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Local discussion: top celeb spot

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- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
We are Ninja
in the Noble. Simon Pegg...

...wearing a hat
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeApr 25th 2007
Top marks.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
Andy - is it worth creating another version of the Directory ... a map where we can tag celebs and where they were spotted!
- CommentAuthorEmma
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
Ah, a friend saw him in there a few weeks ago as well. Right, I'm going to stake out the place.
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007 edited
We are Ninja
I could just add a Celeb category, but I don't want to do that without Overlord Andy's permission as he'll try and ban me again for usurping his authority.
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007 edited
Not being egotistical here - as I don't see it myself - but people often tell me how I look like Simon Pegg. Including a guy who went to school with him. I think it's just that I usually have stubble, glasses and wear a beanie.

I really should finish watching Spaced.
- CommentAuthorLucy
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
could people be spotting Matt around stroud green? hence accounting for the dispropportionate number of simon pegg spots.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
We are Ninja
@david - maybe we can unfuckup the old one before making a new one.

of course, this is very close to the 'gawker stalker' idea http://www.gawker.com/stalker/
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
We are Ninja
and whilst I'm on it, let's steal this idea too

http://www.gawker.com/news/shirts/view-slogans-227091.php

"I joined Scientology and all I got was this lousy, short, untalented, over-controlling movie star."

one for David "I have no doubt that your children are extraordinary, but I don't want to hear anything about them."
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
Lucy: sadly I am yet to set foot in The Noble!
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeApr 26th 2007
We are Ninja
@andy, what's to unfuck?
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
Walked past Joel Beckett (aka Jake Moon from Eastenders) this morning at Finsbury Park overland station. Not as interesting as Simon Pegg. Let's get a gawker style directory going for Stroud Green!
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
We are Ninja
sorry david - i think the map overlay is being bluecoated in the office. it's fine everywhere else.
- CommentAuthorPete
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
Should have points for taking a photo of them
- CommentAuthorLucy
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
what's with the @andy, @david stuff? Yet another web protocol thing I'm completely unaware of?
- CommentAuthorFour Eyes
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007 edited
@lucy - just a way of making sure the person you're replying to in a long thread knows it's you they're referring to...
- CommentAuthorPete
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
@lucy @four eyes - Also because vanilla doesn't have a "reply-to" feature built in, and the extension for it sucks.
- CommentAuthorLucy
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
@four eyes - thank you.

But, why not just say:

lucy - etc.?

Is putting @ more cool?
- CommentAuthorPete
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
@ makes it web 2.0
- CommentAuthordominic
- CommentTimeApr 27th 2007
John Simm of Life on Mars was in Budgeons a few weeks back. I know it's not really SG but close enough.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeApr 30th 2007
I saw him in WH Smiths in Brent Cross at Christmas
- CommentAuthorlucky
- CommentTimeMay 5th 2007
just saw simon pegg smoking a fat cigar at the noble.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeMay 8th 2007
Cool - now he`s been spotted drinking there twice I think we can establish that The Noble is his new local ... let the stalking begin ;)
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeMay 8th 2007
Hahaha!
- CommentAuthorEmma
- CommentTimeMay 16th 2007
Did everyone see the C4 programme on Sunday night with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg? Simon Pegg was wearing a CROUCH END tshirt. I got really overexcited and now my boyfriend thinks I fancy Simon Pegg.
- CommentAuthorEwan
- CommentTimeMay 16th 2007
I saw it and have now started watching spaced for possible SG sightings.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeMay 16th 2007
Spaced was more Tufnel Park IIR
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2007
Yep
- CommentAuthorLucy
- CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
Double Whammy!

Saw Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in The Noble last night. They managed to sit behind me for over 2 hours without me realising (friend had clocked them but was being "cool") and I only noticed when Simon Pegg came back from the toilet!

I would have spent longer talking about ACTING in a loud voice if I'd known.
- CommentAuthorDavid
- CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
We are Ninja
I'm a bit concerned at the pedestal Mr Pegg seems to have been put on in this forum. It would probably scare him.
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
It scares me, and I only look like him (allegedly)
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2007
Neil Morrisey has also been seen hanging out in The Nobel. I also remember sitting next to him and Adrian Dunbar in the White Lion probably about 15 years ago or so. The White Lion was the trendy pub of the area then. Full of Guardian readers and it even featured in the Sunday Observer as being what a pub of the future would be ! had a picture of the big round table that used to be in there. It went down hill when the Irsh pub that is now Nandos closed and Weatherspoons changed it into a post Macdonald architecture !

