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Concert for Diana
Concert for Diana was a concert held at the then new Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom in honour of Diana, Princess of Wales, on 1 July 2007, which would have been her 46th birthday; 31 August that year brought the 10th anniversary of her death. The concert was hosted by Diana's sons, Princes William and Harry, who helped to organize many of the world's most famous entertainers and singers to perform at the concert.
The concert was broadcast in 140 different countries across the world with an estimated potential audience of 500 million. In December 2006, 22,500 tickets were made available for purchase for the concert, selling out in just 17 minutes, while 63,000 people turned out to Wembley Stadium to watch the performances to commemorate Diana. At the end of the performances, a video montage of Diana as a child was presented, accompanied by the Queen song "These Are the Days of Our Lives".
The concert started at 16:00 BST and finished at approximately 22:15 BST – there were two short intermissions during the concert.
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Eastcote
Coordinates: 51°35′03″N 0°23′23″W / 51.5842°N 0.3897°W / 51.5842; -0.3897
Eastcote is a suburban area established around an old village in Greater London, and is part of the London Borough of Hillingdon.
In the Middle Ages, Eastcote was one of the three areas that made up the parish of Ruislip, under the name of Ascot. The name came from its position to the east of the parish.
While no historically significant events have taken place in Eastcote, there are links to past events in the history of Britain. One such example is of Lady Mary Bankes, who lived in Eastcote for a time, and led the defence of Corfe Castle in Dorset against the Roundheads during the English Civil War. Eastcote also housed an outstation of the Bletchley Park codebreaking activities during the Second World War, with several codebreaking computers in use. This operation became the precursor to GCHQ, which remained in Eastcote after the war until the department moved to purpose-built buildings in Cheltenham in 1952.
By the turn of the 20th century, the recorded population was around 600; this had reached 11,278 for the Eastcote and East Ruislip ward in 2007.
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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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Greater London
Greater London is the top-level administrative division of England covering London. It was created in 1965 and spans the City of London and the 32 London boroughs. This territory has the same boundaries as the London Government Office Region and the London European Parliament constituency. The region has by far the highest GVA per capita in the United Kingdom. It covers 1,572 km2 (607 sq mi) and had a 2009 mid-year estimated population of 7,753,600. The term Greater London was in use before 1965 to refer to a variously defined area, larger than the County of London and often similar to the Metropolitan Police District.
In addition to its administrative and statistical functions, Greater London (excluding the City of London) is one of the 48 ceremonial counties of England, and is under the Greater London Lieutenancy.
Instead of forming a single political unit, London is divided into the small, interior City of London and the much wider Greater London. This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not fully amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained. Outside the limited boundaries of the old city, a variety of arrangements governed the wider area since 1855, culminating with the creation of the Greater London administrative area in 1965.
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Haydon School
Coordinates: 51°35′38″N 0°24′47″W / 51.594°N 0.413°W / 51.594; -0.413
Haydon School is an Academy located in Hillingdon, West London, England. The school serves approximately 2000 students aged 11–18.
The school was formed in September 1977 from the union of St Nicholas Grammar School For Boys and St Mary's Grammar School For Girls and was named after a local family. It is a designated language college teaching students and the local community a range of modern foreign languages. Students entering the school in year seven select two languages, either French & Italian or Spanish & German. The school also offers Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese to gifted students. Students can also attend Russian, Arabic, Portuguese and Greek classes after school or at lunchtime.
Haydon School has over 500 students in its sixth form, one of the largest sixth forms in the country. It offers over 40 advanced level courses all on one site. According to Ofsted, Haydon is one of the country's best sixth forms, with successful Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, LSE and King's College applicants. In Year 13, students can run for Head Girl and Head Boy. Every student can vote for a male and female candidate to represent their student body.
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Hillingdon
Coordinates: 51°31′58″N 0°27′18″W / 51.5329°N 0.4550°W / 51.5329; -0.4550
Hillingdon is a suburban area within the London Borough of Hillingdon, situated 14.2 miles (22.8 km) west of Charing Cross.
Much of Hillingdon is represented as the Hillingdon East ward within the local authority, Hillingdon Council. In November 2010, the ward had a recorded population of 12,403.
The name Hillingdon appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as Hillendone, possibly meaning "hill of a man named Hille".
Hillingdon was an ancient parish, and had within it the chapelry of Uxbridge, which became a separate civil parish in 1866. Under the Local Government Act 1894, Hillingdon parish was divided in two. Hillingdon West became, with Uxbridge, part of the Uxbridge Urban District; Hillingdon East became part of the Uxbridge Rural District.
Uxbridge Rural District was abolished in 1928, with the East parish being added to Uxbridge Urban District. Both East and West parishes were abolished in 1938 and added to Uxbridge parish. The name was revived in 1965, consequent upon the London Government Act 1963, as the name of the western-most borough of Greater London.
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Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.
The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New Zealand, as well as their previously operated version in Ireland. Sky News is also offered in an international version without the British adverts under the name Sky News International available in Europe and Asia.
Based at a news centre in London, Sky News started broadcasting on 5 February 1989 as part of the then four-channel Sky Television service. Sky News provides an hourly news radio service to multiple radio networks in the UK and Ireland. The channel currently has seven UK bases each with their own correspondents, and the channel can also call upon a wide range of resources and global bureaux provided by its parent company News Corporation such as reporters from Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network (its sister news and business channels).
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Yalding House
Yalding House is a building at 152–156 Great Portland Street, London, England, where BBC Radio 1 has been based since 1996.
Yalding House is also home to BBC Radio 1Xtra, the digital sister station of BBC Radio 1 and previously home to BBC Switch, the umbrella brand for the BBC's youth output across radio, television and online until its closure in 2010. It is also the production base for the stations' news output: 1Xtra News and Radio 1's Newsbeat.
Radio 1 was previously based at Egton House, which was demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Broadcasting House extensions. Radio 1 will move to the new 'John Peel Wing' (formerly 'Egton Wing') in Broadcasting House, built on the same site as Egton House, in Autumn 2012. The wing is named after veteran DJ John Peel who broadcast on the station from its launch in 1967 up until his death in 2004.
Radio 3 previously occupied the building with the BBC Central Music Library located on the ground floor and basement. The building's former role as a car showroom made it ideal for the heavy shelving required to store the collection.
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Al Murray
Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray (born 10 May 1968), is a British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, The Pub Landlord, a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 25th greatest stand-up comic.
Murray was born in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, the son of Lieutenant Colonel Ingram Bernard Hay Murray (through whom he is a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl) and Juliet Anne Thackeray Ritchie (through whom he is a great-great-great-grandson of William Makepeace Thackeray). His grandfather was diplomat Sir Ralph Murray. Murray attended Bedford School and is a graduate of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he studied modern history. There he performed in the comedy group, the Oxford Revue in a show directed by Stewart Lee.
Murray married Amber, in 2000. The couple, who have two daughters, Scarlett and Willow, separated in 2008.
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Alan Carr
Alan Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester in his early 20s. Carr was inspired to become a comedian here and made his breakthrough in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Award.
In the ensuing years, his career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit, and became well known for hosting the Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins. Carr hosted a radio show, Going Out with Alan Carr on BBC Radio 2 as well as a television show, Alan Carr: Chatty Man for Channel 4. Carr has also had two arena tours, the first in 2007 entitled Tooth Fairy Live and the second in 2011 entitled Spexy Beast Live.
Carr was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and grew up partly in Northampton where he went to Weston Favell School. His father is former Northampton Town and Nuneaton Borough F.C. manager Graham Carr. On his father's side, his family hail from North East England. Carr has a younger brother, Gary. Carr gained a BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre Studies, graduating with a 2:1 from Middlesex University.
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Alan Freeman
Alan Leslie "Fluff" Freeman, MBE (6 July 1927 – 27 November 2006) was a British disc jockey and radio personality in the United Kingdom for 40 years.
Born and educated in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school.
Freeman originally wanted to be an opera singer, but decided his voice was not strong enough. In 1952 he was invited to audition as a radio announcer and commenced working for 7LA in Tasmania, known as the teenager's station. Freeman's duties included that of continuity announcer; presenter of musical programmes incorporating opera, ballet and classical music; DJ for the top 100; news reader; quiz master and commercials reader.
After moving to radio station 3KZ in Melbourne, in 1957 he took an agreed nine-month trip around the world with the promise to return to Melbourne by January 1958. He arrived in London, England, and on deciding to stay wrote numerous letters of delay, and later apology, to his former employer.
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Alesha Dixon
Alesha Anjanette Dixon (born 7 October 1978) is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, model and television personality. She first found fame in the all-female R&B/garage trio Mis-Teeq, however, the trio separated in 2005 and Dixon continued pursuing her music career as a solo artist, signing to Polydor Records. Dixon began recording her debut solo album, Fired Up, in 2006, but due to poor record sales of her first two singles, "Lipstick" and "Knockdown", she was dropped from Polydor.
In 2007 Dixon became a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing and eventually won. Her television exposure led to a successful comeback, which included her signing to Asylum Records, an offshoot of Warner Music Group. Dixon then released a second album, entitled The Alesha Show, in 2008, which received platinum certification from BPI in the UK and spawned four singles including "The Boy Does Nothing" and "Breathe Slow", the latter of which became her highest charting single and earned her a Brit Award nomination.
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Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Imelda Ceclia Ewen Burke (born August 25, 1988) is a British R&B and pop recording artist, songwriter, dancer and model. Born and raised in Islington, London, United Kingdom. Burke was exposed to music from an early age, with her mother being the lead singer of Soul II Soul. Burke rose to fame after winning the fifth series of British television series The X Factor in 2008. Burke currently stands as one of the most successful winners of The X Factor and she is currently signed to four record labels, Epic Records, RCA Records, Syco Music and Subliminal.
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Aliona Vilani
Aliona Vilani (Russian: Алёна Вилани; born 1 May 1984) is a Russian-Kazakhstani professional dancer.
Vilani started learning ballet when she was five years old, and moved to Russia to learn ballroom dancing at age 11.
In 1997, aged 13, she moved to the United States and joined the Kaiser Dance Academy in Brooklyn, New York. In 2001 she was part of the US Ballroom team for the National Dance Congress that won the Amateur Ballroom category.
After the competition ended, she turned professional, and remains the youngest dancer in the US to have done so. Since 2006, she has lived in Los Angeles where she competes, performs and teaches. Her speciality is 10 Dance, although she is specially skilled in Salsa, Hip Hop and Jazz. On 14 April 2009 she appeared as a guest dancer on Dancing with the Stars in Hollywood.
Vilani first participated in series 7 in 2009, where she partnered Rav Wilding: they were eliminated in week 3 following a dance-off with actress Lynda Bellingham and her dance partner.
In 2010 she appeared for the first time on the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour where she partnered actor Ricky Groves. They danced the American Smooth and the Paso Doble. She also partnered Matthew Cutler in the professional dances. In April 2010 rehearsals started for the Strictly Come Dancing Professionals Tour in which she partnered Matthew Cutler & two weeks later the opening night started the 12-week spectacular. The show went to Brighton, Birmingham, Dublin, Cardiff, Leicester, Southampton, Plymouth, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Hammersmith & Bournemouth.
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Ally McCrae
Ally McCrae (born 1987), is best known as the presenter of BBC Radio 1 Scotland's show, and as co-creator of Detour Scotland. In 2011, Scotland on Sunday ranked him Scotland's 9th "Most Eligible Man".
On November 2, 2010 it was announced that Ally McCrae would take over from Vic Galloway as presenter of BBC Radio 1 Introducing show as part of a UK wide shake up of BBC Radio 1's Introducing setup.
Detour Scotland was primarily created as a podcast for featuring unsigned Scottish bands but soon gained a reputation for putting on gigs, including the 'The Wee Jaunt'. These gigs were held around the Glasgow area with the audience being taken round a host of locations, where several different local bands would perform sets everywhere from dark alley-ways to a large pond in Rouken Glen Park. Detour also runs events in several more common music venues around Scotland and runs an online video blog.
Ally McCrae is an alumnus of Stirling University where he obtained a degree in Film and Media Studies and was the station manager of Stirling University's Air3 student radio station.[citation needed]
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Alonzo Bodden
Alonzo Bodden (English pronunciation: /əˈlɒnzoʊ ˈboʊdən/; born June 13, 1962) is an American comedian and actor known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series Last Comic Standing. He had been the runner-up in the previous season.
In 2005, he released his DVD Tall, Dark and Funny. He was a talent judge in NBC's 5th season of Last Comic Standing, along with Kathleen Madigan and ANT.
Bodden was born in Queens, New York.
In addition to a BMW M3 car, Bodden owns many motorcycles, including a Triumph Rocket III, a Triumph Speed Triple, a Ducati 1098, a BMW HP2, and a Ducati Multistrada, and formerly owned a Honda CB400F. In 2010, Bodden highsided his Ducati 1098 while racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park. The crash shattered his scaphoid, requiring surgeries and a bone graft to fix. In 2011, he had customizer Nick Anglada rebuild the bike in a bare aluminum and anodized gold palette.
He hosted the Speed TV program "101 Cars You Must Drive." He is also a host for "America's Worst Driver." He also guest starred on Angel.
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Andy Crane
Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane (born 24 February 1964, Manchester) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC between 1987 and 1990 and for his current work as presenter on BBC Radio Manchester.
Crane started his career in radio before applying for Children's BBC in 1987, taking over as sole presenter from Philip Schofield. This role saw him present the interstitial sections of the schedule through the use of in-vision continuity. Presenting from the continuity announcer's booth, nicknamed 'The Broom Cupboard', Crane presented links on until leaving in 1990, to be replaced by Andi Peters. In addition to Children's BBC, Crane also acted as a relief presenter on Top of the Pops in 1988 and 1989 and was famously thrown into the gunk tank on the first Comic Relief telethon. After leaving the BBC, Crane moved to present the hit technology magazine Bad Influence!, for CITV, between 1992 to 1996. He also presented Motormouth and What's Up Doc? on weekend mornings during the early 1990s. From 1997 to 1999, Andy was one of the in-vision continuity presenters on Challenge TV. He later appeared on the television show Banzai, where he put random items on a washing machine and viewers at home could bet on which would fall off first.
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Andy Parfitt
Andrew Parfitt (born October 1958, Bristol) is the Executive Director of Talent for ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi . He was the Controller of BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom, and held that role from 1998-2011, taking over from Matthew Bannister. He was also the controller of BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network, BBC Popular Music and BBC Switch.
He went to Ashton Park Comprehensive School in Bower Ashton, Bristol. He then went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (now an associate college of UWE). From 1978-9, he was the assistant stage manager at the Bristol Arts Centre.
Parfitt joined the BBC in 1980 working as a Studio Manager. He spent some time with BFBS in the Falkland Islands, before returning to the UK in 1984. He became a producer in BBC Education in 1985, then joined Radio 4 in 1987 and produced Pick of the Week and Bookshelf. He helped set up Radio 5, and became the network's Assistant Editor in 1989. He joined Radio 1 as Chief Assistant to the Controller in 1993. A year later he was promoted first to Editor, Commissioning and Planning and soon after to Managing Editor. In 1997, he became the network's Deputy Controller when Matthew Bannister was appointed Director of BBC Radio.
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Andy Peebles
Andy Peebles (born 13 December 1948 in Hampstead, London) is a radio DJ.
The son of a head postmaster, Peebles attended Bishop's Stortford College, Hertfordshire before training in hotel management at Bournemouth College Of Technology. After DJing at a college dance he was offered a job at Samantha's in Bournemouth. He worked at Chelsea Village,The Scotch of St James in London and at the Hardrock in Manchester.
He began his broadcasting career in 1973, presenting a Saturday morning show for BBC Radio Manchester. In 1974, Peebles helped launch Manchester's Piccadilly Radio where he first broadcast Andy Peebles' Soul Train, before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1978, where he presented the Monday-Thursday 8-10pm evening show.
In September 1979, Peebles briefly presented weekday afternoons, taking over from Tony Blackburn, before moving to a 10.30am-12.30pm weekday show.
Peebles' name was thrust into the media spotlight in December 1980 when John Lennon was murdered in New York. He had conducted the last British media interview with Lennon at the Hit Factory recording studio, two days before Lennon's death. The Lennon interview was later published in print as The Lennon Tapes, now in print as The Last Lennon Tapes.
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Angellica Bell
Angellica Bell (born 24 March 1976 in London)[citation needed] is a British television and radio presenter.
Born in 1976 of St. Lucian heritage, Bell was educated in Ealing, West London at Notting Hill & Ealing High School. She later earned her BA Honours degree in Politics.
2000–2006
Bell joined CBBC in May 2000. She became its main anchor of shows, including That's Genius!, Xchange, 50/50 and Short Change. She has also presented EastEnders Xtra and So You Think You Can Dance.
From 2004 to 2005 she presented CBBC's The Saturday Show.
She presented Holiday Hitsquad, the BBC travel programme formerly known as Departure Lounge.
On 1 December 2006, Bell announced she was leaving CBBC.
2007–2009
Bell's break into adult-mainstream programming appeared on BBC One where she presented The Great British Village Show, with Alan Titchmarsh and James Martin, which was broadcast in the spring of 2007.
Between 3 March and 16 March 2007, Bell appeared in the celebrity Comic Relief does Fame Academy.
Also in 2007, she presented Dance Xtra for BBC Three and Children in Need.
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Annie Mac
Annie Mac (born Annie MacManus; 18 July 1978 in Dublin) is an Irish DJ and television presenter who hosts an eponymous electronic dance music show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom which airs at 7:00 pm on Friday evenings as well as a Sunday evening show alongside co-presenter Nick Grimshaw.
Annie Mac was born in Dublin, Ireland. She studied English Literature at Queens University, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Annie lives in London with her boyfriend, fellow club and Radio 1 DJ, Toddla T. Her brother, Davey McManus, was the lead singer and guitarist in The Crocketts.
Annie currently hosts a number of shows on Radio 1. Her main show, Annie Mac's Mash Up, airs 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Friday nights. She also hosted BBC Switch with Nick Grimshaw on Sunday evenings from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm until 21 March 2010. After this date they moved to 10:00pm - midnight with a new show simply called Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac. She is currently one of only two presenters on the station to present shows in both the specialist and entertainment sector, the other being Huw Stephens.
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Annie Nightingale
Anne "Annie" Avril Nightingale MBE (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio broadcaster. She is most commonly known by the more informal name of Annie. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 and, since the death of John Peel in October 2004, is its longest-serving presenter.
After attending Lady Eleanor Holles School, Hampton, London and the Polytechnic of Central London School of Journalism Nightingale began her career as a journalist in Brighton. In the 1960s she wrote columns for the Daily Express, the Daily Sketch and Cosmopolitan magazine.
She started at Radio 1 on 1 January 1970 with a Sunday evening show. Later she then hosted the singles review show What's New in the early 1970s before graduating to a late-night progressive rock show, which was simulcast on the Radio 2 FM frequency.
In the late 1970s she presented a Sunday afternoon request show and by 1980 was presenting a Friday night show and the non-music-based Radio 1 Mailbag. In 1978 Nightingale began presenting the The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC2; during her tenure the show moved away from its progressive rock bias and embraced more modern, popular styles such as punk rock and new wave.
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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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Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE (born 22 May 1943) is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment. For many years she was most noted as the choreographer of numerous West End and Broadway musicals, films and television shows, but she has since achieved mainstream fame as a judge on television talent shows including Strictly Come Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance. On 15 April 2010, she made her first appearance as a panellist for the ITV1 television series Loose Women.
Phillips was born in 1943 and grew up in Prestwich, Lancashire, England. She is Jewish and has a brother, Ian and a sister, Karen. When Phillips was 15, her mother, who had been suffering from leukaemia, died aged 43. Her father died of Alzheimer's at age 89.
Phillips originally wanted to be a ballet dancer and began dance classes at the age of three, studying ballet and tap dance at the Muriel Tweedy School in Manchester. Her mother had always expressed a desire to dance, which inspired Phillips into pursuing dance professionally.
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Artem Chigvintsev
Artem Chigvintsev (Russian: Артём Чигвинцев; born 12 June 1982)[citation needed] is a Russian professional dancer, born at Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, RSFSR, Soviet Union, specialising in Latin dancing.
He moved to the United States in 2003, and began dancing with champion ballroom dancer Giselle Peacock, who became his wife. The couple separated eight months later when he auditioned to appear as a contestant on the first series of So You Think You Can Dance. Chigvintsev was eliminated alongside his fellow contestant Melissa Vella, and became an assistant choreographer for season two.
He also appeared on Dancing with the Stars and toured with the Dancing with the Stars live show.
Chigvintsev joined the cast of Burn The Floor. He performed both on Broadway and more recently in the West End.
In September 2010, Chigvintsev joined Strictly Come Dancing season 8 as a professional dancer, where he was partnered with actress Kara Tointon. The pair achieved good scores in the first five weeks of 30, 32, 31, 32, and 37. In week 5, they were awarded the first 10 of the series by Alesha Dixon for their paso doble. In week 6 they were top of the leaderboard with their salsa. They also had good scores for the next five weeks of 36, 38, 35, 34, and 38. In week 11, they got their highest score of 39 for the Viennese Waltz and Rumba and got the maximum 5/5 for the swing-a-thon. Chigvintsev and Tointon made it to the final along with Matt Baker and Pamela Stephenson. The pair went on to win the competition, beating Matt Baker and his partner Aliona Vilani into second place to be crowned series champions for 2010 . Chigvintsev is one of three professionals to win the series as a first time Strictly pro.
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Ben Shephard
Benjamin Peter "Ben" Shephard, also known as "Sheps" (born Wednesday 11 December 1974) is an English television presenter who currently works for Sky Sports. His most recognised work is with the now defunct breakfast station GMTV as well as various roles within ITV.
Shephard attended Chigwell School in Essex, and went on to achieve a 2:1 BA Hons degree from the University of Birmingham in Dance, Drama & Theatre Arts. A West Ham United supporter, he has also received honours in both rugby and football.
On 30 June 2010, he announced his departure from GMTV two months earlier than planned in order to spend time with his family and do some charity work across Britain On 27 July, he announced he is signing a new contract with Sky Sports. He will work on live football and co-present Goals On Sunday in a deal worth a reported £495,000 a year On 30 July, he presented his final GMTV show. On 8 August 2010, he started doing work for Sky Sports on the show Goals on Sunday whilst doing a number of new projects with ITV.
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Benji B
Benjamin Benstead, known as Benji B, is a British DJ and radio presenter. He presents a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 in the 2am – 4am slot Wednesday nights / Thursday mornings previously inhabited by Mary Anne Hobbs.
Benji B is a DJ and broadcaster from London, UK. He has presented an influential radio show on BBC Radio 1Xtra for the past 10 years since the station's launch in 2002. As a DJ he is known for playing music from the entire spectrum of soulful music, primarily hip hop, house, soul, electronic, Detroit techno, dubstep, boogie, disco and more. Benji B has been DJing for fifteen years and plays all over the globe all year round.
Benji is also the resident at the monthly club night he runs in London called Deviation. The Deviation night regularly showcases famous DJs and producers, such as Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Skream, Mark Pritchard, Moodymann, Mala, Marc Mac, MJ Cole, and was the first night in Europe at which Flying Lotus and Dâm-Funk played. There have been one-off Deviation nights at Fabric featuring Madlib and J-Rocc and in Madrid, Spain. In March 2010 the night moved from its home at Gramaphone to CAMP on Old Street.
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Bill Bellamy
William "Bill" Bellamy (born April 7, 1965) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He currently resides in California. Bellamy first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or uttering before a televised audience, the phrase "booty call", described as a late night call to a potential paramour with the intention of meeting strictly for sex.
Bellamy attended Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey before moving on to major in economics at Rutgers University.
For many years, Bellamy was a staple on MTV, a VJ and the host of several MTV programs including MTV Jamz and MTV Beach House. He went on to star in a number of movies, including Fled, Love Jones, The Brothers, How to Be a Player, Getting Played and Any Given Sunday. He also appeared on two episodes of the TV show Kenan and Kel. Additionally, he played Skeeter on the Nickelodeon television show Cousin Skeeter.
In 2002, Bill Bellamy was given a co-starring role in the Fox Network television show Fastlane alongside Peter Facinelli and Tiffani Thiessen.
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Bill Cotton
Sir William Frederick "Bill" Cotton CBE (23 April 1928 – 11 August 2008) was a British television producer and executive, and the son of big-band leader Billy Cotton.
Following a secondary education at the independent school Ardingly College, he joined BBC Television as an in-house producer of light entertainment programmes in 1956, working on various programmes such as his father’s Billy Cotton Band Show and popular music programme Six-Five Special.
In 1970, Cotton was promoted to Head of Light Entertainment, following the death of Tom Sloan in May. In this position, Cotton was responsible for overseeing the production of a whole series of popular and iconic comedy programmes, including The Morecambe and Wise Show (1968), Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), The Two Ronnies (1971) and Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game (1971). Cotton's era was generally seen as the most popular in the history of BBC Light Entertainment, with programmes such as Morecambe and Wise becoming icons of British popular culture and drawing huge audiences, while the more subversive Monty Python provided a more cutting-edge, contemporary and daring complement.
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Billy Cotton
William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969), better known as Billy Cotton, was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Today, he is mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, although his musical talent emerged as early as the 1920s. In his younger years Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer for Brentford F.C. (and later, for the then Athenian league club Wimbledon, now AFC Wimbledon), an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth which he piloted himself.
Born in Smith Square, London, to Joseph and Susan Cotton, Cotton was a choirboy and started his musical career as a drummer. He enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers by falsifying his age and saw service in World War I in Malta and Egypt, before landing at Gallipoli in the middle of an artillery barrage. Later he was recommended for a commission and learned to fly Bristol Fighter aircraft. He flew solo for the first time in 1918, the same day the Royal Flying Corps became the Royal Air Force. He was then not yet 19 years old.
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Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole (born 23 April 1976) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He is most famous for appearing on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer. He has also judged three seasons of New Zealand's own Dancing with the Stars.
Cole was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has danced since he was six, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nineteen. Before he danced professionally he worked as a builder.
He danced with Camilla Dallerup, a fellow contestant on the BBC's earlier long-running show Come Dancing, as amateurs from 1996, and from 2002-2004 as professionals. They competed for New Zealand: Camilla Dallerup is Danish-born. In 2003 Dallerup and Cole were placed 3rd for Latin American at the UK Closed Championships. During the professional group dances on Strictly Come Dancing, Brendan danced with Karen Hardy for series 3 to 5 then with fellow New Zealander, Hayley Holt, for series 6. His celebrity partner for series six was Lisa Snowdon, with whom he reached the final to be placed third.
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Brian Friedman
Brian L. Friedman, (born May 28, 1977) is an American dancer and choreographer, and has created the choreography for many popular music artists - such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé Knowles and Mariah Carey - as well as for music videos, concert tours and television and film productions. He currently appears as creative director on the The X Factor USA and America's Got Talent.
Friedman was born in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. He is Jewish. He began dancing at the age of 11 in his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, and appeared in various dance shows including Newsies, and Kids Incorporated. By the age of 16, he was responsible for his own dance studio. Friedman trained under Joe Tremaine, Kenny Ortega, Vince Patterson, and Twyla Tharp. As a young dancer, Friedman worked with such artists as Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Celine Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Salt N Pepa, and Patti LaBelle. He has been credited for providing choreography for films such as Charlie’s Angels and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, among others.
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Bruno Brookes
Bruno Brookes (born Trevor Neil Brookes in Stoke-on-Trent, 24 April 1959) is a British radio presenter who became prominent in the 1980s.
Brookes attended Bradwell and Seabridge High Schools. He became a disc jockey through youth club discos in his home town before he sent a successful audition tape to his local station, BBC Radio Stoke. He used to wash cars in order to raise money for buying equipment. He spent three years there before being recruited by BBC Radio 1, the national pop network, where he worked as a stand-in presenter for Steve Wright before taking over the teatime show from Peter Powell.
In addition to this show, Brookes presented a rundown of the UK Top 40 singles chart on Sunday evenings between 1986 and 1990 and between 1992 and 1995.
In 1989, Brookes moved to the weekend breakfast show, co-hosting with Liz Kershaw, and also regularly deputised for Simon Mayo on the weekday breakfast show. Three years later he moved to the weekday early breakfast slot, where he remained until he was sacked in 1995 by Trevor Dann, who said "...why is Bruno on? you know, he seems to have a charmed life, because if the view was 'we must get rid of the dinosaurs', you know we've got this behemoth striding the airwaves of dawn" in the BBC TV Documentary Blood On The Carpet: Walking With Disc Jockeys in 2001.
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Bruno Tonioli
Bruno Tonioli (born 25 November 1955) is an Italian choreographer and TV personality who appears as a judge on the television dance competition Strictly Come Dancing for BBC TV in the UK, and its American adaptation Dancing with the Stars on ABC TV in the US, Tonioli co-created and appeared on the BBC talent show DanceX and its American adaptation, Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann.
In the early 1970s, Tonioli was a member of the Paris-based company La Grande Eugène and later joined the Lindsay Kemp Company. He worked extensively as a freelance dancer, including an appearance in Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" video.
Tonioli has worked in the music business as a choreographer for music videos, stage shows, and tours for artists such as Tina Turner, Sting, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Sinitta, Boy George, and Duran Duran. His close association with Bananarama produced many videos, from "Venus" to "Movin' On". Tonioli choreographed the band Arcadia's music video for their song "Election Day" as documented in a 1980s documentary entitled The Making of Election Day.
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Camilla Dallerup
Camilla Dallerup (born 6 April 1974 in Aalborg) is a British-based Danish ballroom dancer, dance teacher and model.
Dallerup started dancing at the age of two and a half when her mother took her to her first class in Aalborg. She won the Danish Junior Championships at the age of 12. She later moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where she competed with Brendan Cole, who also became her fiancé. In 2003, Dallerup and Cole were placed third in Latin American at the UK Closed Championships, and in the top 12 of the world professionals at the open British championships. She currently dances and runs her business www.TrulyFabulousEvents.com with Ian Waite, with whom she placed second for Latin American at the 2005 UK Closed Championships.
In 2006, Camilla trained Travis Oliver and choreographed his Rumba for the movie Everything To Dance For, in which Brendan Cole also starred.
In September 2007, Dallerup represented the UK in the inaugural Eurovision Dance Contest 2007, along with former dance partner Brendan Cole. They were placed 15th out of sixteen couples.
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Charles McLelland
Charles McLelland 'Fuzz'(19 November 1930 - 2 December 2004) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from 1976 to 1978, and the controller solely of BBC Radio 2 from 1978 to 1980, when the two stations' management teams were separated. Under McLelland, Radio 2 started broadcasting 24 hours a day. He also played a pivotal role in radio planning as chairman of the European Broadcasting Union radio programme committee.
In his earlier life, McLelland served in the Royal Artillery for two years, before joining The Glasgow Herald in 1954 as a sub-editor and leader writer.
McLelland was the head of the BBC Arabic service from 1971 to 1975 and played an important role in feeding the growing interest in Asian music and culture in Britain. To prepare for the job he took a one-year course in Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Lebanon. He left the BBC in 1986 to become director-general of the Association of British Travel Agents in 1987.
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Charlie Sloth
Charlie Sloth is a hip hop artist who was born and raised in Camden Town, North London, England.[citation needed]
Sloth become known for his "Cant forget about UK" track which named pioneers such as MC Duke, Stereo MC's and TY.[citation needed] He also made a remix which featured TY, Stereo MC's, Mc Duke, PRM, Funky DL and many other Pioneers.[citation needed]
Sloth's music career started on London's Pirate radio Stations such as Raw FM, Freek FM and Flex FM where he was best known for his pranks.[citation needed]
In 2007 he won "Most original Video" at the CraveFest awards Canada for his music video "Guided Tour of Camden", which is just what it says, and in which he calls Camden High Street "the mile of murder", and describes the crimes of "the Camden Ripper", murderer Anthony Hardy.
Sloth has also collaborated with US artists such as Craig G.[citation needed]
He is a DJ on BBC Radio 1Xtra, presenting the Hip Hop mix show from 1am - 4am on Saturday mornings, and the Saturday mid-morning show. This show has been important in launching the careers of UK MCs (such as Lowkey) through his "Fire In The Booth" feature.
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Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Ann Cole (née Tweedy; born 30 June 1983), often known professionally as Cheryl, is an English pop and R&B recording artist, songwriter, dancer and model. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality television show Popstars: The Rivals on ITV. The programme announced that Cole had won a place as a member of the girl group, Girls Aloud. Cole has been part of the group's twenty consecutive top-ten singles (including four number one singles) in the UK and five platinum albums (two of which went to number one) and earned five BRIT Award nominations from 2005 to 2010. In 2009, Girls Aloud won "Best Single" with their song "The Promise". In 2009, Girls Aloud announced their musical hiatus and Cole went on to release two solo albums, which both went to number one in the UK: 3 Words (2009) and Messy Little Raindrops (2010). She achieved a number of hits, including two number one singles: "Fight for This Love" and "Promise This". Cole is set to release her third solo album A Million Lights on the 18 June 2012, with lead single "Call My Name" being released on the 10 June 2012.
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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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Chris Moyles
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4.
Born in Leeds, he attended Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds and volunteered to work at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service). He has worked at various radio stations including Radio Luxembourg (under the pseudonym Chris Holmes) and Capital FM. Moyles moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1997 and has remained there ever since, presenting the early breakfast show, a Saturday morning show, the drive time show and currently, the breakfast show. On 7 September 2009 he became Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his irreverent broadcasting style on Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including homophobic and sexist accusations, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. Despite that, Moyles' regular audience figures averages 8 million listeners per annum, and remains one of the more popular presenters on BBC Radio 1.
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Claudia Winkleman
Claudia Anne I. Winkleman (born 15 January 1972) is an English television presenter, film critic, radio personality and journalist.
Winkleman was born in Westminster, London, to a Jewish family, the daughter of Eve Pollard, former editor of the Sunday Express, and Barry Winkleman (born 1939), former publisher of The Times Atlas of the World. Her parents divorced when she was three; both remarried in 1979. Her stepfather is Sir Nicholas Lloyd, former editor of the Daily Express, and her half-sister, from her father's second marriage, to children's author Cindy Black, is actress Sophie Winkleman, wife of Lord Frederick Windsor. She has a younger half-brother, Oliver Lloyd, from her mother's second marriage, to Nicholas Lloyd.
Brought up in the London suburb of Hampstead, Winkleman was educated at the City of London School for Girls and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, obtaining an MA Hons degree in History of Art.
Winkleman's first major television job was in 1991, on the regional discussion programme.Central Weekend. In 1992, she began frequently to appear in the long-running BBC series Holiday, and this continued throughout the mid-1990s. This culminated in a special documentary in which she travelled around the world for 34 days reporting from Japan, India, Costa Rica and Dubai.
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Colin Murray
Colin Murray (born Colin Wright on 10 March 1977) is a Northern Irish sports and music radio and television presenter. He is the current host of the BBC Television show Match of the Day 2 on BBC Two, and the BBC Radio 5 Live shows 5 Live Sport and Fighting Talk, as well as a show on BBC Radio Ulster. He has previously hosted regular shows on Channel 5 television and BBC Radio 1. In 2007, Murray was named Music Broadcaster Of The Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Born and raised in Dundonald, east of Belfast, Murray first trained and worked as a news journalist. With a passion for both music and sport, he later moved into music journalism and publishing, before making his national radio debut in 1999 on Radio 1 in a short spell co-hosting The Session music show. This was followed by a television debut in 2002 as one of six co-presenters on Channel 4's short lived morning show RI:SE. From 2003 onwards, Murray established himself as a music radio presenter on the weekday daytime Colin and Edith show alongside Edith Bowman.
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Comedy Dave
David Lloyd Vitty (born 24 April 1974 in Hong Kong) is a long-term contributor on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 under the nickname 'Comedy Dave'. He was originally a broadcast assistant on the show, but is now the show's head writer and 'Director of Comedy'.
Vitty studied Radio Production at college, but never had any ambitions to be on-air. He began working as a copywriter and then moved onto becoming a "tech op" for Radio 1 on 5 December 1996. In 1997, he then met Chris Moyles - they got on well with each other and Moyles invited Vitty to work with him on his early morning show. When Moyles transferred to drive time in 1998, Vitty went with him and became "Comedy Dave" after comedian Lee Hurst asked Vitty on the show who he was, he said "Super Dave" to which Lee sarcastically responded "Comedy Dave more like".
Vitty supports Everton Football Club and spent much of his youth in Warrington, Cheshire, although he was educated at St Kevins. He married long term girlfriend Emma Pontefract at the Tudor Barn close to Burnham Beeches on 23 August 2003. Live on air on 6 September 2006, he announced that they had divorced. On 24 April 2007, Vitty announced on air that Jayne Sharp, his new television presenter partner, was six months pregnant with his child. Sharp went into labour on 2 August 2007, as announced by Jo Whiley on her mid-morning show. His daughter, Nicole Catherine Vitty, was born, weighing 7 lb 15 oz, on 2 August 2007. Vitty and Sharp then married on 23 August 2008. On 22 April 2011, Vitty and Sharp announced they were to split.
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Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood (born 4 January 1965) is an Australian-British dancer, choreographer, and theatre director in the United Kingdom. He is a patron of the National Osteoporosis Society. Revel Horwood has substantial theatre credits in choreography and directing, but is perhaps best known as a judge on the television programme, Strictly Come Dancing. He published his autobiography in 2008.
Born in Ballarat, Australia in 1965, Horwood started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there. In 1989 he moved to the UK from Australia, and on 20 August 2011 became a British citizen.
In his autobiography, Horwood (nicknamed Craig Revel Horrid) reveals that at the age of 17 he made money by appearing as a drag queen in bars and clubs, and that his relationship with an unnamed celebrity was akin to prostitution.
He has twice undergone plastic surgery. The first occasion was a "nose job" at the age of 18. In 2011, Revel Horwood revealed that he had undergone a breast reduction during 2010 because his "C"-size cups rendered dancing painful.
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Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane Minogue also known as "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer-songwriter, actress, television personality, radio personality, fashion designer and model. She rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time and the soap opera Home and Away, before commencing her career as a pop singer in the early 1990s. Minogue achieved early success with hits such as "Love and Kisses" and "This is It", though by the release of her second album, her popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to make a name for herself with award-winning performances in musicals with Grease and also in Notre Dame De Paris, as well as other acting credits in The Vagina Monologues and as Lady Macbeth. The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with "All I Wanna Do", her first number one UK Club hit.
In 2001, Minogue further returned to musical success with the release of her biggest worldwide hit to date, "Who Do You Love Now?", while her subsequent album, Neon Nights, became the most successful of her career. In the UK, she has achieved twelve consecutive number one dance singles, becoming the best-performing artist on the UK Upfront Club Chart. Since 2007, Minogue has established herself as a successful talent show judge and television personality. She is currently a judge on Australia's Got Talent in Australia and, until 2010, The X Factor in the UK, where she was the winning judge in both 2007 and 2010 with Leon Jackson and Matt Cardle, respectively. On 9 November 2011, Dannii received an honorary doctorate degree in Media and Arts from Southampton Solent University for her 30-year varied career in the showbiz and media industry.
