The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bangbang on May 08, 2012, 07:31:43 pm
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It's a small world really, who have you met who has
a claim to fame ?
I've played pool with Willie Thorn ( years ago,)
and I shook Maggie Thatchers hand once in a queue.
What about you ?
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i once got hammered with hawkwind.... i think.
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Went to a party that Prince Harry and Dan and Jon Snow were at.
Went to another party this weekend (this time children's party!), that Carl from Emmerdale (I didn't know either!) was at as his son goes to the same school as my friends son and they are good friends.
Not that I actually met any of these people!
Helen
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Simon McBurney (the mad choirmaster in Vicar of Dibley) had a holiday cottage next door to us in the wilds of Scotland...used to go picking mushrooms and bring them to me to cook for him. Didn't even know he was famous until he let slip that he did a bit of acting.
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I served depeche mode with pants in marks and spencers! And Alison moyet, can't remember what she bought though!
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I used to be a community midwife in Wilmslow so had lots of footballers wives and cast from Coronation street. Half the BBC is moveing into our village now that they are in Salford but the best has to be at Henbury Horse trials. This older gentleman was walking towards me and I thought I know him. As he came level with me he smiled and said hello. I said hello and carried on walking. 25 yards further on I though O yes thats Prince Phillip!
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I once told Omar Sharif that only boring people played bridge (then discovered that he's an internationally renowned contract bridge player) and I've had a smoochy kiss with Jean Jaques Burnell (bassist with the Stranglers)
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Adam Hensen the farmer (is he famous?) I've met him at Moreton show. I used to periodically look after Jane Seymour's mum and 'Jane' used to phone the ward to ask how her mum was. Little and Large came to visit our patients one Christmas and none of them knew who they were!
I used to know John Barnes, David James and Luther Blisset the Footballers when we lived near Watford and used to dog sit for them on a Saturday ;D
Oh and Mick Tucker, the drummer from 'The Sweet' was a good friend of my dads and we used to meet in the local pub every weekend, his daughter and I would sit and do colouring while Dad and Mick talked glam rock. RIP lovely Mick :bouquet:
Hubby met Princess Diana and Elton John while he was working on the HIV/AIDs unit at St Mary's, Paddington. He always blows my celeb's list out of the water with those 2 ;D
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As i am an older person ;D i will own up to meeting the following
Harold Wilson = i was 11
The late Duchess of Argyle, she was patron of the Bleakholt animal sanctuary where i was a volunteer aged 12 - the lady had a racy reputation but she was lovely to us
Dave Lee Travis - he kissed me! (on the cheek) i had won the local youth club table tennis championship - he presented the prizes i was 14
Princess Anne - i was connected with Riding for the Disabled
and the best of all David Beckham gave me a lift several times when he was a young player for Manchester United -( i worked with his then girlfriend) he was 18
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i have knocked Ryan Giggs flat when running for a bus in Manchester and the totally gorgeous Eric Cantona told me not to worry (outside the Piccadily Hotel, Manchester)
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i was in the same shop as HRH Camilla in Ballater the other week, we supplied "single kettle" with a tractor outside the theatre for a photo shoot (kids were well impressed at that) , my ex brother in law used to drive princess diana when she came to balmoral, he was a policeman. my dad once serviced david bowies tourvan, before he was mega famous.
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I met Pricess Di twice. The first time I showed her a condom expanding and contracting with accompanying sound track !! Snoring. It took her a few minutes to twig it was a condom then she gave her cow eyed embarrassed look. I am pretty sure that I was the first man to show her a condom - as she was not long a princess.
And I have the pictures !!
her ex-mother in law and I often laugh about it. ;D
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My brother once played snooker with Alec (Hurricane) Higgins and only just lost.
When my ex was a train guard he checked the ticket of Compo from Last of the Summer Wine.
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Have given first aid to Theo Walcott's scuffed knees from footballing accidents during his school years. Such a lovely mild mannered boy.
