Nomme should have started this one but having waited two days he still has not done it so I am

What is your 'claim to fame'?

This one is mine. I grew up in Islington, a now very trendy borough of London, and I had a orange chopper (the two seater kind no less). Two brothers stole my chopper, they did return it eventually. The brothers were .......(drumroll....)
Martin and Gary Kemp.
Maybe I should sue for all the distress that has been caused. :D

Originally posted by Gillie
Nomme should have started this one but having waited two days he still has not done it so I am

What is your 'claim to fame'?

This one is mine. I grew up in Islington, a now very trendy borough of London, and I had a orange chopper (the two seater kind no less). Two brothers stole my chopper, they did return it eventually. The brothers were .......(drumroll....)
Martin and Gary Kemp.
Maybe I should sue for all the distress that has been caused. :D

Well I was just about to but you beat me to it.

My claim to fame - I'm related to one of the members of the band 'Sad Cafe' (Who?!)

Nomme

I've sang on Radio 1.

Holding Joe Cocker in my arms just after he was born, and I was five or six years old - little knowing that he would become one of my favourite blues-rock singers. :cool:

ps. and not knowing that he was 'the' Joe Cocker until I was on a return trip to England in the mid seventies.

Sat next to Brian May in Heathrow airport, we were waiting for our luggage.

He should have been in the vip area but our plane broke down in Geneva so Brtish Airways had to send a replacement and we were all bundled on that then bused to the luggage area at Heathrow very quickly to collect our bags.

I think it was just before Freddie Mercury died.

Also met Geoff Capes when working in Scotland many years ago.

:thumbsup:

I have met loads of famous people. I could list them but that would be, like, showing off?

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
I have met loads of famous people. I could list them but that would be, like, showing off?

Why, do you stalk famous people? :P

Seriously though, go ahead and name them.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Why, do you stalk famous people? :P

Seriously though, go ahead and name them.
Famous people travel by helicopter.

Besides, my Dad invented the gunsights on the rebel assault rifles in the opening scenes of the first star wars film. (They were functioning gunsights).

Way back when I was a Beauty Therapist on a famous health farm I massaged Bianca Jagger, Kiki Dee, and Ringo Star to name a few. Plus I did facials on Bananarama. Big deal huh?? You realize that even rich, famous people have zits, hairy legs and cellulite.
I put Boy George on the sunbed every morning too. I did say way back!

i wrote a script for bob holness on 'call my bluff'

My voice was heard on Radio 4 introducing a speaker at a public meeting.

Also, on NZ TV one of the clips they ran during breaks in transmission showed me in the background sledging on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu.

I have been on the radio and TV and I had a weather picture shown on Breakfast time when I was 11 :blush:

My ex brother in law is Shaun Rider of the Happy Monday's and Black Grape.

Moon

Playing for Rotherham United juniors and having Alex Ferguson watching me play football. Got to meet him afterwards as well. Very nice bloke. Also, starred in a low budget film called ID that was about football hooligans.

Originally posted by Dick Dastardly
Playing for Rotherham United juniors and having Alex Ferguson watching me play football. Got to meet him afterwards as well. Very nice bloke. Also, starred in a low budget film called ID that was about football hooligans.
REally Dick? That was an excellent film. Credit to you.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
REally Dick? That was an excellent film. Credit to you.

Yeah, I was only an extra though. Had much fun as I got to throw plastic bricks at coppers all day long :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
My ex brother in law is Shaun Rider of the Happy Monday's and Black Grape.
That's about the most impressive yet.

Originally posted by Lickszz
Why, do you stalk famous people? :P

Seriously though, go ahead and name them.

OK! (but I don't stalk them - and only one of these has flown in our helicopter - the rest are from previous jobs!)


Rory Bremner
Lenny Henry
Magnus Magnusson
Jeremy Paxman
Sting
Mrs Sting (Trudy Styler)
Sarah Cawood
Ben Elton
Joan Armatrading
Gaynor Barnes (!)
William Roache
Cilla Black
Susan Hampshire
Terry Waite
Shirley Williams
David Owen
Gerry Adams


That's enough for now - I'll probably thonk of some more later!

Cue the vitriol

I have been to number 10 (more than once)

I have met Tone and Cherie (more than ten times)

I have met all of the cabinet in London many times over

and indeed the cabinet in Sheffield many times too if it comes to that.....

But that isnt what you want to hear.....

You want to hear the PROPER stuff

When I was about 8, and a brownie, Princess Margaret came to our town and did a bit of something at the parish church, and we formed a guard of honour for her

Pete Townsend's daughter went out with my cousin for about 6 months some 20 years ago

Alec Guiness's grandaughter was at school with another of my cousins

I once passed Jim Rockford on a London street

I stood near Christoper Lillicrap on a tube station platform and was also once scarily close to Firefighter Georgardis (spelling optional) at Kings Cross.

I also was close to the film crew and actors of the movie set in Sheffield, the Navigators (they had their canteen in my office)

I have swooned over Gerry Adams from a few feet away

I saw Soft Cell at the Kirklevington Country Club in 1981

My friend Susan lives opposite Timothy West and Prunella Scales

.....is any of this any good?




i

I saw David Blunkett at Midland station. He didn't see me though.

















:blush:

I've had a band member of the Human League in my car!

Does that count?

ive been on the danny baker show radio 1 (wow)

ive sung on stage with the selector

i was on the back page of the sheffield star doing a one man pitch invaison at bramall lane...ive have the pic on my msn mesenger

i went to school with sean bean


i was in "when saturday comes" (just lol)

but my favourite is i used to drink with the united players...but when warnock took over he got rid of all the p**S heads.

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
OK! (but I don't stalk them - and only one of these has flown in our helicopter - the rest are from previous jobs!)


Rory Bremner
Lenny Henry
Magnus Magnusson
Jeremy Paxman
Sting
Mrs Sting (Trudy Styler)
Sarah Cawood
Ben Elton
Joan Armatrading
Gaynor Barnes (!)
William Roache
Cilla Black
Susan Hampshire
Terry Waite
Shirley Williams
David Owen
Gerry Adams


That's enough for now - I'll probably thonk of some more later!

i think i can beat your list mr! everyone from Moby to Marshall Jefferson and Roni Size to SClub7 to Paul Merton to Princess Anne and Premiership footballers, politicans, etc. i'll have to compile a full list...

Knowing or meeting a celibrity doesn't make you famous. At least my claim put me in the spotlight for all of 30 seconds.

Originally posted by Sidla
Knowing or meeting a celibrity doesn't make you famous. At least my claim put me in the spotlight for all of 30 seconds.

very true. i think the notion of 'claim to fame' here is meant in a tongue in cheek way tho.

Originally posted by Sidla
Knowing or meeting a celibrity doesn't make you famous. At least my claim put me in the spotlight for all of 30 seconds.
OK I was interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield about being a fantastic (not to mention incredibly attractive) Bouncer!

There... enough claim to fame?

These are all quite impressive lists!! I've met Rory Bremner and Judge Jules (not at the same time), I've interviewed Mr C from the Shamen, met the Prodigy when I was 14 and they were a rave act, smoked with Maxi Jazz from faithless and had my foot trodden on by Kylie Minogue (who didn't apologise, the b***h!!)

All sounds rather hollow compared to some of the above though!!

Yes it is all rather impressive.

Belle, your LP links are alarming more than impressive - that makes you a de facto member of the establishment!

Am I the only one to have had breakfast with Carlos the Jackal (Vladimir Ilyich Sanchez)? (infamous global terrorist now in prison in france)

Sat on his knee for breakfast after he had stayed the night at our house once (we didn't know it was him at the time!)

Originally posted by DaBouncer
OK I was interviewed on BBC Radio Sheffield about being a fantastic (not to mention incredibly attractive) Bouncer!

There... enough claim to fame?
Better.

I've been on local TV a couple of times.

Originally posted by Sidla
Better.

I've been on local TV a couple of times.
I appeared on "Hey Look That's Me" once.

I was the one in the tiger costume

I appeared on local TV in Essex cos I was being taught Cricket br nick (or neil?) foster. Also appeared on TV aged 6 dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!!!

A rather large picture of me featured in Sheffield Univeristys undergraduate prospectus for several years.

Nomme

Stayed at "the Lodge", official residence of the aussie PM, as a guest of John Howard. Oh, and my mate's had Paris Hilton.

Will post later with some "good" ones.

He wasn't the dude in the now infamous porn video that shes trying to get banned, the pictures I have seen aren't aren't very 'forgiving' of either of them!

