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Nikolai Valuev

6 November 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Nikolai Valuev (sometimes spelt Nikolay Valuev) was born on 21 August 1973. He heralds from St. Petersburg in Russia. His father, Sergei, worked in a factory repairing radios and his mother, Nadezhda, worked in a military factory. Amazingly, his parents were both only 5 feet 5 inches tall ... more

Charles Saatchi

5 November 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Charles Saatchi was born on 9 June 1943 in the suburbs of Baghdad in Iraq. The Saatchi family including Charles and his brother Maurice left for England when Charles was just 4 years old ... more

Paul and Rachel Chandler

31 October 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In October 2009, Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped by armed pirates while they slept aboard their 38ft yacht, the Lynn Rival, in the Indian Ocean. They had gone missing whilst sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania and had sent a distress signal on October 23 ... more

Anna Demidova

19 September 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In Dancing with the Stars series 9, Anna Demidova dances with Michael Irvin. It is her first season on the show as a professional dancer. Anna won the Season 8 pro-dancer competition in Dancing with the Stars and thus qualified to be one of the professional dancers in season 9. Anna Demidova was born in Moscow and started dancing when she was just 6 years old ... more

Kelly Osbourne

19 September 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In Dancing with the Stars series 9, Kelly Osbourne dances with Louis van Amstel. Kelly Osbourne was born on 27 October 1984 in London, the daughter of rock star Ozzy Osbourne, and TV personality Sharon Osbourne. At 16, Kelly Osbourne came to widespread public attention in the reality TV show, The Osbournes, which followed the Osbourne family ... more

Donny Osmond

19 September 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In Dancing with the Stars series 9, Donny Osmond dances with Kym Johnson. Donny's sister Marie Osmond appeared in season 5 of Dancing with the Stars. Donny Osmond was born on December 9, 1957 in Ogden in Utah ... more

Aliona Vilani

27 August 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In August 2009, it was announced that Aliona Vilani was to make her Strictly Come Dancing debut as a professional dancer, partnering Rav Wilding in series seven. Aliona Vilani was a 25-year-old from Kazakhstan when she became a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing ... more

Natalie Lowe

27 August 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In August 2009, it was announced that Natalie Lowe was to make her Strictly Come Dancing debut as a professional dancer, partnering Ricky Whittle in series seven. Natalie was a 29-year-old Australian when she entered Strictly Come Dancing 2009 ... more

Katya Virshilas

27 August 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Katya Virshilas was 25-years-old when she was scheduled to make her Strictly Come Dancing debut as a professional dancer, partnering Phil Tufnell in the 2009 season. Katya Virshilas, who is 5'6", was was born in Lithuania in 1983 ... more

Gary McKinnon

02 August 2009 00:00:03 GMT

On 31 July 2009, Gary McKinnon lost a court bid to avoid being extradited to the US, for what the USA described as the biggest military computer hack ever. Gary McKinnon claims that he was merely seeking UFO evidence ... more

Sophie Dahl

16 July 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Sophie Dahl was born on September 15, 1977 in London. Her parents Tessa Dahl and Julian Holloway broke up when Sophie was very young. Sophie stayed with her mother Tessa, the daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal. Tessa suffered from depression, and had alcohol and drugs problems, therefore the nanny, Maureen Noble, had a crucial role in bringing up Sophie ... more

Darcey Bussell

09 July 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Darcey Bussell was born on 27 April 1969 in London to a model, Andrea Pemberton, who had studied at the Royal Ballet School, and an Australian designer John Crittle, who made clothes for Jimi Hendrix ... more

Peter Mandelson

28 June 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Peter Benjamin Mandelson was born on 21 October 1953 in Hampstead Garden Suburb in North West London. His father was advertising director of the Jewish Chronicle. Peter Mandelson's mother's father was Herbert Morrison, the deputy prime minister in Clement Attlee's government. ... more

John Bercow

24 June 2009 00:00:03 GMT

John Bercow was born in 1963, the son of a minicab driver. Bercow attended Finchley Manorhill School, and the University of Essex where he gained a First Class Honours degree in Government in 1985. As a teenager, John Bercow was a top tennis prospect and went on to qualify as a tennis coach ... more

Sir John Sawers

16 June 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Sir John Sawers was born on 26 July 1955 in Warwick. He attended Beechen Cliff School in Bath and the University of Nottingham, where he studied Physics and Philosophy. He then further his studies at the universities of St Andrews, Witwatersrand and Harvard ... more

Big Brother: Karly Ashworth

05 June 2009 00:00:03 GMT

Karly Ashworth was an unemployed 21-year-old from Methilhill in Fife when she entered the Big Brother house. Karly became the seventh official Big Brother housemate after passing a test on the second day of series 10 ... more

Harry Redknapp

04 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Harry Redknapp was born in Poplar in London on 2 March 1947. He played midfield in the 1960s and 1970s for West Ham and Bournemouth, and briefly for Brentford and Seattle Sounders in the NASL ...more

Fernando Torres

04 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Fernando Torres, nicknamed El Nino, was born on 20 March 1984 in Madrid, Spain. In July 2007, Fernando Torres was transferred to Liverpool from Atletico Madrid for �20 million ...more