Gymnasts at a Cambridgeshire club donned Louis Smith masks to kick-start a campaign for better facilities.
Bookmakers have ranked the singer third-favourite to win, after Olympic gymnast Louis Smith and actress Denise Van Outen.
The gym where Olympic medallist Louis Smith trained, is set to expand to meet demand created by the 2012 games.
BBC: Louis Smith's Huntingdon gym to expand after council loan
"We already exceeded our expectations by qualifying, " said British captain Louis Smith, a fan favorite because of his pommel-horse mastery and Mohawk-style coif.
Louis Smith, 41, won second prize for his portrait of a near-naked model and Ian Cumberland, 28, took third prize for his portrait of a friend.
Louis Smith and Max Whitlock added two medals in the pommel horse, silver and bronze respectively, and Beth Tweddle took home bronze in the uneven bars.
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British fan favorite Louis Smith tied for the highest score in the pommel-horse final but lost a tie-breaker to Hungary's Krisztian Berki, who had a higher execution score.
So the likes of Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis, or Louis Smith are potent symbols for a modern democracy - embodying the triumph of merit over birth, race, or social advantage.
The club has been trying to push through plans and raise funds for an expansion for eight years, however, the "Louis Smith effect" meant it was struggling to cope with a growing waiting list and outdated facilities.
BBC: Louis Smith's Huntingdon gym to expand after council loan
At Strictly's peak, 10.9m viewers tuned in on BBC 1 as Westlife star Nicky Byrne was voted off, leaving Denise Van Outen, Olympian Louis Smith, actresses Dani Harmer and Lisa Riley and Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh to dance in the semi-final.
Bessie Smith's version of St Louis Blues was even filmed in a kind of predecessor of today's music videos - she acts out the part of a woman knocked to the ground by a two-timing boyfriend, and then moves to a bar to sing the blues.
Previous winners of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize have gone on to become major figures in the world of literature, including Louis de Bernieres, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan.
CNN's Louis Fraysse, Anna Prichard and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.
Louis Cardinals icons such as Bruce Sutter, Ozzie Smith, Whitey Herzog, Lou Brock and Red Schoendienst also wore red jackets to honor a man who was the embodiment of the franchise for 72 years.
Louis Anderson then ran in try number four as Tony Smith's men made nonsense of the statistics suggesting that Saints are their bogey side.
Louis Anderson ran in Wolves' sixth try late on, winger Lee Smith's effort proving little consolation for Leeds.
It was even more popular and influential than its predecessor and it went on to become a jazz standard played by musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and, the queen of 1920s blues, Bessie Smith.
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