Unfortunately not, although he did say that she "goes like a sh*thouse door banging in a gale". Which is praise indeed.

i go to school with a friend whos freind is cousin to Michel Gordon
and (not much fame but its alright i suppose) im a leader to the son of the guy who desinged the new ice rink at don valley :D

Well in the last 18 months or so I've worked at a few famous peoples homes:

David Seaman (just after he put Sheff Utd. out of FA Cup with that save - he found it highly amusing!)
Ulrika Jonsson (her son Cameron is a right little git)
Tony Cottee
David Sullivan (multi millionaire - Sport newpaper, Birmingham City FC)

Other famous people I've met through work and other activities are:

Emlyn Hughes
Denmark football team (Euro '96 squad - including Schmeichael)
Most Sheff Utd + Sheff Wed players over the last 10 years or so.
Horse from Full Monty
Countless footballers + managers from teams Utd + Weds played against in '99,'00 and '01
Sophie Raworth
Naz, Bomber Graham, Jonny Nelson
Terje Haakonsen (world's greatest snowboarder)
Martin Clunes
+ others I've forgot...

I've also been on TV a few times - local news.

The best one though has to be that I'm on the front of the Sheff Utd programs for the first part of the '90/'91 season after someone got a photo of me and some other kids at the front of the away stand when we beat Leicester 5-2 in the last game of the previous season to go up :D

If we are going on inventions aswell, i went out with a lad who dad invented the widget - or so he said.
How I was supposed to be impressed by that I don't know.

Moon Maiden

Originally posted by Moon Maiden
If we are going on inventions aswell, i went out with a lad who dad invented the widget - or so he said.
How I was supposed to be impressed by that I don't know.

Moon Maiden
From : http://www.platinum-celebs.com/technology/news/2003_11_11.html

WIDGET VOTED 'GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE'

The widget has been named the greatest technological invention
of the last 40 years. It was chosen by readers of the technical
innovation website T3.co.uk. It beat the world wide web, email,
mobile phones and the microwave oven. A widget is a small
nitrogen-filled capsule that has a tiny hole in it. It's placed
in the beer can just before it is sealed. Because the beer is
pressurised with carbon dioxide, the nitrogen is forced to stay
in the widget. When the can is opened, the pressure drops and
the widget releases the nitrogen into the beer. This 'agitates'
the brew and forces it to release dissolved carbon dioxide,
creating a head on the beer. Of the 8,921 responses to the poll,
48 per cent voted for the widget, with the web in second place
pulling in only 13 per cent of the vote. Mobile phones came
third with a 7 per cent share.

Originally posted by nomme
From : http://www.platinum-celebs.com/technology/news/2003_11_11.html

WIDGET VOTED 'GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE'

The widget has been named the greatest technological invention
of the last 40 years. It was chosen by readers of the technical
innovation website T3.co.uk. It beat the world wide web, email,
mobile phones and the microwave oven. A widget is a small
nitrogen-filled capsule that has a tiny hole in it. It's placed
in the beer can just before it is sealed. Because the beer is
pressurised with carbon dioxide, the nitrogen is forced to stay
in the widget. When the can is opened, the pressure drops and
the widget releases the nitrogen into the beer. This 'agitates'
the brew and forces it to release dissolved carbon dioxide,
creating a head on the beer. Of the 8,921 responses to the poll,
48 per cent voted for the widget, with the web in second place
pulling in only 13 per cent of the vote. Mobile phones came
third with a 7 per cent share.

oh

:( :blush:

Moon

The guy who plays "Karl Foster" (Martin Platt's colleague) in Coronation Street used to be in my class at Sixth Form!

That's my latest claim to fame!

(Thanks go to Nomme for reminding me about this thread! :thumbsup: )

Met Ben Elton in TJI Fridays (Covent Garden) early nineties

Messed about with the Zoltar machine out of film Big,when I worked at CBS Fox (Technicolor UK)

Spoken to Gavin Hewitt

My claim to fame.....

I've acted and took part in Miss Dance of Great Britain as a dancer's on-stage escort (and tap danced aged 9) on the City Hall stage but not since I was about 19. Claims to fame since then are very limited but I do share a birthday with Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendrix. :D

Michael Palin has called me a nutter on no less than 3 occaisions and we even did a mini "knights who say ni!" bit during a book signing :thumbsup:
I have had conversations with the wonderful Mr Ross Noble about the benifits of leotards and novelty pens :D
I have met the League of Gentlemen (minus Jeremy Dyson) Mark Gatiss is exceptionaly tall! :cool:

What can I say Im a comedy groupie! :headbang:

Only other claim to fame is when I was quite small I sang...with others...the BBC Children in Need Jingle on BBC Radio Sheffield!
xxx

I read four of my short stories on BBC Radio Sheffield.

I also sang 'La Bamba' in the big 'Flop Stars' contest on the same station. I'm still waiting to see if I got through to the final.

I won my dad the first father of the year competition in '93.
We were on sky news and in most of the major papers, whilst I was at Bskyb I met pat sharp in the waiting room, what a mullet he had back then!:thumbsup:

Last July I was on a morning TV show in Toronto, a live interview on the street about what was in your fridge was taking place and I got caught up in it, I totally embarrased myself!:blush:

My brother was head boy at Wath Comp ten years after William Hague was.

I was on this forum the other morning at the same time as Paul and Panjarat...

Andy Kershaw (Bolivian nose flute enthusiast and sometime radio presenter-type person) was in my class at school.

I surpassed my widest dreams and became a millionaire a couple of years ago.

I won 'Who Wants to be A Turkish Millionaire' on Radio Sheffield and have the 1,000,000 Lira note to prove it.

It hasn't changed my life... but the prestige!!!!

Wow!!!

Used to go out with gary moores youngest sister.

Used to go out with Police commissioner of Hong Kongs youngest daughter. (me `n` coppas, nah!)

Installed Sky TV for Gary Oldmans brother.

Used to beat Paul Haylock (player 4 Norwich City milk cup winning team) at poker repeatedly when I was a kid.

Cousin that I was christened with is so secret that I would have to kill you if I told you her name.

Others... nothing that amazing...

The funniest thing is one of my friends dad beat up one of the bay city rollers.

Rather have money than fame...

OK, but doesn't everyone understand - I am a millionaire.

Turkish millionaire. So bogging what!

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
OK, but doesn't everyone understand - I am a millionaire.

Turkish millionaire. So bogging what!

No you're not, Jimmy Carol prints his own notes.

I am a bit disillusioned - I have just found out that a kebab costs nearly six million lira in Turkey.

I am actually bankrupt in Tukish terms.

mmm claims to fame well

been on the front of the rotherham and sheffield star with dale winton (cringe!)

been on front of sheffield star with martin kemp

faked an orgasm live on hallam fm (well i was bored and asked to do it by the presenter lol)

attended a conference with the master cutler and brendon ingle

helped serve a sheffielyd sharks basketball player with some nike trainers

bumped (literally) into ian van dahl (she sings castles in the sky a dance song)

My legs (and gender) have been discussed by people all over the world! See this thread on the "Tomb Raider Forums":

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=008933

:lol:

The P.M, various cabinet bods
T .V show appearances
Interviewed for Sky Sports
Done a drink with Fergal Mcintire
Done lunch with Nick Knowles
That's enough for now

Originally posted by Tony Ruscoe
My legs (and gender) have been discussed by people all over the world! See this thread on the "Tomb Raider Forums":

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=008933

:lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I've seen those pictures on your site before, but the comments such as "so he has breasts but he's a man?"
really put a whole new slant on it.

While i was in a certain gentle mans club in the town center, enjoying a little adult entertainment, the band whitesnake walked in, and i sat with them drinking the rest of the night, chatting about their gig which was for the following evening. also met slash (guns and roses fame).

I was born in the same castle as Dave Hill of Slade, a few years later I may add.

+played Clarinet for David Blunkett
+my old band opened the Irish Festival at the town hall
+Played for Prince Charles a couple of times
+Got p****d with The Offspring
+Stripped onstage at a {spunge} gig
+played a solo at the Royal Albert Hall when i was 12
+Played with Time Garland from Chick Korea
+Sat next to Goldie at the Drum N Bass Awards on a private table then went clubbin after to the VIP party.
+Played at Abbey Road Studios-some of John Lennons unreleased songs. Now released.
+Been on Kids Tv Programme 24/7 on Granada TV
+Played on Classic FM couple times.
+Been in Sheffield Star coupla times n i dont mean on the happy birthday page lol.
+Pete Gill called me on my mobile (drummer from Motorhead!) and invited me to his place!
think theres more but cant think right now!Not exactly cool stuff really!

