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A friend of mine is often on TV and radio talking about engineering, sex robots and technology. She's absolutely ace.
Oh and I once shared an office with an ex-Monty Python. 😀
Held the door open for Arsene Wenger at a hotel in St Albans. And Ian Wright.
You held Ian Wright open for Arsene Wenger at a hotel? 😯
Do these football perverts know no bounds?
LOL!
🙂
Edit: A door. Not the back door.
Bought an EBay bike (a very nice S-Works Enduro) off this bloke a few years back. He's a Zoolander type, name of Simon Clark:
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Nice chap. Hilarious mid-Atlantic drawl for an accent. I picked up the bike from his house in a very smart bit of Surrey. I assumed he was a stockbroker or something, til the missus clocked him (she thought he was 'well fit').
Oh and I once went on a solitary date with Angel Coulby (Guinevere from King Arthur-based BBC TV show Merlin) through a popular internet dating service. Lovely friendly girl. I admitted I'd never watched Merlin, and she laughed and went 'oh I wouldn't bother, it's shit'
I sat next to John Peel in a curry house, & we discussed the menu. Years later we sat near to each other in another restaurant but didn't interact.
I was on a dive boat with mark Wingett who played DC Jim Carver on The Bill.
Rachel Atherton & I were appointed to British Cycling commissions at the same time. I've not met her though, and they didn't write an article about me for the BC web site.
Had a piss next to Jarvis Cocker in a venue in London
Gemma Arterton walked into me on the street in Paris
Stood outside a takeaway with Damon Albarn waiting for food awkwardly trying to pretend I didn't know who he was so we could have a normal chat
Bought Paul Heaton a pint as an apology for taping all of his albums
and my #1 D-list celeb encounter
Jilly Cooper was doing a book signing in Hatchards. She smiled as I walked up to her (there was no queue). Smile turned to distress/irritation/anger when, after asking me who I wanted the book made out to, I asked her to move so I could get at the books on the shelf behind her
[*]I was at school with Richard Hammond. [/*]
[*]I bumped into Mark Webber (literally) on the pit wall at Le Mans during the 24h a couple of years ago. [/*]
[*]I said "nice shoes" to Fernando Alonso as he walked up the grid at the 24h (the same year?). He smiled, but don't think he heard me. He was just doing a PR grin to everyone, I think. [/*]
[*]Luc Alphand accused me (wrongly) of taking his ski poles after lunch on an Atomic skis test day. He's quite tall, and clearly doesn't use anything like the same size poles as I do. [/*]