1. Adam Peter Rickitt was born on 29 May 1978 and is an English actor and singer.
38 Facts About Adam Rickitt
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Adam Rickitt portrayed the part of Nick Tilsley on the British soap opera Coronation Street from 1997 to 1999, and again from 2002 to 2004.
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Adam Rickitt later joined the New Zealand soap Shortland Street for a three-year stint between 2007 and 2010.
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Adam Rickitt attempted to embark on a political career within the Conservative Party in 2005, but has since denounced the party's views.
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Adam Rickitt was born in Crewe, the youngest of four brothers who grew up in Cuddington, Eddisbury.
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Adam Rickitt's father was the co-owner of an estate agency.
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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 auditioned for the ITV soap opera Coronation Street in 1997.
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Adam Rickitt did it as a joke, having never watched an episode, and his agent said that he would not get it.
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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 Records, although he only released one album - Good Times.
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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 October 2005, Adam Rickitt was approved as a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party.
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Adam Rickitt was asked into politics as a way of getting young people engaged in voting and admitted that he had no real intentions of progressing far.
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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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Alongside David Cameron, he provoked the anger of Sir Nicholas Winterton when it was revealed that Adam Rickitt was being tipped to stand for the safe Conservative seat of Macclesfield, which the outraged Winterton had represented for over thirty years.
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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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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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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 was given the opportunity to have creative freedom with the character since his storylines had not been fully formed.
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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 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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However, in 2014, Adam Rickitt agreed with a comment that the world would be a better place without the Conservative Party.
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Adam Rickitt returned to the United Kingdom to continue his acting career, and in 2016, he made a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC medical soap opera Doctors.
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Adam Rickitt was then cast in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as regular character Kyle Kelly.
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Adam Rickitt left the soap in June 2020 when his character took his own life.
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In June 2023, it was announced that Adam Rickitt would be returning to Doctors.
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Adam Rickitt's episode aired in December 2023, where he portrayed Michael Harvey.
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Adam Rickitt fainted after inhaling the substance and was taken to hospital.
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Adam Rickitt has an autoimmune disorder called ankylosing spondylitis, which made Rickitt infertile, with a sperm count of two.
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Adam Rickitt married Good Morning Britain presenter Katy Fawcett in 2014.
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Adam Rickitt worked for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as a capital appeals manager.
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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.