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Darcey Bussell
Darcey Andrea Bussell CBE (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pembleton Crittle on 27 April 1969 in London) is a retired English ballerina. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, she was later employed by the Royal Ballet, where she was promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer and would become recognised as one of the greatest English ballerinas of all time. She has performed as a guest artist with leading international ballet companies and, since retiring from professional ballet in 2007, has continued to be active in the world of dance. She has performed with Katherine Jenkins in the show Viva La Diva, appeared as guest judge on the BBC television show Strictly Come Dancing in 2009, and authored a series of dance books for children. Darcey will be replacing Alesha Dixon on the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel for the 2012 series.
Darcey Bussell was born to businessman John Crittle and his English wife Andrea. After the couple divorced when Darcey was three, her mother remarried and Darcey was adopted by her mother's new husband, Australian dentist Philip Bussell. The family spent some time in Australia, where Darcey attended school before they returned to London for Darcey to be educated at the Fox Primary School.
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Darren Gough
Darren Gough (born 18 September 1970) is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket-taker.
Gough was a right arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman. 1.80 m (5' 11") and broad in beam, he achieved his pace from a good approach to the wicket and a leaping sideways-on action, achieving what was often described as "skiddy" fast bowling. Capable of swinging the ball late, a large number of his wickets were gained through LBW or bowled, often with the inswinging yorker delivery.
Gough retired at the end of the 2008 cricket season with Justin Langer as his final first-class wicket. Justin commented in his BBC column that "Darren Gough will retire as one of the most respected and admired cricketers of our generation." also noting that Gough had commented to Langer after his final match "I am happy to finish with an Aussie in my pocket.". Gough retired on a high being regarded as a model professional in the game and a Yorkshire legend.
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Dat Phan
Dat Phan (born January 25, 1975 in Saigon, South Vietnam), is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian.
When he was a child, he, his mother, and nine of his siblings emigrated from South Vietnam to the United States. They suffered financial hardships throughout his childhood. He grew up in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California, then spent his teenage years in Santee, California, a suburb of San Diego. Phan was voted most successful of his class at his West Hills High School ten year reunion, and was voted into Grossmont College's Walk of Fame.
In 2003, he entered the first season of NBC's stand-up comedy competition reality show, Last Comic Standing. He was picked on by the other contestants due to his relative youth in the comedy world. Nonetheless, Phan was the surprise winner of Last Comic Standing, and subsequently has made cameo appearances in Hollywood films such as Cellular and Love is the Drug. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Dat Phan Productions released the DVD Dat Phan: Live and the CD You Touch, You Buy in stores January 2010 and began preproduction on a movie titled Yellow Fever. He has endorsed the Jade Ribbon Campaign established to fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer.
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Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis (born 25 May 1945), also known professionally as DLT and the Hairy Monster (from 1978 the Hairy Cornflake), is a British radio presenter, best known for his career on BBC Radio 1.
Born David Patrick Griffin in Buxton, Derbyshire, he attended grammar school in Manchester, and his first job was as a graphic designer.
Travis began his radio career at the offshore pirate station Radio Caroline South from the MV Mi Amigo off the Essex coast in September 1965, later moving onto Radio Caroline North from the MV Fredericia off the Isle of Man until mid-August 1967. In 1967, offshore pirate radio was outlawed by the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. Travis moved to Manchester and began working for BBC Radio 1.
Travis's Radio 1 career began in 1968, presenting the Pop North show from Manchester. In 1969, he took over a Sunday morning show from 10am-midday. In 1971, he was promoted to the weekday lunchtime show from 11am-1pm, moving back to Sunday mornings in 1973 and also presenting the Radio 1 Club on Thursdays from 5–7pm.
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David Jensen
David "Kid" Jensen (born July 4, 1950[citation needed]) is a Danish Canadian-born British radio DJ.
Born into a Danish family residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began his career in his home country at the age of sixteen playing jazz and classical music. He then joined Radio Luxembourg at the age of eighteen in 1968. His late-night show, "Kid Jensen's Dimensions," concentrated on "progressive" music and attracted many fans, including former British prime minister Tony Blair. By 1974, Jensen was becoming a TV personality in Britain, hosting pop shows on ITV, and in the mid-1970s he worked for the then-new Radio Trent (now 96 Capital Radio East Midlands) in Nottingham, one of the first legal, land-based commercial radio stations in the UK. During the early part of his career he was billed as "Kid Jensen" and did not use his given name professionally until 1980.
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Dawn Steele
Dawn Anne Steele (born 11 December 1975 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress best known for her roles in the TV series Monarch of the Glen, Sea of Souls & Wild at Heart.
Dawn Steele was born in Glasgow, moved to Milton of Campsie in 1982, attended Kilsyth Academy from around 1987-1993 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow from 1994–1998, supporting her early career as a waitress in the Rogano Restaurant. She graduated with First Class Honours in July 1998, and was the winner of the Silver Medal at the RSAMD in 1998.
She is perhaps best known as Alexandra "Lexie" MacDonald from the hit BBC drama Monarch of the Glen, a part which she played for series 1 - 6 of the show, 1999-2004. In January 2005, she appeared as new character Justine McManus in the second series of the BBC's paranormal drama show Sea of Souls with Iain Robertson and Bill Paterson. Before she teamed up with Iain Robertson to work on Sea of Souls they had previously worked together on The Slab Boys and The Debt Collector. Shortly after, she appeared as a student on the BBC reality show Fame Academy in a second all-celebrity series in aid of the charity Comic Relief does Fame Academy.
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Debra Stephenson
Debra Stephenson (born 4 June 1972 in Kingston upon Hull)[citation needed] is an English actress, comedienne, impressionist and singer.
At the age of fourteen Stephenson appeared on BBC TV's Opportunity Knocks, winning her way through to the All-Winners' Final, broadcast live from the London Palladium. She appeared on Blue Peter doing an impression of Esther Rantzen; she also appeared in other CBBC programmes and was a backing singer on Chris Jarvis's 1997 charity single Glasses.
She was then on TV screens in 1998 in Kay Mellor's comedy drama about women's football, Playing the Field. Stephenson also appeared in the last two episodes of ITV1's adaptation of Catherine Cookson's A Dinner of Herbs in which she played the adult Kate Roystan who falls in love with the son of the woman who murdered her grandfather.
In 1999 she had a more prominent role, playing Shell Dockley in the ITV prison drama Bad Girls. Her performance as the psychotic Dockley earned her consecutive nominations for Best Actress at the National Television Awards in 1999 and 2000. After three years playing one of the show's most popular characters, she left in 2001, returning for one last time in 2003.
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Denise Van Outen
Denise van Outen (born Denise Kathleen Outen, 27 May 1974)[citation needed] is an English actress, singer and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date are as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.
Born Denise Kathleen Outen in Basildon, Essex, she is the youngest of Ted and Kathleen Outen's three children and was brought up a Catholic. She has a brother Terry and sister Jackie.
At the age of seven, she began modelling for knitting patterns, and showed an early flair for performing. This resulted in her attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School. In 1986, at age 12, she played Eponine in Les Misérables alongside fellow Sylvia Young student Melanie Blatt (the role paid her school fees), the Anthony Newley directed production of Stop the World - I Want to Get Off, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
As a teenager she had brief roles on a number of television dramas including Kappatoo and The Bill. She also sang with Cathy Warwick in "girl group" Those2Girls, by which time she had become Denise van Outen. She also did backing vocals with Melanie Blatt for the band Dreadzone.
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Derek Chinnery
Charles Derek Chinnery (born 27 April 1925 in Richmond, London) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 from 1978 to 1985.
He attended Gosforth Grammar School (since 1973 the Gosforth High School).
He joined the BBC in 1941 aged 16. From 1943-7 he was in the RAF. He returned to the BBC in 1947, becoming a producer in 1952.
He took over from Charles McLelland and was succeeded by Johnny Beerling. He relaxed the guidelines on banning records, allowing records to mention a commercial product. He axed Sounds of the Seventies.
He once described Radio 1 listeners as unemployed student louts with no money to spend.
His successor, Johnny Beerling, would also be ex-RAF.
He married Doreen Clarke in 1953 in Marylebone.
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Devin Griffin
Devin Joseph Jordan "Dev" Griffin (born 23 December 1984) is a British actor, radio presenter and DJ who is most commonly known for currently presenting the weekday early breakfast show on BBC Radio 1.
Griffin was born on 23 December 1984 in Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom, to an Irish mother and a Jamaican father. He and his twin sister are the youngest of five siblings. He was educated at The Ravenscroft School and attended the after-school drama club at the Anna Scher Theatre School.
In 2002, whilst studying for his A Levels at The Ravenscroft School, Griffin landed a job co-presenting the children's interactive TV show Smile (credited as DJ Devstar) alongside his childhood friend Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton. Six months into filming, he was approached by Radio 1Xtra to present a Saturday morning show with his Smile co-presenter Reggie; the 'Reg and Dev' show was born. In 2003 Griffin left Smile to concentrate on his radio career, and soon afterwards began presenting a solo show on 1xtra on Sunday mornings. Since September 2009 he has presented the early morning breakfast show (Monday-Friday 4-6:30am).
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Dizzee Rascal
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a UK and US-based rapper, songwriter and record producer of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent. His music is a blend of garage, hip hop, grime, ragga, pop and electronic music, with eclectic samples and more exotic styles. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me", "Bonkers", "Holiday", "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout", his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units.
Mills' Nigerian father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system" he attended St Pauls Way Community School.
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DJ Nihal
DJ Nihal (born Nihal Arthanayake on 1 June 1971 in Harlow, Essex) is an English radio and TV presenter, as well as club night promoter and DJ, broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, BBC Asian Network and since August 2010 BBC Radio 5 Live.
Nihal, born 1 June 1971, to Buddhist[citation needed] Sri Lankan parents, began his involvement in the music industry as a promoter of rap shows in his native Essex while studying at Burnt Mill School, Harlow.
After graduating from university, Nihal began an unsuccessful career as a recording artist. He was briefly a member of alternative hip-hop outfit Collapsed Lung. Nihal attempted to find fame as a rapper and worked with Fun Da Mental and Punjabi MC (in 1995), Badmarsh & Shri, Mentor, Sona Family, and DJ Sanj and has worked as a freelance music journalist, having written for Asiana, Eastern Eye, The Face, Mixmag, Hip Hop Connection,Attitude, Bear magazine, Cage And Aviary Birds and The Observer.
After failing as an artist, in the late 1990s, Arthanayake turned to music promotion working for artists as diverse as Nitin Sawhney, Judge Jules, Mos Def, and Elton John and it was while working for the groundbreaking Asian Beats record label Outcaste Records he promoted, amongst others Badmarsh & Shri's Signs album.
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DJ Spoony
DJ Spoony is the stage name of Johnathan Joseph (born 25 June 1970, Hackney, London) who is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter.
Spoony's career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). He then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the Dreem Teem with Mikee B and Timmi Magic. The Dreem Team then via a groundbreaking show on Galaxy brought UK garage to Radio 1 in January 2000. They guys went on to win a prestigious Sony award in their first year.
He went on to host the Weekend Breakfast show on Radio 1 between October 2003 - Sept 2006. Listeners could join the Early Doors Club, play Judge Fudge, and become a Local Legend. Another long-running feature was Mills & Spoon (a nameplay of the Mills & Boon books), in which Scott Mills read out love stories every Sunday.
On 31 July 2006 the BBC announced that Spoony was to leave Radio 1 after six years with the station to concentrate on Five Live work. His early breakfast slot was replaced by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates. Spoony presented his final Radio 1 show on 17 September 2006. He can currently be heard on Radio 5 Live with 'Spoony meets....'. A series of shows that will see him one-on-one with various personalities from British football. Interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson and David Beckham received critical acclaim.
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Dominic Byrne
Dominic Anthony Byrne (born 10 November 1972) is a newsreader for BBC Radio 1 and a presenter on the BBC News Channel.
Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Byrne attended St Ivo School before attending Bournemouth University. He currently reads the news and the 'made-up' weather on The Chris Moyles Show and on Fearne Cotton's show on BBC Radio 1. In addition, he also presents Newsbeat's Oddbox video clip show on BBC News and Dragon's Den Online, the online spin off from the Dragons' Den TV programme. In December 2011 Dominic Byrne championed the song Dominick the Donkey by Italian American singer Lou Monte on The Chris Moyles Show, helping it achieve a peak chart position of number 3 on the UK Top 40 during Christmas 2011.
Byrne's career began at Kiss 102 in Manchester, reading the breakfast show news. After moving to London he freelanced at Independent Radio News and Virgin Radio.
Byrne has also interviewed many celebrities for the show including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Alan Sugar, David Schwimmer, Uma Thurman, Goldie Lookin' Chain, and more recently Reese Witherspoon, William Shatner, Al Gore, Richard E. Grant, Daniel Craig, Bruce Willis, Bono, Adam Clayton, Daniel Radcliffe, Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Aniston, Jedward, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jennifer Lopez, Elton John, Cameron Diaz and Peppa Pig.
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Doon Mackichan
Doon Mackichan (born Sarah-Doon Mackichan in August 1962) is a British comedian and actress.
Mackichan was born in London and raised in Surrey until age nine, when she and her family moved to Upper Largo, Fife. A Manchester University graduate, she is probably best known as one of the writers and stars of the Channel 4 comedy series Smack the Pony and for appearing in a number of Chris Morris comedy series such as On The Hour, The Day Today, and Brass Eye. She also appeared in the sitcom Beast and was a regular performer in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge and The Mary Whitehouse Experience. She appeared in several of The Comic Strip Presents... films in the early '90s.
She was a contestant in the 2003 BBC charity singing contest, Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in which she came fourth. She also played Victoria Lender in the 1998 film, The Borrowers and appeared in the 1995 comedy Glam Metal Detectives. She appeared in the second series of the BBC comedy Bedtime, and teamed up with her former Smack the Pony co-stars for the film Gladiatress.
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Douglas Muggeridge
Douglas Muggeridge (1928–26 February 1985) was the controller of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 from February 1969 until 1976.
Muggeridge first worked as a reporter for the Liverpool Post, joining the BBC in 1956 as a radio producer. He was appointed as controller of Radio 1 & 2 in February 1969. Following on from Robin Scott, the first Controller for the two networks, Muggeridge tried to up-date the BBC's thinking on pop music radio. Although not a great pop music fan himself, he was responsible for giving both networks their individual identities and for introducing a twice-daily news magazine programme to Radio 1. Entitled 'Newsbeat' the programme still features on the network today. In 1971, he appointed Rodney Collins - known as a supporter of pirate radio through his weekly music newspaper columns - as Publicity Officer for the two networks in an attempt to gain more coverage for Radio 1 in music papers such as the NME, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror. In 1971, Muggeridge signed up leading BBC broadcasters such as Tony Blackburn, Jimmy Young and Pete Murray to long-term contracts in the face of the challenge from the new local commercial radio stations. He was later the Director of Programmes and Deputy Managing Director of Radio, before becoming Managing Director of External Broadcasting in 1981, overseeing the BBC World Service. He was nephew of Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Ed Stewart
Ed Stewart (born 23 April 1941 in Exmouth, Devon) is a radio broadcaster from England. His real name is Edward Mainwaring but he is known by the nickname Ed Stewpot Stewart.
Stewart attended St Edward's School, Oxford and his broadcasting career began in Hong Kong. While touring there as bass player with a jazz group, he got a job on a local radio station as a sports commentator, then as an announcer and, finally, as a disc jockey. He remained at this station for 4 years. In July 1965 Stewart became a DJ on the offshore station Radio London and was its chief DJ by the time it closed on 14 August 1967.
In 1967, Stewart became one of the first DJs to join BBC Radio 1, presenting Happening Sunday and What's New. In 1968, Stewart took over the weekend morning Junior Choice show, where he remained for 12 years. The show reached 17 million listeners. In 1972 he also presented Radio 1's Sunday Sport show. One week in early 1972, he stood in for Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops, as well as sitting in for the likes of "Diddy" David Hamilton and Terry Wogan through the 1970s.
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Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman (born 15 January 1974) is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music festivals.
Bowman's first on-screen job on TV was as a news reader on MTV UK. She went on to host many shows for the station, including co-presenting chart show Hitlist UK with Cat Deeley, with whom she also presented travel show Roadtripping for BBC Choice in 2002.
She became a presenter on Channel 4's breakfast show RI:SE when it launched on 29 April 2002.
In 2004, she co-presented the BBC Scotland series Teen Commandments with Cameron Stout. After occasional appearances in 2003, Bowman co-presented Top of the Pops up until the end of the series, replacing Fearne Cotton while she was away. In total she appeared on the show ten times including the final weekly episode. She returned to Top of the Pops for the 2006 Christmas Special.
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Emperor Rosko
Mike Pasternak, better known by his stage name of Emperor Rosko (born December 26, 1942) is a well known pop radio presenter.
Born Michael Joseph Pasternak, he is the son of Hollywood film producer Joe Pasternak. He was influenced in his career choice by KYA Radio Los Angeles DJs Lord Tim Hudson and Wolfman Jack. Rosko's opportunity to broadcast came whilst in the US Navy where he presented a show on an aircraft carrier. He then went to Europe and hosted sponsored programmes in France and Belgium.
He joined Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship off the coast of England, in 1964. There, his pacey American style soon made Rosko one of the station's best-loved DJs. He then was heard on French-language stations Radio Monte Carlo and Radio Luxembourg.
Rosko compered the Stax/Volt Tour of Europe in 1967 and can be heard introducing Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Sam & Dave, and Otis Redding on the two-album set The Stax/Volt Tour in London, recorded at the Finsbury Park Astoria (later the Rainbow Theatre on 17 March 1967. It is Rosko who is heard introducing soul singer Otis Redding, as well as encouraging the crowd to chant and spell his name on Redding's album Live in Europe, recorded on March 17 and March 21, 1967.
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English people
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, a Germanic people originally from Northern Germany who migrated to Britain.
Historically, the English population is descended from several genetically similar peoples—the earlier Britons (or Brythons), the Germanic tribes that settled in the area, including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, who founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland), and the later Danes, Normans and other groups. Following the Act of Union in 1707, in which the Kingdom of England became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, English customs and identity became closely aligned with British customs and identity.
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Fearne Cotton
Fearne Cotton (born 3 September 1981) is an English television and radio presenter who is known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show. She currently presents Radio 1's weekday mid-morning programme, having replaced long-time host Jo Whiley, and is a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.
Cotton was born in Northwood, London to Lyn and Mick Cotton; she has a younger brother, Jamie. Her father was a signwriter for events such as Live Aid and her mother worked in alternative therapy. She grew up in Eastcote, Hillingdon and was educated at Haydon School. She is a pescatarian and an animal lover. She runs 5 km at least three times a week, and has participated in several half marathons for charity. Former BBC executive Bill Cotton (1928–2008) was her paternal grandfather's cousin. He was the son of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton.
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Femi Oke
Femi Oke (born 30 June 1966) is a British television presenter and journalist. Femi was born in Britain to Nigerian parents. She is a graduate of Birmingham University where she received a bachelors degree in English literature and language. She currently lives in New York and appears as a daily newscaster, contributor and interviewer on Public Radio International/WNYC's morning public radio news program, The Takeaway.
Oke is a former anchor for CNN International's World Weather service at the network's global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. She presented weather segments for the programs Your World Today and World News. She also regularly hosted Inside Africa, now fronted by Isha Sesay, a programme that looks into the economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa.
Femi began her career at age 14 working as a junior reporter for the United Kingdom's first talk radio station LBC. During 1993 Femi worked for a cable station called Wire TV, this was pre-Janet Street Porter's L!VE TV. Femi presented several shows for the station, including the popular Soap on the Wire on a Saturday afternoon, with soap opera expert Chris Stacey. In the early 1990s, Femi presented the BBC's flagship educational science programme Science In Action, and was also a presenter of Top of the Pops. She has also worked for GMTV, London Weekend Television, Men & Motors and Carlton Television. She joined CNN in 1999, and worked there until 2008.
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Fred MacAulay
Frederick "Fred" MacAulay (born 29 December 1956) is a Scottish comedian. He presents a daily BBC Scotland radio programme, and has appeared on numerous TV shows.
Born in Perth, MacAulay was educated at Killin Primary School, at Rattray Primary School and Blairgowrie High School, both in Blairgowrie, and at Perth Academy. In 1978 he graduated from the University of Dundee with an MA in accountancy and jurisprudence. He went on to work as an accountant in a number of companies, including the Cairngorm Chairlift Company in Aviemore. In 1984 he married Aileen; the couple have three children.
MacAulay's first experience of stand-up comedy came at Bar Point in the "West End" of Paisley. He enjoyed vocal support from some close friends as he appeared alongside the established Glasgow comedian Bruce Morton. From there, in 1988 he performed at Mayfest festival in Glasgow, which burgeoned into a semi-professional career, including jobs as a warm-up act for TV programmes including Have I Got News for You and for comedians Paul Merton and Rory Bremner. His first on-screen appearance came on STV's stand-up programme The Funny Farm. MacAulay became a full-time professional comedian in 1993.[citation needed]
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Gail Porter
Gail Porter (born 23 March 1971 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish television presenter.
Porter attended Portobello High School. She studied a BTEC HND in Media Production at West Herts College. After making an unsuccessful bid to join the presentation team of the BBC children's show Blue Peter, Porter has tended to present family-friendly television programmes, or ones aimed directly at children. This includes The Movie Chart Show, Top of the Pops, and Live & Kicking, work for CITV, and other programmes such as The Big Breakfast and Gail Porter's Big 90s for VH1.
In the late 1990s she began to pose for photos in men's magazines such as FHM. Probably the best-known product of her many photo sessions is one particular still in which she is seen completely nude from behind. The image became well known due to the events of one night in 1999, when FHM, along with guerrilla marketing company Cunning Communications and projectionist/artist Malcolm Litson and Jason Bridges, beamed an enormous projection of her onto the exterior of the Houses of Parliament, with an accompanying message urging people to vote for Porter in the FHM Top 100 Sexiest Women Poll. In her autobiography, Porter claims that she did not know about the stunt until it was reported in the news the following day.
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Gary Barlow
Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer. He is frontman and lead vocalist of pop group Take That and the head judge on the The X Factor. Barlow is one of Britain's most successful songwriters. He has had two Number 1 singles and a Number 1 album as a solo artist, and has had sixteen top 5 hits, eleven Number 1 singles and seven Number 1 albums with Take That. He is also a six-time recipient of the Ivor Novello Award and has sold over 45 million records worldwide with Take That.
In Barlow's autobiography, he relates that his love of music began at an early age.
"I was one of those kids that's forever dancing in front of the TV looking at my reflection."
He said he enjoyed watching Top of the Pops on television, and when he was ten years old, he watched an episode of the programme in which Depeche Mode were performing their new single "Just Can't Get Enough". Barlow was mesmerised by the sound and decided he wanted a keyboard for Christmas. For the next few years, he spent most of his spare time teaching himself to play his favourite songs.
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Gary Davies
Gary Davies (born in Manchester on 13 December 1957) is a British broadcaster. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a BBC Radio 1 disc jockey and also a regular presenter of Top of the Pops.
After working in marketing for a mail order company and managing a Manchester disco, Davies began his broadcasting career at Manchester's Piccadilly Radio in 1979 before joining BBC Radio 1 in 1982 to present a Saturday late night show. Within weeks he was on the roster to present Top Of The Pops on BBC television alongside his Radio 1 colleagues. He initially spoke with strong hints of a Mancunian accent, but by the mid-1980s he had adopted an exaggerated mid-Atlantic twang, which would become the object of much parody by the early 1990s .
In 1984 Davies was given the slot for which he became one of radio's biggest stars when he took over the Radio 1 lunchtime show. He called it The Bit In The Middle and it consisted of humorous features, such as The Day-To-Day Challenge, in which the same person would go on air each weekday to answer quiz questions and try to upgrade their prize, and Willy On The Plonker, which involved a crazed piano-playing of a well-known hit for listeners to identify.
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Gemma Cairney
Gemma Cairney (born 19 March 1985) is a British radio presenter and former fashion stylist, known for presenting the mid-afternoon programme on BBC Radio 1Xtra. She is now BBC Radio 1 DJ covering the weekend show 7-10am.
Prior to her career in radio, she was a stylist for acts such as Florence and the Machine and The Pigeon Detectives. Then, following a course at Point Blank Music College Gemma fronted several radio shows for Channel 4's 4radio before landing the role of co-presenter for Big Brother's Big Ears for Big Brother 2008 alongside Iain Lee. Gemma began her 1Xtra career co-hosting the Breakfast Show with legendary bald co-presenter Trevor Nelson. Prior to starting on BBC 1Xtra, she co-presented the Kiss FM[disambiguation needed
] breakfast show for two weeks in August 2008.
In autumn 2008 and spring 2010 Gemma was the roving reporter for T4's Frock Me, hosting alongside Alexa Chung and Henry Holland. Other TV appearances have included reaching second place on Pick Me MTV and a regular slot as a co-presenter of Channel 4's online series Bite. In November 2010 she was a guest panelist on ITV2's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here Now! Her sister, Laura once filled in for her as Gemma reportedly got lost in the jungle and had to be rescued by Ant or Dec. Gemma also hosted the television coverage of 1Xtra's live music events and contributed to the BBC's Glastonbury coverage.
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Geri Halliwell
Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is a British pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author and actress. Halliwell came to international prominence in the late 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of girl group the Spice Girls. She reportedly amassed a $30 million fortune during her last two years in the group. Halliwell launched her solo career in 1998, releasing her album Schizophonic. She has since released two more studio albums – Scream If You Wanna Go Faster and Passion – as well as four singles that reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "Mi Chico Latino", "Lift Me Up", "Bag It Up" and "It's Raining Men". In 2008 Halliwell published a book series named Ugenia Lavender. As a solo artist, Halliwell has sold 12 million records worldwide, and been nominated for four Brit Awards (in 2000 and 2002). In 1999 she wrote her first autobiography If Only, in which she described her life as a Spice Girl. Her second autobiography was released in 2002. She is expected to release her fourth studio album "Putting On The Bling" in 2012.
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Gina Yashere
Gina Obedapo Yashere (born 6 April 1974) is a British comedian of Nigerian descent.
Yashere was born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Her mother was an immigrant from Nigeria. Before becoming a comedian, she worked as a lift maintenance technician.
Yashere was a finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition in 1996.
She has appeared in many television programmes. She may be best known for appearing in the comedy series The Lenny Henry Show, where she played Tanya and Mrs. Omokorede, the pushy Mum. She voiced Keisha on Bromwell High. In 2005, she appeared in the reality television series, Comic Relief does Fame Academy, in aid of Comic Relief, and she co-hosted the 2006 and 2007 MOBO Awards alongside 2 face and Coolio. She has made numerous appearances on Mock the Week, and appears on the CBBC show Gina's Laughing Gear.
In 2007, Yashere was featured on the reality show Last Comic Standing, auditioning in Sydney, Australia. She was among the ten finalists, but on 1 August 2007, she and Dante were the first two finalists eliminated.
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Harry Judd
Harry Mark Christopher Judd (born 23 December 1985) is an English musician who is best known as the drummer for British pop rock band McFly, along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones. He won the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
Judd was born in the town of Chelmsford in Essex in southern England, and educated at two leading co-educational independent schools: at Old Buckenham Hall in the village of Brettenham in the Babergh district of Suffolk in eastern England, followed by Uppingham School in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland in central England.
Judd appeared in Busted's music video for their single "Crashed the Wedding", after which he joined McFly following auditions. Alongside his fellow band mates in McFly, Judd is often on TV programmes including The Paul O'Grady Show, T4's Freshly Squeezed and BBC programme Sound.
In January 2005, McFly guest-starred in an episode of the long-running BBC1 drama series Casualty.
In May 2006, McFly starred in the teen comedy film Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine, which was released in the US on 12 May 2006 and in the UK on 30 June 2006. They played themselves in the film and the soundtrack featured a variety of their songs from their first two albums. During filming, rumours sparked of a relationship between Judd and Lohan. However, Lohan's reps denied this and said that it was just a publicity stunt. Judd spoke of his romance in the Sun at the end of last year (2011) saying they spent the night together "We did things teenagers do. We went far enough but not the full home run." Judd commented.
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Holly Willoughby
Holly Marie Willoughby (born February 10, 1981), is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK. In 2006, she won a BAFTA and was chosen to present Dancing on Ice, a UK celebrity talent show, shown on the ITV network which drew in an average of 8.9 million viewers in the 2010 series. She later stepped down from the role in 2011 due to new commitments and was replaced by Christine Bleakley. In July 2009, she was selected as a replacement for Fern Britton on This Morning. She began presenting on This Morning on 14 September 2009, alongside Phillip Schofield. On 23 November 2011, it was announced that Willoughby would be hosting the singing show The Voice UK on the BBC along with Reggie Yates.
The younger of two daughters of the manager of a double-glazing company and an air stewardess, Willoughby was educated at the independent Burgess Hill School For Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex. She went on to attend The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham.[citation needed]
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Huw Stephens
Huw Stephens (born 25 May 1981) is a radio presenter currently broadcasting shows on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Cymru.
Stephens was born in Cardiff, Wales, the son of the author and literary journalist Meic Stephens. He joined Radio 1 at the age of 17 in 1999 as part of the station's new regional output where he hosted the Wales opt-out with Bethan Elfyn and became the youngest ever Radio 1 presenter. Before this he was a DJ on Rookwood Sound Hospital Radio in Llandaff, Cardiff.
In 2005, Stephens gained a national slot when he became one of the replacements for the late John Peel as part of the station's One Music strand, which was intended to keep the spirit of Peel's show going with DJs Rob da Bank and Ras Kwame. Stephens now broadcasts a twice-weekly slot Wednesday at 9pm and at Midnight. He also stands in for various presenters both during the day and nighttime on the station.
Stephens is a fluent Welsh speaker and as well as on Radio 1, he is also a presenter of BBC Radio Cymru's music strand C2, on Monday evenings at 10pm. He also presented Bandit, a television show on Welsh-language channel S4C which showcased Welsh language music talent, until it was taken off the air in December 2011. He founded the "Boobytrap Singles Club", which released limited singles by Mclusky, The Keys and Zabrinski amongst others. Stephens is one of the founders of Welsh language label Am, whose releases include Mr Huw, Radio Luxembourg and Threatmantics. In 2009 he released a compilation called "Music Sounds Better With Huw Volume 1" via Wichita Recordings on iTunes. It featured 21 up and coming artists, including Gold Panda, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Banjo or Freakout and Young Fathers.
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Iliza Shlesinger
Iliza Vie Shlesinger (born February 22, 1983) is an American comedian, winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing in the series' sixth season and host of the syndicated dating show Excused.
Shlesinger is from Dallas, Texas, where she attended the private Greenhill School and participated on the school's Improv Team. She is Jewish. Shlesinger performed with ComedySportz Dallas. She attended the University of Kansas for her freshman year. She also participated in Semester at Sea. She then transferred to Emerson College in Boston and majored in Film. There she was a member of the campus' comedy sketch group, Jimmy’s Traveling All Stars, and refined her writing and editing skills. After graduating from college, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up. She was one of the most popular members of the "Whiteboy Comedy" group of stand-up comedians in Los Angeles which brought her to the stage at The Improv in Hollywood.
Shlesinger hosts The Weakly News on TheStream.tv. In 2007, Shlesinger won Myspace’s So You Think You're Funny contest and has been featured as the G4 network’s Myspace Girl of the Week. Her television credits include E! Network's Forbes Celebrity 100, TV Guide’s America’s Next Top Producer, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed, and History Channel’s History of a Joke. She has written for Heavy.com and had her own show on GOTV’s mobile network. Schlesinger is a contributor to "Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black," a History Channel holiday special. Shlesinger was the narrator on the 2009 documentary Imagine It!² The Power of Imagination.
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Jackie Brambles
Jackie Brambles (born 1 March 1967), formerly known as Jakki Brambles, is an English journalist, radio DJ and television presenter.
Brambles was born in Essex, England and grew up in Ayr on the West coast of Scotland, where she began her radio career on local radio station West Sound in Ayr when she was 19.
She then joined Capital Radio as its youngest DJ, and after a year on the evening show joined the BBC in 1988 as the first female presenter to get her own prime time show on the national pop network BBC Radio 1. She took on the Radio 1 early show, initially at weekends, before graduating to the weekday equivalent. She also joined her colleagues on the Top Of The Pops presentation roster. When Sybil Ruscoe left her role as Simon Mayo's weather and travel reporter, Brambles took over that slot, thereby keeping her on air every day over two separate programmes. On her own shows she sometimes worked standing up in order to maintain a more "live" feel, claiming she found it difficult to keep her demeanour lively enough if she was seated. The combination with Mayo worked well but a minor revamp in 1990 saw Brambles progress to a 90-minute drivetime show and then, when Gary Davies went to weekends, promotion to the important lunchtime slot.
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Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil (born 25 February 1986) is a British television presenter and model. She has appeared on various Channel 4 programmes, and has been a presenter of T4 since 2009.
Jamil, nickname "Jam-Jam", was born in Hampstead. . At school, Jamil says she was "bookish and shy [...] Back then it was all about comfort. I literally didn't care what I wore". Her interests include art and biology.
At the age of 17, Jamil was struck by a car, breaking several bones and damaging her spine. Jamil was confined to bed for a year; she weighed 126 pounds (57 kg) before the accident and gained 77 pounds (35 kg) while convalescing. She was told that she may never walk again, but after steroid treatment and physiotherapy she slowly recovered, using a Zimmer frame to start walking. She rapidly lost weight, returning to her original weight.
Jamil taught English to foreign students – including a nun and monk – at the Callan School of English, Oxford Street, London; she also worked as a model, a photographer, and as a fashion scout for Premier Model Management Limited.
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Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum (born 20 August 1979) is a British pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter, of Anglo-Burmese and Jewish extraction. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.
Cullum was born in Rochford, Essex. He was brought up in Hullavington, Wiltshire.
His mother, Yvonne, is a secretary of Anglo-Burmese origin, whose family settled in North England after Burma's independence; his father, John Cullum, worked in finance. His paternal grandfather was a British Army officer, while his paternal grandmother was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who sang in Berlin nightclubs.
Cullum was educated at Grittleton House School, an independent school in the village of Grittleton, near the market town of Chippenham in Wiltshire, followed by the sixth form of Sheldon School, a state comprehensive school in the same county. He then rejected a place at the University of Oxford to go on to study English Literature and Film Studies at the University of Reading, where he graduated with First Class Honours.
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Jamie Theakston
Jamie Theakston (born 21 December 1970 in Ditchling, East Sussex) is an English television and radio presenter, producer and actor.
Theakston was educated at two independent schools: the preparatory school of Hurstpierpoint College near the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, followed by Lancing College in the village of Lancing,[citation needed] also in West Sussex. He then attended BHASVIC in Hove, followed by the University of North London, where he studied for a degree in business studies.[citation needed] Whilst at university, he read traffic bulletins on BBC GLR as he wanted to get into sports reporting.
Before embarking on a broadcasting career, he worked for auctioneers Christies, and was going to study art history at the Courtauld Institute. After undertaking football and cricket reports for both GLR and Radio 5 Live, he was spotted by the BBC's head of sport and presented GLR's Saturday Sport Show at the age of 23. He then presented numerous shows for Radio 5 Live including Sportscall, The Jamie Theakston Cricket Show and Sport on Wednesday. Theakston joined Radio 1 in April 1999 to present the Sunday Lunch show. He fronted the 'One Big Sunday' events during 2000. He moved to a Saturday morning slot in 2002.
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Janice Long
Janice Long (born 5 April 1955) is an English radio broadcaster currently working on BBC Radio 2. Her show is on Sunday to Thursday nights from midnight to 02:00. She is the older sister of TV and radio personality Keith Chegwin.
Following a career in the airline business, Long became a station assistant at BBC Radio Merseyside in Liverpool. She started presenting shows for the station shortly thereafter. After interviewing Paul Gambaccini, the latter recommended her to Radio 1.
Janice joined Radio 1 in December 1982 with her own Saturday evening show from 7:30 to 10 pm. From 1984 to 1987 she presented the Monday – Thursday Janice Long Show from 7.30-10pm, a mix of new music and current affairs, and record review programme Singled Out on Friday evenings from 5.45-7pm. On television, Long was a regular presenter of the BBC One chart show Top of the Pops between December 1982 and August 1988, and she returned to co-present its final show in July 2006.
In 1989, she joined London station BBC GLR, taking over from Nick Abbot on the breakfast show. At the time, GLR was being run by future Radio 1 controller Matthew Bannister and future Radio 1 executive Trevor Dann. In 1991, Long left the breakfast show of her own volition but continued to work for the station, where she took over a weekend show. In addition to this, she was heard presenting and producing occasional shows on the old BBC Radio 5. Long became involved with XFM in London, when it had a restricted service licence, and played a crucial part in its bid for a permanent licence.
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Jay Mohr
Jay Ferguson Cox Mohr (born Jon Ferguson Mohr; August 23, 1970) is an American actor and stand up comedian. He is known for his role as Professor Rick Payne in the TV series Ghost Whisperer, the title role in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried, which ran from 2008 to 2010, as a featured player for two seasons on the long running sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and the back-stabbing sports agent Bob Sugar in Jerry Maguire. Mohr could also be known for his near-identical impersonation of actor Christopher Walken.
Mohr was born in Verona, New Jersey. His mother, Jean (née Ferguson), is a nurse, and his father, Jon Wood Mohr, is a marketing executive. He has two sisters, Julia and Virginia.
Mohr appeared as a featured player for the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons of Saturday Night Live. His 2004 memoir, Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live (ISBN 1-4013-0006-5), details this tumultuous period of his life, including his battle with chronic panic attacks. Though his potential was appreciated by SNL creator/producer Lorne Michaels, Mohr was impatient with his progression to full cast member, and left the show on bad terms. He has since reconciled with Michaels.
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Jayne Middlemiss
Jayne Middlemiss (born 3 February 1971) is a London-based British television and radio presenter, originally from Northumberland. She began presenting music television shows such as The O-Zone and Top of the Pops in the mid '90s, before presenting a variety of other television and radio shows, including on BBC 6 Music. She has won both Celebrity MasterChef and Celebrity Love Island.
Jayne Middlemiss was born and grew up in the town of Bedlington in Northumberland. Her father Tom was a miner and her mother Janet was a factory worker. She has a younger sister, Allyson, who is a nurse. She attended Meadowdale Middle School and later Bedlingtonshire Community High School.
Middlemiss first worked in an electrical store, but left to move to Streatham in London. In 1991, Middlemiss started out as a glamour model; within a year, she left that behind to pursue a career in the media.
She has since appeared in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll, at 77 (1998), 75 (1999) and 74 (2000).
