Midge Ure was born in Scotland and was brought up in the outskirts of Glasgow. He is best known for his music and for being the lead singer of the well-known bands: Visage and Ultravox. Midge was also the co-writer of Band Aid. After leaving Ultravox, Midge went on to have a successful solo career. Midge co-presented BBC’s Pop Map of UK along with being a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef and he has also done films...
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John Vial is a globally renowned stylist whose vision, technique and creative flair assures he is constantly in demand from designers, celebrities, magazines and international beauty brands. John has earned his status and leading reputation. He is an industry pacesetter who continues to push creative boundaries - bursting with ideas and creativity. He is the resident Hair Stylist on TV Series 10 Years Younger and is of course is celebrity stylist of choice to a host...
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Dom is best known for his master metal work in the RTS Award-winning, BBC One show, The Repair Shop. Bringing broken and much loved treasures back to life, the show has been a runaway success and is a moving production that manages to combine jaw dropping restoration with warmth, humour and ingenuity. There is much more to Dom that just metal work though. Working across many mediums – set design, prop making, metal work, sign writing...
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With nearly 25 years experience in front and behind the camera Simon has a well-deserved reputation as a broadcast ‘all-rounder’. His television career started at the Daily Mirror as the paper’s youngest ever television critic. However, when the Mirror Group launched its cable channel LIVE TV, he joined as a presenter fronting the daily, frenetic five-hour magazine show Live With London as well as the Breakfast Show alongside Claudia Winkleman. After that he was the roving reporter...
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Mallika Basu is a food and drink industry commentator, food entrepreneur, cookbook author and communication expert. She co-founded SIZL Spices, a heady and high-quality range of spices. The author of two cookbooks – Miss Masala: Real Indian Cooking for Busy Living (Harper Collins) and Masala: Indian cooking for Modern Living (Bloomsbury) – Mallika also writes recipes and comment for the London Evening Standard. Born in Kolkata, India, Mallika arrived in England for a Business Studies undergraduate...
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Juliet Kinsman has spent more than two decades celebrating the world’s most special places to stay and her hotel expertise appears in columns for The Telegraph and Condé Nast Traveller. Founding editor of Mr & Mrs Smith, meeting philanthropic hoteliers and working with award-winning luxury brands inspired her to create her Bouteco platform specifically to share enlightening stories of sustainability. As a hotel consultant she helps brands stand for something and stand out for it and as...
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James was brought up in Rome, the son of a Sri Lankan diplomat father and an English mother, and has been travelling in style all his life. His childhood summers were spent enjoying grand tours of Sri Lanka and India. Both countries completely stole his heart and from a young age he was organising cultural tours of the region for his friends. He soon began organising tours for their friends and family, and their friends...
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Rachel Allen is a bestselling cookery writer, TV chef and celebrated teacher at the world-famous Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, Ireland. Raised in Dublin, Rachel began study at Ballymaloe at the age of 18, remaining after graduation to cook at the Ballymaloe House Hotel and Restaurant. She then set off to cook around the world, returning afterwards to Ballymaloe to work at the cookery school. It was there she found her passion for teaching,...
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Filmmaker Livia Simoka created, produced and presented Channel 4’s ‘Extreme Tribe: The Last Pygmies’. The series followed her journey as she spent 5 months living with a pygmy hunter-gatherer tribe in the rain forests of the Congo, where she immersed herself with a family and became part of their tight nit community. Livia has worked as Producer/ Director for many years, travelling to remote parts of the world making adventure and anthropology documentaries. She was nominated...
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Amber is best known for co-presenting the Channel 5 docu-series “Doing Drugs For Fun,” in which she investigated the cocaine trade. From being embedded with the Colombian military, gaining unprecedented access into the war on drugs, to meeting with addicts in recovery, her honest and engaging interview style garnered great reviews. Following this, Amber has appeared on a number of radio shows and given talks to young people across the country about her journey and the...
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