Matt Willis

Matthew James Willis (born 8 May 1983 in Tooting, South London) is an English singer-songwriter. He first found fame with the band,Busted.

As a teenager, Willis was featured on The Bill & Casualty, both times as a drug dealer, and EastEnders as an extra.

Following I'm A Celebrity..., Willis was featured in a succession of celebrity based TV shows. In December 2006, he took part in an episode of Ready, Steady, Cook where he beat fellowI'm a Celebrity... contestant Toby Anstis. A month later, Willis finished fifth in a Music Stars Special of The Weakest Link. Bonnie Langford won the episode, having been Strongest Link in every round bar Round 2, in which Willis was the Strongest Link. At the end of the year he appeared with Myleene Klass as a guest contributor to The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

As a fan of Big Brother, Willis has also featured on various spin off programmes for the 7th and 8th series of the show, including BBLB and BBBM.

On September 8, 2007 Willis contributed to Ant and Dec's game "Bounce Baby Bounce" on the new series of Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

In March 2008, Matt featured in an I'm A Celebrity special of the TV series Ghosthunting with..., alongside fellow contestant Dean Gaffney, and recent contestants Christopher Biggins andCerys Matthews as well as wife Emma Griffiths.

In May 2008, Matt travelled to New Zealand with Jack Osbourne, Jodie Kidd and John Thomson for the new series of Jack's ITV2 show, Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie. It was also reported that Willis got a new tattoo, the word 'Emma', after filming had finished and was later beaten up by a local criminal after having left the set. The show was aired in October 2008.  Matt also recently said on his myspace page that he was writing songs for a new album.

Charlie Simpson

Charles Robert Simpson (born June 7, 1985 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), is an English musician. He was the youngest member ofpop group Busted, and is now the vocalist and guitarist in post-hardcore band Fightstar.

He has two older brothers, Will and Edd — Will is the vocalist and guitarist in Brigade and Edd is the lead singer and guitarist in an alternative band called Prego. Simpson has a very musical family dating back to Sir William Sterndale Bennett (mother's maiden name) in 1826 who was a British pianist, conductor, and composer, a notable figure in the musical life of his time.

Simpson is an official patron of disabled children's charity Out & About (http://www.out-and-about.org.uk), which supports disabled children in leisure activities in Norfolk and Suffolk(Charlie's home county). Simpson said,

“Growing up in Suffolk, I took part in all sorts of leisure activities and that should be how it is for all young people, whether they’re disabled or not. I’m looking forward to supporting Out & About and getting more involved.”

According to Caris Magazine, Simpson has recently taken the Alpha course and is now a practising Christian.

Christian Cooke

Well anyone watching Demons on ITV on Saturday night could not have helped noticing Christian Cooke, what a gorgeous body does that boy have.

Although we have done a post about him before, its nice to have some great screencaps from the 1st Episode, featuring lots of his flesh.

Matthew Bates

Matthew David Bates (born 10 December 1986 in Stockton, England) is an English professional football player who currently plays as a defender for Middlesbrough.

He is a product of the Middlesbrough youth system and first appeared for the club in 2004. He has since had a loan spell with Darlington, and now appears to be a more frequent fixture in the Middlesbrough first team.

He was sent out on loan to Ipswich Town in 2006, but was seriously injured in his second game, tearing his cruciate ligament and partially tearing his medial ligamentand was forced to end his loan spell.

After recovering from injury, in January 2008 Bates moved on loan to Norwich City for two months. He later returned to Middlesbrough after suffering from another knee injury which has resulted in him needing a third operation in just 18 months.

Orlando Bloom

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom (born 13 January 1977) is an English actor.

He had his break-through roles in 2001 as the elf-prince Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and blacksmith Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy of films, and subsequently established himself as a lead in Hollywood films, including Troy, Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven.

Bloom most recently appeared in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Bloom made his stage debut in In Celebration at the Duke of York's Theatre, St. Martin's Lane, which ended its run on 15 September 2007

Oliver Cheshire

Oliver Cheshire is currently signed to DNA Models and Select Model Management.  He has appeared in lots of campaigns, including CK, Acne Jeans and magazine covers.

Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill was born May 5, 1983 in England. He starred as Albert Mondego in The Count of Monte Cristo, his first feature film. Henry's fine performance in that film only underscores the formidable talent he has brought to all of his roles.

Henry attended Stowe School, and while there played lead in most of the major theater productions. His roles have included Oberon in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" and Sonny in the musical "Grease," as well as Hamlet in "40 Minutes," which he also directed.

Christian Cooke

Christian, 22, plays Luke Rutherford, the last in the bloodline of the infamous Van Helsing family from Dracula, in the ITV show Demons, with the first episode broadcast on Saturday, January 3.

Former St Mary’s School, Menston pupil and Bingley Arts Centre regular Christian, who also appeared in Peter Pan at the Alhambra as a youngster, said: “I play Luke Rutherford. The mystery surrounding his father’s death is uncovered and he just has to accept his destiny and become a demon hunter.”

Christian was most recently on TV in the spoof-ish ITV soap Echo Beach, and began his acting career on the screen aged ten when he appeared in Yorkshire Sunday night feel-good drama Where The Heart Is.

But Demons looks set to propel Christian to the big time. Christian said: “The whole cast is really talented. Mackenzie was such a nice guy.”

Phil Glenister plays an American called Rupert Galvin who tracks down his godson Luke in contemporary London to tell him of his ancestry, which is all tied up in the Dracula myth.

Mackenzie Crook – complete with a crooked beak as the villainous vampire Gladiolus Thrip – leads a rabble of unsavoury characters.

After Echo Beach and parts in shows like Robin Hood and Doctor Who, Demons marks Christian’s first lead role. He said: “This has certainly been the most challenging for me because we worked 74 days straight without a break and 15 hours a day and I was in nearly every scene, so it’s really difficult. But that’s how I like it, if I could work like that on every job I would.”

Twilight

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school.  When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change.  Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she's ever met. 

 

Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood.  Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella's soul.  Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance.  To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate.  But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. 

But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires - James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) - come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

Stephen Beard

APPEARING on Cheshire Set reality show Living On the Edge has put wannabe actor Stephen Beard in the showbiz shop window.

For 19-year-old Stephen, from Wilmslow, has won a role on Hollyoaks after impressing producers with his real-life performance in the Cheshire docu-soap.

The second series of the reality show has already started on MTV, with hunky bad boy Stephen the only character from the original series about the glossy lives of Cheshire teens, to remain.

Sean Lamont

Sean Lamont (born 15 January 1981 in Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays on the wing for Northampton Saints and Scotland. His heroes included Jonah Lomu and Matt Harper.

In 2000 Lamont joined Rotherham and was the club’s under-21 captain in 2001. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he represented Scotland at sevens. In the summer of 2003 he leftRotherham and joined Glasgow Rugby, where he went on to have a very successful first season and cemented himself as a fans' favourite at Hughenden.

Lamont earned his first cap for Scotland against Manu Samoa on their tour in the summer of 2004. On his Murrayfield debut he scored a try against the Australians in the autumn of 2004. InScotland's 2005 Six Nations Championship match against Italy he was named man of the match. Furthermore,Sean helped the side to an historic victory over the French in the 2006 championship with two tries. His explosive, powerful running and size are his most deadly assets.

Colin Morgan

A fresh spin on the classic Arthurian legend, Merlin tells the hitherto uncharted story of the wizard's younger days. The story begins with Merlin's arrival in the city of Camelot, where the tyrannical King Uther has imposed a ban on any use of magic. We speak to the young actor in the titular role, 22-year-old Colin Morgan (recently seen in Doctor Who's 'Midnight'), to find out what happens next.

 
Why does Merlin come to Camelot?
"His mother sends him there because he doesn't quite fit in with the people in his hometown. I guess his mother feels that going to Camelot will be a bit of a release for him, allow him to be himself and to get guidance from Gaius (Richard Wilson). But it becomes very evident to Merlin quite quickly that he can't be himself. There's a horrific incident that happens that makes it very clear that using magic in Camelot is death."

