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A post from redarmi in another thread saying who he went to school with gave me the idea for a claim to fame type thread.

Obviously not after absolute crackers. Just shabby B/Z list stories for people to read.

Apologies if there is already a similiar thread, but It has not crossed my path.

I have a few, all equally as terrible as the next... but will start with this one.

I went to school with Yonah from the hit girl band of the 90s 'Cleopatra' not only were we in the same class, but on my last day I got a cheeky neck in with the pop sensation.

[  ] she is good looking, [  ] she was slimmer than me at the time. Siiiiigh.


Bet there are some absolute crackers from fellow blondes.

Top that, coming at cha!

I know tikay.

Not really a claim to fame but one of my good friends at sixth form college was Karen Taylor as in "Touch me I'm karen taylor" or whatever the show was called.  I also spent a week in Costa rica with Frank Rosenthal whom de Niro's character in Casino was based on.  He was quite possibly the most odious character I have ever met.

I had dinner with Nick Leeson once.

Phil Oakey from the Human League was my babysitter

Ronnie O'Sullivan once called me a prick from a car when I was jogging

I have met Barry Greenstein, Barry Hayles, and Barry Chuckle. Im hopeing to add several more famous Barrys to the list.

Why not,

I was given a bottle of Champange from Stephen Hendry, saw Danielle Westbrook naked, made Hugh Lloyds day when i identified him from his role in " Lollipop loves Mr mole",  met Andy Williams made even better when my mate thought he know who he was  sang to him " its not unusual", Andy 5 foot nought my mate 6 foot 5, was dropped to size with one glare and " That was Tom Jones" comment.

Steve

My father's brother's sister-in-law's brother-in-law is Allan Wells.

Milan Mandaric livesd opposite us - the 'for sale' board went up last week.

"Phil Oakey from the Human League was my babysitter"

Haha - that's a goodie  :)

I failed to perform the relevant maintenance and safety checks on a large piece of industrial machinery that was later used by that chick from CBeebies.

I once did this to Chief Superintendent Brownlow from The Bill tv program.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/18/article-1236867-000B237D00000258-931_468x499.jpg)

I thought my brother-in-law was behind me. ;gobsmacked;

Now that is special!!!

Yep, back in the day, it was in Sheffield round about this time of year as the world championships were on, the year Marko Fu knocked him out of the crucible in the first round. He was parked outside Prince Naseems gym, sat in the passenger seat of a Merc, Im running towards the car and some yob calls me a prick, I get closer, realise its Ronnie, and have the biggest star struck smile on my face as I run past him.

What a classless prick that guy is, I have hated him ever since.

In another claim to fame, Ken Doherty once said to me 'Ronnie was right, you are a *****' at a poker event, but that was a friendly in-joke (or thats how I chose to take it).

As you can imagine, I tell the story a lot.

I've seen Greekstein in his pants.

I bumped into Dean Gaffney in a nightclub, literally. Made him spill his drink all over the gaff, his minders ushered me away before i had the chance not to offer to buy him another. He was a guest host or something. I couldn't believe he had his own minders. This was in 2004, don't even think he was on Eastenders anymore.

Also my nan lived on the same street as Frank Bruno.

I once stole one of Belinda Carlisle's biscuits.

More info required on that one  ;)

Ben elton waved to me once...from a car on the m8...near exit 13

Once met the Legend Stuart McCall whilst on holiday in Ibiza. Got my photo took with him and that!

Played an impromptu little gag on Gene Wilder before realising it was Gene Wilder once.

Sang a song at a piano with Paul Weller.

I know this person http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/ (http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/) i was good friends with her hubby :(

I went to school with this (http://chrismoyles.net/mw/images/teamchris10.jpg) person and my parents still go to church with his family.

I was in the same class at art college at this funny dude. (http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00212/Bo_Selecta_212942a.jpg)

I used to hang out with the now famous (but not then) while at uni in 1997-2000 http://www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk/ (http://www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk/) I was responsible for their website for a short period of time.

Does that mean I am famous or sad?

Gene wilder!! impromptu gag = ?? Absolute legend that man!

Some of these are straight up A list imo!

I went to school with a page 3 model.

I got yazz to give me a push start.....Posh spice actually smiled at me when I delivered her flowers

Great thread!

Was Leigh Francis funny at school?

Pictures or not true!

Yes and he had a fuking huge ginger buffnutt

I drank champagne out of the Scottish Cup in the dressing room area of Hampden during Alex McLeishs 1st year at Rangers.  They beat Celtic in the final.

I worked backstage at a WWE wrestling event in Aberdeen and got to meet most of the wrestlers including Brock Lesnar and John Cena

the morning of my wedding day 1b of 2009 wsop (sorry cant remember the date) but was in the spa changing rooms about to have a couples massage with thesoon to be wife. had just got down to my boxers when this voice said "wow thats a nice pair of shorts man". i looked up to see what kind of homo wants to comment on my under pants. it turned out to be Tom Dwan. i was trying to think of something to say when his three mates burts out laughing and crying about Tom being such a geek

I accidentally pushed a door into Bill Odie for two Boxing Day's in a row.  The first was at Walthamstow Dog Stadium, the second at a film memorabilia shop which used to be on Tottenham Court Road.

I met Neil killkenny and Barry Bannan, but my most famous "B list" brag is Kmowing Kevin cruise from BGT fame. See pic

[ ] best blonde belinda carlisle related story

he was staying at the same hotel i went to on the costa del sol about 5 years back too! must be perma on spanish-holidays :D

here's some of mine.

i played american football in kensington gardens with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch in 1991.

I sang on stage with Rolf Harris at the Barbican.

I went to school with the the guy driving the car in this ad (can't find original)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfu2pwIY7rA

I once shared a lift with Bob Geldof.

During my first marriage I had an affair with a page 3 model

My father grew up as next door neighbour to George Cohen.

I have cooked for the King of Spain and his mistress!!!

Jay Kay once spent an evening washing pots with my father in law

I have played cricket with Lloyd Honeygan, Rory Bremner, various pros and winners of Strictly Come Dancing

keep em coming. some are abso superb. Can't wait for my next encounter with a celeb.

More from my catalogue: I stood behind the black geezer from the gadget show in line at Heathrow customs, I also called Dane Bowers a fat prick in front of his then girlfriend Jordan, when he mugged off my mate for trying to get in VIP at a shabby club in Croydon. Oh if only he could see me now. How the tide has turned.

I used to work at the BBC so have met so many famous people... 

Sat on the reception couch waiting for my interview, next to John McArdle (Billy Corkihill)..

Met Dennis Waterman in the lift on my first day, he is really tall, well over 6 ft...

Robbie Coltrane was in the canteen, just got his food, wanted somewhere to sit, so asked if he could sit with me and my workmate...   

Henry Kelly, presenter of Going for Gold did similar too..

Had lunch with some producers and Gloria Gaynor and Shaka Kahn (at the sme time) once too..

So many..!!!  Tichmarsh nd Pan Rhodes, when they was doing Summer Sunday religion prog...  Janet Street Porter sat 2 offices away from me... (And all the other execs)..

Clive Tyldesley lived next door to my mate, met him a lot, and forever saw various footballers and managers at his house having a beer, watchin the footy...

:)

Pretty hard to find 'suitable' photos...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0l22sloS0M

Ermmmm - Page 3 Girl - QVC girl - not the same..!!!

