Your weakest claim to fame?

Rotterdam+Sussex_Seasider said:
Right, here goes with my rubbish claims to fame:
1. Went to school with Chris Lowe (of Pet Shop Boys) brother and one of Sir Jimmy's sons
2. Went to an Old Boys do and Sir Jimmy was there. I got chatting to him and told him how good his book was. He told me to bring the nook round to sign the next day - the great man had assumed I knew where he lived (which I did)!
3. In the No 3 at Xmas eve one year. Chris Lowe's brother had joined us. When he left, my mate said "do you know who was with him?" I said no. It was Chris and he happened to be Xmas No 1 and I (along with rest of pub) had ignored him
4. Played football against Jason Euell and I kicked him off the park.....well, he was only 15! I believe a very young Rio Ferdinand was in the same game
5. Played football against Neil Arthur of Blancmange (I think for London Blackburn Rovers supporters)
6. Got a lift home from Alan Simpson, comedy writer of Steptoe & Son fame. I don't think he was under the limit!
7. At the 1982 World Cup, I told Kenny Sansom's mum to bugger off. We were waiting for the England coach to arrive at the ground and she tried to barge in. We were embarassed when Kenny shouted "Hello Mum!"

I am sure there are more. But that will do!!
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Oh, and I have been a victim of our very own Sooty’s water pistol.
 
Got asked to find 11 golfing mates to drive the USA Ryder Cup around when they played at Royal Lytham in the 1970’s.
They gave us 12 white Austin Princesses and we all had a ball that week speeding around Lytham St Annes in the evenings and taking them from hotel to course during the day and their wives shopping in Manchester.
The Yanks found out that we didn’t get paid for doing it so they invited to the Clifton Hotel in Lytham for celebratory drinks after they had beaten the Brits.
We were there,in what seemed like a fantasy world, with Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson etc behind the bar in a private room serving us drinks! Happy days!
 
I once picked up Jimmy Tarbuck’s golf ball just outside the fence palings on the 3rd hole? at St-Annes Old Links course and handed it back to him.
He wasn’t very happy at first and made me put it back exactly where it was so they could confirm it was actually ‘out of bounds’, which it was.
He was great after that and gave me his autograph.
 
Had a piss in corporate after the players awards night late on, after the perfect 10, next but one to Keigan Parker who was rather refreshed & was singing his own song to himself 😂 D D D D….. KP
 
I have Victor Sylvester's autograph. Somewhere!

(for those younguns, he was a famous bandleader).

My Dad was an original redcoat at Butlin's first holiday camp, Skegness, 1936.
 
Matesrates said:
I thought we’d done this before, but if we haven’t.

My first job in St. Annes, Cliff Richard walked past, surprised how small he was, this was in 1959. Since then served in my pubs.

Denis Waterman, became a mate for a time
Prince William
Euginie and friends
Stephanie Powers, lovely woman, down to earth, friendly with all the staff.
Joan Collins
Nick Faldo
Minnie Driver
Joe Brown

Pals with Asa Hartford, through him met Willie Donachie, Joe Royle, George Best, Alex Stepney.Lou Macari, Trevor Frances.

Walking around the Royal Windsor horse show with my brother in law, someone said excuse me, we turned round and it was The Queen, with her entourage about 10 feet behind her.
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Ooh talking of a walk past - early 80s I walked out of Springfield Road and came face to face with Babs Windsor who looked exactly as you’d expect - tight top, leopard skin trousers and high heels. Gave me a cheeky smile.
 
I used to work on a bar with a guy who went on to be a famous DJ and on Radio 1 and stuff like that (Eddie Halliwell) - he got sacked by the woman who ran the bar for doing impromptu DJ sessions after hours. I think he had the last laugh to be honest.

One of my best mates from school is on Sky Sports sometimes as a reporter. I occasionally send him updates on our players who move to Scotland cos he specialises in SPFL stuff.
 
Quite a few

1) my wife used to work with the band Bros’s Auntie Linda

2) I once saw Graham Souness’s arse as he rigorously towelled it in the changing room of a hotel swimming Pool in Cheshire. I then saw him again at Southampton airport when I flew to watch us at Portsmouth

3) I went to school with the younger brother of the guy from Pet shop boys

4) I got my picture taken with legend Wes Hoolahan on Saturday
 
When I was 15, I was one of the forming members of a group called the Senators. are they still going? ;)
 
I sat next to Farokh Engineer and Clive Lloyd at Wembley for The Sunderland V Leeds FA cup final and when Sunderland scored I was hugged by Farokh.

I also wished Paul Stewart good luck for our next game when I saw him in the record department in Boots in Blackpool.