Hello Folks – I have an hour to kill before I set off to the Match in Sheffield 6 – Yes, I am A Wednesday fan. Hurray….. Booo…..Hurray……I hear you shout ……depending on your loyalties.

Anyway I was wondering….do you good people of Sheffield have any claim to fame? For example, I’ve “sort of” got a claim to fame. My younger cousin (and fellow Wednesdayite) is Tony Pitts. To give him his full name….Antony Bennett-Pitts.

He played Archie in Emerdale Farm. Since then he has played various parts in Coronation Street, Eastenders, The Bill and another police drama set in Manchester???? The name of which escapes me. I keep seeing his face on the TV but his work takes him down south quite a lot, so I’ve last touch with what he is doing now.

http://www.emmerdale.org/emmerdale/profiles/archie.htm

So! come on folks...what is your claim to fame....

I was nearly run over by Willie Thorne once outside the crucible! He stopped and waved me across, luckily with a smile!!:D

Sean Bean played football in my nan's garden with my older brother as a chid. I,m still waiting to bump into him so i can introduce myself ;) LOL I can live in hope!!!!

I went to school (and now work for the same company) with a girl whos uncle is Mel Sterland (ex Wednesday player).

I once stood behind the bloke who played Tricky Dicky in Eastenders in the queue in HMV on Pinstone Street.

I work with someone whos married to Frank Whites daughter, which technically makes him related to both Frank White and Richard Hawley.

I once saw Tommy Harris from Corrie in Sheffield train station.

My dad used to work with Peter Elliot at British Steel

Another girl I work with has a sister who is married to the Bassist fromf the Stunt Kites. Their drummer is married to Jarvis Cockers sister, Saskia.

My dad's cousin is Fred Truman the cricketer.
My boyfriend has published 6 books and was in 'who's who' in 1992.
I used to share a flat with Archie the Inventor from 'Balamorie'.

Originally posted by debs66
Sean Bean played football in my nan's garden with my older brother as a chid. I,m still waiting to bump into him so i can introduce myself ;) LOL I can live in hope!!!!

I was doing some garden work for a family friend in Whirlowdale (very posh part of Sheffield). I was aware that someone was having a “kick about” with some youngsters in the next garden. Their ball flew over the tall hedge and landed near the bottom of the garden. Instead of throwing it back over and risking hitting somebody or damaging something. I took the ball round to their gate…..there was a grateful Steve Heighway of Liverpool who I was told later often visited his relatives.

I played in the same football team as Garry Cahill who is on the books at villa but currently getting rave reviews while onloan at burnley

i was on the danny baker show 2 saturdays in a row (radio 1sat am)

and this pic was on the back page of the sheffield star btw it was 10 years ago and ive grown up a bit....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/kirky1963/31727296803_0_ALB.jpg

i wound up on men and motors.....no not what you think. I was out drinking one night around chesterfield when the guys from uk uncovered were out filming. I was very drunk and so was my sister' apparantly we were being "interveiwed" for a good 10 minutes but i have yet to see it just know we were on cos people have told me. Embarrasingly a couple of the other mums up at school' so no longer can act like any other respectable thirty something year old mum!



Also was sat 2 rows behind prince nasseem in the meadowhall cinema he was with his wife and 2 sons watching Garfield. He kept looking round just to check if anyone recognised him i think!

Originally posted by Rachylou
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Also was sat 2 rows behind prince nasseem in the meadowhall cinema he was with his wife and 2 sons watching Garfield. He kept looking round just to check if anyone recognised him i think! [/B]

yep he does that regular..shame no one cares:D

i played a copper in the c4 film about orgreave, about 20 of us from the firth park hotel got parts. some were miners and the unlucky ones like me were coppers which meant a couple of daysabuse. good laugh tho.

I sued my solicitor and won

hazel

Originally posted by hazel
I sued my solicitor and won

hazel

who represented ya?

another solicitor
hazel

I have yet to reach my stardom :D

(will let you know when I do ;) )

I danced with Bez on the bar at Ski Village.

Mine's boring compared to everyone else's. I met ( shook hands ) with Princess Diana when she visited Rotherham in the early 90's and I went to school with Matt Hamshaw's ( Sheff Wed player) dad :gag:

Got awarded a child of achievement award by that guy out of splash...the one with long blonde mullet.... :gag:

Um.. Pat Sharpe once called me up to be on his radio show...

Im related to Hallam FM former DJ Antony Gay, and am still friends with some of the old DJs off there Like Andy Nash and Daryl Denham :)

Susie
xx

I have had a lot of very minor brushes or tenuous connections with celebrities - probably too many to mention. But slightly less tenuous ones include...

I was at school with Andrew Gilligan, in fact I probably helped launch his journalistic career: we had a bash at setting up a college newspaper together, with him as reporter and me as photographer. Somebody else I knew at the time has actually tried to make a comedy show out of the fact that he knew Andrew (http://www.chortle.co.uk/edfest2004/edshows.html?http&&&www.chortle.co.uk/edfest2004/chrisneill.html).

My best friend at school was Pete Townshend's godson. And his sister, who was three years below me, is Claire Forlani, now a famous Hollywood actress who starred in Meet Joe Black, Mallrats, The Rock and others.

I went to the same drama group as Martin Freeman (from The Office) and Rufus Sewell: I don't remember either of them, though I'm sure I must have been there at the same time, as they're roughly the same age as me. I was also at Bristol University at the same time as Simon Pegg, again I don't remember our paths crossing but I'm sure they must have as I used to hang out with quite a few of the drama students there.

One of my best mates from childhood is head of IT at 10 Downing Street. I inadvertantly helped him make the career move which landed him the job there (it's a long story...)

As for family claims to fame, my Grandpa (http://www.sumption.org/obit.html) did a great deal to create the charity and fundraising "industry" in this country (and worldwide), and if it weren't for his early innovations events like last night's Red Nose extravaganza might never have happened.

I'm sure there's more... I got drunk with one of the Bay City Rollers once (Les, I think), helped Jarvis carry his bags at Sheffield station, bumped into Rod, Jane and Freddy on the way home from school once and did my rude George impression at them, ...

Oh yeah, and my uncle & aunt (http://www.keirlusby.com/) make props as seen on many films & TV shows, like the letters telling Harry Potter that he'd got a place at Hogwarts, Indiana Jones's dad's diary (which has since been misappropriated by a notebook manufacturers (http://www.sumption.org/lifeless/002695.html) for their advertising claims), the galleon that Elton John wore on his head at his 50th birthday party, the horses used for It's a Royal Knockout, and the giant-sized "Jim'll Fix it Bages" which used to get handed out for group fix-its. I once helped them to make the workman's tent which Roland Rat used to drive his car out of at the start of every show :)

My uncle (http://www.oisingallery.com/ArtistsDetail.asp?ArtistID=76) is well known in the art world. He is an architypal bohemian artist, very unpredictable but incredibly talented. I last saw him when we went to stay with him a couple of years ago in Ireland.

When I was a child in London, my next door neighbour was the sculptor Bill Pye, who did Mike Oldfield's tubular bells (and also that sculpture outside the Sheffield Children's Hospital, among others)

Apparently a relative of my granny's was a close friend/collegue of Florence Nightingale and another relative of my granny's went down with the Titanic :o(she was eloping with her landlord)

Oh and I served Ray Ashcroft in the shop I work at once, he was in The Bill!:D

Speaking of serving, I served Shane MacGowan once: I was working at the backstage bar at the Fleadh in Finsbury Park about 15 years ago.

His chosen tipple? A pint of rum punch.

I once played for sheffield wednesday at hillsborough in front of thousands of people and I couldn't hear a thing.

I am clearly visible in the crowd on one of the Iron Maiden videos, which was shot at the sheffield city hall.

I have played at the Albert hall, on tv, sheffield city hall, Royal Festival Hall. I have been interviewed by radio sheffield and radio stoke.

I have flown quite a few multimillion pound flight simulators, which one of my mates is green with envy about.

I invented the Lost Cinemas of sheffield website, which keeps me quite busy with feedback from Ex pat sheffielders from all over the world.
I made up the un official Hendesron's relish fan club, which has been quoted in the local papers, the big issue and the Times.

I threw local [now discraced] Entrepreneur Stephen Hinchcliffe off his bar stool in about 1994 and became a local hero for a short while.

I share my birthday with Richie Sambora from Bon Jovi, Yul Brinner and Tommy Vance rip.

