Diversity are a British

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formed in 2007 and based in

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. They are best known for winning the third series of ''

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'' in 2009, beating

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in the live final. Diversity consists of friends from London (Leytonstone and

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) and

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(

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), including four sets of siblings and eight other members. At the time they appeared on ''Britain's Got Talent'', some were still at

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, while others had jobs of their own. The group, ranging in age from –, consists of leader and

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Ashley Banjo Ashley Modurotolu Banjo is an English street dancer, choreographer and actor. He is the leader of dance troupe Diversity who won the third series of ''Britain's Got Talent''. Banjo was a judge on the Sky1 talent show ''Got to Dance' ...

and the following other members:

Jordan Banjo Jordan Mayowa Banjo (born 31 December 1992) is a British street dancer, best known as a current member of the dance troupe Diversity, who won the third series of ''Britain's Got Talent''. He and fellow Diversity star Perri Kiely co-host the KI ...

, Sam Craske, Mitchell Craske,

Perri Kiely Perri Luc Kiely (born 15 December 1995) is a British street dancer, TV and radio presenter. He is a member of the dance troupe Diversity, which won the third series of ''Britain's Got Talent'' in 2009. He finished as runner-up in the 12th se ...

, Warren Russell, Terry Smith, Nathan Ramsay, Theo Mckenzie-Hayton, Adam Mckop, Kelvin Clark, Jordan Samuel, Shante Samuel, Starr Kiely, Georgia Lewis and Morgan Plom. Founding members Ashton Russell, Ian McNaughton, Jamie McNaughton, Matthew McNaughton and Ike Chuks have left Diversity. They are currently managed by Danielle Banjo, Ashley and Jordan's mother, and based at Dancework studio. On 28 July 2017, it was announced that former member Robert Anker had died following a car crash in

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History

Before Diversity: Swift Moves

Before Diversity most of the group belonged to Swift Moves or Swift Moves Juniors. As Swift Moves, they beat KI (the crew Marlon Wallen from Flawless was with) in 2005 during KI's second run to seven wins at The Jump Off where Swift Moves battled a total of four times.

2007: Formation and early career

Formed in 2007, although there were a few line-up changes between 2007 and 2009 with

and Ike Chuks joining the group while Robert Anker and Ashton Russell did not take part in ''

''. They won the Street Dance Weekend 2007 competition. By the time they performed in the Street Dance Weekend as guests in 2008 the group consisted of friends from east London (Leytonstone and Dagenham) and

(

), included four sets of brothers and three other members. Some were still at

, while others had jobs of their own. The group consisted of leader and

and the following other members: Robert Anker,

, Sam Craske, Mitchell Craske, Warren Russell, Ashton Russell,

, Ike Chuks, Terry Smith, Ian McNaughton, Jamie McNaughton and Matthew McNaughton. Ashton Russell played the part of Young

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in the musical

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2009: ''Britain's Got Talent''

In 2009, Diversity auditioned in London for the third series of ''

''. Judge

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said: "Just when I think I've seen it all, you came on." They received three "yes"es from Holden,

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and

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, and eventually progressed to the live semi-finals, where they opened the first show on 24 May. After their performance, they received a standing ovation from the audience and the judges, who all dubbed their performance "fantastic". Later that night, they were in the top three with singers Natalie Okri and

. Boyle was revealed to have received the most votes and went straight through to the live final, meaning that the judges would choose between Okri and Diversity for the second spot in the final. Morgan and Cowell both voted in favour of Diversity – Morgan believed that Diversity had a better chance of winning the show and Cowell admitted that he had been "a huge fan" of Diversity from their first audition. Following their performance in the final, Holden said she thought Diversity had "blown Flawless out of the water", while Cowell said that "If I had to give marks on that, this would be the only performance tonight I would give a 10 to." However, Morgan thought Flawless "just edged iversity" They finished in the top three again, as did Boyle, along with saxophonist Julian Smith. In a shock result, in front of a record audience of 17.3 million viewers, Diversity were announced as the winners, despite Boyle being the clear favourite to win.

