Category Archives: Celeb interviews

Husband and wife Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova are Strictly Come Dancing’s golden couple.  After meeting on the professional dance circuit, the pair married in Rotherham in 1999. Since then, they’ve become a regular fixture on the show, taking part in it since 2004 when Darren won the competition with his partner Jill Halfpenny.  Lillia [...]

Sheffield’s Jessica Ennis, 23, made history in Berlin in September 2009 when she became the first British athlete to take the heptathlon gold medal at a World Championship.  Now touted as the athlete of the 2012 Olympics, Jessica confides in us about the disappointment of missing out on the Beijing Olympics due to injury, and [...]

James Toseland, born in Doncaster and brought up in Sheffield, is the youngest ever World Superbike Champion.  Taking his first title in 1994 at just 23, three years earlier than the previous youngest world champ, he is well on course of achieving his ambition of five world titles.  When not breaking motorcycle records, he’s on [...]

Sheffield’s Jessica-Jane Clement, 24, made her name stealing wallets in BBC TV’s The Real Hustle and stealing hearts as Cindy Marshall in Sky One’s football drama Dream Team. We caught up with her to find out how bullies helped to further her career, why she’d love to do Strictly Come Dancing and why she thinks [...]