Adam Peter Rickitt was born on 29 May 1978 and is an English actor, singer and model.
28 Facts About Adam Rickitt
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Adam Rickitt portrayed the role of Nick Tilsley in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2004.
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Adam Rickitt later joined the pop group 5th Story, set up for The Big Reunion, before joining the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2017 to 2020.
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Adam Rickitt was educated at Sedbergh School, a boarding school in Cumbria.
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Adam Rickitt has spoken publicly about suffering from bulimia in his teenage years and about how male sufferers have largely been neglected.
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Adam Rickitt subsequently modelled for magazines including Attitude and Cosmopolitan.
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Adam Rickitt rose to fame on the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, where he took over the role of Nick Tilsley in 1997.
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Adam Rickitt left the series in 1999, returning briefly in 2002 and for a longer spell from 2003 to 2004.
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In March 2006, Adam Rickitt took part in the Channel 4 reality series The Games.
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Adam Rickitt took part as a replacement, after the scheduled contestant, Goldie, had to pull out, following an accident.
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Adam Rickitt himself sustained two black eyes after over-rotating off the diving board.
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Adam Rickitt joined the cast of the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street in early 2007, portraying the role of Kieran Mitchell, with his first appearance being shown on 16 March 2007.
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Adam Rickitt had said that he preferred his role on Shortland Street to working on Coronation Street.
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Adam Rickitt left Hollyoaks in June 2020 when his character took his own life.
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Adam Rickitt left Coronation Street in 1999 to start a music career.
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Adam Rickitt signed a six-album deal with Polydor, although he only released one album - Good Times - in 1999.
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Adam Rickitt fainted after inhaling the substance and was taken to hospital.
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In 2010 Adam Rickitt made an appearance at London's G-A-Y club and announced that he was working on a new album.
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Adam Rickitt starred as Mark Cohen in the 2001 UK tour of Rent, before moving to London's West End.
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Adam Rickitt made a return to the London stage to star in Bill Kenwright's production of Office Games, followed by a new play, Final Judgement, and appeared in Nick Moran's play Telstar on UK tour in 2005.
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In December 2006, Adam Rickitt appeared in his first pantomime, Cinderella, in the role of Prince Charming at the Norwich Theatre Royal.
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In October 2005, Adam Rickitt was approved as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party.
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Adam Rickitt attended national and local Conservative party functions in the hope of being selected as a candidate.
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Adam Rickitt refuted these claims and confirmed that he was a member, while the newspaper retracted its claims the following week.
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Adam Rickitt returned to the political scene in October 2010 as a guest reporter for the ITV breakfast television programme Daybreak covering the Conservative Party Conference from Birmingham, and hosted a conference gay party.
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Adam Rickitt married Good Morning Britain presenter Katy Fawcett in 2014.
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Adam Rickitt left in 2013 to begin working with the cancer charity Help Harry Help Others, and Chief Executive of the mental health foundation, the Caerus Partnership.
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On 21 September 2007, Adam Rickitt was arrested and charged with shoplifting a block of cheese, a bottle of HP sauce and a jar of coffee beans from an Auckland supermarket.