Celeb Spot

Have you spotted a celeb in Oxfordshire? We want to know!

Tell us when and where you spotted them by leaving us a message below.  Here's a list of other famous folk who call Oxfordshire home.


Lee from boyband Blue – spotted in David Lloyd, Cowley and Sainsbury's in Kidlington
Pam St Clements (Pat out of Eastenders) – spotted in Sainsbury's, Kidlington

Famous people who live or have lived in the county

Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear presenter, pictured above) – lives near Chipping Norton
Patrick Stewart (Actor) – Chipping Norton
Emma Watson
(Hermione in Harry Potter) – went to school in Oxford
Tim Henman (Tennis star) born in Weston-on-the-Green; lives near at Aston Tirrold, near Didcot
Sir Richard Branson (Entrepreneur) lives near Kidlington
Jay Kay
(singer, Jamiroquai) – lives at Horsenden, near Aylesbury
Philip Pullman
(author) – lives in Oxford
Rory Bremner (comedian) – lives in Oxfordshire
Rowan Atkinson
(star of Mr Bean and Blackadder) – lived in Waterperry
John Craven (former Newsround presenter) – lives near Banbury
Lord Michael Heseltine, (former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister) - lives at Thenford Manor near Banbury
Ruby Wax (comedienne) – lives near Burford
Liz Hurley (actress) – lives in the Cotswolds
Kate Moss (supermodel) – lives near Little Faringdon
Kate Winslet
(actress) – lives near Bourton-on-the-Water
Sam Mendes (director) – lives near Bourton-on-the-Water
Raymond Blanc (chef) – owns Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons at Great Milton and lives in Oxford
Colin Dexter (writer, Inspector Morse) – lives in Oxford
Pam Ayres (poet) – lives in the Cotswolds
Ben Kingsley (actor - played Ghandi) – lives near Chipping Norton
George Michael (singer) – has a house in Goring
Jeremy Irons, (actor) – lives in Watlington with wife Sinead Cusack
Sinead Cusack (actress) – lives in Watlington with husband Jeremy Irons
Supergrass (pop group) – went to Wheatley Park School
Radiohead (pop group) – went to Abingdon Boys School
Richie (from boyband Five) – lives in Witney
Hugh Laurie (actor) – born in Oxford
Carol Decker (from 80s group T’Pau) – lives in Henley
Uri Geller (spoon bender) – lives at Sonning, on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire bortder
Anthony Worrall-Thompson (chef) – lives alongside the Thames on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire border
Ruth Jones
(Gavin and Stacey) - coming out of the New Theatre Oxford on Saturday 20th March just after childish things 6