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Louie Spence

18 December 2011 00:00:03 GMT

As a child, Louie Spence went to the Italia Conti Performing Arts School and at 13 appeared in Bugsy Malone in London's West End ... more

Fatima Whitbread

13 November 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Fatima Whitbread was born on 3 March 1961 in Stoke Newington, London. She was abandoned as a baby, when her biological mother left her in a flat and after a few days a neighbour noticed the noise she was making and rang the police ... more

Edwina Currie

12 September 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Edwina Currie was born on 13 October 1956 in Liverpool to Orthodox Jewish parents. Her father Simon Cohen was a gentleman's outfitter ... more

Rupert Murdoch

14 July 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Rupert Murdoch was born on March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Australia ... more

Laura Kuenssberg

23 June 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Laura Kuenssberg was born in Italy in 1976, towards the end of a long period in which her father worked in Europe and Latin America ... more

Rory McIlroy

20 June 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Rory McIlroy was born on 4 May 1989 in Holywood, Northern Ireland. He left school when he was 16 and focussed on his golf. His parents, Gerry and Rosie McIlroy had taken a variety of jobs, working long hours to help support their son in his talent for golf ... more

Ayman al-Zawahiri

16 June 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Ayman al-Zawahiri was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 19 June 1951. Ayman al-Zawahiri's father Mohammed was a pharmacology professor. Whilst, Ayman al-Zawahiri's grandfather Rabia was the grand imam of al-Azhar, and one of his uncles was the first secretary-general of the Arab League ... more

Ai Weiwei

5 June 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing, China, the son of the poet Ai Qing, who fell foul of the authorities and shortly after Weiwei's birth was exiled to Heilongjiang (Manchuria), and then to Xinjiang, where the family lived in a pit and Ai Qing cleaned the village's public toilets ... more

Ellie Reed

8 May 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Ellie Reed was a 33-year-old managing director and founder of a construction recruitment company, A&E Construction (Recruitment), based in Shipley, at the time of The Apprentice series 7. Ellie Reed set up A&E with Alison Ibbotson ... more

Edna Agbarha

8 May 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Edna Agbarha was a 36-year-old chartered occupational psychologist living in London, when she entered The Apprentice series 7. Edna was born in London and had nine brothers and sisters ... more

Nigel Lythgoe

17 April 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Nigel Lythgoe was born on 9 July 1949 in the Wirral. His stepfather was a dock worker. Nigel Lythgoe studied at Manor Road School, Wallasey Technical College and Hylton-Bromley School of Dance and Drama. In his early days, Nigel Lythgoe was as a dancer. He then became a choreographer for The Young Generation and The Nigel Lythgoe Dancers ... more

Katrina Bowden

12 April 2011 00:00:03 GMT

Katrina Bowden was born on 19 September 1988 in Wyckoff, New Jersey. She studied at Saint Thomas More School and Immaculate Heart Academy ... more