Alesha Dixon
Singer and Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon was born on 7 October 1978 in Welwyn Garden City, England.
In 2007 in Strictly Come Dancing, Alesha partnered Matthew Cutler.
Alesha and Matt got into the final of Strictly Come Dancing and their standard was so consistently good that they got a record number of 10s from the judges beating the record held by Mark Ramprakash.
In the final Alesha Dixon and Matthew Cutler beat Matt Di Angelo and Flavia Cacace.
As a youngster, Alesha Dixon played netball and ran for her county. She also coached gymnastics.
The breakthrough in her music career came when together with Su-Elise Nash and Sabrina Washington she formed Mis-Teeq.
Mis-Teeq originally included a fourth member, Zena, but she left.
Mis-Teeq's debut single, Why? got to number eight in the charts.
They continued to be successful, winning Mobo and Brit awards, but in 2005 Mis-Teeq disbanded and soon after Alesha Dixon launched her solo career with the singles Lipstick and Knockdown.
In January 2008, The Daily Mail reported that Alesha Dixon had just shot a film clip for a remix version of her single '4 U I Will' as part of a campaign for Ford Focus and that she was expected to release her previously unreleased debut album, Fired Up.
As well as her music career, Alesha has presented and appeared in a variety of TV programmes.
Alesha Dixon's presenter credits include ITV2's coverage of the Brit Awards, VH1's the Nation's Favourite Number One Men, and Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed with George Lamb.
Alesha was married to MC Harvey, from the So Solid Crew, but they separated when he had an affair with Javine.
In June 2008 the BBC announced that Alesha Dixon was to present BBC Three's Alesha: Look But Don't Touch, in which she challenges the culture of re-touching and air brushing.
Alesha Dixon spoke to the BBC about her new album, The Alesha Show, out on 17 November 2008 through Asylum Records and the single, The Boy Does Nothing, out on 10 November 2008.
In December 2008, The Mail reported that Alesha Dixon was dating Ed Howard, the UK head of Asylum Records.