Johnny Nelson & Brendan Ingle
Johnny Nelson is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2986 to 2005. He is currently the longest reigning world cruiserweight champion of all time, having held the World Boxing Organization title from 1999 to 2005. He defended the title against thirteen different fighters, more than any other cruiserweight in history, and holds a joint-record of most consecutive cruiserweight title defences along with Marco Huck.
Brendan Ingle was an Irish boxing trainer, manager and former professional boxer based in Sheffield. ingle trained four world champions in total at his Wincobank gym, Johnny Nelson being one of them.
Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible co-founded the punk rock band the Damned, originally playing bass before switching to guitar. He embarked on a solo career during the 1980s, following a UK number one hit with his cover of Happy Talk.
Captain Sensible’s distinctive appearance includes a red beret and sunglasses, typically with white frames. He was also a founder of the Blah! Party.
Greg Dyke
Greg Dyke is a British media executive, football administrator, journalist, and broadcaster. Since the 1960’s, Dyke has had a long career in the UK in print and then broadcast journalism. He is credited with introducing ‘tabloid’ television to British broadcasting, and reviving the ratings of TV-am. In the 1990’s, he held chief executive positions at LWT Group, Pearson Television, and Channel 5.
He was the director-general of the BBC from January 2000 to January 2004.
Dyke was director of Manchester United and chairman of Brentford football clubs, and from 2013 to 2016 was chairman of the Football Association. He was chancellor of the University of York from 2004 to 2015 and chairman of the British Film Institute between 2008 and 2016. He is currently the chairman of children’s television company HiT Entertainment, and is a panellist on Sky News’s The Pledge.
Since 2016, Dyke has been vice president for television of BAFTA. In 2018, Dyke became chairman of London Film School.
Chesney Hawkes
Chesney Hawkes is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. He started his career at the age of 19 when he appeared in the film Buddy’s Song, which features his best-known single The One and Only, which topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks and reached the Top 10 in the United States. Follow-up single I’m a Man Not a Boy peaked at 27 in the UK, with subsequent singles including What’s Wrong With This Picture, Stay Away Baby Jane and Another Fine Mess also charting in the top 100.
Shaun Murphy
Shaun Murphy is an English professional snooker player who won the 2005 World Championship. Nicknamed The Magician, Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting.
Murphy has won over £4 million in prize money and has compiled more than 500 century breaks in his professional career. His highest world ranking was number three, which he maintained for three seasons following 2007-07.
Anita Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of the British version of The Body Shop, now The Body Shop International limited, a cosmetics company producing and retailing natural beauty products which shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals in some of its products and one of the first to promote fair trade with developing countries.
Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong is an English actor. He is known for his roles in Netflix’s Marco Polo (2014-2016), Bruce Ng in The Martian (2015), and Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Doctor Strange (2016).
Benedict Wong has also starred in many other pieces of well-known media, including The IT Crowd (2006-2013), Prometheus (2012), Black Mirror (2011-2019), Prey (2017), Annihilation (2018), What We Do in the Shadows (2020), and Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).
John Fury
John Fury is an Irish boxing cornerman and former professional boxer and bare-knuckle fighter. He is best known for being the father of two-time heavyweight boxing world champion Tyson Fury, as well as professional boxer and reality television star Tommy Fury. He is also uncle to heavyweight boxer Hughie Fury.
Tyson Fury
Tyson Fury is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the World Boxing Council and The Ring magazine titles since defeating Deontay Wilder in 2020; previously he held the unified World Boxing Association (Super), International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Organization, International Boxing Organization, and The Ring titles after defeating Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
Tim Storey
Tim Storey is an acclaimed author, speaker and life coach. He is well known for inspiring and motivating people of all walks of life. His new book The Miracle Mentality has become a worldwide movement. Quincy Jones calls Tim “The voice of inspiration to this generation.”
Mark Hill
Mark Hill is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He rose to fame as one half of the Artful Dodger and co-writer and producer of Craig David’s multi-platinum debut studio album, Born to Do It. Since he began releasing music in 1997, Hill has achieved four Ivor Novello Awards, a number one album, two number one singles and over 10 million record sales worldwide.