What is your claim to fame ?

[stephec]

In the very last match at Burnden Park there was a close up of me eating a pie live on Sky before the match started.

 

[stephec]

Why was Jimmy blindfolded when he asked?

All the kids felt safer.

 

[Webbo2]

I had a letter read out on Blue Peter .... Close this thread now 😀

We made a model I think of Bethlehem at infant school which was shown on Blue Peter and we all got our picture in the Yorkshire Post stood looking like we painting it.

 

[Tashman]

I once sat on Princess Diana's lap!

 

[colly]

I once played at Twickenham rugby ground. Yes I did. Not rugby you understand, it was a local schools competition. I was in the sack race.

More than that, Outside of Thames TV, Teddington studios, I once walked past Honor Blackman of Avengers, and Pussy Galore fame. For a lad of 13 it was an unsettling experience.

 

[figbat]

I once did a school sports day fathers’ race against two British Olympians. Neither were track and field athletes but I still didn’t win.

 

[Gunk]

Back in the early 1990’s I was working as a manager of an estate agents in Leicester and sold David Gowers house in Stoneygate

 

[VinSumRox]

I had lunch with Patrick Moore , the presenter of Sky at Night, when i was at Uni and was Social Secretary and he came to do a guest lecture.
He was a a very boring man, unless you liked cricket or astronomy.

 

[gbb]

On the subject of Jimmy Saville, my late wife's dad was former Royal Navy and for some occasion or other , Saville visited the ship (i know FIL served on HMS Belfast, so perhaps that)...and at some stage, Saville scooped up my wife (then a young child) and her dad, a no nonsense mentality of a fella told Saville...'put her down'
Saville apparently ignored him...so FIL said, (something along the lines of)
'put her down...or I'll put you down'

Knowing FIL, he'd have done just that, he took sh1t from no one.

 

[Dave7]

Sadly so did i,i was sat resting at 'Dunnies' cafe Otley,when him and his mate(S) came for a brew.

Was it only your hand that he shook ?

 

[Alex321]

I am the front left dancer in the photo of Morris dancers in Bridgend in the latest edition of Wetherspoons magazine (page 72)
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/WNEWS-Spring-summer-2026.pdf

 

[richardfm]

I had a drink at the bar of Cambridge Corn Exchange with Captain Sensible of The Damned before a gig in the late 70s.
A few years later I was in the video promoting a Lene Lovich single. It was filmed at Sheperton Studios. It was meant to look like a live performance at a gig. It took all day to film with multiple takes. As "audience members" we were "paid" a can of beer and a sandwich.

 

[Drago]

I had lunch with Patrick Moore , the presenter of Sky at Night, when i was at Uni and was Social Secretary and he came to do a guest lecture.
He was a a very boring man, unless you liked cricket or astronomy.

I'm presuming you didn't mention the war?

 

[figbat]

I’ve had lunch with The Stig. The second one.

 

[Oldhippy]

I had dinner with Stanton Friedman, nuclear physicist and civilian investigator who interviewed many of the original Roswell witnesses.