Anyone who enjoyed their schooldays is an idiot and not worth bothering with.

The school that spawned Baddiel also spawned Matt Lucas, Paul Kaye, Sascha Baron-Cohen and Colin from 'The Living Soap'. Half the writers on 'Da Ali G Show' are mates of his. A suspiciously large proportion of young BBC producers were contemporaries of either Lucas or Cohen.

Just shows how much has changed in Radio and TV.

>We thought it was because he had a small cock but he maintained that it was because he was shy and had no brothers to look up to.

Was it because he was Jewish etc.

My mum went to school with Rita Tushingham, who was in 'Bread' (as well as loads of old films), if that helps.

Er, I went to school with three-quarters of the Boo Radleys. Also the Delamere clan (Robert - a theatre/opera director, Matthew - an actor [recent Greenaway film; that Kevin Whatley one-off comedy about a bogus government food scare], Louise - an actress [small role in Judge Dredd; appeared in an episode of 'Coogan's Run']. I've a feeling Tik'n'Tok (early 80s robotic popsters) hailed from our Wirral comp too.

I have two friends who were contemporaries of Jude Law - one at the South London comprehensive he was swiftly removed from, one at the posh school he ended up at. Don't believe all the bullying stories in his interviews; apparently he was an arrogant twit who was widely disliked, but never bullied.

Dissing celebs, eh? S'great.

>Er, I went to school with three-quarters of the Boo Radleys.

Which three? (Sice and Martin are probably two)

Catherine Zeta Jones was in the year above me at secondary school for one year only. And no, I never spoke to her. (My brother used to vaguely know her brother though.)

Perfick anecdote, huh?

>>Er, I went to school with three-quarters of the Boo Radleys.
>
>Which three? (Sice and Martin are probably two)

Surely it'd be tim - as he was a in a rival gang to martin or sice, before he taught martin to play the guitar or something,.,I read it somewhere. But, it's guesswork so you know perpaps lat the other person tell you.

>Surely it'd be tim - as he was a in a rival gang to martin or sice, before he taught martin to play the guitar or something,.,I read it somewhere. But, it's guesswork so you know perpaps lat the other person tell you.
>
I remember hearing that story on the lazarus single - so you're probably right.
>

>>Er, I went to school with three-quarters of the Boo Radleys.
>
>Which three? (Sice and Martin are probably two)

Actually, come to think of it, as familiar as Tim (and their old drummer Steve, for that matter, who I wasn't counting) is to me, perhaps he wasn't at St Mary's after all. So perhaps it's just Messrs Rowbottom and Carr, as you correctly guessed.

I was in the year above them. Both lovely chaps, but chalk and cheese really. Martin lives in North London and Sice is somewhere in rural Bucks; the former's working on a new record, the latter, er, isn't. Tim's gone back to live in Wallasey. No idea what Rob's up to.

Funnily enough, I popped over to imdb.com earlier and discovered that someone had pointed out the school connection between the aforementioned thespian Delamere family and the Bradleys. Another teenage contemporary of mine?

I think they peaked with 'Lazarus', but don't tell them that...

Don't be nasty about Jude. He has the most lovliest parents in the world - any arrogance certainly wouldn't have come about because of them, in fact they'd probably ensure he was anything but. They are so totally down to earth and if he's arrogant now then that would have come about with fame, rather than through childhood.
Does he claim severe bullying? I thought he just joked that with a name like Jude people assumed he was gay. If there was more to it than that, how many people are actually aware of bullying in schools anyhow? Very often it is just the bully and the victim who are aware.

Oh, and some of Suade went to my school and college. In fact they're from the same place as me. As is Mark Ravenhill. As do Kate Moss's...parents..!?

Oh, sticking more with the topic title - Jamie Theakston went to my school. His mum always moaned to other parents how much trouble she was having with Jamie.

getting back to baddiel.. what school was it
and whos eddie swan?

oh yeah, my cousin went same school as neil tennant

It was a joke.

Well, next time you're going to try a 'joke' can you let us know in advance?

Thanks.

Anti-semite.

>Well, next time you're going to try a 'joke' can you let us know in advance?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Anti-semite.


I thought it was pretty bloody obvious. 'Badwell', the Page 3 girl, the tone.

>getting back to baddiel.. what school was it

ampleforth...?
thats where matt lucas went, anyways.

>getting back to baddiel.. what school was it

ampleforth...?
thats where matt lucas went, anyways.

Did I?

No, I didn't. I went to Haberdashers in Elstree actually, and no - Paul Kaye didn't go there.

Ah, the dreaded H word

My mum lived two doors down from Billy Conolly in Partick and went to primary school with him. She says he was 'really good at football'.

Er, my friend James went to Portobello High with Gail Porter.

And my mate Gadgie once shared a spliff with Irvine Welsh.

FACT: Billy Connolly's cousin was my maths teacher at school, but he developed motor neurone disease and his hands went all fucked, causing the kids to call him 'Veg Arms'.

>Don't be nasty about Jude.

Ah, you're probably right. I shouldn't really malign the fellow based on a couple of half-remembered magazine interviews and the similarly fading schoolyard memories of my pals. I should've given him a verbal kicking for "Shopping" and "Love, Honour and Obey" instead. But that's another thread (and probably another forum).

I'm sure he's a prince among men.

No it's not. Jude Law is a foul creature. Ever since I went to the picture house to see Shopping in 1994 I've hated his goopey, over-shined face and rubbish muscles. He walks like a girl, has a woman's name, looks like a lesbian and his wife's got massive fingers. Okay, I'm joking (not about the fingers thing mind - they're fucking HUUUUUGE!).

Final Cut is one of the best bad films I've ever seen. The arrogance required to believe that such cinematic masturbation would entertain an audience for two hours is beyond the comprehension of anyone, except perhaps the baby at the end of '2001'. You might as well have Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller and Ray Winstone sitting in white canvas 'director' chairs, conducting furious self-abuse for 120 minutes. Rent 'Shopping' out on video and see how long you can watch without laughing. I managed up until the bit where Sean Bean appears in a cheap suit.

Fuck Jude Law and his snow-nosed, drip-fed, Brit Pack/Shit Pack, Primrose Hill, up-the-bum-no-harm-done, Met Bar, media mega-ego skeletor friends. Fuck him, and fuck his big-titted wife. She's only famous because she's been married to him and that lanky twat out of Spandau Ballet (not the one with the metal shit in his head, the other one).

Er, I don't like them much. I think I made that impression. Uh, not my sort of people.

And you're not exactly my sort of person - doesn't mean I feel compelled to start a violent, harsh diatribe to highlight the fact though.

It would have been funnier if you had though.

>Did I?
>
>No, I didn't. I went to Haberdashers in Elstree actually, and no - Paul Kaye didn't go there.

apolgies are in order then.
that was secondhand information given by a friend who goes there. he shall be punished.

apolgies acceptd.