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Leona Lewis was born on April, 3 1985. She is a British pop/R&B singer. Lewis rose to fame in 2006 as the winner of the third series of the British television series The X Factor. Leona Louise Lewis has become a multi-platinum selling artist and three time Grammy Award nominee. She has released one album to date, Spirit, in 2007. It became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both the UK and Republic of Ireland, and made Lewis the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with a debut album.

Her second album, Echo, is due for release in November 2009. Lewis’s debut single "A Moment Like This", became the fastest selling UK single after being downloaded over 50,000 times within thirty minutes of its release. Her second single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one positions in over thirty singles charts around the world. In November 2008 she set a record in the UK for the fastest selling download-only release with her cover version of the Snow Patrol song "Run" which sold 69,244 copies in two days.

The first single to be released from Echo is "Happy", which was written by Lewis, Tedder and Evan Bogart and produced by Tedder. The single will be released in November 2009 and Lewis will perform it live on the VH1 Divas concert on 17 September 2009. It has been reported that Lewis is planning a 14-month world tour starting in 2010, which will be supporting Spirit and Echo.

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It is said that Lewis has hired choreographer Travis Payne for the tour, which is reported to have a Garden of Eden theme. Her label have apparently said that money is no object. In October 2008, The Times reported that Lewis had turned down a $1 million deal with Mohamed Al Fayed to open the Harrods sale. Lewis commented in the press that she turned down the deal on the grounds that Harrods is the only UK department store which continues to stock clothing made from animal fur.

She announced in October 2008 that she was in the "bargaining period" of launching her own ethical line of accessories, and that she is in the late stages of releasing her own perfume for Europe. Lewis signed a book deal in January 2009 to release a pictorial autobiography in October 2009. The book, entitled Dreams, will contain mostly pictures taken by photographer Dean Freeman, who has previously worked with David Beckham.

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Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on 23rd July 1989 in the London suburb of Fulham. From the tender age of five, Dan expressed an interest in acting, although his early experience was limited to playing a monkey in a school production. He became officially involved in the acting profession "by accident".

He had missed out on auditioning for a part in a television production of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist - his parents didn’t think it would be a very good idea - but he was destined to make his small screen debut as another of Dickens’ famous titular characters: David Copperfield, starring alongside Maggie Smith and Bob Hoskins.

Dan followed up his appearance in "David Copperfield" by taking a small part, to gain some experience, in the film "The Tailor of Panama" released in March 2001. He played Mark Pendel, the son of Harry and Louisa Pendel, who were played by Geoffrey Rush and Jamie Lee Curtis. While the filming was taking place, a major talent search was underway in the UK to find someone to portray a certain popular literary character and Curtis was struck by a particular insight:

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Radcliffe has also starred in the five subsequent Harry Potter film adaptations: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). He has signed on for the seventh, and eighth films (year seven is being made in two parts); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and II, expected in 2010 and 2011. Radcliffe is ‘very happy’ that the decision has been made to split the last film into two parts, as he doesn’t believe that anything should be cut out of the climactic book. The films continue to produce high box office results worldwide.

On 9 July 2007, Radcliffe and fellow Harry Potter cast members Rupert Grint and Emma Watson left imprints of their hands, feet and wands in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. It was announced in the New York Times on 28 December 2007 that Radcliffe will portray deceased photojournalist Dan Eldon in an upcoming biopic entitled Journey or The Journey is the Destination.

Eldon’s mother, Kathy, personally chose Radcliffe over other actors such as Heath Ledger, Ryan Phillippe and Joaquin Phoenix, noting Radcliffe’s "puckishness, sense of humour and energy" as similar to her son’s.

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