Munn (2008), p.36. She was also voted "Most Fanciable Female" in Smash Hits 1983 readers' poll. Signed to Respond, she had UK hit singles in March 1983 with "The House That Jack Built" and in July with "Give it Some Emotion" (both credited simply to 'Tracie') Her debut album, Far from the Hurting Kind, was released in 1984 under the name Tracie.
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Richard Markham is a British educator and former field hockey player for Wales. Markham studied at Oxford University and represented Wales at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He is also a schoolteacher, and taught history at Marlborough College before being appointed principal of Hockerill Anglo- European College in 2013. Pippa Middleton, who was a student at Marlborough, described him as "our fierce but undeniably fanciable coach".
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Rice was second runner up in the 2003 Miss Wales contest, which was won by Imogen Thomas; who coincidentally appeared in series seven of Big Brother. She has gone on to represent both South and North Wales in Miss Great Britain. In 2004, she won the Wales On Sunday newspaper's Welsh Idol. Rice was also a finalist in the 2005 More magazine's Most fanciable girl in the UK beauty contest.
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She became one of the first acts to score regularly in the UK Singles Chart with EPs, which were also successful on an international level. At the end of the year Willcox won the Smash Hits' reader's poll in two categories: Best Female Singer and Most Fanciable Female (beating Kim Wilde to the second place). In 1981 she alone, according to Safari, sold in the UK more units than the whole of the Warner Bros. put together.
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The album featured the band's eighth number-one single "How Deep Is Your Love". This was to be the first single released by Take That as a four piece (without Williams) and it was their last single until they reformed in 2005. Although Owen's vocal contributions were limited in Take That's original run, he was arguably the most popular member of the group, on account of his boyish good looks and sweet demeanour, regularly earning awards such as Smash Hit's "Most Fanciable Male in the World" and "Best Haircut".
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These were sometimes by well known people in the industry such as producer Pete Waterman or DJ Bruno Brookes or by staff writers who went under pseudonyms such as 'Lola Lush' (a glamorous woman with bitchy comments) or 'Snabber' (a depressive dog who answered the letters). At the end of each year, the magazine would run a reader's poll of the top pop acts of the year. These would include best group, best single and most fanciable pop star among others. Number One was the first magazine to champion pop group Take That and featured them many times on the cover in 1991 before they became famous.
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Adams was a member of four- piece boyband a1, who won a BRIT Award in 2001 for Best Newcomer and had two number one singles, "Take On Me" (the chart-topping song that was originally made famous by and written by the Norwegian band a-ha) and "Same Old Brand New You", before separating in 2002. Whilst in the boyband, Adams also scooped a Smash Hits Poll Winners Party Award for Most Fanciable Male in 2001. It was announced in 2009 that a1 were to reform to compete to represent Norway in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. a1 then resigned with Universal Music Group and recorded another two studio albums "Waiting For Daylight" and "Rediscovered", which Adams co-wrote and produced.
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" In an article the next day they also revealed that the two concerts were expected to raise £400,000 for charity. Morwenna Ferrier of The Daily Telegraph praised Barlow and the concert and stated "Within 24 hours, Gary Barlow — boy band veteran, reality TV judge and one time "least fanciable" Take That member — had switched deftly from The X Factor panel to the Albert Hall for this, his first of two UK solo shows in more than 11 years. It's a charity performance, for the Prince's Trust no less, because Barlow the artist doesn’t need any exposure: this is a songwriter who has colonised the charts for 20 years. But tonight, the air thick with screams, was his chance to hog the limelight with his carousel of hits.
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She was later deputy programme controller and in 1989 was joint winner with ITN of a Royal Television Society award for coverage of the Lockerbie air disaster, where she broke the story and organised the incoming footage from the scene. She became Managing Editor of Sky News later that year and was sent to Saudi Arabia to organise the company's coverage of the first Gulf War. She was appointed director of programmes in 1992 for breakfast television channel GMTV, which launched on 1 January 1993, and quickly became the subject of controversy over what was termed the "F Factor".Guardian 2 January 2003 After a Sunday Times journalist was given access to production meetings she was quoted in the press for saying that television presenters needed to be fanciable.
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