[Closed] Famous people on STW?

I once interviewed Hot Chocolate for the BBC, they were cool.

Also interviewed the ABBA tribute band, but they were douche's.

Dad's been interviewed on Countryfile often enough to qualify for Celebrity Big Brother.

Performed on the Big Breakfast with my band numerous years ago.
There was no one interesting on that day, but rather annoyingly Pamela Anderson has been in the show the day before. Gutted

Was in the gym sauna the other day with one of the guys from Portishead and one of the Housemartins (who didn't seem to know each other).
Chaperoned Honor Blackman to a black tie charity event.
Had an article about me in the Sun.
Was distantly related to Prince William's godfather (Laurens Van Der Post).
Served the likes of Ian Botham, Alan Lamb and Geoff Boycott at a pub I worked at in Headingley.
Did a charity thing with Paddy Ashdown in which he offered to strip off his jacket and shirt and change into one of the T-Shirts promoting the particular campaign we were promoting.
Had tea in Worthy Farm with Michael and Jean Eavis.
Was on Grandstand - during a post match pitch invasion at Leeds Rugby League's Headingley ground.

I once snogged Lisa Stansfield in a Nottingham Nightclub back in the 80s...Keith Harris (of the Duck, Orville) is a family friend, my Brother in Law is good mates with Andre Nell (south African cricketer), and my little girl has been on Lazy Town Extra at Llandegla when I helped organise the MTB episode....

I once took Natalie Imbruglia's dog for walk.

I sat next to her in the audience of an episode of 'this is your life' filming.
Half way through the filming, she went green, was sick and had to leave.

My dog bit Bernie Ecclestone's dogs. And Gerri Halliwell's dog.

🙂

...and one of the Housemartins

I used to drink in the same place as Paul Heaton and once bought him a couple of pints explaining that it was instead of the royalties of the albums I'd pirated over the years. He didn't appreciate the gesture. He did drink the beers though.

As a kid I sat next to Richard Clayderman on a flight to Paris. The stewardess told me he was famous, but I didn't know who he was so I told him I'd seen someone ACTUALLY famous (those were the exact words) at check-in (it was Phil Collins). He was unimpressed.

Hats off to your dog Flashy! It sure knows who to go for 😀

As this thread is veering wildly away from the question, I'll drop my false modesty and let you know my real identity.

I've been an extra in Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Secret State.

And I'm currently moving diary entries around to allow me to accept another starring role as "background artiste" in another Emmerdale. Playing the role of "Hardware Staff Member" for which I will receive £75.09 (less the agent's 24% and after driving myself from Stafford to Leeds for a 7am start, and paying for my own diesel and meals.

Now that's glamour.

i've never hit a woman but that was probably the closest i have ever come to doing it.

So, you hit her but didn't consider her a woman OR didn't hit her because she was a woman??

i was walking through heathrow when i saw some midget jordan wannabe, then i saw peter andre.....

I once stopped son of noise from entering their own gig. oops.

to continue the randomness (and because i'm as un-famous as it's possible to-be)

Had a fight with one of the Brotherhood of Man (the one with the tash)
also had a fight with the singer from Babylon Zoo
Been on the lash with Brian Cox(he was proper trollied and lost his bag, wallet, keys...)
Finished a DJ set for Judge Jules (cos he was a little worse-for-wares)

and in honor of the previous mention of urinating in the blue peter garden, meeting one of the gang who vandalised it (who when I met him was Zodiac Mind Warp's tour manager)

I used to work with Steve Ogrizovich's brother
I worked with Lesley Crowther in a Bath Post Office
My Dad flew Jim Davidson to the Faulklands and was filmed doing an in flight refuel where Davidson cracked a joke about "where do I had the credit card to". My Dad keeps quiet about this.
I've been the support act to Bob Calvert
I've been in a film with Rod Hull
The ex-wife of Paul Fenuch from the Meteors was our secretary at work for a while
I am a candidate for after dinner speaker at the annual Tricycle Association dinner

I once had a sex romp with madonna, maradonna, nelson mandela and maggie fatcha.. they all still post here regularly

does that count?

