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Grayson Perry CBE RA (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries[1] and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British "prejudices, fashions and foibles".[2]

Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as "Claire", his female alter-ego, and "Alan Measles", his childhood teddy bear, often appear.

He has made a number of documentary television programmes[3] and has curated exhibitions.[2] He has published two autobiographies, Grayson Perry: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl (2007) and The Descent of Man (2016), written and illustrated a graphic novel, Cycle of Violence (2012), written a book about art, Playing to the Gallery (2014), and published his illustrated Sketchbooks (2016). Various books describing his work have been published. In 2013 he delivered the BBC Reith Lectures.[4]

Nicholas Radbourn Hewer (born 17 February 1944) is an English television presenter and former public relations consultant. From 2005 to 2014, he appeared as Lord Sugar's adviser on the British television series The Apprentice. Since January 2012, he has presented the Channel 4 programme Countdown with Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, having taken over from Jeff Stelling. He is the fifth presenter of Countdown and the longest-serving one since the death of the original host, Richard Whiteley, in 2005.

Charlie Casely-Hayford is a menswear designer based in London. He founded international menswear brand Casely-Hayford at the age of 22 with his father, the acclaimed British fashion designer Joe Casely-HayfordOBE.

Charlie is the great-grandson of the respected politician and writer J. E. Casely Hayford MBE. The cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford OBE[1][2] is his uncle and the lawyer, businesswoman and public figure Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE[3] is his aunt. In 2008 The Black Power List named the Casely-Hayford family the most influential black family in the UK. He is married to interior designer Sophie Ashby, founder of Studio Ashby.[4][5][6]

Sickle Cell Anemia Campaign

Jonathan Benjamin "JB" Gill (born 7 December 1986) is an English singer and farmer. He is best known as a former member of boy band JLS, who came second place on The X Factor in 2008. They went on to have five number-one singles and sold over 10 million records worldwide before disbanding in December 2013.

Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE (born 24 September 1950) is an English stage and screen actress. Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Governess (1998), Villa des Roses (2002), Atonement (2007) and Man Up (2015). On television she starred as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK (2009–14), as Lady Prudence Shackleton in four episodes of Downton Abbey (2013–15), and as Clementine Churchill in The Crown (2016). She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2011 for services to drama.

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(born George McDonald; 16 August 1939) is a Trinidadian[1] British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN.[2][3]

McDonald was knighted in 1999 for his services to journalism.

Michael Maurice Cashman, Baron Cashman CBE (born 17 December 1950 in London) is a British former actor, now a Labour politician. He was a Member of the European Parliamentfor the West Midlands constituency from 1999 until he stood down in 2014.[1] He has since then been appointed to the House of Lords.[2] On 23 September 2014 Cashman was appointed the Labour Party's special envoy on LGBT issues worldwid

English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster. Jupitus was a team captain on BBC Two's popular music quiz Never Mind the Buzzcocks since its inception in 1996 until its end in 2015, and also appears regularly as a guest on several other panel shows, including QI and BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Gary Rhodes OBE (born 22 April 1960) is an English restaurateur and chef, known for his love of British cuisine and the distinctive spiked hair style that he once wore.

He has fronted shows such as MasterChef, MasterChef USA, Hell's Kitchen, and his own series, Rhodes Around Britain. In 2006 he competed to represent the South of England in the BBC's Great British Menu, but lost to Atul Kochhar.

Oona Tamsyn King, Baroness King of Bow (born 22 October 1967)[1] is a Labour politician and former Chief diversity officer of Channel 4. She had previously served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow from 1997 until 2005, when she was defeated by George Galloway, the Respect candidate.

Sir Denys Louis Lasdun,[1] CH, CBE (8 September 1914, Kensington, London – 11 January 2001, Fulham, London)[2][3] was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun 1879-1920, and Julie (née Abrahams 1884-1963). Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the Thames, which is a Grade II* listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalist design in the United Kingdom.

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Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is an English journalist and newsreader, whose reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984 inspired the Band Aid charity record and, subsequently, the Live Aid concert. Buerk has been the host of BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze since 1990.

Mark Oliver Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate PC, QC (born 20 March 1936) is a British judge and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

British author, former newspaper Editor and cartoonist

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964), known as Boris Johnson, is a British politician, popular historian and journalist. He has been Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs since 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. He had previously been the MP for Henley from 2001to 2008 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative and has been associated with both economically and socially liberal policies.

Zoe Smith (born 26 April 1994 in Greenwich, London)[1] is an English weightlifter. She holds (as at August 2016) four British clean and jerk records spread across three weight classes.[2][3] In October 2010 Smith won a bronze medal in the women's 58kg division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, her first senior international competition,[4] to become the first Englishwoman to win a Commonwealth Games weightlifting medal.[5]

Timothy "Tim" Campbell, MBE is an English businessman best known as the winner of the first series of the British version of The Apprentice, a BBC TV reality show in which contestants battle to win a £100,000-a-year job working for businessman Alan Sugar.[1] Campbell, a Middlesex University graduate in psychology,[2] worked as a Senior Planner within the Strategy and Service Development (formally Marketing and Planning) directorate of London Underground before applying to appear on the show.

Charles Peter Kennedy (25 November 1959 – 1 June 2015) was a British Liberal Democrat politician, who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1999 to 2006 and a Member of Parliament(MP) from 1983 to 2015, latterly for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency.

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Ellen Thomas is an English actress who has had many television and film roles, but is perhaps best known for her recurring role in the Channel 4 Bristol-based comedy, Teachers[1] or as Grace Olubunmi and Claudette Hubbard in EastEnders.

British politician who was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown