Most Famous Person U Shook hands with ?

Patrick Lichfield.....he gave me some of his chewing gum.

Had to go wash it as it was already well chewed.....

Steve Van Zandt
Alan Alda
Lee Majors
Richie Richardson
Jimmy Cricket

Burt

are you a Major ?

Darth Vadar
Captain Sensible
Nobby Stiles

Yes, Prince of Wales, do tell how he was mixing with Betfair peasants / subjects ?

Or was he just on one of his walk abouts?

can't you read?

Lennox Lewis

Abu Hamza

Never again

Selwyn Lloyd.

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Abu Hamza

Never again


Was that after his shadow-puppet show? That was proper garbage that.

I dunno. I was hooked by it.

ron russian (dont get him started about mussies, cos he never shuts up).

Georgie Best - drank with him in Rags Club in Mayfair (I picked up the tab ..Geotgie was drinking Champagne - what else ?)
Errol Brown - Rags Club Mayfair
Eddie the Eagle - Rags Club Mayfair
Noddy Holder - Rags Club Mayfair
Gareth Hunt - Rags Club Mayfair
"Black" Jack Delal - Billionaire (now deceased)
Prime Minister of Khazakhstan, Minister for Economic Development and also head of the KGB/FSB - do they count ????
Maybe some others ..I'll post if I remember.

Pardon me, Burton. The ol' mince pies have been acting up lately,

Probably Peter Ustinov.

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Burt

are you a Major ?

how did you guess that? Household cavalry actually old chap.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Bill Beaumont I think.

Most Famous Person U Shook hands with ?

Bill Beaumont
Bilko
Broadway Joe
Buddy Ebsen
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Probably Peter Ustinov.
Georgie Best
Errol Brown - Rags Club Mayfair
Eddie the Eagle - Rags Club Mayfair
Noddy Holder - Rags Club Mayfair
Gareth Hunt - Rags Club Mayfair
"Black" Jack Delal - Billionaire (now deceased)
Abu Hamza Never again
Selwyn Lloyd.
Lennox Lewis
Captain Sensible
Steve Van Zandt
Alan Alda
Lee Majors
Richie Richardson
Jimmy Cricket
Patrick Lichfield
John Lowe
Princess of Wales
Klitchko brothers
Jimmy Corkhill off Brookside
Nobby Stiles
David Attenborough
Jimmy Page
Bill Werbenuik
Ian botham
Joel garner
Viv Richards
Jimmy white
Bill werbenuik
Pete poselthwaite
tmm
Barnaby Jones
Sir Learie Constantine
Sir Edmund Hillary
Hugh Gaitskell
Victor Korchnoi
Mark Taimanov
Terry Wogan


Never heard of the ones not in bold, what are the other famous for? not being famous

blimey SH where have you been hiding? Look them up I'm sure you will know loads

I think most of you are either more cultured or just older, I've gone through the one's I've never heard of but there were two that were more familiar on second look, Jimmy Page and Pete poselthwaite, I'd never of known without looking them up, the rest no chance.

FFS You know who Eddie the Eagle is but not Sir Ed Hillary

It's not my fault I've never heard of him

See Wellard no on the list

This is a wind up, shirley.

John Lord
Ronnie James Dio
Lemmy
Rolf Harris - twice

didn't they show the Bionic Man in Sweden?

You need to get out less S-H!

Dion Dublin and Steve Hodge for me.

Scandi's list reminds me of a possibly apocryphal story I heard a few years ago.

Graeme Hick had just got into the England team and during a rain break the players had a bit of a quiz.

Hick was asked 'who lives at 221b Baker Street?' to which he said he had no idea.
When he was told that it was Sherlock Holmes he responded 'oh I wouldn't have known that, we didn't do Shakespeare at my school'

I used to have a few words with Brian Clough regularly when he was alive, I used to sit behind him at the Albion. I used to see Ted Moult every Sunday as my great grandad was his farm manager and I used to play chess with Ted's daughter. I used to see Paddy Considine most weekends before we moved as he is the wife's cousin. Met loads of pro footballers when younger but probably non Scandy Haven has heard of.

Didn't Paddy meet Shane Meadows at Burton Drama School? He's a great actor.

yes it was some course at Burton Tech College, I think Shane came from Uttoxeter which is quite close to Burton. Paddy got into his music big time so the acting took a back seat for a while. I think he's making a new film now about a boxer that has a brain injury or something, he's offered the wife's brother a bit part in it apparently.

He's definitely one of our most underrated actors. I've enjoyed most things I've watched him in.

he's a lovely chap who had some dark spells which are mostly behind him now, his dad and 2 uncles used to have me in stitches with the stories of what they used to get up to.

Dark spells sounds interesting. I'll have to see if Google have the scoop on that!

Stickyvicky looks as if he shook hands with a Masters champion.

Forgot to mention ...
Kweku Adoboli - In early September 2011, the Swiss bank UBS announced that it had lost over 2 billion dollars, as a result of unauthorized trading performed by Kweku Adoboli, a director of the bank's Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London.

