Radio 4, BBC6 Music, Talksport, Century Radio, Key 103, Signal and BBC's Radio Derby and Manchester.
Christian was born in Old Trafford to Irish parents (born in Dublin) and grew up in Brooks Bar Old Trafford with five brothers and sisters. He was educated at St. Alphonsus Primary School, Ayres Road, Old Trafford and St Bede's College, Manchester. His father was a shop steward in the TGWU at Esso in Trafford Park. He attended Thames Polytechnic in London studying Applied Biology and has an HND in that subject specialising in microbiology.
He was spotted in 1981 by Maxine Baker, who booked him along with 99 other unemployed youngsters from the inner City area of Manchester for Devil's Advocate, a programme made by Granada Television and networked on a Sunday night on ITV about youngsters on the dole, presented by former World in Action editor Gus Macdonald. The show was made in reaction to the Scarman report which looked into the causes of that summers riots in Moss Side, Toxteth, Brixton, Handsworth and St Pauls, Bristol. Amongst the other kids on the dole alongside Christian on Devil's Advocate was Johnny Marr of The Smiths. As a result of his appearances on the programme, Christian was offered his own radio show on BBC Radio Derby called Barbed Wireless.
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Tina Malone
Tina Malone Christina Malone (born 30 January 1963) is an English actress, writer, director and producer, who is probably best known for playing the brash, belligerent, foul-mouthed Mimi Maguire on Shameless. She also played the role of Mo McGee on Brookside and a nurse called Bobbie on Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. She made a reality appearance in Celebrity Big Brother in January 2009.
Born to parents Olwyn and Frank on January 30, 1963 in Toxteth, Liverpool, she attended Liverpool Institute High School for Girls and Childwall College.
She runs her own acting school in Manchester. The school produces plays in local Liverpool theatres such as the Everyman Theatre. The drama school is known as To Be Frank Productions (named after her late father, Frank Malone). She also used to run a similar agency with Dean Sullivan called DSTM. Malone was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder in 1998. In August 2009, Malone appeared on a BBC Three programme called Britain's Most Embarrassing Parents, with her daughter Dannielle (born 1982)[citation needed]. from September 8–11, 2009, She directed and starred in Kerry Williams's play "MeeT ThE DeAN's" at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool, She currently resides in Manchester with her husband Paul Chase, whom she married on August 29, 2010, Malone appeared on Celebrity Four Weddings in December 2010, along with TV personality Debbie McGee, Big Brother 3 contestant Spencer Smith and glamour model Linsey Dawn McKenzie, Malone later went on to win Four Weddings, She also appeared in 'Scousers in St Helens' on 26 October 2010 alongside Margi Clarke, Billy Murray and Various others.
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Tommy Sheridan
Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1964, Glasgow) is a Scottish socialist politician. He has had various prominent roles within the socialist movement in Scotland and is currently one of two co-convenors of the left-wing Scottish political party Solidarity.
Sheridan was active as a Militant tendency entryist in the Labour Party, before leaving Labour as a member of Scottish Militant Labour (SML). He was a prominent campaigner against the poll tax in Scotland, and was jailed for six months for attending a warrant sale after Glasgow Sheriff Court had served a court order on him banning his presence. Sheridan has twice been jailed in connection with campaigning against the presence of the nuclear fleet at Faslane Naval Base - a presence which continues.
In 2006 in the case of Sheridan v News International he won an action for defamation against the News of the World and was awarded £200,000 damages. The following year, he was charged with perjury, for having told lies to the court in the defamation case. In the following weeks, six of his relations and colleagues were also charged. In October 2010, he appeared together with his wife Gail at a trial for perjury. While the charges against his wife were withdrawn, on 23 December 2010, Sheridan was convicted of perjury, and on 26 January he was sentenced to three years imprisonment. In the light of the News of the World phone hacking affair, the Crown Office has been ordered to reassess the case. He was released from prison on 30 January 2012, one year into his sentence.
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Traci Bingham
Traci Bingham (born January 13, 1968) is an American actress, model and television personality who is best known for playing Jordan Tate on the television series Baywatch between 1996 and 1998.
Bingham was born in west Cambridge, Massachusetts to a librarian mother and an aircraft technician father. Her mother is black and her father is of Cherokee Native American and Italian descent.
In 1991, she appeared in the video for Good Vibrations by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Eight years later, she appeared in the video for I Really Like It by Harlem World featuring Mase and Kelly Price.
Bingham began her career in minor acting roles. Aside from Baywatch, Bingham's appearances include the television series D.R.E.A.M. Team and Beverly Hills, 90210, and the film Demon Knight. She also played minor roles in the popular American sitcoms The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Married with Children.
Bingham has appeared on a number of reality television programmes. In 2004 she was in the second series of The Surreal Life. Her cast mates included Ron Jeremy, Vanilla Ice, Erik Estrada, Tammy Faye Bakker and Trishelle Cannatella. Two years later, she flew to England to appear in Celebrity Big Brother where she made it to the final six contestants and was evicted on the final night of the show. She befriended Maggot, the rapper from Goldie Looking Chain, but was ridiculed by the singer Pete Burns. She selected Families of SMA as the charity to receive a donation from her participation in the show because her niece had died from Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). In 2007, Bingham appeared on VH1's The Surreal Life: Fame Games and won the $100,000 Goldenpalace.net Grand Prize. In 2008, Bingham appeared on Fox Reality's Gimme My Reality Show! competing with six other celebrities to get their own reality show.
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Ulrika Jonsson
Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967) is a Swedish-British television presenter in the UK, who became famous as a TV-am weather presenter and moved on to present Gladiators and became a team captain of the show Shooting Stars.
The granddaughter of Swedish opera singer Folke Jonsson, Jonsson was born in Sollentuna, Stockholm County.[citation needed] Her parents divorced amicably in 1975 when her mother left to be with her lover Michael Brodie in the Netherlands;[citation needed] Ulrika was eight years old. She lived with her father until the age of 12 when her mother suggested that at that age she needed a mother's guidance. Jonsson accepted and moved to Buckinghamshire, England in 1979 where she attended Farnham Common Middle School[citation needed] for a year above the normal age to prepare her for secondary school, then Burnham Grammar School, followed by St Aldate's Secretarial college in Oxford.[citation needed] Jonsson speaks fluent English, French, and German, as well as her native Swedish .
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Vanessa Feltz
Vanessa Jane Feltz (born 21 February 1962) is an English television personality, broadcaster and journalist. She currently presents an early morning radio show on BBC Radio 2, a mid morning phone-in show on BBC London 94.9. In 2011, she started hosting The Vanessa Show on Channel 5. The first series ended on June 24. The show will return in September.
Vanessa Feltz was born in Islington, London, and grew up in Pine Grove, Totteridge. On her radio show she frequently refers to Totteridge as "the Beverly Hills of North London", and her middle-class Jewish background as like "growing up in Fiddler on the Roof [with her] as Topol".
Her father Norman was in the lingerie business. Her mother Valerie (née Ohrenstein) was a housewife who died of cancer at the age of 57 in 1995. She has one sister, three years younger.
Feltz was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, an independent school in Elstree, Hertfordshire. She then went on to study English at Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
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Verne Troyer
Verne J. Troyer (born January 1, 1969) is an American actor and stunt performer. Troyer is notable for his height of 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m), the result of cartilage–hair hypoplasia dwarfism, making him one of the shortest men in the world. He is best known for playing Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series of comedy films.
Troyer was born in Sturgis, Michigan, the son of Susan, a factory worker, and Reuben Troyer, a repair technician. He has two siblings, Davon and Deborah. He grew up in Centreville, Michigan and graduated from Centreville High School in 1987.
Troyer reportedly married model Genevieve Gallen on February 22, 2004 but filed for an annulment the next day. Though the couple's engagement was widely reported, Troyer and his attorney deny that the two ever had any formal wedding plans, saying that Gallen had fabricated the story for her own financial gain.
On June 25, 2008, a private home videotape was released which showed Troyer and his former live-in girlfriend Ranae Shrider having sex. The video, which had been made during the Easter Weekend of 2008 at Raffles L’Ermitage hotel, was leaked to the public by Shrider to TMZ. Kevin Blatt, the man responsible for brokering the deal for the Paris Hilton sex tape in 2003, tried to sell the video. Troyer sued TMZ, Blatt, and online rental company SugarDVD, for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement.
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Vincent Simone
Vincent Simone (born 15 March 1979) is a professional dancer born in Italy. He moved to Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom when he was 17. His professional dancing partner is Flavia Cacace, and they perform under the brand name VincentandFlavia.
Simone was born into a family of professional dancers and his parents are latin and ballroom dancers. His sister is a dance teacher. His partner, Susan Duddy, a former flight attendant, gave birth to their son Luca in 2009.
He has appeared on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing since the fourth series of the show, when he danced with Louisa Lytton as his celebrity partner. They were knocked out in week 10, scoring 31 out of 40 for their first dance and 28 for the second. This gave them a total of 59 points, which left them in last place. Simone returned for the fifth series in 2007, partnering with actress Stephanie Beacham, but the pair were eliminated in the second week, losing to Letitia Dean and Darren Bennett in the dance off. One judge, Arlene Phillips, voted to save Beacham and Simone, but was outvoted by the other three judges.
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Vinnie Jones
Vincent Peter "Vinnie" Jones (born 5 January 1965) is an English actor and retired footballer.
Born in Hertfordshire, England, Jones represented and captained the Welsh national football team, having qualified via a Welsh grandparent. As a member of the "Crazy Gang", Jones won the 1988 FA Cup Final with Wimbledon, a club for which he played well over 200 games during two spells between 1986 and 1998. He also previously played for Chelsea and Leeds United. Jones appeared in Celebrity Big Brother 2010, where he finished in third place behind Dane Bowers and Alex Reid.
He has capitalised on his tough man image as a footballer and is known as an actor for his aggressive style and intimidating demeanour, often being typecast into roles as coaches, hooligans and violent criminals.
Jones was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, to Peter Jones (a gamekeeper) and Glenda Harris Jones.
Jones started his football career in 1984 at Alliance Premier League side Wealdstone, during which time he combined playing football with being a hod carrier. He played one season with second-level Swedish club IFK Holmsund in 1986 and helped them win the league.
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Wendy Richard
Wendy Richard, MBE (born Wendy Emerton 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009) was an English actress best known for playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders. She was first educated at St George's Primary School in Mount Street, Mayfair, west London, before attending the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and then the Italia Conti Academy stage school in London.
She died on 26 February 2009 at the Harley Street clinic where she was being treated for a third bout of breast cancer.
Richard, an only child, was born in Middlesbrough in 1943. Her parents, Henry William (died in 1954) and Beatrice Reay (1910–1972) (née Cutter) Emerton, were publicans and ran the Corporation Hotel in the town. Emerton and Cutter married in Paddington in 1939. While Richard was a baby, her family moved to Bournemouth. Later they moved to the Isle of Wight and then to London, where they ran the Shepherds Tavern in Shepherd Market, where Elizabeth Taylor and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon were said to be customers. Richard attended the local primary school, St George's, but her education was interrupted when her family moved again, this time to the Valentine Hotel at Gants Hill, then in Essex, now in Greater London. Another move, to the Streatham Park Hotel in south London, followed a few months later. It was here, in December 1954, that Richard's father committed suicide. The actress, then 11, found his body. Her mother Beatrice never remarried, and died of liver cancer in May 1972.
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Zöe Lucker
Zöe Elizabeth Lucker (born 11 April 1974 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire) is an English actress best known for playing the roles of Tanya Turner on ITV's Footballers' Wives and Vanessa Gold in EastEnders.
Lucker studied acting at Oscars Academy of Performing arts in Huddersfield, and later at the Manchester Arden School of Theatre.[citation needed] In 1996 she made her television debut in Brazen Hussies playing Busty Babs. Later that year she appeared in three episodes of the long running soap opera, "Coronation Street".[citation needed] In the next four years, she appeared on Doctors, Where the Heart Is, Barbara and Killer Net.
Lucker got her big acting break when she got the part of the nations favourite WAG and super-bitch Tanya Turner on ITV's trashy drama Footballers' Wives, which made her a household name on British television.[citation needed] In 2004, she was nominated and won a TV Quick and TV Choice Award for 'Best Actress' for her role of Tanya Turner;[citation needed] she was also nominated for a National Television Award in the category of 'Most Popular Actress'[citation needed] for her work on Footballers' Wives and made an appearance in sister show, ITV's Bad Girls as her Footballers' Wives character. The viewers halved when she left the show in series 4,[citation needed] cementing her status as being the most popular character and star of the show. She later came back in series 5 to star in the dramatic storylines alongside Joan Collins.[citation needed]
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Cassidy, Natalie Filmography
- Things Talk (2009)
- Wendy Richard: To Tell You the Truth (2009)
- Then and Now Workout (2007)
- Making Your Mind Up (2005)
- Test the Nation: The 2005 Test (2005)
- How Soaps Changed the World (2004)
- London (2004)
- Natalie Cassidy Goes Wild in Australia (2004)
- EastEnders: Christmas Party (2004)
- Celebrity Driving School (2003)
- EastEnders: Christmas Party (2003)
- Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003)
Famous quotes by Natalie Cassidy:
"My bust isn't very big so I wear a gel bra or 'chicken fillet' bra fillers."
