Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Coventry, West Midlands*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• one of The Bachelors had a relative livin in the Banana Flats years ago...again wen I was a kid..
• The Infamous "Mad Bomber" Neil Jones who petrol bombed and set fire to the Police HQ at little Park Street in the town centre 91. He escaped capture on three occasions relating to the offence, twice by absailing out of the old YMCA tower block building in the Quadrant, and also by jumping off a bridge onto the M6 Motorway. He was banned from Coventry while awaiting trial at the request of the Police.(roflmao) The Police tried to murder him years afterwards during the Wood End Riots. He has also been on TV in that documentary about the "veal wars", the personal bodyguard of the boss of Phoenix Aviation with links to MI6 and the CIA. Notoriously extremist in the way he deals with those that crossed him, including the Police haha. Feared by many, And a proper cult hero in the jails, where is he now as he seems to have just dissapeared? Would love to have a drink with that bloke......NOT What a NUTTER! (From Wood End what can I say!)
• too many to mention. google it, much easier.
• Stewart Machin son of Ernie Machin(ex-cov city player) from Norton Hill, wyken, presents channel 4 racing & is a racing critic.
• Pete Doherty went to school here - so did Clive Owen .. I think!
• pete waterman
• dave the brave

• COMEDY WRITER.....CAROLE PRICE....she's from Binley Village.....she's written loads..mostly for radio the Huddlines...an award winning play Feathered Friends. and her works been covered by Willie Nelson on his world tour Other famous folks from Binley Marlon devonist.Mark Rattray.Clive Owen.
• javine from x-factor her family all live in coventry in the wyken/stoke area and she is a frequent visitor here.
• Clive Owen. Bless him!
• Most of the Council hierachy
• Hank McSpank! He shud be world famous!
• Lady Godiva who enjoyed a dam good ride astride her stallion
• Everybody who says 'innit'. Yea wicked man innit (Twats)

