Claim to Fame

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I was once at the Frankfurt Book Fair with a friend. I think I was 17 or 18. We turned into this aisle and strolled along, somehow my friend fell back and I kept walking, as there wasn't really anything in that aisle that interested me. I noticed people moving to the sides of the aisle and staring at me, which I found strange. Well, the aisle was clear, and very long, so I kept going and turned a corner when I got to the end. Then I noticed that my friend was nowhere to be seen. I turned around and he came running up, fairly breathless, going 'did you see him, did you see him'. I had no idea what he was talking about. As it turned out, I'd been walking down the length of the aisle next to Richard von Weizsäcker, who was then Germany's Federal President, but I hadn't noticed him at all*. I looked back round the corner, and there he was. He was much shorter than he seemed on TV.

• Anyone who knows me will be aware that I'm like that most of the time.
  

I actually met Hippy in person. Once.

Such wonderful times appear but fleetingly 'midst a young man's life..

That's a piece of history right there.
The only thing I've got left is I'm related to Andrea Pirlo who plays for AC Milan/Italy.

Another cousin of mine played for Collingwood FC.

Weizsäcker?! OMG.. my hero!

Can list loads as was an ex media tart.

But highlights - attempting to chat up josh stone after a gig and ended up chatting to her mum.
Blaging fags and booze from Dita von tease and failing to notice who she was.
Played a set with fat boy slim and his records and ended up still with the records and dropped them back to his house.
Destroyed one of Nick masons ferrari's at goodwood, was shaking it down on a trackish day and an idiot thought he could out brake the ferrari with a vauxhall carlton and ended up with me in hospital for a bit. Nick came to see me and signed a cast but was very drugged up at the time.

Been in a chinook crash, that was very scary afterwards.

Allan Donald is my cousin twice removed

I served Kirsten Dunst, when I was a bartender.

she had water. still.

not that i remember.

not that i remember.

Did you keep the glass?

my friend i went to school with plays for luton town fc
i went to wembley to see him play against liverpool in the fa cup. they lost....

That dibs wuz serious, BTW...

you single? :P

Nope.

That dibs wuz serious, BTW...

i think she has already been dibbed but i will let you know if buyer changes his mind. would you want to split. lolz!

Cool, call that second dibs. Let me know ASAP as I have been after one for a while.

Grandmaster Melle Mel gave me a piggy back into a radio interview in Stockholm (or somewhere 'nordic-ish' - maybe it was Finland?)

Cool, call that second dibs. Let me know ASAP as I have been after one for a while.

Its definitely worth it. great condition, low mileage, all original body work, one lady owner.

hahaha you dick. Perfect. ;-)

I had a nice chat with Blade (of graffiti fame) and only realised who he was when he outlined a huge BLADE piece in front of me.

Did I mention that I was once manhadled by Gwyneth Paltrow's security at the Truman Brewery? She only pointed at me once and then they come...

jonny borrell of shite chart botherers Razorlight fame once said he liked my t-shirt whilst waiting at the bar at the boogaloo back when they used to run a decent pub quiz...

/opens 'secret shame' thread

Where does one begin?

David Hockney lives on the same street as me parents.
I wandered along the road to have a nosey at his house, and he came out carrying a load of paintings.
I shook hands with him and burbled a bit, then he got into a car with his big French boyfriend and drove off.

Oh, and I've fucked Zoe Ball's cousin round the back of a horrid nightclub in a place called Batley.