Claim to Fame

[Hyphen]

What's you claim to fame? Mine would have to be either stroking Lee Hurst's head (off They Think It's Over) or standing next to Mark Owen in Selfridges (very lame I know!!).

[stoo_pid]

Got a few but my top 3 are:

• Playing video games with Mark Shaw (lead singer of Then Jericho at the time) followed by a couple of beers with the rest of the band
• Talking to Stretch & Vern at a party & leaving cos it was too boring(!)
• Being invited by Les Dawson to feel how firm his man-breasts were

 

[bernardo]

I am a famous politician.

Last July I shook hands with Prince William.

[mully]

I have shook prince charles hand -he came to open an art gallery across the road from our college so we all went out to greet him (have a skive really )and we had to wave plastic flags I have also met sheree murphy she used to play trisha in emmerdale we seen her at a club and i was so drunk I kept on calling her trisha -she was really nice and give me a hug! so thats my claim to (fame!) sort of !

[sddsddean]

Was the Studio Winner of BBC's 'Test the Nation:The Great British Quiz' in March, so got to have my photo took with Anne Robinson & Philip Schofield. 

[thepheebster]

I'm very close friends with a celebrity, not telling who it is tho coz some people don't like her.

Ohhh...but the Queen came to Liverpool once and I gave her a basket of flowers and she said thank you dear. haha!!

[cheyenne]

I shared a urinal with Jimi hendrix just before he was going on stage back in 1970,and all these girls came in screaming.he turned to me and said " chicks man"I then went and sat down and watched him perform.what a great memory.

[tigga]

I was watching the Fugees in '97 was sat at the end seat in the aisle, watching the stage, when someone took my hand and shook it, i turned to see it was Wyclef Jean !!! he then passed me his mic for about 30 seconds because i was rappin along with them !!!

A moment i will never forget ! 

[Greedyfly]

Met Kasabian, 22-20s, Shed 7, Lulu, Alistair Griffin (fame academy)

[Greedyfly]

Ohh and the other day I bumped literally into the ITN news guy Alistair something (grey hair)

[Jules001]

Mine are going to sound really silly after what everyone else has posted, but here goes anyway. I was on Quiz Kid in the 70's and met Kid Jensen. I have also spoken to Cherry Gillespie (from Pan's People - there's a blast from the past) at a party and Simon Le Bon used to live in my road - wow! I bet you all wished you were me now don't you?

[Lindy Loo]

I've been on the TV 3/4 times but the most memorable was when there was a close up of my bum....full screen in fact!!

[zgma]

Oh, Lindy Loo - that's the best one yet!  Here are mine - they are all by proxy only:

• I am friends with Frank Zappa's niece.
• A friend of mine once got stoned with River Phoenix.
• I am friends with the 1st cousin of Mike Gordon, bassist in Phish.
• My husband is friends with Fred Frith.

[coggles]

Vinny, you lucky, lucky man. My husband and me would loved to have seen Hendrix play - even though we would have been a bit too young as I am 39 and he is 42!

 

I beat Jimmy White at pool once. Though to be fair, we (him and a group of friends) had been on the grog all day!

 

[tigga]

i was talking to jennifer ellison in a nightclub a while ago, and contrary to bits in the papers about her being arrogant and snotty, she was really nice and friendly so im now a bit jubious about what i read !

[cheyenne]

HI Goggles,im sorry to rub it in,but 3 months later i saw jimi at the isle of wight pop festival.hey you did get to meet jimmy white.

[andy hughes]

My eldest daughter had a date with Robbie Williams before he was famous, but she wasn't keen - he was an idiot, she reckons. My mum is Jackie Trent's (Neighbours theme tune lyric writer and 60's pop star ) godmother.

[FP]

I once sat on a wall at Battersea Fun Fair chatting to the late Screaming Lord Sutch, circa 1961

 

Please note this Bernardo

[FP]

The guy who plays Trigger from 'Fools and Horses' lives locally and often I have seen him out shopping.

 

That's a very sad answer, come to think of it.

[Yinzer]

I was friends with this guy who used to play guitar with Ben E. King when he was younger. Not in the Drifters, I mean, just on the side. And on a dorkier note I have a peice of string that my friend ripped off of John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper outfit. Also, through my husband I'm now related to the Grand Duke of some Russian area... don't know too many details yet but a century ago the whole family was apparently high-up.

[luckystrike]

I've been in George Best's dad's house, and seen all of the photos he has of him in the glory days.