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.

I spoke to the lovely woman that plays Audrey Roberts in Coronation street. She was very pleasant, she speaks very much the same as when on the soap. I heard her voice, which made me turn around. It was lovely to see her hubby too!
She was shopping in our Local Sainsburys.

I still wave to Reading Elvis most mornings.
We also used to have a guy who begged with his cat who had his own Facebook page- Mr Pinky the travelling cat.

We had 'pound a bag' a market trader who used to sell random items ( Brad rolls, fruit, could be anything really) in a bag for a pound... by hollering 'pound a bag' all day. He achieved some local celebrity and everyone was sad when either died or retired.

Where I live now there used to be a lady who walked her 8 ferrets on leads down the high street. She was a normal well to do lady-just with all these ferrets.

We have lots of actual famous's near me but my best spot was Ray Winstone following what I assume was his wife around the posh garden centre and looking bored.

@keffie12 I know where you live too and am very jealous, I love it there!!!

Our local “famous” person became real-life famous. Did you watch Marvellous? If you didn’t then you must!

@ElizabethMainwaring Roxanne apparently kicked off after overhearing something she didn't like. She was rude to staff and the owners son kicked her out.
When people asked him on Facebook if he really did it he put "Yes" 👍👍
Afterwards he said something about people who think they are better than everybody else and above the rules.

@halfbakedkate & someone else, can't remember who, think you both grew up somewhere beginning with S? I grew up nearby & still live quite local. Jesus, the Wizard Man with his cat, boom-box Bernard and that old lady who used to wear little girl dresses are all known to me although not Arsenal Andy? No local celebs in the village I grew up in (although we had a prison) but where I am now (which has a race course) we have a wannabe rasta- wears bob Marley tees & rasta/ jamaican flag coloured items under his seersucker blazer & sits outside tk maxx letting the world go by!

Used to work in Guildford and know dreadlocked busker, the little old guy who used to walk around whispering obscenities waving his Sainsbury's bag for life and the Guildford big issue sellers, one of whom called me princess! Guildford also still has Stella the Vegan, as mentioned up thread. Gives out handmade leaflets and carries big boards telling us how we're all drinking cow's breastmilk. My ex-colleagues mum knew her, apparently food at her house was an experience! Never saw the bearded lady though. Work in Kingston now & did see Moses a couple of times- what a sweetie!

In my town we've got Val from GBBO & the countries most married man(!) & Nicholas Cage lives close by & is often seen around.

I've never seen him, but there's a bloke in Manchester who takes his pet rabbit on the bus. And in Hoylake, where one of my aunties lives, there's a guy who walks a miniature horse.

In the town I grew up in we had a man who used to sit outside morrisons playing the accordion and tapping his foot, which had a soft toy on so it looked like it was dancing.
There was also gentle giant George who had a learning disability and would always lead the town parades (not by request, but everyone loved him and never tried to stop him). I believe he’s still going strong but not a regular fixture in the town centre anymore.
There was mad Mick who believed he’d won millions from the readers digest. He had mental health issues and would just randomly grasp the air and say “I’ve won!” or “I got it!” and tell people when the money was going to arrive. I don’t know if he’s still around.
My Great Aunt used to sit in her wheelchair outside the shopping centre collecting for charity every Saturday and everyone loved her.
There was (and I believe still is) a man who wore really short shorts and carried a camera everywhere he went. He had a beard and made everyone feel really uncomfortable because beard = weirdo. Also short shorts and camera.
There’s now a busker who the kids call the lyrical miracle, apparently. My parents are still in the area and tell me he can’t sing for toffee and the kids all just think he writes good lyrics because the songs are covers from before their time.

Icanflyhigh...you live near me. His palace is at the back of my house. Next to the people who own PLT and also the son of Mr Matalan.
Very nice fireworks put on, which we, the peasant neighbours watch through the trees! They are amazing!
Loads of famous folk round here, Its football, cycling and soap star territory. I'm just a mere local who didnt move from the village I was born in!
Sadly the only non famous people round here with a rep are a lady know to urinate randomly in shops, a la Little Britain and a poor fella always cycling who has fused spinal bones. My son saw him cycling and thought this man was a headless apparition. We now call him the headless man, because from behind you literally cant see his head or neck!

The Krankies!

@Itsonlymeeee I have a bit of a thing for Nick Cage! I'd quite like to see him! Lucky you!

I bumped into Stanley Tucci in my local farmers' market.
SO envious! I adore him.

When I was a kid we went on holiday to Italy. Apparently Frank Bough had stayed in the same hotel the week before.

Now THAT'S exactly the kind of connections that will guarantee you a place in Who's Who

We've got quite a few where I live. There's a man from the Caribbean who rides up and down the high street on a mobility scooter, spliff in hand, playing Bob Marley on his speakers with incense burning on his scooter.

There's a man who wears a rainbow wig and not much else who dances on the roundabouts. Often in the mornings and even in the winter, I see him on the school run but haven't in a while.

Terribly sad but everyone knows a lady who covers herself in literal white paint/chalk (she's not white) and wears a pretend bump. She often has abuse shouted at her, but she definitely has some mental health issues.

We also had one who'd stand on the edge of a junction wearing a top hat and eccentric clothes. He'd wave at cars and they'd all toot back. Various stories about why he was there, something to do with his wife passing away/leaving him. He's definitely not about now, I'm going back decades.

@NotYourHun yup.

Actual celebs. Alistair brownlee shops at my local aldi. We're in emmer Dale Country so I've probably walked into some of them without realising it.

Stinky Chris. A man called Chris. He stinks. And is always in the pubs trying to be your mate. Poor guy

@Littlecaf Pretty sure it’s the same guy I used to run past!

Theres a story in our family that on of the woman had an affair with Mr Ismay that owned the Titanic and had an illegitimate child??? I've not idea if it's true.....hes referred to as Uncle Ismay in our family as a joke!

@NotYourHun probably! Usually seen on London Road......

I grew up in East Sussex and once saw Paul McCartney dropping one of his daughters off at Rye train station (late 80s). My friend at college lived next door to Roger Daltrey and a former colleague went to school with Joanna Lumley. I now live in the Midlands, father-in-law went to school with the bloke who played Tosh Lines in the Bill. Edwin Starr lived a few miles away and Jeremy Clarkson went to school nearby. I also live just down the road from where the infamous Mick Philpott murdered his children ☹️

My best friend’s sister went to school with Beverley Allitt 😬