name	L!VE TV
launch	12 June 1995 ''Original (1)'' 2003 ''relaunch (2)''
closed date	31 October 1999 ''(1)'' 28 February 2006 ''(2)''
replaced by names	Babeworld ''(2)''
picture format	4:3, 576i (SDTV)
owner	MGN }}

''L!VE TV'' was a British television station that was operated by MGN on cable television from 12 June 1995 - 31 October 1999. It was later revived for Sky Digital from 2003. In 2006, the new L!VE TV's name was changed to Babeworld to reflect the channel's gradual change of focus towards "adult material".

First incarnation (1995-1999)

The channel was proposed by David Montgomery as MGN's foray into pay television. At its launch in 1995, the station was headed by Kelvin MacKenzie with Janet Street-Porter as managing director and a team of young presenters, dubbed as "Tellybrats", who were new to TV. Street-Porter created a schedule based around three blocks of live broadcasting each day from its base on the 24th floor of London's Canary Wharf building. The output was orientated towards a rolling mix of celebrities, interviews, reviews, lifetyle features and reports from events and happenings across the UK. Street-Porter left after five months due to clashes with MacKenzie over content and was replaced with Mark Cullen. MacKenzie went on to create programmes that received much media coverage but low viewer figures.

Among its programmes were ''Topless Darts'', produced by future Times journalist Sathnam Sanghera with commentary by comedian Jimmy Frinton, the surreal talent show Spanish Archer, ''Talgarth Trousers'', (a comedy sketch show) and ''Canary Wharf'', a soap opera, which used the station's offices in the Docklands as a set. Other features were the weather, read in Norwegian by a blonde model (Eva Bjertnes or Anne-Marie Foss) wearing a bikini, ''Britain's Bounciest Weather'' with Rusty Goffe (known, although uncredited, for his appearance as an Oompa Loompa in the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'') who due to his small stature bounced on a trampoline while doing the forecast (bouncing higher the further north he was talking about), ''Tiffany's Big City Tips'', in which model Tiffany Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear, ''Painted Ladies'', which involved topless girls "painting" on large sheets of paper with various body parts and the News Bunny, a person in a rabbit suit who stood behind a newsreader making gestures and expressions for each item.

A typical early show was a two-hour afternoon piece based on viewers' wedding videos. By the second week only one had been sent in, and on phoning the participants to have a live commentary, the presenters were informed that the couple were too busy shopping.

Considered cheap and always accused of poor taste, the channel never captured more than 1% of the British television audience under MGN, and at its worst was losing around £7 million a year. It was often described as "tabloid television", in part due to its control by MGN and the fact that MacKenzie had been editor of The Sun.

Shortly before its demise in 1999, it was said the channel would bid for rights to show the English Premiership, but given the size of the financial commitment required, it is likely that it was merely a publicity stunt. By this time, the channel had increasingly moved to showing soft porn.

Closure

The station's broadcast finished on 31 October 1999 at 6pm with a caption over a black and white still of the station's cast and crew in the studio:

"''L!ve TV: 15 August 1995 - 31 October 1999''"

The date displayed was incorrect as the station had launched on 12 June 1995.

Second incarnation (2003-2006)

In 2003, L!VE TV returned as a free channel on Sky Digital, first on EPG 274, then on 214. Its content was almost entirely archive from L!VE TV. Then in 2004, following competitor channels, its risqué archive of late-night offerings were supplemented with banners advertising adult text messaging.

Towards the end of 2005, the evening and late night were turned over to promoting adult text and phone-in services, involving models stripping to entice viewers into phoning or texting the studio. This was under the pretence that the viewer would get to talk to a studio guest.

By February 2006, content had dwindled to little more than these shows and it was moved to the adult section of Sky's EPG on February 28, 2006. Two days later, the name changed to Babeworld, ending links to the MGN operation.

A fore-runner to L!VE TV was the cable and satellite channel Wire TV, a far cry from the wild programming to follow on L!VE TV. Regular presenters were Femi Oke, Mike Morris and Fenella George, backed by guest presenters including Chris Stacey, who hosted quiz show ''EastEnders v Corrie'' for L!VE TV shortly before its demise.

2007

A number of archive programmes from L!VE TV, including ''The Why Files'' and ''Lie Detector'' were shown on My Channel, formerly known as Eat Cinema, on Sky channel 199.

See also

Canary Wharf

News Bunny

References

L!VE TV: Talking topless darts. ''BBC News Online''. 22 October 1999. Retrieved 18 April 2008.

Chris Horrie, Adam Nathan, "L!ve TV: tellybrats and topless darts : the uncut story of tabloid television", Pocket Books, 1999, ISBN 0671015745

External links

L!VE TV online

Babeworld.tv website (Contains adult material)

Online Live TV & Radio channels.

Category:Television channels in the United Kingdom Category:Television channels and stations established in 1995 Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 1999 Category:Television channels and stations established in 2003 Category:Defunct British television channels Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2006

Name	Ricky Hatton
Realname	Richard John Hatton
Nickname	The HitmanThe Manchester MexicanThe Pride of HydeRicky Fatton
Height
Reach
Weight	Light WelterweightWelterweight
Nationality	British
Birth date	October 06, 1978
Birth place	Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Style	Orthodox
Total	47
Wins	45
Ko	32
Losses	2
Draws	0
No contests	0 }}

Richard John "Ricky" Hatton MBE (born 6 October 1978, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England), is a retired British professional boxer and a current boxing promoter.

He is a former WBA (Super), IBF & ''The Ring'' Light Welterweight Champion and WBA Welterweight Champion. After losing his last fight to Manny Pacquiao, Hatton put his career on a long hiatus, with rumours of a comeback circulating the media since. However, on 7 July 2011, Hatton announced his retirement from boxing.

Biography

Born in Stockport, Hatton was raised on the Hattersley council estate in Hyde, Greater Manchester and trained at the Sale West ABC (Racecourse Estate). He was educated at Hattersley High School. His grandfather and his father both played for Rochdale and Ricky had a trial for the youth team. He found a local boxing club in Hyde to train at. His entrance music is the Manchester City club song "Blue Moon", as performed by the band "Supra." Aged 14, Hatton was taken by his uncles Ged and Paul to Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium to watch the second fight between Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank. He joined the family carpet business on leaving school, but after he cut four of his fingers with a Stanley knife, his father made him a salesman to prevent him from losing his fingers.

