Britain’s best-loved gardener Alan Titchmarsh is the definitive voice on all things botanical. Not only an expert gardener and horticulturalist, Alan is well known for his illustrious success as a journalist, author, presenter and television personality. The recipient of four honorary degrees, he holds the title of Vice-President of the Royal Horticultural Society and has been awarded a Victoria Medal of Honour and an MBE in the 2000 New Years’ Honours list.

Born and brought up on the edge of Ilkley Moor in Yorkshire, Alan left school at fifteen to became an apprentice gardener in the local nursery. Quickly becoming engrossed with all things botanical, he then trained at trained at Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.

His first appearance on screen was in 1979, reporting on a plague of greenfly that had invaded the seaside town of Margate. By 1986, Alan was presenting BBC Breakfast Time and BBC Manchester’s Open Air and since then, his profile as a presenter has taken him from Pebble Mill at One via Gardeners’ World to his own chat show. He maintains his gardening passion with programmes including Love Your Garden and Britain's Best Gardens, and his long-running coverage of the infamous Chelsea Flower Show. His own daytime show on ITV, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, featured a combination of music, the arts and conversation, and he presents his own radio show on Classic FM on Saturday mornings. Aside from his work as a charismatic presenter, Alan has authored over 50 books about gardening including the fastest- selling gardening book of all time, How to be a Gardener Book 1: Back to Basics, along with eight novels, four volumes of memoirs, a miscellany celebrating England and Englishness and a Christmas anthology. He writes for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, and is the gardening correspondent for the Daily Express and Sunday Express.

In 1997 Alan was named “Yorkshire Man of the Year”. He was appointed MBE in the 2000 New Year Honours List, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Hampshire in 2001, when he was also immortalised by Madame Tussaud’s. In 2004 he received the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest accolade in the British gardening world, and in 2009 he was made a Vice President of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is patron or president of over 50 charities. Alan lives in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with his wife in an old farmhouse with a four acre garden.

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Fran Drescher is an American actress, producer, writer and comedian, best known for her brilliant New York accent and starring role in the TV sitcom The Nanny. Since appearing in Saturday Night Fever, she has starred in several Hollywood films, penned two books and founded the Cancer Awareness Group, Cancer Schmancer.

Born Francine Joy Drescher in Flushing, Queens, Fran Drescher has had an affinity for acting since joining the drama club at her High School. As well as meeting her future husband at the Drama club, she built her confidence to enter the 1973 Miss Teen New York pageant. Despite coming second place, Fran used the opportunity to reach out to talent agents in the City, telling them she’d won first place to pitch herself as a client.

After a brief stint in hairdressing after graduation, Fran landed her first major role as Connie in 1977′s smash film Saturday Night Fever. Multiple roles followed in films such as The Hollywood Knights, The Big Picture, UHF, and This Is Spinal Tap, but she is best known as the " 'Mary Poppins' from Queens" in her starring role "Fran Fine" in The Nanny, which earned her two Emmy nominations as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. More recently, she has developed and starred in the sitcoms Living with Fran and Happily Divorced, both created with her ex-husband and offering a comic take on their divorce.

As well as starring on the screen, Fran has appeared on Broadway in Cinderella and on stage for Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She is also the author of two memoirs,

Enter Whining and Cancer Schmancer, the latter about her experience of being diagnosed with and beating uterine cancer. Since publication, Fran has founded the Cancer Awareness Group ‘Cancer Schmancer’ and uses her social media to advocate for healthcare and LGBT rights.

Fran recently celebrated 20 years free of cancer by organising a free virtual cabaret concert on Cancer Schmancer.

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Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released countless studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums, including the fantastic Grammy nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, which captured his celebrated Judy Garland tribute performance at the London Palladium in 2007, and the album Release The Stars which went Gold in Canada and the UK. His new album Unfollow the Rules – his ninth with original material — was released on 10 July 2020.

Wainwright has received Juno Awards for Best Alternative Album in 1999 and 2002 for Rufus Wainwright and Poses, respectively, and nominations for his albums Want Two (2005)and Release the Stars (2008). He was nominated for Songwriter of the Year in 2008 for his Release the Stars album. He also composed the original music for choreographer Stephen Petronio’s work BLOOM which has toured across the country.

