Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Kettering, Northamptonshire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• That bird from Britain's got talent
• Maybe cause we're not sponserd by mr mont (owner of SK8BOARD shop in montagu)We still entertain all tipes of buckos out shopin' infact we earned £15 once
• We've never met chad muska tony hawks or bam margera but i'm sure one day some famous SK8R will relax us and love our skills
• J.L. Carr, author of A Month in the Country and lots of other stuff, he was a really nice bloke too.
• my mum saw lisa from eastenders in northampton's marks and spencers. gazza turned the lights on? tortion should be celebritys dearest enemy think they are celebrities - BUT THEY ARE NOT! apparently holly valance lived in kettering for a few months as she was going out with one of the bouncers from the old market inn. charlie from busted/fightstar went to school nearish to kettering in uppingham. my sister went out with a boy who was friends with draco malfoy from harry potter.
• Paul (Gazza) Gascoigne - November-December 2005
• Howard Marks actually stashed a large amount of cannabis in Pytchley,not Broughton as you state,its mentioned in his autobiography.The keyboard player from the Communards was also from Pytcley,Mark Coles i think his name was.
• oooeeerrr tht footballer person gazza has bought our football team, maby to starnge football-aholics it means something to me --- NOTHING
• DJ Kemistry (RIP) from drum and bass duo kemistry and storm started her DJ career at times now the cotton club, where responsible for taking Goldie to his first ever jungle night at club rage and was later signed to metalheads.
• actually it was a falconary in pytchley where howard marks stored his hash!
• Adam Kirk - famous for his inability to stay faithful to any girl for any period of time, thankfully departed to pastures new on the other side of the world.
• urm.. no
• i love everybodys take on the fucked up elvis guy who used to push his prune of a wife around, "he wants to make kids smile" i aint gonna say this is fact but i do know people in places where i was informed is a convicted child molester and is on the peado list!think about it....harmless is he? would you leave a child in his care?
• Someone wrote that Alan Smith coomes from Rothwell and plays for Chelsea..........he does come from Rothwell but Rothwell in Leeds and he did play for Leeds, not Chelsea.
• Juan Pablo Angel was caught speeding in Geddington
• Yollanda (presenter from nickleodeon) used 2 live in corby!!!!!!!!!!!
• Howard Marks once hid his stash of wacky backy somewhere in Broughton I think I will mention no names
• The TIDY BOYS live in kettering and AMBER D lives here now too. They're djs....
• Some guy that was in Status Quo, went to school with my dad!?
• Charles Wicksteed did not hang himself
• Famoues residents .... ummmmmmm..... Charles Wicksteed? Claim to fame: hehe, Wicksteed Park and hanging himself.
• Porn star Omar, Rock bands Scurge, Defenastration, Raging Speedhorn, Barney from Napalm Death. Bassist from Mungo Jerry. And me!!
• Snake from Tobruk and the early line up of The Wildhearts lives in Kettering Also the slob out of Coronation St and Keeeping up appearances (Geoffrey Hughes) lives nearby, and can be seen in the Town shopping most weeks.
• Defenestration and Raging Speedhorn. Two mighty fine bands!!!!!
• Tony.... They guy who live in Barton Drives a tri-wheeled car, can start it - Phantom Cleener (nutter) has a lantin but no torch?
• Elvis! - well a guy who walks round witha a red radio and a little dog
• Adam Cooper of Windmill Avenue Kettering plays a school boy in the Harry Potter movie The Chamber of Secrets.
• Just a minor correction, I believe that Clark Gable was stationed at Polebrook USAAF base in WWII. Not at Grafton Underwood as stated.
• Gen Tasker (Defenestration) well they aint huge but oh well
• The phantom cleaner of cause! world renowned! the phantom cleaner from brambleside, even mark and lard have mentioned him! and i know who he is! but my lips are sealed!
• Alan Smith the young chelsea player (i think) comes from Rothwell. Les Hill outta home and away ages ago usedto live in windmill avenue! And Sid Owen once had a fight with the bouncers down fleckies!