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Natalie Cassidy reuniting with her boyfriend interview on This Morning - 21st February 2012
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- Duration: 11:20
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Natalie discusses why she has decided to take back her alcoholic boyfriend who was arrested for attacking her with a slipper!
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Natalie discusses why she has decided to take back her alcoholic boyfriend who was arrested for attacking her with a slipper!
natalie cassidy sonia VeryImportantpeople ch4 ep1
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- Duration: 1:22
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
natalie cassidy sonia VeryImportantpeople ch4 ep1
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natalie cassidy sonia VeryImportantpeople ch4 ep1
- published: 29 Apr 2012
- views: 30978
- author: Ben Holland
Natalie Cassidy interview on Loose Women - 2nd August 2011
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- Duration: 7:07
- Updated: 25 Aug 2012
Natalie chats about her recent bad times including parting with her partner Adam who was abusive to her in front of their new baby Eliza and her new look with a short haircut and slimmer body which she claims is down to doing zumba..not sure what she is wearing! She also says how she would love to go back to Eastenders.
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Natalie chats about her recent bad times including parting with her partner Adam who was abusive to her in front of their new baby Eliza and her new look with a short haircut and slimmer body which she claims is down to doing zumba..not sure what she is wearing! She also says how she would love to go back to Eastenders.
- published: 05 Aug 2011
- views: 9301
- author: spikeyroberto
Very Important People- Natalie Cassidy episode 1
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- Duration: 1:22
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Hilarious impression from Morgana Robinson!
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Hilarious impression from Morgana Robinson!
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 64033
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Short Skirts Rule-natalie cassidy in black opaque tights
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- Duration: 0:40
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Some call them tights others call them pantyhose but one thing is for sure. When you see a woman with them on it turns you on. that is why I say short skirts rule... natalie cassidy in black opaque tights
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Some call them tights others call them pantyhose but one thing is for sure. When you see a woman with them on it turns you on. that is why I say short skirts rule... natalie cassidy in black opaque tights
- published: 09 Dec 2012
- views: 368
- author: loveofstockings
natalie cassidy just doing this now last ep
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- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
natalie cassidy just doing this now last ep very important people
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natalie cassidy just doing this now last ep very important people
- published: 04 Jul 2012
- views: 1856
- author: Ben Holland
Very Important People- Natalie Cassidy episode 2
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- Duration: 1:04
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Alrigh'!
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Natalie Cassidy Fitness Video 5 6 SaveYouTube com
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- Duration: 9:47
- Updated: 10 Jun 2012
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Very Important People- Natalie Cassidy episode 3
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 20 Jul 2012
Fabulous Natalie Cassidy impression- sorry about the end!
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Fabulous Natalie Cassidy impression- sorry about the end!
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 13750
- author: HelenaLover95
Very Important People- Natalie Cassidy episode 4
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- Duration: 1:03
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Hoovering me 3 piece suite!
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Natalie Cassidy with Denise Welch on Loose Women - Celeb Big Brother - 31st January 2012
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- Duration: 6:01
- Updated: 31 Oct 2012
Natalie talks about her time in the Big Brother house (had to edit out ch5 clip). She explains how she hates the twins for calling her fat, why she thinks she left when she did and living with Denise!
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Natalie talks about her time in the Big Brother house (had to edit out ch5 clip). She explains how she hates the twins for calling her fat, why she thinks she left when she did and living with Denise!
- published: 31 Jan 2012
- views: 8692
- author: spikeyroberto
natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 2
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- Duration: 1:05
- Updated: 23 Jul 2012
natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 2
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natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 2
- published: 10 May 2012
- views: 3917
- author: Ben Holland
Natalie Cassidy - Doing This Now (Very Important People). Hand Sanitizer.
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- Duration: 0:23
- Updated: 09 Nov 2012
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Natalie Cassidy at the ITV studios London England...
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- Duration: 4:36
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Natalie Cassidy at the ITV studios London England...
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Natalie Cassidy at the ITV studios London England...
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 18
- author: TheLovelyCelebrities
Natalie Cassidy outside the ITV studios London, England...
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- Duration: 2:11
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Natalie Cassidy outside the ITV studios London, England...
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Natalie Cassidy outside the ITV studios London, England...
- published: 27 Nov 2012
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Lauren Luke Does Natalie's Make-up - Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain - BBC Three
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Channel page: www.bbc.co.uk Programme page: www.bbc.co.uk Natalie Cassidy presents a series of uplifting films about young Britons inspired by subjects close to Natalie's own heart, from love and body image to fame and family. Natalie explores the fame game and introduces two people who are learning the rules. Lauren Luke is a YouTube phenomenon who gives make-up tips from her bedroom in South Shields. She's about to launch her own make-up line, but is she ready for the fame that comes with success?
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Channel page: www.bbc.co.uk Programme page: www.bbc.co.uk Natalie Cassidy presents a series of uplifting films about young Britons inspired by subjects close to Natalie's own heart, from love and body image to fame and family. Natalie explores the fame game and introduces two people who are learning the rules. Lauren Luke is a YouTube phenomenon who gives make-up tips from her bedroom in South Shields. She's about to launch her own make-up line, but is she ready for the fame that comes with success?
- published: 26 Feb 2009
- views: 216084
- author: BBC
Hugh Grant becomes a dad and Natalie Cassidy is rumoured to be heading into the jungle for I'm A Cel
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Hugh Grant becomes a dad and Natalie Cassidy is rumoured to be heading into the jungle for I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. All that and more on today's Celebrity Newsbeat. Splash is the leading independent entertainment news and picture agency in America. Splash brings the hottest, most up-to-date Hollywood stories and photos to millions of people round the world through their favourite newspapers, magazines and TV station. We don't deal in gossip. We deal in fact. We have been credited with announcing some of the most memorable and controversial show biz stories to come out of Los Angeles in recent years. We cover the good, the bad and the very ugly. Find out more @: www.splashnews.com Follow us @: twitter.com www.facebook.com
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Hugh Grant becomes a dad and Natalie Cassidy is rumoured to be heading into the jungle for I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. All that and more on today's Celebrity Newsbeat. Splash is the leading independent entertainment news and picture agency in America. Splash brings the hottest, most up-to-date Hollywood stories and photos to millions of people round the world through their favourite newspapers, magazines and TV station. We don't deal in gossip. We deal in fact. We have been credited with announcing some of the most memorable and controversial show biz stories to come out of Los Angeles in recent years. We cover the good, the bad and the very ugly. Find out more @: www.splashnews.com Follow us @: twitter.com www.facebook.com
- published: 03 Nov 2011
- views: 2348
- author: Splashnews
Sonia snatches Chloe part 1 - EastEnders - BBC
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 28 Jul 2012
Part one of three. Having snatched Chloe from her apoptive parents, a desperate Sonia withdraws into the house. Dot pleads to be let in but Sonia's denials that Chloe isn't there are met with suspicion. Classic clip from the award-winning BBC soap EastEnders. Click beneath the video to view in high quality and visit www.bbc.co.uk for all the latest news, sneak peeks and behind the scenes gossip.
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Part one of three. Having snatched Chloe from her apoptive parents, a desperate Sonia withdraws into the house. Dot pleads to be let in but Sonia's denials that Chloe isn't there are met with suspicion. Classic clip from the award-winning BBC soap EastEnders. Click beneath the video to view in high quality and visit www.bbc.co.uk for all the latest news, sneak peeks and behind the scenes gossip.
- published: 15 Jan 2010
- views: 14279
- author: EastEnders
natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 3
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- Updated: 10 Jun 2012
natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 3
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natalie cassidy Veryimportantpeople ch4 part 3
- published: 14 May 2012
- views: 1026
- author: Ben Holland
Very Important People- Natalie Cassidy impression episode 5
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- Duration: 1:02
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Taking me change up to the coin star!
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Sophie Price as Natalie Cassidy - I'm Just Doing This Now - VIP Channel 4
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- Updated: 20 Dec 2012
Sophie Price as Natalie Cassidy 'Sonya from Eastenders' in I'm Just Doing This Now.
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Sophie Price as Natalie Cassidy 'Sonya from Eastenders' in I'm Just Doing This Now.
- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 1210
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Celebrity Big Brother Natalie Cassidy Kisses Frankie Cocozza
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- Duration: 0:28
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
5.01.12
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Natalie Cassidy - Doing This Now (Very Important People). Pamphlets.
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- Duration: 0:27
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
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Would I Lie To You S01E01
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- Duration: 29:06
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Property of the BBC. Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly and Frankie Boyle join David, Lee and Angus.
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Property of the BBC. Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly and Frankie Boyle join David, Lee and Angus.
- published: 02 Jan 2012
- views: 24568
- author: TheBlackHoleBowl
APCA 2012 National Awards in Jacksonville Florida
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- Updated: 22 Apr 2012
(apca.com) The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities National Conference in Jacksonville Florida was full of glitz and glamour. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS! GRAPHIC AWARDS... Dalton State Best T-Shirt Graphics University of the Cumberlands: Printed Advertising Graphics McNeese State University: Best On-site Banner Graphics Dalton State: Web/Facebook Page Graphics Dixie Trends: Associate Printed Advertising SCHOOL AWARDS... Advisor of the Year - Cliff Scutella, Genesee Community College Student Programmer of the Year - Karen McNulty, Marian University Boyd Jones Programming Organization of the Year - New York Institute of Technology Program/Event of the Year - Ithaca College, SAB Presents: First Year Comedy Night ASSOCIATE AWARDS: Comedian of the Year - Adam Ace Campus Speaker of the Year - Jon Vroman Novelty Artist of the Year - John Cassidy Novelty Function of the Year - Lester & Body Art by Susan Female Solo Artist of the Year - Jenn Grinels Male Solo Artist of the Year - Matt Corey Band of the Year - Natalie Stovall Spoken Word Artist of the Year - The Asia Project Performer of the Year Stan Pearson Agency of the Year Bass/Schuler Entertainment * * * Lifetime Achievement Victor Collazo APCA Service Engagement Award Limestone College Video by The Wiseman Company (wisemancompany.com) 713-521-0900, for www.Showcasedemo.com
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(apca.com) The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities National Conference in Jacksonville Florida was full of glitz and glamour. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS! GRAPHIC AWARDS... Dalton State Best T-Shirt Graphics University of the Cumberlands: Printed Advertising Graphics McNeese State University: Best On-site Banner Graphics Dalton State: Web/Facebook Page Graphics Dixie Trends: Associate Printed Advertising SCHOOL AWARDS... Advisor of the Year - Cliff Scutella, Genesee Community College Student Programmer of the Year - Karen McNulty, Marian University Boyd Jones Programming Organization of the Year - New York Institute of Technology Program/Event of the Year - Ithaca College, SAB Presents: First Year Comedy Night ASSOCIATE AWARDS: Comedian of the Year - Adam Ace Campus Speaker of the Year - Jon Vroman Novelty Artist of the Year - John Cassidy Novelty Function of the Year - Lester & Body Art by Susan Female Solo Artist of the Year - Jenn Grinels Male Solo Artist of the Year - Matt Corey Band of the Year - Natalie Stovall Spoken Word Artist of the Year - The Asia Project Performer of the Year Stan Pearson Agency of the Year Bass/Schuler Entertainment * * * Lifetime Achievement Victor Collazo APCA Service Engagement Award Limestone College Video by The Wiseman Company (wisemancompany.com) 713-521-0900, for www.Showcasedemo.com
- published: 24 Mar 2012
- views: 267
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Prize of the Pacific
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- Duration: 85:35
- Updated: 26 Jul 2012
Written and driected by Scott Chema and starring Nicole Ramsey, Steven Ng, Stefanon Capone and Tyler Jerome Thompson as a spirtual college student from South Dakota persuaded by the young and beautiful Natalie Hanks (Ramsey) to drive his brother, Cassidy (Ng) to California for a batch of highly coveted Santa Cruz weed.
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Written and driected by Scott Chema and starring Nicole Ramsey, Steven Ng, Stefanon Capone and Tyler Jerome Thompson as a spirtual college student from South Dakota persuaded by the young and beautiful Natalie Hanks (Ramsey) to drive his brother, Cassidy (Ng) to California for a batch of highly coveted Santa Cruz weed.
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 57
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In Memory of Agnes Moorehead
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- Duration: 29:39
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
I made this video in honor of the 38th anniversary of our dearest Agnes' death.(December 6th, 1900 ~ April 30th, 1974) As you may know, she is my idol and I love her with all my heart. I had originally planned on putting in video clips for the movies, but it's nearly half an hour without them, so I left it with just the pictures. The pictures are my favorites of her from nearly every movie she's made, and also many television appearances, publicity stills, candid photos, and lobby cards. I do not own any rights to the music. I also do not own the photos, most of them I got from Tumblr. (aggiephile.tumblr.com callmeaggie.tumblr.com ilovelucyagnesbarbarabetty.tumblr.com marienoreene.tumblr.com vcoskery.tumblr.com and possibly others ~ mine is aggie-obsessed.tumblr.com ) Here is a recipie of hers that I also got on Tumblr: Agnes' Recipe for Whipped Avocado; Recipe was found on page 98 of "The Saint Louis Cookbook" The Bicentennial Issue Ingredients 3 Large Ripe Avocados 1 1/2 Cups of Sugar 1/4 cup of Lime Juice Cut Chilled avocados in half a few minutes before serving. Remove pulp, keeping the skin intact. Whip pulp, sugar and lime juice to a smooth velvety cream (for about 5 minutes). Pile back into the skins and serve at once with wedges of lime. Serves six And some of her quotes: "I would not care to be one of these younger actresses now. We worked on our work. They work on their image — their public life and publicity. What has that got to do with acting?" "A woman may ...
