Tenuous Claims to Fame

i_agree_with_nick     15 May 14 16:46 

Windor racecourse seems to be the racecourse of choice for TV and film scenes. I guess that's due to its close proximity to west London and being cheaper than Ascot or Kempton


Also the old grandstand at Windsor  looks Edwardian, there was nothing at Epsom that is probably older than 30 years old !

My Grandfather worked in a hospital where Roy Dwight went for rehabilitation after breaking a leg in the 1959 Cup final. He obtained his autograph for me but not being a Forest supporter, I eventually gave it to my nephew. Roy Dwight was the cousin of the well known singer songwriter Reginald Kenneth Dwight.

At Donington  the commentators box is at the top of a steep narrow winding staircase. I was on my way up and at halfway met Richard Branson who was coming down. I stopped and froze for a split second on seeing who it was, and before I could even mumble anything, he backtracked up the stairs to let me pass. I just said cheers to him and that was that.

I designed the hard landscaping for Keith "Firestarter" Flints new house. He is very short.

was that today Pounf?

Mates brother married Steve Gerrards mum....

Four of us split the loots at the end of a poker tournament in Dublin.  Mimi Rogers, actress, Tom Cruise's first wife, was one of the four.

mum's aunt did the illustrations for the paddington bear books

I used to drink in the same pub as the pop group Living in a box. They met up in the pub to write songs.

I had dinner with the surrey cricket team in about 1992 when the likes of thorpe, butcher, stewart, etc were in it. I was one of two guests..

Opened the bowling at school with Adam Hollioake Future England one day captain...

Part from that...Nuffink!

I was (unwittingly) at Ronnie Kray's wedding reception.

Was having a drink one evening circa 1990 in a hotel bar in Bracknell and noticed several middle-aged men in suits who didn't look like accountants or sales reps. There was also a woman in a wedding dress. I think Ronnie was back at nearby Broadmoor.

It wasn't until I saw the pictures in the paper the nect day that I twigged

I was struck in the head by a football thrown by Jack Charlton, much to his amusement.

Also got a cousin (who I've never spoken to) who is an ex member of a quite successful band.

Palomine has made over 100 movies...............

Was Lotion's Run one of them?

Burton - No it was back in the 90s

oh right because he was there today with all the Formula E teams

I have loads of these pathetic tenuous links.In the late sixties I lived in a flat upstairs from Lemmy off Portobello Road and we shared the same wholesaler.For a while i lived on the riverside in Twickenham about 100 yards from Pete Townsends gaff and one night went to a party there..but I dont think Pete knew the party was going on as he was in America.. I was a window cleaner at the time and my customers included the bloke who played Mother in the Avengers, gerald Seymour who was then an ITN reporter. Leslie Crowther and Phil Lynott and a pop singer called Twinkle.Years later i lived in Brighton and once on the train on the way home an inebriated Dora bryan gave me her bacon sandwich. Oh the life I have lived!!I haven't even mentioned the day I danced with Dick Emery or my role in watering Micky Mosts office plants.I also worked at Kew gardens and my foreman was a student gardener called aghhhhh Titchmarsh!

The Sun always shines on TV

Stood next to Terry Griffiths in the Gents at Wembley Arena during the Masters tournament back in the 1980s.
Poor guy must have been really living on his nerves as his face was literally grey.

great stuff Dobbo, although "once on the train on the way home an inebriated Dora Bryan gave me her bacon sandwich." perhaps not something to be proud of

My ex-girlfriend's dad mended Marc Bolan's car.

And I once sold 20 Marlboros to Isla St Clair out of the Generation Game when I was working in the Slough branch of WH Smith.

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one of my friends has tapped toyah

simon crisford stood by me at the chicken counter in waitrose last week (think he was looking for two for his tea)

We'll know for certain when we see a Sheikh Mohammed 2yo called Noble Warrior.

Do wah Diddy

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GOT MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH ALBERT TATLOCK

My ex-girlfriend's dad mended Marc Bolan's car

blimey wasn't the breaks on his mini was it?

My personal "Pete Best" moment....in the early 80s my band came to the attention of Simon Fuller. He took a liking to us and offered us a contract for him to manage us. At the time he was in the business but not well known as a manager, he was just starting to move in that direction. We rejected his offer and turned him down, we didn't think he had it in him to take us to the next level.  A year later my career in the music business was over for ever and I was on the dole, while Simon Fuller went on to build a personal fortune of hundreds of millions of pounds managing bands and various celebs and was named by Billboard as "the most successful British music manager of all time".

No, B-B. Otherwise it wouldn't be a tenuous claim to fame.

Bolan owned loads of cars, despite never learning to drive. (His bird was driving the Mini in which he died.) My ex's dad was a welder, living in Staines at the time, whose hobby was building stock cars, which is how he came to be involved in fixing one of the vehicles Bolan acquired.

