Random Encounters

phill said:
wife shampood ken dods hair early 90s in a salon in altringham .She hid at first being 16 and was bright red embarrassed but was made to do it .However apparently he noticed her shyness and put her at ease and was lovely with her
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The state of Ken Dodds hair I would think she forgot to wash the shampoo out of it, anyway it may have been pre gel, mouse & wax so she was a genius coming up with that idea
 
A Ginger haired domestic actress plays mainly serious stuff dramas not sure if ITV or bbc???? In Harrogate wetherspoons then Jack catterall on way home in Skipton a couple of weeks after that fight.
 
The whole Everton team at Manchester airport, same with the whole Man U team a few years back, the only player with bodyguards was roony, the only player who wandered aimlessly around the duty free shop was Gary Neville hoping someone would ask for his autograph, foreign keeper can’t remember his name but he was really friendly ( Dutch?)
Judith chalmers in Manchester ( my god I’ve got some stories about her for legal reason no comment)
Wendy Richards ( for old people)
In Dubai the manager who signed Brett for Southampton, watched the World Cup with him, weird accent I think Scottish so I made up my replies such as mm, yes etc
Krankies on a camel in Gran Canaria ( not the same camel)
All of them quite nice but that ex nobber Richard cresswell my god what a total prick, & not because he was a nobber
 
Mates car broke down at the nob end of the m55 and we rolled onto the slip road, got out and walked to the roundabout and Peter Clarke was stood there on his own 🤷‍♂️
 
bleach51 said:
Technically it isn’t Handforth Dean (Wilmslow, East Cheshire) but Stanley Green( Stockport and still Greater Manchester)😉😉.

The difference is I can pay £10 per year to add to my National Bus Pass to use trains and the Metro Link within the Greater Manchester boundaries outside morning peak times by living in Stockport whereas if I lived in Handforth I couldn’t….one bonus for once given the council and mayoral taxes.

Guess you live not far from me🤔…the two are around 2 miles
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You are correct bleach it is indeed Stanley Green not Handforth Dean. Other side of the bypass.
I’m in Bramhall .
 
Selling light up gear in the illuminations to the cars on the prom, window goes down and its Tony Wilson, Granada reports, Factory records. He wasn't happy with the prices.
 
Early 80's returning to London on a Sunday where I was working at the time. Was desperate for a pee. Nowhere open back then so nipped down an alleyway. Heard a car screech to a stop & another desperate soul appeared next to me for synchronised peeing...Joe Brown musician.
 
AngelBFC said:
You are correct bleach it is indeed Stanley Green not Handforth Dean. Other side of the bypass.
I’m in Bramhall .
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Cheadle Hulme but 200 yards and we are in Bramhall….the Hall is a 10 to 15 minute walk…Bramhall Park Golf course 5 minutes.Waitrose and the CH railway station just over 10 minutes.
Been here 25 years in November and before that Bradshaw Hall area of Cheadle Hulme for 20 years.
Who knows we might bump into each other😉
 
After landing in London from a flight from Brazil I was so pi$$ed I went to the other London airport to get a flight to Manchester. Turned out I should have flown from the one I had landed at. Ticket transfer and I ended up sat next to Bill Beaumont on the subsequent flight. He was on the last leg home following a Lions tour to Argentina (pre Falklands). Despite my best efforts he didn't join me for a beer after we landed, probably clocked that at 17 I was too young to legally drink.
 
Willie Mcgrotty said:
Early 80's returning to London on a Sunday where I was working at the time. Was desperate for a pee. Nowhere open back then so nipped down an alleyway. Heard a car screech to a stop & another desperate soul appeared next to me for synchronised peeing...Joe Brown musician.
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Wonderful picture of a pist- sorry post !😂
 
PS, I once had a fairly well known TV actress, can't mention her name, arrested and in custody,
whilst HM C&E officers went round and searched her house for drugs.
Actually she was very nice.
 
I've a few but all fairly run of the the mill.

My favourite story is actually my dad's. In the summer of '09 I think it was, he and my mum went to San Francisco on holiday. He was on board one of the trams wearing his 'Floors 2 Go' Blackpool shirt. Now my dad is a long-time ST holder, but not one to be able to identify players straight away.

