Brighton

The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier is a pleasure pier in Brighton, England. It is generally known as the Palace Pier for short, but has been... informally renamed Brighton Pier since 2000 by its owners, the Noble Organisation, in an attempt to suggest that it is Brighton's only pier. The West Pier was its rival but was closed in 1975 and was subsequently severely damaged by fires and storms, with the remaining iron structure being partially demolished in 2010. Work began on the Palace Pier in 1891 and it opened in May 1899 after costing a record £27,000 to build. This was Brighton's third pier. A condition to be met by its builders, in exchange for permission to build, was that the first, The Royal Suspension Chain Pier of 1823, which had fallen into a state of disrepair, was to be demolished. They were saved this task by a storm which largely destroyed the Chain Pier. A concert hall opened two years later, and by 1911 this had become a theatre . During World War II the pier was closed and some decking removed as a security precaution. Summer shows with stars such as Dick Emery, Tommy Trinder and Doris and Elsie Waters were held in the theatre until the 1970s.
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Churchill Square is the major city-centre shopping centre, NCP and central bus station in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom. It was... originally built during the 1960s, obscuring several streets. That original centre included high-rise office blocks, and had various shops and a supermarket with open but covered walkways between them. It was completely rebuilt as an indoor mall which opened in 1998, involving further road closures and changes to the underlying street layout. Owned by Standard Life Investments, in common with the Brent Cross Shopping Centre in Barnet, London, Churchill Square has up to 85 shops , in addition to several sites for "open-air" style stalls in the corridors. It is arranged over three floors with only the food court on the uppermost; some of the largest stores occupy two floors. The majority of the shops are UK chain stores. Churchill Square is accessible directly by car or bus, or a five to ten minute walk from Brighton station. As part of the redevelopment of the adjacent Brighton Centre events venue, an extra floor will be added.
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Katie Price , previously known under the pseudonym Jordan, is an English media personality, author, former glamour model, occasional singer and... businesswoman. Her time at topless female glamour model pictorial Page Three in British tabloid newspaper The Sun instantly shot Price into the limelight. Her placement in the public's spotlight has allowed Price to expand into a variety of different industries including television, books, fashion and music. Price has experienced many highly-publicised relationships in the eye of the British media and has been married twice, to singer Peter Andre in 2005 - the couple divorced in 2009 - and to professional fighter Alex Reid in 2010; the couple separated in 2011. Katie Price was born Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield in Brighton, East Sussex, England, to parents Amy and Ray Infield. Her maternal grandmother was Jewish and her other grandparents on both sides were Anglican. In 1982, at the age of four, her parents separated when her father left the family. In 1988, her mother married builder Paul Price, after which, Price obtained the surname.
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Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer and director, both on television and stage. In recent years she has been best known for playing... the role of Ronnie Branning in EastEnders, but made her name in the mid 1990s as Mandy Wilkins in Game On, and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991. She is currently the star of the award winning show South Pacific, touring the UK with the cast and gaining the most impressive reviews of her career so far. Samantha is patron to Expressions Performing Arts in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Janus was born in Brighton, Sussex. Her father Noel left the family when she was three, and soon after her mother Diane married a doctor and the family moved to Edinburgh. She has a younger sister, Zoe. Janus lived on the QE2 with her grandmother for a short time. On 23 August 2009, her 60-year-old estranged father was found hanged in the bathroom of his council flat in Brighton, where he lived alone. It is believed he committed suicide. Aged fifteen she left home as a self-confessed wild child for a life in squats, drinking, smoking and taking drugs.
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Amanda Jacqueline Redman is an English actress, perhaps best known for her role as Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks. She is a niece... of actress Joyce Redman. Redman was born in Brighton, Sussex, in 1957. Her father, Ronald, was from Yorkshire and her mother, Joan, from Sussex. Redman is badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of an accident when she was 15 months old. She was scalded with a pan of boiling turkey-and-vegetable soup and suffered third-degree burns to 75% of her body. Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex. Redman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 1984 she appeared as Marina in the BBC Shakespeare series production of "Pericles Prince of Tyre" opposite Mike Gwilym. In 1985, She played Janet in the Tour version of 'The Rocky Horror Show' alongside Doctor Who actor Nicholas Courtney, who played the Narrator in the production. She played opposite Liv Ullman in Richard's Things and took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990s comedy drama El C.I.D.