Middlemiss worked for Noel Edmonds and Chris Evans before briefly working as a nanny, a shop assistant and a waitress. She worked for only two weeks as a trainee researcher on GMTV with Peter McHugh, before gaining her first presenting job on music show The O-Zone with Jamie Theakston from 1995. She got the audition for The O-Zone after she met presenter Toby Anstis at a party and he gave her tape to the producer. She then presented the Smash Hits Awards, The Phone Zone and Top of the Pops and its spin-off radio show on BBC Radio One. She also regularly covered Jo Whiley's show and various other programmes on the same station.
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Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Elise Grey (born March 26, 1960) is an American actress known for her roles in the 1980s films Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Dirty Dancing, the latter for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She is also known for her 2010 victory in the eleventh season of the American version of Dancing with the Stars. Grey is the daughter of Academy Award-winning actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder.
Grey was born on March 26, 1960 in New York City, the daughter of stage and Academy Award-winning screen actor Joel Grey and former actress/singer Jo Wilder. Her paternal grandfather was comedian and musician Mickey Katz. Grey's parents both came from Jewish families.
Grey is an alumna of the Dalton School, a private school in Manhattan where she studied dance and acting, and where she met her best friend, actress Tracy Pollan. After graduating in 1978, Grey enrolled at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse for two years of training as an actress. While waiting for roles, she supported herself waitressing.
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Jenny Eclair
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Jenny Eclair (born Jenny Clare Hargreaves on 16 March 1960) is an English comedian, novelist and actor.
Eclair was born as Jenny Clare Hargreaves to English parents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya where her father, Derek Hargreaves, who served as a major in the British Army, serving in the Royal Marines, Parachute Regiment, Green Howards, Trucial Oman Scouts, and BRIXMIS, had been posted in 1952. Eclair returned to England when she was two years old, and she started her education at Queen Mary school (now King Edward VII and Queen Mary School) in Lytham St Annes. She studied at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and joined a cabaret group variously referred to as Kathy Lacreme and the Rum Babas, and Cathy La Crème and the Rum Babies.
After moving to London her first job was at Camberwell Arts College as a life model which she did for about 2 terms. Then she saw an advert in 'The Stage' looking for novelty acts, and she found work doing punk poems. In 1989, when she was named the Time Out Cabaret Award winner, she said it "was nice because its the first time I've ever won without having to run 100 metres balancing an egg on a spoon."
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Jenny Powell
Jenny Powell (born 8 April 1968 in Ilford, England), is a British television presenter.
Powell's parents are from South Africa, she attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green and the Italia Conti school in London.
Powell began her career in 1986 presenting the BBC2 music programme No Limits and then moved to Saturday morning television for children, first co-presenting UP2U for BBC One during the summers of 1988 and 1989, CITV's Ghost Train and then Gimme 5, again on CITV. She was also a presenter of Top of the Pops in 1989. In the mid-1990s, she became the hostess on ITV's version of Wheel of Fortune.
More recently, she has presented Soap Fever, Live Talk, Getaway, and Our House for UKTV Style. She tried to make it as a stand-up comedian in Granada Television's Stand Up Jenny, and was a regular on ITV's Loose Women. In 2005, she was one of the competitors in the ITV reality TV show Celebrity Wrestling, competing under the name The Avenger.
In 1997 she appeared on Channel 4's Brass Eye, a satirical spoof documentary show produced by Chris Morris. She talked earnestly about the perils of 'heavy electricity' and warned that the south of England could be catapulted towards Finland if people did not bang on wires with hammers.
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Jesse Wood
Jesse Wood is a London based model and guitarist/bass player who has played with Glyda, The Leah Wood Band, The Ronnie Wood Band, Wills And The Willing and HOGG.
Wood is currently playing with the band, THE BLACK SWAN EFFECT, with Dominic Greensmith and Kenwyn House formerly of the band REEF and Gareth Hale is the lead vocalist.
He is the son of Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood and Krissy (nee Findlay, who died of an accidental overdose in June 2005); he was married to Tilly Wood and they have two children, Arthur and Lola. Jesse is currently dating Fearne Cotton.
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Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny (born 15 July 1975) is an English actress.
Halfpenny is best known for her roles as Rebecca Hopkins in the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1999–2000, and as Kate Mitchell (née Morton) in rival soap EastEnders, from 2002–2005. She has appeared on television regularly since the early 1990s in serials such as Byker Grove, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Waterloo Road and Wild at Heart.
She is the aunt of Emmerdale actress Chelsea Halfpenny.
A native of Leam Lane, Gateshead, she attended St Edmund Campion RC school (now Cardinal Hume RC School) in Wrekenton. She is a former student of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art (1994–1996) and she also went to drama school First Act Theatre in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne and to the Reavley Dance School in Felling, Gateshead, despite claiming on Strictly Come Dancing that she had received no previous training.
Halfpenny had a part in The Round Tower as Rosie Cotton. She began her acting career in the BBC television children's drama series Byker Grove, set in the Benwell area of Newcastle upon Tyne. Her other work has included appearances in Dalziel and Pascoe, Barbara and Coronation Street for television and theatre with the acclaimed Hull Truck Theatre Company.
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Jimmy Savile
Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile OBE KCSG (31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English disc jockey, television presenter and media personality, best known for his BBC television show Jim'll Fix It, and for being the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC music chart show Top of the Pops. He was also known for his fundraising and support of various charities, particularly Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was widely described as a philanthropist and was honoured for his efforts.
Savile was born in Leeds, the youngest of seven children (Mary, Marjory, Vincent, John, Joan, Christina and James) born to Agnes Monica (née Kelly) and Vincent Joseph Marie Savile, a bookmaker's clerk and insurance agent. Savile almost died of pneumonia at the age of five months.
He was a Bevin Boy, conscripted during World War II to work as a coal miner at South Kirkby Colliery, West Yorkshire, England. He suffered serious spinal injuries in a mine explosion and spent a long period in recuperation. Having started playing records in dance halls in the early 1940s, Savile claimed to be the first ever disc jockey. According to his autobiography, he was the first person to use two turntables and a microphone, at the Grand Records Ball at the Guardbridge Hotel in 1947. Savile is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of twin turntables for continuous play of music, though his claim has been disputed. (Twin turntables had been illustrated in the BBC Handbook in 1929 and were advertised for sale in Gramophone magazine in 1931.)
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Jo Brand
Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand (born 23 July 1957) is a BAFTA winning British comedienne, writer, and actress. Commencing her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appearances on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957 in Wandsworth, London. Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers. When she was about four, the family moved to the village of St Mary's Platt near Sevenoaks in Kent, and a year later to Benenden. Brand was educated at Helenswood School, Hastings, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School and Bexhill College. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years, at the South London Bethlem, Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea and Maudsley Hospital in South London.
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Jo Whiley
Johanne "Jo" Whiley (born 4 July 1965, Northampton) is a British radio disc jockey and television presenter. She was the host of the long running weekday Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1.
Whiley was born to Martin, an electrician, and Christine a postmistress. She attended Campion School at Bugbrooke, near Northampton and then studied applied languages at Brighton Polytechnic. She swam competitively for Northamptonshire.
Whiley had an unusual upbringing due to her sister, Frances, suffering from cri du chat, the symptoms of which meant that her sister had no sense of danger, suffered from outbursts and temper tantrums, obsessive behaviour and a short attention span. The illness is congenital and Jo is a carrier. In 2006 she said that she had been tested at each of her pregnancies, and that she would have terminated any of the pregnancies if the tests had proved positive.
In her final year of her degree and still unsure of what she wanted to do, a conversation with a lecturer led to a job with BBC Radio Sussex on a show called Turn It Up. It allowed anyone to get on the radio, and also required Whiley to attend gigs and interview the musicians.
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Joe McElderry
Joseph "Joe" McElderry (
/məˈkɛldəri/; born 16 June 1991) is an English singer songwriter and model. He won the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009. His first single "The Climb" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Charts. He was also crowned the winner of the second series of Popstar to Operastar, two years later in 2011. To date he has released three albums - two of them reaching the UK top three. He is currently working on his fourth studio album.
Born in South Shields, England, McElderry is the only child of Jim McElderry and Eileen Joyce. The couple separated when McElderry was a child. McElderry was raised in a small flat on Tyneside.
McElderry attended Harton Technology College in Lisle Road, South Shields, before joining South Tyneside College to study AS level school qualifications, and Newcastle College to study performing arts. He was the Pride of South Tyneside's Young Performer of the Year in 2008. McElderry studied for BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts (Advanced Performance) at Newcastle College Performance Academy and in 2010 graduated with triple distinction. He took the role of 'Danny Zuko' in Grease performed at Harton Technology College.
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John Heffron
John Heffron is an American stand-up comic. Born in Detroit, he was raised in South Lyon, Michigan. He graduated from South Lyon High School and Eastern Michigan University.
Heffron has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and won the second season of Last Comic Standing. He appeared as contestant of the third season of Last Comic Standing ranking third place with Rich Vos overall and runner-up for Season 2.
He took a job as radio sidekick to Danny Bonaduce on a highly rated Detroit morning show on Q95-5 and did commentary on the 2004 VH1 TV series My Coolest Years: My First Time, and other VH1 shows.[citation needed] He toured with Charlie Murphy and Joe Rogan in Maxim and Bud Light's Real Men of Comedy tour in the fall of 2006. On September 4, 2007, he made his debut hosting his own Internet broadcast on NowLive.com.
Heffron released a board game, That Guy Game, and three CDs: Good Kid, Bad Adult (2005), The Better Half (2006), and Kid With a Cape (2007).
He is married to Rie Heffron, who participated in the first season of reality show America's Toughest Jobs.
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John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.
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Johnnie Stewart
Lorn Alastair ("Johnnie") Stewart (7 November 1917 - 29 April 2005) was a television producer who worked for the BBC, noted mostly for his role in creating the long-running music programme Top of the Pops.
Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also notable as a cricketer on the Kent County Cricket Team. As a child, Stewart's family played as a string quartet, with Stewart and his sister Jean playing violin, his father playing viola, and his mother playing cello. His sister Jean went on to become a noted performer on viola, performing as a soloist, and in chamber music and orchestras. She performed with the Menges Quartet, the London Bach Orchestra and the English Baroque Soloists. Stewart's grandfather, John Stewart, was the sixth Baron Appin, and a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Stewart started off his entertainment career in the BBC radio sound effects department in the late 1930s. During the Second World War he worked in the Middle East as a wireless operator and later worked in intelligence. After the war, in 1946, he got married to Sheila Williamson. He returned to the BBC and produced a number of radio music programmes, which included Sing It Again and BBC Jazz Club. He was able to sign up Frank Sinatra for a fee of only fifty pounds as a guest for Cyril Stapleton's Show Band Show. In 1958 he produced Juke Box Jury for BBC Television.
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Johnny Beerling
John William Beerling (born 12 April 1937) is a veteran radio producer and station controller.
He attended the Sir Roger Manwood's School in Sandwich, Kent.
He began his radio career during his national service from 1955-7 when he ran a radio station for the Royal Air Force station British Forces Aden in the Aden Protectorate, acting as its station manager, studio engineer and morning DJ.
In 1957 he joined the BBC and was one of the few employees of the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s to regard the model of offshore pirate radio as one for the BBC to follow.
As a result, when the offshore stations were outlawed in 1967, Beerling was appointed to the newly-formed station BBC Radio 1 which was created as a legal alternative. This began a long association which culminated in his eight years as controller of the station from 1985 to 1993. He produced the first ever show on Radio 1 - Tony Blackburn's breakfast show on 30 September 1967 - worked his way up through the ranks, creating jingles, recruiting most of the station's DJs (one of whom was Tom Browne who presented the BBC chart from 1972 to 1978) and along the way launched the long-running and successful annual Radio 1 Roadshow events in 1973.
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Jon Culshaw
Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. He was educated at St Bede's RC High School, Ormskirk and St John Rigby College, in Orrell, Wigan.
He is famous for his work on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Two's Dead Ringers, ITV's 2DTV, BBC One's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson and his contributions to BBC Radio 1, particularly on The Chris Moyles Show. He also appeared in ITV's Heartbeat on 26 November 2006.
His radio career began in hospital radio in Ormskirk. His first job was at Red Rose Radio (now Rock FM) in Preston in 1987, where even then he used to occasionally read the weather in the voice of Frank Bruno. He did voice-over work then was catapulted to prominence with Spitting Image, where he voiced around forty characters, including John Major, the then Prime Minister.
For around four years in the late 1980s, he was a DJ on the commercial radio station Viking FM, based in Hull, and also had a breakfast show on Pennine Radio (now The Pulse of West Yorkshire) and Radio Wave in Blackpool. It was a receptionist at Viking FM who persuaded Culshaw he should go onstage with his impressions and make it his living. He later appeared on BBC Radio 2's It's Been a Bad Week, appeared as a guest on the BBC2 Star Trek Night Quiz in August 1996, and was also a regular guest on the Chris Moyles afternoon show on BBC Radio 1 from 1998–2002, where he would phone up commercial organisations such as a Kwik-Fit garage in the voice of Patrick Moore or Obi-Wan Kenobi, politely requesting whether they could service his X-wing fighter, and how much time it would take.
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Jon Reep
Jon Reep (born March 26, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, known as the "That thing got a Hemi?" guy in Dodge commercials, and more recently as the winner of the fifth season of Last Comic Standing on NBC.
Reep was born and raised in Hickory, North Carolina. He has one younger brother, Jason. Their father David, worked as the manager of a Goodyear store, and a part time police officer. Their mother was a receptionist at the local telephone company. Reep was raised as a Baptist.
Reep attended Fred T. Foard in Newton, North Carolina and played football.
After graduating high school, Reep began attending Catawba Valley Community College, while working at his father's Goodyear store.
In 1992, Reep transferred to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and graduated in 1996 with a BA degree in theatre, mass communication, and public and interpersonal communication. After graduation, Reep landed a job as a production assistant with UNC-TV.
In 1995, Reep was at a Carolina Panthers inaugural football game in Clemson, South Carolina when the Panthers mascot, Sir Purr, called him to the field. Reep started dancing in the endzone until the police arrested him. Reep was then sent some Panther memorabilia for the incident.
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Jonathan King
Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two (1982), The Booker Prize Winner (1997), and Beware the Monkey Man (2010, using the pen name Rex Kenny), and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far (2009).
King first came to prominence as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in 1965 when he wrote and sang "Everyone's Gone to the Moon," an international best seller. He went on to become a media entrepreneur, discovering and producing material for a number of artists, including Genesis, whom he signed up in 1967, giving them their name and producing their first album, From Genesis to Revelation. He ran Decca Records twice and created his own record label, UK Records, reported as the most successful independent label in the business, and worked with 10cc and the Bay City Rollers.
He also became known for a string of 1970s hits, such as "Una Paloma Blanca," "Sugar Sugar", "It Only Takes A Minute", "Johnny Reggae", "Lick A Smurp For Christmas" and "Loop di Love." Billboard reported in September 1972 that he had produced 10 of the Top 30 singles in the UK in the previous 12 months.Rod Liddle described him in 2010 as truly talented and fabulously cynical, someone who could "storm the pop charts at will, under a hundred different disguises ..."
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Josh Blue
Josh Blue (born November 27, 1978) is an American comedian. He was voted the Last Comic Standing on NBC's reality show Last Comic Standing during its fourth season, which aired May–August 2006. Blue has cerebral palsy, and much of his self-deprecating humor is centered on this.
Blue was born in Cameroon, where his father, Walter Blue, a professor of Romance languages from Hamline University, was teaching in a mission. Blue grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota and graduated from Como Park Senior High School in 1997. He began his career as a comedian while seeking a creative writing degree at The Evergreen State College.
Blue got his start in comedy doing open mic sets while attending The Evergreen State College. Audiences reacted enthusiastically to his self-deprecating humor, and Blue started making a name for himself on the comedy circuit. In 2002, he won the prestigious Comedy Works New Talent Search contest. He has appeared several times on Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia. Blue won $10,000 for finishing in first place at 2004 Las Vegas Comedy Festival's 2004 Royal Flush Comedy Competition.
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Kara Tointon
Kara Louise Tointon (born 5 August 1983) is a British actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in BBC soap opera EastEnders. Tointon was the 2010 winner of BBC television series Strictly Come Dancing.
Tointon was born to Ken and Carol in Basildon, Essex. Together with her actress sister, Hannah (born 1987), Tointon was brought up in Leigh-on-Sea. Both sisters attended St Michael's School, Leigh, and St. Hilda's School, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Tointon was diagnosed with dyslexia at age seven. She had speech and drama lessons at school.
Tointon's first professional acting experience came when she played the part of Brigitta in The Sound of Music at the Cliffs Pavilion. Her first appearance on television was as an extra in EastEnders in 1994, when she played a school friend of Sonia Fowler. She played the part of student Pauline Young in 2001's first series of Teachers on Channel 4.
Almost a month after her last Dream Team episode aired, it was revealed to the press that she would be joining the BBC soap EastEnders as a new character, Dawn Swann. Tointon auditioned for EastEnders at the same time as Tiana Benjamin, Matt Di Angelo, Kellie Shirley and Charlie Clements all auditioned for their respective roles. Tointon left EastEnders, along with co-star Ricky Groves, on 27 August 2009. She has said that she would return to EastEnders.
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Karen Hardy
Karen Hardy (born 14 July 1970) is a professional ballroom dancer, coach, teacher and adjudicator. In 1998 she won the professional International Latin American Dance Championship with Bryan Watson. She also won the United Kingdom Open, British National, European and World Masters championships. She now runs a dance studio at Imperial Wharf, London.
She started dancing aged five in her home town of Bournemouth, and competed in the United States for two years from the age of 18 winning both East and West Coast amateur championship titles. She returned to the UK in 1990 after two years in America where she teamed up with new partner Mark Lunn. It only took 6 months before they broke into the finals worldwide, representing England.
Karen turned professional in August 1994, after being asked to partner South African dancer Bryan Watson. They were highly successful from 1995–1999. In January 1995 they entered the Professional Final of the Pioneer United Kingdom Open Championship finishing fourth. Their progress to the top continued over the coming year going from fourth to first. The couple won the Carl Alan award for services to the dance world, and were named the most outstanding Latin American couple in 1995 by the Ballroom Dancers' Federation. During their 5 year partnership they were World Masters, Osaka World Trophy, United Kingdom Open, International Open, British National, Italian Open, London Open, Yankee Classic Professional Latin American Champions.
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Kate Thornton
Kate Thornton (born 7 February 1973) is an English journalist and television presenter. Early in her career, she was notable for her articles at the Daily Mirror and for her role as editor of Smash Hits magazine. She is most famous for her role as a TV presenter, being the first host of The X Factor and the anchor of Loose Women from 2009-2011.
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Katie Price
Katie Price (born 22 May 1978), previously known under the pseudonym Jordan, is an English media personality, author, former glamour model, occasional singer and businesswoman.
Her time at topless female glamour model pictorial Page Three in British tabloid newspaper The Sun instantly shot Price into the limelight. Her placement in the public's spotlight has allowed Price to expand into a variety of different industries including television, books, fashion and music.
Price has experienced many highly-publicised relationships in the eye of the British media and has been married twice, to singer Peter Andre in 2005 - the couple divorced in 2009 - and to professional fighter Alex Reid in 2010; the couple separated in 2011. Price's net worth was estimated at £45 million in April 2012.
Katie Price was born Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield in Brighton, East Sussex, England, to parents Amy (née Charlier) and Ray Infield. Her maternal grandmother was Jewish and her other grandparents on both sides were Anglican.[citation needed] In 1982, at the age of four, her parents separated when her father left the family. In 1988, her mother married builder Paul Price, after which, Price obtained the surname. She has an older brother named Daniel and a younger maternal half-sister, Sophie.
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Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Perry grew up with gospel music, and during her first year of high school she pursued a music career as Katy Hudson, releasing her first studio album called Katy Hudson which failed to chart. She recorded a solo album later, which was never released. After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry.
She first gained recognition with the release of her first mainstream album, One of the Boys in 2008, which spawned three Billboard Hot 100 top-ten songs—"I Kissed A Girl", "Hot n Cold" and "Waking Up In Vegas". Perry supported the album with her Hello Katy Tour. In 2010, her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010), which topped the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned five number one singles—"California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"—Teenage Dream was the only album (after Michael Jackson's Bad)—to do so, and the first female in history to achieve this milestone. She embarked on the California Dreams Tour, which grossed nearly $60 million worldwide. Perry re-released the album under the name of Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection on March 26, 2012, and the re-release has already spawned the number-one single "Part of Me".
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Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons;(1979-11-23)23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.
Brook was born and brought up in Rochester, Kent, England. She is the daughter of Sandra, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth died aged 57 in Rochester from lung cancer on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on Strictly Come Dancing.
Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. She then studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years before becoming a professional model.
Brook's modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, in which she was entered by her mother. She later worked on a range of advertising campaigns, including for Foster's Lager, Renault Mégane, Walker's crisps, Piz Buin and Bravissimo, a company that specialises in bras and lingerie for large-breasted women. Her figure eventually caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a Page Three girl.
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Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland (born Kelendria Trene Rowland on February 11, 1981) is an American recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress and television personality. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Houston, Texas, Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Rowland released her debut solo album Simply Deep in 2002, which contained influences of alternative-R&B and rock music. It included her joint worldwide number-one single "Dilemma" with rapper Nelly, and the international top-ten hit "Stole". Following the group's disbandment in 2005, Rowland released her second solo effort Ms. Kelly in 2007 and despite being less successful than its predecessor, it included the international hit singles "Like This" and "Work". In 2009, Rowland scored her second worldwide number-one hit with French DJ David Guetta, on his single "When Love Takes Over". Her third solo album Here I Am was released in 2011 and included the UK top-ten hits "Commander" and "Down for Whatever", as well as the US R&B number-one "Motivation".
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Kenny Everett
Kenny Everett (25 December 1944 – 4 April 1995) was an English comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Born Maurice James Christopher Cole[citation needed], Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for the Kenny Everett television shows.
Everett attended the local secondary modern school, St Bede's Secondary Modern, which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College.
He attended a junior seminary at Stillington near York with an Italian missionary order, the Verona Fathers, where he was a choirboy.
After schooling he worked in a bakery and in the advertising department of The Journal of Commerce and Shipping Telegraph.
Having revealed a natural comic and broadcasting talent, he began a career in entertainment. He adopted his stage name from film-star Edward Everett Horton, a childhood hero.
Everett's first break (as Maurice Cole) came when he sent a tape to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1962. He was interviewed at the BBC by Charles Fletcher and offered a job as a presenter on the Light Programme, the forerunner to BBC Radio 2. He declined, however, in favour of the less constrained world of pirate radio, where he began his career as a DJ for Radio London.
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Kim Medcalf
Kim Louise Medcalf (born 8 December 1973) is an English actress and occasional singer. She has made occasional appearances as a singer and is best known for playing the character Sam Mitchell in the long running BBC Soap Opera EastEnders from 2002 to 2005.
Kim Medcalf was born in Bromley, Kent, to parents Diane and Peter, where she grew up in a loving family with her 2 older brothers. Medcalf completed her A-level studies at Newstead Wood School for Girls and after eventually leaving, attended the University of Bristol to study Law.
On graduation, she became an account manager but while on holiday with friends, she decided this was no longer for her and she left to try something different. In 2010, Kim gave birth to a girl.
She enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After successfully completing the course, she took part in various theatre productions, including One Touch Of Venus at the King's Head in Islington. in which Sheridan Morley wrote "Playing Venus is Kim Medcalf, an actress here making her professional debut straight from drama school: It is the most impressive I have seen in a musical for many a long year"
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Kimberley Walsh
Kimberley Jane Walsh (born 20 November 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, television presenter and actress. She is best known for being a member of girl group Girls Aloud, formed through ITV's reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals. The group has achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK, five studio albums have all been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and accumulating a total of five BRIT Award nominations.
Walsh fronts the 2009 Autumn/Winter collection for the fashion chain New Look. In July 2010, Walsh became a presenter on music talk-show, Suck My Pop. Walsh's net worth was estimated at £6 million in April 2012.
Walsh was born in Bradford to Diane and John Walsh. She grew up with elder sister Sally, younger brother Adam and younger sister Amy in the suburb of Allerton. Sally appeared on the soap opera, Emmerdale, between 1997 and 2000, playing the role of Lyn Hutchinson.
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Konnie Huq
Kanak Asha "Konnie" Huq ( /ˈhʌk/; Bengali: কনক হক; born 17 July 1975) is a British television presenter, who is best known for being the longest-serving female presenter of Blue Peter, having presented it from 1 December 1997 until 23 January 2008. She presented the 2010 series of The Xtra Factor on ITV2.
Huq was born in Hammersmith, London, to Sunni Muslim Bangladeshi parents who had emigrated to England in the 1960s. She grew up in Ealing, London, with her two sisters, Rupa and Nutun. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School in London and left school with 9 GCSEs and A-levels in physics, mathematics and chemistry. Despite having studied the sciences for her A-Levels, she chose to read economics and graduated with a 2:1 from Robinson College, Cambridge.
In 1989, at the age of 14, Huq was a guest on Blue Peter with the National Youth Music Theatre, where she sang a solo . In 1992, ahead of the forthcoming general election, Huq interviewed Labour leader Neil Kinnock for the children's programme Newsround. She appeared as a contestant on Blockbusters in the same year . She also appeared as an extra playing a schoolgirl (uncredited) in the BBC One sitcom 2point4 Children in the Series 2 episode "I'm Going Slightly Mad". Huq's presenting debut was in a GMTV Saturday morning children's quiz show entitled "Eat Your Words" between 1994 and 1996. She was ably assisted by Mark Speight before Simon Parkin took over presenting duties. In 1997, several months before joining Blue Peter, Huq presented Five's early morning children's programme Milkshake!, while also working as an editorial assistant for the now defunct 'Total Sport' magazine.[citation needed]
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Kutski
Kutski (born John Walker on 4 February 1982), is a radio DJ. He was born in Chester, England. He currently presents BBC Radio 1's early Thursday morning show, every three weeks, where he plays a variety of hard dance music, including Breakbeat, Electro, Hard Trance, Hardcore and Hardstyle.
Kutski started DJing aged 15. The first big event he played was Elevate in Bangor which resulted in a residency.
His turntable skills resulted in Kutski being named Energyuk.com's 'DJ of the month' 3 times in 2004.
Kutski's DJing has taken him across the network of underground and mainstream hard dance clubs in the UK.
His current residencies include Tasty (London), Ripsnorter (Bristol) and Elevate (Bangor).
In 2004, Kutski released debut track "Making Me Itch" under the name SPX. He signed to the Knuckleheadz label and featured on compilations Insomnia 4 and Extreme Euphoria 3.
His tune "Closer To God" released on X-Cite got rave reviews and support from Anne Savage, Lisa Lashes and The Tidy Boys.
A collaboration with Ollie (Warp Brothers) has been signed for release on the Tidy Tools EP and has already featured on the Tidy Addict compilation.
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Len Goodman
Leonard Gordon 'Len' Goodman (born 25 April 1944) is a British professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He is a leading personality on television dance programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars and runs a ballroom dance school in Dartford, Kent.
Goodman was born in Bethnal Green, the son of Louisa (née Eldridge) and Len Goodman. He moved to Blackfen near Welling (then in Kent) when he was six years old and attended Westwood Secondary Modern School where he was a member of the cricket team. He started dancing at the age of 19 after a short time as an apprentice welder (for Harland and Wolff in Woolwich). He tried dancing only in an attempt to recover from a foot injury sustained while playing football. He turned professional, won various competitions, and retired from dancing after winning the British Championships at Blackpool in his late twenties. He is a recipient of the Carl Alan Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions to dance. In 2006 and 2007, he was nominated for the Emmy Award in the Outstanding Reality/Competition Program category.
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Lenny Henry
Lenworth George "Lenny" Henry, CBE (born 29 August 1958) is a British actor, writer, comedian and occasional television presenter.
Henry, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley in 1958. He was a pupil at St John's Primary School and later The Blue Coat School outside Dudley, before completing his school education at W.R. Tuson College (now Preston College).
His first manager was Robert Luff, who signed him in 1975 and gave him the opportunity to perform as part of the Luff-produced touring stage version of The Black and White Minstrel Show. In July 2009, Lenny Henry stated he was contractually obliged to perform and regretted his part in the show.
Shortly before this, on 17 December 1974, the then 16-year-old Henry had been voted Britain's top non-smoker for his declaration aimed at teenagers that smoking was not fashionable.
His earliest television appearance was on the New Faces talent show, which he won in 1975 with an impersonation of Stevie Wonder. The following year he appeared with Norman Beaton in LWT's sitcom The Fosters, Britain's first comedy series with predominantly black performers. His formative years were spent in working men's clubs, where his act was as a young black man impersonating white characters such as the Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em character Frank Spencer (whom he impersonated on New Faces). He also made guest appearances on television programmes including Celebrity Squares, Seaside Special and The Ronnie Corbett Show.
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Leon Jackson
Leon Jackson (born 30 December 1988) is a Scottish singer. He won the fourth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2007. Following his win, Jackson was the main star of his on-web series entitled Leon's Life, which ran from 2007 until 2008. Jackson's début album, Right Now (2008) finished the year as the 75th best-selling album in the UK, and included the singles, "Don't Call This Love", "Creative" and "Stargazing".
Jackson's début single, "When You Believe", a cover of a song sung by Whitney Houston and composed and written by Stephen Schwartz, was the 92nd best-selling single of the 2000s in the UK, and was the third best-selling of 2007. Jackson had the best selling single from a British Male Artist in 2007 beating the likes of Mika, Take That and Mark Ronson in the best-selling male category, and being beaten by Leona Lewis's "Bleeding Love" and Rihanna's "Umbrella" to the number one and number two positions, respectively.
Leon Jackson was born in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland. Before pursuing his singing career, he worked as a retail sales assistant with Gap. He is a supporter of Rangers F.C. He was a fan of contemporary jazz, his hero being Michael Bublé, and he has stated that during his early years, karate and singing were the only things that made him happy. He got his black belt at the age of 10. Before he appeared on The X Factor, Jackson was planning to attend Edinburgh Napier University, studying architectural technology.
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Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born 3 April 1985) is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor.
Lewis has released two albums to date, Spirit and Echo, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. A multi-platinum selling artist and three-time Grammy Award nominee, her most successful single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one in over thirty countries around the world, and was the best-selling single worldwide in 2008. Other notable singles include "Better in Time", "Happy" and "I Got You". She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine in 2008.
Lewis's debut tour, The Labyrinth, took place in 2010, and her third album, Glassheart, is scheduled for release in 2012. It was preceded by "Collide", a single from the album, which became her seventh top-five hit in the United Kingdom. Lewis's net worth was estimated at £12 million in April 2012.
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Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Andreyevna Kopylova (Russian: Лилия Андреевна Копылова), born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union, is a professional dancer.
With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003. The couple has achieved considerable success in the Professional Latin style of dancing, both nationally in the UK and internationally.
Lilia Kopylova started ice skating aged four, winning the title of Junior Moscow champion aged nine.
In 1987 she started training as a dancer. Her first dance partner was Mikhail Botashev, a Danish champion, and in 1990 they won a Lambada competition; and a year later, they were the first Soviet pair of their age to be allowed abroad to dance. They won the 1990 Danish Open in Copenhagen, followed by success that same year in France and Italy.
In 1994, Kopylova represented Russia in the International dance championships in Denmark. In 1997 she was introduced to Darren Bennett and five months later, having moved to the UK, they won the International and British amateur Youth Championships in July 1997. The couple turned professional in 2003, and are now regarded as one of Britain's finest Latin American dance couples and make regular appearances on British TV. Lilia's favourite dances are the rumba and the foxtrot.
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Linda Robson
Linda Patricia Mary Robson (born 13 March 1958) is an English actress. She played Tracey in the BBC comedy, Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998.
Robson was educated at Ecclesbourne Primary School, and at the private, fee-paying Anna Scher Theatre School, both in her native Islington.
Robson's father was a chain-smoker who died of lung cancer when he was 57.
She continues to reside in Islington, North London with her husband and three children Lauren (b. 1984), Louis (b. 1992) and Bobbie (b. 1997). Robson is a supporter of the Conservative Party.
Linda Robson had a non-speaking role as a young girl amidst a group of roaming 'survivors' in the second series of the original BBC Survivors drama screened in 1976, and then appeared in Pauline's Quirkes in 1976 (her first regular appearance with Pauline Quirke), the comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon in 1982 and the IRA drama Harry's Game.
She is best known for playing Tracey in the hit BBC comedy Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998 alongside Pauline Quirke.
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Lisa Snowdon
Lisa Snowdon (born 23 January 1972) is an English fashion model, television personality and presenter. She was the host of the reality television show Britain's Next Top Model from 2006 until 2009. She currently co-presents Capital Breakfast on Capital London.
Born Lisa Snawdon, in Welwyn Garden City, England to insurance salesman Nigel and hairdresser Lydia Snowdon, she has two younger sisters, Joanna and Lesley Anne. She moved to London to attend the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where her classmates included Naomi Campbell, and she auditioned for the Minipops. After her parents split up when she was 17, she stayed in London and worked briefly as a dance and yoga teacher.[citation needed]
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Liz Bonnin
Liz Bonnin (born 16 September 1975) is a French-born television presenter who has worked on television in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. She currently works for the BBC.
Bonnin was born in France to a French father who is a dentist and Trinidadian mother.[citation needed] One of her grandfathers is from India.[citation needed] The family moved to Ireland when she was 10 years old.[citation needed] She has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin and also holds a master's in Wild Animal Biology from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal. She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society.
Bonnin started her career presenting on RTÉ Television in Ireland, on The Den, Telly Bingo, Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 and for two years, Off the Rails. In 2002 she moved to London to present on a number of TV channels. She was also part of an Irish girl pop group named Chill, signed to Polydor but they broke up before recording
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Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh (born Michael Louis Vincent Walsh; 5 August 1952) is an Irish entertainment manager and judge on the British television talent show The X Factor.
Originally from Kiltimagh, County Mayo, Walsh moved to Dublin to get a start in the music industry. He managed Johnny Logan, Boyzone and Westlife, three of Ireland's most successful pop artists in recent decades. In later life, Walsh began an alternative career as a TV talent pundit, on programmes such as You're a Star, The X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent, amongst others.
Louis Walsh got his start in talent an agreement with Johnny Logan, whom Walsh met on a bus when he was 20, and, despite legal difficulties with Logan's previous management, Walsh was convinced that Logan could be a big star if he just got the right breaks. Walsh persuaded Logan to enter the 1979 and 1980 National Song Contests. Logan won 1980 heats with a Shay Healy number called "What's Another Year", representing Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest that year in the Netherlands, which he won.
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Lucy Benjamin
Lucy Benjamin (born Lucy Jane Baker; 25 June 1970) is an English actress.
Born in Reading, Berkshire, England, she took the stage name of Benjamin after her brother. Benjamin trained at the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead. Her first acting role was as a child actress in Doctor Who in 1983 playing a young version of the character Nyssa. In 1989 she starred in the hit children's television programme Press Gang, where she played Julie Craig. She left after the first series for another role, but returned for the fourth and final series until 1993, where her role was expanded somewhat. In 1989 and 1990, Benjamin appeared in two series of LWT sitcom Close to Home, playing Paul Nicholas' teenage daughter Kate Shepherd. Also in 1990, Benjamin appeared in the BSB Galaxy Channel soap opera Jupiter Moon. In 1995 she appeared in the Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall comedy Bottom. However, she is best known for her role as Lisa Fowler in the BBC soap opera EastEnders which she played from 1998 to 2003 and was involved in several groundbreaking stories during her time there.
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Malaria
Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists (a type of microorganism) of the genus Plasmodium. The protists act as parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases progressing to coma or death. The disease is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions in a broad band around the equator, including much of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Five species of Plasmodium can infect and be transmitted by humans. Severe disease is largely caused by P. falciparum while the disease caused by P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae is generally a milder form that is rarely fatal. The zoonotic species P. knowlesi, prevalent in Southeast Asia, causes malaria in macaques but can also cause severe infections in humans. Malaria is prevalent in tropical regions because of the significant amounts of rainfall, consistently high temperatures and high humidity, along with stagnant waters in which mosquito larvae readily mature, provide them with the environment they need for continuous breeding. Disease transmission can be reduced by preventing mosquito bites by distribution of mosquito nets and insect repellents, or with mosquito-control measures such as spraying insecticides and draining standing water.
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Mark Goodier
Mark Goodier (born 28 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey.
Mark Goodier was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His family moved to the UK when he was a child, eventually settling in Scotland. He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined local station Radio Forth at the age of 19. After progressing through several jobs at stations in Scotland including Radio Clyde in Glasgow and at Metro Radio in the North East of England, he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1987, beginning a 15 year stint with the station, beginning with a 2 hour Saturday night show.
Goodier co-presented the Liz & Mark weekend breakfast show (with Liz Kershaw), and he quickly progressed to a drivetime slot. He created The Evening Session and hosted between 1990 and 1993. During this period, he also presented the UK Top 40 chart countdown on Sunday evenings and was also an established host on Top Of The Pops along several of his Radio 1 colleagues.
Many acclaimed bands and artists recorded sessions for Goodier at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, some of which were commercially released. In 1992, Nirvana's "odds-and-sods" release, Incesticide, featured several songs recorded for Goodier's BBC show. The album reached the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved Platinum status in America. A further session recording was "Something in the Way", released on the 2011 edition of Nevermind.
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Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ravin Ramprakash (born 5 September 1969) is an English cricketer, playing for Surrey and England. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21. Despite being among the most gifted and heavily scoring English batsman of his generation at county level, he rarely performed well during a long but intermittent international career. He has been a particularly prolific run scorer since his move to Surrey in 2001, averaging over 100 runs per innings in successive seasons (2006 & 2007). He is one of only 25 players in the history of the sport to have scored 100 first-class centuries.
Mark Ramprakash was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and is of Indian and English descent. His father, born in the Caribbean, was an Indian from Guyana and his mother was English. He attended Gayton High School (now Harrow High School), and then Harrow Weald Sixth Form College. His first local club was Bessborough Cricket Club in Headstone Lane where he showed early promise as a fast bowler before concentrating on his batting. He played his first match for Middlesex aged just 17, scoring 63 not out against Yorkshire, and top-scoring with 71 in his second match against Essex at Chelmsford (he was still a sixth-form student at the time). He scored his maiden first-class century at Headingley against Yorkshire in 1989, and captained the England U-19 team. He came to national prominence when, at the age of only 18, he won the man-of-the match award in the 1988 NatWest Trophy Final after his innings of 56 helped Middlesex beat Worcestershire.
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Matt Cardle
Matthew Sheridan "Matt" Cardle (born 15 April 1983) is an English singer-songwriter who won the seventh series of The X Factor in 2010. He received a £1 million recording contract with Syco Music by winning, and his debut single "When We Collide" was released immediately after he won. It sold 439,000 copies in its first week to become the UK Christmas number one.
