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Celebrity Poker Club
''Celebrity Poker Club'' is a British television series featuring celebrities playing poker. It aired on Challenge for three series from 2003 to 2005 as a spin-off from Channel 4's popular ''Late Night Poker'' series. Liam Flood was the casino manager for the series, and Cayt Dear was the producer. Commentators * Series 1: Jesse May and Barny Boatman * Series 2: Jesse May and Grub Smith * Series 3: Jesse May and Victoria Coren, with backstage interviews by Helen Chamberlain Series finalists {, class="wikitable" ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Season ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Winner ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Prize ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Runner-up ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Other finalists ! style="background: #E9E9E9;" , Semi-finalists , - , 1 , Sir Clive Sinclair , £25,000 , Keith Allen , * Cindy Blake * Zac Goldsmith * Stephen Hendry * Gladstone Small * John McCririck * Tony Cascarino , * Fiona Foster * Sam West * Nolan Hemmings * Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse May
Jesse May is an American poker commentator and player. Jesse May was born in New York City in 1971 and raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he first became hooked on poker playing with friends. In 1988, he started attending The University of Chicago, but he found that classes were clashing with his poker games, and so dropped out. For six years, Jesse travelled the world playing poker. May found fame presenting the Late Night Poker television series. He also appeared in a season 1 episode under the pseudonym Mickey Dane. This pseudonym is in fact the main character in his poker novel, ''Shut Up and Deal'' (). May has continued to be involved in poker commentary on other shows, including the William Hill Poker Grand Prix, PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup, The Irish Poker Open, Poker Nations Cup, Poker Million, Victor Chandler Poker Cup, Celebrity Poker Club, and The Poker Show. He also co-presented the PartyGammon Million, a pro backgammon tournament, on early-mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCririck
John Michael McCririck (17 April 1940 – 5 July 2019) was an English horse racing pundit, television personality and journalist. McCririck began his career at '' The Sporting Life'', where he twice won at the British Press Awards for his campaigning journalism, but his role was terminated in 1984. In 1981, he joined ITV Sport's horse racing coverage which moved, during 1984 and 1985, to Channel 4 as ''Channel 4 Racing''. In October 2012, the channel announced that he would be dropped from its team, which McCririck blamed on ageism; he took the matter to an employment tribunal, but lost the case. From the 1980s, McCririck appeared as a contestant on numerous television shows, including ''Bullseye'', ''You Bet!'', ''Celebrity Big Brother'', ''Weakest Link'', '' Wife Swap and Celebrity Poker Club''. He also appeared on the current affairs discussion programme '' After Dark''. Early life Born in Surbiton, Surrey, McCririck was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bristow
Eric John Bristow, (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player. He was ranked World No. 1 by the World Darts Federation a record five times, in 1980, 1981 and 1983–1985. He was a five-time World Champion, a five-time World Masters Champion a four-time World Cup singles champion and 2-time champion of the News of the World Darts Championship. He won 22 WDF and BDO Major titles, he won 62 individual career titles, added to 20 titles in team events, winning 82 overall. In the 1980s, Bristow's skill and personality helped turn darts into a worldwide spectator sport. In 1993, Bristow was one of sixteen top players who broke away from the British Darts Organisation (BDO) to form their own organisation, which became the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC). He retired from competitive darts in 2007 and subsequently worked as a commentator and pundit on Sky Sports darts coverage. Early career In 1957, Bristow was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Davis
Steve Davis (born 22 August 1957) is an English retired professional snooker player who is currently a Sports commentator, commentator, musician, DJ, and author. He is best known for dominating professional snooker during the 1980s, when he reached eight World Snooker Championship finals in nine years, won six world titles, and held the List of world number one snooker players, world number one ranking for seven consecutive seasons. He was runner-up to Dennis Taylor in one of snooker's most famous matches, the 1985 World Snooker Championship final, 1985 world final, whose dramatic black-ball conclusion attracted 18.5 million viewers, setting UK records for any broadcast after midnight and any broadcast on BBC Two that stand to this day. In addition to his six world titles, Davis won the UK Championship six times and the Masters (snooker), Masters three times for a total of 15 Triple Crown (snooker), Triple Crown titles, placing him third on the all-time list behind Ronnie O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Parker Bowles
Thomas Henry Parker Bowles (; born 18 December 1974) is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for '' GQ,'' ''Esquire,'' and ''The Mail on Sunday.'' Parker Bowles is the son of Queen Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles. His stepfather and godfather is King Charles III. He has one younger sister, Laura Lopes. Early life and education Tom Parker Bowles was born on 18 December 1974 in London. He grew up at Bolehyde Manor in Allington, Wiltshire, and, later, Middlewick House in Corsham, Wiltshire. He and his sister Laura were raised as Roman Catholics. Both their father and their paternal grandmother, Dame Ann Parker Bowles, were Catholic. Like his father, he is in distant remainder to the Earldom of Maccle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger DeCourcey
Roger De Courcey (born 10 December 1944 in London, England) is a British ventriloquist, best known for performing with Nookie Bear. He was the winner of the 1976 ''New Faces'' televised talent competition grand final. Biography De Courcey has performed on the West End stage, in productions of musicals '' Sweet Charity'', ''Two Cities'' and '' Company''. He has appeared at the London Palladium many times including the 1976 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. In 1978 he released 'Nookie's Song', on the Pye Records Label. A freemason, he is a member of Chelsea Lodge No. 3098, the membership of which is made up of entertainers. De Courcey is also a member and former "King Rat" of the Grand Order of Water Rats which is the oldest theatrical fraternity in the world. De Courcey is also an agent, and represents musician Rick Wakeman and broadcaster David "Kid" Jensen. In 2008, De Courcey and Nookie made a cameo appearance in Episode 7, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Pace
