Royston Vasey

[davewebbsbrain]

The ficticious village of Royston Vasey in that fantastic series 'The League of Gentlemen' is also the real name of comic stand up Roy 'Chubby' Brown

Begs the question: Have the real names of any other people in the limelight been used in any way?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Er......Bergerac is a real place in France?

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Weatherfield was the real surname of the bloke who was originally behind Coronation Street. I think his writing name was Tony Warren.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Weatherfield was the real surname of the bloke who was originally behind Coronation Street. I think his writing name was Tony Warren.

Nice try. Tony Warren's real name is Anthony MacVey Simpson.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Nice try. Tony Warren's real name is Anthony MacVey Simpson.

Blimey, if only we had a spare seat for Eggheads........

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Must be someone else behind the scenes then but that's how Weatherfield got its name, from the real surname of one of the original people. Unless the Granada Studio Tour guide was trying to impress me with that and that free Mike Baldwin keyring I got off her.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Chorlton and the Wheelies was named after a group of bikers from Chorlton

 

[Benji91]

The Commodores were named after a computer - Fact

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Commodores were named after a computer - Fact

And the Vic 20 was named after how much dosh Vic Jobson put into SUFC.
(Not a) FACT!

 

[canveyshrimper]

Chorlton and the Wheelies was named after a group of bikers from Chorlton

Wheelie? :unsure:

 

[The Big Shrimp]

Maggie Thatcher gave her nickname to part of the name of the town where Gary Hooper now plays his football!!

 

[Ulysses]

Michael Caine (previous Maurice Micklewhite) evidently got his surname from the film 'The Caine Mutiny' with Humphrey Bogart. Michael/Mickey was his nickname btw.

 

[chadded]

Erinsbough is an anagram of Neighbours.

 

[Firestorm]

Sham 69 got their name from a ripped poster showing the 1968-69 fixtures for Walton amd Hersham FC

Steve Mildenhall was abandoned as a baby at an RAF base in suffolk, Social Services were highly original in naming him