Bad name-dropping

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 this 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.

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RV – Member
I once got a Hand Job from Edwina Curry!
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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 ****. 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 after 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