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Album: Essex Celebrities

Summary: Welcome to the Essex Celebs Gallery, here you will find a collection of celebrities who were born in the Essex area. Note: All data in this section is provided by Wikipedia

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> Amanda Tapping

Amanda Tapping (born 28 August, 1965) is an English-born Canadian actress and producer

> Chantelle Houghton

Chantelle Vivien Houghton (previously Preston) (born 21 August 1983, Brentwood, Essex, England), was billed as the first 'non-celebrity' to feature in the Channel 4 reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother in 2006. She emerged as the winner of series 4, beating 10 bona fide 'celebrities' (Michael Barrymore, Maggot, Preston, Pete Burns, Traci Bingham, Dennis Rodman, George Galloway, Rula Lenska, Faria Alam and Jodie Marsh), and winning a prize of £25,000. Following a much-publicised on-screen courtship, Houghton married former fellow Celebrity Big Brother 2006 contestant Samuel Preston of The Ordinary Boys in August 2006. The couple announced their separation in a joint statement on 27 June 2007, and finally divorced on 21 November 2007.[1] In October 2007, Chantelle was named "TV's latest reality millionaire" and experts are reported saying that her true wealth easily exceeds £1 million.[2]

> Darren Day

Day was born in Colchester, Essex. His grandfather on his father's side was a support and warm up act for George Formby. Day attended Sir Charles Lucas Art College, and undertook drama classes at evenings and weekends until he was 13, when he turned his attention to snooker.[1] Day became a professional snooker player at 17, but found himself drawn to entertainment. When alcoholic Alex Higgins failed to complete an exhibition match, Day got up and sang songs and did impressions to entertain the crowd.

> Denise Van Outen

Denise van Outen (born May 27, 1974, Basildon, Essex) is an English actress and television presenter. Her most notable roles to date were as a presenter on The Big Breakfast, and as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on both the West End and on Broadway.

> Dick Turpin

Richard (Dick) Turpin The Highwayman (September 21, 1705 in Hempstead, Essex – April 7, 1739 in York) was a legendary English rogue and a famous historical highwayman. Turpin was a man who engaged in a wide variety of criminal acts, including deer stealing, burglary, cattle rustling, horse theft, highway robbery and murder before being executed in York.[1] After his death, as "Dick" Turpin, he became the subject of legend, and was romanticised as the dashing and heroic highwayman in English ballads and popular theatre of the 18th and 19th century and later in film and television of the 20th century. There is considerable divergence between the history and legend of Turpin

> Dominic Littlewood

Dominic John Littlewood (born 29 March 1965 in Southend, Essex) is a British television presenter, journalist and comedian.[1] Littlewood attended St Thomas More's High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea from 1976 to 1981 and, on leaving, worked in the new and used car business in Essex, setting up his own business in the late 1980s. Littlewood made his first TV appearance on Channel 4's Faking It teaching a vicar how to be a second-hand car dealer in just one month. However, because of increasing media commitments he closed his car business in 2002. His personality earned him an opportunity in television, and he then co-presented BBC Two's Wrong Car Right Car. Littlewood's expertise in buying and selling has been put to good use presenting BBC One's To Buy or Not to Buy and BBC Two's How I Made My Property Fortune in 2004, while his wide-boy genial personality was used to front Beat the Burglar alongside ex-criminal Mike Fraser, and as a location reporter for the BBC's Holiday. He also regularly features on the BBC's The One Show. Littlewood has recorded a series of his own show, broadcast on BBC One from 12 June 2006 called Don't Get Done, Get Dom, in which he helps members of the public to get a good deal from salespeople and good customer service. In June 2007 a second series of Don't Get Done, Get Dom was broadcast followed by a third series in June 2008. In 2007 he took part in the fifth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by professional dancer Lilia Kop

> Frank Lampard

Frank James Lampard, Jr. (born 20 June 1978 in Romford, London) is an English football midfielder currently playing for Premier League club Chelsea and the England national team. He plays most often as a box-to-box midfielder and has also enjoyed spells in a more advanced attacking midfield role. Lampard is Chelsea's top active goalscorer with 118 goals, the most in club history for a midfielder. Frank Lampard also became the first midfielder to score 100 premier league goals. For this current season, Lampard has been named october player of the month.

> Gary Lucy

Gary Edward Lucy (born 27 November, 1981 in Chigwell, Essex), is an English television actor and model, best known for his role as PC Will Fletcher on ITV police drama The Bill, as Kyle Pascoe on Footballers' Wives and on Channel Four teen soap Hollyoaks, as Luke Morgan.

> Harry Judd

Harry Mark Christopher Judd,[1] (born 23 December 1985 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is the drummer in the British pop rock/pop band McFly, along with fellow band members Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Danny Jones. McFly rose to fame after former band Busted helped launch them by inviting them on tour in March 2004

> Jamie Oliver

James Trevor 'Jamie' Oliver, MBE (born 27 May 1975), frequently nicknamed The Naked Chef, is a celebrity chef. He is well known for his role in campaigning against processed foods in British schools. Since his early years, his Essex accent, which is often described as "mockney" or "fake cockney,"[1][2] has become infamous[3][4] - particularly the use of the Hindi word "pukka" (colloquially meaning "brilliant" or "solid", originally "cooked" or "ripe"). Oliver is reported to be worth an estimated £25 million.

