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Following on from the Burt Lancaster thread, there seem to be a lot of "stars" with Lancahire connections in their names:-
Burt Lancaster - actor
John Prescott - idiot
Tony Blackburn - famous for ?
George Formby - ukeleleist
Lord Liverpool - a better Prime Minister then the present joke
Roger Chorley - pioneer rock climber
Billy Preston - singist
Mick Fleetwood - guitarist
Eric Morecambe - funny man
Clyde Barrow - outlaw
Roger Bootle - economist
Emma Jane Kirkby - famous for being famous
How many other counties can match this illustrious roll call?
So nothing to do with where they come from at all then?
the Pershore plum
Malvern Water
Dunno, but half the population has a pair of (City & County of) Bristols.
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Chyler Leigh (Actress in Grey's anatomy)
Jimmy Clitheroe - Comedian.
Worcestershire Sauce
Dorothy Whalley - the mother in law!
Karly from Big Brother
Tamworth pig.
Rotherham's List of Shame:
Paul Shane
The Chuckle Brothers
Lynn Perrie
Dougie Brown
David Seaman
James May
the tamworth two retired to worcestershire 🙂
its not my country but we've got a shedload of celebrities living around here.. something about being a tax haven.
lewis hamilton is supposed to have a place in town but I've never seen him ( must hang with a different crowd )
michael schumacher lives down the road a bit and Peter Gabriel about 4 towns away.
The Beatles
Dixie Dean
William Gladstone
Rex Harrison
George Melly
Purple Aki
Anne Robinson
Leonard Rossiter
Peter Sissons
Bill Tidy
Frankie Vaughan
Terry Leahy
Harold Wilson
To name but a few and as a Liverpool fan I will not be laying claim to the countless prim dona's that frequent the local restaurants and watering holes! Though I will claim Dixie Dean as a great player of a previous generation.
Lady Di, dunno what she was famous for.
Richard 3rd
Thom Yorke, born in Wellingborough
Stanley Unwin
Alan Moore (killing Joke, Watchmen etc) lives in Northampton
Crocodile Dundee
Angelo Dundee
Lee Enfield. Whoever he was.
Dunno, but half the population has a pair of (City & County of) Bristols.
Don't forget beardy waste of space Justin Lee Collins.
Surfer,
you beat me to it , liverpool has its fair share of "celebs" and even more wanabees!
Good to see Purple " can i touch your muscles" Aki in there, hasnt he just been sent down again.
Edward Elgar is from these parts.
As well as Downhillist Tracey Moseley and XCist Liam Killeen.
Stonemonkey
I understand he is still in prison and was sentenced in 2006. Not sure when/if he is to be released, hopefully never!
Oor Wullie
The Broons
The Bash St Kids
Li'l Plum
Dennis The Menace
Beryl The Peril
Korky The Cat
Biffo The Bear
Alf Tupper, the Tough Of The Track
The Wolf Of Kabul
Mary Shelley first dreamed up Frankenstein and his monster when living here, (that's Friday night out in our the town)
Me
Terry Wogan
The Cranberries
Richard Harris
Don't forget beardy waste of space Justin Lee Collins.
I'm doing my best to
nickc - MemberLady Di, dunno what she was famous for.
Richard 3rd
Thom Yorke, born in Wellingborough
Stanley Unwin
Alan Moore (killing Joke, Watchmen etc) lives in Northampton
local to me then,
also adding the new Doctor Who blokey to that list
Daniel Craig and Lewis Collins.
Looks like The Wirral is officially the hardest place in Britain!
