Celebrity Competition

[sp1814]

For Friday afternoon...what celebrity fact do you know that you think hardly anyone else knows?

I have two:

Telly Savalas (Kojak) was Jennifer Aniston's godfather.

Who can beat that?

[sp1814]

Oops...the second one is:

Elvis Costello's dad was the 'secret lemonade drinker' in the R Whites advert in the 70s.

Elvis actually appears as a band member in one of the ads too...

[rockyracoon]

I knew that :)

[rockyracoon]

The Kojak one, not the R Whites.

[weecalf]

Brian Rix' s sister was in Emerdale That rocked you back didn't it

[Zeuhl]

/Elvis Costello's dad was the 'secret lemonade drinker' in the R Whites advert in the 70s. /

He doesn't appear in the ads - that was Julian Chagrin

Ross McManus (Elvis's dad) provides the singing voice
Elvis provided the drums and backing vocals

[ChillDoubt]

The guy with the Arabian scimitar on the back of the ELO album 'Discovery' is Ray's policeman brother in Everybody Loves Raymond.

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/7200000/Everybody-Loves-Raymond-everybody-loves-raymond-7210762-1024-768.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ymM1w8iDXVY/S2IxC3APKlI/AAAAAAAABgM/2AJb11RwbcE/s640/ELO-Discovery-B%231.jpg

[cupid04]

Bob Holness played the first James Bond.

[aelmpvw]

clint eastwood is allergic to horses

[sp1814]

cupid04

That's brilliant...I actually knew that, but I'd forgotten it.

Zeuhl...yes, you're right. I shall withdraw that one as it's only partially correct (although Elvis did appear...)

[Zeuhl]

Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield and was the 'baby on the backseat' when her parents were killed

[Sipowicz]

Shane Warne hates spiders.

[DJHawkes]

Law & Order SVU's Mariska Hargitay was a passenger in the back seat of her mother's car when it crashed and killed her mother Jayne Mansfield.

In the 2010 re-make of True Grit, Josh Brolin played Tom Chaney, the muderer of Matty Ross's father, in the closing scenes of the movie, Matty as an adult was shown visiting a Wild West Show and speaking to Cole Younger, the person she refers to with him that she derides and is Frank James was played by James Brolin, Josh's father (also Mr Barbra Streisand)

[DJHawkes]

snap zeuhl lol

[baza]

Bob Holness did NOT play the saxophone on Baker Street.

[ummmm]

Lesley Crowther's daughter was married to Thin Lizzy.

(I think everyone knows that though)

[cupid04]

Noel Edmonds opened a record shop near where I lived!

[tiggerblue10]

Fergie (singer) did the voice for Sally in Charlie Brown.