2016 Prudential RideLondon Celebrities

2016 Prudential RideLondon
Celebrities
1.
Sam Bailey
10.
Dame Kelly Holmes
2.
Stefan Booth
11.
Mark Hunter, MBE
3.
Colin Charvis
12.
Martin Johnson, CBE
4.
Hugh Dennis
13.
Allan Lamb
5.
Michelle Dewberry
14.Lemar
6.
Lauren Drummond
15.
Leon Ockenden
7.
Tim Foster, CBE
16.
Mark Webber
8.
Darren Gough
17.
Jo Whiley
9.
Dr Dawn Harper
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Sam
Bailey
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Sam Bailey won the X-Factor in 2013 under the mentorship of Sharon
Osborne and went on to record a number one UK album and a soldout headline tour.
A mum-of-three, she won the X-Factor after quitting her job as a
prison officer in HM Prison Gartree. She has since gone on to top the
UK album charts with her debut The Power of Love, support Beyonce
on tour and, most recently, star in the UK touring production of the
musical Chicago.
She completed her first Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 last year
and returns to raise money once again for the charity Scope.
Stefan
BOOTH
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Stefan Booth is best known for playing Greg Jessop in the BBC soap
opera EastEnders. He also had a two-year spell on Hollyoaks and has
also appeared in The Bill and The Royal. In 2006, he came second in
the ITV ice-skating competition Dancing on Ice.
Colin
CHARVIS
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Colin Charvis is a former captain of the Welsh national rugby union
team and was capped twice for the British and Irish Lions. Charvis,
who retired in 2009, scored 22 tries for his country and previously
held the record for most tries scored by a forward in Test match
rugby.
Since retiring from rugby he has started up his own business. In 2013
he completed the ABSA Cape Epic, a 700km, seven-day race across
Africa.
Colin is riding the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 for the second
time and is fundraising for Sparks.
Hugh
DENNIS
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Hugh Dennis is best known for being one half of Punt and Dennis
with comedy partner Steve Punt and playing Pete Brockman, the
father in the BBC One sitcom Outnumbered
Since 2005, Dennis has been a regular panellist on the BBC Two
satirical comedy show Mock the Week.
Dennis, who is riding for ActionAid, is a keen cyclist and took part in
the 2007 L’Etape du Tour, cycling an open stage of the Tour de France
for amateurs.
Michelle
DEWBERRY
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Michelle Dewberry was the winner of the second series of The
Apprentice in 2006. The win gave her a £100,000-a-year job with Sir
Alan Sugar for whom she worked for nearly a year.
She has since become a motivational speaker, Sky News breakfast
TV pundit and magazine columnist. She runs a business consultancy
and founded bargain deals website DailyChic.
Michelle ran the London Marathon in 2007 but this is her first time
riding the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100.
Lauren
DRUMMOND
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Lauren Drummond played the role of Mika Grainger in the BBC
drama Waterloo Road for its first three seasons.
She went on to appear in another BBC drama, Holby City, as nurse
Chantelle Lane and has also starred in Coronation Street, Doctors
and Grange Hill.
Tim
FOSTER, CBE
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Tim Foster is a former Olympic and world champion rower. He was
part of the gold medal winning coxless four with Sir Steve Redgrave,
Sir Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell in the 2000 Sydney
Olympics.
After retiring from international rowing in July 2001, Time went on
to coach at the University of London Boat Club before joining the UK
Sport-sponsored Elite Coach Programme in 2004. He now divides
his time between coaching and public speaking in the business
world.
Darren
GOUGH
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Darren Gough is one of England’s most popular ever players.
He spearheaded England’s bowling attack through much of the
1990s and is his country’s second highest wicket-taker in one-day
internationals with 234.
He also took 229 wickets in 58 Test matches and was a former captain
of his home county of Yorkshire.
He appeared in the 2005 edition of Strictly Come Dancing and now
has a regular slot on Talksport where he co-presents the weekday
afternoon drivetime show.