And on this tram, there was another younger couple sat across from them and my parents both felt a bit uncomfortable as it was clear this couple were looking at them and talking about them.

Five minutes later, the man from the younger couple said hello to my dad and said something along the lines of. 'Hi mate, Sorry, I just can't believe I've travelled all this way and bump into a Blackpool fan!'.

My dad, nonethewiser, replied, 'Oh yeah, small world. Are you a fan as well, then?'

'Not really, I play for them. My name is Ian Evatt!'


Highly embarrassing for all involved really but afterwards they apparently all shared a good chat and they were a lovely couple and were on their honeymoon.
 
Building on the random chance crossing of paths I’ve remembered a few more…

A Stone Rose (Mani) in CentreParcs Penrith many years ago.
Martin Sheen at his prime Hollywood A lister status sat at the next table when I was having an interview for a job abroad.
A member of Take That (Mark) playing with a train set at a neighbour’s house.
 
Lytham_fy8 said:
Monica Bellucci in the Iceland on Vicarage Lane, she was buying a Rustler's microwave double cheeseburger, some extra crispy skin on fries and also got a pound bottle of 88Vape menthol e-liquid at the till.
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Was she in her pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers???
I think I'd still offer to help her carry her shopping home 😍
I'd vape her e-liquid any day of the week
 
Martin Bell and Errol Brown at Manchester airport.
A few years we stayed at the Talbot hotel during the Malton food festival.
We spotted Carluccio having a cigarette in the car park.
That same evening Jay Rayner was on the next table.
James Martin the resident chef at the time also made an appearance.
 
Trammo said:
Princess Diana, Van Morrison, Peter Bowles. Diana was coming out of a hotel within a 40 minute drive from Highgrove. She was alone wearing a headscarf and sunglasses. No bodyguards. Papers at the time suggesting she was friendly with Hewitt. Van has a reputation for being grumpy but was polite when I spoke to him.The lady with him was a beautiful woman.Peter Bowles saw him in Marks and Spencers menswear department.
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Did she have no clothes on - just a headscarf and sunglasses OMG you should have taken a selfie with her? 😂
 
Peter Clarke and his then girlfriend in a shop at the Lowry Outlet at the end of his last season with us. He said he was staying and the next day he was transferred. A nice guy and a great competitor
 
Michael Carrick was on my flight to Ibiza back in 2012. Ironically England were playing Italy in the euros at the time were taking off and penalties had just begun. Flight attendant had to tell him a couple of times he shouldn’t be using an electrical device during take off, he didn’t seem to care.
 
In 1992 Mrs Satriale and I were married in the Bahamas.
We booked our holiday through Airtours who also sorted out all our wedding arrangements and everything went very well; still married 30 years later 😜

Anyway, in the resort of Paradise Island (overlooking Nassau) there were three Reps who were involved in our wedding preparations, these being;
1) An older English lady called Sandy who was in overall charge.
2) A younger English lady called Joanne
3) A young Bahamian girl

A couple of years later we took a summer holiday to Cyprus, flying out with Monarch Airlines and was pleasantly surprised to meet Joanne on the flight, as she was now working as a stewardess for the Airline. She remembered us and our big day, at which she was present.

During our stay in Cyprus we booked a coach excursion into the Troodos mountains, culminating in a meal and show in a beautiful mountain village. Upon arrival and after departing from our coach we noticed a young black Airtours Rep get off an adjacent coach. We were totally gobsmacked to find it was the young Bahamian girl that had also attended our wedding! We introduced ourselves to her and ended up chatting for a while. Airtours had allowed her a transfer from the Bahamas across to Europe.

A year or so later we were back home watching a holiday show on TV, which did a piece on the Loro Park in Tenerife. We were shocked to see Sandy being interviewed on behalf of the Park. A couple of years later we visited the Park whilst on holiday on the Island and had the pleasure of meeting up with her!
 
Flying out to Istanbul on business a few years back, I noticed Mark Hughes (Stoke manager at the time) a few rows in front of me.

