Famous people you've met.

[YorkshireRed]

Ronnie Radford is another former unmentionabler who lives up the road. It’s a bit of a colony for them in these parts, although not as many now as there were.
 

As unmentionablers fortunes have changed, so this area has become not posh enough. 
 

 

[Captain Willard]

Met Jarvis cocker a couple of times in the street in london. Nice bloke. Very friendly. 

[Bjornebye]

5 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

Met Jarvis cocker a couple of times in the street in london. Nice bloke. Very friendly. 

"He came from Shere he had a thirst for bodies....." 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Vodka and pickles in Krakow with the MP for Liverpool Riverside.

 

 

[Harry Squatter]

My Uncle went to Madrid in the late 1960s and decided to go to watch Real Madrid. 

 

Got in the stadium and was just casually watching the game until he heard an American accent, he hadn't heard anyone speak English in Madrid the whole time he was there.  He turns round and starts talking to this guy. Turns out he was an actor doing a Spaghetti Western in rural Spain and had come to Madrid for a break between filming. A not very well known actor called Clint Eastwood. 

 

I think he tells everyone the same story within 10 minutes of meeting them. 

[s(k)aturation]

 

 

Shooting ads in 2007 with some reasonably good Australian cricketers:  Bill Lawry, Mike Hussey, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke and Andrew Symonds:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[TheBitch]

I’ve never met or spoke to anyone famous. 

[Gruntfuttock]

Neither have I,seen plenty of famous people though!

 

My brother knew Emlyn Hughes quite well,as Emlyn's partner Barbara worked for the same company and he would come by and pick her up from work a few times,he got me his autograph when he told him I was a red!

 

Chris Waddle's daughter works there now and he's met him a couple of times.

 

Mark Bright when he played in the city was quite chatty and my brother knew of his romance with Michelle Gayle before it became public as he was talking to him when Michelle appeared behind him and said hello.The house was right next door to the car dealership that supplied various players with cars.

 

 

 

 

[DalyanPete]

Bob Monkhouse, opening the Redifussion TV rental shop on Kensington(not london)

Years ago and sat on his knee. In the days when sitting on celebrity knee didn't involve anything else.

Ken Dodd in his Royal Court dressing room.

If this was today, I'd be scarred for life.

[skend04]

If we're doing walking past people then I can add good ol' Derbyshire lad John Hurt to the list. Sans Alien bursting out of his stomach. Think he had just done some presentation at the artsy cinema in town. I tipped my invisible hat to him as we crossed paths. 

 

Jack O'Connell in the Wetherspoons in town. He's way shorter than he looks on TV.

[Total Longo]

I used to be mates with Steve Mcmanaman's sisters husband. Met Steve a few times, he was always sound. At the wedding (i'm guessing this is around '96) we were chatting and i said "you had a good season again there, mate, you should be proud of yourself" and this irritating bluenose that i worked with sidles up and says "i'd bet you'd rather be playing for Everton though, wouldnt you?" Mcmanaman slowly looks him up and down and then just says "no" and carries on talking to me. Glorious. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 hours ago, TheBitch said:

I’ve never met or spoke to anyone more famous than me. 

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[Rico1304]

I spent a day with Lucy Jo Hudson when she was still married to Tyrone from Coronation Street. She was very fit indeed and he is a really nice bloke.  I’m not saying I was the reason they split up, but it was soon after she met me.   

[Skidfingers McGonical]

I’ve met Dave Usher in his bathroom and Woo in the Cross Keys and bought him a pint for his birthday.

[Total Longo]

11 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

I’ve met Dave Usher in his bathroom and Woo in the Cross Keys and bought him a pint for his birthday.

Why were you in Dave's bathroom? 

 

I puked down Chris and DT's wall once, still proud of that one... 

[Elite]

Remember meeting Warrior from Gladiator when I was a kid as he just happened to be in my area. Said he was a special guest of the local high school, in hindsight he was probably debt collecting.

[Bjornebye]

4 hours ago, Total Longo said:

I used to be mates with Steve Mcmanaman's sisters husband. Met Steve a few times, he was always sound. At the wedding (i'm guessing this is around '96) we were chatting and i said "you had a good season again there, mate, you should be proud of yourself" and this irritating bluenose that i worked with sidles up and says "i'd bet you'd rather be playing for Everton though, wouldnt you?" Mcmanaman slowly looks him up and down and then just says "no" and carries on talking to me. Glorious. 

He was best man at my birds auntie and uncles wedding. Robbie Fowler is her nephews godfather. 

[KMD7]

Met Giant Haystacks when I was 10. He was fucking enormous.

[Bjornebye]

21 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Met Giant Haystacks when I was 10. He was fucking enormous.

What were you expecting? Hervé Villechaize? 

[KMD7]

54 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

What were you expecting? Hervé Villechaize? 

Ha ha. Seriously though I was about up to his knee.

[Captain Willard]

My mother in law used to work at ITV so met pretty much every TV celebrity in the 1970s including a brief fling with the curly haired bloke from Magpie. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 minute ago, Captain Willard said:

My mother in law used to work at ITV so met pretty much every TV celebrity in the 1970s including a brief fling with the curly haired bloke from Magpie. 

I would have shagged him for a chance to get close to Jenny Hanley.

[Captain Willard]

11 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I would have shagged him for a chance to get close to Jenny Hanley.

Ha ha. We need a thread on the most obscure celeb claim to fame.
 

I once went on a Smiths tour around Manchester in a mini bus driven by the unfortunate Craig Gill who used to be in the drummer in the Inspiral Carpets. Just me, Mrs williard and a couple of bemused Japanese tourists looking at Morrissey's parent’s semi detached house now lived in by different people. Craig seemed like a nice guy though, very sad what happened to him. 

[Skidfingers McGonical]

On 02/09/2021 at 10:57, Elite said:

Remember meeting Warrior from Gladiator when I was a kid as he just happened to be in my area. Said he was a special guest of the local high school, in hindsight he was probably debt collecting.

Another one I met at a kids family party, about 12 months before he got caught up in naughty business. He was seeing my cousins wife’s cousin. Sound fella with us, fucking huge too.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

On 02/09/2021 at 10:52, Total Longo said:

Why were you in Dave's bathroom? 

 

I puked down Chris and DT's wall once, still proud of that one... 

I was pricing his bathroom for a tiling job with my mate. My mate doesn’t like footy, as where Dave does and we talked about Rafa etc. 
 

My mates head fell off with how much Dave was talking.