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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.
I went to the same school as Soma_Rich (though not at the same time).
The school itself is mostly famous for a [url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/jan/31/schools.uk1 ]huge cock[/url] (not me I hasten to add)
I think if anyone has been to Tenerife, then Rudeboy would claim hes' been to elevenerife...
Not at all. I've just had a relatively quite eventful childhood. None of what I wrote is untrue.
Besides, Miketually definitely trumps me on the grisly murders front! 😯
manic street preachers, college and school a year older than me
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.
ah, good 🙂 Like I said, he's a nice guy. He did go to ipswitch and is now at brighton I believe.
The college I went to had a cast member from hollyoaks at the time. It's had a few notable students, myself not included 😀 :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winstanley_College
My school was uninteresting. Uni much the same.
But I hate idolising famous people, it drives me mad - the artsy famous lot were the kids I avoided.
Peter Kay left the year I started at secondary school, I was taught by many of the same teachers. Went to the same 6th Form as Oscar winner Danny Boyle, he is a good few years older though.
remember Jaz Coleman - leadman of Killing Joke retort to usual numpty metalwork teachers sending off "well what are you going to do when you leave school?"
Jaz "play keyboards in a band"
Oh and one more - one of my best mates was in a sex education video, so you have probably seen him naked. He was the one being born
Never seen a sex ed video in my life.
Edgar Wright, director of [i]Spaced[/i], [i]Hot Fuzz[/i] etc, was in the year above me at school.
Whilst everybody else was writing rubbish plays for GCSE drama, he was making films - even back then!