Extraordinary Portraits

Name: Extraordinary Portraits
Released: 2022-02-27T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Bill Bailey, Tinie Tempah

TV Show · Documentary

Follow musician and passionate art collector Tinie Tempah as he invites ordinary people with extraordinary stories to sit for some of the world's most distinctive and ground-breaking portrait artists.

2022 · 28m

Starring Bill Bailey, Tinie Tempah

Director David Metcalf

EPISODE 1

Roxana Halls and Georgia and Melissa Laurie

Artist Roxana Halls has been given the task of depicting two sitters as she explores the unbreakable bond between Georgia and Melissa; twins who survived a near-fatal crocodile attack.
EPISODE 2

Christy Lee Rogers and Cee Cee

Celebrated international photographer Christy Lee Rogers helps Cee Cee, a model with albinism, on her journey from self-proclaimed "ugly duckling" to elegant swan.
EPISODE 3

Dale Grimshaw and Patrick Hutchinson

Dale Grimshaw, famed for his street murals, builds a bond with Patrick, who was photographed carrying an injured English Defense League member to safety during a 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstration.
EPISODE 4

Kelvin Okafor and Catrin Pugh

This match sees Kelvin Okafor, a hyperreal artist who specializes in pencil portraits, draw Catrin Pugh, a survivor of a bus crash that left her with burns across 96% of her body.
EPISODE 5

Thomas Croft and Mark Ormrod

Thomas Croft, the artist behind Portraits for NHS Heroes, meets Mark, a former Royal Marine who survived an explosion during a foot patrol in Afghanistan in 2007.
EPISODE 6

Artist Caroline Pool and Sitter Alec Burrough

Portrait artist Caroline Pool paints Alec Burrough, an 88-year-old dairy farmer from Devon who refuses to slow down.