Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Photos of Holly Carpenter, Miss Ireland 2011

Miss Ireland 2011:

>> Holly Carpenter, Miss Ireland 2011

Holly Carpenter was newly crowned Miss Ireland 2011  at the D4 Berkeley Hotel in Dublin. Holly is 19 year old and stands 1.77 m. She will represent Ireland in Miss World 2011 pageant.


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Monday, August 15, 2011

Holly Carpenter, Miss Ireland 2011

Miss Ireland 2011:

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Holly Carpenter was crowned Miss Ireland 2011 on August 13, 2011 at the D4 Berkeley Hotel in Dublin. Holly is 19 year old and stands 1.77 m. She will represent Ireland in Miss World 2011 Pageant. The first runner-up was Rebecca Maguire. The second runner-up was Aisling Alcock.


Holly Carpenter from Raheny in Dublin is the representative of all the Universities in Ireland this year’s iMiss Ireland Pageant which took place in Ballsbridge Dublin on August 13th. Holly is 19 and going into her second year at NCAD in Textiles. Fun loving Holly likes art and crafts, taking pictures and fancy dress and was once mistaken for Kin Kardashian in New York! She said “I love Ireland and would be proud to represent my country. Let’s face it, I wouldn’t be able to do it for sport or the Eurovision but this is something I can do. I’m down to earth, up for the craic and have green eyes – Irish or what.”




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Photos credit from http://www.missosology.info

Friday, August 5, 2011

Olufunmike Banks Devonish, Miss Anguilla 2011

Miss Anguilla 2011:

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Olufunmike Banks Devonish was crowned Miss Anguilla 2011 on August 4, 2011. She will represent her country in Miss Carival 2012 and other Caribbean Beauty Pageants next year during her reign. Olufunmike Banks Devonish was born on the 25th of May,1990 in Bridgetown, Barbados, but was raised in Anguilla.





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Courtesy of Miss Anguilla,

Monday, August 1, 2011

Photos of Miss British Virgin Islands 2011, Abigail Hyndman

Miss British Virgin Islands 2011:

>> Abigail Hyndman, Miss British Virgin Islands 2011

Abigail Hyndman was newly crowned Miss British Virgin Islands 2011 at the Finale held at the Multi Purpose Sports Complex. Abigail will represent British Virgin Islands in Miss Universe 2012.


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Sheroma Hodge, Miss British Virgin Islands 2010

Miss British Virgin Islands 2010:
Sheroma Hodge was born in 1985. She was crowned Miss British Virgin Islands 2011 and will be the official representative of the British overseas territory to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant. Hodge attended British Virgin Islands High School from 1997 to 2002 and graduated from H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in 2004 with an associate’s degree in natural sciences, where she collaborated in public relations and designing the college’s website.



Hodge is presently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in media and communication, with a specialization in multimedia, at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, where she’s won the multimedia student award for her graduating class.

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Courtesy of Miss BVI

Abigail Hyndman, Miss British Virgin Islands 2011

Road to Miss Universe 2012:

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Abigail Hyndman was crowned Miss British Virgin Islands 2011 at the Finale held at the Multi Purpose Sports Complex on July 31, 2011. Abigail is 21 year old and will represent British Virgin Islands in Miss Universe 2012. The first runner up was Ciara Christian and the second runner up was Shanett Browne.




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Courtesy of Miss BVI

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Jessica Jane Clement

Jessica Jane Clement:


Jessica-Jane Clement was born on 24 February 1985 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is an English glamour model, actress and TV presenter.
She attended High Storrs School in Sheffield, studied Performing Arts and Psychology at The Sheffield College before going on to study at the Dartington College of Arts.


Clement made her name in the BBC production The Real Hustle where, along with Alex Conran and Paul Wilson, she demonstrates confidence and magic tricks, distraction scams and proposition bets on members of the public, to show viewers how to avoid being fooled by them. She featured similar trick-demonstration roles in one-off special Don't Miss a Trick.


Other roles include Cindi Marshall in the British Sky TV series Dream Team for two seasons 2005-2007, and Jade Dragon in the film Moussaka & Chips (2005). In November 2008, she took part in the BBC Three show Celebrity Scissorhands in aid of Children in Need.


She has danced in several music videos including "You and Me" by British dance act Uniting Nations, Craig David "All the Way" music video, Christian Blaizer "All I want" music video and Studio B "I see Girls". At the age of 18 she appeared in Playboy magazine and has since appeared in various "lad's mags" due to her popularity stemming from The Real Hustle.


In 2009 she appeared in Doghouse, a British zombie themed comedy, in which she played the leading character's girlfriend, and the long-running British hospital drama Casualty, playing Jackie, a new member of the ambulance/paramedic crew.


