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Jo Wood (born 15 March 1955, née Karslake) is an English model, television personality and entrepreneur. She is the ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood.^[1]

Wood was born and brought up in Essex. Her father was an architectural model maker and her mother was an Avon lady and a doll maker. Wood worked as a model until she was 22, and was The Sun's "Face of 1972".^[2]

She met Ronnie Wood in 1977; they were married on 1 January 1985.^[3] She accompanied him regularly on tour, looking after his wardrobe and diet.^[2]

Wood has travelled the world, and has lived in Los Angeles, New York and is now settled in London. When living in New York, Wood designed clothes for the fashion label No Scruples.

Jo Wood Organics[link]

Following a serious illness in 1989, Wood began to follow a strict organic lifestyle.^[2] In 2005 she launched her own range of organic fragrance, bath and bodycare products, Jo Wood Organics. The range has won many awards, including being Highly Commended in the Marie Claire Prix d'Excellence de la Beaute Awards.^{[citation needed]}

Strictly Come Dancing[link]

In 2009, she partnered Brendan Cole in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing. The duo were eliminated in Week 6 of the competition when they received 14/40 for their samba.^[2]

Family[link]

Wood had her first son, Jamie, at the age of 18. She and Ronnie Wood have two children together, Leah and Tyrone. Jesse Wood, Ronnie's son from a previous marriage, completed the household. Wood has six grandchildren; her most recent was born to her daughter Leah in May 2009.^[2]

Jo's two sons Jamie and Tyrone run a gallery in Mayfair, London called the Scream Gallery. The artist Paul Karslake is her brother.

Charity[link]

Jo supports various charities. In January 2009 she went to Bangladesh with the People Tree Foundation to support the production of ethical and fair-trade fashion, and in August 2010 she made the pilgrimage to the sacred Mount Kailash in Tibet with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev writing features for National Geographic Green & Hello! Magazine. Jo also visited Sadhguru's Project GreenHands initiative in India which plants trees to help combat the devastating effects of climate change.

Jo has taken to the catwalk two years running for Naomi Campbell's Fashion for Relief in support of the White Ribbon Alliance.

In 2009 she worked alongside daughter Leah to promote 18 Degrees of Inspiration for climate change charity Global Cool. In the same year she also joined the 10:10 project, a movement that encourages people to reduce their carbon emissions ^[4].

Mrs Paisley's Lashings[link]

In 2009, Wood set up her own pop up restaurant 'Mrs Paisley's Lashings' with the UK eco chef Arthur Potts Dawson. The restaurant was set up in Wood's house with Wood's aim to promote sustainable dining and green living. All food is grown in Wood's garden, and locally sourced where possible. From each restaurant Wood donates profits to a 'Gardens in Schools Scheme' she set up to help children understand where their food comes from. Mrs Paisley's Lashings has also popped up at Harvest at Jimmy's, a food and music festival which happens in Suffolk every September.

Television appearances[link]

Wood makes regular appearances on TV, which have included Strictly Come Dancing, Heston's Feast, Angela & Friends, Mary Queen of Shops, Britain's Got More Talent, The Hairy Bikers, Market Kitchen and on the sofa with Lorraine Kelly.

Wood was voted as one of Grazia magazines 'Women of the Year' in 2008 and has also won the 'Inspirational Determination' Award in the Inspiration Awards for Women 2010. She is also on the judging panel for the Soil Association Organic Food Awards & Observer Ethical Awards.

Wood writes editorial columns in Fabulous & Natural Health magazine, and has written a book ' How to Look and Feel Healthy, Energetic and Radiant the Organic Way'.

Wood's life philosophy is "love your planet, go organic".^{[citation needed]}

References[link]

Janice Dickinson
Janice Dickinson (right) with Samata Angel, London Fashion Week, September 2010
Born	Janice Doreen Dickinson (1955-02-15) February 15, 1955 (age 57)[1][2] Brooklyn, New York, United States[2]
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[3]
Hair color	Auburn[3]
Eye color	Brown
Measurements	36C-24-34 (as of 2007[update])[4]
Spouse	• Ron Levy[2]  • Simon Fields[2] (1987–1993)[citation needed]  • Albert B. Gerston (1995–1996)[citation needed]
Website
www.thejanicedickinson.com

Janice Doreen Dickinson (born February 15, 1955)^[1] is an American model, photographer, author and talent agent.