And another ...
Lord Davenport (AKA - Fast Eddie).

I cornered the Godfather of Soul, James Brown in an airport and got my photo taken with him.

Apr 7, 2016 -- 8:51PM, wildmanfromborneo wrote:

Stickyvicky looks as if he shook hands with a Masters champion.

Would that be his right hand, Wildman?

^ or his dick?

OP, when and where did you shake hands with Grahame Souness?

sorry, I cant b arsed going though the whole thread.

Santa Claus

it's not a wind up, most of these names are from a by gone era and aren't that well known at all, not to my generation anyway, they're from the 60's, 70's and 80's, wasn't born til the late 80's. I'm no fan of Cricket but only reason why I heard of the bolded cricketers is because they have been referenced quite a few times down the years and in Botham's case does a lot of publicised charity work, never once heard the others.

I've shook hands with King Arthur.

even SH must of heard of him.



it was during the Newbury by-pass protest.

Have every sympathy with you Scandy. People keep posting RIP threads and I have to Google a higher percentage of those than you have done.
We all live on our own little planet governed by our tastes and environment so it can seem strange if others have wildly different experiences and memories.

I've done some googaling and wikkiing, again.

Bill Beaumont - Rugby, retired 1982, no interest in Rugby and years before I was around.
Bilko - is this seargent bilko ? 1955 to 1959 this show ran for, can't say I saw it repeated on TV  in the 90's, we were all about Power Rangers, those mighty morphin power rangers and Neighbours, everyone needs good neighbours.
Broadway Joe - NFL player who retired in 77.
Buddy Ebsen - American entertainer born 108 years ago, no, lost on me.
Peter Ustinov. -Career highlights
In 1939, he appeared in White Cargo at the Aylesbury Rep, where he performed in a different accent every night.[9] - we've all seen the Wizard of Oz from the same year, but not this one.
Gareth Hunt - Wiki tells me he starred in Upstairs Downstairs and the New Avengers, now I have heard of both of these but never seen either.
"Black" Jack Delal - can't name many billionaires.
Selwyn Lloyd - a seemingly dull Conservative politician from the 60's and 70s.
Captain Sensible - singer songwriter, never heard of the damned or his number 1 happy talk. Though just having watched whatever I just watched on youtube, I think I'll say no more
Steve Van Zandt - Now although he was in music, apparently he was in the Soprano's for 8 years, for this I probably deserve mocking as it's a show I only ever dipped in and out of as cult as it began in more recent times.
Alan Alda Never seen MASH, though I know many repeats were shown years after.
Lee Majors - Actor, Never seen or heard anything he's been in.
Richie Richardson - see last post.
Jimmy Cricket - I know pretty much all of the modern and classic comedians but not this one.
Patrick Lichfield - zero interests in royals now let alone then.
John Lowe - darts player from the 70's/80's, no interest in darts now nay chance of having heard of one from then, Phil Taylor and Barny or whatever his name is are about the only two I could reference.
Jimmy Corkhill off Brookside - Never watched soap operas, really never understood the appeal or watching a lot of arguing and shouting and people having endless affairs along with disprotionate amount of murders n such a short space of time in such close proximity.
Bill Werbenuik - I like Snooker and know quite a few of the older players, not heard of him.
Joel garner - see last post
tmm
Barnaby Jones - is this Buddy Ebsen? never heard of the show, finished in 1980
Sir Learie Constantine see last post.
Sir Edmund Hillary given he was the first to climb Mount Everest, I may have heard his name in the past, well probably have, but would never have known it off the top of my head, still doesn't sound familiar.
Hugh Gaitskell - politician from over 60 years ago, hardly likely.
Victor Korchnoi - no chess doesn't float my boat. Last he was competitive was early 90's.
Mark Taimanov - see above.


I think you all need to start shaking hands with the present so the thread feels a bit more inclusive

Bjorn Borg at Arlanda airport .Stockholm 91 I think and Mary Stavin Miss world think about 1980ish......My mates got a lovely photo of him in Brazil with a young Sting and Ronnie biggs dined out on that one a few times!!

as the masters is on MR. A . PALMER

Good post Scandanavian,I knew Sir Edmund but not a lot of the others               

I can only speak for myself but the people I mentioned were famous  in their spheres of activity at the time I met them. Isn't that the purpose of this thread? Can't think of many of the people deemed famous at the moment who I would be bothered to meet even if it were possible. There are many long since dead who I would like to have met, for example Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Paul Dirac (feel free to google ) but that's perhaps another thread?

Had a standup row with that actor Aaron Hughes once.

We never shook hands after though.

SH. Celebs of the present are characterless, dull, robots these days. That's probably why the above are so fondly remembered.

