Mine: went to school with Gary Barlow
people come up to me in the middle of nowhere and say "You are simonfbarnes". Then I have to run away.
I went to school with the little brother of one of the drummers in showaddywaddy
An old freind of my mother's is Jimmy Saville's cousin.
I used to be a newsreader
I used to be friends with Tim Kellett, the trumpet player from Simply Red (later formed a dance band called Olive too) and have blown his trumpet.
Ahem.
My Great Grandad was the first person to drive a tractor in Somerset...
I opened a train door into Paul Daniels' face and gave him a black eye.
you're not alone MF
AndyP - thanks, he called me piddly pants on a show once, i've never forgiven him
I am a published poet.
got selected to ride for GB in 94.
never did though it would have taken about six folk to get ill or something before the worlds.
that alone still makes me happy though 😉
went out with a girl from helensburgh whose uncle was victor meldrew
people come up to me in the middle of nowhere and say "You are simonfbarnes". Then I have to run away.
More specifically you mean the Police rather than just 'people' don't you?
In the magazine adverts for Singleton Whisky the rocks in the riverbed at the chosen location in Glencoe were the wrong colour so I had to source two tonnes of white Syke Marble pebbles (so you could see the colour of the whiskey in the bottle), hand ball theme across a bog, lay them in the riverbed for the photo then pluck every last one of them back out and take them back to where they came from.
I've shared a bath with one of the headliners from this years Reading and Leads Festival
I know how Renee Zelwegger likes her eggs in the morning
My mum used to have her hair done by Fred Dibnah's first wife AND I went to school with one of Stu (ooh I could crush a grape) Francis' children (apprently).
What do I win?
I shook Bob Crow's hand on Sunday.
I sold David "Kid" Jensen a pair of padded underpants.
I was on Cracker Jack, and somewhere still have a pen (one of those really cheap ones with a cord that goes round your neck) Me and Robert Hollingsworth went on from our Primary school. The Nolans were singing, one of them asked if I wanted an autograph, I declined...
Also Sigourny Weaver held doors open for me at Elstree studios as I carried a very light but large stage prop overstuffed leather chair for a school production of "The Importance or Being Ernest" (our English teacher knew some-one at the studio). I had no idea it was her, as I could only really see her feet. It wasn't until I reached the car park and I put the chair down that I realised who it was.
mrsmw's PHD supervisor sacked Mark Knopfler from his band because he was crap
I went to school with Nick Craig.
On a Simply Red theme from above, I went out drinking with Mick Hucknall a couple of times because we were friends with Gavan Whelan from James who knew him.
ooh ooh ooh
Brian Blessed knows me by my first name
8)
Jimmy Carr stole a joke i told over dinner and used it in his performance
I went out drinking with Mick Hucknall a couple of times
and you wasted the opportunity to deck the bastard ???
In our small workplace of about 10 people, there is:
Spiritualized's bass player
Julian Cope's drummer
the ex Bad Manners bass player.
🙂
I'm actually the messiah. Dad said best not mention it to people as they can get a tad excitable
Brian Blessed story, A mate of mine went out for a short time with a girl who's family were quite close to the Blesseds, they meet up after a performance at a restaurant, this girl says "Chris (my mate) does a great impersonation of you, Brian" Oh really, says Brian, lets hear it then, Chris massively nervous and embarrassed as you can imagine does his impersonation, thing is, it really was a good impression, Brian laughs like a drain, thinks it's the funniest thing he's heard in ages...
Brian Blessed laughs like a drain at the end of every sentence! he also swears like a sailor with tourettes
Paul MacGann's wife told me an anacdote about Omar Sharif and Polaroids and Lady Gardens, told to her by Brian Blessed, to whom Omar foisted the polaroids upon. Its very funny, but it would be sooooo much funnier being told by Brian Blessed. So if you meet BB try and shoe-horn Omar Sharif into the conversation.
I scored twice against Stoke City - Lee Dixon didn't mark me as well as she should have.. there are other claims, but that is my favourite
people come up to me in the middle of nowhere and say "You are simonfbarnes".