Dr Dawn
HARPER
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Dr Dawn Harper has appeared on the Channel 4 series Embarrassing
Bodies since 2007. She also appears regularly on This Morning as a
medical expert and gives medical advice on Woman’s Hour on BBC
Radio 4.
The mother-of-three, who is a keen cyclist, continues to work as a
part-time GP in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Dame Kelly
HOLMES
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Kelly Holmes became one of Great Britain’s greatest Olympians
when she won a middle-distance gold medal double at the Athens
Olympics in 2004, winning both the 800m and 1500m.
Holmes also won two Commonwealth Games gold medals during a
glittering athletics career.
Since retiring, she founded the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust to support
young athletes and help the lives of young people across the UK.
In April, she ran her first Virgin Money London Marathon finishing
in 3:11 and raising money for her own Trust as well as Myeloma UK,
Pickering Cancer Centre, Mind UK and Hospice in the Weald.
Mark
HUNTER, MBE
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Mark Hunter won an Olympic gold in the lightweight double sculls
at the 2008 Olympics and came agonisingly close to repeating the
feat four years later with partner Zak Purchase at London 2012, only
for the Danish team to come through in the final stages to snatch
gold from them.
Mark also won two world championships and, after retiring from
the sport in 2013, he took on the NOMAN Barcelona to Ibiza race
and won the 200-mile ocean rowing race.
Martin
JOHNSON, CBE
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Martin Johnson is a former World Cup winning rugby international
captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest locks to have ever
played. He toured three times with the British and Irish Lions,
becoming the only man to have captained them on two separate
tours. He also led Leicester Tigers to consecutive Heineken Cup
victories and to six league titles. After retiring in 2005, he was
appointed the team manager of the England rugby union side, a
position he held from 2008 until 2011.
Allan
LAMB
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Allan Lamb is a former cricketer who played for and captained
the England team throughout the 1980s, playing a total of 201
international matches.
He retired in 1995 and has featured on the presenting teams for Sky
Sports and Channel 5’s cricket coverage. He set up his own business,
Allan Lamb Associates, in 1986, focusing on corporate hospitality.
Between 2005 and 2007, he featured alongside fellow cricket hero
Ian Botham in an advertising campaign for the English Beef and
Lamb Executive, known as ‘Beefy and Lamby’. Cartoon characters
were created for each of them, with the duo providing the voices
for the adverts alongside legendary cricket commentator Henry
Blofield.
Photo: Reuters
LEMAR
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Lemar is an English R&B singer–songwriter and record producer.
Lemar has had a run of chart success in the United Kingdom, Europe
and Australia. He rose to fame after finishing in third place on the
first series of British talent show Fame Academy.
Since then, Lemar has had seven top ten UK singles and sold more
than two million albums. He is seen as one of the most successful
artists to come out of a reality TV show. Lemar has also won two Brit
Awards and three MOBO awards to date.
Leon
OCKENDEN
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Leon Ockenden is well known to soap fans as Coronation Street’s
Will Chatterton. Before that he played the PE teacher Hector Reid
on the BBC school drama Waterloo Road and Serge De Bolotoff in the
period drama Mr Selfridge.
Mark
WEBBER
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Australian Mark Webber spent 11 years in Formula One and notched
up 11 wins during that time including the 2012 British Grand Prix at
Silverstone. He had spells with Minardi, Jaguar, Williams and Red
Bull and was one of the most popular F1 drivers until his retirement
in 2013.
After retiring from F1, he signed with Porsche to race in the FIA
World Endurance Championships, an event he won alongside Timo
Bernhard and Brendon Hartley last year.
Mark is also a pundit for Channel 4’s 2016 Formula One coverage.
Jo
Photo: Reuters
WHILEY
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Jo Whiley is one of the best known DJ’s of her generation. She spent
14 years at Radio One, fronting a weekday lunchtime show for nearly
12 of those years. The mother-of-four then moved to Radio Two
where she now presents the drivetime show. Jo has been a presenter
of Top of the Pops and has been a regular presenter of the BBC’s
Glastonbury coverage.