Originally posted by venger

The funniest thing is one of my friends dad beat up one of the bay city rollers.


Many years ago my Dad nearly killed all the Bay City Rollers in one go!

He was driving round Edinburgh one Saturday morning when my sister and her friend (who were in the back of the car) suddenly started screaming loudly and waving out of the windows. (I still haven't forgiven my sister for her dreadful lapse of cool):cool:

Dad nearly leapt out of his skin, thinking they'd seen some horrible accident, and was trying desperately to spot the problem when he almost hit the van in front - turned out this van contained all the Rollers, and it was them my sister and friend were screaming at!

Dad was not best pleased and was heard to growl "If I'd known it was them, I'd have hit their ruddy van!"

Please note: He was only joking!! :P and he is in fact an excellent driver!

Starsparkle :thumbsup:

Ooh, my memory is really starting to come back to me now... when I was in 6th form college (around 1986), a friend swore blind that there was a picture of me on the cover of his sociology text book, carrying a banner and yelling. This is quite possible, as I went on quite a lot of demos in the early 80s, but I never actually got to see the text book in question.

I read four of my short stories out on Radio Sheffield. One of them went on to be published in the woman's weekly literary magazine 'The Lady'.

When I lived in Oswestry in the mid-eighties, I knocked around with Trevor Rees-Jones's brother Chris.

Originally posted by sparklesista
I have yet to reach my stardom :D

(will let you know when I do ;) )

:confused:

Originally posted by kirky
i was on the danny baker show 2 saturdays in a row (radio 1sat am)

and this pic was on the back page of the sheffield star btw it was 10 years ago and ive grown up a bit....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/kirky1963/31727296803_0_ALB.jpg

I’m glad to see you have grown up a bit Kirky – I bet you wouldn’t be seen dead in a ridiculous shirt like that nowadays. :D :D :D

Well my claims to fame are :

I appeared in an advert for Klick Photo shops when I was about 12. I had to stand outside Hillsborough Shopping Centre and stare in amazement as some guy on rollerskates came zooming past delivering photos! I was wearing an awful multi-coloured puffa jacket!!

When I was 16 I appeared on 'Where there's life' with Dr Miriam Stoppard. It was a programme about education and I was a mad Goth at the time. I was the first person she talked to and she shook my hand and said I had the most amazing hair she had ever seen!!

During the 90's I was on local TV, radio and newspapers quite a lot as I was involved with the Kelvin Flats Clearance programme. At the same time, myself and two friends produced a book of poetry about the flats. We sold every copy and were minor celebs for a few weeks. Sheffield Libraries even have it in their Local History section (Life is wonderful on Kelvin Flats is the title!)

As a result of all that, I got to know Radio 4 journalist Claire Jenkins who was the partner of Steve McClarence. I read some of my poetry on Womens Hour and took part in a few other programmes to do with housing issues. I then went on to take part in the BBC Millenium Archives where local people were interviewed about everything and anything to do with the last centuary.

As a result of the Millenium Archives, myself and my then toddler son, had our photos taken for the BBC's in house magazine called Aeriel. We appeared on the front cover along with Kate Adie. We were the main picture and she had a small one in the top right hand corner!!

A few years ago I also did a filmed audition tape for Louis Theroux Wierd Weekends. The programme was all set to go ahead but filming was pulled at the last minute. It was replaced by the one where he filmed with Keith Harris and Orville!! Imagine being passed up for a bloody stuffed green bird wearing nappies!!!

Originally posted by stevie1957
I’m glad to see you have grown up a bit Kirky – I bet you wouldn’t be seen dead in a ridiculous shirt like that nowadays. :D :D :D
Which one are you kirky the one in the referee's shirt?
there are lots of blokes on there and it's not obvious which is you.:confused:

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Well my claims to fame are :
Having read your claims to fame FetishFairy,
you are the most impressive so far..

:clap:

Princess Margaret sent her equerry (lackey) across to me and told me "under no circumstances photograph her smoking".Ruined my saturday afternoon in the pub she did.She wasn't in the pub but I wanted to be.

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Which one are you kirky the one in the referee's shirt?
there are lots of blokes on there and it's not obvious which is you.:confused:

Dont be daft MC, he's the one with no beard tatooed on his forehead :D :D :D

WHEN I WAS 8 WAS IN THE STAR PAPER FOR BEING ON A FLOAT FOR SOME SHEFFIELD FESIVE THING

RELEATED TO A FAMOUS MEMBER IN A GROUP FROM SHEFFIELD

MET AND DID SOME FISHING WITH BILLY CONELLY WHEN HE CAME TO SHEFFIELD TO DO HIS TOUR ARROUND THE UK FOR TV AND USES A FRIENDS BOAT.

SEEN OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE TO BUT TOO MANY TO SAY SINCE I HAVE FAMOUS RELITIVE I GET TO MEET MANY,BUT MY FAVE GOT TO BE PATRICK MCGUINNESS FROM MAX AND PADDY LOVELY BLOKE

Another one I just remembered...

I was in a restaurant in London recently (St John's Bread & Wine). A couple of tables away were Tracey Emin and Keith Richards. Tracey was obviously a regular, as almost everyone coming through the door got a loud greeting from her & a bit of a chat before they were allowed to sit down.

When I was eleven/twelve I had my weather picture shown on Look North.

My friends ex-boyfriends flatmates uncle has appeared in more Bond films than anyone else, he is the gentleman in silhouette, in the opening titles that turns and shoots towards the screen.

Have had bikes featured in a couple of magazines (Street-fighters and Back Street Heroes).

My dad once covered Jimmy Hill in very hot tomato soup, when he was a waiter on the Master Cutler (my dad not JH)(although my dads initials where JH).

Rick allen the drummer from def leppard went to same school as me....but quite a few years before me.

jeremy beadle also came to our school but i was unimpressed so went home instead haha.


my dad has met a hell of a lot of famous athletic people...ermmm i think he is on some sheffield sports thingy with uriah rennie. has met des walker and various other united & wednesday players, has signed picture of linford christie sayin something like `the best runner i know' haha...

oh and my dad used to coach John Brown...who has twice finished 4th in the olympics...(behind kenyans...as usual!)

all that and i cant even run 30 yards :)

ho sharper you just remind me that i was in the bsh (back street heroes.. its a bike mag for you none bike people lol ) in 2001 for a rallie i went to , all my mates was jelous with envy that i got in that mag that year lol..

Stan Richards (Seth Armstrong) bough me a drink in his local pub in barnsley,

My Dad went to school with Steve Clarks (Def Leppard) Dad

My ex husband had breakfast with Edwin Starr

I was interviewed by Tony Capstick on Radio Sheffield

I was once the lead item on the BBC 9 o'clock news, filmed live descending the steps of a chartered aeroplane carrying a child survivor of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. Also on ITV & Channel 4 same night. It was a traumatic event in my life, and I must have been about the only person in the country not to have seen the news.

I have also appeared on national & regional tv and radio regarding a public hearing over the questionable actions of a Midlands Chief Constable.

I have blown up a derelict building (that was great fun!)

I once had dinner with the then editor of The Guardian (but only because I happened to know his sister).

I have met various government ministers (Tory & Labour).

I once saved an old lady's life - but only because I was a chance visitor and got her admitted to hospital suffering from hypothermia.

Best claim to fame though - I have climbed Ben Nevis three times, and Snowdon four times.

I have yet to appear as the back half of an animal in a panto though - any offers?

I once went ice skating and didn't fall over!

K x

Note to self; get out more you boring old beggar, everyone else is more interesting than you!

Originally posted by kblade
Oh and I served Ray Ashcroft in the shop I work at once, he was in The Bill!:D

go in the sportsman before home games you'll see him quite often

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Which one are you kirky the one in the referee's shirt?
there are lots of blokes on there and it's not obvious which is you.:confused:
there's isn't a referee in the pic:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

ones jan fjtorfoft the other is carl muggleton stokes keeper:confused: :confused:

I saw the world renound Michael Tonge in Meadowhall. He was just sat there his fan club must havve moved on:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I have also have met the Calendar and Look North teams on many occasions, i have even been on a few times.:D :D

But dont want to talk about them:blush: :blush:

1. nearly got killed by Neil Sullivan, blasted ball it nearly hit me
2. howard wilkinson ran past me
3. saw myself and a football match while watching highlights
4. i breathe the same air as Paul Sturrock

Originally posted by longley owl
2. howard wilkinson ran past me


He's also ran past me!!!

I once held Kylie's hand.

