What famous people do you know or live near?

alliersv1 said:
Not so much famous as infamous, but I live near Tony Martin, burglar murderer extraordinaire.
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Love it :D now you're just bragging.

I live near the popular Helford estuary in sunny ( rainy ) cornwall and i can tell you it's wall to wall with media royalty , Sir Tim Rice , steve McFaddon , Pete Townsend , Jenny Agutter , just to name a few and the funniest thing i've seen so far it when Brad Pitt and his Misses stayed at a luxury nearby hotel , the local rag's front page headline was ' Local Hotel is the Pitts' - priceless.:D
Oh and i did see one of the hairy bikers in our local Sainsbury's the other day , the taller , better looking one , haven't a clue what his name is.:rolleyes:
 
I used to hack past Rupert Grint's house :) I never saw him but other people who I ride with have! I live in the same town as the Beckhams until they decided to sell Beckingham Palace! And a work friend who lives near me used to teach their kids trampolining at the local leisure centre! I often see Sir Alan Sugar's car on the way to work, (I recognise the number plate from the Apprentice) and work colleagues regularly bump into the cast of TOWIE as it's set where I work. Boyfriend used to see celebrities at his old work (he worked in a petrol station) and met Amy Childs, Stacey Solomon and Ricky Whittle (Calvin from Hollyoaks)!
 
I've seen Bob and Peaches Geldoff in Tesco! Vic Reeves, Paul O'grady live in the village right next to me, and I've met basshunter! That's all, not to exciting. Guy Williams near me tooo
 
Oh how jealous I am of you all. There's no one famous up here, we just get the showjumpers come up for Burgham in the summer, though I think Karen dixon (eventing) is about half hour away and ian stark in the Borders
 
I see Paul Weller quite often - his recording studio is 50 yards from my office.
A few 'notables' also pop in to use it when free.....

Altho we live on the 'wrong side of the train tracks' if we go about 6 miles down the road to a Waitrose store, you can count the s'lebs in there often... nice to see you, to see you nice is amongst them on occasions :D
 
Well, you did ask... I've had lunch at Michael Parkinson's house, not with him but his mum and my nana who were very close friends. I broke a wine glass and was mortified. Rolf Harris was one of his neighbours. I've met Lee Pearson several times as patron of the charity I work for, lovely inspirational and talented man with a wicked sense of humour. Emmerdale is local to us and we've been lucky enough to have Nicola Wheeler support EST Leeds Summer Fair for the last 4 years - she is wonderful! Nicola has brought along several co stars including Charlotte Bellamy (Laurel), Charley Webb (Debbie Dingle) and Matthew Wolfenden. They were all lovely and yes, we're routing for Matthew in Dancing on Ice!!
 
oh another one I use to see Gazza when he was being hounded by the press and my kids were small, so I would walk past on the river bank buggy etc. He use to come out to feed the ducks. The press use to hang over his garden fence I kinda felt sorry for him! One day he came out the little newsagents and I said hello(I had the said child in buggy) HE was sooooooo Miserable..never said anything at all!! Just looked and stared as if I was a bit of dirt(No I hadnt just fell off the horse)!!??!!.I was quite suprised as I would see him a lot around. Hey ho went right off him arrogant!
 
spottypony said:
I used to live near Rosemary Conley but don't know her. I hunt with the same hunt as Phoebe Buckley and had a few lessons in the past with Lauren Shannon. :)
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Your near me then:D

Di Lampard live in the next village :)

When we lived in London my best friend lived a couple of houses away from Sting - we used to hang out the window watching him jog past:D

When I lived in Birmingham and London I used to see quite a lot of 'famous' people - there are a few who live round here but no one pays much attention to them:eek::D

My latest and best claim to fame (as far a my niece is concerned anyway:rolleyes) is that my friend at work is Max from The Wanteds mum:D
 
I know Caroline Powell fairly well, her husband works with my aunt and uncle.
My friend is married to Ian Starks son Tim.
My dads cousin is Andrew Cowan, he won 2 London to Sydney Marathons and was director at Mitsubishi World Rally team when they were at their most succesful, they won 4 world rally championships.
 