I also gave Curtly Ambrose a load of light hearted banter as he went off a the end of Englands 50 overs at the Oval and he turned and growled at me, I nearly shit myself!

Was part of a group of touring cricket players who was responsible for getting a 15 year old Andrew Flintoff absolutely slaughtered at St Annes Cricket club when we were drinking the fixture back!!

Walked past Sue Pollard in Brighton and she looked like she needed a good bath!!

When I read the above I see I have led quite the celebrity lifestyle!! 🙃
 
I used to serve Roy Walker in the Blossoms when I worked behind the jump back in the 80's.

My art teacher, Reg Harper was Roy Harper's dad.

I had a beer and a chat with the band members of Idles before they were famous in the Portland Arms in Cambridge.

We used to see Arthur Askey and Val Doonican when we used to walk down to the Beach to play football. AA rented a house on Denford Avenue , St Annes (Timbertops should remember that) when he was doing Summer season in Blackpool. Not sure if Doonican was there at the same time or he rented the same house when he was doing shows there.
 
I once played for KGS First XV as wing forward against Cowley Grammar School (St. Helens) in ‘75-76. First attempted tackle, I got flattened by the Cowley stand-off running through, I mean almost KO’ed. We only lost by about 20 points that match, which was OK. Considering that the Cowley SO was a 17-year-old Mick Burke, who went on to play rugby league 307 times for Widnes and represented Great Britain with 15 caps.
 
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Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks took over a room and crashed in my student house for 5 weeks in ‘78 when the actual resident was shacked up with his girlfriend around the corner. We used to pass each other in the corridor, or bump into each other in the kitchen making late night snacks. But I never knew who he was until much later, after he had left. RIP Pete 😢
 
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In the late 90s, I once sat in Economy in a middle row of 5 on an American Airlines flight from Manchester to Chicago. Looking across at a family group, I asked the old bloke to my right “Is that Chris Waddle at the end of the row?”. “Aye, that’s me son”, said the old Geordie. I didn’t have the courage to ask him anything, especially about THAT penalty. I thought it unfair as he was on holiday.
 
bollieboy said:
A mate of mine's claim to fame was that when he was born his mum was in the next bed to Mrs Bobby Charlton who had just given birth to Suzanne Charlton (the future weather girl).

Hard to top that one.
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I was on the same graduation ceremony as Suzanne Charlton at Manchester University way back in the 90s. Afterwards, Bobby Charlton and I looked each other in the eye across a sea of heads in the quad outside. He quickly looked away, worried that because I had recognised him I would pester him... I didn’t.
 
I sat next to Sir Bob Geldof on the Heathrow-Manchester shuttle a few years ago, when he and the Rats were headlining the “Head for the Hills” festival in Ramsbottom. I had just got off a 12-hour flight from Tokyo and was knackered, but one look at the surly Irishman told me I should go to sleep. He is amazingly tall, by the way, about 6 feet 5 inches or so.
 
I once chatted up Jenny Eclair, when she was a student at Manchester Poly in ‘79, when we met in the corridor outside the basement bar in ManU students union. I had met her briefly when she was at QMS the year before. The trouble was that she was totally off her head and couldn’t even speak at all, so I gave up.
 
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Archibald Knox said:
I once chatted up Jenny Eclair, when she was a student at Manchester Poly in ‘79, when we met in the corridor outside the basement bar in ManU students union. I had met her briefly when she was at QMS the year before. The trouble was that she was totally off her head and couldn’t even speak at all, so I gave up.
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I can beat that. I was at Manchester Poly in 79. And DIDN’T meet Jenny Eclair!
 
MartonBornandBred said:
Shirley Williams MP once asked me where to catch a bus in Buxton.
Ken Dodd sat in front of me in the Octagon Theatre, Bolton.
Su Pollard sat in front of me at the Playhouse, Preston.
Went to an after show drinks backstage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and spoke to Dawn French.
My Dad once did a plumbing job for Lynne Carrol (Martha Longhurst in Coronation Street) and her husband (actor Bert Palmer) was sat in his armchair with his feet in a bowl of hot water.
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Oooh. Talking of buses. I saved Rod Hull from a bus in Piccadilly Gardens Manchester.

I said “Mind that bus!!”
 
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Christmas 2001 a woman pushed in front of me boarding a plane at Munich Airport, I turned round to give her and her husband a gobful then realised she was married to Kenny Dalglish.
 
I let Shaun Williamson (Barry from Eastenders) sleep on my bedroom floor for a few days when I lived in Tottenham in the 1980's. He was starting a course at drama school.
 
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