2009: BGT tour and 1st Royal Variety show performance

After winning ''Britain's Got Talent'', Diversity appeared on the US television news programmes ''

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'' and ''

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'' to talk about their future plans. They also took part in the Britain's Got Talent – The Live Tour 2009 in June and July. Diversity also became Patrons of Dance Aid organised by the UK Registered Charity,

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. They performed at the

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on 5 July, and appeared at

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on 19 July at

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. On 31 August, Diversity performed at Blackpool's Winter Gardens in a

tribute alongside

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and

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. This performance was on the same weekend as the World Street Dancing championships. They performed in

to launch the new

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channel

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. They also performed outside

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in front of

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, during which Perri slipped and fell on his head after attempting a back-flip. He did not sustain any serious injury. Diversity also appeared in the Gracious K music video "Migraine Skank" along with dance group Flawless. In January 2010, Ashley Banjo appeared as a judge on the

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reality show ''

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'', alongside Adam Garcia and

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. Diversity switched on

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at Chapelfield shopping centre in Norwich on 5 November, then in

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in Sheffield on 6 November then in

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on 12 November. On 11 November, Diversity conducted several hours of signing

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s and posing for

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s with thousands of fans at The Galleria Shopping Centre in

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. Afterwards, they hosted a prize-giving ceremony on stage and performed their "Michael Jackson" dance routine. They performed another

tribute at the

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award ceremony. Diversity "launched" Christmas at Lakeside on 1 November, where they took two members of the audience on-stage for a dance-off. There was a competition held in November, and a hundred people won a

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with Diversity on 19 November at

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. On 7 December, Diversity performed on the

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, hosted in Blackpool and shown on

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across the UK on 16 December. On the show ''

Warm Up'', they presented their Westfield Shopping Centre FlashMob, sponsored by

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2010: Diversity's tour

Diversity promoted street dancing with Change4Life in January as a means of getting kids and families more active. The first dates for Diversity's spring tour sold out in 24 hours, which led to further dates being announced, the first being at the

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on 27 March. The tour centres on toys "coming to life". Diversity being the main toy as "Diversitoys", fellow ''Britain's Got Talent'' dance group Suga-Free as "the dolls",

as "Bionic Boy", and others. Due to phenomenal public demand, Diversity brought back their "Diversitoys" tour in December with a Special Christmas twist "Diversitoys Christmas Special". Part of the tour were later shown on TV in the program Diversity Live: The Diversitoys Tour. The group teamed up with national retailer

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for a commercial to be shown in April and May, with the tagline "If you like Diversity, you'll love The Range". They also appeared in adverts for food for "great little ideas". Diversity appeared in the UK film

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, released on 21 May 2010, in which they starred alongside ''Britain's Got Talent'' 2009 finalists Flawless and 2008 winner

. They brought out their own fitness DVD called

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in November 2010.

2011–2012: Digitized tour

Ashton Russell re-joined diversity. In July and August Diversity members Mitchell Craske,

and Ashton Russell along with fellow Dancework studio dancer Nathan Ramsey took part in the

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roadshow. At each show two of the four would perform and take part in a dance masterclass for children. The group did a number of TV performances including Britain's Got Talent,

and

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. They also filmed the first series of "

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". In September they supported the charity the Railway Children by producing a film for them and also a competition where the winners would meet the group on their next tour. In October the group performed at the Michael Forever – The Tribute Concert. The first series of "Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew" aired. In the show members of Diversity took turns to help Ash teach small groups a street dance. The group also filmed the second series of "Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew" during the course of the year. Starting from March, Diversity did their first UK Arena tour called "Digitized – Trapped in the Game". They sold out the O2 Arena with a standing ovation from the audience. Shortly after the Digitized tour Ian McNaughton, Jamie McNaughton and Matthew McNaughton left the group. Later in the year they brought out their DVD of the tour filmed at the O2 Arena.