Cardle was born in Southampton, Hampshire, to David and Jennifer Cardle (née Horner) on 15 April 1983. His family lived in Bristol before moving to Essex. He attended the independent Stoke College in Suffolk, then the Institute in Colchester.
In 2005 he was a member of the alternative rock / pop band Darwyn and recorded an 11 track album When You Wake and the follow-up EP Little Sunlight in 2006. In 2009, he became the frontman and guitarist of a rock band called Seven Summers. They performed live on Sue Marchant's BBC radio program on 8 December 2009 and released a self-titled album on 22 January 2010.
In 2010, Cardle auditioned for the seventh series of The X Factor, singing Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good". His mentor was Dannii Minogue, who mentored him until the final when he was announced the winner on 12 December 2010, after receiving 44.61% of the vote. Cardle received the most votes every week from week 2, being beaten only by Mary Byrne in week 1. The week after the series final, Cardle's cover of "Many of Horror," originally recorded by Scottish rock trio Biffy Clyro, topped the UK Singles Chart to become the Christmas number 1 and remained there for three consecutive weeks. The song was nominated in the Best British Single category at the 2011 BRIT Awards.
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Matt Edmondson
Matt Edmondson (born 27 December 1985 in Portsmouth, Hampshire) is a British television and Sony Award-nominated radio presenter, specialising in music, entertainment and celebrity news.
Edmondson was a CBBC continuity presenter from 2004 to 2006, prior to which, in 2002, he was a roving reporter for Channel 4's Richard & Judy.
Edmondson co-presented the 2008 coverage of the Isle of Wight Festival for ITV2. He also provided links and commentary for the MTV coverage of the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. He presented reports from T in the Park 2009 for BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and BBC Three.
On 26 June 2009 he presented The Saturdays at Work, a one-off behind-the-scenes documentary following the making of the video for The Saturdays' fifth single "Work" on FIVER.
Edmondson also does voice-overs for 4Music and presents Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed.
In May 2010 he presented highlights from The Great Escape Festival and the Topman CTRL Student Tour on Channel 4.
In 2009 he began presenting the online music-based show Sony Ericsson's Pocket TV. which transferred to T4 for its second series.
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Matthew Bannister
Richard Matthew Bannister (born 16 March 1957) is a British media executive and broadcaster. After attending King Edward VII School (Sheffield), he graduated in law at the University of Nottingham in 1978, and joined BBC Radio Nottingham as a trainee reporter and subsequently the presenter of its speech-based breakfast show, Morning Report. It was here that he first met Trevor Dann, whom he subsequently worked with at BBC Radio 1.
He first worked for Radio 1 as a presenter of its news programme Newsbeat between 1983 and 1986 and subsequently moved to Capital Radio as Head of News and Talks. He was co-presenter with Sarah Ward of Capital Radio's The Way It Is. He first established himself as a 'name' in the radio industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s as Managing Editor of GLR (Greater London Radio), the BBC's local radio station for London. Here he worked for the first time with Chris Evans, who was pioneering many of the ideas which would later win him greater success and much controversy at Radio 1, and also employed a number of the more musically credible DJs from Radio 1's past, such as Annie Nightingale, Tommy Vance, Janice Long and Johnnie Walker. The line up also included Danny Baker, Emma Freud and Chris Morris.
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Matthew Cutler
Matthew David Cutler (born 30 October 1973) is an English dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. He was a professional dancer on the BBC dancing show, Strictly Come Dancing.
Cutler was born in Chelmsford, Essex. His mother is Betty Cutler. His father is David Cutler and his brother, fashion designer Jason Cutler designs all his clothes - personal and professional.
When he was four, his family moved to Southend on Sea, Essex, where he went to Earls Hall Primary School and Cecil Jones Secondary School, now Cecil Jones College. He started dancing classes in a church hall in Southend and took part in school competitions and other competitions in Chelmsford.
By the age of ten, he was winning most competitions and a judge suggested that he entered more challenging competitions.
Cutler took ballroom lessons in Birmingham and Latin classes in Hendon and took part in open competitions, supported by his parents. He won the World Amateur Championship with his then-wife Nicole Cutler in 1999 and went on to win many other competitions. They were later divorced in 2003 and went on to work with different professional partners, reuniting in 2006 and in October 2009, the Cutlers started the Semley Club Dance Academy in Norbury, UK where they teach dance.
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Mel Giedroyc
Mel Giedroyc ( /ˈɡiːdrɔɪtʃ/ or /ˈɡjɛdrɔɪ̯t͡ɕ/; born Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc on 5 June 1968 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English television presenter, actress, and writer.
Giedroyc is best known for presenting comedy items alongside Sue Perkins. The two women met whilst students at Cambridge and both were members of the famous Footlights comedy club.
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, they hosted a lunchtime show on Channel 4 called Light Lunch (and the early evening version, Late Lunch). They were reunited in 2010 to host the cookery competition The Great British Bake Off, on BBC Two from 16th August 2010. The two returned for the second series on 27th September 2011.
Giedroyc has also been a presenter on Channel 4's RI:SE. She narrated Celebrity Driving School in 2003. Some other ventures include being a contestant on the 2005 series of The Games, co-starring in the 2005 BBC One sitcom Blessed and co-presenting Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show on ITV1. She was in one episode of The Vicar of Dibley.
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Melanie Brown
Melanie Janine Brown (born May 29, 1975) is a British R&B and pop recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress, author, television presenter and model. Born and raised in Harehills, Leeds, United Kindgom. Brown rose to fame when she became a member of British girl group, the Spice Girls, which she was famously known as "Scary Spice" in the group. Brown has been signed to a number of record labels during her career including Virgin Records, Independent record label, Amber Café and her latest record deal EMI Music, which she signed in 2012.
The Spice Girls signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe", which hit number-one in more than 30 countries and helped establish the group as a "global phenomenon". Followed by their debut album, Spice, which sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history. The band's second debut album, Spiceworld went onto sell over 20 million records world wide.Forever selling 5 million records world wide. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history and also one of the Best selling music artists in the world. Brown is also known for supporting Girl Power and their global grosses estimated at $500–800 million between 1996 and 1998.Return of the Spice Girls was the band's comeback turn and said to have grossed US$100 million and won the Billboard 2008 Touring Award.
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Mike Read
Michael David Kenneth Read (born 1 March 1947, Manchester) is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.
Read is the only child of a publican, but the family moved from Manchester to Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, when he was still an infant. He attended Woking Grammar School followed by a sixth-form college. He was an estate agent for a while and recorded under various names including Mickey Manchester.
Read's professional broadcasting career began in March 1976 at Reading's Radio 210, where he co-hosted a show with Steve Wright, before joining Radio Luxembourg late in 1977.
He joined BBC Radio One at the end of 1978 and was soon presenting the night time programme before John Peel's show, where he championed new groups and featured live sessions. He was one of the most popular Roadshow presenters during his time at the station and took over the Breakfast Show on Monday 5 January 1981, a spot notable for his on-air decision in 1984 not to play the Frankie Goes to Hollywood single "Relax" due to supposedly obscene lyrics.[citation needed]
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Miranda Hart
Miranda Katharine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972), known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, writer and stand-up comedienne. She writes and stars in the BBC sitcom Miranda. She also appeared in French and Saunders, the BBC television series Hyperdrive and her semi-autobiographical sitcom Miranda Hart's Joke Shop on BBC Radio 2. In 2012, she began appearing in the BBC drama Call the Midwife as "Chummy Browne".
Born in Torquay, Devon, to Royal Navy officer David Hart Dyke and Diana Margaret Luce, Hart grew up in Petersfield, Hampshire. She was educated at Downe House, Berkshire, an independent girls' boarding school, where she was a contemporary and friend of the sports presenter Clare Balding, who was head girl. She graduated with a 2:1 degree in political science from the University of the West of England, followed by training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. Despite reading Politics at University, she always wanted to be a comedienne. In 2002, she did a solo show in Edinburgh, and in 2004 she pitched a comedy show to the BBC. At her read-through for BBC executives, Jennifer Saunders was there, laughing throughout.
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MistaJam
MistaJam, born Pete Dalton, is an award-winning DJ and Radio presenter for BBC Radio 1, joining in 2008 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, joining in 2005.
Born in Nottingham, MistaJam grew up listening to the records of his parents and began DJing at local events at the age of 14, going on to DJ for Nottingham Hip Hop crew Out Da Ville and for a local pirate radio station. With associate Joe Buhdha, he ran SureShot Entertainment organising the UK Takeover UK HipHop events. He also acts, was trained at Nottingham's Central Junior Television Workshop alongside Toby Kebbell and Samantha Morton and has appeared in TV programmes such as Peak Practice and EastEnders.
He has appeared as a regular character, "Minty" in the 2001 revamp of ITV soap Crossroads and most recently in the BBC Three sitcom Trexx And Flipside. In November 2009 he narrated the final, compilation episode of the BBC Switch series Chartjackers. He has now got his own show on BBC Two called "No Hats, No Trainers", which aired in May. The show was well received within its demographic and was commissioned for a second series, the first episode of which aired on 4 September 2010.
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Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Jane Imbruglia ( /ɪmˈbruːliə/; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter, model and actress. In the early 1990s, Imbruglia was known to audiences as Beth Brennan in the popular Australian soap Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, Imbruglia launched a singing career with the international hit, "Torn". The subsequent debut album Left of the Middle (1997) sold over 7 million copies worldwide. Further releases, White Lilies Island (2001) and Counting Down the Days (2005), have been unable to match the commercial success of her debut, although the latter did become her first UK #1.
She co-starred in the 2003 film Johnny English and made her leading actress debut in the 2009 film Closed for Winter. Imbruglia is ranked #90 on VH1's Top 100 Sexiest Artists.
Natalie was born on 4 February 1975, in Sydney, Australia, the first of the four daughters to Elliot Imbruglia, her father of Italian descent (originally a Sicilian from Lipari) and Maxene Anderson, her Anglo-Australian mother. Imbruglia grew up in Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, between Sydney and Newcastle. At the age of 15, she moved to Sydney with her family. Imbruglia studied ballet, tap, and highland dancing as a child, hoping to make a career out of it.
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Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Margaret Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972 in Brighton) is a British newsreader and television presenter, currently employed by ITN produced ITV News and London Tonight having previously worked for Channel 5, Sky News and the BBC. She won the first series of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing.
Kaplinsky's parents are Raphael Kaplinsky, an exiled Jewish South African economics professor at the Open University, and his wife Catherine Kaplinsky née Charlewood, a psychotherapist.
Her paternal grandparents originated from Slonim (then in Poland, now in Belarus), and emigrated to South Africa in 1929. Kaplinsky was born in Brighton, but spent her early life in Kenya (where she claims to have been fluent in Swahili), although she later returned to the United Kingdom, where she was brought up in Barcombe, East Sussex. She attended Ringmer Community College, until the age of sixteen when she moved to Varndean College in Brighton.
After graduating in English from Hertford College, Oxford in 1995, one of her first jobs was working in the press offices of Labour leaders Neil Kinnock and John Smith.
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Nemone
Nemone Metaxas (born 3 November 1973, Chester, England) is a British DJ, Radio Presenter, Television Presenter/Producer and former athlete of Greek descent.
Her family's Greek ancestral village is in Sekhia and the family name is `Anastasakis'.
After finishing her degree in Psychology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1995, Nemone worked as a research assistant in a psychiatric ward. She thereafter realised her career interest to be in broadcasting.
She began modestly on reception and while still manning the phones daily at Kiss 102 in Manchester. In 1997, she became the presenter and producer of "The Word" radio program as radio station Kiss 105 went on the air. After that, she presented Galaxy 102 FM's Morning Show, Network Chill Out Show and The Galaxy Chart for Manchester.
Nemone joined BBC Radio 1 in October 2000 initially hosting the Saturday breakfast show. She filled in for Jo Whiley's weekday morning show for many months in 2001 while Whiley was on maternity leave. In light of that, Nemone was then awarded the weekend afternoon slot which she hosted from Autumn 2001 through to the end of 2003.
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Nick Grimshaw
Nicholas Peter "Nick" Grimshaw (born 14 August 1984), also known as Grimmy and G-Munni is a British television and radio presenter. He has presented shows for Channel 4, E4, BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4 youth strand T4. Currently he appears on the television channel Channel 4 and hosts two radio shows on BBC Radio 1, on Mondays to Thursdays - 10 pm to Midnight, and on Sundays - 10 pm to Midnight with Annie Mac.
Born in St Mary's Hospital in Manchester, he was brought up in nearby Oldham and attended Our Lady's R.C. High School in Royton. Early work career included a Saturday job at Madeleine Lindley Ltd. Grimshaw attended the University of Liverpool, leaving in 2005.
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Nick Knowles
Nicholas Simon Augustine Knowles (born 21 September 1962) is an English television presenter. He is best known for presenting DIY SOS on the BBC. He has also presented Mission Africa, UK's Worst, City Hospital, Coast to Coast, Five's Company, Departure Lounge and Real Rescues.
Knowles was born in Southall, London on 21 September 1962. He has one brother, John, and three sisters, Karen, Angela and Sheila.
Aged 11, Knowles moved to Mildenhall in Suffolk, attending St Louis Middle School. After his family moved again, he attended The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
After leaving school, Knowles started work as a labourer before starting his own business. He still holds controlling shares of his company.
He appeared as a member of Channel 5's daytime chat show 5's Company between 1997 and 1999.
He is principally known as the main host of DIY SOS, a home renovation series which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1999. He has also presented the BBC factual show Real Rescues since 2007.
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Nicky Campbell
Nicholas Andrew Argyll "Nicky" Campbell (born 10 April 1961) is a Scottish radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his time presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog. He also presented the gameshow Wheel of Fortune from 1988 to 1996 and currently presents both the BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast programme and BBC One's flagship faith and ethics show The Big Questions.
Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was adopted as a four-day old baby, and was educated at the independent school Edinburgh Academy. Its former pupils include Robert Louis Stevenson and Magnús Magnússon. His adoptive mother was a psychiatric social worker and his adoptive father a publisher of maps.
After graduating from the University of Aberdeen with a 2:1 in history, he toyed with ideas of becoming an actor and got involved in commercial production for radio in order to gain his Equity card. At university, his best friend had been the actor Iain Glen. He worked at Northsound Radio in Aberdeen from 1981 to 1985, first as a jingle writer, before going on to host the breakfast show.
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Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born June 29, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, record producer, model and actress. Scherzinger is well known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls. Previously, Scherzinger was a backing vocalist for the late-1990s rock group Days of the New and was a part of reality TV girl group Eden's Crush. After the disbandment of the group, she joined the Pussycat Dolls and became the group's lead vocalist during their transition into a career in music.
The Pussycat Dolls rose to prominence when they enlisted Scherzinger as their lead front woman of the group. When Scherzinger joined the now multi-platinum group, they became a worldwide phenomenon, releasing two albums, PCD (2008) and Doll Domination (2008) and embarked on several concert tours. With her strong vocal range, Scherzinger scored the group a string of massive hit singles, including the number ones "Don’t Cha" (2005) and "Buttons" (2006), "Stickwitu" (2005), "I Hate This Part" (2008), and "When I Grow Up" (2008), which hit the Top 10 in 16 countries. In 2009, Scherzinger wrote and recorded an adaptation of A.R. Rahman’s "Jai Ho" (from the film "Slumdog Millionaire") which went to number one in 17 countries. Their debut album, PCD, has sold nine million copies worldwide, and their sophomore album, Doll Domination, has sold 5 million copies worldwide to date. The group won three Billboard Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and toured with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and The Black Eyed Peas. The Dolls have sold 15 million albums, and 37 million singles worldwide, making them one of the best selling girl groups of all time.
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Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds, (born 22 December 1948) is an English broadcaster and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops, The Late, Late Breakfast Show, Telly Addicts, Noel's Saturday Roadshow and Noel's House Party. He currently presents the Channel 4 game show Deal or No Deal and the Sunday edition of Sky1's Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? and previously the topical Sky1 show, Noel's HQ.
The son of a headmaster who worked in Hainault, Edmonds attended Glade Primary School and Brentwood School. He was offered a place at the University of Surrey but turned it down in favour of a job as a newsreader on Radio Luxembourg, which was offered to him in 1968 after he sent tapes to pirate radio stations. In 1969, he moved to BBC Radio 1 where he began by recording trailers for broadcasts and filling in for absent DJs, such as Kenny Everett. In April 1970, Edmonds began his own two-hour Saturday afternoon programme, broadcasting from 1pm-3pm, before replacing Kenny Everett on Saturday mornings from 10am-12pm in July of that year. In October 1971 he was moved to a Sunday morning slot from 10am-12pm before being promoted to Radio 1's prestigious breakfast programme from June 1973 to April 1978, taking over from Tony Blackburn. Edmonds moved back to Sunday mornings from 10am-1pm in 1978 and also presented Talkabout, an hour long talk show broadcast on Thursday evenings.
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Ola Jordan
Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan (née Grabowska; born 30 September 1982,) is a professional Latin dance specialist best known for her appearances on the British TV show Strictly Come Dancing. After winning a championship event in Poland she moved to England and began a new partnership with James Jordan. She married him in 2003.
Jordan has been dancing since the age of twelve when her school advertised for a dance club. Before dancing with James Jordan, she had danced with Przemek Lowicki in Poland. She won Poland’s Open Championships in 1999 and went on to take 12th place in the following year’s World Championships.
The first recorded dance by Ola Grabowska and James Jordan as a partnership was in the Dutch Open in 2000, though they did not turn professional until 2003. The couple withdrew for a while to teach Latin American dancing in Hong Kong, though they turned professional again in 2005, after missing competing. In May 2006, the couple came second in the Blackpool Professional Rising Stars Latin event, and in November they came third in the British Championships for Professional Latin.
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Pat Sharp
Pat Sharp (born 25 October 1961) is a British radio and television presenter and DJ. In the UK, he is known mainly for his work on the children's television programme Fun House, his former mullet and his radio shows as well as his support of Arsenal. In Europe, he was known in the 1980s as one of the Sky Channel's VJs and for presenting Coca-Cola Eurochart Top 50 and Nescafe UK Top 50.
Sharp worked as a presenter at BBC Radio 1, mixing holiday cover for other TV presenters with a regular early Sunday morning slot and a number of television appearances hosting BBC1's Top of the Pops. He deputised for David Jensen on The Network Chart Show. In the mid-1980s he became a DJ for Radio Mercury and has also worked for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. For 10 years, starting in 1987, Sharp was a DJ on Capital FM in London. followed by another 11 years at Heart, both in London and Cambridge.
In the late-1980s, Sharp teamed up with Mick Brown as the duo Pat and Mick, to release the charity singles Let's All Chant and I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet. Both songs made the Top 20 of the UK singles chart. The duo released five hit singles making the Top 75, raising more than a million pounds for charity.
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Patrick Kielty
Patrick Kielty (born 31 January 1971) is an Irish comedian and television personality from Dundrum, Northern Ireland.
He was affected by The Troubles in Northern Ireland. On 25 January 1988 his father, businessman Jack Kielty, was shot dead by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA)/"Ulster Freedom Fighters" (UFF), a loyalist paramilitary group. Jack Kielty was to be the key witness in British Central Television's defence of a libel action brought by prominent UDA extortionist Jim Craig. Craig, who was suing the television company over a broadcast of The Cook Report, which connected him to racketeering, is said to have ordered Mr Kielty's murder.
He is a former minor footballer with Down GAA.
Kielty showed promise as a comedian already in his early years. His school held an annual holiday concert and Kielty featured annually with impersonations of local politicians, celebrities, and sportsmen.
Kielty's career started while he was still a student at Queen's University of Belfast. He became well known locally for his stand-up comedy routines at The Empire pub comedy nights -The Empire Laughs Back. One of his regular routines involved donning a balaclava and making spoof paramilitary pronouncements.
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Paul Burnett
Paul Burnett (born 26 November 1943, Hulme, Manchester) is an English radio disc jockey, who began his radio career while in the Royal Air Force in the Persian Gulf in 1964. In 1966 he joined offshore radio station, Radio 270, broadcasting off Scarborough, North Yorkshire. After the banning of the offshore stations he moved in 1967 to Manx Radio on the Isle of Man, but he soon joined Radio Luxembourg; where he hosted the chart show and discovered many recordings, which had been thought lost, of William Joyce's propaganda broadcasts to Britain, made from the Luxembourg stations during the Nazi occupation of the Grand Duchy. On Luxembourg, he presented the Saturday Top 20 show from 1967-74.
In 1974 Burnett joined BBC Radio 1 hosting a Sunday morning show "All There Is To Hear" (a radio one airplay chart show) and sitting in on the station's National Top 20 show. From 5 July 1976 he hosted the weekday lunchtime show after Johnnie Walker left the station and moved to California. Here he had the responsibility of revealing the new singles chart every Tuesday lunchtime. His popular show included several features such as Pub of the Day, Fun at One and Is, Was, Should Have. Burnett became a regular presenter of Top of the Pops, and presented the Radio 1 Roadshow during the summer. In 1981 he moved from lunchtimes to later in the afternoons, but his daily show ended in 1982 to allow Steve Wright's show to be extended. He briefly presented a Saturday morning show before leaving Radio 1 altogether.
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Paul Gambaccini
Paul Matthew Gambaccini (born April 2, 1949, New York; nicknamed 'The Professor of Pop') is a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. He has dual United States and British nationality, having become a British citizen in 2005.
Gambaccini studied at Dartmouth College, where he obtained a degree in history and at University College, Oxford, where he obtained a degree in politics, philosophy and economics. Having left Oxford, Gambaccini was considering further study in law at Harvard or Yale but had the opportunity of writing for Rolling Stone magazine as British correspondent. He attributes his broadcasting career to this post and especially an interview in 1973 with Elton John which brought him to the attention of BBC Radio producer John Walters who arranged for him to present on BBC Radio 1. He has since returned to Oxford as the News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media, where he delivered a series of lectures in January and February 2009. In February 2010 he was invited by the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Andrew Hamilton to deliver the inaugural LGBT lecture Out on Monday to the university's LGBT staff, students and faculty
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Paul Ross
Paul Ross (born April 1956 in Leytonstone, London) is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.
Ross was educated, along with his brother, at Norlington School for Boys and the University of Kent. Realising he would not be able to follow the academic career he favoured, "an English lecturer at a polytechnic", he trained as a journalist at Exeter University and started his career with the Western Times in Exeter in 1982.
Ross moved into television as a researcher at London Weekend Television before becoming an editor for The Six O'Clock Show and The London Programme.
He worked as an editor and producer on Channel Four's The Word and became a familiar face on television having presented on The Big Breakfast and numerous game shows such as No Win No Fee, Mind the Gap, and the UK versions of Jeopardy!.
By 1997 he had his own late night The Paul Ross Show for ITV which finished in 1998. He is a regular showbusiness reporter and newspaper reviewer for This Morning.
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Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul ( /ˈæbduːl/; born June 19, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.
In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era before scoring a string of pop music-R&B hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her for fifth among the female solo performers who have reached #1 there. She won a Grammy for "Best Music Video – Short Form" for "Opposites Attract" and twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography".
After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the early years of the 21st century as a judge on the television series, American Idol, for eight years, before departing from the show. Abdul had moved on to another television series, CBS's Live to Dance, which debuted in January 2011. The series has since been canceled. Following her judging role in Live to Dance, Abdul moved to the first season of American version of The X Factor with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell which premiered on September 21, 2011.
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Pete Tong
Peter "Pete" Tong (born July 30, 1960) is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records, and for his own performances at nightclubs and music festivals. Tong has worked as a record producer and is known by the nickname of Lord of the Dance.
The phrase "It's all gone Pete Tong", where the name is used as rhyming slang for "wrong", was reputedly first coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987 in an article about acid house called "Bermondsey Goes Balearic" for Terry Farley and Pete Heller's Boys Own fanzine. It's All Gone Pete Tong is also the title of a 2004 film which portrays a fictional DJ's experiences as he realizes he is becoming deaf. Tong appears briefly in the film. It is also the name Tong has adopted for his club night at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza.
In 2008 he was involved with the founding of the International Music Summit in Ibiza.
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Peter Andre
Peter James Andre (born 27 February 1973) is an English and Australian musician. Andre is best known for his singles "Mysterious Girl" and "Flava". He is the ex-husband of glamour model Katie Price, with whom he had two children.
In 2009, he made a successful musical comeback after the release of his 2006 album with then-wife Price, A Whole New World. In 2009, he released his first album in four years, Revelation with a new single "Behind Closed Doors" which reached #3 on the UK Singles Charts. This was followed by Accelerate in 2010.
Andre was born at Northwick Park Hospital in Brent, London on 27 February 1973.[citation needed] The family emigrated to Australia when he was six years old.[citation needed] 3 years later, they moved back to England for just 18 months, only to move back to Australia.[citation needed] At the age of 13, Peter wrote his first song 'Dream a Little' along with his older brother Chris. The song later became part of his debut album Peter Andre. By the time he was 16, Andre had written many songs, some co-written with his brother Michael. At age 16, Peter became a contestant on Hey Hey It's Saturday 'New Faces' on which he was offered a recording contract for £46,000 live on Australian television.
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Peter Brame
Peter Charles Brame (born 25 July 1979 in Chelmsford) is an English singer-songwriter, pop singer and guitarist, based in Colchester, Essex. He became well known through his appearances on television as a contestant on the second series of BBC talent show Fame Academy.
Brame taught himself to play the guitar when he was 17, and performed in local pubs and clubs as a teenager, he also fronted the indie bands Ish whilst still at school and Hannahs Fallen during his University days. His musical influences include The Verve, The Libertines, Oasis and Radiohead.
In 2003, after obtaining a degree in history, he was working as a management trainee when he successfully auditioned for the second series of the BBC's singing competition Fame Academy. Although showing early promise, he failed to reach the final showdown and finished in fourth place. During the show he received mixed reviews for his performances and his songwriting but became notorious for his wild behaviour, which included getting drunk on evenings out, missing early morning songwriting sessions and dance practices, quarrelling with several classmates and exchanging passionate kisses with a fellow contestant.
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Pixie Lott
Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott (born 12 January 1991) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Boys and Girls", also topped the UK charts in September 2009. Her debut album Turn It Up was released in September 2009. It reached number six on the UK Albums Chart, spawned five consecutive Top 20 singles, and sold over a million copies. Her second album, Young Foolish Happy, was released on 14 November 2011. "All About Tonight", the first single from that album, entered the charts at number one on 17 September 2011, making it her third UK number one hit.
Lott is often credited for her live performances and style. In July 2010, Lott appeared as a guest judge for the auditions for the seventh series of The X Factor in Cardiff, covering for Dannii Minogue, who was on maternity leave.
Lott has released "Boys and Girls" as her debut US single on 24 August 2010. The release coincided with the TV premiere of her first film, Fred: The Movie. In January 2010, Lott was named one of 2010's "Faces to Watch" by US magazine, Billboard.
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Ray Stubbs
Raymond "Ray" Stubbs (born Wallasey, Wirral, 1956) is a broadcaster and former footballer. He works for ESPN, presenting live Premier League and Scottish Premier League matches, having joined the satellite sports channel from the BBC in 2009.
He was initially a professional footballer, leaving Calday Grange Grammar School to join Tranmere Rovers for five years. He also played for Bangor City between 1978 and 1980. After ending his playing career with Tranmere, he stayed with the club in an administrative capacity and then spent three years with BBC Radio Merseyside as a reporter and presenter.
In 1986, Stubbs moved to BBC Manchester as an assistant producer, working on sports including snooker, darts and bowls, and on the quiz show A Question of Sport. He also worked as a producer, reporter and presenter on BBC Two's investigative sports series On The Line, which took him to Italy in 1990 to report on England football fans at the World Cup.
Later that year, Stubbs began working as a reporter on Grandstand, Match of the Day and Sportsnight. He reported from the Irish camp during the 1994 FIFA World Cup in America, and was the BBC's reporter-in-residence in the England camp during Euro 96 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Stubbs was a co-presenter at all the subsequent major international tournaments between 2000 and 2008 as well as the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
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Rebecca Huxtable
Rebecca 'Beccy' Huxtable (born 12 August 1981) is a British radio personality and producer, currently co-producing The Scott Mills Show with Scott Mills on BBC Radio 1.
Rebecca was born in Taunton, Somerset. She attended Crispin School, going on to study journalism at Bournemouth University.
She gained experience in radio broadcasting at a local radio station, 2CRFM, which later went on to become part of The Heart Network.
Rebecca later worked freelance for Virgin Radio, and also briefly as a newsreader.
Rebecca currently appears on and co-produces The Scott Mills Show, broadcast from 1pm-4pm weekdays on BBC Radio 1. She has appeared on the show since April 2008, following her work with Sara Cox on the same station. Rebecca also produces The Scott Mills Daily Podcast which contains a daily slice of Scott's show. Rebecca turned on the Bridgwater Christmas lights in 2010 live on BBC Radio 1.
In January 2010, Rebecca won the Funniest Radio Sidekick in the Loaded Lafta awards.
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Reggie Yates
Reggie Yates (born 31 May 1983 in Archway, London) is a British actor, television presenter and radio DJ of Ghanaian descent. He went to Central Foundation Boys' School.
Yates made his first TV appearance in Desmond's at the age of 8. He also appeared in Disney Club as Robbie. In 1998, Reggie appeared as a guest presenter on Diggit on CITV also under the name Robbie. In 2002, he played Carl Fenton in the popular children's series Grange Hill. From 2002 to 2004, he presented the Sunday morning programme Smile, and then went on to present Top of the Pops with former Smile co-host Fearne Cotton before the final episode broadcast on BBC Two on 30 July 2006. He also created and starred in the series The Crust and presented Dance Factory and his own radio show on BBC Radio 1,
He appeared on Stars in Fast Cars on 10 March 2006 and won his group to get into the final, beating Elton Welsby and Ben Fogle in the last round.
He presented Mighty Truck of Stuff and "Only in America" with Fearne Cotton on CBBC as well as his own show on BBC Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton. They presented a breakfast show on Saturday and Sunday mornings. They played from 7:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. They then went on to present the Radio 1 Chart Show starting on 14 October 2007 until Sunday 20 September 2009. Fearne left following her promotion to weekday mornings on Radio 1 from 10:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m. leaving Reggie to present on his own. They took over from JK & Joel, who have now left the station. In addition to the chart show, Yates also presents a request show on Saturday afternoons, known as The Radio 1 Request Show where listeners can send in a text or phone in to request a song.
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Richard Blackwood
Richard Blackwood (born Richard Clifford Blackwood, 15 May 1972, Clapham, London, England), is an English comedian, media personality, occasional actor and MC. He co-presents a show on the London radio station Choice FM and guests as a disc jockey at various nightclubs.
Blackwood presented the UK version of Singled Out on Channel 5 and, in 1999, presented his own show called The Richard Blackwood Show, which was commercially and critically unsuccessful.
Blackwood scored a UK #3 hit single in 2000, with the song 'Mama Who Da Man', based on Mama Used to Say by his uncle Junior. The 200,000+ selling hit single was written and produced by Lucas Secon (Pussycat Dolls, Jordin Sparks, Sugababes) and Mickey P.
Blackwood appeared on Brass Eye in 2001, during which he was tricked into saying that Internet paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit noxious fumes in order to subdue children. Blackwood even sniffed a keyboard and claimed it made him feel "suggestible". Blackwood also warned watching parents that exposure to the fumes would make their children "smell like hammers". He had acting appearances in Holby City in 2003 and played the title character in the 2002 television series Ed Stone Is Dead. During May 2003, Blackwood appeared in Channel 5's Celebrity Detox Camp, a highlight of which was his self-administered coffee enema, which involved him being filmed "pumping 18 litres of coffee solution through his anus into [his] stomach" In March 2007, he acted in the critically unsuccessful Bollywood film Don't Stop Dreaming. In 2005, Blackwood appeared in the critically maligned Princes of Comedii DVD release, his involvement being described as "desperate" by DVD Times reviewer Eamonn McCusker.
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Rita Ora
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born 26 November 1990), better known as Rita Ora, is a British singer-songwriter and actress. In 2009, she appeared on the BBC's Eurovision: Your Country Needs You where she auditioned to be the British contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. Later in 2009, she signed to Roc Nation. Ora is of Kosovar Albanian ethnicity.
In 2012, Ora provided the vocals for DJ Fresh’s "Hot Right Now", which has been the fastest selling single in the UK of 2012. Ora's debut single, "R.I.P", topped the UK Singles Chart in May 2012. Ora will spend the summer 2012 opening concerts for Coldplay.
Rita Ora was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) and moved to the United Kingdom the same year of her birth. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which she graduated from Sylvia Young Theatre School and then St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. She began singing from a young age. In 2004, she appeared in the British film Spivs. She auditioned for Eurovision: Your Country Needs You on BBC One to be the British contestant for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest but later withdrew from the competition after a few episodes as she did not feel ready.
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Rob da Bank
Robert John Gorham, (born 24 June 1974) known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a British disc jockey. He presents a Friday-night/Saturday-morning show, Rob da Bank, on BBC Radio 1 from 5am-7am, focused on promoting new left field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper, Moloko and a host of unsigned acts.
Until September 2006, he and Chris Coco were the presenters of the Blue Room on Radio 1. The show had a dedicated following, and was one of the few show-cases for a unique blend of quirky chillout tunes. He also hosted Radio 1's One Music show on Thursday nights, the content of which is more similar to the music played on his current show. Rob Da Bank filled in for John Peel's show for several weeks following his death in 2004. In 2009 he gave BBC Blast an exclusive look behind the scenes of his show. The music played by Rob da Bank on Sunday Best helped launch the "bar culture" (as opposed to "club culture"), which features more relaxed activities than dancing.[dead link]
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That.
Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams left the group in 1995 to launch his solo career. On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album of all-time in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century.
Williams has sold over 70 million records worldwide, which ranks him among the best-selling music artists worldwide. He is the best-selling British solo artist in the United Kingdom and the best selling non-Latino artist in Latin America. Six of his albums are among the top 100 biggest-selling albums in the United Kingdom. He has also been honoured with seventeen BRIT Awards—more than any other artist—and seven ECHO Awards. In 2004, he was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame after being voted as the "Greatest Artist of the 1990s."
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Ronan Keating
Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish recording artist, singer-songwriter, musician, and philanthropist. Keating debuted on the professional music scene alongside Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Stephen Gately, in 1994 as the lead singer of Boyzone. His solo career started in 1999, and resulted in 9 albums. Keating gained worldwide attention when his single "When You Say Nothing at All" was featured in the film Notting Hill and peaked at number one in several countries. As a solo artist, Keating has sold over 22 million records worldwide, and in Australia he is best known as a judge on The X Factor.
Keating has worked as a charity campaigner most notably for the Marie Keating Foundation, a foundation that raises awareness for breast cancer. It is named after his mother, who died of the disease in 1998. Keating's fortune is around €15 million.
Ronan Keating was born on 3 March 1977, the youngest of five children. He grew up on the Northside of Dublin and Co Meath. His father Gerry Keating was a lorry driver; his mother Marie was a hairdresser and had her own salon in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath. He has one sister: Linda, and three brothers: Ciaran, Gerard and Gary. He was a track and field athlete and represented Ireland in several tournaments, winning the All Ireland under-13 200m title. He also worked as an assistant in a shoe shop just as his siblings emigrated to the United States.
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Ronnie Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and a member of The Rolling Stones since 1975. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar.
Wood began his career in 1964, when he joined The Birds on guitar. He then joined the mod group The Creation, but only remained with the group for a short time, and appeared on a small number of singles. Wood joined The Jeff Beck Group in 1967. They released two albums, Truth and Beck-Ola, which became moderate successes. The group split in 1969, and Wood departed along with lead vocalist Rod Stewart to join former Small Faces members Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and Kenney Jones in a new group, dubbed the Faces. The group, although relegated to "cult" status in the US, found great success in the UK and mainland Europe. The Faces released their debut album, First Step, in 1970. The group went on to release Long Player and A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse in 1971. Their last LP, entitled Ooh La La, was released in 1973. After the group split, Wood began several solo projects, eventually recording his first solo LP, I've Got My Own Album to Do, in 1974. The album featured former bandmate McLagan as well as former Beatle George Harrison and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones, a longtime friend of Wood's. Richards soon invited Wood to join The Rolling Stones, after the departure of Mick Taylor. Wood joined in 1975, and has remained a member ever since.
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Rory McConnell
Rory McConnell is a DJ and radio presenter for BBC Radio 1. He currently presents the Northern Ireland edition of BBC Introducing, a regionalised radio programme transmitted Belfast from 00:00 to 02:00 on Sunday night/ Monday morning.
McConnell is from Belfast. At 16, he joined the BBC Radio Ulster show, Across The Line, answering the phones. He later went on to co-present the show. In 2004 he moved to Radio 1 and then in February 2006 he began presenting Radio 1's Northern Ireland Show from 8 to 10pm on Thursday nights. He currently presents and produces the Northern Ireland edition of the BBC Introducing show.
Rory currently runs the promotions, management and record label Di Di Mau. In the past has staged concerts in Belfast and has released the debut album from Dutch Schultz through Di Di Mau Records.
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Rowland Rivron
Rowland J. Rivron (born 1958 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire), a British comedian, musician, writer, and television presenter.
Rivron was brought up in Hillingdon, West London and attended Abbotsfield Secondary School.[citation needed] He has two brothers, Richard and Raymond.
He and his wife Monica, née Appleby, have three children. The couple are avid caravanners, and Monica is the author of The Caravan Cookbook.
Rivron first came to fame through his appearances as the comedy character of "Dr Martin Scrote" on the Jonathan Ross chat show The Last Resort, before appearing on Night Network's Bunker Show. He developed this into a series for Channel 4 called Set of Six about Dr Scrote and his five brothers. In 1989 he starred with Jools Holland in the short-lived series The Groovy Fellers. In the early 1990s he presented his own chat show, Rivron, in which the entire set floated in the River Thames. Rowland also made a memorable appearance in the children's schools BBC TV Series Cats' Eyes.
Rivron toured briefly, playing drums for Transvision Vamp in the late 80s[citation needed]. Rivron played drums on Fat Les's 1998 single "Vindaloo". As one half of the band "Raw Sex" (with Simon Brint), he also featured regularly on BBC TV's French and Saunders show and wrote the theme tune for LWT drama London's Burning.
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Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax (born 19 April 1953) is an American comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.
Wax was born Ruby Wachs, the daughter of Jewish parents who left Austria in 1939 because of the Nazi threat. Her father became wealthy as a sausage manufacturer and her mother qualified as an accountant. Wax was raised in Evanston, Illinois in the 1950s and 60s. Wax elected to major in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wax came to the UK and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She began her acting career as a straight actress at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, where she began a long-standing writing and directing partnership with Alan Rickman, who later was to direct most of her stage comedy shows. In 1978, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, working alongside Juliet Stevenson in Measure for Measure, as Jaquenetta opposite Michael Hordern in Love's Labours Lost, replacing Zoë Wanamaker as Jane in The Way of the World and appearing in the Howard Brenton three-hander Sore Throats. While at the RSC, Wax also met and befriended Ian Charleson, and later contributed a chapter to the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute.
