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<mask> (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC on January 26, 2003, at Hollywood Masonic Temple in Hollywood, California; and on April 1, 2019, at a secondary home, the Zappos Theater on the Las Vegas Strip. <mask> hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020, and the Academy Awards in 2017 and 2018. Before hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live!, <mask> was the co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. <mask> has also produced such shows as Crank Yankers, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald, and The Andy Milonakis Show. In 2018, Time named him as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People". <mask> is the longest-working of all current late-night talk show hosts in the United States, following Conan O’Brien’s retirement from hosting a late-night program.Early life and family
<mask> was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the neighborhood of Mill Basin as the eldest of three children of Joan (Iacono) and James John <mask>, who worked at American Express and was an IBM executive. He was raised Catholic and, as a child, was an altar server. <mask>'s mother is of Italian ancestry from Ischia, Naples; her family migrated to the United States after the 1883 earthquake. Two of his paternal great-great-grandparents were German immigrants. His family's surname was "Kümmel" ("caraway" in German) several generations back. The family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, when he was nine years old. He graduated from Ed W. Clark High School, and then attended University of Nevada, Las Vegas for one year before transferring to Arizona State University.He received an honorary degree from UNLV in 2013. <mask>'s uncle, Frank Potenza ("Uncle Frank"), appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a regular from 2003 until his death in 2011. His cousin Sal Iacono performed <mask>'s former co-hosting duties during the last season of Win Ben Stein's Money and then became a writer and sketch performer on Jimmy Kimmel Live! His Aunt Chippy (Concetta Potenza) is also a featured part of the show. His brother Jonathan works on the show as a director. His sister, Jill, is a comedian.Career

Radio career

Inspired by David Letterman's start in radio, <mask> began working in radio while in high school, hosting a Sunday night interview show on UNLV's college station, KUNV. While attending Arizona State University, he became a popular caller to the KZZP-FM afternoon show hosted by radio personalities Mike Elliott and Kent Voss in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1989, <mask> landed his first paying job alongside Voss as morning drive co-host of The Me and Him Show at KZOK-FM in Seattle, Washington. Over the next 10 months, the hosts performed several stunts on air, including one that led to an $8,000 loss in advertising. In 1990, <mask> and Voss were fired by KZOK and were fired again a year later at WRBQ-FM in Tampa, Florida. <mask> went on to host his own show at KCMJ in Palm Springs, California, where he recruited Carson Daly, who had been a family friend since his childhood, as his intern. After a morning stint at KRQQ in Tucson, Arizona, <mask> landed at KROQ-FM in Los Angeles.He spent five years as "<mask> Sports Guy" for the Kevin and Bean morning show. During this time he met and befriended the comedian Adam Carolla. Comedy Central

<mask>, who initially did not want to do television, began writing for Fox announcers and promotions and was quickly recruited to do the on-air promotions himself. He declined several offers for television shows from producer Michael Davies, being uninterested in the projects, until he was offered a place as the comedic counterpart to Ben Stein on the game show Win Ben Stein's Money, which began airing on Comedy Central in 1997. His quick wit and "everyman" personality were counterpoints to Stein's monotonous vocal style and faux-patrician demeanor. The combination earned the pair an Emmy award for Best Game Show Host. In 1999, during his time on Win Ben Stein's Money, <mask> co-hosted (with Adam Carolla) and co-produced (with Daniel Kellison), Comedy Central's The Man Show.<mask> left Win Ben Stein's Money in 2001 and was replaced by comedian Nancy Pimental, who was eventually replaced by <mask>'s cousin Sal Iacono. The Man Shows success allowed <mask>, Carolla, and Kellison to create and produce, under the banner Jackhole Productions, Crank Yankers for Comedy Central (on which <mask> plays the characters "Elmer Higgins", "Terrence Catheter", "The Nudge", "Karl Malone" and himself) and later The Andy Milonakis Show for MTV2. <mask> also produced and co-wrote the feature film Windy City Heat, Festival Prize winner of the Comedia Award for Best Film at the 2004 Montreal Comedy Festival. <mask> Live! In January 2003, <mask> permanently left The Man Show to host his own late-night talk show, <mask> Live!, on ABC. In the April 2007 issue of Stuffmagazine.com, <mask> was named the "biggest badass on TV". <mask> said it was an honor but clearly a mistake.Despite its name, the show has not actually aired live since 2004, when censors were unable to properly bleep censor a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane. During the 2004 NBA Finals in Detroit, <mask> appeared on ABC's halftime show to make an on-air plug for his show. He suggested that if the Detroit Pistons defeated the Los Angeles Lakers, "they're gonna burn the city of Detroit down ... and it's not worth it." Officials with Detroit's ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV, immediately announced that that night's show would not air on the station. Hours later, ABC officials pulled that night's show from the entire network. <mask> later apologized. <mask> usually ends his show with "My apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time."When Matt Damon did actually appear on the show to be interviewed, he walked in and sat down only to be told just a few seconds later by <mask>, "Unfortunately, we are totally out of time," followed by "my apologies to Matt Damon." Damon appeared angry but both performers have since indicated that their faux-feud is a joke. In February 2008, <mask> showed a mock music video with a panoply of stars called "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck", as "revenge" after his then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman and Damon recorded a similar video titled "I'm Fucking Matt Damon". Silverman's video originally aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and became an "instant YouTube sensation." <mask>'s "revenge" video featured himself, Ben Affleck, and a large lineup of stars, particularly in scenes spoofing the 1985 "We Are the World" video: Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Dominic Monaghan, Benji Madden and Joel Madden from Good Charlotte, Lance Bass, Macy Gray, Josh Groban, Huey Lewis, Perry Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Pete Wentz, Meat Loaf, Rebecca Romijn, Christina Applegate, Dom Joly, Mike Shinoda, Lauren Conrad, and Joan Jett, among others. After this, <mask>'s sidekick, Guillermo, appeared in a spoof of The Bourne Ultimatum, which starred Damon.He was then chased down by Damon, who was cursing about <mask> being behind all this. Guillermo also stopped Damon on the red carpet one time and, before he could finish the interview, said, "Sorry, we are out of time." The most recent encounter was titled "The Handsome Men's Club" which featured <mask>, along with the "Handsome Men", who were: Matthew McConaughey, Rob Lowe, Lenny Kravitz, Patrick Dempsey, Sting, Keith Urban, John Krasinski, Ethan Hawke, Josh Hartnett, Tony Romo, Ted Danson, Taye Diggs, Gilles Marini, and Ben Affleck, speaking about being handsome and all the jobs that come with it. At the end of the skit, <mask> has a door slammed in his face by Damon, who says they have run out of time and laughs sinisterly. Jennifer Garner also makes a surprise appearance. As a tradition, celebrities voted off Dancing with the Stars appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, causing <mask> to describe himself as "the three-headed dog the stars must pass on their way to No-Dancing Hell." In October 2013, a new segment of the show, "Kids Table", showcased five- and six-year-olds discussing the U.S. government shutdown and U.S. debts.When one of the children suggested "killing all the people in China" as a way of resolving the U.S. debt, <mask> responded that that was "an interesting idea" and soon jokingly asked a followup: "Should we allow the Chinese to live?" The incident triggered discussions and protests on Internet, even from Mainland China. In an October 25 letter to a group called the 80-20 Initiative, which identifies itself as a pan-Asian-American political organization, ABC apologized for the segment, saying "We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any community at large." More than a hundred people took to the streets in San Francisco on October 28 to protest the show and demand "a more elaborate apology" and that <mask> be fired. On that day's broadcast, <mask> addressed the controversy personally, saying: "I thought it was obvious that I didn't agree with that statement, but apparently it wasn't ... So I just wanted to say, I'm sorry, I apologize." Despite the apologies from ABC and <mask>, protests continued.A White House petition was created to investigate the incident and reached the 100,000 signatures needed to require a response from the White House. The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus denounced the incident and demanded a formal apology from ABC. Other television work

