Who, in your opinion, is a legend who also has the benefit of being alive?
Any nationality, any walk of life, famous or not, whoever! Include a short reason for their inclusion if you feel it’s nessacery.

My nomination is Brian Blessed for being Brian Blessed.
BRIAN’S ALIVE!!!

David Attenborough

My boss. Built a company up from nothing to being reasonably successful whilst actually and genuinely giving a shit about his staff. Known him 20 years and working for him for 12 of those and he’s been far more of a role model/father figure to me than my own dad ever was.

Stephen Fry
Mick Jagger
Paul McCartney
Michael Caine

Carl Cox
LTJ Bukem – invented a whole sub genre of music.

Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.

I do agree with Houns. Thunberg another.

David Hockney
Guy Martin
Quentin Blake

Joe Cocker

@cynic-al – a friend who’s a mountain guide guided Brian Blessed on Everest. Said that he was ebullient but not overbearing. Also reckoned that for someone who wasn’t “naturally” a climber he did pretty well and could mostly look after himself unlike some of the others who needed waiting on hand and foot.

I’ll go with David Attenborough as well.

Marcus Rashford

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Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.

Yeah cause he’s has such a wasteful life… Blessed became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to 28,500ft without oxygen. He is also the oldest to reach the magnetic North Pole on foot.
Shortly before his 80th birthday, he became a fully qualified cosmonaut, having caught the attention of Nasa. He completed 800 hours of space training at Star City, Moscow.
He works with organisations such as Born Free and has rescued everything from stray cats to wildcats, as documented in his recent book The Panther in my Kitchen.
Sparred with the Dalai Lama and so much more

He has my vote.

Sam Hill.

Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.

Exactly my take. BB is quite an amazing guy, but I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a lift with him.

You know that thing actors do where they pretend to be different to how they are in real life?

What’s the betting BB doesn’t shout all the time when he’s off-duty?

Interesting @z1ppy and Whitestone, cheers.

Rashford definitely another.

Plus he was in Flash Gordon, Starwars, Blackadder and Peppa Pig! What a range! 😂

WCA – Legend for egotistic self promotion

Graeme Obree.

I wouldn’t want to be stuck in a lift with him.

I doubt he takes the lift 🙂

George Foreman. If you don’t know why, watch

Michael Palin
Stephen Fry
Greta Thunberg
Simon Reeves
Chris Packham

Not Brian Blessed, how anyone can have so much adoration for shouting is being me.

saw his one man show a couple of years ago. The guy is the very definition of joie de vivre. I can see why he would not be appreciated by some of the miserable sods on here 🤣

**** panicked when I saw that other thread this morning!!

Buzz Aldrin

Seconding Michael Palin, Marcus rashford, David Attenborough and Chris packham.

Boris Johnson (edit sorry I thought you said living bellend)

Billy Connolly

Tony Hawk
Reinhold Messner

Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo

What’s the betting BB doesn’t shout all the time when he’s off-duty?

Especially given the number of times he’s been with others in very remote inhospitable locations, with no one else around…

Cozy Powell.

I thought Mr Powell was brown bread?

The Black prowler of Wishaw

The Black prowler of Wishaw

Leg ends. Not bell ends

Mat Hoffman

Dave Jones, joined Newbury Road club in 1948 and still going strong now age 90 1/2 !!

Barak Obama. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in his presence during a couple of speeches and it’s incredible.

Nick Clegg for the same reasons and because he put country before politics.

Cozy Powell died in 1998!

I got completely giggly when I met Andrew Shandro…

Ian Mackaye

Horace Andy

Tony Hawk

You’ve spelled Rodney Mullen wrong. It’s okay a lot of people do this.

I second Brian Blessed, more to the man than just shouting.

While I’ve no idea what he is like away from the camera, Sir David Attenborough.

From the world of cycling, perhaps Sir Chris Boardman.