Musically Rufus has collaborated with artists including Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys and producer Mark Ronson among others. He collaborated on the title track of Robbie Williams’ latest album, Swings Both Ways, which was co-written with renowned musician and producer Guy Chambers and sung as a duet between Rufus and Robbie.

In addition to being a celebrated contemporary pop singer, Rufus has made a name for himself in the classical world. His much acclaimed first opera, titled Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009. The opera was subsequently performed in London at Sadler’s Wells in April 2010, in Toronto at the Luminato Festival in June 2010 and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House in February 2012.

Now fully established as a composer of operas, Rufus was commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company to write his second opera based on the story of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and Antinous. The new opera, Hadrian, premiered in Toronto on October 13, 2018.

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Phil Rosenthal found success as the creator and Executive Producer of “Everybody Loves Raymond.” He is currently host and creator of Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil,” an unscripted documentary series on Netflix, which combines his love of food and travel with his unique brand of humour.

As host and creator of “Somebody Feed Phil”, Phil Rosenthal travels the world with unbridled curiosity in search of great food. Phil shares being transformed by the food he eats, the people he meets, and the joy of travel. With trademark humor, Phil talks about his creative writing career, the pleasure he finds in food, and the community that can be built from both laughter and meals. Audiences leave entertained and encouraged to pursue their passions and explore the world.

Rosenthal has won multiple awards including two Emmy’s, a Peabody Award and a James Beard Award.

Rosenthal was born in Queens, New York and moved with his parents and brother to New City, New York in Rockland County, where he was raised.

He attended Clarkstown North High School where he became very active in the school's drama club, Cue N Curtain, and in theatre. Rosenthal graduated from Clarkstown North in 1977. After graduating from Hofstra University on Long Island, where he majored in theater, he embarked on a career as an actor, writer and director in New York City. In 1989, he relocated to Los Angeles.

Rosenthal’s early writing credits include the series “Down the Shore” and “Coach.” In 1995, Rosenthal created the hit CBS comedy, “Everybody Loves Raymond,” which premiered in 1996. He was the Showrunner/ Executive Producer for all nine years of the show’s very successful run, which ended in 2005.

During its original run, “Everybody Loves Raymond” was nominated for over 70 Emmy awards, and won 15, including two for Best Comedy Series in 2003 and 2005. Rosenthal won the 2002 Writers Guild Award for Excellence in Television Writing for his “Everybody Loves Raymond” script, “Italy.”

The show was co-produced by Ray Romano, and was based in part on Romano's comedy material. Rosenthal's wife, actress Monica Horan, played the role of Amy MacDougall-Barone, the off-and-on girlfriend (wife after season 7) of Robert Barone (Brad Garrett) in the series. It was Rosenthal and Romano who decided to retire the series over the objections or reservations of the other cast members. Rosenthal wrote or co-wrote twenty-one episodes of the series.

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Amy Wadge is a Grammy-winning English singer and songwriter. She has co-written with numerous artists including Janelle Monáe, James Blunt, Labrinth, Niall Horan, Dua Lipa and Jessie Ware, to name just a few. She is best known for her long standing writing partnership with Ed Sheeran, most notably on the US and UK number one ‘Thinking Out Loud’, from the triple Grammy-nominated album ‘X’.

Born on the 22 December 1975 in Backwell, a small village outside Bristol, Amy grew up listening to Elton John, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor. On her 11th birthday she was given a guitar and taught herself to play Tracy Chapman’s debut album, starting a lifelong affinity for the guitar and creating music. Whilst at school she started gigging in and around Bristol and got signed to a record label aged just 14.

Having moved from her hometown of Bristol to study at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Amy quickly became part of the dynamic Welsh music scene. She twice won the award for Best Female Artist at the Welsh Music Awards, ahead of Charlotte Church and Cerys Matthews respectively.

Amy has toured the length and breadth of the UK, across Europe, in the US and Down Under, releasing five solo albums, various EPs and three collaborative albums with other artists along the way.

