Croydon's finest - Telegraph Who would have thought that Croydon had such a tortured relationship with celebrity? Last month, the council was accused of shunning its best known daughter, Kate Moss, when choosing statues of local heroes to decorate a new cycleway. Yet even as the borough spurned Miss Moss - presumably on account of her lengthy history of bad behaviour - it attempted to lay claim to Lord Byron as a "talent nurtured by Croydon" when pressing its claims to city status. The connection turned out to be spurious - but since the poet's various debauches make today's celebrities seem positively clean-living, there is an obvious double standard. Croydon would be better advised to reject the world of stardust and scandal, and choose as its ambassador a resident whose only crime is an inability to understand a request for fork handles - namely, Ronnie Corbett.