[Closed] Bad name-dropping

What can I say, the lady's got a good grip..... My mum has the picture at home on her fridge. I got in some trouble for that shot when her people worked out why I was looking so smug.

If we're going for [i]bad[/i] ones, my mum used to go out with some singer/songwriter called Steve Harley, but she left him for my dad.

I have treated several Z list celebrities. Including one with a strained testicle who was loudly demanding special attention!

My primary school best mates dad wrote Quadraphenia

but most exciting of all, I met Brant Richards once and he said my bike was heavy.

Dated the niece of Richard Wilson

My Ex Bro in Law was mates with the boyfriend of the keyboard player in Pulp so we got VIP passes for a after gig party in Sheff and I let Jarvis through our crowd and he said thanks

Used to work in cycle shop and Hugh Porter was a rep and would come in and talk about how great he was, Barry Hoban would come in to take orders for his bikes and just chatted summed up their personalities even to a young 16 year old lad

Jimmy Saville patted my eldest lads head in a furniture shop in Scarborough

Current Bro in law is a chef and mates with Michael Vaughan and Lee Westwood who come into the restaurant on a frequent basis

Well - I often pass Tom Kitchin in my stairway, I met Thin Lizzy in 1976,
I have met Magnuss Magnusson, Sean Lineen used to buy his sandwiches in my local Deli, I didn't recognised Sammy McIlroy when he came to visit his mum ( 80s footballer), Joel Garner stayed overnight in the hospital I worked in - we had to extend the bed.

Edwina has a consumate grip on the downtube of that Handjob! 😆

Has to be worth a fortune does that pic!

I spilled Martin Offia's* Pint in Ikon....

* (sic? Wigan rugby ace)

I have insulted most of the Bolton Wonderers squad in the same place.
Most memorable, many years back, Fabian Defreatas..
Me "You're Sh*t."
FD "Cheers mate"

I sold Barry Macguigan a coffee
I made Vic Reeves laugh
I got Noel Edmods autograph because I was stoned and thought it was funny.

Edwina has a consumate grip on the downtube of that Handjob!

Has to be worth a fortune does that pic!

I bet John Major has a picture to top mine

i tried to shake jeremy beadles bad hand at a charity craft sale... i genuinely didnt realise he had a bad hand and was quite offended he didnt take part in my politely offered handshake!

he hid it so well on YBF!

Talking of Ken Morley..
My mates dog bit his arse when Ken Morley tried to break in to his scrapyard... It made the papers and everything! 😯

Sarah Ferguson came to see my etchings.

I did an album cover for Holly Johnson.

Peter Gabriel bought a picture.

David Bowie spewed in a cupboard in my flat.

Paul Rutherford is on me FB list, but hes not a mate, he's a mate of a mate...

yamyamblade - Member

Jimmy Saville patted my eldest lads head in a furniture shop in Scarborough

There's got to be a euphemism in there somewhere... 😉

I once asked Paula Yates out for lunch

You really dont wanna know what a school friend of mine did to Sahra Cox, when her dad owned a pub on Blackburn Rd.. Over the pool table too....

Phil Phil Phil... Small world my sister lives a few houses down from Martin Clunes, we were walking her dogs and bumped into him, my sisters black lab sniffed his White fluffy dogs bum, Martin was very polite about it. Same sister delivered the baby to the sister of Tris Payne who used to co present house doctor.

My girlfriends mum used to own a holiday villa next door to Sir Cliff Richard's villa and vineyard in Portugal, he still keeps in touch and sends a Christmas card, and apparently isn't gay. She now owns a Villa in a secret location 4 villas away from Valentino Rossi.

I've served Cherys from Catatonia, most of holyoakes circa 2003 cast and met many music folk inc Dani Minogue.

Chris Evans and Jeremy Clarkson bought me a pint a few years back.

Sir Bobby Robson once asked me where the nearest loo was. No, I wasn't working as a cloakroom attendant.

I was in the next seat to Gary Barlow a month back on a trip to Miami.

(Getting deperate now)
Jake Burns told me he liked my T-shirt

Sharon Davis asked for my autograph and phone number, I duly obliged.

I played golf with Kris Akibussi and Steve Redgrave, I played pool against Boris Becker.

I filmed an TV advert with Elle MacPherson for Little Red Rooster

My lbs ex-employer used to hire bikes to Ronnie Corbett!

I'd thought they'd have been more likely to lower them.

I met and had a coffee with Robert Millar, and he said he liked my shoes.

