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Seann Walsh
Sean Christopher Walsh (born 2 December 1985), known professionally as Seann Walsh, is an English stand-up comedian. Early life Walsh was born in Camden in London, but was brought up in Brighton. He left school with one GCSE examination pass, in Drama. Career Walsh is a graduate of Jill Edwards' comedy workshops and performed his first gig in November 2006. He won several awards early in his career including ''Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (2009)'' and ''Chortle Best Newcomer (2009)''. Walsh supported Stephen K. Amos on his 2008/09 ''Find the Funny'' and 2009/10 ''The Feelgood Factor'' tours, as well as at the 2010 ''Reading and Leeds Festival''. Walsh was resident host at Komedia's ''Comic Boom'' in Brighton and has also been an 'audience wrangler' (a more recent version of the traditional warm-up comedian) for '' QI''. Walsh performed his 2012 show ''Seann to Be Wild'' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and toured the country with it. He has performed shows wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. Films and albums have been recorded at the festival, and it receives extensive television and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury is attended by around 200,000 people, thus requiring extensive security, transport, water, and electricity-supply infrastructure. While the number of attendees is sometimes swollen by gatecrashers, a record of 300,000 people was set at the 1994 festival, headlined by the Levellers who performed on The Pyramid Stage. Most festival staff are volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading And Leeds Festivals
The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend. The Reading Festival is held at Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of a historic house. Headliners and most supporting acts typically play at both sites, with Reading's Friday line up becoming Leeds' Saturday line-up, Reading's Saturday line-up playing at Leeds on Sunday, and Leeds' Friday line-up attending Reading on Sunday. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping. Day tickets are also sold. The Reading Festival, the older of the two festivals, is the world's oldest popular music festival still in existence. Many of the biggest bands in the UK and internationally have played at the festival over five deca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stellify Media
Stellify Media is a Northern Irish television production company. Stellify was formed by Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Television.Sony Pictures Television Launches Northern Ireland Production Company Stellify Media , Deadline Retrieved 20 March 2014 Stellify are best known for successfully rebooting the UK version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' with |
Desiree Burch
Desiree Lea Burch (born 26 January 1979) is an American comedian, actress, television presenter, and voice actress. Originally from Diamond Bar, California, Burch has also lived in New York, Streatham, Croydon and Peckham, having moved to London to live with her boyfriend in 2014. She won the Funny Women title in 2015 having completed an arduous series of gigs around the UK, she followed up this success with five-star reviews and a Fringe First Award for her one-woman, self written show, ''Tar Baby'' at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Early life and education Burch was born in Diamond Bar, California and attended Yale University where she earned a bachelor's degree majoring in Theatre Studies. After university, she moved to New York City where she became a founding member of the New York Neo-Futurists, and performed regularly as a stand-up comedian and actress on the New York comedy circuit. In 2014 she moved to London, where she achieved wider acclaim in televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Griffith (comedian)
Lloyd Griffith (born 5 July 1983) is an English comedian, actor, presenter and singer from Grimsby, England, and was a presenter on Sky Sports show ''Soccer AM'' until the end of the 2018-2019 season. Career Lloyd Griffith originally trained as a classical choral singer at the University of Exeter before becoming a comedian in 2010. He started in stand up comedy before starring in comedy short ''Inheritance'' and on the BBC Radio 1 Comedy Lounge in 2014. Prior to 2019, Griffith performed as tour support for Rob Beckett and Jack Whitehall. Griffith started his TV career on BBC Three show ''Taxi to Training'' in which he would interview professional footballers (such as Troy Deeney, Asmir Begovic and Dele Alli) as he drove them to their respective training grounds. He also appeared on BBC, Sky TV and Comedy Central shows including '' Drunk History'', ''Rugby's Funniest Moments'' and ''Sweat the Small Stuff.'' Griffith has recently made frequent appearances on Comedy Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a film and television series library through distribution deals as well as its own productions, known as Netflix Originals. As of September 2022, Netflix had 222 million subscribers worldwide, including 73.3 million in the United States and Canada; 73.0 million in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39.6 million in Latin America and 34.8 million in the Asia-Pacific region. It is available worldwide aside from Mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Russia. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution, and it is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). Netflix can be accessed via web browsers or via application software installed on smart TVs, set-top boxes connected to televisions, tablet computers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Forum. History digiNews (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the digiNEWS website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very soon Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Ball
