I typeset 1st edition of Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic.
Sworn at by Prince William; He was playing in a rugby 7's tournament, I had covered across to get to him,he passed the ball about a second(or 2)before I got him,but it seemed pointless to have wasted all that energy.Sixteen stone applied to his sternum with twenty yards to build up speed.Bosh...your highness.
My bosses, sisters, front garden was once in an episiode of 'Soldier Soldier'
Is that any good?
I almost crashed my car into Jeremy Iron's when I was driving down a track near his castle in Ireland to have a look.
Dame Kelly Holmes gave me 5 when I started the great north run a few years back
Once I was having dinner in the same restaurant as Ricky (Rickayyyyy) from Eastenders
and
One of my exboyfriend's little sister use to take drumming lessons from the drummer of Deep purple (that one's a bit far fetched)
otherwise, I'm french so of course I know Eric Cantona
I am Spartacus
Jim never Fixed It for me.
My art was never galleried on Vision On.
I never got on stage and appear on the telly on a Swap Shop roadshow.
(runs away and cries).
Went out with Samantha Morton (Minority Report, Morvern Caller)...
... at school aged 14.
duckman [i]almost[/i] FTW. but sounds like a bit of a low tackle. Should have just clotheslined the f*cker.
I was on challenge Anika when I was on a school trip to Shugborough hall.
I don't do claims to fame... my Dad, on the other hand, was a master at it (either that or a master of BS)
Was with Donald Campbell in the Lake District but had to fly back before the last run.
Blue Peter connection - used to play rugby with John Noakes (ok - I believe that one he had the photo evidence)
there were a few others, mostly Rugby related though.
Went to school with Team Pursuit Olympic Gold Medallist - Geraint Thomas
My girlfriends highly regarded documentary was on Channel 4 about an hour ago, we're both sat at home gassing and didn't know, so we've only just found out we missed it.
Oh also Chipps replied to a Tweet I sent to him! GASP!
I went fishing with Matthew Broderick and his dad, James (who stared in Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino).
I went school with a lad called Barclay whose family owned/founded the bank.
Am close friends with a lady called Bentley who's family owned/founded the car company.
My great-grandfather, Walter Crosweller, invented the hot and cold water mixer used in showers.
And my uncle Nigel wrote THE BOOK on slurry handling!
Once appeared on the legendary 90s game show 'You Bet', where Diane Youdale (aka Jet from Gladiators) accidentally punched me in the knackers.
Jet made contact with your testicles?
you are a very, very, very lucky man.
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My band performed on the Big Breakfast once.
Nobody really famous was on that day but Pamela Anderson had been on the day before. Gutted
I used to be a waiter at a chain resturant in Guildford and have served food to the following famous people -
Richard O'Brien - Nice guy and very unassuming.
Mike Rutherford - Misrible git.
Bonnie Langford - Pain in the ar$e. Wanted us to play a tape of her singing, the manager refused thank god
The father of a very good friend of my wife is/was the producer on A Touch of Frost and David Jason came to her wedding a couple of years ago. Needless to say she made very sure that him and the rest of the TV luvvies were sat at the other side of the room from us during the reception to avoid any potential embarrassments (we had lots of very obvious Del Boy type pranks/jokes planned too) 🙂
My ex girlfriend used to go out with Vernon Kaye, my Dads cousin played drums with the Shadows, I went to school with Leicestershire cricketer Ashley Wright (and beat up/ got beat up by his little brother, England Cricketer Luke Wright) I told the NME how the white stripes were related, Marilyn Manson gave me a bottle of water once and last year I shared a cig with Howard Marks, and it all went downhill from there. Also my wifes uncle is a founding member of expedia...
wow, never realised what a smug, celebrity hunting git I am. Sorry.
I ride a SS cyclocross bike with funny coloured wheels, can I still be allowed in the club?
I'm a [url= http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/henderson-toomanyblondes.htm ]muscle bound weights instructor[/url]... honed to physical perfection and unashamedly promiscuous. 😀
My mate raced Rob Warner in XC and beat him. I was watching and shouted kind words (read: abuse) at Warner whenever he passed me (about 1995).
