Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• Zoe Lucker No1 famoso person from huddersfield plus numerous other politicians.
• Allo Allo - Gordon Kaye
• Sir Malcolm Sargent ("Flash Harry") stayed at the George Hotel about 1949. My Dad, then a vegetable cook in the restaurant there, took his tea up to him. Nobody else with any brains would stay in the town (except for those of us who were unfortunate to live there). A Dutch football team due to play there were billeted outside the town because their manager insisted the air was too dirty for his lads to breathe before the match.
• justin hawkings from the darkness
• Wilf Lunn. He's not dead and he rocks. Sometimes seen in the Blue Rooms sporting pink glasses and an enviable mustash
• James Mason and Bryan Adams' mum
• andy booth, simon charlton, chris marsden, chris kiwomya, barry horne, frank worthington, sam collins, delroy facey, nico vaesen, ronnie jepson, harold wilson, patrick stewart, ray wilson, denis law, bill shankly, herbert chapman, w.h. smith, our price, embrace, mel booth, darren gough, matthew wood, terry the terrier

• Harold Wilson, former pipe smoking P.M.and alleged target of MI5 who promised "not to alter the value of the pound in your pocket" post devaluation of currency. Having subsequently buggered up the British economy for decades to come he disappeared to the Scilly Isles with his trout.
• D list Hollyoaks cast and gay 'where the heart is' celebs
• Ashley Jackson in Holmfirth (Artist)
• Harold Wilson, ex-prime minister
• tim finch is kind of a cult celebrity skateboarder who even non skaters at my school have heard of.-can be seen ripping up greenhead skatepark on sundays-and he probably dosent even know it!
• Well, if you must (and beware its bluddy expensive) you can go into BarNon There seems to be a few celebs who come here mainly from coronation street Huddersfield town football players also hang out here
• Remember the 90's addaptation of The calmomile Lawn done by channel 4? Well the twins are played by Jonathan & Jeremy Brook who are from Lepton. They have also starred in many other plays/sitcoms, and even birds of a feather!

• roy castle, mavis from corrie, rene from allo allo,
• patrick stuart - the bald dude in the x men and star trek lubby nugget - ska band buzzkill - ska band mr shiraz - ska band (ska mecca) embrace - they suck! simon twofold - from twofold where the heart is - my momma is a distict nurse - it aint as glamourous as where the heart is makes it out to be - she doesnt play hero and bring families together and crap like that - she wipes old peoples bums
• Harold Wilson (dead, but theres a good statue of him outside the train station and he was Labour), Roy Castle (Dead), Grandad out of old sitcom Bread (his Mum used to live in Netherton) and Sue Pollard is always hanging about for some reason. Plus the cast of I-can't-belive-theres-another-series Where the Heart is are always in The Head of Steam, pissed usually.
• James Mason (I know he's dead now), always use to kick about
• The original name for Huddersfield was Odinsfield so guess the Norse God Odin was was a pretty famous celebrity.......
• The Terry's, Gibson's, Stancliffes, Rimikin's and my family.
• Embrace grew up in Rastrick.
• Frank Worthington, Jean Luc Picard, Harold Wilson, James Mason
• Wilf Lunn was born here

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