Sir Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Mackintosh has enjoyed a long and successful career as a producer of musical theatre.
In December 2007, Sir Cameron Mackintosh was named the most influential person in British theatre by The Stage.
Mackintosh took the top spot from his fellow judge on I'll Do Anything, Lord Lloyd-Webber.
Sir Cameron Mackintosh owns the rights to Oliver and the BBC show I'll Do Anything was designed to find an Oliver and a Nancy for the musical production.
Cameron Mackintosh, whose mother is Maltese, began his theatre career as a stage-hand at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Sir Cameron Mackintosh's biography on his official website describes how his first production, Anything Goes, closed after a fortnight.
However, it was not long before the hit musicals started to roll in.
Significant amongst those successes were collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, for example, Cats, which became the longest-running musical in the West End or on Broadway, and The Phantom of the Opera.
Cats' record was overtaken by another Cameron Mackintosh production, Les Misérables, which opened in 1985 and was still going strong at the time of I'll Do Anything's transmission on BBC1 in the Spring of 2008.
As well as his work as a producer, Sir Cameron Mackintosh also owns theatres in London's West End, including the Queen's, Gielgud, Prince of Wales, Novello, Prince Edward, Noël Coward and the Wyndham's.
In 1996, Cameron Mackintosh was knighted for services to the British Theatre.
One of Cameron Mackintosh's brothers is the chef Nicky Mackintosh.
In an article about him and his brother, Cameron Mackintosh told The Guardian about his early days:
"I lived in Mayfair's Shepherd Market when I was 19. There was a butcher's, a fishmonger's and a greengrocer. I learnt all about off-cuts and managed to survive on £1.50 a week."
In 2001, Sir Cameron Mackintosh criticised London's infrastructure:
"No other country in the world does everything in its power to stop the public from visiting its centre."