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What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?

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Old 18-11-2008, 8:01 AM   #1
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What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
This year, Belfast is almost scraping the bottom of the barrel for it's Christmas Lights ceremony. Apart from the splendid Paralympics Gold Medallist Michael McKillop and Olympic Silver Medalist Wendy Houvenaghel, we have:

Olympic dummy-spitter and "I-don't-want-my-Bronze-Medal"list, Paddy Barnes
Hollyoaks actor Gerard McCarthy
Scooby Doo(?)
And last, but by every means least, last year's XFactor finalist and out-and-out weirdoes, Same Difference.

Can you top that for mediocrity?
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Old 18-11-2008, 8:33 AM   #2
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Our lights have already been switched on and it was someone called Chico - I've never heard of him (or her) !
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Steve McDonald, I nearly wet my pants when he flicked the switch..
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Ours are being switched on this Friday but the council website gives no clue to who might be doing it. My guess is that it will be somebody very cheap as all of the council's pocket money is tied up in Icelandic banks
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Old 18-11-2008, 9:28 AM   #5
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Well I never thought our town would top last years disy hight of PC Plum from Balamory, but they did! Nina from Nina and the Neurons. Wow!


...A few years back we had real celebs, thats right The Crankeys! couple of weird father son / husband wife cross dressing old lady midget freaks.
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Well I never thought our town would top last years disy hight of PC Plum from Balamory, but they did! Nina from Nina and the Neurons. Wow!


...A few years back we had real celebs, thats right The Crankeys! couple of weird father son / husband wife cross dressing old lady midget freaks.
HAHAHA
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Old 18-11-2008, 9:57 AM   #7
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
A few years ago, Bill Clinton was visiting Belfast as President of the US and he was asked to turn on the lights. But, Belfast Council being the progressive, forward thinking Council it is, was split on sectarian grounds with unionist councillors saying Clinton was too Nationalist-minded for their liking. So it was agreed there would be two switch-ons, one by Clinton and one by the Power Rangers. The mind boggles.
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
We're getting the head boy and girl from a local school

The council says they usually get a celebrity but this year they thought it would be good to get young people involved...
Or in other words "we're cheap *****".
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...A few years back we had real celebs, thats right The Crankeys! couple of weird father son / husband wife cross dressing old lady midget freaks.
If you fancy Janette Krankie are you straight, gay or a paedo?
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Lemar switched them on with John Barrowman, and Alesha Dixon.

Christmas Lights Switch On - 8 November 2008

Actually called 'Christmas Lights' as well.
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Old 18-11-2008, 10:23 AM   #11
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
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Lemar switched them on with John Barrowman, and Alesha Dixon.

Christmas Lights Switch On - 8 November 2008

Actually called 'Christmas Lights' as well.
I went to that it was so busy, wet and cold.
I wasn't paying that much attention to the stage as we got there so late we couldn't get anywhere near it to see or really hear what was going on over all the rides and drunk kids.
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Old 18-11-2008, 10:24 AM   #12
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
YEAH, THE SUGABABES , oh, sorry that was Oxford Street. I think the Oxford City ones were turned on by an automatic timeswitch

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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Robin Cousins, the former Olympic ice skater & Dancing on Ice judge.
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If you fancy Janette Krankie are you straight, gay or a paedo?
blind probably
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Hi,

I think Nina, (actress Katrina Bryan) from "Nina And The Neurons" ain't that bad, really. Certainly in comparison to The Krankies....

Sadly, no one at all remotely famous, is turning our local Chrimbo lights on.


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Dennis the menace!
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
I dont know who's switching our lights on, but I will have to have a look as they are going to try and break the guinness record for most santas in one place. Liverpool hold the record for just over 3,900. They are trying to get 5000 together.

Should be quite surreal
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I will have to have a look as they are going to try and break the guinness record for most santas in one place. Liverpool hold the record for just over 3,900. They are trying to get 5000 together.

Should be quite surreal
How do you explain that to your children? Do you pick one out and say that's the real one and the others are his helpers?
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
The kids will be dressed up as well.

You send off your form with payment £10 for adults, £5 for kids and they send you details and a santa outfit.
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I dont know who's switching our lights on, but I will have to have a look as they are going to try and break the guinness record for most santas in one place. Liverpool hold the record for just over 3,900. They are trying to get 5000 together.

Should be quite surreal
13,000 gathered in L/Derry last year, so they will need to do better than 5,000 World record for most Santa's in one place (From PA Photos)

Must be one of the largest gatherings we have had in this country that didn't end in a riot lol...
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The kids will be dressed up as well.

You send off your form with payment £10 for adults, £5 for kids and they send you details and a santa outfit.
Sounds like a bargain, are you going to do it?
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Re: What "Celebrity" is switching your town's lights on this year?
Have'nt made my mind up yet. It may sound a bargain, but i'm not sure about the outfit. Probably consists of 3 red binbags and a bag of cotton wool for the beard.
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Old 18-11-2008, 8:41 PM   #23
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Here in sunny Solihull we have the inimitable Sponge Bob Square Pants
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In sunny Walsall, the Xmas lights are being switched on next Thursday by Eleanor Simmonds, the swimmer from Walsall who won 2 gold medals at the Paralympic games. It's a bit better than 3 years ago, it was Paul Merson back them
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