Norman John Pace (born 17 February 1953 in Dudley, Worcestershire) is an English actor and comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace with his friend and comic partner Gareth Hale. Both former teachers, they fronted several television programmes jointly, most notably ''Hale and Pace'', ''Pushing Up Daisies'', ''h&p@bbc'' and ''Jobs for the Boys''. Early life He grew up in Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire. He attended the Magnus Grammar School. He then went to Avery Hill College, now the Avery Hill Campus of the University of Greenwich, in Eltham where he gained a BEd in 1975. Work with Gareth Hale As straight actors they also fronted the original TV dramatisation of ''Dalziel and Pascoe'', and in 1989 they guest-starred together in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Survival''. Also in 1989, Hale and Pace won the Golden Rose of Montreux. In 2007 they appeared in the Christmas special of ''Extras'' playing themselves. In 2018 he was acting in the comedy TV s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Hearn
Barry Maurice William Hearn (born 19 June 1948) is an English sporting events promoter and the founder and President of promotions company Matchroom Sport. Through Matchroom, Hearn is also involved in many sports including snooker, darts, pool, tenpin bowling, golf (see PGA EuroPro Tour), table tennis and fishing. Hearn is currently the chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation, and was also until July 2010 chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). He was also, until July 2014, the chairman of Leyton Orient F.C. Biography Early life Hearn was born in 1948 on a council estate in Dagenham, Essex, and educated at Buckhurst Hill County High School. He worked and then ran a series of small businesses as a teenager, from washing cars to picking fruit and vegetables. After qualifying as an accountant, Hearn took over the role of finance director to a design company based in Kensal Green, called Deryck Healey Associates (circa 1973). He formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Thorne
William Joseph Thorne (4 March 195417 June 2020) was an English professional snooker player. He won one ranking title, the 1985 Classic. He also reached the final of the 1985 UK Championship, losing 16–14 to Steve Davis after leading 13–8. He was noted for his break-building, and was among the first players to compile 100 century breaks. He earned the nickname "Mr Maximum". After retiring as a player, Thorne became a snooker commentator, primarily for the BBC. Career Thorne was born on 4 March 1954 at the family home in Anstey, a village located near Leicester, to Bill Thorne, a Desford Colliery miner, and his wife Nancy. He had two brothers. Thorne was educated at the Thomas Rawlins School in Quorn, and played multiple sports but excelled the most in snooker. He began playing snooker while holidaying in Eastbourne at the age of 14. He left school at age 15 and became an estimator for a glass factory while practising snooker in Loughborough and then Leicester's snooker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Lindsay
Nigel Lindsay (born 17 January 1969) is an English actor. He is best known on television for his roles as Sir Robert Peel in the first two seasons of ''Victoria'', Jo Jo Marshall in the Netflix series '' Safe'' and as Barry in the BAFTA-winning Chris Morris film ''Four Lions'' for which he was nominated for Best British Comedy Performance in Film at the 2011 British Comedy Awards. In 2012 he was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance in the title role in the original West End run of ''Shrek the Musical'' at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and won the Whatsonstage Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 2011 production of Arthur Miller's '' Broken Glass'' at the Tricycle Theatre. Early life and education Lindsay was born in St John's Wood and grew up in North West London. He attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, an independent private day school for boys before going on to the University of Birmingham, where he studied English and French. After university, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bishop
John Marcus Bishop (born 30 November 1966) is an English comedian, presenter, actor and former footballer. Bishop formerly played football as a midfielder for Winsford United F.C., Crewe Alexandra F.C., Runcorn F.C., Rhyl F.C., Witton Albion F.C., Hyde United F.C., Southport F.C., Stalybridge Celtic F.C., Northwich Victoria F.C., Caernarfon Town F.C. and Holywell Town F.C. His television debut came on '' The Panel'', and he subsequently appeared in seasons 3 and 4 of the E4 teen drama '' Skins'' and the Ken Loach film ''Route Irish''. He has also hosted his own shows such as ''John Bishop's Britain'' (2010–2011), ''John Bishop's Only Joking'' (2013), and ''The John Bishop Show'' (2015, 2022). He also has played the companion Dan Lewis in ''Doctor Who'' from 2021 to 2022. Bishop had a regular Sunday slot on Liverpool radio station Radio City called ''Bishop's Sunday Service''. He is also known for his charity work, most notably raising £4.2 million for Sport Relief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nolan Hemmings
Nolan Hemmings (born 1970) is an English stage and film actor. He is known for his role as Charles E. Grant in '' Band of Brothers''. Early life Hemmings is the son of British actor/director David Hemmings and American actress Gayle Hunnicutt. He is named after his father's character, Captain Nolan, in ''The Charge of the Light Brigade''. Career An early appearance was as the young David in the 1986 BBC series ''David Copperfield''. He may be most known worldwide for his portrayal of Staff Sergeant Charles 'Chuck' Grant in the HBO miniseries '' Band of Brothers''. His character survived a gunshot to the head after the war ended while on occupation duty.Ambrose (1992), p.285 In the film ''Last Orders'', he played a younger version of Lenny, his father David's character. He is also an actor in London's West End Theatre, and played vicar Jamie Flynn in ''Heartbeat'' (2006). As of 2022, Hemmings runs an AirBnb Airbnb, Inc. ( ), based in San Francisco, California, operates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
