Celebrity Connections
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Celebrity supporters include:
- Comedian Dominic Holland
- Ex-EastEnders actor Dean Gaffney
- Hollywood actor Jim Carrey
- Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz
- Sky Sports News presenter Natalie Sawyer
- Hard-Fi lead singer/guitarist Richard Archer
- The Bluetones guitarist Adam Devlin
- Status Quo bassist John 'Rhino' Edwards
- Author Robert Rankin
- The Who guitarist Pete Townshend
- Zatopeks-frontman Will DeNiro
- Yes keyboard player Rick Wakeman
Actor and comedian, Bradley Walsh was a professional at the club in the late 1970s but never made the first team squad.
Late Jazz Band Leader, Billy Cotton, who hosted the long-running Billy Cotton's Band Show on Radio and TV, played for Brentford as an amateur in his youth.
Singer/pop icon Rod Stewart is often reported to be a former player, but this is believed to be a myth. Stewart admitted to not have been signed by Brentford in a 1995 issue of Q Magazine, but possibly had trials in 1961 and left before being offered any 'deal' to stay on.
Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp was in the first team at Brentford in 1976 but only made one appearance.
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Famous quotes containing the words celebrity and/or connections:
“My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The conclusion suggested by these arguments might be called the paradox of theorizing. It asserts that if the terms and the general principles of a scientific theory serve their purpose, i. e., if they establish the definite connections among observable phenomena, then they can be dispensed with since any chain of laws and interpretive statements establishing such a connection should then be replaceable by a law which directly links observational antecedents to observational consequents.”
—C.G. (Carl Gustav)