True Facts About Chris Rea

[Mr Celine]

Chris Rea lives in Cape Town and drives a 1980s Lada.
Radio stations are not allowed to play Driving Home for Christmas until he has set out on his four week journey to Redcar.

 

[DRM]

Chris Rea was recently outed as Top Gears "Stig" after being caught speeding on the A19 in his Dacia Sandero, near to Ingleby Arncliffe, speaking in his defence, Jeremy Clarkson said he only crashed a couple of times in rehearsals, and that Some say he's only driving home for christmas, others that he's on the road to hell, all we know is he used to be The Stig!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Chris Rea is well known for his tireless work for charitable causes, but has admitted that as a child he used to put washers in the head of the little boy with a calliper on his leg outside the post office.

 

[Mr Celine]

Chris Rea spent time in a mental hospital suffering from a delusion that he was Napoleon.
His 1985 song Josephine was written during this period.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Rea invented the maths of Bitcoin back in 1985. But had to wait for the technology to catch up to implement it.

 

[Wixsteman]

Chris Rea once starred as a good guy in 1980s tv program Dempsey and Makepeace

 

[PeteXXX]

Chris Rea has never been seen in the same room as Chris de Burger

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea rear fell out with Beaker from the muppets, when he turned up to the studio drunk one day and thought Beaker was Ant McPartlin.

 

[stephec]

Chris Rea casts no shadow from the sun, and has no reflection in a mirror.

 

[Mr Celine]

The track Gone Fishing from the Auberge album inspired Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse to take up origami.

 

[Seevio]

Chris Rea briefly held the height and distance records for a space hopper bounce simultaneously

 

[Dogtrousers]

During the 1980s and 1990s Chris Rea worked as an occasional scriptwriter for The Archers. The episode when Eddie Grundy was sick in the piano at The Bull was his work.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The recently unveiled Chris Rea sculpture at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium has been slammed by the supporters club.
In a statement, the club said, "It is bad enough that it looks like Gary Neville, let alone that it cost £1.7 million."

 

[lazybloke]

Chris Rea's greatest musical success was the theme to TC gameshow "Blockbusters".
The debut performance to a crowd of 250,000 at Knebworth was nearly derailed by a persistent wasp that invaded the stage.

Repeated attempts by Chris to flap the wasp away resulted in the inadvertent creation of the Blockbusters hand jive.

 

[Drago]

It recently emerged that Chris Rea has been in a relationship with Ralf Schumacher.