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  Lauren Harries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lauren Charlotte Harries (formerly James Harries), was born in Surrey, England in 1978 and is a disputed (see below) child prodigy who became famous in Britain after appearing on Wogan, Terry Wogan's chat show in 1988.
Eventually Harries came to the realisation that he was transsexual, and transitioned to become a woman in 1998.
On Allen's documentary Lauren Harries revealed that she had been given stock, impressive sounding answers that could be used if asked a question she could not understand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lauren_Harries   (441 words)

  
 Archive 269 - Most painful part is facing the world yourself - Lauren Harries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Lauren Harries was enjoying a chat with a man on the beach this week when they were interrupted by his wife, commanding him to get away from that "freak".
The trip to the seaside with her therapist was intended to be a break from the constant attention that Lauren, 23, has endured since having her sex change operation two months ago.
Having concluded several years earlier that she was born the wrong sex, Lauren was also unprepared for the emotional turmoil of the operation.
www.transgender.freeserve.co.uk /tg/archive/2001-04-06/archive269.html   (524 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Wales | Transsexual to move to 'safer' LA
Lauren Harries and her brother, Adam, were attacked at home
Lauren added that she believes Los Angeles will be "safer".
Lauren's 63-year-old father Mark Harries was head-butted before Lauren and her brother Adam were attacked.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4218250.stm   (480 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Interview: James Harries, teenage antiques expert
James Harries was briefly a media phenomenon in the late 80s as the schoolboy antiques expert and pre-teen entrepreneur from Cardiff.
Lauren remains very close to her mother, she says, who has been very supportive of her child's transsexualism: "My mother realised that I was a girl, that was the thing.
Lauren's sex change appears, among other things, a drastic, desperate attempt to escape the stifling influence of her family.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,472608,00.html   (1352 words)

  
 CD Baby: LAUREN FIELD: Modern Woman - from scottp
Lauren started her career as an actor and trod the boards for a few years before finding her real vocation in singing.
Lauren Field brought the house down when she performed songs from her debut album "MODERN WOMAN" and also her new single "WICKED GAME" (already single of the week on many regional stations) released through Shmusicmusic Records / BMG on Monday 10th May 2004.
Lauren Field sets her bittersweet observations of the current state of play in the battle of the sexes (women are still losing heavily in the tear-stained pillow stakes apparently) in a restrained, bluesy,jazz-tinged setting on her impressive debut album.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/lauren/from/scottp   (4089 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Transsexual to move to 'safer' LA
Lauren found fame as child antiques dealer James Harries in the 1980s and 1990s.
Lauren told BBC Radio Wales on Tuesday that she believed her fame and the fact she had undergone a sex change were contributory factors in the gang attack.
Lauren added that she did not regret having a sex change but said the process had been difficult for her family.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/wales/4218250.stm   (480 words)

  
 Transsexual Accused of Turning Attack Into a Media Circus- from Pink News- all the latest gay news from the gay ...
Lauren Harries (pictured), a transsexual, who was once the child prodigy James Harries, was accused by defence lawyers of turning an attack into a “media circus”
Ms Harries, who rose to national fame in the 1980s as a golden-haired boy antique expert, was attacked together with her father Mark and brother Adam by a gang of youths near to their family home in Cardiff.
Leanne Jonathan, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said the Harries family were well known in the area and that on the night of the attack, the Harries’ heard banging at the door and shouts of “Tranny”.
www.pinknews.co.uk /news/articles/2005-87.html   (537 words)

  
 Tongs: James Harries / News July 2005
Former child antiques expert Lauren said she feared for her life as she was beaten around the face, pinned to the floor, and indecently assaulted in her front garden.
She was then attacked by two of the gang in an alleyway at the front of the house, where the Harries family have lived since 1988 with their eight cats.
Lauren Harries' amazing story: As a 10-year-old antiques expert, James Harries was widely considered to be a child prodigy - appearing on TV programmes including Antiques Roadshow and Wogan.
www.tongs.org.uk /wiki.pl?JamesHarries/News_July_2005   (1146 words)

  
 Transcending Gender » Brutal Home Invasion Attack on Lauren Harries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The former child star Lauren Harries and her family were attacked in their home, following a rise in anti-transgender verbal abuse, a court has heard.
Harries, who became famous as child antiques expert James Harries and underwent sex change surgery in 2001, has seen a high profile in the media, but suffered abuse at home, the court heard.
There are absolutely horrifying pictures of Lauren and her brother here after the beating.
www.jenburke.com /2005/09/09/brutal-home-invasion-attack-on-lauren-harries   (673 words)

  
 Tongs: James Harries
Although Lauren insists it was her own choice, the sex change is surrounded by confusion and many commentators suspect his parents of forcing him into it.
Lauren told the South East Echo that a man pinned her to the floor, and "took off my shoe and hit me across the face about nine times.
Lauren told the paper she was terrified and now feels like a prisoner in her own home.
www.tongs.org.uk /wiki.pl?JamesHarries   (1068 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Rowland Hall claims title
Although she was the youngest player on the team, Harries has plenty of experience in clutch situations.
This repeat tennis title was particularly meaningful to Harries because she injured her knee in the offseason and was unable to practice all summer.
Although only Harries and Hartsell/Sorensan finished first at state, all the singles and doubles teams made it to the finals, which was the key to winning.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,650199415,00.html   (649 words)

