Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• IanMcDonald who made love to more Stockton,Norton,Thornaby,&Billingham girls during the 60's & 70's.
• I'm 13 and i hate stockton like mad. I am SO gunna move out. Stokcton is a grotty disgusting s***hole which millions of ugly annoying townies and way 2 many slappers. I HATE TOWNIES!!! Go home - read a book you thickos. They annoy every1 when people sud be making fun of them cos the girls (slappers) will end up preg at 14 and the lads will kill them selfs by drinking and smoking themselves into an early death bed. DAMM TOWNIES!!
• duncan from blue used to drink in the station and went to grange school
• Me when i'm famous oh and sis when she's in her band...
• cant think of ne1 famous apart from that blokey who made the tarin oh yea n me i WILL be famous one day.
• All the members of "The Wildcats of Kilkenny". What happened to 'em?
• The lad who played Billy Elliot, Jamie Bell....he's from billingham

• Chris Rea I guess
• the gorky red head in the liverbirds carol
• Roy Chubby Brown was from Boro My mam tells me of loads of people from shit films that were born here (ask ur rents) Paul Daniels
• mark benton - actor off the telly.
• daniel casey is troy in midsummer murders sis siobhan is itv news presenter dad luke casey tv presenter The shyreptiles
• Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, which is just next door to Stockton... She is the author of "Regeneration", a novel of the first world war poets which I (and others) studied as part of an ACCESS course at Hartlepool College of Further Education, and which has also been made into a film of the same name.
• the bloke who invented the friction match

• WILL HAY ..GREAT ACTOR FROM THE 30S......JONNY WALKER INVENTOR OF THE MATCH AND BLAME FOR COUNTLESS FIRES......GEORGE STEVENSON INVENTOR AND PIONERR OF THE RAILWAY
• Some Kids tv presenter on the BEEB
• Marcus Bentley (the voice behind Big Brother and now almost everything) was from Fairfield, even though he puts on a crap geordie accent!!
• Wendy Craig (Rhea in Butterflies) was born in the town if I remember rightly!!
• the priest from ballykissangel - stephen tompkinson?
• jet frm gladiators hardly gives the area a good name!
• The RAH Band, famous for 'Cloud across the Moon' originated from Stockton.
• Ridley Scott, Tony scott, Franc Roddam, Stephen Tompkinson,
• Billingham (pop 35 000) has produced Jet off the Gladiators (Diane Youdale), the lead singer of Chumbawamba (the "he drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a lager drink" bloke), international model Mark Stevens and b-movie actor Geoffrey Stevens, and 1980s novelty act The Toy Dolls.
• Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, famous film directors spent their formative years here
• Sue Pollard the nutter from hi de hi
• Jonny Walker (the match maker, not the DJ) Him off the Detective Chef TV Programme - the fat one! Satan himself.....
• Chubby Brown comes from Grangetown in Middlesbrough, but the place is such a dump, maybe it's not something we should brag about.
• RICHARD GRIFFITHS ( PIE IN THE SKY ) THELMA BARLOW ( MAVIS - CORONATION STREET ) BEN KINGSLEY ( GHANDI )
• Harold Macmillan - not from the area but the ex-MP and PM.
• Paul Frost (hosts the Northern Life) news, weather and information programme.
• Chris Rea.
• Paul Daniels.
• Stockton-on-Tees is the birthplace of the Gladiator Jet.
• Chrid Rea and Paul Daniels are not Stocktonians they are from Middlesbrough, fortunatly, other famous Stocktonians include Ridley Scott (director of Blade Runner and some other films) and his brother (whose name I forget but he is also a director), Stephen Tomlinkinson (if thats how its spelt) the bloke off Ballykissangel and Drop the Dead Donkey. Also Ravennelli and Juniho are now residents in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, because they have realised that Middlesbrough is shit.

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