[Closed] Famous people you (sort of) know

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Wow. That's a lot to take in.

I hate these 'claim to fame' threads because I have an awesome one but can never tell it.

*honest

Spotted Robert Vaughan in a cafe at a National Trust property a few years ago - he used to be really famous!

I used to deliver Tina 'I love to love' Charles' newspaper.

Hmmm where to start. Jimmy Savile.

My Nan's Cousin's Husband is a close relative of Rowan Atkinson

My Nan also used to be good friends with the Duchess of Kent (before she got married)

That bloke of the gadget show said hello and made a fuss of my dog a couple of weeks back as we passed him in Hagley

Ace story WCA.

I've told this one a number of times on here but when I was growing up my parents had a pub in Heywood, greater Manchester. Julie Goodyear (Bet Lynch off of Corrie) has been a family friend for many years and would pull pints behind the bar at Christmas. Now and again she'd spot me walking home from school when on her way home from filming and she'd stop in her MG in front of all my mates and give me a lift.

Had a wee alongside Robbie Williams in the Nags Head in Monmouth once!

That bloke of the gadget show said hello and made a fuss of my dog a couple of weeks back as we passed him in Hagley

The bald one?

We sat by him on Braunton beach a couple of years back.

One which excites other people more than me is I went to school with Gary Barlow...
More interesting, if a bit tenuous, is the local I drank in from aged 17 until the landlady sold it a couple of years ago was owned by James Bond's (Daniel Craig) stepmum
When I jumped out of planes I knew the stuntman who played Halle Berry when she got out of the back of a Hercules on those one-man rocket things in Die Another Day. As a middle-aged ex Para he wasn't a lookalike 🙂

My Border Terrier sniffed David Walliams' Border Terrier's arse on Primrose Hill on Christmas Day just gone. Tenuous?

I 'sort of' knew a famous safe cracker who did some work for a few well known naughty people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Reynolds_%28business%29

I was his 'boss' for a few months. 😉

Nah the grey haired one

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/a-nice-friday-thread-your-tenuous-claims-to-fame

I have had lunch with Edwina Curry, and also had her hands around my waist, she apparently thought I looked slim in my Victorian style costume. This was of course many years ago when not only was I lot slimmer, but also she was our local MP.
Oh, and Joanna Rowsell has leaned on my bicycle 🙂

I sat next to Jack Charlton in the pub a while back.

I used to know the actor Ross Mcall quite well when he was a teenager in Kent. My mates used to take the mick out of him for acting in the local plays. I like to think he had the last laugh a few years later when he was shacked up with Jennifer love Hewitt and most of them were behind bars.

My Dad was mates with Heinz Wolf.

I live next door to half of the proclaimers.

I kinda know me and I'm kinda a big deal.

Also a second cousin to Paul Di Resta.

Oh and I know TJ.

colleague's sister is millie in This Life

jools holland used to get my dad to drive him up to town every so often

nothing beats the wheelchair dance though

I've got to know Cerys Matthews fairly well over the years, even played percussion during a song last time she played Bath.

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Crap photo, but I didn't take it, obviously!
I know Sarah and Richard who make up Paper Aeroplanes quite well, too, but they're hardly famous, so don't count.

brooess - Member
More interesting, if a bit tenuous, is the local I drank in from aged 17 until the landlady sold it a couple of years ago was owned by James Bond's (Daniel Craig) stepmum

Small world. We sold our flat in Stratton Audley Manor to her and Tim.

My wife used to go out with David Essex.

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I sat next to Jack Charlton in the pub a while back.

I shouted 'now Jack, how ya gannin on' to him out of a car window in Altea. He had a house there.

I know [url= http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Guintoli ]Sylvain Guintoli[/url] the current world super bike champion. He lives next door to my Aunty and is a customer at my shop. Top bloke.

I'm mates with Vini Reilly but he's not that famous really. I've got a hairdresser mate who does all the big fashion shows and magazine covers, he's not famous either but he's taken me to parties with very famous people present.

Not really, I was in school with Dame Tanni Grey-Thomson, but she was in 6th form when I first went.

My wife's cousin is Meat Loaf's assistant / tour manager / link to the outside world.

Oh and when I was very young my two best mates were twins, naughty boys as teenagers, but okay now, their younger brother was worse - joy riding, armed robbery drugs etc but the youngest was the very worst - he was in a boy band - they lost out to Girls Allowed in the final of whatever programme they started out on.

fitted some doors for a lady writter of the radio 4 show, "The Archers"

Met a bloke on a bike who went onto set up a bike magazine after leaving teaching,

Fitted a lock for one of the cast of Brookside.

Also a second cousin to Paul Di Resta.

Is your surname Franchitti?

@justatheory - mates with Vini Reilly -wow :-))

When I was a wee lad in Sheffield, working as a butcher's boy, I used to deliver a roasting joint to Joe Cocker's mum every Saturday.

My wife's cousin is David Guetta's manager. She occasionally uses this fact to blag tickets to gigs. I imagine it goes down something like this:

I once sat next to Charles March over lunch. Jenson Button was on the table behind us, and Damon Hill to our left, he was dinning with Leo Sayer.

