I had 'relations' with a lass who looked like a fat Malandra Burrows in Puerto Rico, Gran Canaria in '97. Her sister was a stunner but my mate bagged off with her and I ended up with Malandra's bloated lookalike. Cracking night mind.
Met Dimitri Tiomkin,composer, and winner of Oscars and Academy awards for filmscores as Duel in the Sun, High Noon, Gunfight at the OK Corral, and The Alamo etc. Handed Warren Mitchell (Alf Garnet) his voting card in Crouch End. Got a telephone bollocking from Sam Wanamaker (Zoe's dad.)
That bloke who wrote 'Under the Boardwalk', Kenny Young, came to my house once, needed to pay a taxi, borrowed a fiver off me, never paid it back. Beat that!
Whilst working in Kingston (London) many moons ago I use to quite often have a chat with Trevor Bannister in the Crown pub Twickenham.
The thread should be called Premier League name dropping. Met a few politicians over the years, John Prescott when he was shadow transport minister at the Circle cricket ground, it was a meeting about motorbikes and the Hull Daily Mail wanted a picture of him sitting on a bike. The choice was a Harley, a BMW or my Norton, he showed good taste by choosing my bike and the picture was in the paper.
My left ear was once photographed with the Archbishop of Canterbury to be. He was at the time Archbishop of York. The photographer was taking a snap of the bird with the big tits who was just in front of me, accepting a handshake & a prize from the robed fella.
I once asked the singer Lulu for a dance in a club she partly owned in Leeds in the mid '60s. She told me to piss off, so I nicked her drink. The bouncers threw me out - I went meekly.
I let Jahangir Khan beat me at squash Peter Osgood thought he showed me how to play football arf Despite my yearning for solitude I did let Kevin Keegan sit next to me on the Newcastle to KingsX red-eye and bore me to death with football Me and my boy did our best not to get locked in my mate's bar to get pissed with Niall Quinn to sing Nat King Cole and Fenian rebel songs; it was an easy lose and a big gain as he is one top fella! The OriginalLambrettaMan was lucky enough to meet my wife who reckoned he seemed okay. I did too
Okay is stretching it a bit. Whilst on the subject why hasn't OLM posted a response stating he's met me? Carmine Galante.
I once threw a snowball at Charlie from Busted, I missed and hit his mrs in the face. The removal people who moved all Matty Fryatts stuff when he moved back to the Midlands from Yorkshire live in my village, I spoke to them once in the chippy. Apparently Fryatt is a total ****er by the way. My best mates uncle used to race in BSB, WSB and Moto GP. His grandad was the bike and sidecar world champion. But meeting and getting Where's Wally's autograph as a kid was by far the celebrity highlight of my life. Nobody can beat that.