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I made this video in honor of the 38th anniversary of our dearest Agnes' death.(December 6th, 1900 ~ April 30th, 1974) As you may know, she is my idol and I love her with all my heart. I had originally planned on putting in video clips for the movies, but it's nearly half an hour without them, so I left it with just the pictures. The pictures are my favorites of her from nearly every movie she's made, and also many television appearances, publicity stills, candid photos, and lobby cards. I do not own any rights to the music. I also do not own the photos, most of them I got from Tumblr. (aggiephile.tumblr.com callmeaggie.tumblr.com ilovelucyagnesbarbarabetty.tumblr.com marienoreene.tumblr.com vcoskery.tumblr.com and possibly others ~ mine is aggie-obsessed.tumblr.com ) Here is a recipie of hers that I also got on Tumblr: Agnes' Recipe for Whipped Avocado; Recipe was found on page 98 of "The Saint Louis Cookbook" The Bicentennial Issue Ingredients 3 Large Ripe Avocados 1 1/2 Cups of Sugar 1/4 cup of Lime Juice Cut Chilled avocados in half a few minutes before serving. Remove pulp, keeping the skin intact. Whip pulp, sugar and lime juice to a smooth velvety cream (for about 5 minutes). Pile back into the skins and serve at once with wedges of lime. Serves six And some of her quotes: "I would not care to be one of these younger actresses now. We worked on our work. They work on their image — their public life and publicity. What has that got to do with acting?" "A woman may ...
- published: 30 Apr 2012
- views: 157
- author: AllAggieAllTheTime
Metro Motion - Fall 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 30:00
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
There's plenty to do and see with Metro's expanding service. Visit Cowboy Chatsworth via the new Orange Line Extension, and discover the rich Wild West history ... maybe from the top of a horse. Hop on the Gold Line at night and take advantage of Metro's new late-night weekend service to explore Pasadena during the wee hours. Or talk with Metro's accident-free bus operators and find out how best to navigate LA's mean streets without incident. It's all on the new Metro Motion.
http://wn.com/Metro_Motion_Fall_2012
There's plenty to do and see with Metro's expanding service. Visit Cowboy Chatsworth via the new Orange Line Extension, and discover the rich Wild West history ... maybe from the top of a horse. Hop on the Gold Line at night and take advantage of Metro's new late-night weekend service to explore Pasadena during the wee hours. Or talk with Metro's accident-free bus operators and find out how best to navigate LA's mean streets without incident. It's all on the new Metro Motion.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 594
- author: losangelesmetro
Raising Awareness for Hepatitis: Panel 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 124:11
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Health experts and Congressional leaders participate in a White House event to commemorate World Hepatitis Day. July 28, 2011.
http://wn.com/Raising_Awareness_for_Hepatitis_Panel_1
Health experts and Congressional leaders participate in a White House event to commemorate World Hepatitis Day. July 28, 2011.
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 1686
- author: whitehouse
Алхимия денег
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:59
- Updated: 29 Nov 2012
«Дайте мне возможность управлять деньгами страны, и мне нет никакого дела до того, кто и какие законы в ней пишет» - Мейер Ротшильд. Жизнь дорожает: каждый год растут тарифы на электричество, газ и тепло, вырастают цены на продукты питания и автомашины. Нельзя назвать ни одного товара, который подешевел, и мы уже смирились с тем, что цены растут постоянно. Что же случилось? Выплавляется такое же количество стали, добыча нефти и газа постоянно растет. А инфляция, про которую нам говорят, с неба не падает. А ведь еще сто лет назад ситуация была совсем иной - за этот период в мире не подорожал ни один товар. Почему? А потому, что тогда была иная концепция денег -- не было ссудного процента, ростовщичество каралось вплоть до смертной казни. С возникновением финансово-кредитных отношений и появлением ссудного процента все изменилось -- цены постоянно растут, отсюда революции и войны. Одни покупают яхты и футбольные клубы, а другие едва сводят концы с концами. Это сегодня и называется алхимией денег... Режиссер - Алла Дерюгина Автор сценария - Алексей Хохлов Текст читает Алексей Захаров Оператор - Роман Ткаченко Продюсер - Марина елишкина Участники: Надежда Крапивина, Виктор Ефимов, кандидат исторических и юридических наук Илья Питеркин, писатель Андрей Столяров.
http://wn.com/Алхимия_денег
«Дайте мне возможность управлять деньгами страны, и мне нет никакого дела до того, кто и какие законы в ней пишет» - Мейер Ротшильд. Жизнь дорожает: каждый год растут тарифы на электричество, газ и тепло, вырастают цены на продукты питания и автомашины. Нельзя назвать ни одного товара, который подешевел, и мы уже смирились с тем, что цены растут постоянно. Что же случилось? Выплавляется такое же количество стали, добыча нефти и газа постоянно растет. А инфляция, про которую нам говорят, с неба не падает. А ведь еще сто лет назад ситуация была совсем иной - за этот период в мире не подорожал ни один товар. Почему? А потому, что тогда была иная концепция денег -- не было ссудного процента, ростовщичество каралось вплоть до смертной казни. С возникновением финансово-кредитных отношений и появлением ссудного процента все изменилось -- цены постоянно растут, отсюда революции и войны. Одни покупают яхты и футбольные клубы, а другие едва сводят концы с концами. Это сегодня и называется алхимией денег... Режиссер - Алла Дерюгина Автор сценария - Алексей Хохлов Текст читает Алексей Захаров Оператор - Роман Ткаченко Продюсер - Марина елишкина Участники: Надежда Крапивина, Виктор Ефимов, кандидат исторических и юридических наук Илья Питеркин, писатель Андрей Столяров.
- published: 19 Apr 2012
- views: 6599
- author: МТРК Мир
The Great Gildersleeve: Disappearing Christmas Gifts / Economy This Christmas / Family Christmas
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:31
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor. In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company ("If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve") and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity. Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood ...
http://wn.com/The_Great_Gildersleeve_Disappearing_Christmas_Gifts_Economy_This_Christmas_Family_Christmas
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor. In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company ("If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve") and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity. Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood ...
- published: 05 Oct 2012
- views: 48641
- author: theradioarchive
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Paper Route / Marjorie's Girlfriend Visits / Hiccups
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 89:19
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of "Gildersleeve's Diary" on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940). Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had ...
http://wn.com/The_Great_Gildersleeve_Leroy's_Paper_Route_Marjorie's_Girlfriend_Visits_Hiccups
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of "Gildersleeve's Diary" on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940). Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had ...
- published: 16 Sep 2012
- views: 93938
- author: theradioarchive
Would I Lie To You Series 1 Episode 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 29:06
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Frankie Boyle, Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly.
http://wn.com/Would_I_Lie_To_You_Series_1_Episode_1
Frankie Boyle, Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly.
- published: 28 Jan 2012
- views: 26820
- author: NFFAgain
29:06
Would I Lie To You S01E01
Property of the BBC. Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly and Frankie Boyle join Da...
published: 02 Jan 2012
author: TheBlackHoleBowl
Would I Lie To You S01E01
Property of the BBC. Duncan Bannatyne, Natalie Cassidy, Dom Joly and Frankie Boyle join David, Lee and Angus.
- published: 02 Jan 2012
- views: 24568
- author: TheBlackHoleBowl
41:36
APCA 2012 National Awards in Jacksonville Florida
(apca.com) The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities National Conference in J...
published: 24 Mar 2012
author: showcasedemo
APCA 2012 National Awards in Jacksonville Florida
(apca.com) The Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities National Conference in Jacksonville Florida was full of glitz and glamour. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS! GRAPHIC AWARDS... Dalton State Best T-Shirt Graphics University of the Cumberlands: Printed Advertising Graphics McNeese State University: Best On-site Banner Graphics Dalton State: Web/Facebook Page Graphics Dixie Trends: Associate Printed Advertising SCHOOL AWARDS... Advisor of the Year - Cliff Scutella, Genesee Community College Student Programmer of the Year - Karen McNulty, Marian University Boyd Jones Programming Organization of the Year - New York Institute of Technology Program/Event of the Year - Ithaca College, SAB Presents: First Year Comedy Night ASSOCIATE AWARDS: Comedian of the Year - Adam Ace Campus Speaker of the Year - Jon Vroman Novelty Artist of the Year - John Cassidy Novelty Function of the Year - Lester & Body Art by Susan Female Solo Artist of the Year - Jenn Grinels Male Solo Artist of the Year - Matt Corey Band of the Year - Natalie Stovall Spoken Word Artist of the Year - The Asia Project Performer of the Year Stan Pearson Agency of the Year Bass/Schuler Entertainment * * * Lifetime Achievement Victor Collazo APCA Service Engagement Award Limestone College Video by The Wiseman Company (wisemancompany.com) 713-521-0900, for www.Showcasedemo.com
- published: 24 Mar 2012
- views: 267
- author: showcasedemo
85:35
Prize of the Pacific
Written and driected by Scott Chema and starring Nicole Ramsey, Steven Ng, Stefanon Capone...
published: 21 Jul 2012
author: PrizeofthePacific
Prize of the Pacific
Written and driected by Scott Chema and starring Nicole Ramsey, Steven Ng, Stefanon Capone and Tyler Jerome Thompson as a spirtual college student from South Dakota persuaded by the young and beautiful Natalie Hanks (Ramsey) to drive his brother, Cassidy (Ng) to California for a batch of highly coveted Santa Cruz weed.
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 57
- author: PrizeofthePacific
29:39
In Memory of Agnes Moorehead
I made this video in honor of the 38th anniversary of our dearest Agnes' death.(December 6...
published: 30 Apr 2012
author: AllAggieAllTheTime
In Memory of Agnes Moorehead
I made this video in honor of the 38th anniversary of our dearest Agnes' death.(December 6th, 1900 ~ April 30th, 1974) As you may know, she is my idol and I love her with all my heart. I had originally planned on putting in video clips for the movies, but it's nearly half an hour without them, so I left it with just the pictures. The pictures are my favorites of her from nearly every movie she's made, and also many television appearances, publicity stills, candid photos, and lobby cards. I do not own any rights to the music. I also do not own the photos, most of them I got from Tumblr. (aggiephile.tumblr.com callmeaggie.tumblr.com ilovelucyagnesbarbarabetty.tumblr.com marienoreene.tumblr.com vcoskery.tumblr.com and possibly others ~ mine is aggie-obsessed.tumblr.com ) Here is a recipie of hers that I also got on Tumblr: Agnes' Recipe for Whipped Avocado; Recipe was found on page 98 of "The Saint Louis Cookbook" The Bicentennial Issue Ingredients 3 Large Ripe Avocados 1 1/2 Cups of Sugar 1/4 cup of Lime Juice Cut Chilled avocados in half a few minutes before serving. Remove pulp, keeping the skin intact. Whip pulp, sugar and lime juice to a smooth velvety cream (for about 5 minutes). Pile back into the skins and serve at once with wedges of lime. Serves six And some of her quotes: "I would not care to be one of these younger actresses now. We worked on our work. They work on their image — their public life and publicity. What has that got to do with acting?" "A woman may ...
- published: 30 Apr 2012
- views: 157
- author: AllAggieAllTheTime
30:00
Metro Motion - Fall 2012
There's plenty to do and see with Metro's expanding service. Visit Cowboy Chatsworth via t...
published: 15 Oct 2012
author: losangelesmetro
Metro Motion - Fall 2012
There's plenty to do and see with Metro's expanding service. Visit Cowboy Chatsworth via the new Orange Line Extension, and discover the rich Wild West history ... maybe from the top of a horse. Hop on the Gold Line at night and take advantage of Metro's new late-night weekend service to explore Pasadena during the wee hours. Or talk with Metro's accident-free bus operators and find out how best to navigate LA's mean streets without incident. It's all on the new Metro Motion.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 594
- author: losangelesmetro
124:11
Raising Awareness for Hepatitis: Panel 1
Health experts and Congressional leaders participate in a White House event to commemorate...
published: 29 Jul 2011
author: whitehouse
Raising Awareness for Hepatitis: Panel 1
Health experts and Congressional leaders participate in a White House event to commemorate World Hepatitis Day. July 28, 2011.