As we got off the plane I asked him if we could have Charlie back on loan, as he wasn't getting much game time at that time. The miserable Welsh git just looked at me and grunted something before trundling off.

Apparently he had flown out there to watch some hot Turk play; I had to laugh a few days later when I heard the game had been postponed! 🤣
 
A brief chat with Gary Megson in Moss Bros St Anne’s Sq, Manchester, just after he left us.

John Thaw also in Manchester, big smile when I said hi. Always liked him.

Steve Harrison walking down Wembley Way when we played Scunthorpe. I’d had a few and so had my brother, who at the time was coached by him. Amusing just for the bemused look on his face.

Ronaldo and his cousin in his very early days at Man U, in Flannagans, Wilmslow.

Peter Schmeichel and a very young Kasper at the Amblehurst in Sale, just after he signed for Man U. Huge guy.
 
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Davepick said:
Don't know if they can be called 'Random', but I met the following:-
Dustin Hoffman, Des O'Connor, Roger Whittaker, Sultan of Brunei,
Princess Di's Father and Step Mother, King Constantine of Greece (Prince Philips Uncle).The 2 SMs.
Quite a number of Pop Groups, Rolling Stones. The Who & a few others I can't remember.
It was a long time ago.
All to do with work of course. 😉
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You re right then. Not random at all😁
 
I just played golf with an ex Blackpool player today.

I won’t say the name of the player but he said Owen was actually alright! He wasn’t as tasteful about Karl though, he said he was an absolute ** and whenever he’d be asked to go back for a game he’s refused as he hated them.

We had a couple of beers after the game and he told me stories about Gazza, Daglish, Beardsley and Georgie Best!
 
Swimming in Derby and Shaun Barker was in the changing room - had an awkward chat about Blackpool whilst he was stood there starkers 🙄
 
A near miss.
One Sunday morning early 70's, Bobby Charlton came round my house, and I WAS OUT, playing football!
My dad sold veg and salad from the house and Bobby, and his daughter, who later became a TV weather presenter, came round to buy some....and I missed him.
 
Mark_GT said:
In a small restaurant on hols in Corfu with the current Mrs GT. The woman on the next table stood up and inadvertently pushed her arse in my face. Imagine my surprise when it was none other than Morecambe and Wise legend and all round national treasure Angela Rippon. Still looking good 😍
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I bumped into AR whilst she was filming in Cornwall a few years ago, she was wearing white cotton trousers with minute white panties and as stated looked terrific!
 
Wizaard said:
I once went in the Taps and Colin Hendry wasn't in there...
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In was having a quiet pint one afternoon in a sparsely attended Taps when Frank Carson came in. He quietly slipped into a corner seat almost unrecognised. Actually, that's a lie. He burst open the door and loudly declared "I'll fight any man in here!"
 
I was in the Buxton Pavilion Gardens, it was pouring down and a lady in a plastic Mac came up to me and asked where the bus stopped for Derby. I said “I recognise you”. She said “Oh never mind that now”. I told her where the bus stop was then realised after she had left that it was Shirley Williams, one of the 4 founders of the SDP.
 
Happychap said:
Leo Sayer in WH Smith, big hair, small body, Michael Parkinson, on a narrow footpath in Berkshire where he lives, he stood aside and said "Good Afternoon", and Tommy Cooper in London, who tucked something into the top pocket of a beggar " and said " have a drink on me". It turned out to be a teabag.
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As a kid I bumped into Les Dawson in the newsagents a few times, and I delivered his papers in Islay Rd for a while. I bumped into Leo Sayer when he came out of a side door down a back alley in London in the 80s. Collar up and wearing shades. Also encountered Bananarama around the same time, came out of a building and got into a black cab. I made a pizza for Barry from Brookside in 1989 when I briefly worked in Pizza Express. I've bumped into various Corrie actors around Manchester over the years, Ken, Curly, Steve McDonald, Gail, Maria. Alex Higgins in a bookies in West Didsbury. I walked into bar in Manchester early 90s after seeing a Devo gig and Devo were in there playing pool. Had a chat with them. Surreal but great moment. Martin Platt from Corrie was at that gig! I've also chatted to Gil Scott Heron and John Cooper Clarke at gigs. And I got introduced to Clive Lloyd at a charity event once and got stuck talking to him for about half an hour, which was hard work - a nice man of very few words. I sat in a BBC ringside seat at a world title fight at the GMex once, next to Gary Mason, and chatted the whole time - really nice fella. Frank Warren came over and chatted after the main fight. I don't think hey realised I'd just skanked a seat from a mate at the bbc and had never been to a fight before. I predicted the Manc fighter would lose early on when he was well on top. The German guy was battered and bleeding but looked kind of indestructible. He just kept going and waited for his opponent (McKenzie?) to get tired.
 
