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  • What's your best claim to fame?
  • retro83
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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.

    StirlingCrispin
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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.

    69er
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    I once walked underneath the QEII

    TooTall
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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.

    alex222
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    The band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.

    handyman
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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

    slartybartfast
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    My name is in the credits for Thomas the Tank Engine.

    flippinheckler
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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.

    Rockplough
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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.

    StumpyRider
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    Had an article published in Broken Arrow, the magazine of the Neil Young Appreciation Society. Hello? Are you still there…?

    kimbers
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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

    ransos
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    I was interviewed live on Latvian national TV.

    Yeah.

    therealhoops
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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).

    brooess
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    My God. What have I created?

    skiboy
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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

    Pigface
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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.

    belgianbob
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    I got pissed with Andrew Titley at a mate's wedding last year.

    Rich_s
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    I've stood in the same room as a working jet engine.

    steve_b77
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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.

    julianwilson
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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.

    UncleFred
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    Been on the Lash with Brandon Block when he had a residency in Agia Napa in 2000.
    Spilt Simon Le Bon's pint in a nightclub in Guernsey in the early 90's
    Had a can of coke thrown at (to, but at sounds better) me by Morgan Freeman.
    Had a drink with Richard Branson on his 2nd Island.
    Natalie Imbruglia was at my birthday party a few weeks ago.

    bedmaker
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    Got in the local rag a few years back after getting paid £28,500 for a weeks work whilst working as a labourer building a shopping centre in Inverness.
    Office girl had put my hourly rate through as £591 instead of £5.91.
    I gave most of it back…….

    MrWoppit
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    alex222 – Member

    The band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.

    Bad Manners supported the band I was in when I was 30… :mrgreen:

    Ambrose
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    Mum knew the Kennedys, she was sort of on the fringes. Swam with them when they visited Jamaica.

    Married my dad, and whilst pregnant with me was an extra in Dr No, James Bond film. I've never received any royalties- nor spotted her in the film either.

    We later moved to New York and on August 28, 1963 we went to Washington, to the Lincoln Memorial. I was there when Dr Martin Luther King gave what I believe to be one of the most powerful speaches of all time.

    Learnt to walk on the Queen Mary, sailing to Southampton. Went on many of the Aldermaston marches, in the 60's. And again in the 80's.

    My stepfather more or less synthesised cortisone.

    Me and my bessie mate Justin are responsible for the salty vinegary 'fish and chips' crisp biscuit snack's name. Justin's dad worked in advertising and used to trial all sorts of stuff out on us. I seem to remember that 'chish and fips' was an alternative suggested.

    Buggered up my ropework following a nasty dislocation at Tremadog, ending up with Jim Perrin untying more or less on the crux of the Itch slab. He wasn't very happy, and let me know about it.

    Fell 600 feet in the Alps. Lived. Not a good day, but could have been a LOT worse.

    Front cover of canoeing guide book. Pics of me in others too.

    And then I had kids.

    May you live in interesting times.

    grumm
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    Oh yeah I've been on Romanian music tv DJing on a beach wearing a keffiyah Yasser Arafat style 🙂

    grumm
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    I also sometimes work with a guy who used to play keyboards in James. And my boss is that annoying one man band guy on the Mars Planets adverts in between episodes of Friends on E4.

    bikerbruce
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    I have a more tenuous one….. I used to be friends with the boy who is currently going out with Tim Kelletts daughter, the trumpet player from Simply Red (later formed a dance band called Olive too) and have blown his trumpet as well………
    I also have met the brother of the gamekeeper who's dad saw/went out with prince charles nanny when he was in high school.

    beat that…

    CHB
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    We were on the House Doctor 10 years ago (smelly dog house in South Leeds). Was interviewed on Stray FM for cycling to work (50miles) on Harrogate Car free day this year.

    Big-M
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    I beat Chipps in a downhill race…..

    Mind you so did another 85 or so folk!

    Amos
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    My wifes Dad was an original memeber of The Animals, when you hear house of the rising sun on the radio that's him playing, no royalties though 🙁

    matt_outandabout
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    I threw up on Cliff Richard's breakfast table (I was 1 at the time…)

    mtbmaff
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    i know where rocketdog lives!

    metalheart
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    I was once phoned up at work by Johnny Dawes (the mad as a box o' frogs Sheffield climber feller). It was ever so slightly bizarre…

    Andyhilton
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    I once spoke to Peter Hook on the phone whilst Monaco were playing in the background.

    Goz
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    I built the wheels Rob Warner rode to third place at Mont StAnne back in 95.

    monkey_boy
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    ive snogged Sarah Blackwood of 'Dubstar Fame'

    after a gig in southampton when i was in uni, i tried in vain to get her back to my stinking pit but she was having non of it. her excuse was they were leaving for th enext gig early in the morning.

    i still cling to the sad memory of 'what could have been'.. 😉

    also bought a pint for james dean bradfield (manics) in newport years ago, nice chap but i think i freaked him out when i started shouting manics lyrics at him, he never finished his pint

    LeeW
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    A guy who works near me, kinda developed Carbon Fiber.

    I've fingered the Queen.

    mogrim
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    At college i dated a girl who had been out with one of the brothers from Bros.

    The big sister of one of the first girls I snogged also went out with one of the brothers from Bros…

    Snog, what a lovely word.

    GEDA
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    My great uncle kind of invented guerilla warfare and helped set up Israel. I like painting pictures and can now speak Swedish and nearly do wheelies.

    DT78
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    Hmmm I feel outclassed some more from my past

    Fought (wtf full contact) in the USA, HK & europe, toured for a few years in the 00's.

    Appeared in 'tae kwon do' magazine

    Tried to pull Danni Minogue in Brighton in 98 (The zap club I think). Was escorted away.

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