Career: Her big break came with presenting jobs on Channel 4's The White Room and BBC's O-Zone, followed by Top Of The Pops. WShe was axed from the latter, along with Gail Porter, when producers revamped the presenting line-up. Hosted She's Gotta Have It and co-presented LA Pool Party with Lisa Snowdon. Appeared on Test the Nation, and scored an IQ rating of 100. The effervescent Geordie has been globetrotting with Holiday on a Shoestring and Holiday - You Call the Shots. In 2005 she appeared on ITV's Celebrity Love Island and became emotionally involved with footballer Lee Sharpe. She won Celebrity MasterChef in 2009.

Career: Joined the band Sweeney Todd, who released an album called If Wishes Were Horses in 1977, but went solo the following year. His first album failed to chart, but his third, Cuts Like a Knife, went platinum in America, and the follow-up, Reckless, established him in the UK. In 1991, his single (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, the theme from the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, sold three million copies in America and spent 16 weeks at number one in Britain. Continued to score hits throughout the 1990s, including a duet with Melanie C, When You're Gone, in 1998, but then took a four-year break. He returned in 2002 with the soundtrack to the film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. He continues to record and tour.

Career: Houston initially worked as a model, but her remarkable vocal ability quickly landed her a recording contract and led to one hit single and album after another. In 1992, she made her movie debut alongside Kevin Costner in box-office hit The Bodyguard, and went on to star in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife. She returned to the music scene in 2009 when she released her seventh studio album, I Look to You, and embarked on a major tour a year later. She died on February 11, 2012. Her body was recovered from a bath at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California. She was 48.