Catherine Zeta-Jones

b. 25 September 1969, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales. Arriving in 1995 in predictable ‘I've always loved singing' press interview schlock, and with a stunningly out of date grunge image with para boots and fishnets, this well-known television star (principally of Darling Buds Of May fame) turned singer was received by critics with the sort of welcome usually afforded nettles in a nudist colony. Her PR company, meanwhile, contested that she had first made her name in West End musicals, and that her voice had a powerful edge comparable to Cher. However, there was little in her d...