Famous Today

[jennyjoan]

Have you met anybody who has turned famous.

I met Katie Melua when she was 10 and starred in a school play with my niece. She was tiny but oh so full of personality and brimming with enthusiasm. We all knew she would go a long way. Lovely wee girl.

[mrs_overall]

Yes.
When I was very young my parents bought a house from a man called Donald Nappy. He later became famous as The Black Panther. (Or should that be infamous?)

[Zacs-Master]

Did you live in Bradford Mrs O?

[tamborine]

Known as Roger the dodger, coz the lazy git wouldnt share chores saying twas female jobs. He had bad acne from eating all the puds & cakes. Told tales to his adoring mum. Spent all day plunking the guitar my dad gave & taught him to play. Dad wanted me to marry him but I didnt want a whinging OH.

[Prudie]

I taught someone who went on to play cricket for England, although not exactly famous.

[Sqad]

mrs_O Gilbert (Gilly) Gray defended the "Black Panther" and where did Giily Gray live?...........Scarborough.

[Sqad]

Many, many well known people, but the one that stands out in my mind.........Idi Amin.

[mrs_overall]

Zacs - yes

[mrs_overall]

splutters into her cuppa

Idi Amin??? This must be a good one - do tell!

[Zacs-Master]

Ooh. I know the house. Used to infamous when I was a kid.

[mrs_overall]

I told a huge lie then.
My parents did NOT buy a house from the Black Panther....he bought a house from my parents.
(Well I was only a toddler at the time)

[mrs_overall]

Zacs, are you referring to the house on the main road...sod it...what is it called...Thornsomething Road?

[Zacs-Master]

Well that's a bit of a relief.

[Zacs-Master]

Thornbury. Near ThE Agraah restaurant.

[mrs_overall]

Near a pub called The Farmers (I think?). No it wasn't THAT house....it was nearer the Pudsey/Stanningley end

[boxtops]

I used to go to school with a girl who later became the MP Liz Lynn.

[boxtops]

... and "before he was famous", Billy Connolly taught my ex to play the banjo in Glasgow in the late sixties.

[Svejk]

tambo, was it roger daltrey, then, or someone we'd know?

[vulcan42]

Met a man in a Sussex pub and bought him a pint, who was fairly well known but in a few months time he was to become really famous. He was William Hartnell, the first Dr Who.

[sandyRoe]

Sqad, are you the medico who was the basis for one of the characters in the film, 'The last king of Scotland'?

[mrs_overall]

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

Ii have just been on the phone to an older sister to ask her a few details about the house and The Black Panther.
It turns out he wanted to buy our house but pulled out at the last minute.
And to think I have been dining out on that story for years when it wasn't true.

(For the info of Zacs, our house at that time was off Richardshaw Lane if you know it)