Famous people, preconceptions busted/confirmed

Famous people, preconceptions busted/confirmed

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Warmfuzzies

3,961 posts

252 months

Friday 27th March 2015
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qube_TA said:
Ali2202 said:
Neil Armstrong - Initially reserved, then, lovely to my Wife. She disarmed him with a fearless but polite interest.

Charles 'Pete' Conrad - Too frickin cool for school. Aviators, flight-suit, the lot!


So that's the 1st and 3rd.

Aldrin is on the stalker list! hehe I really hope to meet him one day.

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Edited by Ali2202 on Sunday 22 March 22:13
I've met Aldrin, it was a few years ago but he was impossibly interesting. Seeing him again on TV the other day he seemed to have aged a lot since then, perhaps he just didn't like being on the telly.

I've got tickets to see a Jim Lovell talk in November, there's a Q&A and meet n greet with photo op so genuinely rather excited. It's cost a small fortune to do it but I'm sure it'll be worth it.
Met Mike Mullane (Riding rockets author) at Nasa, charming chap, signed a book for us, photo's the usual stuff. I guess they must get a trifle bored on the merry-go-round after a while of being an ex-astronaut......


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Calletrece

320 posts

129 months

Friday 27th March 2015
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mantis84 said:
Charlie Dimmock - i.e. the rather large chested lady from that Ground Force gardening show the BBC had on several years ago. I was 16 and working in a garden centre on its opening day, and she was there to cut the ribbon and have some photos taken with pervy dads and such. I was having lunch in the staff canteen and she was came and sat next to me when she was having a break from the meet and greet stuff. Lovely lady, really friendly and outgoing. Had a nice chat whilst we ate and she did me an autograph for my next door neighbour who I knew was a fan/dirty old man.
Sounds like you got the best deal.

Met Alan Titchmarsh when I was younger and he was a grade A weapon - telling a bunch of kids of 9/10 to all f*** off home and refusing to sign anything.


Harry Flashman

19,283 posts

241 months

Friday 27th March 2015
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mikal83 said:
My Mum had some dealings with Colin Montgomerie at a golf tournament in the early 90's. She said he was the most foul mouthed areshole she'd ever met. Faldo was a stuck up, "its all about me" person. Stayed in the same hotel as sam Torrance when he won a tournament in the mid 1980s. At the sun night piss up , Woosnam was bouncing off the walls, pissed as a fart.
Met Nick Faldo at my school - my old place has some of the best trout fishing in England, so they gave him a day on the river in return for him teaching some of us impressionable youngsters some golf.

He was a miserable, rude, impatient sod.

mikal83

5,340 posts

251 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Harry Flashman said:
Met Nick Faldo at my school - my old place has some of the best trout fishing in England, so they gave him a day on the river in return for him teaching some of us impressionable youngsters some golf.

He was a miserable, rude, impatient sod.
Just ask any of his ex wives.....

RacerMike

4,192 posts

210 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Shane Lynch - Met him at a karting thing I did with Red Bull. Such a genuine bloke, and it was clear his passion in life was cars and racing. Spent a good 20mins talking to him, and not for one moment did he come across as having any type of ego at all.

Mylene Klass - Absolutely tiny. But also absolutely lovely. Stunning as well.

Maggot (of GLC fame) - Complete legend

Jason Plato (incredibly briefly through a friend doing Clio Cup) - Came across as a huge piss take, and not at all as I imagined. Seemed like a really decent guy.

Prince Philip - Hilarious. Only said 1 sentence to about 3 of us (at school) but it was both sarcastic and charming at the same time. Everything I imagined he'd be.


Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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Calletrece said:
Sounds like you got the best deal.

Met Alan Titchmarsh when I was younger and he was a grade A weapon - telling a bunch of kids of 9/10 to all f*** off home and refusing to sign anything.
My firm looks after indoor plants in offices etc. One of my staff encountered Titchmarsh in an office where we'd inherited the most sickly, pest-ridden excuse for a tree you've ever seen. He stood there and waffled on about how healthy it looked.

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Saturday 28th March 2015
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knitware said:
On my pre-wedding dinner I saw at our hotel having dinner, but didn’t meet, Prunella Scales and her husband Timothy West.
I can't really give context on an internet forum about Tim and Pru, for the risk of identifying other people.....but suffice to say that I have spent a decent amount of time in a domestic situation with them, and they are nothing short of delightful.

Some of the stories I have been fortunate enough to have been party to have had me in tears.....such a hilarious couple, and exactly how you might imagine them to be.





Kiltie

7,504 posts

245 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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dotty

681 posts

197 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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Most recently -

Prince Harry, at the invictus games, had a brief chat about being veterans. Genuinely nice bloke.
David Cameron - "hello nice to meet you" Taller than I thought
Brian Johnson of ACDC at Goodwood, lovely guy.
Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden, Matt made me a coffee in the Honda hospitality area at Goodwood - nice guys
Tony Blair, in Iraq - had to nod and smile..
Katherine Jenkins - she came over to Iraq on a morale boosting trip, she did just that, nice woman.
Ally McCoist, nice guy, this was when he was a Rangers player

The Black Baron

49 posts

120 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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I 'met' Michael Schumacher at Silverstone probably 97.

