Whatever happened to…

[Flawedperfection]

Inspired by another thread!

Whatever happened to certain celebs? So many were really quite popular/successful/infamous/famous at one point only to seemingly disappear off the
face off the earth. Where did they go?

Insert the missing celeb. I’ll go first with a few:-

• Sam Smith (sang Black and Gold- love that song)
• Samantha Mumba (Irish singer)
• Shola Ama (You Might Meet Somebody singer)

Go!

Melinda Messenger has trained as a psychotherapist!

I learnt only very recently that Carol Smillie is now a humanist wedding celebrant!

As for the other Brookside actors, Sue Johnston still pops up from time to time in series that tend to be very well-written, so maybe she has the money to be choosey as to what she accepts. Doesn't Ricky Tomlinson still do the voiceovers for the oven chips adverts? He's 81 now, though, so probably wants to live a little less fast-paced now. Unless I was mistaken, Louis Emerick (who played Mick Johnson) had a very minor part in Holly Walsh's fantastic sitcom The Other One - I think he turned up to buy a bike that one of the characters had sold him on eBay!

@BeaucoupFish
Sue Johnstone and Ricky Tomlinson have done ok since leaving Brookie.....and the one who played Barry Grant is still actually my. He’s been an on/off character on Eastenders the last year or two

Actually my? Acting!

Cross post @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll
I’m on my phone so slow at typing
Actually you’ve reminded me both Mick and the actress who played his wife have been in Casualty. She played a nurse called Tess and he was her husband in that too.

@BeaucoupFish

Does anyone remember a young Robert Carlyle in a series called Looking out for JoJo? He was a heroin dealer then an addict and installed a marble bath in his high rise flat and had a girlfriend that wanted to be Marilyn Monroe ? I’m sure I’ve not dreamed that ! And Robbie Coltrane comedy series about a Rockabilly band Tutti Frutti

I remember it! Watched the filming some of the scenes in Edinburgh.

You can buy dvd of Tutti Frutti , it has a great Scottish cast, and Emma Thompson was good in it as Suzi Kettles , before she became smug. The woman who played Miss Toner was great, Katy Murphy , she is a drama teacher now

[quote DeborahAnnabel]@Rhannion
Ireland. No such place as Southern Ireland. It’s just Ireland.[/quote]
Doesn’t Ireland have a South then? How do you describe the location of Cork?

What ever became of Nik Kershaw?

On the subject of Robert Carlyle do you remember the film where he has MS, watched it once decades ago and I weeped buckets at that. Google tells me it's this one

Holly Valance, sang that kiss kiss song.

Holly married a very rich brother, one of two in property in London.

Alex Parks!

I saw some publicity about Simon Amstel today. He is doing a stand up gig in Lincoln soon.

Tony Slattery
Rob Newman
Dina Carroll
Selina Scott
Caryn Franklin
Amanda de Cadanet
Dani Behr
Josie Lawrence

These are a few I remember being very prominent years ago but rarely hear of them now....

@JaffacakeJanine

Alex Parks!

She was great!

Leona Lewis
Matt Terry
Bronski Beat

@DoubleShotEspresso

Tony Slattery Rob Newman Dina Carroll Selina Scott Caryn Franklin Amanda de Cadanet Dani Behr Josie Lawrence

These are a few I remember being very prominent years ago but rarely hear of them now....

There was a sensitively- done documentary very recently about Tony Slattery. Struggling with depression and alcoholism. Has a nice supportive partner but they are clearly short of money.

Magenta de Vine

@spaceghetto

Emma forbes Michael underwood

Michael Underwood is married to Angelica Bell and teaches KS2 drama at Surbiton boys prep school.

Magenta De Vine died recently.

Steve Jones presents Formula 1 on C4.

Tamara beck with
Andi peters
Brian Dowling
That man from the Heathrow docusoap

Andi Peters presents on some morning tv show and pops up often as a guest ion Chris Moyles show on Radio X
He’s one of life’s innocents. I’m sure he’d never had an alcoholic drink in his life until they tried him on a Pina colada or something

@MrsMoastyToasty

Darius Dinesh Emma Forbes (remember watching her on Saturday morning kids TV)

Darius Danish changed his name to Darius Campbell. He did west end theatre for a while. I think he lives in America now.

@batmanladybird you’ve just reminded me of the 2 old fashioned airport photographers. They were so nerdy

@Flawedperfection

Simon and Miquita used to be great on T4 together- a fab double act!

I actually hated Simon Amstell after he ripped into the lovely Nelly Furtado in a T4 interview. She was so lovely and did nothing to deserve his nastiness.

Good riddance to him.