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An engaging, carefree, likeable winger revelling in life at Ross County, laughter comes easily to the top scorer in the Scottish Premiership. On and off the pitch, the 23-year-old is a force of nature. He laughs loudly and often and nothing makes him laugh more than the memories of his parents trying to pull him and his brothers apart like six cats in a sack.
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The comedian, who replaced Anne Robinson as the host of The Weakest Link, has previously spoken about his impoverished upbringing, including the challenges faced by his family when their home was repossessed after his accountant father was jailed for two years for fraud.
Mr Ranganathan made clear his allegiance to the West Sussex town – whose other notable residents include England manager Gareth Southgate and Crown actress Erin Doherty – by calling his 2018 autobiography Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs Of A Distinctly Average Human Being.
While his father played a bit of football, his uncle James Cook MBE held the British and European super-middleweight boxing belts in the early 1990s. When he retired after a 12-year career and 25 victories, he formed the renowned Pedro Youth Club as a haven for disadvantaged kids reared in the gang culture of Hackney’s notorious ‘Murder Mile.’
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‘He has managed to find a space there to build his dream home, though it is rather bigger than his childhood home in one of the poorer areas of Crawley. It’s a lovely story of rags to riches which Romesh has worked very hard for.’
The 60-year-old author – born in St Petersburg to Russian parents and assigned mandatory military service assisting the KGB – has been forced to flee his home in Kyiv with his English wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.
The comic, whose mother appeared regularly in his BBC travel series Asian Provocateur, was previously a maths teacher and head of sixth form at Hazelwick school in Crawley, where he had also been a pupil.
Kanye, 44, has come under fire for his repeated public outbursts aimed at his estranged wife Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend Pete Davidson, as well as at other celebrities such as Trevor Noah, who have criticized his behavior.
Some cultural bodies have prompted accusations of McCarthyism – the anti-Russian hysteria whipped up during the 1950s – for rushing to cancel Russian culture in response to Vladimir Putin’s (above) invasion order
‘I’ve adjusted to the Highlands,’ he insists. ‘This is my home now and when I go to London that feels like the holiday now. Where it used to feel normal, London actually feels like everything goes at 100mph.
‘He used to help out the community in Hackney and help to get the boys off the street. That’s why he opened up the gym. To get boys to have a safe space to exercise and box. Since he stopped boxing, he has done so much in that area and has written a book about his experiences as well.
‘With all great literature, like the great Russian masters, there is a sort of universality that resonates with people.
They write about the human condition and in reading them we realise that people from 19th century Russia – or indeed modern day Russia – have many of the same difficulties, hopes and dreams that we have in the west.’
Some cultural bodies have prompted accusations of McCarthyism – the anti-Russian hysteria whipped up during the 1950s – for rushing to cancel Russian culture in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion order.
It’s hard to begrudge young men living 600 miles from home in an environment so remote from London that it might as well be the dark side of the moon, some home comforts. Not that Regan Charles-Cook necessarily feels any desperate pining need to return to the Big Smoke as soon as the Caledonian Sleeper will take him.
Study his pace and eye for goal now and it’s hard to imagine that he was ever anything other than the attacking menace who attracted interest from Aberdeen and Hibs in the January window. Yet, during his early career he was mistaken for a right-back and a central midfielder before Mackay found his natural calling.
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