I once had a 15 minute phone conversation with David Pleat while he was at Luton Town.
My dad used to regularly sit opposite Gordon Banks on the train to work (not once did I ask him to get the legend to sign one of my Leicester shirts... Yes, I feel stupid...)
- I once met Dom, of Dick and Dom fame (he's a friend of a friend of a friend).
- A friend of mine served Bob Monkhouse in our local chemist.
- Another mate of mine appeared on Blockbusters and won 2 out of 3 gold runs.
- I once had a drunken conversation with the lead singer out of S*M*A*S*H.
- I once met Dom, of Dick and Dom fame (he's a friend of a friend of a friend).- A friend of mine served Bob Monkhouse in our local chemist.
- Another mate of mine appeared on Blockbusters and won 2 out of 3 gold runs.
- I once had a drunken conversation with the lead singer out of S*M*A*S*H.
It was at my old boss's warehouse (one of his best mates is a magician and knows Dom through showbiz circles).
I was so tempted to hide in the corner of the warehouse and shout "BOGEYS!", but a sensible voice in my head piped up in Father Ted's voice with "There's yer man Richard Wilson. D'you know what he'd love, Dougal?" and I thought better of it.
I was sat in York the other week, minding my own business when this Mum and her kid walked past and the Mum said "bogeys" really quite loud! Everyone in the square stopped and looked :lol:
We used to play a similar game when I was at school, except out word was "penis" :lol: Very mature :D
Aside from being mistaken for pretty much anyone with long hair and a beard that ever picked up a musical instrument
- met Martine Mccutcheon while on a date in Barnes, Eastenders era - she wasn't as chunky in real life
- shared a pint with the bird that played the PA in This Life....no clue what she's called but remember she was barefoot in the pub which struck me as brave
- mates and I were once chased out of a warehouse by police as they thought we were the mardi gras bombers (honestly....wtf, we just wanted to get stoned in peace!)
- Met Boris and various other official types thought that's through work so less impressive
- shouted abuse at David Baddiel at a Chelsea match....I was a kid
- shouted abuse at John "Two Jags" Prescott in my office local....I was sane
- met Jody Morris in a bar in Putney....even failed failed footballers have a stupidly large amount of disposable income and ladies of negotiable affection in tow
I have just recalled another one and probably my most recent encounter,in the last few years i have been on holiday in the Aberystwyth area of wales and in near by Llanrhystud.Well on several occasions i have seen Ken Jones who played `Horrible Ives` in porridge,i recall one occasion when we were sitting in the bus stop near the Black Lion pub Ken strolled in and sat by us ..."morning",i replied and was tempted to ask him for an autograph or inquire what it was like working with Ronnie Barker but i did not want to intrude (or have the balls).
My claim to fame: I've met several of the regular cast of characters from Star Wars (original trilogy), and have their autographs. When they ask me whose name they should make it to, I always tell them eBay.
- shared a pint with the bird that played the PA in This Life....no clue what she's called but remember she was barefoot in the pub which struck me as brave
The brunette one? She was in Grange Hill too (played a nerdy girl with glasses who turned out to be - surprise surprise - fairly hot when she took glasses off)
Google and wikipedia tells me her name is Luisa Bradshaw-White.
When I was at Uni in Stoke in the 90s, I saw Robbie Williams in a curry house.
It was this ridiculous state of affairs where the only bog in the place was on kind of a mezzanine floor and the stairs went up to a narrow landing that would only fit one person at a time, so if the bog door was closed, you had to wait at the bottom of the stairs for the other person to come down before you could go up.. He was waiting at the bottom of the stairs and as I passed him we both nodded at each other and said "cheers, mate." Then I did a double-take and was all "oh wow, that was Robbie Williams!"
My Dad saw Bob Hope in the corridor at GlenEagles golf club in the 80s. He used to work as an engineer for a company that installed video games in pubs. They were giving one away as a prize for a golf competition and my Dad got sent up to make sure it stayed in working order. Nothing went wrong with it and he got a weekend away on the company's dime.
And finally - that I can think of - my mate's Dad was introduced to Fred West in the 80s as he used to live in Cheltenham.. His mate just introduced him as "this is Fred - he's a builder" and they shook hands and that was about it.. Then the 'house of horror' stuff came out and he was all "bloody hell, I've met him!"
One of my ex girlfriend's had a cousin who was the ex footballer Brain McClair, she met him a few times and said he was a nice guy.
