Whose the most famous person you have touched

Whose the most famous person you have touched

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CardinalBlue

839 posts

77 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Princess Anne, when I was a teenager. She was opening a building for a charity I was involved with. Shook my hand, and spend a minute or so making small talk.

Other than that, probably limited to sportspeople.

Misaps

180 posts

125 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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HM The Queen & HRH Duke of Edinburgh - shook hands and had a lengthy chat when they visited place of work. D of E was in good form and very likeable.

Evanivitch

20,074 posts

122 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Prince Charles, came to work, shook my hand.

Chozza

808 posts

152 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Xi Jinping

Sasha Grey

I guess one is famous and seen by millions , the other is the Chinese leader.

My mate Rob loudly announced that he knew Sasha from somewhere but didn't know where...the rest of this room helpfully reminded him and his wife :-)

LB14

278 posts

208 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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TuonoPants said:
Helped the late Paul Daniels to his feet after he tripped over in the power tool aisle in Homebase.
How much did he thank you ..... not a lot?

wobert

5,051 posts

222 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Joseph Cyril Bamford

On more than one occasion as he was my employer.....

Escapegoat

5,135 posts

135 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Bill Gates. He bought me breakfast, too.

Frank7

6,619 posts

87 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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38911 said:
Frank7 said:
With the possible exception of Warwick Davis, and the misspelled Ricky Gervais, how could you lump the exceptionally talented Héloïse Letissier in with that bunch?
If I were you, I’d rewrite that post, mentioning Mr. Davis and Mr. Gervais once each, deleting Carr and Klass, and giving Mlle. Letissier three mentions.
Sat next to her on a plane from Frankfurt. I spent the first 30 minutes of the flight trying to work out where I’d seen her before... it was only when she asked for a drink and I heard the voice & French accent that I realised. I spent the remainder of the flight, plus the schlep from the plane through passport control flirting shamelessly with her. I think she wanted me...

Myleene Klass though. Mmmmmmmmm!
Train crash there 38911, and you were doing so well until that last line.
It was a bit like saying, “I had ordered Lobster Newburg, and the sommelier was searching for a Grand Vintage Moët and Chandon, I sighed with satisfaction at the thought.”
Then the sommelier returned, downcast, they were fresh out of Moët and Chandon.
Mmmmmmm I mused, there’s always a cheese and pickle sandwich, and a mug of tea.

80sMatchbox

3,891 posts

176 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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Frank7 said:
38911 said:
Frank7 said:
With the possible exception of Warwick Davis, and the misspelled Ricky Gervais, how could you lump the exceptionally talented Héloïse Letissier in with that bunch?
If I were you, I’d rewrite that post, mentioning Mr. Davis and Mr. Gervais once each, deleting Carr and Klass, and giving Mlle. Letissier three mentions.
Sat next to her on a plane from Frankfurt. I spent the first 30 minutes of the flight trying to work out where I’d seen her before... it was only when she asked for a drink and I heard the voice & French accent that I realised. I spent the remainder of the flight, plus the schlep from the plane through passport control flirting shamelessly with her. I think she wanted me...

Myleene Klass though. Mmmmmmmmm!
Train crash there 38911, and you were doing so well until that last line.
It was a bit like saying, “I had ordered Lobster Newburg, and the sommelier was searching for a Grand Vintage Moët and Chandon, I sighed with satisfaction at the thought.”
Then the sommelier returned, downcast, they were fresh out of Moët and Chandon.
Mmmmmmm I mused, there’s always a cheese and pickle sandwich, and a mug of tea.
What if it was a prawn sandwich, like you usually have?



mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Thursday 18th January 2018
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I do not touch famous people...

texaxile

3,290 posts

150 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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John Peel would drink in the local pub, chatted and shook hands with him plenty of times.

John Wark - former Ipswich town footballer, Scottish international and film star of "escape to victory".

Roger Daltrey - helped him load his shopping while I worked at Sainsburys aged 16.

Val Lehman of "Prisoner Cell block H" fame. Cooked Sunday dinner for me and my mate who was her lodger at the time.

Kevin Spacey * - helped him rub his groin better after he hurt it.

* not true.


B17NNS

18,506 posts

247 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Ant and Dec. Both great blokes. A mate worked on their show Slap Bang. Me and a few buddies were extras in the ‘Beers’ segment. Really interesting to see how a TV show is made.

mike74

3,687 posts

132 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Literally bumped into Hayley from Coronation street in a Greggs, it was his/her fault, stood too close behind me in the queue.

Martin350

3,775 posts

195 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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I wasn't looking where I was walking at Goodwood and bumped into John Surtees.

He didn't look best pleased.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

255 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Evanivitch said:
Prince Charles, came to work, shook my hand.
What do you do?

Matt Harper

6,618 posts

201 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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There was a time, way back when, I worked for Polygram - and had the questionable pleasure to meet with some of their artistes. One Christmas they held a banquet and I got to share dinner with Bryan Ferry, Kevin Rowland, Bruce Foxton and Mark Knopfler and some weirdo out of ABC, who's name I don't recall. It was a surreal experience and I spent most of the evening talking to Mr Knopfler about the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Other notables, some interesting to me, a few quite sad:
Jochen Mass (traveling)
Carmen Electra (traveling)
David Jeffries (used to drink in the same boozer - became a good friend)
Tom Kristensen (Visits us at Turn 10 Sebring - as do a load of other sportscar folks)
Don Garlits (friend of a friend)
Dan Wheldon (my brother was considering buying his Honda NSX)
Payton Manning (at an F1 race at Indy)

DRFC1879

3,437 posts

157 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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mybrainhurts said:
Evanivitch said:
Prince Charles, came to work, shook my hand.
What do you do?
Sets up car crash stunts for films and the like...

Alex

9,975 posts

284 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Chozza said:
Xi Jinping

Sasha Grey

I guess one is famous and seen by millions , the other is the Chinese leader.

My mate Rob loudly announced that he knew Sasha from somewhere but didn't know where...the rest of this room helpfully reminded him and his wife :-)
You've touched Sasha Grey?

(cough) Who is she anyway? wink

AppleJuice

2,154 posts

85 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Lord Willis - was my MP when I lived in Harrogate. Shook his hand on an occasion or two.

Supercilious Sid

2,575 posts

161 months

Friday 19th January 2018
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Slightly stretching the definition of the thread but my mate used to go on motorbike rides with Lawrence of Arabia