* Tony Branson

Some of the previous guests have included: Sridevi, The Tragically Hip, M. I. A., Eckhart Tolle, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Chris Jericho, Tom Cruise, Bill Maher, James Cameron, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Marlee Matlin, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee, Ricky Gervais, Tony Bennett, Greg Kinnear, John Legend, David Byrne, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Larry King, LeBron James, Henry Rollins, Evangeline Lilly, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Alanis Morissette, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Howard Zinn, Kings of Leon, Kylie Minogue, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Sean Avery, former Canadian Prime Ministers Paul Martin, John Turner and Brian Mulroney, P! nk, Smashing Pumpkins, David Suzuki, Mike Holmes, Douglas Coupland, Naomi Klein, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Tammet, David Thewlis, Larry Charles, Dana White, Tony Robbins, Gordon Ramsay, Dave Salmoni and Adrien Brody.

On 16 December 2009, Fernandes accepted a " challenge " from Richard Branson, a fellow airline boss and the owner of Lotus ' fellow F1 newcomers Virgin Racing, where the losing team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess joking " The sexier the better.

On September 27, 2004, following the success of SpaceShipOne, Richard Branson, owner of Virgin and Burt Rutan, SpaceShipOne's designer, announced that Virgin Galactic had licensed the craft's technology, and were planning commercial space flights in 2. 5 to 3 years.

* Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin America Airways, claimed that he joined the mile high club at age 19 ( c. 1969 ) in a plane's lavatory.

The last Director General ( jokingly named after Richard Branson, the owner of the Virgin Group ) suffered from a severe case of defenestration at the hands of Mr. Garcia, and the same will happen to the new Director General if he gets too far out of line.

The owner, John L. Morris, began his career in sporting goods with a fishing section in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store owned by his father, located in Springfield on the road to Table Rock Lake and Branson, Missouri.

In 2004 Richard Branson, owner of the Virgin Group, used a Gibbs Aquada to set a new record for crossing the English Channel in an amphibious vehicle.

AirQuarius was established and started operations in 1999 by its owner Gavin Branson and has 120 employees.

A while later, the owner, Lord Cobham, in need of short-term capital, eventually settled for £ 180, 000 after Richard Branson had offered his final price of £ 175, 000 three months before the actual sale took place.

In August 2007, Branson announced on The Colbert Report that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert.

In the intervening months between FLY I's declaration of bankruptcy and Independence Air's cessation of operations, a number of airlines expressed an interest in acquiring the airline's assets including: Mesa Air Group, United Airlines and Richard Branson.

On August 22, 2007, Richard Branson, who was being interviewed as a guest, announced that one of his Virgin America aeroplanes would be named Air Colbert.

" On top of this, the team also produced a poster depicting Branson in an Air Asia uniform.

Of the 3 airlines, one in particular, Vision Air established an independent hub and spoke out of Branson under their own independently branded Branson AirExpress to 8 destinations.

After the end of the season and the subsequent purchase of Brawn GP by Mercedes, Branson invested in an 80 % buyout of Manor Grand Prix, with the team being renamed to Virgin Racing.

Anderson once had a glass of water poured over his head by a perturbed Richard Branson.

Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student, but later discovered his ability to connect with others.

In 1971, Branson was questioned in connection with the selling of records in Virgin stores that had been declared export stock.

In 1991, in a consortium with David Frost, Richard Branson had made the unsuccessful bid for three ITV franchisees under the CPV-TV name.

Branson says that he wept when the sale was completed since the record business had been the birth of the Virgin Empire.

After the so-called campaign of " dirty tricks ", British Airways settled the case, giving £ 500, 000 to Branson and a further £ 110, 000 to his airline and had to pay legal fees of up to £ 3 million.

Branson then made a cameo appearance on The Soup playing an intern working under Joel McHale who had been warned against getting into water fights with Stephen Colbert, and being subsequently fired.

Branson has been very supportive of Kenya during its troubles, and in May 2008 had gone to Masai Mara to open a new school ( Sekenani Primary School ) which has also been partly funded by Virgin Atlantic frequent flyers who volunteered their time to help with the construction.

BA had to pay a legal bill of up to £ 3m, damages to Branson of £ 500, 000 and a further £ 110, 000 to his airline.

