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Local celebrities

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Scrump21 · 13/01/2020 22:51

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.

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WWDiana · 13/01/2020 23:56

We have 'The Puppet Man' hes nearly 80, brings his stereo to the high street and plays music whilst dancing with his puppets Grin

Icanflyhigh · 13/01/2020 23:56

Wayne Rooney has just moved into the next village to us Smile

buttcheeksaplenty · 13/01/2020 23:57

We had a cowboy , a real life cowboy that walked the town chatting to everyone and anyone .

He has retired now , I think he's a Christian preecher now .

Also a tramp that lived in a tent on the ring road , his name was Fred , he was also a much loved character, everyone had time for him , sadly passed away now but there was talk of a statue Smile

Suchan1d10t · 13/01/2020 23:57

@theneighbourswindchime omg I may also know your lady where I live now! If not there is a clone around. Her hair maybe once had dreads? But it is so so soooo matted, and yes it absolutely stinks Shock

Icanflyhigh · 13/01/2020 23:57

Oh and that fella from Showaddywaddy lives local too, and Roy Wood from Wizard!

chocolateneededrn · 13/01/2020 23:57

We've got monkey man in our town! He wheels around a toy monkey in a pram, in a (I think) old fashioned soldiers outfit playing music. Always makes me smile. He's been around for years.

Lurleene · 13/01/2020 23:58

MovingBriskyOn that is so strange, I wonder how he knows. If word gets out he'll become your local celebrity and you'll take twice as long to go anywhere with all the people stopping him in the street to ask the time.

buttcheeksaplenty · 14/01/2020 00:00

@Backofthebunty

I knew he would get a mention , you beat me too it . Grin

stepitupjuan · 14/01/2020 00:01

Are you in North Wales @chocolateneededrn? If so I've seen him. He was dressed as a matador and playing Enola Gay Smile

RightOnTheEdge · 14/01/2020 00:03

The OP said Stella McCartney lives round the corner from her so I think real celebrities are allowed.

Roxanne Pallet is banned from my local garden centre. 🤣
The Yorkshire Vets are our local celebrities.
The first Heist was filmed here so those locals got to be minor celebs for a while and turn the xmas lights on Grin

lonelonelylost · 14/01/2020 00:03

We have a man who sits at the docks with his two pet birds.

theneighbourswindchime · 14/01/2020 00:08

@suchan1d10d if you live by the sea, it's the same lady lol

ElizabethMainwaring · 14/01/2020 00:11

RightontheEdge, please tell us why Roxanne Pallet is banned from the garden centre! Please!

BaileysMadeMeDoIt · 14/01/2020 00:11

You're quite local to me then OP. I picked up a friend in the Lenches to go Wassailing on Saturday.

Sleepycat91 · 14/01/2020 00:12

Josie Gibson lives in the same area as me, saw her coming out of Asda with her son with a pack of ASDA shades bog roll like any other person!

raffle · 14/01/2020 00:14

@ThisIsNotARealAvo @Suchan1d10t I also knew Juggling Jim, it was lovely to see all the tributes in town when he passed away. Lovely but sad obviously.

MrsMoastyToasty · 14/01/2020 00:15

In Bristol we used to have Stan the Man. He would wear a pair of Speedos and a pair of roller skates in all weathers.

DonttouchthatLarry · 14/01/2020 00:18

@Backofthebunty and @buttcheeksaplenty - as well as Dave the cowboy and the tramp on the ring road don't forget Ezra the preacher.

Jozen · 14/01/2020 00:20

We have a guy in a wheelchair who is pulled along by 2 huge Dobermans.
He dresses like an evil, dark lord of the Underworld being pulled along by the vicious hounds of Hades but him and the dogs are all very sociable and nice.

Which is disappointing. Ruins the illusion see.

Backofthebunty · 14/01/2020 00:21

....and you just beat me to that...I was just going to say Ezra.i suppose in a way our other main celebrity is “man on the hoss” x

LadyGAgain · 14/01/2020 00:22

Mark Owen isn't too far from here. I live in eternal hope that Gary will pop round and help Mark to walk his dogs at our local heath! Grin

Tom Hardy was spotted in the local pub.

Emma Barton (recent partnering with Anton on Strictly) went to the local comp before her rise to Eastender stardom.

LadyGAgain · 14/01/2020 00:23

That was a massive overuse of the word local. Sorry.

buttcheeksaplenty · 14/01/2020 00:24

@DonttouchthatLarry

Ahh , I'd forgotten about him !

Is he still about ? I moved away years ago so I've not had a stroll up Dudley street for a good while .

I keep up with the cowboys news on FB .. Grin

elaine26 · 14/01/2020 00:28

Susan Boyle shops in my local Tesco

backinthebox · 14/01/2020 00:34

@1Morewineplease was this your parents’ local newsagent? Mr T has been my actual neighbour for over a decade and what a nasty man he is. I’ve only ever bumped into him twice - one time he told me he’d ‘run your fucking dogs over next time’ and the other time he was moaning loudly down the phone about the ‘fucking child in the pub,’ - DH and I had gone for a quiet ploughman’s one lunchtime with DS and he’d come in on his phone like an angry, swearing Dom Joly. Same pub’s bar staff reported him for drink driving. He’s not liked round here, he’s pissed virtually everyone off.

Back on the subject of local celebrities- we have a lady who takes her goat to the pub. It’s a lovely goat!

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