Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera was born December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York. She is the daughter of an Ecuadorian father, Fausto, and a Irish mother, Shelly. Since her father was in the military she moved around quite a bit in the initial years. Her parents separated when she was seven, and she settled with her sister and mom in Wexford, Pensylvania. Her mother was a professional pianist. By the time she was five, Christina knew all the songs from The Sound of Music and performed them at neighborhood block parties. At the age of eight Christina appeared on the nationally syndicated show Star Search and at the age of ten she sang the National Anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins. By twelve years of age Christina had become a member of the television show the New Mickey Mouse Club. with fellow castmates Britney Spears, Keri Russell, and J.C. Chasez and Justin Timberlake from the boy band *N Sync.

All the while Christina had in mind a goal of producing her first album before she graduated from High School. After her two-year stint on The Mickey Mouse Club, Christina traveled to Japan in 1998, where she recorded a duet with Japanese star Keizo Nakanishi. She also performed at the Golden Stag Festival in Transylvania, Romania, joining Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross, who were also on the playlist. Christina Aguilera caught the eye of manager Steve Kurtz, who requested a demo tape. Amazed by her voice and beauty he offered her a record deal when she was 15. She got the gig to sing Reflection for the animated film Mulan and the song was eventually nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture.

Her self-titled debut album was released on August 24th, 1999, and sold more than 250,000 copies within one week of being released. It spawned the hits Genie in a Bottle, Come on Over and What a Girl Wants. She also had a hit with P!nk, Courtesy of BMG and Lil Kim with the Moulin Rouge song, Lady Marmalade. Christina subsequently went on to win the 1999 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In less than a year since the release of Genie in a Bottle, Christina performed a duet with B.B. King and performed The Christmas Song for Bill Clinton on the TV special Christmas at the White House. Also performed a duet at the Super Bowl Half Time Show with Enrique Iglesias; and she was the only female guest at VH1's Men Strike Back special.

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Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley got the gift of acting from her parents Will Knightley and Sharman MacDonald. She was born on the 22nd of March 1985 at Teddington in London, UK.

Keira, in fact was a dyslexic and she emerged from her handicap to take the world by storm in the field of acting.In 1994 at age of nine she got her first break in films by getting a role in, A Village Girl. It was followed by a few insignificant roles in a few films.

Keira Knightley shot into prominence due to her startling resemblance to famous actress Natalie Portman. She acted as a decoy for Natalie Portman in the Star Wars Part 1. Her role was kept a secret and due to her resemblance and stunning performance her fans were unable to make out the difference between the two. Since then, she has completed an impressive array of films, including the made-for-TV movie Princess of Thieves, the series Oliver Twist, and the thriller The Hole.
She also played a small role in Deflation. She spent three months in Slovakia and Prague filming a 2002 TV version of Dr. Zhivago, in which she played Lara, the same character Julie Christie played in the famous 1965 version. And this was all before her 18th birthday.
But it was another project in 2002 that served as her breakthrough role. Knightley starred in Gurinder Chadha?s Bend It Like Beckham, a hugely popular Indo-British comedy. In order to play the part, she endured 20 weeks of tough football practice - her coach, who had trained top players, declared her more naturally talented than Michael Owen.
Next up is the big-budget Disney production, Pirates of the Carribean, to be released in theatres soon; and King Arthur, currently being filmed in Ireland, in which she will play the role of Guinevere. Barely into adulthood, this hot UK export has already won over fans across the Atlantic.
Many diverse projects she has lined up prove that she is ready to take the world by storm, and we're waiting with open arms. For now, she keeps a level head and lives with her parents in Richmond, England.

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Kelly Brook

Born Kelly Parsons on November 23, 1979 in Kent, Rochester, England to Sandra, a cook, and Ken, a scaffolder. It was clear from the start that Kelly would be much more.

She attended the prestigious Italia Conte stage school. After 3 years of training in dance, singing, and acting, Kelly was ready to start her career. Kelly's mum entered her in a beauty contest, which Kelly won, and led to her interest in modeling. After lots of persevering, she was discovered by the Daily Star, after that she started to appear in various magazines like Loaded, GQ, FHM, Sky, Cosmopolitan, Tatler, The Face, and Company.
Kelly has also appeared in a TV ad for Sure deodorant with Jonathan Ross, where she played the game show hostess Nicky with the Ticky.
Although Kelly was appearing in ads all over the UK, the time that Kelly's career really took off was when she was announced as the successor to Denise Van Outen on Channel 4's breakfast show, The Big Breakfast. It was Kelly's dream come true, since she was more interested in being a presenter than acting or singing.
Rumor has it that Kelly quit Big Breakfast after the tabloids published that the show was going to fire her for being "too dumb." Well, she beat them to it by resigning.
After Big Breakfast, Kelly was busy hosting MTV's Select. It was the perfect move for her, as she wanted to be involved with presenting hip music to young fans, because of her interest in dance. More modeling jobs came Kelly's way, such as print campaigns for Renault Megane, Walkers, Piz Buin. Kelly became a model for Triumph International Underwear, and an image of her was placed on a poster in London, said to be the largest billboard in the world.

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