Did you go to school with someone famous?

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I mean someone who was famous back then, not someone who became famous more recently. Child stars, athletes, children of celebrities...

How did they act? Do you think the fame affected them?

I went to school with the daughter of a well known, now deceased club owner from the 70s, 80s and 90s. He came to an open day and we thought he was her boyfriend the way they carried on. Very creeped out when we found out he was her dad.
I didn’t go to school with them, but was in Pony Club with the Charlton girls. As a pp said, Bobby was lovely. He lent me his umbrella once and stood in the rain himself.
My DH’s English teacher was Michael Morpurgo

A girl in my year at my school had had a few minor acting roles before her big break as the main character in a television drama when she was fourteen years old.

She was a quiet, pleasant sort of girl. The extent of her success at fourteen was a bit of a shock to be honest. Having said that, her acting ability at such a young age was amazing. It's only recently that I have watched that television drama again and been struck by how good she was.

She was widely predicted at the time to become a great star and was constantly in the media for a while.

She didn't quite fulfil expectations and isn't a household name, but she has had a very respectable acting career. She regularly appears in television dramas like Midsomer Murders, Endeavour and Killing Eve.

She is married to an actor who is more famous than she is.

One of my classmates n secondary school was one of the 3am girls, no idea if that counts as famous or not. I wasn't in touch with her afterwards, she wasn't in touch with a lot of people, I mean I heard she was more or less the same as in school, but some people said she acted like she was a bit better than others, because of her fame. I was only in her class for a year though, we were never close friends.

The man I'm seeing, Kate Moss was in the year above him at his school, he said she looked like a boy.

@Groovy48592747 she probably did. No, this was a different school nowhere near Watford, and I know she didn't go there. She lies all the time and changes her story when it suits or she wants to shill some worthless crap.

I was at primary school with a showbizzy family - not famous but the dad was a sound and lighting engineer and the mum did a lot of stage stuff. She was also a lion tamer's assistant at the circus (in the days when circuses still included animals) wearing a sparkly bikini! The kids were always going for auditions for adverts etc. The two brothers turned up one Monday morning with dyed blonde hair after auditioning for the Milky Bar kid (neither got it). The little girl was in a Fruit Pastilles advert which ran for ages. They were a really nice (and very good looking) family.

Not me, or school but as a teen my husband used to be in an amateur dramatics group in Reading with none other than Kenneth Branagh. They got on well but apparently each production it was like "Who got the main part this time? Oh, it's Ken ... again".

I used to play sport with Gail Porter. She and her family were very nice. We had chips together most weeks in the sports centre canteen

A friend of mine went to school with Margot Robbie on the Gold Coast in Australia. She was his first kiss!

I’m guessing it was CP’s daughter? I remember the fuss, headlines and TV cameras so well, as I lived near his constituency home at that time!

Not with him as he went to a boy's school and I went to a girl's school, but I knew Donald Trump, Jr when in school and he dated a friend of mine. He was super skeevy back then, and was always making lurid comments about the other girls in our school even while dating my friend. He was just super icky, and clearly nothing has changed.

I also went to school with a now well known actress. She was just a normal person back then as didn't get into acting until she was in her 20s. I didn't know her that well as she was a few years below me but she was very nice and very smart and I've heard nothing but lovely things about her.

So did my FIL!

My daughter sat next to Robert Rinder (Judge Rinder) in primary school.

Different country but in my school two years above we had a surfing champion, a karting champion (who then went to formula ford and formula 3 but never made it to F1), and I think there was a third (hockey maybe?) all in the same class. i was in y9 and they were in y11

They were actually lovely guys, i used to bump with the karting guy at the racing track where i went with a mate who was a marshall

They weren't famous when I knew them, but a notorious murderer attended the school, and a well-known actor taught there -before he made it in Hollywood.

Has Catherine Zeta Jones changed her age?

My mum was Imelda Staunton's English / drama teacher for a bit - does that count? I met her a few times when I was very little but I don't really remember.

A romantic novelist turned Tory MP turned keyboard warrior. Only interested in people who were useful to her.

My friend got off with one of the Milky Bar kids in a seedy nightclub when we were 15 and he was 20-odd 🤮

I was in the same year as a girl who became well known actress . She was very full of herself even then .
Imagine my surprise when I saw magazine photos of her celebrating her 50th birthday - the rest of our year had celebrated our 50th birthdays 5 years previously !!

Not while I was at school, no. The guys from Biffy Clyro went to my school, but they're a lot older than me.

I think we may need a dedicated Milky Bar Kid thread!

A girl in my infant school I don't remember much about her. I know we went to the same playgroup and playschool. My mum knew her parents and her quite well. They moved away so she could get more acting work for her. Then she appeared on Johnny Briggs I never even recognised her at first it was my mum who did.

Not overly famous, but I went to school with an olympic-medal winning athlete, a historian who is regularly on tv and a love island contestant.

I didn't go to school with anyone who was famous at the time, but there were four girls whose dads were famous, as they were recently-retired top-flight footballers. (This was at a time when footballers were more in the 'well-off' category rather than the 'super rich' category. These days, I strongly doubt many Premier League players' kids go to ordinary state comprehensives).

Their proximity to fame only really seemed to manifest itself in their ability to provide club-branded stuff for raffle prizes/charity auctions at the annual school fete.

Yes, someone who was a child actor as a smallish role in an incredibly famous show in the 90s. Incredibly smart and nice teen and not remotely affected by the odd person not being chill about it!

At my school were: One of the Specials (older than me, I think he played with friends from another local school when still at school though), an under age Page 3 model (same age as me but in the year below due to failing her O levels), a novelist (I think in the year above - I don't really remember him - I have a friend who keeps telling me all about everyone in her and my year and what they are up to, it's a bit like when your mum tells you "remember X you were at primary school with" "no" "well she's head of the IMF/in prison/has 5 grandchildren in her early 40s").