Thinking about it, there's not much I have in common with the Twentieth Century Boy, except that I've also owned plenty of cars without ever having learned to drive them. In my case they all seem to have ended up in the hands of the ex-girlfriends who drove them. At least none of them used the vehicles to wrap me around a tree.

Re Marc Bolan, in my teens I used to work in a pub not far from the tree where he died. One of the regulars in the pub, a milkman,  claimed to have been the first person on the scene of the crash, it was his personal claim to fame and he liked to tell newcomers the story.

I'm related to the lead singer of the Who

remember it well was on holiday in Weymouth when the news broke

Cooked a meal for Mike winters and Jimmy saville...not at the same time ..i worked in a cafe
Met Ian Botham at the airport last year ..photo taken with him.
Asked Noddy Holder and Dave hill (slade) for their autographs when they were filming Flame the film ....Hill told me to **** off
Stood having a pee at Legoland next to Dennis Wise .
Meet David Batty a couple of times round pubs in Leeds
One of my best mates at school was John Humpherys ....played full back for Palace and Charlton

One of my favourite tenuous claims to fame..
My mate was a pro snooker player, and he was playing in the Welsh Open tournament in newport one year.
We had arranged that I would pick up his wife and go to the venue on the evening he was playing his match, she was
working during the day, and he was at the venue practising etc.
When we got there we went into the players and 'celebs' lounge (of course lol)
Whilst his match was on, I was having a few free drinks, generally looking around, players like Doug Mountjoy,
Steve Davies, Ray Reardon (although I think he had retired by then?) were there as well.
There was a small tv monitor on a table at the side of the lounge, and it was showing the match my mate was playing in.
There were three empty chairs in front, and I went and sat in the middle one.
A few minutes later two other people sat either side of me.
The spookiest thing ever happened next.
They started talking to each other, and I instantly recognised the voices.
On my left was Whispering Ted Lowe, on my right Clive Everton.
Now, having heard these two speak on tv for so many years, it was surreal to hear the same voices up close and personal.
I had a good chat with both of them, and they were perfect gentlemen for the rest of the evening.

I was in business with matt Allwrights dad for 20 years and so knew Matt as a kid. He was a bright boy and I never expected he would become just about the worst tv presenter ever. About 20 years ago I organised , in conjuction with Loot, a free ads newspaper,what was supposed to be the biggest car boot sale in the world.Proceeds to Princes Trust. For some reason our guest of honour was a TV Gladiator called Jet and when she appeared there was a bit of pandemonium around the marquee where she was to sign autographs. Some bloke reckoned he tripped over a guy rope and injured his back. He promptly sued Loot for more than we raised. Dont know if he got paid out the lying bstad.

I was at the same school that Alpha Centauri was at, who was a mate of Cathy Dennis' brother Alan, she was a couple of years below Alpha and a year below me. An even more tenuous claim to fame than Alpha's tenuous claim claimed to be.

My sisters boyfriend is a painter and decorator who was recently working on a job with Louise Redknapps dad.  I can't believe he's still working! I also live near to where the dentist Ruth Ellis married used to live.

My uncle's cousin is/was Jeremy Beadle.

One of my nans was a teenage maid in the household of the bloke who wrote Goodnight Sweetheart (the song).

My Aunty ( married to my mum's brother ) is the cousin of cricketer Wayne Larkins. ( joined rebel tour to South Africa in 80s)

One i forget ..i worked for 2 years with Michael Sams ...who killed the girl in Leeds and kidnapped the estate agent

I gave Thierry Henry the Arsenal Player of the Month Award on the Highbury pitch.

A good friend of mines wife's sister is married to Alan Sugar.

The physio/chiropodist who once attended the Stoke City players at the old Victoria Ground (including Stan Mathews, who he reckoned was a tight git) treated (and eventually got rid) of my verruca when I was about 10.

I've still got the scar on the sole of my foot.

A good friend of mines wife's sister is married to Alan Sugar.

Saw a programme about him and her a couple of years back. She seems like a very pleasant woman. Is the wife you mention the mother of Roxy from enders?

I should have said is the friend the father of Roxy

Said hello to Big Cliff Lazerenko whilst he was mowing his lawn .He aint so big you know,but he is called Cliff though.

Beat that Tommy Toes with your poxy verruca story,pathetic.

You silly sod!
Can't stop chuckling!

christ you're up early.have you crapped the bed again.

i_agree_with_nick     17 May 14 08:47 
A good friend of mines wife's sister is married to Alan Sugar.

Saw a programme about him and her a couple of years back. She seems like a very pleasant woman. Is the wife you mention the mother of Roxy from enders?


No Nick, there is a third sister.