Boxing career

Hatton's debut fight was on 10 September 1997 against Colin McAuley in Widnes at Kingsway Leisure Centre (he won by a TKO in first round), while in his second fight Hatton boxed at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Hatton vs. Tszyu

On 5 June 2005, Hatton defeated ''The Ring'' & IBF Light Welterweight Champion Kostya Tszyu, then widely regarded as one of the top pound-for-pound boxers in the world by a technical knockout after the Australian failed to answer the bell for the 12th round. Hatton was a heavy underdog for this fight and the victory announced his entry to the upper echelons of the world boxing scene. Prior to the fight, the majority of boxing critics had given Hatton little or no chance and this victory was regarded as one of the best victories by an English boxer in the last 20 years. On 26 November 2005, Hatton won the WBA Light Welterweight title when he defeated Carlos Maussa in the ninth round of a unification bout. In December, Hatton was named the 2005 Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year.

Hatton relinquished his IBF belt on 29 March 2006 after refusing to fulfil a mandatory defence against number one contender Naoufel Ben Rabah because he intended to move up to the welterweight class. Hatton signed a three fight contract with Dennis Hobson's fight academy after splitting from long time promoter Frank Warren. The three fights would take place in the United States.

Moving to Welterweight

Hatton moved up a division to meet American Luis Collazo for the WBA Welterweight Championship crown which took place on 13 May 2006. Hatton won the WBA crown from Collazo but struggled. Hatton started well, knocking Collazo down in the very first few seconds of the first round, but it turned out to be one of the toughest fights of his career, with some boxing analysts claiming Collazo won the fight, although many thought Hatton had done enough early on to secure victory, with the knockdown a pivotal point in the fight.

Back to Light Welterweight

Hatton's first fight back at light welterweight was against the current IBF Light Welterweight Champion Juan Urango for his title and the vacant IBO Light Welterweight title on 20 January 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hatton's promoter, Dennis Hobson, stated that the impetus for moving back down was to set up a fight with José Luis Castillo, a fighter who nearly beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. at lightweight in 2002. Hatton ended up winning a 12 round unanimous decision against Urango to re-capture the IBF Light Welterweight title. He won all but one round on all three judges' scorecards. Castillo, who was on the undercard, also won (via split decision), setting up their long-awaited fight.

Hatton was forced to relinquish his IBF title again on 10 February to be able to fight Castillo. The fight was held on 23 June 2007, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada. In round four, Hatton landed a "perfect" left hook to the liver, which put Castillo to the canvas. Ricky later claimed that 4 of Castillo's ribs were broken with this one punch. Unable to stand up, Castillo was counted out for the first time in his career.

Hatton vs. Mayweather, Jr.

Hatton agreed to terms on 27 July for a 8 December 2007 welterweight fight with Floyd Mayweather, Jr. which was considered to be the biggest welterweight fight since the 1999 clash between Oscar De La Hoya and Puerto Rican legend Tito Trinidad. The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas was announced as the venue on 17 August 2007. The fight was agreed to less than three months after Mayweather had said he planned to retire following a victory over Oscar De La Hoya. Hatton was able to bring the fight to Mayweather in the early rounds. In the 1st round, Hatton caught Mayweather with a left jab which knocked Mayweather off balance. His constant pressure appeared to make Mayweather uncomfortable at first. In the third round, Mayweather landed a right that cut Hatton above the right eye. In round six, referee Joe Cortez took a point away from Hatton after he appeared to hit Mayweather on the back of the head while Mayweather was rested between the ropes. However, the punch was revealed to have hit the rope rather than Mayweather's head, but Hatton was warned for punching behind the head on numerous occasions before the deduction. Hatton became angry at the referee's decision to deduct a point and turned his back on him. Hatton later claimed he was angered by the referee, which caused him to lose his calm and contributed to his downfall. Hatton was able to hold his own until round eight, when Mayweather began to adapt to Hatton and started counterattacking. Mayweather knocked Hatton down to the mat in round ten. Hatton got up, but Mayweather quickly resumed his attack, resulting in Joe Cortez putting a stop to the fight and Hatton's corner threw in the towel. Mayweather commented post-match that ''"Ricky Hatton is one tough fighter. He is still a champion in my eyes and I'd love to see him fight again ... Ricky Hatton is probably one of toughest competitors I've faced. I hit him with some big ones but he kept coming and I can see why they call him the 'Hitman'."'' The fight received large amounts of publicity, with both fighters promoting the fight heavily.

Hatton vs. Lazcano

On 24 May 2008, Hatton beat Mexican Juan Lazcano by unanimous decision with scores of 120-110, 120-108 and 118-110, in front of his home crowd of 55,000 (a post-World War II record for a boxing match in Britain), at City of Manchester Stadium to retain ''The Ring Magazine'' and IBO Light Welterweight titles. Hatton did well when he boxed and controlled the range, utilizing his jab and dominating a lot of the early exchanges. In round eight, Hatton absorbed a left hook to the chin that wobbled him. In round ten, Hatton was hurt again by a left hook. Despite that, Hatton outworked Lazcano to win at least ten of the rounds.

Hatton vs. Malignaggi

Ricky Hatton fought Paulie Malignaggi of the United States at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on 22 November for Hatton's ''The Ring'' Light Welterweight title. He was trained for the fight by Floyd Mayweather, Sr. Hatton dominated for all of the fight and defeated Malignaggi by 11th-round TKO when Malignaggi's trainer, Buddy McGirt, threw in the towel 48 seconds into the round.

Hatton vs. Pacquiao

Hatton fought Manny Pacquiao on 2 May 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The fight was at light welterweight, which was the sixth weight category Pacquiao has fought at and is the weight at which Hatton was previously undefeated. Pacquiao defeated Hatton in the second round by a KO victory after knocking Hatton down twice in the first round. Following the loss to Pacquiao, Hatton put his career on hiatus. After more than a year out of action, in a June 2010 interview with ''Gulfnews.com'', the British boxer seemed uninterested in coming to the ring again. He stated: "Boxing started off as a habit and it ended up giving me some money and making me a little bit of a better person. But I don't think I will have a fight again. But you can never say never as I have not announced officially that I won't be boxing. At the moment I don't have any fire in the belly for a fight or to get myself to a gym." However, Hatton also added: "But it has been only 13 months and I am only 31, so never count me out."

