What is your claim to fame ?

[Toshiba Boy]

In 2000, myself and my best mate, got beaten over a 189km route by some French guy called Laurent Jalabert.

Having said that, it was a Sportive in Picardy, and Monsieur Jalabert did "win" with a time some hour and a half quicker than us.

 

[Big John]

As a teenager I played the snare drum in a Boys Brigade marching band. A marching band was needed to lead a protest march in a BBC2 comedy called His Lordship Entertains and they used our band for it. It starred Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson, Moira Foot and a very young David Jason, who played a gardener named Dithers. We got to visit the studios at Shepherds Bush to view the finished article along with a studio audience. I think I was about 16.

 

[captain nemo1701]

In the 90's, my partner & I were filmed for the Peter Gabriel song ' Blood of Eden' at Realworld studio in Box, but it got canned & he ended up doing the video differently. Still got some cash for it though.
Once got drunk with the actress Claudia Christian from the SF show Babylon 5
In the early 80's, I knew the actor, the late Richard Franklin aka Mike Yates from Dr Who. Long story short, he did a play celebrating his village's 500th anniversary (Middleham in N Yorkshire). It was staged in a hall and we got front row seats. Did a double take at the guy who came in late and sat next to me...Leon Brittan, Home Secretary at the time.

 

[Reynard]

Was involved in the production of a lovely motor racing book published last year by BHP titled "Forever Young" where I opened my archive to the editors, provided material for one of the six sections and fact-checked the draft for that chapter. I'm thanked in the credits as the "Paul Warwick uber fan"

I've been on TV a few times. The first was a local news feature on age-group fencing back when I was at school - I was the then London Section U14 foil champion. I've been on Songs of Praise together with Madam Lexi (they featured the pet service in Ely Cathedral), I've also been on the now defunct "London Live" tv channel, again with Madam Lexi, where I did a feature on rescue cats live from The Pet Show when it was held at the Excel, and I was in the recent David Baddiel documentary on cats, when they filmed at the Supreme - the cat he was following through the day was judged in the ring I was stewarding in.

I've worked with Mark Preston, Jo Bauer and Guillaume Rocquelin via academia.

I finished second in a national motorsport photography competition with a photo taken with a bog-standard pentax point & shoot 35mm film camera.

 

[alicat]

Billy Bremner lived round the corner from me when I was growing up. He went to the same church as us and his children went to the same primary school.

I had a letter read out on a children's programme such as John Craven's newsletter. My sister heard it being read out and never mentioned it so the first I heard about it was when I went to Guides that evening.

That's two claims to fame so this thread can be closed now....

 

[Accy cyclist]

Fourty years ago I was a wine waiter in a restaurant that was across the road from where I now live. It was named in 'The Good Food Guide', so attracted 'celebs'. I served the late Russell Harty (when still alive of course😉), the at the time world snooker champion Dennis Taylor, quite a few Coronation Street actors/actresses, actor John Inman, comedian Les Dawson and the then Home Secretary Lord David Waddington, to name but a few.

 

[TrishE]

My painting was shown in the weather bit of Look North on BBC. Was late 70s and sent in by my junior school. I received a T shirt with "I had my picture on Look North" on the front.

 

[dicko]

I was at secondary school with Charlie Watts who was a lunchtime librarian and he would stamp my library book’s, he was also a very good artist and produced great murals for the school canteen.
Shirley Eaton also attended but she went to the girls part of the school.

 

[MontyVeda]

A 13/14 year old Busta Rhymes attended my high school for a few weeks in 1984ish.

Trevor, as he was then known, was the Fresh Prince before Will Smith... apparently he was getting into trouble as a young teen so he and his brother were sent to stay with an aunt for the summer in Morecambe of all places.