Caddied for Andy Garcia, Jamie Redknapp, Tico Torres, and various journeymen golf pros.
Was in the same golf group as Sean Connery, (miserable bastard)
Shook Sir Steve Redgrave's hand.
Gave Bill Murray a highfive.
Won £10 off Dougray Scott after outdriving (golf) him.
Gave Borat's fat friend (dont no his real/film name) a highfive.
Told the tall one from 'Everyone loves Raymond' that he was funnier than his brother.
Made out with Amy Alexandra off big brother before she became famous  ;whistle;

THIS VERY EVENING.

I saw Bill Bailey in the Kensington Homebase.

YES, THAT'S RIGHT, BILL BAILEY.

I didn't manage to see what he bought.

So she couldn't have done both??

Geo

some more of mine.

Tommy Steele was my grandad's cousin.

I spoke to Huey Lewis on a Saturday Superstore phone in

I once asked Bob Holness if I could have a P please

Taylor Dayne advised me not to pursue a career in singing

I got blanked by David Bellamy when I asked him for his autograph when I was 8

Bill Murray has to be up there!! Fantastic!

Sounds like whilst most people are asking for autographs you just go in for the high five. I like it.

FYP who says 'made out' anymore?

fyfyp

who says 'got off with' anymore?

American teenagers only.  got off, got in, necked off, necked in, tongued are from my younger days. Heard swap spit but never been a massive fan of that one. What do people say these days???

In late 2000 i was lucky enough to have played for a team that won a competition and played at Wembley as part of the 'end of an era' celebrations. The team was a mixture of ex student mates from Sheff Hallam (Jan Molby's X1) and Leeds met (No Name FC - Leeds uni champs) and we were up against a team from Swindon who had been coached by Jimmy Quinn.

The game was being covered by bbc choice and the production crew had given us a wedge of cash as we were being bussed to Wembley the night before the game. At the time the majority of the team were working and living in London, so our bus journey was a short one from Hq to the team hotel. Obviously this money was spent on crates of lager and the team managed to get lubricated en route and then at the team hotel. I think I made it to bed at 4am very oiled, with the ko at noon next day.

Pre match and I am still ming monged and we get a tour and introduced to Mark Bright and John Inverdale who were commentating and narrating the programme. I obviously dropped some banter in with Brighty about his missus at the time (Michelle Gayle), this didn't go down to well and he swerved it. The Bright stuff was to get his own back, in commentary he quipped about the No Name FC number 6 (me), 'he wouldn't even make a Sunday league footballer'. I must admit the alcohol had its affects on me as I knocked out a drab 3/10 performance on the hallowed turf of Wembley. Losing 5 v 1!!!

Post that day, I am not a big fan of his commentary/punditry tbh!!! I wonder why???

kinboshi did it before you tbf

Met Levi Roots off of Reggae Reggae sauce in a Tesco in Leicester.


Ashley Giles?

     were u on blockbusters claire?

I once played in a best out of 3 game tennis match at a charity event against John McEnroe at Wimbledon (in the town) and despite losing 2-0 in games I won a point when my kick serve was too hot for him to handle and he put it in the net!

Saw Candice from Cora at The Trafford Centre

Saw Graeme Souness at Orlando Airport

Ha where do i begin!

 ;popcorn;

i once shook the hand of james dempsey

I was there when some random heard iron's singing and shouted "fuck your wheels son, I'm a magician!"

whilst he was taking a piss?

great thread ...many fun posts

my Mrs used to do Robbie savages ironing

when i was about 10 Willie Thornie bumped into me spilling my drink and bought me another

I sat next to Rupinder Bedi on Tues night at a home game

FYP
my Mrs used to do Robbie Savage
I sat on Rupinder Bedi
YOU WIN end of thread

A-Z listers is fine. We don't descriminate in ITT

I once saw Chris kamara at Leeds Bradford airport!!

Went on a cruise for our 10th anniversary. I ended up on stage playing Bullseye with Jim Bowen hosting. Unfortunately I was paired with a woman (not the wife) who could neither throw darts nor answer the most trivial of trivia questions.

Super, smashing, lovely, great.

I know Kinboshi.  Rumour has it he won something once, but he doesn't like to mention it.  Does that count?

Just remembered another one which happened to me. This is proper scraping the barrell.

I was in the lounge at Heathrow waiting to fly to New York with my then girlfriend. I was sitting there sipping my cocktail whilst my missus was in the bathroom. Some geezer came and sat on one of the two seats at my table and ordered 3 slices of toast and a pint of stella, which was pretty weird. He then leans over and says " sorry if you feel uncomfortable because everyone is staring at me, its because I am a Celebrity" I actually laughed at him and said "oh, are you???? what do you do" drawing a gasped breath he said " don't you watch tv?" i said " yes, sometimes" he then asks me what i watch. i reel off soccer am, come dine with me, babestation.. the usuals. he asked me if i had ever seen big brother. i said " I watched the first season, but after that i thought it was shit" he then goes to confess he is the one and only sree from big brother 10... then continued to tell me how he had nailed loads of the chicks in the house etc etc how he is making a tonne.... Absolute prick. He even had his own name on the back of his top. Also told me he was sponsored by Corona, before asking me get my phone out and google images him.

For those of you like me who had no idea:

(http://www.mrpaparazzi.com/image/df12f9f5-d/Sree.jpg)

(http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/jun2009/2/9/image-1-for-big-brother-10-gallery-487656681.jpg)

I've got a photo of me & Sidney Poitier (he'd just finished filming, I was a little kid & complained that he smelled of sweat).  :dontask:

I sat chatting with James Garner in JFK airport.

I've had a few drinks with Aztec Camera/ Big Country & Mike Peters/ Capercaillie (all at different times).

I've shared a lift with Paul Robinson from Neighbours.

I chatted up the short bird from Coupling, in front of her fiancée.  ;ashamed;

I've managed to insult De La Soul, (all 3 of them).

I let Jason McAteer and John Aldridge tee off in front of us the other day so they didn't get stuck behind our society comp.

He was a guest speaker at our local rugby club. He was so f'ckin shit it was unbelievable.

I played Blackjack next to Shadow from Gladiators. 

warrior plays poker regular in the manchester area.

When working in the local paper shop I used to serve the lad that ran onto the pitch and was smacked by Brian Clough.

Nice. wp! we need a new letter in the alphabet for this story! Love it. Keep em coming.

That's like my mate's gran lives next door to Jamie Carragher. (which is true) Has never taken me to visit her though. sigh.

Yea had him on my left at bolton once!

that would have been 4 seats taken up then. hope it was 6 max ;)

sticking with gladiators, cobra was a regular in a garage I used to run near brands hatch. murray walker once got stuck in the carwash there, barry mcguigan was always in as well

got a train with john mccrirrick from gravesend

sting stayed at my house once cos he didn't want to go to a hotel

worked on movies with patrick swayze, julia roberts, sean bean and the bird who played nora batty amongst others

mariah carey bought puppies from my mum

danielle hope was apparently asking about me the other day

did a 6 month run at the national theatre with timothy spall and adrian scarborough

had a night out on the lash with the 2003 world's strongest man contestants

could go on and on with this list but I'm boring myself now

my mate once shared a cell with warrior. said he was never so pleased someone had abused his self with steroids as much as warrior did

Proper B list effort - had a cup of tea made for me by this No.1 selling UK artist at the height of her "fame". In her own kitchen.
For the young ones, this really was a No.1, but more of a number 2 in my book.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCH1IlOfDTM

Plenty for me

Went to school with Sean Pertwee

(http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00396/sean_pertwee_396894a.jpg)

which meant as I was his mate I went round the gaff of his dad

(http://doctorwho.edogo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/pertwee.jpg)

Went to school with the son of Norman Tebbit

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/uk_politics/04/conservative_conf/img/4.jpg)

and got lifts to cricket matches off his driver!

