| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections 13:10 - Oct 8 with 5843 views | Keno |
In his Rings thread "As a side note, the young girl that plays Galadriel in the first episode is my friends niece!"
TWTD needs more of this
My daughter knows a lady who is Gemma Arterton's auntie
who can match these?? [Post edited 8 Oct 2024 13:10]
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:29 - Oct 8 with 1520 views | PhilTWTD |
My dad sat next to Percy Edwards on a bus once. |  | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:37 - Oct 8 with 1514 views | BlueBadger |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:24 - Oct 8 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Since you mentioned him, I know someone who went to school with Rick Wakeman. |
Pffft, I used to work with a bloke who went to school with Jeremy Bamber. |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 18:00 - Oct 8 with 1483 views | hoppy |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:25 - Oct 8 by PhilTWTD |
I seem to recall he was a neighbour of one of my uncles when he, Gary, was getting one of his first bands together.
On a related Essex-based note, one of my cousins was mates with Joe Pasquale growing up.
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I understand Joe always spoke very highly of your cousin… |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 18:01 - Oct 8 with 1476 views | hoppy |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:24 - Oct 8 by Nthsuffolkblue |
Since you mentioned him, I know someone who went to school with Rick Wakeman. |
I also saw Rick Wakeman outside my office a few weeks back, as he was going to an event in the Ipswich & Suffolk Club. | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 08:36 - Oct 9 with 1381 views | DanTheMan |
I've got a live one, my wife is currently standing next to Lee Grant on a train. |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 08:55 - Oct 9 with 1372 views | vilanovablue |
My grandfather was the original man from Del Monte and played Bob's dad in Blackadder 2. |  | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 09:46 - Oct 9 with 1342 views | WeWereZombies |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:14 - Oct 8 by BlueBadger |
My son is mates with Carol Decker's daughter.
Mrs Badger plays in a band with Steve Harris(Iron Maiden)'s ex brother in law. |
I used to work in the same office as the girlfriend of Iron Maiden's drum technician. Word went around one afternoon that he was coming to pick her up from work in the evening and we all waited expectantly to see some fearsome behemoth walk in but he was actually a bit on the weedy side. |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 10:22 - Oct 9 with 1304 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 18:01 - Oct 8 by hoppy |
I also saw Rick Wakeman outside my office a few weeks back, as he was going to an event in the Ipswich & Suffolk Club. |
I used to tend the garden for Rick Wakeman.
My brother years ago spent several months doing electrical work for Bill Wyman and had no idea who he was until they had finished the job  |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 10:26 - Oct 9 with 1293 views | Keno |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 10:22 - Oct 9 by StochesStotasBlewe |
I used to tend the garden for Rick Wakeman.
My brother years ago spent several months doing electrical work for Bill Wyman and had no idea who he was until they had finished the job |
Back in the day I opened a bank account for Peter and The Test Tube Babies | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 11:02 - Oct 9 with 1258 views | WeWereZombies |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 10:26 - Oct 9 by Keno |
Back in the day I opened a bank account for Peter and The Test Tube Babies |
When I worked at The Junction in Cambridge I opened the gate to the car park for Hazel O'Connor (and she said 'ta, luv'), refused to keep the gate open for the lorry driver for The Beat (we were having trouble with people who used up our parking space) and advised Ron Sexsmith that if he wanted to walk into the city it would cost to go through the Botanic Gardens (he looked annoyed that I thought he was the kind of person who would dodge an admission charge.) | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 11:44 - Oct 9 with 1240 views | jontysnut |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 11:02 - Oct 9 by WeWereZombies |
When I worked at The Junction in Cambridge I opened the gate to the car park for Hazel O'Connor (and she said 'ta, luv'), refused to keep the gate open for the lorry driver for The Beat (we were having trouble with people who used up our parking space) and advised Ron Sexsmith that if he wanted to walk into the city it would cost to go through the Botanic Gardens (he looked annoyed that I thought he was the kind of person who would dodge an admission charge.) |
Judy Tzuke tapped me on the shoulder in our college canteen before a gig. For a nanosecond I thought I might be in, then she said 'can you pass the brown sauce please'. |  | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:08 - Oct 9 with 1220 views | WeWereZombies |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 11:44 - Oct 9 by jontysnut |
Judy Tzuke tapped me on the shoulder in our college canteen before a gig. For a nanosecond I thought I might be in, then she said 'can you pass the brown sauce please'. |
If you know the Eric Burdon story about his Jamaican girlfriend and a raw egg I wonder if you might have found something out if you offered to stay with her till dawn ?
On a different note, I used to work just off the Felixstowe Road with Alan Davey who went on to replace Lemmy in Hawkwind. | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:19 - Oct 9 with 1200 views | TractorBrew |
Whilst working at McDonalds, I served S Club 7, Rachel was delightful obviously
Bradley was off doing his thing somewhere in the corner |  | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:48 - Oct 9 with 1168 views | Churchman |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 17:29 - Oct 8 by PhilTWTD |
My dad sat next to Percy Edwards on a bus once. |
My dad’s batty aunt was Percy Edward’s neighbour in Felixstowe
My mum used to have coffee with Brian Talbot’s mum but never had a clue about her famous son until one day she said as an aside to my dad ‘have you ever heard of an Ipswich footballer called Brian Talbot?’. ‘What???!’ Was his response.
Mind you she was 80 odd before she bothered to tell us her mother was from a well known Norfolk lifeboat family and two of her relations are on the memorial to the 1901 Caister disaster. ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ Said I. ‘Oh, they were poor’ was the response. Dear god…like I cared about that.
