The first Rear Of The Year
Award was presented as a one-off accolade in 1976 to
Barbara Windsor. It was a further five years before the
award became an annual event with the presentation to Felicity
Kendal in 1981.
This was followed, in 1982 , with a presentation to Suzi
Quatro and in 1983, to Lulu. Elaine
Paige won in 1984, followed by Lynsey
de Paul in 1985.
In 1986 The Rear of The Year Award was presented to its first
male recipient-Michael Barrymore-who received
the award at Olympia alongside Anneka Rice.1987
and 1988 saw Anita Dobson and Su
Pollard receive the top bottoms accolade and in 1991,the
Rear Of The Year had its first royal recipient Marina
Ogilvy, the daughter of Princess Alexandra.
Ulrika Jonsson
won the next Rear of the Year Award in 1992,following a two
year's gap in the annual presentations and a change of format.Sarah
Lanchashire was the winner in 1993 and Mandy
Smith and Richard Fairbrass were
joint Rears of the year in 1994,after which the competition
switched from Spring to Autumn and was next staged in 1996 with
winners Tracy Shaw.
Since then the Rear of the
Year award has been staged annually with the following winners:-
1997. |
Melinda
Messenger |
Gary
Barlow |
1998. |
Carol
Smillie |
Frank
Skinner |
1999. |
Denise
van Outen |
Robbie
Williams |
2000. |
Jane
Danson |
Graham
Norton |
2001. |
Claire
Sweeney |
John
Altman |
2002. |
Charlotte
Church |
Scott
Wright |
2003 |
Natasha
Hamilton |
Ronan Keating |
2004 |
Alex
Best |
Aled
Haydn-Jones |
2005 |
Nell
McAndrew |
Will
Young |
2006 |
Javine
Hylton |
Ian
Wright |
2007 |
Sian
Lloyd |
Lee
Mead |
2008 |
Jennifer
Ellison |
Ryan Thomas |
2009 |
Rachel
Stevens |
Russell Watson |
2010 |
Fiona Bruce
|
Ricky Whittle |
2011 |
Carol Vorderman |
Anton de Beke |
2012 |
Shobna Gulati |
John Barrowman |
The
25th Anniversary event was staged on behalf of Beating
Bowel Cancer.
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