Celebrities share secrets of their success
CELEBRITIES FROM the world of television, business and hospitality have revealed the secrets of their career success to help young people in South Yorkshire.
Award-winning television presenter Ayo Akinwolere is one of the celebrities who features in the online initiative, to encourage more children, young people and adults to consider higher education opportunities.
The Sheffield Hallam University graduate became the first black presenter of the BBC’s flagship children’s television show Blue Peter from 2006 to 2011. He said he hoped his own story would inspire young people.
He said: “I wish someone told me when I was younger what I’d have to do in order to work in this industry.”
The scheme has been rolled out by the Higher Education Progression Partnership (Hepp).
TO SOME, he was a brilliant straight man to Jimmy Greaves. But to an earlier generation he was a sublime footballer who helped build Bill Shankly’s Liverpool into a force to be reckoned with.
So tributes came from far and wide to former Scottish international Ian St John who has died aged 82.
St John made 425 appearances for the Reds and scored 118 goals as a key member of Shankly’s famous side of the 1960s.
Later he became a star of television with the Saint and Greavsie football show.
The Merseyside outfit confirmed St John died on Monday following illness.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of a true Anfield legend, Ian St John,” the club said.
In a statement on Liverpool’s website, the St John family said: “It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that after a long illness we have lost a husband, father and grandfather.”
“He passed away peacefully with his family at his bedside.”
A post on Greaves’s Twitter account said: “We are very sad to hear the Saint has passed away.
“Ian St John and I had great fun working on the Saint and Greavsie.”
Former Liverpool forward and manager Sir Kenny Dalglish said on the club’s website: “I think it’s right to use the word ‘icon’.”
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp paid tribute to “a true legend” and told the club’s official website it had been an honour to meet St John.