1. Louise Redknapp was married to the English former footballer Jamie Redknapp.
40 Facts About Louise Redknapp
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In 2016, Louise Redknapp reached the final in the fourteenth series of BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
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Louise Redknapp's memoir entitled You've Got This: And Other Things I Wish I Had Known was released in 2021.
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Louise Redknapp has released four studio albums: Naked, Woman in Me, Elbow Beach and, following a 17-year hiatus from recording, Heavy Love.
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Louise Redknapp's father was a builder and her mother worked at Gatwick Airport.
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Louise Redknapp describes herself as having come from a single-parent family with her mother.
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At the age of 11, Louise Redknapp won a scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London, where she met her future Eternal colleague Kelle Bryan on her first day.
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Louise Redknapp left the group in 1995 to pursue a solo career, amid unsubstantiated rumours that she was forced to leave because a radio station in the United States dedicated to black music would not promote the racially mixed group.
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Louise Redknapp says that she left because she was miserable and homesick.
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In late 1995, Louise Redknapp signed a record deal with First Avenue management and EMI Records.
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In 1997, Louise Redknapp returned with the single "Arms Around the World", which reached number four in the UK.
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Louise Redknapp was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the readers of SKY Magazine in 1997.
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In 1998, Louise Redknapp focused on making what she described as her "most personal album to date", Elbow Beach, released in 2000.
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Louise Redknapp was more involved in the process of this album than her previous two, co-writing all 12 tracks and co-producing most of them.
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In 2002, Louise Redknapp signed with Positive Records to record her fourth solo album.
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Louise Redknapp submitted "about 10 or 12 tracks" for the album to the label.
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Later, on 15 September 2023, Louise Redknapp released the Lil' Lou extended play, which featured five previously-unreleased songs originally recorded for the unreleased album.
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On 13 September 2017, Louise Redknapp revealed she would be returning to the music industry by announcing her first live show in more than 15 years at Under The Bridge in London on 22 December 2017.
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On 25 March 2019, Louise Redknapp announced that her fourth solo album Heavy Love would be released on 18 October 2019.
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On 10 November 2022, Louise Redknapp released the single "Super Magic".
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On 12 January 2023, Louise Redknapp announced that her Greatest Hits collection, spanning thirty years in the music industry, would be released in June 2023.
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Louise Redknapp released reimagined versions of her singles "Just A Step From Heaven" and "Naked" as promotional singles from her Greatest Hits compilation.
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On 1 June 2023, Louise Redknapp performed in concert at the Shepherd's Bush Empire; Michelle Gayle appeared as a guest and former Eternal bandmate Kelle Bryan made a surprise appearance on stage to perform 1994 single "Crazy".
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On 13 February 2025, Louise Redknapp released the single "Confession", and announced her fifth studio album, Confessions, would be released in May 2025.
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On television, Louise Redknapp has presented editions of SMTV Live, CD:UK, Soccer Aid: Extra Time, This Morning, three series of the revived The Clothes Show for UKTV Style, and in March 2007 the controversial documentary The Truth About Size Zero for ITV.
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Louise Redknapp has been seen as the face of a number of advertising campaigns: the "Safe and White" campaign for Boots, Flora's "Omega 3" products, Boots and BT.
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Louise Redknapp became brand ambassador for Orbit gum in 2007 and a model for Avon.
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In 2009, Louise Redknapp filmed a follow-up documentary The Truth About Super Skinny Pregnancies displaying the pressures on women to stay in shape during and after their pregnancies.
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Later that year in September 2009, Louise Redknapp presented The Farmer Wants a Wife for Five, a relaunch of a series that originally appeared on ITV in 2001.
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In 2009, Louise Redknapp was announced as the face of online fashion retailer Fashion Union.
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Louise Redknapp was a judge on the UK version of So You Think You Can Dance, broadcast on BBC One.
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In 2011, Louise Redknapp made her acting debut alongside Ray Winstone as Diana Smith in the feature film The Hot Potato.
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Louise Redknapp had a cosmetic range named Wild About Beauty, which she launched with make-up artist Kim Jacob; which she sold in 2017.
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On 15 August 2016, Louise Redknapp was announced as a contestant for the fourteenth series of Strictly Come Dancing.
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Louise Redknapp reached the 2016 finals with professional dancer Kevin Clifton.
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In May 2021, Louise Redknapp appeared on The Masked Dancer masked as Flamingo.
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That same month, Louise Redknapp appeared on the first series of BBC game show I Can See Your Voice, performing "Let's Go Round Again".
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In 2003, Louise Redknapp published a magazine called Icon, aimed solely at professional sports stars and celebrities with then-husband Jamie Louise Redknapp and former footballer Tim Sherwood.
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Louise Redknapp participated in a celebrity edition of The Apprentice in 2008, to raise money for charity.
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Louise Redknapp organised a charity sale of celebrity designer clothes at the London department store Selfridges for the charity Mothers4Children in November 2009.