Well, not her actual flesh and blood hand, of course: a plaster cast that a friend of mine made. He had actually done most of her body (can you imagine what a horrible job that was for him: having to hand-cover Kylie's naked body with vaseline & clingfilm or something like that, before encasing her in some kind of mould-making material. Shocking) but when I visited only the hand was left (the rest of her body probably went on ebay for a couple of million).

The reason he had to do all this was because he was making a robot costume (http://www.kylie.co.uk/tour/pix/men11.jpg) which she wore on her last tour, and he needed to be very exact with the measurements.

I was at the same friend's studio a few months later, watching him and his partner make a leather dress and gloves for Darcey Bussell. Two days later I was back in Sheffield, it was raining, and I took my daughter over to the childminder's. As I walked in I noticed that the floor was covered in newspaper and all over it were pictures of the dress I'd been helping with two nights before (http://www.consol.co.uk/Audi_-_Launch_of_the_A8.704.0.html).

In a previous job, in a time far far away.... Kate Lawler was out for a meal with boyfriend (whose name now escapes me.... I can't stand the bloke... used to play for Newcastle...) and I went out to check everything was ok for them, and she burst out laughing, she was later overheard by one of the staff as she was buying a drink at the bar telling said boyfriend that she'd only laughed because I was 'the campest person I've ever met, even camper than Graham Norton'.

Needless to say while I worked there, she never came back. And I'd love to meet her again, now that I no longer work there, and tell her what I *really* think about her!

Just remembered... Jonny Woodgate!

i have the same birthday as Geoff Hurst and Amir Khan

I have the same birthday as David Hasselhoff:blush:

Also I have been interviewed on Radio Sheffield for the launch of Firth Park Credit Union as I was Treasurer at that time.

Originally posted by richy32
even been on alot of times:D :D
tut tut i think you mean, ' i have even been on a few times' :P

i once saved 3 penalties from roger wylde owls player at a summer fair in 1978 he did have massive flares on tho:D

Talked to Ronnie O' Sulivan....

My Famous Birthdays

1984 Kevin Zegers (actor)
1976 Alison Sweeny (actress)
1974 Jimmy Fallon (actor)
1967 Jim Abbott (baseballer)
1964 Trisha Yearwood (country singer)
1958 Lita Ford (singer, musician)
1956 Rex Smith (actor)
1950 Joan Lunden (tv host)
1949 Twiggy (Leslie Hornby) (fashion model, actress)
1948 Jeremy Irons (actor)
1945 Freda Payne (singer)
1945 Randolph Mantooth (actor)
1943 'Mama' Cass Elliott (Cohen) (singer)
1940 Paul Williams (songwriter)
1940 Bill Medley (singer)
1934 Brian Epstein (talent manager)
1933 David McCallum (actor)
1931 Ray Danton (actor)
1931 Brook (Benjamin Franklin) Benton (Peay) (singer)
1929 Adam West (actor)
1921 Billy Ward (singer, musician)
1911 Sir William Golding (Nobel Prize for literature)
1910 Frances Farmer (actress)
1905 Leon Jaworski (attorney: Watergate special prosecutor)

Beat That:thumbsup::thumbsup: :thumbsup: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Originally posted by richy32
Beat That:thumbsup::thumbsup: :thumbsup: :clap: :clap: :clap:
James Joyce, Les Dawson, Stan Getz, Graham Nash, Farrah Fawcett, David Jason, Holly Hunter, Christie Brinkley, Shakira.

Hundreds more here (http://www.historyorb.com/today/search.php?day=2&month=February&year=All+Years&b=1&start=0), but never mind the number, feel the quality!

Please feel free to arrange in order of significance:

Chatted to Gorbachov on a plane.
Was on first-name terms with Shonekan before he became President of Nigeria.
Stood next to the boy to whom the Queen spoke at my school!
Got a written apology from Sir Bob Kerslake!
I have a direct phone number for someone that works within Street Force.

Originally posted by DanSumption
James Joyce, Les Dawson, Stan Getz, Graham Nash, Farrah Fawcett, David Jason, Holly Hunter, Christie Brinkley, Shakira.

Hundreds more here (http://www.historyorb.com/today/search.php?day=2&month=February&year=All+Years&b=1&start=0), but never mind the number, feel the quality!

Hmmm. Never seen the words 'Shakira' and 'quality' used so closely before! :hihi:

K x

I have a rug in my front room that was a present to my dad from Saddam Hussein.

There are others, but that's the best :P

Originally posted by RichF
I have a rug in my front room that was a present to my dad from Saddam Hussein.

There are others, but that's the best :P

Really, or are you having a laugh? :suspect:

K x

Originally posted by Kristian
Hmmm. Never seen the words 'Shakira' and 'quality' used so closely before! :hihi:

K x

S H A K I R A ! ! ?


Oh Yeah... She wants me... :heyhey:

yes really!

my dad was a doctor, and the family moved to Iraq for 6 or 7 months in about 1974 or 5 (I was only ickle) so he could treat the then president. saddam was vice president, and the rug and a few other bits and bobs were presented to my dad by saddam in gratitude.

we stayed in the hotel all the foreign journalists used during the war, and my clearest memory of Iraq is standing on the balcony, looking out across the Tigris at the tracer fire around the presidential palace on the opposite bank as a coup attempt was underway. Very exciting for a little boy, but I imagine my mum was a tiny bit worried!

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
S H A K I R A ! ! ?


Oh Yeah... She wants me... :heyhey:

For some reason, whenever she appeared on MTV etc, Peter would always say 'Hair like straw and spagetti'! I always think of that now when she's mentioned! :hihi:

K x

I have 2 famous people in the family, one very high up in the world, the other lesser known now. Don't ask, you'd never believe it anyway.

I have ran round the track with Sebastian Coe who was a very nice person. I have been shoved aside by the lead singer of rock band that sings 'whatever you want.. whatever you like..' - memory block again, in Blackpool Mme Tussauds - not so nice. I saw Chris Tarrant filling up fuel in Cornwall - he was miserable. Walked past Jarvis Cocker and his crew in Meadowhall - acted like they were gods. Talked to 'Bomber' Graham - 2 words (hello n bye). My Dad met Prince Charles. My son also saw Prince Charles a few years back. My son's also been on tv twice at 6 & 8. Also Iron Maiden singer - mental block, forgot name - used to live up the road - Montgomery, my sister was invited into his bedroom to watch him play drums way before he was famous. Met the owner of Meadowhall briefly, he just asked how I liked the place. I just said it's very nice or something.

Can't think of any others right now... Oh yeah, the girl that was in Emmerdale some time back, she kissed that other gay female character, I know her on passing too. She was also on TOTP's a few years back with a cheesy single - about 10yrs ago. Oh yeah, and I have the Christians on tape, they talked to me briefly as I filmed them - way back now.

My claims to (in)famy

My doctor in the late 80's was Dr. Shipman
My sister-in-law's Godmother was Myra Hindley

Lucky I'm here really :)

Originally posted by Kristian
Hmmm. Never seen the words 'Shakira' and 'quality' used so closely before! :hihi:
Shakira is quality, and I won't hear any different.

OK, some more memories prompted by recent entries... my friend's dad used to get Christmas cards from Yasser Arafat. Another friend (Andrew Gilligan, who I already mentioned) was staying in "the hotel all the foreign journalists used during the war" (Hotel Palestine), and was reporting live on BBC Radio when it was shelled by the Americans (the report was a classic example of British phlegm: "it's OK, I can carry on, my room just shook a bit but I'm alright"), and another friend (the same one who makes Kylie's costumes) once fenced with Bruce Dickenson (lead singer of Iron Maiden).

OK, I know none of these are my own claims to fame, but I like to get my fame vicariously.

I won the fancy dress competition in the Dinnington Silver Jubilee Street party 1977! :clap: :banana:

I got a cricket bat that was 4 sizes too small for me. :thumbsup:

Ahhh the disappointment!

I got a phonecall from Sophie Ellis Bextor once...she doesn't sound nearly as posh and uppity on the blower.

I had a row on the phone with Tony Banks (former Sports Minister). He used to hire a fax machine from the company I once worked for. He is a diamond geezer and knows how to conduct an argument politely so that he gets his way in the end.

Unlike Neil Innes, who just gave in to my demands with some bitter grumbling.

At the same company, we also hired a word processor to Stephen Milligan (the Tory minister who was found asphyxiated wearing womens' underwear with a noose around his neck and an orange in his mouth). I got a phone call from his very secretary the following week, asking timidly whether she could buy the machine. I felt sorry for her, let her have it cheap.

