In this series, former Fit Club contestants joined the judging panel, with a different ex-contestant appearing each week: so far, they have included Amy Lamé, Aldo Zilli, Jonathan " Jono " Coleman, Paul Ross, Alison Hammond, James Whitaker, Lowri Turner, Ann Widdecombe and Kym Mazelle.

include Norman Tebbit, Ann Widdecombe, John Redwood, Teddy Taylor, Teresa Gorman and Bill Cash.

Recent terms ' speakers of note have included Piers Paul Read on the reality of Hell ; Fr Timothy Finigan on ' Humanae Vitae '; Fr Thomas Weinandy on the Incarnation ; Fr John Saward on the character of Heaven, and, separately, on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ; Fr Aidan Nichols on the centenary of Pope St Pius X's condemnation of Modernism ; Professor Geza Vermes ( in debate with Dom Henry Wansbrough ) on the historicity of the Gospels ; Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP on being a Catholic politician ; Sir Anthony Kenny on the Oxford Movement ; and Baroness Williams of Crosby on the relationship between God and Caesar.

In Parliament he was appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS ) in 1993 to the energy minister Tim Eggar, from 1996 he served as PPS to both Ann Widdecombe the prisons minister at the Home Office and Lord Mackay the Lord Chancellor, he held these two positions simultaneously until the defeat of the Conservative government at the 1997 general election.

* Ann Widdecombe, the Shadow Home Secretary, took preliminary soundings but found that despite being popular among the full party membership she had limited support in the Parliamentary Party, who voted in the initial rounds.

When an MP Widdecombe was known for her strong socially conservative views, opposing the legality of abortion and supporting the re-introduction of the death penalty.

From 1976 to 1978, Widdecombe was a councillor for Runnymede District in Surrey.

As an MP, Widdecombe expressed conservative views, including opposition to abortion ; it was understood during her time in frontline politics that she would not become Health Secretary as long as this involved responsibility for abortions.

Out of the 17 parliamentary votes considered by the Public Whip website to concern equal rights for homosexuals, Widdecombe took the opposing position in 15 cases, not being present at the other two votes.

Over the years, Widdecombe has expressed her support for a reintroduction of the death penalty, which was abolished in the UK in 1965.

Six days after the Derek Lewis incident on Newsnight, Ann Widdecombe, his former minister of state at the Home Office, made a statement in the House of Commons about the dismissal of then director of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, and famously remarked of Howard that " there is something of the night about him ", a widely quoted comment that may have contributed to the failure of his 1997 bid for the Conservative Party leadership.

Folk songs from the West Country include ‘ Widdecombe Fair ’, ‘ Spanish Ladies ’ and ‘ The Seeds of Love .’ The region was important in the first folk revival, as the Devon-born antiquarian Sabine Baring-Gould invested effort in collecting regional music, published as Songs and Ballads of the West ( 1889 – 91 ), the first collection published for the mass market.

These have been criticised by senior Conservative MP and Prisons Spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe as an " insult to women ", Widdecombe accusing Cameron of " storing up huge problems for the future.

The MP for the seat from its creation in 1997 was Ann Widdecombe of the Conservative Party.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe ( born 4 October 1947 ) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

Born in Bath, Somerset, Widdecombe is the daughter of a Ministry of Defence civil servant James Murray Widdecombe and Rita N Plummer.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

Katharine, Duchess of Kent ; her son and grandson, Lord Nicholas Windsor and Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, respectively, both of whose wives are Catholic, and her granddaughter, Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor, as well as politicians such as Baroness Masham of Ilton and Ann Widdecombe, and, most recently, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose wife and children are Catholic, are prominent among laypeople who have converted.

* Michael Howard, portrayed as a vampire owing to comments about his apparent sinister personality by Tory MP Ann Widdecombe and his ancestors being from Romania.

Ann Widdecombe was otherwise referred to simply as " Miss Widdecombe " before she left parliament at the 2010 election.

