Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Gravesend, Kent*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• Dorian Gray, who had a top pop hit in the 1960s (real name Tony Ellingham) used to live in Northfleet and started out with The Casuals playing regularly in Gravesend.
• Micky from The Bill actually lives in Cobham in a house which used to be a restaurant, I believe.
• Michael Gambon aka Dumbledore lives in meopham. Also Daniella Westbrook i.e. of oops where has my nose gone fame... lives in telegraph hill -
• eww
• the tramps by the market salt of the earth...
• W.G Grace, the famous cricketer played at the Bat and Ball cricket ground, (by the pub of the same name), so I'm told...
• Eric Radcliffe - his studio responsible for Yazoo's Upstairs At Eric's Album. Geoff Whitehorn - guitar supremo [well someone has said it!] toured with Elkie Brookes and If and Paul Rodgers and many others. The new bond girl!!!! Cheryl Baker of Buck's Fizz. Mr. Blobby's Songwriter. Charles Dickens of course. Guy Darrell [I've Been Hurt - chart single in the 60's] plus other session musicians [Peter Gilbert, Ray French, etc] who formed Edison Lighthouse and the like in the 60's. Joe Pasquale [well he's near enough to Gravesend and a bit famous].
• Gemma Atherton she went to my school (gravesend grammar school for girls) she's now in st trinians n der wuz summit bout her bein tha nxt bond gurl :D x
• poccahontus is buied her and its th eusa 400th
• CHARLES DICKENS LIVED NEAR IN HIGHAM THAT COMES UNDER GRAVESHAM
• Priya and Hannah are well famous........... Hannah is NEARLI related to Harry Slater of eastenders and i am jus 2 kool......
• grace kelly lives here. you know the one from the mika song.
• yes the keyboard player for Dire straights did live around the area , my friend used to service his car. Mandy(Nicola Stapleton ) from Eastenders used to live in the Meopham area. Yes scott Malyon is real I work with him ,real nice bloke. The one and only rock starr Mr Watts ,,,,nuff said! G.c and Manny From Running on empty both top blokes and rock gods! The big hairy fella , rebel Yeller or what! Jools Holland lives in Cooling Squeeky joe P` lives around Telegraph hill, Higham
• Geoff whitehorn (mentioned before I know) is an incredible guitarist. Played with Crawler, Paul Rogers, Procol Harum, Roger Chapman and even The Who. For years he was a demonstrator for Marshall amplifiers and has recorded a number of solo records including the infamous "Big In Gravesend". He's even got a guitar pickup with his name on it - the Bare knuckle Pickups "Geoff Whitehorn Crawler". Not cheap, but worth it (I use one).
• PRINCE WILLIAM, GOD AND DA DEVIL
• Thom Gunn, the poet.
• Kate bush was born in Bexleyheath
• dno
• Phil Bennett is THE scum of the universe, n most people in Gravesend want him dead, his nephews nice tho, n his mum....actualli da rest of the familys ait, but there r no words 2 describe my hatred
• The actress who plays Nana Moon in Eastenders was born and raised in Gravesend, she attended Gravesend Grammar School for Girls.
• Jooles Holland (spelling) now owns cooling castly and got married at cooling castle barn
• WHITEY THE SEXY BASTARD
• I'm told the town has been visited, at some time or other in the past, by Nigel Formaldehyde, Bambi Moroder, Mistrout Belly, Spudtram McCarthy, Old Pops McGee, Cloudie Carruthers, Buddy Schifrin, Windows Mulholland, Peabody Nelson and Pascal von Bounce.
• Roger Moore, and his nutjob ex-wife Dorothy Squires.
• The bloke that sells the Big Issue still has his dog!!!!! He's become even braver (or more stupid) and moved to Dartford! I've seen him outside the station with his dog quite a few mornings recently.
• pete tong used to live in gravesend, i know because my sister in law went out with him for years. he used to walk his dogs down harmsworth sports field
• Who the fuck is Pete Tong and why should I give a shit?
• Who the F**K is Pete Tong and why should I give a S**t
• I think there was some fella who appeared on the Bill for a while? And the bloke who designed the SGT Pepper cover. Also General Gordon.............Dot Cotton stayed in Gravesham Court on 'holiday' in Eastenders! Classic.
• Roger Moore lives in my shed.
• The 5th best guitarist in the world...apparently. We can't even get someone in the top 3...
• Gillian Cross wrote about a local Headmaster while she was living in Essex Road...can anyone guess who it was?
