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Alex Mocock
Height: 5’ 10”
Eye colour: Brown
Favourite place to be: In front of a decent plate of food
Life theme tune: Oasis - Whatever
Favourite film: The Godfather part II
Last decision made based on recommendation: To read the book Football and All That by Norman Giller
Chosen super power: Ability to travel through time
Biggest vice: Spending money I don't have
Favourite website / blog: BBC Sport
Annika Gharial
Height: 5’ 5”
Eye colour: Brown
Favourite place to be: Bronte Beach, Sydney or Rio de Janeiro
Life theme tune: Groove is in the heart - Dee Lite
Favourite film: Out of Africa
Last decision made based on recommendation: To visit a particular restaurant in the Lake District – food was lovely
Chosen super power: To steal superpowers from other superheroes as and when wanted
Biggest vice: Any food with plenty of sugar in/wine
Favourite website / blog: BBC
Charlotte Kelly
Height: 5’ 8” ish
Eye colour: Green/Blue
Favourite place to be: Sunny beach bar with a helpful waiter!
Life theme tune: Curtis Mayfield – Move On Up
Favourite film: The Shawshank Redemption/City of God
Last decision made based on recommendation: Taking the A538 as recommended by Long Distance Clara
Chosen super power: Teleportation
Biggest vice: Archers meat and potato pies, cheese board and good wines
Favourite website / blog: BBC
Don Lewis
Height: 5’ 10”
Eye colour: Blue
Favourite place to be: Outdoors
Life theme tune: He’s a Rebel
Favourite film: Days of Wine and Roses
Last decision made based on recommendation: Dinner at River Café, New York
Chosen super power: Accelerated healing
Biggest vice: Domaine Chignard - Fleurie 2006
Favourite website / blog: Any news site
Emma Caine
Height: 5’ 4”
Eye colour: Blue
Favourite place to be: Outside in the sun, preferably somewhere tropical!
Life theme tune: Rockin’ Robin – Jackson 5
Favourite film: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin or Grease
Last decision made based on recommendation: A chocolate ice cream sundae
Chosen super power: Invisibility
Biggest vice: Chocolate
Favourite website / blog: Wikipedia
Hassan Ahmed
Height: 6’ something
Eye colour: Brown
Favourite place to be: With friends and family
Life theme tune: All these things that I’ve done – The Killers
Favourite film: Jerry Maguire
Last decision made based on recommendation: Goose Island Root Beer
Chosen super power: To fly of course!
Biggest vice: Liverpool FC
Favourite website / blog: The Register/Twitter
Kate Hickson
Height: 5’4.5” (and that half is VERY important)
Eye colour: Blue / grey
Favourite place to be: Reading a bedtime story to my daughter
Life theme tune: Save the last dance for me by The Drifters
Favourite film: Fight Club
Last decision made based on recommendation: I put pineapple on my tuna salad
Chosen super power: X-ray vision
Biggest vice: Red wine
Favourite website / blog: www.babycentre.co.uk
Katherine Higgins
Height: 5”5 and proud! (My sisters tower over me you see!)
Eye colour: Green
Favourite place to be: At the beach in a hot country or curled up under my duvet listening to the rain outside…
Life theme tune: Sunshine’ – Roy Ayers
Favourite film: Love watching films but my favourite films have to be ‘Brown Sugar’ or Top Gun!
Last decision made based on recommendation: To go to Linen in Manchester for a meal, haven’t been yet so will have to wait and see what I think!
Chosen super power: I would be invisible!
Biggest vice: Chocolate and alcohol
Favourite website / blog: Facebook, EFC and Moonpig.
James Lawton-Hill
Height: 6 foot 2 inches
Eye colour: Green
Favourite place to be: Anywhere with my wife
Life theme tune: Mr Jones, Counting Crows
Favourite film: The Butterfly Effect
Last decision made based on recommendation: Sky Sports (although my wife wasn’t too impressed!)
Chosen super power: X Ray Vision!
Biggest vice: Watching sports
Favourite website / blog: BBC
Jenna Tyson
Height: 5’4”
Eye colour: Blue
Favourite place to be: At home on Christmas Day with all the family
Life theme tune: Kiss – ‘Crazy Nights’
Favourite film: The Usual Suspects
Last decision made based on recommendation: To swap milk for yoghurt on my breakfast cereal!
Chosen super power: To time travel!
Biggest vice: Cadburys Crème Eggs
Favourite website / blog: Manchester Confidential
Jeryl Lu
Height: 1.78m
Eye colour: Black
Favourite place to be: Tokyo
Life theme tune: Kazarijanainoyo namida wa
Favourite film: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Last decision made based on recommendation: To watch 3-D ‘Final Destination 4’
Chosen super power: Healing power
Biggest vice: Bought more than 8000 CDs!