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Tommy Steele, The Beverley Sisters, Eddie Calvert. - met them all and have their autographs plus a few others - anybody remember them?
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I had the following conversation:
Noddy Holder : Show us your tits.
Me : F&%k off!
Noddy Holder : F&%k off then.
I sat next to Giles Brandreth at a dinner. That conversation was rather more stimulating.
My dog was in Doctor Who - the episode with the original 4 doctors in it. Sadly I wasn't with him at the time. In fact, that dog used to get about, his list of celeb encounters would be much longer and more impressive than mine.
I've been in a lift with Patrick Troughton (I didn't mention that he'd met my dog - it would've been embarrassing, the dog had clearly preferred Tom Baker.)
Other encounters include being in a train carriage with Jackie Charlton and with Jennifer Saunders (not at the same time), in a queue in Woollies behind Anton Rogers, saw Victoria Wood putting petrol in her car on the M1, used to buy my veg in the same shop as John Thaw and saw him now and again, also saw Sheila Hancock pushing her granddaughter (I think it was) in a pushchair.
I could list some others but you'd have to be in your late 50's or 60's and have been into folk music in the 70's. (Yes Annie, I remember Tommy Steele - I was thinking about Half a Sixpence recently, trying to come up with a name for Sixpence's first calf!)
Oh, and I was at Uni with Guy jenkin (comedy scriptwriter - co-wrote Drop the Dead Donkey with Andy Hamilton, amongst other things.)
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I wouldn't recognise one if I fell over it 8)
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I wouldn't recognise one if I fell over it 8)
Top answer :thumbsup: 8)
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All the members of Slade 2 have brought me drinks on a few occasions ( Slade 2, full line up minus Noddy) ;D
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In my previous life as a butler I met a lot of ' personalities '
Michael Foot
Joan Bakewell
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Sir John Betjemin
Ezra Pound
Andrew Cruicshank
John Le Carre ( real name Cornwell )
Lady ' Bubbles ' Harmsworth
Lester Piggot
Joe Mercer ( his Father Manny Mercer had his 21 birthday party at my grans house)
Prince Bernhard of the Nedderlands was a regular visitor in the shooting season.
The Ogilvies ( Princess Alexander and OH ).
Richard Burton
Sophia Lorene
So yes, I've met a few.
Almost forgot Lembit bloody Opic
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Iv'e had Prince Charles step on my foot.
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Well iv done ok ? Iv been a film extra on monark off the glen and last yere centurian with the james bond girl olgacorelenco.i still do it when asked.
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well we had a film here a few years back so ive met a few actors bout it really :)
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I knew the banker formerly known as Sir Fred quite well (and his fancy woman who boringly can't be mentioned). He had a great sense of humour which I expect he can indulge on £400k a year pension for life.
I used to have lunch with Sir Tom McKillop as well from time to time but he was hard work. Curious how his lifetime of success in pharmaceuticals turned into abject failure at RBS while his successor at AstraZeneca has just been topped. Could it be that aspirin and money are different?
Fred's admitting that he was unqualified as a banker was seized with great glee by the press. Actually there is no formal qualification which is relevant to a senior banker. Fred understood retail banking and insurance exceedingly well but he didn't understand investment banking and he was an arrogant bully who believed he was the cleverest bugger on the planet.
There is a wealth of Fred stories yet to be published.
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allegedly
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Simple Simon,
Are you in Investment Banking?