Hatton has also voiced suspicion that Manny Pacquiao may be using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs). Hatton said he should have made the same blood testing demand as Floyd Mayweather, Jr., whose fight against the Filipino fighter fell through in early 2010.

Hatton vs. Morales talks

It was confirmed on 20 April 2011 that there has been some early stage talks between Hatton and Erik Morales. Although the fight would be subject to Hatton regaining his boxing licence after it was revoked in September 2010.

Outside the ring

Hatton is a passionate supporter of Manchester City, with strong links to the club via his father and grandfather, who are both former players. Ricky also once had a trial at City for the youth team. His entrance music is the club's song "Blue Moon" as performed by the band "Supra". Good friend Wayne Rooney, who plays for arch rivals Manchester United, has been with Hatton in his dressing room before a bout and carried one of his belts to the ring. Ricky's best friend is Lee Rawsthorne, who regularly carries Ricky's belt into the ring. Hatton is also good friends with another footballer, Joey Barton, a former Manchester City player. Ricky also follows the non-league football club Hyde United and often attends home matches. In an appearance on ''Al Murray's Happy Hour'' he admitted that if he could hit one celebrity, it would be Cristiano Ronaldo who at the time played for Manchester United.

Regarding his nickname, Ricky said, "I've always been a fan of Tommy Hearns, and everybody associates that that's where I got it from, but everybody's a Tommy Hearns fan. I got the nickname the first day I walked in the gym. I was 10 years old and put a pair of gloves on and started walloping the bag, and my amateur coach said, "Look at him, look how evil he is. He's a little Hitman."

Hatton is sometimes referred to by boxing fans as "Ricky Fatton" because he's been known to allow himself to weigh as much as 175 to 180 pounds (35 to 40 pounds over his fight weight) when he's not in training for a fight. Ever since Hatton turned professional, he has always opted to eat a full English breakfast before fights - his favourite place in Hyde is The Butty Box in Mottram Road, where he was interviewed by Gaby Logan for ''Inside Sport;'' and he is known to drink Guinness on Thursday night when he plays darts for the New Inn. Hatton defends his diet, citing that he plans to retire within the next four major bouts - experts have used his ill-balanced diet, akin to Jake LaMotta's ballooning up between fights, to explain his poor performances in recent fights, and nature to tire towards the end of fights. Hatton also appeared on ITV1's daytime show ''Loose Women'' in August 2007, stating that the reason why he puts on weight between fights is because "I have a lot on my plate at the moment."

Hatton appeared on the ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' show in March 2007. When the host, Ross, placed some pads on his hands and gave Hatton gloves to hit them with, he knocked a pad clean off Ross's hand with a powerful left hook. Interviewed on ITV1's ''Parkinson'' on 13 October 2007, at the beginning of the interview, Hatton handed Michael Parkinson a custom made pair of boxing shorts with 'Mike' and 'Parky' written on them, the shorts had the Barnsley emblem on them and were coloured red and blue, Barnsley Football Club's colours, because Parkinson supports Barnsley. While talking about Floyd Mayweather's arrogance, Hatton said "if there was such a thing as re-incarnation, Floyd would come back as himself."

Hatton received the MBE for services to sport in the 2007 New Year Honours.

In 2008, he started hosting his own live chat show called ''Ricky Speaks'', on Nuts TV. His father, Ray Hatton, said, "We had a conversation with a third party asking whether, if we were approached by the Mayweather team, would a possible rematch be on the cards." Ray Hatton added: "Really at the moment we're looking at Manny Pacquiao. It's very nice for Ricky to still be in such a big league."

Although negotiations stalled at some points, Hatton fought the number one pound-for-pound fighter Manny Pacquiao on 2 May 2009. Hatton hosted the 9 November edition of ''WWE Raw'', defeating Chavo Guerrero in a match.

On 13 September 2010, Hatton was admitted to a rehabilitation facility, The Priory, in Roehampton, London, UK, for substance abuse to tackle a drink and depression problem. He was caught on camera apparently snorting class A drugs, lines of cocaine in a Manchester hotel room. Doctors said they were more worried about his depression and alcohol abuse than drug use. Hatton sought medical help two weeks prior, after news emerged about a night out where he drank 11 pints of Guinness, Vodka and Sambucca during the night out with Emma Bowe, 29, the Irish national senior women’s boxing champion. It is now uncertain if he will return to the ring in the future, or will retire as he has already hinted.

Family

Hatton's mother, Carol, still works on the carpet stall on Glossop Market in the Peak District. His father Ray is his manager, and also manages his brother and fellow boxer Matthew Hatton. Ricky and his girlfriend Jennifer Dooley live in his house, the "Heartbreak Hotel" named after his favourite artist Elvis, in Hyde.

Hatton has a son, Campbell, conceived after a short reconciliation with ex-girlfriend, Claire. Hatton set up a trust fund to make sure his son was always provided for, and sees him every day.

On 12 September 2010, the Sunday tabloid ''News of the World'' published a front-page story alleging Hatton has been a regular cocaine user with accompanying pictures showing the boxer apparently using the drug. Hatton is said to be "devastated" following the story.

Charity

Hatton is a supporter of ''The Village News'', Haughton Green's local children's newspaper made by children in aid of charity. Hatton supported them at a charity auction by appearing and signing boxing gloves, with the evening raising £1,600. Ricky was also recently a special guest-speaker for The Toby Henderson Trust at a sportsmans' dinner at the Gosforth Marriott Hotel. Thanks to Ricky's help via donations and a highly successful auction, a lot of money was raised for the Centre for First Inistuitives in Crosby Liverpool.

Fans

Hatton has attracted many fans who are very vocal in their support during fights. The main chant is a modified version of the popular Christmas song "Winter Wonderland", with the lyrics changed to promote Hatton.

''There's only one Ricky Hatton,'' ''One Ricky Hatton,'' ''Walking along,'' ''Singing this song,'' ''Walking in a Hatton wonderland.''

Hatton fans also like to taunt the opponent by singing "Who are ya?", a popular English football chant. Along with Floyd Mayweather, Hatton is referenced by New York rapper GZA on the track "Paper Plates" of his 2008 album, ''Pro Tools''.

