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Career

Nicki's worked her way up in the music industry from being Promotions Assistant at MCA records, aged 21. She did a stint at RCA, where she first met Simon Cowell, as Head of Promotions. A joint partner in the Brilliant! PR company with Nick Godwyn ^[1] which did PR for among others Spice Girls, Charlotte Church and Billie Piper. She resultantly met Simon Fuller, and joined his management company 19 Entertainment, working with acts including Kylie Minogue, Take That, Annie Lennox, S Club 7, Van Morrison, and M People. In January 2001, she was promoted to the post of Creative Director at 19 Entertainment. MCA can stand for: Maximum credible accident MCA (rapper) - A rapper in the group, The Beastie Boys Micro Channel architecture - a type of computer bus Music Corporation of America - a music booking company and record label. ... For other uses, see RCA (disambiguation). ... Simon Philip Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is a British American artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for BMG, but is best known as a judge on the television programmes Pop Idol, American Idol, and The X Factor, where he is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and occasionally controversial criticism... The Spice Girls were an all female pop group who formed in 1994 in London, England. ... Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed on February 21, 1986) is a Welsh pop singer who rose to international fame in childhood as a popular classical singer. ... Billie Piper in The Canterbury Tales. ... Simon Fuller is a British record and television producer who is best known as the manager of the Spice Girls and as one of the creators of Pop Idol and its spin-offs including American Idol and World Idol. ... 19 Entertainment, based in the United Kingdom, is a leading creator and producer of entertainment properties, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom, as well as versions of the Idol series in more than seventy countries around the world and US Television show So... Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Take That. ... Annie Lennox with David A. Stewart, with whom she formed Eurythmics, in a promotional shot for their 1999 album, Peace. ... S Club 7 (later re-named S Club) were a successful British pop group created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, who rose to fame via their own BBC television programme. ... George Ivan Van Morrison (born August 31, 1945) is a singer and songwriter from Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... M People were a British house music act from Manchester which formed in 1990. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

She rose to fame as a judge on the UK editions of the ITV television series Popstars and Pop Idol, together with Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Dr Fox. ITVs Logo 2006—present Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales, the channel has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of the broadcasting licences for... Countries which had a version of Popstars Popstars is an international reality television program and a precursor to the Idol series. ... Pop Idol was a British television series shown on ITV1; the show was a talent contest to find the best new young singer or pop idol in the United Kingdom. ... Pete on the cover of his autobiography I Wish I Was Me Pete Waterman, OBE (born in Coventry on January 15, 1947) is a British record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast. ... Neil Andrew Howe Fox (born June 12, 1961) is a British radio and television presenter, known for many years as Dr Fox before he became Foxy in the 2000s. ...

She currently works as a presenter of numerous lifestyle programmes for the BBC, and a reviewer for Richard & Judy's Book Club ^[2]. In May 2006 she introduced the BBC's lunchtime covarege of the Chelsea Flower Show with Andy Sturgeon and Charlie Dimmock. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ... Richard & Judy is a very popular afternoon magazine/talk-show presented by married couple Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. ... Charlie Dimmock (born 10 August 1966 in Romsey, Hampshire, England) is a british gardening expert and presenter. ...

Personal life

• One sister Shelley (teacher), twin nephews Douglas and Christopher
• Married to Dave Shackleton, Vice President of BMG, aka Shacky. They met in 1991, and he asked her out within two weeks - she turned him down, as she did for the next two years! After her Breast Cancer scare, the first person she called was "Shacky". He proposed a few years later in front of the Blue Mosque in Jerusalem, and they married at Sion Park - Charlotte Church sang at the ceremony, her wedding ring was hand-designed by a jeweller called R.G. Baker in Canterbury

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Trivia

• The first record she bought was Killer Queen by Queen
• Aged 21, Nicki applied for a promotions job in the music industry. The next day, she called and said I need to know if you want me, I've been offered another job, but this is the one I really want. Needless to say, they hired her ^[3]
• She is addicted to sweets! Gives them up each year for Lent: But I'm so irritable everyone can't wait for me to get back on them. I love all of them - Jaffa Cakes, chocolate bonbons, Cadbury's Buttons
• She discovered acrylic nails in New York, and uses a process called Pink and White that looks like a French manicure

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References

1. ^ http://www.geocities.com/shackysloverival/hello.html
2. ^ http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/R/richardandjudy/book_club/book_club_feel_plus.html
3. ^ http://bigrikcouk.brinkster.net/ff/other.htm

External links

• BBC Bio
• Fan site