Jake Humphrey (Host)

29 year old Jake is the youngest ever presenter to host the hat-trick of BBC Sport programmes Football Focus, Match of the Day and Final Score.

Recent highlights for Jake include a trip to India for a Sport Relief documentary, hosting live daily shows from the World Cup in Germany and the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, to presenting highlights of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China. Jake is also a popular face on CBBC and has presented a number of their flagship programmes such as the live Saturday morning extravaganza The Saturday Show, BAMZOOKi and Fame Academy. Jake now fronts the weekly Newsround spin-off, Sportsround.

Jake's career began at Norwich-based Rapture TV, where he started out as a runner before working his way across various productions and through the ranks to being a researcher. After he ended up presenting by accident, Jake was advised to make a showreel which led to him hosting a live, daily, sports show for TWI and eventually onto CBBC where he has spent a highly successful and enjoyable five years.

Jake's interests include cycling, music, reading autobiographies, cars, travelling and supporting Norwich City - well someone's got to!!

2008 looks set to be another exciting year for Jake. He will again host a number of major sporting events for the BBC and begins filming a new series for CBBC in January.


Chris Goreham (Host)


Norfolk born and bred, Chris the Taurean grew up in Attleborough and Spixworth and spent too much time at Carrow Road.

After leaving Sprowston High School at the age of 16, Chris was faced with the grim reality of getting a job to juggle with his media course at City College.

As a result, he was forced to spend time selling records for Richard Branson in Norwich and Chris still feels never got the credit he deserved for helping Branson to make his millions.

On the plus side, Branson's cash hand out, or salary as most would call it, allowed him to buy his first car – a Ford Fiesta and appropriately enough his favourite song is In Your Car by Kenickie.

Towards the late 1980s Chris got in with a bad crowd. Being somewhat easily led, he finished up covering local football and cricket for BBC Radio Norfolk in 1998.

After many years of getting up early to present the breakfast sports news, Chris now enjoys waking up at a more reasonable time of day, in his position of presenting the afternoon show between 2 and 5pm.

Away from Radio Norfolk, Chris enjoys going to sport, music and comedy events - though can often been seen writing a review on said event for bbc.co.uk/norfolk.

Chris' favourite film is Twin Town and if he could be anywhere in the world - Primrose Hill would always win. Bad jokes are his self-confessed worst habit!

Football Anorak

A big football fan, Chris says Carrow Road is his favourite place in Norfolk. His favourite colours are (predictably) yellow and green and he feels closely associated with Dave Storry, the cartoon character out of the Mirror's Scorer.

Norwich City gave him his worst birthday present ever in 1995 - relegation! Just two days after Chris had been celebrating being another year older.

Having grown up watching Thomas The Tank Engine, his preferred choice of television these days is Soccer AM.

Chris' favourite sandwich is a BLT and his favourite food is lasagne, but he said he would hate to be trapped in a lift with the England Rugby Union forward line because they're all very big and the lift cable might snap!

The people he would most like to be stuck with are radio stars Lauren Laverne and Mark Radcliffe. His favourite item of clothing is his 'big coat' a la John Motson - now that's a real football anorak!

Jamelia (Headline Act)

“If anyone is likely to beat the world-conquering stars of American R&B at their own game, it’s Jamelia”
Daily Telegraph

Jamelia is one of Britain’s most successful black female entertainers.  Her career has spanned over ten years after being signed straight out of school at 15 to one of the biggest major record companies in the world.   

In 2004, she had three top 5 hits from her last album “Thank You” – the seminal “Superstar” (no 3), “Thank You” ( no 2) and her co-write with Chris Martin, “See It In A Boy’s Eyes”, which reached No 5. Incredibly, Jamelia then stormed the top 10 again with “Stop”, her theme  for the second Bridget Jones film.

At this point she was unstoppable, one of the most successful solo artists in the country. Her UK success was emulated in Europe where she was a continual serious chart presence, and in Australia and New Zealand where she reached No 1.