Favourite website / blog: Japanese Message Board: http://japanese.meetup.com/7/messages/boards
Jessica Midlane
Height: 5.7 (ok , 5.5)
Eye colour: Mud puddle-brown
Favourite place to be: In the back of a Land rover in the African bush
Life theme tune: ‘Scatterlings of Africa’, Johnny Clegg and Savuka
Favourite film: Ooooh – next question please…
Last decision made based on recommendation: A dog hotel for my pooches, George and Jack
Chosen super power: Retrospect!
Biggest vice: Dragging my husband and dogs along for a run when its raining
Favourite website / blog: Timesonline in pictures
Jonathan Cox
Height: 6 foot, 4½ inches
Eye colour: Blue
Favourite place to be: ‘Restaurant 181’ in Munich. A revolving restaurant with a view over the whole of Munich
Life theme tune: DJ Sammy’s ‘Heaven’, the Candlelight Mix
Favourite film: Gladiator
Last decision made based on recommendation: To buy a Rado watch!
Chosen super power: Apart from having the ability to print cash, I think I would like to somehow assist Bolton Wanderers win the Premiership!
Biggest vice: Clothes shopping and great wines!
Favourite website / blog: www.wanderersways.com
Kris Levey
Height: Short
Eye colour: Blue
Favourite place to be: Beachcomber Island (Fiji), playing beach rugby and drinking Kava
Life theme tune: New Radicals – You Get What You Give
Favourite film: Trainspotting – Danny Boyle is the greatest British director and Irvine Welsh the greatest British author of our generation and the sum is greater than its constituent parts. Plus it was the first 18-rated film I successfully blagged my way into.
Last decision made based on recommendation: Lime salted Pistachios – where have you been all my life?
Chosen super power: Being able to instantly articulate the perfect riposte to any putdown
Biggest vice: Strong cheese and pate
Favourite website / blog: http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/
Melissa Talbot
Height: 5 foot 7 (or 8, not sure!)
Eye colour: Mixed (bluey green)
Favourite place to be: By the sea
Life theme tune: There she goes again – The La’s
Favourite film: The Poseidon adventure
Last decision made based on recommendation: Whether to take pethidine or have an epidural during childbirth!
Chosen super power: To fly
Biggest vice: Cheese!!
Favourite website / blog: The Reference geeks blog – of course!
Pei Choo Ang
Height: 1.73m
Eye colour: Black
Favourite place to be: My bedroom
Life theme tune: Ever the same
Favourite film: No favourite but prefer action-packed or mystery movies
Last decision made based on recommendation: To play a game on facebook
Chosen super power: To fly
Biggest vice: Buying clothes
Favourite website / blog: http://singaporemotherhood.com
Rhian Harrison
Height: 5’ 5”
Eye colour: Hazel brown
Favourite place to be: My favourite holiday resort in Turkey with my family
Life theme tune: Handbags and Gladrags – Rod Stewart or Kelly Jones (Both have wonderful voices
Favourite film: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Shirley Valentine
Last decision made based on recommendation: Subscription to a foodie magazine
Chosen super power: To be able to fly as I hate aeroplanes or to travel through time so I could visit the medieval era, I am intrigued by it
Biggest vice: Wasting money on unnecessary things
Favourite website / blog: www.travelerslunchbox.com
Robin Hamilton
Height: 6’
Eye colour: Blueish
Favourite place to be: Sennen Cove, Cornwall
Life theme tune: Four seasons in one day - Crowded House
Favourite film: The Fifth Element or North by Northwest
Last decision made based on recommendation: To watch Lucky Number Slevin. It was good,
Chosen super power: Time travel
Biggest vice: Pastries
Favourite website / blog: Seth Godin
Terry Thiele
Height: 5’ 8’
Eye colour: Brown
Favourite place to be: Manchester City Football Club
Life theme tune: City till I die
Favourite film: DVD of Man City winning the FA cup in 1969
Last decision made based on recommendation: To apply to become a referee
Chosen super power: Make sure that City never lose again
Biggest vice: ManCity
Favourite website / blog: MCFC.co.uk
Verity Shuttleworth
Height: 5’ 6”
Eye colour: Brown/Hazel
Favourite place to be: Curled up on the sofa with my husband and my cat
Life theme tune: Always look on the bright side of life
Favourite film: Dirty Dancing
Last decision made based on recommendation: Choice of restaurant
Chosen super power: Invisibility
Biggest vice: Too many to mention
Favourite website / blog: Facebook-seriously addicted
Weng Yan Yip
Height: 1.57m
Eye colour: Black
Favourite place to be: Home
Life theme tune: Raindrops keep falling on my head
Favourite film: The Rock
Last decision made based on recommendation: To replace my 7-year old Nokia mobile phone with a new one with qwerty keyboard, either a Nokia E75 or HTC Touch Pro, which will let me manage my calendar & emails on the go
Chosen super power: Understand what’s in people’s mind & help them accordingly
Biggest vice: Gluttony!!
Favourite website / blog: Google website – simple & fast to load before I can do a search
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