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Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound (born Robert James Blair Simpson on 6 March 1979)[citation needed] is a British comedian and presenter.
Hound hosted Destination Three, the coverage of the Glastonbury festival and Top of the Pops in 2005 and 2006 alongside Fearne Cotton. He presented the idiosyncratic reality show Grime Scene Investigation on BBC Three with staff and students from Aston University, and narrated BBC Two's broadcasts of Mythbusters. He has also appeared in many comedy shows and quizzes such as Street Cred Sudoku and Celebrity Juice, where he is a regular panellist. He narrated the 2009 series Rocket Science and has appeared on The Apprentice: You're Fired! and Richard & Judy. He also presented Outtake TV on BBC1, replacing Anne Robinson.
In early 2008, Hound appeared twice on ITV's Thank God You're Here in the UK, after initially working as the warm-up act. In late summer 2008, Hound joined the panel show Argumental as the Blue Team Captain. Hound was the narrator for the gaming series Playr and presents What Do Kids Know? on UKTV-owned channel Watch. In 2010, he appeared in his own sitcom on CBBC called Hounded, where he plays a TV presenter who must save the universe from an evil doctor. Hound took part in Let's Dance for Sport Relief, dancing to Cheryl Cole's "Fight for This Love" and won the final of the series on 13 March 2010. Rufus also hosted the year 2000 edition of new show "My Funniest Year", a look at a past year of British television, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in September 2010.
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Sara Cox
Sara Cox (born Sarah Joanne Cox on 13 December 1974), known as "Coxy", is an English TV presenter and radio DJ, best known for presenting the breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 between 2000 and 2003. She now presents a Sunday morning show on the station, as well as regularly covering for other Radio 1 DJs.
Cox was born Sarah Joanne Cox in Bolton, Greater Manchester, but later dropped the use of the letter 'h' from her first name. She attended Smithills High School until the age of 16, and left Canon Slade School after her A-levels to pursue a career in modelling.
Cox won her first television show role in 1996, presenting early "Girl Power" show The Girlie Show on Channel 4. She later had stints on Channel 5 entertainment show Exclusive and Channel 4 music programme Born Sloppy. In 1997 Sara presented on the UK feed of MTV, hosting MTV Hot, a late night music show. In 1998 Sara won her first film role in "The Bitterest Pill".
In September 1998 she became a presenter of The Big Breakfast, following in the footsteps of her friend Zoë Ball (for whom Cox was a bridesmaid at Ball's wedding to DJ Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, in 1999). During her time on The Big Breakfast she interviewed stars such as Robbie Williams, Sting and Leonardo DiCaprio. Cox preferred to do interviews in her dad's caravan which was situated in The Big Breakfast garden.
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Sarah Cawood
Sarah Cawood (born August 7, 1972 in London) is an English television presenter.
Cawood grew up in the Cambridgeshire village of Maxey and was educated at Stamford High School, Lincolnshire near Peterborough, United Kingdom. She also attended the Royal Ballet School and Arts Educational Schools London.
Between 1995 and 1996, she worked as a presenter for Nickelodeon. In 1997, she moved on to present The Girlie Show. From 1998 to 2000, she featured on Channel 5's Karaoke quiz show, Night Fever. She has also presented on MTV, Live & Kicking and Top of the Pops. She was also a panellist on Loose Women in 2003. She has also co-presented the midweek and Saturday National Lottery programmes and was also a reporter on the Channel 4 show Richard & Judy. In addition to this, she presented an information video for Argos for staff training purposes.
In May 2006, it was while she was presenting The National Lottery Jet Set, alongside Eamonn Holmes that Fathers 4 Justice invaded the studio, she however carried on and later claimed it was her training on MTV which allowed her to 'ad-lib'. She won a Celebrity episode of the Weakest Link, beating cricketer Phil Tufnell in the final. In November 2006, she took part in the BBC's Celebrity Scissorhands for Children in Need.
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Scott Mills
Scott Robert Mills (born 28 March 1973) is a British radio DJ, television presenter and occasional actor, best known for presenting The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1. As of the 2011 Contest, Mills commentates for the semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest on BBC Three with fellow BBC Radio DJ Sara Cox.
Mills began his career at the age of 16 as a DJ on his local Hampshire commercial radio station, Power FM, after barraging the station with demo tapes. Mills was given an opportunity to present a week worth of shows, and based on the success of this, he was immediately offered the 'graveyard slot' of 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. (six nights a week), making him the youngest permanent presenter on the mainstream commercial radio. Mills' popularity led to a quick move to the coveted late afternoon 'drive time'.
Mills moved from Power FM to GWR FM, staying with the station for two years, before joining Piccadilly Key 103 in Manchester where he again moved quickly from the late night slot to the mid-morning show. In 1995, Mills began to work for the new London station Heart 106.2.
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Sharleen Spiteri
Sharleen Spiteri (born 7 November 1967) is a Scottish recording artist and songwriter, best known as being the lead singer of Scottish rock/blues band Texas, and often denoted as the Queen of Britpop. Texas began their career in 1986, and shot to fame in 1989 with their UK Top Ten single with her brother in law as lead guitarist, "I Don't Want a Lover" released from Southside (1989). Until 2003, Texas's worldwide album sales were counted at 20 million.
Her debut solo album Melody was released in 2008, and her second solo album The Movie Songbook was released in March 2010.
Spiteri was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire to father Eddie, a guitar-playing merchant seaman and mother Vilma, a singer. Spiteri is of French, Irish, Italian and Maltese descent. When she was young the family moved from the Glaswegian suburbs to nearby Balloch, close to the banks of Loch Lomond. At school (Vale of Leven Academy) her nickname was ‘Spit the Dog’, after the character on the TV show Tiswas. Sharleen was a hairdresser in Muirhead, North Lanarkshire until she hit fame.
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Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne (née Arden, originally Levy; born 9 October 1952) is an English television host, author, music manager, businesswoman and promoter as well as the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne.
She came into public prominence after appearing in The Osbournes, a reality television show that followed her family's daily routine. Osbourne later became a judge on the talent shows The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Her autobiography, Extreme, has sold in excess of two million copies.
After the success of The Osbournes and The X Factor, hosting her own chat shows and securing advertising contracts, Osbourne was ranked as the 25th richest woman in Britain on the 2009 Sunday Times Rich List. Sharon and husband, Ozzy Osbourne, are currently ranked as the 724th richest people in Britain with an estimated joint wealth of £110 million. Sharon Osbourne is credited with reviving her husband's heavy metal career by founding the summer Ozzfest tour. She currently lives in California and is one of five co-hosts of the daytime series, The Talk, where she discusses controversial topics and contemporary issues. The Talk premiered on 18 October 2010. BBC announced she is expected to host a syndicated daytime version Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2012.
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Shaun Williamson
Shaun Williamson (born 4 November 1965) is an English actor, singer, media personality and occasional presenter, best known for his former role as Barry Evans in soap opera EastEnders and as a version of himself in BBC sitcom Extras.
A former student of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, he is widely known for his portrayal of foolish and hapless Barry Evans in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role that he played from 1994 to 2004. This was Williamson's second role in the hit soap, he previously had a brief role as a paramedic earlier in 1994. He has recently stated that he has no regrets about leaving the show.
Other television roles have included parts in the detective series Inspector Morse and the BBC sitcom Waiting for God. In 2005 and 2006 he played a comically unemployable version of himself in Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's BBC sitcom, Extras. He also took part in the Five programme Gender Swap, where he was dressed as a woman and was given a prosthetic makeover before being sent speed-dating in his new persona, and presented the short-lived ITV gameshow 24 Hour Quiz. He also appeared in the BBC Three comedy Funland. Shaun also made a guest appearance in ITV 1 show The Bill. He played gang leader Dave Monks, who comes under scrutiny during an international drugs smuggling investigation. The two episodes were aired in August 2008. In 2009 and 2010 he recorded episodes of children's programme Scoop on CBBC (Children's BBC) with Hacker T Dog.
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Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward,born 16 October 1984 in Manchester, England, is an English pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of second series of The X Factor. He has sold over three million records worldwide and has had number one albums and singles in nine countries. During The X Factor competition, Ward was mentored by manager Louis Walsh. The Bookies' favourite to win the show, he defeated duo Journey South and singer Andy Abraham in the final screened by ITV1 by a margin of 1.2% of the vote, out of a reputed 10.8 million phone votes cast by viewers. His first single, "That's My Goal", was released in the United Kingdom on December21, 2005 and became the last number one of 2005, hitting the top spot on 31 December. It sold 313,000 copies on its first day of sales, making it the third fastest selling single of all time, behind Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" and Will Young's "Evergreen", which sold 685,000 and 400,000 copies in their first days of sale respectively. Ward's prize, as winner, was a recording contract with Simon Cowell's Syco record label, which is co-owned by Sony Music Entertainment. The contract had a stated value of £1 million, of which £150,000 was a cash advance and the remainder was allocated to recording and marketing costs.
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Simon Bates
Simon Bates (born 17 December 1947, Birmingham) is a UK disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. In January 2011, he took over as host of "The Breakfast Show" on Smooth Radio.
Bates was raised in Suffolk and Shropshire and was educated at Adams' Grammar School before working for radio stations in New Zealand and Australia while still a teenager. Bates returned to the UK in 1971 to join the BBC, initially working for BBC Radio 4 and then joining BBC Radio 2 in 1973 presenting the Late Night show, before presenting the Early Morning show in 1975. Bates left BBC Radio 2 in January 1976 and joined BBC Radio 1 in May the same year standing in for Tom Browne to host the Sunday Top 20 show before presenting the Sunday morning show two months later.
Initially a weekend presenter playing new pop records, Bates took over the weekday mid-morning programme in November 1977 and remained the presenter for 16 years. The least flashy and garrulous of Radio 1's principal broadcasters, with an avuncular appearance (sober clothes, large glasses), Bates nevertheless became popular, attracting up to 11 million listeners. His voice — essentially a sped-up, slightly Americanised version of the standard Received Pronunciation associated with BBC Radio 4 — was unusual in that most Radio 1 DJs of the time had a more informal 'DJ' voice.
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Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.
As a judge, Cowell is known for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. He is also known for combining activities in both the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent and the first season of The X Factor USA.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Cowell at number 41 in a list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".
Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire. His mother, Julie Brett (née Josie Dalglish), is a former ballet dancer and socialite, and his father, Eric Selig Phillip Cowell (1918–1999), was an estate agent developer and music industry executive. Cowell's father was from a mostly Jewish family, though he did not discuss his background with his children (Cowell's paternal grandmother had immigrated from Poland). Cowell's mother was from a Christian background, and is of part Scottish descent. He has one brother and three half-brothers and a half sister; younger brother Nicholas Cowell, half-brother John Cowell, half-brother Tony Cowell, half-brother Michael Cowell and half sister June Cowell.
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Simon Dee
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, Dee Time in the late 1960s. After moving from the BBC to London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1970 he was dropped and his career never recovered.
He died of bone cancer in 2009.
Simon Dee was born on 28 July 1935, in Manchester, the only child of Cyril Edward Dodd (1906–1980) and Doris Gwendoline Pilling (née Simon) (1907–1952) who married in 1934 in Salford, though a Radio Caroline biography gave his birth place as Ottawa, Canada. He was educated at Brighton College and Shrewsbury School.
He served his compulsory military service in the Royal Air Force photo-reconnaissance unit, taking aerial photographs of the combat zone during the 1956 Suez Crisis, and being wounded in the face by a sniper in Cyprus. While stationed in Baghdad with RAF Intelligence, he auditioned for British Forces Radio.
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Simon Grant
Simon Grant (born 3 July 1978) in Falmouth, Cornwall is a British television presenter and actor.
Before becoming a CBBC presenter, he studied acting at Middlesex University.
He began presenting on The Saturday Show in 2002 when he was a virtual unknown, but went on to host other shows like Xperimental and Hard Spell Abbey, as well as becoming a regular presenter in the CBBC studio and guest host of The Big Toe Radio Show on digital radio station BBC 7. Simon was the longest serving presenter of the The Saturday Show and in the 2004 summer run was the object of the game Gunge Grant in which he competed in a quiz each week with a child contestant, resulting in the loser being gunged. This game was changed slightly in 2005 and renamed Gunge GBH (Gunge Grant, Bell or Humphrey), with the new rule of a different Saturday Show presenter going head to head with the child each week. Simon was also the original host of Top of the Pops Saturday along with Fearne Cotton, which led him to present Top of the Pops. He also appeared in the CBBC Scotland detective show Suspect, where a team of three children attempt to solve a crime committed in the so called Kilcrammond House Hotel. In 2006 he appeared in BBC One's Celebrity MasterChef and the BBC's Making Your Mind Up as southwest England's regional host. On 1 December 2006, he presented in the CBBC studio for the final time.
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Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo (born 21 September 1958 in Southgate, London) is an English radio presenter who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. As of January 2010, Mayo is presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 and, with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews on BBC Radio 5 Live.
In 2008, Mayo was recognised as the "radio broadcaster of the year" at the 34th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the "Speech Broadcaster of the Year" at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, receiving the latter for his "ability to paint colourful pictures of location and event and his ability to bring the very best out of his guests, encouraging conversation and interaction between them while skilfully nudging and controlling them" and for being "a master of light and shade, handling serious and lighter issues with aplomb." Known as a committed Christian, Mayo has criticised the BBC for marginalising religion and being anti-Christian.
Mayo attended Solihull School, an historic independent school in the West Midlands, and after graduating from the University of Warwick in 1980 with a degree in History and Politics, Mayo spent some time honing his skills at Southlands Hospital Radio, worked for five years as a presenter with BBC Radio Nottingham, before joining the national pop network BBC Radio 1 in 1986, presenting a two hour Saturday evening show from 7.30-9.30pm.
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Skream
Skream (born Oliver Dene Jones in West Wickham, Bromley, London on 1 June 1986) is a Dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of Dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010. Skream is also a member of the Dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man, along with fellow producers Benga and Artwork. The group released their self-titled debut album on 8 October 2010.
In an interview with The Independent (UK) in September 2011, Skream was quoted: "The word Dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the Dubstep brush. They don’t want to be tagged with it and shouldn’t be tagged with it – that’s not what they’re pushing ... When I say ‘UK bass’, it’s what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."
As a teenager, Jones worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early Dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another Dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.
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Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Daniel Mulhern (born 4 April 1977) is a British TV presenter, entertainer, and former magician. He began presenting in the studio on CITV in May 1998 and became a leading presenter until he left in August 2002. He has presented a number of shows, including SMTV Live, Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown and Globo Loco. Mulhern hosts Britain's Got More Talent on ITV2.
Stephen Mulhern is the third of four children of Maureen (née Reid) and Christopher Mulhern. He has two older brothers and a younger sister.
Mulhern attended St Bonaventure's Catholic Comprehensive School in Forest Gate, Newham; he began entertaining from a very young age and became interested in comedy and magic from his father, who would teach him a trick before bedtime when he was 13 years old. He was a member of The Magic Circle and became a successful TV magician.[citation needed] Magic credits have included The Quick Trick Show and more recently Tricky TV. He has released a number of children's magic sets and videos and has toured the UK with his show, Stephen's Mega Mad Magic Show. The show proved popular attracting large audiences. He has taken part in the Royal Variety Performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre with the Queen in attendance.[citation needed]
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Steve Brookstein
Stephen Desmond "Steve" Brookstein (born 10 November 1968) is an English jazz and soul singer, who enjoyed a brief period of popular success in the UK in 2004 after winning the first series of The X Factor. He is originally from Mitcham, South London.
In 1997, seven years before his breakthrough on The X Factor, Brookstein was a finalist on the ITV series The Big Big Talent Show, hosted by Jonathan Ross.[citation needed]
In early 2004, Brookstein auditioned for the first series of The X Factor, a new television talent show that aimed to discover a star recording artist in the UK (effectively replacing Pop Idol). His audition failed to impress two of the judges, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh, who thought he lacked the motivation and confidence to succeed but the third, Simon Cowell, thought he was "that good" that he asked Brookstein to return the following day and sing again. At the second audition, Brookstein managed to impress the other judges and was put through to the next stage of the competition. He went on to reach the live shows, where contestants are put to the public vote, as one of three contestants in the Over 25s category mentored by Cowell. He reached the grand final on 11 December 2004 alongside G4, and won despite a controversial outburst against him from Osbourne. However, according to Sharon Osbourne's subsequent autobiography, he had gained the most votes in every single one of the live shows. For five years, he held the record for the greatest number of votes ever received in the final - 6 million, but this is now held by series 6 winner Joe McElderry, who received over 6.1 million votes.[citation needed]
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Sybil Ruscoe
Sybil Ruscoe (born 8 August 1960 in Wem, Shropshire, England), is a radio and television presenter
Ruscoe began on the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton. Then moved to Radio Wyvern in Worcester, Beacon Radio and BBC Radio Shropshire. She then teamed up with Simon Mayo on the Radio 1 Breakfast show in 1989. She also started presenting television during this period, including Top of the Pops which she presented once in 1988 and six times in 1989. [1]
In 1990 she took over the evening news show News 90, which then became News 91, News 92 & News 93 over the three years that it was broadcast.
In 1994 she was the first presenter hired by Radio 5 Live and presented the afternoon show for 5 years.
In 1999 she joined Channel 4 Cricket - the first woman to present cricket on TV and was named Cosmopolitan Inspirational Woman of the Year.
Since 1999 Ruscoe has written for the Daily Telegraph.
In July 2003, she joined BBC Radio 2, taking over from Lynn Parsons on the weekend overnight slot. She remained here until July 2004.
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Terry Wogan
Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE, DL (born 3 August 1938), also known as Terry Wogan, is a veteran Irish radio and television broadcaster who holds dual Irish and British citizenship. Wogan has worked for the BBC in the United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from the weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan on BBC Radio 2 on 18 December 2009, it had a regular 8 million listeners, making Wogan the most listened-to radio broadcaster of any European nation. He began his career at Raidió Teilifís Éireann where he presented shows such as Jackpot in the 1960s.
Wogan has been a leading media personality in the UK since the late 1960s and is often referred to as a national treasure. He is perhaps best known in the United Kingdom for his BBC1 chat show Wogan, for his work presenting Children in Need, as the host of Wake Up to Wogan, the original host of the BBC game show Blankety Blank (before being replaced by Les Dawson), a presenter of Come Dancing in the 1970s, and as the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest on radio and television from 1971 to 2008. Wogan currently hosts a two hour Sunday morning show, Weekend Wogan on Radio 2.
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Tess Daly
Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly (born 27 April 1969) is an English television presenter. She is married to the presenter Vernon Kay.
Daly was born in Derbyshire to Vivian (1932-2003), who died of emphysema, and Sylvia Daly and grew up in Birch Vale near New Mills, Derbyshire. She attended Hayfield Primary School and New Mills Secondary School. She has a younger sister, Karen.
In 1990, Daly appeared in two Duran Duran videos for the songs "Serious" and "Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over)", both from the album Liberty. She also appeared in the video for The Beloved's 1993 song "Sweet Harmony".
After working as a model, her first television appearance was in 2000, when she hosted the 'Find Me a Model' competition on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast. Since then, she has presented shows including Singled Out, Smash Hits TV, SMTV Live, Back To Reality, the first series of Make Me a Supermodel (with Dave Berry) and Strictly Come Dancing, which she has co-hosted with Bruce Forsyth in all nine series to date. Daly missed a couple of episodes in Season 2 due to being pregnant with her first daughter. Natasha Kaplinsky, the first series winner, took her place but she later returned. She was a possible contender to replace Samantha Harris as the co-host of the American version, Dancing With the Stars.
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Tim Kash
Tim Kash (born February 13, 1982) is a television presenter best known for formerly presenting Top of the Pops in the United Kingdom, and MTV News on MTV UK and Ireland. He appeared on the U.S. edition of MTV News, and as a guest presenter on E! Network's Daily 10. He currently resides in New York City, United States.
Kash was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom in 1982 to a Sri Lankan Tamil family. He attended both St George's School, set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, and St Paul's School in Barnes, South London.
After spending some time working in A&R, Kash was hired by MTV UK and Ireland to work as a VJ, and began presenting MTV News in the U.K., and Europe in 2003.
After joining MTV, Kash was offered the presenting role on the BBC's Top of the Pops. On 28 November 2003, Kash hosted his first episode of the show which coincided with one of its most radical overhauls in what was reported as a make-or-break attempt to revitalize the long-running series. The BBC chose Kash for the position because of his youth, his prior success on MTV, and because the considered him a "edgy, quick-witted and talented presenter"; they hoped that all of these qualities would bring back the younger audience Top of the Pops used to have. Though show garnered poor ratings, and was moved from BBC1 to BBC2 in spring 2005, and eventually cancelled in July 2006.
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Tim Vine
Timothy "Tim" Mark Vine (born 4 March 1967 in Cheam, London)[citation needed] is an English actor, writer and comedian.
He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy, as well as starring in the series Not Going Out with Lee Mack on the BBC. He won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2010, and for the second best in August 2011.
He attended the public school Epsom College with his brother Jeremy Vine.
His stand-up act consists primarily of a series of quick-fire one-liners and puns. Vine has appeared regularly at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with shows such as The Tim Vine Shambles and The Tim Vine Fiasco which won him the Perrier newcomer award in 1995. In 2006, he had a large advertising hoarding erected featuring his name and image, with a small sub-heading "...is not appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival" Vine appeared at the Pleasance Courtyard for the first two weeks of the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing a show entitled Punslinger.
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Tim Westwood
Timothy Westwood (born 3 October 1957) is an English DJ and presenter of radio and television. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. He is often referred to by other DJs and artists appearing on his shows simply as Westwood.
During his career Westwood has DJed for many radio stations, including the newly formed radio stations Kiss FM (which he co-owned) and LWR in the 1980s, followed by mainstream station Capital FM (from 1987). In December 1994, following a shake up of Radio 1 by the then chief executive Matthew Bannister, he was given the new and somewhat innovative national Radio 1 Rap Show. He was the Radio 1 Rap Show's first presenter and has been its only permanent presenter; he is now one of Radio 1's longest-serving broadcasters.
His first broadcast on a legal station appears to have been on 23 March 1985, when he was already working as a pirate DJ.[original research?] He was a guest on a BBC World Service programme called Meridian where he discussed early hip-hop culture in London. After appearing in the 1987 BBC Open Space documentary Bad Meaning Good, which was an early work of his own company Justice Entertainment, he achieved TV exposure in the late 1980s on the ITV programme Night Network, produced by London Weekend Television.
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Toddla T
Toddla T is the stage name of Thomas Mackenzie Bell – a DJ, record producer, re-mixer and composer from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Toddla T, born 22 February 1985, was raised in Sheffield where he attended King Edward VII School. Toddla T started DJing at the age of 14 in the clubs and bars of Sheffield and by the age of 16 had left school to pursue a full-time career in the music industry. His stage name was given to him by the older Sheffield DJs who influenced him and was used to indicate his relative youth. Despite originating from Sheffield, Bell regularly DJs all over the globe and currently shares a studio with up and coming producer Redlight. Bell currently resides in Queens Park, London where he shares a residence with long-term girlfriend, fellow Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac.[citation needed] Mac features on Toddla T's debut album through the form of an irate phone call when Bell awakens her.[citation needed]
Toddla T's first album, for 1965 Records, encompasses hip-hop, electro, garage, dancehall and house and was released in May 2009. The major collaborators were Serocee and Mr Versatile. The album also features further collaborations with Matt Helders from the Arctic Monkeys, Benjamin Zephaniah, Roots Manuva, Tinchy Stryder, Joe Goddard and Hervé. He has created a mix album for the London nightclub Fabric. Toddla T is currently DJing throughout the UK, Europe and North America and he is a resident DJ at Fabric. He has had a regular slot on BBC Radio 1 in the "In New DJs We Trust" slot. He is involved in recording and producing various artists such as Jammer, Trojan Sound System, Lady Chann and Tinchy Stryder. In 2010 he signed to the record label Ninja Tune and is currently working on his next album. In December 2011, the BBC announced that he will have a permanent weekly slot on Radio 1.
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Tommy Vance
Tommy Vance (born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, 11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. He used a personal tag-line of "TV on the radio".
Born as Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, Vance left home at 16 to join the Merchant Navy (discharged 1 October 1956), and began his radio career in the USA under the name 'Rick West'. He took the name 'Tommy Vance' at the radio station KOL in Seattle from a DJ who had failed to turn up after the station had heavily promoted and paid for expensive jingles which were already recorded.
While at KOL, Vance was recruited by the Top 40 programming consultant Bill Drake, to join his team of Boss Jocks at the emerging West Coast KHJ radio in Los Angeles (aka Boss Radio). Vance held the evening airshift at KHJ for several months in late 1965. During this period, it was alleged that Tommy decided to return abruptly to the UK, after running into an unresolvable problem with the U.S. immigration authorities, regarding being drafted for the Vietnam War.[citation needed]
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Tony Blackburn
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, who broadcast on the "pirate" stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first disc jockey to broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. In 2002 he was the winner of the ITV reality TV programme I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
He was born Antony Kenneth Blackburn, in Guildford, Surrey, but in 1946 his family moved to Bournemouth, Hampshire, where his sister, Jacqueline, was born. His mother, Pauline Cubitt (née Stone), was a housewife and his father, Kenneth Fleming Blackburn, was a GP, and he was educated at Castle Court School in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and Millfield School in Somerset, which he entered on a sports scholarship. He went on to become captain of the school cricket team, but left before taking any examinations. He then achieved a clutch of O-levels, following private tuition, and enrolled for a HND course in Business Studies at Bournemouth Technical College. He began his career as a singer, then worked as a DJ for the offshore pirate radio stations Radio Caroline and Radio London, before joining the BBC in 1967, initially broadcasting on the Light Programme.
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Tony Dortie
Tony Dortie (born July 1973) is a British TV personality. He recently[when?] set up his own production company called Triple T Entertainment [2]. He has appeared on various popular entertainment networks such as BBC, ITV Schofields Quest British Film Institute, MTV, BBC World Service, 3e Glam Slam source [3] and various others as a host. He is currently a host / creator for the TV Game Show (7$TEPS).
Dortie was born in London. Tony grew up in Lewes, in Sussex. He later attributes his out-going personality to his mixed childhood of Sussex Countryside and Inner City London combining a Broadcasting career with constant regular charity work.
Whilst at school Tony was a contributor to Music Box where he started his on screen broadcast career. Moving on to work for Children's BBC UP2U and then joining the likes of Ant and Dec, Zoe Ball, Peter Andre as one of the 90's hosts of TOTP working with stars like Take That, Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. His Marmite style of presenting by talking with many inner city urban phrases 'Peace out' 'Laterz' 'Respect' was not to everyone's taste and earned mixed and often critical reviews
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Trevor Nelson
Trevor Nelson MBE (born 7 January 1964 in Hackney, London) is an English DJ and presenter.
Born in Hackney to a family of St Lucian heritage, he attended Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School (now known as Central Foundation Boys' School) in Cowper St, Islington, London EC2 and Westminster Kingsway College. His first job was in a shoe shop, but his love of music meant a part time role as a DJ. Nelson gained day time work at a record importer in 1985, and widened his DJ experience putting on "warehouse parties" on the weekends. Nelson then worked in A&R for record labels Cooltempo and EMI, promoting artistes such as D'Angelo, Mica Paris and Lynden David Hall; while also promoting events, including his own Soul II Soul and The Lick.
Nelson began DJing on pirate radio station Kiss from 1985, which when it gained a broadcasting license in 1990 to become Kiss FM, Nelson became a director and day time DJ. Nelson moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1996 to present the first UK national R&B show "Rhythm Nation," and a year later began a Saturday afternoon program which resulted in him winning a MOBO Award in 1997 as Best DJ. He now also presents the 10:00 until 13:00 show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, and a Soul show on Wednesday evenings on BBC Radio 2 since April 2008 which is produced by independent production company Somethin' Else. During the summer season Nelson performs weekly sessions in the Global Room at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza. Was at the KIC FM for the Launch of the station is a big fan of the station.
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Tricia Penrose
Patricia "Tricia" Penrose (born 9 April 1970, Kirkby, Merseyside) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Gina Ward in ITV1's long-running 1960s drama Heartbeat, a role she played continuously from 1993 to 2010. She has also appeared in The Royal, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Boon, Justice and Dancin' Thru the Dark.
Although Penrose has primarily focused on her acting career, she has also had an interest in the music industry, releasing two singles – "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1996, UK #71) and "Don't Wanna Be Alone" (2000, UK #44). In 2002, she reached the final of A Song for Europe (the competition to select the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry) but did not win. In 2004, however, she won a Christmas edition of the ITV show Stars in Their Eyes, performing as Brenda Lee and singing "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree". She has also sung a number of times on Heartbeat. In 2006 she signed a new contract with the show, thought to be worth £100,000. The final series of Heartbeat aired in 2009–2010.
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Tulisa Contostavlos
Tula Paulinea "Tulisa" Contostavlos (born 13 July 1988), often known mononymously as Tulisa, is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for being a member of the now defunct Camden-based hip hop group N-Dubz, with her cousin Dappy and their friend Fazer formed in 2000 and together releasing three studio albums before announcing their hiatus in 2011. Contostavlos is currently a judge on the The X Factor and mentored the "Groups" category in her first year including Little Mix, the first ever group to win the competition to date. Contostavlos will release her debut solo album in the summer of 2012. On 16 March 2012 during a Twitter dispute with her cousin and bandmate Dappy Contostavlos announced that N-Dubz had in fact split up and were not taking a break as stated in 2011.
Contostavlos was born in Camden Town, North London, to an Irish mother, Anne Byrne (who, with her three sisters, was a member of the 1980s band Jeep) and a Greek Cypriot father, Steve Contostavlos (part of Mungo Jerry). When Tulisa was five, her mother, who has bipolar disorder and schizoaffective disorder, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Contostavlos' father left the family home when Tulisa was 14 years old. She said that she was brought up in a 3 bedroom house and experienced a lot as a teenager: violence, depression, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, anorexia nervosa, mental health issues, financial difficulties and bullying.
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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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Vernon Kay
Vernon Charles Kay (born 28 April 1974) is a British television presenter, radio DJ and former model. He began his television career presenting the BBC children's programme FBi, a spin-off of Fully Booked. Since then he has presented various programmes, most notably T4, Beat the Star and All Star Family Fortunes alongside his weekend show on BBC Radio 1. In 2010 he was named the host of Skating with the Stars, which was broadcast in the United States. He is married to English television presenter Tess Daly
Kay was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, the elder son of Norman and Gladys; he has a younger brother, Stephen. He attended St Joseph's R.C. High School in Horwich, near Bolton, and then St John Rigby College in Orrell, near Wigan. He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with an HND in Environmental Science. He supports his hometown's football club Bolton Wanderers. He used to be a regular visitor to Manchester nightclub The Haçienda.
Kay presented the Saturday morning children's programme FBi alongside Boyzone's Keith Duffy and BBC Children's presenter Kate Heavenor. The series was shown on the BBC from 22 April until 23 September 2000 and was filmed in Glasgow.
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Will Mellor
William "Will" Mellor (born 3 April 1976, Bredbury, Stockport, Greater Manchester) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Jambo Bolton in Hollyoaks, Gaz Wilkinson in comedy, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Mellor was starring in the BBC Three show White Van Man playing Ollie.
Mellor grew up in the Bredbury area of Stockport and attended Bredbury Green Primary School and later Werneth School, Greater Manchester. Mellor first came to the public's attention in 1990, when he played Ben Rowlingson in the children's programme Children's Ward.
In 1995, Mellor joined the cast of the soap opera Hollyoaks, in which he played the role of James 'Jambo' Bolton until 1998. He then released a cover version of Leo Sayer's "When I Need You" as a single, which reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as a follow-up single called "No Matter What I Do", which reached number 23.
He also made an appearance in the music video for Boyzone's Comic Relief single "When The Going Gets Tough".
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Zane Lowe
Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe on 7 August 1973) also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland, where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England. He presents BBC Radio 1's evening show, where he plays a variety of alternative music, including rock, punk, dance, drum and bass, and hip hop. He was also the presenter of the MTV Rocks show Gonzo, having been a former VJ on MTV since 1997, where he presented Brand:New. Lowe currently resides in London with his wife and two sons, Jackson and Lucius. He is best known for his boundless sycophancy.
Lowe's radio show can be heard on Mondays to Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm. Past and present features on his show have included:
Lowe's method of DJing is rather enthusiastic and fast-paced, similar to many hip hop DJs, with samples of radio stations, interview clips and Radio 1 stings thrown in between songs, along with the occasional sound of Lowe singing along to the music.
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Zoë Ball
Zoë Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show and for her earlier work presenting the 1990s children's show, Live & Kicking.
The daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia (née Anderson, divorced when Zoë was two), Ball was educated at Heston Junior School in West London between 1975 and 1978. Her family then moved to Farnham Common in Buckinghamshire. She attended Farnham Common First School and Farnham Common Middle School before moving to Holy Cross Convent School in Chalfont St Peter and Amersham College of Art and Technology. She joined the Young Theatre at Beaconsfield where she trained as an actress. Her first TV appearance was as a child in the studio audience of the 1980s Saturday morning children's show, Saturday Superstore, on which her father was appearing as a guest.
She began her television career as a runner at Granada Television and researcher on BSkyB. She worked as a researcher for quiz shows for two years. Her presenting jobs have included hosting The Big Breakfast and The Priory on Channel 4, BBC One's Saturday morning children's programme Live & Kicking and the pre-school programme Playdays. Between 1996 and 1998, she was a regular presenter on Top of the Pops, usually alternating with fellow presenters and DJs Jayne Middlemiss and Jo Whiley. The three only ever presented together once, on Christmas Day 1997.
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Cotton, Fearne Filmography
- National Television Awards (2012)
- The BRITs Red Carpet 2012 (2012)
- Katy Perry Live Lounge Special (2012)
- The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single (2012)
- Keith Lemon: The Film (2012)
- National Television Awards: The Party (2012)
- The Royal Wedding (2011)
- Glastonbury 2011 (2011)
- Brit Awards 2011 (2011)
- The BRITs Launch 2011 (2011)
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Day 2011 (2011)
- Children in Need Rocks Manchester (2011)
- Sport Relief 2010 (2010)
- Isle of Wight Festival 2010: Live (2010)
- The Brit Awards 2010 Launch Party (2010)
- Brit Awards 2010 (2010)
- The Million Pound Bike Ride: A Sport Relief Special (2010)
- Two Pints: The Love Triangle (2009)
- Kilimanjaro: The Big Red Nose Climb (2009)
- BRITs 2009: The Launch Party (2009)
- Children in Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall (2009)
- Oscars 2009: Live from the Red Carpet (2009)
- Comic Relief 2009 (2009)
- Golden Globes Red Carpet Live (2009)
- Brit Awards 2009 (2009)
- Backstage Exclusive at the National Television Awards (2008)
- Brit Awards 2008 (2008)
- Guilty Pleasures (2008)
- Guinness World Records Live: Top 100 (2008)
- Harry, Henry and the Prostitute (2008)
- Let Loose... The Very Best of 'Loose Women' (2008)
- Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up (2007)
- Brit Awards 2007 (2007)
- The British Soap Awards 2007 (2007)
- Concert for Diana: The Princes' Interview (2007)
- Concert for Diana (2007)
- Comic Relief 2007: The Big One (2007)
- The National Television Awards 2007 (2007)
- When the Stranglers Met Roland Rat (2007)
- The Eurovision Song Contest (2006)
- Making Your Mind Up (2006)
- The National Lottery: Everyone's a Winner (2006)
- It Started with... Swap Shop (2006)
- Making Your Mind Up (2005)
- Celebrate the Sound of Music (2005)
- Comic Relief: Red Nose Night Live 05 (2005)
- Serious Arctic (2005)
- Making Your Mind Up (2004)
- The Variety Club Showbusiness Awards 2004 (2004)
- Tracy Beaker Parties with Pudsey (2004)
- Sport Relief 2004 (2004)
- Test the Nation: The National IQ Test 2003 (2003)
- Hogmanay Live (2003)
- Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003)
- Will on Will & Grace (2003)
- Top of the Pops Saturday (2003)
- Finger Tips (2002)
- Will and Gareth on Tour (2002)
- Smile (2002)
- CBBC Prom in the Park (2002)
- Petswap (2001)
- The Saturday Show (2001)
- Pump It Up (1999)
- Draw Your Own Toons (1999)
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Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton [Part 1]
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- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net
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Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net
Dynamo performs some mind blowing magic for Fearne Cotton
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- Duration: 5:51
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Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic.
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Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic.
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 365615
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Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
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- Updated: 24 Jan 2013
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
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Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2645
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Cheryl talks to BBC Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
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- Duration: 14:46
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls Aloud, her accident and more!!
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Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls Aloud, her accident and more!!
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 26145
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Fearne Cotton in a swimsuit... really
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us over the £2million total. Well.... just watch what happened.
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Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us over the £2million total. Well.... just watch what happened.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 565027
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Fearne Cotton - Morrrrning ;)
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'Fearne' says morrrrrrning to Chris Moyles ;)
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'Fearne' says morrrrrrning to Chris Moyles ;)
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 116872
- author: bbcradio1
Celebrity Juice - Keith Lemon's sex tape with Fearne Cotton [HD]
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- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 27 Jan 2013
29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape.. this programme has a guidance rating. ITV Video Guidance: With strong language, adult humour and sexual references. Subscribe and Like for more!
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29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape.. this programme has a guidance rating. ITV Video Guidance: With strong language, adult humour and sexual references. Subscribe and Like for more!
- published: 30 Mar 2012
- views: 37230
- author: Lewis Jones
Celebrity Juice - Fearne Cotton's Foot Treatment Thrusday 30th August 2012
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- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 28 Jan 2013
Celebrity Juice is a tabloid focused quiz show based on the nation's obsession with all things celebrity. Any topic is up for discussion, as long as it is something which could make tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping. Hosted by 'Keith Lemon', Celebrity Juice sees Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton going head to head as team captains. Each week the captains have help from two guests... people with their finger on the celebrity pulse... ie a mixture of comedians, celebrities and showbiz journalists. The two panels are put to the test to see who knows the most about the week's tabloid fodder - who's dumping who, who is getting drunk and falling out of nightclubs, and who is simply making a tit out of themselves.
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Celebrity Juice is a tabloid focused quiz show based on the nation's obsession with all things celebrity. Any topic is up for discussion, as long as it is something which could make tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping. Hosted by 'Keith Lemon', Celebrity Juice sees Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton going head to head as team captains. Each week the captains have help from two guests... people with their finger on the celebrity pulse... ie a mixture of comedians, celebrities and showbiz journalists. The two panels are put to the test to see who knows the most about the week's tabloid fodder - who's dumping who, who is getting drunk and falling out of nightclubs, and who is simply making a tit out of themselves.
