Is Damon Albarn Mrs Mclusky from Grange Hill's son?

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Someone I work with just said this. I have to ask just in case it's true. Anyone, anyone?

― neil, Friday, 1 August 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

someone else tried to tell me he was Kevin Ayers son once!

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Damon's parents are Keith and Hazel Albarn.

The actress who played Mrs McCluskey was called Gwyneth Powell.

So.... no.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Bridget!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I hated Grange Hill.

All the time I was at college, whenever I walked past the local primary school, all these little kids would rush to the fence and yell "Gripper! Gripper! Gripper!" st em because I apparently looked like the character in the programme!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

also yr name is an anagram of "[gripper] stebson wart ore"!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

It seems unlikely to me that anagrams of Mr. Osborne's name figured in those kids' thinking, Mark.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to think it had more to do with my choice of haircut than anything else.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, if they'd actually known my name, I think they'd have been more likely to have called out "Stewpot! Stewpot! Stewpot!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I also experienced this problem when I was at Poly in Oxford (Wheatley) and I have subsequently wondered whether the little bastards shouting "Gripper!" at me might possibly have included the future members of Supergrass.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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Which one is Stewart "Eddie Snide" Osborne and which one is Norman "Gripper" Stebson?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually one of them's wearing a Killing Joke T-shirt, so that must be Alex In NYC

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

gripper, eh? Better than being called Ro-land or Pogo.

― Kim Tortoise, Friday, 1 August 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Having a bunch of schoolkids yelling "Trisha Yates!" every time I ventured past their playground wouldn't have been a bundle of laughs either I don't think.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ro-land = totally cool (cf the "i was off me f***in' swede when we sang "just say no" for nancy reagan in the whitehouse" story from a while back!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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"I was stood at the back right, completely off me fookin' 'ead, 'avin' it laaaaarge!"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got the Gallagher brothers' eyebrows and everything!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

he's funny i think a certain sunday tabloid said he was on a "mindbending cocktail of drugs" and that his life "spiralled out of control"...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

A mindbending cocktail of pies is far more likely I fear.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm.... pie cocktail

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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