Claim to Fame

I was walking through a supermarket carpark with my mum when I was 6 or 7 and we saw Tiff Needell and top gear filming in this cool blue sports car with doors that go upwards. They were trying to show how it was a family car and wanted a shot with a kid and a load of shopping. Only thing was the kid they had was crying his eyes out and wouldnt get in the car.
Tiff Needell spotted me a mile off and came running asking if I would replace their bawling nipper.

We used to have it on video (lost now) but there is a clear full screen shot me smiling and waving in the back of the wicked sports car. I felt so fucking cool.

edit. I was also on telly during the 94 Tour de France when it went over the South Downs in to South Harting. My primary school had got the day off to watch some cyclists cane it past us for about 30 seconds. It was right at the bottom of a 10% decent so all we saw was a blur. The tv cameras caught us though, a whole bank filled full of snotty nosed kids screaming at a pack of sweaty cyclists.

I'm still thinking hard, as all the people I know are completely unknown in the UK (I worked in media, me)

I know, I did an interview with The Legendary Pink Dots. Anybody hear about them?

YouTube - The Legendary Pink Dots - Just a Lifetime

I've met LDouble (Lee) of Shy FX - now a DJ in BBC 1 Xtra) while in Leeds in 1995. I've met everybody from Flex and Deep Roll like Acetate and Neo. Spent a couple of days over there. Don't remember much, as it was bit Human Traficcy, being driven from place to place in a black BMW.

YouTube - L Double & Shy FX - The shit

http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/l_double

And that's it really.

had a pint with joe cocker one saturday afternoon in baker street.
ive worked in cynthia paynes house(no i didnt have any luncheon vouchers with me) she wrote on one of her cards "thanking me for all my past custom"
met rolf harris in a restaurant in wimbledon (can you tell what it is yet)

this is all pretty weak.

Hey, mine's pretty good for someone who was born in 1990.

20 years old?
are you published? had a hit record? done something famous? yourself?

(neither have i, and i think it's freakish if people have. look at those math prodigies)

i have met a nobel laureate though, well i think i have, he was in the lab that day, my mate works in the lab that won the genius prize.

ermmm lets have a think

I told Ricky Martin he can't have teh stage show he wanted at the golden Jubilee?
infact that same even ment i slept on ozzy ozbournes dressing room sofa, stood with paul McCartny,phil collins,Brian May for the entire show and did a shit on one of the queens loos,

there are others but i like that one best

Appeared on Eggheads and won.
Had a number of drinking sessions with Mark E Smith
My season ticket at MCFC used to be the seat next to Billy Duffy (The Cult)

I came home from college one day to find Keith Chegwin in our garden, trying to steal our cat.

I saw Phillip Schofield shitting into a plastic cup on the side of the A1.

I've seen Prince Harry naked.

I served the Emperor out of Return Of the Jedi a burrito, strangely he wasnt scary at all

met madball other night ha ha. erm, alan bennett ran away from me.

used to see Alan Bennett on his bike all the time in Camden

he seems like a nice man, i think i just look really crazy.

When I first moved into my flat, my next door neigbour was Terry Hall from the Specials. He was a moody git who never once returned a "good morning".
He moved out and Amy Winehouse moved in, one door down. She was ok, but her fans were nutters who slept on the pavement and shouted stuff through her letterbox at 3am, so she got 24 hour security. It was ace, two massive geezers on the doorstep all the time. I made them cups of tea occasionally, and in return I never had to lock my bike.

In 1974 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy bastard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh, now fuck off!

freddie mercury knocked on my mums door a she shut the door in his face, then he knocked again, she did it again (she didn't think he was real) then she went up to her room and when she came down he was sat on the sofa with a drink, she then sat next to him and touched his face, because she was high and thought she was hallucinating

Ok, my picture was on the front page of the Guardian, in 1985, standing next to someone more famous than me

I always kinda hoped you were the Fruitbat, of USM and beating up Philip Schofield fame.

BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire

Twice for me.

Not bad I suppose, but I've left my trump card in my back pocket. I went back stage to meet Cannon & Ball in 1985. Read it and weap....read it and weap

Sang on stage with them.

freddie mercury knocked on my mums door a she shut the door in his face, then he knocked again, she did it again (she didn't think he was real) then she went up to her room and when she came down he was sat on the sofa with a drink, she then sat next to him and touched his face, because she was high and thought she was hallucinating

^ Quality

I gave Mobo winner Soweto Kinch a lift from Brecon to Birmingham once. We stopped in the borders and played some pool, the locals had never seen a anyone like Soweto before, it was very random.

I came home from college one day to find Keith Chegwin in our garden, trying to steal our cat.

That was Les Dennis, wasn't it?

I got to meet Ernesto Colnago and family at 19 Via Cavour in Cambiago many many moons ago... Also saw a small Colnago Titanio with M.Schumacher hand written on the frame before it was painted...

I did a lap of the TT coarse, on the back of a bike being ridden by Ian simpson.

I helped Joey Dunlop get very very drunk, more than once.

Bez stole a joint from me at Feile in '95.

Trudie Styler and Anna Friel once asked my wife and I to vacate our seats in a hotel bar, she was informed that i was drinking tantric ale and would be there for some time.

I was the victim on crimestoppers, actual cctv footage of me being kicked from one end of northumberland street to another.

I once drove a car across a golf course. I left it parked on the green.

I saw Phillip Schofield shitting into a plastic cup on the side of the A1.

Uncanny! I saw Philip Schofield shitting into a crisp packet by the side of the M1.

[QUOTE=yasi333;1756221. erm, alan bennett ran away from me.[/QUOTE]

whereas after one of the times I met him he wrote about it in his published diary.
My mother never touched Freddie Mercury though.

I shat on Philip Schofield in the back of a transit van going downthe M1.

Same day...?