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Who is Take That?

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Take That is an English pop group, formed in Manchester in 1990

The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the groups lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald and Orange serving primarily as dancers.

The group have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom, 12 of which have reached number one, as well as having seven number one albums. Internationally the band have had 56 number one singles and 37 number one albums. They have received eight Brit Awards—winning awards for Best British Group and Best British Live Act.

Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996. After filming a 2005 documentary about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK, entitled The Ultimate Tour. On 9 May 2006, it was announced that the group were set to record new material together once again; their fourth studio album, Beautiful World, was released in 2006 and was followed up with The Circus, in 2008. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while taking the number of records sold to 45 million worldwide.

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Who is Cam Newton?

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Cameron Jerrell Newton (born May 11, 1989) is an American football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL)

Cameron Jerrell Newton (born May 11, 1989) is an American football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Auburn and was drafted as the first overall pick by the Panthers in the 2011 NFL Draft. Newton is the only player in the modern era to be awarded the Heisman Trophy, win a national championship, and become the first overall pick in an NFL draft within a one-year span. He was the 2011 NFL Rookie of the Year, is a three-time Pro Bowler, and was named to the NFL All Pro First Team in 2015.

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Who is Gary Barlow?

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Gary Barlow OBE (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer

He is frontman and lead vocalist of British pop-group Take That and served as head judge on series 8, 9 and 10 of The X Factor UK. Barlow is one of Britains most successful songwriters, having written fourteen number one singles and twenty-four top 10 hits. He has had three number one singles, six top 10 singles and two number one albums as a solo artist, and has had seventeen top 5 hits, twelve number one singles and seven number one albums with Take That. He is also a six-time recipient of the Ivor Novello Award and has sold over 50 million records worldwide.

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Who is Ivanka Trump?

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Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman and former fashion model

Ivanka Trump is the daughter of real estate developer and President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump and former model Ivana Trump. She is the Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at her fathers company, the Trump Organization, where her work is focused on the companys real estate and hotel management initiatives.

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Who is Raymond Van Barneveld?

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Raymond van Barneveld is a Dutch professional darts player

Raymond van Barneveld (born 20 April 1967) is a Dutch professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation. Nicknamed Barney, he is a five-time World Darts Champion (four-time BDO and one-time PDC), a two-time UK Open Champion and a former winner of the Las Vegas Desert Classic, the Grand Slam of Darts and the Premier League. He is also a twice-winner of the World Masters and the World Darts Trophy, and a three-time winner of the International Darts League and the WDF World Cup Singles event.

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Who is Tiger Woods?

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Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer

Eldrick Tont Tiger Woods (born December 30, 1975) is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years. Following an outstanding amateur and two-year college golf career, Woods turned professional at age 20 in late summer 1996. By April 1997 he had already won his first major, the 1997 Masters, in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes and pocketing $486,000. He first reached the number one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, spending 264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004 and 281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010 as World Number One.

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Who is Riz Ahmed?

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Rizwan Riz Ahmed also known as Riz MC, is a British actor and rapper

Riz Ahmed was initially known for his work in independent films such as The Road to Guantanamo, Shifty, Four Lions, Trishna, and Ill Manors, before his breakout role in Nightcrawler. Since then, he has appeared in the films Una, Jason Bourne, and the first Star Wars anthology film, Rogue One. He also starred in the HBO miniseries The Night Of as Nasir Khan; the show and his performance was critically lauded, earning him Golden Globe and SAG nominations. As a rapper, he is a member of the Swet Shop Boys, and is known for the critically acclaimed hip-hop albums Microscope and Cashmere and his feature in the chart-topping Hamilton Mixtape. IN 2016 Riz Ahmed played Bodhi Rook in Rogue One: a Starwars Story.

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Who is Diego Luna?

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Diego Luna Alexander is a Mexican actor, producer and director

Diego Luna Alexander (born 29 December 1979) is a Mexican actor, producer and director known for his childhood telenovela work, a starring role in the film Y tu mamá también and supporting roles in American films, including Rudo y Cursi, The Terminal, Elysium and Milk. He also starred with Romola Garai in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and provides the Spanish language narration for the National Geographic Channel documentary Great Migrations. In 2016, he starred as Captain Cassian Andor in the Star Wars Anthology film Rogue One.

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Who is Emma Stone?

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Emma Stone is an American actress

Emma Stone is from in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was drawn to acting as a child, and her first role was in a theater production of The Wind in the Willows in 2000. Her television debut in VH1’s In Search of the New Partridge Family (2004), a reality show that produced only an unsold pilot. After a series of small television roles, she won a Young Hollywood Award for her film debut in Superbad (2007).

The 2010 Easy A was Stone’s first starring role and earned her nominations for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and a Golden Globe Award. This breakthrough role was followed by the commercially successful film Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), and a supporting part in the critically acclaimed drama The Help (2011). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of a recovering drug addict in the black comedy-drama Birdman (2014). She also played on Broadway in a revival of the musical Cabaret (2014–15). Emma Stone’s won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for playing an aspiring actress in the musical La La Land (2016) opposite Ryan Gosling.

In 2015 Emma Stone was one of the highest-paid actresses in the world. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has won two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Who is Ryan Gosling?

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Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor, director, writer and musician

His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001). Ryan became known to a wider audience in 2004 with a leading role in the romantic drama The Notebook, for which he won four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award. His performance as a drug-addicted teacher in Half Nelson (2006) was nominated for an Academy Award and his performance as a socially inept loner in Lars and the Real Girl (2007) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

2011 proved to be a landmark year for Gosling as he co-starred in three mainstream films – the romantic comedy-drama Crazy, Stupid, Love, the political drama The Ides of March and the action thriller Drive – and received two Golden Globe nominations. His directorial debut Lost River was released in 2014. In 2015, he joined an ensemble cast for the financial drama The Big Short and in 2016 he starred in the critically acclaimed La La Land together with Emma Stone.

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