• BASIL BRUSH USED TO LIVE AT BERKLEY RD IN TOWN CENTER ERIC MALCOMBE (MALCOMBE AND WISE)USED TO RUN THE TROCADERA PUB,WINDMILL STREET.
• RIK WALLER. WOO-HOO!
• Big Bad Benny G. Body builder extraordinaire and legendary bisexual lover of all.
• Pete Tongs parents used to (maybe still do) own the hotel opposite St Johns RC Church - next to Conservative Club in Parrock St. He also used to do discos at the white hart and the rugby club...I used to give his brother Andy a lift to work back in the early 80's.
• The dude who played The atrful dodger in OLIVER the original film - which they put on tv every Christmas, my mum used to be his mate. and they lived a few doors away from each other on the Kings farm estate.
• A few corrections to the list of celebs above which was obviously compiled by a bunch of plonkers 'what no nuffin!':- Roger Moore.... USED to live in Pear Tree Lane, Shorne... in the 1950's!!! Charles Dickens.... USED to live at Gads Hill Place, Higham.... about 150 years ago! Herr Flicks (allo, allo)Dad was mayor of Gravesham in the mid-1980's Joe Pasquale originates from Strood where he did a home delivery video round (according to someone who worked with him) and now lives in a very posh area of Higham. Cheryl Baker (NOT Jay Aston) lived in KILNDOWN, off Miskin Way, Hever Ct Rd. I know because a good friend of mine BOUGHT HER HOUSE OFF OF HER!!!!!!! ... and does anyone of my age (42) rememeber the VERY, VERY horny er, sorry, 'attractive and statuesque' asian girl who used to 'parade' up and down the town centre on a Saturday in a striking blue saree in the middle of the 1980's. Rumour had it that Daddy was loaded and paid for her to go back to India to become a Bollywood star! Celeb or what?????
• 1. The bloke who went mad in 'Colditz' (BBC 1970's series version) used to send his kids to St Johns Comp School 2. An 'also ran' from The Bill.
• Cheryl Baker... ugh...
• iron maiden drummer.
• michael jackson, jennifer lopez and michael jordan all own homes here
• Mickey from the Bill lives nearby
• No Cunt ever comes out alive.
• Michael Jackson used to, possibly still does, live at the end of Valley Drive!
• That's quite interesting to hear about Scott Malyon; I didn't know he was famous. I went to school with him, didn't really talk to him though. One of the slappers from club reps doesn't live here anymore, she moved up north to get herself pregnant by some bloke.
• Is that twat ada from survivor still kicking around? His ego walks into the room before he does - silly little dwarf.
• pocahontus?
• no matter how many times i cum on here i never see Scott Malyon's name on here. All the true brittish bmxers will no that Scott Malyon comes from Gravesend. And before you say, yes he is famous he is sponsered by TERRIBLE 1 BIKE CO., PRIMO BIKE CO. and BICYCLE UNION CLOTHING CO. He used to ride with Dan Barnard (my sisters old boyfriend) and Dan Price another famous bmx rider who lived in Gravesend for a short time, but now lives in Hastings. To prove that Scott Malyon is famous if you look on the latest Props Roadfools video you will see him tearing up north west america on a video shoot.
• Dunno! i used to go to school with the child of the mother who was seeing the guy who was the guitarist in the mr blobby song if that counts??
• Pocohontas - good to know if ur sum 7 year old obsessed wiv Disney.
• that bird of eastenders who lost her nose lives near
• cheryl baker and william harrison (wrote kylie's song- love at first sight)
• (No one from Dire Straits lives or has lived in Gravesend, but someone who worked for them did)
• Jay Aston from Bucks Fizz and Sydney Sheldon (famous writer)both used to live in Singlewell Road. Cris Simmons (Micky from The Bill) lives in Singelwell Road somewhere.
• Gravesend is THE town for celebrity. Apart from Herr Flick from 'Allo 'Allo, there's Pocohontas, and i believe the bloke who invented the Vacant/Engaged lock for the public toilet cubicle. WHO ELSE DO YOU NEED?
• for a famous resident how bout that amazingly tall dude who u mite c walkin down pelham rd?! he is jus the coolest...he must need a mega big walking stic, and dig this..dig this?! get this even...he was a footman to the queen! or so i hear...ask him urself i guess!!
