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Strictly Come Dancing (series 4)
'' Strictly Come Dancing'' returned for its fourth series on 7 October 2006 and ended on 23 December. Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned to co-present the main show on BBC One, whilst Claudia Winkleman returned to present spin-off show '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' on BBC Two for the third series in a row. Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and Arlene Phillips returned as judges. The winner was Mark Ramprakash and his dancing partner Karen Hardy. Couples This year there were 14 couples: 7 male celebrities and 7 female celebrities. They were: Scoring chart Average chart Highest and lowest scoring performances The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges' marks are as follows: Couples' highest and lowest scoring dances Weekly scores and songs ''Unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Craig Revel Horwood, Arlene Phill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ramprakash
Mark Ravin Ramprakash (born 5 September 1969) is an English former cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he initially made his name playing for Middlesex, and was selected for England aged 21. A gifted, and one of the heaviest-scoring, English batsman of his generation at county level, he rarely performed to his full potential during a long but intermittent international career. He became a particularly prolific run scorer when he moved to Surrey in 2001, averaging over 100 runs per innings in two successive seasons (2006 & 2007). He is one of only 25 players in the history of the sport to have scored 100 first-class centuries. In November 2012, he was announced as the batting coach for the England Lions in India. In January 2013 he was appointed as batting coach for Middlesex, on a two-year contract. In November 2014 he was appointed as England's batting coach. Early life and career Mark Ramprakash was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and is of Indo-Guyanese and English descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV News
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British television network ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. 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 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 Channel 5 News). However, its £43 million annual news budget is dwarfed by that of the publicly funded BBC, which spends £89.5 million annually on news-gathering, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Du Beke
Anthony Paul Beke (born 20 July 1966), known professionally as Anton Du Beke (), is a British ballroom dance, ballroom and Latin dancer, and television presenter, best known for being a professional dancer and later a judge on the BBC One celebrity dancing show, ''Strictly Come Dancing'', since the show began in 2004. His professional dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. In 2009, he presented the United Kingdom version of ''Hole in the Wall (UK game show), Hole in the Wall'', for the BBC, replacing Dale Winton after being a team captain in 2008. In November 2017, Beke released his debut studio album, ''From the Top'', on Polydor Records. It reached number 21 on the UK Albums Chart. Family and early life Beke was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, to a Hungarian father, Antal Xavier Beke (1939–2001), and a Spanish mother, Ascensión "Conchita" Lema. He has two younger siblings, brother Stephen and his sister Veronica. He attended Wildernesse School in Sevenoaks. Beke began da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Ravens
Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voice work on ''Spitting Image'' and '' Dead Ringers''. Early life Ravens grew up in Hoylake, then in Cheshire, on the west side of the Wirral with her father, a local government clerk, and her mother, a nurse. She attended West Kirby Grammar School for Girls, where Radio 4 presenter Sheila McClennon (''You and Yours'') was two years below her. She studied education studies and drama at Homerton College, Cambridge and was first female president of Cambridge University Footlights Club in 1979–80. Career After Cambridge, Ravens became a radio comedy producer. Her first television role was in the ITV series, 'Just Amazing'. She joined Jasper Carrott's comedy, ''Carrott's Lib'', in 1983. In 1986, she played the heavily pregnant Vanessa Plowright in the "Tourists" episode of ''Farrington of the F.O.'' (broadcast 13 March). In 1986, she accompanied then husband Steve Brown on the Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jordan (dancer)
James Jordan (born 13 April 1978) is an English ballroom dancer and choreographer. His dance partner is his wife Ola Jordan, with whom he turned professional in 2000. Jordan appeared as a professional on ''Strictly Come Dancing'' from 2006 to 2013. In August 2014, he participated in the Celebrity Big Brother (British series 14), fourteenth series of ''Celebrity Big Brother (British TV series), Celebrity Big Brother''. He finished in third place. He returned as an All-Star for the Celebrity Big Brother (British series 19), nineteenth series, where he was evicted in thirteenth place. In 2018 he appeared along with his wife, Ola, on Comedy Central's ''Your Face or Mine?''. On 10 March 2019, Jordan won the Dancing on Ice (series 11), eleventh series of ''Dancing on Ice'', where he was partnered with professional Finnish figure skater Alexandra Schauman. Dancing career Jordan was born in Gillingham, Kent, and attended St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham. He started dancing at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casualty (TV Series)
''Casualty'' (stylised as ''CASUAL+Y'') is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1986. The original producer was Geraint Morris. Having been broadcast weekly since 1986, ''Casualty'' is the longest-running primetime medical drama series in the world. The programme is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. The show has strong ties to its sister programme '' Holby City'', which began as a spin-off series from ''Casualty'' in 1999, set in the same hospital. The final episode of ''Holby City'' was broadcast in March 2022. ''Casualty''s exterior shots were mainly filmed outside the Ashley Down Centre in Bristol from 1986 until 2002, when they moved to the centre of Bristol. In 2011, ''Casualty'' celebrated its 25th anniversary and moved production to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Bouzova
