Author: Daily Mirror

The inspirational footballer never seemed to miss a game while playing for Leeds, Everton, Newcastle, Bolton and Sheffield United. Captained Wales before starting a promising stint as national manager, which was cut short by his inexplicable suicide that shocked the nation.

The very definition of a late bloomer, Jamie Vardy was playing for tiny Stocksbridge Park Steels as recently as 2010, before moving to Halifax Town and then Fleetwood. He joined Leicester in 2012 and impressed in the Championship before making an early impact in the Premier League, starring in a thrilling 5-3 win over Manchester United. After helping the Foxes avoid relegation, he got called up by England and was a key man in the club’s surprise 2015-16 title challenge.

Few people outside Leicester noticed when the then-Championship Foxes made him a low-price signing from French club Le Havre in January 2014, but Riyad Mahrez has blossomed into one of the most exciting players in the Premier League. The France-born Algeria international forward built on his five-goal first full season in England by combining with fellow unlikely success story Jamie Vardy to lead a fairytale title triumph by a club that had barely avoided relegation 12 months earlier.

Jonathan “J.B.” Gill was the last member to join boyband JLS. He played rugby for London Irish rugby club until he was 18 and studied theology at Kings College in London before dropping out to pursue a career in music. He married Chloe Tangney in 2014 who he met in 2008 when she was one of the band’s backing dancers on the X Factor. The couple have two children. JB will appear in the 2024 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Nicola Adams became the first woman to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Nicknamed Babyface, she had already made history as the first female boxer to represent England in 2001 and the first to win a European medal in 2007.

Lewis Hamilton is one of the most successful F1 drivers of all time, winning seven world championships and 103 races since bursting onto the scene in 2007.

Geraldina ‘Dina’ Asher-Smith is a British sprinter. Dina is the fastest British woman on record and has been listed in the Powerlist as one of the UK’s most influential people of African/African Caribbean descent.

Lucie Donlan was a contestant on Love Island 2019.