The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.

The thread in which PHers reveal tenuous links to famous people.

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Shaolin

2,955 posts

190 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Justayellowbadge said:
My OH's late husband's godfather is Bernie.
Not of "Bernie the bolt" fame!?

soxboy

6,267 posts

220 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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Buster73 said:
My brother used to go windsurfing in Lanzarote with the guy who owned the big brown bear that went missing years ago
Bungle?

Petrus1983

8,755 posts

163 months

Thursday 4th December 2014
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rouge59 said:
I once got into an argument with a horribly obnoxious Jude Law in Soho House, which ended up with me calling him a 'slaphead tt' & him getting me & my friends thrown out.
Totally believe this, he's the most arrogant celebrity I've ever met by some considerable margin.

rouge59 said:
I regularly get mistaken for the footballer Chris Iwelumo, but only in summer when I'm tanned.
That's quite a tan!!


Honk

1,985 posts

204 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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My mother used to walk to school with Ralph Steadman.

Saddle bum

4,211 posts

220 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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Once took a leak next to Sir Colin Cowdrey.

Shot clays with Robert Plant.

Jim Davidson took a poke at me when I was in the audience, (before he was famous).

Had a pint with Budge Rogers, England Rugby international.

GOG440

9,247 posts

191 months

Friday 5th December 2014
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I x-rayed Terry Scott a couple of times in the 90's and at around the same time did a CT scan of Harry Secombe. I have always felt a bit proud that I managed to make him laugh, hearing that mad cackle in person was a definite experience.

We had lots of celebs come through the royal surrey when I worked down there.

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

190 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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soxboy said:
Buster73 said:
My brother used to go windsurfing in Lanzarote with the guy who owned the big brown bear that went missing years ago
Bungle?
Hercules?

If so, that is very cool indeedlaugh

supersingle

3,205 posts

220 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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I know someone whose best friend cut Harold shipman's hair in prison. She says he was a bit manipulative!

sradmarty

230 posts

146 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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rouge59 said:
Bob Carolgees had a wee in the next urinal to me on a ferry from Ireland. I asked him if he was 'spitting the dog' & he told me to fk off
I once met Robert Carlile on the ferry to Dunoon. I was completely steamin and standing next to him at the urinal also. I told him I was goin to tell everyone I knew that I'd seen his winkey. He didn't respond in any way.

I'm also related,in a way that escapes me just now, to the guy who plays Charlie in casualty. Says it all that I don't even know his real name. Think he's my mums cousins cousin.

That's me done, probably never post here again.

parakitaMol.

11,876 posts

252 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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We bought a house from Kevin Lewis (the author).


Blown2CV

28,854 posts

204 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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i called Ian Brown a tt when he tried to pull out on me on a mini roundabout in his Lexus.

Blown2CV

28,854 posts

204 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Blown2CV said:
i called Ian Brown a tt when he tried to pull out on me on a mini roundabout in his Lexus.
another Ian Brown story, my girlfriend at the time chatted to him about sweets from the 80s when in the village sweet shop a few years ago. She had no idea who he was and when she told me the story later she described him as some bloke who thinks he's Liam Gallagher. I then had to explain to her that Liam Gallagher in fact thinks he's Ian Brown.

Cagey

66 posts

130 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Some years ago, Kelly George - most noted for playing 'Ray' in Grange Hill helped his Old Man with some plastering at my folks house.

Melvyn Hayes once came into my Dads shop - no idea what he bought.

I once had to drive around Lewis Hamilton as he was walking down to one of the outer buildings at MAMG F1.

Watched Jackie Stewart pick some rubbish up off the floor way back when RedBull was Stewart GP - it wasn't my rubbish.

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

152 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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Gordon Banks and Nick Hancock live in my village, yes you heard right! MY village, I allow them....yesrofl

StuntmanMike

11,671 posts

152 months

Saturday 6th December 2014
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^^^^I have had a fair bit to drink.....laugh

VictoriaYorks

974 posts

143 months

Monday 8th December 2014
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AmiableChimp said:
"I give the news like Jagger"
Nice thumbup

RammyMP

6,784 posts

154 months

Saturday 13th December 2014
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Gail Tilsley off Corrie was on our train to London last night' she looked at me as if I should know who she was, the wife had to tell me.

...it was in First Class obviously!

soxboy

6,267 posts

220 months

Saturday 13th December 2014
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RammyMP said:
Gail Tilsley off Corrie was on our train to London last night' she looked at me as if I should know who she was, the wife had to tell me.

...it was in First Class obviously!
I once lived opposite the football club she was/ is president of.

yellowjack

17,080 posts

167 months

Saturday 13th December 2014
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I once checked out of the Malmaison Hotel in Reading at the same time as Jane Moore...

Wikipedia said:
...journalist, author and television presenter...
...she was in for breakfast at the same time as us too. She looks a lot rougher at the end of Reading Festival weekend than she does in her publicity shots wink

Same hotel, different year, the wife and I upset dozens of silly teenage girls when we walked straight past them, into the hotel and directly into the bar where My Chemical Romance were holding court. We had a bottle of cider each, and went up to our room. The silly girls stayed outside for some time, with hotel security not letting them onto the premises. It was the first time in my life that I actually got to know what it feels like to be a 'VIP' hehe

We stopped using the Novotel on festival weekend because it was rammed full of massively irritating BBC staff. What a bunch of self important, annoying, left wing hand wringing PC "media, daahhling!" asshats they are! irked

Halmyre

11,210 posts

140 months

Sunday 14th December 2014
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My wife was at a retirement do for a colleague and as they were getting ready to leave they bumped into Billy Connolly, who was staying at the hotel where they were having the meal. So he signed her colleague's retirement card.

Annoyingly, I turned up to collect wife from said do only minutes after BC had departed to his room!