Youtube james harries terry wogan biography
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He became famous at age 10 when, curly-haired and bow-tied, he appeared on Terry Wogan&#;s BBC television chat show, where he demonstrated a precocious knowledge of antiques.
The family opened an antique shop. Three years later his family publishing company released his book on making money by spotting bargains. He left school at age 11, being home-tutored from then on.
After a fire at one of the family properties, his father was jailed for filing a false insurance claim, and all the family businesses failed. As James matured he was employed in a series of low paid jobs, but never lasted.
He started cross-dressing in and changed his name to Lauren. Lauren has said that a casual remark in a supermarket, that 'he should be a woman', helped her realize that th
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In the late s, British talkshow host Terry Wogan introduced his viewers to the curious sight of ten-year-old James Harries, a supposed child prodigy &#;expert&#; on antiques.
The young Harries sported fancy dress, a bow tie and a curly bleached-blonde perm, making him look like a pint-sized Harpo Marx. However, Harries, apparently convinced of his own genius, was anything but silent, you see, and came off as an imperious, snobby and obnoxious kid to the general public, becoming one of those brats that you really love to hate. (To be honest, inom can&#;t call to mind a similarly obnoxious kid from the entire history of American TV, either real or fictional. James Harries, as the British public were to find out, was a bit of both).
Harries &#;act&#;&#;a supposed talent for spotting antiques at loppa markets for a few pence that were worth thousands of pounds&#;was bullshit (based on a single example trumped up bygd his father to a local newspaper and then parlayed to televsion
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Child Prodigy in Britain became a prostitute later
We all want our kids to be intelligent – actually super intelligent – right? But does that help? I just came across a story of a super intelligent girl, Sufiah Yusof, a child prodigy who got admission into Oxford University at the age of In fact two of her siblings also got admitted in teen age as well. Their father Farooq used to drive them by keeping the house cold for more concentration in studies and psychologically abusing them.
Recently, it came out that Sufiah, divorced already, was hiring herself out from an internet site as a prostitute and Asian escort at £ and hour, using the alias Shilpa Lee! Meanwhile her father Farooq has been booked for physically groping and assaulting two 15 years old girls whom he taught as a tutor. So his wife, Halimahton, a devout Muslim lady, divorced him.
Telegraph gives some history on other child prodigies. I am afraid their stories are not very inspiring either.
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