I have gotten Harry Redknapp's autograph, and his son Jamie's just below that. I have also met Phil Daniels, got Nigel Pearson's autograph, along with Dean Saunders, Billy Sharp, El Hadji Doiuf, David Nugent and the entire current Watford first team.
All through work; most of the saints players, Jordan, Ronan keating, Callum Best, Danny Dyer, Sugababes, lucy pinder and loads of other z-listers (have genuinely found the less famous they are, the bigger the tw*t they are, especially Reality TV "stars")
I always haboured a great fear of meeting Jimmy Saville...managed to avoid it but it resulted in me not going out much...
Lucky enough to meet the Queen Mother 20 years ago whilst holidaying in Brittany. She was having dinner there with the local mayor. Martin Kemp was a lovely chap. Nigella Lawson was a little haughty.
Kevin Keegan at The All-Stars game a couple of years back, Jeremy Clarkson (although I can't stand him) at Beaulieu Museum and that's about it.
Met Graeme Souness and Egil Ostenstaad when they opened Colden Common Park (weeks after the 6 - 3 thrashing of Man U) laid down in the mud and let them walk over me to keep their shoes clean. Sat in front of Ted Bates in the Directors box at the Dell - Lowe was trying to sell Corporate boxes at SMS so got an invite. Met MLT outside Anfield many years ago - he was injured, and was in the crowd outside, and amongst the crowd for the game. Pushed in front of Nigel lawson (then Tory Chancellor) at CDG airport in Paris. 2 queues merging and we came shoulder to shoulder so i went in front of him (i wasn't giving way for a tory!) Ironically he was in the left queue and I was on the right. Got invited back to Kylie Minogues room for a night of passion after a gig at the O2. - (do fantasies count???????)
This is true. I'm cynical about celebrity culture in general, but as with most industries the majority of a-listers get there because they are fantastic at what they do, and the ones that stay there a long time are the ones who aren't complacent.
Gordon Strachan and family at Paultons Park a few years back. It was when we were financially crippled the the rumour then was that Rod Stewart was going to buy the club and his mate GS was taking over...!
I have a serious confession and apology to make on this thread to all Saints fans. I met Rupert Lowe at the Dell. I had the opprtunity to stab him in the heart 40 times with a stale cheese straw and did not take it. Please forgive me?
My company a lot of work on his house in Hascombe , Surrey. He was good value and mixed it with the regular fol until he had to shoot off 2 or 3 times a week in his helicopter, the lucky sod. I also spoke to David O'leary in Macy's New York and he commented on how well we were playing under Gordon Strachan at the time.
I spoke to Amy Winehouse in Nottingham before a gig she was doing later that day, she asked me for directions. I also met Chris Baird and Fabrice Fernandes after a Saints match once, they signed my programme
I see Chris Karmara nearly every month in my local bookies,his wife is a swindon girl so when she visits her dad he pops off for a bet...........it was weird though when once he was in the bookies his pre-recorded voice with football tips came out of the speakers..he looked up and said "that bloke sounds just like me"...
Sat next to Matt Le Tiss in a marks and spencers cafe, met Derren Brown on stage after catching a frisbee and saw him afterwards too, Tim Minchin after a gig a couple of years ago and also Graeme Souness always comes into work for a coffee (his drink is a small cappuccino with an extra shot for all those wondering)
Have met and talked to Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue at a coffee bar in Surfers Paradise. This was in the days before they were world famous we in the UK had just started broadcasting "Home and away" was it? My Sister was going banana's when she saw them come in and hoping they would come and sit by us which they did. Turns out they were doing some kind of commercial or something and they were having a break. The same day I bought Sam Fox.....do any of you older lads remember her?......a coke in exchange for a Photograph together which I still have today. She was at the height of her fame then. She was wearing one of the smallest Bikini's I have ever seen a lass almost wear.!!!! My Dad who was very religious tore me off a strip when he saw the photo's (Yes we took more than 1) and forbade me to ever go down to Surfers paradise again! I am not sure he could stop me.......I was in my mid forties at the time.....
I once had dinner in a restaurant at the next table to Gayle Hunnicutt boy was she beautiful! As I was with the very lovely you know who at the time I had my own very beautiful dinner companion. I once shared a train compartment with Sir Donald Wolfit. Look him up if you don't know who he is. That was a very long time ago when trains had corridors and compartments. I have been introduced to the Princess Royal. I helped Danny Williams and his henchmen get out of a snow drift in the winter of 1963. None of this has in any way enriched my life and like others I am not into celebrity culture.
We once had Kerry dixon as a afterdinner speaker he was ok. But my real taste of celebrity was as a 8 yearold boy when i got to ride an elephant through the streets of arundel with Derek Jameson.
I stepped over Oliver Reed in a pub once when I lived in Cranleigh. He was always in there drunk and buying everyone drinks. This was when i was young and lovely (though obviously not as lovely as Mrs Godders!). I met the Princess Royal once as well. I was at a vintage car rally and we were looking at a nice car when we became aware that we were the wrong side of the cordon and Princess Anne was strolling along and talking to the car owners. I tried to be invisible and luckily she just nodded and smiled...if she'd asked about the car, I'd have been screwed.
