Famous faces

[Olive]

:))I keep seeing famous faces around E.D. - bumped into Richard Shelton who plays the evil Dr Adam Forsythe from Emmerdale in North Cross Road yesterday who mentioned Lorraine Chase also lives in Camberwell! Anyway, it apparently, he does a wicked Sinatra too. Anyone else seen anyone else around these parts?

[clare]

Saw Linda "Bad Girls" (now in East Enders) in Sainsburys yesterday.

[mockney piers]

yes, she unwittingly came along to the forum drinks in The Dave. I had a chat with her. Quite a nice lady despite the scary hard girl looks. Though she and her pals had clearly been on the sauce all day!

[Louisa]

Lorraine Chase was discovered in the Jennys cafe near Peckham Rye station, and she attended the girls school in Peckham, which is now called the Peckham Academy.

[Dulwich Dad]

I've bumped into Terry Jones in Nicholas, saw Timothy Spall in The Palmerston, managed to catch a cheeky glimpse of the Cheeky Girls in Dulwich Park (they were wearing hot pants and riding tandem I hasten to add!) and I have definately seen Robson Jerome in Safeway (or was it Jerome Robson - always get those two mixed up!)

DD

[Asset]

I think the only one I'd know out of these is Timothy Spall. Maybe recognise Cheekys if they were in their gold hotpants.

Just think - all these famous people passing me everyday possibly and I'm in blissful ignorance.

[Oily Telly Tyke]

Saw Steven Hartley (best known for playing Superintendent Tom Chandler in The Bill and Matthew Jackson in EastEnders from 1987-1989. He was also interviewed for the role of James Bond in 1985.) In EDT the other week.

oooo!!!

[Dulwich Dad]

I think Jerome Robson was the one who had the smash hit "When The Boat Comes In"

[ratty]

Isn't there another thread about this??

I was followed to work by Rio Ferdinand the other day along East Dulwich Road and up round Peckham to Queens Road! Nice car!

[Ultraconsultancy]

Steve Frost, one of the REALLY original new comedians of the 80's brit stand up boom, and I think co-owner of Jongleurs, spotted not so long ago in North Cross Rd. Tall and broad...

[the-e-dealer]

thats where he lives .. almost.

[TillieTrotter]

Saw Mr Frost today sauntering down NC Road. Lovely fella that he is.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Having a strange sense of deja vu ...

[Domitianus]

I regret that it has now been a while since I saw James Nesbitt - reason being I would like the opportunity to tell him how absolutely c**p he was in that recent Dr Jekyll nonsense! Forget all this stuff about him being an a***hole - in my view he is an utterly hopeless actor. I have never seen him give a performance that has been anything more than wooden, cliched and, frankly, slightly embarrassing. He is like the big-headed bloke who was always in the school play who over-acted for England and actually thought he was a great thespian.

I would love to go to the butchers, buy a great big ham and hang it around James's neck, saying "Here is your soulmate!"

[mockney piers]

Actually, he _was_ pretty good in Bloody Sunday.

I think on the whole he just chooses a lot of rubbish roles.

But like any actor you know the work can dry up (when did pfeiffer last do anything for instance?), so why not cash in on an awful lot of lazy cr*p to at least guarantee your kids will eat, get educated etc.

[Dulwich Dad]

Look, just get off the fence and say what you mean.

[Domitianus]

But a decent actor can at least give a credible performance even if the role is rubbish. I just don't think he does. Havent seen Bloody Sunday but everything else I have seen him in made me cringe. I was always constantly aware that he was an actor carrying out a performance and doing it rather badly in my view. Oh well!

[mockney piers]

As it goes DD, much as I enjoy celebrities having fun poked at them, I genuinely haven't got anything against the guy, good luck to him I say, well except when the missus is chatting him up, but that really wasn't his fault.

[Dulwich Dad]

Actually, it was more Domitianus I was referring to, which I have to say was a rather good rant - well done, and likewise well done to you for sticking up for Nesbitt. I actually don't mind the man - even though my missus also fancies him (more circa cold feet than yellow pages ads)

[Domitianus]

Never ceases to amaze me the fact that people think that because an actor "pretends to be" (critical point) various interesting and exciting people, they are actually, in reality, themselves interesting and exciting. I sympathise therefore Mockney with your wife's apparent inability to separate the man from the role. Reason I say this is that I have met a number of actors/actresses in real life and invariably they have been utterly dull and uninteresting, yet convinced that they deserved to be the centre of attention on the grounds that they are good at pretending otherwise.

[mockney piers]

The missus will fester in front of the odd braindead bit of telly and with me in front of the news and Question Time, but she's not really into actors or anything. In her case it's almost entirely the irish connection and the ulster accent.

I think she goes for the careworn look too; I for one look like I've been dragged through a bush backwards most of the time, which is probably what she likes in me.

[Domitianus]

May I make a small amendment to my previous posting. I heartily agree with the sexy and seductive character of an Ulster accent.

[Dulwich Dad]

I never actually saw Jekyll and Hyde, however i read a review saying that his accent added to the role, and that if he'd been from Birmingham, the performance may not have been quite so convincing.

[Domitianus]

Does that mean that Ulster accents are associated in people's minds with dissociated personalities, superhuman strength and murderous tendencies? I do hope so. Might explain why people give me a wide berth.

[*Bob*]

There was a time when you couldn't turn the telly on without hearing a commercial voiceover voiced by a Scot, Irishman or Ulsterman.

The North East now gets a fair crack of the whip (thanks largely to Big Brother)

Other amusing regional stereotyping in adverts:

Cornwall (earthy wholesome fisherman types)

Liverpool (thrifty housewife with sense of humour)

Midlands (likeable with below-average intelligence)