Encounters with famous or infamous people

[rockape]

About 15 years a work colleague of mine asked if I would like to help him out with some chippying work on his mates house in Frome, Somerset. Ok ,I said so off we went on the given day with 2 vans and arrived at his mate house in one of the older parts of Frome. Parking was restricted because they were old cottages with on road parking. My colleague managed to park on this mates drive which left me looking to park the van near to the house that we were working in. No where to park at all and I didn't want to carry all my kit all across Somerset.
The owner of the house we were going to work in said "I will have a chat with my neighbour across the road to see if she will let you park your van on her drive.
Sure enough, this woman came out looking a little unkept, not quite a bag lady, and said " No problem ,my car is in the garage at the moment"
Duly parked up ,kit off into the house and started work.
The owner of the property said " Parked OK?" Yes I replied.
"Do you know who that woman was ? No was my answer.

"That was Miss Moneypenny( Lois Maxwell) from the James Bond films.

 

[MikeH]

I took my son to Surfsnowdonia.co.uk (excellent place) last Monday and who was also there... H from Steps woooooo!

 

[rockape]

Also done work for Clive Mantle who was in the Vicar of Dibley who lives at Box Hill east of Bath, Not so well known until he had a piece of his ear bitten off when he went to tell a couple of lads to keep the noise down in some hotel.

 

[mark61]

Worked for David Attenborough, what wonderful person.
Also worked for Lulu, Vanessa Feltz, Nicko McBrain (Iron Maidens drummer) Herbet Lom, Frederick Forsyth.

Favourite claim to fame though, I once used Ozzy Osbournes hose pipe, although I was working for his neighbour, Peter Gill, Frankie goes to Hollywood's drummer.

 

[sasquatch]

I have encountered many such as John Gorman,former Scaffold and TISWAS,Andy McClusky from OMD,Dave 'Peggy' Pegg from Fairport Convention.Richard Digence in a club bar,he bought me a pint! And many more,but the one that still gives me nightmare was Margaret Beckett MP,one time Foreign Secretary at dusk on a French campsite,sweating just writing this!

 

[Robmac]

I've done work for Mohamed al Fayed, Prince Edward, Damien Hirst, Jamie Oliver, Marco Pierre White, the 'Casualty' set and the set of 'Edge of Tomorrow' a recent Tom Cruise film.

Oddly, none of them wanted my autograph.

 

[The laird]

Stupid boy

Last year on our way to France stopped at killing ton lake services,while waiting for a coffee I got speaking to this guy with a beard and it was none other than Ian lavender,we had a fab laugh with him and his wife who when we came out had a squinted at our Hymer and said is that one of them Winnie things ,she's american,but they were on their way home from Edinburgh festival and still had time to speak to us for a while.truly very very nice people.years ago in London met Lauren Bacall outside a theatre she was acting in Humphrey bogarts wife,very very Hollywood lady

 

[MikeH]

I used to work at a sports stadium and we`d regularly get famous people visiting. Some are nice , some are so far up themselves...

Nice ones: Freddy Flintoff, Nick Hancock, Clare Balding, Rafael Benitez, Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas (lives up the road from me so see him fairly often).

Oh Jacqui Abbott from Beautiful South lives near here too. I delieered a pizza to her house one night when the band were there celebrating their song going straight to number 2. Yes, I got a very good tip and they all signed my cd which I nipped home to get when I found who I was delivering to.

 

[rockape]

I've done work for Mohamed al Fayed, Prince Edward, Damien Hirst, Jamie Oliver, Marco Pierre White, the 'Casualty' set and the set of 'Edge of Tomorrow' a recent Tom Cruise film.

Oddly, none of them wanted my autograph.

Why is that then, Rob??

 

[Twodogrog]

Dr Harold Shipman

My claim to fame is that I supplied the infamous doctor with the morphine that he used to kill 100 plus patients. At the time I was unaware that was the purpose of the drug!

 

[Robmac]

Why is that then, Rob??

I reckon they were a bit starstruck Rocky.

Oops I missed one, Dermot O'Leary when he did a garden makeover for the Cafe of Good Hope in Lewisham. We got a credit on the program too.

 

[rockape]

I used to work at a sports stadium and we`d regularly get famous people visiting. Some are nice , some are so far up themselves...

Nice ones: Freddy Flintoff, Nick Hancock, Clare Balding, Rafael Benitez, Ricky Tomlinson, Johnny Vegas (lives up the road from me so see him fairly often).

Oh Jacqui Abbott from Beautiful South lives near here too. I delieered a pizza to her house one night when the band were there celebrating their song going straight to number 2. Yes, I got a very good tip and they all signed my cd which I nipped home to get when I found who I was delivering to.

We need to know which ones are so far up themselves.

 

[MikeH]

We need to know which ones are so far up themselves.

A certain rugby league presenter that works for Sky. The other one, Eddie Hemmings, is a very nice man.

Also met Prince Philip but he probably won`t remember me now.

Met Fred Talbot too at Colwyn Bay.

 

[n brown]

Beryl Reid gave me a cake when i wandered into her garden in Wraysbury, Sandy Denny was lucky enough to meet me in a club and bought me a pint- i made it quite clear i wasn't that sort of boy !
Jet Harris from the Shadows threatened to punch my lights out when he was out the band and working as a bouncer on the south coast. i painted Len Deighton's house in Albufeira , we sold some iron age pigs to Earl Spencer, and used to have some right laughs with Tel who was the getaway guy in the Millenium Dome heist
John Peel stood on my head when i was sleeping in his DJ booth in a club in Covent Garden,where i was a doorman for a while,met a lot of bands,all a bit of a blur really, though i remember Arthur Brown running past me screaming with his head on fire,which isn't great in a club full of tripping hippies !

 

[Touringtheworld]

.... had a pint with John Peel about two years before he died. He was non to complimentary about the way the music industry was heading and predicted it would turn to absolute £$%^.

He wasn't far wrong, bloody nice bloke.

 

[carol]

Jimmy Saville told me I had sex oozing out of all my pores.....age 16 in the Wimpy Bar in Scarborough. A long, long time ago! I hitched a lift off The Batchelors. I served Lonnie Donegan a drink in a nightclub....the list goes on ��

 

[Robmac]

I met Tom Stonedaddy in a bar in Caerphilly, and a bar in Hereford, and a bar in Brandon, and a bar in St Andrews, and a bar in............. well, you get the picture!

His fame hasn't affected him one little bit.

He's still a p*sshead.

 

[n brown]

I met Tom Stonedaddy in a bar in Caerphilly, and a bar in Hereford, and a bar in Brandon, and a bar in St Andrews, and a bar in............. well, you get the picture!

His fame hasn't affected him one little bit.

He's still a p*sshead.

i can't believe you actually met THE Tom Stonedaddy ! is his autograph as shaky as they say it is ?
i once had Camperfannie and Carol in my garden-well ,when i say had i mean they stayed

 

[Robmac]

i can't believe you actually met THE Tom Stonedaddy ! is his autograph as shaky as they say it is ?
i once had Camperfannie and Carol in my garden-well ,when i say had i mean they stayed

I know, I know. I'm a bit of a namedropper.

 

[The laird]

Stonedaddy

I'm ashamed folks! Nah embarrassed,I also met Tom THE STONEDADDY!at St. Andrews ,then had the grace to rub shoulders with him at otter ferry loch fyne,but thinking back on both occasions he had a guy in the background I think it was his bodyguard ,actually he looked like rob a lot
Hang on a minute? Thinking back................stalker?