Your Claims to fame?

I made some furniture for Johanna Lumley and her husband, did many Blues and Jazz gigs around Canterbury with members of Caravan and Hatfield and the North guesting, played some gigs alongside John Mclaughlin's nephew Tony Grey, a great bass player, lots of stuff really quite a bit of which I can't remember for one reason or another.
 
archangel said:
I once sat beside Linda Lusardi on a flight from Jersey........I was 16 and full of raging hormones......does that count.....
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dinners said:
I kissed Linda Lusardi in Blackpool back in the late 1980s

It was only a peck on the lips and she had a python draped round her neck.
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Been on more laps than a napkin, that girl :lol:
 
I won an autotest in which Rosemary Smith was competing and collected the BTD award from her. One would need to be a certain age (which is rather older than me) to remember when she was a works rally driver for this to have any significance though!

On a nerdy note, I appear in the credits of Ralf Brown's interrupt list. I doubt anyone knows what that was.

Yves Geza said:
Last time I met TopGear's "The Stig", he asked me for driving advice :cool:
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They have several Stigs as some manufactuers require their own nominated drivers for cars before allowing them to be used (I'm sure you knew this), so the question becomes which one?
 
onomatopoeia said:
On a nerdy note, I appear in the credits of Ralf Brown's interrupt list. I doubt anyone knows what that was.
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Know enough to agree that yes, you're a nerd.....In a nice way though! :D
 
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When I was quite young, my Mum used to work as a chef at a recording studio in Wood Green. I went to work with her one day during the school summer holidays, and on that particular day, there was a film crew outside filming an episode of Dempsey & Makepeace (remember that). I was a massive fan (boy crush) of Glynis Barber, and was really pleased to hear that the actors and crew would all be eating at the facilities inside the Recording Studio. My Mum arranged for me to take GBs food up to her (well excited). I carefully carried her plate up the stairs to the seating area, put it in front of her, and said " I brought this up for you Glynis". She looked at me, smiled and said "Perhaps you shouldnt have eaten it then"

I was crushed...I didnt understand what she meant until I told my Mum about it :(
 
Yv said:
Is this the thread to mention the photo of my late Ma-in-law with Rolf Harris? :exit:
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that depends on whether she was already dead :eek:
 
Back when BBC showed the BTCC racing they started the programme of the crowd walking into the pitlane at Brands Hatch for the autograph session. My eldest son was shown first queuing at the first garage, then it showed us walking into the pitlane with my youngest son sitting on my shoulders.
ITV this time but Brands Hatch again where the BTCC raceday was heavy rain all day, a lot of people fed up and soaked left early. My eldest son and I were shown in our small tent and makeshift porch staying dry and enjoying the racing. The commentator even mentioned us when we were on camera.
Tenuous link to fame, Sir Alf Ramsey was my dad's cousin.
 
viv1969 said:
The only one with evidence though lol.
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I have a you tube of mine, but as its not yet past the water shed I don't want to scare the kiddies :D
 
Me and my football team were on a bit ITV show presented by Gabby (Roslin?) called something like whatever you want, prime time sat night. Our team was coached by Frank Stapleton, the other team by Mark Bright. They did an analysis match of the day style with Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen. You could actually hear Alan Hansen laughing at the first goal we conceded, in between saying one of our defenders had a 'lack if pace' :)

In one of my previous jobs I got to fly out with the England football team to away matches and the European Championships. Even got the same suit!

In the theatre I worked in many years ago, Griff Rhys Jones was the star but let's say there was a mix-up in payment for his friend who want to se the show and pressure was applied on a junior member of the team to let him in for free, so I called him up during the interval demanding payment. I got a good ticking off for that!
 
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Cable release or nicked shot, Yv? ;) Oh, and it's hanged not hung when referring to executions!
 
Once (a very long time ago) sold Kate Bush a radio cassette player.
 
Hiss off! she was cute :P middle of summer dressed in a huge duffle coat with the hood up all the time. Her 'minder' did all the talking and I only realised who she was when she signed the credit card slip :lol: (still have a photo copy of that somewhere...)
 
Steep said:
Hiss off! she was cute :p
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I'm not saying she not I'm just blaming you for the possibility of her continuing a singing career :D
 
I have to admit, I'd rather she hadn't made that come back.
 
/me showing Prince Charles round my garden - here we have ones dandelion and over here another and over he...
 
At the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony at the Millennium Stadium in 1999 I went to the loo and stood next to Charles Kennedy!

Also, last year in Sydney had lunch with Warren Gatland & Nick Farr-Jones the day before the NSW Warratahs v B&I Lions match. We got back to Heathrow and our plane landed about 30 minutes before the Lions' plane - we stopped at Reading services on the M4 for a coffee and as we were leaving they all arrived so we stood chatting to several of them for about 1/2 hour :)
 
Just thought of another fame moment for myself. I appeared in the TV footage of Brian Johnson (AC/DC) racing his Mini Cooper at Brands Hatch, I could be seen near his car in the paddock whilst he was interviewed.
Then met him again a few months later when he returned to Brands for another race.
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My only claim to fame is playing guitar for Screaming lord Sutch.

I was supposed to be the sound engineer for the night but when his band turned up, he realised they hadn't bothered to bring a guitarist with them. Me and a friend borrowed guitars from the support band and joined his band for the night.

I will see if I can find a picture...

EDIT: Here it is. I'm on the left next to the saxomophone player.

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Steve.
 
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jbw said:
Some years ago I was having a lunch time meal and shared the table with an American gentleman. I asked him his name & he said it was Buzz. We got talking about photography - he asked me what was the best picture I had taken so I told him - I asked him the same question and he replied " the one of my colleague Neil Armstrong, standing next to the Eagle Lander, taken on the moon"
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Doesn't get much better than that!
 
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Beer in cape town with Morgan Freeman when we were on honeymoon and he was researching "Invictus."

Top bloke and very down to earth.. to be fair, his strardom and fame didn't bother me, just had a really good chat... and didn't even ask for an autograph as not a trophy hunter. We did demolish a rather nice bottle of red as well.
 
Lynton said:
... and didn't even ask for an autograph as not a trophy hunter.
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Didn't he?
I'd have felt slighted if he hadn't asked for mine :(
 
Regularly used to DJ, and also jammed on the turntables with Roots Manuva for his after party as part of the club night I was involved with (young uns might know him). Oh and was in the regional DMC dj final years back too.
 
Cobra said:
Didn't he?
I'd have felt slighted if he hadn't asked for mine :(
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yeah. Ba$tard! If he thinks i am buying him a beer next time, he can do one!
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Nikon_Nick said:
I used to go to Rye House Speedway every saturday when I were a lad, and they used to have a guy standing on top of a portacabin filming the racing. The camera was pretty much level to where me and my mates used to sit, and during one race, a rider from Hackney slid off of his bike as he was going into the turn. The Rye House rider (Roger Johns) was behind, couldnt stop, and the bike on the ground acted as ramp sending RJ flying through the air and he landed quite heavily off of the track over the fence. In the video of the match, that was sold a couple of weeks later, whilst RJ was in mid-air, you could clearly hear me shout "F**K ME!!"

Im not sure how many copies of the the video they sold, but it still amuses me to think of people watching it at home and hearing that :D
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Do you mean rye house in Hoddesdon? I used to be the Marshall there on a sat night!
 
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