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DAvInA McCALL, 50. The Tv presenter overcame an addiction to heroin and cocaine in her early 20s before getting her own show on MTv. The host of Big Brother, Long Lost Family and Million Pound Drop is a fitness fanatic. Two weeks ago to mark her birthday, she posted this picture of herself wearing a red thong bikini on holiday and quipped: ‘This might look like I’m showing off … I am.’ LAuRA WADE, 40. The playwright from Sheffield is best known for her hit play Posh, which she adapted into a film, The Riot Club, satirising the antics of an all-male Oxbridge dining club like the infamous Bullingdon. Though Laura went to state school then Bristol university, she did have a close Oxbridge informant: her partner Samuel West (son of Timothy West and Prunella Scales) was an Oxford contempora­ry of Boris Johnson and David Cameron — both of whom were Bullingdon members.

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