Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• Isn't the actor Stuart McQuarrie (Trainspotting, Young Adam, Life Begins) from Edinburgh? Anyone know anything about him?
• Charles Darwin
• Justin and Ellen. And Michael was there for a while
• Burk and Hare
• John Leslie, Gail Porter, The wifey that writes the Harry Potter books oh and Sean Connery are just a couple of the minor celebrities from Edinburgh, beat that Aberdeen!!!
• Sean Connery used to live here. IDLEWILD THE BEST BAND RODDY WOOMBLE IS A LEGEND!
• the proclaimers are from auchtermuchty-not edinburgh

• ronnie corbet .shirley mansun
• my friend's mum is shirley manson's godmother, i used to go out with gail porters brother and in my higher english exam my desk had her signature on it. Most of my teachers from school taught her. and grant stott and john leslie (brothers) came to my cousins wedding.
• Tony Blair was born and educated here. And I guess that JK Rowling the writer of Harry "big bucks" Potter deserves a mention, she still has a home here somewhere.
• Apart from Sean Connery and Shirley Manson, Edinburgh has also given birth to those fantastic twins The Proclaimers, and Tricky's uncle Finley Quaye, and TV presenters John Leslie and Gail Porter, and also the writer of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh. And apparently the brother from The Bluetones (the one who isn't the singer) also resides here from time to time.
• I believe Mark Goodier went to Napier. Which about sums things up really.
• Sean Connery -he's coming home again soon
• Shirley from Garbage has long since departed.

• Idlewild will be famous

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