[Closed] At school with the rich and famous

Beverley Knight was in my year at school.

Amie Morris, the phone girl from the Wright Stuff.

David Shayler, the sometime spy who now thinks he's god

I think a certain northern frame designer went to my school, although he's a few years older than me.

I taught Sharron Small how to do an eskimo roll at school.

Carl Dinnen from C4 news was year above me
Chris Barrie (Rimmer from Red Dwarf) few years above me
Stephen Watson, BBC NI Sport presenter was year above me

Went to school with Kelly Groucutt's (ELO) son, oh and did schoolboy mx with Jason Bonham (John Bonham's son)

Went to school with Rachel Willis- "connie" in the AOL Ad..

Ralph Inseon- "Finchy" in The Office was my Form Tutor.

Oh, and Shed 7, well Rick Winter was in an opposite form.

mmm... Connie.

Popular beat combo Elbow were also at Stand College, but that was after my time. Clive of India was there too, but he was Clive of Whitefield then.

Kate Ford - latest Tracy Barlow in Corrie. I could tell you that I saw her giving someone a BJ in the woods between my house and school, but you wouldn't believe me.

Ben Cohen. rugby player

you Northampton based guido?

I was, i moved 10 years ago.
mum and mates still there tho.

Rod Moir was at Eastbourne school with my mam. He's Mr vic Reeves now.

Paul Grayson .. England rugby kicker understudy to that famous one with dodgy shoulders (yes big rugby fan me) NOrthhampton coach now? was a sound lad good mates at school bought my BMX off me never seen since
David Unsworth ...footie player Everton, England (once) scored penalty tp keep wigan up bit of a to55er and not obviously brilliant at footie

Ellen MacArthur went to my school, quite a few years older than me though so i don't remember seeing her around or anything.

I have worked with/ Uni with, some of the 'Time Team' - that count?

Angus Deayton went to mine but not at the same time as me...Not exactly a great boast! He came back and did a kind of Evening with Angus event: quite enjoyed it as I remember.

Lad in my year called Julian, whose dad wrote Postman Pat.
Yes, Julian, like Pat's son!!
Like wowzers.

Famous former pupils at my old school include Jay Kay, Kelvin McKenzie (former editor of The Sun), Jude Law (he was in 6th Form when I started there) and Laurence Llewellyn Bowen. The last one is nothing to be proud of I know...

The only former pupil at my old school that is now famous, as far as I know, is Zoe Birkett ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoë_Birkett)

Just Anna King from Corrie, I dont know what her name is in that, shes the really attractive brunette one who owns the knicker factory, well she did I dont watch it!
And unlike the other corrie mention I never saw her giving anyone a bj in the woods.

Kirstie Allsop was a couple of years above me and Sophie Dahl a couple of years below me. And I never realised.

BBC news sports bloke Mike Bushell lives in my old house and was in my Sunday football team.

Kiddie at school was on 'on safari' with biggins and gillian whatsit. Now thats famous.

Can't think of many people who I knew of. Ralf Little, was several years ahead of me. Had a few famous people over time including Sir Ian McKellen and some others who I've never heard of but have impressive job titles.

Nigel Wightman Chief Executive, Rothschild Asset Management
Sir Malcolm Williamson President and CEO, Visa International
Professor Sir Harry Kroto Nobel Prizewinner for Chemistry

Mark Crossley, goal keeper

Does seeing photofits on crimewatch count?
if so then yes

hang on aphex_2k, you were at Highfields? same as me - finished in 1990 at 16!

At my first secondary school, former pupils include Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Mel Smith, Keith Vaz and Heston Poncenthal. Poncenthal might be the only one of these, that was at the school at the same time as me. Lucky for him, he wooduv been in the upper sixth, 'cos if he'd been in my year, I probbly wooduv bullied him for being a ponce. I was a bit of a vicious little **** when I was a yute.

At my second; no-one famous, 'cos it was a shit school.

so, Rudeboy, were you the sort of kid I was scared of at school 🙂 Not that I'm a ponce mind!

Didn't go to school with anyone famous but i used to work with James from Starsailor, he used to do the washing up in the pub and was extremely shy at the time.

Well, I was small, so bigger kids thought they could bully me. Trouble was, a lot of them were ponces, yet I'd grown up in the East End, and could look after meself a bit. I'd always wait until I got them alone, then proper scare 'em. They'd be proper shitters, when no-one else was around to back them up. Grassing bastards though. I was in trouble quite a lot. I din't last long in that school.

I weren't really a bully. I'd just get back at kids who gave it the big-un. Vengeful little ****, me.

I was at 6th form with BBC North West Tonight sports reporter Howard Booth. Yes, Howard Booth.

And the editor of Motorcycle News - Fat Adam wasn't it?

Christopher Leslie, the youngest ever MP I think, was in my class at my infant school. And of course I was delighted to spend 3yrs of relative debauchery drinking with Harry The Spider at Big School.

Grew up playing football with Rory Delap (Stoke mega throw-in expert) and Matt Jansen (Blackburn & England). I was their captain right up until 16 and they got selected for YTS and i didnt (No talent tbh).

