Mediocre claims to fame

Tim Pigott-Smith walked into a newsagent I worked in when I was at university in Belfast and asked for a copy of the Guardian. We didn't have any but I asked for a copy of his autograph on a till receipt which I've subsequently misplaced.

Related to the above I also read the same story live on Radio 6 during Shaun Keaveny's small claims court section on 25th January 2018, my only radio appearance to date.
 
I've met a few celebrities randomly. I literally bumped into David Bowie once in the street as I turned a corner and had to catch him as be bounced off me. I'm not sure who was most shocked, me or him. "Oh thanks man" he said. I was actually thinking about that moment some time after whilst turning the same corner and exactly the same thing happened but that time it was Gary Oldman. Bizarre.

Although I'm the common denominator in both instances, they were both clearly in a bit of a hurry and both of them are/were proper short arses who I didn't see until I'd crashed right into them.

I've also met and chatted with Belinda Carlisle and Rolf Harris who both performed at the Uni I went to and used the cloakroom in which I was working in as their dressing room.

Oh and I used to know Bob Carolgees when I was a kid. He used to drink in the same pub where I spent a great deal of time being looked after by my grandad whilst my parents were at work. He once brought Spit the dog.
 
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I went to school with Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears). He was in the year above me and we didn't have a lot to do with each other, but I knew his brother Julian quite well.

Many years later I was sitting in a pub in Bath enjoying a quiet beer with a mate, when in walked, or rather staggered, Clive Mantle, Derek Fowlds and Simon Shepherd, along with associated hangers-on. They were all clearly ******, and they took over a corner of the pub with Mantle proceeding to hold court loudly and obnoxiously, pontificating about his art and dropping names like cluster bombs while the groupies gazed on adoringly hanging on every word.

I went to the bar as Derek Fowlds also staggered up, he looked closely at me, blearily and boozily, then wobbled unsteadily back to his companions, following which I heard him "whispering" at 110 decibels... "those two, I think they've recognised us!!!" No kidding you ****. They all turned and looked at us suspiciously but with a trace of expectation, as if they expected us to approach with awestruck admiration and beg for an autograph or whatever.

I'd always liked Clive Mantle from his days in Robin of Sherwood (obviously this was way before his GoT fame), but dear god, what a dreary, pretentious luvvie in real life. Never meet your heroes.

(disclaimer: maybe they were all perfectly pleasant when sober, who knows...)
 
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I went to school with Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears). He was in the year above me and we didn't have a lot to do with each other, but I knew his brother Julian quite well.

Many years later I was sitting in a pub in Bath enjoying a quiet beer with a mate, when in walked, or rather staggered, Clive Mantle, Derek Fowlds and Simon Shepherd, along with associated hangers-on. They were all clearly ******, and they took over a corner of the pub with Mantle proceeding to hold court loudly and obnoxiously, pontificating about his art and dropping names like cluster bombs while the groupies gazed on adoringly hanging on every word.

I went to the bar as Derek Fowlds also staggered up, he looked closely at me, blearily and boozily, then wobbled unsteadily back to his companions, following which I heard him "whispering" at 110 decibels... "those two, I think they've recognised us!!!" No kidding you ****. They all turned and looked at us suspiciously but with a trace of expectation, as if they expected us to approach with awestruck admiration and beg for an autograph or whatever.

I'd always liked Clive Mantle from his days in Robin of Sherwood (obviously this was way before his GoT fame), but dear god, what a dreary, pretentious luvvie in real life. Never meet your heroes.

(disclaimer: maybe they were all perfectly pleasant when sober, who knows...)
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what does the first sentence of your post haveto do with the rest ? is it connected ?
 
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