Professional boxing record

| style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|45 Wins (32 knockouts, 12 decisions, 1 disqualification), 2 Losses (2 knockouts, 0 decisions), 0 Draws |- |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Res. |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Record |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Rd., Time |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location |align=center style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes |-align=center |Loss |45–2 |align=left| Manny Pacquiao ||||| |align=left| MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |45–1 |align=left| Paulie Malignaggi ||||| |align=left| MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |44–1 |align=left| Juan Lazcano ||||| |align=left| City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Loss |43–1 |align=left| Floyd Mayweather Jr. ||||| |align=left| MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |43–0 |align=left| José Luis Castillo ||||| |align=left| Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |42–0 |align=left| Juan Urango ||||| |align=left| Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |41–0 |align=left| Luis Collazo ||||| |align=left| TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |40–0 |align=left| Carlos Maussa ||||| |align=left| Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield, Yorkshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |39–0 |align=left| Kostya Tszyu ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |38–0 |align=left| Ray Oliveira ||||| |align=left| ExCel Arena, Dockland, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |37–0 |align=left| Michael Stewart ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |36–0 |align=left| Carlos Vilchés ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |35–0 |align=left| Dennis Pedersen ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |34–0 |align=left| Ben Tackie ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |33–0 |align=left| Aldo Nazareno Rios ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |32–0 |align=left| Vince Phillips ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |31–0 |align=left| Joe Hutchinson ||||| |align=left| Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |30–0 |align=left| Stephen Smith ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |29–0 |align=left| Eamonn Magee ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |28–0 |align=left| Mikhail Krivolapov ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |27–0 |align=left| Justin Rowsell ||||| |align=left| Wembley Conference Centre, Wembley, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |26–0 |align=left| Freddie Pendleton ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |25–0 |align=left| John Bailey ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |24–0 |align=left| Jason Rowland ||||| |align=left| Manchester Velodrome, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |23–0 |align=left| Tony Pep ||||| |align=left| Wembley Conference Centre, Wembley, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |22–0 |align=left| Jon Thaxton ||||| |align=left| Wembley Conference Centre, Wembley, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |21–0 |align=left| Giuseppe Lauri ||||| |align=left| York Hall, Bethnal Green, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |20–0 |align=left| Gilbert Quiros ||||| |align=left| Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |19–0 |align=left| Ambioris Figuero ||||| |align=left| Spectrum Arena, Warrington, Cheshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |18–0 |align=left| Pedro Alonso Teran ||||| |align=left| Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool, Merseyside}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |17–0 | align=left| Leoncio Garces ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |16–0 |align=left| Mark Winters ||||| |align=left| Everton Park Sports Centre, Liverpool, Merseyside}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |15–0 |align=left| Bernard Paul ||||| |align=left| Bowler's Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |14–0 |align=left| Mark Ramsey ||||| |align=left| The Dome Leisure Centre, Doncaster, Yorkshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |13–0 |align=left| Dillon Carew ||||| |align=left| North Bridge Leisure Centre, Halifax, Yorkshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |12–0 |align=left| Brian Coleman ||||| |align=left| Royal Albert Hall, Kensington, London}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |11–0 |align=left| Tommy Peacock ||||| |align=left| Sports Centre, Oldham}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |10–0 |align=left| Paul Denton ||||| |align=left| Everton Park Sports Centre, Liverpool, Merseyside}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |9–0 | align=left| Kevin Carter ||||| |align=left| Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |8–0 |align=left| Pascal Montulet ||||| |align=left| Arena Oberhausen, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |7–0 |align=left| Anthony Campbell ||||| |align=left| Ponds Forge, Sheffield, Yorkshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |6–0 | align=left| Mark Ramsey ||||| |align=left| Whitchurch Leisure Centre, Bristol, Avon}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |5–0 | align=left| Karl Taylor ||||| |align=left| M.E.N. Arena, Manchester}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |4–0 | align=left| Paul Salmon ||||| |align=left| Ice Rink, Telford, Shropshire}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |3–0 | align=left| David Thompson ||||| |align=left| Whitchurch Leisure Centre, Bristol, Avon}} |align=left| |-align=center |Win |2–0 |align=left| Robbie Alvarez | | | |align=left| Madison Square Garden, New York, New York}} |align=left| |- align=center |Win |1–0 |align=left| Colin McAuley | | | |align=left| Kingsway Leisure Centre, Widnes, Cheshire}} |align=left| |-align=center

Titles in boxing

Amateur career

''National:''

ABA National Junior Champion (Class C) Light Welterweight 1994

ABA National Junior Champion (Class A) Light Welterweight 1995, 1996

ABA National Junior Champion (Class B) Light Welterweight 1997

ABA National Champion Light Welterweight 1997

Professional career

''Major World Titles:''

IBF Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

WBA Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

WBA Welterweight Champion ''(147 lbs)''

(2) IBF Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

''Minor World Titles:''

WBU Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

IBO Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

''The Ring/Lineal Championship Titles:''

''The Ring'' Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

''Regional/International Titles:''

BBBofC Central Area Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

WBO Inter-Continental Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

WBA Inter-Continental Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

BBBofC British Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

WBC International Light Welterweight Champion ''(140 lbs)''

Awards

''The Ring'' 2005 'Fighter Of The Year' Award

See also

List of current world boxing champions

Ring Magazine pound for pound

References

External links

Official website

HBO Ricky Hatton profile

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name	Justine Ezarik
birth date	March 20, 1984
birth place	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
nationality	American
years active	2006–present
known for	Lifecasting, Video blogging
website	http://www.ijustine.com
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web host service	Justin.tv, Viddler, YouTube, Twitter
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Justine Ezarik (; born March 20, 1984), is an American viral video comedian, and Internet personality. She is best known as iJustine, a lifecaster who communicates directly with her thousands of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.tv. She has over 17 hundred videos on YouTube alone, between her five YouTube channels (IJustine, IJustineGaming, IJustinesIphone, IjustineReveiws, and OtherIJustine. She also videos on such subjects as ''Lost'' and parkour. Her videos have received more than 366 million views YouTube alone. Her popularity is such that a video about her wanting to order a cheeseburger got 600,000 YouTube views in a week. She is sometimes described as a "lifecasting star," a "new media star," or one of the web's most popular lifecasters. In 2008, she relocated her base of operation from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, California.