Georgina Bouzová (born 1 June 1976) is an English television actress best known for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama ''Casualty''. Previously, Bouzová had a number of minor television roles including in '' Doctors'', ''Mile High'', ''The Bill'' and ''Murder in Suburbia.'' Early life and education Bouzová was born in Surrey, although she grew up in Manchester with her Czech father Ivan Bouza, mother Rita, and younger sister Jessica. Her surname is pronounced ''boh-zaw-va:''. She was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls. She qualified as a barrister, having gained her LLB in English Law and French Law from King's College London, with time studying at La Sorbonne in Paris. Acting career Bouzová later discovered that acting was her main passion. She joined Casualty in 2004 as Ukrainian staff nurse Ellen Zitek. Her character was diagnosed with, and underwent treatment for, cancer, but died after being run over by a motorcyclist in an acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola Jordan
Aleksandra "Ola" Jordan (''née'' Grabowska; born 30 September 1982) is a British-Polish professional ballroom dancer and model. She appeared as a professional on the British TV show ''Strictly Come Dancing'' from 2006 to 2015. After winning a championship event in her native Poland, Jordan moved to England and began a new partnership with James Jordan. They married on 12 October 2003 and live near Maidstone in Kent. In 2018, she became a judge on ''Dancing with the Stars: Taniec z gwiazdami'' in Poland. Dancing career Jordan has been dancing since the age of twelve when her school advertised a dance club. Before dancing with James Jordan, she had danced with John Lowicki in Poland. She won Poland's Open Championships in 1999 and went on to take 12th place in the following year's World Championships. The first recorded dance by Ola Grabowska and James Jordan as a partnership was in the Dutch Open in 2000, though they did not turn professional until 2003. The couple withdrew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It specialises in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. The station provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie, while its sister station 1Xtra plays black contemporary music, including hip hop and R&B. Radio 1 also runs two online streams, Radio 1 Dance, dedicated to dance music, and Radio 1 Relax, dedicated to chill-out music; both are available to listen only on BBC Sounds. Radio 1 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between and , digital radio, digital TV and BBC Sounds. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claims that it targets the 15–29 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991. According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Spoony
DJ Spoony (born Johnathan Joseph; 25 June 1970) is a British DJ and radio presenter. He is a member of the UK garage production trio, the Dreem Teem. Early career Dj Spoony was born in Hackney, East London to British West Indian parents. His career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties), forming the trio the Dreem Teem with Mikee B (of Top Buzz) and Timmi Magic. With the Dreem Teem, he joined Kiss 100 in December 1997, followed by bringing UK garage nationally to BBC Radio 1 in January 2000. They went on to win a prestigious Sony Award in their first year. DJ Spoony was a resident DJ at the UK's top garage and R&B club night 'Twice as Nice' for 7 years, mixing and compiling three gold selling compilation albums for the brand. He has had residencies in Ibiza and Ayia Napa for over 10 years as well as making annual visits to many other Mediterranean islands. Solo radio work He went on to host the Weekend Breakfast show on Radio 1 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavia Cacace
Flavia Cacace-Mistry born 1980 is an Italian British professional dancer. Her professional dance partner is Vincent Simone (they are branded when performing together as 'Vincent and Flavia'), and for ten years both partners appeared on the BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing''. Early life Cacace was born in Naples, the youngest of six children, and came to the United Kingdom with her family at the age of four when her father (a "chef") moved to another job. She attended St Peter's Catholic School in Guildford, and left in 1995. Career Dancing career Cacace's mother insisted that each of the children have an activity, so she and her eldest sister joined the local ballroom dancing class – when Cacace was 6. After partnerships with two dance partners, Cacace and Simone (who had the same dance teacher in London) were both looking for partners. They decided to try out together in 1994, and they have been dancing together ever since. ''Strictly Come Dancing'' Highest and lowest scoring pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Tarbuck
James Joseph Tarbuck (born 6 February 1940) is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host. He was a host of ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' in the mid-1960s, and hosted numerous game shows and quiz shows on ITV during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. He is also known for leading ITV's ''Live From Her Majesty's'' and its subsequent incarnations during the 1980s. Actress and television and radio presenter Liza Tarbuck is his daughter. Biography Tarbuck was born in Wavertree, Liverpool, on 6 February 1940. He has an older brother (William) and his parents, Ada McLoughlin (aka Ada Hannagan) and Joseph Frederick Tarbuck, married in March 1947. He attended Dovedale Primary School in Liverpool, where he was a schoolmate of John Lennon. His first television show was ''It's Tarbuck '65!'' on ITV in 1964, though he had been introduced on Sunday Night at the London Palladium in October 1963 by Bruce Forsyth. He then replaced Forsyth as the last origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