I served Toadfish from Neoghbours a pizza when he was first in the show. And, I was in the 'Wolverhampton Boys Bonanza' section of Mizz Magazine in April 1991.
I've appeared on Hollyoaks in a band that headlined a festival. 😳
Supported Sqeeze on a national tour and supported Elvis Costello at Shepherds Bush Empire.
Know/ knew Andy Burrows (Razorlight drummer). Many a Friday night drunk in Winchester with him.
Ohh, and the cast from Last of the Summer Wine came in for a meal at the pub I used to work at many years ago (so the original cast - Nora, Foggy etc).
i helped Jeremy McGrath dry his pickup truck, which is not a euphemism, then was interviewed for TV in Rick Johnsons garage.... all on the same day.
My Sister stabbed Prince Edward
Honestly!
When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're [s]simonfbarnes[/s] Floella Benjamin!'.
My best man and his mates once met Bob Geldof (round about Sir Bob time) in Canterbury and rolled up to him declaiming 'You're Shakin' Stevens!' Sir Bob not very pleased, apparently.
I occaisonally work for a premier football managers wife.
My poor little nephew has a new class mate - the daughter of Kerry Katona. She's been declared bankrupt and had to take 2 of her children out of private school and they've ended up in the local state primary.
I sold a framed print of one of my landscape photos to Nigel Kennedy. And my brother-in-law is a distant cousin of Olivia Newton John.
A friend of mine once lent an umbrella to Ian MacAskill (he hadn't expected rain...)
Another time she used Brian Blessed as crowd control for a group photo (he got them herded together in no time apparently). She also has a story involving a Ferrari, 2000 oranges and Mikhail Gorbachev 😯
[i]When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're [s]simonfbarnes[/s] Floella Benjamin!'.[/i]
She was on Sarah Jane Adventures (Dr Who spinoff) last week! Looks exactly the same!
Worked in Tom Jones house, and sporty spice's house
and played pool with Magnus Backstedt, paris roubaix winner and won a few frames!
When she was about 9, Mrs F was told to f*** off by Floella Benjamin (presenter of Jackanory or something at the time), for saying 'You're [s]simonfbarnes[/s] Floella Benjamin!'.She was on Sarah Jane Adventures (Dr Who spinoff) last week! Looks exactly the same!
Weirdly, it turns out that she lived in the house opposite ours until about a year before we moved in.
She also has a story involving a Ferrari, 2000 oranges and Mikhail Gorbachev
are you married to Rowley Birkin?
Went to the same school as Bill Bailey - quite a few years earlier. Other famous old boy was Thomas De Quincey - author of "Confessions of an opium eater".
Illegitimate descendant of Parson Russell who bred the first Jack Russell terriers.
My uncle beat Brian Johnson at pool in a pub in Newcastle the night before he flew out to Oz for his audition with ACDC. He's very proud of it, and never fails to tell the story to anyone who doesn't already know.
Can I have another one? Had coffee with Alan Spence (author) in Edinburgh. He was teaching a creative writing course which my wife had attended at uni.....
Regularly chatted to the Wildcat Theatre Company cast (City Lights? Willie Melvin?) when my dad worked in the Beeb at Glasgow.
Finally, danced with Angela Rippon (newsreader) at a folk festival.
I once bumped into Nigella lawson on park street in bristle.
I also had a working lego windmill featured in the Lego Club magazine.
If you watch the Recycling song on cBeebies, I'm at the back of the bunch of cyclists with Josie Jump.
I once walked underneath the QEII
I was once Ronald McDonald's bodyguard.
Henry Rollins once bumped into me backstage at a gig and apologised to me.
The band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.