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 appearances on other talk shows, including Live with Regis and Kelly, The Howard Stern Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the Late Show with David Letterman. He has appeared on The Late Show five times, most recently in 2010. <mask> served as roastmaster for the New York Friars' Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and the Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson.He has appeared on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. In August 2006, ABC announced that <mask> would be host of their new game show Set for Life. The show debuted on July 20, 2007. On April 6, 2007, <mask> filled in for Larry King on Larry King Live. That particular broadcast dealt with paparazzi. <mask> reproached Emily Gould, an editor at Gawker.com, for the site's alleged stalking of celebrities. On July 8, 2007, <mask> managed the National League in the 2007 Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game in San Francisco.He played in the game in 2004 and 2006 (in Houston and Pittsburgh, respectively). On July 11, 2007, <mask>, along with basketball player LeBron James, hosted the 2007 ESPY Awards. The show aired on ESPN on July 15, 2007. <mask> hosted the American Music Awards on ABC five times, in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2008. <mask> guest-hosted Live with Regis and Kelly during the week of October 22–26, 2007, commuting every day between New York and Los Angeles. In the process, he broke the Guinness World Record for the longest distance () traveled in one work week. <mask> himself has questioned the record, suggesting that a world leader or the Pope must actually hold the record.<mask> has performed in several animated films, often voicing dogs. His voice appeared in Garfield: The Movie and Road Trip, and he portrayed Death's Dog in the Family Guy episode "Mr. Saturday Knight"; Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane later presented <mask> with a figurine of his character on Jimmy Kimmel Live! <mask> also did voice work for Robot Chicken. <mask>'s cousin Sal Iacono has accepted and won a wrestling match with Santino Marella. On January 14, 2010, amid the 2010 Tonight Show host and time slot conflict, <mask> was the special guest of Jay Leno on The Jay Leno Shows "10 at 10" segment. <mask> derided Leno in front of a live studio audience for taking back the 11:35 pm time slot from Conan O'Brien, and repeatedly insulted Leno. He ended the segment with a plea that Leno "leave our shows alone", as <mask> and O'Brien had "kids" while Leno only had "cars".<mask> hosted the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 23, 2012, and the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 18, 2016. With the presidential election only weeks away, <mask> pointed out the role Mark Burnett played in the rise of Trump. <mask> hosted the 89th edition of the Academy Awards ceremony on February 26, 2017. He returned as host for the 90th edition on March 4, 2018. In June 2018, <mask> was challenged by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to a one-on-one basketball game after <mask> compared Cruz's appearance to that of a blobfish. <mask> accepted and the game (known as the Blobfish Basketball Classic) was scheduled to take place at Texas Southern University on June 16, with the loser donating $5,000 to the non-political charity of the winner's choice.Cruz defeated <mask> 11–9, and over $80,000 was raised from the game and donated to the charities. In November 2018, <mask> launched his second production company, Kimmelot. <mask> is currently the host of a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which premiered for the show's 20th anniversary in 2020 and continues into 2021. It premiered on April 8, 2020, on ABC. In June 2020, it was announced that <mask> would return to host the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20, 2020. It was also announced that he was taking the summer off amid a brewing blackface controversy. Later, videos surfaced of <mask> using racial slurs in a music video.Also, during an interview in 2009 with Megan Fox, <mask> made a joke in response to Fox speaking out about being sexualized at age 15 by Michael Bay. <mask> later issued an apology for his actions and for taking a long time to address the criticism. He said, "There is nothing more important to me than your respect, and I apologize to those who were genuinely hurt or offended by the makeup I wore or the words I spoke." <mask> explained the blackface was part of a recurring impression of basketball player Karl Malone that continued on The Man Show: "We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Karl Malone as possible. I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl's skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head." He also denied that his going on vacation was due to the blackface controversy, saying the vacation had been planned for over a year. He did not address the interview with Megan Fox.Books
In July 2019, <mask> released his first book, The Serious Goose, an interactive children's picture book featuring his own illustrations that tasks readers with helping to make the serious goose smile. Influences
<mask>'s biggest influences in comedy are David Letterman and Howard Stern. <mask> has said of Letterman, "His show was just so weird and different. I'd never seen anything like it. I didn't know anyone who had a sense of humor like that." <mask> has often joked that the only reason he got into show business was to be friends with Letterman; he has also questioned why anybody would watch his show instead of Letterman's. <mask> wrote a piece for Time about his love for Letterman, saying, "As I write this, there are only ten shows left before the funniest, most inventive and smartest man who ever wore an Alka Seltzer suit goes fishing for good.None of us who discovered Dave on our own and claimed him as our own will ever be able to satisfactorily explain to the younger people who didn't what he did, what he meant and what he means. I guess it doesn't matter. It's only an exhibition, not a competition. Thanks Dave. For whatever it's worth, you're my favorite." Personal life
<mask> is a practicing Catholic. <mask> married Gina Maddy in 1988; they divorced in 2002.Their daughter Katherine was born in 1991 and their son Kevin was born in 1993. He had a relationship with comedian Sarah Silverman from 2002 to March 2009. <mask> started dating Molly McNearney, a co-head writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live, in October 2009. They were engaged in August 2012 and married in July 2013. Their daughter Jane was born in July 2014. Their second child, William ("Billy") John, was born on April 21, 2017. He was born with a rare congenital heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with pulmonary atresia, which was first detected when he had a purplish appearance at three hours after birth.He underwent successful surgery at three days of age. The first guests <mask> had when his show returned following his son's birth were cardiac surgeon Mehmet Oz, who explained the condition, and snowboarder Shaun White, who was born with TOF. <mask> later cited his son's condition in a monologue criticizing a previous guest, Senator Bill Cassidy, who had co-authored a congressional healthcare bill, for not living up to the "<mask> test" regarding access for patients with preexisting conditions. The monologue was widely discussed as part of the wider debate about the American healthcare system. <mask> plays the bass clarinet, and was a guest performer at a concert in Costa Mesa, California, on July 20, 2008, featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, performing with the group on the song "The Impression That I Get". <mask> has served as the Honorary Mayor of Dildo, Newfoundland, since August 2019. <mask> has spoken publicly of being a narcoleptic.<mask> co-founded the annual Los Angeles Feast of San Gennaro, a New York City annual tradition, and co-hosted the eighth annual Los Angeles version in 2009. <mask> has been a fundraiser for the U.S. Senate candidate Jacky Rosen. In 2020, <mask> learned that he and Martha Stewart are cousins through a genealogy report on the TV show Finding Your Roots. <mask> is the title sponsor of the LA Bowl, a college football bowl game to be played annually in Los Angeles starting in 2021. The game is therefore officially known as the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl. It will match the number 1 selection from the Mountain West Conference against the number 5 selection from the Pac-12 Conference. Filmography

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<mask> (born 13 April 1983) is a Scottish professional boxer. He is one of only three British boxers to have won world titles in three weight divisions and the first from Scotland, having held the WBO super-featherweight title from 2010 to 2011; the WBO lightweight title from 2012 to 2014; and the WBA light-welterweight title from 2016 to 2017. At regional level he held the Commonwealth super-featherweight title from 2008 to 2009, and has challenged for the British and European super-featherweight titles. Professional career