Bill Werbenuik was a 20 stone professional snooker player who had a medical condition that required him to drink vasts amounts of beer 'a day' to steady his cueing arm so he could play properly. You couldn't make it up, So from all the beer he was drinking his other bodily functions would naturally kick in, so it wasn't unusual to hear him let a 15 second f@rt live on TV while leaning over the table to play a shot. The audience would be too polite to react, then Werbenuik would turn to the crowd innocently and ask 'who was that ?' leaving everyone including the opposition players and refs,in fits of laughter.
Professional Snooker today is finished because the lack of characters in it. It used to get tv viewers of 20 million plus back in the day and all the players were 'household names', what ever that means.

Trillby, Souness was in a Hotel Bar in Liverpool back in his playing days It wasn't today or yesterday.

great player Souness, made the bench after heart attack as lpool manager

different breed

Micky mousse....

Saddam Hussein
Danny La Rue

Larry Marshall and Dorothy Paul.
mac will be green with jealousy.

I would have thought that you have shook a lot of hands aka

Was a works sports day and they were the celebrity guests.
I got an invite cos they did a lot of business with my dad's company.
Won a race and got presented with a pen set and a 5/- PO.
They arrived in a white convertible with the top down and got a better reception than the Beatles could have expected.

.... bet you still have the 5 bob

I think my Dad invested the 5 bob for me.
Came in last.

Nothing`s changed then

That was the year he had his fiver or fiver each way on the National winner at 33s I think it was.
Was a massive return then mac with labourers probably on less than a fiver a week.

Maybe it`s because we are getting old but they were better days. They win a race now at the Gala and they get a £1,000 computer or something I bet. Spoilt brats

Massive aka, massive! He probably had your 5 bob on too and told you it got beat

What was the horse?

loved the 20 second fart story live on tv what a guy!

Nicholas Silver.

1961

Nicolaus Silver 28/1

http://deadspin.com/fart-interrupts-snooker-world-championship-semifinal-493144032

This is a good one. Big Bill Werbenuik gets a mention

Gorbachev

Big bill..

Sir Henry Cecil
Oliver Reed
Andy Ripley
Will Carling

I adored Sir Henry Cecil, slippy blue, was he as nice in real life as he seemed to be?

I could not possibly sing his praises highly enough annie, I met Sir Henry at Newmarket a few times and he was an absolutely, adorable beautiful person. One of my heroes in life in fact and I use that word very sparingly, such a wonderful man he was and I shed a few tears when he passed away.

You and me both, slippy.  I have tears in my eyes now thinking about him

The closest I came to him, apart from racetracks, was at the Chelsea Flower Show!  He was with his wife, the second one, trying to get the tickets he had ordered but they would not give them to him as he did not have any identification!!!!  Being henry he did not say who he was, but my recollection is that I and others told them.

thought you'd snuffed it slippy I texted you 2 weeks ago

B-B, I didn't receive it mate for some reason. Just got back from from Spain, first holiday with the missus and had a great time chilling out in the sunshine. All is well with me, I don't really punt much these days hence me hardly being on here much, hope all is well with you.

It didn't matter really finish up. I texted that I was coming to London last Friday until Monday as I had some shopping to do, but I ended up going home Saturday morning as the hotel was effing awful. I stopped at the Hilton Tower Bridge, £750 for 3 nights and it was the poorest hotel I have ever stopped in. I went to see War of the Worlds Friday night which I enjoyed but I had prepaid to go up the Shard on Saturday afternoon and then a tour of Buck House staterooms before dinner. I was planning playing poker at The Grosvenor Vic, I didn't even get to go around Borough Market.

Nial Quinn
Hilda Baker
Jimmy Clitheroe
Arthur Askey
Mike Doyle
Denis Teaurt

Vladimir Putin
Tony Blair
Jack Straw
Malcolm Rifkind
The Archbishop of Canterbury (George Carey)
Wendy Richards
Tom Watt
Bobby Davro
Bryan Conley

Extremely diverse I know, but the top 5 were all to do with work (Middle East dept, Foreign Office).

I met Henry a few times and he sent me correspondence. He was a wonderful man. Great trainer and great human being. Funny how I first met him. I was talking to friends in the paddock at Yarmouth. He heard the Scottish accent and came over and introduced himself, telling me that he was Scottish himself, which I knew. He was very proud of his Scottish roots. There will never be such a brilliant trainer in our lifetime.

A long time ago in my youth, I thought of moving to newmarket because I loved horseracing.  I wish I had of done, and maybe I could have caught henry between wives

You never know Annie, Henry had an eye for the fillies.

I wish I had known he would eventually marry his secretary, I would have put in for the job! 

I was thinking of applying for an office manager position at Newmarket as I thought my knowledge of horseracing, secretarial and accounts would be good.  I wish I had done

could have a pop at canny think he still single needs a pa

Thanks, Capt F, I am happy on my own.  Although I could have made an exception for Henry

david soul

bennets bar edinburgh

By the way, does anyone know who the jockey was that henry's wife was supposed to have slept with?

Fallon.

Allegedly btw ^

(Y)

Jocky Wilson

takes me back to those famous texts

I read that at the time but he denied it, well he would wouldn't he , and went on to sue henry for unfair dismissal which he won. So was there someone else?

no.

What texts, capt f?