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Connecting Rachel Riley and Wild Bill Hickok



Rachel Riley
In 2018, Riley began a campaign against the way the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn had handled allegations of antisemitism.
In November 2019, Riley posted an image on Twitter of herself wearing a shirt with an edited image of Jeremy Corbyn carrying a sign bearing the caption "Jeremy Corbyn is a racist endeavour".

Jeremy Corbyn Former leader of the British Labour Party and independent Member of Parliament for Islington North

Barack Obama
His mother, Ann Dunham (1942–1995), was born in Wichita, Kansas; she was mostly of English descent.

Ann Dunham American anthropologist, mother of Barack Obama
* {{cite news|author= David Williamson|date=July 5, 2008|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2008/07/05/genealogists-discover-a-red-dragon-breathing-fire-in-us-presidential-candidate-s-past-91466-21266440/|title=Wales link in US presidential candidate's past|newspaper=www.walesonline.co.uk|access-date=April 30, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110521140204/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/welsh-politics/welsh-politics-news/2008/07/05/genealogists-discover-a-red-dragon-breathing-fire-in-us-presidential-candidate-s-past-91466-21266440/| archive-date= May 21, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> Wild Bill Hickok is her sixth cousin, five times removed.<ref>[http://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedFiles/American_Ancestors/Content/Marketing/Press_Release_PDFs/obama_hickok_press_release.pdf Boston Genealogical Society Confirms Obama and "Wild Bill" Hickok Are Cousins] New England Historic


Rachel Riley
Riley's appointment to ''Countdown'' was announced at the same time as the announcement of a new main host, Jeff Stelling, replacing Des O'Connor; the duo of Stelling and Riley was in place for the new series beginning in January 2009.

Jeff Stelling British sports commentator
He appeared in an advert for Sky Broadband in 2013 which spoofed a previous Sky Broadband advert which starred Bruce Willis.

Bruce Willis
Willis's acting role models are Gary Cooper, Robert De Niro, Steve McQueen, and John Wayne. He is left-handed.

Gary Cooper
In Cecil B. DeMille's sprawling frontier epic '' The Plainsman''—his first of four films with the director—Cooper portrays Wild Bill Hickok in a highly fictionalized version of the opening of the American western frontier.


Rachel Riley
In February 2019, Riley and fellow campaigner Tracy-Ann Oberman instructed a lawyer to take action against 70 individuals who had posted tweets which Riley and Oberman regarded as either libellous or harassment.

Tracy-Ann Oberman
On 16 October 2012 BBC Radio 4 broadcast her second radio play ''Rock and Doris and Elizabeth'' (starring Frances Barber and Jonathan Hyde as Rock Hudson and Doris Day, and Oberman as Elizabeth Taylor) to very positive feedback.
It followed Rock Hudson's AIDS scandal hitting the world's media after appearing on his old friend Doris Day's cable network show. '' Radio Drama Review Online'' described it as "poignant and utterly spellbinding".{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Rock Hudson
Willson provided information about Rory Calhoun's years in prison and the arrest of Tab Hunter at a party in 1950.

Rory Calhoun
Calhoun was announced for a film called ''Jet Pilot'' with Fleming, Guy Madison and other Selznick contract players but it was not made.

Guy Madison American actor (1922–1996)
He is best known for playing Wild Bill Hickok in the Western television series '' The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok'' from 1951 to 1958.


Rachel Riley
Riley's appointment to ''Countdown'' was announced at the same time as the announcement of a new main host, Jeff Stelling, replacing Des O'Connor; the duo of Stelling and Riley was in place for the new series beginning in January 2009.

Des O'Connor
He worked with many pop stars, including Adam Faith, Shirley Bassey, Barbra Streisand, and Cilla Black.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} He toured with Buddy Holly (during Holly's 1958 stay in Britain) and Jason Donovan.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

Adam Faith
English film director and producer Michael Winner stated that Faith was his investment adviser, leading to significant losses on two different investments.

Michael Winner English filmmaker, writer, and media personality
Winner tried to break out of action films with '' Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood'' (1976), an animal comedy Winner produced and directed, starring Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, and Milton Berle.

Bruce Dern American actor (born 1936)
Over the next few decades, Dern played a Vietnam veteran and neighborhood survivalist in Joe Dante's suburban satire '' The 'Burbs'', a local crime boss in Michael Ritchie's ''Diggstown'', a rival of Wild Bill Hickok in Walter Hill's '' Wild Bill'', and George Spahn in Quentin Tarantino's '' Once Upon a Time in Hollywood''.





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