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Early career
<mask> first fight as a professional was a four-round victory in October 2001 over Woody Greenaway at the Kelvin Hall in Glasgow, Scotland. On 12 December 2004, following a string of seven wins over opponents including Jeff Thomas, Ernie Smith and Daniel Thorpe he was matched against fellow unbeaten prospect Colin Bain. The fight, at the Marriott Hotel in Glasgow, resulted in a first career defeat for Bain as <mask> won over the six round distance. For <mask>, the win set him up for a journey south of the border to face the unbeaten British lightweight champion Graham Earl in a non-title fight.The fight with Earl took place at the Wembley Conference Center and <mask> produced one of the upsets of the year when he scored a points victory to beat Earl over eight rounds. Domestic title fights
The win against Earl meant he would land a shot at the big time when in February 2006, he took on reigning British, Commonwealth and European champion Alex Arthur. The fight took place in Edinburgh and ended in defeat for <mask>, as Arthur retained on points. <mask> who was still only a 12-fight novice at this stage took the fight to Arthur prompting the champion to heap praise on him; "<mask> was in superb shape and he was up for the fight" said Arthur, "He's a brilliant boxer with a great future and he could be a world champion one day." <mask> himself refused to be disappointed with the loss saying; "I don't count that as a loss. I'm just 22 and it was great experience for me". <mask> next had a crack at the British title almost exactly a year later when in February 2007, he met reigning champion Carl Johanneson at the Town Hall in Leeds.The fight ended once again in defeat with <mask> losing a 12-round decision to the experienced champion. Johanneson intent on winning well before his home crowd hounded <mask> throughout the fight and managed to knock <mask> down three times. Regaining composure
After the defeat to Johanneson, <mask> took the decision to leave his old boxing club in a bid to seek a new challenge. <mask> had worked with Rab Bannan at the Barn Boxing Club for over 14 years, but the Johanneson defeat prompted a need for a change of direction. On telling his former mentor the news <mask> said; "It was a nightmare having to tell him. It was really sad because I’ve been with him for 14 years. All my boxing life really.It was really hard but we left on good terms and we shook hands and I’m sure our paths will cross again." <mask> moved to the Dalmarnock gym in Glasgow, where he could train alongside the likes of Willie Limond and Kenny Anderson. Since the fight with Johanneson, <mask> won eight fights in a row. A ten-round win over Romanian Gheorghe Ghiompirica at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow gave him the lightly regarded British International Masters belt. <mask> also spent time sparring former opponent Alex Arthur in preparation for Arthur's WBO super-featherweight title defence against Nicky Cook. Commonwealth champion
In September 2008, <mask> was in line for a crack at the vacant Commonwealth title, a belt which had been given up by Londoner Kevin Mitchell. The challenge took place at the York Hall in Bethnal Green and saw <mask> outpoint the Ghanaian Osumana Akaba over 12 rounds.The fight, which was taken with only weeks notice after the original main event on the card was cancelled, propelled <mask> into the championship frame. Speaking of his future ambitions <mask> said; "There is only one fight I want at the moment. That fight would be the current British champion Kevin Mitchell. He recently has been injured, and won't be back until December so we'll have to see what happens". <mask> defended his crown at Glasgow's Kelvin Hall soon afterwards in November 2008, against another Ghanaian, Yakubu Amidu. The African fighter had a record of 16–1–1, with all his victories coming by way of stoppage. <mask> however was too much and his superior fitness levels showed as the referee stopped the contest in the seventh round, handing victory to the Scotsman.<mask> second defence took place in March 2009, and saw <mask> halt former British champion Michael Gomez in the seventh round. On 20 June 2009, <mask> made perhaps the toughest defence of his title yet with a hard-fought 12 round win over Northern Ireland's Kevin O'Hara, with the assistance of the highly experienced trainer Billy Nelson and his Fighting Scots Gym in Stepps. <mask> became Billy's first world champion. <mask> vs. Martínez
<mask> success in the ring had elevated him to the number one ranking with the WBO's rankings. <mask>' promoter Frank Warren tried to negotiate a match with the reigning champion Roman Martínez. The bout with the Puerto Rican champion had been subject to numerous delays with the fight scheduled for both Scotland and Puerto Rico at various intervals only for the fight never to materialise and for Martinez to make a voluntary defence of his title instead. The uncertainty for <mask> meant that a proposed British title contest against Gary Sykes never happened with Sykes winning the title against <mask> replacement Andy Morris and defending against the man <mask> had defeated in his last Commonwealth title defence Kevin O'Hara.Finally after almost a year of frustration <mask> re-entered the ring on 15 May 2010, on the undercard of Kevin Mitchell's world title shot against Michael Katsidis at the Boleyn Ground. <mask> continued his winning streak and kept ticking over with an eight-round win over journeyman and former foe Youssef Al Hamidi. <mask> claimed after the fight that he hoped the fight with Román Martinez would materialise around July and that it would be in Glasgow. The WBO super-featherweight title showdown between <mask> and Roman Martinez was eventually confirmed on 24 June 2010 and scheduled to take place at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow on 4 September. Speaking at the announcement of the fight <mask> said; "this has been dragging on a bit..it is the biggest fight of my career but I'm more than confident that I can beat him". Finally on 4 September, <mask> entered the ring at Kelvin Hall to face the WBO's unbeaten reigning world champion Roman Martinez. Martinez had held the title for over a year winning it from Englishman Nicky Cook and defending twice against Colombian Feider Viloria and Argentinian Gonzalo Munguia.Despite suffering a knockdown in the first round, <mask> took the fight to the champion winning on all three judges scorecards 115–112, 115–112 and 115–113 to inflict a career first defeat on Martinez and finally winning the world title. Speaking of the fight, Burns promoter Frank Warren said; "this was the best night I've ever had in Scotland and I've had some great shows with Scott Harrison and Alex Arthur as well as bringing Nigel Benn and Frank Bruno up here." Describing the atmosphere at the Kelvin Hall as "electric" he went on to praise <mask>, who in winning the title had become Scotland's 12th world champion, saying Scotland had a new "sporting hero" and that the win would lead to a renaissance in Scottish boxing. It also transpired that before the fight the manager of Celtic, Neil Lennon had called to wish <mask> the best and sent him a Celtic strip signed by the whole of the first team as a good luck present. <mask> vs. Evensen
On 4 December 2010, <mask> defended his title for the first time against Norwegian boxer Andreas Evensen who held the WBO Inter-Continental featherweight title. The fight, at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, resulted in another unanimous points win for <mask> with the Scotsman also scoring a knockdown in the first round. On 12 March 2011, <mask> made his second defence again at the Braehead Arena.His opponent the Ghanaian boxer Joseph Laryea had won the WBO Inter-Continental title win a victory over Scotsman Paul Appleby on the same night that <mask> beat Evenson. The fight was stopped in the 7th round after Laryea withdrew citing a broken knuckle with <mask> ahead in the fight. <mask> vs. Cook
<mask>' next defence was scheduled for 16 July 2011 and against former WBO champion Nicky Cook, in Liverpool's Echo Arena. The fight resulted in a 93-second stoppage for <mask> as Cook's corner threw in the towel following an injury to his back. After only six seconds a punch from <mask> resulted in Cook receiving a count and complaining of back trouble. Cook was sent to the canvas twice more before his corner retired the boxer handing a third straight defence of the title to <mask> who said that he would like to fight the South African boxer Mzonke Fana next. <mask> was next scheduled to meet mandatory challenger, and Boxrec No.1 rated super-featherweight, Adrien Broner, but announced on 22 September 2011 that he would be relinquishing his WBO super-featherweight title and moving up to compete at lightweight. <mask> said that the move up a weight division would ease the pressure of having to control his weight saying "the last couple of fights it was getting harder and harder for me to do it." Adrien Broner commented on the situation, saying, "You vacated the title talking about you couldn't make weight no more. But you just fought four times and defended this title", Broner further said, "But everyone knows boxing is a game where you can duck fighters... and I guess he felt like running away was best for his career." Lightweight

<mask> vs. Katsidis
In his first fight at the weight it was announced that <mask> would fight Australian Michael Katsidis in London for the WBO interim lightweight title. Speaking of the fight <mask> said that it would definitely be the toughest of his career saying "I don't think they could have got me a harder fight if they tried, he's been in with the best of the weight, he's proved himself, obviously he's one of the best in the division and it's a great chance to get out there and show what I can do." On 5 November 2011, <mask> took on Katsidis for the WBO interim lightweight championship and despite being the slight underdog went on to win the fight by unanimous decision.After the fight <mask> claimed to have "proved a lot of people wrong" as some people "thought Michael would walk all over me". Speaking of the fight he added "Michael didn't give me a minute, he kept coming forward but I'd prepared for that. I'm doing my job and that's the way I always look at it." <mask> vs. Moses
On 26 January 2012, <mask> was installed as WBO lightweight champion after former champion Juan Manuel Márquez moved up a division to welterweight. <mask> defended his WBO lightweight title against Namibian fighter Paulus Moses. He will have the homefield advantage with the fight being held in Braehead Arena, Glasgow. <mask> said, "It's great news about the title but it's back to reality and training hard for what will be a tough title defence against Moses in my homecoming in Scotland.For the last 10 years I’ve been grafting away in my career. But in the last couple of years it has really taken off with me beating Roman Martinez and then beating a great warrior like Katsidis to put me up there with the best in the world." <mask> would go on to successfully defend his title via a unanimous points win, with Moses outboxed by <mask>, who was awarded victory 119–110,120–110,117–111 by the three judges. <mask> vs. Mitchell
In June 2012 it was confirmed after months of negotiations that <mask>' next fight will be another defence of his WBO lightweight title, against former WBO Inter-Continental lightweight champion Kevin Mitchell on 22 September 2012. In front of a sold out Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre <mask> turned in a career best performance to defeat Mitchell via fourth-round TKO. <mask> looked the much bigger man on fight night and seemed to recognise this

