Celebrity spotting

[Shut Up Legs]

I've met Kevin Bacon.
Or someone I've met has met Kevin Bacon.
Or someone I've met has met someone who's met Kevin Bacon.
Or...

 

[classic33]

I am saddened to see Christy Moore's name anywhere near anyone remotely involved with Mrs Brown's Boys.

(OK, I've never seen a second of it, but the wikipedia entry backs up what I would have guessed from seeing a poster about it)>

Christy Moore used to live just down the road from me.

 

[Mireystock]

Yesteday at the War in the Vale 2016 Militaria show near Evesham, Herr Flick, Helga and Lieutenant Gruber from 'Allo 'Allo. The actual actor luvvies in character.

 

[stephec]

I don't know who the others are (ok, I do now, thank you google). Lee Child is the only real celebrity in that list, IMHO. It counts.

I'm the opposite, I've heard of the others but not Lee Child.

On the Granada TV theme, last Friday night in Booths at Salford Media City we bumped into Tony off Granada Reports.

Apparently he's a gentleman as he waited for Mrs Stephec to come down the stairs and smiled nicely at her, and he has nice skin.

 

[PaulB]

I was taken for my first official pint as an 18 year-old by my dad and we were in a pub opposite his house when he looked at me and said 'don't stare at the next person through that door as if he's got two heads. He's just a local to us and he's in here all the time so just act normal.' The next person to walk through the door, on his own, was Paul McCartney and he must have been a regular as apart from the nods of familiarity, he bought a drink, walked over to the pool table and put his 10p on and sat down waiting his go.

 

[sight-pin]

I was taken for my first official pint as an 18 year-old by my dad and we were in a pub opposite his house when he looked at me and said 'don't stare at the next person through that door as if he's got two heads. He's just a local to us and he's in here all the time so just act normal.' The next person to walk through the door, on his own, was Paul McCartney and he must have been a regular as apart from the nods of familiarity, he bought a drink, walked over to the pool table and put his 10p on and sat down waiting his go.

Did he win?

 

[Racing roadkill]

Buzz Aldrin, Sir Stirling Moss, John Surtees, Richard Atwood, Kenny Brack, The Queen, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Jean Alesi, John Mcguiness, Guy Martin, Graeme Obree, Chris Froome, Chris Boardman, Mark Beaumont, Colin McRae, Tiff Needel, Chris Evans, Paul O'niel, Matt Neil, Jason Plato, Suzy Stodart ( nee Wolf), Mathaius Lauder, Mika Hakkinen, to name but a few over recent years.

 

[derrick]

I recognise Ronnie Wood but who is the second one?

I got thrown out of a cycle club for saying them words, the guy i knew was Mark Cavendish and the other guy was our club president. It did go a little deeper than that, but that's what started it.

 

[Profpointy]

My father knew Lloyd George.

One of my father's schoolteachers was apperently quite well travelled and mentioned that the 3 best orators he'd ever heard (I believe live) were Hitler, Mussolini, and Lloyd-George. Quite a useful warning to anyone overly impressed by great oratory

 

[pplpilot]

a number of 'celebs' live spitting distance from me. ones i see regular -
Karen Brady has her midlands home near
Jasper Carrot
Toni Iommi
Bev Bevan
a few other Aston Villa / Birmingham Wendyballers so I'm told, however I wouldn't know one Wendyballer from another if they stood on a table in the local and sang Wendyballers are here again...

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Daniel O'Donnel is one of the biggest selling artists of all time.. serious.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I once met Geoff Capes at a caravan accessory shop in Kettering.

Mods, you may as well close the thread now, life doesn't get any bigger than that

 

[ianrauk]

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That's a TMN to @jefmcg

 

[Dirk]

I remember going to the opening of Bev Bevan's 'Heavyhead' record shop when I was 16 years old.
Went with a bunch of mates and rubbed shoulders with some pretty famous names in the music business.
There was free Newcastle Brown all afternoon as well.
In later years I occasionally had a pint, in the Swan at Chaddesley Corbett, with John Bonham when he wasn't on tour or in the studio.
He was just a fellow (motor) biker when he was in the pub.

I once installed a phone in Bob Davies'* flat in Acocks Green, Birmingham and also one in Alec Issigonis's house in Edgbaston.

* Jasper Carrott.

 

[KneesUp]

Liam Gallagher in a pub in Manchester in 1995. He turned up in a Fiesta with four other 'lads'
Noel Gallagher at the same pub on the same night. He sat on his own in the beer garden and studiously ignored Liam.
Curly Watts off-of Coronation Street was a regular at the pub over the road.
Steve the Mechanic and Tyrone off-of The Street used to play five a side at the same place as me on a Thursday night.
Elvis Costello outside Waterloo Station. I was lost, he looked lost. We didn't help each other.
Melvyn Hayes from 'It Ain't 'Arf Hot Mum' at a local fete thing when I was a kid.
Tony Hart, selling Conte colouring pencils in a shopping Arcade in Altrincham

Thinking about it, who haven't I met?