At University, we played Durham Univ. I knocked this guy down in a nightclub in an argument over a brunette. He became England Rugby Captain

(http://www.nyt.co.uk/willcarling.jpg)


Have put on lots of Sky Poker events

Best guests

Dennis Taylor, who fretted about us paying for a taxi from his home in Blackburn to Manchester

(http://news.brackenwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dennis_taylor.jpg)

Kitty Lea, who won a Tighty SNG. It was worth a shot

(http://grub.gunaxin.com/wp-content/gallery/kitty-lea/kitty-lea-2.jpg)

Mickey Hazard. Very nice man

(http://www.football-league.co.uk/javaImages/f/71/0,,10794~5665039,00.jpg)

Kenny Sansom

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Kenny_Sansom_April_2011_TB.jpg/220px-Kenny_Sansom_April_2011_TB.jpg)

there's more, but enough for now!

I used to deliver Ellery Hanley's newspaper.

Somegood stories in there.

The best I have is letting Gary Kelly play through me and my mates on a golf course, he teed up with a driver and hit the ball about 20 yards it never left the ground, he didnt mind just reloaded and hit his next one a tiny bit better.

Also was having a few quiet ones in my local when in popped Terry Jenkins and Andy Hamilton, I could have swore Hamilton looked at me funny, he was really lucky I didnt go over and rough him up, But i did have a little chat with jenks as he was leaving. Nice blokes.

i was once one of 2 people in a late night bar, I look across and the other bloke is Lee Sharpe (my boyhood hero)

Had a nice pint & chat before it was rudely interrupted by my gf

A few years ago I was staying at the Marriott Hotel in Sheffield when Ray Wilkins offered to by me a drink at the bar. Don't know how but I ended up paying for his.
He was there with the Millwall team.
Later on he was drinking red wine by the bucket full roaming around from table to table, basically if there was a woman sat at the table he'd be there.
By about 11pm he was absolutely wasted and slumped over an easy chair asleep in a drunken stupor. Gary McAllister came over to me and asked me to help him to his room stating he always did this. lol

Working as a volunteer in the backstage area at Glasto in 2009 my daughter was chatted up by the lead singer of The Hoosiers - given that she was wearing an Orange hi-viz vest, wellies and rubber gloves it was a bit weird to say the least.

Oh and for those of you with young children, I worked the front of stage pit at a festival last year for Justin Fletcher...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tkt7N7JFjI

and finally on the festival front - I've met the man behind the wig and glasses... Mundo Jazz, and if you only click one link today - click this one :-)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cz5XHAyv3g

david3103 wins the prize for obscurity. I have no idea who any of those 3 people are

Superb!! i was wandering how long it would be til we had the first 'my daughter was chatted up by' story. WP!

Did old Irwin Sparkes get anywhere?

I was Lorraine Kelly's chauffeur once for a GMTV 'fun in the sun' report. We were in Inverness.
I was Nickelback's masseur when they did a gig in Glasgow Barrowlands.
I played snooker with Davie Cooper and Bobby Russell (Glasgow Rangers).

Good thread Milligan, wp.

My fav story so far has to be Dave getting abused by Ronnie for no apparent reason!!

However - to explain -
The Hoosiers are were a popular beat combo who enjoyed some small success in the hit parade in their day
Justin Fletcher is currently the UK's most popular Children's Entertainer
and Mundo Jazz is ...http://www.mundojazz.co.uk/Mundo_Jazz/Home.html

ooooooooooooh just remembered a good one!

I did some survey work for Koo Stark (photographer and ex prince andrew gf).

She had a lovely mews house in Chelsea. She offered, nay insisted, to drive me back to the station as I had stayed late to get my survey done. On the way back, she said I must come to her new display at a London Gallery, and I told her (sheepishly), that I didnt understand art very well and had never really appreciated it! he said no worries she would personally show me round and explain anything I wanted to know.

(rather sadly she was taken ill in the following weeks so I never did get to take up my appointment)

i was babysitted by Koo Stark, she used to live over the road.

Awesome - I've always been a fan of Mariah's puppies.

Got a load but best one or stupidest was Diddy sending me a magnum of Dom Rose and me sending it back along with a magnum of Cristal Rose saying we don't drink Do

I'd snap accept if it was now tho!

class but is he a b lister?

nah.  was at the time I was following new kids on the block around.  over the road from their hotel in birmingham there was some kind of roadshow thing on in this square.  bob holness was doing some blockbusters thing, and I got picked to go up and play.  as I was the first contestant I got the honour of asking for a P.  Also met Grotbags the same day - happy times :)

I carried Stephen Hawking off a plane and put him in his wheelchair,he said "Thank you very much" in his robot voice when we connected it up.

Had to lean over Claudia Schiffer to change her reading light in first class,it's difficult to descibe how good looking she was.

I was on wacaday in 1988 - with VERY skin tight jeans on and got a snog off micheala strachan MILF.  i think she enjoyed it (i was 12)

I once went out for a beer with Steve Smith Eccles.  Lovely chap.

Junior Hoilett who plays for Blackburn Rovers is my nephew too.  He scored to knock QPR out of the cup in January and I missed the chance to give The Camel a rubdown then so thought this would as good a chance as any ;-)

I got a BJ in Lord David Steel's house (Aikwood Tower)

p.s it was not from David or his wife Judy.

Meh I was trying to say it in a 'PG' way, not offend anyone and its the only thing I could think of.

FMP

fwiw made out>>>>>got off.

Played snooker against quite a few pros when I was younger, some comedy dits from both nights with Alex Higgins and Steve Davis which I think I posted in another thread before

Played £1/2 with Joe Cole at the Vic about 4 years ago. He stacked off with 77 on a AKQJx board. [  ] He cared.

Once saw Pritchard from dirty Sanchez in a pub in Cardiff once!!

In Embassy, wanted whole VIP area for a celebration- problem was Carlton Cole and Nigel Reo-Coker was in there, they were asked to leave, Reo-Coker asked for a bottle of Cristal as a bribe to leave, he was given it and left, we asked Carlton Cole to stay as he was just gonna leave quietly, nice guy, told us he was expecting a move to Arsenal, this was 2 years ago

people i've seen in airports/on planes at train stations/on trains

Hulk Hogan
Aston Villa squad c1999
LL Cool J
bloke who's name I can't remember - Jeremy something - used to go out with Rachel Stevens
Jilly Goulden
Michael Buerk
Paul Whitehouse
Keith from the Office
Ian Brown
Rob Newman

Made Shabnab (spelling) from big brother audition in front of us in a club once when she told us she was pursuing a singing career and we had no idea who she was, told her i was David Cowell and head of Simons label. She was terrible and flipped and started screaming at us when we said she needed a new dream

Went Dorchester tonight for drinks and dinner, Sharon Osbourne swearing next to us

Jade Goody nicked my cab once, shouted out "get that minger out my cab"- her bf got angry, Jack Tweedy, one of my friends who posts on here was drunk and seemed to think he was Callum Best and shouted abuse at him that made no sense unless u are Callum Best.

Seen Callum Best hit Sid Owen on a table once. Proper B list war

Luckily no longer partake in that life, pretty cringy reading back over it tbh- but have like 100+ stories- including hitting on a girl who asked my opinion on reality tv, i said thought it was a total joke and intended for complete idiots, she then told me she was on this years big brother and first voted out. Point proven obv- scouse girl, no idea name

I used to work in the hotel/restaurant/outside catering business and so have come across quite a few celebs.
 
 Organised end of show party for Tom Cruise/ Mission Impossible. He didn't want to pay for any champagne/bubbly!

