Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Halifax, West Yorkshire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• Stephen Mortimer aka Mrbishi who does a hell of a lot of work with world famous DJ Alex Kidd, plus he runs a site dedicated to the clubbers needs with over 35,000 members worldwide.
• Big Mick local stud, now chasing Inverness women
• paddy mcguiness + peter kaye recently been on nights out here. many others however, such as jenifer elision, flip n fill etc
• john (get down shep)noakes,big daddy
• Erm don't Embrace live in Shibden Valley? they are always in the Shibden Mill Inn
• the guys from embrace are from round here
• Ted Hughes (poet) from nearby Heptonstall.
• Brian Moore, England Hooker!
• Justin Hawkins (darkness frontman) used to live in Sowerby Bridge just down the road from halifax
• ONE PERSON IN THE BAND DARKNESS LIVES IN SOWERBY BRIDGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Dannie Kavanagh - He's Halifax's Answer to Paul Taylor, Yorkshires King Of Retro
• Christa Ackroyd is NOT a stuck-up cow, I've met her and she's far from being one.
• Big Daddy, the guy who invented Cat's eyes! (percy shaw?)
• Rock bands Paradise Lost and Slammer are local.
• Linda Barker of Changing Rooms fame (her Yorkshire accent creeps through from time to time.
• some of the Halifax footy team!! my cousin Ria!!!
• Dannie the DJ from Coiners - he's gets everywhere! - apparently he's a signwriter during the day and he's got blackboards on nearly every pub in Halifax (they are quite good too!..) You usually find him pissed up in the Acca on a Thursday surrounded by equally pissed up Barstaff from all the other pubs!
• Dot Owens of Ovenden, Halifax started the first UK star trek fan club back in the early seventies. She appeared on a various News/current affairs programs, ran all the convensions and was known and loved by both the actors of star trek and other sf programmes of the era not to mention the thousands of sf fans around the world. 'Does that count'.
• Christa Ackroyd (stuck Up cow)
• the guy who invented cats eyes and the guy who invented quality street
• One of the Thompson Twins (dodgy early-80s pop band) originally came from Halifax. Bruce Foxton, formerly of The Jam, more recently used to hang out in the Upper George pub in the centre of Halifax. Sarah Blackwood, singer with 90s popsters Dubstar, used to serve behind the bar in said pub, and she's from nearby Illingworth. The guy who invented cats-eyes, somebody-or-other Shaw, was a dyed-in-the-wool 'Fax man from cradle to grave, even after he became stinkingly rich.
• fat bird from emmerdale lives in hebden bridge, apparently.
• Posh Spice nearly bought a house in Barkisland - village nr Halifax
• Not Dr. Crippen from Halifax but John Christie of Rillington Place fame.
• Roger Moore used to live in nearby village Hebden Bridge as does Lisa Dingle of Emmerdale fame. Other Emmerdale and Coronation Street Stalwarts.
• BASH
• Weatherman John Kettley
• biff & steve from emmerdale farm
• Judge Pickles
• Dr.Crippen - the murderer lived at black boy house claremount
• Big Daddy and John Noakes.

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Last updated: 2008-10-14