I once bumped into Mike Dirnt from Green Day whilst shoe shopping in Bangkok.
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i once met someone who claimed to know Sheldon Attwood...............
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but i suspect they were telling porkies

Ive been in kate moss's bedroom and sat on her bed 😀

I once gate crashed a jazz concert and sat behind Phil Collins. In New York!

My brother claimed to have offered to buy Phil Lynott a beer. But I think he was unsuccessful.

Ian Hislop used to get my train into work.

(These are really desperate, aren't they?).

The Southern Yeti - Member
Surely none of those mentioned above are bad names...

Where are the stories about spending your childhood with Jonathon King?
Dining out with Jeffery Dahmer?
Helping Hitler with the housework?

OK then TSY how about this-
I was on an oil rig about 10 years ago with a bunch of lads and we were sat talking about serial killers (as you do). Turns out one of the lads in the room's uncle was murdered by Dennis Nilsen in London.
Another one of the guys in the room's uncle WAS Nilsen.
I know this sounds unbelieveable but apparantly it's true- Nilsen was originally from Peterhead.
How's that for a macabre coincidence

mum used to go out with some singer/songwriter called Steve Harley

Meehaja- is your Dad the Cockney Rebel?

I once went out with a girl who used to live next door to Gerry Rafferty.

My other half's sister's other half's cousin is Eddie Mair.

I've got drunk with some Scottish rugby internationalists.

Jo Caulfield (comedienne) once laughed loudly on radio at a joke I'd written.

yamyamblade - Member
Dated the niece of Richard Wilson

I don't believe it

IGMC

Nearly had a scrap with Goldie in Northumbria Uni.

Got MC Moose into such a state that he had to be carried into a taxi for a 7am flight back to back to London

I told Graham Obree he couldn't ride pillion when I rode a motorbike into mountains in Columbia on an unofficial wee day trip - one of my few regrets in life.

Maggie Philbin (of swap shop fame) used to babysit me and my sister when we were really little.

RV - Member
I once got a Hand Job from Edwina Curry!

Is that Chelmer Cycles?

I've flown on the same plane as Steve Redgrave (at the same time)!

Pah! Raced against him in eights, and our crew didn't beat his. Also beaten by the Olympic crew of the time... 😥 Met Matthew Pinsent.

Spoke to Tom Baker of Dr Who fame for about 20 mins after he wronlgy dialled our office instead of Chichester theatre, luvvy.

Dated and still friends with the daughter of a professional footballer.

Took the girlfriend from either theworld championor Argentinian champion of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padel_tennis ]padel[/url] and taught [url= http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/hemeroteca/2001/06/20/623003.shtml ]Alberto Piñon[/url] world padel champion.

My rider nearly knocked [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mancebo ]Paco Mancebo[/url] off his bike in an individual time trial a couple of years ago. 😳 Not a problem, he was still speaking to me afterwards. 🙄

Met Prince Charles, and he is a pr1ck!

Etc, etc.

About 10 years prior to coming third in the second series of big brother, Dean off of big brother used to come round to my student house. Usually with a guitar, sometimes with a copy of his bands new album or single, or a flyer or to tell us about his latest review in NME (bad ones typically). After several months it dawned on us that non of us actually knew him, we all thought he must be a friend of one of the others, we've no idea why he used to come round or who he was coming to see.

I know how Rennie Zellwegger likes her eggs in the morning

Magnus Magnusson call my workplace, asking to speak to me personally, then after a chat about some preparatory sketches for a pre-raphaelite mural, included me in the credits of one his books

Bono re-pointed my chimney

The Edge put an RSJ in my basement

I've recieved an email from Annie Nightingale.. (it said 'toot toot')
Carl Cox accidentally knocked me to the floor when I stumbled into his large belly..
I startled Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall by offering him help when he looked lost and confused outside Exeter Central station.. causing him to bleat panic stricken into his moblie phone at his PA to 'hurry up and get him out of here'..
I saw Banksy last month..
I saw a celeb who's name and fame I cannot pinpoint.. (Elvis Costello [i]possibly[/i]) at a party in the summer.. the guy was pretty out of it and had a small entourage who were all finding it hilarious to refer to him as 'dave' all night..

that is all

Pah! Raced against him in eights, and our crew didn't beat his. Also beaten by the Olympic crew of the time... Met Matthew Pinsent.

Double pah! Raced them at GB trials ( though they won which no doubt was a relief to them 😉 ) and even clashed blades...

Have actually met him a few times too and had a decent chat. Pinsent was there too which was interesting since we're all the same height and yet I felt very scrawny next to them.

Bike related, I had a discussion with the guy who plays the butler in Fresh Prince of Bel Air about road clipless pedals when I was working at on your bike in Harrods. Turns out he's quite a keen roadie.

