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BRITNEY SPEARS

Full Name: Britney Jean Spears
Born: December 2, 1981
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: McComb, Mississippi
Education: NYC Professional Performing Arts School
Religion: Baptist

This famous pop singer was teen idol for years, but at this time she fills many newspapers columns with her wild scandals. Here you can find out details about her life before she became planetary popular.

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Britney Jean Spears was born December 2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi. A short time after she was born her parents moved with her and her older brother Brian to Kentwood, Louisiana where her mom still lives today.She was born as a middle child in the family on December 2, 1981. Her parents are Lynne Irene, a former elementary school teacher, and James Parnell Spears, who is a building contractor.

Britney has older brother Bryan Spears (b. April 19,1977), and younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears (b. April 4, 1991). About her brother Britney says that he was frequently keeping her safe and out of trouble, when she was growing up. Bryan works as a manager for the Spears family interests and Jamie Lynn is an actress and singer. In 2005 Bryan was co-producing the TV series Zoey 101, in which Jamie was starring. Recently younger Spears sister announced her pregnancy at age of only 16, which was for some time main news in lot of magazines.

Even as a young child, Britney loved to perform. Her parents Lynne and James raised Britney, Brian and younger sister Jamie-Lynn as Southern Baptists. Britney and her brother used to attend church regularly when they were small kids before Jamie-Lynn was born. By the time she could walk, she was already singing, dancing and she liked to listen to the radio. At age 3 she was taking jazz and ballet classes. With her skills she often became the group leader and joined dance competitions and regional festivals. Music beckoned and Britney started to show her talent by singing for the choir in the local church as well as being a competitor for TV’s Star Search.

Britney’s talent was discovered at about five years old. “It all started when Britney and Lynne (her mom), were in the car and Lynne turned on the radio. Brit started to sing and imitate the singer’s style perfectly,” said Ginger Simmons. After her family heard this, they started saving their money to give Britney voice lessons. At the age of five years old, Britney decided that singing is what she wanted to do and nothing was going to stop her.

At that time Britney started to perform anywhere she could – at her local Baptist church choir, school and local TV stations. But beside that, she was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastic classes until age nine and competing in state-level competition.

It wasn’t long before Britney Spears started gaining major attention. At age eight she auditioned for the Disney Channel series The New Mickey Mouse Club. Although she was considered too young to join the series at the time, a producer on the show introduced her to agent. After New York City agent discovered her, Britney subsequently spent three summers at NYC’s Professional Performing Arts School. She also attended the Off-Broadway Dance Center in New York. In 1992, she landed a spot on the popular television show Star Search. She won the first round of competition, but ultimately lost. At age eleven, Spears returned to the Disney Channel for a spot on The New Mickey Mouse Club in Lakeland, Florida. She was featured on the show from 1993 to 1994, until she was 13. Other future celebrities on the show included fellow pop singer Christina Aguilera, ´N Sync members Justin Timberlake and Joshua Chasez, and Felicity actress Keri Russell. It is funny that she was best friend with Christina Aguilera when they performed together on «MMC», because later they are not going to be in best relationships. There are some other interesting rumors during the Mikey Mouse Club that Spears had a secret crush on Justin Timberlake at that time. After the show ended, Spears returned to Kentwood and attended high school for a year.

In 1997, Spears briefly joined the all-female pop group Innosense. Later that same year, she recorded a demo solo and was signed by Jive Records. She began a U.S. concert tour sponsored by American teen magazines, and eventually became an opening act for ‘N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, and the rest is pop history now.

Just to mention few words abour her marriages – Britney gained headlines for her brief marriage with early days friend Jason Allen Alexander. Married on January 3, 2004, they later annulled the marriage on January 5, 2004. In the same year, Britney also married ex-backup dancer Kevin Federline on September 18, 2004., who is momentally her last husband.

BRITNEY SPEARS IN SHORT TRIVIA:

• she was an accomplished gymnast, attending gymnastic classes until age nine and competing in state-level competition
• it was rumored that she had a crush on a boy who lives near her called Matt Gillic.
• Spears had a secret crush on Justin Timberlake during the Mikey Mouse Club
• ended up as the youngest cast member of “MMC” (1989); during the initial audition, shewon the part after Jessica Simpson freaked out at the final question during the initial audition

