What was YOUR 15 seconds of fame?
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
linky?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
That's not the sort of thing you should admit to. If it was a decent band...
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
My first fifteen seconds of fame was on Portuguese National Television receiving a £10,000 cheque from Bill Gates at the National Theatre in Lisbon.
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
My best thing was going on for a whole week as the lead in a West End play two years ago. I was understudying Lindsay Duncan in Noel Coward's Hay Fever at the Noel Coward theatre in St Martin's Lane. She was taken ill and I got to play one of the biggest, most flamboyant leading ladies ever written. I was onstage with Jeremy Northam, Olivia Colman and Freddie Fox for eight whole shows. It was heaven.
All my non-acting friends and family assumed it would lead to great things but of course it didn't. I don't think I'll understudy again either - that kind of luck is very rare and as a normal engagement it is a terrible waste of time, although being paid to knit and do jigsaw puzzles can have its own appeal. I don't like how my fun was based on the misfortune of my leading lady either - she was awfully ill, poor thing.
All my non-acting friends and family assumed it would lead to great things but of course it didn't. I don't think I'll understudy again either - that kind of luck is very rare and as a normal engagement it is a terrible waste of time, although being paid to knit and do jigsaw puzzles can have its own appeal. I don't like how my fun was based on the misfortune of my leading lady either - she was awfully ill, poor thing.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
I took a "TT Virgin" to watch the races once. We were in the beer garden of the Raven when an outfit broke down and had to push the last 50m or so to the bridge before pulling into the side. As they stood up and took off their helmets Bruce came out with the immortal phrase " 'kin ell, they're old enough to know better!"I can be seen on several Isle of Man TT videos in the '90s. Ex sidecar racer.
Deafie
Guru
- Location
- So good they named it twice
The peak of my musical career, miming along with GOS on a playback tour of Germany in the 80's.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrSYPke5IpI
Great fun and well paid too.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrSYPke5IpI
Great fun and well paid too.
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
2.12?
Berk on a Bike
Veteran
- Location
- Yorkshire
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