Famous people on STW?

stood behind errol brown from hot chocolate on Saturday superstore.
saw Arnold schwarznegger at eraser premier in Paris.
walked past jarvis cocker also in Paris.
saw lance Armstrong go past on his bike also in Paris.
nearly walked into dexter fletcher on a Boris bike in London last month.
my wife’s French family are related John pertwee of Dr who and worzel fame.
ooh and shook Paul kings hand of, king fame.
also caught morrisseys tambourine at winter gardens, boxers tour. not washed my hands since.

* I’m listed on the Wikipedia page for my home town;

Are you Vic Reeves?!

I went camping in the Lakes a couple of years back with Tanni Grey-Thompson and her family, right good laugh.
Mrs is related to a former FA cup winning manager
The late MiL had a cousin who starred in Prisoner Cell Block H.

To answer the OP, I’d say we are all famous as were all well known in the world of cycling bull$h77ing 😀

Deidre eh, yup twas I who mentioned it. As I said she is known as back door Deidre in some circles!

I’ve polished Paul Scholes’ ring.

When I was 15.

…I put it in an ultrasonic bath in the office of the jewellers I worked in at the time, giving it a clean while the shop owner tried to extract more money from him.

But more seriously, I am a good friend of a gold medal winner at last year’s olympics.

And my name has been in all the national papers in the last 18 months.

It’s had me creased up again with laughter juan!

Been on the lash with Brian Cox(he was proper trollied and lost his bag, wallet, keys…)

Brian Cox?

or Brian Cox

I hope it’s the first one

I’m often on Sky Sports….

I once nearly got beaten up by Ross Kemp’s body guard in a pub in Brighton

Of my tits at the time, so went over to Ross and asking him to shout ‘bollocks’ into my phone because my flat mate loved it when he said it on Ultimate Force

I never got my recording – to be fair – i couldn’t even see straight

In a similar state of being bolloxed, i once stopped Andy Sugden from Emmerdale getting too upset after my mate puked on his legs by a cigarette machine in a club in Manchester

He looked as boxed as we were

Paul Thomson from Roxy Music has drummed for me. Guitarist from Christians helped out on lead too.

Was mentioned on bbc news as several mountain rescue teams looked for me. Police suspected I had murdered my lass and gone to the hills to top myself. She was wild camping with me by the way. Genius policing.

My sister shagged someone from wet wet wet. Bit of departure for her having previously disappeared on tour with Korn and Panterra.

miketually – Member

Not read all that but, my claims to fame are:

* I’m listed on the Wikipedia page for my home town;

I’ve met him I still can’t work out which one he is…… 😀

My sister shagged someone from wet wet wet.

Think Marty was something of a pork swordsman back in the day. I remember happening across a large crowd of girls outside a chic hotel in Exeter where the band were staying and a minder asking loudly if any girls would like to ‘meet’ him in his room…

She wasn’t allowed near Marty as my mum had first dibs. Told her the only reason she had VIP tickets was because my sister was shacked up in hotel room with one of them. My mum’s response was “I don’t care I am meeting Marty”. Still has the photo of them up on her house hugging and drinking bud. She did tell my dad she had only come back because Marty hadn’t asked her to run away.

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

I was, for a few joyful hours, ‘personal protection consultant’ to Tom Baker. He briefly convinced me that in the 50’s he invented the question mark 🙂

Met various members of Royalty (the Queen is TINY), various cyclists, celebrity chefs, Chris Bonnington, and nearly met Craig Charles in my local pub (Steve McDonalds stag-doo in Llangollen) a few years ago. I once bought some goats from Russell Crowe’s cousin, have a signed photo of Grotbags somewhere, I know where Dennis Taylor (upside down glasses snooker player guy) lives, and finally, Derek Brockway (welsh weatherman) is taller than he looks on TV.

And my Aunty looks exactly like Deirdre Barlow – thanks for the mental image 😯

I met Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (I was working for TWA in lost and found that day, helping them find the baggage we lost). We actually talked for a good while and I felt pretty famous at the time (although lusting after Liz might not have made me too famous with Richard).

I once nearly got beaten up by Ross Kemp’s body guard in a pub in Brighton

Of my tits at the time, so went over to Ross and asking him to shout ‘bollocks’ into my phone because my flat mate loved it when he said it on Ultimate Force

A mate worked on security in Afghanistan, he escorted Ross about when he did a tv series over there. He insisted that they called him Roger Kilo (phonetic alphabet). Right Ross, was the reply 😀

So basically the answer to the OP is a resounding “no” then?

So basically the answer to the OP is a resounding “no” then?

I’d say you can bet on that fact 😆

Was once in a film directed by the Hollywood director Mike Figgis.

It was the drama-documentary ‘The Battle of Orgreave’ in 2001 about the conflict at the Orgreave coking plant during the Miners Strike.

I played a miner, and had a close up screen shot and everything!

One of my jobs was to be throwing the (rubber) rocks at the advancing police lines..

..after i hit in ascending order :-

3) a camaraman
2)Mike Figgis’ personal assistant
1)Mike Figgis himself

They took the bag of rocks off me… 😳

My mate Dave is / was guitarist in Sorry and the Sinatras. His mate is mates with Keefer Sutherland apparently.

My dad was briefly in a skiffle band with Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, and he knows Andy Partridge of XTC.

Oh and another bloke I know swears he was an extra in “Gladiator” but only his elbow survived the edit. Tenuous enough for this thread methinks.

I’ve been in a car with the Stig.

Mulletus Maximus – Member

Edit; I was also in a band and we we interviewed by Nick Knowles for a local news program. We were described as the ‘M4 Sound’ Same band also toured 3 times with Squeeze and supported Elvis Costello at Shepards Bush Empire.

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 once went out with a DJ from ‘Power FM’ some 20+ years ago.

Bitch broke my heart.

Sean Connery bought me a pint 🙂

He was in Edinburgh to get presented with the key to the city
I was in the ‘Auld Clachan’ pub in Fountainbridge, with my Ex, when he walked in
Unbeknown to me was that the Ex’s dad used to deliver milk with Sean when he lived round the corner
He recognised her, came over and we had a chat over a drink. Nice bloke
Very surreal encounter

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.

and

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…