• me...future superstar anyhow
• terry hall of the specials and paul king
• clive owen actor bbc chancer
• the specials, the selecter, king,
• Hank mc Spank the legend and local hero still lives in coventry.
• Geof Tompson, world famous hard man and bouncer is from Coventry. He was in a film which recently won a bafta about his life and times in Coventry, he once reputedly K.O. Jean Claude van Dame, he has worked on films with Chuck Norris, has beaten more people than had hot dinners, and is a Coventry legend!
• well i haven't noticed that anyone has put this guy.... shirley crabtree ( big daddy) wrestler. also the woman that sung " kiss the rain" a few years ago.
• Bob Ainsworth lives in Bell Green, Craig Pead lives by Coombe Abbey, all the other players live near Tile Hill, Wyken or Walsgrave. The CCFC reserves go bowling at Megabowl.Pete Waterman is from Cov & sometimes goes to footy matches.
• Pete Waterman
• Frank Whittle invented the jet engine, Philip Larkin wrote cool poetry and Pte waterman rpoduced kylie, step and ahem onetruevoice
• Nigel Hawthorne actor from 'Yes Minister', Clive Owen actor from 'Chancer', 80's pop star Hazel O'Connor, Rowena Wallace from 'Home and Away', Billie Whitelaw actress from 'The Omen'(she was the evil house-keeper and I think she was in Hitchcock's 'Frenzy' too)
• Frank Ifield. recorded Walsing matilda in the 50's before going to Aus.
• Jason Olney lives and regularly skateboards in the coventry city area.
• Lee Dorrian of Cathedral.
• Sir Frank Whittle was born in Earlsdon, Pete Waterman fathered my mates mate and then ran off with someone else!
• pete waterman
• Richard Keys from Walsgrave (sky sports presenter) and Justin King? (presenter on VH1 and lead singer of 80s group KING)
• Richard Keys used to live here. Then he got a job and left.
• Dennis Spicer - ventriloquist. (Only old-timers will know about him!)
• RICHARD KEYS AND YOUR MUM
• Mo MOLAM
• Thankfully,not to many. Pete Waterman is from Coventry, but moved out as soon as he could - ah well, each to their own.
• Brian Burrows (footballer) lives opposite me dad!!
• The most well known bands in Cov are Thoria if you like grunge, Gash or Wasted Daze if you like punk,Deadfilmstar if you like Industrial,4 kings or Swamp Donkey if your into your indie and Sugerfix if you like total shite. These are people in Coventry you've GOT to know or will meet...The Busker who shouts "Scooby dooby doo", Dimitris for handing out Flyers and being annoying and Kristian for his dress sense and VERY erratic behavior. Martin from Thoria and Ferris from Swamp Donkey are also well known local Psycopaths. Famous Ex residents are Lady Godiva,The Specials,Pete Waterman,Billie Myers,Jon King,Dexys midnight runners.
• Ian Beale from Eastenders lives a few miles down the road
• Paul King is from Ireland not Coventry
• All of the Pop Group KING that's PAUL KING,TONY WALL,JIM LANTSBERRY and MICK ROBERTS all good lads in the 80's Met them all Great Blokes !!!
• No-one but the council try really hard to make connections. A city in Shakespeare's country, we were called once. Stratford is more than 20 miles away.
• Birth place and home of Delia Derbyshire now sadly deceased who 'realised' the Doctor Who Theme at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and later a member of the group White Noise
• Graham Joyce, excellent horror author. Peter Ho Davies -- Excellent author. Philip Larkin, poet.
• Chinny Hill. Black Cabs are made in Cov.
• Coventr and celebritys have never really mized!
• I went to Wyken Croft Junior school with Paul King ( from "KING" and MTV fame). Also, to the person that said that Pete Waterman's daughter was int Eastenders - she is actually Dennis Waterman's daughter from Minder.
• Clive Owen of Chancer fame - ex-pupil of Binley Park Mark Rattray won fame thru opportunity knocks as a singer - now at Belgrade theatre performing as Mario Lanza - also ex-Binley park pupil
• well i locked rodney clarke (pro skateboarder) in a toilet at radlands cos he pushed over my mate (if that counts)
• Actor Clive Owen (Chancer), England Rugby Players Neil Back, Danny Grewcock, Darren Garforth, Rob Hardwick & Leon Lloyd, Actress Billie Whitelaw, Two Tone Records, Dermot Murnaghan used to work on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, David 'Bonkers Prophet' Icke was a goalkeeper with Coventry City FC, David Moorcroft (5000m world record holder), Marlon Devonish (sprinter), Jo Wise (Womens Long Jump Commonwealth Champion), Geoffrey Robinson MP (the bloke who lent Mandelson the cash for his pad in Notting Hill!)
• west end
• ex-resident: Nigel Hawthorn (played Raymond Cockteau in Demolition Man)
• Pete Waterman's daughter went to Warwick Uni. She's playing Ian Beale's nanny in Eastenders at the moment (the one he's banging). I come from Coventry and I'm going to be famous. oh yeah.
• Frank Skinner completed his M.A at University of Warwick
• the specials are from cov.
• the twat richard keys on sky sports! but we r proud of having the person that invented the jet engine and bike to live here plus jag and somethimg were BIGGER THAN u think!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Terry Fairless is local serleb in his local pub 'The Malt Shove.'. He is the best fiddler in coventry and proberly in the UK. He is very easy to spot with his big ginger beard and his big beer full belly. He is also a very good sport because once he had long blond hair of which he was very proud but he had it chopped off for charraty and is now got some hair.
• James Watt moved here to study.
• Queen Elizabeth whizzed past on the A45 during her 1977 Jubilee Tour. I know, I was there. She didn't stop.
• The Specials, Ron Atkinson and that bloke from Neighbours that went to Warwick Uni for a bit - you know, the one whoses character married Natalie Imruglia's!
• Steve Ogrizoviches kids go to Finham School
• Sting went to Warwick Uni but dropped out after 1 term. Simon Mayo and Timmy Mallett went there too.
• Steve Ogrizovic, Richard Keys (Sky Sports Presenter), Jimmy Hill managed Coventry City once upon a time. Alfred Herbert and Frank Whittle - inventors and developers of the Jet Engine.
• John Kettley (The weather man) went to Uni here
• The bloke who wrote Return to the forbidden planet Lady Godiva
• Paul King - I spilt a pint of bitter over him in the Student union Bar in 1984- sorry Paul
• The Specials are from Coventry. They called it a "ghost town". Pete Waterman (oh joy), Paul King (VH-1 presenter) and Nigel Hawthorne (not that you'd have guessed).
• Didnt the crankies live in ernsford grange!
• UM, TERRY HALL, THE SPECIALS, THE SELECTER, THE PRIMITIVES, MO MOWLAM, ONE OF TWIN HAZEY, SOME OF SPIRITUALIZED, AND PROBABLY A FEW OTHERS!
• George Eliot (The novelist), Wrote The Mill On The Floss, Silas Marner, MiddleMarch Etc. Larry Grayson I believe. I knew his paperboy. I shudder to think what he got for a tip at Christmas. Larry used to hang out with the coal-miners up in the pubs in Arley I've been told.
• Dave Moorcroft Phillip Larkin
• The woman of the moment - Mo Mowlam went to my school, Coundon Court
• Hazel O'Connor of Quadrophenia and "Breaking Glass" fame is from Coventry. George Eliot, the novelist. Frank Whittle, Jet Engine pioneer. Pauline Black from The Selecter also a Coventrian- you sometimes see her around in fact. Jonathon Coe (novelist) lived in Earlsdon and went to Warwick Uni. In fact he wrote about Earlsdon in "A Touch of Love"- worth a read.
• Coventry's worst claim to fame has got to be The Krankeys. The worst thing is there's nowhere Coventry can send them (think about it)
• Richard Keys - Presenter on Sky Sports (Definite cringe!)

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