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Celebrity Big Brother (British Series 21)
''Celebrity Big Brother 21'', also known as ''Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman'', was the twenty-first series of the British reality television series ''Celebrity Big Brother''. It launched on 2 January 2018 on Channel 5, and concluded on 2 February 2018 after 32 days, making it the joint longest series to date. It is the fourteenth celebrity series and the twenty-first series of ''Big Brother'' overall to air on Channel 5. Emma Willis returned to host the series, while Rylan Clark-Neal continued to present ''Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side''. On 2 February 2018, Courtney Act was announced as the winner of the series having received 49.43% of the final vote, with Ann Widdecombe as the runner-up after receiving 39.50%. Production It was confirmed on ITV's '' This Morning'' that for the first time in ''Celebrity Big Brother'' history the launch show will be made up of all females, to mark 100 years of women's suffrage. It was later confirmed that male housemates w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Willis
Emma Louise Willis (née Griffiths; born 18 March 1976) is an English broadcaster. She is known for her television and radio work with Channel 5, BBC, ITV, and Heart FM.Emma Willis replaces Brian Dowling as presenter of ‘Big Brother’ . Telly Spy (2 April 2013). Retrieved 31 March 2014. Willis has presented '' Big Brother'' and '''' (2013–2018), as well as the spin-off series '' |
Christabel Pankhurst
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, (; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ..., England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed Suffragette bombing and arson campaign, its militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913. In 1914, she supported the war against Germany. After the war, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an evangelist for the Second Adventist movement. Early life Christabel Pankhurst was the daughter of women's suffrage movement leader Emmeline Pankhurst and radical socialist Richard Pankhurst and sister to Sylvia Pankhurst, Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst. Her father was a barrister and her mother owned a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India Willoughby
India Scarlett Willoughby (born 2 September 1965) is an English newsreader, broadcaster, journalist and reality television personality. She is Britain's first transgender national television newsreader and the first transgender co-host of an all-women talk show, ''Loose Women'' on ITV. She is a previous nominee for a British LGBT Award (2017) and winner of the Diversity in Media Award (2017) for Media Moment of the Year (''Loose Women''). Early life Willoughby was born and grew up in Carlisle, Cumbria. Career Willoughby presented the news in the North East and Cumbria as a TV reporter at ITV Border prior to her transition. In 2016, she re-joined ITV Border as an on-screen reporter, before moving on a three-month contract to ITV Tyne Tees. In 2017, she joined 5News on Channel 5 – becoming Britain's first transgender national television newsreader, reading the lunchtime and evening updates. The same year Willoughby was invited onto ITV's ''Loose Women'' to tell her story as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Johnson
Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including '' The Pledge'' on Sky News and BBC One's debate programme, ''Question Time''. In January 2018, she participated in the 21st series of ''Celebrity Big Brother'' and was evicted second. She was the lead candidate for Change UK for the South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election. Early life and education Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl (''née'' Fawcett). She is the younger sister of Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip; and the elder sister of Jo Johnson, former Conservative MP for Orpington. On her father's side, Johnson is a great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal, a liberal Circassian-Turkish journalist and the interior minister in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Oliver
Margaret Oliver (born 23 October 1955) is an English former Detective Constable with the Greater Manchester Police. She is known as a whistleblower for exposing the poor handling of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring case by her own force. Law enforcement career Oliver joined the Greater Manchester Police in 1997 as a police constable. She remained with the force until her resignation in March 2013 in response to the handling of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring. Exposing Rochdale child sex abuse ring Operation Augusta in Hulme and Rusholme As a detective constable, Oliver was the lead investigator on the Rochdale child sex abuse ring case for the Greater Manchester Police. She claims that the convictions that were made in the Rochdale child sex abuse ring of 9 men in early 2012 barely scratched the surface of what she describes as a highly-organised crime group of hundreds of perpetrators against countless young victims. When Oliver started investigating the sex abuse ring, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barnes
John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is a former professional football player and manager. He currently works as an author, commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. Initially a quick, skilful left winger, he moved to central midfield later in his career. Barnes won two league titles with Liverpool, with whom he also won two cup finals at Wembley. He was also an FA Cup runner-up with Watford, Liverpool and Newcastle United. Barnes earned 79 international caps for England. Barnes was born and initially raised in Jamaica as the son of a military officer from Trinidad and Tobago and a Jamaican mother. He moved to London, England with his family when he was 12 years old. Barnes joined Watford aged 17 in 1981 before playing 296 competitive games for them scoring 85 goals. He was a Watford 1984 FA Cup Final runner-up. He debuted for England in 1983 and in 1987 joined Liverpool for £900,000. In his 10 seasons there Liverpool won the then top-flight First Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginuwine
