A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media. The term is synonymous with wealth (commonly denoted as a person with fame and fortune), implied with great popular appeal, prominence in a particular field, and is easily recognized by the general public.
Various careers within the fields of sports and entertainment are commonly associated with celebrity status. These fields have produced prominent figures within these two industries. Many professional athletes have risen to fame such as golfer Tiger Woods, former boxer Muhammad Ali, football player Tom Brady, hockey player Wayne Gretzky, and basketball player Michael Jordan. Prominent entertainment figures have also reached celebrity status such as models Sofia Vergara, Gisele Bündchen, and Adriana Lima, authors J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter and Stephenie Meyer of Twilight, pop singers Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, rappers Eminem, Jay-Z, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Drake, Lil Wayne and Kanye West, musicians Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, artists Damien Hirst, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud, radio personalities Don Imus and Howard Stern, political pundits and infotainers Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck, television talk show hosts Barbara Walters, Larry King and Oprah Winfrey, movie actresses Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, and Jessica Alba, television actors Charlie Sheen and Ashton Kutcher, national television correspodents Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, and Meredith Viera or comedians Ellen Degeneres, Joan Rivers, Jay Leno and George Lopez.
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is an Academy Award and BAFTA award winning Scottish actor and film director. In 1995, his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. As an actor, he played Oldsen in Local Hero, John Frobisher in Torchwood and political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the British TV comedy series The Thick of It and the affiliated feature film In the Loop. He also portrayed Balthazar, one of the Magi, in the 2010 BBC adaptation of The Nativity.
Capaldi was born in Glasgow. His mother's family was from Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and his father's family is from Picinisco, Italy. Capaldi was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in the city's Possilpark district, St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs and at St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch, before attending the Glasgow School of Art.
Capaldi displayed an early talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school. While still at high school he was a member of the Antonine Players, who performed at the Fort Theatre, Bishopbriggs. As an art student, Capaldi was the lead singer in the punk rock band "Dreamboys", which included the future comedian Craig Ferguson as drummer.
William "Bill" Rancic ( /ˈræntsɪk/; Croatian: Rančić, pronounced [râːntʃitɕ], born May 16, 1971)[citation needed] is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality television show, The Apprentice. As of 2011, he stars in the reality show Giuliana and Bill with his wife Giuliana Rancic, as well as hosting America Now with Leeza Gibbons.
Rancic is a motivational speaker and a Chicago, Illinois, real estate developer.
Rancic is of Croatian and Irish heritage. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the suburb of Orland Park. He attended St. Michael's School in Orland Park, and graduated from Carl Sandburg High School. His mother is Gail Rancic; his father Edward Rancic died of cancer in 1999. Rancic has three sisters, Beth, Katie and Karen.
Rancic was one of the job applicants in The Apprentice 1 during the spring of 2004, as one of 16 contestants. Rancic was hired at the conclusion of the 14-week job interview after Donald Trump fired Kwame Jackson.
Ronit Roy (born Ronit Bose Roy in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India on 11 October 1965) is an Indian television and Bollywood actor, known for the roles of Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He is now in the serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of small screen. The actor also owns a security business, providing security to Bollywood stars and production houses.
Roy's security business caters to Bollywood actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan. Roy also provides personal security to Indian Premier League Ex-Chairman and Ex-Commisoner Lalit Modi and his son Ruchir Modi.
On October 27, 2011 - Ronit Roy was arrested by Mumbai Police for rash and negligent driving after he was involved in a road accident in Amboli area of suburban Mumbai. He is said to be returning from a Diwali party when his high speeding Mercedes car hit a Wagon R injuring 4 people, 1 of whom was seriously injured. However he got bail after few hours and was released.
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and his honest and warm broadcasting style.
He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, and dance music.
Peel's Radio 1 shows were notable for the regular 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and which often provided the first major national coverage to bands that later would achieve great fame. (These 'sessions' are similar to 'Live Lounge' sessions recorded today for the station.) Another popular feature of his shows was the annual Festive Fifty countdown of his listeners' favourite records of the year.