Also end of show parties for loads of BBC shows, including Only Fools several years running.
 
 Had to look after a heavily pregnant Madonna at a film screening. Took along every soft drink I could think of for her.......and of course she wanted something I didn't have...ginger ale!
 
Billy Connolly was filming and staying in my hotel when he decided to write off his car on the M4......had to pack all his stuff up and send it back to London.

Michael Caine came to stay for a few weeks....and I was told to order in a whole cellar of Pauillac wine.
 
When into Hampstead Police Station once to report something and ending up looking after two very expensive looking, lost cats, which were waiting to be collected by Noel Gallagher.

Used to live opposite the Redknapps when Jamie and Mark were kids.


 

A Brazil Legends team played Exeter City back in c.2002/3 to raise funds for the Grecians and they ended up wandering into a night club where I was later that night. I happened to know one of the girls who was liaising with the team and ended up back at the team hotel and had a pint with Dunga, Aldair, Careca, Paulo Sergio and some other players i forget.

I worked in a pub in Covent Gardens that had loads of celebs popping in.

David Essex... my childhood hero. I was in the bar upstairs and wouldnt go down and say hello because i had a streaming cold and a nose like Rudolf. Apparently he is very short...would have shattered my dreams im sure.

Russ Abbot...lovely man and very funny, had the whole bar in stitches.

Ted Rogers (321 host).... total prat.

Biggest claim to fame was propping Nicholas Lindhurst in Spain..needless to say he was not interested :/

Knocked him out of a Sky bounty game with a bad beat...Kara Scott was gobsmacked LOL

Met Roy brown Twice backstage at his gigs in batley!

Used to be really good friends with rebecca adlinton (double gold medal winning swimmer).

Dame Ellen mcarthur is a distant cousin of some sort on my dads side. He explained it to me once, I couldn't rly care. What the link is :) (sailing round the world on her tod fame).

Eric Bristoe was almost my godfather, as was John Lowe. (of darts fame).

Lee Westwood is a friend of the family on my dads side (can't win a masters for love nor fking money, no matter how much i lump on him fame)

Good stories, I liked Milligan's about Sree from Big Brother and Dubai's about Jade Goody/Jack Tweedy.

Dubai, didn't you once run into some of the Everton footballers?

In Wales they call him *phlegm* Cool J

Big Laz would have been all over this thread!

Jimmy Tarbuck, Eric Clapton, Robbie Coltrane, Martin O'Neill.....

Growing up in Formby (Liverpool but so far removed lol) footballers are part of daily life, lived two doors down from Ray Clemence as a kid, worked in a pub where Ronnie Whelan & Gary Gillespie were regulars, pub owned by ex Man City Ian Bishop, Steven Gerrards mum also a reg, and occaisonally the man himself popped in.

I was a witness to Stan Boardman's will.

I had to retrieve my Ultraglow blusher brush (women will understand) from Derek hatton's curry on Valentine's night (very long story)

Met Bob Monkhouse when on Wipeout.

Dated a Brookside actor and a Liverpool player - at the same time.

Argued with Edwina Currie on live TV and won. No shock there.


Quite a few more I guess if i stopped to think about it. Probably best not to.

Two new favourites for me, arguing with Edwina Curry on national TV and carrying Stephen Hawking off a plane. Abso fantastic!!

Just remembered another one:

When i was young I remember my mum telling me Steve Davis could of been my dad. I was like WTF???? She explained.... The week she started going out with my 'real' dad she went to the Barbican Centre in York to watch Stevie D pot some balls, with her friends. After the match Steve Davis asked my mum if she would like to come back to his hotel room.... She told me she snap refused but my guess it was more of a slow roll... Any ways.., roll on 23 or so years and I am on Laddies playing some Celeb bounty hunter tournament thing, when who do i see sat at my table.. but Mr Davis himself. I couldn't let this opportunity pass, so In the chat box I asked him if he remembered such an event, he was pretty funny tbh, he said " Can't remember exactly, stuff like that happened a lot back then, but by the sounds of it you had a lucky escape, your'e not Ginger are you" I laughed and said nice one. Just to clarify. I am NOT ginger!

Are you "interesting"?

Similar story but the man in question was Jim Bowen, sick swerve  :D

Not remotely! oh man, it all adds up now! He owes me for 27yrs worth of bday presents!


Jim Bowen would be class!

Driving up the M6 once to the lakes many many years ago we spotted a private plate J80 WEN and sure enough it was Jim Bowen in the passenger seat being driven by a chauffuer.

Stage dived once at an Ugly Kid Joe concert and my top came off. Really was nothing to see there.

Was dragged to see Shed Seven by a mate, got into a discussion with a guy there about the music, my point being with so many good bands out at the time, Shed 7 seemed so middle of the road, on a par with Cast. The guy turns out to be in Cast. He didn't take offence though, took us backstage afterwards. Still think Shed Seven are shite though.

Gene Wilder. An icon for me, loved everything he did all my life so I still cringe when I think of this next tale. Friend & I went on a drunken day out to London on the pretext of Xmas shopping. We were stumbling down a side street towards some market when Gene Wilder came out of the stage door of a theatre, to meet a group of autograph hunters. For a reason known only to no one, I shouted "Gene Gene you're a loving machine" and we ran away. Was gutted to find out my mate didn't even know who he was. Still gutted every day when I think of what a complete dick he must have thought i was.

met queen and prince charles in 1965,as a lad of about 9 we lived in a big rambling place near sandringham norfolk,one day a smart gent and a lad of about 14 turned up at our front gate asking for a bucket of water for there car which was pulled onto the verge a couple of hundred yards down the road,while my dad and the gent whent around the side of our house to get required water me and my brother gave the lad the third degree , what school do you go to,whos your favourite footballer,do you collect there pictures of the sides of typhoo tea packets like we do ect,
dad reappeared with bucket of water and whent with lad and gent to put it in car raidiator,telling us to wait by the gate and not to follow.
when he came back he told us all that was the queen in the car and she had thanked him for his assistance,the lad was prince charles and the gent was the chaufer.....we never did recieve any plack saying....by royal appointment water carriers to her majesty.....



if any one is at the wedding today and they see the old bint could you ask if they have finished useing it can we have  our bucket back please ,ty

Oh, Mouth has just reminded me.  My aunt used to live in Formby too and she used to cut the hair of some of the Liverpool players including Dalglish, Clemence and Hughes.  Ray Clemence used to live on the next street to them, and his daughter is about my age and was at a birthday party (my cousin's I think) when I was 7.  Ray Clemence picked me up and sat me on his shoulder.

On a different note, I was working for my Dad once (he used to run nightclubs and then went on to run the Festival Hall in Corby, so I got to meet lots of z-listers) - and was chatting to Kevin and Sally Webster from Corrie in the bar (no idea what their real names are).  They are both about 5' tall.

Obv a made up story.. there are no "streets" in Formby, just roads. Would put money on knowing your aunt, where did she work?

 ;tightend;

She had her own salon.  Her name's Eileen.  No idea what the salon was called.

I was in love with Micheala and used to tape the hitman and her...

Everyone loved her for some reason, The Hitman and her played at a club called Manhattans in Southport (may have still been called palm Beach back then, far too many years ago), do you remember the lead dancer guy, a big black fella? He smelt worse than rancid feet wrapped in cheese then puked on.

Everyone loved her for some reason, The Hitman and her played at a club called Manhattans in Southport (may have still been called palm Beach back then, far too many years ago), do you remember the lead dancer guy, a big black fella? He smelt worse than rancid feet wrapped in cheese then puked on.
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Was this a Real Life experience...