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On 15 December 2012, <mask> was expected to defend his WBO lightweight title against Liam Walsh at the ExCeL, London. Walsh was later involved in a car crash and had to pull out. Walsh's replacement was revealed to be Jose Ocampo. Ocampo however, had to pull out due to death of his trainer. then followed an announcement from <mask> that he would not be competing in London on that date after not being able to find an opponent in time. With promoter Frank Warren unable to secure an opponent for a rescheduled date of 26 January 2013, <mask> declined the opportunity of an exhibition bout, deciding instead to take a long rest between fights. On 4 March 2013, the unification fight between <mask> and Miguel Vázquez (which was originally scheduled for 16 March 2013) was postponed to 20 April 2013 because Vazquez was suffering from a viral infection.<mask> was due to defend his WBO title while also challenging for Vazquez' IBF title. The Vazquez fight was also called off with <mask> manager Alex Morrison telling The Scotsman "I doubt very much that fight was ever going to happen – leading to an announcement on 7 March 2013 that <mask> had left Frank Warren's promotion stable. Miscellaneous defences
On 11 March 2013 it was confirmed that <mask> had joined Eddie Hearn's Matchroom promotions and fought for the first time under Matchroom on 11 May 2013, when he faced Puerto Rican Jose Gonzalez at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow, a fight broadcast on Sky Sports. <mask> won the fight in the ninth round after being outboxed in the first 6 rounds however the fight took a drastic change in round 7 where <mask> was hurt before firing back in true championship style, <mask> dominated rounds 8 & 9. Gonzalez refused to come out for the tenth round citing a damaged wrist for pulling out of the fight despite being 87-84 ahead on all 3 cards. <mask> vs. Beltrán, Crawford
<mask>'s promoter Eddie Hearn announced that <mask> would fight again on 7 September 2013 against Ray Beltrán of Mexico at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. <mask> was knocked down in the 8th round.The bout ended in a controversial split-decision draw as the vast majority of observers believed Beltran had won and the decision was seen as one of the worst decisions of 2013. The draw meant <mask> retained his WBO lightweight title. It was confirmed after the fight that <mask> had broken his jaw as early as the second round. After having surgery the following day it was unsure when, and if, <mask> would be able to fight again, but after the surgery was successful, <mask> expressed interest in a rematch with Beltran. However, the WBO installed Terence Crawford as <mask>'s mandatory challenger and the bout took place on 1 March 2014 in Scotland. Crawford defeated <mask> by unanimous decision, boxing well on the outside and picking his shots to win the WBO lightweight title. <mask> earned a career high £500,000 for the fight.<mask> vs. Zlatičanin
On 27 June 2014 <mask> fought Dejan Zlatičanin at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow. It was an eliminator fight and for the WBC International title. <mask> lost the fight to Zlaticanin on split decision points, this was his second consecutive loss. Light-welterweight
After the loss to Zlatičanin on 27 June 2014, <mask> promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed on 4 July 2014 that he would have a "Make or Break" 10 round fight in a move to the light-welterweight division. This was on 4 October 2014 at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, giving <mask> a break from fighting in Scotland, the fight was originally scheduled for 13 September 2014 in Manchester but was moved due to an elbow injury <mask>nin fight. <mask> defeated French journeyman Alexandre Lepelley via points on his light-welterweight debut on 4 October 2014. <mask> vs. Figueroa Jr.In his US debut, <mask> faced off against undefeated former WBC lightweight champion Omar Figueroa Jr. on 9 May 2015 in Hidalgo, Texas. In a fight that saw both men land clean hard punches throughout was over shadowed by disgraceful refereeing as 2 points were deducted from <mask> for holding and for repeatedly moving both boxers hands whilst they were in a dominant position within the clinch. <mask> lost a controversial decision as the judges in Texas scored the fight widely to the home fighter. Two judges scored the fight 116-110 and the third had it 117-109. <mask> then went on to win two consecutive fights, firstly with a TKO victory against Prince Ofotsu on 1 August 2015 in Hull then winning via KO against Josh King on 7 November 2015 in Liverpool. <mask> vs. Di Rocco, Relikh
It was confirmed on 15 March 2016 that <mask> would fight Italian boxer Michele di Rocco for the vacant WBA light-welterweight title at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 28 May 2016. The title became vacant after Adrien Broner failed to make weight in his previous fight and subsequently stripped.<mask> dominated from start to finish with his jab and right cross, knocking his opponent down on the third and stopping him in the eighth in front of a packed crowd. With this win <mask> became a three-weight world champion, one of only three British fighters in history, also the first Scotsman to achieve this feat. WBA ordered <mask> to defend his world title against their Inter-Continental champion Kiryl Relikh (21-0, 19 KOs) of Belarus, who is promoted by former world champion <mask>. The official announcement was made with The SSE Hydro in Glasgow as the venue and 7 October as the date. After starting off slow in the first couple of rounds, <mask> used his experience and took the fight to 12 rounds. <mask> seemed to take some shots which seemed to shake him for split seconds as he carried on and showed that he is a master of pacing 12 round fights. <mask> needed good movement as Relikh switched to and from the southpaw stance which helped cut the distance.At the end of the fight, the three judges scored the fight with scores of 116-112 twice and a rather wide 118-110. Some pundits ringside including Relikh's trainer Hatton believed the wide scoring was harsh due to the fact there was constant back and forth action. With <mask> retaining the world title paved the way for a fight in December against former champion Adrien Broner, possibly in the US. <mask> vs. Indongo
In late December, there were talks for a potential unification fight between <mask> and IBF, and IBO champion Julius Indongo (21-0, 11 KOs). Indongo acquired the two titles after knocking out then undefeated Eduard Troyanovsky in less than a minute on 3 December. In January 2017, Freddie Roach named <mask> a potential opponent for Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao for 23 April. On 9 January, <mask>' manager Tommy Morrison confirmed a deal was being put together for <mask> to fight Indongo in a unification fight in April at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow.On 11 January, Sky Sports confirmed a deal was reached for <mask> and Indongo in a unification title bout on 15 April 2017. The WBA, IBF, and IBO titles would be at stake. This was Scotland's first ever unification fight. <mask> failed to become Scotland's first unified world champion when he lost a via a one-sided unanimous decision with wide scores of 120-108, 118-110 and 116-112. In the last two rounds, <mask> hit the canvas three times, but these were ruled as a slip. Following the defeat, <mask> praised Indongo, "He was so so awkward. He was a lot better than we thought he was going to be.He can hit as well." He also said that he wouldn't retire. Return to lightweight

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On 7 July 2017, STV news reported there was talks between <mask> and fellow Brit Anthony Crolla (31-6-3, 13 KOs) about a potential all-British fight towards the end of 2017. Talks suggested a fight would likely take place in Manchester or Glasgow at light-welterweight. A provisional date of 14 October 2017 was being considered. Both boxers tweeted a day earlier confirming their interest in the fight. <mask> told Sky Sports, he agreed to the fight straight away when he first heard about the speculations.He said, both he and Crolla were in the same position, coming off losses. At the time, Burn's compatriot Josh Taylor had been calling him out for an all Scottish showdown. Crolla admitted the fight would be a 'make or break' fight for both of them and could steer the defeated boxer into retirement, whereas the winner could line himself up for another potential world title fight. On 7 August 2017, it was confirmed by Eddie Hearn that a deal had been reached between Crolla and <mask> for a fight to take place at lightweight on 7 October, live on Sky Sports. Manchester Arena was confirmed as the venue, marking it the first time <mask> would fight in Manchester. Hearn spoke to Sky Sports about the fight, "What a fight between two great warriors. Both Anthony and <mask> are in similar places in the careers and they know that this absolute must-win.Knowing these two like I do this is going to be a fight until the finishing bell with neither taking a backward step. It's an all-British super fight between two great [former] world champions." Crolla won the fight via 12 round unanimous decision. In the end, the three judges' scored the fight 116-113, 117-112, 116-114. Sky pundits at ringside had either Crolla winning or a draw, however none believed <mask> had done enough to warrant a win. Crolla was the busier fighter throwing much more than <mask> and focused a lot of his body shots. <mask> made Crolla miss a lot with his movement and looked to land cleaner and accurate punches.Both fighters embraced in the end, as they had shown mutual respect for one another in the build up. In the post fight, Crolla said, "I thought I definitely did enough. He just kept coming, he gave me a very tough fight, but I thought my quality shots won it." <mask> felt he did enough to win the fight saying, "Although it was close, I thought I did enough. thought I landed the cleaner shots. In my eyes, I thought I just edged it." Crolla also said he would be willing to travel to Glasgow for a rematch.<mask> vs. Njegac, Cardle
On 26 May 2018, <mask>' 50th professional fight was announced to take place at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle on 16 June on a card co-headlined by Josh Kelly and Lewis Ritson. It was the first time <mask> fought in Newcastle. In a scheduled 6-round bout, <mask> retired his Croatian opponent Ivan Njegac after round 4. After the bout, <mask> stated he intended to carry on boxing. On 3 November, at just one weeks notice, <mask> stepped in to replace Joe Cordina and fight Scott Cardle (23-2-1, 7 KOs) on 10 November 2018 at the Manchester Arena. Cordina withdrew from the bout after picking up an injury. Prior to stepping in, <mask> was originally scheduled to appear on a Matchroom USA card in Kansas, USA on 17 November.<mask> dominated and then knocked out Cardle in round 3 to continue his comeback in 2018. It was a right hand which sent Cardle to the canvas. Cardle managed to beat the count, but referee Mark Lyson called a halt to the about at 2:06 of round 3. Although <mask> did not call anyone out in the prost-fight interview, he stated he was chasing big fights in 2019. <mask> vs. Selby
On 26 October 2019, <mask> faced former world champion Lee Selby. In a foul-filled fight, Selby managed to edge <mask> via majority decision, winning 116-112 and 116-113 on two of the scorecards, while the third judge scored the fight a draw, 115-115. Professional boxing record

