Celebrity Spotting Part 2
July 27, 2007 at 4:13 pm 8 comments
Z List
Many B, C and Z list celebrities live in the Wilmslow area of Cheshire. It is the land of Coronation Street stars and Manchester United players. And, they all seem to shop at Sainsburys. Or at least they did before the arrival of Waitrose a couple of years ago.
Ken Barlow (Bill Roache) used to live around the corner from us in Alderley Edge and was a regular in the corner shop. As indeed was Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson) – “allegedly” often pissed and buying alcohol. Jim McDonald/Charles Lawson (his screen dad), another alleged alki, Samia (sigh) Smith who plays Maria Sutherland, and Denise Welch (Natalie Barnes now a Loose Woman) are also Sainsburys regulars. Also, Brian McClair of Manchester United. In hidsight there could be a bit of an alcohol issue going on in Wilmslow.
I once saw Cristiano Ronaldo in there (Sainsburys). It was before the world cup (2006) so Ronaldo was still popular then. He was with his brother and his dad. He was clearly buying stuff for a family bbq. He was swamped by youngsters seeking autographs. He was very patient and took it all in his stride and I remember thinking “what a nice bloke”. But, I will never forgive him for getting Rooney sent off!
In fact Wayne Rooney has also moved into the area, and lowered the tone. Apparently he is now a regular in Brasingamens, the Braz, being a club in Alderley Edge (Bolliwood!), where, allegedly, he once punched his girlfriend, Coleen McLoughlin. It would seem that Wayne is often to be found partying with other Scousers, and that the potential WAG factor has begun to attract the ladies of Liverpool to this part of Cheshire on a Friday and Saturday night in search of a potential footballing hubby.
Well, denim mini skirts, see-through tops, pierced navels, and white stilettos have not gone down too well with the ladies who lunch of Wilmslow and Alderley Edge. I know who I’d back in a fight though. And, be careful where you park your car at the weekend…..
I even saw Liam Gallagher (of Oasis) and his then wife Patsy Kensit in Sainsburys. That caused a stir. You don’t get many Man City fans in Wilmslow! Not with all those shops selling prawn sandwiches. I like Patsy Kensit. In fact I have loved Patsy Kensit ever since she starred in the Birds Eye Peas adverts, starting in 1972. Those big blue eyes. That blonde hair. Mother wouldn’t approve.
I gave up my chair once for Barbara Knox who plays Rita Fairclough/Sullivan. It was in the business lounge of Manchester Airport. The cast was assembling there en route for one of those holiday specials in Ibiza or Majorca or some such place. You know, “the Street goes on holiday and it all ends in disaster” special.
Airports in general are a very good place for hob-nobbing with stars…..I bumped into the Edge (U2), literally, in the lounge at Heathrow. I followed Anneka Rice’s bottom (nice) up the stairs to a plane. I stood next to Alex Furgusson and Craig Brown (then Scotland Manager) on the tarmac at Heathrow as we tried to find our baggage after it had been turfed off a broken-down plane. I once sat next to Willy Thorne and his snooker cue on a plane to Amsterdam. He was a very nice guy, sociable, if a bit obsessive about his cue.
Most bizarrely, C and I once sat at a table next to Jason Orange of Take That in the Swan public house in Wybunbury, in darkest Cheshire. This was in the wilderness years between the demise and rebirth. He was just like any other normal bloke out for a drink and Sunday meal with the family.
C and I sat next to Jane Danson (Leanne Battersby of Corrie) when she was having a girls’ night out, in Pizza Express in Wilmslow. In fact, we were once in there at the same time as Dwight Yorke, when he was still a Birmingham City player. I didn’t pester him for an autograph though. We once queued next to Sinbad from Brookside in the big Ikea at Warrington. I sat next to Frank Finlay (star of Bouquet of Barbed Wire – TV incest in 1976) on the Northern Line tube. Twice. On separate occasions.
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1. kevmoore | April 10, 2008 at 9:37 am
Airport lounges often throw up the odd bemused travel-weary celebrity. As I tumbled of a plane from Israel following a tour with my band, it was hard to miss the taller-than-everbody Mike Rutherford of Mike and the Mechanics and Genesis fame, gliding through arrivals like death in a long black trenchcoat. I even saw the fabled Billy Ray Cyrus mullett up close in Copenhagens Kastrup airport, Now that was scary. But scariest of all, having just yesterday tuned into the real world via the BBC News page, was the discovery that Kids TVs Mark Speight was missing and his fiance was dead. I knew them both whilst we were working a cruise in the carribean a couple of years back. Spooky.
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2. kevmoore | April 10, 2008 at 9:40 am
P.S “Steve McDonald” is certainly a wild card. When I appeared on Stars in their Eyes some years ago, he was at the after show party following the final, and quite clearly off his face. Several Granada “people” were “managing” his ensuing tantrum.
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3. Middle Man | April 10, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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4. katyboo1 | January 9, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I once saw Sean Ryder at Heathrow. He didn’t look well!
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