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Ellie Goldstein is an English model and actress with Down syndrome who became the first model with Down syndrome to appear in a campaign for Gucci Beauty and on the cover of British Vogue — and, in autumn 2025, the first person with Down syndrome to compete in the main series of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing. As of October 2026, her career spans fashion, television acting, books and disability advocacy, and it is best understood not as a single viral moment but as a decade-long run of firsts. That is the short answer. The details matter, because her breakthroughs…

Suranne Jones is an English actress and producer best known for Doctor Foster, Gentleman Jack, Vigil and Coronation Street. Born Sarah Ann Jones on 27 August 1978 in Chadderton, Greater Manchester, she is 48 as of October 2026. She won the BAFTA Television Award for Leading Actress in 2016 for Doctor Foster, was BAFTA-nominated again in 2020 for Gentleman Jack, and remains one of British television’s busiest leads — with Netflix’s Hostage and ITV’s Frauds in 2025, Vigil series 3 in 2026, and a third and final Doctor Foster series announced in February 2026. That range is the point of…

Paddy McGuinness is an English comedian and television presenter from Farnworth, Bolton, best known for hosting ITV’s Take Me Out and presenting the BBC’s Top Gear. Born on 14 August 1973, he is 53 years old as of October 2026, and in November 2024 he cycled almost 300 miles from Wrexham to Glasgow on a modified Raleigh Chopper, raising £10.5 million in total for BBC Children in Need, as he himself announced in December 2024. He now presents a Sunday show on BBC Radio 2 and fronts the BBC’s Inside the Factory. At a Glance Who Is Paddy McGuinness? Patrick…

Malachi Barton is an American actor, born on 10 March 2007, who grew up on Disney Channel — first as Beast Diaz in Stuck in the Middle and now as Victor, the vampire at the heart of Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires. He is 19 years old as of October 2026, and after more than a decade of steady work he has become one of the leading faces of Disney’s newest generation, with Camp Rock 3, Coven Academy and a confirmed Zombies 5 all attached to his name. At a Glance Who Is Malachi Barton? Malachi Barton was born…

EsDeeKid is an anonymous rapper from Liverpool who broke through in 2025 to become one of the biggest names in the UK underground rap scene. He performs with his face hidden by a balaclava, raps in a thick Scouse accent over blown-out cloud rap and trap production, and has never publicly revealed his real name, his age or what he looks like. Despite that secrecy — or because of it — his debut mixtape Rebel climbed to Number 8 on the UK Official Albums Chart, according to Official Charts, and peaked at Number 23 on the US Billboard 200. At…

Phillip Schofield is an English television presenter who fronted ITV’s This Morning from 2002 to 2023 and was, for two decades, one of the most familiar faces in British daytime television. He is searched now mainly for two reasons: people want a clear, factual account of why he left ITV in May 2023, and they want to know whether he has returned to television since. The short answer, as of October 2026, is that he stepped down from This Morning on 20 May 2023, resigned from ITV six days later after admitting — in his own public statement — an…

Ruth Jones is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer who co-created the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey with James Corden and played Nessa Jenkins in it. She is being searched heavily in 2026 because that partnership is back in the news: on 6 October 2026, Apple TV announced The Choir, her first new series with Corden since the record-breaking Gavin & Stacey finale, in a year when she has also starred in Netflix’s Run Away and the BBC’s The Other Bennet Sister. As of October 2026, Ruth Jones is 60 and working across television, theatre and bestselling fiction at…

Skye Newman is a British singer-songwriter from south-east London who broke through in 2025 with her debut single “Hairdresser” and the UK Top 5 follow-up “Family Matters”. Signed to Columbia Records, she won BBC Radio 1’s Sound of 2026 in January 2026 and, as of October 2026, is preparing for her biggest headline tour yet, The Survival Tour, which begins in November 2026. She is being searched now because that rise has been unusually fast: three Top 20 singles, two EPs named after the postcode she grew up in, and support slots with Lewis Capaldi, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles,…

Miriam Margolyes is a British-Australian actress, writer and broadcaster, best known worldwide as Professor Pomona Sprout in the Harry Potter films and as a BAFTA winner for The Age of Innocence. Born in Oxford on 18 May 1941, she is 85 years old as of October 2026, and she is still working — most recently as the star of the Oscar-nominated short film A Friend of Dorothy (2025). Few performers have moved so easily between Shakespeare, Dickens, Hollywood drama, family animation, radio and prime-time television chat shows, and fewer still have done it while remaining entirely, unmistakably themselves. At a…

Stacey Dooley is a British television presenter, investigative journalist and author from Luton who is best known for the BBC documentary strand Stacey Dooley Investigates. As of October 2026, she is 39 years old. She won Strictly Come Dancing series 16 in 2018 with professional dancer Kevin Clifton, who later became her partner, and she was appointed MBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting, according to reporting of the honours list by Radio Times. At a Glance Full name: Stacey Jaclyn Dooley Born: 9 March 1987, Luton, Bedfordshire, England Age: 39 as of October 2026 Nationality: British…