Rochelle Eulah Wiseman (born 21 March 1989) is an English singer, actress and television presenter. She is best known for her work in pop groups S Club 8 and The Saturdays. Wiseman has achieved six Top 10 hits with her first band, S Club 8 and seven Top 10 hits with girl group, The Saturdays.

In 2001, Wiseman auditioned to sing with S Club 7 on the Carnival Tour. The group S Club Juniors – later renamed S Club 8 – was created. In 2004 they shot a children’s programme, I Dream in Spain. The programme lasted for one series and the group disbanded in early 2005. As a group, they achieved seven Top 20 hits with six of these charting in the Top 10.

In 2005, Wiseman became part of the presenting team on children’s variety show, Smile. In February 2007 she appeared as a guest on the Identity Parade round on the BBC Two music quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks, before then being a guest in October 2009. She also hosted BBC’s Sunday Morning ‘Smile’ alongside Barney Harwood and Kirsten O’Brien from 2004 to 2006. She became part of a group called The TigerLilys who only went as far as a MySpaceMusic page. She competed in Miss England.

In 2007, Wiseman auditioned to be part of The Saturdays. She was successful alongside Frankie Sandford who was also in S Club 8. After releasing two singles and an album, the girls appeared on Hollyoaks Later. They also released 2009′s Comic Relief single Just Can’t Get Enough. The group is still active and their first album Chasing Lights went platinum. Their second album Wordshaker was released on 12 October 2009. As of 11 October 2009 when The Saturdays’ single “Forever Is Over” entered the UK charts at Number 2, Wiseman and Sandford now tie with German dance act Sash! and pop band Steps for the most amount of Number 2 singles on the UK Singles Chart without reaching Number 1: two with The Saturdays (Just Can’t Get Enough and Forever is Over) and three with S Club 8 (One Step Closer, Automatic High and New Direction). Wiseman is to feature in an upcoming film, Bulla.

Celestine Cruz Gonzaga (known by her screen name Toni Gonzaga), is a Filipino actress, TV host, dancer and singer. She started her career with GMA Network but later moved ABS-CBN where she became a host of Pinoy Big Brother. She is a former host for the Saturday talk show Entertainment Live and the variety show ASAP and currently hosting the Sunday talk show The Buzz.

Gonzaga started in show business at age 13 where she joined a singing contest with Kyla and Faith Cuneta.

Gonzaga starred on the film You Got Me! with Sam Milby and Zanjoe Marudo.

Gonzaga is featured on the compilation album H.O.P. E. (Healing of Pain and Enlightenment) of the Pinky Cares Foundation. She sang the song “Count On Me” for the album.

Gonzaga starred in her first Maalaala Mo Kaya episode entitled “Pendant” with Jason Abalos and Ryan Eigenmann. She had her concert tour in Canada for the month of March titled “Perfect Combination” with Erik Santos. Toni Gonzaga also had her provincial concert tour entitled “Level Up, Toni Gonzaga”. She made her return to television, this time partnering with Derek Ramsay for Precious Heart Romances episode entitled “Ang Lalaking Nagmahal Sa Akin”. Gonzaga also hosted Pinoy Big Brother Double Up, the third season of Big Brother in the Philippines. Gonzaga also released her album entitled “Love Duets” with Sam Milby under Star Records.

Gonzaga starred on the film Ang Tanging Pamilya: A Marry Go Round under Star Cinema with Joseph Estrada, Ai-Ai de las Alas and Sam Milby. She won as Best female talk show host on 23rd PMPC Star Awards for Television, Anak TV seal Makabata Roster award and ASAP 24k Gold Award.

Gonzaga is also featured in the compilation album I Move, I Give, I Love of the Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC). She sang the PNRC’s theme song “Bagong Umaga”, featured in the album.

Amber Alejo Rowley Davis (born July 29, 1985, Mesa, Arizona), simply known as Amber, is a Filipino-American singer.

After high school, she moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her singing career. She was background vocalist to singers Hilary Duff and Kashiff. In 2004 she signed with W.A.R. Entertainment for two singles for the movie soundtrack Playa’s Ball. After that she moved to Osaka, Japan to become lead vocalist of rock and hip hop show “Enwhy” at Universal Studios Japan.

After her contract with Universal, she signed with VIVA Records. Her debut album Feel Good Music was released in June 2006. Her debut album contained her remake of the song “Manila”, which became a hit in the Philippines. It topped both the radio and video charts.

Amber left VIVA Records and has recently changed her name to Amber Davis. In 2007, she released a self-titled album under Bellhaus Entertainment. Singles from this album include “Radio”, a partial cover of Donna Summer’s “On The Radio”, and a mid-tempo R&B ballad called “Back Into You”, both of which has received considerable amount of radio airplay. “Back Into You” became the first OPM song to reach No.1 on mainstream radio in 2007. Amber’s videos for both “Radio” and “Back Into You” have been some of the most requested videos in the Philippines, and is also in the top 10 most downloaded ringtones.

