* 1946 – Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter

* 1980 – Chris Tarrant, Australian footballer

** Chris Tarrant, British radio and TV personality

The programme originated in the United Kingdom in 1998, with an original working title of Cash Mountain ; it is hosted by Chris Tarrant.

The programme originated in the United Kingdom, where it is hosted by Chris Tarrant.

Christopher John " Chris " Tarrant, OBE ( born 10 October 1946 ) is an English radio and television broadcaster, now best known for hosting the first version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Chris Tarrant was educated as a boarder in Choir House at The King's School, Worcester from 1960-1964.

Chris Tarrant won the coveted Sony Radio Academy Awards, Breakfast Show Gold in 1995 for this show.

At 9am, on Friday 2nd April 2004 after hosting 4425 shows over 17 years on Capital and giving away prizes to the value of £ 3. 5 million, Chris Tarrant said his farewell to Capital Radio

In 2009 UKTV signed Chris Tarrant to present a show for Watch called Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose.

A keen fisherman, Tarrant launched the Fishing with Chris Tarrant application for the Apple Inc. iPhone and other iOS devices in August 2010, in association with Angling Times magazine.

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* Chris Tarrant soaks ITV's Keith Wilkinson ( reporter )

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Most famously hosted by Chris Tarrant between 1974 and 1981, and later Sally James, it also featured the young Lenny Henry and occasionally Jim Davidson together with Bob Carolgees and his puppet, Spit the Dog.

Presented by Chris Tarrant and John Asher from just a desk in a continuity studio, the pair had to rely on ad-libs and jokes sent in by viewers.

Chris Tarrant and John Asher retained their roles as the main presenters, although John would leave during this series.

Running from late 1976 to early 1977, Chris Tarrant, Peter Tomlinson and Trevor East were the main presenters.

Chris Tarrant was retained as the anchor presenter, and behind the scenes was annoyed with the changes, particularly the inclusion of a woman as presenter.

Chris Tarrant, now producer as well as presenter, found most of these contributions to be of little value, until he came across a unique act by a five year old boy called Matthew Butler.

By now, ATV had increased the budget for Tiswas, and Chris Tarrant had more of a say in the programme's production than ever before.

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

With able support from Dilley ( 56 ) and Chris Old ( 29 ), Botham hit out and by the close of play was 145 not out with Bob Willis hanging on at the other end on 1 not out.

It was composed of The Blackman ( founder of the group ), Champtown, KDC, Chris " Doc Roun-Cee " Pouncy and Bob.

Both authors are staunch conservatives: on his website, Groseclose cites Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dick Armey, and Dick Cheney as his political heroes, and states that he usually sides with conservatives on controversial issues.

* Chris Blackwell, Island Records ' founder who produced the band before hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley

In the mid-1990s, father-and-son management team Bob and Chris Herbert set about creating a girl group to compete with popular boy bands that dominated the pop music scene in the mid-to late-1990s: " The whole teen-band scene at the time was saturated by boy bands like Take That and East 17.

Other Clan alumni include: Jay Triano, Jeff Thue, Bob Molle, Chris Rinke, Carolyn Murray, Garry MacDonald, and Bruce Robertson.

The band was composed of guitarist and vocalist Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars for most of their career.

Following several critically acclaimed albums, including Let It Be and Tim, Bob Stinson left the band in 1986 and the band experienced several line-up changes ; Slim Dunlap joined as lead guitarist and Steve Foley replaced Chris Mars in 1990.

That year Bob met Chris Mars, a high school dropout.

Westerberg realized his toughest audience was the band itself, later saying: " If it doesn't rock enough, Bob will scoff at it, and if it isn't catchy enough, Chris won't like it, and if it isn't modern enough, Tommy won't like it ".

Chief astronaut Deke Slayton wrote that he wanted one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to be the first on the moon and, " Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded.

In Planet Simpson, author Chris Turner writes that Bob is built into a highbrow snob and conservative Republican so that the writers can continually hit him with a rake and bring him down.

Jay and Silent Bob fill out their roles as prophets: they predict the arrival of Rufus ( Chris Rock ), the thirteenth apostle, who was left out of the Bible because he was black ; they lead the others to former muse Serendipity ( Salma Hayek ); they procure the divine instrument that will stop Azrael ; Jay reveals the location of God (" John Doe Jersey "); and ultimately, though inadvertently, they provide Bethany with the solution to preventing Armageddon.

His father, William Mayweather ( Bob Elliott, Chris Elliott's real-life father ), expresses disappointment of his son's actions.

The concept of the book is that the publisher's attorneys had insisted that Chris allow his father to write every other chapter of the book, so that Bob could rebut any " factual errors " Chris might have made in the preceding chapter.

In his first " rebuttal " chapter, Bob professes not to have understood anything Chris wrote ; he proceeds to use this and all subsequent chapters to talk about the summer he's having at his vacation cottage in Maine instead, employing the familiar Bob and Ray style of dry wit.

In 1954, Bob Elliott married Knight's widow, Lee, creating a comedic lineage that spans three centuries and four generations, from Raymond Knight and Bob Elliott to Chris Elliott and his daughter, Abby Elliott.