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15, 1970), better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American Contemporary R&B, R&B singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He began his career as a member of Swing Mob in the early 1990s. Signing to Epic Records as a solo artist in the mid-1990s, Ginuwine has released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of R&B's top artists during the late 1990s and early 2000s. He had significant commercial success with his first four albums: ''Ginuwine...The Bachelor'' (2× Platinum), ''100% Ginuwine'' (2× Platinum), ''The Life (album), The Life'' (Platinum), and ''The Senior'' (Gold). According to ''Billboard magazine, Billboard'', Ginuwine has sold roughly 10 million albums in the US. Ginuwine received the Urban Music Icon award at the 2021 Black Music Honors. Early life Elgin Baylor Lumpkin was born on October 15, 1970 in Washington, D.C. He is named after National Basketball Association, NBA legend Elgi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dapper Laughs
Daniel O'Reilly (born 17 June 1984 in Kingston upon Thames, London, England), otherwise known as Dapper Laughs, is a British social media content creator and comedian from Addlestone, Surrey. Career and controversies In 2014, O'Reilly released the single "Proper Moist" as Dapper Laughs. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 15. Starting in 2014, Laughs began his ''Moist Tour'' of the UK; his supporting act on the tour was Joe Charman. In July, he released "Take It To The Base". The music video was released on YouTube, but has since been made private. Derogatory lyrics about homeless people In November 2014, Laughs criticised the website UsVsTh3m on Twitter for what he viewed as an unfavourable review of his new album ''Proper Naughty Christmas''. O'Reilly suggested that the review could hinder his goal of raising money for homelessness charity Shelter. As a result of UsVsTh3m highlighting the lyrics of one of the album tracks as offensive to the homeless, the charity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Made In Chelsea Cast Members
The following is a list of cast members of the British semi-reality television programme ''Made in Chelsea''. Current cast This is a list of the current cast members appearing in the show in order of their first appearance. Former cast This is a list of the former cast members appearing in the show in order of their last appearance. Cameo/Return Appearances Duration of cast Cast changes and storylines The first season saw Amber Atheton, Binky Felstead, Caggie Dunlop, Cheska Hull, Francis Boulle, Fredrik, Funda Onal, Gabriella Ellis, Hugo Taylor, Mark-Francis, Millie Mackintosh, Ollie Locke, Rosie Fortescue and Spencer Matthews rise to fame on the new-fresh semi-reality TV show and all made their first appearances in the first episode of the first series, whilst another cast member Agne joined the cast in the second episode after she was hired to be Francis’ intern. Louise Thompson appeared briefly during the fifth episode to advise Funda on her relationship with Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malika Haqq
Malika may refer to: Places Nepal *Malika, Baglung, a municipality *Malika, Dailekh, a village development committee *Malika Bota, a village development committee *Malika Rural Municipality, Gulmi *Malika Rural Municipality, Myagdi *Malika Dhuri, a mountain Elsewhere *Malika, Thailand, a ''tambon'' *Malika Parbat, a mountain in Pakistan Other uses *Malika (given name) *''Malika'', a 2015 EP by Tālā See also *''Malikaa'', a 2017 Maldivian film *Malikah (other) Malikah may refer to: *Malik * Malikah, Yemen *Malikah or Al-Nadirah, princess of Hatra See also *Malik (other) Malik is a Semitic word meaning "king" or "chieftain", and a Greenlandic meaning "wave". Malik or Maalik may also refer to: ... * Mallika (other) {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Barrie
Amanda Barrie (born Shirley Anne Broadbent; 14 September 1935) is an English actress. She appeared in two of the ''Carry On'' films before being cast as Alma Halliwell in ITV soap opera, '' Coronation Street'', which she played on and off for 20 years. Between 2003 and 2006, she played the role of Bev Tull in the ITV prison drama, '' Bad Girls''. She has since enjoyed a varied stage and television career. Early life and education Barrie was born Shirley Anne Broadbent in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, to Hubert Broadbent and his wife Connie ('' née'' Pyke). Barrie attended St Anne's College, Lytham St Annes, then trained at the Arts Educational School in London and later at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Career Barrie appeared in pantomime as a child and was a dancer before working for many years as a chorus girl in the West End until her first break as an actress came along. At sixteen she danced at the Windsor Club with Danny La Rue and Barbara Windsor, changing her nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Sleep
Wayne Philip Colin Sleep (born 17 July 1948) is a British dancer, director, choreographer, and actor who appeared on the BBC series '' The Real Marigold on Tour'' and ITV's '' The Real Full Monty''. Early life Sleep was born in Plymouth, Devon. His mother enrolled him at an early age with Geraldine Lamb Dance School, where he studied tap and jazz, wanting to be the next Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire rather than a ballet dancer. He and his family moved to Hartlepool ca. 1951 and spent 10 years there. He lived at Friar Terrace on the Headland and attended Baltic Street Junior School. He began ballet lessons in Hartlepool in 1955 with Muriel Carr, before gaining a Leverhulme Scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in 1961 and joining the Royal Ballet in 1966 and becoming a senior principal dancer performing globally. Career At 157cm (5'2"), he is the shortest male dancer admitted into the Royal Ballet School. Because of his diminutive stature, many directors were reluctant to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
