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Bromley
Coordinates: 51°24′25″N 0°01′16″E / 51.4070°N 0.0210°E / 51.4070; 0.0210
Bromley is a large suburban district of south east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley. It was historically a market town, and prior to 1963 was in the county of Kent and formed the administrative centre of the Municipal Borough of Bromley. Although technically in London, it is regarded by locals and Londoners alike as in the county of Kent. Its location on a coaching route and the opening of a railway station in 1858 were key to its development and the economic history of Bromley is underpinned by a shift from an agrarian village to commercial and retail hub. As part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, Bromley significantly increased in population and has formed part of Greater London since 1963. It has developed into one of a handful of regionally significant commercial and retail districts outside central London. It is located 9.3 miles (15 km) south east of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan. Bromley has a number of affluent areas and is regarded as being one of the richest London Boroughs. There are a number of gated communities within the borough, most noticeably Keston Park (in Keston, Orpington), Farnborough Park (Farnborough, Orpington) and Bickley Park (in the affluent areas of Bickley and Chislehurst)
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Butlins Minehead
The Butlins Resort Minehead is a holiday camp operated by Butlins, located in Minehead in Somerset, England. It opened in 1962 and remains in use today.
In the winter of 1961, Billy Butlin began work on creating his camp in Minehead. The site was selected due to its flatness, good rail links, and proximity to the town and sea. The site was not without its problems, however, including flooding. In order to solve this, a trench was excavated around the site and an earth wall constructed. The trench later became the site's boating pond.
The site opened to the public on 26 May 1962, the construction having cost £2 million. Over the next decade several attractions were added: the miniature railway in 1964, the chairlifts in 1965, and the monorail in 1967. Full size locomotives, Duchess of Hamilton and Knowle, were added in 1964. The locomotives left the camp in 1974 and have since been restored and preserved.
Butlins Minehead underwent major development during the 1980s, when problems with flooding were finally fixed, and both the indoor and outdoor swimming pools were converted into funpools with the addition of waterslides, water cannons, and various other novelty features. Additional accommodation was constructed, and caravan accommodation was introduced. Following the redevelopment work, the camp was renamed Somerwest World.
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Canterbury
Coordinates: 51°16′30″N 1°05′13″E / 51.275°N 1.087°E / 51.275; 1.087
Canterbury (
i/ˈkæntərbᵊri/ or /ˈkæntərbɛri/) is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour.
Originally a Brythonic settlement, it was renamed Durovernum Cantiacorum by the Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD. After it became the chief Jutish settlement, it gained its English name Canterbury, itself derived from the Old English Cantwareburh ("Kent people's stronghold"). After the Kingdom of Kent's conversion to Christianity in 597, St Augustine founded an episcopal see in the city and became the first Archbishop of Canterbury, a position that now heads the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion (though the modern-day Province of Canterbury covers the entire south of England). Thomas Becket's murder at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 led to the cathedral becoming a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide. This pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales. The literary heritage continued with the birth of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in the city in the 16th century.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street is an English television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The show has been on the air for over 51 years. Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions. It has been filmed in Manchester at the Granada Studios since inception, but filming will move to a new set at Media City in Trafford in 2013.
Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production, after the United States soap opera As the World Turns ended.
The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks. Granada Television commissioned only 13 episodes and some inside the company doubted the show would last its planned production run. Despite the criticism, viewers were immediately drawn to the serial, won over by Coronation Street's 'ordinary' characters. The programme also made use of Northern English language and dialect; affectionate local terms like "eh, chook?", "nowt" (IPA
/ˈnaʊt/, means nothing), and "by heck!" became widely heard on British television for the first time.
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England
Englandi/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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Marlowe Theatre
The Marlowe Theatre is a major 1,200-seat theatre in Canterbury, England.
It closed in March 2009 for redevelopment and a brand-new Marlowe Theatre re-opened on 4 October 2011.
It was named after the playwright Christopher Marlowe, who was born and attended school in the city. In front of the present theatre is a 19th-century statue of a Muse (Marlowe is known as the Muses' darling) surrounded by small effigies of characters from Marlowe's plays.
The theatre previously occupied another site on St Margaret's Street, which was demolished in 1982.
The most recent building in The Friars was built in 1933 as the Friars Cinema, where on 11 May 1944 the film A Canterbury Tale received its world premiere. It re-opened as a theatre in July 1984, an event marked by the reinauguration of the Canterbury Festival.
The Marlowe Theatre closed for re-development in March 2009. The last performance in the building was a gala performance called A Night Of A Thousand Stars, which took place on Sunday, 22 March 2009.
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Minehead
Coordinates: 51°12′14″N 3°28′26″W / 51.2038°N 3.4738°W / 51.2038; -3.4738
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, 21 miles (34 km) north-west of the county town of Taunton, 12 miles (19 km) from the border with the county of Devon and in proximity of the Exmoor National Park. The parish of Minehead has a population of approximately 10,330 making it the most populous town in the West Somerset local government district. This figure includes Alcombe, a suburban village which has been subsumed into Minehead.
There is evidence of human occupation in the area since the Bronze and Iron Ages. Before the Norman Conquest it was held by Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia and after it by William de Moyon and his descendants, who administered the area from Dunster Castle, which was later sold to Sir George Luttrell and his family. There was a small port at Minehead by 1380, which grew into a major trading centre during the medieval period. Most trade transferred to larger ports during the 20th century, but pleasure steamers did call at the port. Major rebuilding took place in the Lower or Middle town area following a fire in 1791 and the fortunes of the town revived with the growth in sea bathing, and by 1851 was becoming a retirement centre. There was a marked increase in building during the early years of the 20th century, which resulted in the wide main shopping avenue and adjacent roads with Edwardian style architecture. The town's flood defences were improved after a storm in 1990 caused flooding.
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Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset (i/ˈsʌmərsɛt/ or /ˈsʌmərsɨt/) in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the River Severn. Its traditional northern border is the River Avon, but the administrative boundary has crept southwards with the creation and expansion of the City of Bristol, and latterly the county of Avon and its successor unitary authorities to the north. Somerset's county town, Taunton, is in the south.
Somerset is a rural county of rolling hills such as the Blackdown Hills, Mendip Hills, Quantock Hills and Exmoor National Park, and large flat expanses of land including the Somerset Levels. There is evidence of human occupation from Palaeolithic times, and of subsequent settlement in the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The county played a significant part in the consolidation of power and rise of King Alfred the Great, and later in the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Aidan Davis
Aidan Davis (born 23 March 1997) is a youth street dancer from Birmingham, England who in 2009 reached the final of the third series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. He finished fifth place overall and later that year he toured the United Kingdom, making live performances with the series' other finalists.
Davis has made numerous performances since Britain's Got Talent, including the 'Diversitoys' tour with Diversity, and as a presenter on the Friday Download show on CBBC.
In May 2009, Davis auditioned for the third series of the ITV television talent show Britain's Got Talent. In his audition he performed to Flo Rida's "Low". He received positive comments from all three judges, with Simon Cowell saying "I think you're better than any dancer on this show, you are super, super, super talented". He received three yeses from Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan and was put through to the next round. Despite never having had a dance lesson, at the time Davis was compared to the series 2 winner George Sampson and was later chosen as one of the 40 semi-finalists.
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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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Amanda Holden
Amanda Louise Holden (born 16 February 1971) is a British actress and presenter. Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award. Since 2007, Holden has been a judge on Britain's Got Talent.
She is married to record producer Chris Hughes. Her marriage to Family Fortunes presenter Les Dennis ended in divorce in 2003.
Holden was born in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire to Judith Mary Harrison and Naval petty officer Frank Holden. Her parents split up when she was four and she was brought up in the village of Waltham Chase, by Harrison and stepfather Leslie Drew Collister. She joined the Bishop's Waltham Little Theatre Company when she was nine, and credits Angie Blackford as influential in her early stage career. When she was 16 the family moved to Bournemouth and ran a small B&B while Amanda herself studied Drama and English literature A levels with Terry Clarke and Charles Lamb at the Jellicoe Theatre, now part of Bournemouth and Poole College. She successfully auditioned for the independent drama school Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in the Wood Green area of North London when she was 18, graduating in July 1994.
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Ashleigh and Pudsey
Ashleigh and Pudsey are a British dog trick act, comprising trainer Ashleigh Butler, from Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and Pudsey, a six-year old Border Collie, Bichon Frise and Chinese Crested cross. On 12 May 2012, they won the sixth series of the television talent show Britain's Got Talent, becoming the first ever dog trick act to win the competition. Ashleigh and Pudsey beat Jonathan and Charlotte in the final, having received the most votes from the public in a telephone phone-in, winning by 14% of the vote.
On 2 June 2012 Ashleigh and Pudsey performed at Epsom Downs Racecourse in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. In the same month Ashleigh and Pudsey began fronting a PETA campaign calling for a ban on animal cruelty in circuses. They performed on America's Got Talent on 18 July 2012.
Ashleigh and Pudsey are scheduled to perform at the 84th Royal Variety Performance in December 2012 in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. This year Ashleigh and Pudsey are performing at the New Victoria Theatre Woking in Dick Whittington along side Stephen Mulhern.
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Bar Wizards
The Bar Wizards (Neil Lowrey and Neil Garner) are a British Flair bartending act. They first rose to fame when they were finalists in the first series of the British television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2007, in which they lost to the eventual winner, singer Paul Potts. The Bar Wizards started off as bartenders but now perform their Tandem Flair Show worldwide, and bartend at private parties.
The Bar Wizards are from Manchester. Garner originally worked as a bartender in Stockport and Lowrey in Blackley. They met while competing in flare bartending competitions and teamed up as a double act. Bar Wizards International came into being in early 2005, as a result of a partnership between Lowrey and Garner. The pair already had ten years experience in the bar industry and had worked in over fifty countries. This led them to make a show which they believed would allow them to work as performers and entertainers.
The main performance of the Bar Wizards is their Tandem Flair show which they created. They then promoted their new show around the United Kingdom, and soon found interest in the corporate market as an after dinner show, allowing them the opportunity to develop the routine, and hone their tandem skills, whilst experimenting with new moves, music and themes. This culminated in a performance at the 2006 Roadhouse World Finals in Covent Garden, London.
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Bessie Cursons
Bessie Cursons (born 8 June 1995)[citation needed] is an English teen actress from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England who reached the final of the first series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. Cursons currently stars in the children's comedy-drama series, My Phone Genie.
Cursons was born on 8 June 1995 in Portsmouth, Hampshire. She began singing and dancing at the age of 4 at local dance and music clubs. Her main ambition was to go on stage and become famous.
Cursons and her family were on holiday in Goa in India when the Britain's Got Talent auditions were being held, in May 2007, but, along with her father, she made the trip back to the UK to take part in them. In her audition, which was the last of the show and was televised on 13 June 2007, she performed "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" from the musical My Fair Lady and received a standing ovation from the audience, with Simon Cowell saying her audition was the most professional in the whole competition. She received three "yes" votes from the judges and was placed in the next round. She was chosen as one of the 24 semi-finalists for the semi finals in June.
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Callum Francis
Callum Rory McKenzie Francis is a child stage actor from Ware, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. In May 2009 he reached the semi-finals of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. He is both Jamaican and Scottish.
Francis' love for performing began at the age of 4 when he went to a drama group for kids with special needs to try to improve his speech (due to his mild form of autism). He took up dance 3 years ago and attends a local drama school at weekends. He began attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School in September 2008.
Francis appeared in the episode "Better Drowned" of the BBC1 drama Casualty, a week before his Britain's Got Talent audition was aired, as a drug dealer’s son. Francis has also tried out for a role in EastEnders as Lucas's son Jordan and a role in Doctor Who. Francis has also done voice overs and performed in theatre.
In his audition in London in January 2009, he performed Consider Yourself from the musical Oliver!. Before going on the stage, Francis' mother, Linda Francis, spoke about Francis' bravery and nerves. She said "He struggles with things like attention and he takes everything literally. Someone said to him they hoped he'd go on BGT with "all guns blazing" and Callum got really worried, thinking there'd be guns on stage or something. He was terrified of Simon and the sound of the buzzers". She mentioned he had sketched pictures of the three judges, so he can balance their heads on a radiator and practice performing in front of them.
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Carmen Electra
Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), better known by her stage name Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, and dancer. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show Singled Out, on the TV series Baywatch, and dancing with the Pussycat Dolls, and has since had roles in the parody films Scary Movie (as well as the fourth film), Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and Disaster Movie.
Electra was born in Sharonville, Ohio, the daughter of Patricia, a singer, and Harry, a guitarist and entertainer. She attended Ann Weigel Elementary School and then studied dance at Dance Artists dance studio under Gloria J. Simpson, in Western Hills, a neighborhood of Cincinnati. Her mother died of a brain tumor in 1998. Her older sister Debbie died from a heart attack, also in 1998. Carmen graduated from Princeton High School in Sharonville. She also attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) in the Cincinnati Public School District (CPS). She has Irish, German, and Cherokee ancestry.
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Charlie Wernham
Charlie Wernham is an English comedian and actor who is known for appearing on the second series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent. He is now starring in the E4 show School of Comedy and has also appeared in an episode of The Inbetweeners episode "Work Experience".
Wernham was born in Billericay, Essex. He started his stand-up comedy act at the age of eight, winning his first talent show at eight. He went on to win three more contests. His father, Dave, helps him write his jokes and structure the routine. Wernham's favourite comedians are Ed Byrne, Peter Kay and Lee Evans.
In 2008, Wernham auditioned for the second series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent in London, where he performed a variety of jokes. Judge Piers Morgan commented that the jokes were terrible but delivered a confident performance. Simon Cowell said that "We've had some rotten comedians on this show, but you're the only one who's made me laugh and told jokes that I could understand". Amanda Holden commented that Wernham has "funny bones". Wernham received three 'yes' votes from the judges and was put through to the next round. He made it through to the live semi-finals.
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Christian Clarke
Christian Clarke is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by John Partridge. He made his first appearance on 17 January 2008.
Christian is first mentioned when his older sister Jane Beale (Laurie Brett) receives an invitation to his civil ceremony with partner Ashley Jennings (Tony Boncza). Jane throws the invitation away but it is later found by Jane's husband Ian (Adam Woodyatt). Jane refuses to tell Ian why she does not want to go to the ceremony but Ian wants to meet Christian, and invites him and Ashley to dinner at Fargo's Restaurant. Christian reveals that he was once in love with Jane's first husband David Collins (Dan Milne). Ashley storms out of the restaurant and the couple end their relationship. Christian arrives in Walford as he has nowhere to stay. He apologises and Ian allows him to move in. Christian flirts with Ian's stepson, Steven (Aaron Sidwell), so Steven pretends Stacey Branning (Lacey Turner) is his girlfriend to put Christian off. Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons) tries to chat him up, but is shocked to discover a stripper he had hired for his sister was an ex-boyfriend of his. They go on to become close friends. He becomes involved in a love triangle between Steven and Stacey, as Steven begins to experience confusion over his sexuality. He and Steven share a kiss but Steven falsely claims that Christian made a move on him; as a result, Christian leaves the Square. He returns after Steven's lie is exposed. Christian is tricked by Ian's daughter Lucy (Melissa Suffield) into letting her use his flat so she can spend some "quality time" with her boyfriend, Olly Greenwood (Bart Edwards). Christian walks in on them about to have sex and stops them. Ian punches Christian over what happened with Lucy and Olly, but when he catches Lucy attempting to leave with Olly, he insists she move in with Christian again.
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Connie Talbot
Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is an English child singer from Streetly, Aldridge. She rose to fame in 2007 when she reached the final of the first series of Britain's Got Talent, where she was runner-up to Paul Potts. Talbot was supposed to sign with Sony BMG but the label pulled out of the deal due to her age.
Talbot signed with Rainbow Recording Company and released her debut album Over the Rainbow in the UK on 26 November 2007. The album was re-released 18 June 2008 with a new track listing, and the first single from the album, a cover of Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds", was released on 10 June.
Despite its negative critical reception, Over the Rainbow has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and reached number one in three countries. Since the initial album release, Talbot has performed publicly and on television in Europe, the U.S. and across Asia, where her music had gained recognition through YouTube. Her second album, Connie Talbot's Christmas Album, was released on 24 November 2008; her third, Holiday Magic, was released in late 2009. While pursuing her musical career, Talbot attends school, and lives in Streetly with her family.
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Damon Scott
Damon Scott (born 1979 in Salisbury) is a British male entertainer made famous for his appearance in the first series of the hitITV variety talent show Britain's Got Talent. Although Damon has an extensive range of acts, he is best known for his performances with monkey puppets, earning him the nickname The Monkey Man which became the title of a BBC documentary based on Damon’s achievements to date.
Before becoming better known for his monkey routines Damon was part of a 40-strong group of singers from Southampton and Salisbury who come together to put on concerts twice a year under the name “En-Masse”. The pop and soul collective, which Damon was associated with covers a wide variety of music ranging from disco to motown and rock to soul. As a member of En-Masse Damon underwent one-to-one vocal training with The Southern School of Popular Singing, as well as rehearsing his "fat harmony" sound every week. As well as performing at the 900-capacity Salisbury City Hall twice a year, en-masse toured many locations and released 3 albums and one single.
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Danny La Rue
Danny La Rue, OBE (26 July 1927 – 31 May 2009) was an Irish-born British entertainer known for his singing and drag impersonations.
Born as Daniel Patrick Carroll in Cork City,Ireland in 1927, La Rue was the youngest of either four or five siblings. The family moved to England when he was six and he was brought up at Earnshaw Street in Soho, central London. When the family home was destroyed during the Blitz, his mother, a seamstress, moved her children to Kenn, a Devon village where young Daniel developed an interest in dramatics. “There weren't enough girls so I got the pick of the roles ... My Juliet was very convincing”, La Rue recalled.
He served in the British Royal Navy as a young man following his father's footsteps, and even had a brief career delivering groceries, but he became known for his skill as a female impersonator (or "comic in a frock" as he preferred to be called) in Britain and was featured in theatre productions, and in film, television, and records.
Among his celebrity impersonations were Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, and Margaret Thatcher. At one point he had his own nightclub in Hanover Square, and also performed on London's West End. In the 1960s he was among Britain's highest-paid entertainers. He used to own the Swan at Streatley hotel in the 1970s. In 1982 he played Dolly Levi in the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also has the distinction of being the only man to take over a woman's role in the West End theatre when he replaced Avis Bunnage in Oh, What a Lovely War! and he was until his death still a regular performer in traditional Christmas pantomime shows in Britain.
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David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (/ˈhæsəlhɒf/; born July 17, 1952) is an American actor, singer, producer and businessman. He is best known for his lead roles as Michael Knight in the popular 1980s US series Knight Rider and as L.A. County Lifeguard Mitch Buchannon in the series Baywatch. Hasselhoff also produced Baywatch for a number of seasons in the 1990s up until 2001, when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii. Hasselhoff also crossed over to a music career during the end of the 1980s and the early 1990s. He was noted for his performance at the Berlin Wall at New Year's Eve 1989; he enjoyed a short-lived success as a singer primarily in German-speaking Europe.
More recently, Hasselhoff has been involved with talent shows. He was the first celebrity eliminated from the eleventh season of Dancing with the Stars on September 21, 2010. He was also a judge on NBC's America's Got Talent from 2006 to 2009. In 2011, he joined the Britain's Got Talent judging panel, alongside Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Michael McIntyre. He appeared as himself in the 2004 film The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.
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David Walliams
David Edward Walliams (born Williams; 20 August 1971) is a comedian, writer, children's author and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile. More recently he and Lucas wrote and starred in Come Fly with Me.
Walliams joined the judging panel for series 6 of Britain's Got Talent for 2012.
Born in Merton, southwest London, on 20 August 1971 to Peter, a London Transport engineer, and Kathleen Williams, a lab technician, Williams was brought up in Banstead, Surrey.[citation needed] His parents appeared on The Friday Night Project when he was the guest star on the show. He was educated at Collingwood Boys' School in Wallington, Surrey, (now Collingwood School) and the independent Reigate Grammar School (where he was a contemporary of Robert Shearman).[citation needed] He was a member of the National Youth Theatre, where he met Matt Lucas.[citation needed] Walliams studied drama at the University of Bristol from 1989 to 1992, one year below Simon Pegg.[citation needed]
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DJ Talent
DJ Talent (real name Anthony Ghosh-Krisjerker IV) (born 1978) is a part time DJ most widely known for his appearance as a semi-finalist on third series of the ITV television show Britain's Got Talent. He is noted for the excessive amount of bling that he wears, which includes several gold chains and rings (one infused with a blue stone), and a full set of gold teeth costing £7000 in total. He first drew press attention in 2006 after being a repeated victim of armed muggings.
Prior to his appearance on Britain's Got Talent, he has appeared on TV programmes including Homemade on T4 where he appeared with celebrity blogger and TV presenter Mark Boardman, The Jeremy Kyle Show, Vanessa's Real Lives, Ann Widdecombe Versus The Diet Industry and The Friday Night Project where he performed a rap for guest host Kanye West, as well as appearing on "Best Guest Week" on the Scott Mills Show for Radio 1. He is currently appearing in the marketing campaign for UK Bingo website, BOGOF Bingo. He also appeared on the celebrity special of Four Weddings
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Emma Barton
Emma Louise Barton (born 1977 in Portsmouth, England) is an English actress. She played Honey Mitchell in EastEnders from November 2005 to September 2008.
Before her role in EastEnders, Barton appeared in Spooks and trod the boards in plays including Grease, Loveshack and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Barton attended Horndean Community School in Hampshire from 1989 to 1993, and then trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 1998.