 
Is it hard for him to keep his powers under wraps, then?
"He has to learn to guise it. He won't tell anybody about his powers, but he is thrown into these situations where he has to look for ways in which he can help people without others knowing. He doesn't always do it in the right way. We know about the great magician Merlin became, but we don't know about the mistakes he made along the way."

 
On arrival in Camelot he becomes manservant to the King's son, a young Prince Arthur (Bradley James). How do they get along?
"They get off to a bit of a rough start! It takes a bit of work, but then they're thrown into a situation where they have to work together and learn how to be friends, I guess. As viewers, we know from the beginning that their destinies are intertwined, but very much within [this show] it's about how that happens."

 
Merlin is also described as quite "impulsive". How so?
"On many an occasion, he will leap into a situation where he will do something which may not be right, but it's his heart and his impulse. He means well! That desire to help people and to want to do the right thing is what often gets him in trouble. And it just so happens that he does it in a magical way."

 
How familiar are you with the legend?
"I think when we started [filming], I knew as much about the legend as anybody. The basic sword-and-stone story, stuff like that, and of course everyone has this image of Merlin being this old guy with a beard! I've since been reading up quite a lot on Arthurian legend and there's quite a big gap missing in Merlin's life, the time when he was growing up. Why wasn't that documented? This show explores one possibility."

You have a very strong northern Irish accent but Merlin doesn't. Whose decision was that?
"For a while in the early auditions, I was keeping my own accent but I think we wanted to avoid making any statements as to where Merlin was actually from. From what I've read, there's evidence to suggest he was Scottish or he was Welsh. Going for a neutral accent made Merlin quite neutral."

The hype is now starting to build around the show. How does that make you feel?
"You spend six months in this world of Merlin and suddenly it gets to this stage, where other things are starting to happen. I have never experienced anything like this before, but it's exciting and it'll be interesting to see how it all turns out. It's a very exciting time for everyone. I'm just very thankful that I've been given the opportunity to do it."

 

Interview from DigitalSpy

Craig Fallon

Craig Fallon (born in Wolverhampton on December 18th, 1982) is a British judoka.

 

In September 2005, Fallon won the 60kg weight class at the World Judo Championships in Cairo, beating Ludwig Paischer in the final. He became only the third British male to win a world title, following Neil Adams in 1981 and Graeme Randall in 1999.

 

In 2006 he went on to become European champion in Tampere, Finland in the -60kg weight category beating Armen Nazaryan in the final. He is only the second male British judoka besides Neil Adams to simultaneously hold both a World and European title.

 

On Saturday 22nd September 2007 Fallon went on to win The 2007 Men's World Cup in the -60kg at the NIA Arena in Birmingham, he was the only Brit to win a medal at the Olympic ranking event.

Ross Davenport

Ross Davenport born 23^rd May 1984, Derby

Ross' first sporting success was winning the club championships aged eight at Belper Marlins swimming club. His first Great Britain selection was in 2003. Disappointed to not win any medals in Athens but he has had many other sporting successes.  Finest sporting moment was becoming Double Commonwealth Champion (2006).

Tom Mison

I watched a repeat of Secret Diary of a Call Girl last night on one of the ITV + Channels, and It reminded me I have not posted about Tom Mison, that is an issue I am correcting now.

D.O.B:  23 July 1982      

TV, Theatre and Films

• Lost in Austen (2008) (TV) 
• Out There (2007) (Short Film)
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) (TV) 
• Les Enfants Du Paradis (2006) (Arcola Theatre, London)
• The Collection (2006) (Georgian International Festival of Theatre, Tiblisi)
• Venus (2006) 
• Heroes and Villains (2006)
• L'Entente cordiale (2006)
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006) (TV)
• A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005) (TV)
• Mysterious Island (2005) (TV)
• Hamlet (2005) (Old Vic Theatre, London)
• Time on Fire (2001) (Magic Theatre, San Fransisco & National Theatre, London)