Am I an idiot?

dmpoole said:
You are 21, why should you know?
So no you're not an idiot.
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Aside from that it has been mentioned a fair few times? You're right though, not knowing doesn't make anyone an idiot although given how often it was mentioned that Martin Kemp was in Spandau Ballet I'm still slightly surprised to find people who don't know.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Aside from that it has been mentioned a fair few times? You're right though, not knowing doesn't make anyone an idiot although given how often it was mentioned that Martin Kemp was in Spandau Ballet I'm still slightly surprised to find people who don't know.
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Do they actually mention it on Eastenders?
Where is it mentioned? - GMTV, Lorraine, Loose Women?
 
dmpoole said:
Do they actually mention it on Eastenders?
Where is it mentioned? - GMTV, Lorraine, Loose Women?
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In answer to the first question, rather obviously not - do they mention that Barbara Windsor was in the Carry On films? No and that's because it's a set of fictional characters so any links to the real actors/actresses previous history is irrelevant to the stories - you're doubtless well aware of this but if you're going to ask such a question...

When Martin Kemp joined Eastenders I remember a big deal was made of his musical past in the media - i.e. via print, TV and radio so it was pretty difficult to escape. If you're old enough to have watched him in Eastenders at the time he was active then you can probably also remember that it was in the news pretty regularly. If on the other hand you just watched the soap and paid no attention to the news at all then perhaps you could miss it.
 
semi-pro waster said:
When Martin Kemp joined Eastenders I remember a big deal was made of his musical past in the media - i.e. via print, TV and radio so it was pretty difficult to escape. If you're old enough to have watched him in Eastenders at the time he was active then you can probably also remember that it was in the news pretty regularly. If on the other hand you just watched the soap and paid no attention to the news at all then perhaps you could miss it.
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We could turn this around.
I have worked with Martin Kemp twice when I did the sound for his band in the very early days.
I obviously knew he was in The Krays and it's a film I would give 9/10.
I didn't know he was an actor in Eastenders because the last time Eastenders was on was about the first year it started and Den, Ange and Nick Cotton were in it.
I couldn't name one actor in it or who's been in it since the first year it started except for Barbara Windsor.
 
semi-pro waster said:
In answer to the first question, rather obviously not - do they mention that Barbara Windsor was in the Carry On films? No and that's because it's a set of fictional characters so any links to the real actors/actresses previous history is irrelevant to the stories - you're doubtless well aware of this but if you're going to ask such a question...

When Martin Kemp joined Eastenders I remember a big deal was made of his musical past in the media - i.e. via print, TV and radio so it was pretty difficult to escape. If you're old enough to have watched him in Eastenders at the time he was active then you can probably also remember that it was in the news pretty regularly. If on the other hand you just watched the soap and paid no attention to the news at all then perhaps you could miss it.
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this is the craziest thing i heard here in a while. we're talking about an actor who was in a band (which i've never heard of before this threaD) and also in eastenders!
 
I found this out a few years ago and it was a bit of a weird thing. Never really imagined him to have much talent , just another dodgy eastenders actor.
 
dmpoole said:
We could turn this around.
I have worked with Martin Kemp twice when I did the sound for his band in the very early days.
I obviously knew he was in The Krays and it's a film I would give 9/10.
I didn't know he was an actor in Eastenders because the last time Eastenders was on was about the first year it started and Den, Ange and Nick Cotton were in it.
I couldn't name one actor in it or who's been in it since the first year it started except for Barbara Windsor.
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Ok, so you apparently didn't know he was in Eastenders. Well done on avoiding certain elements of pop culture for this long.

Mammalian said:
this is the craziest thing i heard here in a while. we're talking about an actor who was in a band (which i've never heard of before this threaD) and also in eastenders!
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Maybe we've got different thresholds of crazy but I'm failing to see what's particularly contentious about what I've said. You may never have known the name of the band but I'd be surprised if you've never heard their songs before - however this thread it seems has an almost endless capacity to surprise with the level of peoples knowledge about certain things.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Ok, so you apparently didn't know he was in Eastenders. Well done on avoiding certain elements of pop culture for this long.
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Why do you think that I should know that Martin Kemp is in Eastenders?

The only soap I watch is Coronation Street and I do know that Keith Duffy was in Boyzone and that other bird was in an X-Factor/Pop Idol band of which the name escapes me.
Ken Barlow was also a member of Uriah Heep.
 
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