50 Facts About Suzanne Shaw

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Suzanne Shaw won the third series of the ITV skating show Dancing on Ice in 2008 and participated in the 'All Stars' series in 2014.

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Suzanne Shaw played the character of Eve Jenson in the soap opera Emmerdale.

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At the age of two, Suzanne Shaw started ballet and tap classes at the Janet Lomas School of Dancing in Bury.

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Suzanne Shaw performed in annual shows and competed successfully in dance festivals and competitions across the North West.

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At five years of age, Suzanne Shaw performed in her first amateur dramatics show, Annie.

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Suzanne Shaw developed a love for theatre, performing in various amateur dramatic productions, including The Sound of Music and a West End production of Showboat at the age of nine.

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Suzanne Shaw went on to train at Freelance Dance School.

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Suzanne Shaw was a member of an ABBA tribute band, The Right Stuff, and appeared in television roles including an Esso advertisement, Holby City, and a BBC production, Elidor.

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Suzanne Shaw tried for the part of Maria Sutherland in Coronation Street, and made it to the final three along with Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh, but lost out to Samia Smith.

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Suzanne Shaw's break came in 2000 when the ITV show Popstars launched a competition for contestants to become part of a newly formed pop band.

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Suzanne Shaw had just turned 18, and attended the auditions and successfully made it through several elimination rounds.

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Suzanne Shaw was chosen as one of the ten finalists and became one of the members of Hear'Say, along with Kym Marsh, Myleene Klass, Noel Sullivan and Danny Foster, having beaten 4,000 other hopefuls.

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Since the band broke up on 1 October 2002, just after her 21st birthday, Suzanne Shaw has established herself as a leading lady in musical theatre as well as an actress, television presenter, model and as a popular media personality.

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Suzanne Shaw has appeared in musical theatre from a young age but following the break-up of Hear'Say has begun to firmly establish herself as a leading musical theatre actress.

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Suzanne Shaw landed a role in the remake of the Summer Holiday musical in London's West End, and later in a UK tour of the show starring alongside Darren Day and Christopher Biggins.

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In February 2005, Suzanne Shaw took on the role of narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, in the West End.

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Suzanne Shaw received rave reviews for her role from fans of the show, critics as well as creator Richard O' Brien.

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Suzanne Shaw has appeared in the musicals Chicago and White Christmas; for further details see notable roles and appearances.

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Suzanne Shaw is the face and body of the Michelle for George Ultimo range at Asda.

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In 2008, Suzanne Shaw wrote a weekly column for Woman Magazine which has a circulation of over 370,000 each week.

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Suzanne Shaw is an ambassador of Mattel and the deal with Suzanne Shaw is the first time that Mattel and Barbie DVD distributor Entertainment Rights have undertaken together.

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Suzanne Shaw lent her vocals to the theme tune "Connected" from 2008's "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" children's movie.

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Suzanne Shaw is current face of Tesco Mobile as well as Disney for which she has launched the interactive games "Disney's Sing It" and "Disney's A Christmas Carol".

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Suzanne Shaw co-wrote several tracks for Hear'Say one of which was recorded by and featured on the second album of American pop group Jump 5.

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Suzanne Shaw presented a live gameshow Bingolotto on Virgin 1 and Challenge every Friday night.

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Suzanne Shaw took the title role of Cinderella, at the Bristol Hippodrome for the 2013 Christmas period.

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In 2008, Suzanne Shaw won series 3 of the popular ITV show Dancing on Ice, performing technical footwork and solo skating skills as well as many lifts and tricks with her partner Matt Evers, the "Headbanger" being her most best-known of the series.

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Suzanne Shaw is the only celebrity ever to do the Headbanger from a standing takeoff position, which is more difficult and more dangerous.

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Suzanne Shaw remains the only female celebrity to do the twister in the headbanger, the splits lift, the ballet lift, the walk over, a 3 jump, the famous Torvill and Dean overhead flip and cartwheel and a full death spiral amongst other moves.

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Suzanne Shaw revealed that Shaw was very good at improvising as she forgot some of the steps at the start of the routine.

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Suzanne Shaw skated three times during the series finale, scoring a flawless five sixes with the judges in two of her routines.

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Suzanne Shaw then went on to win the show by getting the majority of the public votes.

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Suzanne Shaw took part in related competitions, including the Tour and Christmas Special with Team Torvill.

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Suzanne Shaw still holds the record for being the only celebrity to have 3 perfect scores in a row.

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Christopher Dean praised Suzanne Shaw stating that she had "done wonders" despite less than 3 weeks training with her new partner prior to the tour.

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Suzanne Shaw received high praise from the judges as well as Torvill and Dean for being "an absolute professional" regarding the change of partners.

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In 2007, Suzanne Shaw filmed a reality TV show named The Baron.

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Suzanne Shaw was originally only due to play the role of Roxie Hart for 6 weeks but due to good reviews and several standing ovations her contract was extended until August 2008.

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Suzanne Shaw received a nomination for best takeover in the prestigious whatsonstage theatregoers choice awards for her performance of the role.

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Suzanne Shaw toured in The Vagina Monologues throughout the summer of 2009 alongside actresses such as Jessie Wallace, Wendi Peters and Sue Holderness.

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Suzanne Shaw starred as Judy Haynes alongside Aled Jones, Adam Cooper and Roy Dotrice in the musical White Christmas at the Lowry arts centre in Salford from November 2009 to January 2010.

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Suzanne Shaw appeared as Eve Birch, the granddaughter of longstanding character Edna Birch, in the British ITV1 soap Emmerdale.

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Series producer Gavin Blyth stated in an interview with Digital Spy that he auditioned 50 to 60 actresses for the role, one of them being former Hear'Say singer and West end star Suzanne Shaw who made the trip to Yorkshire to audition from Manchester where she was playing Judy Haynes in the record breaking musical White Christmas.

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In 2012, Suzanne Shaw toured in Funny Peculiar with Vicky Entwistle, Craig Gazey, Dominic Cazenove and Gemma Bissix.

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Suzanne Shaw started a relationship with DJ and television presenter Jason King.

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In 2008, Suzanne Shaw was voted Celebrity Mother of the Year by the public.

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Suzanne Shaw said that she prefers quiet family life and goes out of her way to avoid the press and a showbiz lifestyle.

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Suzanne Shaw gave birth to her first child, a boy named Corey MacKenzie Suzanne Shaw-Day, on 16 December 2004.

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On 4 March 2015, Suzanne Shaw announced that she was expecting a second child, with fiance Sam Greenfield.

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Suzanne Shaw gave birth to a boy on 6 October 2015 whom she named Rafferty.