Mediocre claims to fame

Met British TV legend Dean Gaffney at the airport when I went to Ibiza, and then randomly bumped into him again at Avicii a few nights later.

I'm not sure if that tops meeting the Cheeky Girls in Halfords though. I still cherish the postcard they signed for me.
 
I used to see Cleo Rocos walking her puppies in my local park.

I was boarding a flight to Cape Town once and walked past Michaela Strachan in one of the galleys...and said "Hello! Haven't seen you for a while!"...Uncomfortable, weird exchange. It was only when I sat down I worked out I'd only ever seen her on telly and didn't know her. Derp. Uncomfortable muted hello/goodbye at CT Taxi Rank.
 
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G-MAN2004 said:
I'm not sure if that tops meeting the Cheeky Girls in Halfords though. I still cherish the postcard they signed for me.
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Doesn't one of them work selling cars now? You can meet them when you next buy a new motor.

That may be a memory of something that's true or just something my brain made up and tricked me into believing. I can't say.
 
DJMK4 said:
an 18 year old fearne cotton? did you recognise her then ? she would have been doing Disney Club on CITV at this age
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I can’t remember if it was exactly 2000, maybe even as late as 2004.

On similar note, served Ritchie from Five cigs also, the same day they got to number 1 with Queen and We Will Rock You
 
Among a few I met including the Stig and others. I gave a production crew, including chilled guy Vas Blackwood a H&S briefing before production began, which was after breakfast

Which was nice.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Met Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville as a kid when my mum worked at the BBC.

Played gigs with Lost Prophets in the early 2000s and thus met Ian Watkins...

Do i win ? How many other people can lay claim to having met 3 celebrity nonces ?
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Damn. :eek:

You certainly win the lucky escape award
 
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I used to work as a student in Tottenham Court Road at a computer store, I met Sporty Spice, Paul Daniels, Dom Jolly and Ville Valo. These folk, I sold stuff to.

Ville Valo came in blind drunk looking for speakers for an iPod.

Met the old Top Gear crew at the Birmingham car show in 1999.
 
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One of the wheels in GTAV is named based on my forum name/surname (my forum name is first three letters of my surname). I was into the GTA community massively from my mid teens for many years and we just so happened to have a dev quietly among us who was into his vehicle art in general not just for work. He used some member names from a private forum group to inspire some of wheel names.

I only found out when I played it, was a real nice touch.
 
Used to know Duncan Norvelle (when I was a kid) :eek:
Met Colin McRrae on a plane in Finland once and he invited me to sit in the passenger seat whilst he was testing. Never made it.
Gatecrashed a party at George Michaels House once and had to run away.
Used to work in a bank in Camden town. Suggs was a regular customer and gave us their platinum record of Total Madness.
 
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I nearly got into a fight with Robbie Savage in a nightclub in Leicester.

Some girl was acting the Big I Am and pushing people out the way to get to the bar, when I refused to let her go in front of me she came out with "Do you know who I am, I'm with Robbie Savage." or something similar.

As a Forest fan my reply was less than complimentary about what I thought about Savage.

Anyway, I got my drinks and off I went, next thing I know she's fetched Savage, hunted me down and he's in my face trying to start something and telling me how much more expensive his clothes were than mine.

I'm not much of a fighter and definitely not when I was clubbing back in the 90s, more 'loved up' than anything, so I just walked off.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Met Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville as a kid when my mum worked at the BBC.

Played gigs with Lost Prophets in the early 2000s and thus met Ian Watkins...

Do i win ? How many other people can lay claim to having met 3 celebrity nonces ?
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Ha! Reminded me - I met Rolf Harris in a restaurant down Teddington way about a million years ago when I lived in Richmond. He signed my bag (not a euphamism). Promptly got drunk and lost the bag.

Perhaps my brain had tried to forget.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Met Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville as a kid when my mum worked at the BBC.

Played gigs with Lost Prophets in the early 2000s and thus met Ian Watkins...

Do i win ? How many other people can lay claim to having met 3 celebrity nonces ?
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Does your balloon knot sound like a deflating tyre when you fart?
 
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