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nordicgod

Top banana
Jul 21, 2011
908
polegate
I went on a boat trip down the Thames yesterday and John kettley the weather man was on it .
 


RickofBHAFC

New member
Jul 27, 2004
269
Graham Hill (F1 World Champion back in the 1960's and FAR cooler bloke than Damon Hill) ran over my foot with the rear tyre of his Lotus 49 in the paddock at Oulton Park in 1967 - I was a star struck young fan too busy looking at all the F1 Cars and not looking where I was going.

Strangely I don't recall it hurt particularly, perhaps because they were big tyres, certainly didn't tell my Dad about it or would have got a clip around the ear for wandering off.

Also pretty certain Jack Brabham, Jochen Rindt and Jackie Stewart (also all F1 World Champions) drove at that meeting as well but none of them ran over my foot so can't claim any connection with them. :(

Graham Hill attended a school fete at Ifield Comprehensive school in Crawley when I was about 10 years old (around 1973) - he was signing autographs but a huge crowd round him and my friend (who was a mad keen motor racing fan) and I could not get anywhere near him. Once he had finished he disappeared inside the school with some of the school staff - my friend and I who did not go to that school broke into the school through a partially opened window and chased him down a corridor where we managed to stop him, have a chat and successfully got his autograph (which I still have some where). :thumbsup:

My other claim to fame is that I once shagged Dennis Waterman's niece! (If you can call that a claim?) :D:thumbsup:
 


Super Steve Earle

Well-known member
Feb 23, 2009
8,874
North of Brighton
I cashed cheques for Jimmy Page and Charlie Watts.
I was in the same Additional Maths class at Varndean as Steve Ovett.
 


Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
I lived a few doors down from Millie Clode (Ford) for two years and she came to a couple of my house parties.

Sammy Nelson took me to my first Albion game and he used to give my football team talks at half time. We lost most of the games which might explain why he works for Arsenal as a host.
 






Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,435
Worthing
I changed channels to check the footie and when I came back I thought the break was still on because Derek the meerkat was talking.
 


Everest

Me
Jul 5, 2003
20,741
Southwick
I've had Willie Carson, Pat Eddery, Frankie Dettori and Lester Piggott in the back of my cab, though not all at the same time and not in the gay way.
 






Seagull on the wing

New member
Sep 22, 2010
7,458
Hailsham
Had a drink of rum backstage with the Platters when they did a gig at Worthing.
Ushered Tom Jones on stage when he did his first Gig at the Pally just after he released Green ,Green Grass of home.
Met the soon to be 'Beatles' in Hamburg in the Indri club in early 1960s,bought John Lennon a drink....he never bought one back...tight or what..
Albion connections....Was doorman at a casino when in came one Bobby Smith.....

Other than that....I'm a precariat...
 






Tenngull

New member
Sep 15, 2003
80
Tennessee
When Marc Bolan was killed in a car accident I had a summer job at Scotland Yard and carried his blood sample to the lab to be tested for drugs/alcohol. (Yes, I know he wasn't driving, but they still tested it.)
 


Cars

New member
Feb 13, 2012
561
Haywards Heath
My partner has done Katie prices, Sam allardyce's, Fiona Bruce's, Rita ora's ( who ever the feck she is) Paul gasgoigne's and Kelly jones ( stereophonics singer) hair.
 










Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,888
West west west Sussex
Errol Brown owes me a fiver.
 


Bakero

Languidly clinical
Oct 9, 2010
14,830
Almería
My mate's dad did the illustrations for the Horrible Science AND History books.

I once went drinking with the host of the Slovakian version of Deal or No Deal.
 




cloud

Well-known member
Jun 12, 2011
3,036
Here, there and everywhere
I once sat at the same table as Bill Gates for lunch
I went to school with Annabel Croft
When I was pregnant I was in the same breastfeeding group as Mariella Frostrup
An ex of mine went out with Stanley Kubrik's daughter and Nick Cave's wife
I once met Tom Baker, gave him my (new) diary to get his autograph, he opened it up at a random page .. and signed on my actual birthday
 




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