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Once sat opposite the Tory MP Harvey Proctor and wished him 'good luck with the whips'
Was in the same class (primary and secondary) as Stephen Harris (of Iron Maiden)
Taught a girl who was in the Olympics for trampolining and currently teaching one who is being prepared to bounce in the next Olympics
Once walked past Prince Charles in the street and made a point of completely ignoring him (not that he's have noticed)
I sat next to the drummer from Slade on a flight to Oslo.
I once gave the Queen a spade to plant a tree at my school(there's a joke in there somewhere).
Was presented with an award for being 'Bolton Lego Builder of the Year' by David Prowse (Darth Vader) at Bolton Co-op when aged about 10.
Actually that really is a claim to fame, so this is in the wrong thread!
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Sir Norman Tebbitt once came into the petrol station i owned & i filled his Range Rover up. Didn't realise it was him till he gave me his credit card.
& I was an extra on Emmerdale.
I was mountainbiking just south of Machynlleth in a place called Artists Valley about 15 years ago and came to a farm with a strange looking chap sitting in the garden. Stopped to open a gate and he engaged me in conversation, nice day, where've you come from etc. He didn't look like your average farmer and a few days later I saw him on the telly,it was Jimmy Page, apparently Robert Plant still lives just up the road. Rock n roll or what? Just wish I'd recognised him at the time but would probably not known what to say.
Stay two doors down from Ashely Judd's sister-in-law(Dario Franchitti's sister)!
I once served Doctor Legg from Eastenders in a pub.
My brother went to university with (and had a huge crush on) a girl who went on to marry Tom Baker's son
My mum's cousin played a traffic warden in the bill once, and he was also in a british gas advert.
Been mentioned in a couple of books.
My dad lives really quite near Robert Smith from The Cure.
I met the bloke that did the hand claps on Kool and the Gang's records once...
Earliest memory actually.My mummy(well I was three!)said a beatle is in town(that would be John lennon of course),and I thought oh! - a creepy crawlie.Nothing new there then!
Sat right behind Tony Robinson and his new young girlfriend at a Daniel Kitson comedy gig - they couldn't keep their hands off each other and it was quite distracting to see him groping her "whale-tail" which was showing rather too much!
I ripped some fur off of Orinoco off the Wombles fame whilst they were opening a Co-op supermarket in the seventies round my way.
Paul Whitehouse lives on the street next to me
Sir Tom Finney is my late grandad's second cousin
Jake from Hollyoaks came to my new year's eve party
Suzie Perry looked at my arse when I was riding on Cannock Chase (she was filming some piece about mountain biking on FTD)
When I approached she said something like "oh, environment" to the cameraman, and as I went past I looked back to see what was going on (I hadn't recognised her) and caught her eyeing my posterior with quite a lustful look in her eye(well, she may have been scowling.....). She was accompanied by a couple of chaps who were holding their front wheels up behind her in some sort of masculine display.
I wish I'd stopped and offered to hold mine up for her.......
I was on Songs of Praise once, in a fleeting crowd shot. But weirdly everyone I know saw it, and said "Why were you in the crowd for Songs of Praise". "To get on the telly. Why were you watching Songs of Praise?"
And I met Glenn Michael once.
my great uncle was Norman Wisdom's make-up man
My dad's neighbour is the drummer off of Pink Floyd.
When I was 17, the Queen left the room after I f@rted.
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I moved Andre Agassi's piano. He and Steffi Graf were home at the time, and Andre was very interested in how two guys could move something so heavy. He was very friendly. Meanwhile, Steffi was scrubbing the floor tiles near the front door of the $22 million house.
I took Elizabeth Taylor's picture once for a private commission just after her wedding to Larry F. Handed over the film as part of the deal though.
I've worked on many TV programs, films and adverts as a stills photographer, so I've met many celebs; and shot them.
Main claim to fame: I stood in for Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf) as his ar"e in "Rimmer's World" - series 6, I think.