Zoe Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970) is a British radio and television presenter. She was the first female host of both '' Radio 1 Breakfast'' and '' The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' for the BBC, and presented the 1990s children's show ''Live & Kicking'', alongside Jamie Theakston from 1996–1999. Ball was a contestant in the third series of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. Following this, in 2011 she replaced Claudia Winkleman as host of the BBC Two spin-off show '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' until her departure in 2021. Ball also hosted the '' Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour'' in 2011 and 2015. In 2018, Ball was announced as the new '' The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' host and took over from Chris Evans in January 2019. Early life Zoe Ball was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, and grew up in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire. She is the daughter of the children's TV presenter Johnny Ball and his wife Julia ''née'' Anderson. The couple divorced when Zoe was two. Ball was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katya Jones
Katya Jones (born Ekaterina Andreevna Sokolova; rus, Екатерина Андреевна Соколова; 12 May 1989) is a Russian dancer and choreographer. She is best-known for being a professional dancer in the competition show '' Strictly Come Dancing'', which she won in 2017 with her dance partner Joe McFadden. In the 2020 series, Jones was paired with the retired professional and Olympic champion boxer Nicola Adams, the first same-sex couple to compete in the UK competition's format. Early life She was born in Sestroretsk, near Leningrad, Soviet Union, and started dancing at the age of six, training in gymnastics as well as Ballroom and Latin-American dancing. Her father is a senior oil company executive and her Korean mother is a graduate in engineering. ''Strictly Come Dancing'' In 2016, Jones became a professional in the BBC ballroom dancing show '' Strictly Come Dancing'' for its 14th series. Jones was partnered with the former Shadow chancellor, Ed Balls. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strictly Come Dancing
''Strictly Come Dancing'' (informally known as ''Strictly'') is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly ballroom and Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of usually 4 judges. The title of the show is a continuation of the long-running series '' Come Dancing''. The format has been exported to 60 other countries—under the title ''Dancing with the Stars''—licensed by BBC Worldwide, and led to a modern dance-themed spin-off '' Strictly Dance Fever''. The ''Guinness World Records'' named ''Strictly'' to be the world's most successful reality television format in 2010. The series is currently presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. Bruce Forsyth co-presented the series with Daly until 2014. The series has been broadcast on BBC One since 15 May 2004, typically on Saturday evenings with a following Sunday night results show. From series 2 onwards, the show has been broadcast in the run up to Christma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FUBAR Radio
FUBAR Radio is an internet radio station based in the United Kingdom. History FUBAR received £125,000 from the Early Advantage Fund, managed by Midven on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the European Regional Development Fund, intended to kick-start businesses in the West Midlands. Notable former presenters * James Acaster * Ian Boldsworth * Justin Lee Collins * Mark Dolan * Jon Gaunt * Ed Gamble * Nick Helm * Richard Herring * Sean Hughes * Calum McSwiggan * Andy Parsons * Katie Price Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Price (''née'' Infield; born 22 May 1978) is an English media personality and model. She gained recognition in the late 1990s for her glamour modelling work and had regular appearances on Page 3 in the British ... * Lou Sanders References External links fubarradio.com Internet radio in the United Kingdom Radio stations established in 2014 2014 establishments in the United Kingdom {{UK-radio-stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Widdicombe
Joshua Michael Widdicombe (; born 8 April 1983) is an English comedian, presenter and actor. He is best known for his appearances on '' The Last Leg'' (2012–present), ''Fighting Talk'' (2014–2016), '' Insert Name Here'' (2016–2019), ''Mock the Week'' (2012–2016) and his BBC Three sitcom '' Josh'' (2015–2017). He also won the first series of '' Taskmaster'' in 2015 and the show's first ''Champion of Champions'' special in 2017. During the 2020 Covid 19 lockdown, Widdicombe started the ''Parenting Hell'' podcast with fellow comedian Rob Beckett. Early life and education Widdicombe was born on 8 April 1983 in Hammersmith, London, and grew up in Haytor Vale, near Widecombe-in-the-Moor in Devon. He attended Ilsington Church Of England Primary School and South Dartmoor Community College, later studying sociology and linguistics at the University of Manchester. Career Widdicombe began performing live in 2008 and made it to the final of ''So You Think You're Funny'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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