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Nicola McLean
Nicola Mary McLean (born 18 September 1981) is an English glamour model, and television and media personality. She was a contestant in '' I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2008, and ''Celebrity Big Brother'' in 2012 and again in the show’s 19th series in 2017, which was an All-Star vs. New Star season. McLean returned as an All-Star and left the house on the final night in fifth place, beating her original season's position of seventh place. Early life McLean's parents are Scottish: her father is from Keith and her mother is from Port Glasgow. She was born in London and has one sister. Before becoming a model, McLean was an Army cadet. Modelling McLean modelled for Page 3 of ''The Sun'' between September 1999 and July 2004; and Page 3 of the '' Daily Star'' from 2000 until 2006. One of the UK's most successful glamour models, she appeared on Page 3 in ''The Sun'' and ''Daily Star'' almost every week for around five years - notching up almost 300 appearances in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm A Celebrity
''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' is a reality television TV format, format in which a number of celebrities live together in a jungle environment for a number of weeks, competing to be crowned "King-" or "Queen of the Jungle". The show was originally created in the United Kingdom by Granada Television and produced by its subsidiary, ITV (TV network), ITV's then London franchise London Weekend Television (LWT) and developed by a team including James Allen, Natalka Znak, Brent Baker and Stewart Morris. The first episode was aired on 25 August 2002, hosted by Ant McPartlin, Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, better known as Ant & Dec, Ant and Dec. It is now produced by ITV Studios and has been licensed globally to countries including the United States, Germany, France, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, Russia, Australia and India. Filming location The British, German and the 2003 American versions of the series take place in New South Wales, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoo (magazine)
''Zoo'' was a British softcore lad magazine published weekly by Bauer Media Group with periods of an Australian and South African editions. It was launched on 29 January 2004, and for a time was the UK's only men's weekly after the similar and rival magazine ''Nuts'' closed in April 2014. On 17 November 2015, ''Zoo'' announced on its website that it would be suspending publication. ''Zoo'' consisted of a mix of comedy news, sports commentary, photos of glamour models, jokes (of the pub joke style), an entertainments guide (covering TV, cinema, video/computer games and music), fashion/grooming and comical/rude pictures sent in by readers. UK edition ''Zoo'' was a weekly news magazine aimed at the male market. It was launched on 29 January 2004, as the second weekly men's magazine in the UK (the first being the similar and rival magazine; ''Nuts''). The magazine was published by German company Bauer Media Group. The ''Zoo'' website was a continuation of the magazine's content ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding TV
Wedding TV was a woman's lifestyle television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom. Separate versions of the channel were available in Poland and Italy. The channel claims to be the first TV channel of its kind, concentrating on love, life, relationships and weddings. The focus of the channel is primarily weddings and brides though there are programmes on fashion, beauty, celebrities and travel. History Wedding TV was co-founded by Mirek Grabiec, Ben Watts, Marc Conneely and Tony Prince, a former DJ for Radio Luxembourg. In August 2007, Wedding TV became the UK's first channel to eliminate tape entirely from delivery to play-out, significantly reducing the cost of production. In 2008 Wedding TV won the Broadcast Digital Channel Award for the ''Best Specialist Channel''. On 25 November 2011, Wedding TV Limited entered administration. In December 2011, Wedding TV was purchased by Creamdove Limited. On 9 May 2012, the channel was removed from Freesat channel 400, where it had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and Media studies, media analyst Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular Photograph, photographs to detail the complex attributes of History, historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the War photography, conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five (TV Channel)
5 (formerly known as Channel 5 and Five) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount Global's Paramount Networks UK & Australia, UK and Australia division. It was launched in 30 March 1997 to provide a fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom. Channel 5 was renamed Five, from 16 September 2002 until 13 February 2011. Most of this was under the RTL Group's ownership with Richard Desmond purchasing the channel on 23 July 2010 and reverting the name change.'Mini-revamp planned for Channel 5 News' ATV Network, 30 October 2010 On 1 May 2014, the channel was acquired by Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom (now Paramount Global ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WAGs