I was at school with Jarvis Cocker. "Arabacus Pulp" formed at school and they used to support our band.
I used to go see Lindesfarne at the City hall at Christmas, years later I met the singer/bass player as he was married to my friend.
My dad says we're related to Donald Pleasance.
My girlfriend spilled gravy on Gordon Brown while working at the Cross Daggers in Woodhouse.
I used to know Steve Singleton of ABC.
Ronnie Corbett used to drive past our caravan at Flamborough Head to play golf.
I had my head measured on Tomorrows World. Not because it's freakish you understand.
I was a guest on the record review show on Radio Sheffield once.

All pretty tenuous ain't it!

Front end of a pantomime horse on the Blue Peter Chrimbo special when I was 14... :P

Oh, & Danny Baker once asked me for a light outside Broadcasting House.

Oh the infamy. (...infamy, they've all got it infamy)

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Well my claims to fame are :



During the 90's I was on local TV, radio and newspapers quite a lot as I was involved with the Kelvin Flats Clearance programme. At the same time, myself and two friends produced a book of poetry about the flats. We sold every copy and were minor celebs for a few weeks. Sheffield Libraries even have it in their Local History section (Life is wonderful on Kelvin Flats is the title!)


Hi ff I have a copy of that book, are you sam by any chance? if so do you remember Paul and Kym from kelvin walk?

I wanted to pm you but not allowed until I've made 5 posts, only 4 more to go now.

I was on the jim'll fix it opening credits

just rememberd one...........i went to see king kurt at ther leadmill and had a drink with smeg (lead singer) after the gig...i paid:|

Haven't claimed notoriety for this....modest you know.....but have been bitten by a llama, a tarantula and a Barbary Ape. (that's BARBARY, not BURBERRY!!) Unlucky, or what?:(

Oh, ... and my brother was on "Screen Test"!!!!:clap: :clap:

Nearly got run over by Patrick Berger back when he used to play for Liverpool - he started to reverse out of a car parking space and nearly hit me and to "say sorry" he stopped the team bus from leaving and got the whole team (including Robbie Fowler, Steve McManaman etc) and Ian Rush (who was visiting and was still playing (for Leeds) to come out and say hi to me and my mate (who was a Liverpool fan - so was kinda happy about it!).

Ive got a Blue Peter badge does that count?

I had a gloops badge but lost it. Does that count?

hazel

I have been debating for some time wether or not to answer this post with my claim to fame, but here goes!

Before Tommy off Coronation Street was known and he had only appeared in a Washing Powder advert - I snogged him!!!

For my defense - it was a dark night club and I was ******!

Actually - he probably was too!

I blew smoke into Roy Castle's face when he played in Peter Stringfellow's Sheffield club years ago.

I've never forgiven myself.

I was presented with a snooker trophy by Mel Sterland

Originally posted by island3rlara
I have 2 famous people in the family, one very high up in the world, the other lesser known now. Don't ask, you'd never believe it anyway.

You can't just leave it at that :( come on please tell.

I'm in a book about Busted's tour.
I'm in a song in a bands album I'm not telling you cos you won't know them anyway, and if you do it's very embarrasing.
I had my picture with Mark Owen (ex-Take That) in the NME year book last year
I've met quite a few famous people (mostly boybands!)
You can see me in the audience a few times on the first dvd of a concert of Blue's.
I went to CDUK and ended up standing behind Bry/ian McFadden while he was performing Real To Me - by the time he'd done it 5 times and after a strange conversation with him, we were bored, so you can see me and my friend just standing there chatting.
I'm sure there's something else but I can't remember...

Originally posted by longley owl

4. i breathe the same air as Paul Sturrock

Does his wife know?:o :heyhey:

I won the overall prize in an art competition & my prize was presented by Ashley Jackson. :)

My claim to fame is the thousands of women who cant resist me. Its true, just ask em .:heyhey: :heyhey:

Originally posted by brooksy
My claim to fame is the thousands of women who cant resist me. Its true, just ask em .:heyhey: :heyhey:

I know the feeling well brooksy. The things us handssome chaps have to put up with.......it's a hard life.:hihi:

Originally posted by smedley
I was on the jim'll fix it opening credits

was your name botbaba ie " jiml fix it for you and you and you and botbaba "

Sorry to drag this thread out of the ether, but have just discovered it and read through. What a brilliant, brilliant selection of dubious claims to fame. The more iffy the better too, I reckon.

It's not difficult to have brushes with celebrity, is it? I once heard an unmistakable and very well-projected cough in a sarnie shop off Regents Street. Turning round I discovered Simon Callow, looking impatient and wearing the most horrible orangey jumbo cord suit imaginable.

A few years back I interviewed an ex-neighbour of Tom Cruise. Who alleged that the diddy megastar used to own two adjoining houses, in which were installed two different lady friends. The dirty little dog.

I was at a party with Welsh rally ace Gwyndaf Evans once. His words of wisdom were brief. "I'm so f****n pi**ed I could s**t", he intoned brightly as we waited together at the bar. Nice.

In fact, in a beery sports star connection I was in Champs on Eccy Road once, and got introduced to a nice chappie called Chris. "What do you do?" I asked him in my best Royal Family stylee. "Well," he replied, looking rather put out, "I play a bit of football, like". I don't follow the beautiful game, so how was I to know he was Chris Waddle? Ho hum.

Not really much of a claim to fame (if you're not an oldy that is), but my Mum's cousin was John Entwistle "The OX" from the Who

Has anybody been on 'Why Don't You'? I liked that programme :smile:

PS

I have no claim to fame at all.

I did once play the part of 'Sheep 2' in a production of 'Animal Farm'. I had to say 'baa' a lot and dance like a sheep (?!?). Oh the shame...

I had a workmate who's sister had a BLUE PETER BADGE!
Oh and i was once behind wee Jimmy Crankie in Thorntons on Chapel Walk.
I need to get out more!

I had a blue peter badge!!!

(phew - a claim to fame afterall... I was starting to feel a bit glum there for a second... )

I used to have a Blue Peter badge! (Although I never went on the programme - I got it off my aunt who used to work for the BBC)

On the subject of people in shops - I once stood behind Willie Rushton while he dropped off his guitar for repair at Andy's Guitar Workshop, Denmark Street. Hmm, Willie should probably go on the "dead celebrities you most miss" list as well.

My great great something grandad 3 times removed, invented the Thermos. Nice one no?

Erm, claims to fame or not? Dunno.

I was photographed by Ruby Wax whilst snogging a boyfriend in Trafalgar square

I smacked Bog Carolgees (spit the dog) and he fell down some stairs when he tried groping my boobs in the 'Friend at Hand' pub in Russell Square.

Recently went to number 11 for tea and canapes with Gordon.

David Blunkett keeps popping in to see us or writing to see what Im up to.

I too have a Blue Peter badge I got when I was 9!

Brian Dowling bumped into me by the Trocadero last October.

Nearly.. got backstage when Aerosmith played the Arena.

Swapped t-shirts with Brett 'the hitman' Hart when he and the other WWF wrestlers turned up in Rebels one night. Subsequently was put on the guest list and me and my friends got ringside seats at the arena the next day.

Griff Rys Jones was also in Rebels on a different night and just sat in a corner.

Saw Tony Robinson (baldrick) in a coffee shop in London doing some improvised poetry.

Oh and Jane Asher in the K-Mart in Liphook Hampshire, buying... cakes!!!

Claim to fame? or same place same time...

i accidently kicked chris woods, the sheff wed goalie, in lilys on penistone road,
it was announced soon after that he would be out of the team for a while due to a leg injury.
well chuffed.

My kids love me! does that count? :bigsmile:

I would think that's the best claim of all

hazel

Ahh... I hope my daughter loves me, but all she can say right now is "Da!" While it's clever of her to know the Russian for 'yes', it's no proof of adoration. Och well.

A photographer mate of mine is a terrible star name-dropper. So I developed this impression of him that went something like: "Ooh, Prince Charles said to me the other day, 'John I really like your work, it's on every wall at Highgrove'". So I did feel the tiniest twinge of guilt when another photographer told me recently, a tinge of jealousy in his voice, "It's all right for John X, his stuff's hanging in the bathroom at Highgrove, you know". Chinese whispers, eh?

But it was only a slight guilt twinge. In fact, it could have been indigestion.

I MET JESSE SPENCER! My mate's brother is an actor and he used to live with Jesse Spencer (you know Billy from Neighbours) and one weekend we all went to Bakewell to show Jesse our lovely Peak District. It was fab.

