[Closed] Famous people on STW?

Team member in a Discovery Channel program called 'Thunder Races' . We converted a Manta GTE into a rally car .
Starred in C4 program 'Gerry's Big Decision' , which Sir Gerry Robinson toured businesses run by eejits , then gave them money.

Oh well, the original question is pretty much answered now. 😉 FWIW I believe that I'm in the Bond film, Dr No. My mum was an extra in a crowd scene. She was pregnant at the time.

Also, once we had moved from Jamaica to New York we visited Washington DC one weekend to see Dr Martin Luther King jnr give quite a famous speech: 'I have a dream '.

Needless to say, I have no recollection of these events whatsoever!

my Great Gran's cousin was notorious nazi sympathiser Walt Disney...true story!

Also once met Kenny Baker who played R2D2. He stopped his car to ask for directions, was clearly pished, did a u turn and smashed into a parked car. The drove off....

I was at a party with my wife when she gave Samuel L Jackson some advice on chocolates.
I wanted to ask if he had his bad mutha f**** wallet on him.
But I didn't.

I lent Mark Ronson a USB stick in a recording studio once.

Another unrelated time I did some ProTools/mixing work for Stuart Zender (ex-bassist from Jamiroquai).

Finally, Hugh Grant's bookshop assistant from Notting Hill once picked up my coat for me at Heathrow Airport.

Practically famous me.

My old music teacher was engaged to Annie Lennox when they were at University.

AND (as if that wasn't enough)

Julie Goodyear (aka Bet Lynch off of Corrie) is friends with my parents and I used to get lifts home from School off her in her MGB GT if she ever passed me on my way home from school.

Form an orderly queue for autographs please

(oh and I've been in a few Police documentaries... Anatomy of a crime (several times), Eyewitness etc...

Shouted wait for it run around at mike reid in marbella,

I have written quite a number of scientific papers on some boring obscure aspect of isotope geochemistry. So if you are equally sad, you may vaguely recognise my name, if i could be arsed telling you what it is.

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Ian Gillan stepped over me and shock his head is disdain while i was lying on the floor near Baker Street tube entrance sleeping off the excesses of a party sometime in the 80s

Was in the same class as Robson Green many years ago, he always was teachers pet in Drama, a lesson we all thought was a load of crap, just goes to show, later he joined the Air Training Corp were he was an arse as well.
Got to give the lad his due he's done better than all the rest of us in that class

Dexter Fletcher queue jumped me at Waitrose, unfortunately for him he barged between me and my girlfriend and (as he's about 5 foot tall), we just talked over his head until he asked if we'd like to stand next to each other.

Then aged 4 I was a page at the wedding o a very minor royal, I got up to the top of the aisle and thought "sod this, I'm off", tried to sprint out of there and got chased by Princes Anne and the then queen mum.

I have written quite a number of scientific papers on some boring obscure aspect of isotope geochemistry. So if you are equally sad, you may vaguely recognise my name, if i could be arsed telling you what it is.

Depending on what weird and obscure segment of your weird and wonderful field, there's a highly likely chance that I have. Basically, if it's anything to do with 13C, 15N and soils (and I also had a brief brush with lead isotopes once).

I suppose in that regard if anyone here researches soil they may well find they've had the misfortune of reading some of my missives in a journal.

I'm a world champion.

Who were you, then? I probably know the name, I saw Squeeze, and Costello loads of times, and even if I didn't see you supporting either, I expect I'd have heard of you.

I was in a band with the worst name even in the history of bands and thankfully nothing to do with me! We were called Babe Rainbow 😳

We toured with them in the mid nineties but I'd be surprised if you heard of us as we were unsigned. The bloody Stereophinics beat us to a record deal and we split soon after.

We had good connections though as Elvis Costello's managed was our drummers dad who was also Chris Diffords brother.

My dad's grandmother's cousin married one of Henry Ford's sons - seriously. She used to send ridiculously expensive items like oil paintings and lavish fur coats to them, in their tiny South Wales Valleys industrial town terraced house... Apparently the kids used to muck about with the stuff.

We thought it odd but subsequently figured out that they couldn't easily send money in those days so they were probably intended to sell them.

I fitted Craig Charles' Sky. He was alright, nice pad, lovely little daughter, everything else was a little peculiar...

[i]I once bought some goats from Russell Crowe's cousin[/i]

Winner!

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

You probably know Adrian, my dental technician, then?

On a mountain bike related one, I took some water from Joe Barnes at the 2nd round of the Irish Gravity Enduro last year. Nice fella.