And then waste the opportunity to deck the bastard! 🙂
in my defence it was before he was properly famous. Mick was pretty quiet then.
you're not alone MF
😆
Another claim to fame - one of my best mates from school (all those years ago) has supported Terrorvision, Saxon and the great Ozzy - and he counts Sharon as a friend due to his dealings with her when supporting Ozzy.
I have had the same as Simon - happily riding along on the tandem when some shouts - your TandemJeremy - its happened a few times now. I don't know whether to be pleased or not
I'm in the 1988ish BBC version of Chronicles of Narnia as an extra. You'd do bloody well to spot me but I'm there alright (not up the Lion's arse).
Met General Norman Schwarzkopf when I works in Saudi Arabia in Al Khobar.
It was a month before it "kicked off" and was all a bit secret squirrel.
i had a picture of a train i made published in the 'LEGO Club' magazine
i was delivered by patrick steptoe of 'test tube baby' fame. no i wasnt one before you ask 😉
Hmmm probably my best claim to fame - world tkd cdk champion 2001 (dan grade welter weight)
Famous people wise I bumped into Gok Wan in Brighton the other day too, he was buying the most tastless fake regency sofa I've ever seen 🙂
And then waste the opportunity to deck the bastard!
well, shall we say I may be slightly less charmless in person ?
My ex girlfriend was best mates with "TV chef" James "I hate cyclists" Martin's little sister apparently
Does it get any better?
Went to school with bloke who set up VIZ mag.
I have had a beer with Norm from Cheers.
I fell 120 feet out of the largest conifer in the Forest of Skene (Aberdeenshire) in front of 100 or so horrified, tripping people, got up and walked away.
For years afterwards people would stop me in the street and say, "You're the Iron Man that fell out of the tree and survived!".
Also, used to jam with Sebastian Rocheford of Polar Bear / Acoustic Ladyland fame and the drummer from The Bay City Rollers (not at the same time!).
Been on stage with John Hurt, (Alien, Elephant Man, etc etc etc) with Prince Charles in the audience, darlings.
A girl chatted me up in a night club, by using the line 'my flat mate is Jo Blyth' ...I had no idea who she was at the time. So I had to err <investigate>
My cousin was the real life partner of Graham Fellows who plays John Shuttleworth, and apparentoy he modelled some characters on my uncle.
A freind of mines father puched John McCririck
A freind of mines father puched John McCririck
We'd all like to be friends with him!
my mum was in memphis belle (film not plane itself)
i presented an award to Eric Cantona in french when i was 12 and he told me my french was better than his english.
Beer with Norm and punching John McCirrick - they take some beating.
I was once described in our local paper as "a team of financial experts". (I'm not)
I have pissed in Leslie Ash's front garden.
One of the soldiers from the First Emperor of China's Terracotta Army lives nextdoor.
is that a euphemism lodious?
chuckle chuckle.
i was on 'cheggers plays pop', beat that!
Mine is probably DJing with **** emo-dnb act Pendulum ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(band) ) on a few occasions - we were the second headliners after them at a festival in Kendal a few years ago.
Oh and my second cousin twice removed is Brian McClair, though I have fallen out with that side of the family (this was published in Viz' lame to fame))
Oh and Gary Foxcroft is a good friend of mine - the guy who set up the child witch charity in Nigeria that there was a recent Dispatches programme about on C4.
lodious, I'll see your garden claim and raise you...
I've peed in the Blue Peter garden.
I have a copy of The Beatles Hard Days Night album that used to belong to Nigel Havers (it has his name and address on a sticker on the front of the album cover).
I used to have his old table football table too.
lodious - Member
I have pissed in Leslie Ash's front garden.
I never knew she was into that sort of thing 😉
In a surreal moment - I bought Justin Timberlake a pint (of guinness no less) in the King's Wark pub in Leith the night that the MTV Music awards were on. Don't think he liked it though.
Better than that though - I once had a pee next to Arthur Montford!! Enormous.
Better than that though - I once had a pee next to Arthur Montford!! Enormous.
You looked? 😯
Danced in both Rolf Harris's and Lenny Henry's gardens.
I went to a party in Paris with Jody Hawkes, Chesney Hawkes' brother, he was actually pretty sound.
I've been on S4C three times and represented Wales in rowing (and won gold) even though I'm technically English.