• she was a aerobic instructor at the gym her parents owned
• studied at NYC’s Professional Performing Arts School
• attended Parklane Academy, a private school in McComb, Mississippi until October 1994. She was on the girls basketball team
• lived with her brother in an apartment in New York for some time
• 1996, 1997: Elected junior high most beautiful
• likes to wear T-shirts with slogans on them
• she came fifth in YM magazine’s poll of “Who’s breasts would you want the most?”
• Britney was voted the 5th most beautiful person in a People online poll in 1999.
• “…Baby One More Time” has gone five times platinum
• at the year 2000 Grammy awards Britney won 4 awards: female artist of the year, new artist of the year, female hot 100 singles artist,
  and female albums artist
• first solo artist ever to have a #1 Album and single on the Billboard charts at the same time with a debut
• 2000: Announced that she will attend college and eventually wants to study entertainment law

• is a natural-born blonde. However, she dyed her hair brown in 2003 for a short period
• june 2001: Two Texas DJs created a panic for her fans when they falsely reported that the pop princess and her boyfriend, NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake, were in a car accident and that she had died in the crash
• 1/3/04: “Taking a joke too far,” according to a statement released by her label, she married childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, but quickly had it annulled
• has British ancestry on her mother’s side of her family
• she is a huge fan of Björk
• her shoe size is 6
• her favourite cities are Madrid and London
• has a tattoo of a small black-winged fairy on the back of her spine
• february 2007: After shaving her own head with clippers in a Sherman Oaks (CA) hair salon, she visited a tattoo parlor and got several tattoos. Her weird behavior caused worldwide public attention. Some days later she admitted herself to a California treatment facility, but checked out after less than 24 hours
• her favourite sport clubs are Chicago Bulls, New York Yankees
• good friends with singer Madonna. They made a song together called “Me Against the Music”. The song is on her album “In the Zone”

• she is mentioned in the songs “Riot Girl” by Good Charlotte and “Don’t Let Me Get Me” by Pink
• Britney started dating Justin in 1998 as she supported ‘N Sync on a U.S. tour
• in her “Baby One More Time” music video, her love interest is played by her cousin
• july 2002: Opened a trendy restaurant on East 41st St., New York City, called “Nyla”, which is themed around her home state of Louisiana
• is mentioned in Eminem’s song “The Real Slim Shady” and is spoofed in the song’s music video
• shares her birthday with Nelly Furtado, Lucy Liu and Gianni Versace
• was offered a role in Scary Movie (2000), but was forced to turn it down, due to concert scheduling
• 2007: Ranked #12 in “Forbes” magazine’s “The 20 Richest Women in Entertainment” list, estimating her net worth at around $100 million
• 2000: Purchased a $1.5-million loft in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, for her brother Bryan
• Spears’ America Online chat was the fourth most attended individual chat in AOL’s history
• 2006: Was named most searched name on internet search engine Yahoo!

Childhood house in Kentwood,LA.

Celebration of Britneys 1st birthday!

With her parents

With parents and older brother Bryan

At Mickey Mouse Club, Britney sits on right

Around 5 years old wearing pink ballet costume

She played basketball in school

Picture from school yearbook

DAVID BECKHAM

Full Name: David Robert Joseph Beckham
Birth Date: May 2, 1975
Birth Place: Leytonstone, London, United Kingdom
Nationality: English
Education: Chase Lane Primary School and Chingford Foundation School
Height: 182cm (6ft)
Weight: 74kg
Eyes: Hazel
Marital Status: married to Victoria Caroline Adams Beckham
Children: 3 sons – Brooklyn Joseph, born Mar 4, 1999, Romeo James, born Sept 1, 2002, Cruz David born Feb 20, 2005

Could you say that young boy on the picture is one of the most celebrated and successful football athletes of his era? There was really huge amount of work and self control involved to reach this title, but everything is possible when you have vision. David Beckham had his vision, and through the years he realized it. Kid which was once rejected for a spot in the junior English league on account for being considered «too small» eventually became most famous English football player of all time. Everything started when one of the country’s most celebrated teams, took an interest in him, and Beckham entered the legendary Manchester United club organization as a 14-year-old recruit in its development league in 1989. Read further to find out the most interesting details from his birth until he became world known celebrity, both on and off football field.

• David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone, in London, England on May 2nd, 1975.
• He is the son of David Edward Alan «Ted» Beckham, a kitchen fitter from London and wife Sandra Georgina West, a hairdresser.

• As a child, he regularly played football in Ridgeway Park, Chingford, and attended Chase Lane Primary School and Chingford Foundation School.
• Beckham played for a local youth team called the Ridgeway Rovers, coached by his father, Stuart Underwood and Steve Kirby.
• By the age of eight, Beckham was scoring more than a hundred goals over three seasons for his team, Ridgeway Rovers of the Enfield District League.
• In one of his recent interwievs (from 2007), Beckham said that at school, whenever the teachers asked: «What do you want to do when you’re older?» he`d say: «I want to be a footballer.» And they’d say: «No, what do you really want to do, for a job?». And he would said: «But that was the only thing I ever wanted to do». That was my point when I said he had a vision what to do from youngest days.
• His maternal grandfather is Jewish, although Beckham has referred to himself as «half Jewish». When speaking of the influence the religion had on him, in his book «Both Feet on the Ground», he stated that growing up he always attended church with his parents and his two sisters, Joanne and Lynne.
• His parents were fanatical Manchester United supporters who would frequently travel to Old Trafford stadium to attend the team’s home matches. At that time, David was a strong cross-country runner who regularly finished first in his age group in the Essex cross-country championships, but he also inherited his parents’ love of Manchester United, and his main sporting passion was football.

