| Minor claims to fame 12:26 - Mar 5 with 11552 views | Dubtractor |
Inspired by a thread on bluesky, share your most trivial claim to fame.
Back in the early 00s, when DJing in Brighton, Chris Eubank parked up in his big lorry and insisted on carrying my record bag to the club for me. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 20:58 - Mar 6 with 1063 views | GlasgowBlue |
In some sort of chronological order and I've probably missed a few but......
My mum was a singer in the early 60's. Her boyfriend at the time was another singer called Paul Raven (Real name Paul Gadd). My mum met my dad on a train travelling to London where she introduced him to her boyfriend. My dad got Mr Gadd very drunk and when he passed out unconscious he took my mum clubbing. They started going out together and she dumped Mr Gadd. 10 years later she is married with two kids and Paul Gadd is in the charts under the name Gary Glitter.
At the age of 11 I trained with Denis Law in West Germany before an international match.
Sade came into my dad's pub to get a bottle of wine to take to her mum's on Boxing Day in 1985. I told her how her mum had put a plaster cast on my arm when I broke it six years earlier.
I was on the same dancefloor as Maggie Thatcher when she danced with Denis to 3 Times a Lady, after she won her third successive general election in 1987.
After an IRA bomb scare at the Old Ship Hotel in Brighton, I stood on the pavement at 3am chatting to Michael Heseltine whilst he was wearing his silk pyjamas whilst I ignored the married woman who had been in my bed when the alarm rang out.
Maggie Thatcher (her again) congratulated me on my speech at the Tory party local government conference in 1988. She had the coldest eyes I've ever seen.
I met Chas and Dave, Mud and members of the notorious Richardson family at my dad's pub in the late 80's.
When I lived in Tenerife in the early 90's I went out with the step daughter of Glen Dale (lead singer with the fortunes and a family friend). I also went out with the step daughter of Glyn Edwards (Dave the barman from minder). Through Glyn I got to know Ruth Madoc and Ron Atkinson reasonably well,
I used to play at the same snooker club, Spencers in Stirling, as Stephen Hendry and played him a couple of times in the late 90's when he was big. I also met Jimmy White there but never played him.
Met Paul Weller a couple of times through a friend at his after show parties but only for a few seconds.
A couple of years ago met DJ Spoony at the Ibiza Ocean Beach Club. I had a table to watch the england international and he asked if he could join me as all the other tables were reserved. It cost him a bottle of bubbly. Can't remember much more about that night as I was completely and utterly pissed having been there all day. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 21:01 - Mar 6 with 1068 views | Dubtractor |
Some great stuff in here.
An ITFC related one for me, that I've prob shared before, is that on a Summer job in the 90s on a farm near me, I helped load french beans onto Roger Osborne's lorry. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 21:16 - Mar 6 with 1033 views | DJR |
| Minor claims to fame on 21:01 - Mar 6 by Dubtractor |
Some great stuff in here.
An ITFC related one for me, that I've prob shared before, is that on a Summer job in the 90s on a farm near me, I helped load french beans onto Roger Osborne's lorry. |
I did Bob-a-Job many years ago and knocked on the door of Colin Harper who lived in a modest house on the Broke Hall estate. He was an Ipswich lad, and sadly died in 2018 of an asbestos-related disease, having been exposed to asbestos whilst working as an apprentice joiner and carpenter before he took up his football career. [Post edited 6 Mar 21:20]
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| Minor claims to fame on 21:20 - Mar 6 with 1030 views | Churchman |
Back to Gordon Brown, I bet none of you have seen him without any clothes on.
I have.
Before anyone calls the police or reaches for a bucket, he used the gym in the Treasury early in the morning, as did I sometimes. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 21:50 - Mar 6 with 981 views | Bluespeed225 |
| Minor claims to fame on 18:24 - Mar 6 by Whos_blue |
An old friend of mine is a professional musician and has played drums for Ocean Colour Scene, PP Arnold and Paul Weller among others.
Tony Coote https://share.google/TedRoufey [Post edited 6 Mar 18:25]
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Third hand story, but Bowie went into. Arks Music in Ipswich to buy a guitar he’d seen advertised in a music paper. pulled up in a Volvo, wearing a tracksuit. Mark clocked him, had a chat. He was visiting Brian Eno, thought he’d kill two birds! |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 23:30 - Mar 6 with 923 views | You_Bloo_Right |
I passed my cycling proficiency test when I was 8 years old.