I also once saw Simon Weston ion the street, and stood next to Sandra Bullock.

I also sold a pipe to someone from the boomtown rats last month.

I've met quite a few famous bods during my time in Music industry, probably most famous was Charlie Watts but also been to mercury music awards twice seen met Amy Whinehouse & did lots of stuff with Mark Ronson. Met a good few high profile rappers & hip hop legends, some were real cool other total dicks.

Who did you shag jambourgie?

I met James May while he was filming for Top Gear. Prior to filming I chose which shirt he should wear.

One of my wife's uni colleagues is married to that Roger Hammond, but I'm not sure if he counts as famous. Nice chap, incidentally.

wanmankylung - Member

Hmmm where to start. Jimmy Savile.

Well then, according to Jivehoneyjive you must know EVERYONE since you're in the cabal.

Nice edit Flying Ox!

I work in the "media" and have worked with and got to know lots of "famous people" over the years, and can honestly say the vast majority are tossers. But it seems thats just how the world works in this field. You can get the odd actor that is a genuinely nice person and has risen to the top by ability alone, but the rest.......bunch of (insert the rudest word)!

My family and I have just spent a few days over Christmas at my sister in laws where another of her guests was the Nescafe Man in the middle east ad campaigns.

I used to live in a village close to Tom Baker and would see him around, he sold his house to Vic Reeves who I used to see around a lot. His wife nearly ran me over when I was running down a tiny lane near their house.

Jeff Beck used to be local a long time ago and I saw him a few times driving old ford hot rods.

Kelly Brook owns a house in that area but story goes isn't there much now.

Nice edit Flying Ox!

I know Tim Berners-Lee's sister 🙂

This thread is ok but there was a thread about celebrity conquests?

Andy Peters got an mention and there was A Back door Deirdre in there some where.

Anybody have the link if I was not deleted?

I used to live next door to Jo Brand.

I nearly ran over Mark Bosnich while doing an endo on my '97 GT Timberline once, he jumped over his car bonnet to save himself.

I knew Fred Weasley off of Harry Potter once. He was in my Vauxhall Vectra when I thought it would be a good idea to take it offroading.

I met PJ O'Rourke in a bookshop in Charing Cross Road once.

I thought it might be him and rather than saying 'are you PJ O'Rourke?' I said 'where do you look for PJ O'Rourke in a place like this?'.

He said 'right here'. We shook hands and had a chat.

Dined out on this for years, obviously.

I once spent 2 days in a bedroom with Linda Barker (and my wife) 😈

Then Michael Aspel turned up to do This is Your Life in our back garden.

Walking round Woburn I saw Kevin Whateley walking his dog. He lives there

Shock hands with Thatcher when I was 10

I saw Joana Lumley running down the stars for a tube

Willian Hague popped into a lesson a photo opportunity

Pete Townsend played Magic bus for us when my mates and I screamed for it at a gig from the front

The last one is the only one that means anyhing

Went to school with/still know David Coulthard.

Occasionally go out to a musician friends house/recording studio complex in Deia, Majorca - drank/partied danced wi Bob Geldof + family,David Byrne, Keith + Lily Allen, Anna Friel, Irvine Welsh, Rhys Ifans (legend!), Howard Marks, Florence Welch etc…etc. quite a few more musicians as the village of Deia and the scene out there is your typical melting pot of artists and musicians so you never really know who's going to be around or drop by.

Know/met quite a few semi big DJ's through booking/hosting them to play for us at Festivals over the last 13 years, Darren Emmerson, James Lavelle, Damien Lazarus, Dave Clarke, Riva Starr, Silicone Soul, X-Press 2 etc..etc.

Kicked Calvin Harris (adam) out of my bro's club/bar in Dumfries 10 odd years ago for being a ****, this is before he was famous but to fair to him in general he was usually alright and pretty decent but that specific night he was rather blatently up his own arse and opinionated (on something 😉 )

All tenuous...

Met Steve Peat & Adele Croxon in Meadowhall Retail Park

Worked for a woman who had an affair with Phil Lynott

Liam Gallagher said to my Mrs once 'Hello doll face'

Mrs STR's ex draws foe 2000AD

Passed Ronny Corbett on the M1 once

Mrs STR used to go clubbing with Matthew Marsden (Z list soap star)

Met some Z list minger in a club once, but can't even remember her name

Mrs STR has also met Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Victoria Wood and William Hurt

My sister was on the same DJ lineup as Fatboy Slim and is friends with John 00 Fleming, whom I was chatting with on FB a while back

A Walkers Crisps advert was filmed outside my primary school and I met one of the fat women who used to prance around on some 70's/80's family entertainment show, but can't for the life of me remember their names.

Met Dave Basset outside Wembley in May last year

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There may be more....

Bobby George offered me a job as his driver. Only problem was I didn't have a licence at the time.

My sister is a Brand Ambassador for Land Rover - last year I had a jolly in Megeve with Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Kenton Cool (climbed Everest a dozen or so times) and Ben Saunders (unsupported treks to the north and south poles). Nice fellas them all - a fun couple of days doing this;

Ooh, and I beat Tracey Mosely in a downhill race many years ago! Different classes olbviously, but fun nonetheless....