Some idiot Americans think people with my surname go back to Vikings Ivar and Ubba Lothbrok - absolute tripe of course, but they do love a bit of 2+2=254 genealogy.
Edit: working many years ago in the Putney area I got to meet quite a few well known people. Usual spectrum of nice and not so nice, but the funniest ever was when Bobby Robson told my dad to p£ss off. Oh how I laughed. [Post edited 9 Oct 2024 13:04]
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:54 - Oct 9 with 1142 views | Deano69 |
A number of us here will have been taught by Mrs Robson, Sir Bobbys wife |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:08 - Oct 9 with 1128 views | Deano69 |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 18:01 - Oct 8 by hoppy |
I also saw Rick Wakeman outside my office a few weeks back, as he was going to an event in the Ipswich & Suffolk Club. |
I have met Rick on a few of occasions, I had no idea how tall he was...
Also Ian Lavender was with him on a couple of occasions. | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:19 - Oct 9 with 1109 views | nodge_blue |
Not quite the same but my (birth) mother casually mentioned she dated Ray Clemence. I nearly said I got his autograph as a boy. |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:19 - Oct 9 with 1109 views | DBaldy |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:19 - Oct 9 by TractorBrew |
Whilst working at McDonalds, I served S Club 7, Rachel was delightful obviously
Bradley was off doing his thing somewhere in the corner |
In around 2001 I dealt with her insurance claim when she had her handbag nicked at some posh sounding London pub.
I spoke to both her and her mum on the phone during the claims process and she sent me a signed photo when it was all settled! (Rachel that is, not her mum) | | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:36 - Oct 9 with 1084 views | hoppy |
My mate that worked with me for a while in our Covent Garden studio lives near Tufnell Park, and often drinks in and around the area, and regularly in the Hawley Arms in Camden, and was in there once when Amy Winehouse was in there, and as she was waiting a while to be served, she decided to do it herself so went behind the bar, and then served my mate… when he went to pay, she told him it was on the house! | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 13:49 - Oct 9 with 1060 views | jontysnut |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:08 - Oct 9 by WeWereZombies |
If you know the Eric Burdon story about his Jamaican girlfriend and a raw egg I wonder if you might have found something out if you offered to stay with her till dawn ?
On a different note, I used to work just off the Felixstowe Road with Alan Davey who went on to replace Lemmy in Hawkwind. |
Ah yes, The Egg Man. Something similar once happened to me in Jack's Cafe | | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 14:21 - Oct 9 with 1028 views | TheBlueGnu |
I'm married to Norman Eshley's horse. | |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 14:59 - Oct 9 with 1004 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
I recently attended the wedding of an up and comming sem famous (in cool arty circles) Art type, a school friend of the current Mrs B and T. Said wedding was also attended by Johhny Lloyd (lead singer of Tribes) and Ex of Billie Pipper. Johnny tried to chat up Mrs B and T and then demanded to know why she didn't have children. Billie Piper was sadly not in attendance.
Though apparently said arty type did once have her in a headlock at Glastonbury whilst off his face (Billie that is, not the current Mrs B and T)
Mrs B and T used to move in much cooler circles than I and has found herself drinking with various celebs including Shia Lebouef and Dev from corrie and across various levels of fame in between. 99% of the she describes as utter see you next Tues days.
As for me I once spent a NYE on table behind Iwan Roberts of all people [Post edited 9 Oct 2024 15:08]
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 20:31 - Oct 9 with 898 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 11:02 - Oct 9 by WeWereZombies |
When I worked at The Junction in Cambridge I opened the gate to the car park for Hazel O'Connor (and she said 'ta, luv'), refused to keep the gate open for the lorry driver for The Beat (we were having trouble with people who used up our parking space) and advised Ron Sexsmith that if he wanted to walk into the city it would cost to go through the Botanic Gardens (he looked annoyed that I thought he was the kind of person who would dodge an admission charge.) |
That one now reminds me that I held the door of Nottingham's ice rink open for Jayne Torville once.
I also played tennis on the next court to Steve Davis and went swimming with John Barnes.
None of these can live up to teaching Mick Stockwell's son and Gary Durrant's as well. I also taught the daughter of Peter Wright (darts player as no one will know who he is anymore). |  |
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| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 20:36 - Oct 9 with 896 views | PhilTWTD |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 12:48 - Oct 9 by Churchman |
My dad’s batty aunt was Percy Edward’s neighbour in Felixstowe
My mum used to have coffee with Brian Talbot’s mum but never had a clue about her famous son until one day she said as an aside to my dad ‘have you ever heard of an Ipswich footballer called Brian Talbot?’. ‘What???!’ Was his response.
Mind you she was 80 odd before she bothered to tell us her mother was from a well known Norfolk lifeboat family and two of her relations are on the memorial to the 1901 Caister disaster. ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ Said I. ‘Oh, they were poor’ was the response. Dear god…like I cared about that.
Some idiot Americans think people with my surname go back to Vikings Ivar and Ubba Lothbrok - absolute tripe of course, but they do love a bit of 2+2=254 genealogy.
Edit: working many years ago in the Putney area I got to meet quite a few well known people. Usual spectrum of nice and not so nice, but the funniest ever was when Bobby Robson told my dad to p£ss off. Oh how I laughed. [Post edited 9 Oct 2024 13:04]
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I believe a regular poster on here has a similar story regarding Sir Bobby Robson! | | | |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 21:00 - Oct 9 with 870 views | hoppy |
| With thanks to Mutters - Obscure connections on 20:36 - Oct 9 by PhilTWTD |
I believe a regular poster on here has a similar story regarding Sir Bobby Robson! |
Ah, but to be fair, he probably deserved it. | |
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