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When I met Robert Plant, he knew who I was.7
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He wasn't dazed or confused thenAlgarveaddick said:When I met Robert Plant, he knew who I was.8 -
I once tripped up Sir Tim Rice while watching his daughter's band. And Reese Witherspoon and her daughter came over to us randomly in Disneyworld as my wife had a pair of Minnie Mouse ears on that the daughter loved. I'm practically an A-lister.1
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Met David Beckham at Diageo events, twice. First time I made a drink for him using Haig Club (he was the face of it) and during the small talk with him I mentioned I was getting married in a few months time and cheekily invited him to the wedding.
Fast forward to the year after and we're working the bar at an awards night and Becks is presenting one of them with Vernon Kay. Comes to the bar afterwards and he sees me, and comes up and orders a Haig Club and Soda (awful drink, but when you're on the job I guess you have to drink you're own stuff) and first thing he said was "how are you, how was your wedding, sorry I couldn't make it."
Blew my mind he remembered me at all, let alone the fact I invited him to it as a joke!27 -
I mean, that's a claim to fame - they had a few hit songs and that Sting fella did alright too i think?Braziliance said:when I was in the Police.11 -
Just don't like mentioning it tbf mate, after our third album I just didn’t like the direction the band was going in.SE10Addick said:
I mean, that's a claim to fame - they had a few hit songs and that Sting fella did alright too i think?Braziliance said:when I was in the Police.5 -
I was Mr Wimpy in the 1987 Lord Mayor’s Show3
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Sting's nephew used to be in the Met - he's called Nick!SE10Addick said:
I mean, that's a claim to fame - they had a few hit songs and that Sting fella did alright too i think?Braziliance said:when I was in the Police.1 -
While on the subject of The Police, my good friend is the result of a one night stand between one of them and a groupie....and as a result I have now met said musician and have marveled at how many other kids he has spawned....0
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I was in a film with Sylvester Stallone.
An arm-wrestling scene was being filmed in a hotel I was staying at in Las Vegas. It was boring so after an hour we left and went to Wet'n'Wild instead. I rented the film from the video shop next to Stones at Lee Green when it came out, and paused the tape and successfully identified my green jumper (probably, for anyone old enough to remember VHS, the pause function was a bit jumpy).0 -
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I walked Sting's Irish Wolfhound to the police station after it kept interrupting a match I was playing in.PrincessFiona said:
Sting's nephew used to be in the Met - he's called Nick!SE10Addick said:
I mean, that's a claim to fame - they had a few hit songs and that Sting fella did alright too i think?Braziliance said:when I was in the Police.0 -
Re Leapy Lea post on the spinoff thread, I played in his backing band at a charity gig at the Winter Gardens Eastbourne.1
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You served him at McDonalds?Algarveaddick said:When I met Robert Plant, he knew who I was.1 -
Not me, but my colleague who sits next to me used to be fuck buddies with the woman who is now Kieran Culkin’s wife.0
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Quality jumper that mateDaveMehmet said:
I posted this a couple of weeks ago. I was on the 6 o’clock show when they filmed at The Woodman Blackfen in 1984gringo said:My left knee was on Michael Aspels Six O'clock show. Danny Baker was doing a piece about shopping or something and they wanted some of the staff @Allders Bromley to stand in Haberdashery dept and pad out the crowd whilst a camera man passed through at knee height. Of course I had to repeat my part on many occasions thereafter at the Oscars, Emmys and Baftas etc but eventually the fame and adulation became tiresome.
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Me: went to school for 5 minutes with Douglas booth. I’m friends with Ncuti Gatwa‘s flatmate. I also am acquaintances with some one who was a multiple episode cast member in andor.0
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Back when I was teaching I taught someone who is now a Labour MP, and had someone who's a moderately famous actress in my tutor group.2
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Right then. More.Paul Oakenfolds dad was my Cub Scout leader.My ex girlfriend is George Michaels first cousin.I spent a week in Pushca India with Nik Turner from Hawkwind and his family.My dad was with Steve Davis in 1970 when he won the Coral his first trophy.1
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I used to work with James May, before he was famous, much funnier in real life.2
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I nearly ran over Kelly Holmes a month or two before she won Olympic Gold in 2004. She was out running and ran straight out in front of me between two parked cars. Not that I make a habit of nearly running over famous people, Kenny Sansom once walked out in front of my car on a pedestrian crossing without worrying about whether I could stop in time.1
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I also went on a photoshoot with Alexi Sayle who was test driving a new car. He crashed it.SouthLincsAddick said:I used to work with James May, before he was famous, much funnier in real life.2 -
I Have been out for a drink with Andrew Fletcher of Depeche mode .1
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He was probably pissed as a fart at the timethai malaysia addick said:I nearly ran over Kelly Holmes a month or two before she won Olympic Gold in 2004. She was out running and ran straight out in front of me between two parked cars. Not that I make a habit of nearly running over famous people, Kenny Sansom once walked out in front of my car on a pedestrian crossing without worrying about whether I could stop in time.0 -
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I also went on a photoshoot with Alexi Sayle who was test driving a new car. He crashed it.SouthLincsAddick said:I used to work with James May, before he was famous, much funnier in real life.
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I once danced with a woman, who danced with a man, who danced with The Princess of Wales.🤭1
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My pretty young bride and I once shared a table with Marlon Brando and his party. There were no other seats available so he kindly allowed us to do so. It was a very long table, alfresco, In Torcello, with Brando and I at opposite ends, and he did not further communicate with us after a welcoming nod.
But I remember my wife felt uneasy when he asked someone to pass him the butter.9 -
that would be his Scottish cousin Robbie McPlant.Friend Or Defoe said:
You served him at McDonalds?Algarveaddick said:When I met Robert Plant, he knew who I was.0 -
Thats butter I wouldn't want to spread on me roll.wolfgang said:My pretty young bride and I once shared a table with Marlon Brando and his party. There were no other seats available so he kindly allowed us to do so. It was a very long table, alfresco, In Torcello, with Brando and I at opposite ends, and he did not further communicate with us after a welcoming nod.
But I remember my wife felt uneasy when he asked someone to pass him the butter.0 -
Whether it's something to be proud of I don't know. But when I was a fitter at Chatham dockyard and just out of my time, I stripped down and refitted the firing system on HMS Conqueror the sub that sank the Belgrano, when it was in for a 6 week docking and essential defect clearance. This involved stripping out the firing valves on each tube, replacing internal parts and replacing them and setting them to work. A few months later it did what it did.
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