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Babatunde Aléshé
Babatunde Aléshé (born 2 August 1986) is a British actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for appearing on several ''Celebrity Gogglebox'' specials, the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British series 22), 22nd series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series), ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2022, and the 18th series of ''Taskmaster (TV series), Taskmaster'' in late 2024. Early life and education Babatúndé Aléshé was born on 2 August 1986. He grew up in Tottenham, London, and is of Nigerian descent. His mother is a Christians, Christian and his father is a Muslims, Muslim; Aléshé practises Christianity. Career On stage, Aléshé has performed at the Soho Theatre, the Shaw Theatre, the O2 and the Hackney Empire. He has featured as an actor on TV in ''Law & Order: UK'', ''New Tricks'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Pelican Blood (2010 film), Pelican Blood'', ''Waking the Dead (TV series), Waking the Dead'', ''EastEnders'', and ''Frankie (TV s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie (TV Series)
''Frankie'' is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and filmed in the English city of Bristol. Overview The series was first announced in May 2012 alongside three other new commissions for BBC One and BBC Three. Kate Harwood, the controller of drama series and serials for the corporation described the new drama commissions as "a tribute to the huge range of creativity and talent within the in-house drama teams in both London and Salford". An initial synopsis described the series as "a modern and redemptive" introspection of the life of a district nurse "whose patients matter more to her than her personal life". Further information was released in September in a BBC press release that described the aim of the series as "to build up a portrayal of the challenging, complex and ultimately life affirming world of dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Gilligan
Mosiah Bikila Gilligan (born 19 February 1988) is a British stand-up comedian, television presenter and content creator. He is known for his observational comedy. After several years of uploading comedy clips to social media, he found a wider audience in 2017. He hosted '' The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan'' (2019) on Channel 4. He currently co-hosts '' The Big Narstie Show'' on Channel 4, and is a judge on ''The Masked Singer UK'' since the second series in 2020, and a judge on '' The Masked Dancer UK'' since 2021. In 2022 Gilligan took a break from ''The Masked Dancer UK'' due to work conflicts, and was replaced by Peter Crouch. Early life Mosiah Bikila Gilligan was born on 19 February 1988 in Lambeth, London to British parents of Jamaican and St. Lucian descent. His mother was born in Wales while his father is from Brixton. His parents separated when he was 5, and he was raised by both parents while living in Camberwell, London. Education Gilligan was educated at Pimlico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lodger (Doctor Who)
"The Lodger" is the eleventh episode of the fifth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', first broadcast on BBC One on 12 June 2010. It was written by Gareth Roberts, who based the story on his 2006 ''Doctor Who Magazine'' comic strip "The Lodger". The episode features the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) stranded on Earth and separated from his companion Amy Pond ( Karen Gillan), when an unknown force prevents his time travelling spaceship, the TARDIS, from landing. To investigate, he moves into the flat of Craig Owens ( James Corden) and attempts to fit in with ordinary humans while unknowingly playing matchmaker for Craig and his good friend Sophie ( Daisy Haggard). Showrunner Steven Moffat was a fan of Roberts' original comic strip and enthused him to adapt it into an episode for the series. While some elements of the comic strip remain, Roberts wrote most of it from scratch. "The Lodger" replaced a slot held by an episode that was pushed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and one of the home counties. It borders Bedfordshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south and Buckinghamshire to the west. The largest settlement is Watford, and the county town is Hertford. The county has an area of and had a population of 1,198,800 at the 2021 census. After Watford (131,325), the largest settlements are Hemel Hempstead (95,985), Stevenage (94,470) and the city of St Albans (75,540). For local government purposes Hertfordshire is a non-metropolitan county with ten districts beneath Hertfordshire County Council. Elevations are higher in the north and west, reaching more than in the Chilterns near Tring. The county centres on the headwaters and upper valleys of the rivers Lea and the Colne; both flow south and each is accompanied by a canal. Hertfordshire's undeveloped land is mainly agricultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Jones (comedian)
Rosie Luisa Jones (born 24 June 1990) is a British comedian, writer and actress. After starting her career as a writer on panel shows, she went on to appear as a guest on ''The Last Leg'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'', '' QI'', '' Would I Lie to You?'' and ''Hypothetical''. She attended the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo as a roving reporter for ''The Last Leg''. Jones has performed stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, incorporating her cerebral palsy into her comedic style. In 2018, she was featured on ''Edinburgh Nights''. She has also hosted the documentary '' Am I a R*tard?'', the series '' Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure'', and written an episode of ''Sex Education''. With Helen Bauer, she hosts the podcast ''Daddy Look at Me''. As an actress, she appeared in six episodes of ''Casualty'' between 2021 and 2022. Jones authored a children's book, ''The Amazing Edie Eckhart'', about an 11-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dee