FWIW I believe that I'm in the Bond film, Dr No. My mum was an extra in a crowd scene. She was pregnant at the time.

My old man's old man was art director on that. 😉

CaptainFlashheart - Member
Binners is in me.

😯

I forgot about the fact that I was in a film with Christian Slater and Marissa Tomei.

It's called 'Untamed Heart', and I'm the arm at the very back of the night club scene.

I got chatting to a pretty girl in the airport lounge in Vegas a few weeks ago. Till her husband turned up. 'Nice to meet you Nicholas Cage'. 😯

SaxonRider - One of the greatest arms on film IMO.

@ PMJ- we must be related! Hello Bro 🙂

Blatantly! 😉

I was 'on' treasure hunt with Anneka Rice when I was about 10. When I say on I mean we chased her and the film around on our bikes shouting. Mates with a fairly famous photographer who used to be a director for Maxim magazine, some of the parties were interesting. Still my favouritest encounter was buying/having a pint with Rob Howley and Warren Gatland last year in the Richmond Gate hotel. Really nice blokes even if I was a little star struck....

I did the smoke machine on Bon Jovi's "hey god" video

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My Mrs has been on East Enders amongst others

Minor league. Why do you ask?

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Wow! I frequent the same forum as Mr Woppit from criminally under rated The Sound.

the woman i sit next to at work has just mentioned that she's in the first harry potter film at the end, in the train station at hogworts.

My name is on the credits of American movies and UK tv series

I've been lied about in a national tabloid newspaper

I have snogged some famous(ish) people

I am not famous

As a baby, I puked on Cliff Richard 8)
As a child, I bought a budgeriegar off Big Daddy. 😕
As an adult, I have no claim to fames at all. 🙁

I once stood behind Dave Vanian in a phone queue. My proudest and greatest moment I think.

Anyone remember the Milkybar kid advert where he was at the circus?

No. Well, anyway. Some kids from our school were asked to go to the recording of it and be in the circus audience. At the end of the ad, everyone rushes the MB Kid and gets Milky Bars. For some reason, not one of us ended up in the final edit.....

Spent all day there and for our trouble, we got......1 Milky bar!!

Actually....I just remembered, we got filmed for evening TV at school - we had to climb ropes and stuff in the gym because they were interviewing our pillock of a PE teacher (he was a professional rugby player and a right idiot). I was on screen (in the background admittedly) for a whole second. Now that's true fame.

I think Gary Cooper was a cousin of my grandmnother as well.

Wow! I frequent the same forum as Mr Woppit from criminally under rated The Sound.

On a 6th form London trip we were descending the escalator when I spotted Dave Allen getting on at the bottom, in an overly loud whisper audible back in Yorkshire I said "Look, there's Dave Allen", we all looked and he fixed me with a look and an enigmatic smile all the way up, past and to the top of the escalator. I shrank about 3ft in the process and you could have fried an egg on my cheeks.

Was also taken to a motorbike championship race and introduced to this bloke in leathers, standing by his bike. My excited uncle grabbed the guys attention and as a way of introducing me to the rider, he said "You know who this is?" I looked at the bloke and my 10yr old self said "No!"
Sorry, Barry Sheene you were brilliant and I was clueless.

I once met lofty from it ain't half hot mum when I was cub scout, we made him a cup of tea. Also met Sia Furler several times and chatted to her as well, after or before her solo and Zero7 gigs, she would defo get it. 🙂

If its minor league you want. I once saw black lace at a skeg caravan park.

My school bag has been in a film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272747/

They used our school as a location, sadly I didn't make it on screen, but in the shots of the playground my bag is clearly visible.

a guy i worked with was serving leon haslam. He took his name for the database and said....."haslam...have you ever heard of ron haslam?".

"Yeah" came the reply. "it's my dad"

I used to train in joe calzaghe's fathers gym when joe was junior champion many years ago.
Once met Steve worland at cwmcarn doing a photo shoot .
I actually printed the cover of the official royal wedding programme ( Will and Kate's )
And today I met Rowan Sorrell at a presentation do for bike park Wales and a local cycle and stay project in Merthyr Tydfil , really nice guy too.

At least 2 people in this thread have claimed vicarious fame by quoting my name. So I must be famous.

My brother claims to have met Phil Lynott in a pub once. He still talks about it, regularly.

ononeorange - Member

My brother claims to have met Phil Lynott in a pub once. He still talks about it, regularly.

I frequent an internet forum which used to be used by a bloke who claimed his dad taught Phil Lynott how to play bass.

How awesome is that?