Griffith Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones OBE (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith. Born on 16 November 1953 in Cardiff, the son of Gwynneth Margaret and Elwyn Rhys Jones, a medical doctor. His family moved due to his father’s occupation to West Sussex when Rhys Jones was six months old. Rhys Jones attended Conifers Primary School in Midhurst, West Sussex, junior school in Epping, Essex, and Brentwood School, also in Essex.
Rhys Jones came to national attention in the 1980s for his work in the BBC television comedy sketch shows Not the Nine O’Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones.
After a short spell working as a petrol pump attendant, Rhys Jones gained a gap year job on the P&O ship Uganda, working for a company organising school trips.
Rhys Jones initially read History, later changing to English, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a 2:1.
Jodi Kidd
Jodie Elizabeth Kidd (born 25 September 1978 in Guildford, Surrey) is an English fashion model, racing driver, and television personality.
Kidd was born in 1978 and is the daughter of the businessman and former showjumper Johnny Kidd. She is the granddaughter of The Honourable Janet Gladys Aitken. One of Kidd’s maternal great-grandfathers was the Canadian press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Kidd’s mother, Wendy Madeleine Kidd, is one of the three daughters of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet, and runs the Holders Festival on Barbados. Kidd’s aunt is the model Vicki Hodge.
Jodie was a showjumper as a child and attended St Michael’s School, Burton Park, Petworth, West Sussex. Kidd has two siblings. Her elder sister, Jemma Kidd (born 1974), married Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, son of the current Duke of Wellington, in June 2005.