2012–2014: Limitless tour

Diversity were among the many torch bearers in London's 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, completing their leg of the journey on 22 July 2012. They performed on the

2012 with Spelbound, Stavros Flatley and Paul Potts. Got to Dance returned for its fourth series. As per previous series Diversity did a number of performance. The fourth series also saw Diversity members Jordan and Perri start hosting in their own right as they took on the role of the backstage presenters. This was followed a few months later by their own show. In spring of 2013 Diversity spent 2 months in Stockton-on-Tees teaching large groups of people to dance for the Sky1 show "Ashley Banjo's Big Town Dance". The second series of "Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew" aired at the start of the year. The group have also been working on a third series of Ashley Banjo's Secret Street Crew since April. In Summer 2013 Diversity members Jordan Banjo and

, hosted their own TV show ''Jordan and Perri's Ultimate Block Party'' where they transformed groups of young people (Swim Team, Youth Club etc.) into a dance troupe in only 2 days. In the run up to the limitless tour the group did a number of performances including one at the Danone Nations Cup (a football competition dedicated to children) at

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and another on top of the O2 Arena in London for Nickelodeon's Fruit Shoot Skills Awards. Diversity did their third tour called Limitless from 30 November to 16 December. They performed one of the performances from the tour on ''

'' at the start of the year. In February 2014, Perri won the second series of '' Splash!'' A new Diversity show called ''

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'' (which has also been called ''The Town That Danced Again'' while in production) aired on

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in January and February. Big Town dance followed Ashley and Diversity as they spent 2 months in Stockton-on-Tees trying to bring the town together through dance. It was announced on 17 February that Diversity Members Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely would be the UK hosts for

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. Following the announcement Jordan and Perri spent a week in LA filming a number of adverts and video blogs which Nickelodeon showed on their UK channel and web site in the run up to the Awards. On 1 March, Diversity performed on ''

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'' and announced that due to public demand a reboot of their Limitless tour would return in November 2014. Diversity performed with

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during the final of

on 7 June. They had previously performed on

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on their own on 29 May. Members of Diversity have also done a number of adverts. Perri & Mitchell did ITV – Where The Entertainers Live in March. Ash, Jordan and Perri did a series of videos for Cadbury Marvellous Mix-Ups in May. Jordan and Perri did a number of videos and judging for

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Generation Green Energy Performance in May and June. The pair also did a number of adverts for Transformers toys in June. In October Ike took part in itvplayer's Ready when you are. Diversity appeared at Weston Super-Mare Beach Festival on 28 June. They took part in Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park with

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on 6 July. They also appeared at the Leicester Music Festival on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 July. Diversity took part in the closing ceremony of the first

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on 14 September. Their set included the Corps of Drums from Her Majestys Band of The Royal Marines and three members of Diversity Juniors. The three Diversity Juniors also took part in Diversity performance on Got to Dance on 25 August.

2015: The Exclusive Tour – Up Close and Personal

Diversity Live broadcast on 4 January during which the group talked about how various dances that have inspired them and the major influences who have helped them along the way. On 13 March 2015, Warren Russell was a judge at the first ever Balfour Beatty London Youth Games dance competition. In early 2015 it was announced that Diversity members Jordan and Perri would be reprising their roles as UK hosts for the

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Kids' Choice Awards 2015. They again spent time in the USA filming short clips for Nickelodeon in the run up to the awards. Before returning to the UK where Diversity filmed a special routine for the pre-show. During the filming of this Diversity members Ashley, Mitchell, Sam, Ike, Warren and Terry were all slimed, a form of honour from Nickelodeon. Jordan and Perri also got slimed when they hosted and performed with Diversity at the UK's first ever Nickelodeon Slimefest 2016. On 9 May 2015 they gave the opening performance at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in

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, London.