Ezarik is known for her "300-page iPhone bill", which followed the first month of service after the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. The viral video earned her international attention and celebrity. The bad publicity that AT&T earned as a result of her video featuring her reviewing this bill and similar stories coincided with the announcement that detailed billing would become optional for iPhone users. As of June 1, 2009, she had over a half a million Twitter followers, and almost 100,000 subscribers to the iJustine YouTube channel. By December 2009 these numbers had grown to about 1 million Twitter followers and 300,000 YouTube subscribers, and ''USA Today'' estimated that her videos have attracted a total of 64 million viewers. She has also guest-starred on the YouTube show "The Annoying Orange" as Orange's love interest Passion Fruit. Her television acting credits include guest appearances on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'', ''Criminal Minds'' and ''The Bold & The Beautiful''.

Background

The daughter of a coal miner and physical education teacher, Ezarik grew up in Pennsylvania. Her parents are Michelle and Steve Ezarik. At the time of her high school graduation, she resided in the Scenery Hill area in Washington County, Pennsylvania. She and her younger sister Breanne, who was three grades behind her, were honor students at Bentworth High School, where Justine was a member of the class of 2002. Breanne (Bentworth class of 2005) went on to be one of the school's best volleyball players, and class president. Justine's youngest sister, Jenna (Bentworth class of 2008) was an All-state volleyball player as well as an honor student. Upon graduation from high school, Justine earned the annual scholarship from the Washington Chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals. finishing second to Rex Hermogino, who won the $50,000 prize. In April 2007, Ezarik made a one-day guest appearance on Justin.tv while Kan was conferencing with venture capitalists. During the appearance, she spent the day at Union Square and shopped at Apple and Old Navy. At the Apple store, she jested that she had to wear the life-casting apparel because she was visually impaired.

She played a photojournalist covering a bank robbery in downtown Pittsburgh on the television series ''The Kill Point'' from Spike TV filmed in May 2007. The show, which starred John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg, was shot over the course of two weeks ending on May 25, 2007. In 2007, she was an occasional co-host and panel member on MacBreak and MacBreak Weekly with Leo Laporte.

Ezarik appeared live on the Internet through the use of a wireless webcam and microphone on her own iJustine lifecasting channel on Justin Kan's Justin.tv, where she began transmitting her life via the Internet on May 29, 2007. She was never paid for any of this volunteer work on Kan's channel as a beta-tester.

Her reality-video blog was the first one launched on Justin.tv. Kan had been encouraged by fans and followers to allow someone else to make a guest appearance on his lifecasting channel. On May 31, 2007, she explained how her initial contact with Kan and his team led to her lifecasting channel to Asher Moses of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'': }}

At first Ezarik was considering producing a video series for the technology audience because they had been the most captive audience for online video series. She stated that she did not intend to broadcast what she considers private moments, noting "That shouldn't be a problem. I am going to try as much as I can to do 24/7."

When the iPhone debuted in June 2007, Ezarik covered the device's debut at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota a suburb south of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She had been invited by Technology Evangelist to film her Internet TV show at the mall instead of covering its debut at the Shadyside Apple store as she had originally planned.

She covered the July 22, 2007, "The Kill Point" series premiere party live on her lifecast video stream. Ezarik has been cited as being among the website's most popular lifecasters in October 2007 issues of both ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''.

300-page iPhone bill

In August 2007, she created the "300-page iPhone bill" Video and uploaded it to the popular video sharing site, YouTube, where the video quickly became an Internet meme. She also uploaded it to some other video sharing sites. Stories of unexpected billing issues began to circulate in blogs and the technical press after the Apple iPhone's heavily advertised and anticipated release, but this video clip brought the voluminous bills to the attention of the mass media. Ten days after its initial posting, the video had been viewed more than 2 million times on the Internet, and had received international news coverage. The video was later reported to have reached over 8 million total views as of December 2007. The video earned Ezarik a $5,000 payout from the video hosting service Revver. She was interviewed by several media outlets in connection with her iPhone bill video, including ''USA Today'', ABC News, CNN, Fox News Channel, WTAE-TV, and WPXI-TV. In the WPXI interview, the interviewer was surprised to learn that his interview was being shown live on the iJustine webcast. In a live telephone interview on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" program, the interviewer discussed being able to see Ms. Ezarik's lifecast video stream of the interview on his computer while he was interviewing her.

The original format of the iPhone bills itemized every call, every Internet use, every text message or every sent e-mail. The detail included information about every time users updated the weather or checked the stock market. Many customers had bills that were so lengthy that they arrived in boxes like Ezarik's did. After the publicity surrounding the bills, especially Ezarik's, and their formats, AT&T announced that bills subsequent to September 28, 2007, would be default to a summary format, with detail provided upon request for a fee. Company spokesmen said they had been planning to make the change to summary format regardless of the publicity. Customers had the option of online billing, summary or detailed with the change. Ezarik switched to e-billing.

Viral video career and Internet celebrity status

Ezarik was also featured in the August 28, 2007, weekly installment of Kevin Sites' People of the Web series on Yahoo! News along with Justin Kan, the creator of Justin.TV. Sites called her "the star of this network so far," and said "she has model good looks and easy cyber savvyness that attracts both technophiles and casual users alike." The final cut of the interview video included footage from the live web cast of the interview that showed Ezarik's webcam viewpoint. When Sites asked her to turn off her lifecasting equipment later in the interview, he noted that "at once the conversation seemed more relaxed and natural," and she discussed the difficulty of having people watching and publicly judging her all day.

In an interview published September 21, 2007, she discussed her lifecasting activities with a reporter for ''TG Daily'', telling him that she has tried not to change her personal routine, except that she now vocalizes her thoughts by talking to herself for the benefit of the audience. She also now concerns herself with what the people around her are saying, especially if they try to share private information like phone numbers. In discussing her personal safety concerns, she said, “I've had a lot of people show up places that I am, call hotels and restaurants that I'm at. Everything has to be taken into consideration. I'm also very lucky that nothing bad has happened so far. Makes me think I should quit before it does!”

In early September 2007, she was featured as the lead story on the Yahoo! homepage, which boosted her ratings up to as high as 4000 viewers at any given moment. As of late September 2007, she was living in Pittsburgh and held a position as spokesperson for Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto. She also landed a job with Xtrain, which was a firm that specializes in new media expert training. Although her father remained supportive, her friends were beginning to tire of the intrusive nature of her activities by the end of 2007. In October 2007, she was described as one of the web's most popular lifecasters in Tribune Company affiliates such as the ''Chicago Tribune''. That fall, she was a featured participant in the first annual BlogWorld & New Media Expo, which bills itself as the World's Largest Social Media Conference.

