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Post by ARENA on Jul 6, 2021 11:58:54 GMT
Our first house had a basement flat , which we let to a young cameraman. He worked mainly on TV ads.
One day he invited me to visit our local to meet his frequent director.
We met and got on very well ,finishing the evening well oiled and very chummy.
Sometime during the evening we discussed TV ads including one they had just finished for Hovis.
It was years later that the director got famous......He was Ridley Scott.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 14, 2021 12:51:56 GMT
Haven't any of you met someone famous?
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Post by aubrey on Jul 14, 2021 14:30:13 GMT
Austin Mitchell. We talked about punk and skiffle.
And I once had a pee next to Tim Hodgkinson, the sax and keyboard player out of Henry Cow.
Oh, and I once Chrissie Hind' s brother at pool, by default.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 14, 2021 15:21:13 GMT
Austin Mitchell. We talked about punk and skiffle. And I once had a pee next to Tim Hodgkinson, the sax and keyboard player out of Henry Cow. Oh, and I once Chrissie Hind' s brother at pool, by default. Interesting bloke.....Is he still with us ,as they say. |
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Post by aubrey on Jul 15, 2021 7:43:58 GMT
Austin Mitchell. We talked about punk and skiffle. And I once had a pee next to Tim Hodgkinson, the sax and keyboard player out of Henry Cow. Oh, and I once Chrissie Hind' s brother at pool, by default. Interesting bloke.....Is he still with us ,as they say. Yes; he's 86. He used to present the local news in Yorkshire and parts of Lincolnshire. |
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Post by althea on Jul 15, 2021 9:46:00 GMT
I met and chatted with, Gerald, The Duke of Westminster. He was the patron of the Chester branch of the Samaritans.
He was so lovely. He attended every annual meeting, which was boring in the extreme.
He was very gracious.
After the meeting, two friends and I, all young women at the time, used to go for a drink to the The George, a nearby pub.
Once when we went it was packed out and we were sitting very close to a table full of men.
We used to refer to the people who used our services, as clients.
I came back from the bar with the drinks and said to the others, "I've just seen one of my clients by the bar."
The men on the next table all looked at each other and started whispering, while looking us over very closely.
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Post by ARENA on Nov 9, 2021 6:59:20 GMT
Mrs A and I went to a party thrown by the late Bob Hoskins.
I looked round the room and said to her, "I'm the only person here I've never heard of"
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Post by maywalk on Apr 28, 2022 10:28:44 GMT
Met George Formby in a tube station shelter during a bombing raid on London.
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williambrown2
New Star
Old guy sent here on a free transfer from elsewhere. "Just passing through, sheriff."
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Post by williambrown2 on Oct 3, 2022 20:24:25 GMT
Shook hands once with Frankie Vaughan when he visited our Boys' Club.
Waved a little Union Jack at Monty when he passed five yards away from me standing in a jeep. He waved to me. Must have been the little beret I had on just like his.
Played Ray Reardon and John Spencer in snooker.
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spot
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Post by spot on Oct 19, 2023 22:00:42 GMT
I knocked on William Roache's front door and asked for his autograph when I was in primary school. I don't think you're allowed to do that any longer. He was very polite, I'm not convinced he'd ever been asked for one before.
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Post by daisy on Jan 18, 2024 20:52:53 GMT
i met Ringo Starr in Kensington high street during my lunch break many years ago , he was coming out of McDonalds with his son , i asked him for his Autograph and he said have you got a pen , and it so happened i did, also a little note book .. so that page is now stuck in my Autograph book , i also met Mohammed Ali when i worked at the Royal Lancaster Hotel . i did go out with a Harlem Globe Trotter if anyone remembers them .from the 6o's .
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Post by ARENA on Jan 19, 2024 6:19:03 GMT
i met Ringo Starr in Kensington high street during my lunch break many years ago , he was coming out of McDonalds with his son , i asked him for his Autograph and he said have you got a pen , and it so happened i did, also a little note book .. so that page is now stuck in my Autograph book , i also met Mohammed Ali when i worked at the Royal Lancaster Hotel . i did go out with a Harlem Globe Trotter if anyone remembers them .from the 6o's . Lovely to meet you Daisy. I'm sure you'll like it here in our circle of friends. |
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Post by ARENA on Jan 19, 2024 8:26:07 GMT
Living opposite the BBC Ealing studios and using the same pub I met many famous people. Also having a famous wife I was friends with many others. I don't usually mention it as some people seem to think it's bragging. BTW Spike Milligan was my sons godfather.
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Post by althea on Jan 19, 2024 11:37:28 GMT
I met John Alderton and his wife Pauline Collins in Chester Market. They were appearing at the Gateway in Chester at the time.
The market was quiet and no one, other than I, recognised them. I was buying material and I approached them quietly and politely.
John was very shy and Pauline laughed. I had a pen, but no paper, so I tore a bit of paper off the material stall and got their autographs.
All of a sudden other people clocked what was going on and the couple were mobbed. John Alderton kept my pen.
Pauline Collins was absolutely beautiful.
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