(1) My mate Julian rewired Paul Young's flat in Luton when he was still with the Q-Tips

(2) Andrew Ridgley asked me if I minded if he wedged a pub door open in a pub in Cornwall on a very hot day ... I said "Go right ahead"

No Roy, I was watching The Morning Line. I really shouldn't have bothered though. They've completely ruined the programme - and what's the matter with Emma Spencer these days? She sounds like a hectoring, plastic-faced, half wit now.
I had to keep turning the volume down every time she screeched. And what's with the gurning she does?
She didn't used to be like that.

I once cornered James Brown in an airport and got my photo taken with him, I didn't even like his songs but he was the perfect gentleman and obliged.

Jesse May (the poker commentator) KO'd me from the IPO to a sort of bad beat (75s v AA on a 773 flop)

Tenuous hmmmm

A good friend of mine Vic Rouse of Wales, Crystal Palace & Orient

http://i61.tinypic.com/2pzxz04.jpg

Claim to fame is he was the first Division 4 player to be capped by his country.

Ok there was a bowler  I used to bowl with in the 1990's who played at our club his name was Ken Lightoller, one day I asked him if he had any connection to Charles Lightoller the second in command on the Titanic, Kenneth Moore played him in the best of the Titanic films A Night To Remember, he replied "yes he was my Uncle "
To be honest I fully expected his to say no.

I once asked John Stubbs, the retired SP reporter, whether he was a descendant of George Stubbs, the great painter.

"Yes," he replied. "We've got a couple of his paintings on the living room wall."

blimey I hope he's got good insurance

Sorry. If you never knew John Stubbs (he used to write the Ringlets column in the Sporting Life), try repeating his reply in a deadpan voice and without a moment's hesitation.

A wonderful character.

Isn't there some theory that we're all within six degrees of separation from any person?

I stood on Prince Phillips foot at the Royal Norfolk Show.
My nieces and nephews are friends with Emma Bunton's mother.
I sat on stage with The Fun Lovin Criminals at a gig, my mate was security for the night.
I shook hands with Tom Robinson
I've spoke with Gary Numan's mum on the phone.
I stole a pen from Chris Tarrant
Was nearly run over by Barry Sheene, I was taking a picture of him in the pits at Silverstone, the picture turned out great.

I was at school with Gary Numan, or Webb as he was then.

He was in the 4th form, while I was in the 1st form, so we were neither "Friends" nor Electric.

He didn't own any Cars either.

judging by his flying he didn't do geography either

Taffy Williams was head of Geog at Slough Grammar and would have been an excellent guide for any flight between Newport and Caernarvon.

i used to work in Slough

In the late 1970's and early 1980's I used to thumb a lift on a regular basis to work and to golf tournaments, on one occasion Bruce Forsyth stopped and said sorry he could not pick me up because he was on the way to pick Kenny Lynch up, it was a Rolls with the number plate BFE9


ps I have had a lift in over 100 different rolls royces and many other expensive cars

Huggy ..does that include jimmy saville"s rolls ???

Scamp

as you are aware I live in Leeds and JS was a regular runner up and down Street Lane, his Rolls Royce was also to be seen outside the flying pizza (js954) as he was inside no doubt on another freebie.


ps the Bruce Forsyth incident took place outside the Dexter pub on Wigton Lane going to the Jimmy Tarbuck golf pro am at Moor Allerton golf club

Hi Huggy

He used to walk round the flying Pizza as  if he was royalty...nice golf courses on our door step ..not played for a few years now

Saw Alex Stepney yesterday. He let me into the shop first I said ta! then held the door for him and he said ta!

Pretty good huh

I frequent the same Indian restaurant as Dragon Peter Jones

...although he's never there when I am

ps the Bruce Forsyth incident took place outside the Dexter pub on Wigton Lane

Well it would, wouldn't it?

I have mentioned this the last time this thread was put up years ago , I batted with Sunil Gavaskar and he ran me out for nought.

I am distantly related to Tom Jones - My 'old man is distantly related to Judith Durham....neither of us can sing...................

In 1987 I took a girl to see The Color Of Money in the same cinema in Gerrards Cross, Bucks, where Sid James and Joan Sims watch the nudist film at the start of Carry On Camping.

I know a bloke who was bitten by a dog that was once owned by the man who lives next to the milkman, who delivers milk to the newspaper boy's  parents, who were once on the very same motorway that Steve Davis was in a car on, when there was an accident a mile in front of him, on the opposite carriageway, that led to London, where a bloke I know who was bitten by a dog that was once owned...

I've beaten a multiple World Professional Darts champion in a leg of darts, and witnessed by a few dozen people in a marquee in Somerset. And it was all very embarrassing too, because I can't play darts for toffee.

I used to drink in pub in Carlisle owned by the mother of lee from 911 he used come in quite a bit and yes he is a little T0sser.

I've seen Willie Thorne in a few bookies.

