Famous people, preconceptions busted/confirmed
Discussion
loafer123 said:
A friend of ours bought a BMW M5 which was delivered to their flat in London. The driver turned out to be Ewan McGregor’s dad, who did delivery driving to pass the time in retirement. Also with him was Ewan himself...they were on a dad and son boys trip.
Our friends had great photos of their newborn bouncing on Ewan’s knee.
That's a cool story.Our friends had great photos of their newborn bouncing on Ewan’s knee.
Mark Wingett, Jim Carver in The Bill is a cracking bloke. I spent a few hours in his company a few years ago.
He told me about being recognised by people who couldn't quite place him. Stories of dodgy blokes getting all shifty because they knew his face, and mistakenly thinking he was some copper who'd felt their collars once.
He told me about being recognised by people who couldn't quite place him. Stories of dodgy blokes getting all shifty because they knew his face, and mistakenly thinking he was some copper who'd felt their collars once.
Robbo 27 said:
Walking down the stairs in the Hong Kong Cricket Club, things on my mind and just looking where I was going, I was aware that someone was coming up the stairs. at the bottom of the stairs I looked up, there was Boycott, arms outstretched like he was on the Cross, he looked down at me and said,'Dear me, dont you recognise me?'
Hope you replied, "yes I do, that's why I ignored you."Edited by berlintaxi on Sunday 18th August 11:45
berlintaxi said:
Robbo 27 said:
Walking down the stairs in the Hong Kong Cricket Club, things on my mind and just looking where I was going, I was aware that someone was coming up the stairs. at the bottom of the stairs I looked up, there was Boycott, arms outstretched like he was on the Cross, he looked down at me and said,'Dear me, dont you recognise me?'
Hope you replied, "yes I do, that's why I ignored you."Edited by berlintaxi on Sunday 18th August 11:45
leigh1050 said:
Met Chris Eubank at The Stoop years ago and he was really friendly and chatty. Said that a lot of the things he did was just to sell tickets for his fights.
I sat in my car in the service area of some shops in the centre of Brighton once, whilst he and his son sat in their Range Rover opposite. My goodness did CE senior give junior a hard time that day.I was pleased to see what a good relationship they have now.
loafer123 said:
leigh1050 said:
Met Chris Eubank at The Stoop years ago and he was really friendly and chatty. Said that a lot of the things he did was just to sell tickets for his fights.
I sat in my car in the service area of some shops in the centre of Brighton once, whilst he and his son sat in their Range Rover opposite. My goodness did CE senior give junior a hard time that day.I was pleased to see what a good relationship they have now.
rxtx said:
ambuletz said:
have you seen Tonk Hawk's twitter page? he tweets about these kind of things all the time. people saying how he looks familiar, or looks like tony hawk etc..
One of his tweets mentions him renting a car, but his application got cancelled, when he went into the hire place to find out why they thought the application was a joke and just someone putting a random name on it so they cancelled it.
Happens a lot. If you have the same name as someone on the Politically Exposed Persons list it's a right pain the neck, we had a customer called Tony Blair who was constantly jumping through ID hoops One of his tweets mentions him renting a car, but his application got cancelled, when he went into the hire place to find out why they thought the application was a joke and just someone putting a random name on it so they cancelled it.
Mainly based on that chap called John Lewis who isn't John Lewis the shop, but gets bombarded every Christmas on Twitter, or there was another person who I think had the Twitter name the same as a popular footballer etc.
Anyway the show would be the person meeting their famous namesake etc. An hour on BBC2 on a Tuesday evening I think.
minimalist said:
c.20 years ago an ex bumped into Ewan McGregor. She immediately thought she knew him but didn't immediately recognise him. She launched into chat.. "how are you?"...."any news?"......"I haven't seen you in ages"...etc. He stood there fully engaged answering her questions as if he knew her. About 30 seconds in she froze as recognition was realised. She was mortified but he was totally charming about the whole thing. Happens all the time apparently.
I met Ewan McGregor when I married my first wife. It was the same day as the Tweed Run and he was doing that as a guest. Anyway, the Tweed Run organisers at the time were my friends and we had arranged that my Routemaster bus full of wedding guests would meet the tweed run at their lunch stop. He was friendly and polite, posed for photos. Looking at them afterwards, he was looking at my wife's cleavage in most of them! My Scottish cousin bounded up to him said "Hi Ewan. I fitted your dad's boiler!". When I asked him why he'd said that he replied "Cos it's true."
Markee68 said:
Stuart70 said:
She found sitting next to you that exciting?
I’ve absolutely no idea what you mean mate?Sat next to a celeb.
Didn’t recognise them.