Reference:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica-Jane_Clement


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Esonica Veira, Miss World US Virgin Islands 2011

Miss World 2011:



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Esonica Veira is the new Miss World US Virgin Islands 2011. Esonica is 21-year-old and she will represent USVI in Miss World 2011 pageant. She was the winner of Virgin Islands Carnival Queen in 2007, a contestant in Miss Virgin Islands 2008, 1st Runner-up in Miss Universe USVI 2010 and recently became the 2nd Runner-up of Miss USVI Universe 2011.




[caption id="attachment_2328" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="With Alexandrya Evans (Universe) and Abiola Hodge (Earth)"][/caption]


Source: http://vnbeauty.info

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Sara Jessica Manchipp, Miss Wales 2011

Miss Wales 2011:




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Sara Jessica Manchipp was crowned Miss Wales 2011 at the pageant held at the St David’s Hall in Cardiff on July 2, 2011. 21-year-old Sara Jessica will represent Wales in Miss World 2011 pageant.





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Courtesy of Miss Wales

Niamh Cullen, Miss Sunday World 2011

Miss Ireland 2011:

 




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Niamh Cullen was crowned Miss Sunday World 2011 last week. She will advance to compete in Miss Ireland 2011 pageant in August.


 




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Reference: http://www.missirelandpageant.ie

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Miss England

Miss England:



The Miss England competition is an annual beauty pageant targeted at young females aged 17–24 years living in England. Entrants must hold a British passport to enter.


The contest, title owned by the Miss World organisation is organised each year by Angie Beasley,[citation needed] a winner of 25 beauty contests in the 80s and has organised beauty pageants around the country on behalf of Miss World, including Miss United Kingdom, Mr UK, Miss England, Miss Scotland and Miss Wales.


The contest often attracts celebrity judges at local and national finals. Many celebrities have also judged the regional heats for the competition around the country including top glamour model Jordan, who joined the judging panel for Miss Sussex.


The Miss England competition is promoted to thousands of women around England in local media by a series of area heats held around the country.


News of the World & "Take a Break" magazine have previously sponsored contestants over the years, writing features on contestants and used the winners on the front covers. Various newspapers, including the Daily Mirror, The Times, The Daily Mail and various magazines including Teen Vogue in New York and Hello! have carried stories on local and national winners.


The winner of the Miss England competition, along with the winners of Miss Northern Ireland, Miss Scotland and Miss Wales, can compete in Miss World. The highest ranking competitor of the four constituent country entrants is then presented with the title and crown of Miss United Kingdom.The 2008 contest became notable for featuring a plus-size model, Chloe Marshall and an army personnel, Katrina Hodge, a first for its kind.


Since the pageant's inception of more than 50 years ago, no title holder had gone on to win any international contest. However several Miss England contestants had almost clinched an international crown for England, placing in the 1st runner up position for five times; once in Miss Universe, and twice each in Miss World (as Miss United Kingdom) and Miss Europe.


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References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_England
http://www.missengland.info/

Miss England 2011 Pageant

Miss England 2011:



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Miss England 2011 will be crowned on 19th of July 2011 at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole. The winner will represent England in Miss World 2011 Pageant. Over 80 heats have been held over the last year with over 10,000 girls entering the competition. Now just sixty one winners will participate in the national final of Miss England 2011.


Courtesy of Miss England.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Kelly Brook

Kelly Brook:


Born 23 November 1979
Rochester, Kent, England
Occupation Supermodel, Actress
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Hair colour Brown
Eye colour Dark Brown
Measurements 34-25-35 (US);
Dress size 8(UK)
Website http://www.officialkellybrook.com/


Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons; 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and Playboy model.


Early life


Brook was born and raised in Rochester, Kent, England. She is the daughter of Sandra, a cook, and Kenneth Parsons, a scaffolder. She has a younger brother, Damian, and an older half-sister, Sasha. Kenneth died aged 57 in Rochester from lung cancer on 26 November 2007, during Brook's time on Strictly Come Dancing.



Brook attended The Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. She then studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years before becoming a professional model.


Modelling career


Brook's modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, in which she was entered by her mother. She later worked on a range of advertising campaigns, including for Foster's Lager, Renault Megane, Walkers crisps, Piz Buin and Bravissimo, a company that specialises in bras and lingerie for large-breasted women. Her figure eventually caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a Page Three girl.


Brook's picture soon began appearing in other lad mags such as GQ, Loaded and FHM. In April of the same year, a poll over 5,000 women for Grazia magazine considered her to have the best British female body. She also topped the 'FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World' list in 2005, which was said to have polled 15 million people. Appearing in this list every year since 1998, she ranked #34 in 2008, #67 in 2009 and #7 in 2010. She was the cover star of FHM's World Cup 2010 special issue, and was on the cover of the magazine in April 2011.



In 2006, she signed a contract, reported to be worth around £1m, to present Unilever's Lynx body spray, known as "Axe" in the US and in continental Europe.[citation needed] She has appeared on billboards, in newspapers, and on-line as part of their advertising campaign. She has also appeared in commercials for Sky + and T Mobile, and modelled for Reebok.