Amber was awarded the Awit Award for Best New Female Recording Artist in 2007 and became a host for MYX, ABS-CBN Global’s music channel in the United States, hosting their Asian music video show “Music Bang”.

Raquel Denise “Kelly” Galvez Misa (born August 28, 1985) is a Filipina model and now tv host. She has appeared in several Philippine magazine publications and commercials locally and is considered as one of the Philippine’s most recognizable faces in print ads, commercials and ramp modeling. She is also a beauty columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. She is also a beauty editor for Look (magazine).

Kelly Misa started as a part-time ramp model, she then first came to the attention of media when she became finalist for Teen Model Search of Teen Magazine, she was then featured the same year and was in the cover of the May 2001 edition of Teen Magazine^[4] together with KC Montero. She appeared in several commercial endorsements notably the “Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang?” (Why just now) campaign for Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Globe Telecom summer of 2005 advertising campaign, the Pond’s Whitening campaign and Pantene TVC. She has appeared on local magazine editions of Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, and local titles Mega Magazine, Preview, Candy, Mobile Philippines and Chalk Magazine. Kelly is also an image model for the local retail designer-line folded and hung and the clothing company Pink Soda.

Kelly Misa ranked 84 in the FHM Philippines sexiest women of 2006 and again the following year ranking 85 in the FHM Philippines 100 sexiest women of 2007.

Rachelle Leah started out modeling for Ford Motor Company. By the time she was 19 she had appeared on television shows such as The View, Carson Daly, and the Nick And Jessica Variety Show.

Soon thereafter Rachelle Leah’s photo was seen on a boxing website by the UFC, and she was hired as an Octagon Girl. She has now had quite a full career, appearing on TV shows such as Spike’s Sexiest NYC Bartenders, Spike TV’s Women of Action, Casino Cinema, Inside the UFC, and The Ultimate Fighter.

Some of the magazines Rachelle has modeled for include; Maxim, Men’s Fitness, 944, Playboy (clothed), Steppin’ Out, Muscle & Fitness, AXL, Vegas Magazine, and Stuff.

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Background

La Fountain was born to a French American father and Finnish mother, after they had met during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Her parents separated later on, and La Fountain moved to Finland with her mother, who was then remarried. Her father has continued a family business in New York and runs a restaurant and hotel with his brother. La Fountain was raised in the Eira neighborhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and in a family estate in Kirkkonummi. She attended a Rudolf Steiner school. In 2005, La Fountain got engaged with renowned music video director Antti Jokinen in Paris, France. They share homes in Helsinki and the United States. Jokinen has one child from a previous relationship.

Career

Training

La Fountain was trained at The Culinary Institute of America, the world-renowned culinary school in New York. Before and during the studies, La Fountain earned money working in a restaurant and as a fashion model.

Entrepreneur

After returning to Finland, La Fountain started her own business and was soon noticed by the Finnish media.

La Fountain wrotes food columns in various Finnish magazines and newspapers, including Helsingin Sanomat, Ilta-Sanomat and Seura, in which she had a weekly column. La Fountain also arranges cookery courses, does food styling and has her own catering service. She has also done product development for different brands, including Fazer and Finlandia Vodka.

Television

In 2005, La Fountain starred in her own lifestyle TV show called Avec Sara on MTV3. Each of the 10 episodes had its own theme from brunches to birthday parties, karaoke nights, and Japanese and Indian social evenings. In 2008, La Fountain starred in Perfect Day TV series, which is an international lifestyle program sold to around 60 countries worldwide. It includes four well-known Nordic chefs (Tina Nordström, Andreas Viestad, Claus Meyer and La Fountain herself) introducing traditional foods, customs and culture of their own countries, including Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. In addition to the TV show, La Fountain also starred in a 36-episode online series called A Perfect Day in Sara’s Kitchen. In 2008, La Fountain also appeared on UKTV Food’s popular Market Kitchen TV series as a guest chef.

Books

La Fountain was awarded at the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2006 for her cookery book À la Sara in the category of the Best First Cookbook. The book version of Perfect Day TV series was published in 2008. It includes recipes from all of the chefs and information on the various locations they visited in the course of the series.

Design

La Fountain has designed various series of tableware, glassware and textiles for Finnish clothing brand Luhta Home, including Lotus, Baroque, Marocco and Agadir. She has also designed patterns for shoes of kitchen professionals by Finnish Jalas footware company.

Links

• Official Homepage
• BestCuisine : Sara La Fountain

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In 2004 She won the 2004 ‘Young Model Challenge’ contest in Australia. Rachael Finch, who now lives in Alexandria, Sydney, works for Platinum Television, a company that provides video contents for bars and events, and is an ambassador for the Heart Foundation.

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Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since the legendary Dolores del Rio. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the “sexiest celebrity” out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, “65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term ‘sexy’ to describe her”. In December 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the “25 Smartest People in TV.”

Mexico

At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema. For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.