• At the age of 11 Beckham won the chance to take part in a training session at FC Barcelona, as part of a talent competition when he attended one of Bobby Charlton’s football schools.
• As teen he was rejected for a spot in the junior English league on account for being considered «too small».
• He was Manchester United’s mascot for a match against West Ham United in 1986. Young Beckham had trials with Leyton Orient and attended Tottenham Hotspur’s (which was the first club he played for) school of excellence. But once Manchester United offered him a place there was no doubt where he would go.
• During a two-year period in which he played for Brimsdown Rovers’ youth team, he was named Under-15 Player of the Year in 1990.
• David also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy, but one of the country’s most celebrated teams, took an interest in him. Beckham signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United on his fourteenth birthday in 1989, and then subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract on July 8th 1991.

• He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players at the club, including the future international stars like Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville and Gary Neville. These players later helped the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992, with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace.
• David had his first appearance for United’s first team that year, as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton & Hove Albion, and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards. United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year, with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United, and he won another medal in 1994 when the club’s reserve team won their league.
• Then he went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994-95 season to get some first team experience, then finally made his first Premier League appearance for Manchester United on April 2nd 1995, in a goalless draw against Leeds.
• David made his first appearance for the England national football team on September 1st 1996, in a World Cup qualifying match against Moldova.

• His former trainer Sir Alex Ferguson said that he «practised with a discipline to achieve an accuracy that other players wouldn’t care about». He maintained his training routine at Real Madrid and even when his relationship with management was strained in early 2007, Ramon Calderon and Fabio Capello praised Beckham for maintaining his professionalism and commitment to the club.
• Lets now move on his personal life a little bit. Beckham started dating Victoria Adams in 1997, after she attended one of his football matches. At that time she was already famously known as «Posh Spice», performing in the Spice Girls, one of the world’s top pop groups at that time, and his team was also enjoying a great run of success. Therefore, their relationship instantly attrac
  ted a huge media attention, and the couple were named «Posh and Becks» by the media. He proposed to Victoria on 24 January 1998 in a restaurant in Cheshunt, England.
• Posh and Becks finally married at Luttrellstown Castle, Ireland on July 4th 1999. Beckham’s team mate Gary Neville was the best man, and the couple’s son Brooklyn, then four months old, was the ring bearer.
• The media were kept away from the ceremony, as the Beckhams had an exclusive deal with OK! Magazine, but newspapers were still able to obtain photographs showing them sitting on golden thrones. Unbeliveable number of 437 staff were employed for the wedding reception, which was estimated to have cost around $800,000.

• In 1999, the Beckhams purchased their most famous home, unofficially named Beckingham Palace, in Hertfordshire, north of London. It is estimated to be worth L7.5 million.
• David and Victoria have three sons: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham, born March 4, 1999 in London, England, Romeo James Beckham, born September 1, 2002 also in London, and Cruz David Beckham, born February 20, 2005 in Madrid, Spain.
• Name of their youngest son, Cruz, is Spanish for “cross”.
• Both Brooklyn and Romeo’s godfather is Elton John and godmother is Elizabeth Hurley.
• Posh and Becks have stated that they would like to have more children, especially a daughter
• In April 2007, the family purchased their new Italian villa in Beverly Hills, California, because of Beckham’s transfer to the LA Galaxy in July same year. The mansion, priced at $22 million, is near the homes of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and talk-show host Jay Leno, in an exclusive gated community in the hills overlooking the city.
• In April 2004, the British tabloid «News of the World» carried claims by Beckhams former personal assistant Rebecca Loos that he and Loos had an love affair. A week later, the Malaysian-born Australian model Sarah Marbeck claimed that she had slept with Beckham on two occasions.