Wandering up and down the paddock, there was a huge crowd outside the Ferrari motor home, I hung back and he crept out from behind to avoid the crowd. I scurried alongside and asked for an autograph but he ignored me and just kept walking. In my star-spangled haze, I put my hand on his shoulder to try and get his attention and he turned and looked at me like I'd just shat on his mother!

Which was entirely reasonable to be honest (I was only a wee teenager at the time /excuse).

Also met and got autographs from Ralph, Jenson, Irvine, Alesi. All seemed nice, if highly charged people. Ralph not so much.

Through work I have met Ellen McArthur who was very small, but pleasant, Shaw Taylor who is very kind and Anneka Rice who was quite nice but also quite distracted by things as simple as cars passing, birds flying, paper moving etc. in fact I've been in her bedroom. Still, Mum's the word...

Quite a few slebs have homes on the island, so there are likely more I can't recall atm.

evo4a

737 posts

180 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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dotty said:
Most recently -

Ally McCoist, nice guy, this was when he was a Rangers player
recently, just a mere 20 years ago...........

VTECMatt

1,168 posts

237 months

Sunday 29th March 2015
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I have loads, working in Hotels you get to meet a few!

Jeremy Clarkson met four times, heckled on cool wall with him on TV, had breakfast with him, James and Hammond, really nice chaps. JC wrote about me in a good way in his column in The Sun and he never punched me smile

Van Morrison and Richard Gear in a bar, got them evicted after quite a lot of verbal.

Dinner with Ricky Gervais, really funny guy couldn't stop laughing.

Met Jenson and Lewis in my old place, had a good chat with them both, really nice chaps.

Impersonated Harry Enfield Mr Nice but Dim when I served him a G&T, 1994 iirc

Shared a lift with Beyoncé, didn't know who she was, until someone pointed it out.

Had chip butties with Rick Parfitt and the crew in 1994.

Met all the prime ministers since Maggie.

I can go on for a while.


Spanglepants

1,743 posts

136 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Sat opposite Shaw Taylor on a bus through Streatham in the mid 70s. Little kid dressed as a cub scout kept whispering to his Mum to look at who it was -"Shut up he'll 'ear ya!"

Although it was at one of those comic and film conventions one of the best I met was Michael Berryman (bald baddie from the original Hills Have Eyes) really friendly fella.
David soul, he got his girlfriend to take a photo of me. my son and himself with his camera and sent it to my house with a nice message.
Ledley King was my ex wives cousin, met him a few times at family weddings, funerals. Was friendly and very down to earth.
Alice Cooper, before a concert, i was a big fan, thought je might of been a bit more talkative but who knows what sort of day he'd had.
Roger Moore, my favourite by far. Ex took a photo of us together and totally messed it up. Very self deprecating, very witty and so genuine- his face lit up when I met him.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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VTECMatt said:
I have loads, working in Hotels you get to meet a few!

Jeremy Clarkson met four times, heckled on cool wall with him on TV, had breakfast with him, James and Hammond, really nice chaps. JC wrote about me in a good way in his column in The Sun and he never punched me smile

Van Morrison and Richard Gear in a bar, got them evicted after quite a lot of verbal.

Dinner with Ricky Gervais, really funny guy couldn't stop laughing.

Met Jenson and Lewis in my old place, had a good chat with them both, really nice chaps.

Impersonated Harry Enfield Mr Nice but Dim when I served him a G&T, 1994 iirc

Shared a lift with Beyoncé, didn't know who she was, until someone pointed it out.

Had chip butties with Rick Parfitt and the crew in 1994.

Met all the prime ministers since Maggie.

I can go on for a while.
Shared a lift with Beyonce? Blimey, you'd think with her money she could afford a taxi. I hope she offered the driver some petrol money - either that or she got out her usual w*nk sock.



Ali Chappussy

876 posts

144 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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nicanary said:
Shared a lift with Beyonce? Blimey, you'd think with her money she could afford a taxi. I hope she offered the driver some petrol money - either that or she got out her usual w*nk sock.
What makes you think VTECMatt isn't a taxi driver?

schmunk

4,399 posts

124 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Ali Chappussy said:
nicanary said:
Shared a lift with Beyonce? Blimey, you'd think with her money she could afford a taxi. I hope she offered the driver some petrol money - either that or she got out her usual w*nk sock.
What makes you think VTECMatt isn't a taxi driver?
His PH profile...?

MrJuice

3,300 posts

155 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Lift aka elevator

Funkycoldribena

7,379 posts

153 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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MrJuice said:
Lift aka elevator
Psittacoidea aka ......

littleguy

190 posts

120 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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littleguy said:
A political journalist who shall remain nameless - I thought he'd be far more uptight. Instead, he ran around my lounge swearing at me after he beat me at Fifa. He also has a really condescending laugh that he does every time he scores. I need to get better at Fifa.
We had a rematch. I won. All is forgiven.

Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Monday 30th March 2015
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Funkycoldribena said:
MrJuice said:
Lift aka elevator
Psittacoidea aka ......
I like that. Done well Sir!