• Eddie Mathews (channel 5 [what???]Milkshake) went to school at Bishop Stopford School
• lol dont know except ricky out of eastenders came to our town we did have a royal visit not long ago
• the fat annoying knob head Ron Atkinson managed the local team several Decades ago.
• For the record, The match between Kettering and Tilbury in the first round of the F.A. cup proper in which the youngest person to play (Scott Endersby)in the competition was in December 1976 and not the 80's as stated. Tilbury went on to lose to Stoke City 4-1 in the third round.
• kettering man Pete Bultitude appeared on "stars in thier eyes"in 1999 and got to the final.
• I know it says apart from yourself, but I thought you'd like an update on the DJ who used to wear Fred Perry T Shirts and run the school Discos. Go to virginradio.co.uk an look for Murray J's page. Now on Weekend Breakfast Show! Thanks.
• LIAM GALLAGER WAS SPOTTED IN THE TOWN IN 1997
• Northern Line came to an under 18's disco at K.L.V. Had to adventually leave because of bottle being lobbed at them...... Shame.
• Murray Old as was - DJ on Horizon radio but may have moved from here by now. Radio name Murray Jay! Started with a mobile disco and Fred Perry t-shirts
• Kettering gave the world Steve Panther 'Sir Horace' of The Specials also that keyboards chap in The Communards. In football The Poppies produced one of the all time great England captains - Eddie Hapgood - who also led Arsenal to their many triumphs in the 30s. Was there a better centre forward than Tommy Lawton, player manager here in '56-'57. Ron Atkinson of course started his managerial career here. Derek Dougan started and finished his here. Irish International Eddie McGoldrick was also produced by The Poppies. KETTERING WERE THE FIRST TEAM IN BRITAIN TO WEAR ADVERTISING ON THEIR SHIRTS. Kettering were the first team to play at Ninian Park, Cardiff. The youngest player in the FA Cup was 15 year old Scott Endersby who played in the First Round against Tilbury in the late '80s. Although Kettering won the match, they still lost. They were made to play it again because they hadn't registered Len Glover - they lost the replay, another first though. Stanley Matthews played at Kettering for England Schoolboys when he was 15, the next time he played in Kettering, he was 51! The author H.E. Bates (Darling Buds of May and Bouquet of Barbed Wire) went to the Grammar School in Kettering. Dusty Springfield appeared at the Granada in Kettering on her first solo tour, a month after The Rolling Stones appeared there. Clark Gable was stationed near Kettering (at Grafton Underwood) during WW2. ITV Space Expert, Geoff Perry was Head of Physics Dept at The Grammar School when his pupils beat NASA in discovering a Russian spy satellite and tracking station.
• The Beautiful South played the Leisure Village in 1993 and drank in the Old Market Inn, they also (if you check their website) decided it was the sh*ttest place they'd ever been 9and they're from Hull).
• Tom Bevan, AKA Huw Lloyd Thomas of Kettering Grammar School, is now a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 plays. So there!
• Author J.L. Carr (A Month in the Country). The man was undeniably eccentric and cool and deserves some mention (he started the Quince Tree Press and operated it out of his house at 29 Mill Dale Road).
• Jim Dale the well talented Actor, Singer and Showman was born in nearby Rothwell. He appeared in many "Carry On" films, played the role of Spike Milligan in the film "Hitler, my part in his downfall" and appeared on Broadway in the play "Barnums". He appeared on "6-5 Special" on TV in the sixties too but I am much too young to remember that!
• Add "Scapino" at the Young Vi to the list of Jim Dale's triumphs.
• Andrew Woolmer once a famous corner shop owner - now a postman in Northampton. a real legend and a never to be forgotten character.
• Barry Hale lives in nearby Rothwell, one of the counties best contributors to Rock and Roll for a couple of decades now.
• 'Joybelle' stage name for Joy Tilbury, entertained at all the local clubs around Northamptonshire in the 1940-50's Toured with Carole Levis "Stairway to the Stars' show. She also did some TV variety shows. Jim Dale, real name Jim Smith, and Joy went to the same dancing school together for years.
• Andy Hunt - striker for Charlton Athletic Football Club. He started his life at Kettering Town FC.

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Last updated: 2011-02-13