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Details of Secret Millionaire Kevin Greens new Channel 5 programme have been revealed today.
Its all been very hush-hush and I couldnt even tell my closest friends what it is all about, Green said today.
But Channel 5 took the wraps off the pre-publicity campaign today and I can now reveal the show is going to be called Secret Interview.
Filming was carried out earlier this year we have been busy shooting at different locations in West Wales and beyond.
Green has plenty of TV experience, having been featured on Channel Fours Secret Millionaire and Skys The Devils Dinner Party.
He added: The Secret Interview will be unlike anything I have done previously.
The show will put eight unknowing people through an interview process they will never forget.
The unwitting candidates believe they are filming a documentary about their workplace. In fact they are about to have an interview for the job of a lifetime without even knowing its happening.
Each of them will be tested to their limits by a team of undercover actors intent on causing utter chaos.
Meanwhile, their prospective new boss, a giant of their industry, watches everything.
Conducting the Secret Interviews will be Kevin Green, Michelin starred chef Jason Atherton, the editor of womens magazine Glamour Jo Elvin and hair stylist to the stars Nicky Clarke.
For the candidates, its going to be the working week of their lives and every move they make could take them a step closer to a job with the Secret Interviewers that could transform their world.
In the first episode, two aspiring chefs go in for the ultimate cook off with a new recipe; one fake food critic, a sprinkle of nightmare food orders and a rubbish waitress to garnish.
In episode two, a pair of hopeful estate agents come up against bogus buyers and tenants from hell whilst having to remain calm and collected.
In episode three, a duo of helpless hairdressers try to impress with flying colours and not dull lowlights. But will a late bluffing bride and bogus bridesmaids push them over the edge?
In the fourth episode, a pair of fashionistas have to organise an impromptu promo party with 60 minutes to make it happen and work experience girls who hinder, not help.
Co-produced by Twofour and GroupM Entertainment, Secret Interview will air on Channel 5 later this month.
Ian Dunkley, Channel 5 Commissioning Editor for Factual Entertainment said: No one likes being interviewed but this show takes it to a new level. Our candidates dont even know its happening and that they are being judged by some of the biggest names in their field of work.
Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour Creative Director says: "This is one of the formats we're most excited by. It feels entertaining and timely, rewarding good people with a step up the ladder without them even knowing they're being cunningly tested."
Richard Foster, MD GroupM Entertainment said: From the moment we first saw this as a paper format we were intrigued by what the show could be, and what Twofour have brought to life is an absolutely captivating series.

Weblink
http://www.kevingreen.co.uk/
Twitter - @kevingreenwales

About Kevin Green
Kevin Green is a self-made multi-millionaire and social entrepreneur. He is one of the UKs largest residential property landlords and a multi-business owner.
The 48-year-old dyslexic, who featured on Channel 4s Secret Millionaire, was homeless in 1984. Today his property portfolio runs into the hundreds.
He has a wealth of experience in the property investment world and heads a number of successful companies and other non property related businesses.
He is also involved in coaching under his own brand of Kevin Green Wealth (KGW) and is a Dynamo role model for the Welsh Government, inspiring young people in schools and universities to set up businesses.
Before making his fortune in business, he was a successful dairy farmer.
In 1999 he won a Nuffield Scholarship in agriculture and studied the attitudes and personalities of high achievers. He interviewed Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson.
The wealth guru loves to educate, motivate and inspire others and his passion and enthusiasm is quite infectious. His down to earth approach is often referred to by those who know him as exactly what it says on the tin. These qualities have catapulted him into worldwide demand as a speaker at conferences, dinners and seminars.
He has helped launched the new Entrepreneurship Academy Wales for the business leaders of the future.

