Steve Backley OBE
Steve Backley is one of Britain’s best known and most popular athletes ever. Consistent performances established Steve as one of the all time great athletes after ranking in the world’s top ten in the Javelin every year between 1989 and 2002. Steve is the only British track and field athelete to win medals at three different Olympic Games; winning silver at Barcelona in 1992, silver at Atlanta in 1996 and Bronze at the Sydney games in 2000.
Steve first made his mark when winning the gold in the Javelin at the 1987 Junior European Championships. Three years later, he became the World’s number one javelin thrower having broken the World Record three times and was crowned World Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 1990. Stand out Gold medal achievements for Steve came in the 1990, 94, 98 and 2002 European Games as well as 1990, 94 and 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Steve has a natural passion for performance but now concentrates his attention on new business ventures including corporate motivational speaking, sports commentary and a range of other media and television appearances.
Danny Crates
Now retired from International competition, 2004 Paralympic Champion, Danny Crates is a former T46 arm amputee European Champion, Paralympic World Cup winner and world record holder in his disciple and has a number of amazing achievements and stories to share with his audiences.
Born in 1973, Danny has had more experiences than most people manage in an entire lifetime. He had a promising Rugby career, playing at both regional and county level when he suffered a horrific accident in 1994 whilst travelling and working in Australia, which resulted in him losing his right arm. Not to be deterred, Danny resumed playing Rugby, the game he loved, becoming the only known arm amputee playing club rugby in the UK, something that received worldwide media attention. In addition to his Rugby, he also turned his attention to competing in athletics. As someone with natural speed, Danny soon found that he was competing with the best in the World in his event, the T46 400m arm amputee class.
At the 1998 World Championships, Danny made his international debut, in doing so he reached the 400m final and winning a silver medal in the 4 x 400m relay event in a new European record time. Two years later at the 200 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Danny was narrowly beaten into the bronze medal position in the 400m but did go on to win gold in the European 400m in 2001.
Danny then switched to the 800m, a move which resulted in him capturing both the 2003 World Indoor 800m title and European 800m titles. In 2004 he set a new world record and become the 2004 Paralympic gold medal winner over this longer distance. After the Athens games, Danny set his sights firmly on the 2006 world championships where he also won the gold medal.
Danny has always maintained a positive outlook on life since his accident, including returning to Australia with a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, studying scuba-diving for the disabled and where he qualified as a diving instructor and Danny sharing a tank with 20 sharks four times a day (at feeding time!) whilst working at the Sea Life Centre in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Having fulfilled his long term ambition to take the Gold medal in Athens 2004, Danny intended to defend his title at the Beijing games in 2008. Sadly however, Danny had been given the honour of carrying the Great Britain flag at the Opening ceremony but was unable compete due to an injury sustained the day before his race. Danny reluctantly retired from International competition in July 2009 but his new ambition is to become one of Britain’s top motivational speakers.
Danny is available for
Motivational speaking
Presentation evenings
Event Hosting
Business and corporate events
After Dinner speeches
Award ceremonies
Product endorsements
To enquire about his availability, please get in touch with us below.
Jonnie Peacock
Born in 1993, Paralympic runner Jonnie lost his right leg below the knee after contracting meningitis meningococcal septicaemia at the age of five. However, the young athlete has never let this stop him from leading an active life.Jonnie went on to play in his school football and rugby teams as well as the local football team. In 2008 Jonnie decided to find out more about disability sport and his prosthetist told him about a talent identification event taking place in London, which Jonnie decided to attend. At the talent day Jonnie tried out a few sports including wheelchair tennis, pistol shooting and a 60m sprint, a few days later the British Paralympic association invited him to attend trials for a five month power programme and Jonnie made it on to the program and from there got set up with UK Athletics and a local sprint coach. He has been training and improving in the 100m sprint ever since and soon hopes to take on the 200 meters too.
Jonnie competes in the T44 class alongside the Oscar Pistorius (the ‘blade runner’ ). Racing against the multiple Paralympic Gold medallist is a great inspiration for Jonnie and fuels his own ambition and desire to compete in the London 2012 Paralympics and hopefully make it on to the podium.