- published: 29 Jul 2011
- views: 1686
- author: whitehouse
25:59
Алхимия денег
«Дайте мне возможность управлять деньгами страны, и мне нет никакого дела до того, кто и к...
published: 19 Apr 2012
author: МТРК Мир
Алхимия денег
«Дайте мне возможность управлять деньгами страны, и мне нет никакого дела до того, кто и какие законы в ней пишет» - Мейер Ротшильд. Жизнь дорожает: каждый год растут тарифы на электричество, газ и тепло, вырастают цены на продукты питания и автомашины. Нельзя назвать ни одного товара, который подешевел, и мы уже смирились с тем, что цены растут постоянно. Что же случилось? Выплавляется такое же количество стали, добыча нефти и газа постоянно растет. А инфляция, про которую нам говорят, с неба не падает. А ведь еще сто лет назад ситуация была совсем иной - за этот период в мире не подорожал ни один товар. Почему? А потому, что тогда была иная концепция денег -- не было ссудного процента, ростовщичество каралось вплоть до смертной казни. С возникновением финансово-кредитных отношений и появлением ссудного процента все изменилось -- цены постоянно растут, отсюда революции и войны. Одни покупают яхты и футбольные клубы, а другие едва сводят концы с концами. Это сегодня и называется алхимией денег... Режиссер - Алла Дерюгина Автор сценария - Алексей Хохлов Текст читает Алексей Захаров Оператор - Роман Ткаченко Продюсер - Марина елишкина Участники: Надежда Крапивина, Виктор Ефимов, кандидат исторических и юридических наук Илья Питеркин, писатель Андрей Столяров.
- published: 19 Apr 2012
- views: 6599
- author: МТРК Мир
89:31
The Great Gildersleeve: Disappearing Christmas Gifts / Economy This Christmas / Family Christmas
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the M...
published: 05 Oct 2012
author: theradioarchive
The Great Gildersleeve: Disappearing Christmas Gifts / Economy This Christmas / Family Christmas
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor. In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company ("If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve") and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity. Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood ...
- published: 05 Oct 2012
- views: 48641
- author: theradioarchive
89:19
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Paper Route / Marjorie's Girlfriend Visits / Hiccups
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one ...
published: 16 Sep 2012
author: theradioarchive
The Great Gildersleeve: Leroy's Paper Route / Marjorie's Girlfriend Visits / Hiccups
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. "You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of "Gildersleeve's Diary" on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940). Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had ...
- published: 16 Sep 2012
- views: 93938
- author: theradioarchive
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6:23
Natalie Cassidy Is Doing This Now
Oh 'ello, I'm Natalie Cassidy. I used to be Sonia off Eastenders. Just doing this now........
published: 16 Aug 2012
author: digivoka
Natalie Cassidy Is Doing This Now
Oh 'ello, I'm Natalie Cassidy. I used to be Sonia off Eastenders. Just doing this now.....
2:38
Riveredge on BBC3's Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain
Riveredge recently featured on BBC3's Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain...
published: 02 Apr 2009
author: Riveredge
Riveredge on BBC3's Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain
Riveredge recently featured on BBC3's Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain
8:46
FREAKY DEEKY - Super Behind the Scenes Extra Fun Time Forever-
FREAKY DEEKY
Behind the Scenes
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Freaky Deeky is a Minneapolis Public Ac...
published: 02 Dec 2010
author: Anthem Heart A/V
FREAKY DEEKY - Super Behind the Scenes Extra Fun Time Forever-
FREAKY DEEKY
Behind the Scenes
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Freaky Deeky is a Minneapolis Public Access show that goes live every SUNDAY at 10PM!
Channel 17 on Cable - !! Check your local bar !!
You can catch it online aswell @ www.livestream.com/mtnternet
All content taken from live TV... No post visual effects proccessing...Its All live.
- FREAKY DEEKY CHANNEL -
www.vimeo.com/channels/freakydeeky
Contact -
freakydeekymtn@gmail.com
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Behind the scenes video
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photo: AP / Ng Han Guan
02 Jan 2013
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INZA BAKAYOKO. Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said. The death toll was expected to rise, the officials said ... Issa Sako of the fire department rescue team.....(size: 8.1Kb)
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01 Jan 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People ... political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes ... Escorted by the U.S....(size: 5.6Kb)
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02 Jan 2013
The United Nations has estimated that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The UN human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking". Opposition activist groups had been estimating the death toll at more than 45,000 and this was the first time that the UN estimate was higher ... 30, 2012 ... - AP. ....(size: 6.3Kb)
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01 Jan 2013
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrians woke on New Year's Day to countrywide aerial bombardment, while President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebels fighting to topple him clashed on the outskirts of the capital. Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for bodies under rubble after an air strike by a fighter jet loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Marja district December 31, 2012. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
Digital Spy
18 Dec 2012
Cassidy has reworked one of 2012's biggest hits. The US rapper has recorded a new rendition of 'Gangnam Style', renamed 'Condom Style' to promote safe sex. The star begins the track by explaining there is "a lot of diseases that's going around…Going raw is out of the question ... > 'Arrow' recap ... Cassidy, Psy, Music ... Cassidy debuts 'Condom Style' - listen ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 60 ... Cassidy debuts 'Condom Style' - listen ... ....(size: 8.1Kb)
The Guardian
18 Dec 2012
Murder Files. Killer on the Run . Wartime Farm Christmas . Imagine. A Beauty is Born – Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty . The Dark Ages. An Age of Light . Sing Date . Alphas. A scene from Matthew Bourne's production of The Sleeping Beauty. Photograph. Tristram Kenton. Murder Files. Killer on the Run. 8pm, Channel 5 ... Martin Skegg ... Imagine ... Natalie Cassidy, Arg from Towie and Scott Mills also put themselves up for the intriguing courtship ritual ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)
noodls
13 Dec 2012
(Source. Channel Four Television Corporation). BEST COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY. Winner. CHARLIE BROOKER. This is Charlie's third British Comedy Award and will sit on his mantelpiece alongside his Best Male Newcomer from 2009, and Best Entertainment Programme for Newswipe in 2010 ... BEST SITCOM. Winner. HUNDERBY ... BEST MALE TV COMIC ... Morgana's pokes fun at some of today's famous faces including Fearne Cotton and Natalie Cassidy....(size: 6.7Kb)
Skynews
07 Dec 2012
Belfast Telegraph
07 Dec 2012
The brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, who was found dead in a canal, has pleaded guilty to her manslaughter. Tony McCluskie, 35, claims to have "suffered loss of control" leading to her death on March 1 ... He said. "The family must have closure." ... Former EastEnders co-stars Natalie Cassidy and Brooke Kinsella both appealed on Twitter for help. ....(size: 1.6Kb)
The Guardian
07 Dec 2012
Tony McCluskie pleads guilty to manslaughter of sister whose dismembered body was found in east London canal. Gemma McCluskie, the former EastEnders actor who was found dead in Regent's canal in east London. Photograph. PA ... Prosecutors are still waiting for a medical report to establish how she died ... Former EastEnders co-stars Natalie Cassidy and Brooke Kinsella both appealed on Twitter for help. ....(size: 3.1Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
07 Dec 2012
The brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, found dead in a canal, pleaded guilty today to her manslaughter. . Image 1 of 2. EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie who was found dead in a canal . . Image 1 of 2. Court artist sketch of Tony McCluskie, March 2012 Photo. PA ... He said ... Former EastEnders co-stars Natalie Cassidy and Brooke Kinsella both appealed on Twitter for help ... View....(size: 11.2Kb)
Digital Spy
05 Dec 2012
We've heard a lot about Vanessa's fun-loving personality. Just how wild is she? ... "I'm loving it ... "I knew Natalie Anderson, who plays Alicia, because of The Royal ... It's fantastic to be working with Natalie again ... More. Michelle Hardwick, Zoe Henry, Dominic Brunt, Natalie Anderson, Andy Wear, Tom Mannion, Mark Charnock, Natalie J Robb, Soaps, Emmerdale ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59 ... ....(size: 12.3Kb)
Digital Spy
05 Dec 2012
Emmerdale's Paddy Kirk is shocked to learn of his wife Rhona's surprising encounter with Brett Harrison in tonight's (December 5) episode of the soap. As Brett packs his bags and leaves the pair's home, Paddy (Dominic Brunt) questions Rhona about why he is going, prompting her to confess that she has kicked Brett out for making a pass at her ... More ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59 ... ....(size: 8.3Kb)
Digital Spy
05 Dec 2012
Shirley Carter's EastEnders return causes a stir this evening (December 4) as she tries to give Sharon Rickman some home truths about Phil Mitchell. When Shirley (Linda Henry) learns that the pair have become engaged in a scheme to win custody of baby Lexi, she is naturally suspicious over Phil's motives and can't resist interfering ... More ... Next ... POTD ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 59....(size: 8.5Kb)
Digital Spy
04 Dec 2012
Aleksandar Kolarov has performed his own take on 'Jingle Bells'. The Manchester City and Serbian international footballer has recorded a spoken word interpretation of the Christmas favourite that would rival any performance from William Shatner ... The first day saw Mario Balotelli pulling a cracker and telling a joke ... More ... Previous ... 0 comments ... Ke$ha ... 01 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 53 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 53....(size: 6.7Kb)
Digital Spy
04 Dec 2012
A footballer who photographed himself using a wad of £20 notes instead of toilet paper has apologised to fans after the picture was published in the tabloids. West Bromwich Albion defender Liam Ridgewell was photographed with his trousers down in the bathroom of his £1.5 million home in Birmingham surrounded by almost £1,000 in notes ... More ... Previous ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 53 ... Natalie Cassidy poses in 'skimpy undies' 53....(size: 6.8Kb)
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| Born | Natalie Ann Cassidy (1983-05-13) 13 May 1983 (age 29) Islington, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Natalie Ann Cassidy (born 13 May 1983)[citation needed] is a British actress. She is best known for her role on EastEnders where she played Sonia Fowler for twelve years. She also appeared in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville was a contestant on the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing and the ninth series of Celebrity Big Brother. On 9 April 2012 it was announced by Cassidy that she would become a regular on Loose Women as of 13 April 2012.
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Career[link]
As a child, Cassidy attended the Anna Scher Theatre. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1993, playing Sonia Jackson. In 2006, she played a rival to Lauren Cooper in an episode of The Catherine Tate Show screened on BBC Two. On 9 April 2006, the BBC announced Cassidy's departure from EastEnders with her final scenes being screened in February 2007. She then concentrated on work in the theatre, appearing in extensive UK tours of The Vagina Monologues, Bedroom Farce and Gertrude's Secret opposite Prunella Scales and a run of The Cherry Orchard at the Chichester Festival Theatre opposite Diana Rigg.[citation needed]
Towards the end of 2007, Cassidy made headlines after losing a lot of weight, and released a fitness DVD entitled Natalie Cassidy's Then and Now Workout, which became the fastest-selling weight-loss DVD ever in the UK.[citation needed] In 2008, she appeared in the documentary Natalie Cassidy's Diet Secrets for BBC Three. In 2008 she appeared as a regular panelist on the topical discussion series The Wright Stuff on Five. Later in 2008 she gained press coverage for giving up her diet and regaining considerable weight.[1][2] Her personal trainer stated that Cassidy had "slipped back into her old habits" and that she was "really disappointed."[2] In 2009, Cassidy was seen in a supporting role in the BBC Two comedy TV series Psychoville, alongside Dawn French and Eileen Atkins. The first episode was aired in June 2009. She also provided the voice-over for BBC Three's Underage and Pregnant.
In 2009, Cassidy signed up for a series of Strictly Come Dancing, beginning in October.[3][4] Her professional partner was Vincent Simone and she was voted off the competition in fifth place on 28 November 2009. Cassidy joined ex-EastEnders actor James Alexandrou and Nina Wadia to create comedy shorts for BBC Raw Words, an adult literacy website. The series of video clips about story writing also included appearances from Lenny Henry and Rowland Rivron.
On 25 October 2009 it was announced that Cassidy would reprise her role as Sonia in EastEnders in 2010 with her on screen family Lindsey Coulson who played Carol Jackson, Dean Gaffney who played Robbie Jackson and Devon Anderson as Billie Jackson. The Jackson family were reunited with Patsy Palmer who rejoined the soap in 2008 as Bianca Jackson.[5][6] Cassidy appeared in a small number of episodes between 8 and 18 February 2010. In 2010 E4 announced that Natalie Cassidy would be starring in her own reality TV show,[7] Natalie Cassidy: Becoming Mum.
On 17 December 2010 it was announced Cassidy would reprise her EastEnders role in 2011 for a single episode.[8] On 5 January 2012, Cassidy entered the Celebrity Big Brother house and became the fifth evictee of the series.
