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I once got a Hand Job from Edwina Curry!
Is that Chelmer Cycles?
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Yeah it is Chelmer Cycles.
The fella that owns Chelmer wouldn't allow Keith Flint test ride a bike till he'd run his card through the machine because he didn't like the look of him and thought he'd run off with it. He's been a good customer since and no longer has to swipe his card to test ride bikes.
Chris Kovarik called my DH bike "a sturdy beast" this summer. We atayed in the same accomodation as the CRC DH team for a week.
Chatted to East Bay Ray for 20 mins or so and got a pic taken with him too after the Dead Kennedys (mkII) played Manchester Academy a couple of years ago.
Stood next to David Gedge of the Wedding Present at a Chameleons gig at Leeds Warehouse in the mid eighties.
Jan Van Eijden was on the same Level 2 coaching course as me at Manchester Velodrome a few years ago. He was coaching the GB squad at the time, but the buggers still made him go through the same qualifications procedure as everyone else!!
Cynic-Al has slept on my settee.
Played scalextric with Sid Little.
I beat Alexander Vinokourov in a race.
Escorted Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) to a black tie ball in Bath.
Chuck Norris drops MY name.
yeah he went from uni into special effects for a few years whilst doing his architecture qualifications, he:
designed the background for the clangers
worked on the special effects for the original rollerball film, mainly the big tv screens (him and a buddy came up with the idea of using rear projection to make it look like they had giant tv's)
and off the back of his experience with rollerball screens he went on to design the massive video screen for that pink floyd concert with all the lazers (the giant circular one)
its not a win though cougar, i cant win through someone elses experiences.... i think RV's handjob from edwina curry has to be the winner?!
I met Eamonn Holmes outside Millenium Stadium & called him a fat useless c*nt
He near ate me
I met Richard Clayderman on a flight to Paris once (in economy)
I once stumbled up to prince William in a basement bar in Edinburgh as he stood leaning against a wall. I shook his hand and told him not to be concerned about the press as they were all ****ers. He responded with "Thank you very much"!
I still wonder why I wasn't wrestled to the ground by a security detail. I was too far gone to put up much of a fight.
In a place I used to work, I once had Dale Winton approach me with the line "Hi. I'm Dale." Oh, what could've been.....
In the same place I did enquire of Ewan McGregor as to the colour of his light-sabre. He dingied that one.
An ex of mine once got chatted up by Ernie Els during a Scottish Open, but given her past form (which I learned of [i]after[/i] we split) I can't be certain that we haven't 'holed on the same green'.
Robbie Coltrane once turned to me in the Clydebank branch of Halfords to ask a question about some component for his son's bike as we perused the same display. Can't recall the item, but I was constructive in my response.
There are more, but isn't this thread a bit more geared towards 'six degrees of separation' than plain name dropping?
Entertaining nonetheless.
my best mates adopted dad's best mate is now vice president of china
I had a row abotu air conditioning at work with the guy who used to play Danny Kendal in Grange Hill.
He gets about, doesn't he?
I saw Robbie Coltrane in the shop in my parents village.
I'm 3 handshakes away from Hitler.
Churchhill met Hitler in the 30's
My Grandad shook hands with Churchhill when he was awarded a medal
And my dad's shook hands with my Grandad.
I've shook hands with my Dad.
My dad met Richard Briars and had a pint with him once.
Oh and I once saw someone from Hollyoaks...my wife was more excited than me though and I didn't know who he was.
I saw Coltrane get out of his Jag on Forth St once, it rose quite a bit once relieved of his heft.
Oh and my wife looks like Zhang Ziyi...apparently.
Someone said she looked like her once, the only time I've seen the resemblance was when she was in Crouching Tiger and was sat in a huff on a horse.
I don't think lookalikes count though.
Once when we were on holiday in Turkey a family asked to get their picture taken with her...that might be because they had never seen a Chinese person before. Apparently I shouldn't have laughed while they took turns getting their picture taken with the Amazing Chinese Woman.
Jools Hollands Rhythm and Blues Orchestra supported my stepdads band.. and Mum was later seated on the same table as Jools Holland and John Cleese at a charity dinner..
I once very grumpily told Davina McCall to eff off when she came bursting cheerfully and enthusiastically into the waiting room of my favourite tattoo parlour while she was doing that 'Streetmates' gig in the mid '90s..
she eff'd off... swiftly.. looking crestfallen... I regret it now..
Oh and I once saw a Bentley on the M40...at the time I was convinced it was JK.
...but it could have been just your common or garden toff because the windows were tinted.
I don't think that counts at all.
Oooh! Oooh! My sister is mates with Jools Holland's guitarist and I've met him!
I used to work in Disneyland Paris and met a few 'slebs there.
In my first week, at Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, Damon Hill and his family sat in my section. All went well until the audience participation part of the show. An Indian from each ranch (Blue Moon, Gold Star, Red River, Green Mountain) carries a medicine ball to the back of the arena and then helps to pass it through the crowd to the front - first one back wins.
I was out in the arena collecting glasses and still being new didn't have the timings quite down yet. I'm standing in front of Hill with a full tray of glasses just as the Indian starts to run down my row. He gets to just in front of us, sees there is no way past me and turns back around. Damon and family never got to touch the ball. He still tipped me like, but not as much as the hot Swedish girl I was working with.