I served chips to "kim tate2 off emmerdale and mike from mike and the mechanics..

Pinsent was there too

Big hands!

Came too on a mates floor to find the bad guy from mission impossible 2 staring back at me.

My mates flat was being used as a green room at the time for a patsy kensit flick and we had been on a three day bender. Nice guy, still no idea who he was though.

We were asked to removed the gazebo from out the back yard/lane bit as it was in the shot. Still not sure how the gazebo came to be there, vague memories of falling over a stack of disposable barbeques in B&Q and buying it.

That was the same weekend the armed response and dog unit turned up to the party because one of the lads decided to purchase a mini-bb gun and shoot at us out the window....not the best thing to do on the quayside in Newcastle, really.

I bumped in to Michael Schumacher back in 1994. Or rather he bumped in to me.

Still annoyed about it, but I got him back in 1996.

Damon

Me and the bloke singing [url=

work in the same dept ... you'll need to be of a certain age to remember it 😉

I shoulder-barged Prince William outside Morrisons in St Andrews when he was at uni there a few years ago. I was looking the other way. Thankfully, so were his security detail.
I was also asked by his mum if she could have her photo taken with me (she visited my school when I was a nipper). It was lunchtine and my fish fingers had just turned up so I told her no. She picked Lindsey Flounders instead.
I directed Brian Glover in a radio advert once. He's VERY yorksire.
Finally, I told Chrisopher Daniels to "f*** off to the back of the queue" at the Leicester Square premiere of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. I didn't recognise him without the gold suit, but still, he was being very arsey about trying to get in.

My wife looked after Oliver Postgate as in Ivor The Engine, Bagpuss and the Clangers a few years back. Also met Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewert and Damon Hill at Goodwood festival of speed.

I met Seb Coe a couple of times. I liked him. 😉

I also sold David "Kid" Jensen a pair of pants.

my dad designed the background for the clangers!

kicking it oldschoooooool

the bloke who pioneered test tube babies has been inside my mum.
yes, I was delivered by Patrick Steptoe at oldham general hospital 🙂

Should have mentioned eldest daughter works in a really lovely farm shop/deli and has served Vic Reeves several times and Kate Garraway.

I used to work with Julian Cope's drummer, and the bass player from Spiritualized. Oh and the ex Bad Manners bass player.

A guy I worked with met John Leslie on a train ,he asked if he had any good videos on his phone he could get bluetoothed (John got a bit arsey with him after that)

Johnny Vaughan sat on my BMX when I left at the side of a football pitch, didn't even ask. Jimmy Tarbucks son was playing in the footy match also!

Me and the bloke singing this work in the same dept

Fiction Factory??

I told Chrisopher Daniels to "f*** off to the back of the queue

Anthony's brother, presumably?

my dad designed the background for the clangers!

Srsly?

That's ace if so. You win.

retro83 - Member
RV - Member
I once got a Hand Job from Edwina Curry!
Is that Chelmer Cycles?
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Yeah it is Chelmer Cycles.

The fella that owns Chelmer wouldn't allow Keith Flint test ride a bike till he'd run his card through the machine because he didn't like the look of him and thought he'd run off with it. He's been a good customer since and no longer has to swipe his card to test ride bikes.

Chris Kovarik called my DH bike "a sturdy beast" this summer. We atayed in the same accomodation as the CRC DH team for a week.

Chatted to East Bay Ray for 20 mins or so and got a pic taken with him too after the Dead Kennedys (mkII) played Manchester Academy a couple of years ago.

Stood next to David Gedge of the Wedding Present at a Chameleons gig at Leeds Warehouse in the mid eighties.

Jan Van Eijden was on the same Level 2 coaching course as me at Manchester Velodrome a few years ago. He was coaching the GB squad at the time, but the buggers still made him go through the same qualifications procedure as everyone else!!

Cynic-Al has slept on my settee.

Played scalextric with Sid Little.

I beat Alexander Vinokourov in a race.

Escorted Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) to a black tie ball in Bath.

Chuck Norris drops MY name.

yeah he went from uni into special effects for a few years whilst doing his architecture qualifications, he:

designed the background for the clangers

worked on the special effects for the original rollerball film, mainly the big tv screens (him and a buddy came up with the idea of using rear projection to make it look like they had giant tv's)

and off the back of his experience with rollerball screens he went on to design the massive video screen for that pink floyd concert with all the lazers (the giant circular one)

its not a win though cougar, i cant win through someone elses experiences.... i think RV's handjob from edwina curry has to be the winner?!