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List of boxing triple champions

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<mask> profile at Matchroom Boxing
<mask> - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live

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<mask> (June 11, 1741 – June 17, 1775) was an American physician who played a leading role in Patriot organizations in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. <mask> enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm that the British garrison in Boston was setting out to raid the town of Concord and arrest rebel leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams. <mask> participated in the Battles of Lexington and Concord the following day, which are commonly considered to be the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War. <mask> had been commissioned a major general in the colony's militia shortly before the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill. Rather than exercising his rank, <mask> chose to serve in the battle as a private soldier, and was killed in combat when British troops stormed the redoubt atop Breed's Hill. His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General <mask> at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces. He has been memorialized in the naming of many towns, counties, streets, and other locations in the United States, by statues, and in numerous other ways.Biography

<mask> was born in Roxbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to <mask> and Mary (née Stevens) <mask>. His father was a respected farmer who died in October 1755 when he fell off a ladder while gathering fruit in his orchard. After attending the Roxbury Latin School, <mask> enrolled in Harvard College, graduating in 1759, and then taught for about a year at Roxbury Latin. He studied medicine and married 18-year-old heiress Elizabeth Hooten on September 6, 1764. She died in 1773, leaving him with four children: Elizabeth, <mask>, Mary, and Richard. Before his death in 1775, he was engaged to Mercy Scollay. While practicing medicine and surgery in Boston, he became involved in politics, associating with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other leaders of the broad movement labeled Sons of Liberty.<mask> conducted an autopsy on the body of young Christopher Seider in February 1770, and was a member of the Boston committee that assembled a report on the following month's Boston Massacre. Earlier, in 1768, Royal officials tried to place his publishers Edes and Gill on trial for an incendiary newspaper essay <mask> wrote under the pseudonym A True Patriot, but no local jury would indict them. In 1774, he authored a song, "Free America", which was published in colonial newspapers. The poem was set to a traditional British tune, "The British Grenadiers." <mask> joined the Scottish Rite Freemasonry, being initiated in the St. Andrew's Lodge, and later became Past Provincial Grand Master of Massachusetts. Lexington and Concord

As Boston's conflict with the royal government came to a head in 1773–75, <mask> was appointed to the Boston Committee of Correspondence. He twice delivered orations in commemoration of the Massacre, the second time in March 1775 while the town was occupied by army troops.<mask> drafted the Suffolk Resolves, which were endorsed by the Continental Congress, to advocate resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts, which were otherwise known as the Intolerable Acts. He was appointed President of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, the highest position in the revolutionary government. In mid-April 1775, <mask> and Dr. Benjamin Church were the two top members of the Committee of Correspondence left in Boston. On the afternoon of April 18, the British troops in the town mobilized for a long-planned raid on the nearby town of Concord, and already before nightfall word of mouth had spread knowledge of the mobilization widely within Boston. It had been known to rebel leadership for weeks that General Gage in Boston had plans to destroy munitions stored in Concord by the colonials, and it was also known that they would be taking a route through Lexington. Some unsupported stories argue that <mask> received additional information from a highly placed informant (usually claiming it was from Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of General Thomas Gage) that the troops had orders to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. However, there is little evidence of this as the troops apparently had no such orders.Regardless, <mask> learned there was some British expedition likely to begin that night, and so sent William Dawes and Paul Revere on their famous "midnight rides" to warn Hancock and Adams in Lexington. (There is growing consensus in new scholarship that Mrs. Gage never did conspire against the British and that <mask> needed no informant to deduce that the British were mobilizing.) <mask> slipped out of Boston early on April 19, and during that day's Battle of Lexington and Concord, he coordinated and led militia into the fight alongside William Heath as the British Army returned to Boston. When the enemy were returning from Concord, he was among the foremost in hanging upon their rear and assailing their flanks. During this fighting <mask> was nearly killed, a musket ball striking part of his wig. When his mother saw him after the battle and heard of his escape, she entreated him with tears again not to risk life so precious. "Wherever danger is, dear mother," he answered, "there will your son be.Now is no time for one of America's children to shrink from the most hazardous duty; I will either set my country free, or shed my last drop of blood to make her so." He then turned to recruiting and organizing soldiers for the Siege of Boston, promulgating the Patriots' version of events, and negotiating with Gen. Gage in his role as head of the Provincial Congress. Death

<mask> was commissioned as a major general by the Provincial Congress on June 14, 1775. Several days later, in the moments before the Battle of Bunker Hill, <mask> arrived where the militia was forming and asked where the heaviest fighting would be; General Israel Putnam pointed to Breed's Hill. <mask> volunteered to join the fighting as a private against the wishes of General Putnam and Colonel William Prescott, both of whom requested that he serve as their commander. <mask> declined the command in the belief that Putnam and Prescott were more experienced with war. He was among those inspiring the men to hold rank against superior numbers.<mask> was known to have repeatedly declared of the British: "These fellows say we won't fight! By Heaven, I hope I shall die up to my knees in blood!" He fought in the redoubt until out of ammunition and remained until the British made their third and final assault on the hill to give time for the militia to escape. He was killed instantly by a musket or pistol ball in the head by a British officer (possibly Lieutenant Lord Rawdon) who recognized him, or by an officer's servant. This account is supported by a 2011 forensic analysis. His body was stripped of clothing and he was bayoneted until unrecognizable, and then shoved into a shallow ditch. British Captain Walter Laurie, who had been defeated at Old North Bridge, later said he "stuffed the scoundrel with another rebel into one hole, and there he and his seditious principles may remain."In a letter to John Adams, Benjamin Hichborn describes the damage that British Lieutenant James Drew, of the sloop Scorpion, inflicted on <mask>'s body two days after the Battle of Bunker Hill: "In a day or two after, Drew went upon the Hill again opened the dirt that was thrown over Doctor: <mask>, spit in his face jumped on his stomach and at last cut off his head and committed every act of violence upon his body." His body was exhumed ten months after his death by his brothers and Paul Revere, who identified the remains by the artificial tooth he had placed in the jaw. His body was placed in the Granary Burying Ground and later (in 1825) in St. Paul's Church before finally being moved in 1855 to his family's vault in Forest Hills Cemetery. Legacy