Oh hang on, that's not what you meant is it? |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 23:38 - Mar 6 with 918 views | vapour_trail |
| Minor claims to fame on 21:01 - Mar 6 by Dubtractor |
Some great stuff in here.
An ITFC related one for me, that I've prob shared before, is that on a Summer job in the 90s on a farm near me, I helped load french beans onto Roger Osborne's lorry. |
Basically, that’s an assist at Wembley, dubbers. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 23:40 - Mar 6 with 913 views | Churchman |
| Minor claims to fame on 23:30 - Mar 6 by You_Bloo_Right |
I passed my cycling proficiency test when I was 8 years old.
Oh hang on, that's not what you meant is it? |
I failed mine. Went round the course the wrong way not using the handlebars. The bloke doing it thought I was taking the p1ss. Don’t know why,. I thought I was being very proficient. | | | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 06:04 - Mar 7 with 839 views | bluelagos |
| Minor claims to fame on 11:44 - Mar 6 by Mookamoo |
I got hit in the chest by a Mark Venus free kick.
Was during a a kick about at a company BBQ that did some work for him |
I was going to say I got hit by a Graham Harbey cross but that's hardly unusual. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 06:12 - Mar 7 with 832 views | bluelagos |
On behalf of my kid brother, he got so drunk at Matt Byard's wedding that George Burley locked him in his car to sober him up. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 07:05 - Mar 7 with 798 views | Meadowlark |
Some great stories on here, although I've never heard of most of the "names."
A few years ago "The Darkness" were in my local pub in Lowestoft with some mutual friends. I didn't know them, but the next day I told my daughter I'd been out drinking with them, which was not quite true....Anyway that night she met them in another pub and told them they knew her dad! When she described who I was they said "oh yeah" and bought her a drink. Nice bunch of chaps. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 10:15 - Mar 7 with 722 views | jontysnut |
While working at the Corn Exchange I made the wrestler Jackie ' Mr TV' Pallo a cup of tea. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 10:21 - Mar 7 with 699 views | Radlett_blue |
| Minor claims to fame on 19:44 - Mar 6 by VanSaParody |
Playing Sunday league on a park behind Barnet's original Underhill ground, walking on the footpath behind my goal was Bernie Winters & Schnorbitz
While the play was up the other end, I said morning Bernie
He said morning 'keeper |
A friend of mine is married to Mike Winters's daughter & I have met him at a couple of functions.
Bernie had a big house next to Hadley Wood in Barnet. The club rejected him as a member (too Jewish, too showbiz, too annoying - who knows) so Bernie erected a life size statue of a gorilla at the bottom of his garden, making a V sign to the club & its members. |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 10:47 - Mar 7 with 666 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Minor claims to fame on 21:20 - Mar 6 by Churchman |
Back to Gordon Brown, I bet none of you have seen him without any clothes on.
I have.
Before anyone calls the police or reaches for a bucket, he used the gym in the Treasury early in the morning, as did I sometimes. |
“Before anyone calls the police or reaches for a bucket, he used the gym in the Treasury early in the morning, as did I sometimes.”
Sure, if you say so… |  |
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| Minor claims to fame on 12:12 - Mar 7 with 605 views | PavlovsCat |
I once stroked the original Dulux dog. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 12:16 - Mar 7 with 598 views | badadski |
| Minor claims to fame on 10:47 - Mar 7 by Swansea_Blue |
“Before anyone calls the police or reaches for a bucket, he used the gym in the Treasury early in the morning, as did I sometimes.”
