Basildon
Nursing Homes near Basildon Essex
Approximate Population: 99,876
The Festival Leisure Park in Basildon is known as ‘Bas Vegas’ in popular street culture, mainly due to Big Brother winner Brian Belo (see ‘Notable People’) constantly referring to his home town using this name which was coined by the local website, Basildoneye.
Basildon has also been mentioned a few times in film and television, most notably in the film Love Actually, where one character states he lives there, On the Buses, where on many occasions references to Iris from Basildon was mentioned, EastEnders, where some characters frequently refer to moving there and They Think It’s All Over where Jonathan Ross stated that cricketer Nasser Hussain ‘lives in a flat above a chip shop in Basildon’.
Basildon was also mentioned in Russell Brand’s autobiography, My Booky Wook as he is from the neighbouring area Grays.and by on the BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans who, having read ‘Bas Vegas’ in a listener contribution, stated that he liked it.