Not read all that but, my claims to fame are:

* I'm listed on the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington#Media ]Wikipedia page for my home town[/url];
* I've been interviewed on 5Live, Irish national radio and the World Service;
* I've been in both the Guardian and The Times, plus various other newspapers;
* I used to teach Theo from Hurts.

And more tenuously:
* My mum went to school with Vic Reeves;
* My brother went to Beavers with a lad who beat his own mother to death with a wine bottle, and used to drink in the same pub as the Darlington Cannibal;
* I know the guy who was the Milk Race doctor;
* I used to be on first name terms with the chaplain at Eton, who attended Diana's funeral service as William and Harry were both there at the time;
* I was at uni with the lead singer of Bellowhead, but I didn't know him.

Was drinking with John Dunne (the climber) in Ambleside and we had to fend off a tramp (with knife) who started getting lairy.

Had my photo on The Big Breakfast in the sleeping drooler competition thing.

Well, I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen

Suprisingly today i found out me and the Mrs are going to be on the cover of Target MD, the magazine of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign.

This was taken at Parliment. So yes i'm famous...

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When about 5 or 6 i met bernard cribbins and aparently sat on both carrie fisher and michelle dotrices knee.... Uncle was a pastry chef for the queen...

Had a fight with one of the Brotherhood of Man (the one with the tash)
also had a fight with the singer from Babylon Zoo
Been on the lash with Brian Cox(he was proper trollied and lost his bag, wallet, keys...)
Finished a DJ set for Judge Jules (cos he was a little worse-for-wares)

and in honor of the previous mention of urinating in the blue peter garden, meeting one of the gang who vandalised it (who when I met him was Zodiac Mind Warp's tour manager)

WHY oh why do you never say these things on Tuesday Nights???? I might have hung around last time 😉

stood behind errol brown from hot chocolate on Saturday superstore.
saw Arnold schwarznegger at eraser premier in Paris.
walked past jarvis cocker also in Paris.
saw lance Armstrong go past on his bike also in Paris.
nearly walked into dexter fletcher on a Boris bike in London last month.
my wife's French family are related John pertwee of Dr who and worzel fame.
ooh and shook Paul kings hand of, king fame.
also caught morrisseys tambourine at winter gardens, boxers tour. not washed my hands since.

* I'm listed on the Wikipedia page for my home town;

I went camping in the Lakes a couple of years back with Tanni Grey-Thompson and her family, right good laugh.
Mrs is related to a former FA cup winning manager
The late MiL had a cousin who starred in Prisoner Cell Block H.

To answer the OP, I'd say we are all famous as were all well known in the world of [s]cycling[/s] bull$h77ing 😀

Deidre eh, yup twas I who mentioned it. As I said she is known as back door Deidre in some circles!

I've polished Paul Scholes' ring.

When I was 15.

...I put it in an ultrasonic bath in the office of the jewellers I worked in at the time, giving it a clean while the shop owner tried to extract more money from him.

But more seriously, I am a good friend of a gold medal winner at last year's olympics.

And my name has been in all the national papers in the last 18 months.

It's had me creased up again with laughter juan!

Been on the lash with Brian Cox(he was proper trollied and lost his bag, wallet, keys...)

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or Brian Cox

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I hope it's the first one

I'm often on Sky Sports....

I once nearly got beaten up by Ross Kemp's body guard in a pub in Brighton

Of my tits at the time, so went over to Ross and asking him to shout 'bollocks' into my phone because my flat mate loved it when he said it on Ultimate Force

I never got my recording - to be fair - i couldn't even see straight

In a similar state of being bolloxed, i once stopped Andy Sugden from Emmerdale getting too upset after my mate puked on his legs by a cigarette machine in a club in Manchester

He looked as boxed as we were

Paul Thomson from Roxy Music has drummed for me. Guitarist from Christians helped out on lead too.

