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!

[Whatdoihavetodo]

@HaveringWavering Nik Kershaw is still making music, released his 9th studio album last year. I think he's very underrated artist, one off the best song writers out there.

[StarryNightSparkles]

Great thread. Funny I was walking past a shop the other day and seen one of those hens you keep eggs in and I thought of bread and whatever happened to the cast.

[Luckyelephant1]

June Sarpong

[nettie434]

@Spidey66

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.

I didn't realise that Tess had been in Brookside. She was one of my favourite characters in Casualty but since she left she rarely seems to be on TV these days. She is the sister of Olympic hurdler Colin Jackson who nearly always commentates on major athletic meetings.

I saw Robert Lindsay and Felicity Kendal in Anything Goes the other week. They are in their 70s but still seem to be incredibly fit and clearly loved being live on stage.

[Zotter]

I don’t hear about actress Tina Hobley

[APJ1]

What about Danny from Hearsay?

He appeared on the first round of The Voice in 2013, where none of the coaches picked him.

[sashh]

Bronkibeat, split up with Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles forming the Communards.

Richard Coles went of to be a vicar and does regular radio 4 and occasional TV slots.

Somerville is still a musician.

Rob Newman had some issues and I think moved to an Eastern Europe - yes I am aware that is not a country but I'm not sure if he did move let alone which country.

[stoneysongs]

@Luckyelephant1
June Sarpong works for the BBC now, she is Director of Creative Diversity

[pollywollydoodler]

@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....

Josie Lawrence does Just A Minute on R4 intermittently.
There was an Horizon programme on Tony Slattery , he had awful problems with depression then drug use.

[pollywollydoodler]

I mean alcohol use. It was on during lockdown. He's in a long term relationship. He's writing his memoirs. I heard him on just a minute but that might have been an old one

[OhGiveUp]

@BeaucoupFish I remember it. It was a fabulous series that I watched from beginning to end. I thought it was titled Looking After JoJo, but I may be wrong 🙂

[HaveringWavering]

@Vanuatu

Magenta De Vine died recently.

Oh! That’s sad.

[Flawedperfection]

Will have to look up Looking After JoJo.

Also, yes, Caryn Franklin. That takes me back- the Clothes Show was huge at one point wasn’t it- and Saturday/Sunday(?) night viewing, a weekly treat, much enjoyed like TOTP!

[nettie434]

There are a lot of rabbit holes to go down on this thread but it is really interesting Flawedperfection. I looked up Rob Newman. He is currently on tour by coincidence:

www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/rob-newman

You can listen to quite a few programmes by him on BBC sounds and they are repeating some on Radio 4 Extra shortly:

www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/rob-newman

Obviously David Baddiel has been so much more financially successful but Rob Newman has become much more political in his comedy. Perhaps we could add change of direction to ageing out?

That would also apply to Melinda Messenger. I liked the idea of her doing something different by training as a psychotherapist but the anti vaxxer stuff is disappointing.

[NewPapaGuinea]

@PainterInPeril

What about Steve Jones? Andy Crane? Michaela Strachan?
And what about Debbie Gibson? I'm starting to show my age now!

Steve Jones still presents. He does F1 on C4

[MinnieJackson]

yeah haven't seen George Lamb for a while.

The girl who used to play Kelly in emmerdale (Adele something?) I saw a while ago she moved to LA and was working in a shop while auditioning.

Alex Zane?

[whynotwhatknot]

Oh i love greg davies he'll be great hosting

[BeaucoupFish]

[quote OhGiveUp]@BeaucoupFish I remember it. It was a fabulous series that I watched from beginning to end. I thought it was titled Looking After JoJo, but I may be wrong 🙂[/quote]
You are correct
And it is On YouTube !

[BeaucoupFish]

@OhGiveUp
I actually realised I had posted about JoJo in the wrong thread -sorry, it was intended for the ‘TV shows you want to see again ‘ thread, which is a good thread lots of unearthed memories on there !

[Staryflight445]

Has anyone mentioned the killers?
Where did they go?

[Flawedperfection]

I saw the skillets at V Fest in 2007- there were great live!

[Flawedperfection]

• Killers, not skillets!!

[Confusedandshaken]

@BrisbaneandGone

Kate Thornton, haven't seen her in years

Currently touring in this which appears to be a sort of Loose Women thing live on stage.

lunchandlaughslive.com/

[MorganKitten]

To answer a few

Mark Lamarr Does podcasts
Jodie Marsh manages her boyfriend, sells awful diet and work out pills, owns a farm, does onlyfans
All Saints - Shaznay produces and writes for others now including
Little Mix
Gareth Gates works with a film production company and now does musical theatre
Darius Campbell-Danesh was married to Natasha Henstridge and moved to LA, does musical theatre
Jennifer Ellison Dance mums uk
Debbie Gibson still bringing out albums and a lot of American tv work
Alex Parks Hated being famous
Leona Lewis Huge in A,Erica and still bringing albums out, was on Broadway pre lockdown and doing tv work

[OhGiveUp]

@BeaucoupFish I'm glad you did, and the link. It's a series I've not forgotten all these years on.
I'm going to binge on it now. 👍