I am a (distant) relative of Priscilla Presley.. so am related by marriage to Elvis (and Michael Jackson when he was married to Elvis' daughter).
Nonk - is that Inga the Winga ? In that case you mean Va'aiga Tuigamala.
I quite literally ran into David Lange (NZ Prime Minister at the time) at a bottle store in Wellington (the Western Park on Tinakori Road) when I was underage. That man could stop a bus ! He said "Good Evening Ladies".
Was kinda cool.
P.S The drinking age was 12 in NZ at that time, obviously.
As a teenager I worked in a garage where will filled the punters cars for them and Jimmy Greaves used to stop by every Saturday on his way home from doing the Saint & Greavsey show.
That irritating woman (can't remember her name) who impersonated teh Queen used to come in as well. She was rude, arrogant and thought she was royalty herself. A right stuck up cow.
I also, once did the lights for Paul Di'Anno (original singer with Iron Maiden) gig
A few relatives were extras in 'Highlander' when filming at Eilean Donan castle, being peasants - they got the job as no make up / costume required 🙂
They also employed as many bearded men as they could get.
I shared a shower with Nigel Clough 😳
i met larry lloyd, liverpool player, at a hotel in tenerife in 1976ish,and he signed my flip flop.
Hardly a claim to fame, but I played bass for Humphrey Lyttelton and Andy Gibb, among others.
Not at the same gig obviously......
I taught Gordon Banks' son to waterski.
At Mountain Mayhem I waited at the Shimano stand while they all stuck their noses up Graeme Le Saux's arse. When he left after about 15 mins, I said "Can you look at my gears?" Shimano bloke said no, we're having lunch. Tosssers.
Ron Atkinson once stole my golfball off the green on my local golf course. It was a courtesy hole where they stood aside on the green while we played our shots from the tee. Hit a blinder (1st time for everything) and he congratulated me on my shot once we'd walked to the green. Only as they walked of did i notice that he'd played my ball and nicked it and left me his ball which was much further from the hole. Git.
And he stopped in the car park afterwards in his Roller and asked me where i bought my shoes as they looked nice and light!
I once finished off Baby Spices' chocolate pudding (that's not a euphemism either BTW)
I think this is a quality thread ...
my small contirbution is my girlfriends brother lives next door to the Rainbow presenter Geoffrey and yes he is a cabbie.
I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll 8)
I was born on the same planet as Yoshio Kojima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Kojima
Obscure enough ?
err....why has my name been tagged?
Oh, I went to my ex-girlfriend's cousin's wedding and Gareth Gates was there. I signed the visitors book "I think your grate, from gareth x"
It was bloody hilarious at the time.
I beat Graham Bell in the Yorkshire Ski Championships held at Harrogate Dry Ski Slope... back in the day.
Got a peck on the cheek from Barbara Windsor in a cheesy night club in Derby.
Walked past the queens house in London and waved to say hello.... couldn't tell if she noticed/was bothered about me.
Whilst at university in london got a circular email about a new Simon Pegg film and they wanted lots of extras. Turned out to be Shaun of the Dead.
So you could say I'm almost a famous film extra! 8)
EDIT: I didn't go hence the almost bit.
Our long-dead cat is in a shot of the Young Ones, which was filmed about 5 houses away from us. The cat was alive at the time, obviously.
I went out with Steve Coogan's Sister.
mrs llama had her hair cut while [b]KYLIE[/b] sat in the next chair
best man at my wedding was a caddy for Shaun Connery
one of the little llamas played tag rugby against Robert Plant's grand daughter
Mrs Llama nearly ran over Jamie Oliver and wife when they stepped out in the road without looking where they were going
Alison Goldfrapp nearly bought a house in the road where i used to live but then she started making money damn damn
Drummer for the Verve lived around the corner from me and so did Chipps apparently
My Dad used to play golf with Lofty Wiseman, who would eat Bear Grylls and Ray Mears for breakfast!