The same ex met John Higgins at a party when he won one of his tournaments but she said he was a bit of a knob!:smile:
I too have been mistaken for people in bands. One night about 10 years ago, I was in my local live music venue when a big group of Japanese students came in. I tehn spent the best part of an hour having my photo taken with everysingle one of the because I "was a spitting immage of a Superstar who was massive over there" I never did find out who it was I was supposed to look like :lol:
I was also backstage at a gig in London quite some time ago when some guy came upto me and said how much he liked my bands album and that he'd been listening to it all day. He didn't belive me when I said I wasn't who he thought I was. I eventually ended up signing his cd for him and he went away happy :lol:
I'd never heard of the band's cd that I signed, but he seemed very pleased :-)
One of my ex girlfriend's had a cousin who was the ex footballer Brain McClair, she met him a few times and said he was a nice guy.
The same ex met John Higgins at a party when he won one of his tournaments but she said he was a bit of a knob!:smile:
I've heard from other people who have met Choccy that he is a genuinely nice bloke.
The Wizard of Wishaw always strikes me as being a decent bloke when I see him in interviews and stuff...I have read in the past that he's not much of a partyer...more a family man. Likes it quiet methinks.
I tehn spent the best part of an hour having my photo taken with everysingle one of the because I "was a spitting immage of a Superstar who was massive over there" I never did find out who it was I was supposed to look like :lol:
I've heard from other people who have met Choccy that he is a genuinely nice bloke.
The Wizard of Wishaw always strikes me as being a decent bloke when I see him in interviews and stuff...I have read in the past that he's not much of a partyer...more a family man. Likes it quiet methinks.
I was annoyed with her cos she didn't get Higgin's autograph for me!
He lives in Bothwell now so the title The Wizard of Wishaw is a bit redundant!:grin:
But he does seem a genuine bloke when i've seen him on tv.
The brunette one? She was in Grange Hill too (played a nerdy girl with glasses who turned out to be - surprise surprise - fairly hot when she took glasses off)
Google and wikipedia tells me her name is Luisa Bradshaw-White.
Not the best photo
Yep! that's her I think, quite tasty in the flesh I thought....but then I was a horny little git back then so perhaps a bit biased :lol:
...and yes have had plenty of Jesus comments too, but as he's not a celeb I figure it wouldn't count ;)
speaking of grange hill .. Simone Hyams was on the bus back from hammersmith one day... maybe she was more famous for who she dated at one point.
they filmed some of it in kensal rise, gonch was chasing a reel of cable and there was a pizza shop err ray or someone ran ? pretty sure that was kensal rise again. http://www.grangehill.contactbox.co.uk/know/others.htm
lead balloon was filmed around here.. and a serious amount of pop videos and tv shows, due to up the road looking t'up north / railway cottages..
My claim to fame: I've met several of the regular cast of characters from Star Wars (original trilogy).
Dave Prowse is a West Country dude and took our primary school assembly a couple of times, in the guise of his alter-ego 'the green cross code man'. I didn't realise till years later that he was also darth vader.
not only did he have his voice dubbed in Star Wars but his brizzol accent wasn't even allowed for road safety so they dubbed it here too. Gutted.
When they show Clone Wars on Cartoon Network, they have a sponsor slot for LEGO before and after every ad break in which LEGO men audition for parts for Star Wars on a cheap town hall stage. They're chock-full of in-jokes. Princess Leia has two cinammon swirl buns tied to her head, Luke is too fat for his Stormtrooper disguise (and steals one of the cinammon buns) and the guy doing Darth Vader has a thick beard and the "Luke, Oi am yuurr faarther" accent.
No you don't, after you've been asked if you're Scottish, or Irish about 700 times the novelty of the humour wears very thin, and just starts to expose how stupid and ignorant Americans can actually be.
Prime example...
I almost got into an argument with a customer at work because he asked me where I was from and I told him, and he said really I think you sound Irish. I do not sound Irish at all, and when I tried to explain this he kept saying nope you sound Irish, you definitely sound Irish.
I just wanted to say to him "Listen you stupid bastard! I do not sound Irish, do you even know what a real Irish person sounds like? Not me that's what! I'm from ENGLAND and I think I'm better qualified to determine which accents come from where in the UK and Ireland!!!"
OK it's quite funny when they basically ask you which part of every English speaking country you're from, and completely fail to guess England, or even ask you where abouts in a none English speaking country you're from.
