So sat on my car boot finishing lunch before heading off round Swinley today and Louis Theroux, wife and 2 young sons wanders past. Tried to think of something whitty to say but drew a blank….

Who have you seen whilst biking?

James McAvoy, He was out on his bike too. I expect he’ll be on in a moment to say he saw me

Louis Theroux near Ullswater

Bonnie Tyler. My brother almost rode into her in Mumbles.

Chatted to that Ron Atkinson footballer chap and his wife on the top of clent. Think he was grateful to talk to someone who had no interest in the sport

I caught my reflection in a puddle the other day and, well, i’m kind of a big deal round my end.

Does that count?

Dolly the sheep errrr oh hang on 😳

Michael Elphick. Having a BBQ with friends in the garden of an isolated house in Languedoc. He shouted NICE ARSE as I passed. Fairly unmistakable…

Mr Bean.

Lives on one of my routes.

Houns

Dave Hill of Slade and Robert Plant (separate occasions)

Louis Theroux on a Torridon ride

Ken Hames out on his bike stopped to help one of our group after a tree branch in the eye incident. I realise that he may not actually be that famous to some but he was a jolly nice chap who went out of his way to help. The Beyond Boundaries TV programme he did was pretty inspirational.

Bonnie Tyler. My brother almost rode into her in Mumbles.

She opened my cousins record shop in The Uplands back in the 80s!

Ray Mears last year, he was in the lakes for the Mountain Festival. Nice chap.

Mr Benn

Bonnie Tyler. My brother almost rode into her in Mumbles.

She opened my cousins record shop in The Uplands back in the 80s!

That would be the place I bought ‘Misplaced Childhood’ by Marillion in 1985 or thereabouts. The only album I ever bought there.

Graham Taylor was in front of me last week in the Post Office, (not biking but posting the days orders out so still bike related). Lovely guy, asked him to come back to the Villa to sort the mess out, He said ‘you gotta be kidding’ which we both laughed at.

I followed the “whistler hardtail” video guy down Dirt Merchant at Whistler a couple of times. Couldn’t keep up. I also saw Kelly McGarry there I think.

**** me that Theroux geezer gets about 😐

That would be the place I bought ‘Misplaced Childhood’ by Marillion in 1985 or thereabouts. The only album I ever bought there.

It was called “Tape and Disc Control”

Mark Cavendish on the Cat and Fiddle

James Cracknell, rower, comenting on tour bike race,

Chris Boardman , who lives down the road,

Billy Butler,Radio Merseyside dj,

Phil Redmond, who made Grange hill,

Lady Gresley,

I dont get out a lot.

Ray Mears last year, he was in the lakes for the Mountain Festival. Nice chap

was their lass with him?

Gary Fisher.

Not really whilst riding, but got flown back first class on BA after a bike accident in Bolivia, had Sophie Ellis Bexter in the bed/ seat thing next to me and she woke me up as I was snoring badly after a mixture of opiates and red wine! She was actually really nice though but was a bit embarrassing!

**** me that Theroux geezer gets about

I sat next to him and his wife/girlfriend at a table in an Ikea restaurant having a full on bad ass argument about a wardrobe. I sympathised but it was quite embarrassing trying to look like I wasn’t listening in.

On a bike Jude Law – but I’d taken him out for a ride so that’s doesn’t count.

I think I overtook Gee Atherton the other day at Llandegla, but it was such a blurr, it could have been Dan 😆

Lord Lucan, but he asked me not to tell anyone, so ssshhhh

Carl Fogarty and his missus, twice 🙂

Some judge off of Strictly, Arlene Phillips I am reliably informed

Saw Iolo Williams at CYB he was look for deer! Also seen all the Athertons at Llandegla

TJ

Never seen anyone famous,

But a couple of Porno’s being made.

Mark Webber at AYTE.

Ross Kemp Pirbright.

Saw Charles and Camilla near Loch Muick a while back.

Friends interrupted the Duke of Edinburgh’s shooting party on Lochnagar,

Guy Martin passed me twice during the Strathpuffer this year

Guy Martin passed me twice during the Strathpuffer this year

By Heck Chief 😉

Smoked a fatty with Anthony Kiedis (chilli peppers) at the top of Mt Tam in Marin a few years (decades) back.

Also have watched with hilarity as Cwis Eubank attempted to follow me down a very tricky trail on the South Downs:Him swearing like f••k on a rigid Klein, me on a San Andreas. He did mash me on the uphills however.

See Steve Peat in the woods every so often, but I guess you mean like ‘proper’ famous. In which case, nobody. Well, of course like everyone else in the thread I can’t leave the house without tripping over Louis Theroux, but that’s hardly worth mentioning.

I’ve seen Louis Ther…

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**** me that Theroux geezer gets about

Yes well he likes to hang around with the mad, bad and dangerous to know so no real surprise that so many on here have met him. 🙂