Also went to school with Steve Harkness of Liverpool.

I was good friends at primary school with Premiership footballer Matthew Etherington.

Mike Tindall england rugby player went to my school.

Of course I finished when he was only 3, but that's another story

others include:
Mike Harrison - another rugbyer
Mike Smith - a cricketer
Richard Henry Lee - one of the early presidents pro tem of the USA
Lukas Wooller - Maximo Park
Andy Cato - Groove Armada
Adam Pearson - chairman Derby County FC, formerly also of Hull City & Leeds United football clubs

I went to school, and was friends with, Nick Craig.

Went to school with Stuart Barnes. Not the Bath/England No10 of the late 80s but the lad who played 1st team cricket for Gloucs. You've probably never heard of him...

John Hall (played on the flank for Bath/England by coincidence) was a few years ahead of me, as was Curt Smith (half of Tears For Fears - popular beat combo from the early 80s). Andrew Lincoln (actor best known for playing 'Egg' in This Life. Or 'Teachers') was a few years behind me, as was Jason Gardner (sprinter).

Oh, and I went to Uni with Thom Yorke. But he didn't know it :O)

My mum was a couple of years below john Lennon, I also went to the same school, so did Clive barker and I think ray stubbs did along with quite a few others who I cannot remember now.

Wasn't at school with him, as he's a mere 28 years older, but a certain famous ****stani Cricketer and now politician, and ex-husband of the exceedingly wealthy heiress Jemima Goldsmith, went to my school. Yes folks, the one and only Imran Khan!

Also, ex England cricketer Tim Curtis was my English teacher (yes really!).

Just found out that now my school has combined with the school next door last year, that other ex pupils include Vanessa Redgrave (the famous actress whose daughter, Natasha Richardson sadly died recently) and Barbara Cartland!

The things you learn on a daily basis!

Alex from Neds, school & college.

The actor who plays Mickey Pearce, the wide boy in 'Only Fools And Horses'

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Mind you my school [i]was[/i] in Peckham, and it had a fair few wide boys, so I'm not sure how much 'acting' was going on 🙄

Jason Manford.

Also my mum went to school with David Threfall (frank from shameless)

John Player, of John Player Special fame
D.H. Lawrence - Writer
Ed Balls, Kenneth Clarke and Jeff Hoon

and Leslie Crowther of 'Come on Down, The Price is Right!!' fame.

No-one when I was there.

Rod Moir was at Eastbourne school with my mam. He's Mr vic Reeves now.

He was in the same class as me - bit of a fruitloop IIRC

Simon Bates went to my school though quite a few years before me. Michael Basset was also a school friend of mine....if you don't know who he is he's now a film director and before that he was Scally the dog on children's TV as well as being a presenter. Shane Embury from Napalm Death is also an old friend though we didn't go to the same school.

my cousin went to school with james dean bradfield lead singer of the manics. i think she snogged him aswell.

my auntie grew up with the infamous Welsh secretary Ron Davies - they fell out many years later when he was caught 'watching badgers in the local woods' COUGH

He was in the same class as me - bit of a fruitloop IIRC

If you ever snogged Carolyn Winchester, I'll have to leave the forum 😉

Was in the same class as Samantha Morton of Minority Report / Longford / Control 'fame'.

I think a couple of half-decent Cricketers were at my school as well.

If you ever snogged Carolyn Winchester, I'll have to leave the forum

LOL!!

You'll be relieved to know that that name doesn't ring a bell to me - but it was 33 years since I was last there

A couple of footballists, Nicky Forster who was at Reading for many years, I used to sit next to at primary school. The other one was Ian Pearce who was at Blackburn and West Ham (I think).

The animal man came to my school once, I remember really liking the armadillo.

*phew*

🙂

nope: at my primary school there was an honours board it read as follows:

Hiltingbury School Honours Board

Neil Benson - Local Tennis Coach and Business Owner

Honours Board Sponsered by Neil Benson Tennis

the **** (who coached us kids tennis at lunchtime) had payed for his own name to go up!

Was friends with Lucy Brown

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Brown ]Lucy Brown[/url]

and Ed Arriens who is a Brainiac

just the one lad who was in the paper last week for being a convicted prolific burglar.

Oh yeah and was also mates with [url= http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a16979/lee-ryan-regrets-dating-bunny-boiler.html ]Emily Oldfield[/url] who you may remember having a boob job on a tv program called "When Boobs go Bust"

Almost all of her photographic portfolio is NSFW so I would recomend that only those on Joblesstrackworld google her or use the safe search

Peter Sellers and John Lydon went to mine.

My sister went to college with Yvette Fielding

Went to school with Rachel Willis- "connie" in the AOL Ad.

nice, isn't she? i know her in london these days 🙂

Posh Spice was in the year below me.

I was at school with the twin doctors from "Medicine men go wild" - Xand and Chris - they were a couple of years below me but since we were all part of the rowing club, I knew them quite well - they thought they were going to be the next Redgrave and Pinsent 🙂 Nice enough lads though.

Brian May's son was at my school as were Rodney Bewes (Likely Lads)'s triplet sons.