I respect that you may not want to respond concerning your private life
Sally
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but what simple Simon has missed out on with plain old Fred is he was born and brought up in ferguslie park in paisley one of the roughest housing estates in the west of Scotland
now would he be the little snottie faced kid that was panned outside by his mother on that housing estate when i worked there i wonder :farmer:
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I wouldn't recognise one if I fell over it 8)
Top answer :thumbsup: 8)
:D
BUT one of my tups did have a good gossip with HM the Q at the Highland Show the other year. It would be difficult to miss her with all the heavies shoving us mere mortals out of the way, so she could tiptoe lightly through the sheep sh*te in her unsuitable courts ::)
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Simple Simon,
Are you in Investment Banking? I respect that you may not want to respond concerning your private life
Sally
No, but I was quite senior and worked at RBS for very many years until I retired. It was a great bank in the nineties under Dr George Mathewson but got above itself with the acquisition of NatWest. George was a man you could argue with - though you'd better be right. Nobody argued with Fred, he just fired them. George was tight-fisted and cautious while Fred splurged on cars, jets and that bloody stupid HQ building
Fred was being toured round a call centre one day with his usual retinue. Fred hated seeing paper and saw a bunch of people working on paper files in a corner of the centre so he asked the manager what was going on. Manager said he had no idea and wandered over to find out: came back with an unconvincing answer. Further round he saw something similar, and the same routine was followed. Fred went tight-lipped: he'd been cautioned against abusing junior staff after one threatened him with a tribunal. Tour over Fred mullahs the manager's boss and instructs that the guy be fired immediately. Turned out that he'd already been refused early retirement and used Fred to get himself far better terms.
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now that man that Fred had sacked should have been promoted instead he showed ingenuity and manipulation :farmer:
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No and dont want to
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I was invited to a charity dinner at Windsor with Charlie and current spouse but was abroad so OH was paired with an American who was gobsmacked
We were hunt extras in a film called Easy Virtue with Colin Firth, Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Ben Biel. Met none of them and the film bombed but it was a ton of fun
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Bumped into Cameron Diaz when she was filming the Holiday in my local town railway station. Also met Jimmy Greaves (a long time personal hero of mine) Once snogged Br. Uce Grobbelaar... :-\
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Our client list includes several famous people but i'm not sure i'm allowed to name them ??? but they are all very nice and incredibly normal and down to earth. Sorry that's not a lot of use.
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met Ronnie Wood from the stones once, he said "hi, i'm Ronnie wood!"
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Forgot - Rick Astley gate crashed my flat warming party years ago, and was very polite and Introduced himself, to which I said "I think everybody here knows who you are Rick". Charming person.
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We were parked up with our 'Ivorwilliams' trailer at Bristol show when this very posh HUGE horse box pulled in alongside. Turned out to be Princess Annes - there was some dressage competions at the show. We were showing small hunter/riding horse classes. A little later on a small fair hair girl was playing around the horse box and hid herself in the grooms compartment. This guy came charging round all in a panic looking wildley around...i pointed to the grooms door - he was very relieved it was Zara Phillips playing hide-and-seek... We were thanked by Princess Anne and the security guy... also meet Anne at a craft fair I had a stand in at her home in Gloucestershire.
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I always manage to do/say something very stupid when around famous people. My sister got an invite to some posh gallery do thing- sponsored by jack Daniels (which I love), so she invited me... I ended up talking to Simon from the pop band Blue, well to cut a long story short, I told him he was thick as mince for not understanding a card trick and then asked him if he wanted to go and get cheesy chips after the do, weirdly enough he declined. In my defence I was more then a bit merry on free booze.
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Oh and I told Davina Thingy off big brother's husband he needed to shrink his ego, get his head out of his arse and man up, when filming Pet Rescue at the RSPCA centre I was working at at the time- I had a ton of stuff to do, had been forced to to a thing with him with a kitten and didn't have all day for him to sort his makeup out!
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I have met Cliff Richard a couple of times , each time i didn't know it was him till after he had gone !
I also stood next to my all time music hero (if there is such a thing ?) , in a queue in my local supermarket .
I remember thinking " that bloke is the spitting image of Billy Fury ! " . I had no idea he had a smallholding nearby.
I had seen him about a few times . Wish i had said something to him though , as only a few weeks later he died !
Also had a pint with good old Joe Brown , a really nice bloke.
Me and a mate of mine were chatting to some girls once , they were the Nolans !