For the Nobel you have to thank Weathspoons as they converted in from an Off Licence into Marlers Bar, it used to get absolutely packed, Being the Nobel on Friday night brought back days of nostalgia
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeJun 4th 2007
Noticed a newspaper article re Simon Pegg and his family history on Saturday.

Turns out his real name is Simon John Beckingham and he was born in 1970, his Dad was representative selling musical instruments who had a passion for jazz
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeJun 12th 2007
Saw Jo Moore of Labour Party, 9/11 email ("today might be a good day to bury bad news") fame walking down Stroud Green Road near John Jones last night.

Also apparently we have a Government Minster as well, namely Douglas Alexander, Transport and Scotland Secretary. He lives in Florence Road, maybe he will be against the Parkland Walk cycle super highway!
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeJun 12th 2007
Or perhaps he's pro the Dog Poo Mud Bath Mugging Mayhem Super Parkland Walk hell hole - it's really not very constructive to distill these things down to silly names, is it Ali?
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeJun 12th 2007
We are Ninja
Since when did we need to be constructive?

I like it that you still added 'super' after Dog Poo Mugging Mayhem.

Dog Poo Mugging Mayhem sounds like a badly translated Japanese computer game from the 80's
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeJun 13th 2007
We don't, it's purely an observation.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeJun 15th 2007
Was nearly run over by Rick 'Minty from Eastenders' Peterson driving his silver Porsche Carrera up Mount Pleasant Creasant yesterday
- CommentAuthorlucky
- CommentTimeAug 4th 2007
ok simon pegg in the noble........ i know this is nithing new but the dog he now owns is the cutest dog i have seen ......
i actually started to talk to him about the dog, only a few months old and threw up all over the floor........ wish i had my camera to take a few pics of simon pegg cleaning up dog spew in his local.........
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2007
What type of dog is it?
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2007
We are Ninja
Terrible!

Sorry, I thought you asked how did it smell.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeAug 13th 2007
It can't, it hasn't got a nose.
- CommentAuthorWoody
- CommentTimeAug 15th 2007
Neil Morrissey and Nigel Harman from Eastenders were in a group having dinner at Florian's in Crouch End on Friday. Simon Pegg has also been seen getting a take-away from the excellent curry house (although I can't remember the name) opposite the Queens, also in Crouch End. And a bored looking Dermot Murnaghan being dragged around Woolies by his wife on a Saturday morning.
- CommentAuthorRory
- CommentTimeAug 21st 2007 edited
Johnny Borrell from Razorlight in The Big Fat Sofa (RIP) - complementing strangers on their hair.
- CommentAuthorRory
- CommentTimeAug 21st 2007
After an afternoon spent cheerfully mopping up dog-sick in The Noble, Simon Pegg likes nothing more than the short jaunt to Finsbury Park and popping a cap in some goose's ass.
- CommentAuthorAli
- CommentTimeOct 12th 2007
Just heard that Simon Pegg is to be the new Scottie in the new Startrek film !
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeOct 13th 2007
Some friends came round to dinner last week, and saw Mr Pegg on Crouch Hill walking down towards The Noble.
- CommentAuthorIan
- CommentTimeMar 14th 2008
Neil Morrissey in the Noble this evening. Behaving well.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2008
We are Ninja
Good spot. Though I hardly ever see Pegg in the Noble anymore.

Not to be an egomaniac about it, I worry that we scared him off.
- CommentAuthorIan
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2008
Pegg been in a couple of times recently in the Noble - was in friday before last with his dog.
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeMar 15th 2008
My boyfriend has seen Dr Legg TWICE at the Albert Road (not Albert Square) bus stop.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
I forgot to mention this before ... but I was kissed in Woodies by Sheridan Smith (Two Pint of Lager fame) just before Christmas.

Even more random it was at 4:30am and I had just staggered in to grab a snack on my home after the office Christmas party.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
We are Ninja
Top notch. Kissed by a celeb Anyone else better that?