Other information:
The series is made up of 4 x 60 minute episodes that will air from late August.
For all the latest about Channel 5, follow twitter.com/channel5press
About GroupM
The primary role of GroupM Entertainment is to produce, finance and distribute entertainment properties for a wide range of international TV and digital markets. The company's primary business interests extend across all media platforms and a variety of genres, including entertainment, factual entertainment, factual and drama.
About Channel 5
Channel 5 was launched as Britain's fifth and final terrestrial broadcaster in March 1997. In July 2010, the network was sold to British media powerhouse Northern & Shell and it currently attracts well over 30 million viewers a week. Channel 5 is the destination for must see entertainment, sport, documentary, kids, drama, film and news output. Pivotal channel programming includes a diverse mix to attract viewers of all age, including the Extraordinary People and Revealed strands, Cowboy Builders, The Hotel Inspector, , The Gadget Show, Home & Away, Neighbours, 5 News as well as the award winning children's strand, Milkshake! In addition it is the terrestrial home of all England Cricket summer Internationals. Joining their highly successful crime drama franchises in 2012 are two big new US acquisitions fantasy drama Once Upon A Time and the hugely anticipated return of a revamped 21st Century Dallas.
About Twofour:
Twofour is an award winning television producer creating factual, features and entertainment programming for leading broadcasters across the UK and international market. http://www.twofourbroadcast.com/
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Roots Resolved - by Anne Bradshaw


By Janet Louise Mancini, 2012-08-01

The following article was posted on "True Miracles With Genealogy" by Anne Bradshaw in Decemeber of 2011. I am writing a book about my time spent in a children's home in Pennsylvania before my adoption in 1958. My book is due out next year.

http://truemiracleswithgenealogy.com/roots-resolved/

Janet L. Mancini

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Welsh Teacake Recipes


By Ceri Shaw, 2012-08-01

Just a couple of links to Welsh teacake recipes I found following on from the earlier conversation in chat. Including one that is billed as a low sodium recipe especially for Janet Mancini who was kind enough to share some of her mothers recipes with us earlier. Diolch Janet:--

Welsh Cakes

Welsh Tea Cakes

Welsh Cakes Low Sodium Recipe

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Chocolate Gobs - Alberta Mancini Recipes


By Janet Louise Mancini, 2012-08-01

Chocolate Gobs

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup spry or oleo

2 eggs

3/4 cup boiling water

1 cup buttermilk

4 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup cocoa

Drop by spoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet

Bake at 450 degrees for five minutes

Filling for Gobs

1 cup milk and 5 tablespoons flour

cook until thick and dry. let cool

cream together

1 cup powdered sugar

1 cup spry or oleo

1/2 cup oleo then add flour mixture and beat until smooth and fluffy.

fill cookies and roll in powdered sugar.

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1/2 cup spry or oleo

1 1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs (cream these 3 ingredients together)

2 ounces red food color

2 tablespoons cocoa (mix into paste)

1 cup buttermilk

2 cups cake flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon baking powder (sift dry ingredients together)

1 tablespoon vinegar

1 teaspoon baking soda (mix and fold into mixture)

Bake in 2 layers 8 or 9 inch pans

30 to 35 minutes in 350 degree oven

use favorite frosting

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I get up and work out in the morning and watch "The Daily Show" with John Stewart (best political news show in the US ;p) and this morning Quincy Jones' daughter, Rashida Jones, was on talking about her new movie, "Celeste and Jesse Forever," and when she first sat down, this was her exchange with John Stewart:

STEWART: "You have, it's such a beautiful and unusual name Jones tell me about that?"

JONES: "Weirdly, it's Welsh."

STEWART: "Is it really?"

JONES: "It is."

STEWART: "Interesting!"

JONES: "For a long time, I thought, because my father is an African-American, that it was, maybe, a slave name, that happens, sometimes. But it's Welsh! We're Welsh!"

STEWART: "I spotted the Welsh in you from "

JONES: (laughing)

STEWART: "Look how excited you are to be Welsh!"

JONES: "I know!"

and I found from watching this that, besides being an actor and writer, she's also created a comic book - she's now my favorite celeb!

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Finished at last! See www.maesg.org.uk for details... the sun was shining during our set-up; let's hope it shines on our 8 day venture

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The summer holidays have begun and Pont Books are delighted to introduce The Gardening Pirates to children across the country.

On board the bad ship Ych-a-fi , times are hard and cruel Captain Cranc forces the crew to eat horrible ships biscuits while he is fed on octopus pies and squid omelettes.