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| Week # | Dance/song | Judges' score | Result | |||
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| Craig Revel Horwood | Len Goodman | Alesha Dixon | Bruno Tonioli | |||
| 1 | Group Mambo | Group performance — not judged | ||||
| 2 | Tango / "Spider Of The Night" | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24, 26 (safe) |
| Cha Cha Cha / "Bang Bang" | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 3 | Paso Doble / "Malaguena" | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 28 (safe) |
| 4 | Salsa / "You'll Be Mine (Party Time)" | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 29 (safe) |
| 5 | Viennese Waltz / "At Last" | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 27 (safe) |
| 6 | American Smooth / "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 29 (safe) |
| 7 | Jive / "Good Golly Miss Molly" | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 30 (safe) |
| 8 | Quickstep / "Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano" | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 31 (safe) |
| 9 | Foxtrot / "Magic Moments" | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 34 (safe) |
| 10 | Samba / "Holiday" | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 26 (safe) |
| 11 | Rock and Roll / "Long Tall Sally" | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 26 (eliminated) |
Personal life[link]
In May 2002,[9] when Cassidy was 19, her mother died of bowel cancer. From then on, she became extremely close to her EastEnders co-star Wendy Richard, often referring to her as her "second mum". Richard died of breast cancer in February 2009, which left Cassidy close to a nervous breakdown.[10]
In September 2004, Cassidy underwent a breast enhancement operation, transforming her from a 36A to 36D.[11]
On 16 March 2010, Cassidy announced that she was 12 weeks pregnant with her first child by her boyfriend of nine months, transport manager Adam Cottrell. On 24 September 2010 at 10.21am, Cassidy had by casearean a baby girl named Eliza Beatrice weighing 8 lb 15oz.[12][13][14][15][16] On 25 May 2011, Cassidy's boyfriend was charged with two offences of assault and two charges of criminal damage after a row turned physical.[17] Natalie's close friends and family know her as G-Nat, coming from her name shortened from Natalie to Nat.
References[link]
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy puts on weight again". Now Magazine. 6 July 2008. http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/tv-news/265234/natalie-cassidy-puts-on-weight-again/1/. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ a b "Former queen of lean Natalie Cassidy balloons again after piling on almost four stone". London: Mail Online. 12 September 2008. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1055235/Former-queen-lean-Natalie-Cassidy-balloons-piling-stone.html. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (28 July 2009). "Natalie Cassidy tipped for 'Strictly'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/a167840/natalie-cassidy-tipped-for-strictly.html. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ Sheridan, Emily (25 August 2009). "Natalie Cassidy to battle Martina Hingis and Zoe Lucker on the dance floor as Strictly Come Dancing returns". London: Mail Online. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1208889/Natalie-Cassidy-battle-Martina-Hingis-Zoe-Lucker-dancefloor-Strictly-Come-Dancing-returns.html. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ "EASTENDERS: NATALIE'S BACK". Sky. 26 October 2009. http://tv.sky.com/eastenders-natalies-back.
- ^ Green, Kris (25 October 2009). "The Jacksons return to 'EastEnders'". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a183438/the-jacksons-return-to-eastenders.html. Retrieved 25 October 2009.
- ^ Cassidy To Get Own Show
- ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (17 December 2010). "Sonia to make one-off 'Enders return". Digital Spy (London: Hachette Filipacchi UK). http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s2/eastenders/news/a293725/sonia-to-make-one-off-enders-return.html. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
- ^ Loose Women, 13 April 2012
- ^ Hardie, Beth (21 April 2009). "Natalie Cassidy’s near nervous breakdown and more in Mirror.co.uk’s Tuesday gossip-round-up". Mirror.co.uk. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/04/21/natalie-cassidy-s-near-nervous-breakdown-and-more-in-mirror-co-uk-s-tuesday-gossip-round-up-115875-21294799/. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy's Dream Boob Job". Sky News. 23 March 2005. http://showbiz.sky.com/Natalie-Cassidys-Dream-Boob-Job. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy pregnant with her first child | Mail Online". London: Dailymail.co.uk. 16 March 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1258252/Natalie-Cassidy-pregnant-child.html. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
- ^ "Ex-Eastender Natalie Cassidy pregnant with her first child". Metro.co.uk. 2010-03-16. http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/817647-ex-eastender-natalie-cassidy-pregnant-with-her-first-child-and-looking-towards-marriage. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy announces pregnancy | Celebrity News". Now Magazine. 2010-03-16. http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk/celebrity-news/446763/natalie-cassidy-announces-she-s-pregnant/1/. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
- ^ "Showbiz - News - Natalie Cassidy announces pregnancy". Digital Spy. 2010-03-16. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a208921/natalie-cassidy-announces-pregnancy.html?rss. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy Announces Her Pregnancy…". Mr Paparazzi. http://www.mrpaparazzi.com//blog/index.aspx?postID=10555. Retrieved 2010-03-26.
- ^ "Natalie Cassidy emerges for the first time since fiancé Adam Cottrell's arrest and calms her nerves with a cigarette". Daily Mail (London). 26 May 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1390608/Natalie-Cassidys-fianc-Adam-Cottrell-arrested-charged-assault.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.
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| Denise Welch | |
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| Born | Jacqueline Denise Welch (1958-05-22) 22 May 1958 (age 54) Ebchester, County Durham, England |
| Occupation | Actress, Television presenter |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Employer | ITV |
| Spouse | David Easter (m. 1985–1988, divorced) Tim Healy (m. 1988–2011, separated) |
| Children | 2 sons |
Jacqueline Denise Healy (née Welch; born 22 May 1958) is an English actress, dancer and television presenter best known for her roles in Coronation Street and Waterloo Road, and for presenting on Loose Women from 2002 onwards. Welch had been a contestant on Dancing on Ice, in January 2011, partnered with Matt Evers. In January 2012, Welch was crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother, beating Frankie Cocozza. On 6 February 2012, Denise acknowledged, live on Loose Women, that she was now separated from second husband Tim Healy despite spending Christmas together for the sake of the family. It was claimed Denise had an affair with a middle aged man and this was reasoning for the separation, although she has claimed that nobody else is involved.
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Early life[link]
Denise Welch was born in Ebchester, County Durham, to father Vin and mother Ann (née Ridley, died 22 May 2012)[1] and has a younger sister Debbie.[2][3] She attended Bygate School Whitley Bay, La Sagesse Roman Catholic School Newcastle upon Tyne, and from the age of 13 Blackfyne Grammar School Consett where she passed five GCE exams.[4][5] She developed a penchant for acting at the age of 14 after being cast in a school production of Finian's Rainbow. At the age of 17, she contemplated going to a teacher training college in Crewe;[4] however, her father and drama teacher suggested she apply for the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. She was successful in her application and remained at the school from 1976 to 1979, gaining her Equity Card while teaching dance at Watford Theatre.[3][5]
Career[link]
Acting[link]
Welch became an actress straight after leaving school.[3] She performed on stage in London in Yakkety-Yak with the McGann brothers at the Astoria Theatre in 1983, and later joined the Live Theatre Company, Newcastle, where she featured in many productions, including There's a Girl in My Soup, and an Alan Ayckbourn quartet of plays including Bedroom Farce. She also played the role of Sandy in the popular musical Grease at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, in 1984.[5]
Her first TV appearance was in the Tyne Tees Television production Barriers in 1981.[5] A few years later she appeared in ITV's hit drama, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1986), and she followed this with roles in the children's television show Byker Grove (1990–1991); A Kind of Living (1988); the Catherine Cookson adaptation The Glass Virgin (1995); and she appeared opposite Jimmy Nail in BBC's Spender (1991–1993).[3]
In 1993, Welch became a household name when she was cast as Marsha Stubbs in ITV's drama series Soldier Soldier. Owing to her success in the series, she released a single in 1995, a double-A side "You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me/Cry Me a River" which reached #23 and spent three weeks in the UK singles chart.[5]
Welch gained even wider notability in 1997 when she was cast as Natalie Horrocks (later Barnes) in the longrunning ITV soap opera Coronation Street.[3] The character of Natalie was introduced as the mistress of Kevin Webster, played by Michael Le Vell. A popular character, Natalie rose to landlady of the soap's public house "The Rovers Return. In 2000 the Coronation Street producers wanted her to perform a storyline involving Natalie having a miscarriage, but she refused saying the character had already lost her husband and son. However Welch, who was expecting a baby the same year, decided to leave the serial in 2000. At the time, Welch commented, "I am looking forward to being a mum again and spending some time with my baby and am relishing the prospect of new challenges in my career." A spokesperson for Granada TV commented "The character [Natalie] will not be killed off and the door will be left open for her possible return. We wish Denise well both for the birth of her baby and for her future career."[6]
In 2002 Welch guest-starred in ITV's Where the Heart Is, and BBC's hospital drama Holby City, playing risk manager Pam McGrath who conducted an on-screen relationship with the character Mubbs Hussein (played by Ian Aspinall). She has guest-starred twice in ITV's long-running police drama The Bill (1997; 2006) and has also appeared in BBC's Doctors (2004); Down to Earth (2004–2005); Born and Bred (2002–2003); starred (second billing) in the British feature film The Jealous God (2005); and starred in Hollyoaks: In the City (2006) among others. From 2006 to 2010 she appeared as French teacher Steph Haydock in BBC's successful drama series Waterloo Road, and played Janet Gold (Goldie) in an episode called "Rogue" of the long-running programme, Casualty, which aired on the 2nd July 2011.
Welch originally won the role as Frances Myers in Bad Girls, but ended up declining it owing to illness at the time; her future Waterloo Road co-star Eva Pope received the part instead. Welch left Waterloo Road and intended not to return for series 6, but eventually decided to return for the last two episodes.
Via the BenidormTweets Twitter feed, it was revealed that Denise will have a part in the upcoming series 4 of Benidorm.[7] She played the part of 'Scary Mary' alongside her husband Tim Healy.
In 2012, played Truvy in the touring production of Steel Magnolias[8].
Presenting and personal appearances[link]
Welch has presented numerous television shows and also appeared in a series of SCS adverts promoting soft furnishings. She hosted her own DIY series The Real DIY show in 2000 and Soap Fever for ITV2. Since 2005 she has been a regular panelist on ITV1's topical chat show Loose Women. In 1999 she appeared as Petula Clark in ITV's celebrity singing contest Stars in Their Eyes.
In 2008, Welch appeared on a celebrity version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire along with Falklands War hero Simon Weston. In 2009, Welch took over as narrator of the revamped series of 10 Years Younger, for Channel 4. She also participated in Playing the Part, a documentary on BBC One on 21 May 2009, in which she went back to her old secondary school, Consett Community Sports College, and taught there for a week.[9]
Welch shows her support for the children's charity, Children North East which is based in Newcastle, by making appearances at events and supporting community-based projects. In April 2010, Welch appeared with her husband Tim on ITV's All Star Mr and Mrs and donated their runner-up prize of £5000 to the charity Children North East. She also appears in the biannual benefit concert Sunday for Sammy, recently parodying the show Loose Women as "Slack Lasses".
Welch guest presented ITV Breakfast programme, Lorraine, in November 2010.
Beginning on 9 January 2011, Welch participated in the sixth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV with her skating partner, American professional ice skater Matt Evers, who partnered Zöe Salmon and Heather Mills in previous series. On the eighth week of the show, which was broadcast on 6 March 2011, she and Evers were the seventh couple to be voted out of the competition after losing the skate-off to army soldier, Johnson Beharry.
Welch became a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother 2012 on Channel 5 in the UK.[10] She went on to win the series beating Frankie Cocozza in the final.[11]
Filmography[link]
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| Year | TV programme | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | A Kind of Living | ||
| 1995 | The Glass Virgin | ||
| 1991–1993 | Spender | Series regular | |
| 1993 | Soldier Soldier | Actress, Marsha Stubbs | Series regular |
| 1997–2000 | Coronation Street | Natalie Horrocks | Series regular |
| 2002 | Where the Heart Is | Single episode | |
| 2002 | Holby City | Pam McGrath | Five episodes |
| 1997, 2006 | The Bill | Two episodes | |
| 2002–2003 | Born and Bred | Single episode | |
| 2004 | Doctors | Single episode | |
| 2004–2005 | Down to Earth | ||
| 2005 | The Jealous God | Main role | |
| 2006 | Hollyoaks: In the City | Single episode | |
| 2006–2010 | Waterloo Road | Steph Haydock | Series regular (Series 1–5) Guest (Series 6) |
| 2010 | Benidorm | Mary | Single episode |
| 2011 | Casualty | Janet 'Goldie' Gold | Single episode, "Rogue" which aired on 2 July 2011 |
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| Year | TV programme | Role | Notes | |
| 1999 | Stars in Their Eyes | Petula Clark impersonation | Single episode | |
| 2000 | The Real DIY show | Presenter | ||
| 2000 | Soap Fever | Presenter | ||
| 2002, 2005–present | Loose Women | Panelist | Originally guest panelist, now series regular | |
| 2008 | Who Wants to be a Millionaire | Participant | ||
| 2009 | 10 Years Younger | Narrator | ||
| Playing the Part | Participant | |||
| 2010 | All Star Mr and Mrs | Participant | ||
| 2010 | Lorraine | Presenter | Single episode | |
| 2011 | Dancing on Ice | Participant | ||
| 2012 | Celebrity Big Brother | Housemate | Won the series | |
| 2013 | Britains Got Talent | Judge | Herself | |
Personal life[link]
Welch's first marriage was to actor David Easter, from 1985 until their divorce in 1988; Welch has since gone public with her belief that he committed adultery.[12] Welch met her current husband, Tim Healy, while they were working together for Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. They married in Haringey, London, in 1988 and have two children, Matthew Timothy (born 1989, Hendon, London) and Louis Vincent (born 2001, Salford, Greater Manchester).[3][13] Welch announced that she and Healy were separated live on Loose Women on 6 February 2012, but commented that they had been separated for a long amount of time.
