The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
Discussion
Once spent Christmas afternoon with Samantha Janus, played scrabble.
Stood next to Jimmy McRae at the bar in a pub in Oban.
Had dinner with Juha Kankkunen.
David Llewellyn agreed with me that I should do the 1000 Lakes (never did!)
Wife & I had dinner in a restaurant in Chester, Dennis Taylor was at the next table with some very drunk & irritating golfers. He wasn't wearing his upside down glasses.
My knees have been in This is Your Life. Michael Aspel is a thoroughly charming man.
My late grandmother's godson is David Bowie.
I hope those satisfy the tenuous test.
Stood next to Jimmy McRae at the bar in a pub in Oban.
Had dinner with Juha Kankkunen.
David Llewellyn agreed with me that I should do the 1000 Lakes (never did!)
Wife & I had dinner in a restaurant in Chester, Dennis Taylor was at the next table with some very drunk & irritating golfers. He wasn't wearing his upside down glasses.
My knees have been in This is Your Life. Michael Aspel is a thoroughly charming man.
My late grandmother's godson is David Bowie.
I hope those satisfy the tenuous test.
Mal001 said:
Once pulled up at traffic lights in London next to Jenny Agutter who was driving and extremely battered red Metro...
Nothing to do with this thread, but I saw her in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" over the weekend......no woman over 60 has a right to look that good
Going back a bit, all I need is two words: "Logan's Run" - and I'm on
vx220boy said:
Once spent Christmas afternoon with Samantha Janus, played scrabble.
Way back when Sam Janus acted in a film about a local Rugby League team or something (other that a brief topless shot of SJ, it's pretty rubbish). Anyway, despite being set 'op north' it was actually filmed in Cardiff, and one of the sets was a friends house (or rather his parents, we were in school at the time).
About the same time I actually walked past her in Cardiff, she looked pretty on TV but against the backdrop of 'real life' she was actually smack-across-the-face striking.
So, filler aside someone whose reasonably famous once made a film in my home town, some of it set in someone house who I haven't seen in probably ten years, and I once walked past her.
Tenuous or what!
Next door neighbour / best friend as a kid is a cousin of Paul Buchanan (lead singer of obscure but incredibly well respected Glaswegian band, The Blue Nile). Have met him a few times, always at funerals, and thus always seemed slightly inappropriate to discuss their seminal music).
As a student sales assistant in a well known 'genteel' Edinburgh department store in the 90s, sold underpants to Noel Gallagher & Meg Matthews. Both very nice & polite. I got tongue tied.
Also served DJ and TV pundit Nicky Campbell in same job. Who pushed in at the head of the queue and was a t&@t generally.
In same job, had to pretend (along with half the staff in the shop) to be an interested punter at an in-house book signing by fat grumpy golfer Colin Montgomery so that he wouldn't twig no-one had turned up.
Working in London Docklands in early 90s, used to see Chris Evans turn up every day after The Big Breakfast as we shared a building with Planet 24. Every day a different Ferrari and a different blond, taller than him (which is impressive given how tall he is in real life).
Realised I was sitting next to Michael Stipe of R.E.M. In a deserted German hotel outside Frankfurt (they were playing in Frankfurt that night. He was very loud and talked about money a lot.
Bumped into (literally) Rod Stewart at a Celtic match in Aalborg, Denmark about 5/6 years ago. I was squeezing though a door as 2 queues merged, looked up & realised that I was shoving against Rod - which took a minute to sink in because although he's incredibly recognisable, it was completely unexpected and out of context. As I was the only Scot in the Danish end and wearing a kilt, I got a bear hug from the man, a quick chat & then went our separate ways (much to the amazement of my Danish hosts, who assumed that we were friends). Footnote to that is about an hour later, I came down with the worst flu of my life and 3 days later Rod cancelled a concert because he had flu. So there you go, I gave Rod Stewart the flu.
Lastly, one of my best mates is good friends with Gerard Butler as they went to uni together. They meet up once or twice a year, much to our wives' great delight. A borderline alcoholic at uni, he's now slept with an enviable number of the world's most beautiful women, makes $20m a movie, and to top it all, is apparently hung like a donkey. Git.
As a student sales assistant in a well known 'genteel' Edinburgh department store in the 90s, sold underpants to Noel Gallagher & Meg Matthews. Both very nice & polite. I got tongue tied.
Also served DJ and TV pundit Nicky Campbell in same job. Who pushed in at the head of the queue and was a t&@t generally.
In same job, had to pretend (along with half the staff in the shop) to be an interested punter at an in-house book signing by fat grumpy golfer Colin Montgomery so that he wouldn't twig no-one had turned up.
Working in London Docklands in early 90s, used to see Chris Evans turn up every day after The Big Breakfast as we shared a building with Planet 24. Every day a different Ferrari and a different blond, taller than him (which is impressive given how tall he is in real life).
Realised I was sitting next to Michael Stipe of R.E.M. In a deserted German hotel outside Frankfurt (they were playing in Frankfurt that night. He was very loud and talked about money a lot.
Bumped into (literally) Rod Stewart at a Celtic match in Aalborg, Denmark about 5/6 years ago. I was squeezing though a door as 2 queues merged, looked up & realised that I was shoving against Rod - which took a minute to sink in because although he's incredibly recognisable, it was completely unexpected and out of context. As I was the only Scot in the Danish end and wearing a kilt, I got a bear hug from the man, a quick chat & then went our separate ways (much to the amazement of my Danish hosts, who assumed that we were friends). Footnote to that is about an hour later, I came down with the worst flu of my life and 3 days later Rod cancelled a concert because he had flu. So there you go, I gave Rod Stewart the flu.
Lastly, one of my best mates is good friends with Gerard Butler as they went to uni together. They meet up once or twice a year, much to our wives' great delight. A borderline alcoholic at uni, he's now slept with an enviable number of the world's most beautiful women, makes $20m a movie, and to top it all, is apparently hung like a donkey. Git.
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