East Anglian celebrities

[Cqueen]

Just wondering how many famous people live in our region?

Delia Smith
Stephen Fry
The Darkness

...surely there are others?

[sayerbloke]

Michael "Lotto-Lout" Carroll...

[forthright mc]

Gary out of Eastenders (the mechanic who hangs around with Minty) lives somewhere out in Staughton i beleive. my uncle regularly goes out on the piss with him and i have seen him in my local Rainbow shopping a few times! hes quite a nice chap actually!
he hasn't got the best set of celebrity wheels though. last time i saw him he was driving a land rover freelander!
and Melvin Hayes from "some like it hot" lives in St Neots too!

>> Edited by forthright mc on Saturday 8th April 15:49

[john75]

Tisha Goddard lives down the road from me in Bawburgh and James Blunt is from Cromer.

Sir Bobby Robson in Ipswich
Lord Archer in Cambridge

>> Edited by john75 on Saturday 8th April 18:28

[zippee]

Rob Harris - Jamiroquais guitarist lives opposite me.

[mark r skinner]

no longer with us but the late, great john peel. near bury st edmunds.

[iluvmercs]

The late great actor Sir John Mills went to my old school when it was called Norwich School for Boys.....now Langley Senior School. I went him when he came to our speech/prize day, shook the man's hand too, as I won an academic prize that year

Herbie Hide, the boxter still lives round here doesn't here?

Trisha's daughter went to Langley too - stuck up little ! But Trisha herself is even worse!!!!

Darren

[sayerbloke]

Bernard Matthews.

[Muncher]

Pete Waterman lives in Wivenhoe.

[iluvmercs]

Nobody has mentioned Alan Partridge yet

Darren

[Muncher]

The guys from Busted...

[BliarOut]

Ernie Wise's mum used to live at the top of my road... Dragging the bottom of the barrel I know, but we did get to see his roller from time to time.

[detchibe]

Hannah Spearitt from S-Club 7?

Myleene Klass (Hear'say) went to my 6th form apparently. There's two good reasons to remember her

>> Edited by detchibe on Sunday 9th April 14:05

[spitfire-ian]

The guy who played Trigger in Only Fools and Horses.

Doesn't Stephen Fry have a place in north Norfolk too.

John Major lives near Cromer.

[herbiespringer]

Lord Lucan saw him in Tesco's High woods Colchester

>> Edited by herbiespringer on Sunday 9th April 18:13

[Bacardi]

Greetings Herbie, fancy seeing you here .

Griff Rhys Jones lives, I believe, in Suffolk. Saw him in the Mogul, Manningtree once, he's a regular there. Also saw punk poet, John Cooper Clarke in the Wivenhoe Indian, I believe he's local. Sade went to my school, but wisely, has moved out of the area.

[clapham993]

Gentlemen!!

Be ashamed of yourselves!!!

I give you Norfolk's greatest ever son; Vice Admiral Lord Nelson

[spitfire-ian]

Bacardi said:

Greetings Herbie, fancy seeing you here . Griff Rhys Jones lives, I believe, in Suffolk. Saw him in the Mogul, Manningtree once, he's a regular there. Also saw punk poet, John Cooper Clarke in the Wivenhoe Indian, I believe he's local. Sade went to my school, but wisely, has moved out of the area.

The Mogul does have a load of pictures of different celebrities taken in the Restaurant but whether they live in the area or were just visiting I don't know.

Anyway, more celebs for East Anglia are:

Bill Bryson - lives near Wymondham
Delia Smith (can't remember if we've had her already)
Cathy Dennis - from Norwich
Claire Goose - raised in Norwich
Myleene Klass - from Gorelston

Does Boudica count too?

[BliarOut]

clapham993 said:

Gentlemen!! Be ashamed of yourselves!!! I give you Norfolk's greatest ever son; Vice Admiral Lord Nelson

I think he's dead now.

[chris.mapey]

sayerbloke said:

Bernard Matthews.

My Dad sold him his first turkeys

Chris