Initially notable as a model, she has described herself as the first supermodel.^[5] One of the most successful models throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she expanded her profession to reality television in 2003 by judging for four cycles on America's Next Top Model. She subsequently opened her own modeling agency in 2005, which was documented in the reality-television series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (2006–2008).

Early life[link]

She was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, to parents Ray Dickinson, of Belarusian descent,^[6] and Jenie Dickinson née Pietrzykoski, of Polish descent.^[2][7] She was raised in Hollywood, Florida, with two sisters, elder Alexis, who became a real estate agent, and younger Debbie, who also became a model.^[2][8]

Dickinson has been open about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered as a child and teenager,^{[2][5][9][10]} and how her father used to sexually abuse one of her sisters. Of her childhood with her "rageoholic pedophile" of a father, Dickinson stated, "Because I wouldn't give in and let him have sex with me, I was verbally and physically abused on a daily basis. I was told that I looked like a boy and wouldn't amount to anything. I think if you abuse a child, your balls should be cut off. You should be castrated immediately."^[10]

Career[link]

Modeling[link]

In the early 1970s, Dickinson moved to New York City to pursue work as a model after winning a national competition called "Miss High Fashion Model."^[7][11] At a time when blue-eyed blondes dominated the fashion scene,^[12] Dickinson was turned down several times by modeling agents, including Eileen Ford, who informed Dickinson she was "much too ethnic. You'll never work."^[11] She was discovered by the fashion photographer Jacques Silberstein when his girlfriend, actress Lorraine Bracco, mentioned she liked Dickinson's look.^[13][14] Wilhelmina became Dickinson's first agent. Her modeling pursuits led her to Paris, France, where her "exotic looks" secured her reputation within the European fashion industry.^[11]

She returned to New York City in 1978, and spent the next several years working steadily, earning $2,000 per day, nearly four times the standard rate.^[11] Dickinson eventually signed with Ford Models to land a major ad campaign for a new JVC camera.^[15] Dickinson, who had not forgotten Ford's initial rejection, was intent on revenge.^[15] She soon became one of twenty Ford models to defect to John Casablancas's upstart Elite Model Management.^[16]

By the 1980s, Dickinson was considered a supermodel, as she "possessed the kind of name and face recognition" that the majority of women in the modeling industry strive to achieve.^[7] She appeared within and on covers of magazines including Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Marie Claire and Playboy, and worked with some of fashion's best-known names, including Bill Blass, Gianni Versace, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein.^[17][18] Dickinson has appeared on the cover of Vogue (both American and international editions) 37 times.^[2] She appeared on the cover of Elle seven times in a row and has been the face of ad campaigns for products including Revlon, Christian Dior, Clairol, Virginia Slims and Cutex.^[12][18]

Dickinson looked for ways to sustain her relevance within the fashion industry as she aged, becoming a fashion photographer. In 2008, Dickinson launched her own jewelry line on HSN.^[19]

First supermodel[link]

Dickinson is the self-proclaimed "world's first supermodel".^[2] In E! Network's E! True Hollywood Story, she described how she coined the term "supermodel" in 1979.^[20] Her manager, concerned that at the peak of her modeling career she was doing too much work, told her, "You are not Superman." Dickinson replied, "I am not Superman, I am a supermodel."^[21]