It was announced on 19 April 2008 that Barton would be leaving EastEnders in the summer of 2008. Her character was one of several written out by executive producer Diederick Santer that year.
On the 14 November 2008 Barton sang live for Children in Need in the BBC studios in London. She starred in the titular role of Snow White in the Marlowe Theatre's Canterbury pantomime from December 2008-January 2009 alongside Stephen Mulhern. From March to November 2009 she was touring the UK in the stage production of Chicago, alongside Jimmy Osmond and Twinnie Lee Moore, playing Roxie Hart.
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Faryl Smith
Faryl Smith (born 23 July 1995) is a British teen mezzo-soprano who rose to fame after appearing on the second series of the ITV television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. She received praise throughout the competition, and although the favourite to win after the second round, she finished outside the top three in the live final on 31 May. During the competition, she was tutored by singing coach Yvie Burnett and received offers from various record labels. After the show, she, unlike other finalists, did not sign with Simon Cowell's Syco, although she did appear on fellow finalist Andrew Johnston's debut album, One Voice.
Smith signed a contract with Universal Classics and Jazz for a £2.3 million advance in December 2008, the largest ever granted to a schoolgirl. Her debut album, Faryl, was recorded from December 2008 to January 2009 and released in March 2009. Faryl became the fastest-selling solo classical album in British chart history, selling 29,200 copies in the first week. It debuted at number six, but rose to number four in the following week, making Smith the third Britain's Got Talent contestant to have a top ten album. In 2010, on account of Faryl, Smith was nominated for two Classical BRIT Awards and became the youngest artist ever to receive a double nomination.
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George Sampson
George William Sampson (born 29 June 1993) is a street dancer and actor from Warrington, England. He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.
In 2007, a dance teacher called Dominic Chambers told Sampson that there were auditions in the area that would be right up his alley. He only discovered he'd be auditioning for the first series of Britain's Got Talent when he arrived. In his audition, he danced to "Drop" (Timbaland feat. Magoo & Fatman Scoop), receiving a yes vote from all three judges. However, despite Simon Cowell's enthusiasm, he was unable to convince the other two judges, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan, to let Sampson proceed to the live semi-finals. This experience made Sampson determined to re-audition the following year and prove Holden and Morgan wrong. In the intervening time, he continued dancing on the streets of Manchester to improve his technique, and to raise money for his family.
In 2008, Sampson successfully got through the first round of Britain's Got Talent series 2 auditions by dancing to "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)". He then came top in the audience's vote in his semi-final with his arrangement of Mint Royale's big beat remix of "Singin' in the Rain", complete with an artificial rain machine on-stage, a formula that had previously been produced in a television advertisement for the Volkswagen Golf GTI. He subsequently won the audience's vote in the final, beating dance duo Signature (second place) and Andrew Johnston (third place). He broke into tears when his win was announced. Sampson was due to perform a different routine for the final, to a track by the Bee Gees, which he described as involving "a lot of movement without me actually doing anything". An hour before the final started he changed his mind and, after consulting Simon Cowell, opted to re-perform his winning act from the semi-final.
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Hollie Steel
Hollie Steel (born 1 July 1998) is a singer and performer from Huncoat, Lancashire, England. At the age of ten she was one of ten finalists on the third series of the ITV reality show Britain's Got Talent.
Her first audition drew mostly positive comments from all of the show's judges. In her second appearance during the semi-finals Steel forgot the words of her song, broke down in tears and could not finish the song, but one of the programme's judges intervened and she was allowed to perform a second time. Steel advanced to the finals and finished in sixth place. She then toured the United Kingdom, making live performances with the series' other finalists in mid-2009.
In September 2009, Steel signed with a record label and began recording her debut album, which was released in May 2010.
Steel has been singing since the age of six when she showed interest in her brother Joshua's performances. She also attends the KLF Dance Academy in Burnley with him. Prior to Britain's Got Talent she performed in productions of Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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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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Jai McDowall
Jai McDowall (born 24 July 1986) is a Scottish singer who won the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent in June 2011. As the winner, he received £100,000 and performed at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance. McDowall was signed to Syco Music, a subdivision of record label giant, Sony Music.
Before Britain's Got Talent, he appeared as a contestant on The X Factor and The American Idol Experience. His debut album Believe was released on 9 December 2011. The lead single "With or Without You" was released the same day. In March 2012, he was dropped by Syco after his one-album contract expired.
McDowall was born and lives in Tarbolton in Ayrshire, Scotland where he worked as a support worker prior to winning Britain's Got Talent. He was a member of the Ayr Amateur Opera Company and Loudoun Musical Society. He played roles such as Frank in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Motel in Fiddler on the Roof.
Before his job of looking after young people with disabilities, Jai spent 2 years studying Music and Audio Technology (NC & HNC) at Music and Sound Production Dept, Ayr College, Scotland, UK.
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Jake Pratt
Jake Pratt (born 25 September 1996 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England), also known as Jakey P, is an English actor and comedian. He entered the public eye when he appeared on the first series of the ITV1 television show Britain's Got Talent in June 2007 where he reached the semi-finals, where he lost out in a place in the grand final. He has since appeared in a British children's television programme and also worked as a voice-over artist. He stars as Alfie in the BBC comedy film Nativity, which was released on 27 November 2009.
Pratt is also appearing as a stage actor and is appearing in the West End show Billy Elliot the Musical, where he is playing the role of Michael. He began the role on 1 June 2009 and he is currently playing the role.
Pratt was born on 25 September 1996 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. He has been attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School since his appearance on Britain's Got Talent. He previously attended YMCA Scarborough, and the Scarborough Dance Centre.
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John Farnworth
John Farnworth is a football freestyler and entertainer. He holds four Guinness World Records including the most around the worlds in under a minute
John Farnworth was born in Longridge, and grew up in Preston. He apprenticed as footballer in the youth teams of Preston North End, yet John is a Manchester United supporter.
Farnworth's grandfather was a defender at Accrington Stanley, and his father formerly played for Burnley.
At the age of 14, he read Simon Clifford's Learn to play the Brazilian Way and, giving up professional football aspirations, started to practice the freestyle skills that were illustrated in the book. After a year of training, Farnworth joined one of the Clifford-franchised Brazilian Soccer Schools, in Manchester. The schools' Futebol de Salão use a size-two weighted ball which aids and improves skilful play[citation needed].
He went to St Cecilia's School in Longridge where he performed at every opportunity he got.
John tried out for the Burnley youth team where they told him he was not good enough and then he began to start performing tricks
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Kate and Gin
Kate and Gin are a musical canine freestyle act consisting of Kate Nicholas, from Norbury, Cheshire and her dancing Border Collie, 6 year old Gin. The two achieved fame following their 2008 appearances on the second series of ITV1 talent show, Britain's Got Talent. Since the show, the duo have appeared publicly and published a book, Kate and Gin, about dog training. Kate and Gin are currently performing in pantomimes.
Kate and Gin first appeared on the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 12 April 2008 where they performed to Moby's remake of the James Bond theme tune, received "three yeses" by the judges (Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan) and were sent through to the semi-finals. Before the live shows, Cowell described the duo as the favourite to win. In the live semi-final, broadcast on 26 May 2008, Kate and Gin were again successful, performing a different routine to The Scissor Sisters' "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" and finishing second behind dance group Signature. Before the final Kate and Gin were one of the five favourites to win Britain's Got Talent. They again performed a routine to Moby's "James Bond Theme" in the show's final on 31 May 2008, but failed to make the final three. The competition was eventually won by George Sampson. After the final, the duo performed with others from the show in the Britain's Got Talent Live Tour, again performing a routine to the Scissor Sisters' "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'".
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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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Kev Orkian
Kev Orkian is a British-Armenian musician, comedian and actor born in London to Armenian parents. He has performed around the world from New York,Los Angeles and Toronto to Dubai,Oman and Australia. Orkian has been compared to the likes of Victor Borge and Dudley Moore.
Between 2003 and 2009, Kev Orkian spent a lot of his time touring the UK as the support act for some of the biggest names in British comedy and has previously starred in West-End London musicals including Fame, Happy Days and Boogie Nights alongside Dancing on Ice winner and Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon.
In 2009 Kev Orkian became a regular on the UK comedy circuit performing at well-known clubs such as Jongleurs where his comedy rendition of Elton John's I'm Still Standing has been described as Comedy Gold, and has generated standing ovations.
On September 23, 2009 Event Magazine reported that Kev Orkian won the final of 'The Next Big Thing' - the event industry's version of The X Factor, which was held at Event UK in Birmingham.
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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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Matthew Ahmet
Matthew Ahmet (born 1988) is a London born practitioner of Shaolin Kung Fu who is best known for appearing in the acclaimed Shaolin Temple show Wheel of Life Superstars of Dance Matthew Ahmet is the only non-Chinese Shaolin Disciple of the Shaolin Temple to perform alongside the famous Shaolin Wheel of life show worldwide. In 2009 Matthew Ahmet set up the Shaolin Temple Cheshunt home to the Shaolin Warriors London who represented as Shaolin T.E.A.M during Britain's Got Talent in the show's fourth series.
Ahmet is of Turkish descent. Matthew Ahmet is getting a reality show.
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Merlin
Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures. Geoffrey combined existing stories of Myrddin Wyllt (Merlinus Caledonensis), a North Brythonic prophet and madman with no connection to King Arthur, with tales of the Romano-British war leader Ambrosius Aurelianus to form the composite figure he called Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys).
Geoffrey's rendering of the character was immediately popular, especially in Wales. Later writers expanded the account to produce a fuller image of the wizard. Merlin's traditional biography casts him as a cambion: born of a mortal woman, sired by an incubus, the non-human wellspring from whom he inherits his supernatural powers and abilities. The name of Merlin's mother is not usually stated, but is given as Adhan in the oldest version of the Prose Brut. Merlin matures to an ascendant sagehood and engineers the birth of Arthur through magic and intrigue. Later authors have Merlin serve as the king's advisor until he is bewitched and imprisoned by the Lady of the Lake.
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Michael McIntyre
Michael Hazen James McIntyre (born 21 February 1976) is a British stand-up comedian. As well as his stand-up, he has performed on programmes such as Live at the Apollo and has his own programme, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.
McIntyre has released two stand-up DVDs; Live and Laughing in 2008 featured material from his first nationwide tour, while Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley was released in November 2009 following a set at Wembley Arena. The former was the fastest selling debut stand-up DVD ever, and Hello Wembley is the fastest selling stand-up DVD in UK chart history, selling over a million copies. In 2009 McIntyre performed live to half a million people and won Best Live Stand-up at the British Comedy Awards.
In 2010, McIntyre released his autobiography, Life and Laughing: My Story, and also became the youngest-ever host of the Royal Variety Performance. He started as a judge on the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent in April 2011. He is to embark on his second nationwide tour in 2012.
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Molly Rainford
Molly Rainford (born 2000) is an English child singer who rose to fame after reaching the final of the sixth series of Britain's Got Talent in 2012. She finished sixth overall. After the series finished, it was reported that Rainford signed a record deal with Sony, with an album due to be released by Christmas.
Rainford's father is Dave Rainford, a footballer.
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Myles and Connor
Myles Antony Ryan and Connor Jerrade Ryan (born 19 October 1995) were a British pop and R&B duo from Manchester, England who are best known for appearing on the fourth series of ITV show Britains Got Talent as part of the boyband 'Connected'.
The twins auditioned as 'Connected' on the fourth series of ITV reality show Britain's Got Talent in early 2010, along with Harry & Max Mondryk and Matthew Fitzgerald. For their audition, they sang I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys. While they received positive feedback from judges Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden, Simon Cowell criticized the band for looking 'out-dated' and claimed that they shouldn't have tried to impersonate the band. In retaliation to this, the band performed Ain't No Mountain High Enough to win him over. They received three yes votes from the judges. They then found out they went through to the semi finals.
In the second semi final, the band performed No Boundaries by Kris Allen. They received positive feedback from all three judges, and after landing in the judges vote, they were chosen by Cowell and Morgan to go through to the final.
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Paul Burling
Paul Burling is a British impressionist. A veteran of show business for 25 years, having worked in voiceover, radio and pantomime, he rose to national attention as a finalist of the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent. His debut television show in 2010, It's Paul Burling! attracted a television audience of 3.7 million.
Paul Burling comes from Bristol, is 42 and a father of three.
Burling "worked the holiday parks and comedy circuit for 25 years" before attracting nationwide attention on the fourth series of Britain's Got Talent. He has worked in voiceover, for radio and in pantomime before being given his own Christmas special show by ITV, a prime-time national television spot.
His role of Christmas 2010 in Jack and the Beanstalk, was his fifth pantomime season at the Central Theatre, Chatham. He has also played Wishee Washee in Aladdin and Smee in Peter Pan. He is co-starring with Gareth Gates in aladdin at Milton Keynes Theatre during Christmas 2011. During Christmas 2011, he is co-starring with Gareth Gates in Aladdin at Milton Keynes Theatre
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Paul Potts
Paul Robert Potts (born 13 October 1970)[citation needed] is an English tenor. In 2007, he won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent with his performance of "Nessun dorma", an aria from Puccini's opera Turandot. As a singer of operatic music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which topped sales charts in nine countries. Prior to winning Britain's Got Talent, Potts was a manager at The Carphone Warehouse. He had served as Bristol city councillor from 1996 until 2003, and also had performed in amateur opera from 1999 to 2003. Potts's net worth was estimated at £6 million in April 2012.
Potts was born in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire, England and raised in Fishponds, Bristol, by his father Roland, a bus driver, and mother, Yvonne (née Higgins), a supermarket cashier. He has two brothers and one sister. Potts attended St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, where he developed his love of singing. He also sang with the choir at Chester Park Junior School and with the choirs at several Bristol churches, including Christ Church. Potts said in interviews that he had been bullied in school, and that experience may have made him lack self-confidence. He has also said that his voice had always been a source of solace in the past when he was bullied.
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Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born Piers Stefan O'Meara; 30 March 1965), known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children.
Morgan branched into television mainly as a presenter, but has become best known as a judge or contestant in reality television programmes. In the UK, he was a judge on Britain's Got Talent. Morgan is best known in the United States as a judge on the show America's Got Talent, and as the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice. On 17 January 2011, he began hosting Piers Morgan Tonight for CNN in the timeslot previously occupied by Larry King Live after the retirement of host Larry King.
Morgan has authored eight books, including three volumes of memoirs.
Piers Morgan was born on 30 March 1965, in Guildford, Surrey, England, to Eamon Vincent O'Meara, a dentist, of Dorking, Surrey, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver). His father died when he was one year old; his mother subsequently remarried. He has three older siblings. His ancestry includes Irish, Portuguese, Scottish, and English. Morgan was raised Catholic. Named Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan by his stepfather, Morgan attended an independent school called Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Lewes Priory School for VI form. Morgan studied Journalism at Harlow College. After a brief career at Lloyds of London, he joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group in 1985, where he worked as a reporter on the South London News, and the Streatham and Tooting News. Morgan was recruited (he says headhunted by editor Kelvin MacKenzie) to join The Sun newspaper, specifically to work on the Bizarre column.
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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 Parke
Ronan David Parke (born 8 August 1998) is an English singer from Poringland, Norfolk, UK who came runner-up in the fifth series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent, despite being the bookies' favourite to win. After the show it was reported that Ronan had signed a joint record deal with Sony Music. He released his debut album Ronan Parke on 24 October 2011. On May 3 2012, Parke was dropped by Epic records and Syco due to disappointing sales of his debut album.
Ronan David Parke was born to Maggie and Trevor Parke in Poringland, a village in Norfolk. He has an older brother, Declan. His family are close to the family of ex-Norwich City player Bryan Gunn, whose daughter helped Ronan put in his application form for Britain's Got Talent. Ronan had been taking singing lessons in his home town before getting the confidence to apply for the show.
Ronan attends Framingham Earl High School, Norfolk.
Ronan auditioned for Britain's Got Talent in London in front of judges Amanda Holden, Michael McIntyre and Louis Walsh (who was filling in for David Hasselhoff.) He performed "Feeling Good" and before the song finished, the entire 2500-strong audience and three judges gave Ronan a standing ovation. He received rave reviews after his performance and received three "yes" votes and was through to the next round, with Walsh declaring that Ronan "is the one to beat." Following the airing of his audition on the third auditions show on 30 April 2011, Ronan quickly became the bookies favorite to win the show. Ronan was then shown being put through to the semi-finals a few weeks later.
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Shaheen Jafargholi
Shaheen Jafargholi (born 23 January 1997) is a Welsh teen actor and singer from Swansea, Wales. He is of Iranian and Welsh descent. He appeared on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show and sang "Who's Lovin' You" at Michael Jackson's globally televised public memorial service in July 2009. In May 2010, Jafargholi signed a record deal with Island Records, and recorded a debut album "When I Come of Age" and a debut double A side single "Last Train Home/Hip Teens".
Shaheen Jafargholi lives with his mother, Karen Thomas, who is separated from Shaheen's father, Iraj Jafargholi, a computer consultant of Iranian descent. The separation was amicable and Shaheen sees his father regularly. He is currently in the Mark Jermin Stage School on Saturdays, in Swansea. He was featured in a BBC Wales documentary series called Starstruck where cameras followed children of the stage school for six months.
He played the character Troy (Jason's neighbour) in the children's television series Grandpa In My Pocket. He has also acted in the Torchwood episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts" playing Danny - the child of a crazed gun-wielding father and took part in an episode of the medical drama series Casualty playing Christy Skinner, a patient with incurable hiccups. Jafargholi has also toured on stage as a young Michael Jackson in Thriller – Live.
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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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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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Stevie Starr
Stevie Starr is a Scottish performance artist who refers to himself as a professional regurgitator. His act consists of swallowing various items (coins, lightbulbs, balloons, nails, billiard balls, dry sugar, goldfish) and regurgitating them. He has never described exactly how this is done, and the implausibility of some of his regurgitations have led some to believe that he is an illusionist. Although, during an appearance on Howard Stern's TV show in the 1990s, Stevie was shown swallowing broken glass and other dangerous objects and carefully regurgitated most of it, then the camera followed him into a restroom where he stuck his finger down his throat and vomited up the last of it. Starr has appeared on many television shows, with several appearances on each of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Stevie has a busy international touring schedule for his longer solo act.
According to his live act and official biography, Starr grew up in Glasgow, Scotland in a children's home. He claims to have developed his talent in order to hide money. Starr claims to be the world's only "professional regurgitator", though similar acts do exist in modern and historical performance related to the geek show tradition.
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Susan Boyle
Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables. Her first album was released in November 2009 and debuted as the number one best-selling album on charts around the globe.
Global interest in Boyle was triggered by the contrast between her powerful mezzo-soprano voice and her plain appearance on stage. The juxtaposition of the audience's first impression of her, with the standing ovation she received during and after her performance, led to an international media and Internet response. Within nine days of the audition, videos of Boyle—from the show, various interviews and her 1999 rendition of "Cry Me a River"—had been watched over 100 million times. Her audition video has been viewed on the internet several hundred million times. Despite the sustained media interest she later finished in second place in the final of the show behind dance troupe Diversity.
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The Cheeky Girls
The Cheeky Girls are a pop duo consisting of twin sisters Gabriela and Monica Irimia, from Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania, but based in Britain. After appearing as auditionees in Popstars: The Rivals, they achieved success in the charts with four top ten hits between 2002 and 2004. They are best known for their debut single, "Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)", which has sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide.
Gabriela and Monica were born on 31 October 1982 to Doru and Margit Irimia. Gabriela is older by 10 minutes. Their early life in Romania consisted of studying gymnastics and ballet and touring with the Hungarian National Opera. Moving to the United Kingdom with their mother in 2002, the girls shot to fame as the Cheeky Girls after auditioning on the British TV shows, Channel 4's Model Behaviour and more importantly Popstars: The Rivals. Following two appearances on the show with their audition which had judges Pete Waterman and Louis Walsh not knowing what to say (Waterman was later quoted as saying they were the worst act ever), various record companies approached the Granada Press Office. The Press Office contacted Paul Holland at Granada Ventures who was able to secure them a deal with the Multiply label part of Telstar Records. Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum) was swiftly recorded and released in the first week in December. Entering the chart at number two, the single remained in the top five for five consecutive weeks – four of them at number two. In the week before Christmas this was one of three singles from the Popstars: The Rivals show to occupy the Top 3, One True Voice and Girls Aloud held the other two positions.
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Timmy Mallett
Timmy Mallett (born on 18 October 1955, Marple, UK) is a TV presenter and broadcaster in the UK. He achieved cult status on BBC Radio Oxford and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and later on TV-am. Mallett is most notable for his striking visual style, involving loud shirts, colourful glasses and the giant pink foam mallet, labelled Mallett's Mallet as well as his 'utterly brilliant!' and 'blaaah!' catchphrases.
Mallett attended Rosehill Primary School (Marple), Earnseat Prep School (Arnside) and then Hyde Grammar School (now Hyde Clarendon College).
His media career started while he was a student at the University of Warwick where he worked on the student radio station, Radio Warwick. After graduating with a degree in History, he started work straight after his graduation day at BBC Radio Oxford. He later moved to, Centre Radio (now Leicester Sound) as the station's launch presenter, Radio Luxembourg and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio where his energetic style won him many fans and Sony Awards. The programme he hosted at Piccadilly was Timmy on the Tranny, a popular weekday evening show that ran from 8pm-11pm and took its name from Mallett's show on Radio Oxford. Among Timmy's team of helpers were Chris Evans known as 'Nobby Nolevel', Andy Bird who played the pirate radio character 'Radio Diggle', Karen Walsh was the original 'Aunty Boney kneecaps', Brian Cox made jingles, friends Sally Mais and Anna Laurie were the cleaners, and many others were regulars on the programme. This led to Mallett presenting the Manchester-based BBC2 youth music show Oxford Road Show for a year in 1984. In March 1985 he also stood in for David Jensen on the Network Chart, at the time broadcast to most if not all British commercial radio stations.