This triumphant period in Jamelia’s career also saw her sweep the board at the MOBO awards, where she won all of her three nominated awards, including “Best UK Act”. A week later no less a figure than Bono was genuflecting to her at the Q awards, where she won “Best Single” for ‘See It In A Boy’s Eyes’. Coupled with words of high praise at the same event from Elton John,  you could have been forgiven for thinking things couldn’t get much better. But a week later Jamelia was signed by the prestigious modelling agency ICM and swiftly got her first contract as the face/legs of Pretty Polly and also a high profile contract with Reebok.

More recently Jamelia has earned the coveted role of appearing along side two of the world biggest supermodels fronting her own ethnic haircare range ‘Model Me’ stocked nationwide in Boots stores – and will this year be launching her autobiography following her turbulent childhood, abuse relationships and family controversy, which in spite of has led to her rise to fame.

Creatively Jamelia has been focussing on developing her acting skills and is choosing her next role carefully in advance of her debut performance and is currently in the studio this time developing her writing and production skills in the hope to give unknown artists the benefit of her experience.

Rhydian

Rhydian came second in the 2007 Final of X-Factor and is now signed to Sony BMG.
 
A classical baritone singer, he sings popular opera similar to Russell Watson and Il Divo and if he released an album he’s convinced the “whole of Wales would buy it”.

Ben Mills

Okay, here's the thing. Ben Mills, with his lustrous locks, his 26 years, and that remarkable voice that sounds like he's gargling a bag full of rusty nails, was never, strictly speaking, X-Factor material. The reasons were myriad: he wasn't young enough, malleable enough, or anywhere near sufficiently angelic. Instead, he was fully formed already, a singer and a multi-instrumentalist whose palpable talent and raw passion lit up Saturday night television in a manner more akin to a rock god than a pop puppet. Nevertheless, he was far and away the best contestant the show has ever had.

"I'd always watched and enjoyed X-Factor over the years, but never considered entering the thing myself," he says now. "It was a friend of mine, a fellow musician, who insisted I give it a go. He was convinced I'd either end up winning it or, at the very least, getting a recording contract out of it." What he says next comes with a disarming, disbelieving smile. "I guess he was right."

In the end, Ben came third in X-Factor, and is glad he did: "It gives me more freedom to establish myself for who I really am." He is not wrong. His debut album, 'Picture Of You' released on SonyBmg March 12th, will not only comfortably establish him as the country's best singer (which, let's face it, we already knew), but also as an artist with true potential, and the prospect of genuine longevity.

"It's what I've wanted all my life," he says, and he says it with relief. Here's why.
In many ways, it was always a given that, sooner or later, one way or the other, Ben Mills was going to have the world at his feet. You don't possess a voice like his - a voice with the depth of Rod Stewart, the gravel of Leonard Cohen and the rasp of Kelly from Stereophonics - without reaching a mainstream audience at some point. But his has been a roundabout path to fame, and often a seemingly unreachable one.

Ray Quinn

Ray emerged as runner up in ITV's talent show The X-Factor in 2006 - coming 2nd out of 100,000s contestants in the UK television programme X-Factor.
 
After X-Factor, Quinn was signed by Sony BMG and on January 16th 2007, recorded a swing album at the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles.  His debut album, Doing It My Way was released on 12th March 2007 going straight to number one in the UK charts.  His album also went platinum in the first week.

Killer Queen

 Queen tribute band Killer Queen have built up a worldwide reputation with their act and will be flying into Norwich having performed the previous day in Amsterdam. With a host of TV specials to their name, the band will perform a selection Queen’s classic anthems to open the event.

Killer Queen debuted in London’s West End at the Strand Theatre to glowing reviews and national TV coverage. This was followed by a world tour taking in Moscow, Dubai, Cannes, The Azores, Bangkok and Estonia, as well as shows at the Royal Albert Hall and Birmingham NEC. This was followed by them winning the title of ‘Worldwide Best Tribute Band’.

The band scored an international number one dance hit with Raven Maize and Fat Boy Slim when ‘The Real Life’ used lead singer Patrick Myers’ voice to recreate the classic Bohemian Rhapsody harmony. Killer Queen celebrated 10 years at the top with a triumphant show at Thunder Park before a 25,000 strong Brands Hatch crowd.

For more information on this terriffic act visit http://www.killerqueen.com/

HUCK