Melanie and Martina Grant

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Melanie and Martina Grant
Born
  • Melanie Jane Grant
  • Martina Cara Grant

(1971-11-18) 18 November 1971 (age 52)
Margate, Kent, England
Other names
  • The Fun House twins
  • A.T.T.
Occupation(s)Actresses, presenters, singers
Years active1978–present
TelevisionFun House
Children
  • Melanie 1 girl
  • Martina 1 boy 1 girl
Website funhousetwins.co.uk

Melanie and Martina Grant are a pair of British twin actresses, presenters and singers best known in the UK as presenters/cheerleaders on long-running gameshow Fun House and in Japan for their album A Twin Thing.

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Personal lives

The twins were born in Margate, Kent in 1971. They now live in Ramsgate.

Melanie is now called Melanie Bambridge. Her husband was a firefighter who died of leukaemia in 2009. [1]

Martina also married; her married name was Martina Deal but she divorced in 2009. She now lives with her new partner, they had a baby [2] boy in March 2012 and in February 2015 they had a girl. [3] In August 2016 Martina married her partner Ben Freebury.[ citation needed ]

Television

In 1986 Melanie appeared alongside Bill Oddie as a dancer in ITV comedy From the Top. [4]

In 1987 they both appeared in an episode of a BBC cop show called Rockliffe's Babies credited simply as 'Girl in flat'. [5]

From 1989 until 1999 they appeared alongside Pat Sharp in all 11 series of long-running gameshow Fun House as cheerleaders/co-presenters.

In 1993 they appeared as themselves in an episode of STV talk show Scottish Women discussing twin related issues. [6]

In 1993 (S1 Ep 17) and 1995 (S3 Ep 28) they made a guest appearance on ITV Saturday morning show What's Up Doc? .

In 2011 they also appeared on a segment of This Morning called Guess the guests.

In January [7] and May [8] 2013 they made guest appearances on Soccer AM .

They have also appeared in The Bill . [9]

Film

In 1983 they appeared in the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life among the group of children singing the song Every Sperm Is Sacred .

They also appeared in the 1989 Batman movie. [9] [10]

Stage

From 1978 until 1981 Melanie appeared as Molly in Annie at the Victoria Palace Theatre. [11] [12]

In 1981 Martina appeared as Brigitta alongside Petula Clark in the London revival of The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. [13]

In 1983 they both appeared in the Micky Dolenz directed production of Bugsy Malone at Her Majesty's Theatre. [14] [15]

In 1994 they appeared as Dandini and the Prince alongside Wayne Sleep in Cinderella at the Harlequin Theatre, Redhill. [16] [17]

In 2000 they appeared as Swash and Buckle in Dick Whittington at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne. [14]

They have also appeared in productions of Red Riding Hood and Snow White. [14]

Music

Martina appeared on the cast recording of The Sound of Music . [18]

A.T.T.

A Twin Thing
Studio album by
A.T.T.
Released19 May 1999
Genre Dance, Hip-Hop
Length63:30
LanguageEnglish
Label Avex
AVCD-11722
Singles from A Twin Thing
  1. "Keep On Pumping'"
    Released: 19 May 1999

On 19 May 1999 they released an eponymous album called A Twin Thing [19] which was released in Japan but was less successful elsewhere. The track Keep On Pumping was also released as a single [20] and on various compilation albums. [21] The album was released on iTunes [22] and Amazon [23] on 21 July 2014. The download version does not include the two remixes of Keep On Pumping.

Track list [19]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Pat Sharp interview". Bucksfreepress.co.uk. 13 April 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  3. ↑ "Melanie on Twitter". Twitter.com. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
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  5. ↑ Rockliffe's babies at IMDb   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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