  
 TCM Breaking News - 2002/05/11: Sex change child star a Big Brother hopeful
Child star James Harries who underwent a sex change to become a woman has been among the hopefuls applying for Big Brother 3.
Ms Harries was one of thousands of applicants for the latest series of Big Brother, which returns to screens next Friday.
Originally from Cardiff, Harries appears on screen wearing a fl velvet top and dangly earrings alongside one of her pet dogs.
archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2002/05/11/story49656.asp   (307 words)

  
 AND MY NEXT GUEST IS... Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
Unfortunately, most were bought from the US or awarded by the Cardiff College of Humanities - proprietor one Mark Harries, owner of a local kissogram business and James's dad.
Mark was later jailed for burning down a shop he owned, while James had a sex change in 2001 and is now known as Lauren Charlotte Harries.
The "voice of an angel" is recording a chat-show pilot for Channel 4.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060304/ai_n16191765   (830 words)

  
 RTE Television - The Late Late Show
As a ten-year-old he was a child prodigy, appearing on television shows aplenty, buying and selling antiques.
Today 17 years later following a sex change operation, she is Lauren Harries.
The number 2 show jumper in the world, Jessica Kurten, spoke of her rise to the top, recent scandals in the sport and of her plans for the future.
www.rte.ie /tv/latelate/20060331.html   (353 words)

  
 Digital Spy Forums - Trust Me I'm A Beauty Therapist (merged)
Is Lauren Harris the - the former antiques expert that appeared on Wogan many moons ago???
The eight celebrities are: rock legend Suzi Quatro, socialite Oscar Humphries (son of Dame Edna Everage), former antiques prodigy Lauren Harries, glamour model Michelle Marsh, former member of Hear’Say Danny Foster, Grange Hill and London’s Burning actor John Alford, top comedian Stan Boardman and showbiz columnist Sharon Marshall.
I thought John Alford was going to turn round and thump Lauren at one point.
www.digitalspy.co.uk /forums/showthread.php?t=465555   (684 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Time Shift: Child Prodigies Interview
In fact there is both a freak show fascination and also a jealousy and resentment as well.
BBC Four: The interview with the adult James Harries, now Lauren Harries, suggested that he suffered quite harsh treatment from the media.
JD: That interview from Friday Night with Wogan where James is there with Frank Skinner and Terry Wogan, makes for quite uncomfortable viewing.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/prodigies-int.shtml   (875 words)

  
 Swim Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Robert Holderness took almost one and a half seconds off the existing record with Mark Williamson finishing a close second also inside the previous record time and Ben Jones claiming the remaining podium position.
The 100m Backstroke saw the top spots being claimed by the Welsh trio of Danielle Stirrat, Emilie Elliott and Lois Williams and also saw Lauren Harries break a 9-year-old meet record.
By this time the Welsh were all flying picking up two full podiums and a new record with Bethan Davis, Hannah Kane-Roberts and Lauren Harries followed by Cerian Davies, Jessica Pre-Jones and Lois Williams in the 100m Butterfly.
www.welshasa.co.uk /news_more.asp?n_ID=109   (748 words)

  
 Anne Milton - Guildford MP (and Dipstick): Harried   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I wish to formally distance myself from the suggestion that Anne Milton resembles Julian Clary (especially now that the two have met and Julian has wisely decided to run very fast in the opposite direction).
Truth be told, Anne Milton bears a much closer resemblance to Lauren Harries.
OK, I know what you're thinking; first I compare her to a transvestite, now a transsexual...
www.bloggerheads.com /anne_milton/2006/04/harried.html   (329 words)

  
 Bow Locks Gold
Bacon was so excited by the events he stepped up to the front door and promptly fell over.
The Vase, The Crying Girl and No More Foot Doctor - On Tuesday 8th May 2001 the outside broadcast came from Cardiff where people brought along knick-knacks for valuation by sex-change antiques expert Lauren Harries.
It was going well until one lady didn't put her plant pot stand close enough to the table.
www.angelfire.com /ok/djrichieh/moments.html   (1470 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Lauren Harries (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eventually Harries realised he was a transsexual and transitioned to becoming a woman in 1998.
On Allen's documentary Lauren Harries confessed that she had been given stock, impressive sounding answers that could be used if asked a question she could not understand.
Harries also received an unorthodox, home-based education and got only 3 GCSEs (a below average, even poor academic record).
www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Lauren_Harries   (339 words)

  
 PoughkeepsieJournal.com - Fair results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Christina Fuschetto, Analiese Umana, Brittney Grieco, Amanda Salituro, Jillian Pajer, Morissaa Pellino, Lauren Pajer, Stormville “Waltz from les Sylphides;”
Senior Dance Group: Christina Fuschetto, Lauren Salituro, Analiese Umana, Lauren Ryan, Brittany Mitchell, Brittney Grieco, Amanda Salituro, Caitlin Tompkins, Jillian Pajer, Morissa Pellino, Joanna Smykowski, Katie Goepfrich, Stormville “Pop”
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www.poughkeepsiejournal.com /etc/dcfair/results/talentsearch.shtml   (612 words)

  
 letters page - readers comments at videovista.net
Probably the best film I've ever seen, period.
I read your review of the show [Little Lady Fauntleroy] about myself, Lauren Harries, and my family, and it was enjoyable to read your critisicms of Keith Allen.
I will be on [TV] again with Terry Wogan on the 16th February, as well as Now magazine, so thank you - for a change I wasn't reading something bad about my family and myself but sad Mr Allen.
www.videovista.net /letters.html   (2048 words)

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