Her biggest success has come from her long term writing partnership with Ed Sheeran, who she’s known since he was 17. Together they co-wrote his early EP, ‘Songs I Wrote With Amy’ and a number of other songs including, Gold Rush, which

featured on the deluxe edition of Ed's, multi-million selling, debut album, +, (Plus).

Their biggest song written together is without a doubt ‘Thinking Out Loud’, the third single from Ed’s second album, the triple

Grammy nominated, X, (pronounced Multiply). The track went platinum in November 2014 after weeks at No.1 in the UK

chart. In June 2015, it became the first track ever in the history of the UK Charts to remain in the top 40 for a whole year. In February 2016, Thinking Out Loud won two Grammys at the 58th Recording Academy Awards Ceremony, for ‘Song of the Year’ and ‘Best Pop Solo Performance’.

To date, it has sold over twelve million copies worldwide, has been viewed 1.25 billion time on YouTube and streamed over a billion times on Spotify.

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Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and television presenter. He is best known for his role as Lukewarm in the BBC sitcom Porridge, one of the most famous British comedy series starring Ronnie Barker.

Born on 16th December 1948 in Oldham in Lancashire, Christopher was raised in Salisbury in Wiltshire. He started his training at Salisbury Repertory Theatre and later at Bristol Old Vic as a prelude to his first West End appearance – creating the role of Head Jumbly in The Owl and The Pussycat Went to Sea.

Christopher has also taken part in a successful run of The Play What I Wrote; directed by Kenneth Branagh; and as a regular guest as The Narrator in the National Tour of The Rocky Horror Show.

Since the 70s, he has been an ever-present feature of TV output. From television comedy dramas such as Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, to BBC’s Poldark (1977), Nero and, I Claudius.

On children's television, he had a regular role as department store owner Adam Painting in the children's television

programme Rentaghost (1978–1983) and also played Reverend Whiting in Southern Television's Brendon Chase, produced in 1980.

In the early 1980s he hosted children's game show On Safari, which had a jungle-themed studio set. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1999, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Theatre Royal, Brighton.

Christopher also managed to fit in a year with The Royal Shakespeare Company appearing in London Assurance with Judi Dench and Donald Sinden. Other theatre work includes a National tour of Side by Side BY Sondheim, Beyond The Fringe, A Touch of Spring and more recently Cluedo and On Approval. In the summer of 1990 Christopher played and sang the role of Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at London’s Barbican Theatre.

The public crowned him King Of The Jungle in the seventh series of I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here.

He’s an expert in the history of pantomime and his career has seen him playing dames, loveable rogues, and of course,

himself!

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Robert Lindsay is a stage and TV actor, best known for his role as Ben Harper in My Family, a role he played for over a decade.

After leaving school, Lindsey studied drama at Clarendon College in Nottingham, intending to become a drama teacher, however friends encouraged him to apply to RADA, which he did and was accepted.

He rose to prominence as Jakey Smith in ITV comedy series Get Some In! (1975-1977), followed by the role of Wolfie Smith in BBC Sitcom Citizen Smith (1977-1980). Lindsey also played several roles in the BBC Shakespeare series in the early 1980s, including Fabian in Twelfth Night and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and went on to make several appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Lindsay went on to be successful in the West End and on Broadway; his role as Bill Snibson in the 1984 revival of Me and My Girls won him an Olivier Award and a Tony Award. He starred in several Channel 4 comedies throughout the 1990s, including Nightingales with

David Thelfall and James Ellis, and Jakes Progress with Julie Walters.

His longest running role is that of Ben Harper in the BBC sitcom my family, which he played from 2000 to 2011, opposite Zoe Wanamaker. Lindsay went on to star in British sitcom Spy (2011-2012), and many theatre credits including; the UK premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

at the Savoy Theatre (2014), The Lion in Winter at the Theatre Royal opposite Joanna Lumley (2011), and the role of late cinematographer Jack Cardiff in Terry Johnson’s play Prism (2017).

In 2019, Lindsay starred as King John in Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, opposite Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Chiwetel Ejifor.

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Elaine Paige joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea!