(though, as I've said, I think there are some more famous members of this forum)
- CommentAuthorpoxy
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008 edited
Just now, while skimming through various threads on this very site I received a text message from an erstwhile contributor to this site saying she's just seen Mr MacAvoy outside the White Lion.

Grab your autograph books and your cameras!
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
When I was just sixteen I snogged MC Storm (or someone pretending to be him) at a Happy Hardcore night on the outskirts of King’s Lynn. It was a beautiful moment.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
We are Ninja
I think crossing the line into live stalking.....

...I don't know, it makes me uncomfortable.

I'm afraid to say I don't who MC Storm is. Is he in a popular beat combo? Hang on, I'll myspace him.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008 edited
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aha - happy hardcore.

Is this the chap?
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
Oh my god! If he was outside the WLoM, he was, to all intents and purposes, OUTSIDE MY HOUSE!
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
Was he on the bench opposite with a can of Special Brew?
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
@ Tabbie - are you a refugee from Norfolk? I lived in King's Lynn for four years and the thought of it still makes me feel a bit strange. Mind you, nothing as exciting as snogging a happy hardcore DJ ever happened to me there...:)
- CommentAuthorBeek
- CommentTimeMar 17th 2008
We often see the bloke from, now cast your minds back, waaaay back in time, to the Yellow Pages advert, that floppy haired bloke with a very messy flat, who is desperately trying to tidy it up in a hurry... we regularly see him plodding up SGR / Crouch Hill... Star spot or What??!
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
I like Liz's post about rubbish other places we've all lived, so...
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
@Liz – yes, I am. I lived in KL til I was eighteen. It’s a funny old place, isn’t it? What were you doing there for four years?
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
My mum and her partner of the time moved there when I was 14, so I did my GCSEs and A levels at Springwood. Lived on Springwood Estate for about 3 years then North Wootton for 1. You?
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
Isn't KL Kuala Lumpur? Sp.
- CommentAuthorsophie
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
i saw super hans from peep show at the station a couple of weeks ago! he was actually dressed like super hans as well ie. he looked like a twat.
possibly the most impressive celeb spot and associated photo ever?
- CommentAuthordominic
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
Is he the one on the left or the one on the right in that picture?
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 18th 2008
We are Ninja
*applauds* - that's proper papparazzing
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
Nick Berry!
- CommentAuthorColette
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
I've seen superhans too, in Crouch End, dressed like superhans. He must live locally.
- CommentAuthormatt
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
I don't even know who superhans is!
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
Peep show.

It's quite apt as the opening sequence was filmed in CE, a long time ago when silly Italian megadeli was an old fashioned sort of Electricity Board.

The bulk of the show was filmed in Croyers though I believe
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
We are Ninja
And some of it was filmed in Woodys
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
@Liz - I went to KES but I used to go to Springwood to play in their orchestra every Tuesday after school. I was only young and wrote it on my calendar as “orgy”. I was so embarrassed when my mum told me what it meant. What years were you living in King’s Lynn? Did you ever sample the nightlife?
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 19th 2008
@ Tabbie - I'm starting to think we need to start a separate thread for this! It was 1989-93, roughly. If you were there at the same time, then we were probably in the orchestra together, as I was in Springwood Orchestra, Concert Band and WNJYO Orchestra. Scary small world. Nightlife mainly consisted of the Wens, or Knights Hill, and the odd visit to the cheesy clubs in town which I can't remember the names of. You?
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeMar 21st 2008
@Liz - I used to go to the orchestra from about 1989, so we must have been in it together. Do you remember Mr Woolley? He had a grey pony tail tied up with a velvet ribbon. I used to go to the Wenns too, from 1993 ish, and the crap nightclubs like Manhattens and Top of The World. Happy days.
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeMar 21st 2008
Mr Woolley. He was a strange man. I played in his string ensemble too, which basically involved playing Pachalbel's Canon in as many Norfolk churches as possible. If you only started going to the Wenns in 1993 then you're probably younger than me (or didn't start drinking until you were 18, which would have been very restrained!).
- CommentAuthorMaggie
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
Hey everyone....just wondering if anyone knows where James McAvoy lives. He has done interviews and says he loves living in the Stroud Green area..and people have seen him walking to do his shopping..but does anyone know for sure?
- CommentAuthordion
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
yes but not telling.
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
How do you know he doesn't come on here.... possibly using a pseudonym... maybe something like "tosscat"?
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
OK - maybe not.

