h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hi venus..

yeah but the way bob lost it [the rod] might become a famous story tho'...

so peter seabrook is another celebrity with connections to essex?!... the list is growing at a nice little pace...

i'll have to check with one of my daughters but it seems that _at least_ one singer has been to one of the schools in southend [well her school actually, and of course my daughter is very proud of it..]... just need to nick err borrow her magazine and i will post the name as soon as possible..



loup

Steve Davis is from Romford, maybe other snooker players too.

erm, what about 'hasbeens' I could be wrong, (I often am) but isn't Michael Barrymore from Essex, or living somewhere it the 'outbacks' of Essex

Emmily

Michael Barrymore lives in Essex, not sure where

Soeaking of has beens...Frank Bruno...he has a house in Brentwood. Tricked and treated him a few years back...got a big tub of sweets...

emmily... oh yes, "hasbeens" are welcome as well..

for the steve davis connection...
and the barrymore's possible one...

re: barrymore... that does ring a bell [connection with essex that is]... we might find something on the BBC site confirming that..



loup

xian...
makes the barrymore/essex connection confirmed...

frank bruno eh?!...

talk later everyone...

loup

Loup



Bye bye

Michael Barrymore lives in Roydon, near Harlow

and Nich Berry was born in Woodford

manda

manda...

heartbeat...

i was wondering about the actresses in "birds of a feather".. might be at least one from essex in it...

talk soon...

loup

Just found this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/features/essex_celeb/index.shtml

It is a BBC site,

but I got a feeling that the digibox might not get to it

but if someone would like to try it ( at your own peril )

manda

mmmmm... i'm on my way offline soon... so i will try it then...

manda... that should give us a good start.. hehe...



loup

it works..

they haven't got many names yet tho'... but some great info all the same..

the actress from stargate SG1 [amanda tappin] is actually from essex?!...
i hope that there is an H2G2 entry on stargate SG1 somewhere [i think i've seen one] that will be perfect for our list...



loup

Famous people from Basildon could be an entry all by itself. Mina's been there, for a start.

There's musicians - the members of Depeche Mode eg Dave Gahan and Vince Clarke, who went on to be in Eurasure, Alison Moyet (still calling herself Alf when I lived there), Scott from 5. Terry Marsh the boxer and someone must have mentioned Princess Denise. Some West Ham footballers too I think.

If you want to go posh and look in Billericay, then there's Lee Evans the comedian and probably some more West Ham footballers.

Ross Kemp and Martine MacCutcheon and Michael Grecco are from Essex and I bet there are other EE cast members too. Alvin Stardust is from somewhere, Helen Mirren too. Busted are Sarfend based I believe? But what about the great bands from there in the past, eg Dr Feelgood and the Kursal Flyers.

coelacanth... an impressive list with impressive names...

yep.. it seems that the list [with links and all] will have to be in more than one part...

Mina is already our member... hehe... but including her name in the list is not a bad idea at all.. just don't tell her yet... it will be a surprise...



once again...



loup

More Essex celebs, doubt they live in Essex but were born here...
British Novelist John Fowels, born in leigh on sea 1920...stil alive today

English poet George Granville Barker, born in 1941, dies in 1993
Bobby Moore was born here actually, in Barking 1941, died in 1993
Famous Bristish actor Sir Ian Holm, born in 1931, still alive today
Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist born in Colchester 1931, still alive today
Famous English criminal Dick Turpin was born at The Bell Inn in Hempstead, 1706 - 1739 live here too. Famously nicknamed 'The king of the road'
Stage and film actress Dame Maggie Smilth was born in Ilford 1934, still lives today
Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey, born in Dagenham 1920-died in 1999, a famous football player and England's most sucessful football manager.

Blimey, this is going well, isn't it?

proud to be an Essexian

Where are my stilettos?

mmmmmm.... what have i done with my white socks?"...



xian... we sure have a good number of Essex connected celebs already thanks to you and the other contributors/members...

it is going to be an impressive lists methinks... and of course one that might be in more than one part if we carry-on this way...

keep 'em coming everyone... great stuff...



loup

Mina

I'll whipped you stilletos at the first chance, don't want you poking someone's eye out

Loup

I have plenty more .
Have you started to list the Essex related celebs?!
I was thinking that if you do list them, could we link them to a guide entry that explains a lil about their life, I'll be happy to make a few guide enteries about people

* Thinking of mina, short skirt, stilletos, leg in the air trying to poke someones eye out *

Hi Xian

We will make a list of celebs, so if you want to make a few guide enteries about them, that would be great

manda