By April 2008, Ezarik had largely reduced her lifecasting productions to a less frequent basis. She had resumed pursuit of her web designer and video editor career and was living in Carnegie. Her new equipment by Nokia enabled her to lifecast and produce streaming video live without a computer connection. She continued to make weekly appearances on her own iJustine website at www.ijustine.tv. Still a Carnegie resident at the time, Ezarik planned to be vacationing in North Carolina when the iPhone 3G was released in July 2008 and hoped to find an AT&T wireless store to upgrade while on vacation. That June, Ezarik was named by Intel and its PR firm Ogilvy & Mather to a 10-member social media strategy advisory board.

Ezarik posted a video about wanting to order a cheeseburger on YouTube. It got 600,000 views in its first week. Ezarik has come to view iJustine as a character. As a result, she does not curse or drink on any videos she releases. By January 2009 she reduced her lifecasting a few hours a week, and by April 2009 her lifecast channel fell silent. When Ezarik first moved to Los Angeles, she was managed by Richard Frias, who also manages YouTube celebrities HappySlip and KevJumba, but according to a post on Ezarik's alternate Twitter account, she is currently unmanaged and earns money for appearing at conferences and in online promotional spots. She believes that her fanbase is predominately between the ages of 11 and 18.

In October 2008, she became the host of an online, twice weekly music and lifestyle program produced by PluggedIn.com called The PluggedIn 5. In 2008 she made residence in Los Angeles. She has a series of advertisements by the name of "Lost in America" appearing on AT&T's website. The series of ads, which features Ezarik and Karen Nguyen who is a well-known blogger, has not been viewed as successful in the advertising industry. The series has Ezarik and Nguyen getting lost in various locales and solving their problems using AT&T equipment. After the first eleven episodes over the course of two weeks in November 2008, the series only registered a total of 31,000 views according to Tubemogul.

Ezarik was also hired to appear in three commercials for a national TV ad campaign for Mozy, an award-winning online backup and recovery system. She has also been hired by MTV and Dick Clark Productions to host online preshows for awards broadcasts. In April 2009, she had approximately 50,000 MySpace friends and the system limit of 5,000 Facebook friends. An April 2009, ''USA Today'' article credited her with 386,000 Twitter followers. By June 2009, she had 590,000 Twitter followers, 94,000 subscribers to the iJustine YouTube channel and 25,000 Facebook fans. The ''USA Today'' story goes on to describe how she has scaled down her lifecasting because of its deleterious impact on her life. Carl's Jr. has hired a team of YouTube stars, including Ezarik to produce made-for-web ads for their new Portobello Mushroom Six-Dollar Burger on the Carl's Jr. YouTube channel, each endorser's YouTube page, and other Google-related media outlets. Following the August 6, 2009, Twitter Denial-of-service attack, Ezarik was featured in ''The Wall Street Journal'' describing her coping mechanisms, such as repeatedly tapping the F5 function key (the refresh button), for Twitter outages. In December 2009, ''USA Today'' reported that Ezarik earns about $75,000 annually from YouTube, and claims she has nearly a million followers on Twitter and 300,000 YouTube subscribers. The same article estimated that she has been viewed on YouTube a total of 64 million times and that her spoof on The Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" drew 4.8 million viewers. The article notes that Ezarik does her work with a $400 Canon Powershot digital camera and a $12 green rug from Ikea to create her green screen.

On March 1, 2010, the 2010 Streamy Awards nominations included Ezarik in the Best Vlogger category. Ezarik was listed as 97th in Maxim's "Hot 100" list for the year 2010. In 2010, General Electric hired her to create five videos as part of there Healthymagination campaign. The videos received over 2 million views. She also did work for Mattel and Intel. In April 2011, she was nominated for the Webby Award for Best Web Personality/Host. The Webby Awards recognizes two classifications of winners each category – The Webby Award, chosen by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and The People's Voice Award, voted on by the public". Ezarik won the People's Voice Award in this category.

Acting career

On November 4, 2009, she appeared as AJ, a 16 year-old crime victim, in a Season 11 episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit '' entitled "Users". She was also shown as a contestant on the 7,000th episode of ''The Price Is Right'' the day after where she won prizes worth $37,905, including a first-class trip to Acapulco, Mexico, an Apple Inc. computer, a Rolex watch, Viking cooking appliances, and a MIDI recording keyboard. According to her IMDb.com page, she also has some 2009 web series guest appearance credits for ''The Station'' and ''Totally Sketch''. She also has a credit for the November 3, 2010, season 6 episode of ''Criminal Minds'' entitled "Middle Men". She has a recurring role as Orange's love interest, Passion Fruit, on the YouTube series The Annoying Orange. She appeared in the January 5, 2012, season 3 episode of ''The Vampire Diaries'', entitled "The New Deal". As of March 31, 2012, she began as host of the reality TV series ''Escape Routes''. At the time, she had 1.4 million twitter followers.

Filmography

Kate Hale Meredith Joy Reporter No. 3 Bartender Herself, Co-Host

colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	Television
! Title	! Role	! Date(s)	! Notes
''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 11)	season 11 – "Users")	A.J. Dunne	November 4, 2009
Level 26: Dark Prophecy	|	October 14, 2010	TV Movie Short Thriller
''Criminal Minds'' (List of Criminal Minds episodes (season 6)	season 6 – "Middle Man")	|	November 3, 2010	Guest Appearance (1 episode)
''The Bold and the Beautiful'' (Episode #1.5947)	|	November 19, 2010	Guest Appearance (1 episode)
''E	News''	Herself	February 11, 2011, May 14, 2011
The Vampire Diaries (The Vampire Diaries (season 3)	season 3 – "The New Deal")	|	January 5, 2012	Episode 3.10
Escape Routes	|	March 31, 2012–present	, 5 episodes

iJustine iJustine iJustine Theater girl Girlfriend

colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"	Web series
! Title	! Role	! Date(s)	! Notes
''The Annoying Orange'' (List of The Annoying Orange episodes	seasons 1,2,3 & 4)	Passion Fruit/Mandy	2009 – present
''Totally Sketch'' (Episode 2.2 – "Behind the Spoof")	|	November 16, 2009	1 Episode
''The Station (YouTube)	The Station'' (Episode 1.2 – "Zombies Take Over")	|	August 8, 2009	1 Episode
''The Youtube Assassin'' (Episode 3)	|	May 14, 2010	Special Appearance (1 Episode)
''The House That Drips Blood on Alex''	|	October 14, 2010
The Last Moments Of A Relationship	|	January 29, 2011	Episode 1.10 Blessed Girlfriend

