True Facts About Chris Rea

[Seevio]

Chris Rea doesn't believe in the existence of Angela Rippon.

 

[rogerzilla]

Chris Rea won his red Fender Stratocaster in a bare-knuckle fight with Hank Marvin.

 

[Dirk]

Chris Rea is the secret love child of Charles Bronson and Celine Dion.

 

[Dogtrousers]

In a survey of British dentists 13% named Chris Rea as "the person I'd most like to pull all the teeth out of"

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea invented the food blender following a DIY accident with a disc cutter in his kitchen.

 

[Gwylan]

Chris Rea was one of the lesser known characters in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

Capt Haddock is based on him

 

[PeteXXX]

Chris Rea once (twice, actually) clambered over Isla St Clair.

 

[rogerzilla]

Chris Rea's Japanese fan club sells his used socks for 100,000 yen a pair. There is a rumour that most are actually fake, being sourced from Toyota assembly line workers with large feet for Japanese men.

 

[Drago]

When Chris Rea appeared as a contestant on Sale of the Century he successfully remembered every item on the conveyor belt.

 

[Dogtrousers]

When Chris Rea appeared as a contestant on Countdown he used his hypnotic powers to convince Richard Whiteley that gabforlip was a real word.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Chris Rea doesn't believe in the existence of Angela Rippon.

Which is unusual because Angela Rippon is a notorious Chris Rea denier

 

[Drago]

Chris Rea was Sir Patrick Moore's uncle.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Chris Rea invented rechargeable batteries. It’s said this is due his tight fisted nature.

 

[Paulus]

Chris Rea, through a big misunderstanding was once in the Girl Guides.

 

[DRM]

Birds Eye used Chris Rea as the inspiration for Captain Birdseye, after their fish buyer spotted him unloading the days catch from his trawler at Hartlepool Fish Quay