I met Eamonn Holmes outside Millenium Stadium & called him a fat useless c*nt

He near ate me

I met Richard Clayderman on a flight to Paris once (in economy)

I once stumbled up to prince William in a basement bar in Edinburgh as he stood leaning against a wall. I shook his hand and told him not to be concerned about the press as they were all ****ers. He responded with "Thank you very much"!
I still wonder why I wasn't wrestled to the ground by a security detail. I was too far gone to put up much of a fight.

In a place I used to work, I once had Dale Winton approach me with the line "Hi. I'm Dale." Oh, what could've been.....
In the same place I did enquire of Ewan McGregor as to the colour of his light-sabre. He dingied that one.

An ex of mine once got chatted up by Ernie Els during a Scottish Open, but given her past form (which I learned of [i]after[/i] we split) I can't be certain that we haven't 'holed on the same green'.

Robbie Coltrane once turned to me in the Clydebank branch of Halfords to ask a question about some component for his son's bike as we perused the same display. Can't recall the item, but I was constructive in my response.

There are more, but isn't this thread a bit more geared towards 'six degrees of separation' than plain name dropping?
Entertaining nonetheless.

my best mates adopted dad's best mate is now vice president of china

I had a row abotu air conditioning at work with the guy who used to play Danny Kendal in Grange Hill.

He gets about, doesn't he?

I saw Robbie Coltrane in the shop in my parents village.

I'm 3 handshakes away from Hitler.

Churchhill met Hitler in the 30's
My Grandad shook hands with Churchhill when he was awarded a medal
And my dad's shook hands with my Grandad.
I've shook hands with my Dad.

My dad met Richard Briars and had a pint with him once.

Oh and I once saw someone from Hollyoaks...my wife was more excited than me though and I didn't know who he was.

I saw Coltrane get out of his Jag on Forth St once, it rose quite a bit once relieved of his heft.

Oh and my wife looks like Zhang Ziyi...apparently.

Someone said she looked like her once, the only time I've seen the resemblance was when she was in Crouching Tiger and was sat in a huff on a horse.

I don't think lookalikes count though.

Once when we were on holiday in Turkey a family asked to get their picture taken with her...that might be because they had never seen a Chinese person before. Apparently I shouldn't have laughed while they took turns getting their picture taken with the Amazing Chinese Woman.

Jools Hollands Rhythm and Blues Orchestra supported my stepdads band.. and Mum was later seated on the same table as Jools Holland and John Cleese at a charity dinner..

I once very grumpily told Davina McCall to eff off when she came bursting cheerfully and enthusiastically into the waiting room of my favourite tattoo parlour while she was doing that 'Streetmates' gig in the mid '90s..

she eff'd off... swiftly.. looking crestfallen... I regret it now..

Oh and I once saw a Bentley on the M40...at the time I was convinced it was JK.

...but it could have been just your common or garden toff because the windows were tinted.

I don't think that counts at all.

Oooh! Oooh! My sister is mates with Jools Holland's guitarist and I've met him!

I used to work in Disneyland Paris and met a few 'slebs there.

In my first week, at Buffalo Bills Wild West Show, Damon Hill and his family sat in my section. All went well until the audience participation part of the show. An Indian from each ranch (Blue Moon, Gold Star, Red River, Green Mountain) carries a medicine ball to the back of the arena and then helps to pass it through the crowd to the front - first one back wins.

I was out in the arena collecting glasses and still being new didn't have the timings quite down yet. I'm standing in front of Hill with a full tray of glasses just as the Indian starts to run down my row. He gets to just in front of us, sees there is no way past me and turns back around. Damon and family never got to touch the ball. He still tipped me like, but not as much as the hot Swedish girl I was working with.

At my next job at a cocktail bar and restaurant over the way Ronan Keating and his wife had a table booked. However they turned up a bit early so just came in and sat at the bar. I served them a few drinks (him - JD, her - vodka) and had a nice chat. They went off and ate, tipping the waiter quite well. They were on the way out going down the stairs when I remarked, quietly, to another bartender how I was a little put out that they hadn't left anything at the bar (I was young and skint but not rude) when their minder ran back up the stairs and handed me a big note. Obviously I wasn't as discreet as I'd thought

Everyday 8) Just had lunch with a few 😉

I had a pee next to Sniffa from British Metal band Spider

fixed Mr Daniel Craigs' computer a couple of times about 9 years ago (around 'Our Friends in the North' era) - I was helping his Dad out with some business stuff at the time.
Both nice blokes.

I've been on stage with John Hurt, Prince Charles in the audience.
🙂

I went out with the younger sister of Miss UK and Mis World 85 runner-up
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