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Mulhern, Stephen Filmography
- The Butlin's Story (2011)
- The 50 Funniest Moments of 2010 (2011)
- The Big Quiz: Coronation Street v Emmerdale (2011)
- The Butlin's Story (2011)
- The Butlin's Story (2011)
- TVs 50 Greatest Magic Tricks (2011)
- Smile... This Was Candid Camera (2010)
- Coronation Street: The Big 50 (2010)
- The All Star Impressions Show (2009)
- The All Star Impressions Show (2009)
- Ad of the Decade (2009)
- An Audience Without Jeremy Beadle (2008)
- Tiswas Reunited (2007)
- An Audience with Coronation Street (2006)
- Harry Potter at the Castle: Magic at Midnight (2005)
- An Audience with Harry Hill (2004)
- The Record of the Year 2004 (2004)
- The National Music Awards 2003 (2003)
- Globo Loco (2003)
- Finger Tips (2002)
- Animals Do the Funniest Things (1999)
- Brilliant Creatures (1998)
- The Quick Trick Show (1996)
- CiTV (1983)
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Girls Aloud scared by cockroaches and more - Stephen Mulhern's sick tricks on SMTV - 19th July 2003
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- Duration: 5:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!
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The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!
Interview with Ant&Dec; on BGMT with Stephen Mulhern, Best Bits and the final Interval pub game
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV
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Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 2742
- author: Curl9x
Ant, Dec, and Stephen "Hot Wheels" Mulhern
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- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates without knee pads.
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Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates without knee pads.
- published: 04 May 2009
- views: 54083
- author: JeSuisLaPomme
The Paul O'Grady Show - Stephen Mulhern
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- Duration: 7:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Things." With Basil Brush. [All rights belong to Olga TV. No infringement intended.]
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(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Things." With Basil Brush. [All rights belong to Olga TV. No infringement intended.]
- published: 22 Apr 2009
- views: 14469
- author: teacozy98
Jedward on Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern
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- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV
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John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 4426
- author: vickythorne
Ant, Dec & Stephen Mulhern BGMT 2011
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011
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ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011
- published: 23 May 2011
- views: 7153
- author: xlornax12345
Britain's Got Talent 2011 with Stephen Mulhern & Ant and Dec!
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- Duration: 7:21
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talent & Britains got more talent 2011 :)
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I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talent & Britains got more talent 2011 :)
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 8087
- author: MultiHouseFan
Britain's Got Talent 2012 with Ant & Dec and Stephen Mulhern part 1
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- Duration: 7:11
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episode. Hope you like it! Watch in HD :)
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www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episode. Hope you like it! Watch in HD :)
- published: 29 Mar 2012
- views: 4876
- author: MultiHouseFan
Stephen's Sick Tricks SMTV Live. Stephen Mulhern gunged
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his head.
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Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his head.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 6727
- author: Joe Bloggs
Philip Schofield impersonates Stephen Mulhern....
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- Duration: 0:19
- Updated: 04 May 2012
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Stephen Mulhern Compares James Arthur To Matt Cardle
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- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects
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Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects
- published: 03 Dec 2012
- views: 1115
- author: goodtele2222
Stephen Mulhern's magic set review ep1
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- Duration: 6:51
- Updated: 17 Jan 2013
This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing
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This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 615
- author: Frasier2098
Stephen Mulhern@Butlins 2012
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- Duration: 6:23
- Updated: 08 Dec 2012
Stephen was at Butlins Minehead doing a variety show which included magic,games with the audience and this song here (cover of 12 days of Christmas,but a Butlins remix. ENJOY!
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Stephen was at Butlins Minehead doing a variety show which included magic,games with the audience and this song here (cover of 12 days of Christmas,but a Butlins remix. ENJOY!
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 699
- author: sophiej12345
Stephen Mulhern custard pied on CITV. VERY funny clip!
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- Duration: 0:15
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and while explaining that the reason is because it's not funny gets multiple pies in his face from the crew! VERY funny clip!
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Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and while explaining that the reason is because it's not funny gets multiple pies in his face from the crew! VERY funny clip!
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3303
- author: Joe Bloggs
Backstage at the London Auditions - YouTube Shortlist Reveal - Britain's Got Talent
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- Duration: 22:38
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
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At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
- published: 09 Feb 2012
- views: 39555
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
Britain's Got Talent 2013: Stephen Mulhern teases auditions, More Talent
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- Duration: 1:54
- Updated: 21 Jan 2013
We grab Stephen Mulhern for a very quick chat about Britain's Got Talent 2013 at the auditions in London this week
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We grab Stephen Mulhern for a very quick chat about Britain's Got Talent 2013 at the auditions in London this week
- published: 21 Jan 2013
- author: tellymixcouk
Stephen Mulhern at Butlins
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 02 Sep 2012
Stephen Mulhern at Butlins this Summer
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30 Years of CITV (Part 1)
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- Duration: 12:30
- Updated: 19 Jan 2013
This is the first part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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This is the first part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 29 Dec 2012
- views: 1990
- author: TCILPart3
30 Years of CITV (Part 2)
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- Duration: 11:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
This is the second part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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This is the second part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 29 Dec 2012
- views: 1543
- author: TCILPart3
Mulhern: David Walliams is "like a lapdog that won't stop"
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern talks about the bromance between Simon Cowell and David Walliams, and the weirdest act you'll see on his show this year. All the latest BGT gossip: www.digitalspy.co.uk
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Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern talks about the bromance between Simon Cowell and David Walliams, and the weirdest act you'll see on his show this year. All the latest BGT gossip: www.digitalspy.co.uk
- published: 23 Mar 2012
- views: 3294
- author: digitalspy
30 Years of CITV (Part 3)
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- Duration: 10:55
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
This is the third part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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This is the third part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 29 Dec 2012
- views: 1208
- author: TCILPart3
30 Years of CITV (Part 4)
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- Duration: 11:49
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
This is the fourth and final part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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This is the fourth and final part of 30 Years of CITV and features clips from some of Children's ITV's best known shows and a few little known ones as well. Contributors include Ant and Dec, Stephen Mulhern, Holly Willoughby and Matthew Kelly among others. Narrated by Vernon Kay. Shown on ITV1. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 29 Dec 2012
- views: 1357
- author: TCILPart3
Ronan Parke - Life Is A Rollercoaster
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- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 15 Jan 2013
Sorry about any advertisements, it's not my doing. It's the copyright thing Syco have put up on this video. Ronan Parke on Britain's Got More Talent in 2011 interviewed by Stephen Mulhern I do not own the original content. Britains Got Talent 2011 Audition www.youtube.com Britains Got Talent 2011 Semi-Final www.youtube.com Britains Got Talent 2011 Final www.youtube.com Catch up with Ronan and what he's up to by following his twitter account @RonanParke (www.twitter.com Follow my twitter at @RonanatorTom (www.twitter.com
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Sorry about any advertisements, it's not my doing. It's the copyright thing Syco have put up on this video. Ronan Parke on Britain's Got More Talent in 2011 interviewed by Stephen Mulhern I do not own the original content. Britains Got Talent 2011 Audition www.youtube.com Britains Got Talent 2011 Semi-Final www.youtube.com Britains Got Talent 2011 Final www.youtube.com Catch up with Ronan and what he's up to by following his twitter account @RonanParke (www.twitter.com Follow my twitter at @RonanatorTom (www.twitter.com
- published: 10 Jan 2013
- views: 234
- author: Ronanator Tom
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Backstage at the London Auditions - YouTube Shortlist Reveal - Britain's Got Talent
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- Duration: 22:38
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
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At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
- published: 09 Feb 2012
- views: 39429
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
The Butlins Story (ITV 2011)
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- Duration: 45:01
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of Billy Butlin's first holiday camp in 1936. Holidaymaker David Bradshaw returns to the Skegness camp which he first visited on the day of its opening, while Silvia Collins remembers visiting Filey as a teenager after the war. Broadcaster David Jacobs recalls being stationed at Skegness after it was taken over by the armed forces during the Second World War, and the show reveals the story of Prince Philip's chalet during his wartime years at Pwllheli. Presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern talks about how working at Butlin's shaped him as a performer, and there are first-hand accounts of other stars who have passed through Butlin's over the years, including Status Quo, Kelly Holmes and Roy Hudd.
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Documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of Billy Butlin's first holiday camp in 1936. Holidaymaker David Bradshaw returns to the Skegness camp which he first visited on the day of its opening, while Silvia Collins remembers visiting Filey as a teenager after the war. Broadcaster David Jacobs recalls being stationed at Skegness after it was taken over by the armed forces during the Second World War, and the show reveals the story of Prince Philip's chalet during his wartime years at Pwllheli. Presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern talks about how working at Butlin's shaped him as a performer, and there are first-hand accounts of other stars who have passed through Butlin's over the years, including Status Quo, Kelly Holmes and Roy Hudd.
- published: 28 Aug 2012
- views: 1116
- author: BritNostalgia
Britain's Got More Talent 2012 - Series 6 Episode 7 The Reveal Show
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- Duration: 44:32
- Updated: 12 Oct 2012
This is the full episode of Britain's Got More Talent 2012 episode 7 The Reveal Show, from Saturday 5th May on ITV2. Hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
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This is the full episode of Britain's Got More Talent 2012 episode 7 The Reveal Show, from Saturday 5th May on ITV2. Hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 07 May 2012
- views: 397
- author: TCILPart3
CITV's 20th Birthday Bash - Celebration Special for 20 Years of Children's ITV
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- Duration: 45:45
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
[Please Like my Sooty FB Page goo.gl This was CITV's celebration for their 20th Anniversary back in 2003. Presented by then current presenters Leah Charles and Michael Underwood, this special 'Birthday Bash' programme took an entertaining and informative lookback at the many changes and programmes from the history of Children's ITV. Features interviews with the first presenter Matthew Kelly (who also presents a Trivia Quiz on the show), the first live presenter Gary Terzza, Jeanne Downs and Scally The Dog, Tom Darvill (now professionally known as Arthur Darvill of Doctor Who fame), Andrea Green. The show also features commentary from Leah and Michael as they talk about the different presenters Matthew Kelly, Isla St. Clar, Derek Griffiths, Pat Coombs, Mick Robertson, Roland Rat, Cheryl Breaker, Grotbags, Jimmy Cricket, Debby Shore, Gary Terzza, Andi Peters, Jeanne Downs, Jerry Foulkes, Tommy Boyd, Steve Wright, Stephen Mulhern, Danielle Nicholls, Tom Darvill, Andrea Green, David Leon and Leigh Morrison Then they took an informative look at Puppet Assistants: Scally the Dog, Emu, Nobby, Scampi, Gaston, Sydney, Jarvis, Colin and Doris, Spit the Dog, Baljit, Pasty, Bro and Bro -- The Wolves, Yum Yum and the greatest of them all... Sooty. The commentary continues to discuss selected cheesy moments from past presenters and the changing haircuts of Neil Bunchanan from Art Attack. Leah and Michael's commentary then moves on to giving and informative and entertaining lookback at ...
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[Please Like my Sooty FB Page goo.gl This was CITV's celebration for their 20th Anniversary back in 2003. Presented by then current presenters Leah Charles and Michael Underwood, this special 'Birthday Bash' programme took an entertaining and informative lookback at the many changes and programmes from the history of Children's ITV. Features interviews with the first presenter Matthew Kelly (who also presents a Trivia Quiz on the show), the first live presenter Gary Terzza, Jeanne Downs and Scally The Dog, Tom Darvill (now professionally known as Arthur Darvill of Doctor Who fame), Andrea Green. The show also features commentary from Leah and Michael as they talk about the different presenters Matthew Kelly, Isla St. Clar, Derek Griffiths, Pat Coombs, Mick Robertson, Roland Rat, Cheryl Breaker, Grotbags, Jimmy Cricket, Debby Shore, Gary Terzza, Andi Peters, Jeanne Downs, Jerry Foulkes, Tommy Boyd, Steve Wright, Stephen Mulhern, Danielle Nicholls, Tom Darvill, Andrea Green, David Leon and Leigh Morrison Then they took an informative look at Puppet Assistants: Scally the Dog, Emu, Nobby, Scampi, Gaston, Sydney, Jarvis, Colin and Doris, Spit the Dog, Baljit, Pasty, Bro and Bro -- The Wolves, Yum Yum and the greatest of them all... Sooty. The commentary continues to discuss selected cheesy moments from past presenters and the changing haircuts of Neil Bunchanan from Art Attack. Leah and Michael's commentary then moves on to giving and informative and entertaining lookback at ...
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 2816
- author: sooteries2
Mad for it - Series 2 episode
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- Duration: 25:02
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
An episodeof Mad For It from Series 2 in 2000. A bit of a magic themed episode with CITV guest, Stephen Mulhern on the show!
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An episodeof Mad For It from Series 2 in 2000. A bit of a magic themed episode with CITV guest, Stephen Mulhern on the show!
- published: 10 Dec 2011
- views: 3483
- author: Centralfan94
Butlins Skegness 2012 - Titan The Robot (HD)
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- Duration: 29:44
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
While on holiday to Butlins in Skegness, As usual, I got to see, TITAN... THE... ROBOT!
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While on holiday to Butlins in Skegness, As usual, I got to see, TITAN... THE... ROBOT!
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 1403
- author: RHossall
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Interview with Ant&Dec; on BGMT with Stephen Mulhern, Best Bits and the final Interval pub game
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- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV
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Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 2675
- author: Curl9x
Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes!
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- Duration: 1:33
- Updated: 25 Jan 2011
Britain's Got Talent 2010 Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes footage.
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Britain's Got Talent 2010 Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes footage.
- published: 16 Apr 2010
- views: 2215
- author: 10BritainsGotTalent
Girls Aloud scared by cockroaches and more - Stephen Mulhern's sick tricks on SMTV - 19th July 2003
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- Duration: 5:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!
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The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 8335
- author: spikeyroberto
Ant, Dec, and Stephen "Hot Wheels" Mulhern
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- Duration: 1:43
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates without knee pads.
http://wn.com/Ant,_Dec,_and_Stephen_Hot_Wheels_Mulhern
Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates without knee pads.
- published: 04 May 2009
- views: 54004
- author: JeSuisLaPomme
The Paul O'Grady Show - Stephen Mulhern
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Things." With Basil Brush. [All rights belong to Olga TV. No infringement intended.]
http://wn.com/The_Paul_O'Grady_Show_Stephen_Mulhern
(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Things." With Basil Brush. [All rights belong to Olga TV. No infringement intended.]
- published: 22 Apr 2009
- views: 14444
- author: teacozy98
Jedward on Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:58
- Updated: 03 Jan 2013
John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV
http://wn.com/Jedward_on_Britain's_Got_More_Talent_with_Stephen_Mulhern
John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 4405
- author: vickythorne
Britain's Got Talent 2011 with Stephen Mulhern & Ant and Dec!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:21
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talent & Britains got more talent 2011 :)
http://wn.com/Britain's_Got_Talent_2011_with_Stephen_Mulhern_Ant_and_Dec!
I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talent & Britains got more talent 2011 :)
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 7948
- author: MultiHouseFan
Ant, Dec & Stephen Mulhern BGMT 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011
http://wn.com/Ant,_Dec_Stephen_Mulhern_BGMT_2011
ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011
- published: 23 May 2011
- views: 7129
- author: xlornax12345
Britain's Got Talent 2012 with Ant & Dec and Stephen Mulhern part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:11
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episode. Hope you like it! Watch in HD :)
http://wn.com/Britain's_Got_Talent_2012_with_Ant_Dec_and_Stephen_Mulhern_part_1
www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episode. Hope you like it! Watch in HD :)
- published: 29 Mar 2012
- views: 4837
- author: MultiHouseFan
Stephen's Sick Tricks SMTV Live. Stephen Mulhern gunged
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 10 Jan 2013
Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his head.
http://wn.com/Stephen's_Sick_Tricks_SMTV_Live_Stephen_Mulhern_gunged
Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his head.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 6617
- author: Joe Bloggs
Philip Schofield impersonates Stephen Mulhern....
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:19
- Updated: 04 May 2012
http://wn.com/Philip_Schofield_impersonates_Stephen_Mulhern
Ronan Parke interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 01 Jan 2013
Ronan's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
http://wn.com/Ronan_Parke_interview_with_Stephen_Mulhern_Britain's_Got_Talent_2011
Ronan's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 25777
- author: SpiritmanProductions
Joe Oakley interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Joe's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
http://wn.com/Joe_Oakley_interview_with_Stephen_Mulhern_Britain's_Got_Talent_2011
Joe's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 1740
- author: SpiritmanProductions
Stephen Mulhern Compares James Arthur To Matt Cardle
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:33
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_Compares_James_Arthur_To_Matt_Cardle
Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects
- published: 03 Dec 2012
- views: 1069
- author: goodtele2222
Stephen Mulhern - Britains Got Talent Tour
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Stephen Mulhern talking and interacting with the audience of the Britains Got Talent Tour. Cardiff, June 17th.
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_Britains_Got_Talent_Tour
Stephen Mulhern talking and interacting with the audience of the Britains Got Talent Tour. Cardiff, June 17th.
- published: 19 Jun 2008
- views: 4859
- author: Jodie1058
Stephen Mulhern custard pied on CITV. VERY funny clip!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:15
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and while explaining that the reason is because it's not funny gets multiple pies in his face from the crew! VERY funny clip!
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_custard_pied_on_CITV_VERY_funny_clip!
Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and while explaining that the reason is because it's not funny gets multiple pies in his face from the crew! VERY funny clip!
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3252
- author: Joe Bloggs
Stephen Mulhern's magic set review ep1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:51
- Updated: 14 Jan 2013
This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern's_magic_set_review_ep1
This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 595
- author: Frasier2098
Stephen Mulhern reads our mind
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:16
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
TV presenter and magician, Stephen Mulhern, reads the mind of Digital Spy's Paul Millar. For all the latest reality TV news and interviews, go to www.digitalspy.co.uk
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_reads_our_mind
TV presenter and magician, Stephen Mulhern, reads the mind of Digital Spy's Paul Millar. For all the latest reality TV news and interviews, go to www.digitalspy.co.uk
- published: 30 Jul 2010
- views: 2309
- author: digitalspy
Stephen Mulhern meets up with some past BGT acts
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:34
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
A special clip from Britain's Got More Talent, featuring dozens of people from the first four years of the show.
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_meets_up_with_some_past_BGT_acts
A special clip from Britain's Got More Talent, featuring dozens of people from the first four years of the show.
- published: 17 Apr 2011
- views: 10629
- author: SpiritmanProductions
Backstage at the London Auditions - YouTube Shortlist Reveal - Britain's Got Talent
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 22:38
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
http://wn.com/Backstage_at_the_London_Auditions_YouTube_Shortlist_Reveal_Britain's_Got_Talent
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
- published: 09 Feb 2012
- views: 39533
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
Ant & Dec, and Stephen Mulhern at Britains Got Talent Auditions 2010- Birmingham
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Ant & Dec, and Stephen Mulhern on stage at Britains Got Talent Auditions 2010- Birmingham
http://wn.com/Ant_Dec,_and_Stephen_Mulhern_at_Britains_Got_Talent_Auditions_2010_Birmingham
Ant & Dec, and Stephen Mulhern on stage at Britains Got Talent Auditions 2010- Birmingham
- published: 10 Feb 2010
- views: 12394
- author: RikeshV
Stephen Mulhern singing "Amanda"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:17
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
From Britain's got more talent - Stephen is so funny
http://wn.com/Stephen_Mulhern_singing_Amanda
From Britain's got more talent - Stephen is so funny
- published: 03 May 2009
- views: 5647
- author: Jannamouche
22:38
Backstage at the London Auditions - YouTube Shortlist Reveal - Britain's Got Talent
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we ...
published: 09 Feb 2012
author: BritainsGotTalent09
Backstage at the London Auditions - YouTube Shortlist Reveal - Britain's Got Talent
At 8pm on Monday 6th February 2012 - for the first time EVER on Britain's Got Talent - we streamed LIVE to YouTube from the auditions in London. Join Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern as he goes backstage at London's Hammersmith Apollo to meet the Judges, Ant & Dec and some of the hard-working crew that make the show happen. Get a sneaky peek at some of the acts you may see when BGT returns to ITV1 later this year, and of course Stephen reveals the shortlist for our YouTube Auditions. See more from Britain's Got Talent at talent.itv.com
- published: 09 Feb 2012
- views: 39429
- author: BritainsGotTalent09
45:01
The Butlins Story (ITV 2011)
Documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of Billy Butlin's first holida...
published: 28 Aug 2012
author: BritNostalgia
The Butlins Story (ITV 2011)
Documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the opening of Billy Butlin's first holiday camp in 1936. Holidaymaker David Bradshaw returns to the Skegness camp which he first visited on the day of its opening, while Silvia Collins remembers visiting Filey as a teenager after the war. Broadcaster David Jacobs recalls being stationed at Skegness after it was taken over by the armed forces during the Second World War, and the show reveals the story of Prince Philip's chalet during his wartime years at Pwllheli. Presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern talks about how working at Butlin's shaped him as a performer, and there are first-hand accounts of other stars who have passed through Butlin's over the years, including Status Quo, Kelly Holmes and Roy Hudd.