Wag generally refers to tail wagging by dogs. Wag, Wags, WAG or WAGS may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Wag (band), a Japanese rock music group, active 1998–2006 * Wag, a character in ''Kabumpo in Oz'' (1922) * Wags the Dog, a mascot in the Australian children's band ''The Wiggles'' * WAGS (TV series), ''WAGS'' (TV series), an American reality TV series * Winnipeg Art Gallery, in Manitoba, Canada * Women's Art Group, precursor to the Women's Art Movement in Adelaide, South Australia, 1974 * WAGS (AM), former Bishopville, South Carolina radio station Businesses based in the United States * Wag (brand), a dog food brand by Amazon * Wag (company), or Wag!, a pet care company * Wag's, a defunct restaurant chain * Wag-Aero, an aircraft manufacturer * WAGS (AM), a defunct radio station * Warner Animation Group, a corporate division of Warner Bros. Language * WAGs, a British slang/journalese acronym for 'wives and girlfriends' * Wild-Ass Guess, American slang for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Test The Nation
''Test the Nation'' is a television programme, first broadcast in 2001 by BNN in the Netherlands. The concept is owned by Eyeworks Holding who license it to TV production companies around the world. Show format The format is designed to allow viewers to answer a number of questions in order to measure their IQ or their ability in some other 'intellectual' area. For instance, in the UK (where the show ran between 2002 and 2007) there have been editions of the show devoted to general knowledge, knowledge of the UK itself, and the English language. There is also an annual test of the year's events just before Christmas. Typically there is a studio audience who answer the questions along with the viewer. The studio demography is broken down into categories often designed to challenge or affirm stereotypes. For example, in the United Kingdom, white-van men and fashion models are commonly thought to be less intelligent, whilst doctors and scientists are ''expected'' to score highl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Breakfast
''The Big Breakfast'' is a British breakfast light entertainment television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 1992 to 2002, and as a revival from 2021 to 2022. The show had various presenters, starting with Chris Evans (presenter), Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin at launch with the revival episodes presented by Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu. The programme was distinctive for broadcasting live from a real house (which had been lock-keepers' cottages), commonly referred to as "The Big Breakfast House", or more simply, "The House", located on Fish Island, London, Fish Island, in Bow, London, Bow in east London. The original house on Fish Island in Bow has since been sold. The show was a mix of news, weather, interviews, audience phone-ins and general features, with a light tone which was in competition with the maturer GMTV and BBC Breakfast programmes. History ''The Big Breakfast'' was launched on 28 September 1992 to replace ''The Channel Four Daily'', which was Channel 4's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard & Judy
''Richard & Judy'' (also known as ''Richard & Judy's New Position'') is a British television chat show presented by the married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. The show originally aired on Channel 4 from 26 November 2001 to 22 August 2008, but later moved to digital channel Watch from 7 October 2008 to 1 July 2009. 2001–08: Channel 4 ''Richard & Judy'' started with Channel 4 on 26 November 2001 and aired every weekday from 5pm to 6pm with breaks in-between. Between 2006 and 2008, the ''Richard & Judy'' show shared this original timeslot with ''The Paul O'Grady Show'', a programme that started in March 2006. For three months of each year, between 2006 and 2008, the ''Richard & Judy'' show occupied the 5pm to 6pm slot (January to March and June to August), and then the ''Paul O'Grady Show'' occupied the timeframe for the following three months (March to June and September to December). On the 15 August 2008 edition of the show, Richard stated that the following wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weakest Link
''Weakest Link'' (also known as ''The Weakest Link'') is a television game show which The Weakest Link (British game show), first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and originally ended on 31 March 2012 when its host Anne Robinson completed her contract. The original British version of the show is still aired around the world on BBC Entertainment and domestically on Challenge (TV channel), Challenge. The game begins with a team of eight or nine contestants who take turns answering general knowledge questions within a time limit to create chains of correct answers in a row. At the end of each round, the players vote one contestant, "The Weakest Link", out of the game. Once two players are left, they play in a head-to-head contest, with five questions asked to each contestant in turn, to determine the winner. The format has been licensed across the world, with many countries producing their own series of the programme and is the second most popular inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabloid (newspaper Format)
A tabloid is a newspaper format characterized by its compact size, smaller than a broadsheet. The term originates from the 19th century, when the London-based pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. used the term to describe Tablet (pharmacy), compressed pills, later adopted by newspapers to denote condensed content. There are two main types of tabloid newspaper: red tops and Compact (newspaper), compact, distinguished by editorial style. Red top tabloids are distinct from broadsheet newspapers, which traditionally cater to more affluent, educated audiences with in-depth reporting and analysis. However, the line between tabloids and broadsheets has blurred in recent decades, as many broadsheet newspapers have adopted tabloid or compact formats to reduce costs and attract readers. Globally, the tabloid format has been adapted to suit regional preferences and media landscapes. In countries like Germany and Australia, tabloids such as ''Bild'' and ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