Dickinson's claims for coining the term "supermodel" and being the first one to represent the title are disputed. The term "supermodel" was already known in the 1940s. The writer Judith Cass used the term in 1942 for her article in the Chicago Tribune, which headlined "Super Models are Signed for Fashion Show".^[22] Later in 1943, Clyde Matthew Dessner used the term in his modeling book.^[23] The term was popular throughout the 1960s to 1970s. The New York Times on March 21, 1967, and The Daily Times on May 19, 1967, referred to Twiggy as a supermodel.^[24] In 1968, an article in Glamour described Twiggy, Cheryl Tiegs, Wilhelmina, Veruschka, Jean Shrimpton and fifteen other top models as "supermodels".^[25] The July 8, 1970, issue of The Gazette described Penelope Tree as a supermodel.^[26] The April 23, 1971, issue of The Hour headlined one of its articles "Supermodels Reveal Their Beauty Secrets", including an advertisement with the caption "Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs". The article also says, "The fashion/beauty world is dotted with Supermodels" and "Cybill Shepherd a Supermodel who may turn into a Superstar."^[27] Jean Shrimpton was also described as a supermodel by Time in 1971,^[28] as were Margaux Hemingway by Vogue on September 1, 1975,^[29] Beverly Johnson by Jet in 1977,^[30] and Naomi Sims in the 1978 book Total Beauty Catalog by K.T. Maclay.^[31]

Lisa Fonssagrives^{[32][33][34][35]} and Dorian Leigh, whose careers began before Dickinson was born, have been retroactively recognized as the 20th century's first supermodels.^[36][37] Gia Carangi has also been called the first supermodel^[38][39] as well as Jean Shrimpton.^{[40][41][42][43][44]}

Television[link]

In 2003, Dickinson returned to media attention with her stint as a judge on the reality television series America's Next Top Model. She was hired after producer Tyra Banks read No Lifeguard On Duty and realized that Dickinson could offer the contestants advice on the perils of the fashion industry. As a panelist, Dickinson became known for her wit and incisive, brutally honest critiques.^[45] Dickinson frequently quarreled with her fellow judges, particularly Kimora Lee Simmons and Nolé Marin.^[46] A recurring source of tension between Dickinson and Banks was the former's dubiety concerning plus-size models.^[47] After four cycles, Banks fired Dickinson, replacing her with Twiggy. Dickinson was hurt by the decision. "I was just telling the truth and I was saving these girls from going out there and being told that they're too short, too fat, their skin's not good enough," she said. "I was to America's Next Top Model what Simon Cowell is to American Idol."^[48]

In 2005, Dickinson was a cast member on The Surreal Life during its fifth season. She was confronted by cast mate Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth during a publicity photo shoot while Dickinson was posing with a prop knife. After being physically separated by Bronson Pinchot the two continued to feud throughout the series.^[2][49][50]

In 2006, Dickinson starred in her own reality show, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, for the Oxygen cable-television channel. The program, which ran for four seasons, documented Dickinson launching a new career as a modeling agent. Despite high ratings in key demographics^[specify] a fifth season was not ordered.

She appeared with English model Abigail Clancy in Abbey & Janice: Beauty & The Best, a reality series detailing Clancey's attempt to break into the American modeling market. The show debuted in Britain on May 14, 2007, and premiered in the U.S on Oxygen on February 19, 2008.

In November 2007, Dickinson became one of the celebrities taking part in the UK reality television show I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here!. Dickinson set the record for most Bushtucker trials, competing ten times in a row.^[51] In the finale of the series, it was announced that Dickinson had gained second place in the competition, with Christopher Biggins coming first.

Dickinson was also a contestant for series two of the American version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! which began airing in June 2009.^[52] She was eliminated from the show on June 18, 2009.

In 2009, Dickinson was a guest judge on the Finnish version of the Top Model franchise. She created controversy after the claimed effects of accidentally mixing a sleeping aid with champagne caused her to fall down a flight of stairs and burst out at the models. Dickinson was then taken to a hospital where she was told she had no visible injuries. She later then apologized to the models during the show's airing.^[53]

Other guest appearances include "Still Charmed and Kicking", an episode of Charmed in which Paige disguises herself as Dickinson in order to fool both her sisters and old family friends that people important to her did actually care that she had "died." Her sisters soon find out that "Dickinson" is actually Paige, and they order her to reverse the spell. She made a cameo appearance in Darren Hayes's music video "On the Verge of Something Wonderful".

