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Strictly Come Dancing Series 2
''Strictly Come Dancing'' returned for its second series on 23 October 2004 on BBC One. Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned to present the main show on BBC One, while Claudia Winkleman presented a new spin-off show called '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' on BBC Two. Series 1 winner Natasha Kaplinsky filled in for Daly during the first five weeks due to Daly's maternity leave. Len Goodman, Arlene Phillips, Craig Revel Horwood, and Bruno Tonioli returned to the judging panel. Actress Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett were announced as the winners on 11 December 2004, while Olympic heptathlete Denise Lewis and Ian Waite finished in second place, and comedian Julian Clary and Erin Boag finished in third. Format The couples dance each week in a live show. The judges score each performance out of ten. The couples are then ranked according to the judges' scores and given points according to their rank, with the lowest scored couple receiving one point, and the highest sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Halfpenny
Jill Halfpenny (born 15 July 1975) is an English actress who first garnered attention playing Nicola Dobson in the coming-of-age BBC drama series '' Byker Grove'' (1989–1992). She became more widely known for her roles as Rebecca Hopkins on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (1999–2000), Kate Mitchell on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2002–2005), and Izzie Redpath in '' Waterloo Road'' (2006–2007). Her other notable credits include ''Babylon'' (2014), '' In the Club'' (2014–2016), ''Humans'' (2015), '' Three Girls'' (2017), '' Liar'' (2017–2020), '' Dark Money'' (2019), '' The Drowning'' (2021), and '' The Long Shadow'' (2023). She won the second series of the television dance contest ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2004. For her portrayal of Paulette Bonafonté in the original West End run of '' Legally Blonde'' (2010–2011), Halfpenny received the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. Her other stage credits include ''Chicago'' (Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Lewis
Dame Denise Rosemarie Lewis (born 27 August 1972) is a British sports administrator and former sports presenter and athletics athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was twice Commonwealth Games champion, was the 1998 European Champion, and won World Championships silver medals in 1997 and 1999. She was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon, though Europeans, including Briton Mary Peters, had won the Olympic pentathlon precursor event. Her personal best score for the heptathlon is 6,831 points, set at the Décastar meeting in 2000. That is a former British record and ranks her third on the all-time British lists behind double World, double Commonwealth Games champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Olympic, three-time World and European champion Jessica Ennis-Hill. Along with these two and pentathletes Mary Rand and Dame Mary Peters, Lewis is recognised as one of Britain's greates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Manners
Sarah Manners (born 25 August 1975) is a British actress and businessowner, known for her roles as Joanna Helm in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors'', Bex Reynolds in the BBC medical drama ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'' and Kirsty Knight in the ITV (TV channel), ITV procedural drama ''The Bill''. Manners competed in the Strictly Come Dancing (series 2), second series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2004, where she finished in sixth place, and has gone on to develop a Pilates app, Pilates On Tap. Early and personal life Manners was born on 25 August 1975 and grew up in Harborne, Birmingham. Her father was a classic car dealer, whilst her mother was a headmistress of a school in Handsworth, West Midlands, Handsworth. She was educated at King Edward VI Handsworth, where she obtained 10 GCSEs and four A-levels. She later studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She married computer salesman Ben O'Sullivan in 2003 in Lickey, Worcestershire. Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Cutler
Nicole Cutler (née Westdyk; born 8 June 1972) is a professional ballroom dancer and former World Amateur Latin-American champion. She was born Nicole Westdyk in Durban, South Africa and after taking up ballet at the age of four, first tried out ballroom and Latin-American dancing at the age of twelve. Career In South Africa she danced competitively with Andrew Magin and Warren Smith before moving to the UK in 1990. In 1994 she teamed up with British dancer Matthew Cutler and they were married in 1996. They divorced in 2003, but have recently been dancing non-competitively once again, still using her married name. In 1999 they formed the principal couple in the stage show ''Burn the Floor''. Jay Park was her professional partner from November 2003 to June 2004. They came first in the Professional Latin All England Championship in May 2004. Nicole partnered Robin Sewell from June 2005 to June 2006. They were runners-up in the closed British Championships and ranked second in Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diarmuid Gavin
Diarmuid Gavin (born 10 May 1964) is an Irish garden designer and television personality. He has presented gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show on nine occasions from 1995 to 2016, winning a number of medals, including gold in 2011. He has also authored or co-authored at least ten gardening-related books. Early life Gavin was born in London on 10 May 1964, to Irish parents, and brought to Ireland when he was a month old. He grew up in the Fairways development in Rathfarnham, a suburb of Dublin. When Gavin was six, his younger brother Conor was killed by a car while they were walking to school. He received his primary school education in St. Joseph's Boys National School in Terenure. He received his secondary education at Templeogue College; he recalls the subjects as being "horrifying," with the exception of art classes with a favourite teacher, Mr Weafer. He applied to the College of Amenity Horticulture at the Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin, failing the first time, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Rantzen
