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What's your most tenuous claim to fame?
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I was rescued by Flipper the dolphin when I was 7 whilst in a dingy in pool in Stirling safari park, My mum recently told me it was not the same Flipper that was on the telly years ago, I was gutted!
Imposter!!!
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I used to live next door to the saxophonist from The Thompson Twins (when they were a 7-piece, and weren't famous.)
When I was photographing my first ever assignment back in 1989 I got into a slanging match with David Gedge from the wedding present.That really is very poor, isn't it?
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@GlynP: we have a winner, thread closed!
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Once nabbed Renee Zellweger's poolside sun lounger as she got up and left.
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I sold t-shirts for Sonic Youth & Mudhoney on 3 dates of their UK tour in the 90's and made a right **** of myself in the process. Told Kim that they sucked and didn't recognise the Vaselines when they dropped by... I did get to hangout with (cool rock chick listening to Neu) Suzanne though.
Also sold once for Dinosaur. Drank most of their rider too... They were very cool.
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my younger brothers Father in law owns the ostrich farm that backs onto JK house and chequers (pm's lazy place),and also lives there at riflerange hill farm kimble.
Mark webber moved in next to my friends dads pad in aston clinton in the summer and the 2005 indy car world champion dan wheldon used to 'mince' around the waterski centre were i worked in my twentys which was also owned by same my mates dad, freaky ? wheldons dad always had a pop at me when he had had a few too many, probrally because i told him his son was odd..!! still cant believe its the same guy ????
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Saw Roy Walkers knob in changing room at a swimming pool.
"say what you see"
"a tiny penis Roy!"
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Met Terry Gillam (monty python chap) Made furniture in his house.
Got a kiss from Joanna Lumley (16ish years ago!)
Wife did a degree in genetics with Sir Alec Jefreys (of dna finger printing fame)
Worked wit Paul Fox (from the Ruts - an old semi famous punk band - they're great!!)
Brother got chatted up by Francis Bacon (i think it was him) - boy did he run!! Ha Ha - still makes me chuckle - he got invited back to his too - HeeeHeee. BTW brother is twin & totally bats for the home side!Posted 2 years ago # -
Is spying on penises (peni?) a claim to fame. Sorry. In Roys defense - perhaps the water was cold.!!
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Once sat opposite the Tory MP Harvey Proctor and wished him 'good luck with the whips'
Was in the same class (primary and secondary) as Stephen Harris (of Iron Maiden)
Taught a girl who was in the Olympics for trampolining and currently teaching one who is being prepared to bounce in the next Olympics
Once walked past Prince Charles in the street and made a point of completely ignoring him (not that he's have noticed)Posted 2 years ago # -
I sat next to the drummer from Slade on a flight to Oslo.
I once gave the Queen a spade to plant a tree at my school(there's a joke in there somewhere).
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Was presented with an award for being 'Bolton Lego Builder of the Year' by David Prowse (Darth Vader) at Bolton Co-op when aged about 10.
Actually that really is a claim to fame, so this is in the wrong thread!
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Sir Norman Tebbitt once came into the petrol station i owned & i filled his Range Rover up. Didn't realise it was him till he gave me his credit card.
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I was mountainbiking just south of Machynlleth in a place called Artists Valley about 15 years ago and came to a farm with a strange looking chap sitting in the garden. Stopped to open a gate and he engaged me in conversation, nice day, where've you come from etc. He didn't look like your average farmer and a few days later I saw him on the telly,it was Jimmy Page, apparently Robert Plant still lives just up the road. Rock n roll or what? Just wish I'd recognised him at the time but would probably not known what to say.
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Stay two doors down from Ashely Judd's sister-in-law(Dario Franchitti's sister)!
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I once served Doctor Legg from Eastenders in a pub.
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My brother went to university with (and had a huge crush on) a girl who went on to marry Tom Baker's son
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My mum's cousin played a traffic warden in the bill once, and he was also in a british gas advert.
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Been mentioned in a couple of books.
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My dad lives really quite near Robert Smith from The Cure.
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I met the bloke that did the hand claps on Kool and the Gang's records once...
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Earliest memory actually.My mummy(well I was three!)said a beatle is in town(that would be John lennon of course),and I thought oh! - a creepy crawlie.Nothing new there then!
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Sat right behind Tony Robinson and his new young girlfriend at a Daniel Kitson comedy gig - they couldn't keep their hands off each other and it was quite distracting to see him groping her "whale-tail" which was showing rather too much!
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I ripped some fur off of Orinoco off the Wombles fame whilst they were opening a Co-op supermarket in the seventies round my way.
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Paul Whitehouse lives on the street next to me
Sir Tom Finney is my late grandad's second cousin
Jake from Hollyoaks came to my new year's eve partyPosted 2 years ago # -
Suzie Perry looked at my arse when I was riding on Cannock Chase (she was filming some piece about mountain biking on FTD)
When I approached she said something like "oh, environment" to the cameraman, and as I went past I looked back to see what was going on (I hadn't recognised her) and caught her eyeing my posterior with quite a lustful look in her eye(well, she may have been scowling.....). She was accompanied by a couple of chaps who were holding their front wheels up behind her in some sort of masculine display.
I wish I'd stopped and offered to hold mine up for her.......
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I was on Songs of Praise once, in a fleeting crowd shot. But weirdly everyone I know saw it, and said "Why were you in the crowd for Songs of Praise". "To get on the telly. Why were you watching Songs of Praise?"
And I met Glenn Michael once.
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my great uncle was Norman Wisdom's make-up man
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My dad's neighbour is the drummer off of Pink Floyd.
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When I was 17, the Queen left the room after I f@rted.
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Marin County, CaliI moved Andre Agassi's piano. He and Steffi Graf were home at the time, and Andre was very interested in how two guys could move something so heavy. He was very friendly. Meanwhile, Steffi was scrubbing the floor tiles near the front door of the $22 million house.
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I took Elizabeth Taylor's picture once for a private commission just after her wedding to Larry F. Handed over the film as part of the deal though.
I've worked on many TV programs, films and adverts as a stills photographer, so I've met many celebs; and shot them.Main claim to fame: I stood in for Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf) as his ar"e in "Rimmer's World" - series 6, I think.
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I am a (distant) relative of Priscilla Presley.. so am related by marriage to Elvis (and Michael Jackson when he was married to Elvis' daughter).
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Nonk - is that Inga the Winga ? In that case you mean Va'aiga Tuigamala.
I quite literally ran into David Lange (NZ Prime Minister at the time) at a bottle store in Wellington (the Western Park on Tinakori Road) when I was underage. That man could stop a bus ! He said "Good Evening Ladies".
Was kinda cool.
P.S The drinking age was 12 in NZ at that time, obviously.
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