Famous people born today – celebrity birthdays for May 23 – Joan Collins, Jasmin Walia and George Osborne
HAPPY Birthday to everyone celebrating today, but did you know you share it with these famous faces?
These are the celebs who will be popping open the champers this evening…
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Who’s celebrating their birthday today?
Joan Collins, 85
Legend Dame Joan is an English actress who has certainly made a name of herself in Hollywood.
She played Alexis Carrington on TV’s Dynasty, which was the most popular series in the United States in 1985.
She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2015 was made a Dame by the Queen for her services to charity.
She married and divorced four times before getting hitched to Percy Gibson in 2002, and has three children in total, two from her second husband and one with her third.
Jasmin Walia, 26
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Towie babe Jasmin worked as an extra in the show from 2010 before she was made a full cast member in 2012.
The sexy star has also tried her hand at singing, launching a YouTube channel for song covers in 2014, and then getting rejected by all four judges on X Factor’s Series 11.
She has since launched a number of songs, including Bom Diggy, which was later released and tweaked by T-Series under the new name Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety.
Jasmin has her own fashion line, Pop by Jasmin, with lipsticks and accessories.
George Osborne, 47
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George is best known for being a British Conservative Party politician, who was the MP for Tatton from 2001 to May 2017.
In a letter to Conservatives in his constituency of Tatton, the former Chancellor said he is leaving Westminster “for now” – but vowed to stay active on issues he is passionate about.
From May, he has been the editor of the Evening Standard and has run a number of front pages slamming Prime Minister Theresa May – who sacked him from his job as Chancellor.
According to reports, Osborne wanted to pursue a career in journalism after he graduated from Oxford, getting a 2.1 in Modern History.
In 1993, he was shortlisted for a place on the Times trainee scheme – but didn’t get one.
What about these legends?
William Shakespeare’s birthday is normally celebrated on April 23, although the exact date is unknown.
The poet was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, leading to the assumption that he was born three days before.
He also passed away on April 23, 1616, making it a popular legend that he died on his birthday.
Legendary cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away on March 14, 2018, was born in Oxford on January 8, 1942.
The Beatles’ John Lennon, who was shot dead in New York on December 8, 1980, at the age of 40, was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940.
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Elizabeth II, who’s been the Queen of England since 1952, was born in Mayfair, London, on April 21, 1926.
The Queen also has an “official birthday”, which she celebrates on the second Saturday in June.
WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrated his birthday on November 30.
He was born in Bleinham Palace, Oxfordshire, in 1874 – and passed away on January 24, 1965.
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