James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee (born 24 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, and writer known for his sarcasm, irony, and deadpan humour. He wrote and starred in the sitcom '' Lead Balloon'' and hosts the panel show ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue''. His UK television appearances include being a team captain on '' Shooting Stars'' and hosting '' Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo'', which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. He also presented ''The Jack Dee Show'', ''Jack Dee's Saturday Night'' and ''Jack Dee's Happy Hour''. He won '' Celebrity Big Brother 1'' in 2001. Early life and education Jack Dee is the youngest of three children born to Rosemary ( Stamper) and Geoffrey Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee and David Simon Innes Dee. He was born in the Municipal Borough of Bromley, Kent (now within the London Borough of Bromley) and grew up in Petts Wood [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Sidi
Emma Francesca Sidi ( , born February 1991) is an English actress, comedian and writer for radio, stage and screen. Early life Sidi was born to English parents in the United States. Her surname means “sir” in Arabic and comes via her Jewish grandfather. Her father Paul was working in banking at the time and played rugby union for Harlequins. The family returned to the United Kingdom when Sidi was three years old and, after a career in the City, her father retrained as a physiotherapist in Chertsey, Surrey. Sidi was brought up and schooled near Woking before studying French and Spanish at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, which included studying abroad in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. Career In 2016, Sidi appeared in James Acaster's web series ''Sweet Home Lahnsteineringa'' alongside Jack Barry. The mockumentary received a £5,000 budget from crowdfunding and was filmed in Lahnstein, Germany. Stand-up Sidi was a finalist for the NATYS: New Act of the Year Show in 2016. Her solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Zaltzman
Andrew Zaltzman (born 6 October 1974) is a British comedian and statistician. His comedy largely deals in political and sport-related material. He has worked with John Oliver, with their work together including '' Political Animal'', ''The Department'' and '' The Bugle''. Since 2016 he has been a statistician for BBC Radio's '' Test Match Special'' cricket commentaries, and since 2020 the presenter of Radio 4's '' The News Quiz''. On television, in 2024, he won the eighteenth series of '' Taskmaster'' against Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee, and Rosie Jones. Early life Born in Hammersmith, west London, Zaltzman is of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry. He is the son of South African sculptor Zack Zaltzman and is the older brother of Helen Zaltzman, of ''The Allusionist'' and '' Answer Me This!'' podcasts. From his prep school, Holmewood House School in Langton Green, Kent, he then attended the private Tonbridge School. He studied Classics at University College, Oxfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stand-up
Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These performances are typically composed of Rehearsal, rehearsed screenplay, scripts but often include varying degrees of interactive theatre, live crowd interaction (crowdwork). Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke, one-liners, stories, observations, or shticks that can employ Theatrical property, props, comedy music, music, impressions, Magic (illusion), magic tricks, or ventriloquism. Performances can take place in various venues, including comedy clubs, comedy festivals, bars, nightclubs, colleges, or theaters. History Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include vaudeville, the Stump speech (minstrelsy), stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV News
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV (TV network), ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. ITN, Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV. The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the ''ITV Evening News'' held the title of "RTS News Programme of the Year". The flagship ''ITV News at Ten'' has won numerous BAFTA awards, and also being named "RTS News Programme of the Year" in 2011, 2015, 2021 and 2022. ITV News has the second-largest television news audience in the United Kingdom, second only to BBC News (and followed by other broadcasters such as Sky News, Channel 4 News and 5 News, Channel 5 News). Initially, all national news programmes on ITV carried ITN's own brand. As th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Osman's House Of Games
''Richard Osman's House of Games'' is a British quiz show hosted by Richard Osman and produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC. The show is played on a weekly basis, with four celebrities playing on five consecutive days to win daily prizes, and the weekly prize of being crowned as "House of Games" champion. Points are accrued depending on where each celebrity finishes on each day and the points are doubled on Friday's show. Format Osman sits on a chair to the left of the screen, while the four celebrities sit on individual chairs. Osman hits a button on his table, activating a round generator, which is displayed on a big screen. He then explains what the round is about and in what format it will take place. For instance, whether it is a buzzer round, a pairs round or one where the players require use of their tablet computers. Five rounds are played each day, with the second round being played in pairs, and the final round always bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