I went to Prince Charles 50th birthday (a bit sad)

I met Hugo Spears from The Full Monty (he was the fit one)

I saw one of the guys from FIVE on a train (was very excited at the time, and once he saw I had clocked him he ran very fast)

lol....

WM

i stood next to acker bilk at a promotional session at the castle house co-op in the early sixties!!-got his autograph but have since lost it:( .i remember it was for a new model of the bex bissell carpet shampooer!!----sad really!---also i remember susan maughan giving me a smile at a signing session in wilson pecks music store!--i know what youre thinkig--ots getting sadder by the minute:) met various soccer stars over the years but nothing compares to the above!

I've met loads of famous people..yes, I'm afraid I'm a bit of a celeb stalker :D

I've been BIG headlines front page of Sheffield Star..but too modest to post why.

Was interviewed on Radio York about the joys of the Internet.

Nearly knocked out Prince Naseem, well not true, nearly ran over him in me little Fiesta.

my grandmothers cousin invented the mini. And no we dont get free minis :( I think my grandmother only ever owned minis her entire life though.

Just found this thread and some of the claims are fantastic.
My claim to fame is that I starred in "The Life Of Grime " when it was filmed in Sheffield.

I was the EH Officer who sorted out the Filthy premises and the guy with the cats... believe me it WAS NAAAAASTY!!!!! and was filmed as seen.

The Crew did not believe that such conditions existed but at the close party they said that they were in awe of the work that we do. Nice of them to say so!

I have met quite a few famous peeeps and basically there were very nice and down to earth; even Tina Turner when she almost ran me over.

My BESTEST claim to faim is that i was....

"Buckinghamshire Junior Conker Champion 1986"!!!

Others include:

Represented Britain at Snowboarding
Met pretty much every famous snowboarder in the world
Did an interview on Disney Channel about snowboarding
Went to Chaz 'n' Camillas wedding
Went to Elton John's "White Tie & Tiara" ball his summer where i spoke to quite a few big names.
My uncle is quite a well known novelist
My brother was on "Wac-a-day"!!
At work ive said hello to / had to dinner Maggie Thatcher, Michael Howard, The owner of Southerby's, producer of the Matrix films, Joan Rivers etc etc etc....
Looked after some of the Saudi Royal Family (lower end) when they were on hol over here
Been out for beers with "John Mac" (the ex-SAS guy who set off the charge on the balcony during the Iranian Emabassy siege)

Think thats about it.

I havent got much really.

I won the Regional Virtua Fighter 2 Arcade competition in Birmingham a while back, but got beat in the finals :(
Ive met a few of the Villa players
Ive spoke to Karen Brady on the phone.
Ive met Rusty Lee

Sat next to the guitarist from Franz Ferdinand on a plane to New York (before they were famous and had to travel economy class!).

Chatted briefly to Ross Noble, Rob Newman and Nicola Stephenson (the actress who used to play Margaret in Brookside).

Blue Peter runners up badge winner, yes I know its sad but It meant a lot at the time.

I have a number of minor claims to fame that readily come to mind, in no particular order.

Being on stage with Radiohead at their Glastonbury '94 gig (stood carefully out of harm's way 20ft to the right of Thom Yorke).

Being chased by Brian Clough regularly as a child on my chopper bicycle in the late 70's/early 80's. He was the village idiot and would make a point of trying to stop vehicles/ people/ anything living that came close to his house. Usually a little drunk. "Now then yunglad, mind how you go!"

Having a film I made previewed on The Big Breakfast with Johnnie and Denise. We had to wear ski-ing hats and shades, and looked particularly daft, but I managed to bum a cigarette off a couple of supermodels (no phone numbers forthcoming sadly)

Have met a multitude of famous folk since began career in telly, behind the camera, but nothing beats the 'Sean Ryder wos my bruvver in law' anecdote - now that's class!:)

I work backstage at glastonbury, I have met tons of famous people, Michael Stipe, Thom Ed and Phil from Radiohead, Midge Ure, and countless others. We spent a drunken night playing swingball with the guys from the Thrills last year at their winnebago after their set. Although the greatest moment was sharing several beers with the great man himself, Mr John Peel in one of the backstage tents at Glasto 2001. He truly was a great man.

Joel

i used to have a jr tiddlywinks badge for having one of my jokes read out on jr showtime at some point in the early 7os:loopy:

That's great Joel,
I guess all those 'Tons of famous people' remember you clearly, beavering away behind the scenes. "Oy You" they must have called fondly, "Get out of the way".
I suppose it illustrates though that meeting famous people isn't really much to shout about.
More unusual anecdotes please - Having a pint with John Peel would have been sufficient- I hope you savoured the moment:)

This one's crap.

Met a bloke today who's dad's cousin was Joseph Duddington, the driver of Malard...the fastest steam locomotive.

Beat that....if you can be bothered



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OOHH OOOOHH

Theres an idea.

What about your lamest claim to fame.

Has anybody got a more weak claim to fame than meeting the son of the cousin of Joe Duddington.

My other half went to school with the actor who plays a paramedic on Casualty...but thats a proper claim to fame and therfore of no use.

- Met Def Leppard on several occasions, once providing security for a special acoustic gig they did
- Stood behind Jessica Simpson and her husband in a supermarket check out line in LA; I had no idea who they were and was making fun of her GIANT engagement ring (they saw me...oops)
- Been on Yorkshire TV in a community ad for the Sea Cadets
- Been in the Star newspaper multiple times
- If you do a search of my name on Google, you'll find photos of me and news articles related to my job
- Drank in a bar in Hollywood next to George Clooney
- Got drunk with Terrorvision
- Met most of the Star Wars cast - drank with Kenny Baker (R2D2) in San Diego
- Lowered the flag to half-mast at the Cenotaph in Barker's Pool on remembrance day
- Stood in line to get on a plane with Patrick Stewart
- Chatted with Elijah Wood
- Met most of the Matrix cast
- Met Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger
- Met Jason Statham (he was much smaller than I expected)
- Met Marilyn Manson
- Met Paul Oakenfold
- Met Rob Zombie
- Met Steve Davis(!)
- DJ'd in several Sheffield clubs
- Hung out with Lord of the Rings cast members and crew
- My wife knows someone who engaged in adult activity with Keanu Reeves...apparently, he smelled really bad (he didn't when I met him)
- I once served Phil Oakey when I worked at the Virgin Megastore on Fargate
- My name is in multiple video game manuals
- Met Tommy Lee (Motley Crue)
- Hung out with American Idol contenstants
- There are more....it's weird how you end up meeting people who you'd never dream of...

i've met david beckham at a book signing and I sat on all the seats in hillsborough(the wednesday ground) for the childrens hospital about 4 years ago, which got a decent bit of coverage in the star and the telegraph. I've met loads of famous footballers to many to mention Beckham and Geoff Hurst probably the best.

I was on Blue Peter last week. Forgot to watch it though!

I am quite famous at the moment I won a surfing competition in Fargate and have been in loads of newspapers :D.

I have also met:

Shaun Williamson (Barry from Eastenders) - Good Bloke
Lucy Speed (Natalie from Eastenders) - Really pretty lady
The Duke and Duchess of Kent
Cat Deeley
Princess Diana
Princess Margaret
Sir Bernard Lovell (Jodrell Bank)

Want to meet more though especially Natasha Beddingfield :)

was mistaken for Tim Henmans, now, missus at a Tennis Open and apparently was on local telly at almost every break.
Boris Becker stood on my foot, and didn't apologise... what is it with famous people and standing on the little ones.


the one I am most proud of is riding with Graham Hicks who is an absolutley inspiring person.


the tenuous links is... one of my other halfs mates was an extra in the lord of the rings... he was an orc in one of the battle scenes. honestly we have tried to spot him on a number of occasions but do you know how many of them there are!!! :)

My claimn to fame is that I am me. May not be special to anyone else but sort of is to me ;)

That's about it. Never met anyone famous. Do not particularly care to. Never been on television. Don't particaulrly want to. Never done anything noteworthy - don't want to either.

Boring aint I

Dragon

In the space of a fortnight, (around May this year) I was interviewed on Calendar, Look L**ds, Radio Sheffield, Hallam FM, Real Radio & Sky. Had my picture in The Star, Mirror & Sun... And someone actually stopped me in the street to say they had seen me on telly!!! I'm in the big time now ;)

Met loads of "famous" people, but probably the most famous was John Squire (ex Stone Roses & all round legend).
:cool: Was having a quiet pint in this dodgy boozer in L**ds, when said legend came in and sat on the table next to me.
Said "allright" to him, and left him to finish his pint. (Guiness) btw, for any potential stalkers on here :hihi:

My Birth followed by Life is my claim to fame, infact i'm the most famous person i've ever met or will probably ever meet
:clap:

I danced with Bez on the bar at Ski Village.