2015–present: Butlins Tour – Butlins Up Close and Personal

During 2015 members of Diversity performed shows and took dance class at a number of

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resorts during the school holidays. So far they been joined on stage by fellow Dancework studio dancer Nathan Ramsey and members of Diversity Juniors along with drummer Kieran Gaffney. Although it was not officially announced, Ike Chuks left the group in early 2016 to pursue his music career. In 2016, Ashley Banjo (alongside Zoe Ball) hosted the BBC show '' Can't Touch This''. On 3 February 2016, Diversity, along with some young people and staff from Dancework Studios performed for ''

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'', hosted by

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. Diversity also returned to ITV, where they starred in two episodes of the Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway segment "Who Shot Simon Cowell?" as well as a special performance (created by Ashley Banjo) to celebrate 10 years of Britain's Got Talent. They returned once again in the New Year to promote their new ITV special Diversity Presents Steal The Show. Ashley Banjo was also a judge on the Strictly Come Dancing rival Dance Dance Dance. On 8 November 2016, Jordan Banjo was announced as being part of the line-up for series 16 of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' Diversity returned to Butlins for 2016. It was announced in August 2016 that Diversity will be back at Butlins for October 2016 It was announced that Diversity was returning to Butlins for their fourth year in 2018 along with the dance academy.

2017: Genesis Tour and pantomime debut

Diversity showcased their 7th UK arena tour, Genesis. The tour is the final element to the Diversity Superhero saga, and a future tour is yet to be announced. From 9 December 2017 to 14 January 2018, Diversity made their

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debut in ''Dick Whittington'' at the

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, alongside

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Paul Zerdin Paul Zerdin (born 21 August 1972) is a British comedian and ventriloquist from London. He was the winner of the 10th season of '' America's Got Talent''. Early life When Zerdin was 10, a family friend made him a puppet theatre which he use ...

Gary Wilmot Harold Owen "Gary" Wilmot, MBE (born 8 May 1954) is a British singer, actor, comedian, presenter, writer and director who rose to fame as a contestant on ''New Faces''. As a television presenter, he is best known as the host of '' You and Me'', ...

Nigel Havers Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor. His film roles include Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film ''Chariots of Fire'', which earned him a BAFTA nomination; as Dr. Rawlins in the 1987 Steven Spielberg war drama ...

and

Charlie Stemp Charlie Stemp (born 30 November 1993) is an English actor. Stemp came to prominence for his leading role as Arthur Kipps in the West End musical ''Half a Sixpence'', which earned him a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a M ...

. On 28 July 2017, member Robert Anker died in a car accident in

. On 6 November 2017, Ashley Banjo was confirmed to be one of the four judges on the revived ITV show ''

Dancing on Ice ''Dancing on Ice'' is a British television series presented by Phillip Schofield alongside Holly Willoughby from 2006 to 2011, who then returned in 2018, and Christine Bleakley from 2012 to 2014. The series features celebrities and their profe ...

''. Diversity performed for a one-off Christmas special – named A Night of Emergency Services. Ashley Banjo returned for his second series of

, in 2019.

Tours

* Britain's Got Talent Tour (2009) * Diversitoys (2010) ** Diversitoys Christmas Special (2010) * Digitized – Trapped in the Game (2012) * Limitless (2013) *

Salute Tour The Salute Tour was the second concert tour held by British girl group Little Mix, in support of their second studio album, ''Salute''. The tour began on 16 May 2014, in Birmingham, England, and ended on 27 July 2014 in Scarborough, North Yorksh ...

With

** Limitless The Reboot (2014) * The Exclusive Tour – Up Close and Personal (2015) *

– Up Close and Personal (2015–Present) * Genesis (2017) * Dick Whittington at the London Palladium (2017–2018) * Aladdin at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend (2018–2019) * Robin Hood and His Merry Men at the Cliffs Pavilion Southend (2019–2020) * Ignite (2018) * Born Ready (2019) *Connected (2022) *

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as T ...

at the Cliffs Pavillion Southend (2022)

DVDs

* Diversity: Dance.Fitness.Fusion (2010) * Diversity Digitized: The Live Tour 2012 (2012)