Awards and nominations

! Year	! Category	! Award	! Result
	Best Vlogger	The Streamy Awards	(as iJustine)
	Choice Web Star	Teen Choice Awards	(as iJustine)
	Web Personality/Host	Webby Awards(People's Voice Award)	(as iJustine)

See also

Toby Turner

JenniCam

Brooke Brodack

Sousveillance

Shane Dawson

References

External links

Ezarik's blog

Ezarik's main YouTube channel

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Justine Ezarik on Dailybooth

Presenter at Cusp Conference 2008

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name	Jimmy Kimmel
birth name	James Christian Kimmel
birth date	November 13, 1967
birth place	Brooklyn, New York, USA
medium	Radio, Television, Film, Stand up
nationality	American
active	1989–present
genre	Observational comedy, Black comedy, Satire, Deadpan
subject	American politics, Celebrities, Everyday life, Sex
influences	David Letterman
spouse	Gina Kimmel (1988–2002; divorced; 2 children)
domesticpartner	Sarah Silverman (2002–2007; 2008–2009) Molly McNearney (2009–present)
notable work	Creator and Host of ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' (ABC) Creator and Co-Host of ''The Man Show''co-host of ''Win Ben Stein's Money'' (Comedy Central)co-host of ''Crank Yankers''

}} James Christian "Jimmy" Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian, actor, voice artist and television host. He is the host of ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', a late-night talk show that airs on ABC. Prior to that, Kimmel was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ''The Man Show'' and ''Win Ben Stein's Money''. Kimmel is also a television producer, having produced shows such as ''Crank Yankers'', ''Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'', and ''The Andy Milonakis Show''.

Early life

Kimmel was born in the Mill Basin neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, the eldest of three children of Joann (née Iacono), a homemaker, and James Kimmel, an IBM executive. He is Roman Catholic and, as a child, served as an altar boy. Kimmel is of German and Irish descent on his father’s side and Italian descent on his mother’s side. His uncle, Frank Potenza, appeared on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011.

The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. He graduated from Ed W. Clark High School and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before attending Arizona State University for two years without completing a degree.

Career

Radio career

Kimmel began working in the radio industry while in high school, hosting a Sunday night interview show on UNLV's college station KUNV. While attending Arizona State University, he became a popular caller to the KZZP-FM afternoon show hosted by radio personalities Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1989, Kimmel landed his first paying job alongside Voss as morning drive co-host of ''The Me and Him Show'' at KZOK-FM in Seattle, Washington. Ten months later, Kimmel and Voss were fired by KZOK (for reasons unknown) and were fired again a year later at WRBQ-FM in Tampa, Florida. Kimmel went from Tampa to host his own show at KCMJ in Palm Springs, California, where Kimmel convinced a young Carson Daly to drop out of college and become his intern. After a morning stint at KRQQ In Tucson, Arizona, Kimmel landed at KROQ-FM in Los Angeles. He spent five years as "Jimmy The Sports Guy" for the Kevin and Bean morning show. During this time he met and befriended a struggling comedian named Adam Carolla.

Comedy Central

Kimmel began his television career as the comedic counterpart to Ben Stein on the game show ''Win Ben Stein's Money'', which began airing on Comedy Central in 1997. His quick wit and loutish everyman personality were counterpoints to Stein's monotone performing style and patrician demeanor. The combination earned the pair an Emmy award for Best Game Show Host.

In 1999, during his time with ''Win Ben Stein's Money'', Kimmel was also co-host with Adam Carolla and co-creator (with Daniel Kellison) of Comedy Central's ''The Man Show''. Kimmel permanently left ''Win Ben Stein's Money'' in 2001, replaced by comedian Nancy Pimental, who was eventually replaced by Kimmel's cousin Sal Iacono. ''The Man Show'''s success allowed Kimmel, Carolla and Kellison to create and produce, under the banner Jackhole Industries, ''Crank Yankers'' for Comedy Central (on which Kimmel plays the characters "Elmer Higgins", "Terrence Catheter", "The Nudge", "Karl Malone" and himself), and later ''The Andy Milonakis Show'' for MTV2. Kimmel also produced and co-wrote the feature film ''Windy City Heat'', which won the Comedia Award for Best Film at the Montreal Comedy Festival.

''Jimmy Kimmel Live!''

In January 2003, Kimmel permanently left ''The Man Show'' to host his own late-night talk show, ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' on ABC. ''Jimmy Kimmel Live'' was briefly also broadcast on Irish digital TV channel 3e. In the April 2007 issue of Stuffmagazine.com, Kimmel was named the "biggest badass on TV". Kimmel said it was an honor but clearly a mistake.

Since the show's second season, it has not actually been broadcast live. This is due to an incident during the 2004 NBA Finals in Detroit, when Kimmel appeared on ABC's halftime show to make an on-air plug for his show. He suggested that if the Detroit Pistons defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, "they're gonna burn the city of Detroit down ... and it's not worth it." Officials with Detroit's ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV, immediately announced that night's show would not air on the station. Hours later, ABC officials pulled that night's show from the entire network. Kimmel later apologized. The incident led ABC officials to force Kimmel to tape his show an hour before it airs in most of the country to check for offending content.

Kimmel usually ends his show with, "My apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time." When Matt Damon did actually appear on the show to be interviewed, he walked in and sat down only to be told just a few seconds later by Kimmel, "Sorry, but once again we are completely out of time." Damon seemed to become angry.

