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Extraordinary Portraits

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.

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Episodes Season 1

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    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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