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

[Europa1]

I had a beer with Huey from the Fun Lovin' Criminals when they played at one of the summer balls in Oxford years ago.

[Morningside]

parabolica said:

My sister's best friend from Uni is the grand-daughter of Patricia Routledge, better known as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.

From Wikipedia: Routledge has never married, has no children.

Where is my wooosh parrot?

[funkyrobot]

trixyD said:

Geoff Capes

I have been reliably informed that his old house is a few miles from mine. I cycle past it if I'm on a certain route.

Can't say if this is true or not (the house, not the cycling).

[Cupramax]

parakitaMol. said:

My dog sitter's husband was in a 70s disco band called Liquid Gold who had a hit. He now does French polishing and fixed up all our old furniture to make it look utterly fab.

If he polishes too hard he gets d d - d d - d d - d d dizzy

[Hackney]

CarTimeNow said:

desolate said:

CarTimeNow said:

the manager of my local starbucks used to work in london and saw Boris Johnson rather a lot. said he is scary clever, the bumbling idiot thing is a good act.

How would someone in Starbucks work that out?

Did he set him a test?

or he spoke to him?

Maybe he was the one customer who didn't call it an "expresso"

[Hackney]

Not sure if these are tenuous enough or too tenuous....

Many years ago I went out with a girl who babysat...(?) for Chris Chittell
Matt Johnson is a good mate
Also good mates with the guy who managed Adam and the Ants, and is responsible for "Oh Yeah" being in Ferris Beuller's Day Off
I once beat Des Walker
My wife went to college with Hodor
My sister in law and brother in law both run Nando's in Belfast so basically meet every celeb who comes to town

[anonymous-user]

Hackney said:

I once beat Des Walker

What had he done to deserve that?
Or was it consensual?

[Johnspex]

DoctorX said:

OK, you win.

It's a shame none of them taught you to spell.

[DoctorX]

Johnspex said:

DoctorX said:

OK, you win.

It's a shame none of them taught you to spell.

Sory.

[tleefox]

Shakermaker said:

My best mate's girlfriend's best friend's boyfriend is Chris Robshaw.

Or, your best mate's girlfriend's best friend is Camilla Kerslake?

[rufmeister]

desolate said:

Hackney said:

I once beat Des Walker

What had he done to deserve that?
Or was it consensual?

You'll never beat Des Walker.

[ApOrbital]

Roy chubby brown did a st in my toilet 1977.

[Shakermaker]

tleefox said:

Shakermaker said:

My best mate's girlfriend's best friend's boyfriend is Chris Robshaw.

Or, your best mate's girlfriend's best friend is Camilla Kerslake?

That is correct. I'm not sure how well known she is so went for the Robshaw connection.

I've met her, she sang happy birthday to me a couple of years ago(on my birthday, otherwise that would be weird...) but I've not met him.

[Johnspex]

Roger Daltrey's cousin comes to my practice.
John Entwistle walked up next door's garden path when I was working on my motorbike 47 years ago.
Pete Townshend's brother decorated the house of one of our patients.
Pete Townshend is wearing a scarf from our mutual school on the cover of My Generation.
Freddie Garrity, Fenella Fielding, Jean-Jacques Burnel, James Bolam,James Kelly, Dec, and Valerie Leon have all been in my practice. And Imogen Stubbs.

[underwhelmist]

Johnspex said:

Roger Daltrey's cousin comes to my practice.
John Entwistle walked up next door's garden path when I was working on my motorbike 47 years ago.
Pete Townshend's brother decorated the house of one of our patients.
Pete Townshend is wearing a scarf from our mutual school on the cover of My Generation.
Freddie Garrity, Fenella Fielding, Jean-Jacques Burnel, James Bolam,James Kelly, Dec, and Valerie Leon have all been in my practice. And Imogen Stubbs.

Optometrist? My wife has tested "a bloke from ELO" (she's not sure if it was Geoff Lynne or one of the others), Hugh Porter the cycling racer & commentator, and Robert Plant's dad.

