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Kate Thornton (born 7 February 1973) is an English journalist and television presenter. Early in her career, she was notable for her articles at the Daily Mirror and for her role as editor of Smash Hits magazine. She is most famous for her role as a TV presenter, being the first host of The X Factor and the anchor of Loose Women from 2009-2011.
Nicki Chapman (born 14 January 1967 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry. She was also a judge on the ITV reality shows Popstars, with Nigel Lythgoe and Paul Adam, and Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Neil Fox. Nicki currently hosts Wanted Down Under, Escape To The Country, The RHS Chelsea Flower Show. She also presents on BBC Radio 2.
Chapman worked her way up in the music industry from being Promotions Assistant at MCA records at the age of 21. She later worked at RCA as Head of Promotions where she first met Simon Cowell. Up until the end of 2000 she was a joint partner in the Brilliant! PR company with Nick Godwyn they managed Billie Piper and Amy Winehouse as well as representing, among others, the Spice Girls, Kylie Minogue, Charlotte Church, Take That, David Bowie, Van Morrison, Phil Collins as well as the PR for the BRIT Awards and the Big Breakfast. Having met and worked with Simon Fuller in the nineties she joined his management company 19 Entertainment in January 2001 as Creative Director, working with acts including Annie Lennox, Will Young, S Club 7, and Spice Girls.
Neil Andrew Howe Fox (born 12 June 1961 in Harrow, London,England) is an English DJ and TV presenter, known for many years as Dr. Fox before he became "Foxy" in the 2000s. He is now known simply as "Neil Fox". He is not to be mistaken for Conservative MP Liam Fox who is also known as Dr. Fox. He was a judge on Pop Idol, along with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Nicki Chapman. He appeared as himself ( judging a superhero talent show) in BBC Three sketch show The Wrong Door. The Wrong Door finished in 2008. He is expected now to concentrate on his DJ work.
As a boy he moved to Thames Ditton, Surrey where he lived for a number of years. He was then educated at Kingston Grammar School in London and joined the Air Training Corps, before becoming a management student at the University of Bath, where he joined the student radio station University Radio Bath, and began his career as a radio presenter using the pseudonym Andrew Howe.
In 1984 he started his professional radio career on what is now Wyvern FM (then Radio Wyvern) in Hereford and Worcester, starting off with a show called Mellow Yellow. This was broadcast on Friday nights from 9-11pm & Saturday nights from 8-11pm. In 1985, Fox took over the weekday evening show from 6-9pm, before moving to their weekday afternoon show from 2-6pm. He also presented a Saturday morning show for the station, which went out from 10am-1pm. He remained there until late 1986, then joined Radio Luxembourg in early 1987 before joining Capital Radio in October the same year.
when i was a baby on the bottle they put me
i didn't know before, but now i want to be
1, 2, 3, bottle baby
[chorus]
when i'm old and gray you will hear the people say
oh, he's been on the bottle since a baby
now in this day and age, it seems the world is wrong
but let me tell you something there's a moral to this song
i've been on the bottle since a baby