I was delivering to her house in Wilminton in kent, dropping off a number of packages she dint realise i was there ( husband let me in), she wanders down stairs starkers, i get a free shot, she runs, i  smile end or :)  Thing the Andy Williams one is better but i suppose he is or was a A lister

I rate wanted to get on fun house so I could drive those gokarts and fondle those two twins!! Oooooh tha wat!!

Put that pic of you and chubby up girgles.

Am on my phone ATM! Anyone know how to post pics on here from iPhone?

Spotted a dropped membership card at the gym, picked it up and thought 'I recognise that ugly face' - belonged to Mr Royston Vasey. Rarely see him in there though (perhaps because he's not generally quite such a morning person as I am)

Sat behind Ross Noble at Eddie Izzard concert. He was really sound, I was pissed and asked him to speak to my brother on the phone as he didn't believe me, was pretty com.

I've mentioned on here before about chatting to Bobby Robson, LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tbf, this is off-topic. Even if Ross Noble isn't full on A list, he's a cut above most, and Sir Bobby Robson anecdotes don't belong in a thread that has mentioned Dean Gaffney.

I wasn't going to post but then people have mentioned Sean Connery, Claudia Schiffer and a few others so assumed people are just saying anyone.

To bring this thread back to it's correct level -
I once had a piss standing next to Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards

About 7 years back went to a small private reception at the Dorchester with Princess Anne. Skinned up on the way there and was completely stoned by the time we got there. Could not stop laughing and while I stood in the receiving line kept on practicing my curtsey - very badly and pissing myself laughing. The guy that I was with kept on miming that he was wanking and we both thought we were hilarious.

She met us last and was stuck with us until dinner was announced, she was too polite to say anything. I regret being so disrespectful but I had a bloody good time!

I got shoved against a wall at the French Open by Steffi Graf's bodyguards. (have met her several times before and since)

Played in a football game against Ajax youth team in Holland - We lost 12-1!

- Had a chat to Bobby Charlton just before England V scotland at euro 96.
- Was at Orient away game a few years ago in directors area, and des lynam tabbed me on shoulder to get to the seat next to me
- Sven goran erikkson when england manager sat behind me in directors area at charlton when they played leeds at home (2-6 i think, viduka with 4. my friends dad is a director of charlton)
- not me, but my dad has had dinner with Pele.
- Was washing cars when around 15, one guy answered the door, and said no - that was Peter Taylor! (he was southend manager at the time - his daughter is FIT)

A girl I work with gave Chris Eubank a blow job while he was fully kitted out in his riding gear  ;D

LMAO

I met Roy OHanlon when playing at Rivered cardroom Brentwood.

awesome

How many feet are u allowed between you and steffie graf?

All grade celebs are welcomed. Originally it was B- list for comical purposes but we can't neglect people stories just coz they met a finer breed of celeb.



^^^^^
My new favourite!!  Pissing next to Eddie the Eagle is also pretty com.


Do love Ross Noble but he is far from A list or a cut above most imo. I would say over 70% of the country outside the North East wouldn't even know who he was.

Gaffney, Micheala strachon, P diddy, Connery, Gordon the gopher, Brad Pitt, Mariah, Dion Dublin... All stories welcome. Might go and Edit the op to avoid further confusion.

this

just googled him though and he looks like the bloke who organises the bands for the fox and firkin in lewisham ('cept he's ginger)



lolz, doubt woodsey has any story that doesn't involve people putting weird shit in their mouths

excellent thread!

Saw frankie boyle at victoria train station, decided that if I pretended I didn't know who he was and asked for a cigarette he'd definitely oblige. He did and we had a hilarious 10 minute converstation about why he hates trains

Had a chat with Katie Weisel (sp?) from this years X factor in regents park last week

I guess these wouldn't be B listers but I was on the same flight to New York as Victoria Beckham and her (3 at the time) kids. The flight back the Queen was on board. Bently pulls up on the tarmac for her before us plebs can get off the plane and queue for immigration

did you put it on her?

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nice work girgles!

separated at birth?

lols

Reminds me I once had a piss at Darlington station next to David Bellamy.  Whole thread reminded me of a pretty funny story from Paul Gardeners blog revilving around Des O'Connor. http://goldenballs-wwwpaulsblogcom.blogspot.com/ It is the top story.

Brilliant. ;D

that confused me for a minute, was expecting a photo of simon nowab

:D

1. Used to live next door (and my mum still lives next door to their dad) to Basil & Craig Richards (Basil played for Warrington & Craig played for Bradford Bulls) Their cousin Dean Richards was a BCAFC defender (Bradford City Athletic Football Club) player who recently died of a brain hemorrhage aged 36, so sad :(

2. Bumped into Graham Taylor at the services after an England match when he asked me 'do you know where I can get some food?' my response..'how the feck should I know, I 've been to the England match'...his response...'aye love..so have I'  ;)

3. Sat on Gary glitters knee during 'do ya wanna be in my gang' circa 1977 though I can't be exactly sure of the date as I was a mini-me at the time

4. PERSONALLY met Bodie & Doyle...(AVENGERS FOR YOU YOUNG UNS)...signed mi arm an everyfink

more laterz

xx

This is the most disturbing thing I have ever read on Blonde.

In retrospect, how do you think I feel......

ewwwwwwwwwwww just no need lol

xx

Paul Usher used to live a few mins from me, met him many a time drinking in my local too..

Had a piss in cubicle next to bolo zenden at Gala casino teesside

Met Brian Deane at a club in leeds, sound guy apart from me shouting DEANO DEANO whilst his 2 foot away! [ ] He stayed around

wow. Just wow. That's one expensive therapy bill.

Liz Hurley was fortunate enough to attend the same school has me (albeit a couple of years younger).

Davey Payne (Spider the saxophonist with Ian Drury) became a good friend and regular customer during my time as taximan,living just a few doors from our office, many other minor celebrities carried during this time also

I Saw Day V Lately coming out of HMV in Wakefield.

I used to sit at a desk facing Tamasin Day-Lewis (Sister of Daniel) when she was a documentary producer at BBC, she is now a TV chef I think.

Professionals, surely?

Sold a laptop to Phil 'The Power' Taylor. Met Peter Kay a few times, Sam Allardyce, Ian Dowie. Most of the cast of Corrie a few years ago.

Lived opposite Nigel Planer for 2 years ( Neil from Young Ones), met most of the England RWC winning squad in 98/99, in particular Jason Leonard ( we inhabited the same pub and kebab house)

Nice to see someone is paying attention ;)

xx

went to a party in glasgow and frank macavennie was there ,while he was telling all his football stories, i banged his sister in the toilet, i then helped myself to his vodka that was in the kitchen........what a legend !!!!

Oh dear, shaggin birds in toilets.. Class..!! lol

think i saw blonde member rob sherwood walking down piccadily in manc today.

haha, you or Franky Mac?

Superb

You did well to get to number 4....most of us had to have a lie down after the Glitter revelations.

Might I recommend a stiff brandy to ease the pain?

xx

Ooh just remembered another one!

Went to see "Bottom" at Southport Theatre ( ade edmondson & rik Mayall for the uninitiated) and as usual most of the gags involved underpants and similar.

Both ade & rik were singing a song about wearing your pants on your head, Rik mayall was waving an enormous pair of grundies about. I decided now would be a good time to stand up, turn round and pull a moonie, anout 4 rows away from the stage. (This was a few years back and my arse was still where it was meant to be, not hanging down by my the backs of my knees as it is now)

Rik Mayall nearly fell off the stage laughing and ended up throwing the massive pants to me. However his aim was crap and someone is the front aisle got them, which I still feel quite disapointed about to this day.