- published: 28 Aug 2012
- views: 1116
- author: BritNostalgia
44:32
Britain's Got More Talent 2012 - Series 6 Episode 7 The Reveal Show
This is the full episode of Britain's Got More Talent 2012 episode 7 The Reveal Show, from...
published: 07 May 2012
author: TCILPart3
Britain's Got More Talent 2012 - Series 6 Episode 7 The Reveal Show
This is the full episode of Britain's Got More Talent 2012 episode 7 The Reveal Show, from Saturday 5th May on ITV2. Hosted by Stephen Mulhern. Please Note: The content of this video is the copyright of its respective owners and does not belong to me. This has been uploaded for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 07 May 2012
- views: 397
- author: TCILPart3
45:45
CITV's 20th Birthday Bash - Celebration Special for 20 Years of Children's ITV
[Please Like my Sooty FB Page goo.gl This was CITV's celebration for their 20th Anniversar...
published: 15 Jul 2012
author: sooteries2
CITV's 20th Birthday Bash - Celebration Special for 20 Years of Children's ITV
[Please Like my Sooty FB Page goo.gl This was CITV's celebration for their 20th Anniversary back in 2003. Presented by then current presenters Leah Charles and Michael Underwood, this special 'Birthday Bash' programme took an entertaining and informative lookback at the many changes and programmes from the history of Children's ITV. Features interviews with the first presenter Matthew Kelly (who also presents a Trivia Quiz on the show), the first live presenter Gary Terzza, Jeanne Downs and Scally The Dog, Tom Darvill (now professionally known as Arthur Darvill of Doctor Who fame), Andrea Green. The show also features commentary from Leah and Michael as they talk about the different presenters Matthew Kelly, Isla St. Clar, Derek Griffiths, Pat Coombs, Mick Robertson, Roland Rat, Cheryl Breaker, Grotbags, Jimmy Cricket, Debby Shore, Gary Terzza, Andi Peters, Jeanne Downs, Jerry Foulkes, Tommy Boyd, Steve Wright, Stephen Mulhern, Danielle Nicholls, Tom Darvill, Andrea Green, David Leon and Leigh Morrison Then they took an informative look at Puppet Assistants: Scally the Dog, Emu, Nobby, Scampi, Gaston, Sydney, Jarvis, Colin and Doris, Spit the Dog, Baljit, Pasty, Bro and Bro -- The Wolves, Yum Yum and the greatest of them all... Sooty. The commentary continues to discuss selected cheesy moments from past presenters and the changing haircuts of Neil Bunchanan from Art Attack. Leah and Michael's commentary then moves on to giving and informative and entertaining lookback at ...
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 2816
- author: sooteries2
25:02
Mad for it - Series 2 episode
An episodeof Mad For It from Series 2 in 2000. A bit of a magic themed episode with CITV g...
published: 10 Dec 2011
author: Centralfan94
Mad for it - Series 2 episode
An episodeof Mad For It from Series 2 in 2000. A bit of a magic themed episode with CITV guest, Stephen Mulhern on the show!
- published: 10 Dec 2011
- views: 3483
- author: Centralfan94
29:44
Butlins Skegness 2012 - Titan The Robot (HD)
While on holiday to Butlins in Skegness, As usual, I got to see, TITAN... THE... ROBOT!...
published: 24 Aug 2012
author: RHossall
Butlins Skegness 2012 - Titan The Robot (HD)
While on holiday to Butlins in Skegness, As usual, I got to see, TITAN... THE... ROBOT!
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 1403
- author: RHossall
Vimeo results:
0:24
Stephen Mulhern
TV Presenter Stephen Mulhern - talking about 'Stephen Williams Presents: The Show.' June 8...
published: 28 Mar 2010
author: Stephen Williams
Stephen Mulhern
TV Presenter Stephen Mulhern - talking about 'Stephen Williams Presents: The Show.' June 8th 2010 @ Crosby Civic Hall. http://www.comedywithatwist.co.uk
http://www.swmagic.com
2:05
éS x 5Boro - Jimmy McDonald
Additional filming by Scuba Steve, Mike Manzoori, Stephen Marino and Josh Stewart....
published: 31 Oct 2011
author: Chris Mulhern
éS x 5Boro - Jimmy McDonald
Additional filming by Scuba Steve, Mike Manzoori, Stephen Marino and Josh Stewart.
3:50
Kid Karate Two Times
Directors: jamieandkeith
DOP: Arthur Mulhern
2nd Camera Unit: Stephen Walsh
Producer: Will...
published: 30 Aug 2012
author: Jamie & Keith
Kid Karate Two Times
Directors: jamieandkeith
DOP: Arthur Mulhern
2nd Camera Unit: Stephen Walsh
Producer: William Armstrong/ Finbar Cordell
Production Company: Antidote Films antidote.ie
Editor: Rob Hegarty
Colourist: Gary Curran
Art Director: Joanne McLaughlin
Flame Artist: Allen Sillery
Post House: Screen Scene screenscene.ie
Skater: Keith Walsh
2:12
Tricky TV's Ste Teaches Magic! You Can Do Magic Too!
http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk Stephen Williams - Magician and Presenter on Tricky TV has...
published: 06 Sep 2010
author: Stephen Williams
Tricky TV's Ste Teaches Magic! You Can Do Magic Too!
http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk Stephen Williams - Magician and Presenter on Tricky TV has his own DVD teaching you 8 amazing magic tricks, that you can use to fool your family and friends! Visit: http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk http://www.swmagic.com
9:56
Interview with Ant&Dec; on BGMT with Stephen Mulhern, Best Bits and the final Interval pub game
Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV...
published: 13 May 2012
author: Curl9x
Interview with Ant&Dec; on BGMT with Stephen Mulhern, Best Bits and the final Interval pub game
Britains got more talent Season 6 The Final May 13th 2012 This Video belongs to ITV
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 2675
- author: Curl9x
1:33
Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes!
Britain's Got Talent 2010 Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes footage....
published: 16 Apr 2010
author: 10BritainsGotTalent
Britain's Got Talent 2010 - Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes!
Britain's Got Talent 2010 Stephen Mulhern interview + behind the scenes footage.
- published: 16 Apr 2010
- views: 2215
- author: 10BritainsGotTalent
5:52
Girls Aloud scared by cockroaches and more - Stephen Mulhern's sick tricks on SMTV - 19th July 2003
The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!...
published: 21 Jul 2012
author: spikeyroberto
Girls Aloud scared by cockroaches and more - Stephen Mulhern's sick tricks on SMTV - 19th July 2003
The girls play pass the parcel with the trick and aren't too pleased with what comes out!
- published: 21 Jul 2012
- views: 8335
- author: spikeyroberto
1:43
Ant, Dec, and Stephen "Hot Wheels" Mulhern
Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates w...
published: 04 May 2009
author: JeSuisLaPomme
Ant, Dec, and Stephen "Hot Wheels" Mulhern
Oh dear Stephen, that's what happens when you put a Presenter on a pair of roller skates without knee pads.
- published: 04 May 2009
- views: 54004
- author: JeSuisLaPomme
7:05
The Paul O'Grady Show - Stephen Mulhern
(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Th...
published: 22 Apr 2009
author: teacozy98
The Paul O'Grady Show - Stephen Mulhern
(20th April 2009) Discussing "Britain's Got (More) Talent" and "Animals Do the Funniest Things." With Basil Brush. [All rights belong to Olga TV. No infringement intended.]
- published: 22 Apr 2009
- views: 14444
- author: teacozy98
6:58
Jedward on Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern
John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV...
published: 02 Jun 2011
author: vickythorne
Jedward on Britain's Got More Talent with Stephen Mulhern
John and Edward Grimes on itv's Britains got more talent @JEDWARDTV
- published: 02 Jun 2011
- views: 4405
- author: vickythorne
7:21
Britain's Got Talent 2011 with Stephen Mulhern & Ant and Dec!
I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talen...
published: 05 Jun 2011
author: MultiHouseFan
Britain's Got Talent 2011 with Stephen Mulhern & Ant and Dec!
I'm sorry for the letters somewhere at the end :/ Some funny moments in Britains got talent & Britains got more talent 2011 :)
- published: 05 Jun 2011
- views: 7948
- author: MultiHouseFan
3:08
Ant, Dec & Stephen Mulhern BGMT 2011
ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011...
published: 23 May 2011
author: xlornax12345
Ant, Dec & Stephen Mulhern BGMT 2011
ant and dec with stephen mulher at britains got more talent 2011
- published: 23 May 2011
- views: 7129
- author: xlornax12345
7:11
Britain's Got Talent 2012 with Ant & Dec and Stephen Mulhern part 1
www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episod...
published: 29 Mar 2012
author: MultiHouseFan
Britain's Got Talent 2012 with Ant & Dec and Stephen Mulhern part 1
www.facebook.com Some clips I put together from the first Britain's Got Talent 2012 episode. Hope you like it! Watch in HD :)
- published: 29 Mar 2012
- views: 4837
- author: MultiHouseFan
3:27
Stephen's Sick Tricks SMTV Live. Stephen Mulhern gunged
Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his ...
published: 29 Jun 2012
author: Joe Bloggs
Stephen's Sick Tricks SMTV Live. Stephen Mulhern gunged
Stephen loses a game of "Sick Tricks" and ends up getting buckets of mess poured over his head.
- published: 29 Jun 2012
- views: 6617
- author: Joe Bloggs
0:19
Philip Schofield impersonates Stephen Mulhern....
...
published: 18 Mar 2012
author: digitalmediafan
Philip Schofield impersonates Stephen Mulhern....
- published: 18 Mar 2012
- views: 2056
- author: digitalmediafan
3:42
Ronan Parke interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
Ronan's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011....
published: 10 Jun 2011
author: SpiritmanProductions
Ronan Parke interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
Ronan's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 25777
- author: SpiritmanProductions
3:19
Joe Oakley interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
Joe's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011....
published: 10 Jun 2011
author: SpiritmanProductions
Joe Oakley interview with Stephen Mulhern - Britain's Got Talent 2011
Joe's chat with Mullers on Britain's Got Talent 2011.
- published: 10 Jun 2011
- views: 1740
- author: SpiritmanProductions
0:33
Stephen Mulhern Compares James Arthur To Matt Cardle
Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects...
published: 03 Dec 2012
author: goodtele2222
Stephen Mulhern Compares James Arthur To Matt Cardle
Mr Mulhern making a prediction of James' career prospects
- published: 03 Dec 2012
- views: 1069
- author: goodtele2222
Vimeo results:
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Stephen Mulhern
TV Presenter Stephen Mulhern - talking about 'Stephen Williams Presents: The Show.' June 8...
published: 28 Mar 2010
author: Stephen Williams
Stephen Mulhern
TV Presenter Stephen Mulhern - talking about 'Stephen Williams Presents: The Show.' June 8th 2010 @ Crosby Civic Hall. http://www.comedywithatwist.co.uk
http://www.swmagic.com
2:05
éS x 5Boro - Jimmy McDonald
Additional filming by Scuba Steve, Mike Manzoori, Stephen Marino and Josh Stewart....
published: 31 Oct 2011
author: Chris Mulhern
éS x 5Boro - Jimmy McDonald
Additional filming by Scuba Steve, Mike Manzoori, Stephen Marino and Josh Stewart.
3:50
Kid Karate Two Times
Directors: jamieandkeith
DOP: Arthur Mulhern
2nd Camera Unit: Stephen Walsh
Producer: Will...
published: 30 Aug 2012
author: Jamie & Keith
Kid Karate Two Times
Directors: jamieandkeith
DOP: Arthur Mulhern
2nd Camera Unit: Stephen Walsh
Producer: William Armstrong/ Finbar Cordell
Production Company: Antidote Films antidote.ie
Editor: Rob Hegarty
Colourist: Gary Curran
Art Director: Joanne McLaughlin
Flame Artist: Allen Sillery
Post House: Screen Scene screenscene.ie
Skater: Keith Walsh
2:12
Tricky TV's Ste Teaches Magic! You Can Do Magic Too!
http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk Stephen Williams - Magician and Presenter on Tricky TV has...
published: 06 Sep 2010
author: Stephen Williams
Tricky TV's Ste Teaches Magic! You Can Do Magic Too!
http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk Stephen Williams - Magician and Presenter on Tricky TV has his own DVD teaching you 8 amazing magic tricks, that you can use to fool your family and friends! Visit: http://www.magictricksdvd.co.uk http://www.swmagic.com
Youtube results:
0:36
Stephen Mulhern - Britains Got Talent Tour
Stephen Mulhern talking and interacting with the audience of the Britains Got Talent Tour....
published: 19 Jun 2008
author: Jodie1058
Stephen Mulhern - Britains Got Talent Tour
Stephen Mulhern talking and interacting with the audience of the Britains Got Talent Tour. Cardiff, June 17th.
- published: 19 Jun 2008
- views: 4859
- author: Jodie1058
0:15
Stephen Mulhern custard pied on CITV. VERY funny clip!
Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and...
published: 06 May 2012
author: Joe Bloggs
Stephen Mulhern custard pied on CITV. VERY funny clip!
Stephen reads out an email from a viewer asking why there are no pies on CITV anymore, and while explaining that the reason is because it's not funny gets multiple pies in his face from the crew! VERY funny clip!
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 3252
- author: Joe Bloggs
6:51
Stephen Mulhern's magic set review ep1
This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing...
published: 02 Sep 2012
author: Frasier2098
Stephen Mulhern's magic set review ep1
This is a long line of reviews that I will be doing
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 595
- author: Frasier2098
1:16
Stephen Mulhern reads our mind
TV presenter and magician, Stephen Mulhern, reads the mind of Digital Spy's Paul Millar. F...
published: 30 Jul 2010
author: digitalspy
Stephen Mulhern reads our mind
TV presenter and magician, Stephen Mulhern, reads the mind of Digital Spy's Paul Millar. For all the latest reality TV news and interviews, go to www.digitalspy.co.uk
- published: 30 Jul 2010
- views: 2309
- author: digitalspy
photo: AP / Echorouk Elyaoumi
21 Jan 2013
Algerian security forces on Sunday made grisly discoveries of dozens of bodies at a sprawling natural gas facility, a day after a violent showdown put an end to an international hostage crisis. But as Algeria tallied up the losses, a debate was emerging about whether the militant group linked to al-Qaida that seized the plant had been intent on a massacre or whether it had simply been after money ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
photo: US Army / Sgt. 1st Class Abram Pinnington
20 Jan 2013
WASHINGTON -- The war rages about cities with names such as Goa and Timbuktu, in a sparsely populated, mostly flat, dusty and landlocked country in northwest Africa. The combatants include a nomadic Berber people known as Tuareg, the French Foreign Legion and a coalition of al-Qaida affiliates who identify themselves with the Maghreb, the desert region of Northwestern Africa ... Some U.S ... Afghanistan ... J ... "They go to where the fight is ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
20 Jan 2013
The world's 100 richest people earned enough money last year to end world extreme poverty four times over, according to released by international rights group and charity Oxfam. The $240 billion net income of the world's 100 richest billionaires would have ended poverty four times over, according to the London-based group's report released on Saturday ... [...] We're anti-poverty agency ... You don't normally hear us talking about wealth ... ....(size: 18.5Kb)
photo: US Army / Tech Sergeant Brenda Nipper
21 Jan 2013
Click photo to enlarge. An Afghan security officer looks at smoke rising from a rocket fired by militants which landed near the Kabul traffic police headquarters during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 ... «1234» ... It was the second brazen raid inside the Afghan capital in less than a week, a sign that the insurgency is determined to keep carrying out such spectacular attacks even as the U.S ... ....(size: 5.4Kb)
photo: AP / Patrick Semansky
20 Jan 2013
US President Barack Obama has blamed "terrorists" for the death of 23 hostages at a besieged desert gas facility in Algeria. A four-day siege at the In Amenas site was ended on Saturday by an army raid. At least five Britons, five Norwegians and 10 Japanese are dead or missing, while Algeria said its troops had killed all 32 hostage-takers ... Continue reading the main story Foreign citizens involved ... Hostage crisis in Algeria ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
20 Jan 2013
Simon Cowell has already found his much sought-after dancing dog, and now his hunt is on for a "dancing pussy" ... "A dancing cat. No one's ever done it. It's obvious ... Cowell - who was the final Britain's Got Talent face to arrive at the London audition after presenters Stephen Mulhern, Ant and Dec, Walliams, Alesha Dixon and Holden - admitted he misses doing The X Factor, and said he would be back on the judging panel if it was possible ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Buffalo News
14 Jan 2013
AKRON. • 67-71 Main St., Carol F. Marconi; Dante A. Marconi to Middaugh Properties, $110,000. AMHERST Highest price ... Mulhern to Kevin Mulhern; Stephen Mulhern; Thomas Mulhern, $60,000 ... • 35 Salem, Alexandria Sydorowicz; Stephen Sydorowicz to Joseph G ... • 45 Rachel Vincent Way, Dato Development to Virginia Vaughan; Stephen R ... 8 ... • 8533 Howard Drive, Stephen D ... Banks to Stephen J ... • 239 Hawthorne Ave., Stephen J....(size: 26.9Kb)
IMDb
27 Dec 2012
Holly Willoughby has revealed that she almost had her nose broken by Santa Claus ... Former co-host Stephen Mulhern said ... ....(size: 0.6Kb)
Digital Spy
06 Dec 2012
Caroline Flack has led a charity Christmas sing-along in London's Oxford Circus. The Xtra Factor host yesterday (December 5) sang for passers-by to raise money for Text Santa via Vodafone's JustTextGiving service. Caroline Flack interview. 'Christopher Maloney can win The X Factor' ... The appeal will end with an ITV show on Friday, December 21 ... She added ... > X Factor James Arthur is the same as Matt Cardle, says Stephen Mulhern ... Mulhern ... 01....(size: 9.2Kb)
Digital Spy
05 Dec 2012
Matt Cardle has released the music video for his new single 'Anyone Else'. The singer performs at London's Playhouse Theatre in the clip, which was unveiled on YouTube yesterday (December 4). Watch the 'Anyone Else' video below. ... "If you're a dancer you can move to it, it's got a good groove." ... > Celebrity Pictures ... > Celebrity pictures ... > X Factor James Arthur is the same as Matt Cardle, says Stephen Mulhern. More ... Mulhern ... Ke$ha ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
Digital Spy
07 Nov 2012
Mark Wright was spotted hand-in-hand with his co-presenter Zoe Hardman last night - but she insists they are not an item. The Take Me Out ... Last night, she tweeted. "I'm drunk. On a Tuesday ... Also on the ITV guest list were Emma Willis, Stephen Mulhern, Caroline Flack and Leigh Francis ... 1 of 10 ... Mark Wright , Zoe Hardman, Billie Faiers, Lucy Mecklenburgh, Mario Falcone, Leigh Francis, Caroline Flack, Emma Willis, Stephen Mulhern, Showbiz ... 01 ... ....(size: 8.5Kb)
Digital Spy
18 Oct 2012
Holly Willoughby has been voted the perfect first date in a poll of 1,000 men. The This Morning presenter beat Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, who landed in second place in the study by dating website tfor2.com. X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos came in third, followed by Pippa Middleton in fourth and Loose Women host Carol Vorderman in fifth ... Katie Holmes came sixth in the poll ... More ... Stephen Mulhern back for 'More Talent' 20 ... 01 ... 02 ... ....(size: 8.5Kb)
noodls
10 Oct 2012
9th October 2012. STV Productions today confirmed a new commission from ITV1 of 8 x 45' episodes of Catchphrase. This will be co produced with DRG, the international distribution partner of STV Productions. The primetime, Saturday night series will be hosted by Stephen Mulhern ... Stephen will be presenting an updated and state of the art version of Catchphrase and we welcome its return to our schedules." ... Ends ... (noodl....(size: 3.0Kb)
Digital Spy
10 Oct 2012
ITV has confirmed the comeback details of Surprise Surprise. The revamped show, hosted by Holly Willoughby, starts on Sunday, October 21 at 7pm on ITV1. Westlife's Kian Egan, who recently helped out on The Xtra Factor, and Capital Breakfast's Dave Berry have also joined the show as roving reporters ... "What an incredible honour to be asked to present Surprise Surprise for ITV1," Willoughby said ... Stephen Mulhern back for 'More Talent' 20 ... ....(size: 8.5Kb)
Digital Spy
10 Oct 2012
Amanda Holden has said the last three years have been "hellish" to cope with, but that she has put the heartbreak behind her. In that time, the Britain's Got Talent judge had a miscarriage and also experienced the stillborn birth of her son at seven months in her pregnancy ... Holden said. "It's only now that I can see how terrible it all was ... I've come out the other end much more resilient ... More ... Stephen Mulhern back for 'More Talent' 20 ... 01....(size: 9.2Kb)
IMDb
09 Oct 2012
A pilot for the revamped quiz show was first ordered in July, with a full 8 x 45min episodes - hosted by Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern ......(size: 0.8Kb)
The Guardian
09 Oct 2012
Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern to front updated version of format once hosted by Roy Walker. Catchphrase. Stephen Mulhern is to front ITV's revival of the show. Photograph. Ken McKay/ITV. ITV has confirmed it is reviving gameshow Catchphrase following a successful pilot, with Britain's Got More Talent presenter Stephen Mulhern stepping into Roy Walker's shoes as host ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Digital Spy
09 Oct 2012
Shameless is to end after 11 series, it has been announced. The comedy-drama's final 14 episodes - again starring David Threlfall as layabout drunk Frank Gallagher - are currently filming in Manchester and will air on Channel 4 in early 2013. Series creator Paul Abbott - who will storyline the final series - said. "Its 10th anniversary seems a fitting time to shut the book on Shameless ... More ... ITV orders full series with Stephen Mulhern ... ....(size: 9.0Kb)
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| Stephen Mulhern | |
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 Stephen Mulhern at the 2008 BAFTA Television Awards |
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| Born | Stephen Daniel Mulhern (1977-04-04) 4 April 1977 (age 35) Minehead, Somerset, England |
| Occupation | Television presenter, Entertainer, Magician |
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| www.officialstephenmulhern.com | |
Stephen Daniel Mulhern (born 4 April 1977)[1] 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.[2]
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Early life[link]
Stephen Mulhern is the third of four children of Maureen (née Reid) and Christopher Mulhern. He has two older brothers and a younger sister.