I also smacked Brian Conley (sp) of the sweet , in the face in a pub . He was pissed and being a total prat , i was waiting for some mates . Upshot was i told him to piss off or i would hit him, he kept on so i dropped him . Well more like skittled him across the floor with a cracker of a right hook. The next week he was on top of the pops with a black eye lol.
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i went to the pub with Jo mangal (mark little) and know Michael Dempsey from The Cure stood next to jason plato in the loos at gatwick
ok that all sounds a bit weird !!
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I used to work for Born Free so met Virginia McKenna and went on a trip to India with her and Amanda Holden and got to meet several 'celebs' who came down to film begging vt's to be shown on GMTV or the like, Joanna Lumley, Rolf Harris (very weird guy and more than a bit creepy), Martin Clunes, Helen Worth (off Corrie) Billie Piper, Rula Lenska
Paul mcCartney in a kids play centre, Paul O Grady in Tescos I ran into him with my trolley! and his neighbour Julian Clarey live a couple of villages away.
Adam Henson, Mark Benson (who's in Waterloo Road) filling up in tesco petrol station
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met HM and Prince Philip, who shook his head when when I asked if he was going to get a round of beer in for us. Actor Peter Davidson and his then wife actress Sandra Dickinson, had a coversation about boats. Richard Branson, talked about canals. Presenter Stuart Hall, misrable git until camera turned on. Singer Gloria Gaynor whie helping set up stage. Pinched a few record picture sleeves for Pete Shelley lead singer of the Buzzcocks in exchange for a copy of their 'orgasm addict' ep. Swopped my bondage jacket for a copy of 'live at the roxy' lp on red vinyl with Pete Burns. Had a good drinking session with the Damned, the Clash and several other groups.much to the delight of the lads i worked with, let naked models from 'razzle' to have pics taken at my place of work, got sacked by council, never found out how they knew.
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Not into autograph hunting, but we seem to have Corrie actors, and footballers living around us. Quite often see them around. Went into the petrol station to pay, on the services, and Katie Price was in the queue. Hubby was furious HE had not gone in :)
Bill Podmore who was the Producer for Corrie some time back lived near us, and the actor who played Billy Walker used to get the same train as me going to work ......oh, and Pat Phoenix(Elsie Tanner) had the pub in the village where I now keep my goats, and Betty Driver also from Corrie, ran the pub next to the house I grew up in, with her sister.
See the Duke of Edinburgh when we go to driving events. Pat his ponies, but never dared speak to him. Stood next to Princess Anne and Also Princess Diana - even more stunning in the flesh.
The Whittakers, of show jumping fame lived on a farm nearby. My then boyfriends sister lived in a cottage, and every time they went up the lane in their massive horse truck, they took her garden bench!!
See Sean Wilson who played Martin who was married to Gail on Corrie, quite often, as he lives nearby and now runs his own cheese making company :)
Edwina Curry lives just up the road too.
Probably lots more people moving here, now the TV centre has moved to Manchester. We had a couple looking at our house for that reason.
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was an extra in Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers so i've bumped into a few people...
Had a wazz next to anthony from Red Hot Chili Peppers in the townhouse in Leeds
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Can't believe I forgot my best story. (I think I may have told it here before, so forgive me it I repeat myself!)
I used to have a tame jackdaw, it went everywhere with me. It flew alongside me on the bicycle, it travelled on a perch made of an old paddle in the car, and flew about wherever we went, coming back to a whistle.
One day out cycling we came upon a nice looking pub and in we went, leaving the jackdaw perched on the handlebars outside.
As we chatted to the barman I was looking about the pub, taking in the pictures on the walls, gradually realising that one of them was of the barman now serving me pictured with Dave Lee Travis (DLT), who those of us of a certain age will recall as the hairy monster DJ. Slowly it dawned that I was being served a lager by Don Fardon, a one-hit-wonder singer in the 60s, whose single Indian Reservation had been one of the first I ever bought as a youngster.