Little Squirrel said:
I know plenty of jockeys not sure I'd class those as famous though! Johnny Depp has a house around here someplace although I've never seen him. Trigger from Only Fools and Horses is up the road and John Major isn't far away either and is often spotted in the supermarket! The butler guy from Downton Abbey has also moved this way of late. Oh and my best friends husband is an artist who has directed a film with Keira Knightley in it and is also good mates with John Hurt and Stephen Merchant both of whom were at her wedding and were lovely.
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id count jockeys as names you could share *hint tell me who hint* haha me and my friend have a thing for jockeys so i think im gonna make the most of this light hearted post!

a few racehorse trainers live near me, no big ones though and you can't count those as famous especially the ones around here, wish i lived in cheltenham or newmarket!
 
Our RC's Annual Show is usually sponsored by John Whitaker and Oliver Townend as both their family farms are local. Various members groom for them.

Oh and a friend was on the Hairy Bikers programme last Autumn, so she's a telly star now!
 
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I always think fame is a funny thing and can change how you view people.

I was having a chat with a good friend the other day. I remember seeing her go round Badminton a good few years back, long before I knew her, and her partner has represented his country in the Olympics (also eventing). I got to know them because their daughter is in the same class at school as one of my sons. I actually said to her that I was so glad I got to know her before I knew who she was (I didn't recognise her x number of years on and standing at the school gate and the daughter has her partner's surname). It was only after someone said 'oh I'll sit you two together (at a mums' dinnner) as you are both horsey' that I got to know her and even then it was a few weeks before I realised who she was (yeh, ok I'm slow ;)).

I'm still in awe though when she says she went to dinner with eventer A or was at a party with eventer B - it's not name dropping, it's just the circles she is in. She's so lovely and is in fact as interested in my grubby ponies and children as the horses she has. In fact she only called me this evening to chat about ponies and children and wne drinking - she was ahead of me because she had already started on the wine - I was still getting ponies in from the field!!
 
I went to the same senior school as Stephen Marchant, he's younger than me though and i don't remember him lol:p
My sis used to work in the natural history unit of the BBC in Bristol so i used to go visit her a lot and see loads of 'faces' in the canteen, Chris packham once said 'bless you' to me when i sneezed:o
I used to livery my old horse next to Camilla's place, YO used to rent a field off her and i used to have chats with the armed coppers on her gate at 7am when i put horsey out lol, they used to nick apples from camillas trees to give to my horse:eek: anytime she went past in her car she would wave and i did see her walking her dogs in her grounds in her wellies and dressing gown lol:D
 
the most famous people ive ever met (don't live near anyone famous) is will funnell, 7 jockeys (most famous-tony mccoy) and thats it! i was coming back from france on a ryanair flight once and my step sister started going "OMG ITS AUSTIN HEELEY!!!" had no idea who he was until she explained he was the rugby player and was on strictly, my friends cousins friend (or something) is friends with some guy who made the semi finals of britians got talent (wow :P)
 
Janah said:
Nicolas Cage is in the next village.
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Ooo you must be very close as I can say exactly the same thing :)

Paul Nicholls is also only a couple of villages away and I've met him a few times. Very nice, down to earth and straight-up guy who clearly adores his horses. When asked about what he's hoping for the next big weekend he simply says he just wants them all home safely.
 
Hayley Cropper from Corrie lives in my village. She used to come into the village shop when I was working there - she's really nice and doesn't look a bit like on TV. I think Norris used to live here as well but not sure he does anymore (note: my location is no longer Lisbon, I keep meaning to change it!). Tony Blair has also been seen in the local pub - his father in law Tony Booth used to live here.
 
Rowan Atkinson lives nearby in a friends old house, also the lady that does the property programmes, katherine gee lives in my village. Not very exciting!! Over the years iv met many famous people, including Esther rantzen when I was on that's life 20years ago!! I grew up in London, so it was normal! We used to have some old arsenal footballers come around our house at times (my dads mates), such as Ian wright, lee Dixon, Paul Merson. Also my mum was mates with Linda lusardi when I was younger!
My brother lives in west Hempstead and sees and knows many famous people! He speaks to Jeremy clarkson regularly!
 
I don't know who most of these people are. I certainly don't know who lives near here... However, I once had a conversation with Robert Winston about neurological differences between sexes - which is frankly random.

I have encountered many people over the years who I'm later told are famous by companions, but I have failed to recognise - it says a lot about me that the only people I have recognised are three actors from Casualty (oddly all in the vicinity of Kings X on separate occasions).
 
Daniel Craig was our next door neighbour! Admittedly his house was about 2 miles away but there was nothing in between! Never met him though but I believe he did go in the village pub occasionally.
 
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