Magic[link]
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]
In 2005 Stephen created and presented the Channel 4 magic show Freaky and was credited as executive producer. In 2006 he performed a magic routine in an episode of The Slammer, he came in second place; to the dance group "Flawless". "Flawless" went on to perform on Britain's Got Talent, which he presents the spin-off show for (Britain's Got More Talent). His latest show, ITV1's Magic Numbers featured magic and illusions during the phone-in process.[citation needed]
Unlike many professional magicians, Mulhern does not work with a regular assistant for his illusion performances. Instead, he prefers to work with a range of guest celebrity assistants. Most notable of these is his former Saturday Showdown co-host Holly Willoughby, who has assisted him on many occasions in a variety of illusions including being sawed in half.[3]
Stage career[link]
Mulhern starred in the stage version of Grease as Danny Zuko. In 2005 he appeared on Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes as Robbie Williams.[4][not in citation given]
Mulhern has a regular slot at Butlins Minehead, where he once was a Redcoat, during the summer season with a show of comedy, magic and gunge.[5][dead link]. Mulhern notably performed on the Royal Variety Performance in 1997 whilst still working as a Redcoat.
In Christmas 2002 he appeared in pantomime at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon.[6]
In 2005 he was back at Croydon with Danny La Rue and performed in Mother Goose in Bromley for the 2006/07 panto season.[citation needed]
He starred in Aladdin at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, playing the leading role of Aladdin, however on dates when he was not able to play the role, due to television commitments, director and writer Paul Hendy stood in to take the role.[7][not in citation given] He appeared again at the Marlowe playing Muddles in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which starred former EastEnders actress Emma Barton (19 November until 18 January).
In 2009, he presented the Britain's Got Talent Live Tour after a successful series of 'Britain's Got More Talent'. At the end of the year he performed in a new musical pantomime, 'Santa Claus and the Return of Jack Frost' at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton playing the Chief of Elves.[8] He can play the violin and piano.
In July 2010, he presented Magic Numbers, in which viewers, whose landline or mobile phone numbers contain two of the digits generated from a variety of six game shows and stunts, have the chance to win £250,000. The show was broadcast in the UK on ITV1 at 8.00pm on Saturdays and was recorded in the London Studios.
From December 2011 to January 2012, he is playing Buttons in the pantomime 'Cinderella' at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury which stars EastEnders actor John Partridge who plays Christian Clarke as Prince Charming.
Personal life[link]
He studied piano and violin, achieving grade seven on both. His idol reportedly is DJ and presenter Chris Evans, who was his inspiration as a child. In July 2010, it was reported in the press that he was dating his former pantomime co-star, Emma Barton.[9]
Television credits[link]
Mulhern's television credits consist mainly of entertainment shows:
- CITV (main presenter, May 1998 - August 2002)
- All Star Impression Show (December 2009)
- Animals Do the Funniest Things
- Brilliant Creatures
- Britain Does the Funniest Things (2009)
- Britain's Got More Talent (2007–present)
- Celebrities Under Pressure (Episode #3.4)
- Dancing on Ice: Defrosted (2006, 2007)
- Family Fortunes (2007)
- Finger Tips (2000–2004)
- Freaky TV
- Globo Loco (2003–2004)
- Harry Potter at the Castle: Magic at Midnight
- Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown (previously known as Ministry of Mayhem) from 10 January 2004 - 1 July 2006)
- Kids Do The Funniest Things (2008)
- The National Music Awards
- The Quick Trick Show (1999–2004, predecessor to Tricky TV)
- The Record of the Year (2004)
- Timmy Towers (1997) as Merlin
- The Slammer (guest appearance, 2006)
- SMTV Live, SMTV Gold (August - December 2003)
- Stars in Their Eyes
- Anonymous (2009)
- Tricky Quickies
- Tricky TV (2005–2006, successor to The Quick Trick Show)
- You Can Do Magic (2003)
- Daily Cooks Challenge (Guest Star) (2010)
- The 5 O'Clock Show (Guest Presenter) (2010)
- Magic Numbers (July/August 2010)
- Celebrity Juice (September 2010)
- Coronation Street Uncovered Live (Presenter) (December 2010)
- Britain's Got Talent Live Tour (Presenter) (2008-2009, 2011-present)
- Born To Shine (Judge) (August 2011)
- This Morning's Hub (Presenter) (2011-Present)
- The Big Quiz (Presenter) (2011-Present)
- The Big Sports Quiz (Presenter) (2012)
References[link]
- ^ http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/stephen_mulhern
- ^ ITV.com: Britain's Got Talent Hosts, Retrieved 1 August 12010
- ^ Stephen Mulhern: 'I'd like a variety act to win this year!' ITV.com
- ^ Stephen Mulhern Biography James Grant Management
- ^ Family Events CreamyNet.com
- ^ Performance Diary It's Behind You.com
- ^ Event archive MarloweTheatre.com
- ^ What's on at the Mayflower Retrieved 22 April 2010
- ^ Mirror Celebs Interviewed on 25/07/2010
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| Born | Anthony David McPartlin (1975-11-18) 18 November 1975 (age 36) Newcastle upon Tyne, England Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly (1975-09-25) 25 September 1975 (age 36) Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | TV presenters, actors |
| Years active | 1988–present |
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Anthony McPartlin (born 18 November 1975) and Declan Donnelly (born 25 September 1975), known collectively as Ant & Dec, are an English comedy and TV presenting duo from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.[1] The duo first rose to fame as actors on the children's television show Byker Grove, during which and in their subsequent pop career they were respectively known as PJ & Duncan – the names of the characters they played on the show. Since then, Ant & Dec have had a very successful career as TV presenters, presenting shows such as SMTV Live, Friends Like These, Pop Idol, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, PokerFace, Push the Button, Britain's Got Talent, Red or Black? and Text Santa. They have also returned to acting, starring in a 2002 Tribute to The Likely Lads and the 2006 film Alien Autopsy.
Ant is the taller of the two at 5'8" (1.73 m) and Dec is two inches shorter at 5'6" (1.68 m). It is a running joke that many people do not know who is Ant and who is Dec, even though their appearances differ significantly. To assist with identification, they follow the 180 degree rule; all their TV appearances and publicity photos have Ant on the left and Dec on the right, but even this does not help everyone.
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Background[link]
Anthony McPartlin was born on 18 November 1975 and Declan Donnelly was born on 25 September 1975. They met each other while working on the BBC children's drama Byker Grove in 1989. After a shaky start,[2] they soon became best friends.[2] They have achieved such popularity as a duo that they are hardly ever seen apart on screen. Indeed, it is reported that they are each insured against the other's death, although the amount is unknown.[3] Their inseparability has led to them receiving joint nominations for many awards. They are both managed by the James Grant Group
Career[link]
Acting[link]
Although Ant had built some television experience with a brief stint on the children's television series Why Don't You?, which was broadcast on the BBC, Dec was the first of the two to acquire his place on the BBC children's drama Byker Grove. He joined in 1989, playing Duncan. A year later, Ant joined the cast playing PJ. Their friendship began when their storylines collided, creating a friendship off screen as well as on.[4] Dec also played a stable boy in the adaptation of the novel The Cinder Path in his teenage years.[5]
Music[link]
Main article: PJ & Duncan discography
After leaving television, the duo turned their hand to pop music. Their first single was a song they performed while part of Byker Grove, entitled "Tonight I'm Free". The single had some success, and the duo went on to record two albums under their character names of PJ & Duncan. Later songs included "Why Me?", "If I Give You My Number", "Eternal Love" "Our Radio Rocks", "U Krazy Katz" and a cover of the The Monkees classic "Stepping Stone". Their most famous hit during this period was the BRIT Award nominated "Let's Get Ready To Rhumble", for which the video was choreographed by Mark Short, who had previously worked with Tina Turner and Peter Andre. For their third album, the duo reinvented themselves under their real names of Ant & Dec. The album featured their signature single "Shout". Their final single release was "Falling", which was the track that subsequently ended their musical career. The track was pulled from the British charts under the instruction of their record label, Telstar Records, after claims of copyright infringement were made, brought about by a pop duo, 'And all because...', who were also managed by Ant and Dec's management team. The duo claimed that Ant & Dec had stolen the song from them and released it without their consent. Subsequently, Telstar Records decided not to renew their existing contract, and they were dropped from the label. During their time, the pair released sixteen singles and three studio albums, however, none of their releases managed to reach number one, with their highest UK chart position being #3. The duo did, however, reach the top ten in Germany and Japan, and even had a number-one single in Germany, with their cover of the Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream". Success also struck in other European countries. The duo had a short lived revival in the music industry, releasing a song for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, entitled "We're On The Ball". The track peaked at #3,[6] being beaten by Will Young and Gareth Gates.
Presenting[link]
Children's television[link]
Ant & Dec got their first presenting job in 1994, while they were still releasing music under the alias of PJ & Duncan. They co-presented a Saturday-morning children's show entitled Gimme 5, which was broadcast on CITV. The show only lasted two series before being dropped from the airwaves.[7] In 1995, the duo were once again offered a job on CBBC, this time presenting their own series, entitled The Ant & Dec Show. The series was broadcast from 1995 to 1997, and in 1996, Ant & Dec won two BAFTA Awards, one for 'Best Children's Show' and one for 'Best Sketch Comedy Show'.[8] In 1997, a VHS release, entitled The Ant & Dec Show – Confidential, was made available in shops, and featured an hour of the best bits from three years of the programme, as well as specially recorded sketches and music videos.[9] In 1998, the duo switched to Channel 4, presenting a early-evening children's show entitled Ant & Dec Unzipped.[10] This show also won a BAFTA, but was dropped from the airwaves after just one series.[11] ITV soon signed the duo in August 1998,[12] and within weeks, were assigned to present ITV1's Saturday morning programmes SMTV Live and CD:UK, alongside old friend Cat Deeley. The duo presented the shows alongside Deeley for three years, before making their permanent departure from children's television in 2001. Two VHS releases, compiling the best bits from both shows, were released in 2000 and 2001 respectively. The pair also starred in the children's TV series Engie Benjy during their time on SMTV.[13][14]
Primetime[link]
Ant & Dec's first primetime presenting job came in the form of BBC Saturday-night game show Friends Like These, which was first broadcast in 1999. The duo presented four series of the programme between 1999 and 2001.[15] In 2001, the duo's contract with ITV was renewed for a further three years, following their appearances on SMTV Live and CD:UK, and received their first primetime presenting job on the station, presenting brand new Saturday night reality series Pop Idol. The series was broadcast for two series only, and was replaced in 2004 by The X Factor, to which Kate Thornton was assigned presenting duties.
In 2005, as part of the ITV Network's 50th birthday celebrations, they were back on television fronting Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a celebration of some of ITV's most enduring gameshows from the past 50 years.
Ant & Dec also created and presented their own show, entitled Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. The show has so far ran for nine series, broadcast between 2002 and 2009. itv.com confirmed that the show is set to return in 2012 after being off air for three years. During the fourth series, Dec broke his arm, thumb and suffered a concussion whilst completing a challenge for the 'Ant vs. Dec' segment of the show. The incident involved learning how to ride a motorbike and jumping through a ring of fire. During the challenge, Dec failed to pull hard enough on the throttle of the bike, causing it to topple over and sending him flying through the air. The accident caused the pair to miss the Comic Relief charity telethon of 2005. In 2006, the first episode of series five saw the duo abseil down the side of the 22-storey high London Studios, where the show was filmed. Two DVDs, a best-bits book and a board game of the series were released during 2004.
In May 2002, Ant & Dec took the helm of a further reality series, entitled I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. The series has been broadcasting on ITV1 since 2002, and ten series have been broadcast. The duo drew their highest viewing figures to date while presenting the series in February 2004, with nearly 15 million tuning in to watch the climax of the third series. In May 2006, the duo were assigned to present coverage of the charity football match Soccer Aid. The duo were then invited back to present coverage of the second match in September 2007, and have since presented coverage of each yearly match.[16] In June 2006, the duo announced they had created a new game-show format for ITV1, entitled PokerFace. The show featured members of the public gambling high stakes of money in an attempt to win the ultimate prize. The first series began airing on 10 July 2006, and was aired for seven consecutive nights. The second series was broadcast in early 2007, and saw a move to a prime-time Saturday slot. Ratings for the series fell to below 3.5 million, and the series was subsequently axed in March 2007. A board game of the format was released in 2008.
In April 2007, the duo signed a two-year golden handcuffs deal with ITV, reportedly worth £40 million, securing the duo's career at the station until the end of 2009.[17] In June 2007, the duo were offered the job of presenters on new ITV reality platform Britain's Got Talent by Simon Cowell. The series features contestants aiming to win £100,000 and spot on the bill at the Royal Variety Performance, while performing and being judged by Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan. The series was highly successful, drawing in nearly 12 million viewers. A second series was broadcast in May 2008, and drew in nearly 14.5 million viewers.[18] The duo have since returned to present three further series of the show, and have also had a regular feature on the ITV2 spin-off show Britain's Got More Talent.
The pair filmed a series of six episodes for a new American game show, Wanna Bet?, in November 2007. The episodes was broadcast in 2008, but failed to attract enough interest for a second series to be commissioned.[19] What You Wrote, another format created by the duo, was due to air in Autumn 2008 but was reportedly axed by ITV.[20] In 2010, the duo debuted a replacement for their previous Saturday-night game show format, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, entitled Ant & Dec's Push the Button. The series was a success, and a second run of the programme was broadcast in 2011.
Ant & Dec have also presented the new game show Red or Black?, a creation of Cowell's, airing live on ITV1. On 24 December 2011, they presented ITV's charity initiative Text Santa with Holly Willoughby.
Other activities[link]
In 2006, a celebration to the show Spitting Image saw Ant and Dec having their own puppets made. They have also been made into cartoon characters on the comedy show 2DTV, and face masks in Avid Merrion's Bo Selecta. Wax works of the duo can also be seen in London's Madame Tussauds.
In April 2008, it was reported that Ant & Dec's production company, Gallowgate Productions, had purchased the rights to Byker Grove and SMTV Live, after the production companies that made them, Zenith Entertainment and Blaze Television, had both gone bankrupt in 2007. According to reports, the duo decided to purchase the rights to stop digital channels showing repeats of the programmes.[21] On 28 September 2008, it was reported that the pair were attacked by the Taliban whilst in Afghanistan to present a Pride Of Britain Award.[22] In December 2008, the duo starred in a seasonal advert, their first in seven years, for the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. The duo appeared alongside chef Jamie Oliver.[23] In March 2009, the duo filmed a short film for inclusion on Comic Relief, which highlighted their story upon visiting a community centre for young carers in the North East. In September 2009, the duo released their official autobiography, entitled "Ooh! What a Lovely Pair. Our Story".[24] In October 2010, the duo appeared in several Nintendo adverts playing both the Wii[25] and Nintendo DS.[26] In 2011, they both appeared on Celebrity Juice on ITV2.
Controversies[link]
In 1997, Welsh pop duo 'And all because...' successfully obtained legal aid and filed legal papers against Ant & Dec, along with their management team, record company and producers for copyright infringement over the song "Falling", and this was subsequently Ant & Dec's last single.
Law firm Olswang were commissioned to investigate the 2005 British Comedy Awards when the producers overturned the voting public's first choice, The Catherine Tate Show in favour of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway for the People's Choice Award. The incident is also the subject of an investigation by media regulator Ofcom.[27][28]
Following allegations of fraud in 2007, an investigation by auditors Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu discovered that two shows, Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon and Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, had defrauded viewers participating in phone-ins. The programmes were subject to a further investigation by Ofcom which found that between January 2003 and October 2006 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway had:[28][29]
- selected competition finalists before the telephone lines were announced as closed
- staggered the selection of competition finalists which meant that viewers entering the competition did not have a fair and equal chance of winning
- selected finalists on the basis of their suitability to be on television and where they lived
- selected an individual already known to the production team to be placed on the shortlist of potential winners and who went on to win the competition
and between September and October 2005, Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon had:
- on six occasions in the Prize Mountain competition, selected winners based on their suitability to be on screen
- failed to account for almost half of the competition entries
One episode of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! was also found to be in breach of Ofcom rules.
The pair were ridiculed for their alleged participation in the fraud on the front cover of the satirical magazine Private Eye.[30]
On 10 September 2008, Ant & Dec announced that the frauds "will never happen again", insisting that a high-tech system and strict rules will ensure viewers cannot lose out with poorly monitored premium rate phone lines.[31] On 30 September 2008, it was reported that Ant & Dec were being sued for $30 million by Greek American stand-up comedian and actor ANT for using his name in the United States. The lawsuit, among other things, alleges trademark infringement and fraud.[32] The suit was dismissed in May of 2010.[33] In October 2009, Kelly Brook claimed that Ant & Dec had been the cause of her removal as the fourth judge on Britain's Got Talent. She claimed that she was asked to leave the show after she upset the pair.[34]
Acting[link]
They have, albeit infrequently, returned to acting. They played themselves in the film Love Actually[35] (in which Bill Nighy's character referred to Dec as "Ant or Dec"). They have returned to their Geordie roots in a one-off tribute to The Likely Lads[36] and also by returning to Byker Grove for Geoff's funeral.[37][38]
In 1998, the pair starred in the pantomime Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs at Sunderland's Empire Theatre alongside Donnelly's partner at the time Clare Buckfield. The show was financially unsuccessful, making £20,000 less than it cost to stage, with the duo footing a large share of the shortfall.[39]
Al Burton, creator of the American gameshow Win Ben Stein's Money, had approached Ant & Dec's talent agency with a proposal for a new reality television show entitled Ant & Dec Get Killed (after the film Penn & Teller Get Killed), in which the two scheme to murder one another, framed with a lighthearted soundtrack and canned laughter. Burton received negative public reaction and narrowly escaped being charged with several accounts of premeditated murder in British courts, and Ant & Dec refused the offer from the talent agency.[40]
Ant & Dec's most recent acting appearance was in the film Alien Autopsy released in April 2006.[41] The film gained mixed reviews about the storyline but the pair received generally good reviews for their acting abilities.
Awards[link]
In September 2006, they were voted by the general public as number 7 in a poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars.[42]
1994
- Brit Award Nomination – Best Song: "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble"[43]
2006
- British Comedy Awards: Best Comedy Entertainment Personality[44]
- British Comedy Awards: Best Comedy Entertainment Programme[45]
2008
- TV Quick & TV Choice Awards: Best Entertainment Show (Saturday Night Takeaway)
- Nickelodeon UK Kids Choice Awards 2008: Favourite Funny Person, Best TV presenters and Best Family TV show (Britain's Got Talent)[46]
2009
- TV Quick & TV Choice Awards: Best Entertainment Show (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- TV Quick & TV Choice Awards:Outstanding Contribution Award[47]
2010
- British Academy Television Awards: Entertainment Performance (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!)
2012
- Freesat : Best TV Presenter(s)
National Television Awards[link]
- Ant & Dec have won the National Television Award for Best Entertainment Presenter(s) 11 years running 2001 to 2012.
2001
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter (SMTV Live)
2002
- National Television Awards:*Most Popular Entertainment Presenter (Pop Idol)
- National Television Awards: Special Recognition Award
2003
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment presenter (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)[48]
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment program (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Reality Programme (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!)
2004
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment programme (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
2005
- National Television Awards:* Most Popular Entertainment presenter (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
2006
- National Television Awards:* Most Popular Quiz Programme (Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon)[49]
- National Television Awards:* Most Popular Entertainment presenter (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
2007
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment presenter (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment program (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Reality Programme (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!)
2008
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter[50]
2010
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Programme (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)
2011
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Programme (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!)
2012
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Entertainment Presenter
- National Television Awards: Most Popular Reality Programme (I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!)
