This year the Hearing Aid Repair Shop (HARS) is celebrating its 15th anniversary and Arlington Laboratories is commemorating 20 years in business.
We’ve been looking back to the years 2002 and 1997, when each of the businesses were launched.
15 years of I'm a Celebrity...
The first series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! was broadcast on ITV from 25 August to 8 September 2002.
The series averaged 7.57 million viewers and the now infamous bush tucker trials included; the Bug Shower, Snake Surprise and Buried Alive.
8 celebrities experienced jungle life including Nell McAndrew, Rhona Cameron, Darren Day, Nigel Benn and Uri Geller. Christine Hamilton came third, the late Tara Palmer-Tomkinson was second and Tony Blackburn was the winner.
20 years of doing The Full Monty
The British comedy-drama, The Full Monty, was released on 29 August 1997.
Set in Sheffield, the film was directed by Peter Cattaneo and starred Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber and Hugo Speer.
It tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them former steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act.
The Full Monty was a major critical and international commercial success, grossing over $250 million from a budget of only $3.5 million. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score, winning the last.
Along with Mary Hare Hearing Centre, Arlington Laboratories and HARS give half their profits to Mary Hare School in Newbury, Berkshire. Mary Hare is the largest school for the deaf in the UK taking both day and boarding pupils from Year 1 to Year 13 (aged 5-19).
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