Star Portraits with Rolf Harris was a BBC

BBC

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 television

Television

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 series that has so far had three series, the most recent in March 2007. In it, three artists each paint a picture of a celebrity, and then the celebrity gets to choose to keep one of the paintings. It is presented by artist / television personality Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris

Rolf Harris, CBE, AM is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter, composer, painter and television personality.Born in Perth, Western Australia, Harris was a champion swimmer before studying art. He moved to England in 1952, where he started to appear on television programmes on which he drew the...

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Series One (2004)

The episodes for Series One were watched by 5 million viewers - the most that any art programme has had in the UK

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. The celebrities painted were:

• Michael Parkinson
  Michael Parkinson
  Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...
  
  , CBE, TV presenter
• Charlie Dimmock
  Charlie Dimmock
  Charlie Dimmock is an English gardening expert and TV presenter. She was one of the team on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover programme.-Early years:...
  
  , Gardening Expert and TV Presenter
• David Dickinson
  David Dickinson
  David Dickinson is an English antiques expert, television presenter and entrepreneur.-Biography:...
  
  , Antique Expert and TV Presenter
• Meera Syal
  Meera Syal
  Meera Syal MBE is a British comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and became one of the UK's best-known Indian personalities portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No...
  
  , Actress, Writer, Journalist

Series Two (2005)

• Cilla Black
  Cilla Black
  Cilla Black OBE is an English singer, actress, entertainer and media personality, who has been consistently popular as a light entertainment figure since 1963. She is most famous for her singles Anyone Who Had A Heart, You're My World, and Alfie...
  
  , Singer and Television Presenter
• Adrian Edmondson
  Adrian Edmondson
  Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson is an English comedian. He is probably best known for his comedic roles in the television series The Young Ones and Bottom , for which he also wrote together with his long-time collaboration partner Rik Mayall.-Early life:Edmondson, the second of four children, was...
  
  , Comedian and Writer
• Dr Mo Mowlam
  Mo Mowlam
  Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.Mowlam's time as Northern...
  
  , Politician
• Richard Wilson, Actor

Series Three (2007)

• Barbara Windsor
  Barbara Windsor
  Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....
  
   MBE, Actress
• Dame Kelly Holmes
  Kelly Holmes
  Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
  , Athlete
• Bill Oddie
  Bill Oddie
  William "Bill" Edgar Oddie OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who became famous as one of The Goodies....
  
    OBE, Comedian, Presenter and Conservationist

The Exhibitions

After each series is over, the paintings went on a touring exhibition around Britain

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External links

• The Official Site

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