The 2011 IPC World Championship in Christchurch, New Zeland, was Jonnie’s first major event and he finished 2nd in the heats to made the final; a phenomenal achievement in itself and finish 5th in a time of 11.63 in the final itself, less than half a second behind Pistorius! Considering how new Jonnie is to the sport, he has improved significantly in a very short space of time proving he is a real talent and one to watch for the future. He is a great character and has a great personality for any occasion.
Please get in touch if you would like to speak to us about Jonnie appearing at your event.
Ed Coode MBE
Born in Cornwall in 1975, Ed Coode first rose to prominence as a rower when competing in the Oxford versus Cambridge boat race in 1998. Justa year later, Ed won his first World Championship in 1999 where he rowed with Steve Redgrave, Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell in the Coxless 4s. In 2000 he paired up with Greg Searle in the Coxless pairs for Olympic Games in Sydney; the pair finished a very creditable 4th, just 12/100th of a second from third place and a bronze medal.
In 2001, Ed won his second World Championship in the men’s coxless four, this time with Steve Williams, Rick Dunn and Toby Garbett. Ed missed the 2002 World Championships due to injury but took his place in the men’s eight in 2003 and won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Milan.
Ed moved from the eight to the coxless four for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, rowing once again with Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Steve Williams. In a thrilling race they overcame Canada to win the Gold Medal!
Ed is an inspiring and highly motivating speaker who is suited to a variety of events and appearances. If you would like to book him, please get in touch.
Jeff Brazier
Jeff is a well known TV presenter with a great personality and looks to match. Prior to taking up a career in television presenter, Jeff played professional football for Leyton Orient before being forced to retire from the game due to injury.
Jeff first appeared on our screens in 2001 in the Channel 4 show, Shipwrecked. After being a big hit on the show he went on to to win the reality show ‘The Farm for Five’ before going on to star in the ITV show, ‘Celebrity Wrestling’ and more recently Dancing on Ice…
In 2005, Jeff became presenter on the daily afternoon talk show, Loose on ITV as well as the reality show, ‘Call Me a Cabbie’ where he trained to be a London black cab driver around London. Jeff went on to become the showbiz report on This Morning and also presented the ITV2 I’m a Celebrity… show alongside Kelly Osbourne, ‘Get Me Out Of Here! NOW!’.
Other TV work Jeff has presented includes Big Brothers Christmas Panto, Dirty Laundry on Channel 4, GMTV’s search for a Star Family, Superdaddy and the X Factor. If he wasn’t busy enough, Jeff also writes weekly columns in the Daily Mirror and Closer magazine.
Jeff has a great personality and is a highly thought of presenter with great experience of public speaking and is a great guest at any show or personal appearance. To enquire about booking Jeff, please get in touch with us below.
Les Gibson
Known as ‘The Man Of A Thousand Voices’, comedy impressionist, Les Gibson, is a hugely popular guest at any function. His appearance on Britain’s Got Talent in 2011 had the audience and judge in hysterics and his act made it through to the finals of the TV show.
Ranging from celebrities, sports personalities and soap stars, Les’s impersonations ensure great laughs due to his attention to detail and his observations and gags of those he’s impersonating.
A vast array of appearances give Les the experience to entertain any audience at any function or event and does many voice overs for TV, audio books, Radio commercials and venue announcements.
Available for bookings and events, let ‘The Man Of A Thousand Voices’ entertain you. Please contact us below to discuss availability.
Natasha Hamilton
Natasha Hamilton made her name in the girl group, Atomic Kitten, hitting the headlines for the first time in 2001 when the song, “Whole Again” reached number 1 in 19 different countries around the World. By the time the band went their separate ways in 2008, they had sold over 8 million records, despite the hectic life of being in a successful group, Natasha gave birth to two Children, Josh in 2002 and Harry in 2004.
Aside of her music, Natasha has appeared on various TV and Stage productions. Her TV work includes Just the Two of Us, Come Dine With Me, Most Haunted and MTV Red Carpet Celebrity interviews. On stage, she has appeared in Pantomime as well as the West End show, Blood Brothers.
Outside of Showbiz, in addition to being a mother, she is also committed to charitable work for anti-knife crime campaigning and is the ambassador for the Outward Bound Trust.
Natasha had a top 20 hit in the USA in 2008 with her solo single “Round & Round” and is currently working on more solo projects which include the release of her debut album.
To enquire about booking Natasha for a personal appearance, please contact us below.