General Gage reportedly said <mask>'s death was equal to the death of 500 men. It encouraged the revolutionary cause because it was viewed by many Americans as an act of martyrdom. At the time of <mask>'s death, his children were staying with his fiancée, Mercy Scollay, in Worcester as refugees from the Siege of Boston. She continued to look after them, gathering support for their education from John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis <mask>, Benedict Arnold, and even the Continental Congress.<mask>'s youngest brother and apprentice in medicine, <mask>, served as a surgeon during the Battle of Bunker Hill and the rest of the war, and afterwards founded Harvard Medical School and co-founded the Massachusetts Medical Society. There are at least four statues of <mask> on public display. Three are in Boston: one in the exhibit lodge adjacent to the Bunker Hill Monument, another on the grounds of the Roxbury Latin School, and the third atop the puddingstone at his grave site at the Forest Hills Cemetery (this statue was commissioned by the 6th Masonic District, and dedicated in a ceremony by the Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts on October 22, 2016). The fourth is in a small park on the corner of Third and Pennsylvania avenues in Warren, Pennsylvania, a city, borough, and county all named after the general. Fort Warren on George's Island in Boston harbor, started in 1833, was named in his honor. In 1840, the first Warren School was built on Salem Street in Charlestown, Massachusetts near Bunker Hill. It relocated to School and Summer Streets in 1868, and later merged with the Prescott School to form the Warren-Prescott School.Fourteen states have a Warren County named after him. Additionally, Warren, Pennsylvania; Warren, Michigan; Warren, New Jersey; Warrenton, Missouri; Warrenton, Virginia; Warren, Maine; Warren, Massachusetts; Warrenton, North Carolina; Warren, Connecticut and 30 Warren Townships are also named in his honor. The New York county of Warren is named after him, but the town of Warrensburg within that county is not; the town is in fact named after <mask>, a prominent early settler. The streets of Detroit, Michigan, were redesigned after the 1806 fire, based on the Pierre L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C.; Warren Avenue in Detroit is named after <mask>. Five ships in the Continental Navy and United States Navy were named <mask> in his honor. Warren Square in Savannah, Georgia, is also named for him. Freemasonry
<mask> was a Scottish Freemason.He was a member of Lodge St Andrews, No.81, (Boston, Massachusetts) which held a Charter from the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The Lodge continues to meet in Boston under the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The date he joined the Lodge is not known but was during the period after the inauguration of the Lodge on St Andrew's Day, 30 November 1756 and 15 May 1769 when he is recorded in the Grand Lodge of Scotland's membership register as being the Master of the Lodge. Paul Revere and William Palfrey are also recorded, in the same entry, with Revere being named as Secretary of the Lodge. <mask> was appointed Grand Master of all Scottish Freemasonry in the 13 colonies by the Grand Lodge of Scotland.</ref>

He was appointed Grand Master of the newly established Provincial Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in that same year. (Upon his death, <mask> became Acting Grand Master.) The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts has an award in his name for Masons who have served the fraternity, the country, or humanity with distinction.It is the second-highest honor conferred by the Grand Lodge, only surpassed by the Henry Price medal. The Henry Price medal is usually awarded to those who served with distinction in the Grand Lodge, while the <mask> medal may be conferred upon any Mason within the Grand jurisdiction. In popular culture
Walter Coy portrayed Dr<mask> in the 1957 film Johnny Tremain. <mask> also appeared in episodes 5 and 9 of the 2002 animated television show Liberty's Kids. Ryan Eggold was cast as <mask> in the 2015 miniseries Sons of Liberty. Dr. <mask> is featured in the song "Wildfire" by the band Mandolin Orange on their 2016 album Blindfaller. <mask> is referenced in the A. W. Burns/George W. Hewitt song "America Shall Aye Be Free".See also

 Patriot (American Revolution)
 List of Freemasons

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 Dr. <mask> on the Web Comprehensive compendium of searchable full texts of <mask>'s writings and speeches, with weekly updates. THE BROKERAGE ROLE IN THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Social Network Analysis using only organizational affiliations identifying <mask> and Paul Revere as central to the events leading up to the American Revolution. The Warren Tavern: History

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<mask> OBE (born   1957) is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and fashion designers, such as John Galliano at Dior and Vivienne Westwood. His work is known for its inventiveness and high level of technical expertise. <mask> co-curated the 2009 exhibition Hats: An Anthology for the Victoria and Albert Museum. Early life
<mask> was born on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire  and educated at Liverpool College. From an early age, his mother instilled in him an appreciation of art by taking him around the Walker Art Gallery, Speke Hall, and to National Trust properties around the North West. He studied art at foundation level at the High Wycombe College of Art.In 1975 he travelled to London to see the exhibition Fashion from 1900-1939 at the V&A, which inspired him to pursue a career in the fashion industry. This led him to apply to study fashion design under Bobby Hillson, at the Saint Martin's School of Art, London, where he was the sole male student in his year. Although he enjoyed being taught by Peter Lewis Crown, the designer-owner of the London couture house Lachasse, he had little prior sewing experience, and so in order to develop his skills Crown secured <mask> a summer placement in Lachasse's tailoring workroom. <mask> soon requested a transfer to the next-door millinery department presided over by Shirley Hex, but was told he had to make a hat from scratch first. The hat he eventually submitted, his first original millinery creation, was a cardboard pillbox covered in blue crêpe de Chine and trimmed with a plastic iris, sprayed silver that his mother had received as a free gift from a petrol station in the 1960s. In his innocence, <mask> had not realised that millinery flowers were traditionally made of silk, but Hex approved the hat, commenting on the flower's modernity. Between 1976 and 1979 <mask> spent his summer breaks working for Hex and learning about millinery methods and techniques.Through hats he developed a keen interest in fashion history, particularly the drama and exaggerated glamour of the 1950s. <mask> left Saint Martin's in 1979, the same year that he became a regular attendee of London's Blitz nightclub in Covent Garden for New Romantics and fans of new wave music. <mask> had been a Punk while at St Martins, but keenly embraced the New Romantic movement as its drawing of inspiration from historical dress resonated with his thinking. As one of the "Blitz Kids", he hung out with the likes of Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Isabella Blow, and Jean Paul Gaultier; and shared a house with Boy George and Grayson Perry, competing with them to wear the most outrageous outfits to Blitz, including a pinstripe suit with stiletto heels. Many of the Blitz Kids became his first clients, with <mask> creating outlandish hats for them to wear to the club. Millinery career
<mask>ucci in 1979. In 1980, Blitz's owner Steve Strange provided financial backing for <mask>' first millinery salon, which opened nearby in the basement of the trendy store PX, Endell Street, Covent Garden on 1 October.It was an instant success, with <mask> commenting in 2008: "Overnight, I had a business". On New Year's Eve 1980, <mask> had his head shaved by drunk friends, leading him to discover that without hair, his head was a perfect woman's stock size, and that he could become his own fit model, developing all his ideas and designs upon himself. 1982 saw <mask>' first Paris fashion show and his first televised show (for the BBC's Riverside) By this point, he was able to count Diana, Princess of Wales as a regular customer, in addition to his clients from Blitz, and had a hat commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum for their newly refurbished Costume Court. This was the beginning of <mask>' long and fruitful relationship with the V&A, culminating in the Hats: An Anthology exhibition of 2009 that he co-curated with Oriole Cullen. One of his hats appeared on the December 1982 cover of Tatler, the first time his work had featured on a magazine cover; the hat is now in the V&A. <mask> relocated his studio to Lexington Street in 1984. That year, Jean Paul Gaultier invited him to Paris to make hats for his show, his first designs for a Paris couturier, and he also made hats for Thierry Mugler.After their second show together, Gaultier ensured that <mask> received full credit for his hats, therefore ensuring that the Paris fashion world was made aware of his work. In 1984 he also sold his first designs to a department store, Bloomingdale's in New York. <mask> was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours. Collections
This is a list of <mask>' bi-annual hat collections since 1980. The collections from Fall 1981 to Fall 1984 were unnamed. His salon and workshop are based on Great Queen Street, Covent Garden, London as of 2013. Diffusion lines and non-millinery designs
In 1990, <mask> launched a Miss Jones diffusion line for hats, and in 1993, this was followed by Jonesgirl which is exclusive to Japan.The <mask> brand has had a strong presence in Japan since 1990, when <mask> struck a licensing deal for T-shirts, cosmetic bags, and handkerchiefs to be manufactured there under his name; this was followed by <mask> Kimonos in 1991, gloves in 1993, sunglasses in 1992, and handbags in 2002. <mask> has occasionally designed garments and accessories other than hats. In 1983 he designed dresses for Susanne Bartsch's shop in SoHo, New York and furs for Sol Feldman Furs, New York, and created his first shoe line for Sergio Rossi in 1987. He has had a lasting success with his scarf range, which was launched in 1988, and continues being sold through his millinery salon as of 2009. He has also experimented with non-fashion mediums, including ceramics in 1985 and interior design in 1991. <mask> designed two mannequins for display at the Simone Handbag Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Design partnerships