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 33332
- author: TheOfficialUpdate
Holly Willoughby & Fearne Cotton - Back to School Special - Celebrity Juice S6E2 8/9/2011 (HD)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:20
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for this 'Back 2 School' special of Celebrity Juice.
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Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for this 'Back 2 School' special of Celebrity Juice.
- published: 10 Sep 2011
- views: 79167
- author: BreakfastBabesHD
Fearne Cotton milks a cow!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge: Milking Fearne, the cow 'preferably with her hands'. It got messy to say the least.
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_milks_a_cow!
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge: Milking Fearne, the cow 'preferably with her hands'. It got messy to say the least.
- published: 12 Aug 2011
- views: 22838
- author: bbcradio1
Chris Moyles takes Fearne Cotton on a date. Warning: Contains nudity
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Updated: 06 Aug 2012
During Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave's Longest Ever Show attempt, Chris heads out for a date with Fearne Cotton. Things take a turn for the unusual when The Cornish Fairy gets his kit off!
http://wn.com/Chris_Moyles_takes_Fearne_Cotton_on_a_date_Warning_Contains_nudity
During Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave's Longest Ever Show attempt, Chris heads out for a date with Fearne Cotton. Things take a turn for the unusual when The Cornish Fairy gets his kit off!
- published: 16 Mar 2011
- views: 19507
- author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton Dressing up and Talking to Cats
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 27 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_Dressing_up_and_Talking_to_Cats
Gino D'acampo Shows Fearne Cotton The Radio One Position - Celebrity Juice
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
(HD) Gino demonstrates what position he'd like to do with Fearne Cotton
http://wn.com/Gino_D'acampo_Shows_Fearne_Cotton_The_Radio_One_Position_Celebrity_Juice
(HD) Gino demonstrates what position he'd like to do with Fearne Cotton
- published: 08 Mar 2012
- views: 24104
- author: goodtele2222
Innuendo Bingo with Fearne and Chris
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:50
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Radio 1's very own Fearne Cotton tries to hold it together in her first ever Innuendo Bingo challenge. But fails miserably. Obvs.
http://wn.com/Innuendo_Bingo_with_Fearne_and_Chris
Radio 1's very own Fearne Cotton tries to hold it together in her first ever Innuendo Bingo challenge. But fails miserably. Obvs.
- published: 22 Aug 2012
- views: 81037
- author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton and a Haunted House
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
As if they weren't scared enough last time, Fearne brought her mum along for another ghostly wander. This time around the 'Most Haunted House in the UK' Ham House...
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As if they weren't scared enough last time, Fearne brought her mum along for another ghostly wander. This time around the 'Most Haunted House in the UK' Ham House...
- published: 31 Oct 2012
- views: 16471
- author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby -Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway- Beat the Boys!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:31
- Updated: 18 Jan 2013
Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway! Beat the Boys! No copyright infringement intented! Enjoy!
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_Holly_Willoughby_-Ant_and_Dec's_Saturday_Night_Takeaway_Beat_the_Boys!
Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway! Beat the Boys! No copyright infringement intented! Enjoy!
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 21536
- author: tvaddictxx
Fearne Cotton and Bill Bailey show their age - BBC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 26 Jan 2013
British comedy series Never Mind the Buzzcocks, featuring Fearne Cotton and Bill Bailey. Fearne remembers the lyrics to a collection of memorable childrens songs, and is treated to a healthy dose of Bill Bailey surrealism in this clip from the comedy music panel show.
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British comedy series Never Mind the Buzzcocks, featuring Fearne Cotton and Bill Bailey. Fearne remembers the lyrics to a collection of memorable childrens songs, and is treated to a healthy dose of Bill Bailey surrealism in this clip from the comedy music panel show.
- published: 09 Jun 2008
- views: 485139
- author: BBCWorldwide
![Bradley Cooper is Fearne Cotton's guest [full]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130205213703im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QaIdrVO5G5o/default.jpg "Bradley Cooper is Fearne Cotton's guest [full]")
Bradley Cooper is Fearne Cotton's guest [full]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:51
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Bradley_Cooper_is_Fearne_Cotton's_guest_full_
lewis watson - sink or swim (fearne cotton)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 05 Feb 2013
fearne cotton played sink or swim :-----------) sink or swim is on my new EP which is out now !!! itun.es
http://wn.com/lewis_watson_sink_or_swim_fearne_cotton
fearne cotton played sink or swim :-----------) sink or swim is on my new EP which is out now !!! itun.es
- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 10689
- author: HolyLoowis
Dynamo does magic on Fearne Cotton's bra - Celebrity Juice - 4th October 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:45
- Updated: 05 Feb 2013
Steven does a magic trick!! lol at "vinegar tits"
http://wn.com/Dynamo_does_magic_on_Fearne_Cotton's_bra_Celebrity_Juice_4th_October_2012
Steven does a magic trick!! lol at "vinegar tits"
- published: 07 Oct 2012
- views: 32572
- author: spikeyroberto
Fearne Cotton Hilarious Mask Of Sorrow - Celebrity Juice Hallowwen Special
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Finally Keith gets Fearne in the mask! And she has a surprising admission for Holly Willoughby
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_Hilarious_Mask_Of_Sorrow_Celebrity_Juice_Hallowwen_Special
Finally Keith gets Fearne in the mask! And she has a surprising admission for Holly Willoughby
- published: 04 Nov 2012
- views: 39456
- author: goodtele2222
Nelly Furtado chats to Fearne Cotton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:59
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Nelly Furtado drops into the studio to chat to Fearne about the weather in London, touring with her daughter and, of course, cakes!
http://wn.com/Nelly_Furtado_chats_to_Fearne_Cotton
Nelly Furtado drops into the studio to chat to Fearne about the weather in London, touring with her daughter and, of course, cakes!
- published: 24 May 2012
- views: 5926
- author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton's Feet
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 04 Feb 2013
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton's_Feet
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Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:24
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One 25th August 2011 © 2011 RADIO ONE BBC LONDON STUDIOS & Roar Global & AAT Records™ a unit of ROAR GLOBAL . NO copyright enragement intended entertainment use only!
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Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One 25th August 2011 © 2011 RADIO ONE BBC LONDON STUDIOS & Roar Global & AAT Records™ a unit of ROAR GLOBAL . NO copyright enragement intended entertainment use only!
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 27285
- author: TulisaTv
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton [Part 1]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:05
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net
http://wn.com/Paris_Hilton_Fearne_Cotton_Part_1_
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net
- published: 16 Feb 2011
- views: 161668
- author: hiltongirlx
Mischa Barton - Fearne And Mischa Barton - Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:27
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Mischa appears on Fearne And... September 8th, 2010
http://wn.com/Mischa_Barton_Fearne_And_Mischa_Barton_Part_1
Mischa appears on Fearne And... September 8th, 2010
- published: 09 Sep 2010
- views: 148329
- author: mischabcom10
Dynamo performs some mind blowing magic for Fearne Cotton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic.
http://wn.com/Dynamo_performs_some_mind_blowing_magic_for_Fearne_Cotton
Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic.
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 344015
- author: bbcradio1
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 17:17
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show with Keith Lemon, Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton 18/2/12.
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Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show with Keith Lemon, Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton 18/2/12.
- published: 19 Feb 2012
- views: 267014
- author: WisnaeMeTv
Fearne Cotton Chats To Verge Magazine About Her New Make Up Range!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:46
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Verge Magazine's Miranda Loy chats to Fearne Cotton about her Christmas 'Fearne' range for Boots, including her gorgeous beauty tutorials, tips and tricks. Check out the new nail colours, palettes, lipsticks and tonnes more, and visit www.vergemagazine.co.uk/girls for more beauty, fashion and brilliant interviews.
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_Chats_To_Verge_Magazine_About_Her_New_Make_Up_Range!
Verge Magazine's Miranda Loy chats to Fearne Cotton about her Christmas 'Fearne' range for Boots, including her gorgeous beauty tutorials, tips and tricks. Check out the new nail colours, palettes, lipsticks and tonnes more, and visit www.vergemagazine.co.uk/girls for more beauty, fashion and brilliant interviews.
- published: 28 Jul 2011
- views: 7988
- author: VergeMagazineUK
Cheryl talks to BBC Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:46
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls Aloud, her accident and more!!
http://wn.com/Cheryl_talks_to_BBC_Radio_1's_Fearne_Cotton
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls Aloud, her accident and more!!
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 25872
- author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton in a swimsuit... really
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 06 Jan 2013
Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us over the £2million total. Well.... just watch what happened.
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_in_a_swimsuit_really
Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us over the £2million total. Well.... just watch what happened.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 563754
- author: bbcradio1
Craig David ft fearne cotton - OH
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:15
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
as seen and heard on fearne meets craig david the song Ohhh
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as seen and heard on fearne meets craig david the song Ohhh
- published: 30 Sep 2010
- views: 53823
- author: schipani1987
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:50
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
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Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2409
- author: TheFearneCotton
Fearne Cotton on friendships - interview
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:12
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
very's Louise Roe interviews Fearne Cotton about her interest and use of social networking sites such as Tweeter and how these technologies are giving a new insight into the Fashion market's needs and how this has been an important aspect of the "very" fashion range
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very's Louise Roe interviews Fearne Cotton about her interest and use of social networking sites such as Tweeter and how these technologies are giving a new insight into the Fashion market's needs and how this has been an important aspect of the "very" fashion range
- published: 21 Aug 2009
- views: 9808
- author: verynetwork
Celebrity Juice - Keith Lemon's sex tape with Fearne Cotton [HD]
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape.. this programme has a guidance rating. ITV Video Guidance: With strong language, adult humour and sexual references. Subscribe and Like for more!
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29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape.. this programme has a guidance rating. ITV Video Guidance: With strong language, adult humour and sexual references. Subscribe and Like for more!
- published: 30 Mar 2012
- views: 36246
- author: Lewis Jones
Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:51
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton more info: www.gigsport.com
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Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton more info: www.gigsport.com
- published: 16 Dec 2010
- views: 6431
- author: gigsport
Fearne Cotton - Morrrrning ;)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:17
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
'Fearne' says morrrrrrning to Chris Moyles ;)
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'Fearne' says morrrrrrning to Chris Moyles ;)
- published: 27 Apr 2012
- views: 116226
- author: bbcradio1
Holly Willoughby & Fearne Cotton - Back to School Special - Celebrity Juice S6E2 8/9/2011 (HD)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:20
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for this 'Back 2 School' special of Celebrity Juice.
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Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for this 'Back 2 School' special of Celebrity Juice.
- published: 10 Sep 2011
- views: 74953
- author: BreakfastBabesHD
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 20 Oct 2012
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
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Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
- published: 15 May 2011
- views: 6110
- author: gagaimages
Fearne Cotton milks a cow!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge: Milking Fearne, the cow 'preferably with her hands'. It got messy to say the least.
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_milks_a_cow!
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge: Milking Fearne, the cow 'preferably with her hands'. It got messy to say the least.
- published: 12 Aug 2011
- views: 22657
- author: bbcradio1
Cheryl Cole Interview - BBC Radio 1 - 31/08/12
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:46
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about her new single, 10 years of Girls Aloud, and more!!
http://wn.com/Cheryl_Cole_Interview_BBC_Radio_1_31_08_12
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about her new single, 10 years of Girls Aloud, and more!!
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 22601
- author: Cheryl Daily
Celebrity Juice - Fearne Cotton's Foot Treatment Thrusday 30th August 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Celebrity Juice is a tabloid focused quiz show based on the nation's obsession with all things celebrity. Any topic is up for discussion, as long as it is something which could make tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping. Hosted by 'Keith Lemon', Celebrity Juice sees Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton going head to head as team captains. Each week the captains have help from two guests... people with their finger on the celebrity pulse... ie a mixture of comedians, celebrities and showbiz journalists. The two panels are put to the test to see who knows the most about the week's tabloid fodder - who's dumping who, who is getting drunk and falling out of nightclubs, and who is simply making a tit out of themselves.
http://wn.com/Celebrity_Juice_Fearne_Cotton's_Foot_Treatment_Thrusday_30th_August_2012
Celebrity Juice is a tabloid focused quiz show based on the nation's obsession with all things celebrity. Any topic is up for discussion, as long as it is something which could make tomorrow's fish and chips wrapping. Hosted by 'Keith Lemon', Celebrity Juice sees Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton going head to head as team captains. Each week the captains have help from two guests... people with their finger on the celebrity pulse... ie a mixture of comedians, celebrities and showbiz journalists. The two panels are put to the test to see who knows the most about the week's tabloid fodder - who's dumping who, who is getting drunk and falling out of nightclubs, and who is simply making a tit out of themselves.
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 29656
- author: TheOfficialUpdate
Fearne Cotton interviewing Morgan Freeman - FAIL
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
Bad way to describe your name to the world's most famous black actor, Fearne...
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_interviewing_Morgan_Freeman_FAIL
Bad way to describe your name to the world's most famous black actor, Fearne...
- published: 02 Feb 2010
- views: 13712
- author: consoler111
Lana Del Rey - Fearne Cotton interview - BBC Radio 1 - 21/06/12
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:08
- Updated: 12 Jan 2013
Lana Del Rey interview with Fearne Cotton on BBC Radio 1. First broadcast on 21/06/12. HaPpY BiRtHdAy Lana! This is the complete interview but with all of the songs removed.
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Lana Del Rey interview with Fearne Cotton on BBC Radio 1. First broadcast on 21/06/12. HaPpY BiRtHdAy Lana! This is the complete interview but with all of the songs removed.
- published: 21 Jun 2012
- views: 17496
- author: websitemad
Fearne Cotton Dressing up and Talking to Cats
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:19
- Updated: 07 Jan 2013
http://wn.com/Fearne_Cotton_Dressing_up_and_Talking_to_Cats
Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby -Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway- Beat the Boys!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:31
- Updated: 11 Jan 2013
Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway! Beat the Boys! No copyright infringement intented! Enjoy!
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Fearne Cotton & Holly Willoughby on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway! Beat the Boys! No copyright infringement intented! Enjoy!
- published: 13 Feb 2011
- views: 20827
- author: tvaddictxx
12:24
Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One
Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One 25th August 2011 © 2011 RADIO ONE BBC LONDON S...
published: 25 Aug 2011
author: TulisaTv
Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One
Tulisa Interview With Fern Cotton Radio One 25th August 2011 © 2011 RADIO ONE BBC LONDON STUDIOS & Roar Global & AAT Records™ a unit of ROAR GLOBAL . NO copyright enragement intended entertainment use only!
- published: 25 Aug 2011
- views: 27285
- author: TulisaTv
10:05
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton [Part 1]
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net...
published: 16 Feb 2011
author: hiltongirlx
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton [Part 1]
Paris Hilton & Fearne Cotton Part 1 Credit: www.parishiltononline.net
- published: 16 Feb 2011
- views: 161668
- author: hiltongirlx
12:27
Mischa Barton - Fearne And Mischa Barton - Part 1
Mischa appears on Fearne And... September 8th, 2010...
published: 09 Sep 2010
author: mischabcom10
Mischa Barton - Fearne And Mischa Barton - Part 1
Mischa appears on Fearne And... September 8th, 2010
- published: 09 Sep 2010
- views: 148329
- author: mischabcom10
5:51
Dynamo performs some mind blowing magic for Fearne Cotton
Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic....
published: 05 Jul 2012
author: bbcradio1
Dynamo performs some mind blowing magic for Fearne Cotton
Magician Dynamo dropped in to Fearne's show to show her some mind bending magic.
- published: 05 Jul 2012
- views: 344015
- author: bbcradio1
17:17
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show with Keith Lemon, Holly Willoughby and...
published: 19 Feb 2012
author: WisnaeMeTv
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Celebrity Juice Interview on The Jonathan Ross Show with Keith Lemon, Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton 18/2/12.
- published: 19 Feb 2012
- views: 267014
- author: WisnaeMeTv
7:46
Fearne Cotton Chats To Verge Magazine About Her New Make Up Range!
Verge Magazine's Miranda Loy chats to Fearne Cotton about her Christmas 'Fearne' range for...
published: 28 Jul 2011
author: VergeMagazineUK
Fearne Cotton Chats To Verge Magazine About Her New Make Up Range!
Verge Magazine's Miranda Loy chats to Fearne Cotton about her Christmas 'Fearne' range for Boots, including her gorgeous beauty tutorials, tips and tricks. Check out the new nail colours, palettes, lipsticks and tonnes more, and visit www.vergemagazine.co.uk/girls for more beauty, fashion and brilliant interviews.
- published: 28 Jul 2011
- views: 7988
- author: VergeMagazineUK
14:46
Cheryl talks to BBC Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls...
published: 31 Aug 2012
author: bbcradio1
Cheryl talks to BBC Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about 10 years of Girls Aloud, her accident and more!!
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 25872
- author: bbcradio1
4:32
Fearne Cotton in a swimsuit... really
Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us ...
published: 18 Mar 2011
author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton in a swimsuit... really
Fearne promised she would wear a swimsuit in the studio, if the Radio 1 listeners took us over the £2million total. Well.... just watch what happened.
- published: 18 Mar 2011
- views: 563754
- author: bbcradio1
2:15
Craig David ft fearne cotton - OH
as seen and heard on fearne meets craig david the song Ohhh...
published: 30 Sep 2010
author: schipani1987
Craig David ft fearne cotton - OH
as seen and heard on fearne meets craig david the song Ohhh
- published: 30 Sep 2010
- views: 53823
- author: schipani1987
5:50
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris...
published: 23 Aug 2012
author: TheFearneCotton
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
Fearne Cotton Innuendo Bingo with and Chris
- published: 23 Aug 2012
- views: 2409
- author: TheFearneCotton
3:12
Fearne Cotton on friendships - interview
very's Louise Roe interviews Fearne Cotton about her interest and use of social networking...
published: 21 Aug 2009
author: verynetwork
Fearne Cotton on friendships - interview
very's Louise Roe interviews Fearne Cotton about her interest and use of social networking sites such as Tweeter and how these technologies are giving a new insight into the Fashion market's needs and how this has been an important aspect of the "very" fashion range
- published: 21 Aug 2009
- views: 9808
- author: verynetwork
3:09
Celebrity Juice - Keith Lemon's sex tape with Fearne Cotton [HD]
29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape...
published: 30 Mar 2012
author: Lewis Jones
Celebrity Juice - Keith Lemon's sex tape with Fearne Cotton [HD]
29th March 2012 - Keith Lemon's sex tape with fearne cotton... Remake of tulisa's sex tape.. this programme has a guidance rating. ITV Video Guidance: With strong language, adult humour and sexual references. Subscribe and Like for more!
- published: 30 Mar 2012
- views: 36246
- author: Lewis Jones
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Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton
Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotto...
published: 16 Dec 2010
author: gigsport
Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton
Justin Bieber Chats To Fearne Cotton On BBC Radio 1 Justin Bieber Interview - Fearne Cotton more info: www.gigsport.com
- published: 16 Dec 2010
- views: 6431
- author: gigsport
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ALT-J "Fitzpleasure"
PRODUCTION : COSA
PRODUCER : JULIEN PASQUIER
DIRECTOR : GUILLAUME CAGNIARD
DOP : ...
published: 11 Sep 2012
author: COSA
ALT-J "Fitzpleasure"
PRODUCTION : COSA
PRODUCER : JULIEN PASQUIER
DIRECTOR : GUILLAUME CAGNIARD
DOP : MICHEL TABURIAUX
MAKE UP : CATHYANNE MAC ALLISTER & MELANIE QUERYEL
STYLISME : LAURE GUERRARD
POST PRODUCTION : NIGHTSHIFT
EDITOR : MAXIME GILLIER
POST PRODUCER : CHARLOTTE RAFFI
ARTWORK : WIM DELVOYE Courtesy GALERIE EMMANUEL PERROTIN
Alt-J’s debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’ was released at the end of May 2012, crash landing into the Top 20 whilst peaking at #3 on iTunes, making it one of the biggest debuts of the year so far. An amazing feat for a debut album by an indie act with little marketing, it caused a shockwave in the pop and r’n’b dominated charts. The release came with a plethora of amazing reactions that saw it touted as the “hottest debut album” by NME, hailed as “strong, addictive and enthralling’ by the BBC and chosen as album of the week on Radio 1 and album of the day on 6music. The singles have been Record of the Week for Greg James, Huw Stephens and Fearne Cotton. DJs across Radio 1, 6music and Radio 2 are united in their praise of the album. Online the album continues to spread, with over 1million plays on their soundcloud to date.
Earlier this year, French production company COSA, who conceived innovative videos with a different point of view, concocted a unique project to unite a director, artist and contemporary music group to create a provocative music video
The director Guillaume Cagniard, Artistic Director of JR for many years, made the connection between COSA and the Galerie Perrotin, who represents some of the greatest artists of the moment: Sophie Calle, Maurizio Cattelan, Wim Delvoye, Elmgreen & Dragset, JR, KAWS, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Xavier Veilhan...
After the success on their first collaboration with Massive Attack and Galerie Perrotin to create a unique two-minute video, COSA approached the prominent Belgian artist Wim Delvoye to develop their next video project.
Wim Delvoye has developed an art that offers a reinterpretation of artworks of the past while laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th century, from Bosch and Brueghel to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects. With a Baroque gesture between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire him. It was decided that the band who most suited the artistic vision of Wim Delvoye was Alt-J, specifically the song ‘Fitzpleasure’.
The video for ‘Fitzpleasure’ was shot in one day in a studio in Paris. Living artwork performer Tim Steiner, who turned his back into a piece of art after being tattooed by Wim Delvoye, came especially from London to be part of the shoot. After two weeks of post-production, the video has now been delivered.
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Fearne Cotton Behind Scenes
published: 27 Oct 2011
author: dan kennedy
Fearne Cotton Behind Scenes
5:01
Party Looks - Fearne Cotton
published: 26 Feb 2011
author: Tiny Dog Films
Party Looks - Fearne Cotton
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9:20
Holly Willoughby & Fearne Cotton - Back to School Special - Celebrity Juice S6E2 8/9/2011 (HD)
Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for th...
published: 10 Sep 2011
author: BreakfastBabesHD
Holly Willoughby & Fearne Cotton - Back to School Special - Celebrity Juice S6E2 8/9/2011 (HD)
Team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton dress for the theme as schoolgirls for this 'Back 2 School' special of Celebrity Juice.
- published: 10 Sep 2011
- views: 74953
- author: BreakfastBabesHD
3:52
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton...
published: 15 May 2011
author: gagaimages
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
Lady Gaga interviewed by Radio 1's Fearne Cotton
- published: 15 May 2011
- views: 6110
- author: gagaimages
4:39
Fearne Cotton milks a cow!
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge...
published: 12 Aug 2011
author: bbcradio1
Fearne Cotton milks a cow!
Moments after stepping off the plane in Cornwall, The Cornish Fairy set Fearne a challenge: Milking Fearne, the cow 'preferably with her hands'. It got messy to say the least.
- published: 12 Aug 2011
- views: 22657
- author: bbcradio1
14:46
Cheryl Cole Interview - BBC Radio 1 - 31/08/12
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about her new single, 1...
published: 31 Aug 2012
author: Cheryl Daily
Cheryl Cole Interview - BBC Radio 1 - 31/08/12
Watch Cheryl's interview with Fearne Cotton in full. Hear her talk about her new single, 10 years of Girls Aloud, and more!!
- published: 31 Aug 2012
- views: 22601
- author: Cheryl Daily
photo: AP / Manish
02 Feb 2013
NEW DELHI — A crowd of Tibetans came here to India’s capital last week, bearing flags and political banners and a bittersweet admixture of hope and despair. A grim countdown was under way. The number of Tibetans who have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule in Tibet had reached 99, one short of an anguished milestone. Enlarge This Image. Freetibet.org, via Associated Press ... Related ... Connect With Us on Twitter ... (Mr ... Mr ... ....(size: 10.7Kb)
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
05 Feb 2013
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Cairo, marking the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Ahmadinejad flew into the capital, Cairo, to attend a summit of the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), which begins on Wednesday. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi kissed the Iranian leader as he got off the plane on Tuesday ... "My wish is bigger than this ... Iran does not recognise Israel ... ....(size: 17.9Kb)
photo: AP / Jerome Delay
04 Feb 2013
French warplanes have carried out air strikes in Mali's far north as they try to secure the final rebel stronghold of Kidal after a three-week offensive. Thirty jets targeted Islamist militants' training and communication centres around Tessalit - a mountainous area near the Algerian border. French President Francois Hollande has pledged to help rebuild Mali after the rebels who seized its north are beaten ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
photo: AP / SANA
04 Feb 2013
Tweet. London, Feb. 4 (ANI). Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of trying to 'destabilise' his country. Assad's comments came as he claimed that last week's airstrike showed the Jewish state was behind the revolution seeking to overthrow his regime ... Assad insisted however, that his country could still meet 'current threats and aggression' ... (ANI) ... Israel ... ... ) .. ). ... . . . . . .. . . .. ....(size: 3.0Kb)
photo: UN / John Isaac
04 Feb 2013
About 800,000 people died during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. ....(size: 0.5Kb)
Digital Spy
04 Feb 2013
Film fans wanting to watch the action from the red carpet at the 2013 BAFTAs will be able to do so via four interactive 360 degree cameras, as part of an initiative by mobile network EE ... Daniel Craig in Skyfall ... A highlights edit of the show will be released on February 11. BAFTA 2013 nominations - Photo gallery.. Outstanding British Film ... 1 of 9 ... Roll on Sunday." ... > Dermot O'Leary, Fearne Cotton to present from BAFTA red carpet for E! ... ....(size: 9.9Kb)
Digital Spy
04 Feb 2013
Listen to our ten favourite new songs below, including Tom Odell, Cee Lo Green, Rhye, Drake and Bridgit Mendler. Tom Odell. 'Hold Me' (out March 31). Winning a Brit Award before releasing your official first single is sure to add extra pressure ... LC. Cee Lo Green. 'Only You' (release date tbc) ... LC. Rhye. 'Open' (out now) ... RC ... Singer-songwriter Moya has been gaining momentum over recent months, with fans including Perez Hilton and Fearne Cotton ... ....(size: 10.7Kb)
IMDb
31 Jan 2013
One Direction, Keith Lemon, Olly Murs, Caroline Flack and Fearne Cotton are among the stars who have donned Red Noses in support of Comic Relief 2013 ... ....(size: 0.8Kb)
Digital Spy
30 Jan 2013
BBC Radio 1 prides itself on delivering "The Best New Music And Entertainment" ... How is Radio 1's playlist formed?. "We have 45 tracks on the playlist each week plus one track from a new BBC Introducing artist ... "Each daytime DJ has a 'record of the week' and some, like Huw Stephens and Fearne Cotton, get to pick additional tracks they want to champion." ... Radio 1 DJs Scott Mills, Fearne Cotton, Dev, Nick Grimshaw, Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens ... ....(size: 10.5Kb)
Digital Spy
29 Jan 2013
Kelly Brook has reportedly been spotted with her ex-boyfriend Danny Cipriani on several occasions. The model is said to have been meeting up with the rugby star over the past six weeks, according to The Sun. [Left ... She will fill in for pregnant Fearne Cotton on ITV2 comedy quiz Celebrity Juice for its upcoming ninth series ... > Kelly Brook to fill in for Fearne Cotton on 'Celebrity Juice' ... More ... 'Celebrity Juice' replaces Fearne 4 ... 01 ... 02 ... ....(size: 8.6Kb)
The Guardian
27 Jan 2013
A new generation of British heavy metal acts are looking for – and winning – mainstream approval. Oliver Sykes of Sheffield band Bring Me The Horizon. Photograph. Neil Lupin/Redferns. Heavy rock loves a bit of potent symbolism ... There was icing on the cake, too – or, if you prefer, a curlicue around the tribal body art ... Australian S&D outfit Tonight Alive have even been played on Fearne Cotton and Sara Cox's R1 shows ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
Digital Spy
25 Jan 2013
The model and former Big Breakfast presenter will fill in for Fearne Cotton on the comedy panel show, while she takes time off to have her baby ... who has bigger bangers than Fearne Cotton."....(size: 1.1Kb)
BBC News
25 Jan 2013
Kelly Brook will replace Fearne Cotton as team captain on the next series of Celebrity Juice ... Fearne Cotton also commented on Kelly Brook taking her place ... Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter Fearne Cotton will be on maternity leave from the show until September ... Kelly Brook in for Fearne Cotton. Kelly Brook will replace Fearne Cotton as team captain on the next series of Celebrity Juice....(size: 8.9Kb)
Newstrack India
25 Jan 2013
Kelly Brook has signed up as a new team captain on 'Celebrity Juice' - replacing pregnant Fearne Cotton ... "Doing Juice again is quite exciting, especially when you have a new captain who has bigger boobs than Fearne Cotton ... Cotton, 31, is taking a year off to have a baby, but is expected to return in the future ... Cotton Mill ... Cotton Mills ....(size: 2.8Kb)
BBC News
25 Jan 2013
TV presenters Ant and Dec have confirmed they are working on a silent movie idea. Anthony McPartlin couldn't confirm any release dates or title for the film. "We're developing an idea at the moment which is a silent comedy idea," he said ... Ant also said the pair would return to acting ... Digg ... Kelly Brook in for Fearne Cotton. Kelly Brook will replace Fearne Cotton as team captain on the next series of Celebrity Juice ... ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
BBC News
25 Jan 2013
Organisers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have announced Blur, The Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers as the headline acts for 2013. The 14th annual music festival will attract more than 80,000 people to the desert town of Indio, California ... In 2012, Snoop Dogg and Dr ... Bookmark with ... Kelly Brook in for Fearne Cotton. Kelly Brook will replace Fearne Cotton as team captain on the next series of Celebrity Juice ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
Digital Spy
25 Jan 2013
Arlissa has premiered the music video for her debut single online. The singer will release 'Sticks & Stones' as her first official cut in the UK on March 3, ahead of her debut studio album later this year ... The star has been supported by Radio 1 DJs Zane Lowe, Fearne Cotton and Huw Stephens and is currently writing material for the new Crystal Fighters album ... Arlissa, Nas, Zane Lowe, Fearne Cotton, Huw Stephens, Crystal Fighters, Music ... ....(size: 7.6Kb)
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| Born | (1981-09-03) 3 September 1981 (age 30)[1] Northwood, Greater London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Haydon School |
| Occupation | Radio and television presenter voice-over artist |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Employer | BBC Radio 1 |
| Predecessor | Jo Whiley |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Parents | Lin and Mick Cotton |
| Relatives | Bill Cotton (first cousin, twice removed, deceased) |
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Fearne Cotton (born 3 September 1981) is an English television and radio presenter who is known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show. She currently presents Radio 1's weekday mid-morning programme, having replaced long-time host Jo Whiley, and is a team captain on the comedy panel show Celebrity Juice.
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Biography[link]
Cotton was born in Northwood, London to Lyn and Mick Cotton; she has a younger brother, Jamie. Her father was a signwriter for events such as Live Aid and her mother worked in alternative therapy.[2] She grew up in Eastcote, Hillingdon and was educated at Haydon School. She is a pescatarian and an animal lover.[3] She runs 5 km at least three times a week,[4] and has participated in several half marathons for charity.[5] Former BBC executive Bill Cotton (1928–2008) was her paternal grandfather's cousin.[6] He was the son of the well-known entertainer and band leader Billy Cotton.
She began her presenting career in 1998, at the age of 17, with early morning GMTV children's programme The Disney Club, after she was discovered in a nationwide talent search during the show.
Cotton studied art at A level,[7] a skill she made much use of whilst presenting the series Draw Your Own Toons. She also enjoys body art and claimed on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross that she has eleven tattoos over her body, the most notable of which is a fern leaf, covering her right hip up to her rib cage.[8]. She also plays the trumpet.
Cotton has been romantically linked to several celebrities including Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins,[9] Fame Academy's Peter Brame,[9] and Channel 4 presenter Steve Jones.[10] Her long-term, on-again-off-again boyfriend[11] is skateboarder Jesse Jenkins; he proposed on her 29th birthday.[12] The engagement was called off and the couple split 9 months later.[13] Cotton is currently dating Jesse Wood, son of The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.[14]
She is good friends with fellow TV presenter Holly Willoughby, with whom she has co-presented several shows.[15] Cotton and Sarah Cawood acted as two of the bridesmaids at Willoughby's wedding to Dan Baldwin on 4 August 2007.[16]
Presenting career[link]
UK children's TV[link]
After being discovered by The Disney Club in 1996, Cotton continued with the show and with its replacement Diggit. She left in 2000, to concentrate on her other projects with CITV, including Draw Your Own Toons and Mouse, aimed at encouraging children to use computers.
Cotton joined CBBC in 2001 to present children's science programme Eureka TV. In 2002 she presented Finger Tips, an arts and crafts programme for children, with co-presenter Stephen Mulhern. She later co-presented on CBBC's Sunday morning show, Smile and on The Saturday Show. She has also made appearances in CBBC show 'Only in America' alongside her friend Reggie Yates.
UK mainstream TV and radio[link]
In 2003 Cotton moved over to mainstream broadcasting. She and Simon Grant (her co-presenter from The Saturday Show) presented the spin-off show Top of the Pops: Saturday (later renamed Top of the Pops: Reloaded) that year. In 2004, she moved up to work alongside Reggie Yates on the main programme, Top Of The Pops (the then flagship chartshow for BBC-TV) becoming one of the last regular presenters for that programme, which ended in July 2006. Due to other commitments, she was unable to present the final show itself, appearing instead in a short film shown at the head of that show, in which she made her personal farewells. Cotton and Yates presented the one-off Christmas and New Year specials in both 2008 and 2009, as well as the Comic Relief special in 2009.
Cotton has hosted many reality TV programmes. In 2006 Cotton presented the second series of Love Island with Patrick Kielty on ITV, taking over from Kelly Brook. She also presented the Friday night live eviction programme that year for the Five reality TV series Make Me A Supermodel. In 2007, she took over from Ben Shephard as the host for the X Factor spin-off programme, The Xtra Factor on ITV2. She presented it for one series before resigning to work in America.[17] Starting on 5 September 2007, Cotton hosted a dating programme, alongside Holly Willoughby, called Holly & Fearne Go Dating. In this programme they find dates for lonely singles.
Cotton has also presented many telethons. In July 2005 she presented Live 8 in Hyde Park. During the event, the British pop-star Robbie Williams flirted with her in front of the cameras, causing much speculation in the media at the time, but which was later repudiated by the pair.[9] She has also hosted the BBC's annual telethon, Children in Need, alongside Terry Wogan and Natasha Kaplinsky, since 2005. On that first appearance in 2005, she was spectacularly sawn in half by Scott Penrose. In 2006, she designed the official BBC Children in Need t-shirt - featuring a henna style design of the charity's mascot, Pudsey Bear.[18] In 2008, she hosted a Strictly Come Dancing special as part of Children in Need 2008.
She has hosted parts of the Red Nose Day telethon for Comic Relief (2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011) presenting several strands alongside Jonathan Ross and Lenny Henry. In 2009, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, alongside Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Alesha Dixon, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Chris Moyles, and Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh. Cotton and others collapsed from altitude sickness during the five-day climb. She was in the first group (with Van Outen, Shephard and Cole) to reach the summit and helped raise £3.3m.[19] Cotton filmed a video piece for Comic Relief about Malaria. She visited a children's Hospital in Uganda where she witnessed a young child in pain through Malaria. Cotton had to walk out the room and collapsed as she did so but was able to continue shortly after. The child died later. Cotton also recorded her voice for the BT Speaking Clock to raise funds for Comic Relief.[20] In 2011, she appeared in an all-in-one swimsuit after viewers of Alan Carr's Late Hour of Red Nose Day donated over £1M to the charity via more than 100,000 text messages in less than an hour, joking that she felt she looked like a 13-year-old boy.
In September 2005 she joined BBC Radio 1, to present the Friday early morning slot with Reggie Yates,[21] whom she had previously worked with on CBBC, Only in America and Top Of The Pops. Since 14 October 2007, Cotton and Yates presented BBC Radio 1's Chart Show, taking over from JK & Joel, who had left the station.[22] Cotton then became the first ever permanent female presenter of a BBC radio chart show. (Jo Whiley had preceded her as the first female presenter of The Official UK Top 40, as it was then called, but presented it only once, on November 24, 2002.)
Cotton has presented parts of the BBC's coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest. On 20 May 2006 she read the United Kingdom's votes at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, held in Athens, Greece. On 17 March 2007 she, along with Terry Wogan, hosted Making Your Mind Up 2007,[23] the show to decide which song the UK sent to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. On the night, after the final "sing-off" between the two remaining acts, Wogan and Cotton simultaneously announced different winners. Since Wogan was the more experienced presenter, it was assumed that he was right. In fact, Wogan had accidentally announced the wrong artist, Cyndi, as the winner. Cotton had to persist in repeating the correct name until the confusion was resolved.[24] The group Scooch was quickly proclaimed as the correct winner but came only second from bottom in the main competition, just avoiding Nil Points.[25] Cotton also presented the United Kingdom's votes at the show itself, held in Helsinki, Finland on 12 May 2007.
She has made many other TV appearances in the UK.
She also presented the Isle of Wight Festival 2009 on ITV2 alongside Rufus Hound. On 16 July, it was announced that Cotton would become the new presenter of BBC Radio 1's weekday mid-morning show, taking over from Jo Whiley. Her new programme began on 21 September 2009.[26][27][28]
It was reported in the press[29] on July 21, 2009, that whilst presenting the Radio 1 Chart Show two days previously Cotton had been the target of threatening text messages. These messages had been sent via the station's listener SMS service and seem to relate to Cotton taking over Jo Whiley's show. Cotton was driven home after the show by police escort and a 21 year old male was arrested and charged with harassment.
Cotton presented Sport Relief 2010 alongside Patrick Kielty and others.
Cotton will host Sky1's latest talent search Must Be The Music.[30]
US mainstream TV[link]
In 2008, Cotton moved to the USA to host The Guinness Book of Records - Live.[31] Cotton later co-hosted the NBC reality show Last Comic Standing. She resigned her presenting role on The X Factor spin-off The Xtra Factor to concentrate on her US career, and was replaced in that role by her friend Holly Willoughby. Cotton was also seen making a special appearance on the show of Katie Price and Peter Andre, where she was seen in a gift lounge before the Oscars.[32]
TV appearances[link]
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Cotton and Holly Willoughby wrote an advice book entitled The Best Friends' Guide to Life which was published in October 2010.[33]
References[link]
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- ^ "Fearne's Leaving Us". Sky News. 2008-01-23. http://showbiz.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,50001-1301929,00.html. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
- ^ "Cotton quits 'X Factor' role for US". Digital Spy. 2008-02-06. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/a88719/cotton-quits-x-factor-role-for-us.html. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
- ^ Willoughby, Cotton, Holly, Fearne (14 October 2010). The Best Friends' Guide to Life. Vermilion. ISBN 978-0-09-193540-5.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Fearne Cotton Radio 1
- Fearne Cotton at the Internet Movie Database
- Fearne Cotton on Myspace
- Fearne Cotton on Twitter
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This article is about the American socialite. For her self-titled fragrance, see Paris Hilton (fragrance). For the hotel chain, which has a hotel in Paris, France, see Hilton Hotels.