List of television appearances[link]
- Why Don't You? (1980s)
- Byker Grove (1989)
- Engie Benjy (2002)
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (2002)
- Celebrity Juice (2011)
As presenters[link]
- The Ant & Dec Show (1995–1997)
- Ant & Dec Unzipped (1998)
- SMTV Live (1998–2001)
- CD:UK (1998–2001)
- Friends Like These (1999–2001)
- Slap Bang with Ant & Dec (2001)
- Pop Idol (2001–2003)
- Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002–2009, 2012/13)
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (2002–present)
- Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon (2005)
- Soccer Aid (2006, 2008)
- PokerFace (2006–2007)
- Britain's Got Talent (2007–present)
- Ant & Dec's Christmas Show (26 December 2009)
- Ant & Dec's Push the Button (2010–2011)
- Red or Black? (2011–present)
- Text Santa (24 December 2011)
Film Credits[link]
- Love Actually (as themselves - 2003)
- Alien Autopsy (film) (Main Characters - 2006)
Television advertisements[link]
- Woolworths (Christmas 2001)
- McDonald's (voiceover only, 2002)
- Sainsbury's (Christmas 2008)
- Wii / Nintendo DS (2010/2011)
Television idents[link]
- ITV1 "Celebrities" idents (3 idents, 2002)
- ITV1 "Abstract celebrities" idents (5 idents, 2003)
References[link]
- ^ Ant and Dec – Tyneside Heroes. BBC Tyne People. Bbc.co.uk (2008-05-20). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ a b BBC Tyne – Ant & Dec. Bbc.co.uk (2008-05-20). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Ant & Death. Mirror.co.uk (2006-09-12). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Ant and Dec Biography. Members.tripod.com (1998-08-29). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ IMDb listing for The Cinder Path. IMDb.com
- ^ World Cup Archive. Everyhit.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ IMDB Gimme 5 Cast &. IMDb.com
- ^ Past Winners and Nominees – Children's 1996 BAFTA.org
- ^ IMDB – The Ant & Dec Show. IMDb.com
- ^ IMDB – Ant & Dec Unzipped. IMDb.com
- ^ Past Winners and Nominees – Children's 1998 BAFTA.org
- ^ BBC.co.uk – Geordie duo sign new ITV contract. BBC News (2004-09-24). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Ant McPartlin (Alien Autopsy, A History Of Tyneside, Engie Benjy – Let's Go Team – Episodes 7 To 13 and Engie Benjy – Makes Things Better!). Lovefilm.com (2006-04-12). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Declan Donnelly (A History Of Tyneside, Alien Autopsy, Engie Benjy – Let's Go Team – Episodes 7 To 13 and Engie Benjy – Makes Things Better!). Lovefilm.com (2006-04-12). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ IMDB – Friends Like These Cast. IMDb.com
- ^ Soccer Aid – Coming soon. Itv.com (2011-05-27). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Ant and Dec at ITV until 2009 Guardian.co.uk
- ^ Britain's Got Talent wins ratings war. Manchester Evening News (2008-06-01). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ Howdy there, Geordie lads! TheSun.co.uk
- ^ Ant & Dec ITV Sunday Axe. Thesun.co.uk (2008-03-23). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ "Ant & Dec go to Buy-ker Grove?". The Sun. 2008-04-11. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1027551.ece. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
- ^ Ant and Dec attacked by the Taliban in Afghanistan Mirror.co.uk
- ^ Sainsbury's Christmas ad marks Ant and Dec's first commercial in seven years BrandRepublic.com
- ^ Ant and Dec | Ooh! What A Lovely Pair! Available to pre-order now! AntnDec.com
- ^ Nintendo Wii & DS – Ant & Dec (Saturday Night Takeaway) Love to Meet Real People. kathirvel.com. 23 October 2009
- ^ Nintendo Wii & DS – Ant & Dec (Saturday Night Takeaway) Brain Train London Cabbies. kathirvel.com. 22 November 2009
- ^ Gibson, Owen (9 May 2008). "And the winners aren't ... Ant and Dec". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/09/itv.tvfakery.
- ^ a b "Ofcom fines ITV plc for misconduct in viewer competitions and voting" (Press release). Ofcom. 8 May 2008. http://ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2008/05/nr_20080508.
- ^ Jefferies, Mark; Nicola Methven (2007-10-19). "Saturday Night FAKEAWAY". Daily Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/19/saturday-night-fakeaway-89520-19975829/.
- ^ "Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Your Money!". Private Eye. 2007-10-26. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/covers/full/1196_big.jpg.
- ^ Ant and Dec: No rip-offs TheSun.co.uk
- ^ Ant and Dec sued for $30m by American 'Ant', who claims the Brits are ruining his career DailyMail.co.uk
- ^ ANT v Anthony McPartlin et al – Document 132 Justia US Law
- ^ Kelly Brook: Ant and Dec ruined my TV career yahoo.com
- ^ Love Actually (2003) – Full Cast & Crew. IMDb.com
- ^ The Likely Lads. Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ BBC Press Office – Byker Grove to close its doors after seventeen years. Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ PJ & Duncan Return. Youtube.com (2008-02-29). Retrieved on 2012-05-05.
- ^ You're Earning A Panto Fortune – Oh Yes You Are Amanda Kelly, Daily Mirror, 7 November 1999
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- ^ Alien Autopsy (2006). IMDb.com
- ^ TV's 50 Greatest Stars. IMDb.com
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 O'Grady in 2009 |
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| Birth name | Paul James Michael O'Grady |
| Born | (1955-06-14) 14 June 1955 (age 57) Birkenhead, Cheshire, England |
| Medium | Broadcaster, actor, entrepreneur, comedian, author, television personality |
| Nationality | British |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse | Teresa Fernandes (m. 1977–2005) «start: (1977-04)–end+1: (2006)»"Marriage: Teresa Fernandes to Paul O'Grady" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Paul_O%27Grady) (divorced)[1] |
| Domestic partner(s) | Brendan Murphy (1980–2005) (his death) Andre Portasio (2006–present)[2] |
| Notable works and roles | Blankety Blank (1997–2002) Eyes Down (2003–04) The Paul O'Grady Show (2004–09) Paul O'Grady Live (2010–11) |
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Paul James Michael O'Grady MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio DJ. He is best known for presenting the daytime chat television series, The Paul O'Grady Show and, more recently, Paul O'Grady Live, as well as his drag queen comedic alter ego, Lily Savage, as whom he performed in various television series including Blankety Blank (1997–1999) and Lily Live! (2000–2001). He also appeared in the comedy sitcom Eyes Down (2003–2004) and presented several travel documentaries. He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 2 with his own Sunday evening show, Paul O'Grady on the Wireless produced by Malcolm Prince.
Born to a working class Irish migrant family in Birkenhead, O'Grady went through various jobs in his youth, including working in various bars, for the civil service and for social services, moving around the country to do so. It was whilst living in London in 1978 that he first turned his hand to drag, developing the character of Lily Savage based upon various female relatives of his.
In 2003, O'Grady was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in 2006 he was listed by The Independent at number 32 in their 101 most influential gay men and women in Britain. In October 2008, he was appointed MBE in the 2008 Birthday Honours list for services to entertainment. On 23 July 2010, O'Grady received an Honorary Doctor of Arts from De Montfort University, Leicester, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to television, radio and the stage.[3]
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Life and career[link]
Early life: 1955–71[link]
Paul O'Grady's father, Patrick "Paddy" Grady (died 1973),[4] had grown up on a farm in Ballincurry, County Roscommon, Ireland, but moved to England in 1936 in search for work, and settled down in the working class area of Birkenhead. His name was accidentally changed from Grady to O'Grady in a paperwork mistake when he joined the Royal Air Force and he subsequently decided to keep this altered name.[5][6] Patrick married Mary Savage (1916–1988),[7] who was born in England but whose parents had also been Irish immigrants, from County Louth. Patrick and Mary were devout Catholics and brought up their children in the faith. Paul was their third child, born at 7:30am on 14 June 1955 at St. Catherine's Hospital, Tranmere.[8][9] His birth, over a decade after that of his siblings Brendan and Sheila,[4] was not planned; his mother was 39 and she only discovered the pregnancy when she visited the doctor complaining of indigestion. Paul O'Grady spent his early life at the family's rented home of 23 Holly Grove, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead,[10] a house that had been built in a former quarry during the early 1930s, and O'Grady would later remark that the house was always damp and cold and that it also suffered from "ominous cracks" which "would appear in the walls and ceilings overnight".[11]
He initially attended St. Joseph's, a Catholic primary school, where he excelled in all subjects but mathematics, and so his parents, hoping that he had a good future ahead of him, budgeted so that they could afford to send him to a private school, Redcourt, which was the Roman Catholic primary school attached to St Anselm's College. He subsequently failed the Eleven Plus exam, meaning that he was unable to gain entry to a grammar school, much to his mother's dismay, and went instead to the Blessed Edward Campion R.C. Secondary Modern and the Corpus Christi High School.[12] It was here that he had his first homosexual experience, having a brief romance aged twelve with another boy, although in keeping with societal attitudes at the time he still assumed that he was heterosexual.[13]
"[W]hen I look back on my childhood I have no bad memories. Our family was loving and full of affection. I never knew what divorce was until I moved to London. I was an indulged child and completely protected from anything bad."
Paul O'Grady[14]
At the time he was also a huge fan of the popular television series The Avengers and Batman,[15] and was enrolled in the cub scouts by his mother, which he hated and left after a month. He later became an altar boy at a local Catholic church, though was dismissed from this position after laughing during a funeral service.[16] Following on from this he joined the Marine cadets, later commenting that he was following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the cartoon Popeye.[17] He enjoyed the cadets, and at the advice of his captain joined the Boys' Amateur Boxing Club, where he gained his lifelong love of the sport.[18][19] Meanwhile, he began playing truant from school, getting him into trouble with his parents, and then got into trouble with the police after he led three other boys into breaking and entering a house to commit burglary.[20] O'Grady's first job was a paper round that he managed to keep for a week, being employed by a woman, Mrs Henshaw, whom his mother despised,[21] and through this and other jobs he saved up to afford Mod clothes, for a time becoming a suedehead.[22]
Early adulthood: 1972–76[link]
After leaving school aged sixteen, O'Grady's mother got him a job in the civil service, working as a clerical assistant for the DHSS, who had offices in Liverpool that he could commute to from his parents' home every morning. To supplement this income, he also got a job working part-time at the bar of the Royal Air Forces Association club in Oxton.[23][24] He was later called for a disciplinary hearing at the DHSS, who accused him of being incompetent and often late, and at which he decided to resign.[25] Hoping for a better and more exciting life, he got a job at the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Virginia Water, Surrey, and aged seventeen moved away from his parents' home in Birkenhead and travelled south. He subsequently found the work and accommodation to be appalling, although he noted that it was here that he lost his virginity to a woman whom he had met smoking cannabis at a party. He did not remain in Surrey long however, as soon after he was arrested, accused of stealing from the hotel and was subsequently fired despite protesting his innocence.[26]
Promptly returning home to Birkenhead, he soon got his old job at the RAFA club back, and also began to increasingly socialise within the Liverpudlian gay scene, attending local meetings of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and getting a job at a gay bar, the Bear's Paw, all of which he kept a secret from his parents, to whom he was still not "out of the closet".[27] Nonetheless, at the time he considered himself to be bisexual, and began having casual sex with a friend and colleague of his named Diane Jansen.[28][29] Meanwhile, he had befriended a man named Tony on the gay scene, and they had "hit it off after a prolonged bitching session one night, though we were like chalk and cheese." Becoming best friends, the duo would regularly travel down to London to socialise with Tony's friend, the classical music conductor John Pritchard (1921–1989), whom O'Grady became very fond of.[30]
When O'Grady was eighteen, his mother suffered a heart attack and was rushed to hospital, the stress of which caused his father to suffer the same fate within a matter of hours; whilst his mother recovered, his father soon died. Only a few days later, O'Grady's life was further complicated when he learned that Diane was pregnant with his child, a daughter named Sharon Lee Jansen.[31][32] Following her birth on 16 May 1974, O'Grady agreed to pay £3 every week towards the upkeep of his daughter, but refused to marry Diane as he had begun to recognise that he was homosexual and did not want to enter a marriage that he would hate.[33][34]
"I thought about [my daughter] Sharon every day. I was going over to visit regularly but still couldn't raise any of the paternal instincts I'd hoped might have been lying dormant inside me. No such luck. To be honest, the baby still scared me. No, she terrified the life out of me and I looked upon my daughter, sweet little thing though she undoubtedly was, as if she were somebody else's child, nearly always coming away from a visit hating myself for harbouring what I considered unnatural emotions. After all, didn't I come from a warm, loving family? So why then couldn't I express the same love and affection for this child? Jesus, for an eighteen-year-old I was carrying a lot of guilt around."
Paul O'Grady, 2010.[35]
Briefly working as an assistant clerk at Liverpool Magistrates' Court, O'Grady subsequently got a job working as a barman at Yates's Wine Lodge, whilst also working the occasional night at the Bear's Paw.[36][37] Realising that the wage from these jobs was not enough to support both himself and his daughter, he decided to travel to London in search for work. Moving in as a lodger of a gay couple in Westbourne Green, he once again only found poorly-paid work as a barman. Meanwhile, it was in London that he first began to associate with drag queens, particularly a man named Alistair and his stage partner Phil, who went under the stage name of The Harlequeens. Although he made friends in the city, O'Grady was homesick for Birkenhead and Liverpool, and feeling that he had few prospects in London, returned home.[38]
Employed as an accountant in a Merseyside abattoir belonging to FMC Meats, he eventually became disgusted by the place and gained employment at Conny Home in West Kirby, a home for disabled and abused children, something he would continue for three years.[39][40] Subsequently entering into a relationship with an older man named Norman, O'Grady moved into his house in Littlehampton, although their relationship was strained, with both cheating on one another, and ultimately it broke apart.[41] Moving once more to London, where he rented a flat in Crouch End, O'Grady initially started busking with a friend in Camden Town before getting a job as a physiotherapist's assistant at the Royal Northern Hospital.[42] Being made redundant from the hospital due to public sector cuts, O'Grady took up a job at a gay club called the Showplace, where he befriended a Portuguese lesbian named Theresa Fernandes, and in May 1977 they legally married in order to prevent her deportation back to Portugal, although eventually lost contact and only gained a divorce in 2005.[43][44] He subsequently took up a job as a cleaner and a waiter at private functions, working for a series of wealthy clients in London, including an elite escort service.[45] Following this, he began working for Camden Council as a peripatetic care officer who would live in with elderly people or dyfunctional families, a job that exposed him to the extreme poverty, poor living conditions and domestic violence faced by many Londoners, and would have a lasting effect on him for many years to come.[46][47]
Lily Savage and Manila: 1978–80[link]
It was whilst working for Camden social services that O'Grady made his first attempt at putting together a drag act, creating the character of Lily Savage in the process. Commenting on this, he would later relate that "I wanted to get up there but be larger than life, a creature that was more cartoon than human. I wasn't sure yet."[48] His debut was on the afternoon of Saturday 7 October 1978, at a pub called the Black Cap, where he mimed the words to the Barbra Streisand song "Nobody Makes a Pass at Me" from the show Pins and Needles. Coming offstage to a round of applause, another, more experienced drag act in the changing room remarked to him that "Well done, dahling [sic], You weren't bad, no, not bad at all… You've got something you know, de-ah, raw of course but with a little polish… who knows? A word of advice though. If you're considering getting an act together I'd drop the name. Lily Savage is all right for a bit of camp but no one is going to take an act that sounds like an old scrubber seriously, dahling."[49] Nonetheless, the name, which was based upon his mother's maiden name, was one thing that he would maintain, and he would later recollect that:
- I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one in particular and she was just a figment of my imagination. The truth, I realize now, is that Lily owes a lot to the women I encountered in my childhood. Characteristics and attitudes were observed and absorbed, Aunty Chris's in particular, and they provided the roots and compost for the Lily that would germinate and grow later on.[50]
Following a holiday to Poland,[51] and discovering that he was owed several more weeks off of work, he agreed to go and visit an ex-boyfriend who was living in Manila, The Philippines. Managing to afford the fare due to a "sizeable tax rebate" from the Inland Revenue, O'Grady found Manila to be a "culture shock", having difficulty with the climate, the food and the child sex industry, something which deeply disgusted him. He nonetheless learned to like many things about the city, briefly getting a job as a barman and waiter at a brothel known as Gussie's Bar.[52][53]
Success of Lily Savage: 1980s[link]
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O'Grady's alter-ego, Lily Savage.
He returned to London in the early 1980s and subsequently achieved fame with his creation of Lily, initially playing to gay clubs and pubs up and down the country. He performed many times at the Goldsmith's Tavern, New Cross where he'd often precede Vic Reeves' three-hour show Vic Reeves Big Night Out before promptly leaving to do a show elsewhere. O'Grady's Lily was best known at the time for an eight-year residency at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern in south London. As Lily Savage, O'Grady was also in several acts which toured Europe. After appearing at The Edinburgh Festival and gaining a Perrier Award nomination, O'Grady's Lily Savage act became more mainstream and the character became popular on television, making appearances on the ITV daytime programme This Morning and as the 'On the Bed Presenter' on The Big Breakfast. For a few years O'Grady hosted the game show Blankety Blank as Lily Savage, for the BBC and later for ITV. There was also a comedy show built around the character, Lily Live!, appearing on ITV in 2000. Performing as Lily, O'Grady also co-hosted the 1996 Smash Hits Poll Winners Party with Ant & Dec. O'Grady also appeared along side Cilla Black and Barbara Windsor (as Savage) in the 2001 Royal Variety Performance where the trio performed a rendition of "You Gotta Get a Gimmick" from the musical Gypsy.
It was during the 1980s that O'Grady would meet Brendan Murphy, known as "Murph" or "Murphy" to his friends, who would become his partner.[54]
O'Grady retired the Lily Savage character around 2004. He claimed she had "seen the light, taken the veil and packed herself off to a convent in France" but on his TV show, he said, "she's escaped the convent and she's heading towards these shores!". On 23 May 2008 on the 500th edition of The Paul O'Grady Show, guest star Julie Goodyear told O'Grady that Bet Lynch, the character she played in television soap opera Coronation Street, had joined Savage in the French convent. On the 7 October 2009 episode of The Paul O'Grady Show, after being prompted by actor Martin Clunes to "bring Lily back", O'Grady said he could not because she had been "bricked up in a chimney" by the Mother Superior of the convent.
Return of Lily Savage: 2010–11[link]
However, in March 2010 it was announced that Lily Savage would be resurrected for one last time in the Christmas pantomime Aladdin – A Wish Come True at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, from December 2010 till January 2011.[55]
Television career: 1988–present[link]
Following the success of Lily Savage, O'Grady played a prostitute informant, Roxanne, in several episodes of The Bill between 1988 and 1990; in 1990 he appeared in the ITV miniseries Chimera as Tony Donaldson, a social worker skilled in signing for the deaf.
Abandoning drag, to portray himself, in 2000 he appeared in a six-part travelogue series entitled Paul O'Grady's Orient, filmed in Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Bangkok, Bali and Singapore. This was followed in 2001 by Paul O'Grady's America.
From 2002 onwards, he appeared less as Savage and more often as himself. In 2002 he presented Outtake TV, a bloopers show, and in 2003 starred as the lead character in the BBC sitcom Eyes Down for two series, as the manager of a northern Bingo hall. He also appeared in Celebrity Driving School for the BBC.
Richard and Judy are close friends of O'Grady, and gave him one of his first TV breaks on This Morning on ITV in the early 90s.
In July 2010 The Sun tipped that Paul O'Grady may judge acts in next year's series of Britain's Got Talent at the audition stages.[56]
In December 2010, O'Grady hosted Coronation Street: The Big 50, to mark the end of Coronation Street's 50th anniversary week. The show featured 9 Corrie stars and 3 "superfans" in the bid to be crowned champions. The "Rovers Regulars" team which consisted of Michael Le Vell (Kevin Webster), Barbara Knox (Rita Sullivan) and William Roache (Ken Barlow) won overall. The show also featured popular ITV show The X Factor as Kirk Sutherland went on it, singing Sex on Fire and judges such as Simon Cowell praised him. It also featured boy band Boyzone (Keith Duffy starred on Corrie), singer Kym Marsh (who played Michelle Connor), Rachel Leskovac (who played Natasha Blakeman) as well as Norris Cole and Mary Taylor who went head to head on Countdown.
[edit] The Paul O'Grady Show: 2004–09
Main article: The Paul O'Grady Show
"I just want the show to be like a party, a group of pals gabbing away about the first things that come into their heads. There are always enough things in life to worry and get depressed about. I want my show to take our minds off all that stuff, even if it's only for a while."
Paul O'Grady, c.2004[57]
O'Grady stood in for Des O'Connor on an episode of the lunchtime celebrity chat show Today with Des and Mel, something that impressed ITV enough that they asked him to stand in for O'Connor on other occasions as well. Eventually they decided that O'Grady would be a success if he presented his own daytime television show, and so commissioned a series, The Paul O'Grady Show, which first aired on October 2004 in the 5 to 6pm slot. The show, which involved O'Grady interviewing celebrity guests, aired at the same time at Channel 4's similar series Richard and Judy, creating a friendly rivalry between the two programs for ratings. Despite the competition, O'Grady's was a success, and won a number of awards in 2005, including a BAFTA and the award for Best TV Comedy Entertainment Personality at the British Comedy Awards. The show ran on ITV for three series, before O'Grady fell out with the broadcasting company and decided to switch to Channel 4.
In producing the show, O'Grady worked with many of his old friends, including Andy Collins, his warm-up man, whose job it was to "make sure the [studio] audience is relaxed, happy and ready for the main event".[58]
The show gained a devout following, with an "extraordinary hardcore of fans [who] try to be at as many recordings as possible", in many cases arriving at the studio gates two hours before the advertised starting time in order to get the best seats.[59] O'Grady's biographer Neil Simpson commented on the crowds coming to see the show being recorded when he related that "Groups of middle aged women dominate - but they are joined by beautiful twenty-something women with flawless make-up, flash City boys with Louis Vuitton briefcases, hip-looking students out for a good time and pensioners just wanting a laugh in the afternoon."[60] In many cases, fans queuing to see the show had to be turned away because too many had turned up, and for live shows as many as a hundred often had to be turned away.[59]
The fourth series of the show appeared on Channel 4 under the title of The New Paul O'Grady Show and began broadcasting in March 2006. On 24 August 2007 the Daily Mirror revealed that O'Grady had rejected a £5 million deal to return to ITV as the "New Parkinson."[citation needed] Instead he signed a £4 million deal to remain with Channel 4 until the end of 2009.[citation needed]
"On or off camera it is the brilliant anecdotes about his life and the endless stream of trenchant opinions on the world in general that keep Paul’s fans coming back for more."
