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[Sussex] Mingling with the Rich and Famous



SeagullinExile

SeagullinExile

Well-known member
Sep 10, 2010
5,699
London
Out in Melbourne back in 01-02 for an afternoon beer at The Charles Dickens Tavern, went for a wazz and noticed Pete Postlethwaite at the urinal next to me, I said, "I recognize you!" To which he replied - "You really shouldn't say things like that whilst we're both holding our cocks!"

Thoroughly nice bloke, even bought me a beer. Told me he was having a few beers before his early evening performance of Scaramouche at a local theater! Legend.
 






Pinkie Brown

Pinkie Brown

I'll look after the skirt
Sep 5, 2007
3,543
Neues Zeitalter DDR
Once gave directions to Emlyn Hughes when he was trying to find the Forte Hotel at Gatwick.
Once saw Lord Longford and Malcolm Muggeridge sitting together in first class on a train from Charing Cross to Hastings. Also Tom Baker on another occasion.
Jockeys Graham Bradley and Steve Smith-Eccles joined us on our table at an open day at Sandown Park once. Before Bradley was warned off for dodgy dealings I should add. He was okay but Smith-Eccles was a loud mouthed tosspot.
 
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GREASED WEASEL

New member
Dec 10, 2017
2,893
Brief chats with Nigel Mansell & Ian Botham (two of my heroes,that will do for me)

Was on the same plane as Robert Plant once,but never said anything (didn't want to disturb him,regretted ever since)

Shook hands with Linda Lusardi back in her pomp (never seen another woman like her since,stunning)

Quite a few other racing drivers,Hill,Herbert,Alesi & Mario Andretti (very small man,but a giant of a driver)
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
70,211
I once scored a signed photo of Roger De Courcey and Nookie The Bear. Nice lad Nookie. Roger, on the other hand, is a Palace bastid

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Bodian

Well-known member
May 3, 2012
11,837
Cumbria
Met Frank Bruno, Annie Lennox and Prince Charles at a Princes Trust charity launch many years ago. The latter was the only one without a name badge - so I asked him who he was. 'Ha, ha, very droll' came the response, which I quite admired really.

When Teresa May was Home Secretary she whisked passed me in a corridor at speed with a huge armful of (presumably) important papers - it wasn't till she was gone that I realised I had missed an ideal opportunity to create a comedy moment by 'accidentally' tripping her up. It would have been so easy.

And what is it about lifts? Met Boris Becker in a hotel lift - and simply didn't know what to say. So didn't say anything (this was in his paying days) - what a waste.
 


Justice

Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
18,660
Born In Shoreham
Some years ago I did some work for a duchess we became quite friendly for a while. Couple of years ago I did a job in Chelsea for ELO they all stayed in the same apartment and to be honest only one wasn’t up himself, the wives complete nightmares.
 






lawros left foot

lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
Jun 11, 2011
13,726
Worthing
I was in the same train carriage as Patrick Moore.

There was a kid , about 8 years old running up down the aisle , shouting, and generally being obnoxious. His Mummy was doing nothing to stop him, “oh, Quentin, please sit down, “ that type of thing.

As the kid ran past Patrick Moore, he surreptitiously put his foot out and tripped the kid up. Quentin landed with a bang, Mummy picked him up and sat him on the seat, and Patrick Moore, realising that I had seen him trip Quentin, gave me a sly little smile.
There wasn’t another peep out of Quentin for the rest of the journey.
 


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Brownstuff

Well-known member
Feb 21, 2009
1,504
Hove
Nigel Farage at the Rose Bowl cricket ground during a test match against Sri Lanka
He came over to us lot on a stag do to have a chat whilst supping a beer of course
I didn't talk to him because I am an unsociable sod but my mates did
 








RossyG

RossyG

Well-known member
Dec 20, 2014
2,630
Cowfold Seagull said:
I hope that isn't a Palarse rosette that Roger has pinned on poor Nookie.

Cruelty to animals if it is.
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It is, but I got his autograph once and he's a nice guy.

He signed it Roger & Nookie with the double O as cross eyes.

Lousy taste in football, though.
 




Cowfold Seagull

Cowfold Seagull

Fan of the 17 bus
Apr 22, 2009
21,643
Cowfold
Tom Hark said:
Indeed. Far more animal-cruel than Roger sticking his hand up Nookie's arse for public consumption. Is there no END to the depravity of the man? ???
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Yes l do worry for poor old Nooks to be honest, l wonder where he is now? stuck in a cupboard somewhere by Roger l suppose.

Nookie Bear, my all time third in glove puppetry, only just beaten by Sweep, and Emu.
 


KZNSeagull

KZNSeagull

Well-known member
Nov 26, 2007
19,819
Wolsingham, County Durham
Quite a few came into my shop in SA, the most famous of which was John Cleese. Others included half the Natal Sharks rugby team (the Du Plessis brothers had to sidle through the door sideways as they were so wide), Shaun Pollock, Tony Johnstone the golfer and Blade Nzimande, the minister for Higher Education and leader of the SA Communist Party who, as a committed Communist, was staying at the most expensive hotel in the area and being driven around in his chauffer driven top of the range Merc (nice bloke though, used to buy loads of handmade pens as he said that every time he went to a cabinet meeting, they got pinched).

Other than that I have met the old Speaker of the HoC George Thomas (Viscount Tonypandy), went to a wedding that was attended by Frank Bough, saw George Takai sitting in the window of the restaurant opposite the Dome, walked past Richard Briers in North Street and bumped into Roy Hattersley on the train to Brighton who, as a committed socialist, was sitting in first class.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
70,211
Cowfold Seagull said:
Yes l do worry for poor old Nooks to be honest, l wonder where he is now? stuck in a cupboard somewhere by Roger l suppose.

Nookie Bear, my all time third in glove puppetry, only just beaten by Sweep, and Emu.
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Hmm...contentious. I'd have Sweep just out of the medal places in favour of Spit The Dog. Sounds like we need a POLL
 


ManOfSussex

ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
14,748
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
I got off a train one Friday in 1999 at Battle station and walked along the platform and over the footbridge chatting to Desmond Llewelyn aka 'Q' from the James Bond films, having found myself right by him upon getting off. I asked him if he'd seen the upcoming 'The World Is Not Enough' to which he said he hadn't and that he only had a very small role in it. I said to him that a Bond film without him in it what not be the same and he thanked me. Lovely guy. He sadly died about a month-or-so later. :(
 








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