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I’ll start the ball rolling. (my list is not extensive but i’m hoping for better luck in future)
1) Maggie Thatcher: i threw an egg at her when she was opening my local hospital (East Surrey Hospital) circu 1981. Before the cops nabbed me our eyes briefly met and she gave me that stare . . . you know the stare i’m referring to.
2) Ken Dodd: i met him in Southport town centre many years ago. Such a nice man!
3) 1970’s radio DJ David ‘diddy’ Hamilton: Met him when he fell out drunk from my local nightclub ‘Busby’s’ in Redhill, Surrey late 70’s.
4) The End (i did warn you that my list is not gonna be extensive!)
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Billy Connolly, met him when he was filming his BBC World Tour Of England series for the BBC back in the 90’s. Very funny man, always laughing. Also, Bobby Charlton and Mavis from Coronation Street.
Enyaq EV
Stars i wish i’d met:
1) Suzi Quatro – omg i had her pics plastered all over my bedroom walls as a kid.
2) Sigourney Weaver – she used to get me all weak at the knees.
3) Christopher Hitchins – smartest man i’ve ever listened to.
4) Brian Clough – best England manager . . . we never had.
5) Winston Churchill – best orator ever!
100% agree with you there @joejoe the ‘Big Yin’ Billy Connolly is a comical genius.
Bobby Charlton – quite possibly the greatest ever English footballer.
Mavis ‘ooh, I don’t really know’ Riley ???
Various party leaders when I used to supply electronic message signs to party conferences in the 80/90’s, Sir Robin Day asked us to “go away” very nicely when he needed a balcony box we were working in to do a piece to camera 🙂
Accidentaly was sat in Cilla’s seat on a flight from London to Newcastle and had to move!, same flight got talking to Rick Wakeman and Nina Carter in departures before the flight, had bumped into him in C&A a couple of weeks before when he was playing at Newcastle City Hall.
Slobodan Miloševiće (president of what’s now Croatia) when I was working in the Federal Parliament in Belgrade just before it all kicked off!.
Please excuse spelling/typos. Apart from being a clot it turns out I had one on my cerebellum that's now causing various problems!
Sir Alex Ferguson, try keeping up with him drink for drink. Kenny Dalglish, Greame Souness, Alex Mcliesh, Gordon Strachan, Billy McNeil lots of Celtic FC players, a few Scottish politicians and a lot more Scottish and some English footballers like John Barnes and Bruce Grobbellar
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Phill Taylor – use to drink in same pub, My son married his daughter.
Eric Bristow – use to drink in the pub he run
David Cameron – London, he stopped briefly to speak to us on the the way to an event
Robbie Williams – Prior to becoming famous.
Not met anyone famous but crossed paths
Walked pass Lionel Blair and Diane Keen when shopping in Southsea
They were starring at the local theatre
Saw Nigel Benn the dark destroyer across the street on his way to a night club new yrs eve 2000
Met and was helpted by the wife of a famous family
Wendy Oxlade head of the Local hospital NHS physio dept who helped me on my journey
Wendy Oxlade wife of Mark Valentine Chamberlain is an English former international footballer. He is the younger brother of Neville Chamberlain, and the father of Beşiktaş and England international player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kidderminster Harriers’s Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain
As a footy fanatic i’ve gotta say @Brydo gets the win after all he’s got Fergie, Dalgleish, Souness, Mcleish, Strachan, Barnes + Grobbellar in his list.
If i wasn’t a footy nut then it’d be a clear win for @kezo because his son married into a star’s family namely Phil ‘the power’ Taylor (the greatest darts player that’s ever lived)
Honourable mentions going out to: @Burgerman333 + @Menorca Mike + @MickC + @Phaedra + @jojoe
Phill Taylor – use to drink in same pub, My son married his daughter. Eric Bristow – use to drink in the pub he run David Cameron – London, he stopped briefly to speak to us on the the way to an event Robbie Williams – Prior to becoming famous.
Kezo your son must live in a lovely home surely Phil’s daughter must be very well off do you meet Phil say Christmas time or at the odd party ?
Good morning @Menorca Mike
According to celebritynetworth.com Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor’s net worth is somewhere north of £10m quid.
Not bad for a lad from the potteries that left school at 16 who then spent most of his early working life making toilet roll handles.
Good morning @Menorca Mike According to celebritynetworth.com Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor’s net worth is somewhere north of £10m quid. Not bad for a lad from the potteries that left school at 16 who then spent most of his early working life making toilet roll handles.
yes I bet Phil’s mansion is very nice
Yes Mike!
There is a dark side to him and the family, from him being guilty of a sex attack, when he owned thr cricketer arms, a bitter divorce (Yvonne s made for life), 2 “supposedly” estranged daughters but, truth be told they were bitter after parents divorced.
Phill was considering going into I’m a celeb this year.
Well, not that I class them as ‘stars’ in the ‘celeb’ sense, but just this past year alone I met – mainly on Veterans matters/ RBL Festival of Remembrance/ Remembrance Sunday (was a formal invited guest this year) and a RGP. Also some via my NFU/YAS connection or being a life member of Yorkshire County Cricket Club:
HM The King (Charles the Third) – twice
HM Queen Camilla – twice
HRH Prince of Wales (Prince William)
HRH Princess of Wales
HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne)
Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (he is my local MP as well)
Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP
Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP
Sundry MOD/DEFRA ministers.
Others this year:
Katherine Jenkins
Francis Rossi
Jon Bonjovi (was sat next to him in first class to JFK) – I didn’t know who he was at first.
Sir Geoffrey Boycott
Guess I just operate in a somewhat parallel universe to most.
In the early 90’s I was a member of a very posh Hotel with gym membership in Surrey (through work obvs). One day I was actually off work with a heavy cold (no WFH in those days) and thought I’d go to for a sauna / wet room / jacuzzi to clear my head. Whilst there, I was in the jacuzzi and a couple of young kids were playing with what I thought was their mother. Now this was a posh place, and kids were only allowed in the pool area at weekends, not during weekdays. Being young, and without kids at the time, I whinged to the lady in the jacuzzi about hotel guests not following hotel/club rules. Where she told me they were her kids, and the lady with them was her nanny! It was then that I realised I was in a jacuzzi and talking to Demi Moore! Well I soon shut up, and told her it was quite all right after all! ??♂️
During this time, my future wife was in the gym and when I saw her, she told about this really annoyingly loud American in the gym who was not wiping down the equipment after using it! Of course that was Bruce Willis!??♂️
Yes it is a true story…
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfeckers!??
Kind regards
Andy======================
Motability cars:
Now - Not on the scheme.
2021 - Volvo XC40 T5 PHEV.
2020 - VW Golf TDi SE Match.
2017 - VW Golf TDi SE Match.
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