Biogs New and Updated Biographies

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

Big Brother Season 11

06 July 2009 00:00:03 GMT

We have biographies of the Big Brother series 11 houseguests. We also have biographies of previous houseguests from Big Brother series 6-10. You can access them via the panel on the left ... 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

Henry Allingham

20 June 2009 00:00:03 GMT

In June 2009 the Guinness World Records confirmed that Henry Allingham was the world's oldest man following the death of Tomoji Tanabe in southern Japan, aged 113 ... 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

Big Brother: Rodrigo Lopes

05 June 2009 00:00:02 GMT

Rodrigo Lopes and Noirin Kelly became the first actual housemates when they passed a task on the first night of Big Brother. Rodrigo entered the diary room and was told he had to persuade someone, who turned out to be Noirin, to have their eyebrows shaved off, and then he had to do it in 4 minutes ... more

Big Brother: Freddie George Fisher

05 June 2009 00:00:02 GMT

Freddie George Fisher was a 23-year-old entrepreneur and web developer from Market Drayton when he entered Big Brother. Freddie grew up in a stately home, where he still lives with his family, two gardeners and a cleaner ... more

Big Brother 10

05 June 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Big Brother series 10 started on Thursday 4 June 2009 on Channel 4. On the first night, 16 candidate housemates entered the house. Rodrigo and Noirin passed a test on the first night and became housemates proper ... more

Karen Gillan

30 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Karen Gillan's father John was a care worker at the Corbett Centre. He lives with Karen's mother Marie in Kinmylies in Scotland. Karen grew up in Inverness and as a youngster joined several youth theatre groups ... more

John Wick

23 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

John Wick, who became famous for his part in revealing MPs' expenses to The Telegraph, had a background in the armed forces. John Wick trained at Sandhurst and served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service (SAS) ... more

Alexander Rybak

19 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Alexander Rybak is a musician, singer and composer who became an international star overnight when Norway was voted winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest ... more

Audrey Tautou

17 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Audrey Tautou was born on August 9, 1978 in Beaumont, south of Paris, and grew up in Monlu�on, north of Paris. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a dentist ... more

Nancy Pelosi

15 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Nancy Pelosi was born on 26 March 1940 in Baltimore. Pelosi's late father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr, was Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years, having spent five terms in Congress. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III has also been Mayor of Baltimore ... more

Howard K. Stern

14 May 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Howard K. Stern was born on 29 November 1968 in Los Angeles, California. Howard K. Stern went to University of California and graduated from UCLA Law School, passing the bar in 1994 ...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

Joan Rivers

23 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Joan Rivers was born Joan Molinsky in Brooklyn, New York on 8 June 1933. Her parents were Russian Jewish immigrants to USA ...more

Annie Duke

11 Feb 2009 00:00:01 GMT

Annie Duke, nicknamed 'The Duchess', was born in Concord, New Hampshire. She is the brother of the acclaimed poker player Howard Lederer. Their father was an English professor. Her parents met at a card table, playing bridge ... more

Coleen Nolan

08 Jan 2009 20:00:01 GMT

In January 2009, Coleen Nolan entered Dancing on Ice partnering Stuart Widdall. Since 2000, Coleen Nolan has been a regular member of daytime ITV's Loose Women panel. Coleen Nolan was born on 12 March 1965 in Blackpool. Her parents Tommy and Maureen Nolan were singers ... more