Moonie to Rik Mayal????

I think you might be my new hero

xx

I played rugby against Peter Wheeler - was only a charity match so obviously I wasn't trying much or owt  ::)

Went round to Barry Dudleston's house to buy a cricket bat from him. He was on my mum's post round. Whilst on said post round, she was stopped by Shaw Taylor and asked for directions.

Peter Wheeler, Barry Dudleston & Shaw Taylor. I claim my prize.

Brian Kilcline lives in my village, see him in the pubs a fair bit. Haven't asked him for an arm wrestle yet though.
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I can do B-List....

Was on a competition live on TRL on MTV to win a Kiss from Nell McAndrew.... I lost!

Saw Chico at Manchester Piccadilly, with a few mates so asked him can we have a photo, his reponse "Is it that time again"... Still a d1ck!

Saw Tubes out in leicester square... Thought it funny to ask, "Got any questions Tubes....." he did not find this funny!

Got Andy Gray to sign my programme at a chelsea match, He walked off with my Programme and never gave it back. I was too young/scared to shout after him.

Thought I would save mine till today. Shared a room on holiday with this guy, cracking person and I am absolutely delighted for him.

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come on eck, full story plz

lol what story Trigg? the holiday was a long time ago and a fairly uneventful golfing week staying in Stephen Hendry's villa in Spain. Most memorable part was John puking over our luggage after a night out.

errrrm, how do you know all these guys? who won at golf?

Oh, I used to work near Spencers snooker hall where they practised I would regularly go in for lunch as a friend of mine was also playing professionally (Billy Snaddon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Snaddon)). They were a good bunch and I sometimes used to 'practise' a bit with Alian Robidoux (when I say practise I mean he would give me 100 of a start).

6 of us went on holiday, the guy that won the golf was working in the met in the anti-terrorism team at that time. He knew that when he got back from holiday he would have to come back up to Scotland to raid a suspected IRA house in Sauchie which is where Billy and his family came from but couldn't say a thing about it to anyone obviously. He then left the Met to become a caddy on the European tour and I think has left that career to teach English abroad IIRC.

in Sauchie? :)

Been to two concerts and had dinner with Steve Davis

Also had a pint with these guys while waiting to see Los Campesinos!
Unfortunately I was too drunk to think about getting a picture with the lovely Laura-Mary

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Naw naebody can speak English in Sauchie yet....

Went on a stag do to Riga on Friday, was sat in the bar and in walks in a crowd of geezers who i think were off to Lanzarote fronted by none other than Jimmy Bullard. I was gonna get my mates to sit around while i pointed my finger at them like Phil Brown but i thought better of it. We were severley out numbered.

One from my past.

Was out shopping in Milton Keynes, as i walked out of the toilet i bumped into the chest of this guy:

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He is 6ft 9 and has a horrendous limp. Turns out he plays this guy:

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Turns out it was some collection convention type thing. Also saw Willow Uffgood which was pretty cool.

Chris Tarrant called me a dickhead.  ;D

cant believe no one has said greco yet.

B list. Not Z.

always said he was a good judge of charavter

 ;bumwiggle; ;)

I nearly had a really good one today.

was driving around with the radio on earlier and they'd just played some recent track.  when it had finished i recognised the name of the artist as that of my lab partner/mate from college about 10 years ago.  He was also a musician and I went to a few of his gigs and stuff and was pretty impressed.  Was quite excited to think that that might be him on the radio and was pretty convinced it must be coz not a common name.  

Obv wasn't him.  Wasn't even the same bloody name.  mishearaments.  sigh.

oh i also found out the other day that my aunt lives on the same street as Wagner from x factor

This is my cousin:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B02OOxzf9fA

and here he is just before his biggest gig:

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got thrown out of a bar in new york for being a typical brit abroad and hurling drunken abuse at lady gaga...

thread winner imo.

Literally bumped into Andy Bell from Erasure last week near St Pancras.

I was surprised as I thought he was dead, but obviously not.

He has resurfaced on the new series of Popstar to Opera Star

At my nephews birthday party and I was standing next to this scruffy haired man who introduced himself "Hi I'm Robert". It didn't register until 15 minutes later who he was.
It was Robert Plant, one of his kids was at school with my nephew. ;noflopshomer;

I got stabbed 5 times by Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden and didn't realise it was him until someone pointed it out to me afterwards. I couldn't have been chibbed by a nicer guy.

He represented GB at fencing didn't he? 

I was trying to work it out myself. Makes sense.

Dave Gilmour bought one of my sisters paintings once

my mum used to go out with Stirling Moss and knew just about every british actor from the sixties (she was an agent).

I played some golf with Frank Mclintock and met most of the arsenal team from the late 80's early 90's when i used to work in a golf shop, I mistook David 'o leary for Niall Quinn or vice versa once when one of them came into the shop.

Was sitting around the clubhouse with some mates when Barry Took walked in (he was a member) soon after the BBC replaced him on points of view, we all chimed in with a chorus of when i'm sixty four, seemed funny at the time seems a bit cruel now.

Did you think "why oh why oh why...?" after?

;marks;

Just seen Colin Jackson walking around my local shopping mall. He looked a lot shorter than I'd imagined.

When I was at Uni in Kingston I worked at the Roehampton Asda on checkouts. Served Lionel Blair, Nerys Hughes and the woman who played Jacko's boss's wife in 'Brush Strokes'. She dropped and smashed a bottle of red on the floor.

Nerys Hughes offered to pay for something the old guy in front of her put back, thinking he'd put it back as he couldn't afford it. He'd just decided he didn't want it.

The guy who did the peoples supermarket called Arthur Potts Dawson - we used to play together as kids, my mum showed me photo of us knocking about together the other day. Exciting eh.

I co-moderate a forum dedicated to a fit female BBC presenter, with said fit female BBC presenter. She's quite groovy and joins in, I've seen a few risque caps disappear though.

Name ?

I played golf with Shakin Stevens and Tom O Connor

LM ;)

BBC news?

 :)up

Lol at shakin Stevens

Reminds me of a
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I used to use a bookmakers shop owned by Percy Lewis, former British Empire featherweight boxing champ..

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In my early teens, my parents used to run the social club at Witney Town FC. I got to know this guy, who was coach for 18 months or so in 1970/1..

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When I was at school, I thought it was cool that I was in the same class as the sister of an Oxford Utd footballer. In recent years I have bought a washing machine, fridge/freezer and a tumble dryer from his white goods shop..

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I lived with Constantine Paparestis for 6 months. Was fucking hard work that :)

My gran's brother Maurice (moe) Walker
Trained Richard Dunn for his world title fight against Muhammad Ali   in Munich 1976!

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I found these amongst my grans things when she passed away.

I bumped into Andy Cole (ex Newcastle & Man Utd) at the airport yesterday.
[X] He was nice enough to say sorry even though I bumped into him.
[  ] Yves St Laurent luggage with matching manbag looks good on a bloke.

My former next-door-but-one neighbour's nephew was the lead singer of Supergrass.

Best thread ever obviously.

Teddy Sheringham came up to m at a poker tournament and said "Are you the Camel?" When I nodded yes he said "Pleased to meet you, my name is Teddy"

Shane Warne bought me a beer once.

A lad I've worked with for 6 months told me on Thursday he was a session drummer with Savage Garden on their US tour a few years ago. He said it was awesome because as the 2 main men were gay he and the rest of the musicians got to shag the groupies. Lol

Had a pint with Neil Lennon in a hotel bar in Dublin

Met Louis Theroux on a train, had an interesting conversation about vegas, gambling etc.