At my next job at a cocktail bar and restaurant over the way Ronan Keating and his wife had a table booked. However they turned up a bit early so just came in and sat at the bar. I served them a few drinks (him - JD, her - vodka) and had a nice chat. They went off and ate, tipping the waiter quite well. They were on the way out going down the stairs when I remarked, quietly, to another bartender how I was a little put out that they hadn't left anything at the bar (I was young and skint but not rude) when their minder ran back up the stairs and handed me a big note. Obviously I wasn't as discreet as I'd thought
Everyday 8) Just had lunch with a few 😉
I had a pee next to Sniffa from British Metal band Spider
fixed Mr Daniel Craigs' computer a couple of times about 9 years ago (around 'Our Friends in the North' era) - I was helping his Dad out with some business stuff at the time.
Both nice blokes.
I've been on stage with John Hurt, Prince Charles in the audience.
🙂
I went out with the younger sister of Miss UK and Mis World 85 runner-up
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I'm a distant relative of a former prime minister.
saw harry redknapp in the shell bay seafood restaurant in studland and called him a cheating tosser because portsmouth knocked the baggies out of the fa cup semi final with a handball a couple of years ago.
Andy Caddick is my 3rd cousin, didnt know until I did a job with him and we got chatting.
I spent most of an evening drinking with Colin Farrell when I was in LA a couple fo years back. Unfortunately I didn't know who he was and only guessed he might be important when he dragged me along to a new bar that was opening. There was a big long queue of people and I said I wasn't waiting for a beer. He said it wasn't a problem and walked to the front of the queue and took me past security straight to the bar.
He found it funny when I expressed surprise and said he must be a real actor but wouldn't tell me his name until we left the car at about 4am when he said 'Tell your mates you have drunk the night through with Colin Farrell'
I said 'Who is Colin Farrell' and he replied 'Google me!'. He is actually quite a nice bloke, his dad used to be a football player and that was what he originally wanted to do.
I went out with the Yorkshire Rippers sister.
WorldClassAccident - Member
I spent most of an evening drinking with Colin Farrell
That one will take some beating
I spent most of an evening drinking with Colin FarrellThat one will take some beating
Pah, I met the chuckle brothers in a pub in stourbridge
I was given the unfortunate job of personal protection to cobra from the gladiators. Still trying to figure that one out, a martial art expert needing a bodyguard? still the guy was a d**k
I once gave Mo Mowlam a massage. Had lunch with Murray Walker, Barry Norman and Anthony Worrel Thomson and a few others (not on the same day). Mo was lovely and Murray is the man. Worrel Thomson was as you might imagine. The funny thing was, he was on the Atkins diet at the time, so lunch didn't even make up for the company.
I once served burger and chips to the bloke who played Tosh Lynes off "The Bill" (the short fat bloke with the 'tache). He looked like he was having a really bad day, so we didn't make a fuss of him and gave him a bigger portion of chips.
Also, I was nearly run over by the boxer Errol "Bomber" Graham in Sheffield.
Sold a pack of AA batteries to Robert Lindsay of Citizen Smith and My Family fame. He looked bemused when I gave him his penny change, clearly not used to dealing in such small denominations.
Had various crappy Hardcore bands stay at my house in Germany in the early 90's, favourites were Cro Mags, Alice Donut and Youth of Today. Best one was Chumbawamba slowly arriving in dribs and drabs for breakfast to be greeted by me,hungover in my boxers in the kitchen asking if they really wanted beans on toast or could they just help themselves to cereals and coffee.
Philip Schofield tried to knob my girlfriend in the summer of 88 on his annual trip to Lochgoilhead for fishing.(he failed)
Served "Renee" from Allo Allo over here in Nz in a bar.
Was hitching on the M40 in the early 90s and saw a couple of footballers at a service station, exchanged a glance with a complete stranger who mouthed the words 'Chrissy Waddle?' inna fast show style. I lol'd.
Got called a slag by the bald fella out of Freakpower in Glasgow as i'd not gone to his gig.
I used to go on the lunch run to M&S with Kate Middleton. Luckily the paps didn't know there is a back way out the site.
She really is a lovely girl.
There are not nearly enough e-list tenuous links on here. I mean, Kate Middleton's ace! You want to be having lunch with someone way less cool. And philconsequence etc's excellent rawk connections need their own thread.
I squeezed my AX into a hedge to let Gary Wilmot past in a country lane once. Unfortunately he did not smile at me like this. The girlfriend I was in the car with at the time dumped me a week later. I feel Gary is somehow responsible for this.
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That sort of thing.
I've stuck sticky gel electrodes onto the hairy chests of Christopher Biggins and Andy from Blue Peter. My hands have been shown sticking on the sticky things to men's bare chests on BBC One at least twice!
Joe
Yeah, I thought it was BAD name-dropping, not actually quite decent name dropping (i.e. Colin Farrell).
I stood beside <13 inches> wayne rooney at the baggage carousel at manc airport. taller than i expected, but certainly carries the deviant look well. colleen looked tidy enough.
oh and as a youth I was man marked by lee dixon and scored twice.....
Anthony's brother, presumably?
Well it is "bad" name dropping.
And yes, I meant Anthony.
I spent most of an evening drinking with Colin Farrell
Pah! I once served Chas & Dave when I used to work behind a bar.
I choked Linda Lovelace.