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series ''That's Life!'' for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012. Rantzen has been recognised for her contribution to television and society. She was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting in 1991 and a CBE for services to children in 2006, and in the 2015 New Year Honours was made a Dame for services to children and older people through Childline and The Silver Line. She is patron for a number of charities, including the charity Operation Encompass, and is a trustee for the charity Silver Stories. Early life and family Rantzen was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, to Katherine Flora Rantzen (''née' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Killick
Paul Killick is a British professional ballroom dancer and an International Latin American Dance Champion. He appeared in the first two series of the television show ''Strictly Come Dancing''. Killick specialize in Latin dance and has won The World Cup, World Trophy, World Masters, World Series, Universal and British Professional Latin American DanceSport Championships. Killick is also a choreographer, coach, television personality, dance judge, and the owner and director of the Arthur Murray International studio in Beverly Hills. Competitive dance career Killick represented Great Britain in competitive Ballroom and Latin American Dancesport in the Juvenile, Junior, Youth and Amateur divisions. He won the title of World Amateur Latin Champion in 1993, dancing with Inga Haas. In 1994, Killick began dancing professionally with Oksana Forova. In 1996, he began dancing with Vibeke Toft, participating in several competitions. In October 1998, Killick began dancing with Karina S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Countdown (game Show)
''Countdown'' is a British game show involving word and mathematical tasks that began airing in November 1982. It is broadcast on Channel 4 and is most recently presented by Colin Murray, assisted by Rachel Riley with lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be broadcast on Channel 4 and 91 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982. With over 8,000 episodes, ''Countdown'' is one of Britain's longest-running game shows; the original French version, ''Des chiffres et des lettres'' (Numbers & Letters), ran on French television almost continuously from 1965 until 2024. The two contestants in each episode compete in three game types: ten #Letters Round, letters rounds, in which they attempt to make the longest word possible from nine randomly chosen letters, four #Numbers Round, numbers rounds, in which they must use arithmetic to reach a random target figure from six other numbers and the conundrum, a buzzer round in which the contestants compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman (born 24 December 1960) is a Welsh broadcaster, media personality, and writer. Her media career began when she joined the Channel 4 game show ''Countdown'', appearing with Richard Whiteley from 1982 until his death in 2005, and subsequently with Des Lynam and Des O'Connor, before leaving in 2008. While appearing on ''Countdown'', Vorderman began presenting shows for ITV, including ''How 2'' (1990–1996), '' Better Homes'' (1999–2003) and '' The Pride of Britain Awards'' (1999–present), as well as guest hosting shows, such as '' Have I Got News for You'' (2004–2006) and '' The Sunday Night Project'' (2006). She was a presenter on the ITV talk show '' Loose Women'' from 2011 until 2014. She has also appeared as a contestant on reality shows, including ''Strictly Come Dancing'' (2004), ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' (2016) and ''The Great Celebrity Bake-Off'' (2020), winning the last. Since 2022, Vorderman has been a news-reviewer for ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel Newberry
Hazel Catherine Newberry is a United Kingdom ballroom dancer and dance teacher. She was three times undefeated World Ballroom Dance Champions, World Professional Ballroom champion, dancing with Christopher Hawkins (dancer), Christopher Hawkins (2002–2004). The couple also won the International Ballroom Dance Champions, International Professional Ballroom Championship in London in 2002 and 2003. This couple also won the European, Open British, UK, US Open and Asian Open. Newberry won both World and European Amateur Ballroom championships with Hawkins, in 1997. Newberry's career as an amateur concluded with thirteen successive victories in championship events in Europe and the USA, during 1997, including the DanceSport at the World Games, World Games. From 2008, Newberry danced with Jonathan Wilkins. The two came second in the 2008 Embassy Ball World Cup Standard competition, behind Wilkins' former partner, Katusha Demidova, and Demidova's new partner, Arunas Bizokas. In 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quentin Willson
Quentin Willson (born 23 July 1957) is an English television presenter and producer, motoring journalist, author and former car dealer. He was a presenter of the motoring programmes '' Britain's Worst Driver'', '' Fifth Gear'', and the original incarnation of '' Top Gear''. Early life Willson, a twin, is the son of Professor Bernard Willson, latterly the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at University of Leicester, who was the first code breaker at Bletchley Park to decode the Italian Navy Hagelin C-36 code machine. Television Willson joined the BBC in 1991 to co-host the original version of '' Top Gear'' with Jeremy Clarkson. Until the original format's cancellation in 2001, he appeared every week on the programme, typically as an expert on used cars. Willson later presented his own produced classic car series '' The Car's the Star'', along with the first property show to talk about money, ''All The Right Moves'', both for the BBC. After ''Top Gear's'' cancellation, he left the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