> Jodie Marsh

Jodie Louisa Marsh (born 23 December 1978) is an English glamour model and television personality. She has appeared topless in many tabloid newspapers and has appeared on her own reality TV show, Totally Jodie Marsh.

> Joe Pasquale

Joe Pasquale (Joseph Ellis Pasquale, 20 August 1961) is an English comedian from Grays, Essex, arguably most famous for his high-pitched voice, use of visual gags and more recently being crowned "King of the Jungle", on the ITV realityTV show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. He also hosted The Price Is Right which was originally hosted by Bruce Forsyth (and Leslie Crowther).

> Kara Tointon

Kara Louise Tointon (born 5 August 1983 in Basildon, Essex) is an English actress, best known for playing Dawn Swann in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.

> Kat Shoob

Katherine Elizabeth Shoob (born 8 November 1983 in Rochford, Essex) is an English television presenter who was often found presenting on the ITV quiz show The Mint. Kat was a DJ on Capital Radio London with Bam Bam & Streetboy between 7pm & 10pm weeknights during March 2007.

> Liam Howlett

Liam Paris Howlett (born August 21, 1971) is the core member of the British band The Prodigy.

> Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is a British film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years. She has been acclaimed throughout her career and has won numerous awards for acting, including five BAFTA Awards, two Oscars, two Golden Globes, an Emmy Award and a Tony Award

> Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost, in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor. His early screen career included the role of Aubrey Montague in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. In 1983, he starred as Edmund Bertram in a television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park. In 1984, he appeared in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and The Jewel in the Crown. Since then, his film and television work has included several screen adaptations of Shakespeare's works, including Kenneth Branagh's 1996 Hamlet as Horatio, a role he had played previously with Branagh for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared in film adaptations of Twelfth Night (1996), Othello (1995) and In the Bleak Midwinter (1995). He provided the voice of Hamlet for the animated television adaptation Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992). Other television appearances have included two Agatha Christie's Poirot movies, Sharpe's Regiment and To Play the King. He has also appeared in episodes of Lovejoy, Foyle's War, Absolute Power, Spooks, Midsomer Murders, Drop the Dead Donkey and Casualty Farrell's theatre work includes performances of The Cherry Orchard, Camille, and The Crucible as well as Royal Shakespeare Company productions of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. He is married to Scottish actress, Stella Gonet.

> Noel Edmunds

Noel Ernest Edmonds, DL (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter and executive, who made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented many light entertainment television programmes, including Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, Top of the Pops and Noel's House Party. He currently presents the Channel 4 gameshow Deal or No Deal, the Sunday edition of Sky One's Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old? and the new topical Sky 1 show, Noels HQ.

> Penny Lancaster

Penny Lancaster-Stewart (born on 15 March 1971) is an English model and photographer. She is probably best known for her modeling work for designer lingerie brand Ultimo. She is married to rock singer Rod Stewart, and is well known for her height, standing 6ft 1 inch (186cm) barefoot and around 6ft 4 inch (193cm) in heels

> Richard Littlejohn

Richard William Littlejohn (born 18 January 1954 in Ilford) is an award-winning English author, broadcaster, journalist and Professional Dickhead. His twice-weekly columns in the Daily Mail and The Sun earned him a place in the inaugural 'Newspaper Hall of Fame' as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years. He has been named Fleet Street's Columnist of the Year, Irritant of the Year by the BBC's What The Papers Say awards and "The stupid person's Jeremy Clarkson" by The Guardian.[1] He has also written for London's Evening Standard, Punch and The Spectator. His radio and television programmes have won a Sony award and a Silver Rose of Montreux.

> Rik Mayall

Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English actor, writer and comedian. He is known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over the top, energetic portrayal of characters, and for being one of the pioneering members of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s.

> Russell Brand

Russell Edward Brand[1] (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, author, columnist, and radio and television presenter. Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK for presenting a Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth, and for his radio show, among other television series and award ceremonies. He has also appeared in a number of films, including the romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, St Trinian's, and the upcoming Bedtime Stories. Brand is noted for his unusual fashion preferences, and he has described himself as resembling "an S&M Willy Wonka". He is also noted for various controversies that have surrounded him in the British media, such as the 2008 prank calls that led to his resignation from the BBC.

> Dermot O'Leary

Early life Dermot O'Leary attended St. Benedict's Roman Catholic School in Colchester from which he left with 2 GCSEs,[1] and Colchester Sixth Form College. He studied for a BA degree in Media and Television, with modules in politics, at Middlesex University, gaining a 2:2. He is of Irish descent and both his parents are from Ireland. Dermot attended Saint Mac Daras Community College in Dublin for several years.