Early Hollywood acting work

Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler, hoping for a career in Hollywood, despite limited fluency in English, attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek the break she needed, a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995′s Desperado. The movie caught Hollywood’s attention, as moviegoers proved to be dazzled by Hayek as Rodriguez had been. Due to Hayek’s loyalty to the director, she would later decline playing the role Catherine Zeta-Jones eventually took in The Mask of Zorro after Rodriguez abandoned the project. She has also appeared in the Spy Kids trilogy.

Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She followed her success in Desperado with a brief but memorable role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, where she provocatively danced on a table. In 1999, she co-starred in Will Smith’s big-budget Wild Wild West, and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith’s Dogma. In 2000, Hayek had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio del Toro in Traffic. In 2003, she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy.

Later Hollywood work: Director, producer and actress

Around 2000, Hayek founded film production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and television projects. Her first feature as a producer was 1999′s El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Mexico’s official selection for submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released in 2002. Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor and featured an entourage of stars in supporting and minor roles (Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush) and cameos (Antonio Banderas). She earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance. This made Hayek, along with Katy Jurado and Adriana Barraza, one of only three Mexican actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award. The film earned two Oscars.

Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters.

In the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony plays a brief role as Minerva’s first love, and as the motivation for her later revolutionary activities.

In 2003, Hayek produced and directed the The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie which won her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special. In December 2005, she directed a music video for Prince, titled “Te Amo Corazon” (“I love you, sweetheart”) that featured her good friend Mia Maestro.

Hayek is an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series airing around the world since September 2006. Hayek adapted the series for American television with Ben Silverman, who acquired the rights and scripts from the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. Originally intended as a half hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, the project would later be picked up by ABC for the 2006–2007 season with Silvio Horta also producing. Hayek guest-starred on Ugly Betty as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. She also had a cameo playing an actress in the telenovela within the show. The show quickly became a ratings hit and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2007. Hayek’s performance as Sofia resulted in a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

In April 2007, Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanazul. The following month she signed a two year deal with ABC to develop projects for the network through her production company, Ventanarosa.

Hayek is developing and producing La Banda, a Spanish-language romantic comedy set in Mexico, written by Issa Lopez.

Personal life

Hayek is a naturalized U.S. citizen. She dated actor Edward Norton between 1999 and 2003, and then Josh Lucas in 2003. She has friends in Los Angeles and Mexico and is best friends with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz. The two co-starred in the 2006 film Bandidas. Hayek studied at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment. Her brother, Sami Hayek, is a designer with his own line of products at Target and clients that include Louis Vuitton, Brad Pitt, and the Mexican Government.

Hayek often uses method acting to play characters. While she was cast as Frida Kahlo, Hayek had to smoke for the role using real cigarettes. As a result in her own admission she became a smoker and is currently trying to kick the habit.

On March 9, 2007, Hayek confirmed she was expecting her first child with PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault. On September 21, 2007, she gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. On July 18, 2008, Hayek and Pinault announced the end of their engagement. but later reconciled and were married on Valentine’s Day, 2009 in Paris.

Links

• Salma Hayek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Salma Hayek at the Internet Movie Database

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In 2007, she was voted “America’s Sexiest Sportscaster” by Playboy Magazine.

After attending Bloomingdale High School, near Tampa, Florida, Andrews graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in telecommunications in 2000. While there she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Andrews was also a member of the Dazzlers, the Gator basketball dance team, from 1997–2000.

She began her career with FSN Florida as a freelance reporter from 2000–01 before serving as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for the Sunshine Network from 2001–02. Andrews then worked as a studio host for Turner Sports from 2002–04, covering the Atlanta Braves and college football for TBS and Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Hawks for Turner South.

Andrews joined ESPN in May 2004 as a reporter for the network’s National Hockey League coverage. Since the 2004 season, Andrews has served as sideline reporter for the ESPN College Football Saturday telecast, the Saturday Primetime college basketball game and Big Ten college basketball coverage. In 2005, she added Major League Baseball sideline reporting to her duties. She also provides reports and features on Great Outdoor Games coverage. She also covers Men’s college baseball, and is a familiar sight during the College World Series.

Charlotte presented the ‘Beijing Bulletin’ for Aljazeera +3 Sport with Rhodri Williams- coverage of the 2008 Olympics, in Qatar.

Charlotte Jackson co-presents Setanta and Betfreds League of Legends darts tournament.

She began her career as a model and in 2005 became a presenter on sportal.com, Football365 and golf365 among other sports related websites- where she wrote and presented sports bulletins before joining Setanta Sports News in 2007. She also regurlarly appears with Tim Shaw on his radio show, Absolution.

She is also a singer and backing vocalist and was a backing vocalist for Tony Christie for a TV appearance for his hit, “Is this the Way to Amarillo.”

Jackson also presented the coverage of the National Hunt Festival for the official Cheltenham website in 2006. She participated in ‘Catfight’ in 2007, a boxing match in Hammersmith Palais.