When I was a fitness instructor I gave a Gym Induction to Helen Baxendale just before she became famous in Doctors.

Jeff Astle used to clean my late Grandma's windows.

Celtic once bought me dinner at the "Luton G"

When I worked at the Tamworth Snow Dome I worked with "Eddie The Eagle Edwards"

When I was 18 and out on the town with my brother, Rolf Harris stopped his car to ask directions to a gig he was doing in Birmingham and obv we sent him miles from where he needed to be and the rest of the night had "Can you guess where I am yet?" running through our teenage minds.

I once drove Dubai to DTD from Essex for a Tourney but he then showed his  "A List" celeb status by Balling all the way home in a taxi!!!

I met SuBo's cat several times and saw the great ladies ankles once. The woman who lived above my sister was somehow resonsible for babysitting her cat when she went on tour.

Winner?

I once penned a poker article that was listed as 'my poker life by Dick and Dom'

Phil Laak once emailed me to say thanks.

TV's Tony Kendall bought me an $8 shake last night.

I once urinated in the toilets on Wembley way and shook hands with Billy Whitehurst who was pissing next to me at he same time, it ended up being a kind of two way penis in one hand shaking the other persons hand with the free hand at the same time ( we never talk about it)

I once urinated in the tiny portable toilets they used to have at the Rio and shook hands with The Camel who was pissing next to me at he same time, it ended up being a kind of two way penis in one hand shaking the other persons hand with the free hand at the same time ( we never talk about it)

Alex Higgins once told me to **** off at The Crucible as I was trying to calm him down after one of the cashier girls replied to his question 'Do you not know who I am' with the reply      'yes you used to be a snooker player but you are just pissed now'

ah that reminds me.  i used to live over the road from the house where they trained the blue peter guide dogs and met bonnie.

I also once had a filthy curry with internet hero 'bobby1'

lol, that was a great night, Ironside should be posting on here that he has a picture of you stiing on a table showing us exactly how the story you had just told us was physically possible.

( If you were an Olympic gymnast that is)

Lol - had totally forgotten about that. I'm almost certain there are no such picyures in existance - wasnt it you and cupcake that did the re-creation?

It was and I still feel cheap. He didn't ring me for at least a week afterwards.

I was young and naive. ;booboo;

How did you respond given that he probably knew that you already knew who he was?

I met him in Dublin at the Irish Open, he was with Tony Cascarino and still signed for West Ham at the time.  i asked him if he was injured and he said no but thats what he told the gaffer so he could play the poker tourney... Legend.

Agreed Incred. i was there..

Tell the truth you went dutch didn't you?  It would still count as a claim to fame you know!!!

 I am the voice of Northern Rail. Maybe more of a claim to an embarrassment , but there you go.

I've met the lady who is the voice of Northern Rail.

I'n the early 80s there was about 4 of us who were all aged 18 and .1 of the lads was chris Evans he lived I'n orford and was dating my mates sister . We all went Tenerife as lads hols . He was just stArting out as dj at wArrrington hospital . He actually got her pregnant and Eventually paid her nice lump sum 18 years later . When ge got his big break with Piccadilly radio he never kept I'n touch . His mum still lives near us and to be honest once he became big celebrity never botherd with any of the lads . The other claim 2 fame was we had a party when parents away and a page 3 model I'n the 80s slept I'n my mum and dads bed with a few of us but nothing happend ( what a shame ) can't name here as I don't kiss and tell

You mean the wife might read it?

Does he have anything to do with his child now?

Last I heard he never botherd with her . Saw her about a year ago she got a nice 4 bed house only got paid out when her daughter was around 16 .

Thats nonesense - read both his autobiographys

When he moved to London he never botherd with his daughter and they llived I'n council house . She worked I'n boots Chemist and only got  1 large payment it was very large . Only have 1 side of events never read his books as once he went London he never kept I'n touch with most of us . He did very well and good luck to him . But you should never forget your roots

Does anyone ever write anything bad about themselves?

Are you listening Tony?

No but pretty sure if he lied about being back in touch with his daughter it would make the press

Not saying what he did was right or wrong, but it's not the case that he isn't bothering with her at all

His daughters mum kept a very low profile for the sake of privacy . He offerd to buy his mum a brand new house which she declined and she still lives I'n same council house opposite the paper shop he worked as a paper lad . I guess we will never know all the truth . Was going to tell about premiership footballers I met I'n cab but they do my head I'n 1 especially is rude stinks of alcohol and never tips . The others I've took training ground for European matches are sound and good tippers

George best use to drink in my pub in London, The Devonshire arms in Manchester square off Oxford Street, He only drank half a largers the true sign of an alcholic, Sat next to Bono on a flight to the states, saw David Beckham at Manchester Airport whilst flying to Australia, Bobby George the Darts  player also came into my pub, and was in Yates bar in Manchester when Ryan Gggs was a young pup and he was bladdered. Kerry Catona use to come into my house as my girlfriend at the time was going out with her son when i lived in Warrington.

Kerry Catona is your mum?!

perhaps it was an open relationship

lol, i was going out with a slapper, her son was going out with another slapper, kk

still confused.  isn't her son about 5?

lets try again........... i was going out with a woman who had a son, her son was going out with Kerry Katona

Are you sure lol

im confused now Jas

Pmsl. You may as well go the whole hog and claim to have been the taxi driver who married her

No that was me.

You should have treated her better lol

What's this on Facebook about your bird shitting on you

I know what we're the chances of getting shit on?

My mate was on the train home and bumped into Warwick Davis (Willow) who was kind enough to let him take a selfie together. Got me thinking of this thread, so buuuuuuump.

Surely someone has a new story or two over the last year?

This year I had to interview Daniel Negraneau over the phone. I was at home, he was in Dublin

I was asking questions and shorthand transcribing the answers, while another tab was on twitter

Mid interview he tweeted that because his luggage had not arrived from the states and his clothes he had travelled in were in laundry that he was doing a media interview over the phone naked

I think I managed two more minutes before making my excuses.

I worked in a pretty famous hotel during my twenties and met loads of celebs. Ronald Reagan, Dolly Parton and loads of bands playing Glastonbury. I remember getting plastered with The Beautiful South one night which was fun.

Imagine this though. Dom Jolly stayed for Christmas with his Mrs and toddler and guess who's job it was to be Father Christmas? Yep. Yours Truly.

I was stood outside his massive suite stinking of booze from a mental Christmas Eve bender just shitting my pants. It was the longest ten minutes of my life.

Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence turned up for lunch and ended up staying the night. I showed them to their room and from the moment the lift door closed they just sucked each other's face off right in front of me. What a pair of sluts. He was dead six months later.

Drinking in a pub in Kew last week with Ray Brooks.

No big deal.

 ;applause;

Loved that programme.

I wonder why it's never been repeated?

When my and the wife flew to newyork for our honeymoon, Coleen whatserface (now rooney) was on the same flight on the way to get her wedding dress

once worked security at a V festival, got insulted by the badly drawn boy chap in front of the crowd, and caught one of the sugarbabes at the bottom of the stage ramp when she tripped

was at RAF Odiham when Angelina Jolie was filming the chinook helicopter scene for tombraider 2

served Steve Cram a pint or two when working in a bar in Doncaster

i'm sure i have many more of the above if i think about it

Flew business class back from Vegas last year (GIQ)

Also in that section of about 30 people were Patrick Antonius and Adrian Newey (one for the F1 fans)

Also on the flight was Max Pescatori, but I think he was further back...



