Mr. James May 'keeps it real'

[grumbledoak]

When I got my last hair cut, the guy in the next seat was the Lord Mayor of London. Interesting conversation that I couldn't help overhearing.

[Wills2]

grumbledoak said:

When I got my last hair cut, the guy in the next seat was the Lord Mayor of London. Interesting conversation that I couldn't help overhearing.

Nick Anstee?

[grumbledoak]

Wills2 said:

Nick Anstee?

I wouldn't have known if the barber hadn't told me.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Se...

[bazking69]

Nigel Mansell letting me sit in an F40 as a kid in his showroom and signing a poster and glossy print for me. A poster and print that he gave me. I still have the personalised print framed and on my office wall nearly 20 years later.

[phil1967]

another one...

Driving up the M1 in 1998 on way to university, a new jag slowly creeps past me with license plate SISAO. Noel Gallagher was looking pretty smug in the driving seat. Not bad for someone who didn't have a license at the time. (him, not me)

[M5Tom]

I know these are pretty poor but my two pence worth.............

Dinner at The Ivy had me sitting on the table next to Pierce Brosnan and his family. I happened to be in a dinner jacket. I felt like some sort of 007 weirdo fan. He smiled at me once. He smoked some sort of interesting white tip cigarette.....Same evening, some of the Eastenders lot in the corner including Dot and Peggy who wandered around the restaurant once or twice. Both had clearly had a few drinks.

And Jeremy Paxman on the tube two days ago.....

[Stephen F]

My wife, several years ago had the pleasure of chatting with Amana Holden, who at the time was wearing a nightie and was apparently even nicer in real life (as a person and to look at!) Her then hubbie was described a looking like a really old sack of st!

Edited by Stephen F on Friday 8th October 22:40

[Nick M]

M5Tom said:

had me sitting on the table next to Pierce Brosnan and his family. I happened to be in a dinner jacket.

Saw him and one of his sons near his place in Kauai a few years back. He was going into one of the local shops. Most people just ignored him and let him go about his business, but a couple of Septic tourists in loud shirts did the whole stop and gawp thing and then said very loudly "Oh my gooooood, is that Pierce Brosnan?!!".

Oh, and I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt. And flip-flops.

[mybrainhurts]

Ved said:

Saw Paul Daniels getting his Rolls cleaned on the road between Reading and Maidenhead. Debbie was with him and I swear she had the most amazing set of legs I've ever seen.

It's magic...

[thesyn]

eeneff said:

A few years ago I reversed into Jimmy "The Whirlwind" White. Not his car but the man himself as he staggered out of a club in Gloucester.

And I used to deliver Mick Kaminski's (ELO) newspapers...

Oh, I live next door to Richard Ashcroft (but not THE Richard Ashcroft!).

First post, shall I get my coat?

Man's a legend.

Anyone who can drink that much as well as play snooker... what can you say.

He's also a local from Tooting

[bencollins]

TotalControl said:

Soovy said:

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Soovy said:

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Oy, knock it off with the smut about Lucy. She's not here to defend herself, so, er, I gotta do it on her behalf in a chivalrous way, and that.

So...just bugger off, she's mine godammit!

Seriously, you know Pinder? Tell her that Uncle Soovy has a special place in his games room for her.......

Edited by Soovy on Friday 8th October 16:51

Quality

Yep seriously, I know the Pinder. She comes in and uses my sunbeds, although I'm not sure if I've let out a trade secrety there or what...

You fkING WHAT?

Pinder comes into your premises, GETS NAKED and you didn't TELL ME?!

Why should he? Poor guy, he's probably too tired from all the mass wking sessions.

what if you were to clean said sunbed, straight after she left, then slip *cough*, so your face was pushed against the glass in the middle area and the shock made you breath in suddenly, but you were eating a crumbled digestive biscuit, so you had to breath in through your nose suddenly, and you accidentally got a massive lung full of sniff.

would you come back and describe it to us?

[thesyn]

My mate was driving through Brighton looking for a place to park when I heard this monstrous motorcycle sound coming up behind.

Looked around as JK (not Rowling) overtook in his Enzo.

[thesyn]

My mate was driving through Brighton looking for a place to park when I heard this monstrous motorcycle sound coming up behind.

Looked around as JK (not Rowling) overtook in his Enzo.

[phil1967]

would you come back and describe it to us?



dear god you are a perverted genius.

[Steve in Stoke]

I called my grandad whilst he was on the way to a golfing event near Dublin, and all I could hear was lots of swearing and loud laughing from one his passengers. Being handsfree, I knew the passenger would hear me when I told him to STFU. I didn't realise it was Frank Carson.... he took it good humour, he said my grandad tells him to STFU regularly as well!

Motoring related, I was in Milan for my birthday in September 2005 and flew into Bergamo the same day of the Monza GP, and stayed the night in a Best Western hotel as all the cheaper places were booked up due to the F1.
Monday morning, me and the other half go for breakfast, only to be sat next to Mike Gascoyne, Jarno Trulli, Ralf Schumacher and a few other people from the Toyota F1 team!

[jas xjr]

i had goldie the dj in my shop not long ago. i did not recognise him despite the teeth and the rings etc, he was a really nice guy and shook hands with me when he left. i was googling him to show the saturday girl girl when he came back in again. top bloke

[997c2scab]

Took the wife to Monaco for her 30th b'day, flew in by helicopter and all was great until...........
Was checking in to the columbus hotel only to be welcomed by David coulthard. Great guy and very grounded only for my wife to ignore him and then treated him like some drunk scott trying to come on to her....... He was only trying to be welcoming! She went veery red when I explained who he was and that it's his hotel!

[Digger]

Kris Akabusi walked by and got into his Bentley soft top a couple of nights ago as myself and others were sitting outside a shop in MarbleyBone chewing the cud. I pretended to take photos of him and he was very jovial about it. Seems like a nice guy.

[IainW]

Living in the vast celebrity goldfish bowl that is Central Scotland, I've only ever seen Z-list Scottish actors out and about. Saw Kathleen McDermott in Boots at Glasgow Fort and every December you're guaranteed to see the stars of River City in Walkabout opposite the Pavillion theatre where they do panto.

I did see Simon Biagi (ex-GMTV/various daytime shows/now a QVC presenter) keeping it real in Buckingham's branch of Tescos a couple of years back, he was checking out the frozen chips. Used to see all sorts of junior racing drivers making an arse of themselves in the White Hart in that town, quite funny seeing where some of them have made it to now.

[mercfunder]

Stephen F said:

My wife, several years ago had the pleasure of chatting with Amana Holden, who at the time was wearing a nightie and was apparently even nicer in real life (as a person and to look at!) Her then hubbie was described a looking like a really old sack of st!

Edited by Stephen F on Friday 8th October 22:40

There is more to this story than you are letting on,Amanda Holden, Nightie.......do tell.

Edited by mercfunder on Saturday 9th October 06:20