Detroit born singer-songwriter Mike Posner became best known after the remixed version of I Took A Pill In Ibiza went viral. Whilst that single has been liked over 5.6 million times on YouTube, gathered over a billion streams on Spotify and peaked in the top 10 on the charts in 27 countries, Posner’s other claim to fame is that he walked 2,851 miles coast to coast across America in 2019. This Bernie Sanders supporting, Duke University graduate cites The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger as one of the books that has “impacted [his] life the most” and dyed his hair green when he joined a band named Mansionz; before he dies, he claims to want to work as a hospice chaplain, go to outer space and take his ‘mom’ to Namibia.
Category: RISING STARS: PERSONALITIES
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Alfie Diaper
Showjumper, show rider and jockey Alfie Diaper was described as an “all-round horseman” by Horse & Hound in April 2019 aged just nine. Dorset born and home-schooled, this “little star” has had success at the Olympia Horse Show, the Liverpool International Horse Show and won the Shetland Pony Grand National at Plumpton. He survived a near-death experience on his bicycle in 2019 also, but immediately “came back fighting… [and] adamant he wanted to make the Royal Windsor.” Diaper raises funds for the Bob Champion Cancer Trust on his JustGiving page and of winning the Jones Brothers Shetland Pony Grand National in December 2019, amusingly quipped: “My dream was to win a rug… And now I have.”
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Tommy Banks
Born in 1989, rising star Michelin Star winning chef Tommy Banks’ establishment, The Black Swan at Oldstead in North Yorkshire, was voted the best restaurant in the world on TripAdvisor in 2017. A regular on the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, Banks is also the co-host and a judge on The Big Family Cooking Showdown and owns Roots in York as well. Of his food, the critic Giles Coren commented: “They gave me cheese custard for my bread! It was so, so good. Angels sang. Birds fell stone-dead from trees” whilst Tatler’s Annabel Sampson described it as “true unadulterated pleasure.”
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Alison Roman
Los Angeles born Alison Roman once went out with a man who spent 14 hours slaving over a stove to cook for her. “It was a one date situation,” she later told the BBC’s Saturday Kitchen. Brooklyn based and the author of Dining In and Nothing Fancy, Roman’s approach to cooking is she declares “totally relaxed” and about “giving food your people want.” With 18,000 followers on Twitter and 295,000 on Instagram, this sassy lover of “high contrasts and extremes” in cooking has tremendous enthusiasm and also makes the perfect one pot chicken with dates and caramelised lemon. Of it the BBC remark: “This makes a great alternative Sunday lunch when you fancy a roast but want something a bit different.” Delectable and delicious.
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Christine Gischler
Essen based Christine Gischler is the model of the moment of 2019. This German lady of the moment has worked on campaigns internationally and has over 50,000 followers on Instagram. She describes herself as a “yogi and explorer” and is widely being lauded as an unpcoming star on the social scene also.
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Josh Truesdell
Despite describing himself as simply a “military brat”, New York based model Josh Truesdell has over 16,000 followers on Instagram (more…) -
Kyle Hotchkiss Carone
A Princeton graduate and “hospitality expert”, uber-connected Kyle Hotchkiss Carone grew up in Connecticut and Long Island. (more…) -
Alex Hua Tian (traditional Chinese: 華天)
The youngest ever eventer to compete at the Olympics at the age of 18 and “the finest horseman China has ever produced” (more…) -
Lady Lucan (AKA “Fie”, née Anne-Sofie Foghsgaard)
This Danish cracker shoots competitively worldwide and runs a bespoke shooting agency named Fie’s Club. In June 2014, the Financial Times’ ‘How To Spend It’ described Gordonstoun educated Anne-Sofie Lucan as having “an unpronounceable [Danish] surname that “through some linguistic quirk her speech is utterly unaccented”. They went on to add that “she seems to lead her life in a perpetual state of euphoria so much so that even the hardened dysphoric cannot help breaking into a broad smile in her company”. The first ever female to win the City Shooting Championships and fluent in five languages, Lady Lucan also cuts a great body double for Katy Perry at parties.