Welch has suffered from Depression on-off all her life, which was exacerbated following the birth of her first child. She tried to commit suicide by attempting to jump out of the window of her flat,[14] and subsequently fell into alcoholism and drug abuse. Welch confessed that she found it difficult to cope with the pressures that came with being in Coronation Street, once commenting "I don't know how I did that job. I was desperately ill for most of my time in the Street. It got so bad that I started drinking heavily. I thought it would be a quick-fix way of taking away the pain, but it exacerbated the depression. I could easily down a bottle of wine a day. Other days I would binge-drink until I blacked out. I was still taking anti-depressants and the alcohol would cancel these out—so when I did get an attack of depression it was much worse ... There were mornings when I can't tell you how hard it was to get up for work, and then, when I was on the set, I felt I couldn't say a line properly. I would watch an episode I'd been in and would hardly remember doing it. But the public never realised."[15] Welch also admitted to using cocaine while filming Coronation Street and hitting her husband's head with a lamp shade after a "drink-fuelled row".[16]
Welch confessed that her marriage was nearly ruined because of her mental illness, as well as an affair she had during the midst of her depression. With the help of her former Coronation Street co-star Kevin 'Curly Watts' Kennedy (a recovering alcoholic), she attended Alcoholics Anonymous and suggested that this helped her to end her dependency on alcohol. She claimed that it was the "hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life, but it is also the thing that I'm proudest of. And my mental health is now so much better than it was when I was drinking ... I will always have depression—but I'm in control of it now because I've given up drinking".[15] On 29 April 2010 her 320-page autobiography Pulling Myself Together was published, in which she describes how she overcame her problems with alcohol, drugs and depression. It became a best-seller in the UK.[4]
References[link]
- ^ Denise Welch's mother dies on star's birthday
- ^ England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983; June, 1958, p.377
- ^ a b c d e f "Ask: Denise Welch". icnewcastle. 2006-12-31. http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/ask/2006/12/31/ask--denise-welch-50081-18536232/. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
- ^ a b c Welch, Denise (2010). Pulling Myself Together. Sidgwick & Jackson. ISBN 978-0-283-07108-9.
- ^ a b c d e "100 North East Heroes Article". icnewcastle. http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/sundaysun/100northeastheroes/tm_headline=&method=full&objectid=18501172&siteid=50081-name_page.html. Retrieved 2008-02-13.
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- ^ http://twitter.com/BenidormTweets/statuses/23180038941%7Cdate=2010-09-06%7Caccessdate=2010-09-06
- ^ http://www.davidianproductions.com/2011/11/steel-magnolias-uk-tour/
- ^ "Review: Playing the Part". Sky.com. 21 May 2009. http://tv.sky.com/review-playing-the-part. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
- ^ "Denise Welch backed to win Celebrity Big Brother 2012 by Coronation Street pal". Daily Mirror. 8 January 2012. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2012/01/08/denise-welch-backed-to-win-celebrity-big-brother-2012-by-coronation-street-pal-115875-23689608/. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ^ Evening Chronicle. "Denise Welch wins Celebrity Big Brother 2012 - Chronicle News - News". ChronicleLive. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2012/01/28/denise-welch-wins-celebrity-big-brother-2012-72703-30217377/. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
- ^ "Denise's TV 'date' with her ex". Northern Echo. http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2001/12/3/152563.html. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
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- ^ "Denise Welch tried to commit suicide as she struggled with 20-year depression battle". Daily Mail (London). 2010-04-29. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1269669/Denise-Welch-tried-commit-suicide-struggled-20-year-depression-battle.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.
- ^ a b Middlehurst, Lester (2007-05-15). "The secret depression that drove Denise Welch to the brink of suicide". London: Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=454942&in_page_id=1774&ICO=HEALTH&ICL=TOPART. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
- ^ "'I tried to smash a lampshade over his head': Denise Welch on her alcohol-fuelled rows with husband Tim Healy". Daily Mail (London). 2010-04-27. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1269106/Denise-Welch-alcohol-fuelled-rows-husband-Tim-Healy.html.
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| Name | Welch, Denise |
| Alternative names | Welch, Jacqueline Denise |
| Short description | Television presenter and actress |
| Date of birth | 1958-05-22 |
| Place of birth | Co Durham, England, United Kingdom |
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| Lauren Luke | |
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| Born | (1981-12-08) 8 December 1981 (age 30) South Shields |
| Nationality | English |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Make up artistCosmetics |
| Internet information | |
| Web alias(es) | Panacea81 |
| Signature phrase | "Hia everyone!" "Zoom, Zoom!" |
Lauren Luke (born December 8, 1981) is the self-taught make-up artist known as Panacea81 online. She creates makeup tutorials on her YouTube channel, Panacea81, which has over 111 million views and over 468,000 subscribers.[1][2]
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Early Life[link]
On the eighth of December 1981, Lauren Luke was born in South Shields in the North-East of England. She has two younger twin sisters, Rachel and Mikayla - fourteen years her junior - and older sister and close friend Helen - two years her senior. Her family struggled with money as they were quite poor. She was bullied in school, and, age 16, her parents divorced.
Youtube[link]
Lauren Luke's video tutorials show viewers how to apply makeup to recreate various looks, including celebrity-inspired looks.[3] Her YouTube channel, Panacea81, has 111 million views and over 468,000 subscribers since her first upload on July 22, 2007.[1][2] Luke chose the alias Panacea81 by pairing the Greek Goddess’s name Panacea with her birthday year, 1981. Luke is a YouTube site partner and is one of the most subscribed YouTube users in the UK.[4] She has done eye makeup looks inspired by celebrities such as Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus, Amy Lee, Leona Lewis, and more.
In November 2008, Luke was featured in a BBC documentary called Inside Out.[5] The Guardian then recruited Luke to write a weekly beauty column in January 2009, which she still updates weekly.[6] In March 2009, a second, more in-depth documentary about Lauren and her life aired as part of a documentary series titled Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain, on BBC Three.[7][8]
On October 1, 2009, Luke introduced the launch of her book on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour[9] and Channel 4's The Paul O'Grady Show.[10]
Luke's aims (as stated on her YouTube page): "I am very proud of myself considering my average size for a woman it is very hard to get this much notice. I want to make a huge change to the beauty industry and with all of your help through YouTube I hopefully will be able to do so."[11]
Personal life[link]
Luke lives at home in Chester-Le-Street, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, with her partner and her son Jordan. She has spoken out about having been bullied when she was younger over her looks and weight.[12]
Professional growth[link]
On April 27, 2009, Luke launched a proprietary signature cosmetics line called By Lauren Luke. Sephora launched the line in 135 stores across the USA and Canada on September 21, 2009.[13] October 1, 2009, Hodder & Stoughton released Luke’s book, “Looks By Lauren Luke,” in the UK.[14] In November 2009, Luke is to be featured as an avatar in the Nintendo DS game Supermodel Makeover By Lauren Luke.[15]
Press[link]
• June 2010: Lauren Luke becomes a beauty trends and tips blogger for Glamour (magazine) UK's blog.[16]
• March 2010: Allure (magazine), "The Influencers: Lauren Luke, The Makeup Mentor." Lauren Luke named most influential makeup mentor in Allure's 2010 influencer's issue.[17]
• December 11, 2009: Woman's Wear Daily, "The 7th Annual WWD Beauty Biz Awards." Lauren Luke named Beauty's Best Newcomer of 2009 [18]
• January 9, 2009: The Guardian, “Lauren Luke: ‘Just Steady Your Little Finger and Practise.’” By Esther Addley.[19]
• February 28, 2009: CBS.com, “The Self-Made Makeup Maven of YouTube.” By Eleanor Tuohy.[20]
• July 31, 2009: Vanity Fair Daily's Society & Style, "Lauren Luke's Makeup Palettes." By SunHee Grinnell.[21]
• August 6, 2009: New York Times – Thursday Style Section, “An Every Woman as Beauty Queen.” By Ruth la Ferla.[22]
• August 18, 2009: Women's Wear Daily, “A New Kind of Celebrity: YouTube Stars Evolve Into Brands.” By Rachel Brown and contributions from Anne Riley-Katz.[23]
• September 2009: Time Magazine, “Women In Fashion: The Female Economy.” By Marion Hume.[24]
• September 18, 2009: Allure Daily Beauty Reporter Blog, "YouTube Star's New Makeup Line." By Alyssa Kolsky Hertzig [25]
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- ^ a b YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
- ^ a b YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
- ^ YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
- ^ Leonie Cooper on YouTube's amateur instruction videos | Media | The Guardian
- ^ YouTube - panacea81 (Lauren Luke) feature on Inside Out - BBC One
- ^ The look: Lauren Luke's makeup tutorials | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
- ^ BBC - BBC Three Programmes - Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain, Episode 1
- ^ YouTube - Lauren Luke Does Natalie's Make-up - Natalie Cassidy's Real Britain - BBC Three
- ^ BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Woman's Hour, 01/10/2009
- ^ Make-up guru Lauren is brought to book - Shields Gazette
- ^ YouTube - panacea81's Channel
- ^ Letter from Lauren Luke
- ^ Beauty And The Blog: Get Your Hands On Lauren Luke's Blog-tastic Palettes - Now Available At Sephora Stores!
- ^ www.hodder.co.uk > Our Books > Lauren Luke
- ^ Supermodel Makeover by Lauren Luke (Nintendo DS): Amazon.co.uk: PC & Video Games
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- ^ [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ Lauren Luke: the makeup amateur turned YouTube phenomenon | Life and style | The Guardian
- ^ Make-Up Mom A YouTube Sensation - The Early Show - CBS News
- ^ Lauren Luke's New Makeup Palettes: SunHee Grinnell | Vanity Fair
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/fashion/06youtube.html
- ^ A New Kind of Celebrity: YouTube Stars Evolve Into Brands - Media News - WWD.com
- ^ Donna Karan and the Fashion of Health Care - Women in Fashion - TIME
- ^ YouTube Star's New Makeup Line: Daily Beauty Reporter: Beauty Reporter Blog: allure.com
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| Name | Luke, Lauren |
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| Date of birth | December 8, 1981 |
| Place of birth | Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Hugh Grant | |
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 Hugh Grant in March 2011 |
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| Born | Hugh John Mungo Grant (1960-09-09) 9 September 1960 (age 51) Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor, Film producer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Partner | Elizabeth Hurley (1987–2000) Jemima Khan (2004–2007) |
| Children | 1 (Tabitha, b. 2011) |
Hugh John Mungo Grant[1] (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide.[2] Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).[3] He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the 21st century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent.[4] Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006).[5]
Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-film star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless.[6] Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian.[7][8] He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, and in his disdain towards the culture of celebrity and hostility towards the media.[9][10] In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.[11]
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Early life and ancestry[link]
Grant was born at Hammersmith Hospital in Hammersmith, London, England, the second son of Fynvola (née MacLean; b. Wickham, Hampshire, 11 October 1933; m. Boxgrove, Sussex, 6 July 1957; d. Hounslow, London, July 2001)[12] and Captain Michael Jordan Grant (b. 1929). Genealogist Antony Adolph described Grant's family history as "a colourful Anglo-Scottish tapestry of warriors, empire-builders and aristocracy,"[13] including William Drummond, 4th Viscount Strathallan and Dr. James Stewart.[13][14][15] John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl, Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Rt. Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, and a sister of former British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, are a few of his notable maternal ancestors.[16] Grant's grandfather, Major James Murray Grant, DSO, a native of Inverness in Scotland, was decorated for bravery and leadership at Dunkirk during World War II.[17]
Grant's father, Capt. Grant, was trained at Sandhurst and served with the Seaforth Highlanders for eight years in Malaya, Germany and Scotland.[18] Capt. He ran a carpet firm, pursued hobbies such as golf and painting watercolours, and raised his family in Chiswick, west London, where the Grants lived next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane.[19][20] In September 2006, a collection of Capt. Grant's paintings was hosted by the John Martin Gallery in a charity exhibition, organised by his famous son, called "James Grant: 30 Years of Watercolours."[21] She worked as a schoolteacher and taught Latin, French and music for more than 30 years in the state schools of west London.[22] She died at the age of 65,[12] 18 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[23]
Grant's accent is an inheritance from his mother and, on Inside the Actors Studio in 2002, he credited her with "any acting genes that [he] might have."[20] Both his parents were children of military families,[24] but, despite his parents' backgrounds, Grant has stated that his family was not always affluent while he was growing up.[25] Grant spent his childhood summers shooting and hunting with his grandfather in Scotland.[19] Grant's elder brother, James "Jamie" Grant, is a successful banker as Managing Director, Head of Healthcare, Consumer, & Retail Investment Banking Coverage, at JPMorgan Chase in New York.[26]
Education[link]
Grant started his education at Hogarth Primary School in Chiswick but then moved to St Peter's Primary School in Hammersmith. From 1969 to 1978, he attended the independent Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith on a scholarship and played 1st XV rugby, cricket and football for the school.[27][28] He also represented Latymer on the popular quiz show, Top of the Form, an academic competition between two teams of four secondary school students each.[29] Chris Hammond, his form teacher in 1975 and later the assistant head of Latymer, told People magazine that Grant was "a clever boy among clever boys."[28][30] In 1979, he won the Galsworthy scholarship to New College, Oxford where he starred in his first film, Privileged, produced by the Oxford University Film Foundation, OUFF. He studied English literature and graduated with 2:1 honours.[31] Actress Anna Chancellor, who knew Grant at Oxford, has recalled, "I first met Hugh at a party at Oxford. There was something magical about him. He was a star even then, without having done anything."[32] He received an offer from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London to pursue a PhD in the history of art, but decided not to take the offer because he failed to secure a grant. Viewing acting as nothing more than a creative outlet,[33] he joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society and starred in a successful touring production of Twelfth Night.[34] Hugh Grant funds The Fynvola Grant Scholarship at Latymer Upper School in memory of his mother who was a teacher in West London.