In November 1996, <mask> was the only British milliner to have control of a Paris haute couture millinery studio, or atelier de la modiste, making hats for Galliano's high-profile couture shows at Dior.He has worked with Galliano since 1993. <mask> also created Vivienne Westwood's iconic Harris Tweed Crown of 1987. Since the 1980s his hats have been in great demand for multiple shows per season. For the Paris collections in early 1995 alone, he was creating human-hair hats for Nicolas Ghesquière's first collection at Balenciaga and designs for Peter O'Brien at Marcel Rochas and Claude Montana as well as Galliano. In 2008, he made hats for Marc Jacobs, L'Wren Scott, Basso & Brooke, Comme des Garçons, Giles Deacon, Loewe, Pollini and Walter van Beirendonck, in addition to multiple Galliano collections, four per season for Dior and two under Galliano's own label. Throughout his career he has designed hats for the shows of many other designers and couturiers. <mask> and popular culture
In addition to his hat collections for designers, <mask> has undertaken numerous individual high-profile commissions for pop groups, musicians, actors, and other celebrities.He has also been commissioned by a number of companies to create designs for advertisements and promotions. Music
Grace <mask>, Diana Ross, George Michael, Spandau Ballet and Culture Club were among <mask>'s first high-profile celebrity clients in the 1980s. <mask> made a personal appearance in the Culture Club video Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? and went on to create headgear for Wham!, Wet Wet Wet, Madonna, Erasure, Bryan Ferry and Barbra Streisand. In the 1990s, his client list expanded to include Monie Love, Paula Abdul, U2, the Rolling Stones, Cappella, New Order, Marc Almond, Billy Ray Martin, Take That, Belinda Carlisle, Mike + The Mechanics, Skunk Anansie, Eternal, B*Witched, All Saints, Celine Dion, and Kylie Minogue. <mask>'s client list expanded through the first decade of the 21st century to include the Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Hear'Say, Macy Gray, Björk, Steve Strange, Paul Simonon, Will Young, Pink, Tori Amos, Alison Goldfrapp, Christina Aguilera, Rihanna and Usher. He created the hats for three major tours starting in 2005: Kylie Minogue's Showgirl, Mick Jagger's A Bigger Bang and Marilyn Manson's Against All Gods.Films
<mask> made the hats for Faye Dunaway in Supergirl, and also provided hats to Beverly Hills Cop II and Entrapment. From the 1990s onwards his film commissions became more frequent, including designs for Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians, the Spice World film, Jurassic Park, Lost In Space, and the hats for Lady Penelope (Sophia Myles) and Parker in Thunderbirds. He created the hats for leading ladies such as Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Keira Knightley in Atonement, Dita Von Teese in The Death of Salvador Dali, and Audrey Tautou in Coco avant Chanel. Tautou reportedly commented during her fitting that <mask> Chanel, the character she was playing. Promotions
<mask>' first commercial commission was for Liquifruita cough mixture in 1982, followed by the Brazilian Fruit Board in 1983. In 1985, his hats were commissioned for use in campaigns for Batiste and Schwarzkopf hair products, and <mask> has since then provided hats for many leading brands in the beauty industry, such as Revlon Boots, Garnier (for Ambre Solaire sun lotion), Yardley of London, Lancôme, MAC Cosmetics, and the 2004 L'Oréal campaign featuring Beyoncé. His work also features in perfume advertisements such as those for Nina Ricci's L'Air Du Temps and Parfums Christian Dior.<mask> hats have been used to promote food and soft drinks, including Chiquita, Twix, St Ivel, Quaker Oats, Ryvita, Golden Wonder, Walker's Sensations, Tango, and Robinson's orange squash. Alcoholic beverages have also been advertised using his hats, beginning with Tennents lager in 1987 and including Tia Maria, Cinzano, Perrier, Boddingtons, and Martini & Rossi. A number of car companies, such as Peugeot, Ford Motor Company, Nissan Motors, Fiat, and Renault have used his hats in their ad campaigns, as have the Esso fuel company and the Pirelli tires company. <mask> has also provided hats for use in financial sector promotional material, including MasterCard, Barclays, and Legal & General; and for miscellaneous other companies including Cellnet, National Panasonic, and Ariston. Hats: An Anthology
The 2009 exhibition, Hats: An Anthology, held at the V&A from 24 February 2009, was inspired by Cecil Beaton's landmark exhibition, Fashion: An Anthology, held at the V&A in 1971. Beaton's exhibition showcased 1900-1971 garments donated by leading fashion designers of the 20th century and their clients, many of which entered the Museum collection afterwards, and firmly placed fashion within the Museum's remit. Along with Oriole Cullen, V&A Curator of Modern Fashion and Textiles, <mask> explored the collections of the V&A and other international collections such as those at the Fashion Museum, Bath and the Hollywood archives of Warner Bros.The exhibition was based predominantly upon hats from the V&A's collections and <mask>'s own archive, but also included loans from museums and collections around the world. The work of up-and-coming milliners such as Noel Stewart and Nasir Mazhar was featured alongside hats by Philip Treacy, Mitza Bricard for Dior, Claude Saint-Cyr for Norman Hartnell and Vladzio d'Attainville for Cristóbal Balenciaga. The exhibition also included hats worn by famous hat-wearers such as Gloria Guinness, Isabella Blow, Anna Piaggi, and Gertrude Shilling, as well as the hats of celebrities including Dita Von Teese, Madonna, and Boy George. Film millinery was also featured, such as Beaton's own designs for the stage and screen versions of My Fair Lady and hats worn by Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich. The exhibition launched during London Fashion Week with a lavish party attended by famous clients and admirers of <mask>, including Piaggi, Daphne Guinness, Peter Blake, Erin O'Connor and Daisy Lowe. The exhibition and its accompanying book (also called Hats: An Anthology) were generally well received. A month after opening, record-breaking visitor attendance figures were reported.The Evening Standard gave the exhibition four stars out of five. In the Toronto Star, the exhibition and book were described as a celebration and a delight. The exhibition subsequently moved to New York City to be shown at the Bard Graduate Center of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture, Bard College, until Spring 2012. For this exhibition, work by New York-based milliners such as Rod Keenan, Jennifer Ouellette, and Eugenia Kim, was incorporated into the show. See also
 Philip Treacy, Irish milliner based in London

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<mask> AM (born 1 December 1959) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s and 1990s. He became a commentator for television coverage of the sport. A highly decorated Australian national captain, <mask> is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever players of rugby league. His time as a player and coach was followed by a career as a sports presenter for the Nine Network. Nicknamed The King and also The Emperor of Lang Park, <mask> represented Queensland in thirty-one State of Origin games from 1980 to 1991, and was captain for thirty of them. He also represented Australia in thirty-three international matches from 1981 to 1991 and was national team captain from 1984 to 1989. <mask> is perhaps best known for his State of Origin performances, spearheading Queensland's dominance in that competition throughout the 1980s and winning a record 8 man of the match awards.<mask> has since been inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame and in 1999 he became the sixth member of 'The Immortals'. In 2000, he was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league. In February 2008, <mask> was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest
Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. <mask> went on to be named in the halves in the Kangaroos' Team of the Century. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players. In June 2008, he was also chosen in the Queensland Rugby League's Team of the Century at five-eighth and captain. In October 2016, he became the 38th Legend of Australian Sport at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame awards.In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, <mask> was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as a "sports legend". In 2011, <mask> was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards. Early life
<mask> was born in Hawthorne, Queensland on 1 December 1959. His father, Jimmy, played first grade rugby league at  or  for Brisbane clubs Wests and Souths, later becoming coach of the Wynnum-Manly club. His mother, June, was a Queensland representative netball player. When he was six years old, <mask> was playing rugby league with Cannon Hill Stars, usually at lock forward. He played in junior Queensland school teams, at times representing his state against New South Wales before a State or Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground.<mask> attended Brisbane State High School during the 1970s. In 1977 while still in high school, <mask> also played representative rugby union as a Centre, touring Europe and Japan with the Australian schoolboys team alongside the likes of Tony Melrose, Michael O'Connor, and all three Ella brothers Mark, Glen and Gary, all of whom went on to represent The Wallabies, while O'Connor would become a dual international when he played alongside <mask> for the Kangaroos. The 1977 Australian Schoolboys Rugby Union tour of Great Britain would see the first of three times <mask> would make undefeated tours of Britain with Australian national teams. According to <mask>, <mask> and his brother are butchers by trade. Rugby League career

