The Isle of Wight Festival 2021 has now officially been and gone – as have some of the famous faces who may have been lurking in the crowds…
With a star-studded lineup, the ‘best of British’ Festival made its return following its 2020 cancellation to the sound of Liam Gallagher, Snow Patrol, Becky Hill, and David Guetta. Joining the tens of thousands of music fans were a whole host of celebrity onlookers. Did you see any?
Joining her partner, Snow Patrol keyboard and guitar player Johnny McDaid, Friends actress Courteney Cox was spotted making friends on Saturday. Cox, best known as Monica from the nineties sitcom Friends, stopped to pose with fans whilst making her way through the Festival site.
Heading to the VIP area, Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp was spotted unwinding after going head to head with Lady Leshuur on the main stage as part of the new BBC show Rock of All Ages. The show has seen each of the stars form and mentor a band over the summer ahead of an Isle of Wight Festival appearance. There was no sign of Kemp’s famous son Roman though, who stayed in London ahead of another week of Capital FM breakfast shows.
This year’s Isle of Wight Festival was certainly newsworthy – which might explain why renowned TV news presenter Fiona Bruce was making her way around. Joining up with friend and television stalwart Penny Smith of GMTV fame, Bruce was spotted making the most of acts such as Tom Jones and Duran Duran. It’s probably a good job that Fiona doesn’t read the news on the early shift!
Wanna-be popstars may have descended on the Festival karaoke stage, but they probably weren’t anticipating performing in front of pop-royalty. Boyzone’s Ronan Keating – who now presents the breakfast show on Magic radio – surprised revellers with a rendition of Life is a Rollercoaster when he made a shock appearance at the tent on Saturday.
Another member of the Bauer radio empire and host of Hits Radio Breakfast, Fleur East, was also spotted doing her thing at this year’s Seaclose Park event. Joining other members of the radio world including presenters from Absolute Radio, X-Factor alumni Fleur took the time to take selfies with festival-goers before heading backstage to meet up with celeb pals.
Finally, he’s definitely hard to miss, both on the pitch and in person! Former England player and Festival regular Peter Crouch was spotted backstage. 6.5ft tall Crouch made the headlines at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2018 after being spotted in the moshpit during Kasabian’s performance.
Did you spot any other celebrities at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival? If you managed to get a selfie or a sneaky shot, we’d love to see them!
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The thing is does anyone really care…. not really. This is not proper news is it.
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So do you buy or read the CP then ?
Or any other news paper or watch ITV.
This is not your private Facebook page.
I, myself like your post,and find them entertaining, but you look a bit foolish coming out with comments like that.
If you want to have a dig at IE, why not ask them why comments don’t get posted/published, or removed or people banned etc. At the end of the day it is there news platform after all,and they can do what they want.
Hahaha well said editor! Best comment on here!!
Superb comment Ed!!
Freedom of speech I believe it’s called. A few thumbs up for this so I guess some people agree with me.
digby – making negative comments on a story that you say does not interest you, would be like someone going to watch a movie in a genre that does not interest them and then spendiing the whole movie, criticising it.
if you do not like something – pass on it and move on.
I believe people click on and comment on the many housing development stories that get published here. Most of the comments complain about it, and rightly so. So are you saying that people should only click on news reports about housing developments if they are pleased about it and agree with them?
I think you are missing the point mate or you are on a wind up. Only click on a story if you find it interesting,then agree or disagree.
Tis not rocket is it ? !!!!
Negative comments are the bread and butter of comments page. Negative is the “go to” state of population of iow generally if these pages are any reflection. Passed on from generation to generation and worn like a badge of pride. Very rare to have any positive comment to anything, however well deserving. (Watched a dvd about the coming of the railways to iow other day, headline was to effect, why do we need railway, horse and cart suffices and similar griping, and so it goes year after grinding year!!
Well said Ed! Made him look a right idiot – justifiably so!!
Slapped down by the editor, LMAO! 🙂 Well said Ed.
Why was Mat LaBlanc working at the festival? 😉 He’s has an excellent beard now.