The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.
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Justin Cyder said:
My mate tiled Eric Clapton's swimming pool in France. Eric wasn't there.
My Father quoted Ian McShane for some air-conditioning in his flat. he didn't get the job. The way my Father talks about it you would think they were best mates 
A couple more....
A bloke in my class at school is a semi-famous physicist who was interviewed on BBC News when the LHC was switched on. It was a s
t school so he might our only famous alumni (alumnus?)!I was interviewed on local radio when I was about 10. Something to do with fireworks. I think I peaked early.
Ah just though of another one,
Myself and another PH`er were using the bathrooms at the Revival last year when he was mumbling something to me that i simply couldn't understand at all. When we were at the basin washing our hands he said rather excitedly and with great enthusiasm "I was trying to tell you that we were standing next to Jason Orange" (of Take That fame for those who does't know who he is).
My reply - "Oh right." Not that i was bothered much.
Anyhoo, upon leaving the said bathrooms we're standing there outside amongst loads of other people and the mentioned `celebrity` wanders by and without hesitation the other PH`er shouts out "Oi Jason !"
His response? - "It's Howard Actually !"
I actually had to pick myself up off the floor from laughing !
To put things into perspective a bit more, about 2 hours earlier than that the other PH`er was embarrassed to go over and say hello to our very own Chris Harris !
Myself and another PH`er were using the bathrooms at the Revival last year when he was mumbling something to me that i simply couldn't understand at all. When we were at the basin washing our hands he said rather excitedly and with great enthusiasm "I was trying to tell you that we were standing next to Jason Orange" (of Take That fame for those who does't know who he is).
My reply - "Oh right." Not that i was bothered much.
Anyhoo, upon leaving the said bathrooms we're standing there outside amongst loads of other people and the mentioned `celebrity` wanders by and without hesitation the other PH`er shouts out "Oi Jason !"
His response? - "It's Howard Actually !"
I actually had to pick myself up off the floor from laughing !
To put things into perspective a bit more, about 2 hours earlier than that the other PH`er was embarrassed to go over and say hello to our very own Chris Harris !
98elise said:
A bloke in my class at school is a semi-famous physicist who was interviewed on BBC News when the LHC was switched on.
Ooh, that reminds me, I used to teach a girl whose uncle was the bloke in charge of that space probe to Mars a few years ago that they lost contact with on landing. She said she virtually never saw him.northandy said:
An old school mate of mines dad was a teacher and magician in his spare time, one of his mates was Paul Daniels. I remember once walking past and saw a black 911 parked outside with the registration MAG1C which apparantely was his.
And I know the man who may or may not have welded the said magicians magic rings closed so they weren't very magic!I was standing on the tube going from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch. Next to me was a tramp who looked the spitting image of James Earl Jones trying to look like a tramp. Assisting him in this deception was a poster of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' which was showing at the time. The headline star was...James Earl Jones, as the big face shot told me.
I asked the tramp innocently what the time was. The reply removed all doubt. I can now die a happy man knowing that I have spoken with Darth Vader, Mufasa, the narrator or 'the Raven' in the Simpsons halloween episode and actor in the Great White Hope.
I also have met the Queen a fair few times
I asked the tramp innocently what the time was. The reply removed all doubt. I can now die a happy man knowing that I have spoken with Darth Vader, Mufasa, the narrator or 'the Raven' in the Simpsons halloween episode and actor in the Great White Hope.
I also have met the Queen a fair few times
Topical for today, 'Reading Evening Post reader's late brother reversed into Senna's Alfa'
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/ayrton...
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/ayrton...
Ranked by tenuousness:
Sat next to John Cleese on a flight from Lisbon back in the late 90's. He'd been out there filming an advert for a German beer company. Ironically a week or two later I was in Germany and saw the ad.
Met Kurt Waldheim at The Officer's Ball in Vienna in 1986.
My sister in law appears in the Personal Jesus video by Depeche Mode.
A mate at work's sister used to present on the Holiday programme. Never met her and don't who she is
Sat next to John Cleese on a flight from Lisbon back in the late 90's. He'd been out there filming an advert for a German beer company. Ironically a week or two later I was in Germany and saw the ad.
Met Kurt Waldheim at The Officer's Ball in Vienna in 1986.
My sister in law appears in the Personal Jesus video by Depeche Mode.
A mate at work's sister used to present on the Holiday programme. Never met her and don't who she is
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