Waltham Forest has provided
Alfred Hitchcock
William Morris
Graham Gooch
David Beckham
Steve Harris/Paul Diannio, so gave the world Iron Maiden
Richard Greene (Robin Hood)
Jonathan Ross and brother
Think I will stop at that decidedly low point
Daniel Craig...
from wikipedia
[i]He and his brother Adam attended Hilbre High School...[/i]
That's right in front of my mums house! Fancy that.
slightly off tack but thinking of this always makes me laugh.. i thought it was time to share it outside a close bunch of old friends.
noel edmunds moved to 'OUR' village when I was about 9, this is back in his radio1 swap shop days, he was a nice bloke and when i used to finish my paper round i would join up with my friend matt and we would finish his round together, this was about 6 houses including the manor which N E lived in, as i said he was a very nice chap and would always be chatty and sometimes give us toast and tea,
just down the road was our old hang out'the stream', an old bridge leading to the church, the manor and the waltons (not fiction) farm,
on saturdays after swap shop finished me and my friends used to congregate at 'the stream' and climb the mighty oak that stood next to the bridge an impressive tree still standing today, N used to drive a six wheeled rangerover with a large open roof, you could time his arrival and we would all be waiting, you know whats coming,,yep we did it all the time, golden showers all round, he never twigged it was us !, it wasn't just reserved for celebrity though, it was open to all, the waltons the vicar etc,
i will probrally burn in hell for the vicar and the waltons, but should i recieve a medal for the forsight we showed ????
Daniel Craig and Lewis Collins.Looks like The Wirral is officially the hardest place in Britain!
Daniel Craig...from wikipedia
He and his brother Adam attended Hilbre High School...That's right in front of my mums house! Fancy that.
Mmmm.... Quite a few STW'ers very local to me then!
Roger the cat - where are you in rotherham?
Alan Davies
Alf Ramsey
Alison Moyet
Barry Hearn
Damon Albarn
Darren Day
Denise Van Outen
Dermot O'Leary
Dick Turpin
Dudley Moore
Frank Lampard
Graham Gooch
Ian Holm
Jack Straw
Jamie Oliver
Jilly Cooper
Joe Pasquale
John Constable
John Fowles
John Terry
Joseph Lister
Keith Flint
Maggie Smith
Mark Foster
Nick Berry
Nigel Benn
Noel Edmonds
Richard Littlejohn
Richard Madeley
Rik Mayall
Roger Penrose
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ross Kemp
Russell Brand
Ruth Rendell
Sally Gunnell
Sidney Bernstein
Terry Venables
Thomas Plume
Wat Tyler
William Gilbert
Cilla Black
Jimmy Tarbuck
................I'm already ashamed so I'll stop there
Adrian Chiles is based very locally and is often seeen in a pub i frequent
Lee Sharpe (ex footballer, part time celeb) was born close to me
Jonny Briggs
Robert Plant
Captain Cook
Ridley Scott
Pete York
David Coverdale
A Man Called Adam (DJ duo)
Sir Ben Kingsley
however the glory ends there with the following:
Roy Chubby Brown
Paul Daniels
Ok, so I'm a saffer and we don't have counties, but these are all from my local village back home
Dale Benkenstein, Nashua Dolphins cricket player
Wayne Fyvie, former Sharks and SA national rugby player
Ian McIntosh, former Rhodesian, Sharks and SA national rugby coach
Shaun Pollock, former Dolphins and SA national cricket player and captain
Terence Parkin, Olympic medalist (deaf swimmer)
Megan Coleman, Miss South Africa 2007
J. K. Rowling
Gustav Holst
W. G. Grace
Dennis Potter
Dick Whittington
Simon Pegg
EMF
Last but not least, Fred & Rose West
Des O'Connor
Here in Sussex we have Jordan...oh the shame
Jimmy Saville
Harold Wilson
JB Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Kiki Dee
Robert Palmer
all from West Yorkshire
George Mallory ( more than a celebrity imo.) Born Mobberley, Cheshire.
Sarah Harding- Stockport, Cheshire.(girls aloud).
Fred Perry- also Stockport.
Rebecca Adlington - Mansfield
Alvin Stardust - Mansfield Woodhouse
Robin Hood ...I win (course he was real 🙄 )
Harry Patch
I think Mick Fleetwood plays drums and Billy Preston organ.
Eric Clapton - guitarist
that's enough to be getting along with. Round here if you chuck a stone you'll hit a "celebrity", but they were all born elsewhere.
