Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Redhill, Surrey*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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• Olympic High Jumper Debbie Marti lived in Earlswood,friendly lass and nice looking as well
• Status Quo.
• I'm pretty notorious and so is the Bean
• Great fun - but End Blyton was never at Noddyshall. See www.rockshawroad.org.uk
• Melvyn Hayes, Fatboy Slim.
• I heard that middle-of-the-road Jazz-Lite Lame-o Katie Melua used to live here, before she could afford to move away.
• home of the clangers yes thats right episodes of the clangers where filmed in a shed in frenches road!!!!!
• Check crimewatch each week to see Redhill's most famous residents doing what they do best!
• Hulk Hogan lives in Timperley Gardens.
• Enid Blyton lived in Noddy Hall in Merstham (Just outside Redhill)
• Ronnie Biggs, great train robber once lived here
• Apparently Alistair Crowley was a Redhill Resident - and look how he turned out! It was Melvin Haze from it ain't Half Hot Mum who lived locally, but it was Reigate- I know 'cause it was in my street.
• Aleister Crowley used to live in Frenches road.
• spike milligan didn't live too far away (reigate)
• The Infamous "Big" Jon Davey... a man on a mission to stike back at the establishment, righting political and social injustices with his own unique brand of activism. Most people in the scene remebers "Xatreth", his death/heavy metal band, and he also did a stint with "Los Paraliticos" and then went on to become the lead guitarist for London's hardcore industrial heavy death dark gruesome band "Labrat". Also known for his promotional work with local bands, via Black Flag Promotions. Love ya Jon!
• Madge Bishop from neighbours has been spotted a few times. Ex Formula 1 driver Ukyo Katayam used to live in Salfords (does he still?).
• beppe from eastenders lived here once, and there's the guy that killed that woman in emmerdale.
• Sheena Mackay, author of the brilliant Redhill Roccoco
• Didnt one one the Kings used to stop by on the way to Bognor Regis?
• fat boy slim grew up in reigate just next door but no-one except ronnie biggs has come from redhill
• Michael Greco (Not quite Redhill, but close enough). Presumably he's lucky enough not to have to now he's famous!
• Beppe from Eastenders (Michael Greco) went to St.Bedes school in Redhill, though whether he actually lived there I don't know. Same goes for Matt Bardock (in 'Pay and Display' with James Bowlam and Inspector Frost's now dead sidekick).
• Alan, the long term Big Issue Vendor, they will put up a blue plaque when he leaves, but it won`t be that easy to see, the same way as the majority have of passers by have missed him since 1995 ! Mad Alex, renowned ex biker, loved and loathed by all, a decent guy all the same
• Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs lived on Redstone Hill - a far cry from the beaches of Rio. Also, the first drummer from the band Status Quo was a local resident. I remember seeing him in the late sixties driving around in a clapped-out green E-Type.
• Redhill's most famous son is surely quiz master supreme Nick Terry. Nick, a BA Pilot, has won "Fifteen to One" four times, becoming notorious for his speed on the buzzer. A very impressive achievement for the 33-going-on-16 year old.
• Bernard Bresslaw, Fat Boy Slim (more Reigate really), The gay one in It Ain't half hot mum - sorry can't remember his name but I think there's an M in it.
• Nobody would admit to ever having lived there by choice.

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Last updated: 2010-03-01