But wears thin, and after almost 7 years here I still get asked where I'm from at least twice a week.
No you don't, after you've been asked if you're Scottish, or Irish about 700 times the novelty of the humour wears very thin, and just starts to expose how stupid and ignorant Americans can actually be.
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But wears thin, and after almost 7 years here I still get asked where I'm from at least twice a week.
I'm glad to an extent that my accent has by now become "Yankizised". I do get the "You sound Irish/Scottish/British" thing a few times a year but nothing compared to when I first came on over. Usually it's more a, "I detect an accent, where are you from?"
When Skyping with Jofffffa he would constantly* point out the weirdness of my accent, "You sound like a bl!@#$% YANK!"
No you don't, after you've been asked if you're Scottish, or Irish about 700 times the novelty of the humour wears very thin, and just starts to expose how stupid and ignorant Americans can actually be.
Prime example...
I almost got into an argument with a customer at work because he asked me where I was from and I told him, and he said really I think you sound Irish. I do not sound Irish at all, and when I tried to explain this he kept saying nope you sound Irish, you definitely sound Irish.
I just wanted to say to him "Listen you stupid bastard! I do not sound Irish, do you even know what a real Irish person sounds like? Not me that's what! I'm from ENGLAND and I think I'm better qualified to determine which accents come from where in the UK and Ireland!!!"
OK it's quite funny when they basically ask you which part of every English speaking country you're from, and completely fail to guess England, or even ask you where abouts in a none English speaking country you're from.
But wears thin, and after almost 7 years here I still get asked where I'm from at least twice a week.
And why do Americans call the UK 'England'? Don't they understand that are 4 countries here.
One of our customers from Texas called in last week and asked where i was from and i said Scotland. He asked which part of England that was, he said 'is that in London?'
What an idiot.
And why do Americans call the UK 'England'? Don't they understand that are 4 countries here.
One of our customers from Texas called in last week and asked where i was from and i said Scotland. He asked which part of England that was, he said 'is that in London?'
What an idiot.
The UK is "IN" England! Everybody knows that! :lol:
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My dad used to regularly sit opposite Gordon Banks on the train to work (not once did I ask him to get the legend to sign one of my Leicester shirts... Yes, I feel stupid...)
That's it.
- A friend of mine served Bob Monkhouse in our local chemist.
- Another mate of mine appeared on Blockbusters and won 2 out of 3 gold runs.
- I once had a drunken conversation with the lead singer out of S*M*A*S*H.
Did you play bogeys?
It was at my old boss's warehouse (one of his best mates is a magician and knows Dom through showbiz circles).
I was so tempted to hide in the corner of the warehouse and shout "BOGEYS!", but a sensible voice in my head piped up in Father Ted's voice with "There's yer man Richard Wilson. D'you know what he'd love, Dougal?" and I thought better of it.
I was sat in York the other week, minding my own business when this Mum and her kid walked past and the Mum said "bogeys" really quite loud! Everyone in the square stopped and looked :lol:
We used to play a similar game when I was at school, except out word was "penis" :lol: Very mature :D
- met Martine Mccutcheon while on a date in Barnes, Eastenders era - she wasn't as chunky in real life
- shared a pint with the bird that played the PA in This Life....no clue what she's called but remember she was barefoot in the pub which struck me as brave
- mates and I were once chased out of a warehouse by police as they thought we were the mardi gras bombers (honestly....wtf, we just wanted to get stoned in peace!)
- Met Boris and various other official types thought that's through work so less impressive
- shouted abuse at David Baddiel at a Chelsea match....I was a kid
- shouted abuse at John "Two Jags" Prescott in my office local....I was sane
- met Jody Morris in a bar in Putney....even failed failed footballers have a stupidly large amount of disposable income and ladies of negotiable affection in tow
Pretty sure there are some others but hey ho
Hmmm ... yes, you do bear a striking resemblance to Moby.
Not Jesus? I get that all the time, including "Let's throw snowballs at Jesus!" once in the wintertime.
The girl who threw up on Mick Hucknall's hair! She will always be heroic just for that.
The brunette one? She was in Grange Hill too (played a nerdy girl with glasses who turned out to be - surprise surprise - fairly hot when she took glasses off)
Google and wikipedia tells me her name is Luisa Bradshaw-White.
Not the best photo
When I was at Uni in Stoke in the 90s, I saw Robbie Williams in a curry house.