Meanwhile, he'd been chatting to my companion and was starting to say, "You're the people with the jackdaw? Can I see it?"
So both of us were starstruck in each other's presence! :D
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My SIL has had dinner at Buckingham Palace with Prince Charles.
My FIL met the queen at the opening of the visitor centre at Westonburt Arboretum (he designed it).
I don't suppose my OH counts as famous ::)
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I don't suppose my OH counts as famous ::)
ha ha - I was wondering whether, now she's in Practical Pigs, it counted that I'd met Karen? :D
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No sorry don't get this famous thing to me there are just like anybody else no better and no worse.
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No sorry don't get this famous thing to me there are just like anybody else no better and no worse.
Quite right too but sometimes 'famous' people are complete muppets efffected and affected by their popularity and sometimes they are lovely just as in my ordinary world. I met Jim Davidson in a local pub years ago, and he was completely obnoxious to me (he was drunk) saying stuff like 'you don't want a drink off me because I'm rich and famous' to which I thought (but didn't say) ' no its because you are a complete dick' ;D
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I got the gorgeous David Essex to sign his book in March, he asked me how I was, I didn't think he was speaking to me then when I realised I'm afraid I just squeaked fine - what a fool lol ::)
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I cashed a cheque for Trevor Bannister (Mr Lucas in "Are you being Served") many years ago, Ive also met Carole Vorderman, the chap who played PC Valentine in "The Bill", and the girl who played the secretary in "Brush Strokes".
I also stood behind Melinda Messenger in a queue at a cashpoint once, and to say that she is stunningly beautiful with flawless skin in the flesh is a complete understatement.
Oh yes, to my later embarrassment, when Trevor Bannister got to my till, I did actually say "Im free"..I really did!!!
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Reading normandymary reminds me, i also met Victoria Principal once - not only was she stunningly beautiful but she was really smart too!
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The Beatles and Jane Asher at a motorway service station on the newly opened M6 ( I think it was the M6 )in 1967 . and got their autographs , spoke with them for about 10 minutes 7 cracked anti scouse jokes.
Several of the grand pris drivers that year at Silverstone .
Mage several times and numberous lesser royals , John Major and his Missus at home .
Some bald head git who screeched at me " Don't you know who I am ? " after I said " Wait your turn ".
So I then I said " NO , go and ask a policeman for help or go back to the hospital before they discover you're missing " He was called Brian Mahwinney .
Have met & enjoyed a brill afternoon with a guy called Ron Jensen who was chief adviser to G W Bush .
Have had David Mellor sitting next to me cracking jokes and stuffing his face .
Met Gordon Jackson , Ruth maddock and a few other people of the stage else where ..
BIG Baps big tips Windsor who's tips are not a s big as her foul uneducated mouth and a whole load of others during my life .
Met and had a walk with a pair well know terrorists for a wee while who have started the baby kissing route in political life .
None of them made as much of an impression on me as a 23 yr old black guy confined to a wheel chair with spina biffida who has to have help 24/7 to keep him a live ..he is my hero and I know him well .
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Back in the late 80's Marillion were recording an album not far
from my folks hotel. We had 3 weeks of singing and drinking ! ;D
Fish was just good down to earth fun - great guy. great band :thumbsup:
Rick Astley on the other hand was......not.
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was doing the guest list at the Borderline in the west end once and Bob Geldof walks straight up to me past the queue and says "hi", i said don't come round here with ya Bob suit on and get to the back of the queue! Which he promptly did! :D had a bouncer go and get him back and let him in. Saw him in there later and he brought me a pint of cider. good lad!!
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Back in the late 80's Marillion were recording an album not far
from my folks hotel. We had 3 weeks of singing and drinking ! ;D
Fish was just good down to earth fun - great guy. great band :thumbsup:
Rick Astley on the other hand was......not.
but he is never going to give you up or let you down! :D
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;D ;D ;D