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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monamimate

838 posts

142 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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MarvGTI said:
monamimate said:
I was at school with the Duke of Luxemburg
Sorry Sir, but Henry's a GRAND-Duke wink and I bought his brother's (Prince Guillaume - William) E34 540i Touring with over 200k miles on the odo!
Indeed, thank you for the correction… does that make it more or less tenuous?

MarvGTI

427 posts

125 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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monamimate said:
Indeed, thank you for the correction… does that make it more or less tenuous?
Slightly less I'd say, our grand-duke pales compared to the King of Lesotho wink And apparently some North Korean boys went to those schools so that might the more tenuous link!

Stedman

7,218 posts

192 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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blindswelledrat said:
What an arrogant prick.
I would have replied "I have no idea who you are".
Thank you for not being star-struck by me. Nice bloke? That's one of the most cringeworthy things I have ever read.
Maybe it reads badly and he didn't use those words, but he was cool and appreciative not an arrogant prick as you seem to think he was.

Sexual Chocolate

1,583 posts

144 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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I got knocked off my BMX by Jim Bowen in his gold Rolls Royce as he was coming out of the YTV studios.

Chris Kamara once told me to F**k off outside Southamptons ground.



Forgot about the time I saw Angus Deaighton coming out of the toilets in the Mirabelle restaurant a few days after his coke and hookers scandal. I told him he needed to whipe his nose. He was not impressed.

Edited by Sexual Chocolate on Wednesday 16th April 14:26

Urban Sports

11,321 posts

203 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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I'm friends with Purple Aki on facebook.

damianmkv

631 posts

143 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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My mother in law works for Cliff Richard

DickyC

49,733 posts

198 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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The grandfather of the chap I sit next to at work ghost wrote about half the Billy Bunter stories in The Magnet around the time of the First War.

He survived the war. Newly arrived in France after volunteering, his platoon of raw recruits were asked if any of them had office experience. He did and was sent to work in an HQ away from the fighting. His ability to type almost undoubtedly saved him.

PurpleTurtle

6,985 posts

144 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Jeremy Clarkson told me "Oh do F*** Off!" when I asked him for a photo at a Neil Young gig at Hammersmith Apollo.

Paul Weller was friendly and happy to pose for pictures when on the same flight back from Coachella in 2009. We had a chat at Heathrow baggage reclaim, like a couple of regular blokes shooting the breeze, which was odd on my part because he's one of my musical heroes, I was massively star struck.

My mum sat next to Peter Andre on a flight back from Vegas. Amazingly he didn't repeatedly tell her how much he loves his kids.




Adenauer

18,579 posts

236 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Jeremy Clarkson told me "Oh do F*** Off!" when I told him I'd overtaken him twice on his one lap of the ring in his Diesel Jaguar biggrin

Google [bot]

6,682 posts

181 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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My housemate's aunt was the Principal of the school next door to the studios where Pink Floyd recorded The Wall, and their choir ended up being the kids of 'another brick in the wall'.

shakotan

10,695 posts

196 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Back in the day, working in a petrol station, I served Ray Alan (of Lord Charles ventriloquism in the 70s/80s fame), and Stefan Dennis (him off early Neighbours).

Once travelled on a Virgin Atlantic flight that Richard Branson was on. He wandered through the cabins during the flight chatting to people, did the 'preparations for landing' announcement, and stood by the door with the other cabin crew thanking the passengers. A very respectable effort, I thought.

Also on a different flight, was Robbie Coltrane, who spent most of the flight chatting up the female cabin crew in the rear of the 747 Upper Deck. When it came to collecting baggage, he shoved his way through other passengers when he spotted his back, then without consideration, simply hauled his bag off the belt as hard as possible, catching a woman squarely in the stomach, then shouted "Oh for fks sake!" because it delayed him a nano-second. He's a prize-class prick if you ask me.

Ahhh Moneypenny

4,100 posts

222 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Michael Palin heard me shout 'LOOK THERE'S MICHAEL PALIN!!!' in Covent Garden

steviegunn

1,416 posts

184 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Tenious you say:

My dad went to school with Lulu, I shared a lift with Daley Thompson and my sister has been on stage with Rik Mayall.

oilandwater

1,408 posts

190 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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Lawrence Olivier held a door open for me, he was wearing white gloves.

MrBaker

323 posts

130 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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My dad decorated Orlando Blooms mum or dads ( can't remember which one) kitchen a few years ago

Butter Face

30,298 posts

160 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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I once served Rory McGrath when I worked in a department store, he bought a CD, it was Hear'say - "pure and simple"

JDMDrifter

4,041 posts

165 months

Thursday 17th April 2014
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About 6 years ago I met Maxi Jazz from faithless at a British gt race, had a decent chat with him and got my iPod signed by him, really nice guy.

About 4 years back David Cameron visited my school. Shouted "Alright Dave" in only fools and horses style at him, it raised a smile and a thumbs up!

Stedman

7,218 posts

192 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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JDMDrifter said:
About 4 years back David Cameron visited my school. Shouted "Alright Dave" in only fools and horses style at him, it raised a smile and a thumbs up!
I quite like that hehe

Spanglepants

1,743 posts

137 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Think I already posted this, my Dad went out with Ray Alans daughter before he married my Mum.


shakotan said:
Back in the day, working in a petrol station, I served Ray Alan (of Lord Charles ventriloquism in the 70s/80s fame), and Stefan Dennis (him off early Neighbours).

nicanary

9,793 posts

146 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Spanglepants said:
"Silly Arse!"