I thought of another one - last time I sold a bike (motorbike), the buyer brought a mate to check it over. The mate was Michael Rutter.

[Hackney]

rufmeister said:

desolate said:

Hackney said:

I once beat Des Walker

What had he done to deserve that?
Or was it consensual?

You'll never beat Des Walker.

I wouldn't say it was consensual - he wanted to stop me.
It was at a 6-a-side tournament in Manchester, each team got an ex pro as either a player or a manager. We got Stuart McCall on our team who was a great laugh.
Anyway in one of the games we were up against a team featuring Des, and I managed to get by him.
Something not many people can say. Has to be one of the highlights of my footballing career. Topped only by scoring a goal at the Trent End, last kick of the game. After which I promptly retired.

[Kitchski]

Hackney said:

I wouldn't say it was consensual - he wanted to stop me.
It was at a 6-a-side tournament in Manchester, each team got an ex pro as either a player or a manager. We got Stuart McCall on our team who was a great laugh.
Anyway in one of the games we were up against a team featuring Des, and I managed to get by him.
Something not many people can say. Has to be one of the highlights of my footballing career. Topped only by scoring a goal at the Trent End, last kick of the game. After which I promptly retired.

Ooh, that reminds me - I've scored a penalty against Neil Maddison or Simon Charlton. Can't remember which one it was, they were both there

[Spice_Weasel]

For reasons I won't go into here as it's rather convoluted, last summer I was invited to the launch party for Sinitta's then-new website. Held high up (on the thirty-something-th floor) in Salesforce Tower in the City, it was rumoured that Simon Cowell would be making an appearance. I'd met Sinitta the month before at Royal Ascot as we were both in the same private box. This is part, but not all, of the reason I had been invited.

Obviously, Sinitta was in attendance, clattering around the party like an over-excited teenager in a pair of heels and wearing a ridiculous dress with white feathers sticking out all over it. Also there were 90's R&B girl band Eternal. Well, two-thirds of them as I don't think the third one talks to them any more. I also spotted Duncan Bannatyne and his new fiance, and a bloke I vaguely recognised whom I'm told was Brian something from Big Brother. Sinitta is/was his show-biz mentor as she offers coaching and mentoring services (check out her website - sinitta.com).

Getting stuck into the free bar (Simon's favourite Sapporo Japanese beer and the signature Sinitta-tini cocktails created for the occasion) I tried to ignore the look-at-me Z-list chaos going on around me and spent much of the night chatting up the website company's marketing girls. At some point I was introduced to a young girl, maybe early twenties, called Lemony (a stage name rather than a reference for the 'council' thread) who was being touted, although mainly by herself, as the next big thing. Apparently she was a unique talent who danced, acted, sang, designed clothes and other creative stuff - all promoted through the usual social media channels. In my mind she was just an annoying, over-indulged brat and I jokingly asked her if she was the next Lily Allen. This seemed to upset her and she stormed off. I went back inside from the balcony where we'd had some photos taken to prop up the bar again.

Beer in hand, I spot Vicki Michelle. For you young PHers, she's an actress who played the sexy waitress Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. Wandering over, I gave her my best smile and told her how much I loved the show and her in it. She was lovely, very friendly and we had a good chat. She introduced me to her husband and gossiped about a variety of things and people. Talk came around to houses and homes and she asked me where I lived. When I told her that I was in Warwickshire and I'd bought the house next door to Chris Tarrant's, her eyes lit up. She loved Chris, had worked with him in the 70s and provided a lot more gossip. Then she asked if I remembered Helga from the show. Of course I did! So Vicki said that Kim Hartman, the actress who played Helga, is from my area and, it turns out, lives very close to where I am.