I once bumped into Alan Bennett in the local supermarket. We apologised to each other and went on our separate ways. He did not have a packet of custard creams in his basket.

I've seen Willie Thorne in a few bookies.

he used to go regular to a small independents near Leicester council offices

Here's one from from yesterday. I was walking through the coach park at Huddersfield Town FC when Sam Rush (CE of Derby County) drove by and I said hello, he even said it back. There was also a sign there saying "No cars" but that doesn't apply to him!

BB, I've seen him in a Laddies at Donington service station, and a Will Hill in Loughborough. Every bookie you speak to in Leics has served him at one time or another, apparently.

I also played cricket with that Great British Corinthian Andy Ripley, he was a much better rugby player than he was a cricketer. What a lovely bloke he was. He was one of the best Superstars ever which the dinosaurs on here will remember that programme.

I played in the same Boy's Brigade football team as David Bairstow, England and Yorkshire wicket-keeper, and Bradford City footballer.

My brother in laws late brother (Christopher Harland Wood) opened the bowling for Yorkshire with Freddie  Trueman for a short while.

My sister was on stage with Ernie Wise in the nignog reviews. N I G N O G in case it's deleted

Bass guitarist Mick Jackson of The Love Affair group of the sixtiew was a pal at school, as was Bruce Bould from Regie Perrin (the guy who kept saying super)

My aunt was a good friend of David Hockney's mum. Went to the same church.

She was also a good friend of Dorothy Appleton, whose brother Sir Edward Appleton was probably one of the most important men you've never heard of.

I once sat in a chair occupied just a couple of minutes earlier by Bob Geldof. We were visiting the same cafe, but he must have left a matter of just a few seconds before I arrived, yet unseen by myself at the shop entrance/exit. Our timings must have been like clockwork to enable that...

Can any of our readers beat that?

I think I missed noticing the tenuous from the header. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fTmNuauro

That's my foot resting on diagonal pole 2mins 40secs

We have a winner!

I have played a leg of darts v Dennis Priestley - to make it fair we played from 701 and had to throw at the bull for throw!!

I have played footy against Neil Webb in a national business footy competition @ the Madejski - he was playing for the post office. He was a bit of a chunky chip alright.

Had a splendid evening at a charity cricket do at Lords. On our table was Stuart Law (Aussie cricketer). Agreed to go for a few beers at a future date. My brother probably still has his mobile number. We never called him.

Nearly shagged an American actress from some TV show after I met her at Fabric nightclub in London. She was holidaying with her mum and had rented a house. It was 4.00am when we got back to her place. Her mum was awake. I slept in the porch with no shag.

I had to call Claire Short (Labour party bigwig) back and she was very forthright with me 'not to interrupt her soiree.' Her words, not mine. I was shocked as didn't think she went in for posh get togethers.

My great auntie 'courted' Leonard Rossiters dad. It was all very serious. I think they split up because of the catholic/protestant thing being important at the time. Thank god it never panned out as I never would have forgiven her if there was no Rising Damp.

....and finally. I could be seen on the red button on BBC2 at the front of the crowd during the World Darts final @ the Lakeside (several years after the event in a 'classic highlights montage'); Richie Burnett v RVB aka Barney. I was giving it large after having a few liveners and a bet on Burnett.

At the end of a small poker tournament I did a deal to share the loots with three players, one was Tom Cruise's first wife, another was Elvis (not actually Elvis, it was "Elvis Senior", Bruce Atkinson).
I almost stood on Lester Piggott's foot when he was going to the parade ring at The Curragh.  He stopped and let me pass.

Her indoors was on Radio York a few weeks back.

kincsem
     20 Apr 15 03:53   

At the end of a small poker tournament I did a deal to share the loots with three players, one was Tom Cruise's first wife, another was Elvis (not actually Elvis, it was "Elvis Senior", Bruce Atkinson).
I almost stood on Lester Piggott's foot when he was going to the parade ring at The Curragh.  He stopped and let me pass. 


Bobby Windsor, hooker in the famous Pontypool front row of the great Welsh side of the 1970's actually DID step on my foot after the Major Stanleys XV vs. Oxford University match in about 1976.

I've met Bobby a few times of the years Rog. He still talks fondly about that moment.

FFS   

delete 'of'

insert 'over'


As ever I was too hasty and did the deed too soon...

I've written out a betting slip using the same pen as England, Northamptonshire & Durham batsman Wayne 'Ned' Larkins had just used.

I once bought a newspaper in a shop & was served by Michael Barrymore's brother.

Did he invite you to do the pools?

giggitygiggity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fTmNuauro

That's my foot resting on diagonal pole 2mins 40secs



Still the winner

Had a beer with Captain Sensible .....might not be too uncommon , come to think if it.
Had an email read out on the John Peel show.
My dad once raced against Olympic 100 metres Bronze medallist Emmanuel McDonald Bailey