Elaine Paige OBE (born 5 March 1948) is a singer and actress, best known for her work in musical theatre. Elaine attended the Aida

Foster Theatre School, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968

production of Hair marked her West End debut.

Elaine was selected to play Eva Perón in the first production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita in 1978, which brought her to the attention of the broader public. For this role, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Performance of the Year in a musical. She originated the role of Grizabella in Cats and had a Top 10 hit with Memory, a song from the show.

In 1985, Elaine released I Know Him So Well with BarbaraDickson from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo. She then appeared in the original stage production of Chess, followed by a starring role in Anything Goes which she also co-produced. Paige made her Broadway debutin Sunset Boulevard in 1996, playing the lead role of Norma Desmond. She appeared in The King and I from 2000 to 2001, and six years later she returned to the West End stage in The Drowsy Chaperone.

In addition to being nominated for five Laurence Olivier Awards, Elaine has won many other awards for her theatre roles, and is often referred to as “the First Lady of British Musical Theatre.” She has released 22 solo albums, of which eight were consecutively certified gold and another four multi-platinum. Since 2004 she has hosted her own show on BBC Radio 2 called Elaine Paige on

Sunday.

In 2014, Elaine celebrated her 50 years in show business with a Farewell tour, including a show at the Royal Albert Hall. Elaine is active in charity work – she is the Vice President of the Children’s Trust, a charity for children with brain injuries. Earlier this year she purchased a number of trees for the Woodland Trust’s Heartwood Forest project. Elaine is still hosting her popular radio show during lockdown.

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Gyles Brandreth joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea!

Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, actor, former MP and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, now Chancellor of the

University of Chester and one of Britain's most loved public figures. A star of Celebrity Gogglebox, a veteran of QI and Have I Got News For You, a reporter on The One Show and a regular on Just a Minute, his many books include The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries and three recent best-sellers: The 7 Secrets of Happiness; his celebration of good English, punctuation, spelling and grammar, Have You Eaten Grandma?; and his anthology of poetry to learn by heart, Dancing by the Light of the Moon.

In 2020 he was meant to be appearing on stage with Dame Judi Dench at the Bridge Theatre (in April, but they have said they’re rescheduling) and will be on TV with Shelia Hancock in Great Canal Journeys. His tour throughout the country with his one-man show, Break a Leg is also unfortunately postponed or cancelled!

A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End.

A prolific broadcaster (in programmes ranging from Just a Minute and Wordaholics to Celebrity Gogglebox, QI and Have I Got News for You), an award-winning interviewer and columnist (principally for the Telegraph and Daily Mail), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, he has published two volumes of diaries: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries

(‘By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark’s’, The Times) and Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime (‘Witty, warm-hearted and deeply poignant’, Daily Mail).

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Lynda LaPlante joins Twiggy today for a cup of Tea!

Born and brought up in Liverpool, Lynda trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After finishing her

studies, and using the stage name Lynda Marchal, she appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a variety of productions, as well as securing roles in popular television series, such as Z-Cars, The Sweeney, The Professionals and Bergerac.

Her breakthrough as a writer came in 1983 when she created the six-part robbery series Widows for Thames Television. This was followed by a debut novel, The Legacy, published in 1987, which received both critical and best-seller success. Her second, third and fourth novels - The Talisman (1987), Bella Mafia (1990) and Entwined (1993) - also became best sellers.

In 1990, Lynda wrote her most successful television series, Prime Suspect, which starred Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison. The series aired in the UK as well as on PBS in the USA (as part of the anthology program Mystery!), and won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Lynda also wrote the TV series The Governor (ITV 1995-1996), Killer Net (Channel 4, 1998), Trial & Retribution (ITV 1997), Mind Games (ITV 2001) and The Commander (ITV), all of which scored significant viewer figures. During this period, she

also released the Cold series of books: Cold Shoulder, Cold Blood and Cold Heart, followed by Sleeping Cruelty (2000) - adding to her list of best sellers.

Lynda was awarded a CBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Literature, Drama and to Charity, and in 2009 she was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame. In April 2013, Lynda was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Forensic Science Society.

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