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| Born | Paris Whitney Hilton (1981-02-17) February 17, 1981 (age 31) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Businesswoman, socialite, model, producer, fashion designer |
| Years active | 1993, 2000–present |
| Net worth |  US$ 100 million (2012)[1] |
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Weight | 115 lb (52 kg; 8.2 st) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Richard Howard Hilton Kathy Hilton |
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Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American businesswoman, potential future heiress, producer and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton (founder of Hilton Hotels). Born in New York City and raised in both California and New York, Hilton began a modeling career as a teenager when she was with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Her hard-partying lifestyle and rumoured short-lived relationships with Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar de la Hoya led her to earn a position as a daily fixture in entertainment news — gossip-section Page Six, of the New York Post often includes articles about Hilton. Being known as a socialite, Hilton was hailed by the media as "New York's leading It Girl" in 2001.[2] She went on to make cameo appeareances in Zoolander (2001), Wonderland and The Cat in the Hat (both 2003).
Hilton gained significant notoriety for her participation in a sex tape, which was released in November 2003, shortly before the premiere of the television reality series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood best friend Nicole Richie. The show was a massive hit for the FOX network, premiering with 13 million viewers,[3] and brought Hilton and co-star Richie to an international recognition. She then released her 2004 tongue-in-cheek autobiography called Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose,[4] she landed a supporting role in the 2005 horror film House of Wax, and recorded the 2006 music album Paris. She starred in the reality show Paris Hilton's My New BFF which was filmed in 2008 and also resulted in a second season. The show proved to be a success and was branched out to 2009's Paris Hilton's British Best Friend and Paris Hilton’s Dubai BFF. Hilton was in 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera, where her work gained critical acclaim.
She has appeared in various lists compiled by magazines such as Maxim, FHM as well as Stuff. She is also regularly placed on lists composed by Forbes magazine and was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health.[5] Critics also suggest that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous;[6] she is an example of the modern phenomenon of the "celebutante", the celebrity who rises to fame not because of their talent or work but because of their inherited wealth and controversial lifestyle. She has parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement — her fragrances have reportedly earned $1.5 billion. Currently, there are 55 Paris Hilton Stores worldwide and her brand includes, in addition to perfumes, purses, watches, t-shirts and shoes. She earns over $10 million a year from her brand and is paid $300,000 for appeareances in clubs and events.[7] As of 2012, her net worth is estimated to be $100 million.[1]
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Early life and education[link]
Hilton was born in New York City, New York, to Kathy (née Avanzino), a socialite and actress, and Richard Hilton, a businessman. She is the oldest of four children: she has one sister, Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Hilton (b. 1983), and two brothers, Barron Nicholas Hilton II (b. 1989) and Conrad Hughes Hilton III (b. 1994). Her paternal great-grandfather was Conrad Hilton, who founded the Hilton Hotels; he was of Norwegian and German ancestry.[8][9] She is a half-niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim and Kyle Richards.
She was raised Roman Catholic and still attends Mass.[10][11] Hilton moved between numerous exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. As a child she was good friends with other socialites, including Nicole Richie and Kim Kardashian.[12]
Growing up in Los Angeles, Hilton attended the Buckley School and the exclusive St. Paul the Apostle Church and School, where she graduated in 1995.[13] She then attended her freshman year of high school at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California from 1995–1996. Then in 1996, when Hilton was 14, her family moved to the East Coast.[14] In New York, she briefly attended Convent of the Sacred Heart (while Lady Gaga was a student there) in 1996 before transferring again to the Dwight School.[15][16] At 16, Hilton spent one year at the Provo Canyon School, a school for emotionally troubled teens.[17][18] She then attended the Canterbury Boarding School, in New Milford, Connecticut from the fall of 1998 to February 1999 for her junior year, where she was a member of the ice hockey team.[19] In February 1999, the month she turned 18, she was expelled from Canterbury for violating school rules.[16] After being expelled from Canterbury, she returned to the Dwight School before dropping out a few months later as a high school junior.[12] She later earned her GED.[12][20][21]
Entertainment career[link]
2000–2002: Early work[link]
Hilton began modeling as a child, initially at charity events.[22] When she was 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management.[22] Hilton stated that while she "wanted to model," Trumb was wishing for have her at his agency, and after she signed she was "loving" the work.[22] Hilton has also worked with Ford Models in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Model Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London. She has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Girl" whose fame was beginning to "extend beyond the New York tabloids".[22] She has appeared in several magazines, including Elle, the April 2004 issue of Maxim[23] and the October 2005 cover of Stuff.
Hilton started to act by doing cameo appearances in films such as Zoolander (2001). However the next year, 2002, she was one of the leads in the straight-to-video horror movie Nine Lives. The film did well in sales. Beyondhollywood.com felt that "Hilton’s presence in the cast is the film’s main marketing point, which is plainly obvious by the fact that she’s front and center on the box art and is the only recognizable name in the cast" and also noted that her character was basically herself: "Hilton plays — what else? — a spoiled American socialite who shops on three continents in one day. The script is even clever enough to take a few jabs at Hilton’s real-life social standing, even mentioning that she’s been on the cover of a few sleaze rags in her day".[24]
2003–2005: Career breakthough[link]
Hilton's breakout role came in 2003, when she co-starred with socialite counterpart Nicole Richie in the Fox reality series The Simple Life, which premiered on December 2, 2003, shortly after Hilton's sex tape was released.[25] The show started airing to surprisingly well received ratings; the premiere episode drew 13,000,000 viewers, increasing Fox's Adults 18-49 rating a phenomenal 79%.[3] "everyone likes it because it's for all ages. People from the city will be like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe you did that,' and people from the country think it's funny because they do it every day",[26] Hilton said about the reason why the show was successful. Some entertainment writers felt the overnight success of Hilton was spawned by the whole tape controversy. Entertainment Weekly commented: "I dare say the Paris Hilton-Rick Salomon tape received more print and television coverage in a week than the run-up to The Simple Life received in the months since its premiere was announced. We in the media have become Paris-ites".[27] People magazine wrote that the show "no doubt was helped by the very public saga of a pirated three-year-old video tape, which recently made the rounds on the Internet showing Hilton engaged in various sex acts with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon".[25] At that time, she started to be recognizable for her onscreen dumb blonde persona in reality television. According to UK's Now magazine, in a 2009 interview she said that "For five seasons I was stuck doing this character. It was kind of hard always having to play that character when it's not who I am".[28] In a January 2011 interview with Movieline, she remarked: "In The Simple Life, producers told me to play a dumb blonde and that's what I did. I didn't realize at the time that I'd have to do that for five seasons and keep up this character of me. I think people assume that that is how I am in real life but I'm actually quite a businesswoman".[29]
Hilton launched a lifestyle brand in 2004. She helped design a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa. The 10-piece line collection, a jewelry line designed by Hilton, started being on sale on Amazon.com.[30] "I grew up surrounded by the finest fashion and jewelry designs, and I really wanted to create a line that was beautiful and very high quality, yet affordable and available to everyone," Hilton stated. "This jewelry is for the heiress in everyone."[31] The line was described as "inspired by Hilton's personal style – feminine, flirtatious and glamorous – with heart, star and cross motifs."[31] She was involved in the creation of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a small release, high demand led to a wider release before December 2004. The launch was followed by a 47% increase in sales of Parlux products, predominantly due to sales of the Hilton-branded perfume.[32] After the success of Hilton's perfume, Parlux Fragrances released several more perfumes with her name, including fragrances for men.[33]
In the autumn of 2004, Hilton released an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose,[34] co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photographs of her and her advice on life as an heiress. She mentioned in the book she was looking for a simpler life: "I don't always want the glamorous, jet-set life," she wrote. "Someday soon, I want to have children and a big house with a lot of animals – like my parents had".[35] Hilton reportedly received a $100,000 advance payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. The book was in the New York Times bestseller list, ranking at seven.[36] The quote "Dress cute wherever you go; life is too short to blend in", which appeared in the book was added to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in September 2009.[37] Hilton followed her book up with a designer diary, also with Ginsberg, called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me in 2005 and also in that year, she released her second fragrance Just Me.
After Hilton hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Keane in February 2005,[38] she got her first major role in the horror thriller film House of Wax, in which Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray also starred.[39] The movie, after being first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival,[40] opened in May 2005, receiving mixed reviews.[41] She described how her character was like: "I think Paige is like a small town girl. She's sort of like me, but not really. She was more shy, more insecure, and she, like, cared so much about this guy, and she thought like she was, like, scared he wasn't going to marry her and things like that."[42] Matthew Turner for the View London said that Hilton "does better than you might expect".[43] Also, MTV felt that she gave a good enough performance: "Paris Hilton is actually pretty good — she seems natural, at ease. She can be sweet and appealing, she can be sexy (no stretch), and she can be a good sport, too.[44] Her role as Paige Edwards won the Teen Choice Award for "Best Scream" and earned her a nomination for "Choice Breakout Performance – Female".[45] (It also won her the 2005 Razzie for "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards.)[46] She also earned a nomination for "Best Frightened Performance" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. House of Wax grossed over $70,000,000.[47]
The Simple Life, which ran for three seasons on FOX, was cancelled after a dispute between Hilton and Richie in 2005. Hilton commented: "It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I'm ever going to say about it."[48] Neither Richie nor Hilton spoke publicly about the cause of the split, though it was speculated that the pair fell out due to Nicole showing one of Paris' homemade sex tapes to a group of their friends. They relinked their friendship in October 2006.
2006–2008: Focus on music and film[link]
After Hilton founded Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, in 2004, she released her self-titled debut album, Paris, under the label on August 22, 2006. Although the album reached number six on the Billboard 200 for a week, its total sales volume has been low[49] – but the first single "Stars Are Blind" was a top ten hit in 17 countries. "I have always had a voice and always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think that is the hardest thing you can do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it is what I am most talented at and what I love to do the most," she said in an interview, expressing her passion for music.[50] Allmusic commented that the album was "more fun than anything released by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a lot fresher, too." Billboard magazine described it as "an enjoyable pop romp". As a whole, critical reception was mixed.[51][52]
The straight-to-DVD motion picture Bottoms Up was released in late 2006. The film came out with negative reviews; Australia's Urban Cinefile remarked that Hilton, as the lead role, "spends most of her screen time flicking her hair as she delivers lines like 'books are those things you read'".[53] In December 2006, Pledge This!, film in which Hilton appeared and produced, premiered in a limited release before going directly to video. She missed the premiere of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in protest to the addition of some nude scenes that were going to be included in the film. Hilton said, "I was so angry I snubbed my own premiere."[54] In August 2008, Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc. sued Hilton in the Miami District Court, alleging she did not honor her contractual agreement to provide "reasonable promotion and publicity" for the film.[55] It was reported she was paid $1,000,000 for her work.
Ater The Simple Life was cancelled by FOX in 2005, it was subsequently aired by E! Entertainment Television for the fourth and fifth seasons. There were some complications to shoot the fifth season because of the arrests of both Hilton and co-star Richie in 2006. Despite talks of a sixth season,[56] the series finished its run at the end of the fifth season in 2007.[57] The show brought high ratings for the network. In that year, Hilton modeled for 2 be free[58] and her fourth perfume came out, called Can Can.
In January 2007, Hilton released the DreamCatchers line of hair extensions in partnership with Hair Tech International.[59] In early August 2007, Hilton signed a licensing agreement with Antebi for a signature footwear line, "Paris Hilton Footwear", featuring stilettos, platforms, flats, wedges, and a sports collection, expected to reach stores in 2008.[60] In mid August 2007, Hilton launched a line of tops, dresses, coats, and jeans at the Kitson Boutique in Los Angeles.[61] She felt the event was "a dream come true" and described the clothing line as " fun, bright and flashy".[62]
In December 2007, Hilton posed nude, covered in gold paint, to promote "Rich Prosecco", a canned version of an Italian sparkling wine.[63][64] She also traveled to Germany to promote the drink, appearing in various print ads for the product.[65] Hilton's love for dogs led her to create an apparel line for dogs called Little Lily by Paris Hilton, with some of the proceeds going to benefit animal rescue. "I have 17 dogs and I like to dress them, so I started designing this clothing line and it's really cute, like dresses and jeans — everything you can imagine for humans, but for dogs," she said in an interview during Super Bowl XLII festivities.[66]
In April 2008, she guest starred on the My Name is Earl episode "I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends".[67] On August 6, 2008, Hilton appeared in a one minute fifty second long video online, Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad, directed by Adam McKay and posted on the Funny or Die website. The video featured Hilton in a parody advertisement, and was made in response to a television campaign advert Celeb, by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign. In Celeb, McCain briefly compared his rival Barack Obama to that of celebrities such as Hilton and Britney Spears, going on to question his readiness to lead and criticize his energy policy. In what The Washington Post opined "might just be her best acting role yet,"[68] Hilton appears in the video wearing a leopard print swimsuit.[69] The video received seven million views in two days garnering worldwide press coverage, and drew both written and verbal media response from both campaigns. Continuing the spoof campaign, in October Hilton featured in a second parody video posted on Funny or Die, the two minute twenty second long Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen, alongside Hollywood actor Martin Sheen, with his son, actor Charlie Sheen, appearing in a cameo role. Hilton, heavily made up and in a green evening dress, interviews Martin Sheen in a kitchen, discussing various political issues, seeking his advice from his days playing a fictional President on The West Wing.[70]
A the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, it was screened a documentary about Hilton called Paris, Not France.[71] "I think there's a lot of misconceptions in the media. This movie is very personal. It's kind of like a diary", she said about the motion picture.[72] Hilton admitted that when she talked with the movie director Adria Petty, she "broke it down to her and talked about things that have never been spoken about before, and people will learn a lot from that".[72] It is shown in the documentary how she felt about the way the media had portrayed her: "I'm basically being judged, and they're creating this false person, and I can't do anything about it".[73] Petty, during the premiere at the festival remarked that Hilton has "created a mystery about herself that a film like this maybe wouldn't have been a great thing for her in the past. But now, she's been so saturated in the media. We're so used to her. To see a new side of her is so exciting".[73] Later, in 2009, the film was aired in July for MTV.[74][75]
Hilton starred in an MTV reality series titled Paris Hilton's My New BFF, about her search for a new best friend.[76] The series premiered on September 30, 2008.[77] That day, Hilton released her song "My BFF" on KIIS-FM with host Ryan Seacrest.[78][79] It was the theme song for the BFF show .[79] The series proved to be a hit, by being watched in its premiere episode by 1,200,000 viewers and averaged a 1.6 rating among spectators 12-34 in its Tuesday 10 p.m slot, topping all other cable shows in the hour.[80]
Hilton played the character of Amber Sweet, the surgery- and painkiller-addicted daughter of a biotech magnate in the goth/rock musical with a cult film following, Repo! The Genetic Opera. Bloody Disgusting noted that Hilton "is QUITE good in her role, both acting and singing (all of the primary characters sing their own songs). I usually can’t stand her in anything, but she won me over here".[81] Horror.com said: " Not only is this by far Hilton's best role, she's actually got a grain of gravitas in the end".[82] She remarked that "Just getting a role like this offered to me was new to me because I always get offered a certain role just basically playing myself".[83] The film, first screened at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, received a limited release in the United States and Canada on November 7, 2008.[84] Around that time, Hilton released her fifth fragrance for women called, Fairy Dust.[85]
2009–2011: Worldwide TV career[link]
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As a result of the American version success, on January 29, 2009, Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, a spin-off, began airing on ITV2 in England. She began to film the show in October 2008. She said that she would not leave London until she could "find that amazing girl or guy who can meet the challenges of being" her "British bestie".[86] She also felt that her friend had to be "hot", "can keep up" with her – it had to be somebody who "is real and won't be a backstabber".[87] The show did quite well; it was watched by 428,000 viewers in its first episode[88] and brought 605,000 viewers for its finale.[89] The second season of Paris Hilton's My New BFF premiered on June 2, 2009. In that same month, Hilton shot Paris Hilton's Dubai BFF[90] (which, after some complication, it was aired in 2011). Runner-up of the British series Kat McKenzie died on July 3, 2009, of a suspected overdose.[91] Hilton guest-starred in the fifth episode of Supernatural's fifth season. "Paris Hilton is playing a demonic creature that takes the form of ... Paris Hilton," creator and executive producer Eric Kripke said in a statement. "It'll be a fun, irreverent episode and we here at Supernatural are thrilled that Paris agreed to do it."[92] In July 2009, her sixth fragrance for women Siren was launched.[93]
In February 2010, Hilton participated in an advertising campaign for the launch of the Brazilian beer Devassa Bem Loura, whose slogan in English roughly translates to "very blonde bitch".[94] As part of the campaign, Hilton joined the brewery's float in the carnival of Rio de Janeiro.[95] Despite the buzz caused by Hilton in Rio de Janeiro, Devassa beer had captured just 0.2% of the market at the end of 2010.[96] Hilton launched her 10th fragrance, Tease inspired by Marilyn Monroe in August 2010.[97]
Hilton provided her voice for the character of Bella in the ABC made-for-television film The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (it is her first voice-over role). She said of the film: "I just think it's a really cute film" and that "I love animal movies, I love Christmas movies, and also, my grandmother, who passed away a couple of years ago from breast cancer, actually had a standard poodle and her name was Paris. So when I'm watching this, it's kind of like watching grandma's dog. It's kind of like a sign to me."[98] The film aired on November 28, 2010[98] and attracted good ratings with 2.611 million viewers.[99] In December 2010 Hilton launched her own motorcycle team.[100] "I can't believe I have my own racing team! So cool! :)" Hilton wrote on her Twitter while at the launch. The team, whose colors are pink, white and blue, will compete in the MotoGP 125cc category from 2011-2013.[101]
Later that year, Oxygen Channel gave the go-ahead to a new reality show called The World According to Paris. The show followed Hilton in her daily life,[102] and premiered in June 1, 2011 to 409,000 viewers. Although being the highest Wednesday premiere for a show,[103] it was considered a bomb and that led the media to surmise Hilton had became irrelevant and even during an interview with ABC News' Dan Harris, she walked out after being asked if she was worried about her moment having past.[104] The New York Times wrote that Hilton "is an attractive woman with proven talent for marketing and self-promotion, though as a reality heroine she seems a little passé — a Sony Walkman in an iPod era, a Friendster in the age of Facebook or, to put it in context, a single-process blonde in a triple-process world", and also remarked that she "appears to have plenty of boyfriends, present and ex. Paparazzi still snap her picture. But it’s hard to see how she can recapture the kind of audience she enjoyed in her heyday — even by streaming her premiere live on Facebook".[105]
She also modeled for Brazil fashion week in 2010 and 2011 In São Paulo, Brazil.[106] In 2011, it was launched a new collection of fragrances called the Passport collection. The perfumes are inspired by popular cities such as Paris, France; South Beach, Florida; and Tokyo, Japan,[107] she was named "Billion Dollar Entrepreneur" by Variety magazine and was featured on the cover[108][109] and opened up her third store in the Philippines.[110] Also in that year, a Paris Hilton brand store was opened in India with plans to open 8 more stores.[111] She also modeled during Ukraine Fashion week 2011 for designer Andre Tan.[112]
2012–present: Upcoming projects[link]
In September 2011, at the Sun City music festival, Afrojack previewed Good Time, an unfinished demo with Hilton's vocals.[113] In the same month, DJ Antoine revealed that he had met with Hilton twice to discuss collaborating on her upcoming album.[114] In October, Manufactured Superstars revealed that their next single would be "Drunk Text", which stars Hilton in the music video.[115] The video was leaked on February 23, 2012, and there were many speculations from media outlets, stating that the single was going to be part of Hilton's upcoming album. Later, her spokesperson said that "we can confirm that the video leaked today is not part of Paris Hilton’s new album. This video was recorded over a year ago. The first single will be out in a few months, we will let everyone know when it’s due for release."[116]
In January 2012, at the 69th Golden Globe Awards After Party, she stated she was going to appear in Darren Lynn Bousman's horror film Devil's Carnival, remarking that the film was a musical. In an interview with the director, he admitted that although considering Hilton for a role in the film, he felt that "there just wasn't anything in there that was perfect for her". He told, however, he will work with Hilton in the future.[117] In March 2012, it was reported that she will appear as herself in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, a film about a group of teenagers who robbed the houses of celebrities such as Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom between 2008 and 2009,[118] is scheduled to be released in 2013. In February 2012, she launched a new line of sunglesses in Shanghai.[119] The launch was a "huge success", she said.[120]
In the January 2012 issue of FHM magazine, Hilton gave an update about her second studio album, stating: "I've been working on the album with lots of other top DJs for a while now and I think people will be really surprised. It's very modern and very catchy; perfect party music".[121] She has since told MTV News "I was just in the studio with RedFoo the other night, so we're going to be doing my new single with LMFAO," and continued to say "I'm going with a whole new genre. I have Afrojack executive-producing the entire album. So we've just been coming up with the most incredible tracks."[122] She also stated that she is working with Snoop Dogg[123] and Flo Rida.[124] It was announced in early May that the single, which is called "After Midnight", will premiere on June 5.[125] She also made headlines after reporting she will have her debut as a DJ at the Pop Music Festival in Brazi on June 23.[126] Afrojack praised Hilton during an interview with Castanet, reported the New York Post.[127] While discussing about working with her in the upcoming album, he said: "The thing is with her… she’s like one of the most talented performers I know. She may not be a Celine Dion, but she knows how to perform on stage. She knows how to sing, believe it or not".[127] Also, he commented that "In the studio with her for the first time, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But the girl can sing. And she loves the dance music so we made some nice music. And it was fun".[128]
She said she will be opening a beach club in 2012: "The first one is opening in the Philippines soon. It's going to have nightclubs, restaurants, bars, gyms. Everything really".[129] It has been reported that her fragrances have grossed over $1.4 billion in revenue since 2005.[130] As of March 2012, there are 55 Paris Hilton Stores worldwide,[120] and her signature brand includes 17 different products lines such as t-shirts, shoes, fragrances, handbags and watches.[131]
Celebrity status[link]
She denied proclaiming herself as the "iconic blonde of the decade" such as Diana, Princess of Wales, and Marilyn Monroe in the May 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar.[132] She appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Overrated Celebrity".[133][134] In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and AOL, Hilton was voted the second "Worst Celebrity Role Model of 2006", behind Britney Spears.[135] Hilton has often appeared in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women poll, ranking at number thirty four in 2006, twenty three in 2005 and fifity nine in 2004.[136] She was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health.[5]
Critics suggest that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous;[6] since her beginnings in the industry, she has attracted massive media attention for her controversial lifestyle, her arrests, her high profiled relationships and her party girl image. Back in the day, when her reality show The Simple Life was broadcast, she was a daily fixture in tabloids and there was a point where New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove banned her from his page and the Associated Press conducted what they called an experiment in February 2007, trying not to report on Hilton for a whole week.[137] According to a 2011 poll conducted by Ipsos, Hilton is the most unpopular celebrity among Americans, with 60% of the responders having an unfavorable opinion on her.[138] In 2012, she ranked at number five in the "Most Over-exposed" list by Forbes.[139]
Charity[link]
She has also helped with some humanitarian organizations. In June 2008, she donated money to the construction of a medical building at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She stated that "The children I have met through my involvement with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have truly touched my heart. I am proud to make a donation and lend my name to the fundraising effort to help children who are facing terribly serious illnesses. The fabulous new hospital facilities at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles will provide a caring, healing environment for children and their families for many years to come."[140] In 2010, Hilton was named as ambassador for a new initiative from the USO that aims to give a MP3 player to all US active service troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.[141]
She received the Heart of Gold Award by the Starlight Children's Foundation for her philanthropy efforts on March 26, 2011. After the ceremony, she wrote through Twitter that "These families and their children go through so much and my heart and prayers are with them. It's such an amazing feeling to give back and make a difference in someone's life. I am so honoured to be a part of such an amazing cause."[142] She participated, alongside Fergie and husband Josh Duhamel, in the run that raised money for the people affected by the Japan Earthquake.[143] Recently, she got involved with My Hope for Children.[144]
Personal life[link]
Hilton loves small dogs, and lives with a Yorkshire Terrier and a female Chihuahua named Tinkerbell among many other pets. Hilton is frequently seen carrying Tinkerbell (dubbed an "accessory dog") at social events and functions, and in all five seasons of television reality show The Simple Life. In 2004, Tinkerbell "authored" a memoir, The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries. On August 12, 2004, Tinkerbell went missing after Hilton's apartment was burgled, and a $5,000 reward was offered for her safe return.[145] She was found six days later. By December 1, 2004, Tinkerbell was again spotted with Hilton at various events. Hilton has also purchased a male Chihuahua on July 25, 2007, from Pets of Bel Air in Los Angeles.[146] Hilton's love for her dogs led to the rumor that she wanted to be frozen with them at the Cryonics Institute,[147] but Hilton denied the rumor on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[148]
On January 22, 2007, Hilton's private life was thrust into the media spotlight with the launch of ParisExposed.com, a website that features images of personal documents, video, and other material allegedly obtained when the contents of a storage locker rented by Hilton was auctioned off due to lack of a $208 payment.[149] The website began charging online access to this material and received 1.2 million visitors in just over 40 hours.[150] Among the contents were medications, diaries, photographs, contracts and love letters, as well as a video of her shot by Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild.[151] On February 3, 2007, Hilton obtained a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website.[152] On February 5, 2007, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 discussed footage obtained from the ParisExposed.com website which features Hilton using the ethnic slurs "niggers", "chink", "Jappy" and the derogatory term "faggot".[153]
Relationships[link]
Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. In 2003–2004 she had a relationship with singer Nick Carter. Later she was engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis, from May 29, 2005, to November 2005. Thereafter, she began dating another Greek shipping heir, Stavros Niarchos III, before breaking up in May 2006. In early 2008, she was spotted with Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden and in May, Hilton announced her intention to marry Madden during an interview with television talk-show host David Letterman.[154][155] The two broke up in November 2008, and "remain very good friends".[156][157] She began dating The Hills star Doug Reinhardt in February 2009;[158] Hilton has also referred to her intention to marry Reinhardt, saying "He's gonna be my husband."[159] The couple broke up in June 2009, only to get back together again in August of the same year. On April 13, 2010, Hilton reportedly split from Reinhardt because she was worried he was just using her to further his career.[160] Shortly after splitting from Reinhardt, Hilton started dating Cy Waits, entrepreneur and co-owner of Tryst Nightclub and XS Nightclub in Las Vegas.[161] Hilton expressed that she would like to marry Cy, stating: "“I can see myself marrying him. We are so happy!”.[162] In late June 2011, Hilton revealed that the couple had split up and remained close friends.[163]
As of March 2012, Paris Hilton is in a relationship with Dutch-Surinamese DJ Afrojack.[164][165][166]
Legal troubles[link]
Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the level at which it is illegal to drive in California. The arrest complicated the shooting of the fifth season of series. Hilton's driving license was subsequently suspended in November 2006,[167] and in January 2007 she pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge.[168] Her punishment was 36 months' probation and fines of about $1,500.[169]
On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging that she was not permitted to drive.[170] The next month, Hilton was caught driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone, again with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program, constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.[167]
On May 4, 2007, Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. Initially, Hilton planned to appeal the sentence, and supported an online petition asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon.[171] The petition was created and organized on May 5, 2007, by Joshua Morales.[172] In response, various opponents started a counter-petition to maintain the sentence.[173] Both petitions attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Hilton later switched lawyers and dropped her plans to appeal.[174]
Hilton was required to begin her jail term on June 5, 2007,[175] and checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail in Lynwood, California after attending the 2007 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2007. However Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca signed orders on June 7, reassigning Hilton to 40 days of home confinement with an electronic monitoring device due to an unspecified medical condition.[176] Baca commented on the release saying, "My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice,"[177] contesting that under normal circumstances, Hilton would not have served any time in jail, and he added that "The special treatment, in a sense, appears to be because of her celebrity status ... She got more time in jail".[178] On the same day that Hilton was released from jail, Judge Michael Sauer summoned her to reappear in court the following morning (June 8) as the sentencing statement had explicitly said she would serve time in jail with "No work furlough. No work release. No electronic monitoring."[179] At the hearing he declined to be briefed by Hilton's attorney in private chambers on the nature of her condition and sent her back to jail to serve out her original 45-day sentence. Upon hearing the sentence, Hilton shouted, "It's not right!" and started screaming, requesting to hug her mother who was present in the courtroom.[180][181] Concern about Hilton's condition led to her being moved to the medical wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, and she was moved back to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood on June 13.[182]
While in jail, Hilton was influenced by the clergyman minister Marty Angelo: Hilton referred to starting a "new beginning" during her interview with talk show host Larry King on June 28, 2007, two days after being released from jail,[183] and quoted from Angelo's autobiography, entitled Once Life Matters: A New Beginning. On June 9, 2007, Marty Angelo petitioned Sauer,[184] asking to serve out the remainder of Hilton's jail sentence if the judge would release her to an alternative treatment program,[185] but the petition was turned down. On the same show, she revealed taking Adderall for ADHD since childhood.[186]
On July 2, 2010, Hilton was accused of smoking marijuana at the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Brazil and the Netherlands. She was escorted from the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by local police, however the case was later dismissed for unknown reasons. Hilton's publicist, Dawn Miller, stated "I can confirm that the incident was a complete misunderstanding and it was actually another person in the group who did it".[187][188] Two weeks later, Hilton was detained and released after being caught in possession of cannabis at Figari airport, Corsica.[189]
On August 28, 2010, she was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession in Las Vegas while her boyfriend, Cy Waits, was booked on charges of driving under the influence.[190][191] Initially her defence claimed that the handbag containing 0.8g of cocaine was not hers as "This purse in question was a high street brand – and by no means up to her high fashion standards.".[192] Later she claimed some of the personal items (like cash and credit cards) from the bag acknowledging it was hers.
In order to avoid being convicted on felony, Hilton pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on September 17, 2010. Under the terms of the plea bargain, she was sentenced to one year probation, 200 hours community service, $2,000 fine and ordered to complete a drug abuse program.[193][194] Clark County District Attorney David Roger said that: "If she is arrested for anything besides a minor traffic violation she will spend a year in jail. There will be no discussion. The court will have no discretion."[193]
On September 21, 2010, while travelling to a press conference in Tokyo to promote fashion and fragrance lines, Hilton and her sister Nicky were stopped by immigration officers at Narita Airport, Japan because of Hilton's conviction for drug possession a day earlier. Under Japan's strict anti-drug laws, all people sentenced for any drug crime are in general denied entry.[195][196] Narita officials questioned Hilton "for hours" and Hilton and her sister were forced to sleep over at the airport-hotel.[195] On September 22, Japanese authorities decided not to grant Hilton entry into the country and she was put on a plane back to the U.S. the same day. Other stops on their Asian promotion tour were cancelled, as countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have even tougher anti-drug laws.[196]
Heiress[link]
In December 2007, Hilton's grandfather, Barron Hilton, pledged 97 percent of his estate (the Hilton family fortune) to a charitable organization founded by his father, Conrad N. Hilton, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.[197] As a result, the inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished.[198][199] An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made (the proceeds of the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation), with a further $1.1 billion due after his death.[197] He cited the actions of his father, Conrad N. Hilton, as the motivation for his pledge.[197] Conrad, Barron's father, had left 97% of his estate to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Barron subsequently contested his father's will to win back a sizeable amount of the Hilton family fortune in a settlement.[200] By leaving his estate to the Foundation, Barron is donating not only the fortune he has amassed on his own, but he is also returning the Hilton family fortune amassed by his father, Conrad, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, where it would have gone over 30 years ago had Barron not contested his father's will. Barron said he is proud to follow his father's example.[201]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Wishman | Girl on Beach | |
| 2000 | Sweetie Pie | ||
| 2001 | Zoolander | Herself | Cameo |
| 2002 | Nine Lives | Jo | |
| 2002 | QIK2JDG | Strung-out Supermodel | |
| 2003 | L.A. Knights | Sadie | |
| 2003 | Wonderland | Barbie | Cameo |
| 2003 | Cat in the Hat, TheThe Cat in the Hat | Female Club-Goer | Cameo |
| 2003–2007 | The Simple Life | Herself | |
| 2004 | Las Vegas | Madison | TV series ("Things That Go Jump in the Night") |
| 2004 | George Lopez | Ashley | TV series ("Jason Tutors Max") |
| 2004 | O.C., TheThe O.C. | Kate | TV series ("The L.A.") |
| 2004 | Veronica Mars | Caitlin Ford | TV series ("Credit Where Credit's Due") |
| 2004 | Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! | Heather | |
| 2004 | Hillz, TheThe Hillz | Heather Smith | |
| 2004 | Raising Helen | Amber | Cameo role |
| 2005 | American Dreams | Barbara Eden | TV series ("California Dreamin'") |
| 2005 | House of Wax | Paige Edwards | |
| 2006 | Bottoms Up | Lisa Mancini | |
| 2006 | Pledge This! | Victoria English | |
| 2008 | Hottie and the Nottie, TheThe Hottie and the Nottie | Cristabel Abbott | |
| 2008 | Repo! The Genetic Opera | Amber Sweet | |
| 2008 | American Carol, AnAn American Carol | Herself | |
| 2008 | My Name Is Earl | Herself | TV series ("I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends") |
| 2008–2009 | Paris Hilton's My New BFF | Herself | |
| 2009 | Paris Hilton's British Best Friend | Herself | |
| 2009 | Paris Hilton's Dubai BFF | Herself | |
| 2009 | Rex | Paris | TV film |
| 2009 | Supernatural | Herself/Leshii | TV series ("Fallen Idols") |
| 2010 | The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation | Bella[202] | TV film |
| 2011 | The World According to Paris | Herself | TV series |
| 2012 | The Bling Ring |
Bibliography[link]
- 2004: Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, ISBN 0-7432-6664-1
- 2005: Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me, ISBN 0-7432-8714-2
Discography[link]
Main article: Paris Hilton discography
- 2006: Paris
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Reality Television Star – Female | The Simple Life | Nominated [203] |
| 2004 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Television Personality – Female | N/A | Nominated[203] |
| 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Movie Scream Scene | House of Wax | Won[45] |
| 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Movie Breakout Performance – Female | House of Wax | Nominated[45] |
| 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Television Personality – Female | N/A | Nominated[203] |
| 2005 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Crossover Artist | N/A | Nominated[203] |
| 2006 | Golden Raspberry Award | Worst Supporting Actress | House of Wax | Won[46] |
| 2006 | Golden Raspberry Award | Most Tiresome Tabloid Targets | N/A | Nominated[203] |
| 2006 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Reality Television Star – Female | The Simple Life | Nominated[203] |
| 2006 | MTV Movie Award | Best Frightened Performance | House of Wax | Nominated[203] |
| 2007 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Reality Television Star – Female | The Simple Life | Nominated[203] |
| 2007 | Teen Choice Award | Choice OMG! Moment | N/A | Nominated[203] |
| 2009 | Fifi Award | Female Celebrity Fragrance of the Year | N/A | Won[204] |
| 2009 | Fox Reality Award | Innovator of the Year Award | N/A | Won[205] |
| 2009 | Golden Raspberry Award | Worst Actress | The Hottie and the Nottie | Won[203] |
| 2009 | Golden Raspberry Award | Worst Screen Couple (shared with Christine Lakin and Joel David Moore) | The Hottie and the Nottie | Won[203] |
| 2009 | Golden Rospberry Award | Worst Supporting Actress | Repo! The Genetic Opera | Won[203] |
| 2009 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Reality Television Star – Female | Paris Hilton's My New BFF | Nominated[203] |
| 2009 | Teen Choice Award | Choice Summer Television Star – Female | Paris Hilton's My New BFF | Nominated[203] |
| 2010 | Golden Raspberry Award | Worst Actress of the Decade | House of Wax, The Hottie and the Nottie and Repo! The Genetic Opera | Won[203] |
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| Birth name | Leigh Francis |
| Born | (1973-05-30) 30 May 1973 (age 39) Old Farnley, West Yorkshire, England |
| Medium | Television |
| Nationality | British |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Genres | Character comedy Impressions Parody Sketch |
| Subject(s) | Celebrity |
| Spouse | Jill Carter (m. 2003–present) |
| Notable works and roles | Bo' Selecta (2002–2006) Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour (2008) Celebrity Juice (2008–present) Keith Lemon's Lemonaid (2012–present) |
Leigh Francis (born 30 May 1973)[1] is an English entertainer, best known for creating Channel 4's Bo' Selecta! and portraying Keith Lemon in several ITV shows.
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Early life[link]
Francis was born on 30 May 1973 and brought up on a council estate in Old Farnley, Leeds. His father died aged 47 of cancer,[2] and his mother and sister live in Spain.[3] His grandparents were from the Burgenland area of Austria, hence his middle name, in honour of them. Francis attended Farnley Park High School (which later changed its name to Farnley Park Maths and Computing College and is now The Farnley Academy), formerly Harrington High School in Leeds. He later studied at the Leeds College of Art and received a qualification in graphic design. Before making his major television breakthrough, he was discovered and encouraged by television presenter Davina McCall, performing in-role stand up comedy in a Southern comedy club. McCall landed Francis his first television role on Dom and Kirk's Nite O Plenty, where he portrayed Bobby Stark, a man who gives tips on how to win over the ladies. The series aired on Paramount Television from January to July 1996. Francis' second television role was as Barry Gibson, a music paparazzo, featured on the early series of Channel 4's Popworld.
Personal life[link]
Francis lives in Camden Town, London, and on 31 October 2003, at Allerton Castle, North Yorkshire, he married Jill Carter,[4] a beauty therapist. Their first daughter, Matilda, was born in February 2009.[3]
Career[link]
His major TV breakthrough occurred when Channel 4 offered him a £250,000 deal to produce a series based around his portrayal of television characters, such as his previous roles as Bobby Stark and Barry Gibson, and in 2002, Bo' Selecta! was born. The series featured Francis portraying a series of celebrities by wearing face masks to impersonate them, as well as portraying the main, non-celebrity character, Avid Merrion. The programme lasted for five series, airing between 2002 and 2006, however, the last two series were only loosely based on the original three. Season 4 was subtitled A Bear's Tail, and was based around another of his characters, The Bear. Season 5 returned to Avid Merrion and was called Bo! in the USA.
