Shaking hands with famous/well-known people

[User169]

Gotta ask why?

Not entirely sure. It was very shortly after whatever the events were that lead to the new rules regarding sharp objects and fluids. He sat down and promptly started to pick/file his nails with a swiss army knife. Next thing, he was asked to report to the front of the cabin and then led off the plane for discussion with what I assume was the police. Plane took off without him.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Greg Lemond
Claudio Chiappucci
Sean Yates
Chris Broadman
Dag Otto Lauritzen

Matthew Pinsent (Hands the size of Belgium!)
"Big" Ron Atkinson

Adam Woodyatt (I lived round the corner from him, he was into cycling a bit, and was a nice guy)

 

[vernon]

Helen Sharman
Baroness Greenfield
Lord Sainsbury
Kim Howells MP
Gerry Sutcliffe MP
Bill Gates
Professor Brian Cox ex D:Ream
Sir Harold Kroto

 

[colly]

Not all that many for me seeing as I am a quiet shy retiring kind of bloke.

Barnes Wallace

Frank Bruno (agree with skmc about the size of his hand)

Jimmy Saville ... didn't fix it for me but I did for him

Honor Blackman aka Pussy Galore and Kathy Gale

ooo and the guy who played Matt on Emmerdale. Freddie..........? Pine I think

and Rob Bonnet. Fixed it for him too.......well his g/f.... he was there tho.

Keith Hampson. ex Tory minister.

Caleb Folan. Hull City striker. Not sure that really counts because he was about 6 months old at the time and his mum lived round the corner from us and she was pals with my mrs.

 

[arranandy]

Cycling related

Sean Kelly
Alan Peiper
Fondriest (ex world road champ)
Chris Hoy

Other sports

Gavin Hastings
David Sole
Ally McCoist
and a few other footballers

Celebs

Sir Jimmy Savile
John Noakes
Melinda Messenger

So as yu can see, quite a few

 

[PaulB]

Sorry, I forgot Jimmy Saville in my list. I actually met him twice as well. Once he invited me into his Rolls Royce on the front at Blackpool and another time in a marathon.

 

[colly]

That Jimmy Saville is a bit too easy. Puts it about a bit I reckon.

he invited me into his Rolls Royce on the front at Blackpool

Oh yeah?? Offer you sweets did he??

 

[Fnaar]

Dean Friedman just last week ( again a who for alot of you)

What are you crazy? How in the hell can you say what you just said?

 

[Gerry Attrick]

Adrian Nicholas (RIP)
Mark Thomas
Junior Simpson
Frazer Hines
David Coulthard
Jamie Whitham
Carl Fogarty
Steve Hislop (RIP)
Doug Polen
Simon Evans
Uncle Peter
Dara O'Briain
Scott Russell
Dave Jefferies (RIP)
Frank Skinner
Joey Dunlop (RIP)
Robert Dunlop (RIP)
Bono
The Edge
Spandau Ballet (full band)
Depeche Mode (full band)
Hannah Hawkswell
Jimmy Saville (no he didn't fix it)
James White (Mr Herriot)

Flippin' 'eck CP, I am a worried man.....did I shake hands with you when we met?

 

[Fnaar]

Isla St Clair. That's about it, really.

 

[eldudino]

Barry and Paul Chuckle, switching on Mablethorpe lights in 2000.

 

[Aperitif]

James(Jim) Callaghan
Lord Merlyn Rees
Sir Denis Thatcher
plenty of rugby dudes...
Jimmy Tarbuck - sitting in the back of his Roller c1967
All the Applejacks (steady)
Vince Hill
John Alderton- a cricket idiot who used to turn his arms 'inside out'
Mike Brearley
John Price
AA Jones
Clive Lloyd
Wes Hall
Charlie Griffiths
Gary Sobers - (bought me banana daquiris in Barbados)
Desmond Haynes
Albert Padmore
Michael Holding
Joel Garner ( - he was t-a-l-l!)
Gordon Greenidge (- he was s-m-a-l-l!)
...in fact loads and loads from the heyday on the WI cricket front...

 

[iLB]

James(Jim) Callaghan
Lord Merlyn Rees
Sir Denis Thatcher
plenty of rugby dudes...
Jimmy Tarbuck - sitting in the back of his Roller c1967
All the Applejacks (steady)
Vince Hill
John Alderton- a cricket idiot who used to turn his arms 'inside out'
Mike Brearley
John Price
AA Jones
Clive Lloyd
Wes Hall
Charlie Griffiths
Gary Sobers - (bought me banana daquiris in Barbados)
Desmond Haynes
Albert Padmore
Michael Holding
Joel Garner ( - he was t-a-l-l!)
Gordon Greenidge (- he was s-m-a-l-l!)
...in fact loads and loads from the heyday on the WI cricket front...

show off

 

[Aperitif]

...couldn't help it - everyone wanted to shake your hand when you thrashed them around the ground...

 

[stoatsngroats]

Harry Enfield,

Chris Eubank.