What is your claim to fame ?

[MadMalx]

I once shared a buff shower with Jeremy Guscott. Also nervously asked Steve Borthwick to move his towel from gym apparatus I wanted to use (I then struggled to remove most of the weights).
Both were already established internationals. Amazing the gulf between rugby & kickball, top pros still using public gym space and mixing with puny public.

 

[Alex321]

I once shared a buff shower with Jeremy Guscott. Also nervously asked Steve Borthwick to move his towel from gym apparatus I wanted to use (I then struggled to remove most of the weights).
Both were already established internationals. Amazing the gulf between rugby & kickball, top pros still using public gym space and mixing with puny public.

On that note, I once changed after playing badminton in Sophia Gardens alongside Nigel Walker (Sprinter and Wales Rugby wing, now interim Chief Exec of Welsh Rugby) who had been doing a weights session. Had a bit of a chat with him, but nothing of significance.

 

[Webbo2]

Ian Mcgeecan Scottish international and manager of rugby team was my geography teacher. I left school before take my o levels, he try to make me stay on as he said I was the only one in the class likely to pass.😳

 

[Katana]

I have two😊
I went pillion with Mick Doohan(6 times MotoGP world champion) on a race circuit in 1994 and I was relationship manager from my banking days to late Maurice Gibb’s(Beegees) wife Edwina.

 

[numbnuts]

I've kissed Amanda Holden............seriously, Amanda is my brother-in-law cousin

 

[swee'pea99]

OK, nothing major but something I read sparked a memory.
Back in the early 70s our 1st colour TV was given to us by John Lennons sister.
She was living in Wallasey where I come from.
Someone introduced us. We went to her house and she gifted us the tv.

You remind me of something I learned recently from a documentary - Brian Epstein's dad sold a piano to Paul McCartney's dad, years before Epstein and McCartney ever met.

I don't have a claim to fame, sadly. I met Angela Rippon once - she was a bitch. Does that count?

 

[Dave7]

You remind me of something I learned recently from a documentary - Brian Epstein's dad sold a piano to Paul McCartney's dad, years before Epstein and McCartney ever met.

I don't have a claim to fame, sadly. I met Angela Rippon once - she was a bitch. Does that count?

By coincidence I was speaking to Angela a while back and she told me that she had met you. She spoke very highly of you

 

[Drago]

I met Angela Rippon once - she was a bitch. Does that count?

Sorry, thats my fault. She went off the rails a bit after I rebuffed her advances.

 

[laurentian]

I was an expert witness in the longest legal case in English history

 

[captain nemo1701]

I went to a Gerry Anderson convention here in Bristol. Gerry was guest of honour. When they announced his talk, I decided to go for a quick pee. In the gents, an elderly man came in and stood at the urinal next to me...yup...it was Gerry. So I can safely say I had a pee with one of my childhood icons....
At another Star Trek con in 1988, one guest was Sylvester McCoy who'd just become Dr Who. Poor guy seemed to be ignored by attendees walking past his table so I stopped for a chat, interesting guy (I remember him from Vision On).
At another con, shared a short lift ride with Michael Keating (recently deceased),Vila from Blakes 7.
I've met George Takei (Sulu) a number of times, he's a lovely guy, very funny and has a quite distictive laugh!. On a Star Trek cruise in 1997, I helped him get his elderly mum into the launch to get back to the ship.
On same cruise, had a swim with Jerry Doyle aka Mr Garibaldi from Babylon 5.
Getting tenous now....once found myself waiting at a crossing in Oxford Street with Dennis Norden (he's quite tall!). We exchanged pleasantries.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

This thread is slowly dislodging 'claim to fame' memories that have remained buried for decades.

When I was 19 my mate was going out with a Page 3 model. She eventually dumped him for a photographer. She was a long way from being plain but there was a noticeable gulf between her street and glamour look. I was jealous btw.

I ended up on stage with Les Dennis at a corporate function. Hated it, not my scene but I was set-up by some work colleagues and had to go through with it.

Mrs SD also featured in a Les Dennis 'claim to fame'. Way back we had a front row seat to a play he was appearing in. In those days Mrs SD wore very short frocks and was revealing lots of shapely leg with her crossed legs. LD could not keep his eyes off of them, it was really blatent and I am surprised he remembered his lines at times.

I was cycling 'twixt Ings & Staveley in the Lake District minding my own business at a nice steady rate when 2 police motor cyclists began accompanying me. One in front and one behind. They stayed there whilst a convoy with a Rolls containing HRH Liz & her daughter whizzed by. Anne did peer out of the window, briefly admiring my toned legs and pert bum.

 

[swee'pea99]

By coincidence I was speaking to Angela a while back and she told me that she had met you. She spoke very highly of you

Typical. Two-faced cow.

 

[FishFright]

If you've ever had to suffer Naked Attraction on Ch. 4 ... I used to go out with the presenter .

 

[Tashman]

Were you 18 at the time?

months...She was visiting Army families at the pre-school.

 

[swee'pea99]

In those days Mrs SD wore very short frocks and was revealing lots of shapely leg with her crossed legs. LD could not keep his eyes off of them, it was really blatent and I am surprised he remembered his lines at times.

You remind me of my daughter's secondary school leaving event, where the certificates were presented, student by student, by a certain Mr Rolf Harris. Being a graduation deal, obviously all the kids had gone to an effort, but I was still surprised when every let's say attractive and leave it at that 16 year old was greeted by a look of undisguised - indeed, pretty much flaunted - lechery. I'd swear he actually said 'phwooar!" more than once, with a big lascivious grin on his face. The man was all but drooling. It was the openness that amazed. I remarked on it to my missus, saying, 'what with Jimmy Saville 'n all that you'd think he'd a have at least a bit more savvy'. But he didn't. It was not long after that that...