In 2010, Dickinson appeared on the celebrity edition of British dinner-party contest Come Dine With Me, on which she frequently butted heads with former Page 3 Girl Samantha Fox over her glamour modeling career, and flirted with Calum Best.^{[episode needed]}

Dickinson appeared in the fourth season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which premiered in December 2010.^[54]

In 2011, she guest-starred in the episode of 90210 titled "Project Runway".^[55]

Music[link]

In 2009, Dickinson recorded a song entitled "Crazy", which was written and produced by Craig Taylor.^[56]

Personal life[link]

Dickinson has been married three times. Her former husbands are Ron Levy,^[2] Simon Fields^[2] (1987–1993)^{[citation needed]} and Albert B. Gerston (February 1995–1996;^{[citation needed]} also recorded as Alan B. Gersten).^[2] With Fields she had a son, Nathan Ray Michael Fields^[2] (born May 5, 1987).^{[citation needed]} She has a daughter, Savannah Rodin Dickinson (born February 23, 1994),^{[citation needed]} by former boyfriend, Michael Birnbaum.^[2] Dickinson thought that Sylvester Stallone was Savannah's father. A paternity test proved that the biological father was not Stallone, but Birnbaum.^[2] In her books and in interviews, she has also discussed her numerous sexual relationships with male and female celebrities.^[57] In addition to Stallone, her past lovers include:

During an episode of the reality show The Surreal Life, Dickinson revealed in-depth information about the emotional abuse she endured as a child and teenager. She stated to her cast mates, "My father was a pedophile. He was a dark, angry guy. Being forced to have a pedophile for a father is probably the most horrible thing that can happen to a child, bar none."^[9] She said, "I survived a monster... 16 years I was forced to keep the secret... If I ever exposed my pedophile father, I would've been murdered. So you know what he did instead? He beat me on a daily basis."^[9] In an interview, Dickinson told British magazine Now, "When he was on the way to the hospital, I tossed his medication out of the car window and didn't tell the doctors. Maybe I wanted to kill the abuser?".^[10]

Age[link]

Dickinson's date of birth is variously stated as February 15, 17, or 28 in 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955,^[2] or 1960. In Dickinson's autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty, she wrote, "When I was just eighteen months old, in 1957, the family moved from Brooklyn to Florida."^[18] She also graduated in 1973 from South Broward High School in Hollywood, making 1955 her more likely year of birth.^[18]

In the first episode of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! on November 12, 2007, Dickinson stated her age as 53.^[62] 1954 would be more accurate, but her age at time of high school graduation is as yet unknown. In the eighth episode of the same series, she said, "I waited until I was 32 to get married."^[63]

As an author[link]

Dickinson released a memoir detailing her "wild days" as a supermodel. Entitled No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel (2002), the book was effective in introducing her to a new generation.^[7][64]

Dickinson's follow-up memoir was Everything About Me is Fake… And I’m Perfect. (2004),^[7][65] in which she describes her life in modeling; her experience with plastic surgery; and her battles with anorexia, bulimia and alcoholism.^[65]

Her next memoir, Check Please! Dating, Mating, and Extricating (2006), is purported to show a lighter and more tender side of Dickinson. In the book, Dickinson discusses the men in her life, and prescribes her rules for dating.^[66]

Bibliography[link]

• Dickinson, Janice (2002). No Lifeguard on Duty – The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel. New York City: ReganBooks. ISBN 978-0-06-000946-5.
• Dickinson, Janice (2004). Everything About Me Is Fake – And I'm Perfect. New York City: ReganBooks. ISBN 978-0-06-055469-9.
• Dickinson, Janice (2006). Check, Please! – Dating, Mating, and Extricating. New York City: ReganBooks. ISBN 978-0-06-076391-6.

See also[link]

	Biography portal
	Fashion portal
	Television portal

• List of people from Florida
• List of people from Brooklyn, New York
• List of women writers

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Janice Dickinson at the Fashion Model Directory
• Janice Dickinson at the Internet Movie Database
• Janice Dickinson's blog (at oxygen.com)

Brendan Cole (born 23 April 1976) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He is most famous for appearing on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer. He has also judged three seasons of New Zealand's own Dancing with the Stars.