The evening passed by in a beer-induced haze. I won a prize in the raffle. All the prizes were health, fitness, fashion, skincare and haircare items that Sinitta uses and which, handily for those of you signing up to the members' area of her website (for a small fee), you can then purchase at a slight discount. My prize turned out to be a voucher for some nutritional supplements. This gave a Louis Spence-alike partygoer the opportunity to shout out how much he'd like to give me some protein. When nobody laughed he said it again. And a third time. I went back to the bar and stayed there until it closed. I shared a lift down to ground floor with Andrew 'Brillo' Neil who I think had spent the evening in Sushi Samba, upstairs from us. He got into a waiting Merc. I tried to hail a taxi to get to my hotel.

After all this excitement, I'm sad to say that Simon failed to show up, I haven't heard of Lemony since and I didn't ever collect my raffle prize.

I'll add some pics to this when I've uploaded them to a hosting site.

[RammyMP]

Spice_Weasel said:

For reasons I won't go into here as it's rather convoluted, last summer I was invited to the launch party for Sinitta's then-new website. Held high up (on the thirty-something-th floor) in Salesforce Tower in the City, it was rumoured that Simon Cowell would be making an appearance. I'd met Sinitta the month before at Royal Ascot as we were both in the same private box. This is part, but not all, of the reason I had been invited.

Obviously, Sinitta was in attendance, clattering around the party like an over-excited teenager in a pair of heels and wearing a ridiculous dress with white feathers sticking out all over it. Also there were 90's R&B girl band Eternal. Well, two-thirds of them as I don't think the third one talks to them any more. I also spotted Duncan Bannatyne and his new fiance, and a bloke I vaguely recognised whom I'm told was Brian something from Big Brother. Sinitta is/was his show-biz mentor as she offers coaching and mentoring services (check out her website - sinitta.com).

Getting stuck into the free bar (Simon's favourite Sapporo Japanese beer and the signature Sinitta-tini cocktails created for the occasion) I tried to ignore the look-at-me Z-list chaos going on around me and spent much of the night chatting up the website company's marketing girls. At some point I was introduced to a young girl, maybe early twenties, called Lemony (a stage name rather than a reference for the 'council' thread) who was being touted, although mainly by herself, as the next big thing. Apparently she was a unique talent who danced, acted, sang, designed clothes and other creative stuff - all promoted through the usual social media channels. In my mind she was just an annoying, over-indulged brat and I jokingly asked her if she was the next Lily Allen. This seemed to upset her and she stormed off. I went back inside from the balcony where we'd had some photos taken to prop up the bar again.

Beer in hand, I spot Vicki Michelle. For you young PHers, she's an actress who played the sexy waitress Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. Wandering over, I gave her my best smile and told her how much I loved the show and her in it. She was lovely, very friendly and we had a good chat. She introduced me to her husband and gossiped about a variety of things and people. Talk came around to houses and homes and she asked me where I lived. When I told her that I was in Warwickshire and I'd bought the house next door to Chris Tarrant's, her eyes lit up. She loved Chris, had worked with him in the 70s and provided a lot more gossip. Then she asked if I remembered Helga from the show. Of course I did! So Vicki said that Kim Hartman, the actress who played Helga, is from my area and, it turns out, lives very close to where I am.

The evening passed by in a beer-induced haze. I won a prize in the raffle. All the prizes were health, fitness, fashion, skincare and haircare items that Sinitta uses and which, handily for those of you signing up to the members' area of her website (for a small fee), you can then purchase at a slight discount. My prize turned out to be a voucher for some nutritional supplements. This gave a Louis Spence-alike partygoer the opportunity to shout out how much he'd like to give me some protein. When nobody laughed he said it again. And a third time. I went back to the bar and stayed there until it closed. I shared a lift down to ground floor with Andrew 'Brillo' Neil who I think had spent the evening in Sushi Samba, upstairs from us. He got into a waiting Merc. I tried to hail a taxi to get to my hotel.

After all this excitement, I'm sad to say that Simon failed to show up, I haven't heard of Lemony since and I didn't ever collect my raffle prize.

I'll add some pics to this when I've uploaded them to a hosting site.

Have you been eating cheese?

[bigweb]

RammyMP said:

Have you been eating cheese?

Amazing comment!