Bumped into someone famous?

Remember it well Rory. Jeremy Grayson was with us and Simon too. That was a while ago

Im sorry i didnt put you on my list though, being the media star that you are now. Should have come to my mind when i thought of Bill Oddie

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clivex said:
Remember it well Rory. Jeremy Grayson was with us and Simon too. That was a while ago

Im sorry i didnt put you on my list though, being the media star that you are now. Should have come to my mind when i thought of Bill Oddie

:)
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I'd put myself below Bill Oddie, but just above Tim Brooke-Taylor. :ninja:
 
Talk of Joel "Big Bird" Garner reminds me of a story about him. He was once looked up and down lasciviously by a female admirer (not Trudi - I did ask) who enquired if he was "built in proportion". The 6 foot 8 inch Garner replied with a smile: "Lady, if I was built in proportion, I'd be 8 foot 6".
 
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Steve McManaman....I was a young lad
Steve Davis...had a decent chat with him at the Mosconi Cup. He is a gent.
Played Gaelic football against Damien Duff.
Worked for Patrick Honohan and Matthew Elderfield
Sat beside Joan Burton and Ruby Walsh on flights. One is very friendly, one preferred solitude (it was an early morning flight).
Had a decent chat with Rob Bonnet into the late hours in a restaurant in Japan during the 2002 World Cup.
David Norris a few times at family engagements.
Had a chat with Orbital after one of their gigs about 15 years ago.
I have met David Gray, and I grew up two doors down from the lead singer of Bell-X1.
 
Bumped into by Nathaniel Parker at Festival last year (swoon). Very handsome and very charmingly asked if I was okay.

My brother used to jam with Iron Maiden - does that count?
 
I once met Ian Kelsey-Fry QC, who's just got 'Arry off the tax evasion charge. He was a fellow shareholder in Fal Agh Bagh, a promising horse in Henrietta Knight's yard that was never the same after a mishap in a horsebox (the horse, not the yard, although come to think of it the yard is only now starting to show some signs again o its former glory).

As shareholders in Raise The Beat, frontrunner and I watched last year's Champion Bumper in the owners section alongside said 'Arry, who owned another runner in the race, Bygones In Brid. We didn't speak to him though, because he looked as nervous about the race as we were.
 
My snooker club in Lucan was the same club as Fergal O'Brien's. I have often played on the table next to Fergal, and a few times Ken Doherty has practiced with him.

Obviously Fergal is an excellent player, but it was amazing to see how sweetly Ken Doherty struck the ball each time. I reckon KD would have been a multiple world champion if his head was as good a (say) John Higgins.
 
Top of the list - I once met Pee Flynn. Very humble, modest and introvert for one so magnificent.
Was treated to a private performance by D'Unbelievables when we were the only two tables occupied in a restaurant.
Had dinner next to Steve Cauthen.
Was in a plane beside Louis Walsh
Peed next to Vincent O'Brien and Gerard Depardieu (separate occasions)
Had Kylie Minogue brush against me (as I was shoved aside by security to let her through).
Disco danced with members of the French rugby team in the Serge Blanco era - I didn't know who they were.
 
The peeing beside Gerard Depardieu occasion would have been a great post filler for this kind of thread for someone more interested in celebrity spotting. The other half won tickets to the Premiere of Moulin Rouge in Leicester Square and an after show party. The party was in a huge warehouse with all sorts of entertainment and foods from various cultures in different parts of the area. Unlimited drink, from champagne to jelly shots. It must have cost millions to do the place up. Most of the A-Listers were segregated in a glass room away from the rabble (including Kylie still recovering from her earlier brushing-against-me incident). Depardieu, Geldoff and I'm sure plenty of others made a point of avoiding the glass room. Unfortunately I'm very poor at recognising celebrities so much of the evening was wasted on me. When other half was recounting the night to other family members I was sort of left thinking, "oh was she there, and who the **** is she anyway?". Great night though.
 
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Some of you may remember the foul-mouthed and swiftly-banned Golden Cygnet from TRF? I'm his number one hombre, though that's not why I mention him.

Many years back, he wandered into an airport bar in the States somewhere - in his customary thirsty/bewildered style. As he was sorting himself out, he noticed that Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen were sat more or less right next to him. He was somewhat agog, and spluttered to the barman "give me a pen and a couple of cocktail napkins, fer fecks sake". The barman duly hands them over, at which point our hero writes his name on each napkin and hands them over witha cheery "There yiz go, lads".

They took it all in good humour, and I'm told they were both "charming" and "fecking midgets though - the pair a them".
 
My former athletics trainer is the wife of the singer out of Barclay James Harvest.

I once tried to give directions to Roy Walker to a pub that doesn't exist - at least, not by the name he gave me, it doesn't.

I also got £5 out of Bobby Ball during a Whit Walk tin collection.

It was all going off in Saddleworth in the early 1990s, I tell thee.

gc
 
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Remember it well Rory. Jeremy Grayson was with us and Simon too. That was a while ago
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November 19th, 2008. That was the evening of Geoff Wragg's last ever winner, the 9-1 shot Convallaria, but we were all too busy in the bar drawing up the shortlist of nominees for that year's TRF awards to accept the largesse. D'oh!!

Paul Ostermeyer of ORS Racing was definitely with us, too, and between us we must have comprised about half the paying audience. :-D Shadow Leader was also there in a working / freezing-to-death capacity, if memory serves.

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Aged 12, on a hot summers day when I'd just finished playing a footie tournament for a team in Sommerstown, just near Kings Cross, I was walking with my best pal who also played that day and we bumped into Kevin Keegan at Kings Cross station. I said 'we adore you Kevin' which still to this day I think was a bit cheesy!

That pal I was with died recently but boy can you tell we lived the high life growing up.:)
 
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November 19th, 2008. That was the evening of Geoff Wragg's last ever winner, the 9-1 shot Convallaria, but we were all too busy in the bar drawing up the shortlist of nominees for that year's TRF awards to accept the largesse. D'oh!!

Paul Ostermeyer of ORS Racing was definitely with us, too, and between us we must have comprised about half the paying audience. :-D Shadow Leader was also there in a working / freezing-to-death capacity, if memory serves.
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Bloody hell yes. It was wraggs last winner wasnt it. A good night i recall

I still meet with Paul at most meetings now
 
I know...god yes

Asked him if he fancied the bumper meeting at kempton today (i stopped by..its five mins away) Got a quick answer...
 
Went horse riding with Sally Gunnell a few times in my teens. Very nice lady.

Sat at the next table to Tamzin Outhwaite and her very attractive husband at Disneyland last year.

Nobody that exciting really.
 
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