Someone on here has a famous Dad

EKE_38BPM
EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
He has his own TV show and its about to start on Quest. He's got skillz.

Guess who it is?
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  • Zachariah
    Zachariah Posts: 782
    Someone here is the child of Dr Brian Cox? Wow!
  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Can we play if we saw the title before you edited it? ;-)
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    davis wrote:
    Can we play if we saw the title before you edited it? ;-)

    Ha ha. No, you can't.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Who!?
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  • SmellTheGlove
    SmellTheGlove Posts: 697
    Don't know about fathers, but I think Mary Queen of Shops might be SpeedKing's auntie.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    My Dad doesn't have to be famous for me to be proud of him. Just sayin'
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Wow! Your dad is T.J. Hooker!
  • pastey_boy
    pastey_boy Posts: 2,083
    i know one of the mods are the offspring of peter sutcliffe .
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    The name of the program is The Salvager. The Salvager's name is Rico Daniels and this is his picture:
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    Any guesses?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    The name of the program is The Salvager. The Salvager's name is Rico Daniels and this is his picture:
    Any guesses?

    Famous = somebody who's been heard of :lol:
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Yeah, maybe famous is the wrong word, but maybe The Salvager is famous in the circles of those who make their own furniture?
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    Hatbeard
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Jon Ginge.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,391
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Jon Ginge.

    Can't see the resemblance myself.
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    rjsterry wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Jon Ginge.

    Can't see the resemblance myself.

    Seriously D, wtf was your brain thinking when you thought that looks like Ginge... :D

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  • Monkeypump
    Monkeypump Posts: 1,528
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Yeah, maybe famous is the wrong word, but maybe The Salvager is famous in the circles of those who make their own furniture?

    Again, the words "minority interest" spring to mind...
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Monkeypump wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Yeah, maybe famous is the wrong word, but maybe The Salvager is famous in the circles of those who make their own furniture?

    Again, the words "minority interest" spring to mind...

    At what point is someone famous?

    Blog and Twitter thingy? - Check
    Facebook page made by a fan? - Check
    Wikipedia page? - Check
    National newspaper articles? Check
    TV show? Check
    Fathering someone on here? Check
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Quest TV Listings wrote:
    After finishing his boat, Rico constructs a trailer to tow it, made from an old van axle, steel channel and a sprinkler pipe posing as a tow bar.
    Quest TV Listings wrote:
    Rico Daniels uses wood and decorative metal to build a beautiful boiler cover - the ideal solution for covering up something bulky and unattractive.
    How many people that we call celebrity can do this?

    Kind of like a post-apocolyptic Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    kelsen wrote:
    Kind of like a post-apocolyptic Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

    :lol:
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    I've watched a couple of his shows and really enjoyed them - it's the sort of stuff I love to do. Not just furniture but just making stuff from stuff, brilliant fun and so satisfying to look at and say 'I made that' to yourself.
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  • jzed
    jzed Posts: 2,926
    kelsen wrote:
    Quest TV Listings wrote:
    Rico Daniels uses wood and decorative metal to build a beautiful boiler cover - the ideal solution for covering up something bulky and unattractive.

    Definitely Hatbeard - he covered up his pink bike.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    edited April 2011
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Yeah, maybe famous is the wrong word, but maybe The Salvager is famous in the circles of those who make their own furniture?

    Again, the words "minority interest" spring to mind...

    At what point is someone famous?

    Blog and Twitter thingy? - Check
    Facebook page made by a fan? - Check
    Wikipedia page? - Check
    National newspaper articles? Check
    TV show? Check
    Fathering someone on here? Check

    Sorry could you type louder, the sound of the bottom of the barrel being scraped through is deafening me. :wink:

    I think the point at which someone is famous needs more than this TBH, by this reckoning I'm ludicrously well known and had my dad lived into twit/fb/wiki times, you'd have him down as Sean Connery in his chosen field.
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    If that was my Dad I'd want to punch a few square in the face.

    Surely its subjective. As in, if you are not exposed or interested in subject matter then you won't know who that person is.

    For example Buju Banton is a star IMO, Skindred are famous but there are bound to be a fair few people on here who haven't a clue who I'm talking about.

    Still, there is no need to be hating a persons dad.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,391
    I think the worst someone has said is that they aren't actually that famous. Not really an insult is it? You could do a lot worse than 'post-apocalyptic Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen'.
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  • SimonAH
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    DonDaddyD wrote:
    If that was my Dad I'd want to punch a few square in the face.

    Surely its subjective. As in, if you are not exposed or interested in subject matter then you won't know who that person is.

    For example Buju Banton is a star IMO, Skindred are famous but there are bound to be a fair few people on here who haven't a clue who I'm talking about.

    Still, there is no need to be hating a persons dad.

    Balls to that. There are between 12 and 26 Bin Laden kids (according to the always reliable Wikipedia) and I will happliy say that I hate the dad of every one of the bleeders.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    SimonAH wrote:
    I've watched a couple of his shows and really enjoyed them - it's the sort of stuff I love to do. Not just furniture but just making stuff from stuff, brilliant fun and so satisfying to look at and say 'I made that' to yourself.

    what channel?
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  • hatbeard
    hatbeard Posts: 1,087
    A thread where opinion has split 50/50 down the middle with people disagreeing on bikeradar... whatever is the world coming to? :lol:

    yes that's my dad, fairly certain it's come up before.

    do I think he's 'famous' probably not in the tabloid sense of the word. but he does get 'spotted' whenever he's in the UK (it's happened lots when I've met up with him for beers) and at one point his show was the highest rated on the discovery home & leisure channel. if the economy hadn't have tanked after his second series I'm sure he'd be much more prevalent on tv than he is at the moment (there were plenty of meetings with the big 4 to do stuff on some very well known shows that sadly never came to fruition).

    To me (and him) he's just doing the same stuff he was doing before he lucked into a chance to film a couple of tv series. the guy on the screen is the guy he is in real life although he does seem to try not to talk with as gruff an essex accent as he normally does.

    to answer the person above Quest channel have bought the rights to his show now so you'll likely find him on there. sunday was 'salvager day' so not sure if they'll show them again so soon after but they'll definitely be on again.
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  • DonDaddyD
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    IlPrincipe?
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  • hatbeard
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    ???
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