What famous people do you know or live near?

Fools Motto said:
William F-P lives about 10 mins away. Madonna has her estate not that far either.
I've seen Sean Connery in my town - he must have been visiting or passing through as I don't think he lives here!! He ain't half bad - for an oldie! ;)
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Our horse box used to belong to WFP, it still has some of his tachographs in the glovebox, from a tour of Germany.
 
Now if Daniel Craig was on offer, I'd have been down the pub 24 hours a day in the hope of drooling over him :eek: :D Other than when I was "popping round for a cup of sugar" or some other feeble pretence, that is!
 
Johnny Ball lives at the end of the road. I've also seen Tess Daley and Vernon Kay (he looks years younger in real life) walking their dog in the local Beeches and Fern Britton in the local Costa (she looks amazing).
Oh and gorgeous Will Mellor (Hollyoaks/two pints of lager and a packet of crisps is local). Seen him at the local farm park (shared goat feed lol) and down the river park.
 
Bob Geldof lives in our closest town.. always see him around.
Orlando Bloom's mum lives in canterbury, used to see him around the town alot in his younger days!

Saw Johnny Depp filming pirates in Greenwich when I was at uni... I only went to uni that week to watch the filming.
 
Oh, I met Hale & Pace once years ago! That's my only 'famous person' encounter!

....and of course, Matt Le Tissier, he's a local Guern! I used to work with his brother & Matt came into the office once to speak to him.

I'm not a big footie fan though!
 
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I've met Frankie Dettori and AP McCoy as I used to work at York racecourse. Frankie frequently arrived in a helicopter in his Armani suits! Erm.. I also know Matt Sampson (showjumper) as I rode at his yard for many many years, and is literally 2 minutes from my house!
 
spike123 said:
Julian Clary, Paul O'Grady,Vic Reeves used to be relatively near too. Horsey wise Tanya Larrigan who is a lovely lady and not too far from Guy Williams either aparantly, though I haven't come across him personally yet.
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Sounds like you`re right next door to me! And we get our sawdust and shavings from Mick, Guy`s father.Tanya`s dad was party to buying my first horse,but that was when they were at Abinger Common in Surrey.
 
I had orlando bloom sat in my office once...that was an odd day at work.

In terms of neighbours I live a stones throw from windsor castle so....
 
hee hee!! Pebbles and i had a 'tea party' with Guy Williams' Father and chatted about his 'good' horse!! lol

My husband and I have had dinner in a restaurant and been joined by Chris Evans, ended up staying the night with him and his girlfriend (now wife) in a non swinger way I might add!!

I used to baby sit for Damon Hill and frequently bumped into them in ours, and his favourite pizza establishment ;)

My husband worked VERY closely with a member of the royal family who was invited to our wedding but sadly declined!!

I went on a couple of dates (pre marriage) with one of the Law Lords sons - I cant even hold my cutlery correctly.. imagine how that went down!!

In a previous job, my boss shoved me into social circles that included Grant Bovey and Anthea Turner and other 'old money' celebs.

I have had a fruitful life for someone of 25!! I could go on! :D
 
Kirstyl, I think I know who you are ;)

Nigel Martin (ex England footballer) and the guy that plays the older, beardy Dingle (I don't know his name :blush: ) both come into work fairly often. My favourite Dingle-related story is when one of the shop staff saw him, starting singing the Corrie theme tune (cos he thought it was the Emmerdale one :rolleyes: ) so he put his shopping on the counter, looked Jed in the eye, said 'wrong one, mate. Where's the sacks of peanuts?' and refused to be served by anyone else. Maybe you had to be there to find it funny ;)

I used to live near John Major and Sid Owen from Eastenders :)
 
HashRouge said:
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.
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Haha Tony Booth used to live here as well!! I kept bumping into him in the petrol station - for someone who usually plays tramps and dirty old men, he's incredibly sexy in real life:o:o
 
Pinkatc said:
I live near Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and the Funnells. Not that I move in the same circles as them :)
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The Fuzzy Furry said:
you must live not far from me then! :D
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We are all rather close then.
Also just round the corner from us are:
Julie Walters and Jodie Kidd (ifold)
David Gilmore - pink floyd (has a farm near equitogs)

Horsey wise, you also have Amy Stovold, Andrew Gould and Tintin van Rjickevorsel (Beligian Olympic Eventer)
 
Pearlsasinger said:
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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Where are you then? I went to school and had classes with Oliver. And the Whitakers know my aunts sister and used to ride their ponies before they ever got any of their own.
 
bumblelion said:
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!
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rowan atkinson shops at our local asda, have seen him in there a couple of times. Used to live about a mile away from rosemary conley, now my ony claim to fame is seeing martin johnson regularly in the local spar. He's forever buying pasta sauces.
 
I met prince Naseem in Tenerife, he was training in an apartment below us and I idolised him! We got in the lift with him one day and my brother shook his hand and nearly broke it! Had a photograph done with him but he was a bit up himself really so I went off him then!
 
kirstyl said:
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!!
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I used to live near Bray and met Parkie many times at the cricket club. His wife Mary is lovely and his boys played cricket too, as did Frank Bough and his son. Many years ago now.................
 
What a weird thread. I have no idea what famous people I live near. I wouldn't recognise them anyway. :rolleyes:

There are many things in life which I find interesting, exciting or fun. Celebrity watching isn't one of them.

VoR said:
Why????????????????????????????????
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Quite.

DemiBridie said:
Im sooo jealous of you that live close to famous people! I would be starstruck! :eek:
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Now that just seems sad to me. :(

olop said:
My old field used to back onto Terry Wogan's house, my 2 trashed his garden once (they broke through the fencing & raided his vegetable patch :o ) luckily he saw the funny side of it :D
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But that one's rather sweet. :)
 
charcoalfeathers said:
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)!
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I forgot to mention the Beckhams! you must live near me then. I'm in Harlow. My sister used to work in Mothercare and served the Beckhams at the tills! I also saw Victoria with her sons in a resturant.

I also met Jade goody, when I was at work (she was really nice)

Her ex Jack Tweed is horrible though! arrogant t**t!
 
Miss Bean said:
I used to live near Davina McCall and according to local gossip Daniel Craig is buying a rather large property down the road but now his married to Rachael I'm just not interested anymore!!!!!!!!! :D
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Miss Bean - please dont be jealous but I went to school with Daniel Craig, he was in my year and my classes. He was fab at acting even then and the school plays were always worth going to just to see him act. He was a lovely lovely lad.

Chris Boardman, Olympic Cyclist was also in my year at school.

My bridesmades next door neighbour was Jan Molbey (SP?) Liverpool football player of old and we had Ian Rush living close by as well.
 
PolarSkye – I must live not far from where you used to live :)

We’ve got a couple of Reading footballers, Jimmy Page from Led Zeplin (who I’ve seen fishing, random!) and Uri Geller who live nearby. I bumped into Gary Moore (literally!) in a pub, he was a little grumpy! Gillian Anderson lives in the village where my parents live and my in-laws know the Middletons and Chris Tarrant.

Alex Hua Tian’s groom showed us around his huge horse box (not sure if he was meant to!!). :rolleyes:

I’ve met Aerosmith (and followed them on tour in Europe in one of their buses), a couple of members of Foo Fighters (yet to meet Dave Grohl but I’ve met his guitar tech), saw Kurt Cobain in a nightclub many years ago (when Nirvana played Reading Festival) but was too shy to speak to him, and several other rock musicians.
 
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