Following the axing of Bo' Selecta!, Francis took one of the series characters, Keith Lemon, and created a brand new show, Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour, which aired on ITV2 in April 2008. The show was a success, and subsequently, Francis created another new show featuring Lemon, Celebrity Juice, which has aired seven series to date. Lemon also co-hosted Sing If You Can with Stacey Solomon, and since 7 April 2012 he has hosted his new show Keith Lemon's Lemonaid on ITV1. In November 2011, it was revealed that Lemon would make his feature film debut in Keith Lemon: The Film, with production starting later that month.[5]
Characterisation[link]
Francis is known to conduct almost every interview in one of his celebrity guises, being interviewed as Avid Merrion during Bo' Selecta's run between 2002 and 2006, and as Keith Lemon ever since. In an interview given in an episode of Comedy Map of Britain, Francis, for the first time out-of-character, claimed that Avid Merrion's accent and dialects were inspired by his former teacher at the Leeds College of Art, Laimonis Mierins. He also pointed out that Merrion is a misspelling of Mierins and is nothing to do with the Merrion Centre in Leeds, which many people assume. Many people do not understand that Merrion and Lemon are fictional creations, and consequently, Francis' name means very little to the general public. He did conduct further interviews as himself for The Frank Skinner Show, Loose Women, Big Brother's Little Brother and The Jonathan Ross Show.
Characters[link]
Further information: List of Bo' Selecta! characters
Further information: Keith Lemon
References[link]
- ^ Leigh Francis (@LeighFrancis) op Twitter. Twitter.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-25.
- ^ We grin and he bears it. Telegraph.co.uk. (2005-07-12). Retrieved on 2012-05-25.
- ^ a b Leigh Francis: 'I'm just not very good at being me'. Entertainment.timesonline.co.uk (2012-04-26). Retrieved on 2012-05-25.
- ^ Marriages England and Wales 1984–2005. Findmypast.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-25.
- ^ Flickering Myth http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2011/11/keith-lemon-coming-to-big-screen-for.html
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| Born | Holly Marie Willoughby (1981-03-10) March 10, 1981 (age 31) Brighton, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Clapham, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | English |
| Occupation | TV Presenter, Model |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Employer | ITV BBC |
| Television | Presenting: This Morning (2009–present) Celebrity Juice (2008–present) The Voice UK (2012–present) |
| Spouse | Dan Baldwin (m. 2007) «start: (2007-08-04)»"Marriage: Dan Baldwin to Holly Willoughby" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Holly_Willoughby) |
| Children | Harry James Baldwin (born 11 May 2009) Belle Baldwin (born 14 April 2011) |
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Holly Marie Willoughby (born February 10, 1981)[1][2], is an English television presenter and model, known for her work in presenting children's TV and entertainment shows. In her early career she modelled underwear and went on to present CD:UK. In 2006, she won a BAFTA and was chosen to present Dancing on Ice, a UK celebrity talent show, shown on the ITV network which drew in an average of 8.9 million viewers in the 2010 series. She later stepped down from the role in 2011 due to new commitments and was replaced by Christine Bleakley.[3] In July 2009, she was selected as a replacement for Fern Britton on This Morning.[4] She began presenting on This Morning on 14 September 2009, alongside Phillip Schofield. On 23 November 2011, it was announced that Willoughby would be hosting the singing show The Voice UK on the BBC along with Reggie Yates.[5]
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Early life[link]
The younger of two daughters of the manager of a double-glazing company and an air stewardess,[6] Willoughby was educated at the independent Burgess Hill School For Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex. She went on to attend The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham.[citation needed]
In 1995, at the age of 14, Willoughby was spotted by talent scouts at The Clothes Show Live exhibition. Storm Model Management signed her up.[7] She appeared in teen magazines for girls such as Mizz, Just Seventeen and More!. From 1998, at the age of 17, she started modelling underwear for various clients including Pretty Polly. She appeared in various adverts and posters.
Media career[link]
Children's TV[link]
In 2000, Willoughby won an audition for a show on CITV featuring S Club 7 called S Club TV.[8] In this show actors represented an alternative S Club.[9] She also acted in a show called S Club 7: Artistic Differences. She played a character called Zoe alongside the regular members of the band.[10] and after these shows, she worked as a receptionist for a while and then as a runner for the defunct shopping channel Auction World TV.
She also took on menial jobs and started an Open University course in psychotherapy. Then eventually she found work as assistant manager during which time she persuaded a friend to make a show reel of her. This show reel secured her an agent who then contacted the BBC.[8] Later in 2000, she presented a factual entertainment programme for children called Xchange. She went on to host several other children's shows for CBBC: X-perimental, and CBBC at the Fame Academy (CBBC's version of the BBC-TV talent show Fame Academy).
Her breakthrough as a children's entertainer came when she re-joined CITV in 2004 to co-present their flagship entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem which was aired on Saturday mornings. It was on this programme that she met her future husband Dan Baldwin, one of the show's producers. In 2006, the show's title was changed to Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown in order to reflect the popularity of its co-presenters, Willoughby and Stephen Mulhern. During the final episode of the show (1 July 2006), Willoughby accidentally revealed one of her breasts during a particularly energetic routine. CITV received a small number of complaints, though the wider audience merely wrote the occurrence off as unfortunate. In 2005 Willoughby presented Feel the Fear, a children's entertainment programme in which the presenters are set unnerving challenges. She has also had a number of minor appearances on other children's programmes and programmes relating to children. She co-presented the final of the children's version of Stars in Their Eyes in 2004. The programmes listed below were broadcast on CITV in 2000
Mainstream TV[link]
Willoughby presented CD:UK for a short while in the spring of 2005, replacing Cat Deeley before Myleene Klass became the regular presenter. Her major breakthrough as a mainstream family entertainer came when she was chosen to co-present the flagship ITV talent show Dancing on Ice, alongside Phillip Schofield, in 2006.[11] In this show, celebrities from the UK are partnered with professional dancers to learn ice-dancing routines which are then judged by a panel of experts and voted on by the public. She stepped down from the role in 2011 due to new commitments. She was criticised for her choice of costume in January 2008.[12]
She has presented a number of other ITV programmes, especially spin-off shows such as Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On, Greased Lightnin and most recently, The Xtra Factor. She has also presented shows exploring celebrity gossip such as Lip Service and the comedy show Celebrity Juice. In 2007, she took over from Davina McCall as the presenter of Streetmate, a dating game show in the UK. She presented sections of The National Television Awards in 2007 and 2008.
She co-presents Holly & Fearne Go Dating alongside Fearne Cotton. In this show the two hosts, who are also best friends, attempt to find dates for single people that they meet in various situations in in UK. She has also presented Here Come the Boys, a show celebrating the achievements of popular UK male singers of the past 50 years.
Willoughby has co-presented ITV's morning show This Morning with Phillip Schofield since September 2009 after she took over the role from Fern Britton.
On 23 November 2011, it was announced that she would present The Voice UK in 2012, along with BBC Radio presenter Reggie Yates.
On 30 March 2012 she won celebrity cleavage of the year[13] in a competition sponsored by Wonderbra.
Filmography[link]
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| 2000 | S Club TV | Presenter |
| 2000 | S Club 7: Artistic Differences | Presenter |
| 2000–2004 | Xchange | Contestant |
| 2002–2003 | CBBC at the Fame Academy | Presenter |
| 2003 | X-perimental | Presenter |
| 2004–2006 | Ministry of Mayhem aka Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown | Presenter |
| 2004 | Stars in Their Eyes Kids | Presenter |
| 2005 | Feel the Fear | Contestant |
| 2005 | CD:UK | Presenter |
| 2005 | Celebrity Wrestling: Bring It On | Contestant |
| 2006–2011 | Dancing On Ice | Presenter |
| 2006 | Lip Service | Presenter |
| 2006 | Tricky TV | Presenter |
| 2007 | The Westlife Show: Live | Presenter |
| 2007 | Greased Lightnin | Presenter |
| 2007 | Streetmate | Presenter |
| 2007 | Holly & Fearne Go Dating | Presenter |
| 2008–2009 | The Xtra Factor | Presenter |
| 2008–Present | Celebrity Juice | Presenter |
| 2007–2008 | The National Television Awards | Presenter |
| 2009–Present | This Morning | Presenter |
| 2009 | Cheryl Cole's Night In | Presenter |
| 2010 | James Corden's World Cup Live | Presenter |
| 2010 | Magic Numbers | Guest |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie's Marple | |
| 2011 | Text Santa | Presenter |
| 2012–Present | The Voice UK | Presenter |
| 2012 | Surprise Surprise | Presenter |
Guest appearances[link]
- Panel Member Never Mind the Buzzcocks (31 October 2005)
- Contestant Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (29 September 2007)
- Contestant All Star Family Fortunes (3 November 2007)
- Guest presenter This Morning (5 December 2008)
- Contestant All Star Mr and Mrs (2 January 2010)
- Contestant Chris Moyles' Quiz Night (29 November 2010)
- Guest presenter Britain Unzipped (24 April 2012)
Bibliography[link]
Willoughby and Fearne Cotton have written an advice book entitled The Best Friends' Guide to Life published in October 2010
- The Best Friends' Guide to Life. Vermilion. 14 October 2010. ISBN 978-0-09-193540-5.
Awards[link]
In 2006, Willoughby won a BAFTA in recognition of her abilities as a children’s TV presenter.[14]
She has also appeared in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women poll every year since 2005, ranking at #51 in 2010, #74 in 2009 and #100 in 2008.[15]
On March 30th, 2012, on the National Cleavage Day, Holly Willoughby was awarded the title “Best Celebrity Cleavage”,[16][17] based on a poll of 1000 women who chose her as the first celebrity to get into the Wonderbra Cleavage Hall of Fame.[18]
Personal life[link]
Holly Willoughby is dyslexic.[19] Her sister, Kelly, also works in the television industry.[20]
On 4 August 2007 she married Dan Baldwin, a producer on Ministry of Mayhem. Her son, Harry James Baldwin, was born in May 2009.[21] Her daughter, Belle Baldwin, was born in April 2011.[22]
References[link]
- ^ http://www.bio27.com/tag/holly-willoughby-age
- ^ http://www.talktalk.co.uk/celebrity/biography/person/holly-willoughby/221
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s101/dancing-on-ice/news/a351698/christine-bleakley-replaces-holly-willoughby-as-dancing-on-ice-host.html
- ^ "Willoughby new This Morning host". BBC News. 15 July 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8152780.stm. Retrieved 15 July 2009.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/15856579
- ^ Holly Willoughby on 'that breast incident' Mail Online, 19 October 2007
- ^ The 20 most powerful celebrity makers: 6. Sarah Doukas The Observer, 22 June 2008
- ^ a b Bio Holly Willoughby
- ^ Off the Telly Reviews[dead link]
- ^ Holly Willoughby IMDb
- ^ Holly Willoughby ITV: Dancing on Ice
- ^ Good Golly, Miss Holly Orange Entertainment News, 29 January 2008
- ^ http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/894724-holly-willoughbys-boobies-see-her-come-top-of-national-cleavage-day-list
- ^ Children's Awards BAFTA
- ^ Holly Willoughby at FHM.com
- ^ Deborah Arthurs (30 March 2012). "Simply the breast! Holly Willoughby's cleavage named nation's favourite in Wonderbra poll". Dailymail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2122302/National-Cleavage-Day-Holly-Willoughbys-cleavage-named-Britains-favourite-Wonderbra-poll.html. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
- ^ "Holly Willoughby encabeza el ranking del mejor escote" (in Spanish). El Nacional. 5 April 2012. http://www.el-nacional.com/noticia/29746/21/Holly-Willoughby-encabeza-el-ranking-del-mejor-escote.html. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
- ^ "Holly Willoughby In Wonderbra's Cleavage Hall Of Fame". contactmusic.com. 30 March 2012. http://www.contactmusic.com/news/holly-willoughby-in-wonderbras-cleavage-hall-of-fame_1312571. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
- ^ "Holly Willoughby tells Twitter followers who criticised spelling 'I'm dyslexic'". Daily Telegraph. 6 November 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/6510511/Holly-Willoughby-tells-Twitter-followers-who-criticised-spelling-Im-dyslexic.html. Retrieved 9 November 2010.
- ^ Mum’s the word, Holly Mail Online, 22 November 2008
- ^ Holly Willoughby Delivers Baby Boy Mail Online, 12 May 2009
- ^ Holly gives birth to baby girl
External links[link]
- Official website
- Holly Willoughby on Twitter
- Holly Willoughby on Facebook
- Holly Willoughby at The X Factor
- Holly Willoughby at This Morning
- ITV Celebrity Playlist for Holly Willoughby
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| Born | Christopher David Moyles[1] (1974-02-22) 22 February 1974 (age 38)[2] Temple Newsam, Leeds, England |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Partner | Ana Boulter (1999–2002) Sophie Waite (2002–2010) |
Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) [2] is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4.
Born in Leeds, he attended Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds and volunteered to work at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service). He has worked at various radio stations including Radio Luxembourg (under the pseudonym Chris Holmes) and Capital FM. Moyles moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1997 and has remained there ever since, presenting the early breakfast show, a Saturday morning show, the drive time show and currently, the breakfast show. On 7 September 2009 he became Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his irreverent broadcasting style on Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including homophobic and sexist accusations, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. Despite that, Moyles' regular audience figures averages 8 million listeners per annum, and remains one of the more popular presenters on BBC Radio 1.
He has achieved various Radio awards, and has helped raise money for charity by taking part in challenges, aired on T.V on behalf of Comic Relief. He has recorded a parody album and written two autobiographies. He frequently appears on television having appeared on Hotel Babylon, a celebrity version of Dale's Supermarket Sweep, Top Gear, The Charlotte Church Show, The F-Word, The Friday Night Project, The One Show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Richard & Judy and The New Paul O'Grady Show. In 2009 he launched his own show, Chris Moyles' Quiz Night for Channel 4 which is currently in its fifth series.
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Career[link]
Pre-Radio 1[link]
Chris Moyles was born on 22 February 1974 in Leeds and was educated at the Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds.[2][3] While at school, he began his broadcasting career at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service), a voluntary staffed hospital radio station in the West Yorkshire city.
He then started out at local station Aire FM as an assistant for DJ Carl Kingston. During this time, he was also a presenter on Radio Top Shop in the Leeds Briggate branch. After hosting his own Saturday Evening Show on Aire FM (and occasionally serving as a stand-in presenter), he was then employed as a presenter at Radio Luxembourg in 1992, until the station closed.
In 1993, he gained a job at The Pulse of West Yorkshire, presenting the evening show from 7–10 pm. He remained there until early 1994 when he was dismissed[4] for comments made about the station's previous programme controller. Moyles subsequently turned up at Signal 1 in Stoke-on-Trent – again presenting The Evening Bit from 7–10 pm. In 1995 Moyles was heard on the Chiltern Radio Network, presenting the evening show from 7–10 pm, before taking on the late show from 10 pm–1 am. This show was simulcast on Horizon Radio, Chiltern Radio, Severn Sound and Northants 96.
In 1996, Moyles joined London station Capital FM hosting his weekend show 'The Late Bit', which went out on a Friday & Saturday evening, and covering for other DJs. It was at Capital that Moyles fell out with fellow DJ 'Doctor' Neil Fox. After declining the offer of presenting the breakfast show on rival station Kiss 100,[5] Moyles joined Radio 1 in July 1997.
Radio 1[link]
Moyles was voted one of the Faces for 97 by SKY magazine and presented his first show on Radio 1 on 28 July 1997, hosting the 4–7 am Early Breakfast show – soon called The Early Bit. In May 1998, his work was recognised with the award of the Silver Sony Awards DJ of the Year, and he was styling himself as 'The Saviour Of Early Morning Radio'. Within the year Moyles was promoted to a Saturday breakfast, then Saturday mid-morning slot from 10 am–1 pm. At Radio 1, he has presented most of his shows with David "Comedy Dave" Vitty, who worked behind the scenes at the station prior to Moyles' arrival.
After standing in regularly for Kevin Greening and Zoe Ball on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Moyles's next promotion came in October 1998 when he took control of the drivetime show from 4–5.45 pm. The show was extended to 3–5.45 pm in February 2001. Moyles has co-presented the show from 1998, with his sidekick.
On 5 January 2004, Moyles started presenting Radio 1's flagship programme The Breakfast Show, switching places with Sara Cox. He had been appointed to increase the ratings for the show and did so, putting on an extra 1,000,000 listeners to the audience in the first quarter of 2004. After a successful first year, Moyles was awarded 'DJ of the Year' by readers of The Sun.
By 2005, Moyles and his team had succeeded in hugely increasing the morning audience, with his programme's audience swelling to 6.5 million. This was coupled with an increase in the overall Radio 1 audience share. With 895,000 listeners in London in the third quarter of 2005, he succeeded in overtaking Johnny Vaughan to take the position of the capital's most listened to youth breakfast show. Moyles's audience rating's continued to increase each week and led to him winning a gold Sony Radio Award in 2006 for best entertainment show.
With the release of the RAJAR listening figures on 3 August 2006, Moyles had added a further 470,000 listeners to the Breakfast Show, taking the average listenership up to 6.79 million. On 10 May 2007, RAJAR figures confirmed that Moyles had increased his listening figures to 7.06 million, breaking the seven million barrier for the first time with the station having 10.55 million listeners overall. Moyles again increased his audience to 7.72 million as of 1 May 2008 slightly narrowing the gap between him and Terry Wogan, the current highest rated radio show in the UK. The station's overall listener figure is now over 11 million.
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On 12 May 2008 The Chris Moyles Breakfast Show won its second Sony radio gold award for 'best breakfast show'. At this time he was given another half hour on his show going from 7 am–10 am to 6.30 am–10 am.[6]
On 7 September 2009 Moyles became the longest serving breakfast presenter on Radio 1, breaking the record previously set by Tony Blackburn.[7]
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In March 2011, Moyles and on-air radio personality Dave Vitty beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show, on Radio 1's Longest Show Ever with Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave for Comic Relief. Between 16 and 18 March they beat both Simon Mayo's 1999 record of 37 hours[8] and the 'Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)' Guinness World Record by broadcasting for 52 hours for Comic Relief[9] initially raising £2.4 million,[10][11] and with an audience of 2.84 million, it was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever.[12] The event raised a final total of £2,821,831.[citation needed]
On 1 July 2011 it was announced that Moyles will remain within the BBC until at least 2014,[13] ending speculation that he would move to a commercial rival. This would allow the presenter to reach his 10-year anniversary on The Chris Moyles Show. It is estimated that the deal is worth £1 million.[14]
| Preceded by Clive Warren |
Radio 1 Early Breakfast Show Host July 1997 – October 1998 |
Succeeded by Scott Mills |
| Preceded by Mark Goodier |
Radio 1 Saturday Morning Host April 1998 – September 2001 |
Succeeded by Jamie Theakston |
| Preceded by Dave Pearce |
Radio 1 Drivetime Host October 1998 – January 2004 |
Succeeded by Sara Cox |
| Preceded by Sara Cox |
Radio 1 Breakfast Show Host January 2004–Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
The Chris Moyles Show[link]
Main article: The Chris Moyles Show
The Chris Moyles Show is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from 6:30 am. It is the longest running Radio 1 breakfast show in the station's history. On 1 July 2011 it was announced that Moyles had signed a contract to keep him on the show until 2014 making it a decade on the breakfast show.[15]
The team[link]
Comedy Dave (Dave Vitty) has worked with Moyles longer than any other team member; and currently is the self appointed "Director of Comedy" for the show. The rest of the team include the show's news reader Dominic Byrne, sports reader Tina Daheley, producer Aled Haydn Jones; Day producer Freya Mehta and assistant producer Matt Fincham. Moyles's friends also contribute to the show such as "Longman" (until 2007) and "Rob DJ". Presenters such as Andi Peters, Davina McCall Keith Chegwin and impressionist Jon Culshaw, contribute, albeit infrequently. Roy Walker appears as "Roy" the voice of the daily quiz show "Car Park Catchphrase".
Features[link]
- Car Park Catchphrase
- Two listeners in their cars have to guess a catchphrase answer from an anecdote-style clue.
- Tedious Link
- This feature was carried forward from Moyles' afternoon show and is a parody of Jo Whiley's now defunct feature Tenuous Link. Comedy Dave plays one song, first explaining how this song is linked to the last show's feature song with a deliberately ramshackle and vague succession of linking 'facts', some real and some ludicrous.
- The Golden Hour
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Main article: The Golden Hour (radio feature)A well-established feature, previously on Radio 1 from 1973 to 2001. For the first half, records are played that all charted in the UK Singles Chart in a certain year and listeners are invited to guess the year. The second half are random songs chosen by each member of the team.
- Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quiz
- The team play a 5-question pub quiz against each other. The questions are taken from a real pub quiz run the previous evening by one of Chris's friends, Rob DJ, in their mutual home town of Leeds. Running totals of each team member's recent scores are kept and analysed. Listeners are able to play along via SMS, Facebook and Twitter. It is played on the tuesday morning show.
- Classical Class
- In this feature the team talk over classical music. It was designed to be a relaxing wake up in the morning.
Radio 1's longest show ever[link]
On 28 February 2011, it was announced that Moyles and Vitty would attempt to beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show in aid of Comic Relief. The previous record of 37 hours was set by Simon Mayo in 1999.[16]
Moyles and Vitty began their record attempt on the morning of 16 March 2011. At the beginning of the show, Moyles announced that they would attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)" and attempt to continuously broadcast for 51 hours 30 minutes.[17] At 19:30 on 17 March they were joined by Simon Mayo who held the previous record and also revealed that they had raised £1,009,033. Moyles and Vitty were presented with a cake by Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt.[18][19]
On Friday 18 March 2011 at 08:30 Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave broke the Guinness World Record for the 'Longest Marathon Radio DJ (team)' and by the end of the show (at 10:00), they had hit the 51 and a half hour mark. The duo opted to 'round it off' by going to 10:30 and thus set a new record of 52 hours. In doing, so they raised a final total of £2,406,648 for Comic Relief,[20] which is an average of £46,282 for each hour they were on air. During the attempt the duo were joined by many celebrity guests including The Wanted, Chipmunk, Jimmy Carr, Craig David, Katy Perry and Ricky Gervais.[21] The grand total has since increased to £2,821,831 and with an audience of 2.84 million, the event was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever.[22] 3.8 million people watched on the Radio 1 Website.
Work outside radio[link]
BT Red Nose Climb and Speaking Clock[link]
Moyles was one of a team of celebrities who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Comic Relief reaching the summit on 7 March 2009.[23] He was joined by his show's producer, Rachel Mallender and BBC Radio 1 controller, Andy Parfitt. Also on the climb were Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh, Fearne Cotton, Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Alesha Dixon. He recorded a parody song around this time to promote the climb, mentioning all the names of the people that were also taking part – it was based on Lily Allen's "The Fear", and was called "(A month off of) The Beer".
From 3 February – 23 March 2009, Moyles was joined by Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating and Fearne Cotton to help raise money for charity by reading the time on the Speaking Clock.[24]
Voice work in film[link]
Moyles has provided his voice and/or likeness to a number of films and games. His face was used in 24: The Game, and his voice can be heard in the films Wimbledon, War of the Worlds and Robots.[25][26] In some of these films, his voice was only used for the UK version.
Television presenter[link]
Moyles has branched out his work into television. In 2002, his own Five show, Live With Chris Moyles, ran five shows a week for 13 weeks. Chris was replaced by Christian O'Connell, before the programme was shelved altogether.
He and sidekick Dave Vitty had their own TV show, also entitled The Chris Moyles Show like their current Radio 1 show, which was aired from 1998–99 on the now-defunct UK satellite and cable channel UK Play.
Moyles voiced the fourth and final series of Sky One show The Villa and has occasionally presented Top of the Pops. He has also worked for the Comic Relief and Children in Need charities on their telecasts.
Moyles has presented a number of episodes of Big Brother's Big Mouth. Daily Mirror journalist Rob Leigh once said of his Big Brother's Big Mouth presenting that "Chris Moyles may be Marmite for the ears on radio but never quite nails it on TV, even with his relative star power".[27] He also presented The Big Breakfast on Channel 4 several times between 2000 and 2002.
On 24 October 2011, The Metro announced that Moyles would be presenting a new dating show, The Love Machine, alongside Stacey Solomon for Sky.[28] Moyles confirmed this on his radio show that morning.
Chris Moyles Quiz Night[link]
Moyles launched a new show on Channel 4, called Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on 22 March 2009. The show consists of Moyles alongside three other celebrities partaking in a traditional pub-style quiz. The original series had the four competing to win an item that belonged to Moyles but this has since developed into a more traditional quiz with the loser singing karaoke-style at the end of the show.
The opening show received poor viewing figures attracting just 6% of total audience for the timeslot.[29][30] It was continued for a second series between 26 February and 11 April 2010, a third series following between 1 November and 22 December 2010 and fourth between 15 July and 2 September 2011.[31] The show is currently in its fifth series.
Other television appearances[link]
Moyles appeared on the ITV show The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars and had minor success. He was voted out of the show on 4 June 2006 in the semi-final. Following this appearance, stories in the New Statesman and The Sun both reported that Moyles was looking to relaunch his television career; rumours suggested that he had been offered his own show by ITV. Moyles has spoken of a desire to transfer the format of his radio show to the T.V, but otherwise has thus far stayed clear of a conventional TV format.
Moyles played himself in an episode of the drama Hotel Babylon which aired on 15 February 2007 and appeared on a celebrity version of Dale's Supermarket Sweep that broadcast on the same day. He has appeared as a guest on numerous British television shows, including the ninth series of Top Gear, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Charlotte Church Show, The F-Word, The Friday Night Project, Richard & Judy and The New Paul O'Grady Show.
In 2008, Moyles appeared on the Brit Awards to present the award for the best live act, and appeared in the BBC documentary series Comedy Map of Britain. He has appeared on Channel 4's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack TV programme as well as an appearance as a team captain on the Channel 4 show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong and on 18 July 2008 he appeared on Jimmy Carr's show on Channel 4, 8 out of 10 Cats.
On 23 February 2009, Chris was the guest on BBC One's The One Show to promote the BT Red Nose climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. He appeared again on the show on 26 February 2010 to talk about and promote the second series of Chris Moyles' Quiz Night. In July 2009, he featured in an episode of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC One where he explored his Irish ancestry. He visited Ireland and Belgium, where his great grandfather fought and died in World War One. On the programme Moyles discovered that his last name means bald servant from the Irish "Ó Maolmanach".[32][33] He also co-presented Children in Need Rocks Manchester in November 2011. Moyles appeared on the quiz show The Million Pound Drop along with Andi Peters in February 2012, they won £25,000 to divide between their chosen charities
Autobiography[link]
Moyles' autobiography, The Gospel according to Chris Moyles: The Story of One Man and His Mouth was released by Ebury Press on 5 October 2006.
On 4 October 2007 a follow-up book Chris Moyles: The Difficult Second Book, published by Ebury Press, was officially released. The Difficult Second Book was released in paperback on 1 May 2008. Stewart Lee, on his own programme Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, commented that the title of the book suggests "a degree of irony and self-awareness largely absent from the text itself" and then went on to deconstruct and mock the book's contents.[34]
Stage Work[link]
On 16 May 2012 it was announced that Chris Moyles had been cast to play the part of King Herod in an upcoming arena tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar.[35]
Presenting style[link]
Moyles relies on his team members and audience participation for his show's games and quizzes and for other sources of comedy. He is renowned for his sharp manner, quick temper and put-downs.[36] It is this approach which most commonly leads to criticism of Moyles. It has also caused him to become involved in numerous controversies related to perceived offensive statements. However, Moyles generally accepts counter-attacks in the same manner and routinely derides himself for being overweight and so forth, often in the lyrics of jingles. Due to his fascination with radio,[37] Moyles regularly discusses the process of making the show, often spoofing clichéd radio practices. Many of his show's features are homages to or exaggerations of other radio features.
Parody songs[link]
In December 2000, he parodied the Eminem song "Stan" that was No.1 in the charts at the time, with a seasonal Christmas themed variation called "Stanta", instead. It became one of the most popular requested parodies, and was often played more than once during the course of a show.
In October 2004, Moyles and The Chris Moyles Show team replaced U2's "Vertigo" at number one in the UK Official Download Chart with their download-only charity song "Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)", under the name 'Mouldie Lookin' Stain'. The song was a spoof of Goldie Lookin' Chain's "Guns Don't Kill People Rappers Do" (itself a spoof rap song) and proceeds went to Comic Relief. At the time of its release, it was the fastest selling download on UK charts.
Moyles has parodied several Kaiser Chiefs songs under the name "The Kaiser Chefs". These include "I Predict A Diet" (Parody of I Predict a Riot) and "Donny" (Parody of Ruby). Chris and Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs (both Leeds United fans) said they had accidentally given Doncaster Rovers fans an unofficial anthem with "Donny" after Doncaster Rovers beat Leeds United 1–0 in the 2008 League One Play Off Final.
During the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Chris organised a parody of England World Cup songs, to ridicule the number of songs there were out at the time. Listener favourite "Jose – The Special One" a parody of "Rosé" by The Feeling, was written on team manager José Mourinho's departure from Chelsea and was banned after Chelsea FC complained to the BBC (although subsequently played repeatedly on his show and on Radio 5 Live). He made a parody of "We Have Got to Zero Baby", a take on Enrique Iglesias's "Hero", which describes how his football team, Leeds United, managed to claw back a 15-point deficit in League One in only 5 games. In November 2007, he used Hoosiers – "Goodbye Mr A" for "Goodbye Mr. M" where he sings about the Ex-England football manager Steve McClaren being sacked.
Often Moyles will pick a track because of the silliness of its lyrics, for instance "Smile" by Lily Allen was parodied by Moyles's invention "Silly Allen", in a song called "Piles" and Natasha Bedingfield's "I Wanna Have Your Babies" written by Comedy Dave and performed in May 2007. In the same month, he performed a parody of Hellogoodbye's hit "Here (In Your Arms)" called "Beer In My Arms" in which he describes how much he really dislikes the song, calling it 'daft'. Moyles also covered Puretone "Addicted to Bass" with "Addicted to Plaice", which covers the subject of being addicted to fish. In September 2007, he performed "Suicidal" a parody of the UK number one Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls", in which he talks about how the song makes him feel suicidal and wonders why it reached number one.
Although of 2008, UK's chart no.1 Basshunter was renamed "Chuffhunter" in which he mocks the song and those that would buy it, Kylie Minogue's "Bow Wow Wow" and a re-write of the Estelle song "American Boy", named "Somerset Boy". In the past, he has parodied include Billie Piper's "Honey to the Bee" as "Guinness For Me", All Seeing Eye's "Walk Like a Panther", Will Smith's "Gettin Jiggy Wit It", and McFly's "All About You" as "He Don't Use Shampoo". Moyles has also written Baked Beans, a parody of Same Jeans by The View, and "Lunch in this Pub", originally the Usher single "Love in this Club". One of his recent parodies, "No Hair" – sung by "follicly-challenged" newscaster Dominic Byrne – is a cover of Jordin Sparks's "No Air (ft Chris Brown)".
Another two of Moyles' recent parodies are "Lorry Driver" which is a cover of Britney Spears' song "Womanizer" and "The Boy Does Plenty" by "Adrian Dixon", originally a song by Alesha Dixon, both of which are written by 'Comedy Dave' Vitty.
In March 2009 Moyles released a parody song called "Dreaming of Debbie McGee". The song was about a man who has recurring dreams of the assistant on The Paul Daniels Magic Show. Comedy Dave wrote the song, and Paul Daniels asked for it to be made into an MP3 file after hearing it on air. It was a parody of the Kings of Leon song "Revelry". In April 2009, McGee recorded a reply which was played on air and was a parody of the same song called Dreaming of Moylesy.
Moyles released "Waterproof" in July 2009, a parody of the La Roux song "Bulletproof". This song has an approved record deal to be used on a parody album, should Chris wish to do so.[38]
Moyles has released an album entitled The Parody Album. Recording began in September 2009,[39] and the album was released on 23 November[40]
The official Moyles Parody Album game[41] entitled Parody Island was released to help promote the album and allow players to hear snippets from his new album
The Chris Moyles Show was credited with the debut of the unofficial England World Cup Song, written and performed by Chico Slimani a parody of his hit single "It's Chico Time" and originally named "It's England Time. Slimani recorded the single after having a 'vision' that England won the 2010 World Cup and that in the celebrations, commentators made reference to his song. The single debuted, Monday 8 February 2010.
Controversies[link]
Moyles has come into conflict with the Broadcasting Standards Commission and Ofcom. These have occurred during his time at both Capital FM and Radio 1. For example, these regulatory bodies upheld complaints when Moyles threatened Dr Fox in October 2002 with the claim that "I'm gonna tear his head off and poo down his neck";[42] and also in early 2002, when he said "he would take the virginity of Charlotte Church", when she reached sixteen.[43]
When he first arrived at Radio 1, John Peel took an instant dislike to Moyles and accused him of being a "DLT-in-waiting". Moyles retorted that Peel was a "Kenny Everett-in-waiting, because Kenny Everett’s dead and it’s only a matter of time before John pops his clogs".[44]
In September 2008, Moyles, along with other British radio presenters, was criticised for on-air promotion of drinking to excess.[45]
Sexism[link]
In February 2006, Moyles apologised, along with the BBC, after swearing when speaking to a caller live on air. He made the outburst while teasing a mother-of-three from Newcastle during an on-air feature which her children had interrupted. "You've got three kids from some fuckin'..." he blurted out, before apologising profusely for his mistake.[46]
The BBC issued six apologies, adding that such mistakes could occur during live broadcasts such as Moyles' show. The BBC was later cleared by broadcasting regulator Ofcom over the incident.
In July 2006, communications watchdog Ofcom found Moyles in Breach of rule 1.5 of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code Rules for an incident in which he referred to female listeners as "dirty whores". A listener objected to an item in which the presenter discussed people who urinated in the shower. He considered that the presenter’s reference to women who did this as “dirty whores” was unacceptable at this time of the morning.[47][48]
On 5 June 2008, when former Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown was on the programme,[49] much to his enjoyment, she consensually let him fondle[50] both of her breasts live on air, to which he gave a running commentary of the precise topography of each. It arose from his enquiry into whether her breasts had been surgically enhanced.
Pay[link]
Alongside a number of other Radio 1 and Radio 2 presenters, Moyles crossed a strike picketline in 2005. BBC staff were striking over recently announced job cuts.[51] A report by the BBC Trust on 2 June 2008 revealed that Moyles was paid £630,000 in 2007.[52] However, Moyles revealed in September 2009 that he took a 20% pay cut three months earlier, quoting the reason "I want to work at the BBC, which is trying to save some of its gazillions".[53] On 22 September 2010 Moyles spoke out on air about not being paid by the BBC in two months.[54]
Homophobia[link]
Moyles was accused of homophobia in May 2006, when he rejected a ringtone by saying "I don't want that one, it's gay", live on air. This led to a number of complaints to the BBC. They argued that the use of the word gay in this context was homophobic. The BBC governors said that Moyles was simply keeping up with developments in English usage.
The programme complaints committee said that, "The word 'gay', in addition to being used to mean 'homosexual' or 'carefree', was often now used to mean 'lame' or 'rubbish'. In describing a ringtone as gay, the DJ was conveying that he thought it was 'rubbish' rather than 'homosexual'. Moyles was not being homophobic." The panel acknowledged, however, that this use of the word 'gay' in a derogatory sense could cause offence to some listeners and counselled caution on its use.
Subsequently in June, LGBT charity Stonewall marched with placards demanding the dismissal of Moyles during Europride in London. According to Stonewall, “Chris Moyles is not helping young LGBT people struggling to come out through his comments.”[55] Stonewall gave Moyles the award of "Bully of the Year" at their annual Stonewall Awards that same year.[56][57]
Those defending Moyles have noted that Aled Haydn Jones, his show's producer who has worked with Moyles since 2001, is openly gay.[36] He was quoted in The Guardian by Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill as saying "Yeah, I'm homophobic, I don't like the gays. Sorry, it just does my head in. We have a token gay on the show!"[58] In his book The Difficult Second Book, Moyles says that he was responding to another article with sarcasm, and was subsequently quoted out of context.
Moyles was censured by Ofcom following eight complaints made after a broadcast on 20 January 2009 in which he told listeners it was the birthday of Will Young and then went on to sing "Evergreen" and "Leave Right Now!" in a high pitched and effeminate voice, changing the lyrics to references to Young's sexuality. Ofcom stated that the language used could have been "interpreted by listeners as promoting and condoning certain negative stereotypes based on sexual orientation" and whilst acknowledging the intention was to be humorous in their opinion it could have been perceived as hostile and pejorative. The media regulator also said in their view that because of the show's breakfast time slot that attracts a young audience it had the potential to encourage children to discriminate against others based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation and ran the risk of being imitated on the playground causing "unnecessary distress".[59]
Auschwitz[link]
On 20 January 2009, Moyles made comments on his radio show regarding the family history programme Who Do You Think You Are? and the Holocaust. Referring to his trips while filming the programme, Moyles said "I went off to Ireland and other places to film and unlike a lot of the Who Do You Think You Are? shows I didn't go to Auschwitz. Pretty much everyone goes there whether or not they're Jewish. They just seem to pass through there on their way to Florida".[60] Celebrities featured on Who Do You Think You Are? including Stephen Fry,[61] Jerry Springer and Natasha Kaplinsky, have traced their family histories back to Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War.[62] The BBC released a statement: “Anyone who listens to the Chris Moyles Show will know he has an irreverent style. However, we regret that on this occasion his comments were misjudged and we are speaking to Chris and his team about them.”[63]
N-Dubz behaviour[link]
On 12 January 2010, hip-hop trio N-Dubz appeared on the Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1. The show received a text message from a female listener saying that band member Dappy was "vile" and "a little boy with a silly hat" and that N-Dubz were "losers". Dappy secretly copied her phone number from the studio console and sent abusive and threatening text messages to the woman the following day including one telling her she was "gonna die!".[64] Moyles said of the resulting criticism: "I feel let down by him, I've supported them and said, 'Do you know what, N-Dubz aren't just a bunch of dippy chavs, they're really good.' So for him to go and do something like that is a bit rubbish."[65]
Personal life[link]
Moyles dated former children's TV presenter Ana Boulter for three years, but the couple split in 2002. The same year he met Sophie Waite, and the couple dated for eight years. The relationship ended in September 2010.[66]
Discography[link]
Studio albums[link]
- The Parody Album (2009) UK Chart #17
Awards and tributes[link]
Moyles has won several Sony Radio Awards: Silver in 1998; Gold in 2006; nominated in 2007: Gold in 2008; Bronze in 2009; Silver in 2010; Bronze in 2011
He was voted "Best DJ" by readers of The Sun newspaper and readers of Loaded magazine.
In 2007 the rugby league team Featherstone Rovers named their ground after him. Traditionally known as Post Office Road, it was renamed via a sponsorship deal as the Chris Moyles Stadium.[67][68] On 7 July 2007 Moyles appeared as a presenter at the UK leg of Live Earth in Wembley Stadium in London.
In March 2011, Chris Moyles and David Vitty broke the Guinness World Records for Worldwide Longest Marathon Radio DJ (Team). They totalled 52 consecutive hours on air and raised £2,622,421 for Comic Relief
Bibliography[link]
- Moyles, Chris (5 October 2006). The Gospel According to Chris Moyles. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191417-2.
- Moyles, Chris (4 October 2007). The Difficult Second Book. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192242-9.
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