Biographer Neil Simpson, 2008[61]
On 28 June 2008, O'Grady appeared in the Doctor Who episode The Stolen Earth.[62] On 6 June 2009, the Daily Mirror confirmed that O'Grady will sign a new two year contract with Channel 4 in autumn 2009 to keep his show on air until the end of 2011. However Channel 4 have told O'Grady that his show will face huge budget cuts, and his salary will most likely be halved.[63] On Monday 21 September 2009, O'Grady returned to present the 11th (including ITV series) and final series of The Paul O'Grady Show.[64] On 14 October 2009, O'Grady agreed to an £8 million deal with ITV to host a Friday prime-time chat-show, to rival that of BBC One's Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2010, after budget talks broke-down with Channel 4.[64]
On 30 November 2009, O'Grady was a guest presenter on ITV's GMTV with Lorraine, in celebration of Lorraine Kelly's 50th birthday. He has guest starred on Living's paranormal show, Most Haunted Live!, after presenter Yvette Fielding was a guest on his show and invited him on. Also in November 2009, O'Grady reunited with Yvette Fielding to take part in a 2 part paranormal investigation series called Death In Venice where he and Fielding investigated haunted locations in Venice. The episodes were called "Vampire Island" and "Demonic Doctor".
On 18 December 2009, Channel 4 broadcast the final ever episode of The Paul O'Grady Show, after 11 series which started in 2004. Guests included in the final line up were, JLS, Beverley Callard, Catherine Tate, William Roache, Linda Thorson, Honor Blackman, Joe McFadden, Natalie Cassidy, Scott Maslen, Kate Thornton and Melanie Sykes.
[edit] Paul O'Grady Live: 2010–11
Main article: Paul O'Grady Live
Following the end of his daytime television show, O'Grady made a deal with ITV to present a new, Friday night show, entitled Paul O'Grady Live. O'Grady spoke to The People in March 2010 about this show, saying "I have no idea what format it will take yet because we have not sat down with the producers ... The show will still have dogs and children but I want it to be a bit more adult too."[65] The programme began airing on ITV on Friday 10 September 2010 and the first series ran for 10 episodes, ending on Friday 12 November 2010.[66]
In October 2010, O'Grady attracted media attention when, on an episode of Paul O'Grady Live, he openly criticised the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government for their implementation of mass cuts to government spending on social services, calling them "bastards" and proclaiming "Do you know what got my back up? Those Tories hooping and hollering when they heard about the cuts. Gonna scrap the pensions – yeah! – no more wheelchairs – yeah!… I bet when they were children they laughed in Bambi when his mother got shot."[67] His Bambi quote was soon after quoted by Peter Taffe at the Socialism 2010 conference.[68] O'Grady also used the show to voice his support for those student protesters who had occupied and vandalised the headquarters of the Conservative Party at Millbank Tower on Wednesday 10 November 2010.[69][70]
"I felt I was part of the PR machine. There was so much interference. They'd want this guest or that guest. Every question had to go through the lawyers. I was just another plug for someone's book or film."
Paul O'Grady on why he quit his chat show, 2012.[71]
The show was picked up for a second series and a Lady Gaga special.
It was revealed on 6 October 2011, that ITV had axed his show after 2 series.[72][73] Speaking to the Daily Mail, O'Grady stated that ITV had originally asked him to return for a third series but that he had refused, claiming that he had had enough of the chat show format.[71] He remarked that he had become fed up with the "interference" from the show's producers, and the fact that certain guests had appeared on air while under the influence of the illicit drug cocaine.[71]
[edit] Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs: 2012
Paul is currently filming a new 6-episode series for airing on ITV in Q3 2012, covering life at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
Radio work[link]
O'Grady made his radio debut on 12 April 2003, when he stood in for Jonathan Ross to present the Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 2. Then, later in December 2003, O'Grady presented a two-part documentary about Cilla Black's illustrious career, with contributions from Black's other celebrity friends. O'Grady then presented his own radio show for the first time on Christmas Day afternoon of that year.
On 28 December 2003, O'Grady chose the tracks on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.
Throughout 2004 and 2005, O'Grady voiced many adverts for other local radio stations.
O'Grady returned to Radio 2 on Easter Saturday 2006, with his very own live 3-hour special radio show. The show featured special guests and celebrity chat, the best music and a whole host of games and competitions. O'Grady also taste-tested a selection of the finest Easter Eggs in a search for Britain's Best.
O'Grady then stood in for Elaine Paige on her Sunday radio show Elaine Paige on Sunday for two weeks, on 28 January and 4 February 2007. John Barrowman then took over from O'Grady for the following two weeks, before Paige returned.
O'Grady returned with his own show on Easter Monday 2007. The show featured special guests and celebrity chat, the best music and a whole host of games and competitions.
In January 2008, O'Grady once again presented Elaine Paige on Sunday, on 13, 20 and 27 January. He sat in for her once again on 31 August, and again on 9 November.
On Christmas 2008, O'Grady returned to Radio 2 with his own show The Paul O'Grady Christmas Show, featuring a seasonal mix of Christmas music and some of the biggest hits of the year, including music from McFly and Girls Aloud.
O'Grady presented a two-part documentary on New Year's Eve and New Years Day 2008 on Radio 2, which was a tribute to Bill Cotton.
From 22 February 2009, O'Grady returned to Elaine Paige on Sunday to present the show for a month, whilst Paige was on tour.
After 6 years, O'Grady was given his own show on BBC Radio 2 entitled Paul O'Grady On The Wireless, each Sunday.[74]
O'Grady once again presented a Christmas Day show in 2009, from 11am until 1pm. Like The Paul O'Grady Christmas Show that he presented last year, the show featured a round-up of the nation's favourite pantos. There was also a Christmas Motown Triple, a Carpenters Christmas Triple, and Christmas Thank Yous.
On 7 September 2010, O'Grady presented 'Come To The Cabaret', a documentary celebrating the boozy, glitzy and subversive delights of the cabaret.
For the third year running, O'Grady once again presented a special show on Christmas Day. This year, the show was three hours long, running on Christmas morning from 10.00am until 1.00pm. There were Christmas phone messages from celebrity callers, and Christmas triples from Bette Middler, Sir Cliff Richard and Dolly Parton.
Personal life[link]
"We used to fight like cat and dog. We were two alpha males vying to be top dog. He was a tricky b****** and I can be tricky too. We'd have real punch-ups. But I'd tell him everything. Suddenly, I was totally on my own. That's when I said, "Lily's going." Because he's always been here with Lily. I thought "I can't do it any more." So she sort of died with him."
Paul O'Grady on the death of Brendan Murphy, 2012.[71]
O'Grady is openly gay. However, he has previously had relationships with women as well as men, and married a Portuguese lesbian, Teresa Fernandes, who was from a Catholic family, at Harrow Road register office, London,[1] on 1 April 1977[75] in a marriage of convenience. They separated in 1980, before eventually divorcing in 2005.[1] He is very close to his daughter Sharyn, who married her childhood friend Philip Mousley at Liverpool Town Hall on 30 July 2005. O'Grady's long-term lover and business partner of 20 years was Irish television producer Brendan Frank Murphy (4 March 1956[7] – 9 June 2005), who was HIV+ and died of brain cancer at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London,[76] five days before O'Grady's fiftieth birthday. After the first show of series three of The Paul O'Grady Show, there was a tribute to him.
O'Grady owns a flat in London, and a farm in Aldington near Ashford, Kent where his neighbour is Julian Clary. The farm is stocked with 32 animals, including a flock of geese which O'Grady refers to as the "Geese-stapo" (a pun on the Gestapo).[77] O'Grady had a grey Shih Tzu/Bichon Frise crossbreed dog named Buster Elvis Savage, who was euthanised on 19 November 2009,[78] after he was diagnosed with cancer.[79] A spokeswoman said "Buster had been suffering and in a lot of pain. Putting him down was the kind thing to do."[80] O'Grady would later dedicate the second volume of his autobiography to his canine companion, describing him as "The greatest canine star since Lassie."[81]
This came a few days after O'Grady announced on his show that Buster was 'in retirement' after viewers had asked if Buster had been given away, as Buster frequently appeared on his TV show with him, but has recently been replaced by one of O'Grady's other dogs, Olga, a Cairn Terrier after whom O'Grady named his recently formed production company, 'Olga TV'.[79] He also has another dog called Louie, who only appeared a few times in the first ITV series (mainly due to his bad behaviour), before he adopted Olga live on air.[77] On 29 September 2009, O'Grady adopted a puppy called Bullseye, who appeared on his show after much nagging from the crowd.
O'Grady became a grandfather on 26 December 2006, when his daughter Sharyn gave birth to a son, Abel. He revealed on his show on 2 December 2009 that he had become a grandfather again as Sharyn had given birth to a girl in the early hours of that morning.[82]
O'Grady is publicly known for having had many high profile and celebrity friends, including the late politician Mo Mowlam, actresses Amanda Mealing and Barbara Windsor, comedienne Brenda Gilhoohy, and singer Cilla Black.[83]
Health[link]
In April 2002, O'Grady suffered a heart attack after weeks of complaining that he felt unwell; after an emergency operation and weeks of rest, his health recovered and he gave up smoking for two years.[citation needed] O'Grady went back to his 40-a-day habit after his lover and business partner Brendan Murphy died; he had continued to work on the show at the same time as nursing Murphy. He suffered a second heart attack on 30 June 2006;[84] again he was taken to the William Harvey Hospital and into intensive care. He was given an angioplasty operation before being moved to a cardiac unit. He was released on 4 July and again promised to give up smoking.[85] He therefore postponed the new series of his show from 4 September to the end of the month. The delayed second series started on 25 September 2006, and ran over three weeks into January (for the only time in the show's history), due to its 3 week delay start.
Books[link]
On 18 September 2008, O'Grady released his first autobiography entitled, At My Mother's Knee... And Other Low Joints,[86] which was given a positive review by Private Eye who noted that the book did not fall into the most common celebrity biography traps of being ghost written, settling scores or not sounding like it had been written by its subject. His second book entitled The Devil Rides Out: The Second Coming was released on the 16 September 2010.[87] He confirmed on 14 October 2010, during an interview on Loose Women, that he will write a third and final chapter.[88] his third autobiography will be called savage due for released on 27th September 2012
Stand-up videos[link]
| Title | Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Live from the Hackney Empire | 1991 | Live at London's Hackney Empire |
| Live: Paying the Rent | 1993 | |
| Live and Outrageous from The Garrick Theatre | 2 June 1997 | Live at London's Garrick Theatre |
| The Live Show | 1 October 1999 |
References[link]
Footnotes[link]
- ^ a b c Paul O'Grady, The One Show, 16/08/2011
- ^ "Paul O'Grady on life, love and quitting his chat show". Mirror.co.uk. 2011-12-09. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/tv/news/2011/12/09/paul-o-grady-on-life-love-and-quitting-his-chat-show-115875-23620990/. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
- ^ "Honorary degree for TV star Paul O'Grady". Dmu.ac.uk. 2010-07-14. http://www.dmu.ac.uk/news_events/news/homepage/10-07-14-degree-for-paul-ogrady.jsp. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ a b "O'Grady's monster". Independent.co.uk. 1995-10-22. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/ogradys-monster-1578781.html. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 56-62.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 02-03.
- ^ a b "Deaths England and Wales 1984-2006". Findmypast.co.uk. http://www.findmypast.co.uk/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 05.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 01.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 06.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 07-09.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 07, 163-164.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 169.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 03.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 169-171.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 179-185.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 191.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 192-193.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 09.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 185-187, 205-208.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 32.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 199-200.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 216-217, 233.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 12.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 236-237.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 251-270.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 274, 278-280, 311.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 293-294, 319.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 15-16.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 294-306.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. pp. 333-340.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 16-22
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 37-45
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 22-23.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 84-99
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 27-33.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 13-14.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 47-82.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 84-99, 110.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 13.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 137, 144-152.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 153-171.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 176-188.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 34-35.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 188-199, 203-212.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 212-217.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 28-32
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 224-225.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 239-241.
- ^ O'Grady 2008. p. 95.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 243-253.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. pp. 261-294.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. 25-27.
- ^ Simpson 2008. pp. 35-36.
- ^ "Lily Savage will make last performance in pantomime at the Mayflower in Southampton (From Daily Echo)". Dailyecho.co.uk. 2010-03-19. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/5070997.Lily_Savage_to_take_last_bow_in_city/. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady tipped to join Britain's Got Talent?". Whatsontv.co.uk. 2010-07-17. http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/reality/britains-got-talent-2010/news/paul-ogrady-tipped-to-join-britains-got-talent/9693. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. xiii.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. viii.
- ^ a b Simpson 2008. p. ix.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. x.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. xi.
- ^ Simon Reynolds (20 February 2008). "Paul O'Grady to appear in Doctor Who". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a89758/paul-ogrady-to-appear-in-doctor-who.html. Retrieved 18 May 2008.
- ^ Nicola Methven (6 June 2009). "Savage cuts for Paul O'Grady chat show". Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/06/06/savage-cuts-for-paul-o-grady-chat-show-115875-21419539/. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- ^ a b Kilkelly, Daniel. "Paul O'Grady 'agrees to ITV return'". http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a181926/paul-ogrady-agrees-to-itv-return.html. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
- ^ "People.co.uk - PAUL O'GRADY GLAD TO BE BACK". www.people.co.uk. http://www.people.co.uk/news/news/tm_method=full%26objectID=22143464%26siteID=93463-name_page.html. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady Live - ITV Entertainment". Itv.com. http://www.itv.com/paulogradylive/. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady takes on the government". The Guardian. 26 October 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/oct/26/paul-ogrady-government-monkey. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "Socialism 2010: An Inspirational Weekend". The Socialist. 11 November 2010. http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/646/10587/11-11-2010/socialism-2010. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady supports student protestors". Coalition of Resistance. 13 November 2010. http://www.coalitionofresistance.org.uk/2010/11/paul-o-grady-supports-student-protestors/. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady supports student protestors". SWP Online. http://www.swp.org.uk/video/11/11/2010/paul-ogrady-supports-student-protestors. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
- ^ a b c d Hardy 2012.
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a344112/paul-ogrady-live-cancelled-by-itv.html
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a344337/paul-ogrady-on-chatshow-end-everythings-hunky-dory-with-itv.html
- ^ "Paul O'Grady". BBC Radio 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/ogrady/. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
- ^ Paul O'Grady: The Second Coming.
- ^ "Gay Labour peer and Lily Savage star dragged into producer's £300k High Court battle over will". Dailymail.co.uk. 2007-08-18. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-476275/Gay-Labour-peeer-Lily-Savage-star-dragged-producers-300k-High-Court-battle-will.html. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ a b "The Paul O'Grady Show - The Farm Animals". Channel 4. http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/P/paulogrady/animals.html. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady's dog Buster dies of cancer". mirror.co.uk. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/11/20/paul-o-grady-s-dog-buster-dies-of-cancer-115875-21836567/. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
- ^ a b "The Paul O'Grady Show - Buster and Olga". Channel 4. http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/P/paulogrady/buster.html. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Holmwood, Leigh (20 November 2009). "O’Grady agony as Buster is put down". The Sun (London). http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2738422/Paul-OGrady-agony-as-pet-dog-Buster-is-put-down.html. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
- ^ O'Grady 2010. p. opening leaf.
- ^ "Paul O'Grady: I really do enjoy being a doting grandad". http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/03/17/paul-o-grady-i-really-do-enjoy-being-a-doting-grandad-100252-20635323/. Retrieved 28 April 2008.
- ^ Simpson 2008. p. xii-xiii.
- ^ "O'Grady is admitted to hospital". BBC News. 30 June 2006. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5135750.stm. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ Sara Nathan (4 July 2006). "I really will give up cigs". London: The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006300584,00.html. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints". Amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0553819488. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ "Devil Rides Out by Paul O'Grady". Expressbookshop.co.uk. http://www.expressbookshop.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p13838.html. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ^ "". "Paul O'Grady On Loose Women 14-10-10 Interview Part 1/2". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXsxpZgb9FM#t=2m31s. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
Bibliography[link]
- Hardy, Rebecca (18 February 2012). "Why did I give up the chat show? I couldn't stand the guests!". Daily Mail Weekend (Daily Mail and General Trust).
- O'Grady, Paul (2008). At My Mother's Knee... and Other Low Joints. London: Bantam.
- O'Grady, Paul (2010). The Devil Rides Out: The Second Coming. London: Bantam.
External links[link]
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| Preceded by Les Dawson |
Host of Blankety Blank 1997–2002 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Persondata | |
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| Name | O'Grady, Paul |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | British comedian, actor and television presenter |
| Date of birth | 14 June 1955 |
| Place of birth | Birkenhead, Wirral, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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| Matt Cardle | |
|---|---|
| Cardle performing on 16 December 2010 Cardle performing on 16 December 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Matthew Sheridan Cardle |
| Born | (1983-04-15) 15 April 1983 (age 29) Southampton, England |
| Origin | Halstead, Essex, England |
| Genres | Pop rock, alternative rock, pop |
| Occupations | Singer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 2005–2012 |
| Labels | Syco Music (2010-2012) Columbia (2010-2012) |
| Associated acts | Seven Summers, Darwyn, The X Factor finalists 2010 |
| Website | www.mattcardlemusic.com |
Matthew Sheridan "Matt" Cardle (born 15 April 1983)[1] 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.[2] It sold 439,000 copies in its first week to become the UK Christmas number one.
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Early life[link]
Cardle was born in Southampton, Hampshire, to David and Jennifer Cardle[1] (née Horner)[3] on 15 April 1983.[1] His family lived in Bristol before moving to Essex.[1] He attended the independent Stoke College in Suffolk,[4] then the Institute in Colchester.
Career[link]
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.[5][6][7] In 2009, he became the frontman and guitarist of a rock band called Seven Summers.[8] They performed live on Sue Marchant's BBC radio program on 8 December 2009 and released a self-titled album on 22 January 2010.[9]
[edit] 2010: The X Factor
Main article: The X Factor (UK series 7)
In 2010, Cardle auditioned for the seventh series of The X Factor, singing Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good".[10] 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.[11][12] Cardle received the most votes every week from week 2, being beaten only by Mary Byrne in week 1.[13] 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.[14] The song was nominated in the Best British Single category at the 2011 BRIT Awards.[15]
2011-present[link]
On 15 March 2011, it was reported that Cardle has signed a record deal with Syco Music in a joint venture with Columbia Records, becoming the first The X Factor winner not to be exclusively signed to Simon Cowell's label.[16]
On 18 August 2011, Cardle revealed that his debut album, Letters, would be released in the UK on 17 October 2011. Whilst working on the album Cardle collaborated with various writers including Eg White.[17]
The first single "Run for Your Life" had its first radio play on 5 September 2011 on BBC Radio 1, ahead of its release on 9 October. Upon release and an X Factor return performance, "Run for Your Life" debuted at number 6 on the UK Top 40 Chart the week ending 16 October. Letters debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums chart and spent 16 consecutive weeks in the top 40.[18]
On 20 May 2012 Cardle announced on Twitter that he had "parted ways" with Columbia Records. The label declined to comment. [19][20]
Discography[link]
See also: Darwyn (band) and Seven Summers
- Albums
| Album Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
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| UK | IRE | ||
| Letters |
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2 | 2 |
- Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [21] |
IRL [22] |
SCO [23] |
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| 2010 | "When We Collide" | 1 | 1 | 1 | Letters |
| 2011 | "Run for Your Life"[24] | 6 | 12 | 6 | |
| "Starlight"[25] | 185 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | "Amazing"[26] | 84 | — | — | |
- As featured artist
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | IRL | SCO [27] |
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| 2010 | "Heroes" (as part of The X Factor finalists) | 1 | 1 | 1 | Non-album single |
Publications[link]
- Cardle, Matt (2010). Matt Cardle: My Story. Harper. ISBN 978-0-00-742670-6. [28]
References[link]
- ^ a b c d Cardle, Matt (2010). Matt Cardle: My Story. Harper. ISBN 978-0-00-742670-6.
- ^ "X Factor winner Matt Cardle hailed by his Essex family". BBC News. 13 December 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/essex/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9281000/9281554.stm. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ Births England and Wales 1837-2006[verification needed]
- ^ Matt Cardle (15 Dec 2010). "Matt Cardle... in his own words". The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/3277354/SUN-reveals-story-of-pop-sensation-Matt-Cardles-journey-from-Essex-lad-to-superstar.html.
- ^ http://www.unsigned.com/darwyn
- ^ Andrea Magrath (18 November 2010). "Matt Cardle's pop past: X Factor favourite struggled to find fame with two bands before hitting the big time". The Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1323543/X-Factor-2010-Matt-Cardles-pop-past-bands.html.
- ^ Darwyn MySpace website
- ^ "X Factor's Matt Cardle's ex band Seven Summers climb charts". Metro.co.uk. 14 October 2010. http://www.metro.co.uk/music/843962-matt-cardles-former-band-climb-the-charts-thanks-to-x-factor. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ Interview and performance by Seven Summers on Sue Merchant radio show on 8 December 2009
- ^ "X Factor favourite taking show in his stride". Halstead Gazette. 1 October 2010. http://www.halsteadgazette.co.uk/news/8426666.X_Factor_favourite_taking_show_in_his_stride/.
- ^ "X Factor: Matt Cardle won most votes every week". The Telegraph. 14 December 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/x-factor/8198026/X-Factor-Matt-Cardle-won-most-votes-every-week.html. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ "'I wanted to kiss Rihanna': Matt Cardle admits to 'snog fantasy' with Only Girl In The World star on X Factor final". Daily Mail. 13 December 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1338155/X-Factor-2010-Winner-Matt-Cardle-I-wanted-kiss-Rihanna.html. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ Horsley, Jon (13 Dec 2010). "X Factor voting results revealed". Yahoo! Entertainment. http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/x-factor-blog/article/37873/x-factor-voting-results-revealed.html. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ^ "Rihanna crowned queen of the charts". Belfast Telegraph. Independent News and Media (Northern Ireland). 2011-01-09. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/rihanna-crowned-queen-of-the-charts-15049989.html. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ "Essex: Matt Cardle and Olly Murs in Brit Award battle". East Anglian Daily Times. Archant Regional. 2011-01-14. http://www.eadt.co.uk/entertainment/music/essex_matt_cardle_and_olly_murs_in_brit_award_battle_1_774483. Retrieved 2011-02-14.