In February 2008 Kimmel showed a mock music video with a panoply of stars called, "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck", as "revenge" after his then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon recorded a similar video, "I'm Fucking Matt Damon". Silverman's video originally aired on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', and became an "instant YouTube sensation." Kimmel's "revenge" video featured himself, Ben Affleck, and a large lineup of stars, particularly in scenes spoofing the 1985 "We Are the World" video: Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Dominic Monaghan, Benji Madden and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Lance Bass, Macy Gray, Josh Groban, Huey Lewis, Perry Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Pete Wentz, Meat Loaf, Rebecca Romijn, Christina Applegate, Dom Joly, Mike Shinoda, Lauren Conrad, and Joan Jett, among others. After this Jimmy's sidekick, Guillermo, appeared in a spoof of The Bourne Ultimatum, which starred Damon. He was then chased down by Damon as Matt cursed about Kimmel being behind all this. Guillermo also stopped Damon on the red carpet one time and before he could finish the interview he said, "Sorry we are out of time." The most recent encounter was titled "The Handsome Men's Club" which featured Kimmel, along with the "Handsome Men", who were: Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe, Lenny Kravitz, Patrick Dempsey, Sting, Keith Urban, John Krasinski, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hartnett, Tony Romo, Ted Danson, Taye Diggs, Gilles Marini, and Ben Affleck, speaking about being handsome and all the jobs that come with it. At the end of the skit Kimmel has a door slammed in his face by none other than Matt Damon, stating that they had run out of time and then Damon continues with a sinister laugh. Jennifer Garner also makes a surprise appearance.

As a tradition, celebrities voted off ''Dancing with the Stars'' appear on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'', causing Kimmel to describe himself as "the three-headed dog the stars must pass on their way to No-Dancing Hell". In the 2008 season of his show, Kimmel started another tradition of ceremonially burning the dancers' shoes after they were voted off ''DWTS''.

Other television work

In Spring 1996, Kimmel appeared as "Jimmy the Fox Guy" in promos on the Fox network.

Kimmel's other television work included being the on-air football prognosticator for ''Fox NFL Sunday'' for four years. He has had numerous appearances on other talk shows including, but not limited to, ''Live with Regis and Kelly'', ''The Howard Stern Show'', ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'', and ''The Late Show with David Letterman''. Kimmel has appeared on ''The Late Show'' five times, most recently in 2010. Kimmel served as roastmaster for the New York Friars' Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and Comedy Central Roasts of ''Pamela Anderson''. He has appeared on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, along with his parking lot security guard Guillermo.

In August 2006, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel would be the host of their new game show ''Set for Life''. The show debuted on July 20, 2007. On April 6, 2007, Kimmel filled in for Larry King on ''Larry King Live''. That particular show was about the paparazzi and Kimmel reproached Emily Gould, an editor from Gawker.com, about the web site's alleged stalking of celebrities. On July 8, 2007, Kimmel managed the National League in the 2007 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game in San Francisco. He played in the game in 2004 and 2006 (Houston and Pittsburgh). On July 11, 2007, Kimmel along with basketball player LeBron James, hosted the 2007 ''ESPY Awards''. The show aired on ESPN on July 15, 2007. Kimmel hosted the American Music Awards on ABC four times, in 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Kimmel guest hosted ''Live with Regis and Kelly'' during the week of October 22, 2007 – October 26, 2007, commuting every day between New York and Los Angeles. In the process, he broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest distance () travelled in one work week.

Kimmel has performed in several animated films, often voicing dogs. His voice appeared in ''Garfield'' and ''Road Trip'', and he portrayed Death's Dog in the ''Family Guy'' episode "Mr. Saturday Knight"; ''Family Guy'' creator Seth McFarlane later presented Kimmel with a figurine of his character on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!''. Kimmel also did voice work for ''Robot Chicken''. Kimmel's cousin "Sal" (Sal Iacono) has accepted and won a wrestling match with WWE superstar Santino Marella. On January 14, 2010, in the midst of the 2010 Tonight Show host and time slot conflict, Kimmel was the special guest of Jay Leno on ''The Jay Leno Show'''s "10 at 10" segment. Kimmel derided Leno in front of a live studio audience for taking back the 11:35 pm time slot from Conan O'Brien, and repeatedly insulted Leno. He ended the segment with a plea that Leno "leave our shows alone," as Kimmel and O'Brien had "kids" while Leno only had "cars".

Kimmel also made a brief appearance in the TV commercial "There's A Soldier In All Of Us" promoting the 2010 video game ''Call of Duty: Black Ops'', along with Kobe Bryant. He is seen taking cover from bullets, then firing an RPG-7 with the words ''PROUD N00b'' on it, with the aftershock from the weapon sending him tumbling backwards.

He has been asked to host the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards which will air on September 23, 2012, marking his first time hosting the event.

Kimmel hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C. on April 28, 2012.

Personal life

Kimmel and his then girlfriend, Gina, married in June 1988. They have two children, Katie (born 1991) and Kevin (born 1993). Katie Kimmel is an art student in Chicago. The marriage ended in separation in early 2002. Kimmel then dated comedian Sarah Silverman for five years, splitting with her in March 2009. He started dating current girlfriend, Molly McNearney, in October 2009. McNearney is also a co-head writer for ''Jimmy Kimmel Live''.

Kimmel plays the bass clarinet. He got a chance to showcase his talent during a July 20, 2008, concert in Costa Mesa, California, featuring the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, when he took the stage and played bass clarinet on their hit song "The Impression That I Get."

Kimmel has spoken publicly of being a narcoleptic.

Kimmel co-founded the annual LA Feast of San Gennaro, which celebrates Italian culture through entertainment, music and cuisine. The festival also honors outstanding members of the Los Angeles community and raises funds to aid needy children and families in the city. He hosted Los Angeles' eighth annual feast of San Gennaro from September 28 to 30, 2009. Kimmel served as Master of Ceremonies for the National Italian American Foundation's 34th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2009.

Awards

References

External links

ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live website

JimmyKimmel.Net

Jimmy Kimmel appears on Michael Eisner's talkshow on CNBC

Jimmy Kimmel interview

Appearance on HGTV's ''Designer's Challenge''

Jimmy is Maxim's No. 2 Dudeliest Dude 2007

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Name	Chas Symonds
Realname	Chas Symonds
Nickname	The Bomb
Height
Weight	Welterweight
Nationality	English
Birth date	July 08, 1982
Birth place	Croydon, England
Style	Orthodox
Total	15
Wins	11
Ko	5
Losses	4
Draws	0
No contests	0

Chas Symonds (born July 8, 1982 in Croydon, England) is an English welterweight boxer.

He is the former BBBofC Southern Area welterweight title holder, but lost his title after losing to Ross Minter by TKO April 2005. Symonds did not fight for over three years following his title defeat, but returned to the ring in June 2008 to defeat Paul Morby.

References

External links

Profile at BritishBoxing.net

Chas Symonds in training

Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:People from Croydon Category:English boxers Category:Welterweight boxers