Mediocre claims to fame

Lopéz

Lopéz

Lopéz

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I just remembered something that happened to me a few years ago, which is the inspiration for this thread.

In 2005 I worked for a Welsh travel agent called The Travel House who were owned by TUI. We were based in Swansea and sponsored Swansea City FC for a few years.

In the summer, I booked a number of the squad on a holiday to Majorca at the end of the season.

The players who came into the office to do the booking with me were Roberto Martinez and Lee Trundle.
They were both nice guys, and Martinez in particular was very polite and friendly - he told me "Di gaffer, he says we only ch'av a three days maximum"
Martinez paid for it on his credit card.
We sent them on a 2 Star Self-Catering allocation on arrival to Majorca and our product manager "fixed it" to ensure they were placed in an 18-30 style accommodation in Magaluf, probably the Fiesta Jungla.
EDIT - they didn't get a discount, it was list price. Less than £150 per person if I remember rightly, I still have the booking printout somewhere.

So what other underwhelming anecdotes regarding minor celebrities have the OcUK massive got?
 
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Is this what celebraties have you met thread?

I once shook jeramy beadles hand at a market in london

I have also met Ian wright at a hotel i used to work in back in my uni/college days

I met Paul Gascoigne at a pub near where my auntie used to live near Hoddesdon

EDIT: also met carol vorderman and I got a lovely selfie with her
 
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I was given a maths lesson by none other than Carol Vorderman.

ITV had a kid's quiz show called 'On your marks'. Only lasted one season. Unfortunately it was due to be filmed at Leeds when a flood took out the studio & there wasn't space anywhere on the lot to move it. So because our school had a full size theatre auditorium (that our school used as a dining hall) & could serve the power & space requirements for a TV studio, the school allowed them to film there & Carol popped in on a few maths lessons and took over when they weren't filming.
 
Met Björk briefly, that's pretty much it.

Thankfully Jim never fixed it for me when I wrote in as a kid.
 
I played a match against Aston Villa FC which included Paul Merson and Mark Delany. It was a cricket game - Paul cackled with laughter when he struck a boundary.
 
I was interviewed on Caught Red Handed (no, not for being a wrongun), I won't say what happened as it'll be obvious who I am
 
Met Bill Murray in Lahinch golf club house in the late 90s. The guy had the whole place in hysterics. He was there to play a round, but basically broke out in to a 5 minute stand-up routine. The guy loves entertaining a crowd.
 
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Around 20 years ago, whilst staying in an upmarket LA hotel, Danny Glover (lethal weapon) walked past me in the corridor. He was past me by the time I had done a double take to ensure it was him. Otherwise I may have said "I'm getting too old for this ****"

Around 30 years ago, in a hotel in blackpool, I saw Roy Walker, Mr smoothie comedian. My mum thought he was the bees knees, so went over to him and he gave me a signed pic for her, he was very gracious.
 
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  • I did a genetic test for a Sultan :p.
  • Met and kicked a ball round with the early 90s Nigerian football team.
  • Took part on an episode of Kilroy about mixed race marriages.
  • Was also in a BBC Newsround piece about bullying (I was definitely the DEI hire :p).
  • Dianne Morgan randomly joined a lecture at work - I'm there helping with tech setup and clock her sat at the back. She's just as lovely in real life, turns out she's a local by work.
 
Met TruckerGirl850 at Truckfest before finding out she was an "adult entertainer".

Stood next to Matt Neal (BTCC Driver) at the urinals at Donington Park.

Was overtaken by Jason Plato (BTCC Driver) in his at the time Porsche 911 on the way to Rockingham on BTCC weekend
 
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Around 20 years ago, whilst staying in an upmarket LA hotel, Danny Glover (lethal weapon) walked past me in the corridor. He was past me by the time I had done a double take to ensure it was him. Otherwise I may have said "I'm getting too old for this ****"
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Oh so does walking behind Colin Jackson and Sue Barker leaving a European athletics champions count?

Being two foot from Dave Grohl at the merch counter when I was buying a t-shirt?

Add those to my list then :)
 
I am not sure if they still use the same system, but I designed, ran and remotely (couldn't go there myself on the project budget) the southern most till system in the world in. It was into Port Lockroy which is the southern most post office in the world, in Antarctica.
 
Daddy G from Massive Attack is my second cousin.
I once had a smoke with Craig Charles after a disco gig at WOMAD festival (I was working there. Wouldn't pay to go)
I once had a smoke with Charlie 2Na and Akil the MC before a Jurassic 5 gig.
I once featured in a local documentary about Bristol Skate culture in the M-Shed.


That's about me done but I'll dine out on those for years if given the chance.
 
In the early 2000’s I worked in Belgravia, I used to regularly see Sean Connery and would talk to him, it evolved from a “morning” to a “how are we doing?” In the cafe on the corner of Upper Belgrave St, near Eaton sq. The amount of times I’d be chatting and a random woman would appear and ask him for the time, or directions and he’d point out they had a watch, or reply “I don’t know I’m not from around here” - It used to really pee him off.

I never asked him for an autograph and always treated him ‘normally’ and I think he respected that which is why he would talk to me.

On the same street, I would see Madonna jogging with her body guards, various politicians, Thatcher, Portilo, Boris. I do t follow football and know nothing about it but it was pointed out to me that various premier league managers had walked past.

Greg Wallace in his convertible Jag when I was on the coach, stuck in traffic. Phillip Franks at a fate.
 
I'm related to Rod Davis of the Quarrymen (forerunner to the Beatles) via my mother, I once bollocked Rupert Penry Jones' wife for trying to take a 4x4 with roof rack and external spare wheel through the works car wash, had no idea who they were but my colleagues found it highly amusing. As a child I stood up at the local pantomime and shouted 'IT'S THE MAN FROM PLAYAWAY!!!' at Derrick Griffiths who then apparently stated 'I want that boys autograph!', I was very young lol... ObiWan Kenobi used to sit in the corner of the pub (The Harrow in Steep) mum would take us to for an occasional ploughmans on a Sunday, we were always on best behaviour otherwise it was threatened he would come tell us off!, have met a load of other celebs in passing, Rory Bremner (I know why Noel Edmunds couldn't cut to the live video of Chris Evans and it wasn't technical difficulties...), Idris Elba, James Purefoy, Kate Winslet, Jeremy Paxman, Hugh Bonneville, Bob Mortimer, Mackenzie Crook and a few others I forget off hand, always amazed me how many used to come into the petrol station I worked at :)
 
I think I've mentioned both of these before:

I had lunch once at a London club and Farage was within spitting distance. He and his companion finished at least three bottles of wine between them.

Over 15 years ago I was in the Roebuck on Richmond Hill having lunch with my late father and one of Mick Jagger's cronies (super-mega rock star but now I forget which one) walked in. My father pointed him out but I said "Let him enjoy his pint in peace." at which point he shot me a look of thanks.
 
I met Anne Robinson when I had my first retail job. I thought I recognised her face but it wasn't until she spoke that I realised who she was.

Also I was a child model for Grattan in 1993. Don't get too starstruck now.
 
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