BNOC of the Year: Group 1

VOTE: Who’s your big name? Newcastle’s biggest, best and most contentious competition returns to The Tab


Nominations have been flooding in thick and fast. We wanted extreme popularity, oozing charisma and ineffable uniquity and that’s what we got.

Without any further ado, meet the first four nominations for The Tab‘s BNOC of the Year 2014, Group 1:

Lucy Pares

You will always find this girl on ozzy road on a Friday afternoon, taking at least 45 minutes to get a drink as she is  stopped by everybody that she knows.

As part of the OTC she is a fully-fledged member of the pinky ring brigade, and can be seen hitting up the bars with her artillery in tow. The dark horse of the competition. She isn’t flashy, just the gal everyone knows.

Her hobbies include downing bottles of Veuve Clicquot in the bath.

Tom Gillen

According to sources, he  is also known as the great latsby or the gashbine harvester.

Rugby lad and full time baller, Koos tends to be his hunting ground but you can also find him schweffing around the fourth floor of the Robbo around exam time or at CCTV  flaunting his dashing good looks in a black tie ensemble.

Jimmy Guan

Jimmy Guan, Jimmy Guan, Jimmy Jimmy Guan!

Jimmy is well known for many reasons. Often frequenting every bar in Newcastle, his illustrious dance moves have drawn bigger crowds than some of the club nights themselves. Being the Combined Honours social secretary, he has turned rather peaceful social gatherings into a thing of legend.

Yes, he is the lad from the boat doing Gangnam style.

Guy Coates

Commonly referred to as Newcastle’s version of a young Leonardo DiCaprio and back home as the ‘Prince of Harrogate’.

You’ll most commonly see him on the ground floor dance floor of TupTup on a Wednesday looking for a hot blonde to get his hands on or spitting bars, due to him being a proud founder of the six man ‘Jesmond Rap Collective’.

Girls fancy him, Guys want to be him. But will he get your vote?

But who’s the biggest name? Vote below: