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For me Herman Hrreidarsson, met him twice, once at Gala Casino in Bournemouth, and the other time at Walkabouts also here on the south coast, where he apparently lives. Been in the immediate proximity of Prince Charles and John Pienaar of BBC political commentary fame, and brushed past Pete Burns in Soho. Try and raise the bar because i've set it fairly low.

Jason Leonard came into my school and gave an assembley, and then played Rugby with my years school team because we made the Wiltshire Cup final! All my years team played a match with him, and had a meal with him!

Said hello and shook hands with Tony Blair. He was sweaty.

Pissed on joey beauchamp and had a beer with yeovil red at fulham away

Played tennis on the same courts as Joe Hart and David Edwards (Wolves) a few years back, before they hit the big time. Missed a volley at the net and smashed my racket in frustration. They looked across as if I was a nutter. They were damm good to be fair, playing against each other this afternoon in Premiership.

Billy Bragg after a gig in Leamington Spa.

Me too, at New College...

Yeah.

I was on the news.

Working with the band I have met many famous singers and lots of footballers, most of which are nice people, some are arseholes of the highest calibre.

David Seaman, Lee Dixon, Peter Beardsley, Matt Le Tissier, Peter Shilton, Ian Wright, all were top blokes.

With the band I have met Suggs & all the members of Madness, Neville Staple, Toots (Toots and the Maytals), Buster Bloodvessel has slept in my bed, Eddie Tudorpole (mad as fuck), Gary Glitter, Captain Sensible, Rankin Roger, Reel Big Fish (arrogant), Gareth Chilcott (a personal mate of mine), Paolo Nuttini (twat), Magic Numbers (arrogant drunks), Newton Faulkner (twat), Dr and the Medics (mental), Toyah (lovely lady), Carol Decker (not lovely lady), Limahl (twat), Rick Astley (great bloke), Nathan Moore (Brother Beyond - nice bloke), Go West (80's group) and loads more but can't remember right now.

David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Ruby Walsh, Steve Davis, Paul Merson, Matt Le Tiss, Jamie T, Dean Richards.

In that order.

Gary Glitter eh?

Glitter was a wierd little man that gave my ex wife a red rose, I didnt like her and I didnt like him much either, he was about 5 foot 2 and such an obvious wig.

JJEDMUNDS, refreshingly honest account. Although Carol Decker saved my best mate from drowning. She was a lifeguard at our local baths, so she can be excused  :clap:

Spoke to Jan Aage Fjørtoft on the phone and talked to him at Wanborough when visiting Swindon in 1993 and 1994. Took pictures with me and Shaun Taylor, Craig Maskell, John Gorman and the promising youth player Ben Worrall (where did he go?)

but my most memorable moment was when sharing red wine and brie sandwich with David Lynch over two days at Stockholm Film Festival in 2002 however!

I went to school with John Pienar's son?

This is the best.

John Pienaar has a son, eh? Well that makes me feel a lot less uneasy. My encounter with him was on Whitehall. I was in a phone box and I noticed him leaning against a wall opposite and giving me flirtatious looks  :eek:

Geoff Hurst and Nobby Styles - top blokes.

Oh and Stuart Hall .. also top bloke.

Must have been a big sandwich ???

Graham Hill presented me with a prize at our school Prizegiving

Giving away your age there :nod:

Fair play Shady, but she was arrogant and ignorant to my wife and almost knocked her out...accidentally admittedly, an elbow in the face, but never apologised. Even though we had been talking just before then!

Why did you leave out Musical Youth?  :)

Vic Reeves,Paul O'Grady and Julian Clary all live(d) in my village.All of em are a bit meh

I heard Nathan was a decent chap, however....

In 2004 Moore was fined £250 at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London after he pleaded guilty to soliciting a female police officer in the Kings Cross red light area of the city. :beers:

Fuck me yeah I forgot about them! they were top lads!

Yeah I spoke to him about that, he was genuinely embarressed! but did laugh about it! hes recently had another child, just before Christmas and is loving life again.

Fair do's jjedmonds, sounds like a very decent guy, especially being able to openly mock his own indiscretions. Pass on my regards. Any chance of an autograph?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46l-yzQ4GhI

Yeah there is actually, I am seeing him the end of February, message me and I will arrange it.

Shady's a celebrity stalker :sherlock:

Cheers mate, I have an 80s music fan in mind who'd be made up by that. Will message you later. Thanks again  :clap:

I once got man handled by robbie williams minder as I had tried to nut williams for trying to chat up my girlfriend

 We have a front runner  :clap:

francis rossi of status quo only because i went to the same school as his son and got a lift home once or twice when i was living in surrey 

I had a piss next to Bob Geldof does that count

Met Gordon Ramsay a couple of times, once at the good food show (also met the Hairy Bikers, James Martin, Martin Blunos & Paul Rankin there).
The other time was at Claridges in London, had a meal there and met him and had a good chat to him, nice bloke actually.

met will mellor in ibiza a fair few years back...had a few drinks and what not.

I don't think I've met anyone famous at all, properly. I've walked past a few, but that's about it. Unless Joseph Mills counts, which he probably doesn't.

Michael pook gave me a high five once.

I think I saw michael barrymore just before christmas too, though it may have been a mere lookalike

I ate a kebab with Mark Ronson in portsmouth

Carlos Santana used to stay with friends in the flat below me in Ealing whenever he was playing in London back in the late 70s/early 80s. I met him 3 or 4 times and was invited down for a coffee once - I remember chatting about guitars. He slept in my bed one weekend when I was away!

Asked Emlyn Huges to get out of a phone box once...

Also met Debbie Greenwood and Selina Scott

Recently it been, Bruce Forsyth, Tom Jones, Robie Williams, Gary Barlow, Michael Macintyre, Peter Kay, Drake, Rio Ferdinand.

When younger i worked on a circus...Jim Davidson did a seaside special...we shared a bottle of Gin.
Met Glen Hoddle at Wentworth golf last year...quality fella who had the decency to have a chat about Swindon FC...even though he was with Marco Van Baten and Ruud Gullitt at the time.
The nicest woman i ever met was Corrine Russell....page three girl of many moons ago...very pretty,polite and a broad brummy accent.

Absolutely love Glen Hoddle, along with Ossie, when I think of all the attachments to players and managers back then, Taylor, White, Shearer, Bodin, Fraser et al. Those were the days  :beers:

I dont know if she is in the same calibre as the aforementioned, but I got a kiss on the cheek by this lass in Majorca ten years back, in a club called BCM's (?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS3WSJ1d1gM

I met Ronnie O'Sullivan about 8 years ago and had a very brief chat with him, mainly because i couldn't think of what to say...

You could have asked him if his dad liked porridge and anal sex

Jimmy Carr in Swindon town centre

Yeah, strangely that didn't come to mind! Probably good that it didn't really...

Now THAT is impressive!

You'd have been swimming with the fishies

I had a cigarette and a chat with Keith chegwin outside the link centre about 10 years ago. I didn't know he was a recovering alcoholic and I was waffling away about my hangover and how much I had drunk the previous night.

He works in Lambourn Leisure centre, Mcmahon ruined his career let him go and he ended up at Scarborough but a knee injury finished him and he retired very early.

Some really good contributions. Really liking the Cheggers one, didn't know he was a piss-head in times gone by

If you like the cheesy ones, Keith harris and orville, Jason Donovan, Timmy Mallet + Pat Sharp.

Timmy Mallet is a Poxford fan :gay:

Met Jenson Button on a night out a few years ago. Expected him to be a right cunt but actually seemed to be a decent bloke.

And it goes without saying a right twat.

Met Paul McCartney in Cardiff a few years back. He was there with Heather Mills. Had a chat with russel Grant at Glastonbury two years ago

Wooah, the same Russell Grant that has a major stake in Hendon football club. Nice one  :beers:

Was on stage with Roy Castle doing some Record Breakers stuff when i was 6.
Met Geof Capes.
The one with the lisp from Take That.

I think you mean Gary Barlow. Good shout.

No it wasn't him. quick google tells me it was Howard. He had long dreds at the time and didn't have a clue who he was.

Got Cheggers autograph outside Dudes restaurant in Devizes Road when Swap Shop came to town. Sat and had a chat with Danny Baker and Linda Lusardi at the Old White Lion in East Finchley after they'd been filming for LWT. Spoke to Murray Walker in a restaurant near Estoril where I think he was being wined and dined by ITV before they took over the F1 coverage.

 On that note, and I don't know if it counts, I met Chico outside Wetherspoons in Bournemouth Square. Didn't have a clue who he was and he seemed rather taken aback that his fleeting stardom had completely passed me by  ;D

Jarvis Cocker at a tribal gathering in the 90s...asked him if he was sorted for Es and whizz...

Steve White at a mates wedding when chalky was at Bath City.

Michael Caine: "Have you seen my daughter?"

Sussex the hotel waiter in Tetbury aged 16: "Er, Um"

Michael Caine: "She should be in the restaurant, can you show me through"...

Richard Branson was also there but we don't talk anymore.

Think that's about as famous as it gets for me.

I met all the crew of soccer am yesterday and also the Weasley twins from Harry Potter and everyone was really nice except Gary Johnson. But i have also had a drink with Gazza, Ian Wright and Michael Jordan at a Nike press day thing quite a few years ago but Nike wouldn't let us have our picture taken with Michael Jordan.

I met David Haye...he came in my shop
Wouldn't let me have a pic tho

I met Michael Palin at a book signing once as well.

So Johnson thinks you are a cunt as well as me!!

I used to like Dudes....it was a place where you could get a late drink, when pubs closed at 10:30 or 11:00 weekends. There was of course the curry run, but these invariably ended up in a punch-up, not really the sort of thing if trying to impress a lady of class.

Played football against Emelyn Hughes and Ian Beale of Eastenders and the rapist bloke of Brookside and Archie of Emmerdale (who was on silent witness the other night)...Archie was top bloke...Ex Town John Kelly also played that day...

Stood with Andy Gray and Peter Reid in a lift in London.

Soul to Soul bloke in a lift.

Andy Gray again with Jamie Redknapp,,,,wembley play off Burnley v Sheff United...in a lift.

Danced with JJ Edmunds missus and DIDNT hit her in Bunham on Sea.

Had breakfast with the Verve in Amesbury..

Gary Rhodes sister lived next door to me in Kent and he came to a BBQ i laid on......liked my burgers.

THIS made me laugh out loud!!!

You got up close to Emlyn Hughes and Andy Gray and didn't give them a slap...commendable restraint.

Did you pull up with a dodgy hamstring in that match as well.

And Flash most people think i'm a cunt.

No not in that game......it was 95ish i was two stone lighter then..

Eric Bristowe pedddling signed merchandise at the Pig and Whistle, Bournemouth. Money can't have been great in his day or he blew it/ expensive divorce etc etc.

David Cameron.

That must have been tempting to piss over him.

Nice guy actually. Visited my grandmother when she was alive bless her.

David Cameron too.

Feargal Sharkey.

Robbie Williams' manager.

Harry Enfield
Gary Lineker
Jezza Clarkson

CJ from Eggheads last September in Gatwick Hilton reception, apparently there was a Quiz being held there that evening and he asked me & t'other half if we were taking part... Unfortunately we weren't.  Nothing to do with the brief meeting, but I do think he comes across as an arrogant twat!

A few of the mid-late 90s Town players/management, not particularly exciting.

Bit of banter with Charlie George at a dinner before the last Champs League game at Highbury.  John Radford was there too but I didn't chat to him, left that one to the husband.

Can't remember any others really so probably haven't met anyone else of note!

Edit: Just remembered I also met/did a bit of drunken banter with one of the Mumfords in October as he used to go to school with the husband.

Why what did he do?

realsied Jutty was a cunt and blanked him....

Ludovic Kennedy - spent an evening with him when he was a candidate at the Parliamentary elections when I was returning officer. He was a really interesting guy.

Rod Hull and Emu - I won tea with them as a raffle prize at a holiday camp. Rod Hull was bonkers, and it was great fun.

Chris Allan-White - drummer in the band Malefice - only famous if you like your heavy metal very, very heavy.

I met bodger from bodger and badger.  He was really drunk and told me about ghosts.

This made me laugh out loud at work - some very funny looks.

I met Leilani of Page 3 fame back in 2000 when we played Wimbledon in a friendly.

I was 14 so fuck knows if the words actually came out like anything that resembled words.

Because of the accident of various jobs I have done, I have met a lot of interesting and famous people - mainly in the political world, and it would be very boring and narcissistic to list them!!  Who haven't I met?  As a young lad, fresh in my enthusiasm for STFC, many times I escaped from a parent or whoever was accompanying me into town, and stood looking longingly into Don Rogers Sports...... The only time I dared to step inside was when I knew the great man wasn't there!!!  So I've never met Don Rogers.  I was a very shy, retiring flower!!!

Met Gripper Sebson from Grange Hill fame and got his autograph when he came to school. I think he was arrested over Park North that very night.

I've been lucky enough to speak to a lot of swindon players old and new. I find the old boys are the best. Several players from the last 10 years have been a huge let down.

Other than that, louise redknapp during work experience boy and being introduced as the tea boy. And almost beating alan 'the iceman' warriner little at darts was good.

Met the shameless cast once, probably my best ever day at work. Scattor!

Oh Yeah...

Chopper Harris

...........Highest order and all that...

Did he trip you up on the way out? :D

I met her at a motorshow in Brum. She is fitter in real life than she is in the paper

I would of loved that JJ.....would of dropped the nut on him.....Mr Big....

Interviewed Steve White at his house in '94 or '95.  It was the day Kevin Morris died (RIP).

Saw that Kris Marshall (bloke from BT Adverts) in a Nottingham boozer a couple of years ago and his group and ours shared a couple of rounds.  A surprisingly top bloke.

Most gutting near miss was in New York, popped outside a bar for a fag and one of my favourite actors James Gandolfini was outside smoking.  Was going to go over to him but he was on the phone for ages having an argument.

I've met a few celebs... the only real proper one was John McEnroe, nice bloke, he said 'Nooo Waaay' about 3 times in the space of a minute...which was a bit odd.

Its downhill from here though - 

I've met Bernie Clifton, Judy Spiers (a back-in-the-day Pebble Mill presenter) whos married to my Mums cousin.

And best of all - I've pissed at a urinal whilst standing next to Graham Garden (from The Goodies) This was at a service station on the M5, he said 'Mind your scarf!' as my Town scarf wavered too close to the porcelain....

Never heard it called a porcelain before  :girlgiggle:

Its a pet name for it that only me and Graham Garden use... goodie goodie gum drops....

Trevor Brooking ( who was a true gent ) , Carl Barat , Jimmy Hill , Andy Partridge ( pissed as a fart with AXS ) and two of the Dead Kennedys

John and Robert?

 
Quality :clap:

Lee Westwood, Gatwick BA lounge when he was going to the USA to make a bit of money.

Stopped at a service station on the M6 somewhere in Lancashire/Cumbria a few days before Christmas.  Snow everywhere and rubbish driving conditions so, like everyone else, I had stopped to wash my car windows before setting off again.  After I'd done this, I still had some water left in my water bottle and offered it to the bloke who had parked his 4x4 immediately behind our car...so imagine my surprise when I discovered that it was none other than Archie from Monarch of the Glen!  (I'm guessing he must have been heading up to Glenbogle to spend Christmas with Richard Briers.)

Beat that.

Something fishy going on there.

Doesn't really match the thread title but I have played Fifa 11 online against Darren Fletcher.

The 5 Live commentator?

silly question but how did you know it was actually him

Its my flatmates cousin. They play online quite a lot.

How does he surround the ref shouting abuse when a decision goes against him?

Can he give away penalties????

I played at an open mic night in front of Jean-Jaques Burnell and Baz Warne (off the stranglers) for the past two weeks, and have only just found out who they were. Despite Baz warne doing a pretty darn decent cover of golden brown. woooooooo

About 20 mins ago I met Gerald Asamoah who was more than happy to chat. He was stood with the rest of the St Pauli team waiting for the coach outside a hotel.
So far in March I have met (and spoken to):
Marcell Jansen, Piotr Trochowski, zeeeeee Roberto, Frank Rost, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Son (hilaious accent he has), Collin Benjamin and Heiko Westermann

They really care about the supporters over here not like the tosser premiership clubs.

Dermot morgan(Father Ted) was at my dad's funeral and lived in the next street to me when i was a kid.

At the start of May Im doing a few shows with Hugh Laurie.  Who I guess due to House is now pretty bloody enourmous.  I shall make sure I get to chat to him so I can claim him as my famous person.

Matey who plays Nathan in Misfits.

Sachin Tendulkar in the first class louge at Mumbai airport a couple of years back.  I spoke to other members of the India cricket team too, but have gone the man we call God!!

That would be Jean-Jacques Burnel and Baz Warne of The Stranglers.

I don't pick up on spellings often, but you don't mis-spell a Strangler!

Iron Bottom when we printed his first autobiography. When it had print 250k copies he took us out for a ruby murray....

 I also used to go out with the sister of the lead singer of Supertramp... :nod:

Who is Iron Bottom and did he has a hot curry?

Glenn Hoddle.  He didn't have any clothes on.

Nico Rosberg when i worked at Williams.

I met Paul Gascoigne when I was in Bournemouth a few weeks' ago, totally sound guy.

Did you have Kippers for breakfast?

Paul Jewell.

Met him with Bushey Boy years ago before we played Wigan. As we were having a photo taken with him I told what a shit job I thought he ahd done getting Sheffeild Wenesday relegated. He went fucking mental and stormed off shouting "you can't talk to me like that, this my club, my fucking club!"

Only you GFM

What job do you do gk? If you don't mind me asking.

he's a bum boy to the stars

Promoters rep.  Or Fluffer to the stars as Mex says.

More specifically, I work freelance but mainly for 2 big live music promoters, Live Nation and SJM concerts, going around the country and running their gigs from day to day.

Paul McCartney a few years ago. Introduction, handshake & a "How ya doing"

What was his response ?

When I was young i took the piss out of Michael Barrymore on stage at Butlins!

Did he take you round the back dan?

Or go for a swim

nope, i think i told him he smells on stage, which he did........of booze!
I also met the Duke from the four tops once, that was cool and I had to apologies after poking Noel Edmonds in the eye once!

How can I become the lollipop man in the pit crew?

Work your way up from 'chief helmet bitch' ;)

He was introduced to me by a friend who was running an event attended by Heather Mills. Macca was just along for the day out. I didn't say much at all !