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Famous bankrupts, past & present

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  • rog2
    rog2 Posts: 11,650 Forumite
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    Walter_J wrote: »
    Thomas Chippendale - Furniture Maker

    And part-time 'erotic' male dancer. :confused:
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  • wherediditallgo
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    rog2 wrote: »
    And part-time 'erotic' male dancer. :confused:
    Do you think he was any good? I heard he was a bit wooden. :D

    Sorry, couldn't resist that one. :o
  • fermi
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    Do you think he was any good? I heard he was a bit wooden. :D

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  • JCS1
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    I really do have too much time on my hands...full a-z of american celebs

    http://www.!!!!!!.com/stars4/lists/bankruptcies.html

    Anyone else think Eddie the Eagle Edwards looks out of place with the others?
  • fermi
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    JCS1 wrote: »
    Anyone else thing Eddie the Eagle Edwards looks out of place with the others?

    I think he would look at bit out of place anywhere. But I know what you mean.;)
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  • fiveyearplan
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    Do you think he was any good? I heard he was a bit wooden. :D

    Sorry, couldn't resist that one. :o

    Which bit?:D

    :j :j


  • philnicandamy
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    bump_signs.jpg what the heck....for any newbies lurking :D:D
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    Are we all forgetting Del and Rodney trotter.. Of the highley sucessful Trotters Tndependent Traders!!:D
  • maxmycardagain
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    can someone do a fully edited concise list please...

    King Edward II - 14th century English king.
    (now discharged)

    Rembrandt 1606-1669 - the famous Dutch painter.
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, composer.

    Thomas Jefferson .
    Milton Hershey - founder of Hershey’s chocolate
    Walt Disney
    L. Frank Baum - He wrote the “Wizard of Oz”.
    Immanuel Nobel (father of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Peace Prize) - bankrupt twice.
    Henry John Heinz - condiment manufacturer.
    James Abbot McNeil Whistler - Artist
    Abraham Lincoln - American president
    Mark Twain - American author
    Oscar Wilde - poet and author
    Henry Ford – first two automobile companies failed.
    William Fox - co-founder of 20th Century Fox
    Charles Goodyear - inventor and tyre manufacturer
    Mickey Rooney - actor
    Lionel Bart - British composer
    Harry Saltzman - film producer of James Bond
    Isaac Hayes – Songwriter, composer, singer Soul Ltd.
    Larry King - talk-show host
    Tom Petty - rock star
    Cyndi Lauper - rock star
    Meat Loaf - rock star
    Mick Fleetwood - rock star
    Marvin Gaye - singer
    Andy Gibb - rock star
    Jerry Lee Lewis - Rock n’ Roll star
    Tammy Wynette - country music star
    Willie Nelson - rock star
    Kim Basinger - actress
    Gary Coleman - star of "Diff'rent Strokes"
    Burt Reynolds - actor
    Debbie Reynolds - actress
    MC Hammer - musician
    Natalie Cole - singer
    Toni Braxton - rock star
    Chaka Kahn - rock star
    Mike Tyson - boxer
    Chris Eubank - boxer
    Anna-Nicole Smith - Playboy centrefold
    Natalie Cole - singer
    Lynne Spears - mother of Britney
    Don Johnson - actor-producer
    Eddie "The Eagle" - ski jumper
    Heidi Fleiss

    Jackson family - first Michael's parents then some of the children -
    Tito,
    Jermaine,
    Randy and
    Rebbie.

    Michael is almost there

    Shane Ritchie AKA Alfie Moon !
    Bill Roache - Ken Barlow
    Adam Faith
    George Best
    Jonathan Aitken
    Neil Hamilton
    Richard Blackwood

    Jeffrey ARCHER
    Kieth FLOYD (Celebrity Chef)

    David Irving - historian
    David Van Day - ex Bucks Fizz singer
    Michael Barrymore - presenter
    Greg Martin - film producer (son of George Martin)
    Kevin Maxwell - Mirror pensions

    Donald Trump, (financier)
    Elton John, (singer/composer)
    Mike Tyson, (boxer)
    Mark Twain, (humorist)
    Burt Reynolds

    Darren Day -actor and serial skirt chaser
    Gary Glitter- sex offender
    Bill Roache- AKA Ken Barlow
    Rod Hull-made a living sticking his hand up a bird's a*se

    Simon Cowell
    Brian Harvey (E17)
    Lester Piggott
    Ken Dodd
    Charlene Tilton (aka Lucy Ewing from Dallas)
    Alex Higgins

    Chris Packham (from the Really Wild Show)
    Charles Ingram (The Who Wants to be a Millionaire cheat)
    Tracy Edwards (who skippered the first all-women crew around the world)
    Jane Griffiths (Former MP for Reading West)
    Ray Gosling (TV presenter )

    John Wayne Bobbit
    john gaunt on talk sport on the radio
    Now we all know how it felt to play in the band on the Titanic...
  • Flame7
    Flame7 Posts: 24 Forumite
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    Thanks for posting this, no wonder it was so easy when I presented my petition to the court - the judge will have taken one look at my occupation (musician) and thought "oh, another one" :D
    It seems bankruptcy is a bit of an occupational hazard.

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