My sister was nanny to barry humphries kids, i have said goodnight to barry and peter cook whilst staying at barry's house in london, i have helped jeremy irons whilst working in retail in london, my mum went out with the blond guy from playaway before she met my dad, one of my old g/f was on romper room, i know the man who designed the orignal batman suit the moderm version that is he has one in his front room last time i was in his has,and he designed the self tightening and adjusting jacket for back to future films, I went to peter cooks memorial sevice with my stepson who had written to his widow and received an invatation on the way ome we sat next ben elton on the tube, i have lunch in the bbc's staff canteen, as i child i was looked after by a girl who became princess moona of a middle east nation she married the ruler
My name is in the credits for Thomas the Tank Engine.
Years ago I was at a bonfire night party at a mates house who had just been kicked out of harrow for smoking a splif in Harrow Woods, I was talking to a friend of his from school who standing around shivering he was saying he was re-acclimatizing to the weather in the UK as he had just come back from Operation Rally, inquiring to where he was from he said Kensington London and his name was Nick, my m8 later said it was Nick Windsor the Duke & Duchess of Kent's son, he later on in the year got in trouble for smoking a naughty substance in the grounds of Kensington Palace, Could of made a few bob telling the Tabloid who published the story about that. ( It wasn't an isolated incident.
Danced on a Table with Kid Creole in a London Wine bar..Corks off Oxford street. My sister went out with Christopher Reeves standing for Superman, and I went to his sister house which used to belong to Diane Dorrs, my sister also got asked out by Steve Gutenberg.
When I was about 7 we were on Holiday in Minorca and I got lost near a Bar/restaurant and some of the Band members from the Who were in their and looked after me until my parents came to find me.
Played a schoolboy in a Belle & Sebastian video.
Had the Strathclyde Police chopper out after me because someone thought I had a gun.
Keanu Reeves bought my sister breakfast.
Had an article published in [i]Broken Arrow[/i], the magazine of the Neil Young Appreciation Society. Hello? Are you still there...?
pace kinda quoted my slagging off of them on this forum as a reason they sold the fork business to dtswiss
I was interviewed live on Latvian national TV.
Yeah.
Oh go on then....I've been on 3 episodes of 'Prank Patrol'. All with speaking parts. Me'n'Barney are like that.
I once got John Simm to leave a message on the missus answer phone.
I know Craig Maclean, (great guy).
My God. What have I created?
As kids my mates and me used to p--s on noel edmunds head on saturday afternoons from the top of the oak tree near his house,
In 2000, 4 friends and me went on 'friends like these' and cleared them out, winning a holiday to mauritius and $500US each, thankyou fellow tax payers.
We also wound 'ant' up so much videoing him that his viens on his neck stood out, much to decs and our delight 😀 , decs nice ant's a ****..thats official
When I was a motorbike courier in London I nearly ran Linda McCartney over. Or I should say I crashed rather than hit the daft mare.
I got pissed with Andrew Titley at a mate's wedding last year.
I've stood in the same room as a working jet engine.
I've had a full on 10 page magazine cover feature on an internationally published Japanese Car Tuning Magazine.
Beaten a former world champ (Kevin Ashurst) off the next peg in a fishing match, was well chuffed with that.
Been told by Matt Lucas and his then alive "husband" to leave them alone while asking for his autograph in HMV, Time Square. Orrible fat bald little oik!
And erm know a girl who's played the pink oboe with ole robot dancer while his rather tasty missus was in LA with Beckhams bird shooting a tele programme.
My second cousin is Sam Salt who was the captain of HMS Sheffield in the falklands.
Slightly more cheerfully, I sort of know the daughter of Reg from welsh language enormo-soap Pobol y Cwm.
Been on the Lash with Brandon Block when he had a residency in Agia Napa in 2000.
Spilt Simon Le Bon's pint in a nightclub in Guernsey in the early 90's
Had a can of coke thrown at (to, but at sounds better) me by Morgan Freeman.
Had a drink with Richard Branson on his 2nd Island.
Natalie Imbruglia was at my birthday party a few weeks ago.
Got in the local rag a few years back after getting paid £28,500 for a weeks work whilst working as a labourer building a shopping centre in Inverness.