Last year, I walked past Ray Davies at Dublin airport. Not sure whether he counts as B list. Maybe B+

Ya. Ray Davies is a bit of a legend. He was of course married to Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. I played a lot of snooker with Martin Chambers who was their drummer. I was just a kid, maybe 12 years old till about 16 and only found out who he was years later.

I think he still lives in Bath. He had these massive ginger sideburns and was a lovely bloke too.

Coincidentally I too wondered that recently.

It is available on DVD  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Deal-Complete-BBC-Series/dp/B000FL79JY

I once played a night of poker with Steve Davies. Stu had phoned me earlier in the day to say that there was a DC game running, and would I like to play. At the time, I was sat in my room in uni with my buddy Adrian, complaining about the amount of work we had to do and the lack of time we had to do it. Anyway, didn't even mention this to Stu, just snap got in the car and turned up at Dusk half an hour later. Few hours in "Seat available on Dealer's Choice for Steve Davies", and he sat down on my direct left. Proceeded to tell the whole table how he had no idea what he was doing or what the games were, chose Stud Hi/Lo on his first round and Irish on his second, but we weren't having any of it. He sharked the shit out of me in a Padooki pot when I discovered how hard it was to bluff a guy with a lot of money and a made 10. Anyway, thoroughly nice guy, spent a long time chatting with him after that hand. Turned out he wasn't half bad at poker, and was a very normal sorta guy, just a bit balla.

Did he just suddenly appear?

Too good.

My Uncle played guitar in a band in the 60's with Jim Lea, the bassist and principle song writer from Slade. He was in both bands at the same time (although Slade was called The 'N Betweens at the time) and wanted to go pro.
He discussed it with my uncles band first, but they all had good jobs at the time and weren't interested.
Slade went pro instead, and the rest, as they say, is history.

It wasn't till a few years ago that my uncle told my dad, who also played guitar, that when Dave originally knocked on the door, it was my dad he was looking to be in the band :)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME0CSktAeTM

Rolf Harris mentioned three times :(

good thread though

my mate fingered cheryl cole (then tweedy) on the dance floor of baja beach club about 6 months before girls aloud were formed.

because he clearly hasnt

When 9 or 10, wrote to Peter Taylor, then boss of Southend United, asking if we could ask him a few questions for a school paper. Got a personal letter back inviting me and my mate to training and to interview him at Roots Hall. Spent an hour with us, showed us around, took us onto the pitch to meet Ronnie Whelan, Chris Powell, Simon Royce. Even apologised for turning the air blue when he rocked up at training. Really nice guy, glad he got the one game shot as England manager.

Got sacked 3 days later. Never wrote the article.

Other than that, went to school with Joe Thomas (Simon) of Inbetweeners fame.

Got called a fat f**ker by Julian Dicks at a golf driving range.

Shouted drunken abuse at Will Mellor for not having a photo with us.

With the rest of the economy plebs, waited behind Pascal Perrault for Vegas immigration. Times must've been hard.

Had an affair with an england rugby player's (part of the 2003 world cup winning team) wife for 3 years in the late 1990's

.....and lived to tell the tale  :)

I shook Bill Oddie's hand when I was 9

Sold a iPhone to Simon Peggs dad, Simon then calls my shop to have a go at me for selling said phone to his "old fart" of a dad (his words) then proceeded to chat to me on the phone for about 25mins. Cool guy. Ended the call with "your still a wanker, have a good day!"

Lily Allen also bought a £10 Vodaphone top up from me.

Went to uni, and was "close" to BB winner Rach Rice.

Once lost to Judd trump in a snooker comp. he was 8 or 9 and stood on a box.

I managed to get myself on national news, Sky Sports news, and in several of the national newspapers the other week........

David Cameron came to our work and gave us the big speech because of the local by-election.

There I am, plain as day in all of the main pictures!

Didn't have the balls to try and ruin him by asking a question.  Anyway, that's the closest I'll get to being famous.

Sat next to someone on the train a few mornings ago who was texting Ben Fogle.

I know someone that was recently sat next to someone on a train that was texting Ben Fogle.

I have met at a poker table Callum (born to bubble)

He painted some skirting board that's on grand designs tonight :-)

Ha

I know/am related to Harry styles. Great for bulling birds that one!

if i were to tell my daughter that you would have 89523498723045625 PMs by the morning :)

I served Howard Webb a drink before the Carling cup final. I asked him to give stoke a few dodgy penalty decisions for the rest of the season. He didn't even crack a smile or say a word. Awkward

Just received an email with this as the subject line

"Didi Hamann (@DietmarHamann) is now following you on Twitter!‏"

Just checked and it is a verified account with 700k followers!

Wonder how long he'll stay before he gets sick of rants against Tories.

I reckon you getting called out by Martin Lewis was a better one   :P

He probably thought 'here's someone who hates Joey Barton as much as me'

;D

Certainly going to have to be careful slagging off analysts on Match of the Day.

Might be bff's of my new mate Didi.

That was awesome to get a man of his wealth and miserness to actually respond and bite to your tweet is very impressive.

It was a fun afternoon. A hoard of his followers jumped on me to defend their hero.

But they were all so nice, it was almost sweet.

So much more fun than arguing with random Tories and UKIP supporters who always end up hurling abuse and insults.

But Mr Lewis must be terribly insecure to have retweeted me. It was such a mild tweet I sent him!

I like the guy tbh i think he is a perfect example of how keeping things really simple and old school can make you rich in this world.  He doesn't tell you anything that the average accountant or financial advisor couldn't but he seems to have become a £200m+ millionaire off the back of it!  Quite biazzre.

God, just re read the Tweet in question and realised there is an awful grammatical error.

I'm deeply ashamed and might have to resign my position on the Trolls International Tweeting Society.

A touch biased I think!  :D

How any man who is worth 200 mill can quite so excited over saving 36p is beyond me.

Could you imagine going for a beer with him? "Sorry, I can't buy you peanuts because it would mean my round was 82p more expensive than everyone else's and quite simply that is not fair".

should go without saying he'd buy the last round obv.

Maximum chance that he'd buy less rounds than average and over a lifetime might save £163.

I totally agree but he has a way of obviously being a total miser/nerd but appealing to the masses.  Which is a rare skill.

Saving a few pence is just his marketing strategy I doubt he actually does that in real life, I doubt too many actually really follow it to that extreme also.

I'm probably going to move house soon, guess what site I went to first to look for mortgages, energy prices etc was the other day?

He is the shrewdie of the finance world for us that need an easy source, good on him for finding a formula that makes people visit his site. More love required for him being so successful, less moaning imo.

Do you remember the lad who ran onto the pitch dressed as Superman and also got a clip round the ear from Cloughie?

He was a sign-writer in Nottingham and used to be a regular at The New Inn in Carrington, as was I at the time.

lol I live just up the road from the Carrington. Only went there for the first time about a month ago cus it never appealed before but I thought I'd give it a shot. Didn't realise it was a black pub, I was the only white person there, but they had some good rums and there was some good banter about why a whitey was in there  :D it was a good night and I've been back since  :)

I realise I am alone in thinking Martin Lewis is a tosser.

I don't care because I know I'm right and everyone else is wrong.

 ;djinn;

I think we've got our wires crossed here Andy.

Carrington is an area across the Mansfield Road from Mapperly Park just South of Sherwood and The New Inn which is now Molly McGuires or somesuch used to be one of the cool places to start of an evening's frolics in the late1970's.

Ahh gotcha Ralph  :)up

 ;bump;

Nothing new to add but what an enjoyable read.

Two weeks ago I met and got a pic with a cricketer that was on the front pages yesterday for brawling in the street  ;nemesis; /:-|