Wikipedia seems to have a good list for me

Andrew Szydlo taight me - was in the Channel 4 TV Show That'll Teach Them. A curious chap but my favest teacher.

Phil Tufnell
John Venn created Venn Diagrams
Sir Clive Sinclair
Sir John Betjeman
Johnny Borrell of Razorlight
Zak Starkey(son of Ringo Starr)
Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker
Jon Moss of (Culture Club)
DJ Yoda (!)

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highgate_School ]Highgate School[/url]

Prep school - I was in the same class as Andy Gommersall, ex-England egg chaser (played in the World Cup 2003).

Public school - no-one famous from when I was there, but ex-pupils include:

John "Strictly" Sergeant
Tom Sharpe - author of Wilt etc.
Edward Woodward - actor in The Wicker Man, The Equalizer, etc.

Mrs Flash. Nicky Forster!!!!! Yeegads!

I went to school with George Cole's son (Toby) - not really famous, but his Dad who I met a few times, was. A couple of years above me was a guy whose name I can't remember who played rugby for Scotland. And a couple of years below me were a couple of guys called Brendan Melck and Tom Rowlands who formed a little heard of band called Ariel. Which after several splits and reforms became the Chemical Brothers, who I suspect you may have heard of.

At Uni there were a ton of decent cricketers (good pun there) including Nasser Hussain, who I didn't know. And also a few decent rugby lads, including a centre partnership for one or two years of Will Carling and Phil de Glanville, who later went on to play centres for England and both captained England. Durham won a lot that year! Didn't know Carling but knew de Glanville reasonably well - he was clearly Rugby whereas I was captain of football so we were opposite ends of the sporting seesaw if you like.

Are the schools with lots of famous people private schools, very good state schools or crap ones like the two that I went to?

[url= http://www.redhallprimary.org.uk/ ]Red Hall Primary School[/url]
Haughton Secondary School - now part of [url= http://www.educationvillage.org.uk/ ]Haughton Education Village[/url]

Colleague's sister is Milly from This Life.
And my dad was a driver for Jools Holland.

Don't actually remember any rich and famous at school, but at uni they are all around (but often you don't realise until afterwards).

My English A level teacher taught Fruitbat from Carter USM.
Frank Skinner used to teach at the college I went to.

And.... I went on a school industry trip to the factory that unwittingly (?) made the Iraqi supergun in the 90s.

That's all looking slightly tenuous I think, and the third one possibly doesn't even count in this context...

Craig David was in my tutor group at secondary school.

at school with Faye Barker - News Reader on Channel 5 and now on London ITN I think.

My best mate from Primary School - who I lost touch with when we went to secondary - occassionally pops up on historic buildings/arts programmes - Jonathan Foyle

Are the schools with lots of famous people private schools, very good state schools or crap ones

'Posh' schools, at the very least. Crap schools might turn out the odd bod who goes on to be famous, but it's the posh schools, with excellent educational standards that tend to churn out more 'talent'. Plus, a lot of actors, politicians etc had wealthy parents to start off with.

The actor who plays Mickey Pearce, the wide boy in 'Only Fools And Horses'

Last I heard, he was running a cab firm in New Cross, then went on to manage a pub, and scarpered with a load of money, or something. Life immitating art?

terrahawk - Member
just the one lad who was in the paper last week for being a convicted prolific burglar.

Course, at my second school, after I'd been kicked out of the posh one, there were several 'local celebrities'. At least two murderers from my year, loads of drug dealers, burglars, robbers, and a couple of arsonists. And I'm pretty sure at least one or two of the girls ended up on the game. Strange, when you read an article in the local paper, and realise the 'orrible bastard up before the Beak, for some heinous crime, is the lad you'd sit next to in Maths...

At least two murderers from my year, loads of drug dealers, burglars, robbers, and a couple of arsonists.

A lad in my brother's year stoved in his own mother's head with a wine bottle, because she wouldn't let him borrow the car. My brother also used to drink in the same pub as a guy who killed, dismembered and ate his girlfriend.

Mrs Flash. Nicky Forster!!!!! Yeegads!

Is that a good Yeegads or a bad one?? He is (well was, not seen him since secondary school) a really nice guy. Knew his parents and all, kind of family friends, we all lived in the same village.

Ian Pearce otoh was a bit of a kn0b.

I know someone who knows someone who used to play Scrabble with Harold Shipman whilst he was in Strangeways on remand.

He was a bit of an odd ball apparently.

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Lad I was at school with played for Aston Villa and wolves (phil Robinson)

Girl who works for me went to school with denise lewis and brother in law was in same class as the lesbo bird from brookside who is now in holywood (cant remember her name)

annabananna, so are you still in Halesowen????

Blimey,

I think if anyone has been to Tenerife, then Rudeboy would claim hes' been to elevenerife... 😕

Yeegads good of course!

Nicky was a pivotal player (maybe THE pivotal player in our 2002/2003 season) when we were beaten in the playoffs to reach the Premier league. The next season he was largely injured and subsequently moved on to Ipswich I think. If he'd stayed fit he'd have definitely been with the club still in the season when we finally made it to the Premier league (05/06) and would be truly writ into legend status among devotees.