Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Walsall, West Midlands*

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• NO NO NO< MaTthew marsden shagged sally. Kev did his nut and twatted him!!
• MATTHEW MARSDEN IS A LOVELY MAN!!! HE SHOULD MAKE A COMEBACK WITH HIS MUSIC.I HAVE A SIGNED PHOTO STILL FROM AROUND 12YEARS AGO WHICH HE SENT ME FROM HIS HOME ADDRESS WHICH WAS REALLY KIND OF HIM.IM GLAD HES MAKING A COMEBACK AS AN ACTOR AS HE IS VERY TALLENTED WELL DONE MATTHEW!
• Boy George lived here and ate his first pork pie here. he didn't like it. Had fish, didn't like that either. Now smokes his own.
• Noddy.
• Erm... Rob Halford(JUdas Priest),Noddy( from Slade), Boy George.....
• Bob Catley is in Magnum still! Pleased to see him on top of the list, but lose the "ex". Also Tony Mills, the singer in SHY (has been ex, back again a few years ago, loads of fans all over the world (I'm from Norway)), lives in Wasall! So there!
• Bob Catley (ex Magnum) is based in Lichfield.

• NODDY HOLDER WENT TO MY SCHOOL....LONG LIVE T.P.RILEY!!!!
• Jeffrey Holland. Sue Nicholls. the Mighty noddy. Meera Syal. And Michael Clarke from the soon to be massive Clarksville. you heard it here first!!!
• My father FRED DEGVILLE was probably the first jazz guitarist living and performing in Walsall. I played in his trio on guitar at the Wheatsheaf pub from the age of 12 and continued until the age of 17. My father then took over the Crown Inn Brownhills which became a famous jazz haunt. He also taught NODDY HOLDER the guitar when Noddy was 15. My father was much loved and respected and should be up there with the rest of the Walsall contingent. Paul
• Pete Waterman isn't from Walsall, he's from Coventry.But he does support The Saddlers.He used to DJ with my uncle at the Locarno Club in B'ham many moons ago!
• Lots of minor TV celebrities who now live in Sutton Coldfield (Bob Warman, Audrey Roberts etc)
• no one from walsall, its full o scum
• Pete Waterman was from walsall

• There's this persistent rumour that Boy George used to go to QM Boys School, but I think it's unsubstantiated. I have been to Slade's old house on the Birmingham Road, though. And Led Zep and the Charlatans both played their first gigs in Walsall.
• Often seen performing on the streets of Walsall (and even more often when pissed on friday nights)is local celebrity Jo shone. Her rendition of "baby got back" (the butt song) is legendary.........
• Noddy Holder. Bob Warman.That senile woman from Corrie ( I think).
• Well you have to admit it he may not be a regular these days but Walsall was a better place with Ratbags around.
• DALE WINTON HAD HIS FIRST WANK HERE
• Charlatans members, Laxtons Superb, Julian Clary,
• What the hell has happened to MAD RAMSEY?
• mat marsdon? and that swimmer...gillingham or summat?
• erm matthew marsden lived here, but do we really care???? lolly that 50's throw back, i cant sing, pretending to be 13 wen im 23, wannabe popstar used to live near walsall.
• Frank Windsor, well known thespian.
• Ex band member Steve Clarke from the Dum Dums now manninging a local band called Whitehouse.
• MATTHEW MARSDEN USED TO LIVE IN WALSALL AND MANY OF HIS RELATIVES STIIL DO. WHAT CAN I SAY BUT HES LOVELLY ALWAYS VERY POLITE AND NICE WHEN HE USED TO COME IN THE SHOP WHERE I USED TO WORK MANY A TIME HE USED TO BEEN SEEN WALKING UP THE TOP OF THE MARKET WITH A BAG OF CHIPS IN HIS HAND, PROPER WALSALL LAD. NICE
• Matthew Marsden is a t**t!
• My old mate Don Gilet, (ex Bluecoat Comp). who's been in Eastenders, Nick Cotton Special and tons of adverts - Kelloggs, Heinekin etc...
• shefali ( the weathergirl from central news ) Rob Collins from the charlatans robbed the shop by me
• MATTHEW MARSDEN I SEEN HIM IN BLOCKBUSTERS WITH THE GIRL WHO USED TO BE IN THE HONIES THEY LOOKED LIKE A PAIR OF SCRUBBERS NOT STARS.
• Sue Nicholls (audrey from corrie) Matthew Marsden (corrie and pop/film star) Boy George, Goldie, Noddy!, Dotty p (sister dora)
• Boy George from Cannock. Noddy Holder and most of Slade. Jerome k Jerome, Goldie lived in the Butts (ruff) area of the town. Too mant to mention actually, we're just a breeding ground of culture!
• Meera Syal went to Queen Mary's High School in Walsall (you know the one off Goodness Gracious me)
• Didn't Robert Plant come from around there? Ozzy too?
• The wonderstuff and members of weknowwhereyoulive.
• Lucy and Sarah - famous throughout Walsall - not only for not having children, but also for being the goddamn sexiest people there! you'll find them down the flock and firkin, surrounded by their adoring male (and female) public
• Bill Tidy, the famous cartoonist lived in Walsall
• Jon Baker (lead guitarist on the Charlatans' biggest hit) "The Only One I Know"
• Hmmmm, are there any of these? Jerome K Jerome I guess - I was a curator at the museum there for a couple of weeks - BORING
• Sister Dora (Dorothy Pattison) - Walsall's own Florence Nightingale
• Marj and Dor of course, their current residences are unknown, but it is beleived that they are in a bungalow in Leamore. and of course Matthew Marsden lives near St Michael's Church, Rushall
• EX PRIME MINISTERS JOHN MAJORS FATHER WHO I THINK WAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE CIRCUS?
• That twat from Emmerdale, Noddy Holder, Rob Holford and Boy George used to make an appearance in Coalpoal.
• matthew marsen from corrie and now a pop star
• Jerome K Jerome author of Three Men in a Boat
• boy george rob halford, martin degville, noddy from slade, a load of others the prat from emadale etc,
• BOY GEORGE NODDY HOLDER (SLADE)
• Sue Nicholls (Audrey in Coronation Street)

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