I have also danced the crazy dance with Bez at Ski Village and he nicked me jacket!

My claim to fame is a few years ago i had the leading role in a film called bored uk housewifes 3 was great fun :thumbsup:

My claim to fame is that I am eccentric enough to have written the world's only book on the postal history of Siberia. :P See
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Siberia-Postmarks-Postal-History-Russian/dp/0951160311 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Siberia-Postmarks-Postal-History-Russian/dp/0951160311)

my first day as an apprentice chef,who wasbooked in a little restaurant that night. mick jagger. his grandma lived in ridgeway and he was visiting her grave. also dave basset every other week(if united wasat home). he used to buy me a vodka and coke, was only 16 and the biggest wednesdayite ever lol.

Nomme should have started this one but having waited two days he still has not done it so I am

What is your 'claim to fame'?

This one is mine. I grew up in Islington, a now very trendy borough of London, and I had a orange chopper (the two seater kind no less). Two brothers stole my chopper, they did return it eventually. The brothers were .......(drumroll....)
Martin and Gary Kemp.
Maybe I should sue for all the distress that has been caused. :D

My claim to fame is the footballer kevin davies and the kids tv presenter richard mckourt...(sp?)say no more!!

Bobby and Jackie Charlton are my cousins..Well thats their claim to fame anyway

I was interviewed by Radio Sheffield, which was then picked up by the Star, followed by several of the dailies. My boss was not pleased at the numerous phone calls.

I have held Martin Shaw's hand, chatted with the Spinners when I worked at the Fiesta, and babysat for Jimmy Crawford. Oh and I saw Agony aunt Clare Rayner near the Crucible.

Performed on the "old grey whistle test".

Got very drunk with Paul McCartney and wings on their 76 tour in a hotel.

Drummed for AC/DC at the "Mucky Duck".

Dated Sally Thomset for 3 weeks.

i sat on romeos knee!
met tommy craig a fair few times!
met ginger bloke from full monty!
spent the night drinking rum and coke with harvey!
had my hand stood on by a jackson!! lol

Nomme should have started this one but having waited two days he still has not done it so I am

What is your 'claim to fame'?

This one is mine. I grew up in Islington, a now very trendy borough of London, and I had a orange chopper (the two seater kind no less). Two brothers stole my chopper, they did return it eventually. The brothers were .......(drumroll....)
Martin and Gary Kemp.
Maybe I should sue for all the distress that has been caused. :D

My best (possibly second best) mate married Wendy Richards, his name was John "Bap" Burns and he was the one on that documentary shown recently after her death.

My picture was once on the front cover of a Jamaican national newspaper.

And my picture was once in the Green'un as part of a school football team when we were the Champions of Sheffield!

I once saw Nikki from Big Brother at a pub in London (saw, but didn't speak to her). She is absolutely tiny - just like a little blonde haired doll!

I also saw Evan Harris, the not very well-known MP for Oxford, on a train, eating a burger. I didn't speak to him either.

Erm, that's it really....

my picture was once on the front cover of a jamaican national newspaper.

And my picture was once in the green'un as part of a school football team when we were the champions of sheffield!



Wanted?........:d

Wanted?........:d

I figured I'd leave the whys and hows of that one open to speculation.

My claimn to fame is that I am me. May not be special to anyone else but sort of is to me ;)

That's about it. Never met anyone famous. Do not particularly care to. Never been on television. Don't particaulrly want to. Never done anything noteworthy - don't want to either.

Boring aint I

Dragon

Anyone smell Cheese?

Nearly won a vodka drinking contest with Chaz and Daves roadies.

Also told Marlon from Emmerdale to get out of my reserved train seat on a train from Leeds.

I've kissed Emily Lloyd

I have been filmed on Sky Sports.
Also met loads of sport/actor celebritys.

The late great Derek Dooley is my mothers cousin. :thumbsup:

My Son is the 'Hovis' boy from the latest advert & also on the Brighthouse ad.

I am the voice over the PA when your at 38000ft on your way on hols telling you what the weather is like and what time were landing.

My Son is the 'Hovis' boy from the latest advert & also on the Brighthouse ad.

Cool. How did you manage to get him into the ads?

My Son is the 'Hovis' boy from the latest advert & also on the Brighthouse ad.

The one where the lad is running through the eras?

If so, that has got to be one of the BEST adverts to hit our screens in a long time!

I went to a party (long time ago) thrown by Def Leppard and nicked the lead singers girlfriend.. got chased for weeks by the band! ..Oops!
My other claim to fame (although sadly unrecorded) is I managed a fart for over a minute! :hihi: (I have witnesses!)

Oh yeah!... 'nother thing... I got asked out by Lena Lovich! (who?... she did 'Lucky number' donkeys years ago!) ;)

going unoticed in my daily life

John Entwistle is my mums cousin and she went to school with and knew Michael Gordon Peterson.

oh yeah!... 'nother thing... I got asked out by lena lovich! (who?... She did 'lucky number' donkeys years ago!) ;)
....1978 ! ;)

....1978 ! ;)
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Bl@@dy hell... was it that long ago! ... Been out with Mr May out of Queen since then (for lunch!) :cool:

I am Barry Scott.

................fame?

I went to a party (long time ago) thrown by Def Leppard and nicked the lead singers girlfriend.. got chased for weeks by the band! ..Oops!
My other claim to fame (although sadly unrecorded) is I managed a fart for over a minute! :hihi: (I have witnesses!)

Wasn't a lass called Mandy by any chance was it.
Apparently Def Leppard named their band after her, 1) Because she is deaf, 2) She was a bit of a wild cat, 3) She used to be the lead singers girlfriend.

I don't know whether it is true or not, never met any of the band members in order to ask them.

Wasn't a lass called Mandy by any chance was it.
Apparently Def Leppard named their band after her, 1) Because she is deaf, 2) She was a bit of a wild cat, 3) She used to be the lead singers girlfriend.

I don't know whether it is true or not, never met any of the band members in order to ask them.
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Not quite sure about the Mandy thing but I'm sure I know who you're talking about - she was'nt particularly deaf but was certainly very wild !... Had a little dalliance with her! Def Leppard were in the year below me at school and I used to knock about with the original bass guitarist... He quit the band saying they were getting nowhere. About a year or so later they got to number 1 in the US album charts ! He now works for a vacuum cleaner company. Also ' jilted John' AKA Graham Felloes used to live about five doors away from me (have you seen his adverts on TV for tea... very funny!)

The one where the lad is running through the eras?

If so, that has got to be one of the BEST adverts to hit our screens in a long time!

Yes that's the one. He's been registered with an agency for a few years, got it through that.

Very very proud of him :P

I sued my solicitor and won

hazel

lol i know lol and they are still cleaning the carpet in the office lol ssssshhhhhhhh

MMMMMMMMM now where do i start i have met sir robert winston ,anne diamond .richard and judy,appeared on sky news, calender, look north ,gmtv,appeared in the star yorkshire post daily mail sunday times news of the world the sun.I have met germain greer,richard madley,sue hesletine, and Christa ackroyd.Ive met sir Elton john,wet wet wet,Michael Jackson fly ,blue simply red and status quo,Gary glitter and a few others Michael Pauline .paddy ashdown, dawn French, Pavarroti celine dion michael crawford (actually i gave michael crawford a lift to the sevice station on the M 1) the names are endless .lol but I'm not name dropping:)

MMMMMMMMM now where do i start i have met sir robert winston ,anne diamond .richard and judy,appeared on sky news, calender, look north ,gmtv,appeared in the star yorkshire post daily mail sunday times news of the world the sun.I have met germain greer,richard madley,sue hesletine, and Christa ackroyd.Ive met sir Elton john,wet wet wet,Michael Jackson fly ,blue simply red and status quo,Gary glitter and a few others Michael Pauline .paddy ashdown, dawn French, Pavarroti celine dion michael crawford the names are endless .lol but I'm not name dropping:)


Are you Natasha Kaplinsky? :hihi:

Are you Natasha Kaplinsky? :hihi:

nope lol .but all I say is true.
ops I did miss out andrea bocelli too he was at this morning tv studios in liverpool and my other half had a pee in the loos there and jimmy nail was standing next to him lol hey ho............... oh and all can be verified

I once met the chuckle brothers :suspect:

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I got hammered with Shakin Stevens and Gary Holton.