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Sing If You Can
''Sing If You Can'' is a British game show broadcast on ITV. It features celebrities attempting to sing in front of a live studio audience whilst various attempts are made to disrupt their performances. It is presented by Keith Lemon and Stacey Solomon, though originally Vernon Kay was scheduled to host, but he felt that it would be better hosted by a comedian. The show was sponsored by Argos, supporting the charity Teenage Cancer Trust. Format Six celebrities are divided into two teams, each with a captain. After the celebrity has performed, a three-person judging panel views their thoughts. After all six celebrities have performed, the audience vote to decide which team wins. The losing team captain is dropped into a tank of water, and the winning team then perform a final song on a spinning stage. The amount of money to be donated to charity increases as the stage spins, and the longer the celebrities stay on the stage, the more money they win. The show raised money for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Show
A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards. The shows are typically directed by a game show host, host, who explains the rules of the program as well as commentating and narrating where necessary. The history of the game shows dates back to the late 1930s when both radio and television game shows were broadcast. The genre became popular in the United States in the 1950s, becoming a regular feature of daytime television. On most game shows, contestants Quiz, answer questions or solve puzzles, and win prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services. History 1930s–1950s Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, ''Spelling Bee (game show), Spelling Bee'', as well as the first radio game show, ''Information Please'', were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was ''Dr. I.Q.'', a radio quiz show that began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Ansell
Jonathan Mark Ansell (born 10 March 1982) is an English singer, best known as the high tenor of the vocal group G4. Early life Influenced by his mother's tapes of Pavarotti and the Three Tenors, Ansell joined the West Sussex Boys' Choir conducted by Arthur Robson, at the age of eight. He toured extensively with the choir to Florida, Germany, and France, performed in the Royal Festival Hall and sang many times in Arundel Cathedral. Ansell stayed with the choir until his voice broke at the age of 16 when he lost the ability to sing treble but after puberty found he had developed a high tenor voice instead. After a performance of ''Love Changes Everything'' at a choral society concert in Littlehampton, Ansell's local MP Howard Flight, who was in the audience, arranged for him to have a preliminary audition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. After working with music teacher Martin Elliott, he won a place at the Guildhall two years later. While at the Guildhall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Edwards
Brenda Claudina Susan Edwards (' Artman; born 2 March 1969) is an English singer, actress, television personality and presenter. In 2005, she finished in fourth place on the second series of ''The X Factor''. Since 2019, she has been a weekly panellist on the ITV daytime chat show ''Loose Women''. Edwards, Charlene White, Judi Love and Kéllé Bryan became the first all black panel in the show's 25-year history; they have featured several times together. In January 2021, she became a presenter on the BBC One programme ''Songs of Praise''. Early life Brenda Claudina Susan Artman was born on 2 March 1969 in Luton, Bedfordshire, to a Saint Vincentian family. Edwards and her older brother Rodney were raised by relatives following the death of their parents in a car crash on 22 December 1974. Her grandmother, who was a member of the Church of God in Christ in Bury Park, encouraged her granddaughter to attend when she was eight, and Edwards soon discovered a love of music and singi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Groves
Richard Groves (born 23 April 1968) is an English actor best known for playing Garry Hobbs in ''EastEnders'' from 2000 to 2009, before making a brief return in 2025. Before his role in ''EastEnders'' he appeared in the series ''Burnside (TV series), Burnside'', a spin-off from ''The Bill''. He trained at The Poor School in London. Career Groves joined the cast of the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' as Garry Hobbs, the boyfriend of Lynne Slater, a member of the newly introduced Slater family. He left the show in August 2009 alongside Dawn Swann. Groves took part in TV series ''Coach Trip#Celebrity Coach Trip, Celebrity Coach Trip'' partnered with friend and co-star Alex Ferns. In 2009, Groves took part in the Strictly Come Dancing (series 7), seventh series of ''Strictly Come Dancing''. In 2014, Groves took part in the Splash! (British series 2), second series of Splash! (British TV series), Splash'' on ITV. Personal life Groves became engaged in 2005 to girlfriend and ''EastEnd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Rouse