Office girl had put my hourly rate through as £591 instead of £5.91.
I gave most of it back.......
alex222 - MemberThe band I was in when I was 18 supported bad manners.
Bad Manners supported the band I was in when I was 30... 
Mum knew the Kennedys, she was sort of on the fringes. Swam with them when they visited Jamaica.
Married my dad, and whilst pregnant with me was an extra in Dr No, James Bond film. I've never received any royalties- nor spotted her in the film either.
We later moved to New York and on August 28, 1963 we went to Washington, to the Lincoln Memorial. I was there when Dr Martin Luther King gave what I believe to be one of the most powerful speaches of all time.
Learnt to walk on the Queen Mary, sailing to Southampton. Went on many of the Aldermaston marches, in the 60's. And again in the 80's.
My stepfather more or less synthesised cortisone.
Me and my bessie mate Justin are responsible for the salty vinegary 'fish and chips' crisp biscuit snack's name. Justin's dad worked in advertising and used to trial all sorts of stuff out on us. I seem to remember that 'chish and fips' was an alternative suggested.
Buggered up my ropework following a nasty dislocation at Tremadog, ending up with Jim Perrin untying more or less on the crux of the Itch slab. He wasn't very happy, and let me know about it.
Fell 600 feet in the Alps. Lived. Not a good day, but could have been a LOT worse.
Front cover of canoeing guide book. Pics of me in others too.
And then I had kids.
May you live in interesting times.
Oh yeah I've been on Romanian music tv DJing on a beach wearing a [i]keffiyah[/i] Yasser Arafat style 🙂
I also sometimes work with a guy who used to play keyboards in James. And my boss is that annoying one man band guy on the Mars Planets adverts in between episodes of Friends on E4.
I have a more tenuous one..... I used to be friends with the boy who is currently going out with Tim Kelletts daughter, the trumpet player from Simply Red (later formed a dance band called Olive too) and have blown his trumpet as well.........
I also have met the brother of the gamekeeper who's dad saw/went out with prince charles nanny when he was in high school.
beat that...
We were on the House Doctor 10 years ago (smelly dog house in South Leeds). Was interviewed on Stray FM for cycling to work (50miles) on Harrogate Car free day this year.
I beat Chipps in a downhill race.....
Mind you so did another 85 or so folk!
My wifes Dad was an original memeber of The Animals, when you hear house of the rising sun on the radio that's him playing, no royalties though 🙁
I threw up on Cliff Richard's breakfast table (I was 1 at the time...)
i know where rocketdog lives!
I was once phoned up at work by Johnny Dawes (the mad as a box o' frogs Sheffield climber feller). It was ever so slightly bizarre...
I once spoke to Peter Hook on the phone whilst Monaco were playing in the background.
I built the wheels Rob Warner rode to third place at Mont StAnne back in 95.
ive snogged Sarah Blackwood of 'Dubstar Fame'
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after a gig in southampton when i was in uni, i tried in vain to get her back to my stinking pit but she was having non of it. her excuse was they were leaving for th enext gig early in the morning.
i still cling to the sad memory of 'what could have been'.. 😉
also bought a pint for james dean bradfield (manics) in newport years ago, nice chap but i think i freaked him out when i started shouting manics lyrics at him, he never finished his pint
A guy who works near me, kinda developed Carbon Fiber.
I've fingered the Queen.
bigsi - Member
At college i dated a girl who had been out with one of the brothers from Bros.
The big sister of one of the first girls I snogged also went out with one of the brothers from Bros...
Snog, what a lovely word.
My great uncle kind of invented guerilla warfare and helped set up Israel. I like painting pictures and can now speak Swedish and nearly do wheelies.
Hmmm I feel outclassed some more from my past
Fought (wtf full contact) in the USA, HK & europe, toured for a few years in the 00's.
Appeared in 'tae kwon do' magazine
Tried to pull Danni Minogue in Brighton in 98 (The zap club I think). Was escorted away.