Young earner[link]
After making his debut as Hughie Grant in the Oxford-financed Privileged (1982), Grant dabbled in a variety of jobs: he wrote book reviews,[35] worked as assistant groundsman at Fulham Football Club,[36] tried his hand at tutoring, wrote comedy sketches for TV shows,[37] and was hired by Talkback Productions to write and produce radio commercials for products such as Mighty White bread and Red Stripe lager.[38] To obtain his Equity card, he joined the repertory theatre Nottingham Playhouse and lived for a year at Park Terrace in The Park Estate, Nottingham.[39] Bored with small acting parts, he created his own comedy revue called The Jockeys of Norfolk with friends Chris Lang and Andy Taylor. The group toured London’s pub comedy circuit with stops at The George IV in Chiswick, Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice and The King's Head in Islington.[40] Starting on a low note, The Jockeys of Norfolk eventually proved a hit at the Edinburgh Festival after their sketch on the Nativity, told as an Ealing comedy, garnered them a spot on the BBC2 TV show called Edinburgh Nights.[41] During this time, Grant also appeared in theatre productions of plays such as An Inspector Calls, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Coriolanus.
Career[link]
Grant's first leading role came in Merchant-Ivory's 1987 Edwardian drama, Maurice, adapted from E.M. Forster's novel of the same name, in which he played the homosexual Clive Durham. He and co-star James Wilby shared the Volpi Cup for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for their portrayals of Cantabrigian collegians Clive Durham and Maurice Hall, respectively. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Grant balanced small roles on television with rare film work, which included a supporting role in The Dawning (1988), opposite Anthony Hopkins and Jean Simmons and a turn as Lord Byron in a Goya Award-winning Spanish production called Remando al viento (1988). He also portrayed some other real life figures during in his early career such as Charles Heidsieck in Champagne Charlie and as Hugh Cholmondeley in BAFTA Award-nominated White Mischief.
In 1990, he made a cameo appearance in the sport/crime drama The Big Man, opposite Liam Neeson, and in which Grant assumed a Scottish accent. The film explores the life of a Scottish miner (Neeson) who becomes unemployed during a union strike. In 1991, he played Julie Andrews' gay son in the ABC made-for-television film Our Sons.
In 1992, he appeared in Roman Polanski's film Bitter Moon, portraying a fastidious and proper British tourist who is married, but finds himself enticed by the sexual hedonism of a seductive French woman and her embittered, paraplegic American husband. The film was called an "anti-romantic opus of sexual obsession and cruelty" by the Washington Post.[42] His other work in period pieces such as Ken Russell’s horror film, The Lair of the White Worm (1988), award-winning Merchant-Ivory drama The Remains of the Day (1993) and (as Frédéric Chopin in) Impromptu (1991) went largely unnoticed. He later called this phase of his career "hilarious," referring to his early films as "Europuddings, where you would have a French script, a Spanish director, and English actors. The script would usually be written by a foreigner, badly translated into English. And then they'd get English actors in, because they thought that was the way to sell it to America."[43]
At 32, Grant claimed to be on the brink of giving up the acting profession but was surprised by the script of Four Weddings and a Funeral (FWAAF).[4] "If you read as many bad scripts as I did, you'd know how grateful you are when you come across one where the guy actually is funny," he later recalled.[3] Released in 1994, FWAAF became the highest-grossing British film to date with a worldwide box office in excess of $244 million,[44] making Grant an overnight international star. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, and among numerous awards won by its cast and crew, it earned Grant his first and only Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It also temporarily typecast him as the lead character, Charles, a bohemian and debonair bachelor. Grant and Curtis saw it as an inside joke that the star, due to the parts he played, was assumed to have the personality of the screenwriter, who is known for writing about himself and his own life.[43][45] Grant later expressed:
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Grant in his breakthrough performance as Richard Curtis's alter ego, Charles, in Four Weddings and a Funeral.
| “ | Although I owe whatever success I've had to 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' it did become frustrating after a bit that people made two assumptions: One was that I was that character – when in fact nothing could be further from the truth, as I'm sure Richard would tell you – and the other frustrating thing was that they thought that's all I could do. I suppose, because those films happened to be successful, no one, perhaps understandably, ... bothered to rent all the other films I'd done.[4] | ” |
In July 1994, Grant signed a two-year production deal with Castle Rock Entertainment and by October, he became founder and director of the UK-based Simian Films Limited.[46] He appointed his then-girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, as the head of development to look for prospective projects. Simian Films produced two Grant vehicles in the 1990s and lost a bid to produce About a Boy to Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions.[47] The company closed its U.S. office in 2002 and Grant resigned as director in December 2005.[48]
1995 saw the release of Grant's first studio-financed Hollywood project, Chris Columbus's comedy Nine Months. Though a hit at the box office, it was almost universally panned by critics. The Washington Post called it a "grotesquely pandering caper" and singled out Grant's performance, as a child psychiatrist reacting unfavourably to his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy, for his "insufferable muggings."[49] The same year, he played leading roles as Emma Thompson's suitor in Ang Lee’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and as a cartographer in 1917 Wales in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. In the same year he performed in the Academy Award-winning Restoration.
Before the release of FWAAF, Grant reunited with the director of FWAAF, Mike Newell, for the tragicomedy An Awfully Big Adventure that was labelled a "determinedly offbeat film" by The New York Times.[50] Grant portrayed a bitchy, supercilious director of a repertory company in post-World War II Liverpool. Critic Roger Ebert wrote, "It shows that he has range as an actor,"[51] but the San Francisco Chronicle disapproved on grounds that the film "plays like a vanity production for Grant."[52] Janet Maslin, praising Grant as "superb" and "a dashing cad under any circumstances," commented, "For him this film represents the road not taken. Made before Four Weddings and a Funeral was released, it captures Mr. Grant as the clever, versatile character actor he was then becoming, rather than the international dreamboat he is today."[50] Grant made his debut as a film producer with the 1996 thriller Extreme Measures, a commercial and critical failure.
After a three year hiatus, in 1999 he paired with Julia Roberts in Notting Hill, which was brought to theatres by much of the same team that was responsible for FWAAF. This new Working Title production displaced FWAAF as the biggest British hit in the history of cinema, with earnings equalling $363 million worldwide.[44] As it became exemplary of modern romantic comedies in mainstream culture, the film was also received well by critics. CNN reviewer Paul Clinton said, "Notting Hill stands alone as another funny and heartwarming story about love against all odds."[53] Reactions to Grant's Golden Globe-nominated performance were varied, with Salon.com's Stephanie Zacharek criticising that, "Grant's performance stands as an emblem of what's wrong with Notting Hill. What's maddening about Grant is that he just never cuts the crap. He's become one of those actors who's all shambling self-caricature, from his twinkly crow's feet to the time-lapsed half century it takes him to actually get one of his lines out."[54] The film provided both its stars a chance to satirise the woes of international notoriety, most noted of which was Grant's turn as a faux-journalist who sits through a dull press junket with, what the New York Times called, "a delightfully funny deadpan."[55] Grant also released his second production output, a fish-out-of-water mob comedy Mickey Blue Eyes, that year. It was dismissed by critics, performed modestly at the box office, and garnered its actor-producer mixed reviews for his starring role. Roger Ebert thought, "Hugh Grant is wrong for the role [and] strikes one wrong note and then another,"[56] whereas Kenneth Turan, writing in the Los Angeles Times, said, "If he'd been on the Titanic, fewer lives would have been lost. If he'd accompanied Robert Scott to the South Pole, the explorer would have lived to be 100. That's how good Hugh Grant is at rescuing doomed ventures."[57]
While promoting Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks on NBC’s The Today Show in 2000, Grant told host Matt Lauer, “It's my millennium of bastards.”[58] In 2000, Grant also joined the Supervisory Board of IM Internationalmedia AG, the powerful Munich-based film and media company.[59]
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Giving his most critically acclaimed performance to date, Grant plays Snooker as Will Freeman in About a Boy.
Small Time Crooks starred Grant, in the words of film critic Andrew Sarris, as "a petty, petulant, faux-Pygmalion art dealer, David, [who] is one of the sleaziest and most unsympathetic characters Mr. Allen has ever created."[60] In a role devoid of his comic attributes, the New York Times wrote: "Mr. Grant deftly imbues his character with exactly a perfect blend of charm and nasty calculation."[61] A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) was proclaimed by Variety to be "as sly an overthrow of a star's polished posh – and nice – poster image as any comic turn in memory."[62] The film, adapted from Helen Fielding's novel of the same name, was an international hit, earning $281 million worldwide.[44] Grant was, according to the Washington Post, fitting as "a cruel, manipulative cad, hiding behind the male god's countenance that he knows all too well."[63]
Grant's "immaculate comic performance" (BBC) as the trust-funded womaniser, Will Freeman, in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's best-selling novel About a Boy received raves from critics.[64] Almost universally praised, with an Academy Award-nominated screenplay, About a Boy (2002) was determined by the Washington Post to be "that rare romantic comedy that dares to choose messiness over closure, prickly independence over fetishised coupledom, and honesty over typical Hollywood endings."[65] Rolling Stone wrote, "The acid comedy of Grant's performance carries the film [and he] gives this pleasing heartbreaker the touch of gravity it needs,"[66] while Roger Ebert observed that "the Cary Grant department is understaffed, and Hugh Grant shows here that he is more than a star, he is a resource."[67] Released a day after the blockbuster Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, About a Boy was a more modest box office grosser than other successful Grant films, making all of $129 million globally.[44] The film earned Grant his third Golden-Globe nomination, while the London Film Critics Circle named Grant its Best British Actor and GQ honoured him as one of the magazine's men of the year 2002.[68] "His performance can only be described as revelatory," wrote critic Ann Hornaday, adding that "Grant lends the shoals layer upon layer of desire, terror, ambivalence and self-awareness."[65] The New York Observer concluded: "[The film] gets most of its laughs from the evolved expertise of Hugh Grant in playing characters that audiences enjoy seeing taken down a peg or two as a punishment for philandering and womanising and simply being too handsome for words-and with an English accent besides. In the end, the film comes over as a messy delight, thanks to the skill, generosity and good-sport, punching-bag panache of Mr. Grant's performance."[69] About a Boy also marked a notable change in Grant's boyish look. Gone were the floppy locks that had become his trademark, with Grant now sporting a cropped haircut. He has retained this look since.
Grant was also paired with Sandra Bullock in Warner Bros.'s Two Weeks Notice, which made $199 million internationally but was judged poorly by professional reviewers.[44] The Village Voice concluded that Grant's creation of a spoiled billionaire fronting a real estate business was "little more than a Britishism machine."[70]
Two Weeks Notice was followed by the 2003 ensemble comedy, Love Actually, headlined by Grant as the British Prime Minister. A Christmas release by Working Title Films, the film was promoted as "the ultimate romantic comedy" and accumulated $246 million at the international box office.[44] It marked the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, who told the New York Times that Grant adamantly tempered the characterisation of the role to make his character more authoritative and less haplessly charming than earlier Curtis incarnations.[71] Roger Ebert claimed that "Grant has flowered into an absolutely splendid romantic comedian" and has "so much self-confidence that he plays the British prime minister as if he took the role to be a good sport."[72] Film critic Rex Reed, on the contrary, called Grant's performance "an oversexed bachelor spin on Tony Blair" as the star "flirted with himself in the paroxysm of self-love that has become his acting style."[73]
A speech delivered by Grant in Love Actually – where he extols the virtues of Great Britain and refuses to cave to the pressure of its longstanding ally, the United States – was etched in the transatlantic memory as a satirical, wishful statement on the concurrent Bush-Blair relationship.[74] Blair responded by saying, "I know there's a bit of us that would like me to do a Hugh Grant in Love Actually and tell America where to get off. But the difference between a good film and real life is that in real life there's the next day, the next year, the next lifetime to contemplate the ruinous consequences of easy applause."[75]
In 2004, Grant reprised his role as Daniel Cleaver for a small part in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, which, like its predecessor, made more than $262 million commercially.[44] Gone from the screen for two years, Grant next reteamed with Paul Weitz (About a Boy) for the black comedy American Dreamz (2006). Grant starred as the acerbic host of an American Idol-like reality show where, according to Caryn James of the New York Times, "nothing is real ... except the black hole at the centre of the host's heart, as Mr. Grant takes Mr. Cowell's villainous act to its limit."[76] American Dreamz failed financially but Grant was generously praised. He played his self-aggrandising character, an amalgam of Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest, with smarmy self-loathing. The Boston Globe proposed that this "just may be the great comic role that has always eluded Hugh Grant,"[77] and critic Carina Chocano said, "He is twice as enjoyable as the preening bad guy as he was as the bumbling good guy."[78]
In 2007, Grant starred opposite Drew Barrymore in a parody of pop culture and the music industry called Music and Lyrics. The Associated Press described it as "a weird little hybrid of a romantic comedy that's simultaneously too fluffy and not whimsical enough."[79] Though he neither listens to music nor owns any CDs,[24] Grant learned to sing, play the piano, dance (a few mannered steps) and studied the mannerisms of prominent musicians to prepare for his role as a has-been pop singer, based loosely on Andrew Ridgeley.[9] The Star-Ledger dismissed the performance, writing that "paper dolls have more depth."[80] The film, with its revenues totalling $145 million, allowed Grant to mock disposable pop stardom and fleeting celebrity through its washed-up lead character. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Grant strikes precisely the right note with regard to Alex's career: He's too intelligent not to be a little embarrassed, but he's far too brazen to feel anything like shame."[81] In 2009, Grant starred opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in the romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans?, which was a commercial as well as a critical failure.[82]
In 2011, Grant reportedly turned down the starring role in Chuck Lorre's Two and a Half Men reboot, replacing Charlie Sheen's vacated role. He turned down the role due to creative differences.
