Stroud Green Soap Stars

David

It's surreal. If it wasn't bad enough working in Covent Garden and regularly queuing up in Pret and Eat with ex-Eastenders working in the latest bad musical to hit the centre of town _(Lord of the Rings, anybody? cripes.)_, I go to Londis to get my usual paper, croissants this morning and ['Soap Veteran (sic)' Barbara Young](http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007050530,00.html) is standing there with similar paper and croissants.  It reminded me of getting on the W7 up Stroud Green and Scarlett Johnson aka Vicki Fowler sitting in the chair infront of me. We also saw her in Jacks buying some booze with what we guessed were her parents. She seemed very nice and polite.  It's all a bit confusing, you watch telly, go out and the telly is out on the street looking back at you. Its almost enough to start a Stroud Green Soap Star category on these forums.

Pete

<i>Vicki Fowler</i>

Would.

Lucy

who are these people?

andy

the one who looks like she's chewing a wasp? up your game young man.

petra

Lucy, have you never watched Family Affairs?

Lucy

what is family affairs? I'm not kidding. I really have to start watching British TV if I ever want to have any kind of acting career post drama school!

David

hang around Londis c.9.30am on a saturday pretending to pick up a paper and you can bump into Babs and get some tips on getting insde the Coronation Street/Eastenders network.

SimonB

If you wander into Crouch End and go to the M&S supermarket on a Sunday morning you can see all sorts of TV and soap actors ... Tamsin Outhwaite is probably the most famous person I've seen there

Four Eyes

Yes Simon. Muswell Hill M&S on a Sunday is also good for 'celeb' spotting. I've been in the queue with Michelle Collins and Tod Carty there which got me *marginally* excited...

David

Tasmin Outhwaite? Michelle Collins? Cripes, the Stroud Green soap stars definately need to up their game.

Four Eyes

Yep. Crouch End and Muswell Hill have got their fair share of Eastenders A-listers. Vicki Fowler's got some work to do.

andy

I've seen the bloke out of Travis a few times in Crouch End. I wouldn't recognise someone out of eastenders if they were chewing a wasp in front of me.

SimonB

I've seen Minty a couple of times in CE ... but my favourite spot was Gina McKee

andy

Ah - she's the one I saw in Banners and thought I knew. I didn't know i knew her off the telly.

David

myspace stroudgreenroad claims the bloke out of Razorlight eats in Nando's.

Liz

How about James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff in Tesco's on SGR? It was ages ago though - back when I still used to go to Tesco. Also Mariella Frostrup in CE pushing a buggy.

Pete

I once saw Gary Bushell in the Nandos in Canterbury.

When I told andy, he's only words were "chin him"

Ewan

I saw Anne-Marie duff walking up SGR road last summer. I gave her a big smile thinking she was a friend. she smiled back. then I realised who she was.

Also Vikram/Kas from corrie/shamless was drinking in the Larrick watching football in October.

Then last Sat, I walked past Joe McGann opposite the diary.

tosscat

I saw Joe McGann outside Woolies in CE the other day chatting on the phone about Neil Morrissey - he must be new to the area, I've never seen him before.
Of course everytime I go to CE I see the chap that used to be in the Bill but is now in those ubiquitous tissue/comic relief ads.
Dr Legg seems to be lying low these days - he used to be a fixture on the W3.

tosscat

It may not have been Joe McGann, but it was one of them, not Paul though - I'd recognise Paul.

andy

I don't know who anne marie duff is.

Busby1

This is all soooo thrilling. Isn't life wonderfull !!!!

andy

You cheery little sunbeam Busby! Where have you been hiding?

David

Come on Busby, lighten up, it can't all be history lessons on here.

Busby1

You're right: I remember how proud I was when the 'Scone Stone' was stolen from Westminster Abbey (I think!), this was about 1950. As the 'papers mentioned that it had been taken up Stroud Green Road on its journey back to Scotland - how about that then!

matt

I've seen John Simm on Ferme Park Road, one of the McGann's in Londis, some busty model from Beauty and the Geek on the W3 and in Woody's.

And Marianne from Make Me a Supermodel looking longingly at the menu in Los Guaduales.

andy

*Marianne from Make Me a Supermodel* Now come on. I've no idea who this person is, but I'll wager that there are people registered on this board more famous than that.

matt

If you'd seen her you'd remember her - stunning (IMHO) Swedish blonde.

<a href="http://www.five.tv/programmes/makemeasupermodel2/models/marianne/gallery/">http://www.five.tv/programmes/makemeasupermodel2/models/marianne/gallery/</a>;

David

Andy often refers to this look:

<img src="http://213.86.14.120/cms-media/2006-10-15/marianne_audition_head_600w-scaled-600-464.jpg" width="350" />

as "chewing a wasp".

matt

that was before she'd be trained up to walk as if she was constantly falling over.

Lucy

what does IMHO stand for?