I served Toadfish from Neoghbours a pizza when he was first in the show. And, I was in the 'Wolverhampton Boys Bonanza' section of Mizz Magazine in April 1991.
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What's your best claim to fame?
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I've appeared on Hollyoaks in a band that headlined a festival.
Supported Sqeeze on a national tour and supported Elvis Costello at Shepherds Bush Empire.
Know/ knew Andy Burrows (Razorlight drummer). Many a Friday night drunk in Winchester with him.Posted 2 years ago # -
Ohh, and the cast from Last of the Summer Wine came in for a meal at the pub I used to work at many years ago (so the original cast - Nora, Foggy etc).
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i helped Jeremy McGrath dry his pickup truck, which is not a euphemism, then was interviewed for TV in Rick Johnsons garage.... all on the same day.
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My Sister stabbed Prince Edward
Honestly!
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When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're
simonfbarnesFloella Benjamin!'.My best man and his mates once met Bob Geldof (round about Sir Bob time) in Canterbury and rolled up to him declaiming 'You're Shakin' Stevens!' Sir Bob not very pleased, apparently.
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I occaisonally work for a premier football managers wife.
My poor little nephew has a new class mate - the daughter of Kerry Katona. She's been declared bankrupt and had to take 2 of her children out of private school and they've ended up in the local state primary.
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I sold a framed print of one of my landscape photos to Nigel Kennedy. And my brother-in-law is a distant cousin of Olivia Newton John.
A friend of mine once lent an umbrella to Ian MacAskill (he hadn't expected rain...)
Another time she used Brian Blessed as crowd control for a group photo (he got them herded together in no time apparently). She also has a story involving a Ferrari, 2000 oranges and Mikhail Gorbachev
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When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're
simonfbarnesFloella Benjamin!'.She was on Sarah Jane Adventures (Dr Who spinoff) last week! Looks exactly the same!
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Worked in Tom Jones house, and sporty spice's house
and played pool with Magnus Backstedt, paris roubaix winner and won a few frames!
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When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're
simonfbarnesFloella Benjamin!'.She was on Sarah Jane Adventures (Dr Who spinoff) last week! Looks exactly the same!
Weirdly, it turns out that she lived in the house opposite ours until about a year before we moved in.
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She also has a story involving a Ferrari, 2000 oranges and Mikhail Gorbachev
are you married to Rowley Birkin?
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Went to the same school as Bill Bailey - quite a few years earlier. Other famous old boy was Thomas De Quincey - author of "Confessions of an opium eater".
Illegitimate descendant of Parson Russell who bred the first Jack Russell terriers.
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My uncle beat Brian Johnson at pool in a pub in Newcastle the night before he flew out to Oz for his audition with ACDC. He's very proud of it, and never fails to tell the story to anyone who doesn't already know.
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Can I have another one? Had coffee with Alan Spence (author) in Edinburgh. He was teaching a creative writing course which my wife had attended at uni.....
Regularly chatted to the Wildcat Theatre Company cast (City Lights? Willie Melvin?) when my dad worked in the Beeb at Glasgow.
Finally, danced with Angela Rippon (newsreader) at a folk festival.
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I once bumped into Nigella lawson on park street in bristle.
I also had a working lego windmill featured in the Lego Club magazine.
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If you watch the Recycling song on cBeebies, I'm at the back of the bunch of cyclists with Josie Jump.
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I once walked underneath the QEII
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I was once Ronald McDonald's bodyguard.
Henry Rollins once bumped into me backstage at a gig and apologised to me.
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The band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.
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My sister was nanny to barry humphries kids, i have said goodnight to barry and peter cook whilst staying at barry's house in london, i have helped jeremy irons whilst working in retail in london, my mum went out with the blond guy from playaway before she met my dad, one of my old g/f was on romper room, i know the man who designed the orignal batman suit the moderm version that is he has one in his front room last time i was in his has,and he designed the self tightening and adjusting jacket for back to future films, I went to peter cooks memorial sevice with my stepson who had written to his widow and received an invatation on the way ome we sat next ben elton on the tube, i have lunch in the bbc's staff canteen, as i child i was looked after by a girl who became princess moona of a middle east nation she married the ruler
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My name is in the credits for Thomas the Tank Engine.
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Years ago I was at a bonfire night party at a mates house who had just been kicked out of harrow for smoking a splif in Harrow Woods, I was talking to a friend of his from school who standing around shivering he was saying he was re-acclimatizing to the weather in the UK as he had just come back from Operation Rally, inquiring to where he was from he said Kensington London and his name was Nick, my m8 later said it was Nick Windsor the Duke & Duchess of Kent's son, he later on in the year got in trouble for smoking a naughty substance in the grounds of Kensington Palace, Could of made a few bob telling the Tabloid who published the story about that. ( It wasn't an isolated incident.
Danced on a Table with Kid Creole in a London Wine bar..Corks off Oxford street. My sister went out with Christopher Reeves standing for Superman, and I went to his sister house which used to belong to Diane Dorrs, my sister also got asked out by Steve Gutenberg.
When I was about 7 we were on Holiday in Minorca and I got lost near a Bar/restaurant and some of the Band members from the Who were in their and looked after me until my parents came to find me.
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Played a schoolboy in a Belle & Sebastian video.
Had the Strathclyde Police chopper out after me because someone thought I had a gun.
Keanu Reeves bought my sister breakfast.
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Had an article published in Broken Arrow, the magazine of the Neil Young Appreciation Society. Hello? Are you still there...?
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pace kinda quoted my slagging off of them on this forum as a reason they sold the fork business to dtswiss
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I was interviewed live on Latvian national TV.
Yeah.
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Oh go on then....I've been on 3 episodes of 'Prank Patrol'. All with speaking parts. Me'n'Barney are like that.
I once got John Simm to leave a message on the missus answer phone.
I know Craig Maclean, (great guy).Posted 2 years ago # -
My God. What have I created?
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As kids my mates and me used to p--s on noel edmunds head on saturday afternoons from the top of the oak tree near his house,
In 2000, 4 friends and me went on 'friends like these' and cleared them out, winning a holiday to mauritius and $500US each, thankyou fellow tax payers.
We also wound 'ant' up so much videoing him that his viens on his neck stood out, much to decs and our delight
, decs nice ant's a ****..thats official
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When I was a motorbike courier in London I nearly ran Linda McCartney over. Or I should say I crashed rather than hit the daft mare.
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I got pissed with Andrew Titley at a mate's wedding last year.
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I've stood in the same room as a working jet engine.
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I've had a full on 10 page magazine cover feature on an internationally published Japanese Car Tuning Magazine.
Beaten a former world champ (Kevin Ashurst) off the next peg in a fishing match, was well chuffed with that.
Been told by Matt Lucas and his then alive "husband" to leave them alone while asking for his autograph in HMV, Time Square. Orrible fat bald little oik!
And erm know a girl who's played the pink oboe with ole robot dancer while his rather tasty missus was in LA with Beckhams bird shooting a tele programme.
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My second cousin is Sam Salt who was the captain of HMS Sheffield in the falklands.
Slightly more cheerfully, I sort of know the daughter of Reg from welsh language enormo-soap Pobol y Cwm.
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