- ^ "Si Cardles up to Columbia". The Sun. 15 March 2011. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/3468299/Si-Cardles-up-to-Columbia.html. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a335733/matt-cardle-announces-debut-album-letters.html
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/singles
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a382608/matt-cardle-leaves-record-label.html
- ^ https://twitter.com/#!/matt_cardle_uk/status/204310259714637824
- ^ "UK Charts >". Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/matt%20cardle/.
- ^ "Irish Charts >". irish-charts.com Hung Medien. http://irish-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Matt+Cardle.
- ^ Peak positions for singles in Scotland:
- For "When We Collide": "When We Collide on Scottish Singles Chart". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/22/2011-01-01/. Retrieved 2011-05-08.
- ^ "debut single 'Run For Your Life' written by Gary Barlow". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a335962/matt-cardle-debut-single-run-for-your-life-written-by-gary-barlow.html.
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a347461/matt-cardle-confirms-new-single-starlight-thanks-fans-for-support.html
- ^ "Watch ‘Amazing’ Video Premiere Now!". Columbia. http://www.mattcardlemusic.com/gb/news/entry/watch_amazing_video_premiere_now/.
- ^ Peak positions for singles in Scotland:
- For "Heroes": "Heroes on Scottish Singles Chart". The Official Charts Company. Chart Information Network. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/22/2010-12-04/. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
- ^ Roche, Elisa (14 December 2010). "Now X factor's Matt Cardle will top book charts". The Daily Express. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/217285/Now-X-Factor-s-Matt-Cardle-will-top-book-charts. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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| Name | Cardle, Matt |
| Alternative names | Cardle, Matthew |
| Short description | singer |
| Date of birth | 15 April 1983 |
| Place of birth | Southampton, Hampshire |
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Not to be confused with David Williams.
| David Walliams | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | David Edward Williams |
| Born | (1971-08-20) 20 August 1971 (age 40) Merton, Surrey, England |
| Medium | Film, Television |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Genres | Character comedy, Sketch comedy, Black comedy |
| Influences | Steve Martin Vic Reeves Ade Edmondson Rik Mayall Barry Humphries Monty Python Anthony Head Rowan Atkinson |
| Spouse | Lara Stone (m. 2010) «start: (2010-05-16)»"Marriage: Lara Stone to David Walliams" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/David_Walliams) |
| Notable works and roles | Little Britain Rock Profile Come Fly with Me Black Books Britain's Got Talent |
David Edward Walliams (born Williams; 20 August 1971) is a comedian, writer, children's author and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile. More recently he and Lucas wrote and starred in Come Fly with Me.
Walliams joined the judging panel for series 6 of Britain's Got Talent for 2012.
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Early life[link]
Born in Merton, southwest London, on 20 August 1971 to Peter, a London Transport engineer, and Kathleen Williams, a lab technician, Williams was brought up in Banstead, Surrey.[citation needed] His parents appeared on The Friday Night Project when he was the guest star on the show. He was educated at Collingwood Boys' School in Wallington, Surrey, (now Collingwood School) and the independent Reigate Grammar School (where he was a contemporary of Robert Shearman).[citation needed] He was a member of the National Youth Theatre, where he met Matt Lucas.[citation needed] Walliams studied drama at the University of Bristol from 1989 to 1992, one year below Simon Pegg.[citation needed]
Williams changed his name to Walliams (
/ˈwæliəmz/) when he joined the actors' trade union Equity, as there was already a member named David Williams.[1] This was spoofed in a mock interview on Rock Profile, when Robbie Williams was continuously referred to as 'Robbie Walliams'.
Television and film career[link]
After leaving university, his first job was writing for The Ant & Dec Show, a children's show that aired on CBBC from 1995 to 1997[2], his first appearance onscreen was as "Lesley Luncheonmeat" on Sky1's show Games World in 1993. He appeared alongside Alex Verrey, who played Big Boy Barry, every Tuesday evening. He went on to be "The Lift" on the first series of the CBBC gameshow Incredible Games in 1994. In 1998 he wrote and starred in Barking, a late night sketch show broadcast on Channel 4 and featuring a host of, back then, unknown stars such as Catherine Tate, Peter Kay and Mackenzie Crook. He appeared with The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss, who wrote and appeared in Doctor Who parodies The Pitch of Fear, The Web of Caves and The Kidnappers for BBC2's "Doctor Who Night" in 1999. He later performed in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio play Phantasmagoria, written by Gatiss. Walliams appeared with Matt Lucas in the video of the Fat Les song Vindaloo (the unofficial anthem for the England national football team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup) and had a cameo role in a 1999 episode of Simon Pegg's Spaced (1x3 "Art") as Vulva, an artist/collaborator from Brian's past and now a self-proclaimed artist of impressionism.
He played Jake Plaskow in the BBC's Attachments, set in an internet start-up company. In 2001 he was one of the leads in Cruise of the Gods. In 2003 he appeared in EastEnders and Marple.
From 2003 to 2005 Walliams co-wrote and co-starred in three series of the BBC TV character sketch show Little Britain with Matt Lucas. The programme first aired on BBC3 before moving to the more mainstream BBC1. A successful live stage show of the series, Little Britain Live, was produced in 2006. A number of seasonal and charity specials followed, up to 2009. A spin-off series produced in the USA by HBO, Little Britain USA, followed in 2008.
In 2005 Walliams starred in the video for Charlotte Hatherley's single Bastardo along with Simon Pegg, Lucy Davis and Lauren Laverne. In 2006 he made an appearance in the film A Cock and Bull Story. Later in the year he presented a documentary on James Bond, entitled David Walliams: My Life with James Bond. In 2007 he returned to non-comedy television, garnering excellent reviews[citation needed] for his portrayal of a suave and dangerous manipulator in Stephen Poliakoff's Capturing Mary as well as appearing in the film Virgin Territory. In September 2007, Walliams appeared in the comedy film Run, Fat Boy, Run. Walliams portrayed comedian Frankie Howerd in the BBC4 TV film Rather You Than Me. On 26 August 2008 he made his stage debut at the Gate Theatre in Dublin opposite Michael Gambon in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, in front of an audience that included Pinter himself. The production transferred to London later in the year. In 2010, Walliams appeared alongside Paul Rudd and Steve Carell in the comedy Dinner for Schmucks.
Walliams appeared in Series 7, Episode 6 of the BBC 2 show Top Gear.[3][4]
He also plays the mole-like alien, Gibbis, in the eleventh episode of the sixth series of Doctor Who entitled "The God Complex".
He is the narrator of Are You Having a Laugh? TV and Disability, which was shown on BBC 2 on 25 June 2010.
In early 2011 he hosted new panel show Wall of Fame on Sky 1.
He will star as Uncle Pumblechook in Great Expectations.
Walliams and Lucas[link]
In the late-1990s, playing minor roles in sketches such as The Club. Walliams and Lucas played grotesque caricatures of various rock musicians in the series Rock Profile and in the spoof documentary series Sir Bernard's Stately Homes. They were also stars of the Paramount Comedy Channel show Mash and Peas, and it was in this guise that they appeared in the Fat Les video (see above). They also had small roles in Plunkett and Maclaine as prisoners.
They have appeared together in a music video for the Pet Shop Boys single "I'm with Stupid", in which the two are apparently auditioning their version of the song's video for Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who are tied up and appear to be hostages.
The pair are best known for Little Britain, which ran from 2003 to 2009 on the BBC in the UK and from 2008 onwards on HBO in the USA. Among the characters Walliams played were Emily Howard, a deluded "transvestite", Ray McCooney, an insane Scottish hotel owner, and Sebastian Love, an aide de camp to the Prime Minister (portrayed by Anthony Head) on whom Love has a huge crush.
The characters from Little Britain played by Walliams and Lucas appeared in a 2010 UK television advertising campaign for the Nationwide Building Society.
Their later series was Come Fly with Me, a six-part series airing on BBC One.[5] The first episode was the third most watched programme of Christmas Day 2010, and the most watched comedy of the year.[6]
Charity work[link]
Swimming the English Channel[link]
Walliams took up swimming as a youth as his preferred form of exercise, because he was overweight.[7] On 4 July 2006 he swam the English Channel for the charity Sport Relief (part of Comic Relief).[8][9] He took 10 hours and 34 minutes to swim the 22-mile (35 km) stretch of sea, equivalent to 700 lengths of an Olympic-size swimming pool. This was wrongly reported as one of the top 50 recorded times for an unaided Channel crossing; in reality Walliams placed 167th at the time of crossing in only the CSA listings, excluding the CSPF listings.[10] He raised over £1 million in donations. Under the supervision of his trainer, he trained for nine months to prepare for the swim.[7] The training had to coincide with Walliams and Lucas's Little Britain Live tour, so he daily had to train for several hours before performing on stage in the evening. He first swam from Lee-on-the-Solent near Portsmouth to the Isle Of Wight in around 2 hours and also completed an eight-hour swim off the coast of Croatia before embarking on the cross-channel attempt. He has insisted that prior to his challenge he had never seriously taken part in any sport.[11] The Bluetones' lead singer Mark Morriss wrote a song, "Fade In/Fade Out", in honour of Walliams' achievement; it can be found on their self-titled album, released on 9 October 2006.[citation needed]
Swimming the Strait of Gibraltar[link]
On 7 March 2008, Walliams, along with James Cracknell, swam the 12 miles (19 km) Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco, again for Sport Relief. He successfully completed the swim in just over 4½ hours.[12]
Cycling[link]
In March 2010 Walliams and a group of celebrities cycled an end-to-end journey through the UK, raising over £1 million for Sport Relief. Walliams suffered a serious fall when tackling the Kirkstone Pass, a thousand-foot climb in the Lake District but was able to complete the ride.[13]
24 Hour Panel People[link]
In March 2011, he undertook "24 Hour Panel People", in which he took part in back to back recordings of various panel show formats over the course of 24 hours to raise money for Comic Relief. The recordings were streamed live on the BBC website. The shows featured included Would I Lie To You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Just a Minute, It's Only TV...But I Like It, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Generation Game, Through the Keyhole, Blankety Blank, Mock the Week, Argumental, Celebrity Juice, QI, Mastermind, Have I Got News for You, Call My Bluff, and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Swimming the Thames[link]
On 4 February 2011, Walliams announced that he would swim a 140-mile length of the River Thames in aid of Sport Relief. Starting on 5 September at Lechlade-on-Thames Walliams swam the 140-mile swimmable length of the 215-mile river, completing his challenge on 12 September 2011 reaching Westminster Bridge.[14][15][16] On the first day of the swim, he experienced a symptom of hypothermia, possibly due to his not wearing a wetsuit. He later encountered severe stomach problems due to the bacteria in the Thames and suffered a torn disc. He swam up to twelve hours a day. During his swim, Walliams helped rescue a dog that had slipped loose from its owner and jumped in the water to join David. The Labrador dog got into difficulties on returning to the riverbank and was lifted out of the water by the owner, with a hand from Walliams. Animal rights group PETA declared they would award him an honour.[17] Upon finishing his eight-day swim, he found out he made over £1 million for Sport Relief.
Books[link]
In early 2008 Walliams signed a contract with HarperCollins to publish two children's books.[18] The debut novel, The Boy In The Dress, illustrated by Quentin Blake, was released worldwide on 1 November 2008. It explores several of the themes of Little Britain from Walliams' own life on an emotional level, such as the camp humour of cross-dressing and effeminacy.[1] The story recounts a neglected 12-year-old boy's search for a female role model, his friendship with the popular girl in school, and the ways in which relationships develop along gender lines. The story has a strong resonance with Anne Fine's 1989 book Bill's New Frock.
In November 2009 came Mr Stink, again illustrated by Quentin Blake, about a 12-year-old girl who meets a tramp and helps look after him. She keeps him hidden from her family. The book consists of 26 illustrated chapters full of jokes. It is aimed at teenagers and children over 9. The book was awarded the Children's Award in the inaugural People's Book Prize in 2010.[19]
On 28 October 2010 he published his third book Billionaire Boy, illustrated by Tony Ross.[citation needed] It tells the story of Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in the world. Joe has everything he could ever want: his own Formula One racing car, a thousand pairs of trainers, 8 billion pounds, even an orang-utan for a butler, but there is just one thing he really needs: a friend.[citation needed] The book included a 'billion pound note' that was used to enter a competition to win a day as a billionaire in London.[citation needed]
His fourth book, 'Gangsta Granny' was released in October 2011 and again illustrated by Tony Ross. It tells the story of Ben who is bored every time he is made to stay at his grandma’s house as all she wants to do is to play board games and eat cabbage soup. But Ben finds out she was once an international jewel thief and all her life, she has been plotting to steal the crown jewels, and wants Ben to help.
Awards[link]
Walliams was given a special award in recognition of his sporting efforts for charity. Matt Lucas made a documentary of this, entitled Little Britain's Big Swim, which is on the DVD. On 6 November 2006 he won the Mirror's "Pride of Britain" Award for the Most Influential Public Figure as he raised more than £1 million swimming the channel for the charity Sport Relief. Although initially tipped as a contender for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year poll for 2006, he failed to make the final shortlist of 10 contenders. Walliams was given a special award during the ceremony for his achievement. In July 2006 he became Patron of 'Cardiac Risk in the Young.' In September 2011, David won the Lincolnshire Young People's Book Award in the 9-11 year old category with his book, Mr Stink. The award is voted for by the school children of Lincolnshire.
At the 2012 National Television Awards, David won the Landmark Achievement Award, for his television career and achievements for Sport Relief.
Personal life[link]
In 2009 Walliams began dating Dutch model Lara Stone. On 20 January 2010, it became known that they were engaged. Walliams proposed to Stone in Los Angeles, after her parents gave their blessing to the relationship.[20] On 16 May 2010 the couple were married at central London's Claridge's Hotel.[21][22]
He has previously been romantically linked to Patsy Kensit, Abi Titmuss, Emily Scott and model Lauren Budd.[23]
Walliams has been diagnosed with Bipolar disorder,[24] and described his 2006 swim of the English Channel as "some sort of redemption".[25] He admitted to going through periods of intense self-loathing and suffered a mental breakdown and had insomnia for nine months until he sought professional help.[citation needed]
Partial credits[link]
- Games World – Leslie (1994)
- Mash and Peas – Gareth Peas (1996)
- Dennis Pennis R.I.P. – Anthony Cream Jr. (1997)
- Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round – Newsagent (1998)
- Sir Bernard's Stately Homes – Anthony Rogers (1998)
- Bang Bang it's Reeves & Mortimer – Various characters (1999)
- Plunkett & Macleane
- Rock Profile – Various characters (1999)
- Spaced – Vulva (1999)
- Doctor Who (spoof): The Web of Caves – Chief Alien (1999)
- Doctor Who (spoof): The Kidnappers – David (1999)
- Doctor Who (spoof): The Pitch of Fear – Sydney Newman (1999)
- Doctor Who: Phantasmagoria – Quincy Flowers (1999)
- Black Books – Customer (2000)
- Time Gentlemen Please: Entente Lime Cordial – Marcel (2002)
- Attachments (TV series) – Jake (2002)
- Cruise of the Gods – Jeff Monks (2002)
- EastEnders Christmas Special – Ray (2003)
- Little Britain – Various characters (2003–present)
- Monkey Trousers – Various characters (2004)
- Shaun of the Dead – voice of a news reporter (2004)
- Marple – George Bartlett (2004)
- A Cock and Bull Story – Parson (2005)
- Hustle – Shop Assistant (2005)
- Hotel Babylon – Adrian Tintagel (2007)
- Stardust – Sextus (2007)
- Waking the Dead – Bell (2007)
- Neighbours – guest starring as Lou Todd (Lou and Andy) from Little Britain (6 September 2007)
- Run Fat Boy Run – cake customer (2007)
- Capturing Mary – Greville White (2007)
- Rather You Than Me – Frankie Howerd (2008)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – voice of Bulgy Bear (2008)
- The Boy In The Dress – written by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake (2008)
- Mr Stink – written by David Walliams, illustrated by Quentin Blake
- Dinner for Schmucks – new client Mueller (2010)
- Marmaduke (film) – Anton Harrison (2010)
- Billionaire Boy – written by David Walliams, illustrated by Tony Ross
- The Itch of the Golden Nit – The Golden Nit
- Doctor Who – Gibbis (2011)
- Britain's Got Talent – Judge (2012–present)
- The Royal Bodyguard – Sir Ambrose (2012)
Bibliography[link]
- Neil Simpson: Yeah but No But: The Biography of Matt Lucas and David Walliams: London: John Blake: 2006: ISBN 1-84454-258-0
- Boyd Hilton, Matt Lucas, David Walliams: Inside Little Britain: London: Ebury Press: 2006: ISBN 0-09-191231-8
- The Boy in the Dress: Children's Chatty Fiction (2008)
- Mr Stink: Children's Chatty Fiction (2009)
- Billionaire Boy: Children's Chatty Fiction (2010)
- Gangsta Granny: 2011: (Harper Collins)
References[link]
- ^ a b Lee, Sandra (12 October 2008). "Send in the Clown". Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne): pp. 27–29.
- ^ (in English) Britain's Got More Talent. episode 4. season 6. 14 April 2012. ITV. ITV2. ""I had two jobs early on, one was writing scripts for ant and dec on their show 'the ant and dec show'""
- ^ "Top Gear – Classic Clips". http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/videos/index.shtml?cat=celeb&id=87. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ "David Walliams takes some acting tips from Michael Gambon". The Sunday Times (London). 28 October 2007. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article2732749.ece. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
- ^ "David Walliams and Matt Lucas reunite for new BBC show set in an airport". Daily Telegraph (London). 29 May 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7780315/David-Walliams-and-Matt-Lucas-reunite-for-new-BBC-show-set-in-an-airport.html. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ "EastEnders wins Christmas Day viewing figures battle". BBC News. 26 December 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12080132.
- ^ a b "Desert Island Discs with David Walliams". Desert Island Discs. 27 February 2009. BBC Radio 4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20090222.shtml.
- ^ "BBC SPORT Watch Walliams' Channel swim". BBC News. 2006-07-04. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sport_relief/5143966.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ Naughton, Philippe (4 July 2006). "Little Britain star swims the Channel". The Times (London). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2255100,00.html.
- ^ "Channel Swimming Association Ltd". Channelswimmingassociation.com. http://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ www.stuff.co.nz[dead link]
- ^ "BBC SPORT – Walliams completes swim to Africa". BBC News. 2008-03-07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/sport_relief/7282858.stm. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ "Sport Relief – Million Pound Bike Ride". http://www.bbc.co.uk/sportrelief/news/040310_walliams.shtml. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ "BBC News – David Walliams takes on Sport Relief Thames swim challenge". Bbc.co.uk. 2011-08-30. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14712941. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ "Walliams vs The Thames: David Walliams' 140 mile River Thames Sport Relief Swim". Littlebritainfans.com. http://www.littlebritainfans.com/thames_swim.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ "David Walliams Completes 140-Mile River Thames Swim Challenge For Sport Relief Charity | Showbiz News | Sky News". News.sky.com. http://news.sky.com/home/showbiz-news/article/16067916. Retrieved 2011-11-06.
- ^ WALLIAMS TO BE HONOURED FOR DOG RESCUE. Express.co.uk (2011-09-13). Retrieved on 2012-04-07.
- ^ "Walliams plans children's stories". BBC News Online (London). 17 December 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7148694.stm. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
- ^ Neilan, Catherine (10 July 2010). "Walliams among winners for inaugural People's Book Prize". The Bookseller. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/124051-walliams-among-winners-for-inaugural-peoples-book-prize.html. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ "David Walliams to marry model Lara Stone". BBC News Online (London). 20 January 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8470029.stm. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ^ "David Walliams marries Dutch model Lara Stone". BBC News Online (London). 17 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8685843.stm. Retrieved 16 May 2010.
- ^ Nathan, Sara; Cable, Simon (17 May 2010). "David Walliams gives his laydee Lara Stone a kiss as they leave their lavish £80,000 wedding at Claridges in London". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1278651/David-Walliams-Lara-Stone-married-lavish-80-000-ceremony-attended-star-cast-celebrity-friends.html.
- ^ McDermott, Nick; Cohen, Tamara (20 January 2010). "David Walliams can't hold back the joy as model fiancée Lara shows off her engagement ring". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1244590/Little-Britain-star-David-Walliams-wed-Lara-Stone-whirlwind-romance.html. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ Mills, Simon (2 Sep 2011). "David Walliams: In at the deep end". ES Magazine (London). http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/article-23983345-david-walliams-in-at-the-deep-end.do. Retrieved 2 Sep 2011.
- ^ Hastings, Chris (21 February 2009). "Comic Walliams speaks of depression battle". Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/4743574/Comic-Walliams-speaks-of-depression-battle.html. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
External links[link]
http://www.collingwoodschool.org.uk/
- David Walliams at the Internet Movie Database
- Walliams page on BBC Comedy Guide
- David Walliams attempts to swim English Channel (Flash player required)
- Comedy Zone Profile of Walliams
- Information and news on David Walliams
- Information and news on Lucas and Walliams
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| Name | Walliams, David |
| Alternative names | Williams, David |
| Short description | English comedian, writer, and actor |
| Date of birth | 20 August 1971 |
| Place of birth | Merton, Surrey, England |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | |
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