Famous people

[benny3008]

has your area ever been home for anyone famous? Who?

[horseshoes]

Bryn Terfel, Aled Jones, Super Furry Animals, Sir Hugh Wheldon, Wayne Hennessey, DJ Sasha

[ruthann58]

Twiggy lives in the next village

[Answerprancer]

..and from my hometown:
Billy McKenzie (RIP), Brian Cox, Janet Keiller, William McGonagall, Heather ("Jemima" Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) Ripley.

[DTCwordfan]

All this place I am living in claims is Henry Bone of Bone China fame.....

town of my birth, George Romney, artist, David Starkey, Katherine Parr (last wife of Henry VIII).......

linkage between the two towns = me!

[mike11111]

Is that the William McGonagall of "O beautiful railway bridge o'er the silvery Tay" fame? I love him. As long as it rhymes at the end of the line, who cares about scansion, rhythm and metre, not to mention bathos.

[Francis Asis]

Oh, i forgot James Dyson - creator of the Dyson bagless vacuum cleaner

[sandyRoe]

Shouldn't that be The Great McGonagall, Poet & Tragedian? Give him his due respect. :-)

[askyourgran]

Nell McAndrew, Mel B, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jimmy Saville, Liz Dawn (Vera in Corrie), Keith Waterhouse, Allen Bennett, Barry Cryer, Beverley Callard (Corrie). And Pudsey Bear is at home in the park near me.

[Answerprancer]

Yes indeed (to both) !

[Lardhelmet_2]

Doesn't someone on here have Johnny Depp as a neighbour? <swoon>

[milly143]

Got a few round here. JK of Jamiroqui lives a couple of miles away, David Jason lives round here and one of the Begees (sp) has his maid/mistress and their love child holed up somewhere in the village.

[milly143]

Francis - My Dad went to his house yesterday to do a delivery for a swimming pool he is building there. He said the grounds are so big he couldn't work out which was the building they actually lived in.

[~posy~]

Aston Merrygold from JLS, Freddie from Skins, Bloke from Erasure, Gizz Butt - guitarist from Prodigy lives down the road, apparently Ernie Wise lived aroun here for a while.

[dotty.]

do you live in Richmond then AP?

[~posy~]

Also dwarf actor Warwick Davis lives at the bottom of my road and my next door neighbour has a small part in a film that will be shown in cinemas later this month (not famous, but maybe soon to be?!)