• PETE TONG !!!! and Pocahontas is buried here with her own statue
• cherly baker (bucks fizz) roger moore (007) pocountus , charles dickens
• that twat out of brushstrokes lives in cobham and tony stamp out of the bill was spotted purchasing ky jelly in superdrugs
• Oh come on its got to be Micky Webb The lady from Londons Burning owns Serendipty The jackson kid from Eastenders The tarts from Club reps live close by
• Herrflick from Allo Allo was born in Gravesend. I saw him open a school fete once. It's good to know that even megastars remember where they come from!
• Actress from London's Burning who was cleared after a shoplifting charge which was splashed all over the local press. Ex-Sun editor Kelvin McKenzie lives in Vigo; Motormouth motoring journalist Mike Rutherford lives in New Barn.
• i heard that the bloke who invented postman pat lives in gravesend and pete tong and don't forget old joe and his little voice, who lives in higham i think.
• THE VAGRENT BILL AND TED THE HOBO
• Cheryl Baker comes from Winter's Croft, singlewell
• Bill clinton used to run chippy in perry street in 1974
• DAVID PHILLISKIRK once lived here. Famous philanderer, world traveller, and beer drinker. Can be reached at davsaik21@aol.com Old friends and enemies alike invited.
• 4 evry1 dats wondrin......Pete Tong duz come from Gravesend. and how do i no this???? my mum used 2 b m8s wit him!!!!!!
• Billie the boy/girl from Eastenders has made quite a few random appearences (served him in Woolies once, rude little sod...). And I saw Barry too!! He sang. What can i say...treat!! And that high pitched bloke....erm... Joe Pasquale lives in Higham which is nearby.
• I've heard that Jules Holland has recently bought a nearby property. Saw him driving round the one-way system the other day
• Geoff Whitehorn - excellent rock guitarist. One of his albums was titled "Big in Gravesend"!
• There is a bloke called Barry who used to drink in the White Hart (RIP) - absolute legend
• If your a fan of that cross dressing comedian Eddie Izzard ( I know I am !)get yourself a cab with local company B&R,they have a driver (JOHN)who sounds remarkably like aforementioned comedian,just shut your eyes & imagine! I have to add however that he looks NOTHING like him though & doesn`t do the cross dressing thing !
• Mick - one of the contestants on ITV's Survivor as well as lazy Ade
• Rod Hull,Katherine Hamnett,Charles Dickens
• Famous for Cheryl Baker (for those of us that go back to the Bucks Fizz days)I know, it's sad..............
• Pocahontas only Im affraid
• cheryl baker
• Pocahontas used 2 come ere
• peter blake and dot cotton
• Joe Pasquale lives in Chatham - will he do
• Dick Prior R.I.P. Jimny find him asleep in the market square and kick im,
• umm... did one of Artful Dodger once live here? (just a rumour i heard)
• Charles Dicken lived in Higham...............
• Pete Tong. The dead Pocahontas, And the guy that wrote 'If you wanna be my lover' got shamed and left!
• Shakin Stevens lived close once upon a time!
• Pete Tong came from Gravesend!!!!!!!
• Yes, Roger Moore, Shorne, Mick Jagger(Dartford), Jack Wilde(Dartford), Arthur Greenslade,Shirley Bassey's musical director.
• Luke Pearton : With his passion for stolen music and videos , Luke was quite a character. He had many skills; the foremost being his ability to steer a stolen car , while his mate "Snail" Snell (now serving time) pushed the pedals. Luke could also roll joints while steering. He used to hang around with Lee Stunt (FlatFace/Beanhead.
• Tom from Home and Away
• Pete Tong was born here I think. Wicked or what??
• Mr Blobby, or so I heared.
• Er..Pocahontas?
• Dot Cotton of Eastenders, it may have been fictional but it worth a shout.
• General Gordon, Charles Dickens
• Pochahontas, yeah she died here...
• Is it not true that DJ Pete Tong comes from Gravesend? Also I'm sure that a member of Dire Strates lives,or did live in the town.

  And that Wizard bloke - I'm sure he hung around Gravesend for a time.

• Cheryl Baker used to live round the corner from me, and there's Pochahontas of course.
• Pochontas is buried here. Mick Jagger comes from nearby Dartford and Charles Dickens from the nearby town of Rochester.
• The "Blobby Song", which was sung by the talented "Mr. Blobby" was written by two blokes from Gravesend...
• How about John Gummer MP, whose father Rev.Selwyn Gummer was the Rural Dean of Gravesend in the late 1950's and early 1960's, I seem to remember.
• Joe Pasquali lives nearby in Higham, apparently.
• Roger Moore lives in shorn about 5 miles east.

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Last updated: 2011-06-05