Local celebrities

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Do you have any where you live, or any local urban legends?

The closest town to myself there was a man who drove round on a mobility scooter with 4 or 5 real life owls sat with him... He would stop and let people have pics with him and all sorts.

It wasn't done as a one off or charity, he just liked to takes his owls out I guess.

@Thewheelsarefallingoff

I remember marigold..

See the puppet man regularly too....

I used to teach Ricky Ross from Deacon Blue's daughter years ago.

I also taught one of the current Love Island contestants.

football manager.
rufus sewell
at one point amy whinehouse,george micheal,emma bunton,elaine paige.arsene venger and dev from corro and i saw him once coming out of david lloyd! he saluted at me just like youd expect him to in character.

When I was at university, there was an old man who used to travel around on public transport with a breast pump in a carrier bag. He was quite well known locally.

This guy was a legend in our town
www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/15712061.stan-the-man-warrington-mr-smiths-legend-dies-aged-90/

I also thought of no-smoking man, mentioned already by stepitupjuan and Bipbipbipbip often used to see him as I drove between Liverpool and Southport. Definite mental health issues, very ranty but I believe he'd lost a relative and blamed smoking for their death so there was some rational behind it.

In my time I’ve bumped in to Zammo from. Grange Hill in Tescos where I work , he was looking for eggs; Dot Cotton Actress June Brown from Eastenders. And Margaret Thstcher’s former press secretary Bernard Ingham. That’s my big three.

Suggs😍, Jimmy Greaves and Olly Murs😊

Glad to see Speedo Mick in here too. He's nuts, but in a good way and he's raised so much for charity. Everton fans get very protective of him when other fans slag him off.

Reading Elvis! He’s been in the town for years. Everyone loves him so much they chipped in to take him to Graceland.

I worked in Fleet St in the 80s and 90s and there was a Northern Irish chap who would come and loudly preach the bible outside our building at lunchtimes.
He always wore a black suit and bowler hat and looked and sounded like a proper Orange Order Ulsterman.
People used to engage with him a little but he was a bit 'fire and brimstone' and not very popular.

@ThisIsNotARealAvo ah you're near me. Juggling Jim wasn't a millionaire and didn't drive a Jag contrary to popular belief. He did have a flat in town.

I preferred him to the other regular busker.

When I was a teen many years ago we had the rolly polly tramp who was a homeless guy known for doing random rolly pollys in the streets

Paul McCartneys grandchild goes to the school in Hampstead that the kids I nanny for go to. Saw him once. Just a glimpse but that was enough. He’s such a legend.

We have Johnny Wilkes. Allegedly Robbie Williams' best friend.

Matt Baker grew up along the road from me, a friend of mine baby sat him when she was in her teens.

We have quite a few near to where I live on the south coast
Michael Ball, Christopher Timouthy, Kate Winslet, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Jack Dee, and the late Patrick Moore. We have a few older actresses too, but I can’t remember their names

Harry Rednap lives in my town

I remember Purple Aki and Cardboard Banjo Man too! If I mentioned Dave the Rave in the central library, would anyone know where I live now?

I live within a few minutes of JK Rowling. I drive past most days and enjoy seeing if the lights are on!

Quite a few round me :

John Torode and Lisa faulkner
Jonathan Ross
Kat slater from eastenders
Peter capaldi(?) Dr who
Noel or Liam Gallagher
Suranne Jones I think

Other people I see too whose names I can't remember

There was a well known naked in cyclist in Cambridge, but I only saw him the once. Plus a guy that strapped things to his head - I saw him once with a toilet roll and once with a french stick.

Oh did I miss point of thread?🤣

@Namechangerextraordinaire1 I wondered if she’d get a mention! she died a few years ago - people lined the streets for her funeral parade

@augustusglupe

Don't forget Paddy McGuiness and Mo Salah! 😉