claim to fame!

[mr. piper]

has anyone got a claim to fame or an anecdote, where they met or were involved with someone famous or infamous, and would like to do a bit of name dropping?

my bits were going to a party, invited by IAN DURY, where i sat up in the dragonara hotel in leeds talking to a jazz trumpet player in the band called DON CHERRY, turns out years later to be NINEH CHERRY, and EAGLE EYE CHERRY'S father. I have done personal security for some politicians from Zimbabwe, and i did see MUGABE, but i am not too proud of that.

[jeepster]

Spoke to Clarissa Dickson-Wright in a pubTwo fat ladies fame)Saw Terry Nutkins in a pub...Julian Cope handed me a video back when I worked in a shop.Also one day I was admiring four small dogs saying how cute they were etc and when the owner had gone my friend said it was Melinda Messenger(I was also on playschool but never got to meet big ted,humpty or hamble!)

[Gemma1984]

i met the once footballer Lou McCari on a train on the way to manchester, (my dad had to tell me who he was apparently he was great! )

And i have met Trevor Nelson twice once in Aiya Napa and once in nottingham and spoke to him both times! thats prob about it!

oh i was on stage with gary glitter when i was younger! ( a bit scary i know)

[oxeyedaisy]

i gave jimmy ruffin directions to a concert as his driver was lost they gave me a lift in style as i was also going their..i went backstage for a meal with lenny henry and have also met errol brown .i also did a bit of work for jocelyn brown..

[gingerflaps]

when i was 11 (now 23) i was picked from my youth club to spend the weekend in london and go backstage at a michael jackson concert, the next day he came to visit us at the college we were stayin at, there was kids from all over the world there, and we had to draw him a picture of how we would save the world, the pic was put on one of his albums, i had my picture took with him, it was very surreal as i was a huge m.j fan

[netibiza]

 I sat next to Kenneth Williams on a flight over to Ibiza, have sat in a bar with Leslie Phillips, and chat on a day to day basis with Nina  (Nina & Frederick) and also went to Frederick's house when he was alive.

[thikasabrik]

My mum used to go out with Jack Charlton. My family are all stocky midgets but I am nearly 6ft and slim and have often wondered......

My claim to fame is sharing a table in a cafe with David Seaman (I didn't have a clue who he was) and standing in a queue in a shop behind Ken Bruce (didn't know who he was either.)

[brachiopod]

My partner met Mr Blobby (by accident) whilst taking her young nieces out for the day.

She asked him to go away, as he was scaring her nieces, but he continued to... well... do whatever Mr. Blobby did - so she punched him and knocked him to the floor !

(I would have put the boot in myself - just for good measure. ;o)   )

[littleoldme]

Funny to see the cast of Rainbow mentioned in previous answers. They appeared at Woking Leisure Centre when I was about seven - I was too shy to meet them myself, but my mum managed to get me Jane Tucker's (as in Rod, Jane and Freddy) autograph. Pah! I wanted Zippy's.

Since being older and somewhat less timid - round the world yachtsman Chay Blyth, Dutch darts star Roland Scholten, and Meridian TV legend and former presenter of How? Fred Dinenage (at Portsmouth dog track - he owns greyhounds). I've also seen but not spoken to Carry On star Bernard Bresslaw and All Creatures Great and Small star Christopher Timothy, both on (separate) trains at Chichester.

Apparently, in descending order of importance, Paul Weller, Alex Higgins and Paul Daniels have all come in to shops where I've worked, but always on my day off. Typical.

Oh yes, and my sister once trod on Alvin Stardust's toe!

[smudge]

landie - you've got me thinking now! Have you really been to Langans, or rather did/do you own it? Or are you pulling my leg?

[smudge]

thikasabrik - your first para made me burst out laughing.

My husband & me stood opposite Tommy Cooper in a London pub - he was the most miserable looking g!t you could clap eyes on - sorry Tommy!

Also, I'm not proud to say - but I have photo of Bernard Manning with his arm around me! We were in Manchester with friends for the weekend & thought we'd visit his club - I must say he was better live than on the telly. I had a mini skirt on at the time & when I got up to go to the loo, he stopped telling his joke & called out to me "Frigging hell loov, I can see your Brillo Pad" I nearly died with embarrassment!

[jakesi]

When I was seven  I was patted on the head by Dianne Lee of Peters and Lee fame and when I was 21 I welded a garden gate for Steve Perryman of Spurs, What a life.

[nicola_red]

I work in theatre so I get to meet a fair few well known people, so it's not really a claim to fame.  My favourite was Mark Radcliffe, the radio 1/2 DJ, of whom I'm a huge fan, until last Monday when I met Derren Brown, another hero of mine.  In both cases they were lovely and we chatted for a while, which makes a big difference as I meet a lot of C-listers with inflated senses of their own importance.  I also met Christopher Eccleston last week and he was just like he is on TV, brooding and moody, and he wore sunglasses indoors.  I could go on with this but I won't!

[greenday]

I too have met two fat ladies star Clarissa Dickson Wright, and have to say she was great. I have also met (and got the autograph of) the 1980 Olympic 100m sprint champion Alan Wells.

[galltin]

Many years ago I worked in Harrods and used to see famous people almost daily, but the cream of the crop was Paul Newman who very considerately came in on my 19th birthday.

[soozmac]

I served Harry Enfield a glass of champagne at a party in London about 10 years ago (it was at the house of some actress who was in London's Burning). He quite blatantly stared down my ample cleavage and, thinking it'd be really funny, I pretended to be shocked and said "Young man! At my age!" (I was only 19 at the time). No-body laughed and his sour-faced wife glared at me.

I later read an interview with him where he said that he really hates it when strangers repeat his punchlines back to him.

[tgon]

I met and shook hands with Muhammad Ali when he visited a naval dockyard in Sydney once.  His hands were massive and his wife was pretty too.

[Rooser]

The trumpet teacher at my secondary school was Jacko out of "Brush Strokes", dad.

How's that for a lame to fame.

Oh, and my old Boss was in the semi finals of the 1978 British Disco dancing championships

[landie]

I'm absolutely amazed by your doubts, friend smudge. Haven't I always spoken the truth to you in the past? I know I've got multiple personalities but this is different:-)

[landie]

I painted a portrait of Muhammad Ali. Now that's a coincidence, tgon.