When Martin Boots and David Branson each donated of land in 1831 for the site of Marion, they chose a location on the left bank of the swift, scenic river which the Miami Indians had named " Mississinewa ," meaning " laughing waters.

Many of the performers who have had their own theaters in Branson first discovered Branson when they performed at this venue.

In November 2006, NTL announced that it had approached commercial television broadcaster ITV about a proposed merger BSkyB effectively blocked the merger on 12 November 2006, when it controversially bought a 17. 9 % stake in ITV plc, a move that attracted anger from NTL shareholder Richard Branson and an investigation from media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.

The theater business had been steadily growing in the small Missouri town of Branson for a period of years and by the time Stevens began building his theater the area was reaching its peak.

By the end of April 2005, Sir Richard Branson had reportedly expressed an interest in buying the remaining assets of the company for the purpose of reviving the marque in order to enter the hybrid automobile market, and several other parties were also rumoured as wishing to buy the remnants.

Many celebrities have or had homes on the shores of Lake Como, such as Matthew Bellamy, Madonna, George Clooney, Gianni Versace, Ronaldinho, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Branson, and Ben Spies.

Coincidentally, Jim Bakker had also moved to Missouri ( in 2003 ), 200 miles southeast of Loch Lloyd in Branson, Missouri.

Cameron bought the majority stake in Lindstrand Balloons from Rory McCarthy, a British industrialist associated with Richard Branson, who had invested in the company to support Branson's series of record-setting balloon flights.

Following Virgin's highly publicized mission of mercy to Iraq to fly home hostages who had been held by Saddam Hussein in 1991, Lord King is reported to have told Burnside and CEO Colin Marshall to " do something about Branson ".

That's what I call Music " which Richard Branson had brought for his cousin Simon Draper and was hung behind Simon's desk at the Virgin Records office.

Nevertheless, he gave a try at " Honeycomb ", and he mentioned that he had a show in Branson, Missouri.

They had other country successes, but mostly did not tour, preferring to stay in Branson and perform.

The show's creator and producer, Paul Henning is from Independence, Missouri, and donated for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson.

In 2007, he worked with Philippe Starck and Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group for the Virgin Galactic plans.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson ( born 18 July 1950 ) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.

In 1992, to keep his airline company afloat, Branson sold the Virgin label to EMI for £ 500 million.

On 21 September 2006, Branson pledged to invest the profits of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains in research for environmentally friendly fuels.

On 4 July 2006, Branson sold his Virgin Mobile company to UK cable TV, broadband, and telephone company NTL / NTL: Telewest for almost £ 1 billion.

In 2006, Branson formed Virgin Comics and Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience.

On 9 February 2007, Branson announced the setting up of a new Global science and technology prize — The Virgin Earth Challenge — in the belief that history has shown that prizes of this nature encourage technological advancements for the good of mankind.

Some newspapers called for Branson to reimburse the government for the rescue cost.

In an interview in Time magazine, 10 August 2009, Shatner claimed that Branson approached him asking how much he would pay for a ride on the spaceship.

In September 2007, Richard Branson chaired the jury of the first Picnic Green Challenge, a € 500, 000 award for best new green initiative, set up by the Dutch " Postcode Loterij " ( postcode lottery ) and the PICNIC Network of creative professionals.

Branson was the first celebrity guest for the popular charity fund raisers, Reserve Dinners, raising over $ 75, 000 in one evening towards his Virgin Unite charity.

Richard Branson is a signatory of Global Zero ( campaign ), a non-profit international initiative for the elimination of all nuclear weapons worldwide.

Since 2010, Branson has served as a Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a UN initiative which promotes universal access to broadband services.

Branson sued British Airways for libel, using the services of George Carman QC.

These plans include the publication of Tender's " autobiography " and the " Book of Very Common Prayer ", as well as the conversion of the former Creedish land into the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill ( a repository for America's outdated porn ).

He comes up with the ideas that Tender is credited for, such as his autobiography, the " Book of Very Common Prayer ", and the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill.

The family is currently offering a reward of up to $ 20, 000 for information leading to the whereabouts of Branson Perry and / or the arrest and conviction of the person and / or persons responsible for his disappearance, and Castle Records is offering a $ 25, 000 recording contract for any information in regards to Branson Perry's disappearance.