Sure, if you say so… |
My arm is famous, it got captured in a shot at Portman road when Alex Mathie scored one of his 3 goals against the scummers, it was again captured during the filming of prickly heat in Ibiza in the same shot when Denise van Oughten was interviewing some one. I served Griff Rhys jones when working at the odeon, similarly was in the bogs at liberties when Craig Charles and Julian clarey both fancied a night on the town and walked in. I purchased a world 100 top house dj’s technics 1210’s (Mike Koglin) from eBay when he went digital and met him and the guy that done part of the sound track for human traffic at the mcDonald’s just before standard airport and chatted to them for an hour or so. Still chat to him to this day. I done the quote for Peter crouch’s Aston Martin car insurance - his mum was the caller and arranged it. Similarly I quoted and sold Emma Watson first car insurance policy when she was 17 and knew her boyfriend who was named driver on the policy months before it went public. I turned down insurance for Michael bridges Man City car insurance as he wanted to give lifts to 40m Robinho to training and too much liability. Finally I done a quote for a car for kitty from inbetweeners. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 13:28 - Mar 7 with 552 views | vapour_trail |
| Minor claims to fame on 12:12 - Mar 7 by PavlovsCat |
I once stroked the original Dulux dog. |
That’s very brave for a cat. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 14:11 - Mar 7 with 515 views | BornDeleuze |
I had a piss next to Brian May in the toilets at the Nottingham Playhouse where Anita Dobson’s daughter was having her birthday party. We had a proper good chat about his fake cow skin jacket and that I was in a band that was not quite as successful as his. On saying we were a bunch of losers he replied ‘We’re all losers in our own way.’ He was a nice guy. I also danced a barn dance with Anita Dobson’s daughter who was a livewire.
Sandy Toksvig gave a speech later outside in the square.
A strange evening really. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:31 - Mar 8 with 399 views | DJR |
| Minor claims to fame on 10:21 - Mar 7 by Radlett_blue |
A friend of mine is married to Mike Winters's daughter & I have met him at a couple of functions.
Bernie had a big house next to Hadley Wood in Barnet. The club rejected him as a member (too Jewish, too showbiz, too annoying - who knows) so Bernie erected a life size statue of a gorilla at the bottom of his garden, making a V sign to the club & its members. |
Anyone remember when Mike and Bernie Winters came to perform at the Copdock Hotel in the 1970s?
It has always stuck with me because it made the headlines in the Evening Star since only four people bought tickets. From recollection there were interviews with Mike or Bernie or both about it after the event, which I am not sure went ahead. [Post edited 8 Mar 16:32]
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| Minor claims to fame on 17:47 - Mar 8 with 356 views | jontysnut |
| Minor claims to fame on 16:31 - Mar 8 by DJR |
Anyone remember when Mike and Bernie Winters came to perform at the Copdock Hotel in the 1970s?
It has always stuck with me because it made the headlines in the Evening Star since only four people bought tickets. From recollection there were interviews with Mike or Bernie or both about it after the event, which I am not sure went ahead. [Post edited 8 Mar 16:32]
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Eric Morecambe was once asked what would you and Ernie have been if you weren't comedians and he replied ' Mike and Bernie Winters'.
Barbara Windsor once rescued Schnorbitz from Terry Scott's swimming pool. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 18:04 - Mar 8 with 350 views | Maccaisgod |
A work colleague of mine Shagged Susanna Reid a couple of times when they were at uni together.
She was quite the girl by all accounts! | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 18:09 - Mar 8 with 343 views | Radlett_blue |
| Minor claims to fame on 17:47 - Mar 8 by jontysnut |
Eric Morecambe was once asked what would you and Ernie have been if you weren't comedians and he replied ' Mike and Bernie Winters'.
Barbara Windsor once rescued Schnorbitz from Terry Scott's swimming pool. |
A guy from Harpenden with whom I played golf went out with Eric Morecambe's daughter. He didn't play golf but had a house overlooking the course. My mate said that when you were round there, Eric could be the life and soul or very grumpy, with very little in between. Such is the manic life of a comedian, I guess. | |
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| Minor claims to fame on 19:12 - Mar 8 with 298 views | jontysnut |
| Minor claims to fame on 18:09 - Mar 8 by Radlett_blue |
A guy from Harpenden with whom I played golf went out with Eric Morecambe's daughter. He didn't play golf but had a house overlooking the course. My mate said that when you were round there, Eric could be the life and soul or very grumpy, with very little in between. Such is the manic life of a comedian, I guess. |
His son Gary's memoir is very good on how he was rarely 'off' even with his family. | | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 19:28 - Mar 8 with 284 views | multiplescoregasms |
I played the sax on Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Don't believe everything you hear about Bob Holness. |  | | |
| Minor claims to fame on 19:32 - Mar 8 with 271 views | jontysnut |
| Minor claims to fame on 18:04 - Mar 8 by Maccaisgod |
A work colleague of mine Shagged Susanna Reid a couple of times when they were at uni together.
She was quite the girl by all accounts! |
" if you'd just let me finish Susanna..." | | | |
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