Work ethic[link]
Grant is well known for having a very strong work ethic. He has called being a successful actor a mistake and has repeatedly talked of his hope that film stardom would just be "a phase" in his life, lasting no more than ten years.[43] He pins his lack of interest in acting on two different thoughts: first, that he drifted into the job as a temporary joke at age 23 and finds it an immature way for a grown man to spend his time;[83] and secondly, because he believes to have already given the one remarkable comic performance he had hoped to create on screen.[84] A self-confessed "committed and passionate" perfectionist on a film set,[11] Grant has constantly opted to describe himself as a reluctant actor, who chooses to be neutral about his career and works mostly with friends from previous collaborations.[6][85] Richard Curtis, a frequent collaborator, revealed that Grant is not fluid about the filmmaking process and tends to be unrelaxed while filming because he does not feel as though he's in the director's hands and prefers instead to take responsibility for giving a definitive performance.[9] Grant is noted by co-workers for demanding endless takes until he achieves the desired shot according to his own standard.[86][87]
A 2007 Vogue profile of Grant referred to him as a man with a "professionally misanthropic mystique."[9] The observation followed published facts such as that Grant conducts his interviews alone (without any publicists),[88] and has derided focus groups, market research and overriding emphasis on the opening weekend.[89] Grant decided to let go of his agent in 2006, ending a 10-year relationship with CAA.[90] Besides proudly proclaiming in interviews to have never listened to external views on his career, he stated that he does not require the hand-holding an agent provides.[9] A few months before firing his agent, he said, "They've known for years that I have total control. I've never taken any advice on anything."[84]
He has stuck to the genre of comedy, especially the romantic comedy, for the entirety of his mainstream film career and never ventures to play characters who are not British. While some film critics, such as the respected Roger Ebert, have defended the limited variety of his performances, others have dismissed him as a one-trick pony. Eric Fellner, co-owner of Working Title Films and a long-time collaborator of Grant said, "His range hasn't been fully tested, but each performance is unique."[91] A majority of Grant's popular films in the 1990s followed a similar plot that captured an optimistic bachelor experiencing a series of embarrassing incidents to find true love, often with an American woman. In earlier films, Grant was adept at plugging into the stereotype of a repressed Englishman for humorous effects, allowing him to gently satirise his characters as he summed them up and played against the type simultaneously.[39] These performances were sometimes deemed overbearing, in the words of Washington Post's Rita Kempley, due to his "comic overreactions—the mugging, the stuttering, the fluttering eyelids." She added: "He's got more tics than Benny Hill."[92] Grant's penchant for conveying his characters' feelings with mannerisms, rather than direct emotions, has been one of the foremost objections raised against his acting style. Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post once stated that, to be effective as a comic performer, he must get "his jiving and shucking under control."[93] Film historian David Thompson wrote in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film about how it is merely itchy mannerisms that Grant equates with screen acting.
Grant's screen persona of later films, in the new millennium, gradually developed into a cynical, self-loathing cad.[94] Claudia Puig of USA Today celebrated this transformation with the observation that finally "gone [were] the self-conscious 'Aren't I adorable' mannerisms that seemed endearing at the start of [Grant's] film career but have grown cloying in more recent movies."[95] Using his facial contortions and an affected stammer for varied comic purposes,[96] According to Carina Chocano, amongst film critics, the two tropes most commonly associated with Grant are that he reinvented his screen persona in Bridget Jones's Diary and About a Boy and dreads the possibility of becoming a parody of himself.[97] His preference for levity over dramatic range has been a controversial topic in establishment circles, prompting him to say:
| “ | I've never been tempted to do the part where I cry or get AIDS or save some people from a concentration camp just to get good reviews. I genuinely believe that comedy acting, light comedy acting, is as hard as, if not harder than serious acting, and it genuinely doesn’t bother me that all the prizes and the good reviews automatically by knee-jerk reaction go to the deepest, darkest, most serious performances and parts. It makes me laugh.[84] | ” |
In the media[link]
Grant has repeatedly spoken about his boredom with playing the celebrity in the press[98] and is known in popular media for his guarded privacy,[99] About the culture of celebrity, he told Vogue, "My theory is that it's like bodybuilders who inject testosterone, which means that their own powers to generate testosterone shut down forever. The fake esteem you get from being in the public eye feels like self-worth, but actually your own powers to produce it shut down. The stuff that really counts is your own. And that's, I think, why people go bonkers."[9] On probing of his personal life, he has remained incredibly steadfast in "offering a dead bat to any question he feels is not general enough."[100] Meanwhile, acquaintances portray him as a complicated man with an anarchic and sharp constitution.[9][39] "There is at least as much of Hugh that is charismatic, intellectual, and whose tongue," according to Mike Newell, "is maybe too clever for its own good as there is of him that's gorgeous and kind of woolly and flubsy."[101] Filmmaker Paul Weitz, calling Grant funny, observed that "he perceives flaws in himself and other people, and then he cares about their humanity nonetheless."[102] British newspapers regularly refer to him as grumpy.[103][104][105][106][107]
Libel lawsuits[link]
In 1996, Grant won substantial damages from News (UK) Ltd over what his lawyers called a "highly defamatory" article published in January 1995. The company's now-defunct newspaper, Today, had falsely claimed that Grant verbally abused a young extra with a "foul-mouthed tongue lashing" on the set of The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain.[108]
On 27 April 2007, Grant accepted undisclosed damages from the Associated Newspapers over claims made about his relationships with his former girlfriends in three separate tabloid articles, which were published in the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday on 18, 21 and 24 February. His lawyer stated that all of the articles' "allegations and factual assertions are false."[109] Grant said, in a written statement, that he took the action because: "I was tired of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday papers publishing almost entirely fictional articles about my private life for their own financial gain." He went on to take the opportunity to stress, "I'm also hoping that this statement in court might remind people that the so-called 'close friends' or 'close sources' on which these stories claim to be based almost never exist."[110]
Legal troubles[link]
On 27 June 1995, Grant was arrested in an L.A. Vice police operation not far from Sunset Boulevard for misdemeanour lewd conduct in a public place with Hollywood prostitute Divine Brown.[111] He pleaded no contest and was fined $1,180, placed on two years' summary probation, and was ordered to complete an AIDS education program.[112][113]
The arrest occurred about two weeks before the release of Grant's first major studio film, Nine Months, which he was scheduled to promote on several American television shows. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno had him booked for the same week and, as recalled in former employee Don Sweeney's memoirs, "despite his arrest, Hugh Grant kept his appointment to appear on Jay's show."[114] The interview was a career-making hit for Leno and Grant was singled out for not making excuses for the incident.[115][116] He famously said:
| “ | I think you know in life what's a good thing to do and what's a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it.[117] | ” |
On Larry King Live, Grant declined the host Larry King's repeated invitations to probe his psyche, saying that psychoanalysis was "more of an American syndrome" and he himself was "a bit old fashioned."[118] He told the host: "I don't have excuses."[119] Grant was appreciated for "his refreshing honesty" as he "faced the music and handled it with tongue [in] cheek."[120]
In April 2007, Grant was arrested on allegations of assault made by paparazzo Ian Whittaker.[121] Grant made no official statement and did not comment on the incident.[122] Charges were dropped on 1 June by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."[123]
Phone hacking exposé[link]
Main article: News of the World phone hacking affair
In April 2011 Grant published an article in the New Statesman entitled "The Bugger, Bugged"[124] about a conversation following a chance encounter with Paul McMullan, former journalist and paparazzo for News of the World. In unguarded comments which were secretly taped by Grant, McMullan alleged that editors at the Daily Mail and News of the World, particularly Andy Coulson, had ordered journalists to engage in illegal phone tapping and had done so with the full knowledge of senior British politicians. McMullan also said that every British Prime Minister from Margaret Thatcher onwards had cultivated a close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and his senior executives. He stressed the friendship between David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), agreeing when asked that both of them must have been aware of illegal phone tapping, and asserting that Cameron's inaction could be explained by self-interest:
"Cameron is very much in debt to Rebekah Wade for helping him not quite win the election ... So that was my submission to parliament – that Cameron's either a liar or an idiot."[124]
When asked by Grant whether Cameron had encouraged the Metropolitan Police to "drag their feet" on investigating illegal phone tapping by Murdoch's journalists, McMullan agreed that this had happened, but also stated that the police themselves had taken bribes from tabloid journalists, so had a motive to comply:
"20 per cent of the Met has taken backhanders from tabloid hacks. So why would they want to open up that can of worms?... And what's wrong with that, anyway? It doesn't hurt anyone particularly."[124]
Grant's article attracted considerable interest, due to both the revelatory content of the taped conversation, and the novelty of Grant himself "turning the tables" on a tabloid journalist.[125]
Whilst the allegations regarding the News of the World continued to receive coverage in the broadsheets and similar media (Grant appeared for example on BBC Radio 4) it was only with the revelation that the voicemail of the then missing and subsequently murdered Millie Dowler had been hacked, and evidence in her murder enquiry had been deleted, that the coverage turned from media interest to widespread public (and eventually political) outrage. Grant became something of a spokesman against Murdoch's News Corporation, culminating in a bravura performance on BBC television's Question Time in July 2011.[126]
Personal life[link]
In 1987, while playing Lord Byron in a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento (1988), Grant met actress Elizabeth Hurley, who was cast in a supporting role as Byron's former lover Claire Clairmont.[43] Grant started dating the aspiring model while shooting and their relationship was subsequently the subject of much media attention. After 13 years together, the two made "a mutual and amicable decision" to split in May 2000.[127] In 2004, he began dating Jemima Khan under the intense scrutiny of British tabloids.[9] Three years later, in February 2007, Grant's publicist announced that the couple had "decided to split amicably."[128] The spokesman added, "Hugh has nothing but positive things to say about Jemima."
Grant is godfather to Hurley's son Damian.[129] In November 2011, it was announced that Grant had become a father to a baby girl, Tabitha, earlier that autumn.[130] The identity of the mother, with whom Grant had had a "fleeting affair" according to his publicist, was not at first announced; however, it was later revealed to be a Chinese woman, Tinglan Hong.[131][132] The publicist went on to say that "while this was not planned, Hugh could not be happier or more supportive. He and the mother have discussed everything and are on very friendly terms."[133] In an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in April 2012, Grant revealed that his daughter's Chinese name is Xiao Xi（小喜) meaning "happy surprise".[134]
Grant has claimed that Hong has been “badly treated” by the media, saying that press intrusion prevented him from attending the birth of his daughter in September 2011. Grant said, “I was at one of the party conferences, about to give a speech, and was pacing about on the end of the phone. I shouldn’t have gone to the hospital at all, because it brought all this attention down on the mother’s head. But I couldn’t really resist it, so I went on the second day.” Hong later obtained an injunction which allowed Hugh Grant to visit her and baby Tabitha in peace.[130]
A famous "golfing addict",[135] Grant is a scratch golfer and is a regular at pro-am tournaments with membership at the Sunningdale Golf Club. He is also frequently pictured by the paparazzi at the famed Scottish golf courses in St Andrews, Kingsbarns and Carnoustie.[136] Highly competitive,[137] he reportedly plays with a lot of money at stake.[138] As a young boy, he played rugby union on his school's first XV team at centre and played football as an avid fan of Fulham F.C.. He is also a fan of Scottish side Rangers F.C.[139] thanks to his grandfather who was Scottish. He continued to play in a Sunday-morning football league in south-west London after college and remains an "impassioned Fulham supporter."[27] Grant's other interests include snooker[140] and tennis.[141]
Charity work[link]
Grant is a Patron of The DIPEx Charity,[142] founded by the late Ann McPherson, a charity that publishes the websites Healthtalkonline and Youthhealthtalk; and a Patron of the Fynvola Foundation, named after his late mother, a charity which provides nursing and care for older learning-disabled people.[143] He is also a supporter of Marie Curie Cancer Care, whose Great Daffodil Appeal he promoted in March 2008.[144]
Filmography[link]
Main article: Hugh Grant filmography
Awards and honours[link]
Main article: Honours of Hugh Grant
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