Ross Kemp

1978, Aged 16, Walthamstow college   SIXTEEN YEARS young and fresh out of school. God it felt good to be alive. Pimple they called me. Das college was a bustling affair with many distractions. But to be honest the worst thing I ever tried was a Snickers Bar. No, my real passion happened one evening as I watched The Terminator for the first time. Seeing that hunk of Austrian might on the screen, I knew just what I wanted to be—BIG! [I was to meet my Austrian hero, Arnold, many years...Read Full Story

1972, Aged 12, Secondary school :   IT WAS ONLY in secondary school that I started to flourish. It was there that I began to act in some minor roles—Tom Thumb, Gullivers travels, Snow White, Streeb Grubling. I always got cast as the small guy, but God I loved it. There under the spotlight, the spotlight shining down on me I knew I belonged. The skills I learned there stayed with me the rest of my life, and were particularly useful in my later spell on the boards during the 1992 to 1993...Read Full Story

Life as Grant was never dull. During his time as the man the UK loved to hate the Falklands War veteran was accused of murder (Vic landlord Eddie Royle), spent time in prison and set fire to his home injuring his wife Sharon. He managed to lose his first wife after she had an affair with his brother, which he then followed by having an affair with her best friend Michelle, fathering her son Mark. After a tempestuous second marriage and the birth of a daughter Courtney, Grant watched as his...Read Full Story

MY NAME IS Ross Kemp and this is my life. Where do I start? No seriously where do I start? Gareth? F*cking hell, Gareth I need a hand here. Oi where’ve you gone? Gareth??!   It’s a minefield of choices this writing business. So many ways to skin a cat.   Inspiration. Its not an easy word to say. I am finding it hard to write. Perhaps I’ll have a sandwich and come back later.    Part1: The school years. 1966, Aged 6, Ilford, Kent   I am a man. Then I was a boy. 1966– I remember...Read Full Story

Romford i go shopping there sometimes this is a market town in essex just outside east london this is where i spotted Ross Kemp when he was a young actor in eastenders I was out side a charity shop  near the railway station and my wife was inside looking round i then saw him walking towards the shop I called my wife who watches eastenders and i thought she may have a chance to say hi to him she did not hear me but lots of other ladies did and spotted him then he then ran off round the corner...Read Full Story