Your Local Celebs

Originally posted by DIVER@Jun 6 2006, 12:59 PM
Bristol's history throws up loads of very famous people but the only one of the current mob that I recognise is Baldrick. I wonder if that's why you can't get a decent turnip around here.
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Has modesty prevented you from mentioning how close you live to Ian Carnaby?
 
Apart from all the racing folk, the only famous person I can think of who lives in Faringdon is the chef Keith Floyd. Kate Moss and Jude Law have homes nearby I believe. I've seen Pierce Brosnan in a pub around here so he might live close to me too.
 
You're both wrong. He lives in Brussels and keeps his coat on a hook in Kitty O'Shea's. He lives with Mandy and the rest of the guys.
 
Marc Warren (The hustle)
Peter Ebdon (now moved to Dubai, but lived about 10 mins walk from me, owns part of the local football team & runs the local snooker academy where James Wattana practices & Sean Murphy used to before moving away with his Fiancee.)
Jo Whiley (radio 1)
Lesley Jacob (Dorean from Birds Of A Feather)
Thom Yorke (Radiohead, apparantly born here)
Omar Shariff (the porn *)
Anthony trueman from Eastenders (the doctor)
 
Originally posted by Grey@Jun 6 2006, 01:47 PM
You're both wrong. He lives in Brussels and keeps his coat on a hook in Kitty O'Shea's. He lives with Mandy and the rest of the guys.
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Oh, that Chris Tarrant...
 
Living just outside Oxford, I'd have thought I had loads? but to be honest I don't know of any. Although I did bump into some elderly chap wearing a white silky cap and lose fitting robes the other day buying a racing post :o
 
I Googled "Famous residents of <where I live>" and got the following:

The sister of peter fairclough of coronation street lives here, who? :blink:

Although if I used my closest town my post would be identical to jft2005
 
Its barren ground where I live. These were all I could come up with before I got bored.

Bono
Edge
Enya
Van Morrison
Neil Jordan
Eddie Irvine
Damon Hill
An Capall
Christy Moore
Meave Binchy
Freddie Forsyth
Marian Keyes
Hugh Leonard
Sinead O Connor
Joseph O Connor
Lisa Stansfield
 
Well he obviously doesn't get much practice in here. I'd defy anyone to get out of 1st gear yet alone a speeding ticket.

I suppose a list of people who've 'lived' / passed through Oxford would read pretty much like a who's who of Britain, or even the world?. There has to be a very really likelihood that the famous 'to be' are living in amongst us now. I learned today of a tree named after a recent Amercian student, who it was alleged was as a high as a kite one day (allegedly a quite common occurence) and he duly climbed up it to pronounce to any passers by, that one day he would be "the leader of the free world". Apparently it carries his name today, although "he did not have sexual relations with that tree"
 
Shaun Wright-Phillips lives on the same road about 200 yards from me, I've got a feeling he won't do for much longer!

Have also opened the door for Seb Coe at the local off licence and stood next to him in the Chinese while waiting for a take away.
 
I know it isn't Bob Holness now, it's some equally oldish bloke who is also on tv/radio and I suppose I might find out if I can be bothered. Which I doubt. :confused:

Of course, just up the road we Brightonians are favoured with Gary, Ryan, and Jamie Moore, if we can include racing celebs? And Steve Mellish, just a bit along the coast in Worthing (or as he would say, Werving).
 
:lol: I think he's paid by the word, isn't he? I don't think I've EVER heard anyone, apart from an auctioneer with a hot lot, talk so fast and say so much in the space of a few minutes! It's like listening to stream-of-consciousness on speed. When he's partnered by Lydia Nonstop, it's an audible hell - neither shuts up for a moment, it's wall-to-wall babble, and races have been known to be underway before they've been silenced. (Even then, I suspect they rabbit on anyway until they're back on camera.)
 
Does anybody stay near Whigfield (a very good group).
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You mean YOU don't? :o I'd have thought you'd have moved heaven and earth (well, certainly your address) in order to be near to them, HT. Gosh, you do disappoint me at times.
 
I feel I must jump to the defence of Steve Mellish, I agree he has a machine-gun-like delivery and does give the impression that he is paid by the word but he is, in my opinion, some way clear of the other pundits that appear before us.

He is self-deprecating and has a keen sense of humour and the partnership that he has struck up with Lydia is possibly one of the best teams working on the racing channels. They appear to have respect for each other and enjoy working together.

I don't expect many to agree with me.
 
Colin, his being a decent bloke (and he seems to be very friendly, too) has nowt to do with the fact that I can't begin to concentrate on the horses - the reason I watch racing - when he and Nonstop are rabbitting as if their lives depended on it!

They go through the entire card in painful detail. Come on! You have a race with, say, nine nags and only four have the slightest chance. Rather than give the viewer a nice look at them in the ring, we see the odd one in the background while ole Stevie Wonder goes off on an endless list of reasons why the 66-1 shot probably won't win, with Lydia prompting him with more pointless questions. "He is quite nicely bred, though, and he hasn't had the best of draws recently," she'll prattle, trying to instil some interest in a bored old codger who's current form is a row of coconuts. "Yesyesgrantedthat'struebutIdon'tthinkhe'sgoingtodoanybettertodayandI'llbeamazedifhe'sinthefirstsixorseven," rattles Steve "Dylan Thomas" Mellish. Yeah, I'd be amazed if he was in the first six or seven, which means he's going to be second last or last, Steve, something I might've figured for myself based on his bleedin' SP alone... :confused:

If you like talk so nonstop that you can't hear the pearls for the swine, Colin, then yes, they make a great team. Personally, while he sounds as if he's bored out of his skull the whole time, Jon Neesom at least draws breath and dismisses crapola horses, leaving Lydia, unfortunately, to continue relentless quizzing as to whether the dropped noseband or the tongue-tie will make a huge difference, or whether the fact that the jockey's a Capricornian, while the Moon is in the Seventh House, will influence the outcome. :blink: SHUTUPFORCHRIST'SSAKEWOMANANDLETMETHINK! :teeth:
 
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