• It was pretty tough period for Beckham, but he dismissed both accusations as «ludicrous». There has never been any proof of any of the allegations of Beckham’s claimed infidelity.
• In December 2008, Beckham and his bodyguard were sued by paparazzi photographer Emicles Da Mata, who claimed that he was assaulted by them when attempting to take a picture of Beckham in Beverly Hills.
• David Beckham and Victoria have given each other ”magic” necklaces. The couple, who are facing separation when soccer star David heads to Italy on loan to AC Milan, believe the mystical jewelery will keep them safe.
• David and Victoria Beckham celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary by getting matching Hebrew tattoos that says: «I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me, who grazes sheep in rose-like pastures.»
• Beckham is one of the most popular pin-up boys, and his face appears in advertisements for many products and he has graced the cover of magazines such as Vanity Fair and Mari Claire.

• Beckham and George Clooney struck up a friendship after they were introduced by fashion designer Giorgio Armani at 2008 New York Met Ball.
• David is advertising impotence pills in China.
• Stan Lee, the legend behind comic books including Spider-Man and Fantastic Four, was hoping to turn David Beckham and his pop-star-turned-designer wife Victoria into cartoon super heroes for his production company POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment.
• Justin Timberlake praised him for singlehandedly increasing the popularity of soccer in the US.
• Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash claims David was jealous of wife Victoria’s close friendship with him when they teamed up to reinvent her solo career in 2003.
• Usher thinks Beckham is ”one of the coolest white boys” he knows.
• Is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for children’s charity Unicef after being asked by U2 frontman Bono.
• Made a female fan faint at Jermaine Dupri’s pre-Grammys party in Hollywood’s Club Central when he kissed her on the cheek.
• Met with children in Sierra Leone as part of his role as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
• Said he was starstruck when he met Stevie Wonder, and told his wife that he wanted to take a picture with the music legend.
• Said that scoring the winning penalty against Argentina in the 2002 World Cup was a defining moment in his career, a moment of redemption after being vilified by the fans for his sending off against the same side four years earlier.
• Played in a special charity match againts some of Hollywood stars to raise money for those affected by the devastating wildfires in southern California.

• David was devastated when his father temporarily suffered severe memory loss after his recent heart attack – and forgot his son’s name.
• Ended the bitter three-year rift with his father by paying a surprise visit to his east London home. They fell out after Ted wrote a book about his famous son without asking his permission.
• The Beckhams shelled out $5,700 for a joystick operated wheelchair for a sick 13-year-old soccer fan, after hearing he is battling his fourth brain tumor.
• His son Romeo has been diagnosed with epilepsy.
• Has reportedly been signed up by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to teach their son Maddox soccer.
• He suffers obsessive compulsive disorder, with a mania for keeping personal items in exactly the right spot.
• Bought super-slim wife Victoria a calorie-laden chocolate fountain for Christmas.
• Said he would consider becoming an astronaut and going to the Moon when he ends his soccer career.
• Is the only British sports star in People magazine’s annual 50 most beautiful people poll.
• Beckham was eyed by pop stars Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles to appear in their music videos.

• The controversial waxwork nativity scene starring David and Victoria Beckham at the Madame Tussaud’s museum, as holy couple Mary and Joseph, was attacked by a visitor.
• Was traded to Real Madrid by Manchester United for a $41 million transfer fee.
• His sending off against Argentina for tripping Diego Simeone and England’s subsequent defeat on penalties resulted in Beckham becoming the scapegoat and public enemy number one.
• He was the highest-paid football player in 2004. He is also the first English footballer to play 100 champion League matches.
• He was also Google’s most search of all sports topic in 2003 and also in 2004. With such global recognition he’s not only excelent
  football player, he has also become an elite advertising brand and top fashion icon.
• David had a cameo role at the end of mega-hit «Bend it like Beckham» when he and Victoria were seen walking through Heathrow airport.
• You could notice that I didn`t mention his numerous tatoos. It is becauce full list of his tatoos is left for end of this post. Beckham has attributed the many tattoos to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, and claims to be addicted to the pain of the needle.
• Here is an impressive full chronology of Beckham’s tattoos includes: Son Brooklyn’s name on his back ( April 1999); «Guardian Angel» on his back (April 1999); Hindi “Victoria” design on his left arm (2000); Roman numeral VII (7) on his right forearm (April 2002); Latin phrase “Perfectio In Spiritu”, meaning “Spiritual Perfection”, on his right arm (May 2003); again Latin: “Ut Amem Et Foveam” or “So That I Love And Cherish”, on his left arm(May 2003); son Romeo’s name on his back(2003); classical art design on his right shoulder (2003); winged cross on the back of his neck(2004); angel with motto “In The Face of Adversity” on right arm (2004); son Cruz’s name on his back(Mar 2005); second angel and clouds added to right arm and shoulder (June 2006); portrait of Victoria on left forearm (Jan 2008); “Forever by your side” on left forearm (Feb 2008); Chinese proverb meaning “Death and life have determined appointments. Riches and honour depend on heaven.” down his left torso, running from his nipple to his groin (March 2008).