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Mark Ramprakash and Tuffers were both international cricketers. Don't see why Gough would be considered more famous than either of them.
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I think all of the sporting figures are "known" globally but I don't know whether they are considered famous in other countries. In terms of recognition alone, the Spice Girl has to be up there. She's certainly a lot more famous than the Mis-Teeqer
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Mark Ramprakash and Tuffers were both international cricketers. Don't see why Gough would be considered more famous than either of them.
A bit like Rio Ferdinand is more famous than Gareth Barry. Both international footy players, but different levels of recognition within the sport. |
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Here's an interesting one...
Do a Google search on the names of SCD contestants and see how many hits you get on the whole web. Unofficially, Mark Foster is the most famous, with 20m hits. Emma Bunton gets 1.5 million, with a further 17.5m million as Baby Spice. Colin Jackson gets 7.5m hits. Tom Chambers 4m and Austin Healy 2.5m. The rest are nowhere! Given the potential for duplicate people with common names (and the names of famous sports cars) Baby Spice looks to be top of the pops! |
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Here's an interesting one...
Do a Google search on the names of SCD contestants and see how many hits you get on the whole web. Unofficially, Mark Foster is the most famous, with 20m hits. Emma Bunton gets 1.5 million, with a further 17.5m million as Baby Spice. Colin Jackson gets 7.5m hits. Tom Chambers 4m and Austin Healy 2.5m. The rest are nowhere! Given the potential for duplicate people with common names (and the names of famous sports cars) Baby Spice looks to be top of the pops! Mark Foster 411,000 Martina Hingis 819,000 Emma Bunton 1,020,000 + 178,000 for Baby Spice Peter Schmeichel 174,000 Colin Jackson 89,000 Tom Chambers 142,000 Austin Healey 827,000 (I removed results containing the word 'car') Interesting though...where's fancynancy? ![]() ![]()
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As I wrote in another thread, Kelly Brook gets way more Google hits than either Bunton or Hingis....make of that what you will.
I think Google is as good a method as any readily available...and generally much better than the kind of ridiculously biased thesis you tend to get in these threads...but ultimately it's a pub discussion question with no conclusive answer at the end of it. |
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LOL! Kelly Brook 2,540,000
![]() I've gone off the 'Google' method!
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Surely the amount of google hits is no indicator of "famousness"... All it shows is that there's a hell of a lot of stalkers and weirdos out there who like to create sites showing Kelly Brook not wearing much.
It's obvious that women will get more sites dedicated to them than men, and it's also obvious that more youthful women will have more sites than the older ones. This is because the dirty old men would much rather see pics of Ms Brook, than of someone arguably more famous, but with a few more saggy bits. |
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The Google method does at least provide a numerical measure of "fame".
Just because 99% of followers of Kelly Brook are perverts as opposed to Baby Spice's followers being music fans does not mean that Ms Brook is actually any less well known / famous than she is! The "discount fame with perverts" argument would certainly apply to an assessment of the most worthy SCD contestant.
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I think all of the sporting figures are "known" globally but I don't know whether they are considered famous in other countries. In terms of recognition alone, the Spice Girl has to be up there. She's certainly a lot more famous than the Mis-Teeqer
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Do a Google search on the names of SCD contestants and see how many hits you get on the whole web.
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I think the result is right, Baby Spice is the most famous but the figures on the others are can be affected by the fact that web is too expensive to access regularly for most parts of the world. Nobody other than those in UK will have heard of people on soaps or programs in the UK but since usage is so heavy in the UK people will seem more famous than they actually are.
An interesting if ultimately futile debate! |
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