It was this ridiculous state of affairs where the only bog in the place was on kind of a mezzanine floor and the stairs went up to a narrow landing that would only fit one person at a time, so if the bog door was closed, you had to wait at the bottom of the stairs for the other person to come down before you could go up.. He was waiting at the bottom of the stairs and as I passed him we both nodded at each other and said "cheers, mate." Then I did a double-take and was all "oh wow, that was Robbie Williams!"
My Dad saw Bob Hope in the corridor at GlenEagles golf club in the 80s. He used to work as an engineer for a company that installed video games in pubs. They were giving one away as a prize for a golf competition and my Dad got sent up to make sure it stayed in working order. Nothing went wrong with it and he got a weekend away on the company's dime.
And finally - that I can think of - my mate's Dad was introduced to Fred West in the 80s as he used to live in Cheltenham.. His mate just introduced him as "this is Fred - he's a builder" and they shook hands and that was about it.. Then the 'house of horror' stuff came out and he was all "bloody hell, I've met him!"
The same ex met John Higgins at a party when he won one of his tournaments but she said he was a bit of a knob!:smile:
I was also backstage at a gig in London quite some time ago when some guy came upto me and said how much he liked my bands album and that he'd been listening to it all day. He didn't belive me when I said I wasn't who he thought I was. I eventually ended up signing his cd for him and he went away happy :lol:
I'd never heard of the band's cd that I signed, but he seemed very pleased :-)
I've heard from other people who have met Choccy that he is a genuinely nice bloke.
The Wizard of Wishaw always strikes me as being a decent bloke when I see him in interviews and stuff...I have read in the past that he's not much of a partyer...more a family man. Likes it quiet methinks.
You look like Cathy Dennis?
Yep! that's her I think, quite tasty in the flesh I thought....but then I was a horny little git back then so perhaps a bit biased :lol:
...and yes have had plenty of Jesus comments too, but as he's not a celeb I figure it wouldn't count ;)
they filmed some of it in kensal rise, gonch was chasing a reel of cable and there was a pizza shop err ray or someone ran ? pretty sure that was kensal rise again. http://www.grangehill.contactbox.co.uk/know/others.htm
lead balloon was filmed around here.. and a serious amount of pop videos and tv shows, due to up the road looking t'up north / railway cottages..
Dave Prowse is a West Country dude and took our primary school assembly a couple of times, in the guise of his alter-ego 'the green cross code man'. I didn't realise till years later that he was also darth vader.
not only did he have his voice dubbed in Star Wars but his brizzol accent wasn't even allowed for road safety so they dubbed it here too. Gutted.
"Luke, oi am yurrrr farrrrrther. Now watch out for them therrrr motor carrrrrrrrrs!"
haha, found this...
saying that though, the west country accent would explain his kids sharing a passionate kiss.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
Got to love those Americans.
No you don't, after you've been asked if you're Scottish, or Irish about 700 times the novelty of the humour wears very thin, and just starts to expose how stupid and ignorant Americans can actually be.
Prime example...
I almost got into an argument with a customer at work because he asked me where I was from and I told him, and he said really I think you sound Irish. I do not sound Irish at all, and when I tried to explain this he kept saying nope you sound Irish, you definitely sound Irish.
I just wanted to say to him "Listen you stupid bastard! I do not sound Irish, do you even know what a real Irish person sounds like? Not me that's what! I'm from ENGLAND and I think I'm better qualified to determine which accents come from where in the UK and Ireland!!!"
OK it's quite funny when they basically ask you which part of every English speaking country you're from, and completely fail to guess England, or even ask you where abouts in a none English speaking country you're from.
But wears thin, and after almost 7 years here I still get asked where I'm from at least twice a week.
I've got a lame fame claim! And it's ON TOPIC!! Woooooo
I'm glad to an extent that my accent has by now become "Yankizised". I do get the "You sound Irish/Scottish/British" thing a few times a year but nothing compared to when I first came on over. Usually it's more a, "I detect an accent, where are you from?"
When Skyping with Jofffffa he would constantly* point out the weirdness of my accent, "You sound like a bl!@#$% YANK!"
*Well, ok, a couple of times :p
And why do Americans call the UK 'England'? Don't they understand that are 4 countries here.
One of our customers from Texas called in last week and asked where i was from and i said Scotland. He asked which part of England that was, he said 'is that in London?'
What an idiot.
The UK is "IN" England! Everybody knows that! :lol: