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The Masked Dancer (British Series 1)
The first series of the British version of '' The Masked Dancer'' premiered on ITV on 29 May 2021, and concluded on 5 June 2021. The series was won by Olympic gymnast Louis Smith as "Carwash", with actress/dancer Bonnie Langford finishing second as "Squirrel", and singer Howard Donald placing third as "Zip". Production On 4 March 2021, it was announced that ITV were producing a local version of the American television dancing competition '' The Masked Dancer'' following the success of its sister show ''The Masked Singer''. The series consisted of 12 contestants competing through seven episodes. The series was commissioned as a replacement in the spring schedule for ''Britain's Got Talent'', which had its upcoming fifteenth series postponed until 2022 due to health and safety concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The show premiered on 29 May 2021. Panellists and host Following the announcement of the series, it was confirmed by ITV that the panel would consist of present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Dommett
Joel Patrick Dommett (born 8 June 1985) is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. After beginning his career as an actor, and appearing in various television shows including '' Casualty'' and '' Skins'', he embarked on stand-up comedy and television presenting and became known for his television roles in '' Live in Chelsea'' (2011–2012) and '' Impractical Jokers UK'' (2012–2014). Dommett was a contestant on '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in 2016 and went on to present the spin-off show '' I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp'' (2017–2019) and '' I'm a Celebrity: Unpacked'' (2024–present) as well as an array of other shows including '' Hey Tracey!'' (2019–2020), '' The Masked Singer'' (2020–present), '' The Masked Dancer'' (2021–2022), the National Television Awards (2021–present), ''In With a Shout'' (2023–2024) and '' Survivor'' (2023). Early life Joel Patrick Dommett was born on 8 June 1985 in Rockhampton, Gloucestershire and attended The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strictly Come Dancing
''Strictly Come Dancing'' (commonly referred to as ''Strictly'') is a British dance contest show in which celebrities partner with professional dancers to compete in mainly Ballroom dance, ballroom and Latin dance, Latin dance. Each couple is scored by a panel of judges. The title of the show is a continuation of the long-running series ''Come Dancing''. The format has been exported to 60 other countries under the title ''Dancing with the Stars'', licensed by BBC Worldwide, and led to a modern dance-themed spin-off ''Strictly Dance Fever''. The ''Guinness World Records'' named ''Strictly'' as the world's most successful reality television format in 2010. The series is currently presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. Bruce Forsyth co-presented the series with Daly until 2013, returning for special episodes until November 2015. The series has been broadcast on BBC One since 15 May 2004, typically on Saturday evenings with a following Sunday night results show. From series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Dean
Christopher Colin Dean, OBE (born 27 July 1958) is a British ice dancer considered, with his skating partner Jayne Torvill, amongst the greatest ice dancers of all time. The pair won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. They were also four-time world and European champions and seven-time British champions. Early life Dean grew up in Calverton, Nottinghamshire. When he was six, his mother left and his father remarried. Dean never talked about this with his father or stepmother, both of whom have died. He has regained contact with his mother. From 1974 to 1980, he was a police constable with Nottinghamshire Police. Skating career Dean began to skate at the age of 10 after he received a pair of skates as a Christmas present. His parents were keen ballroom dancers. At school he was captain of the football team and he saw ice skating as a sport that was athletic and graceful. Dean's first ice partner was Sandra Elson. They bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Ball
Zoe Louise Ball (born 23 November 1970) is a British broadcaster and presenter. She was the first female host of the Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast shows for the BBC, and in 2024 was confirmed as the second-highest paid BBC presenter after Gary Lineker. In 2018, Ball was announced as the new host of ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' and took over from Chris Evans in January 2019, before stepping down from the programme in December 2024. Ball presented the children's show '' Live & Kicking'', alongside Jamie Theakston, from 1996 to 1999. In 2005, she was a contestant in the third series of '' Strictly Come Dancing''. Following this, in 2011 she replaced Claudia Winkleman as host of the BBC Two spin-off show '' Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two'' until her departure in 2021. Ball also hosted the '' Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour'' in 2011 and 2015. Early life and education Zoe Louise Ball was born on 23 November 1970 in Blackpool, Lancashire. She is the daughter of the ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood (born 4 January 1965) is an Australian-British author, dancer, choreographer, conductor, theatre director, and former drag queen in the United Kingdom. He is also a patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society. Horwood is a judge on the BBC dancing series ''Strictly Come Dancing'' and has appeared in all but one edition since its inception. He is often seen performing Ballroom dance, ballroom and Latin dance, Latin dance routines. Early life and family Craig Revel Horwood was born on 4 January 1965 in Ballarat in Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. His father Phil was a former Royal Australian Navy Lieutenant whose alcoholism had "torn their family apart". He started his career as a dancer in Melbourne, then moved to London to take advantage of the greater opportunities available there and to dance competitively. In 1989, he moved to the UK from Australia, and on 20 August 2011, he became a British citizen. Revel is Horwood's middle name; it is not double-ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Brook
Kelly Brook (born Kelly Anne Parsons, 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, and media personality. She began her career modelling for a range of advertising campaigns, which led to her discovery by the editorial team of the '' Daily Star'' tabloid, where they began featuring her as a Page Three girl. She was crowned '' FHM''s Sexiest Woman in the World in 2005, and as of 2015 had featured in every ''FHM'' 100 Sexiest countdown since 1998. As an actress, Brook has appeared in the films '' ''Ripper'''' (2001), '' The Italian Job'' (2003), '' School for Seduction'' (2004), '' House of 9'' (2004), '' Survival Island'' (2005), '' Fishtales'' (2007), '' Piranha 3D'' (2010), and '' Taking Stock'' (2015). She has appeared on numerous British television shows, including '' The Big Breakfast'' (1999), '' Strictly Come Dancing'' (2007), '' Britain's Got Talent'' (2009), '' Celebrity Juice'' (2012–2015), '' One Big Happy'' (2015), '' ''It's Not Me, It's You'''' (2016), '' Loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamzin Outhwaite
Tamzin Maria Outhwaite (; born 5 November 1970) is an English actress, presenter and narrator. From 1998-2002, and again from 2018-2019, she played the role of Mel Owen in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. She has also starred in a number of theatre and television productions, including army series '' Red Cap'' and crime drama ''New Tricks''. She also played Rebecca Mitchell in the BBC drama series '' Hotel Babylon'' (2006–2009). Early life The only daughter of Anna (née Santi) and Colin Frank Outhwaite, born in Ilford, Essex, Outhwaite has two younger brothers. She was educated at Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green. Her mother is of Italian heritage. Her maternal great grandfather and his eldest son were born in Barga, Italy, and became naturalised British citizens in 1957, living first in Glasgow, Scotland, and then settling in Fishburn, England running an ice cream business. Outhwaite attended the Stagestruck Theatre Company as a teenager, taking part in se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its initial launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Internet forum, Forum. History (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform Sky (UK and Ireland), SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ITV Digital, ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting many visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Dyer
Dani Charlotte Dyer-Bowen ( Dyer; born 8 August 1996) is an English television personality and actress. In 2018, she appeared on ''Survival of the Fittest'', and later that year won the fourth series of '' Love Island'' alongside Jack Fincham. Since then, she has co-presented the MTV series ''True Love or True Lies'' alongside her father Danny Dyer, as well as co-hosting a podcast called ''Sorted with the Dyers'' with him. Early life Dyer was born to Joanne Mas and Danny Dyer on 8 August 1996 in the London Borough of Newham. She has a younger sister and a younger brother, and attended Roding Valley High School in Loughton, Essex. Dyer worked as a barmaid before appearing on television. Career Dyer made her professional screen debut as an extra in the 2006 film ''The Other Half'' alongside her father. She also appeared as an extra in other films starring her father, including ''Doghouse'' (2009), '' Run for Your Wife'' (2012) and '' Vendetta'' (2013). The producer of ''Vendet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Island (2015 TV Series)
''Love Island'' is a British Reality television, reality show. It is a revival of Love Island (2005 TV series), the earlier celebrity series of the same name, which aired for two series in 2005 and 2006. The series is the originator of the international Love Island (franchise), ''Love Island'' franchise, with twenty-two versions of it having been produced so far worldwide. The show is presented by Maya Jama and narrated by Iain Stirling. The show was previously hosted by both Caroline Flack and Laura Whitmore. The show has been highly successful and influential in British popular culture; it became ITV2's most watched show in the network's history in 2018, and as of 2020 was the most watched TV show among its target audience of 16- to 34-year-olds. However, it has attracted a considerable amount of controversy, with four people linked to the show having died by suicide. Contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis died by suicide after appearing on the program; Gradon's boyfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lidl
Lidl ( ) is a trademark, used by two Germany, German international discount supermarket, discount retailer chain store, chains that operates over 12,600 stores. The ''LD Stiftung'' operates the stores in Germany and the ''Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG'' in 30 other countries. ''LD Stiftung'' is headquartered in Bad Wimpfen and the ''Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG'' in Neckarsulm. Both sister companies belong to the Schwarz Group, which also includes hypermarket chain Kaufland. Lidl is the chief competitor of the German discount chain Aldi in several markets. History In 1930, Josef Schwarz became a partner in a company based in Heilbronn named ''Südfrüchte Großhandlung Lidl & Co.'' which had been established by Anton Lidl since at least 1858 under the name ''A.Lidl & Cie'' specialising in the sale of exotic fruits. Schwarz renamed the company ''Lidl & Schwarz KG'' and expanded into a food wholesaler. In 1977, under his son Dieter Schwarz, the Schwarz Group began to focus on discount m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily Tabloid journalism, tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1903, it is part of Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), which is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its Masthead (British publishing), masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' and the ''Sunday Mail (Scotland), Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. The ''Mirror'' publishes an Irish edition, the ''Irish Mirror''. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
