Does anyone famous, live near your house.

alanthemanc

Just wondered, within a mile radius of our house, a few sort of famous people live, ( well I suppose not megga famous but you know what I mean)
1.. Steve Coogan lived down the road from me once. (moved)
2.. Paul Scholes lived down the road from me once ( moved)
3.. Mike Harding comedian, folk singer lived down the road ( moved )
4.. Bernard Manning lived down the road ( died )
5.. Lisa Stansfield, singer, lived down the road ( moved).
6.. P.J.Proby, pop singer from the sixties, lived down the road ( moved).
Thats all I can think of, they all seemed to move, I hope it wasn't something I did. ALanthemanc

tjt6768

Does Jimmy Saville's Mum count? Lol
He was always coming to see her in his big Rolls, he was a very devoted son...

alanthemanc

TJT6768
Yep, counts big time, anyone will count. Manning once tried to bump start his Roller outside our house, for 2 hours. Only problem was, you cant, bump start an automatic, brought the neighbours out though.

joanlawson

Edwina Currie lived very near here when she was an MP, and Don Shaw, the writer who wrote scripts for lots of things on TV, including Z-Cars and Dangerfield, lived in my village. Also one member of the pop-group, Shawaddywaddy, lived here too.

Joan

tjt6768

Lol
Was he swearing

I did attend a funeral a couple of years ago, a friend of my late Father's, a folk singer named Dave Dalmour... He was Sir Jim's best friend, so Sir Jim got up and said a few words, very surreal moment.. He had a black shell suit and a red string vest on :shock: :shock:

joanlawson

delboy wrote:

I'd move, famous people lower the tone of a neighbourhood.

I think you are Victor Meldrew in disguise, Del

livinglegend

We did live near a Formula 1 team boss and my then girlfriend used to babysit for them. As I used to collect and drop her off at the house, I was sometimes invited in for a chat and a coffee. I did meet some of the F1 drivers who were there and found them all to be very friendly and polite.

The one who still stands out was Ricky Von Opel (then owner of Opel Cars) who would sit and casually chat to me about cars/driving in general and was a really, really nice person to meet.

lupin15

Not sure i want to admit to this but william Haig lives less than 2 miles down the rd....

tjt6768

joanlawson wrote:

delboy wrote:

I'd move, famous people lower the tone of a neighbourhood.

I think you are Victor Meldrew in disguise, Del

It's not much of a disguise Joan!!! :shock: :shock:

prefabkid47

A chap called Bob Geldof lives just up the road,you may have heard of him :eek:
Some years ago went to a fete in the garden of his house,he was there with a few of his friends,including Simon Le Bon,Lulu and Sting. :shock: :eek:
Still have this image of wife Paula Yates and daughter Fifi Trixibelle walking home from our local Co-op with Bob several paces behind loaded down with bags of shopping.

robertls

Frank Bruno.......live the other end of the village..

......gosh he's a big buggar......

katekelly

Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale -Eastenders) lives somewhere near -I believe he is going to open Sarah's school fete this summer!

barbara12

Can I admit to Andy Burnham...living near me...think hes moved to London now... :roll:
Barbara x

robertls

barbara12 wrote:

Can I admit to Andy Burnham...living near me...think hes moved to London now... :roll:
Barbara x

Andy who????

Should I know him???

Not a name thats stuck in my head....

ichabod6

Mr Little of Little and Large lives the other
side of our field.

joanlawson

ichabod6 wrote:

Mr Little of Little and Large lives the other
side of our field.

Lovely to see you posting, Ichabod :!: I hope you are well.

Joan

tjt6768

Oooh, Glenn Pinder from Magic 828 lives not far from here...

All together now..


Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

or was that

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo??

Lol

joanlawson

tjt6768 wrote:

Oooh, Glenn Pinder from Magic 828 lives not far from here...

All together now..


Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

or was that

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo??

Lol

It was whoooooooooooooo :?: :?:

tjt6768

Perrrrrzaaacckkerrlii
I will have you know he is a jolly nice fella, I have spoken to him on his show a few times now

tkachev

I once lived a pretty, country lane away from Noel Edmunds.


Elizabeth

caterina57

lupin15 wrote:

Not sure i want to admit to this but william Haig lives less than 2 miles down the rd....

William Haiges Family originally come from the place where I used to live, when my mum was young she new the family really well as they used to have a big soft drinks factory and used to sell house to house. Peter Elliot the athlete also came from the same area.
Cath

Florence500

Euan McGregor was born in my village and his folks still live here

tkachev

Florence500 wrote:

Euan McGregor was born in my village and his folks still live here

Hi Florence. Is that your bike?

Elizabeth

Florence500

Yes that is my baby, sadly not ridden him since July last year, but managing to go pillion with my boyfriend, getting back on my bike is my goal this year

cthornley

Grundy from Grundy's North on the BBC lives at the other end of my street

Alan Shearer & Donna Air are both from Gosforth originally and Mark & David Knopfler (dire straits) & Neil Tennant (pet shop boys) all grew up here

My dad bought his house (in S. Wales) from the parents of the lead singer of Feeder...the band rehearsed there for years and his teenage graffiti was all over my brothers walls (till we painted over it)

Oh and the guy who lives directly opposite us was on 'Come Dine With Me'....it was rather cringeworthy :oops:

Chrissie

tjt6768

my Uncle had to sell both his bikes, has had one hip replaced, having second one done this month. He has MS.
Hoping there is a chance for him to get back to it as well..