Celebrity Zed!

Whilst attempting to trace my interest in obscure celebrities I had always thought that it was my encounter a few years ago with Shahbaz - the self-proclaimed "Wacky Paki Poof" who was one of the instantly forgettable early casualties of the Big Brother house that year - outside the GU student union, which had first kicked it off:












When I say "encounter", I mean of course that I walked past this tall, mincing streak of piss and decided not to push him in front of the bus that happened to be hurtling by at the time.

I wonder if he realises how close to death he came.

Anyway, as I trawled through my blog archives I realised that an earlier incident on the other side of the world - baggage carousel number 5 at Vancouver Airport domestic terminal, to be exact - had actually sparked this slight obsession, the incident being wonderful in it's total and utter obscurity to myself:

I had met, and had failed to be impressed by, Jordan Staal of the NHL Draft:









Though I spun this at the time into a blog post that "hilariously" mixed up the word Jordan with other celebrities of the same name (a big-titted glamour-puss and a middle-eastern country, to be exact), the final words of the encounter were kind of funny on their own merit:

"Oh NHL - that's hockey right? Sorry, I'm British"

Not long after I arrived home, I then began to randomly spot obscure celebrities of a particularly Scottish kind, that only Glasgow is capable of serving up:












From top-left clockwise we have...

Rob McLean and Jim Delahunt (and his mum) - two over-enthusiastic sports broadcasters, both of whom are shortly about to lose their jobs once Setanta Sports channel finally dies it's horrible and protracted death.

Lionel Letizi - reserve goal-keeper for Glasgow Rangers

Wendy Alexander - obscure politician that briefly became Scotland's First Minister before being hounded out for some scandal or another

Tam Cowan - a fat git that thinks he's funny.

I revel in the fact that most of my readers will have no clue who these people are, though one reader did, and after idly chatting about the subject over a conference dinner not long afterwards, we both took to this mildly obsessive spotting game and have maintained it over the course of nigh on three years.

Throughout my last blog, I personally spotted:










John Gordon Sinclair - lanky ponce (actor).












Karen Dunbar - funny lesbian (comedienne).













Nicola Sturgeon - scary wench (politician).

And since my blog hiatus, between us we have spotted (again clockwise from top-left):









Gavin Mitchell, Brian Pettifer, Peter Mullan, Nacho Novo, Greg Hemphill, Iain McColl, Claire Grogan, Limmy and Carol Smillie

Though you'll have heard of some, I'm not going to even bother telling you who the rest are - that's all part of the fun.

But in this lexicon of lesser has-beens, one slightly-tarnished star shined brighter than all the rest...











He is of course Le BonBon.

But his spot is part of another story...