Pride of Britain Award Judges
2007
Simon Cowell exhaled deeply and shook his head in disbelief. "It's just incredible," he said. The prolific music producer - who is never usually lost for words when he appears on TV - was almost speechless at the judging panel for Pride Of Britain 2007.
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2006
For TV presenter Sharon Osbourne, nine-year-old Ollie Cartwright summed up exactly
what the Pride of Britain Awards are about. Despite his daily battle with pain,
after having been born with a disfigured skull that left his brain no room to grow,
his strong, happy character prevails.
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2005
For Olympic rower James Cracknell there was one clear winner in the Pride of Britain
Special Awards category. Jane Tomlinson, the cancer campaigner who has raised more
than £1 million for charity through gruelling acts of physical endurance.
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2004
Having been hauled out of the world's oceans more than most by brave helicopter
search and rescue crews, Sir Richard Branson had a very personal reason for backing
one of this year's winners. When he heard an RAF Sea King helicopter crew were among
the nominations for an award for rescuing five sailors in perilous conditions, they
soon gained his vote.
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2003
She knew it was going to be tough but she never suspected it would prove so difficult
to pick this year's winners. It was in mid-January when Niomi McLean-Daley - better
known as singer Ms Dynamite - joined Sir Richard Branson and Joanna Lumley to pore
over a mountain of nomination forms with the other judges - Metropolitan Police
Commissioner Sir John Stevens, GMTV's Fiona Phillips, former Pride of Britain winner
Michelle Lewis and the Chancellor's wife Sarah Brown.
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2002
They knew it was going to be a tough challenge, but our panel of judges never suspected
it would prove so difficult to pick this year's winners. It was mid-January when
Cherie Booth QC and Sir Richard Branson sifted through a mountain of nomination
forms with the other judges - heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, Olympic
gold medal hero Sir Steve Redgrave, Omagh bomb survivor Donna-Marie McGillion and
GMTV presenters Eamonn Holmes and Fiona Phillips.
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2001
When IVF pioneer Lord Robert Winston, British track heroine Denise Lewis and Falklands
veteran Simon Weston met in February to select the winners, they all agreed it was
one of their toughest tasks yet. Along with the other judges, Sir Richard Branson,
This Morning presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan and The Mirror's agony
aunt Dr Miriam Stoppard, they were overwhelmed by the extraordinary stories of courage,
determination and personal triumph.
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2000
It was mid-February when Mo Mowlam and Sir Richard Branson sat hunched over a mountain
of papers with the other judges - ITN broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald, Spice Girl
Victoria Beckham, George Medal winner Lisa Potts and Mirror agony aunt Dr Miriam
Stoppard. All of them agreed they had been set mission impossible.
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1999
It was never going to be easy. A Spice Girl, a business tycoon, a royal butler,
a newspaper editor and an agony aunt huddled around the wooden breakfast table and
scratched their heads over the seeming impossibility of the task ahead.
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