I'm the one your mother warned you about ! 😈
At college i dated a girl who had been out with one of the brothers from Bros.
got stuck in a lift with Jimmy White and dennis taylor about 15 years ago,
Sticking with Blue Peter...I have made Janet Ellis a cup of tea.
Danced in both Rolf Harris's and Lenny Henry's gardens.
euphemistic too you rascal ?
[i] CaptainFlashheart - Member
lodious, I'll see your garden claim and raise you...
I've peed in the Blue Peter garden. [/i]
[STW Daily Mail mode on]
Hang him! Disgraceful behaviour! Let a bunch of Percy Thrower's descendants loose on him. Etc.
I was a scout as a lad and we HAD to volunteer to hand sponges out at the local running marathon event.
When Jimmy Saville approached we all bombarded him with sponges, lobbing loads at him, very funny scenes as we collapsed laughing. He did lot find it funny for some reason and called us a bunch of f*****ing little C**ts !!
Anyway we had to jump in our shagged out Scoutmobile van and move up the circuit 10 miles.
He did not recognise us as we passed up the sponge to him (that we all had pissed on) and proceeded to squeeze it over his head, he instantly turned round and then recognised the laughter, my claim to fame. 😀
Played club rugby with Jonny Wilkinson.
Friends with claims to fame:
Direct decendant of Machiavelli (same name and all)
First test tube baby
Once shared a stage with Jimi Hendrix. (as an 8 month foetus - heavily pregnant mother was given a chair at the side of the stage)
My most z filled celeb day was being asked to go on Comic reliefs Celebrity Street mate by Davina Mcall, surrounded by baby Spice, Brian Dowling of BB fame and Dale Winton!! Not sure who wanted the date 😮
Whilst this was going on Jude Law walked up the street and all the camera's ran off!
Baby Spice had a lucky escape 😉
Dad was an architect. One summer he had a promising student work at the practice. At the end of the summer my Dad offered him a full time job once his studies finished such was his talent. The young upstart turned him down because he wanted to play music. My fathers prophetic words were, "don't be silly, you will be wasting your time". The architectural student went on to form one of the iconic bands, Pink Floyd. The student of course was Roger Walters.
gene simmons from kiss bought me and a mate lunch, nice chap, weird but nice.
Held liv tyler in my arms when she was a baby (backstage at some festival), I nearly made her pa drop her so he passed her over while he wiped off the mud from his cowboy boots.
theres more from my days as a rock photographer but really thats enough.
I was on a Carter USM video, stagediving. The clip was played on Top of the Pops chart rundown and I got a telling off from my Mum!
Was also on a Bill Oddie TV program about Cheltenham, sat in the Imperial gardens with a mate (gripping program!). My mate was smoking, his parents were watching and he got a bollocking.
Been to Ron Wilkersons house (old school bmx reference)
Asked Nat Young where the bogs were at his local break, but didn't realise it was him (surf legend)
Missus has been on Blue Peter with some reptiles.
Appeared on advert for a Glastonbury documentary in the early 90's, every bl**dy hour for a fortnight.
i was on the big breakfast with chris evans.
i tried to snog vanessa mai the electro-violinist in new york.
keith floyd cooked a chicken satay stick for me.
I’ve beaten Olympic bronze medallist Mark Lewis-Francis in a 100m race.
I’ve also had a beer with Lenny Henry as he used to spend a lot of time in a hotel I worked at, he was a nice guy but Dawn French was bloody horrible.
I’ve played football in a team that included Geoff Astle and Peter Bonetti (I hasten to add I am not as old as that make me sound!)
I think that will do!
'lunge' i saw dawn french and lenny henry in padstow buying pasties....you're right, dawn (and lenny i must say) was utterly miserable. my missus gave her a smile, and she scowled at us, like we'd murdered a nun or something.
Colin farell and Craig david are related by my parents marrige - i am therefore the first one to really to be related to both! bo selecta! 8)
I kart raced against Jenson Button years ago and yes he was faster than me. Still got the race program with my name next to a F1 world champ so its not so bad.
I have my name on prenatal medicine research journals? not really fame as so do millions of others.
Fame? Just give me Money!
went to school with paul collinwood the england cricketer and i was interviewed on metro radio today(just woke up and didn't know what to say so just babbled lol)