Queen Elizabeth II, Anne Robinson, Judi Dench and M, Cherie Blair, Sophie Raworth, Fiona Bruce, Delia Smith, Patricia Routledge, Margaret Thatcher, Charlotte Green, Norah Jones, Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Adie, Clarrie Grundy, Germaine Greer, Clare Short, Ann Widdecombe, Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep, Ellen MacArthur, Kirstie Allsopp, Carol Smillie ( Smiley Carol ), Linda Barker, Nigella Lawson, Kirsty Wark, Frodo Baggins, Sharon Osbourne, Lesley Garrett, Jessie Wallace, Tessa Jowell, Amanda Burton, Thora Hird, Sue McGregor, Barbara Windsor, Carol Vorderman, Gwen Stefani, Madonna, Caroline Quentin, Tom Cruise, C. J.

" I wonder how the media might have treated Ann Widdecombe or Blair's so called ' babes ' if all women MPs here wore the uniform of the chador.

Among those who voted against the bill were Ann Widdecombe ( who opposed it on religious grounds ), Dominic Grieve, Peter Lilley and Andrew Robathan.

High-profile Conservative MPs who voted against the Civil Partnerships Bill included Iain Duncan Smith, Ann Widdecombe, Bob Spink and Peter Lilley.

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

In the same year Alexander joined the English barons in their struggle against John of England, and led an army into the Kingdom of England in support of their cause.

Following his election as pope, John spent a year in Bologna and then joined forces with Louis II of Anjou to march against Ladislaus.

Nelson focused his flagship's fire on Spartiate, while Captain Thomas Louis in Minotaur attacked the unengaged Aquilon and Captain John Peyton in Defence joined the attack on Peuple Souverain.

Exiled to Spain in 1504, he was imprisoned in the Castle of La Mota, Medina del Campo, from which he escaped and joined King John III of Navarre.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar.

After the demise of BSA in 1972, Cheney joined with former BSA factory rider John Banks to develop and campaign a highly successful BSA powered motocross bike.

This was followed by the formation of St. John Ambulance in 1877, based on the principles of the Knights Hospitaller, to teach first aid, and numerous other organization joined them with the term first aid first coined in 1878 as civilian ambulance services spread as a combination of " first treatment " and " national aid " in large railway centres and mining districts as well as with police forces.

For the better part of two years, Crick worked on the physical properties of cytoplasm at Cambridge's Strangeways Laboratory, headed by Honor Bridget Fell, with a Medical Research Council studentship, until he joined Max Perutz and John Kendrew at the Cavendish Laboratory.

Former followers of John the Baptist probably joined Jesus ' movement.

By 1809 the Federalist party had almost completely disappeared, and its former members ( such as John Quincy Adams, Madison's ambassador to Russia ) had joined Madison's Democratic-Republican party.

Alais made the trip over the Alps and joined Henry II's court, but she died before marrying John, which left the prince once again without an inheritance.

Many of John's military household joined the rebels, particularly amongst those that John had appointed to administrative roles across England ; their local links and loyalties outweighed their personal loyalty to John.

In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.

Since at least the 18th century Freemasonry has incorporated Templar symbols and rituals in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, the " Order of the Temple " the final order joined in " The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta " commonly known as the Knights Templar.

On 15 December 1969, Moon joined John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom ( now the Lyceum Theatre in London for a UNICEF charity concert.

On 23 June 1977, Moon joined Led Zeppelin on stage and drummed with John Bonham for encores in a show at the L. A. Forum arena ( recorded on Led Zeppelin bootlegs, For Badgeholders Only / Sgt.

John Broadwood joined with another Scot, Robert Stodart, and a Dutchman, Americus Backers, to design a piano in the harpsichord case — the origin of the " grand ".

The death of Henry senior at the age of 82 occurred in 1862 and although his own son was not a business man of the same determination, the firm ’ s expansion continued adequately with John Mares, who had come to the financial assistance of the Shepherd Brewery during the recession of the mid-1840s and continued as the impetus behind Shepherd and Mares until Percy Beale Neame joined the Brewery in 1864.

( Clark and Monk became the third pair of teammates to each have 100 yards receiving in a Super Bowl ; they joined the Steelers ' John Stallworth and Lynn Swann who did it in Super Bowl XIII and the Bengals ' Cris Collinsworth and Dan Ross who did it in Super Bowl XVI ).

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.