Early life and career[link]

Cole was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has danced since he was six, and moved to the United Kingdom when he was nineteen. Before he danced professionally he worked as a builder.

He danced with Camilla Dallerup, a fellow contestant on the BBC's earlier long-running show Come Dancing, as amateurs from 1996, and from 2002-2004 as professionals. They competed for New Zealand: Camilla Dallerup is Danish-born. In 2003 Dallerup and Cole were placed 3rd for Latin American at the UK Closed Championships. During the professional group dances on Strictly Come Dancing, Brendan danced with Karen Hardy for series 3 to 5 then with fellow New Zealander, Hayley Holt, for series 6. His celebrity partner for series six was Lisa Snowdon, with whom he reached the final to be placed third.

In the winter of 2004 Brendan had his first acting experience featuring in the UK feature film Everything To Dance For alongside Sasha Jackson, Travis Oliver and Sally Reeve.

In summer 2006, he joined ITV's Love Island and became the runner-up when the show ended on August 28, 2006. Also on that year, he appeared as guest judge on fourth episode of Britain's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 where he worked with the remaining 10 contestants to teach ballroom dancing prior to judging.

In January 2007, Cole appeared on the BBC's duet show Just the Two of Us as a celebrity, with Beverley Knight as his professional partner. They came second.

Cole has appeared on all nine series to date of Strictly Come Dancing. Particularly in the third and fourth series, he has often clashed with the judges over their scoring and comments on his performances. He has on occasion deliberately broken the rules by incorporating illegal lifts into his choreography, and as a result has often been dubbed the "bad boy of Strictly".

Brendan represented the United Kingdom at the first Eurovision Dance Contest in September 2007. His dance partner was Camilla Dallerup. The couple were highly praised by British judges yet only managed to finish fifteenth out of the sixteen entrants.

In October 2009 Cole appeared on the New Zealand travel show Intrepid Journeys. During a hunting lesson filmed in Vanuatu he was shown killing an eating a chicken, prompting international news coverage.^[1]

In 2010 he was a celebrity guest team captain on What Do Kids Know? along with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch.

Personal life[link]

Before becoming a professional dancer Cole was a builder and roof layer, having left school at 17. Before he danced with Natasha Kaplinsky, in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, Camilla and Brendan were engaged, but she broke it off, claiming, "I'd been with Brendan almost every day, all the time, for more than eight years and then he changed overnight. I think he was starstruck ... everything changed because of her (Natasha Kaplinsky)."^{[citation needed]}

Brendan's previous relationships have included Shelly Ross, Abi Titmuss, Lady Victoria Hervey, Martine McCutcheon, Adele Silva and Emma Gray.^{[citation needed]}

He is now married to Zoe Hobbs, a British model. ^[2]

Televised competitions[link]

• First place in the first season of Strictly Come Dancing partnered with newsreader, Natasha Kaplinsky.
• Sixth place in the second season of Strictly Come Dancing with Casualty star, Sarah Manners.
• Ninth place in the third series of Strictly Come Dancing with GMTV's Fiona Phillips.
• Sixth place in the fourth series of Strictly Come Dancing with actress, Claire King.
• Withdrew from the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing with model, Kelly Brook. Kelly's father had died during the week. Kelly had said she would carry on dancing in memory of him, but it was later revealed, she found it too hard to continue.
• Third place in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing with celebrity partner, Lisa Snowdon, a supermodel and television presenter.
• His partner for Strictly Come Dancing Series 7 was estranged wife of Ronnie Wood, Jo Wood. Brendan & Jo were eliminated in Week 6 for their Samba placing them 11th overall.
• For Strictly Come Dancing Series 8, Brendan was partnered with American Broadway-actress singer Michelle Williams.
• His partner for Strictly Come Dancing series 9 was 1960's singer and icon, Lulu.