top celeb spot
  • poxy
    ...complete with miserable look on his miserable face.

    Signed,

    Mrs Poxy
  • David

    Spaced is on re-run one some random noddy channel on Virgin. I still find myself laughing even when I know what's coming. Like Jervais, nothing he's done since has touched it. Not that such a comment should be taken as a negative, it's just Spaced was so good.

  • Amy
    I saw James Blunt getting on his moterbike outside the yellow food hut thing next to the car wash at the bottom of Stroud Green Road. I wish it had been Simon Pegg.
  • graeme
    Spaced apparently being cut to shreds on Dave.

    I am currently using it (DVD box set) as a tool for judging a potential girlfriend. "Does she laugh at 'It made me want to drown things!'"? We've yet to get to Robot Wars (co-starring the Bluetones!), and Reece Shearsmith's "aah, ah hadnt fot of dat". That'll be the clincher.

    Can anyone suggest any other tv shows I can measure potential life-partners against?

    No spots from me this week, haven't been out much.
  • tosscat

    All of Spaced is on 4OD I think.

    James Blunt? Did you not knock him off his bike?

  • tosscat

    @ graeme

    Trevor and Simon?

    Summer Heights High (esp Tsunanarama)

  • sincers
    Navin Chowdhry from Teachers is a member of my running club.

    TV show partner benchmarks?.... the best one has to be Partridge.
    If she doesn't mind if the boys are back in the barracks or not, put a ring on her finger!
  • andy
    I think Spaced, SotD and Hot Fuzz describes a pretty consistently awesome hot streak.

    And the appearances in Star Trek + Mission Impossible were solid, even though they weren't 'his' projects in the same way. But he probably bought his Mum a bungalow with the money.

    So I can't really see how he's stepped down from a pretty high level?
  • tosscat

    I did enjoy star trek.

  • ShaunG

    Run Fat Boy Run?

  • andy
    A rare misstep. You swap Edgar Wright for David Schwimmer, then you get what you pay for.
  • David

    I didn't like Hot Fuzz. It was ok in places but I barely made it to the end. Spaced and SotD is kind of it for me. It's been reasonably shit and on a slide since.

    I suppose you could take that comment as negative.

  • Philistine'sMonster
    I loved the new Star Trek film. I thought it was really, really clever how they used the time travel device to remain consistent with every single one of its predecessors by being a big load of instantly forgettable shite.
  • graeme
    Have to agree, thought Hot Fuzz was pretty weak, except for Timothy Dalton who was great. Jim Broadbent was always going to be the baddy. Like when you watch Columbo and Patrick McGoohan's in it - big star = murdurur.

    Run Fatboy Run was a pretty dull plot, never mind direction. But still, can't fault them for getting through the tat to try and find some good stuff.
  • Billy Bookcase
    I liked the homoerotic subtext of Hot Fuzz and I thought that the camera work and editing were fantastic.

    The violence that Fat Boy did to London's geography rubbed me up the wrong way.
  • David

    What about his Toby Young ditty? I never saw it so can't slate/praise it. I was just so put off in general I never got that far.

  • Philistine'sMonster
    It's not as good as the book. And the book is a bad bastard.
  • ADGS
    Films getting London geography wrong pisses me right off too. 28 Weeks Later was a particularly heinous offender, especially when the Noble turns out to be just over a footbridge from the Isle of Dogs.
  • Liz

    Peter Capaldi having sushi last night in Crouch End. Genuinely excited.

  • poxy
    Peter Capaldi likes his nuts crushed.
  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    Mark Smith on the footbridge between Oxford Road and Finsbury Park
  • graeme
    Who's mark smith?
  • nick_m

    mark smith probably says the same thing about you graeme

  • andy

    mark e smith or another mark smith?

  • poxy
    Place your bets!
  • ShaunG

    Strangely enough, on the very same footbridge, my children came across the woman who plays Guinevere in Merlin - I never watch it, but they were thrilled.

  • sahara_dessert
    Anne-Marie Duff on the platform with me this morning at FP off into town on the tube... wearing a poppy. (is this a 'dull been there seen that kind of spot' now?)
  • Ali

    Not SG really but Twiggy in Lambs Conduit Street filming a M&S add while cycling home at the back of 5pm last night

  • ADGS
    Not remotely SG but I saw Phill Jupitus in HMV last week. He's even bigger than you expect.
  • JungleFaceJake
    well if we are getting non SG, I saw peter serafinowicz and Matt Berry within seconds of each other near baker street tube about 2 weeks ago.

    I see shit famous people quite often, but not worth metioning.. you know the type though... Skinny jeans, dandy hair, unisex eye makeup.

    But i do stop in my tracks a little when its someone who is actually funny, or good at what they do, or talented, or attractive, or those who were good once but are now really shit and tainted (simon peg) ...

    So yeah, erm... I like Peter Serafinowicz.... sheam I didn't see his wife though....
  • graeme
    [too much info]
  • Ian

    Looks like we might not see Alan Carr in the Noble again soon. I feel bad that he has been hounded out of the area.

  • sahara_dessert
    Grant (off of Feeder) and Peter Capaldi at separate tables in caf in rainy Crouch End this morning...
  • Ian

    I saw Andy in the Noble last night. He's now a Stroud Green celebrity I reckon. He was talking to another man who may or may not have been Dave. Unfortunately nobody knows what Dave looks like.

  • andy
    Haha. I was going to write that I saw Ian.

    That was indeed David.
  • Ian

    I guessed it was him from reference to this thread

  • dorothy
    Simon Pegg in Sally Bourne Interiors, CE, buying scented candles today. I find it hard to judge, I was doing the same thing.
  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    Now that I recognise him under that hat, sightings of Simon Pegg round here are common as cats. A couple of weeks ago I more or less tripped over him pushing a buggy at the end of my street. I wanted to say to him 'Pram in the hall - there goes your creative career, mate."
  • Liz

    Gah. I must be the only person in SG who hasn't seen him.

  • katiejane
    Liz - try the Noble.
  • tosscat

    On a Sunday, earlyish doors.

  • Ian

    I graduated in the same ceremony as him in 1991. He looked younger then. Probably.

  • Ali

    He is not a Mason is he ?

  • poxy
    @David: Can we have the thread title changed to "Local celeb stalking", please?

    As much as I think Mr Pegg is a miserable bugger I don't want to think we did an Alan Carr on him.
  • Lucy

    I saw Ray Davies, of the Kinks, today in Highgate!

  • graeme
    I was sure I saw Ray Davies a couple of years ago driving a burgundy Renault saloon up CE Broadway, likely heading home from Konk. I heard he lived off Muswell Hill, on that side road that has the farmer's gate on it. Not certain though.
  • bennyfromtheblok
    He's from Fortis Green, hence on of the Kinks albums Muswell Hillbillies. I'm pretty sure he lives somewhere in nearby - he also just released an album with the Crouch End Festival Choir. How much more Norf London can you get...?
  • krappyrubsnifkrappyrubsnif
    I wonder if celebs have their own bulletin board. Something like 'top iok spot'.
  • dorothy
    I saw Paul Morely a few weeks ago, when the sun was out on Holloway Road, carrying Sainsbury's shopping. He looked at me, or possibly my car or maybe my hat in an admiring way. (Not lecherously).

    I see Robert Peston all the time at my gym in Muswell Hill, he never looks at anything apart from sky news. His crunches are a bit rubbish, does the chin dipping thing, rather than focussing on the stomach.
  • tosscat

    Dorothy, are you a male or female?

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