In 2010, she was chosen as the "new face and body" of lingerie maker Ultimo's advertising campaign. In September of 2010, Brook appeared in the American edition of Playboy magazine. In October 2010, Kelly Brook appeared live in a Clapham picture house to surprise cinemagoers as part of a promotion for Carlsberg and Sky 3D. In November 2010, Brook presented an award at MTV's EMA's in Madrid.


 

In February 2011, Brook posed nude for Exhibition magazine smeared in lipstick.


Brook produces her own line of swimwear with New Look, which she herself has modeled.


Television
Presenter


In 1997, aged eighteen, Brook started presenting youth television programmes on MTV, Granada Television and the Trouble TV channel.


 

Brook had a breakthrough into mainstream presenting in January 1999, when she was chosen to replace Denise van Outen as the female half of The Big Breakfast hosting team, alongside Johnny Vaughan. She left the show in July 1999.


In 2005, she hosted the reality television program Celebrity Love Island for ITV.
Reality television


 

In 2007, Brook participated in the celebrity dancing competition Strictly Come Dancing on BBC1, with dance partner was Brendan Cole. During the TV series, her father Kenneth Parsons died from cancer, and although she initially decided to continue dancing in his memory, she withdrew from the competition in week nine.


 

She also competed in the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special 2008, dancing the Jive with Brian Fortuna, Brendan Cole having to compete with his later partner Lisa Snowdon. Brook and Fortuna were put into fourth place, but with the studio audience's vote they came second to Jill Halfpenny and Darren Bennett.


In 2008, Brook took Jennifer Ellison's place as one of the three judges on the second series of the reality TV programme Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life, broadcast between September and November 2008.


In January 2009, she joined the third series of Britain's Got Talent as a fourth judge, but was subsequently axed from the programme after less than a week on the panel, the producers having decided that the four-judge format was "too complicated".[17] Brook was billed as a guest judge in the episode in which she appeared, taped in Manchester and aired on 16 May. In October 2009, Brook claimed that Britain's Got Talent hosts Ant & Dec had been the cause of her removal as the fourth judge. She claimed that she was asked to leave the show after she upset the pair.
Acting career


 

In 1997, she appeared in a Pulp video Help the Aged with Huck Whitney of the band The Flaming Stars, in a slow dance sequence.


Brook made her full screen debut with a minor role in the film Sorted. Shortly thereafter, she appeared in the film Ripper. She played the girlfriend of Clark Kent/Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor in four episodes of the American Science Fiction drama Smallville during the show's first season (2001–2002). She has also completed assignments as a movie actress in Canada and made a short appearance as Lyle's girlfriend in the 2003 movie The Italian Job.


 

Her first starring role was in School for Seduction, a 2004 film – she received positive reviews for her role, "Seduction offers a few twists on the rapidly degenerating format, not the least of which is the comely Brook in the lead role." In 2004, she played character Nikki Morris in the video game Need for Speed Underground 2, alongside Brooke Burke. In 2005, she appeared in the Philippe Vidal film House of 9, a thriller about nine seemingly unconnected strangers captured and locked in a house together. The people are forced to compete against one another, in order to survive.


 

Also in 2006, she starred in a Marple drama on ITV and appeared as herself throughout the second series of Moving Wallpaper , also for ITV, in 2009. She acted in the science fiction thriller Shadow Play, directed by Nick Simon.


Brook had a leading role in the horror comedy remake Piranha 3-D. The film received a worldwide theatrical release on August 20, 2010. Piranha 3-D grossed $83,188,163 on a budget of $24,000,000.
Theatrical work


In December 2000, she played exotic dancer Anya in the play "Eye Contact" at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.


In October 2008, she returned to the west end as Jeannie, in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at London's Comedy Theatre. Her performances have had mixed reviews, the Daily Mail said "Kelly Brook has a pencil waist and rabbit-thigh legs, but she is not a great interpreter of a role".


In November 2009, she began playing Celia in Calendar Girls at the Noel Coward Theatre, a role previously played by Jerry Hall.
Personal life


Brook dated Jason Statham for seven years until 2004.


Brook met American actor Billy Zane while filming thriller Survival Island in Greece in 2004. Brook and Zane were engaged to be married in the summer of 2008 and acquired a house in Kent, but Brook postponed the wedding upon the death of her father in November 2007. The couple split in April 2008 and briefly got back together before ending their relationship in August 2008.



Brook dated rugby player Danny Cipriani from September 2008 to June 2010.


Brook has been dating Thom Evans since December 2010. She announced that she and Evans were expecting a baby girl via her Twitter account on 16 March 2011. However, it was announced on 9 May 2011 that Brook had been rushed to Hospital and she had miscarried her baby girl.


 


References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Brook

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