I'm also in the "leave the nice man alone" camp.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
We are Ninja
I AM JAMES McAVOY!
- CommentAuthordominic
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
Tosscat... James McAvoy! Hahaha! That's hilarious. And so, so unlikely.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
Blah blah blah, anyway Glyn, why were you up so early this morning?
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
Work I'm afraid - just got back in too.
- CommentAuthordominic
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008 edited
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- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
I'm a big fan, but I have to agree with Glyn on the 'leave the man be' front.

@ Glyn and tosscat: is this some 'who can be up the earliest' competition?

btw - I've met Glyn in the flesh as it were, and can confirm it's not him
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeMar 31st 2008
Almost getting back onto the topic, I'm a bit worried about my own local celeb - the man who runs around Stroud Green early in the morning, waving his arms around and talking to himself.

Tosscat may know the chap as I think he lives nearby.

Apologies if he has his own thread, but I saw him just before Xmas with a great big cut above his eye and was very worried that he might have been duffed up by local urchins. Hope he's doing OK now.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
'Opal eye' I call him after a special type of cat.

Opal eye

I've certainly seen him since Xmas and he seemed much better - he speaks pretty fluent hindi you know. I like it when it gets lighter in the morning and he roams the streets singing as well.
- CommentAuthorSimonB
- CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
Simon Pegg walking his dog past my flat on Sunday afternoon ... why go looking for Pegg when if you stay still, he comes to you!
- CommentAuthorGlyn
- CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
Thanks for the update Tosscat. Nice to hear he's still around. My own personal list of local celebs...

John Simm (loads until recently), Pegg (obviously), Dr Legg on W3, Liza Tarbuck in Londis (just visiting I guess), Vicky (her of the accent change on Eastenders - on Stapleton Hall Road), Grant Nicholas of the tedious Feeder (W3 and M&S), Dermot Murnaghan (looking very bored on Crouch Hill). Oh, and Caroline of Big Brother 1 also on W3... not really sure she counts to be honest, but there you go.
- CommentAuthorTabbie
- CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
I've seen Jimi Mistry in the Dairy TWICE. I got his autograph - pretty cool, eh?
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
I once briefly chatted to Tim Wheeler at the Dairy music quiz (prior to refurb).
- CommentAuthorkatiejane
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
I just saw Jarvis Cocker, albeit in Borders at Angel.

I've met him before when he came to my museum. I was encouraged to go up to him and say hi, which I did. Not a good idea.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
We are Ninja
My museum? Are you a Guggenheim?
- CommentAuthorkrazykappa
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
I realize this may sound like a ridiculous question, but is Stroud Green always scattered with celebrities? I admit I've only met one, Howie Day...don't know if he's well known in Britain. I made the brutal mistake of telling him I was a fan before anyone even knew who he was. I blame it on the nerves.

29 more days until I leave this god-forsaken land and head for London! PS.Please don't hate me for having such an idiot as president.
- CommentAuthorLiz
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
It depends what you define as celebrities. From Glyn's list, I would say that only one of them is properly famous (Pegg). Him and McAvoy are SG A list. John Simm would be B list. The rest are much more low rent: two ex Eastenders, one newsreader, one reality-TV-show-contestant-from-ages-ago, one so-so TV presenter and someone out of an indie band. So, no need to feel concerned really.

@ Glyn, this is not to diss your list, just to reassure krazykappa that he won't spend his whole time feeling nervous in the golden land of Stroud Green...
- CommentAuthorGiles
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
Most of the "celebs" live in the northern (tube-less) part of Stroud Green called Crouch End. They occasionally come South for our better pubs, transport etc.

As Liz says, the celebs ( apart from a few ) aren't A list, unless you watched a lot of TV in the 80s.
- CommentAuthorandy
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
We are Ninja
I'd say Simm was A list.
- CommentAuthortosscat
- CommentTimeApr 2nd 2008
I think we need to redefine our categories - I had to when I bumped into Lauren Bacall in Muji, Covent Garden. I think she is A list.