Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Kendal, Cumbria*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• british sea power are from there
• Lez from Hollyoaks!!! it might be cringing, but he brings his hollyoaks friends!
• Mark Owen and some of the cast of Hollyoakes are seen every now and then. Usually in Passions.
• Erm les of hollyoaks is in there sumwhere. Lots of them in the lakedistrict just not in kendal.
• nobody. exept catherine parr who supposedly lived in kenday castle
• Mark Owen is the man. Very friendly to talk to. Just don't harrass him like another celebrity, because he just wants to be one of the guys. Doesn't like OTT attention. He told me. There's also many local 'celebs' as such, those people you see all-the-time that are kinda famous in their own right just for being themselves.
• the bandanner roller-blading man himself. you know who you are!!!!!
• You often see Mark Owen dressed like a Victorian street urchin. The historian David Starkey was born in Kendal, but being a homosexual beat a hasty retreat.
• O'Callaghan Clan-ex residents moved to Daventry (search for using the Knowhere guide) A lot of Paul Weller impersonaters
• Mark Owen (of Take That fame) lives nearby, and is often spotted in Passion (nightclub).
• Thriller writer Desmond Bagley born in Stramongate, Kendal Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the first scientist to back up Einstein's theory of relativity, born at Stramongate Primary School, where his father was headmaster Alfred Wainwright, fellwalker and writer, lived at 19 Castle Grove, his first home in Kendal Broadcaster David Starkey - he did the TV programme about Elizabeth 1 - was born in Kendal and brought up on Sandylands Artist Paul Hogarth born on Caroline Street. He has done lots of book covers for Penguin books - including all the Shakespeares, Graham Greene's books and many others
• Peter Gibbs (BBC Weatherman) went to Kendal Grammar
• Catherine Parr, the only wife of Henry v111 to survive her marriage tohim, lived in Kendal Castle. Also the birthplace of Sir Norman Wisdom
• Cathrine Parr - in Kendal Castle
• wainwright, landscape pen and ink scribbler. george romney who has work displayed in the prado amongst other places. both very dead.
• Drummer out of James lives in Helsington
• Frankie!!! RIP we will miss you.
• Katherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry 8th, only one to outlive him.
• Frankie Cunningham was a well known local tramp. He even had a biography written about him. Alfred Wainwright the famous writer of fellwalking books lived in Kendal.
• Alfred Wainwright (walker and writer) George Romney (artist)

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Last updated: 2008-10-23