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Tenuous Claims to Fame
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I hope you got a credit as a historical consultant.
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 |
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I've had several celebrity customers buy from my website which sells back issue magazines. Also sell to TV, film and theatre comapanies - sometimes for research purposes or for inclusion in a scene
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I was a short head away from running over Alan Ricknman in Soho when he wandered aimlessly across Wardour Street one afternoon.
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I have a letter from a horsebox driver who knows all the top trainers and which of their horses will win next week.
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I've got a cousin who played football for Wales and a couple of top English clubs.
I have a vague recollection from childhood at being at his mother's house and seeing his caps and trophies in the cabinet. I don't even know his name! Must have been a second cousin |
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Could have been this man
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Thomas |
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When Michael Dickinson had his famous first five in the Gold cup the printers where I worked got the job of printing out his annual Christmas cards which showed the Five horses , before we packed them up I took a couple out of each pack as a souvenir , still have them in mint condition I think somewhere , anyhow blagged a lift with the driver who was delivering them and got jockey Kevin Whyte to sign the delivery form.
Sorry Michael. |
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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 ! |
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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.
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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.
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I designed the hard landscaping for Keith "Firestarter" Flints new house. He is very short.
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was that today Pounf?
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Mates brother married Steve Gerrards mum....
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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.
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mum's aunt did the illustrations for the paddington bear books
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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.
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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Palomine has made over 100 movies...............
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Was Lotion's Run one of them?
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Burton - No it was back in the 90s
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oh right because he was there today with all the Formula E teams
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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!
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The Sun always shines on TV
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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. |
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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
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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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David Fishwick Minibus Sales 15 May 14 12:32 Joined: 16 Mar 10 | Topic/replies: 21,717 | Blogger: David Fishwick Minibus Sales's blog
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. |
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Do wah Diddy
Joined: 24 Jul 06 GOT MY PHOTO TAKEN WITH ALBERT TATLOCK |
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My ex-girlfriend's dad mended Marc Bolan's car
blimey wasn't the breaks on his mini was it? |
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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".
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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. |
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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.
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I'm related to the lead singer of the Who
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remember it well was on holiday in Weymouth when the news broke
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
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