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Lesley Manville is an English actress of film, theatre and television. She frequently collaborates with director Mike Leigh, twice being named... British Actress of the Year at the London Film Critics Circle Awards for her performances in the Mike Leigh films, All or Nothing and Another Year. She is also a BAFTA and Olivier award nominee. Born in Brighton, Manville was brought up in Hove, East Sussex, one of three daughters of a taxicab driver. Training as a soprano singer from age 8, she twice became under-18 champion of Sussex. She began acting as a teenager, appearing in television series such as King Cinder. As a result, at age 15, she gained a place at the Italia Conti Stage School. After turning down teacher Arlene Phillips' invitation to join her new dance troupe Hot Gossip, she was taught improvisation by Italia Conti teacher Julia Carey. Her first job was in West End theatre in the musical I and Albert directed by John Schlesinger, which was followed by television presentation on Westward Television's version of the BBC's Blue Peter. She paid for her first flat taking a part on Emmerdale Farm, which lasted for 80 episodes.
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Dakota Blue Richards is an English actress. Her debut was in the film The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua. She was also cast as... the lead of another two films, Dustbin Baby and The Secret of Moonacre, the latter of which was released February 2009. She also played the character Franky Fitzgerald in the third generation of the E4 teen drama Skins. Richards was born in South Kensington, London, the daughter of Ruby Richards, a social worker. She was named Dakota Blue because her mother wanted a combination of a place-name and a colour. Dakota was inspired by the Sioux tribe, members of whom her mother had become friends with during a year in the U.S. and Blue was Dakota's father's nickname, and her mother thought it went well with Dakota. The family moved to Brighton shortly after Dakota was born. At school she took very few drama classes and she was not an active participant in class assemblies or school plays. She missed out on the part of Mary in the nativity play.When she was 11, she moved onto the nearby K-BIS Theatre School.
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Kate Duchêne , is a British actress. She moved to France 3 weeks after her birth but moved back to England permanently in 1962, to the seaside... town of Brighton. Kate started to act at the age of 14. In the 1980s however, Kate briefly went to Spain to teach English to children. She returned in 1986 for the lead in "Lucy's Play". She was also a member of Cambridge footlights in the 1980's. Duchéne is best known for her work as Miss Constance Hardbroom, the strict Deputy Head and Potions Teacher on the popular TV series The Worst Witch. Having stayed with the programme for its three-year run, and appearing in the first episode of its 2001 spinoff Weirdsister College on "The All Seeing Eye", Duchêne disappointed many fans by failing to return for the second spinoff, The New Worst Witch . Her more recent projects include Afterlife, a paranormal drama series, and extensive theatre work. Kate has a partner Robert Friztgerald. She has 2 children Anna Charlotte Born April 15, 2005 and a daughter born late May / early June 2009.
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Katie Price , previously known under the pseudonym Jordan, is an English media personality, author, former glamour model, occasional singer and... businesswoman. Her time at topless female glamour model pictorial Page Three in British tabloid newspaper The Sun instantly shot Price into the limelight. Her placement in the public's spotlight has allowed Price to expand into a variety of different industries including television, books, fashion and music. Price has experienced many highly-publicised relationships in the eye of the British media and has been married twice, to singer Peter Andre in 2005 - the couple divorced in 2009 - and to professional fighter Alex Reid in 2010; the couple separated in 2011. Katie Price was born Katrina Amy Alexandria Alexis Infield in Brighton, East Sussex, England, to parents Amy and Ray Infield. Her maternal grandmother was Jewish and her other grandparents on both sides were Anglican. In 1982, at the age of four, her parents separated when her father left the family. In 1988, her mother married builder Paul Price, after which, Price obtained the surname.