dave1772 said:
Peter Hook at a service station on M6 after seeing New Order at NEC
Bernard Sumner mooching around Hull before a gig
All of Kraftwerk wandering round Vienna, again before a gig.
I also once served Jeremy Kerr out of A Certain Ratio a burger and cuppa on Blackpool prom during the lights.
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I worked with Martin Moscrop from ACR at Manchester College.
 
Wizaard said:
And another for Manchester Christmas Market meeting Martin Platt and his artisan cheese.
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We also saw him at Camperfest Taste food festival on Chester Racecourse pre Covid. I said to the Mrs isn't that one of your soap puppets. 😂
 
1966_and_all_that said:
In was having a quiet pint one afternoon in a sparsely attended Taps when Frank Carson came in. He quietly slipped into a corner seat almost unrecognised. Actually, that's a lie. He burst open the door and loudly declared "I'll fight any man in here!"
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I'd forgotten about Frank, I nearly pulled his arm off opening a door as he also had the other handle in his hand, can't remember what he said but he cracked something to that effect & howled.
 
TimperleyTangerine said:
A brief chat with Gary Megson in Moss Bros St Anne’s Sq, Manchester, just after he left us.

John Thaw also in Manchester, big smile when I said hi. Always liked him.

Steve Harrison walking down Wembley Way when we played Scunthorpe. I’d had a few and so had my brother, who at the time was coached by him. Amusing just for the bemused look on his face.

Ronaldo and his cousin in his very early days at Man U, in Flannagans, Wilmslow.

Peter Schmeichel and a very young Kasper at the Amblehurst in Sale, just after he signed for Man U. Huge guy.
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I am certain Schmeichel lived in Bramhall in a small cul de sac off Robins Lane….nothing exceptionally fancy but nice enough and very close to the Main Railway Line.I would often take a run around there in my “ jogging days” now its just a walk by ☹️.Kasper attended Hulme Hall School in Cheadle Hulme( *)and according to our next door neighbours one of Wayne Rooney‘s Kids currently attends Cheadle Hulme Grammar School Juniors where their two kids attend.Might explain the need for his salary😉
Dwight York also lived in Bramhall on Bramhall Park Road in a large detached house( no.42) which I believe was actually owned by the club itself at the time.
A very “Well gated property” which is about a 10 minute walk for us and often pass wondering if any footballers have used it since.The family almost directly opposite ( no.47) are huge City fans given all the stuff in their garden😀.

(*)the school sold the land it was on for new housing to built and are now in Stockport town centre.
 
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Met many and bumped into many a famous person over the years but most recent was the one and only and famous Blackpool Fan Andy Grice who I bumped into in Las Vegas just a couple of weeks ago ... That was a heavy night ... Night after was Michael Buble but Andy was the stand out chance meeting ..
 
WLDTangerine said:
I just played golf with an ex Blackpool player today.

I won’t say the name of the player but he said Owen was actually alright! He wasn’t as tasteful about Karl though, he said he was an absolute ** and whenever he’d be asked to go back for a game he’s refused as he hated them.

We had a couple of beers after the game and he told me stories about Gazza, Daglish, Beardsley and Georgie Best!
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Doesn't count if you don't name him WLD :)
 
Terry Hall (The Specials) about 1982 on a beach in Spain.
I went over for his autograph and it was actually his bloody doppelganger who said "al-reet char".
I lived in knobbersville then and met up with him several times as he didn't support them.
 
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