Steve Wright’s Further Factoids. Steve Wright

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      Actress Billie Piper’s parents changed her given name from Lianne three weeks after registering her birth, after they decided they liked the name Billie more.

      The Queen star Dame Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov. Her father was of Russian origin.

      X Factor star and Britain’s Got Talentjudge Simon Cowell says that the first time he gave a criticism was at age four when he looked at his mother’s white fuzzy pillbox hat and remarked, “Mum, you look like a poodle.”

      Doctor Who star David Tennant has auditioned for Scottish police drama Taggart 16 times–but has never been given a part.

      As a toddler, movie actress Penelope Cruz would re-enact TV commercials for her family’s amusement.

       Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s middle name is Wilhelm.

      Comic Relief Does Fame Academy winner Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is a trained concert pianist, and practises for 90 minutes every day. There must be a piano in Harvey Nicks, then.

      According to reports, movie star and singer Jennifer Lopez can’t be expected to stoop and tie her shoe lace, so she employs an official “shoe fastener” instead.

       Courtney Cox is the only member of the TV show Friends cast not to receive an Emmy nomination for her work on the show.

      Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle originally applied to be in Big Brother 6. However, after some encouragement from PR guru Max Clifford, the show’s producers put her in the Celebrity Big Brother house instead.

      Women say an average 20,000 words a day compared to men’s 7,000. I don’t want to talk about it.

       Ozzy Osbourne, in a job that would come back to haunt him in later life, was once a labourer in a slaughterhouse.

       The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

      The actress Jill Halfpenny began her TV acting career on Byker Grove. She was Jill Farthing back then.

       If each of the UK’s ten million office workers used one less staple a day, 120 tonnes of steel would be saved every year.

      Australia’s victory over England in The Ashes in 2006 was the first whitewash since 1921. The Wizards of Oz.

      A woman who won £688,260 with a £2 accumulator flutter on the horses picked the winners with birth dates.

      From EastEnders, the name Walford is a mix of Walthamstow and Stratford.

      Council bosses in Swindon, Wiltshire, have responded to huge public demand by publishing a picture postcard of a roundabout near the town. The so-called Magic Roundabout already has t-shirts and keyrings dedicated to it.

      The top best-selling book of all time is the Bible, which has been printed in more than 2,000 languages and has sold over six billion copies. Not been mentioned in Richard and Judy’s Book Club yet, though.

       The chance of a woman having twins has doubled since World War Two.

      According to the World Health Organisation, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day. Way too much information!

       The children’s television show Tiswas stood for Today is Saturday, Wear a Smile.

       “Cabbaged” and “fabaceae” are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument.

       And fickleheaded and fiddledeedee are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

      Movie star Kate Winslet and “olde tyme” comedian Norman Wisdom have something in common–they’ve both appeared in the TV show Casualty.

      The New Zealand basketball team are known as The Tall Blacks.

      The first female to circumnavigate (sounds painful) the globe was Krystyna Choynowska-Liskievicz. That’s easy for you to say.

       TV star Oprah Winfrey’s parents wanted to use the biblical name Orpah, but the midwife couldn’t spell so it became Oprah.

      A survey of the quietest tow in Britain found Torquay is 100 times less noisy than Newcastle upon Tyne.

      We produce enough waste in two hours to fill London’s Albert Hall. But why should we want to do that? Wouldn’t it get in Eric Clapton’s way?

      Eighty-two per cent of speeding offences are committed by a man. And he should stop it immediately.

       Liverpool player Peter Crouch wore a shirt with 12 on the back and 21 on the front in England’s football friendly with Uruguay.

       Because Peter is wacky.

      Dramatic changes in our climate mean we could lose the four seasons. And they were a damn good group. “Big Girls Don’t Cry”…

       Lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the USA. Apart from eating.

      The final episode of M*A*S*H attracted a record TV audience of more than 109 million.

      The Test cricketer of the 20th century, according to a panel of 100 cricketers and experts, was Sir Donald Bradman.

      The hit “Wooden Heart” is adapted from the German folk song “Muss I Denn”. We’ll have to ask Elvis about that. Thangu vey much.

       CONFIRMED–THE EGG CAME FIRST SHOCKER.

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       Disgraced President Richard Nixon was so worried about his grades at Law School that he broke into his Dean’s office to find his results. He discovered he was top of the class.

      Winston Churchill’s family motto was “Fiel Pero Desdichado”, meaning “Faithful But Unfortunate”.

       Notorious villain Attila the Hun died of a nosebleed on his wedding night because he was too drunk to notice his nose was bleeding.

       Some Argentine fans are so in awe of “Hand of God” football villain Diego Maradona they worship him as a god, with their own “Maradonian” religion. This involves following “ten commandments”–one of which is to call your son Diego. СКАЧАТЬ