Person I was with pointed out who it was as she got off.
I really don’t get how that relates to how excited she was? Soz.
Through work I had to go to folks houses. One day it was Uli Roth of The Scopions (Wind of Change). Proper rock god and brilliant guitarist. No pretentiousness about him at all, lovely bloke, got the job done but he was happy to chat and tell me a few interesting things about his life.
Same with Bonnie Tyler happy to chat, got an album of photos out showing what she’d done to the house. Thing that stood out was she was having building work done outside and something was going on she didn’t like, she rapped on the window so hard I was surprised it didn’t go through and used her lungs to very good (loud) effect.
Same with Bonnie Tyler happy to chat, got an album of photos out showing what she’d done to the house. Thing that stood out was she was having building work done outside and something was going on she didn’t like, she rapped on the window so hard I was surprised it didn’t go through and used her lungs to very good (loud) effect.
elanfan said:
Through work I had to go to folks houses. One day it was Uli Roth of The Scopions (Wind of Change). Proper rock god and brilliant guitarist. No pretentiousness about him at all, lovely bloke, got the job done but he was happy to chat and tell me a few interesting things about his life.
Same with Bonnie Tyler happy to chat, got an album of photos out showing what she’d done to the house. Thing that stood out was she was having building work done outside and something was going on she didn’t like, she rapped on the window so hard I was surprised it didn’t go through and used her lungs to very good (loud) effect.
Uli Roth, now that's cool. Saw him play last year but didn't know he lived in the UKSame with Bonnie Tyler happy to chat, got an album of photos out showing what she’d done to the house. Thing that stood out was she was having building work done outside and something was going on she didn’t like, she rapped on the window so hard I was surprised it didn’t go through and used her lungs to very good (loud) effect.
I met Stuart Hall when I was a child. He plied me with alcohol and touched me.
My uncle used to have a pub, and the quiz team entered a TV pub quiz game show hosted by Stuart Hall called 'Quiz Night'. They got to the final (which they won) and I went along to watch it being recorded. They had tables and chairs set up in front of the audience, to give it the illusion of being filmed in a pub. We were sat at the tables and the crew began to bring out cans and pour them into pint pots.
I was 17 at the time, and managing to pass for 18 in pubs. As I was waiting to be offered a drink, Stuart Hall walked onto the set and began helping poor the drinks. He poured me a pint of lager from a can and shook my hand.
He was exactly as he came across on TV, very friendly and down to earth. It's a shame he turned out to be a nonce-case.
My uncle used to have a pub, and the quiz team entered a TV pub quiz game show hosted by Stuart Hall called 'Quiz Night'. They got to the final (which they won) and I went along to watch it being recorded. They had tables and chairs set up in front of the audience, to give it the illusion of being filmed in a pub. We were sat at the tables and the crew began to bring out cans and pour them into pint pots.
I was 17 at the time, and managing to pass for 18 in pubs. As I was waiting to be offered a drink, Stuart Hall walked onto the set and began helping poor the drinks. He poured me a pint of lager from a can and shook my hand.
He was exactly as he came across on TV, very friendly and down to earth. It's a shame he turned out to be a nonce-case.
Ganglandboss said:
I met Stuart Hall when I was a child. He plied me with alcohol and touched me.
My uncle used to have a pub, and the quiz team entered a TV pub quiz game show hosted by Stuart Hall called 'Quiz Night'. They got to the final (which they won) and I went along to watch it being recorded. They had tables and chairs set up in front of the audience, to give it the illusion of being filmed in a pub. We were sat at the tables and the crew began to bring out cans and pour them into pint pots.
I was 17 at the time, and managing to pass for 18 in pubs. As I was waiting to be offered a drink, Stuart Hall walked onto the set and began helping poor the drinks. He poured me a pint of lager from a can and shook my hand.
He was exactly as he came across on TV, very friendly and down to earth. It's a shame he turned out to be a nonce-case.
If you'd been just 10% more gorgeous you could have been in bother there. My uncle used to have a pub, and the quiz team entered a TV pub quiz game show hosted by Stuart Hall called 'Quiz Night'. They got to the final (which they won) and I went along to watch it being recorded. They had tables and chairs set up in front of the audience, to give it the illusion of being filmed in a pub. We were sat at the tables and the crew began to bring out cans and pour them into pint pots.
I was 17 at the time, and managing to pass for 18 in pubs. As I was waiting to be offered a drink, Stuart Hall walked onto the set and began helping poor the drinks. He poured me a pint of lager from a can and shook my hand.
He was exactly as he came across on TV, very friendly and down to earth. It's a shame he turned out to be a nonce-case.
Lucky man.
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