17. Merseyside - Ken Dodd.
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18. Perth and Kinross - Fred MacAulay.
19. South Lanarkshire - Janet Brown.
20. City of Dundee - Rhona Cameron.
21. County Down - Patrick Kielty.
22. East Sussex - Max Miller.
23. West Sussex - Romesh Ranganathan.
Quote: Rood Eye @ 23rd January 2020, 1:14 PM22. East Sussex - Max Miller.
23. West Sussex - Romesh Ranganathan.
I am so glad you do East and West Sussex rather than Sussex which doesn't exist.
24. Rhod Gilbert - Carmarthenshire.
25. Harry Secombe - Swansea.
26. Lenny Henry - West Midlands.
27. Devon - Josh Widdecombe.
28. Isle of Anglesey - Dawn French.
Time for a very smug smiley:
29. Cumbria - Stan Laurel.
30. Isle of Wight - Sheila Hancock.
31. Staffordshire - Dave Gorman.
32. North Lanarkshire - Wee Jimmy Krankie.
33. Renfrewshire - Renee Houston.
34. Bristol - Russell Howard.
35. Essex - Rik Mayall.
36. Buckinghamshire - Al Murray.
37. County Antrim - Frank Carson.
38. Denbighshire - Nerys Hughes.
39. Rhondda Cynon Taf - Paul Whitehouse.
40. Dumfries and Galloway - John Laurie.
41. East Lothian - Gordon Kennedy.
42. City of Edinburgh - Rory Bremner.
43. Yorkshire, East Riding - Maureen Lipman.
44. Cheshire - Russ Abbot.
45. South Yorkshire - Charlie Williams.
46. Somerset - Bill Bailey.
47. Tyne and Wear - Ross Noble.
48. Nottinghamshire - Janine Duvitski.
49. West Yorkshire - Ernie Wise.
50. Bedfordshire - Ronnie Barker.
We are nearly half way there already.
This is the list of English Counties - the current ones are NOT in italics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom#England
If I may gently, I am going to alter Max Miller to City of Brighton and Hove. I didn't know it was a county either. What that means is that we will be needing a new one for East Sussex in due course.
51. Oxfordshire - Hugh Laurie.
52. Surrey - Harry Hill.
53. Cardiff - Griff Rhys Jones.
54. West Dunbartonshire - Kevin Bridges.
And now we are halfway through!