Ronnie Biggs was a distant relative on my mums side of the family.

Once spent an evening in an hotel in Edinburgh with Mo Johnston who was out for a quiet drink away from Glasgow.

not so well known on here, but in the world of rugby league, these two are both royalty and legends.

played with Wally Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Lewis

and have known Neil Fox since i was a 9 year old
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Fox_%28rugby_league%29

I live near the Houghton Weavers.

I see Kirk from Corrie ( Andy Whyment ) regular, last time I saw him he was cleaning up after his Dog.

Spoke to Wiggo at Tour of Britain.

Walked past in the background when Matt Stevens was doing a link on Tour of Britain.

I recently stopped to let stevi Richie cross the road and he gave me the double thumbs up.

Mrs BP's cousin has been in a couple of films and his Mrs has been in a few films and a main character in a couple of series of a US sci fi show as well as lots of other shows.

A mate of ours is a comedian, puts on annual christmas shows in that London - this year he had the Cure playing, last year my wife sat next to Hugh Grant throughout the show and an astronaut told her he liked her coat.

I sold Justin Currie from Del Amitri a bike when i worked for Alpine in Glasgow. Think it was a green Trek 4700 if memory serves me right. Brian Burnett a pair of shorts and Lara Croft a pair of gloves for a photo shoot. (that was the best one, incidentally)

My in laws bought Alex Jones old house as featured in OK magazine. I know Martin Plock the best singer songwriter you have never heard of and as a student I slept with a girl whose father painted stiff little fingers first backdrop.

One of my wife's uni colleagues is married to that Roger Hammond

He still holds the 10m TT record in my club from when he was a member as a young chap.

Um I was in the year above Martin Lewis (that money bloke) at school.

Chris Akrigg visits my shop occasionally.

Nope. No one. I don't know famous people. 🙄

My brother was in a queue behind John Thomson (Fat Bob / Cold Feet) buying a porn mag in a newsagents in Didsbury.

Tony Blair officially opened a police station in Whitefield after a refurbishment that I'd been managing.

Tenuous I know...

I'm in Bristol and through a career in logistics deal with famous-ish people regularly.Used to see the Massive Attack guys often,have been to their homes many times,and Mushroom still calls in weekly (he's just gained his pilots licence !)Met Banksie before i knew who he was,see Nick Walker most weeks.Knew the group Portishead well,speak to Peter Gabriel occasionally,have been to Noel Edmonds house too.I used to box and trained with Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno on separate occasions.Ex sister-in-law worked in media management so I've met Brucie,Rolf Harris,and many of the Strictly cast at the time.No stories to tell though,mainly nice (if a little quirky) people.

I work for the racing channel At The Races and have recorded voice overs with all the presenters many a time. And i have a shoot in the week with the girl who does sky greyhounds. I guess they're only famous if you're into your racing though. Most of them are sound, there's one in particular who's a complete cock though, I won't name names.

My mum's cousin was James Hazeldine; Bayleaf of London's Burning and lots of other stuff.

Lovely talented bloke who died waaaaaay too young.

I used to live next door to Jo Brand.

There's loads more of 'stood behind' 'walked past' but they don't really count as there's no interaction/conversation

As for tenuous, was at a Christmas drinks thing last week and some bloke from 10cc was there but no idea which one even though I probably spoke to him
I know a chap who is famous for making pick-ups for guitars and he knows Jimmy Page.

Dawn French once came into our shop. She bought a pair of Fred Flintstone boxer shorts for Lennie.

Ive been in a pub quiz team with Ian Mercer (corrie/cracker/pirates of the carribean)

We didnt win 🙁

as a baby (obviously), i was delivered by the bloke who pioneered test-tube babies in oldham general hospital (patrick steptoe i think his name was).

EDIT: and no, im not 😀

I was brought up where Geoff Capes lived. He used to drive a HUGE American car.

A mate at primary school went on to become Dr Jonathan Foyle and have his own TV shows.

Robert Lindsay is from Ilkeston and I've seen him in the cafe at Shipley Park a couple of times.

Best I can manage.

I served coffee and pastries to Fergal Sharkey when I was working as a runner as well. And had an interview/editing test in a studio where they were shooting for page 3 and the dear deidre "sexy comic" things 😆

I went to school with Nigel Farage's younger brother and recently had a chat with Adrian Newey over a couple of beers on a sandbank in the Maldives.

I have a few emails from Natasha Bedingfield as we have a mutual friend, and her b/f has the same name as me, and she has a few times mistakenly sent me emails....

I puked on Cliff Richard as a baby.

As a kid growing up I lived in a leafy affluent suburb of NW London inhabited by a few famous folk.My paper round included the home if Ronnie Barker, who I did get to speak to.
I also had a chat with Frank Bruno a couple of years ago when he started a 10k I was taking part in.

My mam went to school with Vic Reeves, and I taught Theo from Hurts. My brother was in Cubs with someone who went on to beat his mother to death, and used to drink in the same pub as The Carlo Cannibal.