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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sc0tt

18,041 posts

201 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Jonboy_t said:
Just remembered after that footballer one, I used to be next door neighbours with Phil Parkinson who used to play for Bury FC but more recently was/is (I dunno!) the manager of Bradford FC who got, I believe, quite far in the FA cup last year.

He used to call me 'big man' when I was 5 or 6 and made me the mascot for Bury vs Aldershot once. I don't remember anything of the game other than 'scoring' a penalty before the game started and asking my dad if it was 'time to go home, I'm tired' when the game started!
hehe

I actually forgot (this is as tenuous as I can get) my cousin lived next to door to ray parlours parents and when his wife booted him out he stayed there. I went round there one day and stuck my head over the fence as you do and shared a few words. He offered me a signed picture but as a west ham fan I declined hehe

We never spoke after that. Not because of the picture but he was famous and I was a random bloke.

Studio117

4,250 posts

191 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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I saw david ginola on a ski lift once. He offered me a marlborough.

sc0tt

18,041 posts

201 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Studio117 said:
I saw david ginola on a ski lift once. He offered me a marlborough.
Lights, red's or menthol?

Studio117

4,250 posts

191 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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sc0tt said:
Studio117 said:
I saw david ginola on a ski lift once. He offered me a marlborough.
Lights, red's or menthol?
Lights.

I was 12 at the time. Maybe he wanted a saville sandwich?

sc0tt

18,041 posts

201 months

Saturday 20th December 2014
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Studio117 said:
Lights.

I was 12 at the time. Maybe he wanted a saville sandwich?
hehe

Scousefella

2,243 posts

181 months

Wednesday 24th December 2014
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Stevie Richie (X Factor Fame) in Tollgate Sainsbury, Colcester, trying to get some shopping done but getting stopped every two minutes by people trying to chat with him. I never bothered.

boobles

15,241 posts

215 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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Just to give you a "heads up" that the Kyle Files start tonight 7:30 ITV.
Part of the series was filmed with us as previously mentioned by myself on the day JK came here to film it but this isn't being shown tonight as we are on at later date.....

Don1

15,946 posts

208 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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My niece was the groom for Arsene Wengers daughters horse. How's that for tenuous!

Planet Claire

3,321 posts

209 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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Ayahuasca said:
I once had to hitch-hike to London (army training initiative thing, don't ask) and got a lift in a crappy car from a guy who said he was releasing a song, he made us listen to the tape, song was awful, months later I heard it again on the radio, it was Stephen Tin Tin Duffy and 'Kiss Me With Your Mouth'.
That guy married a girl I was friends with at school, used to sit next to her in Chemistry. She went on to be in the backing band for Robbie Williams (SD went on to write with RW, which is possibly how he met my friend). She's also the person behind my username (my name isn't Claire).

T0nup

683 posts

200 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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Lets see.

Nearly ran over Joe Brown in a car park. (No he didn't have his guitar)
Bumped into George Cole as he was walking from a Victoria Wine shop... And I accidentally stepped on his foot.
Got drunk at the same table as Andrew Ridgely as he spent the night slagging off George Michael.
Got barged out the way by Sean Bean as I was walking from a newsagents. (He's a short asse)
Got a feel of Falicity Kendals bum in a restaurant as she stood from her table.

The last one was by far the nicest, though I get the feeling the first may well have been more satisfying had I actually achieved it.

Chipchap

2,588 posts

197 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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Sheltering from a huge downpour in a large motorway services somewhere near Nice we saw Paula Radcliffe and her mum and one sprog.

Felt odd to have ridden 1500km + to see someone from up the road.


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Galileo

3,145 posts

218 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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When I was a small child my mother was driving us along a road in a village in Northants called Weedon, when she got crashed into. On exchanging details it turned out that the person in the other car was Burt Weedon, a famous guitarist of the 50's and 60's. He didn't live there.

Flying Toilet

3,621 posts

211 months

Thursday 8th January 2015
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Galileo said:
When I was a small child my mother was driving us along a road in a village in Northants called Weedon, when she got crashed into. On exchanging details it turned out that the person in the other car was Burt Weedon, a famous guitarist of the 50's and 60's. He didn't live there.
I got married in Dodmoor House in Weedon and on my wedding day David Essex was seen in the Travelodge in Weedon getting angry with a vending machine. One wedding guest couldn't wait to tell me minutes before my wife walked down the aisle. Thanks!

DannyScene

6,625 posts

155 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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My girlfriends brother in law plays professional rugby for Huddersfield Giants

Does that count?

SaTTaN

266 posts

247 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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My daughter's best friend's grandad wrote that awful Star-trekking song

(sorry!)

Blown2CV

28,811 posts

203 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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SaTTaN said:
My daughter's best friend's grandad wrote that awful Star-trekking song

(sorry!)
Boldly going forward cos we just can't find reverse?

mr_fibuli

1,109 posts

195 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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The other day my girlfriend reportedly got a Pawn Star to pass her a box of Microchips that were out of reach in Asda.

The fact that we are talking Pawn Stars UK that is based just up the road on Deeside Industrial Estate, and not the more glamorous Las Vegas version, hopefully makes the link to fame more tenuous.

Asterix

24,438 posts

228 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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Blown2CV said:
SaTTaN said:
My daughter's best friend's grandad wrote that awful Star-trekking song

(sorry!)
Boldly going forward cos we just can't find reverse?
We come in peace, shoot to kill...

Great song. hehe

Lynchie999

3,422 posts

153 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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Asterix said:
Blown2CV said:
SaTTaN said:
My daughter's best friend's grandad wrote that awful Star-trekking song

(sorry!)
Boldly going forward cos we just can't find reverse?
We come in peace, shoot to kill...

Great song. hehe
there's.... klingons on the starboard bow...

yellowjack

17,077 posts

166 months

Friday 9th January 2015
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Lynchie999 said:
there's.... klingons on the starboard bow...
Scrape 'em off, Jim!


ETA: Because sharing is caring... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS2-4-iUJ4


Edited by yellowjack on Friday 9th January 22:54