One day, the pirates land on an island and follow Captain Cranc in search of treasure. But when they find the treasure chest, there is no gold the chest is filled with seeds, bags of compost and gardening tools

Without anybody noticing, cabin girl, Gwen smuggles the treasure back to the ship and secretly plants the vegetable seeds in the crows nest so that the pirates can have delicious and healthy meals. How will Captain Cranc react when he finds out? And what about the mysterious seed sowed in Gwens hat?

Chris Glynns wonderful illustrations add visual humour to the text and bring the story to life. It is a story to gladden the hearts of all seafarers and gardeners as good triumphs over bad when eventually Gwen becomes captain and Captain Cranc becomes the cabin boy.

This delightful picture book is the brainchild of author Ruth Morgan who worked with her partner, Chris Glynn, to develop the story. Ruth is an experienced author of books for children of all ages, from picture books for toddlers to teenage novels. She currently teaches in Penarth where she also lives . . . and gardens although, unlike Gwen, Ruths kitchen garden is firmly based on dry land. Chris is BA programme director at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC, and is well-known as an illustrator, artist and animator.

The Gardening Pirates is available from all good bookshops and online retailers

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Blodwen's Sale Now On


By Ceri Shaw, 2012-07-26

Blodwen's Sale Now On!

School's out and Summer has arrived in Cardigan Bay.

To celebrate, Blodwen is launching a Summer Sale of her beautiful, handmade homewares collection - all designed and made in Wales.

So whether you're heading for the beach, a music festival or sporting event, check out Blodwen's Sale Page and pick up some lovely things to make your holiday even more special.
Nestled in the seaside village of Aberporth in Cardigan Bay at the very Western tip of Wales, Blodwen is a designer-maker who specialises in the manufacture of contemporary, handcrafted homewares, accessories, furniture, Welsh blankets and textiles.
The company is founded on the desire to preserve and revive traditionalrural skills and as such, designs collections that fuse togethercenturies-old craftsmanship with everyday utility - it is a celebrationof craft, community and collaboration.

Blodwen - Bringing thecraftsman's way of life to your way of living

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An idiot on the Romney campaign t old a reporter for the London Telegraph that Romney would restore the unique relationship between the US and the UK and that the Obama White House failed to understand the "Anglo-Saxon heritage" the US and the UK share.

Let's excuse the obvious gaffe that Obama DOES have plenty of British Isles heritage and Irish specifically. How could anyone have missed Obama's rock star visit to Ireland ?! Many African-Americans DO have British ancestry also. Web and radio news are rightfully full of the anti-African American sentiments of this statementbut they're missing the equally prejudiced anti-Brit ignorance it betrays.

Nothing wrong with Germany, I have known and dearly loved many wonderful Germans but the Angles and Saxons were German and aren't the Brits Brits, not Germans?

DNA research has shown that British people are British, that British DNA has been in Britain since about the end of the last ice age or over 10,000 years, which predates the coming of the Anglo Saxon tribes (who contributed a bit of DNA to Britain) and the rise of the Celts in Europe (who also contributed a bit of DNA to Britain) by thousands of years. The differences between English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh peoples are historic, cultural and political, not genetic and they are not German or strictly speaking, European, they are British. (If you're Irish and you don't like being lumped in as "British", sorry, I just mean in the genetic context as in descended from peoples who migrated to the British Isles after the last Ice Age and I do know that Ireland is a separate country and not part of Britain or the UK) (would the right word for this be "Briton"?)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/1590652.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Sykes#Blood_of_the_Isles

The pseudo-scientific idea that the English were "Anglo-Saxon" and that Scottish, Welsh and Irish people were "Celts" became very popular in the Victorian era and was used to justify discrimination against "Celts," including a once-popular belief that "Anglo-Saxons" were descended from Cro-Magnons and "Celts" from Neanderthals. We now know that we all have some Neanderthal DNA.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100506-science-neanderthals-humans-mated-interbred-dna-gene/

Many great things have come from the Britain and Ireland. What's wrong with Brits being Brits and what's wrong with Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish heritage? I'm personally pretty proud of all of mine, as I would be of German heritage if I had it, which so far I've found that I don't.

What do you think?

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