Rob Rouse (born 1974) is an English comedian. Overview Rouse grew up in Gawsworth, Cheshire. He trained as a geography teacher at the University of Sheffield and got into comedy in his final year at university. Having fully qualified as a teacher, he decided that teaching was not for him after spending two days as a supply teacher. Instead, he decided to move to London to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, he has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and national circuit. Rouse is married to comedian and author Helen Rutter. The couple have two children and live in the Peak District. Television work Rouse started his career in television as a "warm-up" on the hit BBC sitcom ''Coupling'', where he entertained the studio audience between filming. Rouse s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomson (comedian)
John Patrick Thomson (born Patrick Francis McAleer; 2 April 1969) is an English comedian, narrator and actor best known for his roles in ''The Fast Show'', ''Men Behaving Badly'', ''Cold Feet'', '' 24 Hour Party People'', '' The Brothers Grimsby'' and ''Coronation Street''. Early life Thomson was born in 1969 in Walkden, Worsley, Lancashire, to Mary McAleer, who gave him up for adoption six weeks later. He was adopted from the Catholic Children's Rescue Society by Andrew and Marita Thomson, a businessman and a bookseller from Didsbury. He has one younger brother, Ben (born to his adoptive parents).Cooke, Rachel (2003-05-11"Infamy, infamy ..." ''The Observer''. Retrieved on 2007-02-17 He attended All Hallows Catholic High School near Preston, Lancashire, leaving with three O-levels. He then attended Runshaw College between 1985 and 1987, studying for four A-levels, including theatre studies. He was described as "clearly avinga talent for comedy". Following this, he turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Flack
Caroline Louise Flack (9 November 1979 – 15 February 2020) was an English television presenter and actress. Flack grew up in Norfolk and took an interest in dancing and theatre while at school. She began her professional career as an actress, starring in the comedy sketch show ''Bo' Selecta!'' (2002), and went on to present various ITV2 shows including ''I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW!'' (2009–2010) and ''The Xtra Factor (British TV series), The Xtra Factor'' (2011–2013). In 2014, Flack won the Strictly Come Dancing (series 12), twelfth series of BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing'' and was praised for achieving a record perfect score in the final. The following year, she began presenting ''The X Factor (British TV series), The X Factor,'' replacing the long-standing presenter Dermot O'Leary, and ''Love Island (2015 TV series), Love Island,'' hosting until her resignation in December 2019 after being arrested for Common assault, assault a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking On Sunshine (Katrina And The Waves Song)
"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for British rock band Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The rerecorded version was at first released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single and reached No. 4 in Australia, No. 9 in the United States and No. 8 in the United Kingdom. It was the Waves' first American top 40 hit, and their biggest success in the UK until "Love Shine a Light" (1997), which won them the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 held in Dublin. Background "Walking on Sunshine" was written by the band's guitarist Kimberley Rew. "I'd love to say Walking on Sunshine relates to a significant event in my life, like walking out of my front door, seeing a comet and being inspired," he told ''The Guardian'' in 2015. "But it's just a piece of simple fun, an optimistic song, despite us not being outstandingly cheery people. We were a typical young band, insecure and pessimistic. We didn't have big hair and did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firework (song)
"Firework" is a song by American singer Katy Perry from her third studio album, '' Teenage Dream'' (2010). She co-wrote the song with Ester Dean and the song's producers Stargate and Sandy Vee. It is a dance-pop self-empowerment anthem with inspirational lyrics, and Perry felt it was an important song for her on the record. Capitol Records released "Firework" as the album's third single on October 26, 2010. The song was commercially successful, charting at number one in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States while reaching the top five in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It has also been certified diamond in Brazil and Canada as well as multi-platinum in Australia, Austria, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. On January 5, 2012, "Firework" was ranked the fifth-most-played single on US radio du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
"Ave Maria" is a setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria, originally published in 1853 as "". The piece consists of a melody by the French Romantic composer Charles Gounod that he superimposed over an only very slightly changed version of Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846, from Book I of his ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', 1722. The 1853 publication has French text, but it is the 1859 version with the Latin "Ave Maria" which became popular. History Gounod improvised the melody, and his future father-in-law Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman transcribed the improvisation and in 1853 made an arrangement for violin (or cello) with piano and harmonium. The same year it appeared with the words of Alphonse de Lamartine's poem "" ("The Book of Life"). In 1859, Jacques-Léopold Heugel published a version with the familiar Latin text. The version of Bach's prelude used by Gounod includes the "Schwencke measure" (m.23), a measure allegedly added by Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