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Following his return to Australia from the 1977 Schoolboys tour, <mask> faced discrimination in the Queensland Rugby Union fraternity due to his rugby league background. After being told he would no longer be selected for any representative teams if he continues to play league, he immediately decided his future lay with rugby league, playing in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with Valley's Diehards from 1978. His father <mask> was the coach of Valley's in 1978.Also in 1978, <mask> (and another young Brisbane based lock from Wests named Paul Vautin) turned down an offer to play in the famed Sydney premiership with the North Sydney Bears. While <mask> would remain in Brisbane in 1979, Vautin would go on to sign with 1978 Sydney premiers the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. In 1979 <mask> made his senior début for Queensland from the bench in games played under the old State of Residence rules, and also played for a Brisbane representative side against the touring Great Britain Lions. With former Australian halfback Ross Strudwick now captain-coach of the Diehards, <mask> helped Valleys to premiership victory over the Wayne Bennett-coached Souths Magpies side in the BRL Grand Final at Lang Park. Playing in the centres for the Magpies that day was a 19-year-old cadet Policeman who would become a long serving Queensland and Australian teammate of <mask> in the coming decade, Mal Meninga. <mask> made the run-on side for Queensland in the inaugural State of Origin match in 1980 at lock forward alongside his hero Arthur Beetson who at the age of 35 was playing in his first ever game for his home state. There were some in the press who questioned his selection, claiming he should have started from the bench with well performed Brisbane Wests lock Norm Carr in the starting side.<mask> however had a hand in Queensland's first ever State of Origin try scored by Kerry Boustead. The following year a second State of Origin match was played, and captain-coach Arthur Beetson was a late withdrawal due to injury. In what proved to be a master stroke, Beetson coached the team from the sidelines and handed the captaincy over to 21-year-old <mask> who had moved from lock to play . His form for Queensland in both the two games played under the old residence system, and the one Origin game in which he scored one of four Qld tries, saw him selected to make his Test début for Australia in 1981, playing five-eighth in a 43–3 win over France at the SCG. At the Australian team's first training session (at Lang Park), coach Frank Stanton wasn't impressed with <mask>' fitness after he lagged behind in a set of 400 metre runs, though it was reported that <mask> wasn't alone and only lock forward Ray Price had completed the runs without too much trouble. During the game <mask> had a chance to score his first test try. Backing up a line break, <mask> received the ball only 15 metres out with a clear path to the line.Hearing someone closing in from behind he passed the ball to his  partner Steve Mortimer to score before he could be tackled. After scoring Mortimer questioned <mask> as to why he passed as there was no French player near him. <mask> later saw a television replay which showed it was in fact the match referee who he could hear behind him. Ironically, the try was Mortimer's first test try in what was also his début test for Australia. In the 1982 State of Origin series <mask> got his second Origin try and his first man-of-the-match award in Origin and later that year was a member of the 1982 Kangaroo tour as tour vice-captain. The 1982 Kangaroos became the first side to go through Great Britain and France undefeated, earning themselves the nickname The Invincibles. The tour raged with selection controversy as for the opening game of the tour against Hull Kingston Rovers, Stanton chose Parramatta's Winfield Cup Grand Final winning halves Brett Kenny and Peter Sterling (though <mask> actually played from the bench), who went about cementing their selection for the first test.<mask> was left out of the first Ashes test against Great Britain at Boothferry Park in Hull and coach Frank Stanton had been less than impressed with his attitude to training and his off-field habits which had seen him actually gain weight. Stanton then challenged him to get back into shape and force his way back into the test team and <mask> did just that. He began training harder to lose the weight, including jogging back from training to the team base, the Dragonara Hotel in Leeds. His form also improved and he became a vital player from the bench in the final two tests at Central Park and Headingley. <mask>' finest moment on the tour came in the second half of the second test in Wigan. After coming on as a replacement for injured winger Eric Grothe (he come on to play 5/8 with Brett Kenny moving to the centres and Mal Meninga to the wing), <mask> fired a bullet-like 20 metre cut-out pass to Meninga who then scored in the corner. Although the Kangaroos had soundly beaten Great Britain until that point of the series, <mask>' pass had a psychological effect on the Lions who were left wondering just how good the Australian's really were if they could afford to leave someone on the bench who could pass like that.Those long cut-out passes (something he learned playing junior rugby union and playing backyard football with his brothers) would become a feature of <mask>' game over the next 10 years. During the tour, <mask> captained his first game for Australia in an international when the Kangaroos defeated Wales in a "non-test" at Ninian Park in Cardiff. Playing in the s, <mask> was one of four try scorers in a 37–7 win for the Kangaroos, with fullback Steve Ella leading the way with four. <mask> also kicked four goals with the game played in driving rain. <mask> was selected at five-eighth for the first test against France on the French leg of the tour, but missed the second test after again dislocating his shoulder in a minor game between the tests which ended his tour as a player. In the first and third games of the 1983 State of Origin series, <mask> was named man-of-the-match. In 1983, <mask> also regained his test five-eighth spot from Brett Kenny for the two tests against New Zealand at Carlaw Park in Auckland, and at Lang Park.<mask> captained Queensland  as they toured Papua New Guinea and England part of the 1983–84 Rugby Football League season. He played in their 8-6 defeat against Hull Kingston Rovers followed up by a 40-2 victory over Wigan RLFC and a 2-58 win over Leeds Rhinos. <mask> played for English First Division side Wakefield Trinity (Heritage No. 928) for a short spell during the 1983–84 Rugby Football League season and he remains a favourite of Trinity fans, who named their fanzine <mask> is Coming. Trinity won 5 of 10 games during <mask>'s stay, including a win over St. Helens in which <mask> scored a hat-trick. After his last match on 12 February, Trinity did not win another game and were relegated to the second division. Initially, <mask> had been reluctant to sign with Wakefield after having played both club and representative football almost non-stop since the start of 1982, including the Kangaroo Tour and Queensland's three game tour of England at the end of 1983, when he came to the attention of Wakefield.The club asked him to name his price and, not believing that they could afford it, <mask> told them it would cost £30,000 for him to play in England (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £140,100 in 2016). What he did not know was that a wealthy Wakefield businessman financially supported the club and was bankrolling their attempt to sign <mask> (who by the end of 1983 had been rated the best player in rugby league). Good to his word and despite being jaded and in need of a break, <mask> signed to play his only season of English club football and became the highest paid player in England at the time. Wynnum-Manly
Back in Australia, <mask> left Valleys and moved to the Wynnum-Manly Seagulls. In 1984 <mask> captained an Oceania team's 54–4 victory over an Anglo-French selection in an exhibition match Paris, returning to Brisbane after the match to continue playing for Wynnum-Manly. He gained the national captaincy for the first time in the 1984 Ashes series against Great Britain, winning a well publicised battle with Parramatta and NSW captain Ray Price. <mask> was also named player of the series for his performance as captain of the Brisbane Rugby League team that won the 1984 National Panasonic Cup Final against Sydney's Eastern Suburbs Roosters club.<mask> was named man-of-the match in the first two games of the 1984 State of Origin series, making it three consecutive Origin man-of-the-match awards. That year, he also won the Brisbane Rugby League premiership's grand final against Souths. The following year, <mask> was awarded the inaugural Golden Boot Award as the world's best international player in 1984. <mask> was man-of-the-match for Game II of the 1985 State of Origin series, becoming the second player, after Mal Meninga in Game 1 1982, from the losing team to win the award. He then played in Wynnum-Manly's 1985 BRL grand final loss to a Souths Magpies team which included Gary Belcher, Mal Meninga and Peter Jackson. The Australian side toured New Zealand that year, winning the test series 2–1. The New Zealand tour was an unhappy one though, with coach Terry Fearnley, who had just led New South Wales to their first ever State of Origin series win, not getting along with captain <mask> or the other Queensland players and seemingly favoring NSW players, especially tour vice-captain Wayne Pearce.After winning the first two tests, Fearnley dropped four players from the team, all Queenslanders, in what Queensland Rugby League boss Senator Ron McAuliffe called a "Football Assassination". The changes to the team proved to be a disaster as the Kiwis defeated a disjointed Australia 18–0. The following year, internal problems between the Seagulls club board and its head coach Des Morris saw <mask> installed as Captain-coach of Wynnum-Manly. <mask> would lead the team, which included rep players Colin Scott,

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