Was mentioned on bbc news as several mountain rescue teams looked for me. Police suspected I had murdered my lass and gone to the hills to top myself. She was wild camping with me by the way. Genius policing.

My sister shagged someone from wet wet wet. Bit of departure for her having previously disappeared on tour with Korn and Panterra.

miketually - Member

Not read all that but, my claims to fame are:

* I'm listed on the Wikipedia page for my home town;

I've met him I still can't work out which one he is...... 😀

My sister shagged someone from wet wet wet.

Think Marty was something of a pork swordsman back in the day. I remember happening across a large crowd of girls outside a chic hotel in Exeter where the band were staying and a minder asking loudly if any girls would like to 'meet' him in his room...

She wasn't allowed near Marty as my mum had first dibs. Told her the only reason she had VIP tickets was because my sister was shacked up in hotel room with one of them. My mum's response was "I don't care I am meeting Marty". Still has the photo of them up on her house hugging and drinking bud. She did tell my dad she had only come back because Marty hadn't asked her to run away.

I argued with James May about The Who in geography class.

I was, for a few joyful hours, 'personal protection consultant' to Tom Baker. He briefly convinced me that in the 50's he invented the question mark 🙂

Met various members of Royalty (the Queen is TINY), various cyclists, celebrity chefs, Chris Bonnington, and nearly met Craig Charles in my local pub (Steve McDonalds stag-doo in Llangollen) a few years ago. I once bought some goats from Russell Crowe's cousin, have a signed photo of Grotbags somewhere, I know where Dennis Taylor (upside down glasses snooker player guy) lives, and finally, Derek Brockway (welsh weatherman) is taller than he looks on TV.

And my Aunty looks exactly like Deirdre Barlow - thanks for the mental image 😯

I met Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (I was working for TWA in lost and found that day, helping them find the baggage we lost). We actually talked for a good while and I felt pretty famous at the time (although lusting after Liz might not have made me too famous with Richard).

I once nearly got beaten up by Ross Kemp's body guard in a pub in Brighton

Of my tits at the time, so went over to Ross and asking him to shout 'bollocks' into my phone because my flat mate loved it when he said it on Ultimate Force

A mate worked on security in Afghanistan, he escorted Ross about when he did a tv series over there. He insisted that they called him Roger Kilo (phonetic alphabet). Right Ross, was the reply 😀

So basically the answer to the OP is a resounding "no" then?

So basically the answer to the OP is a resounding "no" then?

I'd say you can bet on that fact 😆

Was once in a film directed by the Hollywood director Mike Figgis.

It was the drama-documentary 'The Battle of Orgreave' in 2001 about the conflict at the Orgreave coking plant during the Miners Strike.

I played a miner, and had a close up screen shot and everything!

One of my jobs was to be throwing the (rubber) rocks at the advancing police lines..

..after i hit in ascending order :-

3) a camaraman
2)Mike Figgis' personal assistant
1)Mike Figgis himself

They took the bag of rocks off me... 😳

My mate Dave is / was guitarist in Sorry and the Sinatras. His mate is mates with Keefer Sutherland apparently.

My dad was briefly in a skiffle band with Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, and he knows Andy Partridge of XTC.

Oh and another bloke I know swears he was an extra in "Gladiator" but only his elbow survived the edit. Tenuous enough for this thread methinks.

I've been in a car with the Stig.

Mulletus Maximus - Member

Edit; I was also in a band and we we interviewed by Nick Knowles for a local news program. We were described as the 'M4 Sound' Same band also toured 3 times with Squeeze and supported Elvis Costello at Shepards Bush Empire.

I once went out with a DJ from 'Power FM' some 20+ years ago.

Bitch broke my heart.

Sean Connery bought me a pint 🙂

He was in Edinburgh to get presented with the key to the city
I was in the 'Auld Clachan' pub in Fountainbridge, with my Ex, when he walked in
Unbeknown to me was that the Ex's dad used to deliver milk with Sean when he lived round the corner
He recognised her, came over and we had a chat over a drink. Nice bloke
Very surreal encounter