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Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United... Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco. As a judge, Cowell is known for his blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults and wisecracks about contestants and their abilities. He is also known for combining activities in both the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including television personalities. He was most recently featured on the fifth series of Britain's Got Talent and the first season of The X Factor USA. In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Cowell at number 41 in a list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". Cowell was born in Lambeth, London and brought up in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
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Antony Gordon Hawksworth, better known as Tony Hawks, is a British comedian and author. Born in Brighton in 1960, Hawks was educated at Brighton Hove... and Sussex Grammar School and Brighton College . He stated during an appearance on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue that he briefly attended the University of Manchester. Hawks first attempted to break into show business as a serious singer-songwriter, but it was with a novelty record that he had his first brush with fame. As leader of the trio Morris Minor and the Majors, he reached number 4 in the UK charts with the Beastie Boys parody, Stutter Rap in 1988. It went on to sell 220,000 copies, and was number one in Australia. The follow-up, a pastiche of Stock Aitken Waterman called This Is the Chorus, fared less well. A TV series followed from this, Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors, written by and starring Hawks. In it the fictional bandleader attempted to maintain his pop career while running a garage. It ran for one series in 1989.
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Arthur Veary Treacher was an English actor born in Brighton, Sussex, England. Treacher was a veteran of World War I. After the war, he established a... stage career and in 1928, he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations. He was featured in the 1930 Billy Rose production Sweet and Low. Treacher began his film career in the 1930s, which included roles in four Shirley Temple films: Curly Top , Stowaway , Heidi and The Little Princess . Scenes intentionally put the six-feet-four Treacher standing or dancing side-by-side with the tiny child actress. Treacher filled the role of the ideal butler, and he portrayed P. G. Wodehouse's perfect valet character Jeeves in the films Thank You, Jeeves! and Step Lively, Jeeves . He also played a valet or butler in several other films, including Personal Maids, Mister Cinderella, and Bordertown. In 1964, Treacher played the role of stuffy English butler Arthur Pinkney in two episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Johnny Wakelin is an English Pye Records recording artist. He had his first outings in clubs in his hometown but without big success. Discovered by... Pye record producer Robin Blanchflower, the man who launched Carl Douglas to the top of the charts with "Kung Fu Fighting", and working with Steve Elson and Keith Rossiter in addition to Branchflower, Wakelin set about writing songs that would, he hoped, "catch people's eye" Then he got the idea of writing a homage to the boxing champion Muhammad Ali who fought on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa against George Foreman in a matchup known as The Rumble in the Jungle, gaining victory in the eighth round. In January 1975 Wakelin's "Black Superman " reached number seven in the UK Singles Chart. It reached number one in Australia and spent six months in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in more than one chart run in 1975, eventually peaking at #21 in September of that year. Ali, however, did not approve of the song and shunned it completely. It is thought that the American success of Wakelin's song inspired DC Comics to publish the 1978 comic Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.
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Thomas Henry Sargent , better known by the stage name Max Miller – the Cheeky Chappie - was a British front-cloth comedian who was top of the... bill in variety in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. He made films, toured in revues and music hall, and sang and recorded songs, some of which he wrote. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risqué jokes, which often got him into trouble with the censors. Miller was born in Hereford Street, Kemptown, Brighton, Sussex as Thomas Henry Sargent on 21 November 1894, the second child of James Sargent, a labourer and Alice , a flower seller. Known as Harry, he had three brothers and two sisters. His parents were very poor and often unable to pay the rent so were forced to move to other parts of the town and surrounding areas. Harry therefore found himself frequently changing schools until he reached 12, when he left. He tried various jobs, labouring, delivering milk, selling fish and chips, caddying at Brighton and Hove Golf Course and finally trained to be a motor mechanic. He loved showing off and would wear clothes too big for him. He was nicknamed "Swanky Sargent".
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