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50% of the nation watches X Factor and Newcastles most famous celeb is in it. So I take it 90% of Geordies watch it.

No they don't, no they aren't. No, you shouldn't

 

X-Factor is aimed at morons, and it's no great surprise it's found it's mark with you.

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[edit] Famous people from Sunderland

 

Kate Adie Formerly Chief News Reporter for the BBC

The Rt. Hon. Hilary Armstrong MP Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion Minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, May 2006

Chris Beattie Actor best known for roles in Purely Belter and Byker Grove

George Bellamy Musician

The Venerable Bede (674–735)

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), colonial administrator

St Benedict Biscop (628?–690)

George Black (1857-1910) Film pioneer

PC Keith Blakelock (1945-1985) Police officer

James Bolam (1938–) Actor.

Mark Brydon One half of electro outfit Moloko.

Raich Carter (1914-1994) Footballer and Football Manager

Abel Chapman (1851–1929) was a Sunderland-born hunter-naturalist

William Reid Clanny (1770–1850) Inventor and Physician

Bernard Comrie (1947–), linguist

James Watson Corder (1868-1953) A historian who documented local family history

Sir Tom Cowie Entrepreneur and philanthropist

Jack Crawford (1775 - 1831) Naval hero.

Jean Cummings (1933-2009) Suffragist/matriarch

Terry Deary (1946–) Horrible Histories author

Sir Theodore Doxford, shipbuilder and politician

Mike Elliott Comedian, Actor, Radio Presenter

Russell Enoch Actor

Bryan Ferry English singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor

Muriel Foster Great Elgar contralto

The Futureheads indie-rock band

Eve Gallagher Singer

Robert Gammage Chartist

Peter Gibbs weather forecaster

Sir Edward Temperley Gourley, coalfitter, shipowner and politician

Edward Gregson composer

Jane Grigson celebrated cookery writer

Sir William Halcrow, civil engineer

Billy Hardy (1964–) Boxer Commonwealth featherweight champion.

Thomas Elliott Harrison Railway engineer

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857)

Jordan Henderson Premier League Footballer

James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight) (1916–1995) Veterinary surgeon and author

Melanie Hill (1962–) actress

Captain Richard Avery Hornsby An 18th century naval hero

George Burton Hunter Shipbuilder and innovator

Nat Jackley Comedian

Robert William "Bob" Jefferson (1882-????) Professional footballer

Tony Jeffries Boxer

Adam Johnson, footballer for Manchester City

Ernie Johnson Jockey won 1969 Epsom Derby

Kenickie, a 1990s pop band

Bobby Knoxall, comedian

Lauren Laverne, ex-Lead Singer of Kenickie, now a Radio and TV presenter[1]

John Lilburne 'Free-born John'. English civil war figure

Jez Lowe, Folk singer, songwriter and broadcaster

Gina McKee (1964–) actress 'Notting Hill', 'The Forsyte Saga'

Gibb McLaughlin (1884–1960) Actor, born George Gibb McLaughlin

Greg McLane Actor who played a leading role in Purely Belter

Civil engineer brothers Patrick Meik and Charles Meik

Sir William Mills Inventor of the Mills Bomb

Billy Morrison Professional Wrestler

Christine Norden (1924–1988) Actress, born Mary Lydia Thornton

Bob Paisley Football manager

David Parfitt Oscar winning film producer, Shakespeare in Love

Ross Pearson Mixed Martial Artist in the UFC

William Pile - Shipbuilder

Gareth Pugh (1981–) Fashion designer

Callum Keith Rennie (1960–) film and television actor

Denise Robertson Novelist and TV agony aunt

Maurice Roëves (1937–) actor

Clarkson Stanfield Painter

Dave Stewart (1952–) Musician (Eurythmics etc)

Mary Stewart Best-selling author

Joseph Swan Developer of the electric lightbulb

Tom Taylor Playwright and editor of Punch

Sir Luke Thompson, coal merchant and politician

Bobby Thompson Comedian - the 'Little Waster'

The Toy Dolls Punk Rock Band

Graham Wallas Author and academic

Harry Watts - shipyard worker and multiple life-saver

Bob Willis (1949–) Cricketer

Joseph Havelock Wilson Trade union leader, Liberal Party politician, and campaigner for the rights of merchant seamen

John Samuel Humble (b. 8 January 1956) Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer

 

[edit] Famous Sunderland residents

 

Charles Buchan - Footballer

Lewis Carroll - Writer, Alice in Wonderland

Frank Caws, architect

Sir William Herschel - Composer and astronomer. Discoverer of Uranus.

Charlie Hurley - Footballer

L. S. Lowry - Famous artist

Lola Montez - Adventuress

Chris Mullin - Civil liberty campaigner and MP.

William Paley - Rector of Bishopwearmouth. Famously wrote on intelligent design as opposed to evolution.

Frank Pick - Industrial designer

Len Shackleton - Footballer

Vivian Stanshall and his wife Ki Longfellow, found the Baltic Trader "Thekla" in Sunderland and sailed her to Bristol where she became the Old Profanity Showboat

1.^ Ellen, Barbara (2007-03-18). "Blonde ambition". Guardian Unlimited/The Observer (London). http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/stor...2036342,00.html. Retrieved 2007-05-30.

 

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50% of the nation watches X Factor and Newcastles most famous celeb is in it. So I take it 90% of Geordies watch it.

No they don't, no they aren't. No, you shouldn't

 

X-Factor is aimed at morons, and it's no great surprise it's found it's mark with you.

 

Fucking snob

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50% of the nation watches X Factor and Newcastles most famous celeb is in it. So I take it 90% of Geordies watch it.

No they don't, no they aren't. No, you shouldn't

 

X-Factor is aimed at morons, and it's no great surprise it's found it's mark with you.

 

Fucking snob

I'm right though, I used to live with a lass who worked for SiCo along with her boyfriend and they both made no bones about it. It's a product designed to make as much money as possible by fulfilling the lowest expectations of mindless consumers.

 

It's as bad as McDonalds.

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