Brian Fantana
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[Misc] Celebrity - Lovely or Shit
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Blinkers
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- Jul 8, 2020
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Lovely - Richard Hawley. The actor who played Johnny Conner in Coronation Street, DS Haskins in Prime Suspect and the Deputy PM in Love Actually is my next door neighbour. Thoroughly lovely gent. Heās responsible for me having a āBacon Numberā of 3 (Google it)(caveat, Iām not an actor).
Shit - Not going to mention the name. Another local actor whoās been in Coro recently but since left. I have heard rumours that his attempts to raise spirits during COVID lockdown didnāt go down too well with local residents
Shit - Not going to mention the name. Another local actor whoās been in Coro recently but since left. I have heard rumours that his attempts to raise spirits during COVID lockdown didnāt go down too well with local residents
Lovely.. ancelotti, sat next to him at a restaurant a few years ago and was with parents, who were completely embarrassing and approached him at the end of the night. He was very nice, taking pics and having a laugh, I was mortified though and stood outside!
Lovely .. many many years ago had a very brief chat with Ben stiller and Owen Wilson who helped me and my friend impress some layyydees by pretending to know us in a club. Coogan was hanging out with them as well. This was 15 or so years ago when London only had 2 or 3 private member's clubs. Now every other place markets themselves as that.
Lovely.. unlikely pairing Tommy Fraser and jailbird lee Hughes hanging out together in a club. Sat with them for a good hour they bought all the drinks, just both very down to earth but I guess they are hardly big ballers. I felt sorry for Hughes he had made one big mistake that had changed his whole life.
Thought was shit but was lovely .. very random one but got in a fight with Finley quaye in a club once (I didn't know who he was) I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about but I was definitely in the wrong. He was lovely though, calmed me down and stopped me from getting kicked out. I listened to 'even after all' the other day, still sounds amazing.
A few people have mentioned gaffney. I've seen him at Soho house a few times and he seems really nice. People take the piss out of him incessantly and he takes the banter really well. Idris Elba is always at Soho house as well.
I really can't think of any shits. I remember sherringham and Anderton were twats from my bmuff clubbing days but that's only because people were taking the piss out of them. Sherringham could barely strong a sentence together, thick as two short planks.
Lovely .. many many years ago had a very brief chat with Ben stiller and Owen Wilson who helped me and my friend impress some layyydees by pretending to know us in a club. Coogan was hanging out with them as well. This was 15 or so years ago when London only had 2 or 3 private member's clubs. Now every other place markets themselves as that.
Lovely.. unlikely pairing Tommy Fraser and jailbird lee Hughes hanging out together in a club. Sat with them for a good hour they bought all the drinks, just both very down to earth but I guess they are hardly big ballers. I felt sorry for Hughes he had made one big mistake that had changed his whole life.
Thought was shit but was lovely .. very random one but got in a fight with Finley quaye in a club once (I didn't know who he was) I cannot for the life of me remember what it was about but I was definitely in the wrong. He was lovely though, calmed me down and stopped me from getting kicked out. I listened to 'even after all' the other day, still sounds amazing.
A few people have mentioned gaffney. I've seen him at Soho house a few times and he seems really nice. People take the piss out of him incessantly and he takes the banter really well. Idris Elba is always at Soho house as well.
I really can't think of any shits. I remember sherringham and Anderton were twats from my bmuff clubbing days but that's only because people were taking the piss out of them. Sherringham could barely strong a sentence together, thick as two short planks.
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Love:
Nigel Kennedy who I met on a train coming back from a match up North. We chatted football all the way back to London and he bought me a drink. Fine chap he was.
Shit:
A nameless international cricketer who, when I was 14 and asking him for his autograph, made me carry his kit coffin all the way to his car before he would give it to me.
Nigel Kennedy who I met on a train coming back from a match up North. We chatted football all the way back to London and he bought me a drink. Fine chap he was.
Shit:
A nameless international cricketer who, when I was 14 and asking him for his autograph, made me carry his kit coffin all the way to his car before he would give it to me.
Quality typo there!
Nettles was very well known about town when I lived in Jersey, donāt recall anyone moaning about him including several friends who had extras roles in the show.
Lenny Rider
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Dean has to a degree been used and then spat out by the system, Amy did Celebs Go Dating (?) with him on Ch 4 and said underneath he was a really nice bloke.
I met Nettles when he was doing Panto in Manchester in the mid 1980ās at the height of Bergerac and was the perfect Gentleman.
Taking Cilla and the other serial offenders out I think this thread is more about catching celebs on the right or wrong day.
David Walliams has attracted a fair bit of bad press over the years yet when he came to read his childrenās stories to the kids at Chestnut Tree House he was a delight and then within hours of his visit the Hospice received a significant (5 figure) anonymous donation.
Oh FFS! Okay, theyāre all brilliant people and bloody good eggs. Obviously Iāve made the whole lot up. Youāre right and Iām wrong.
God forbid people have different experiences of people. That could never happen.
āMeeewh, I met him and I thought he was really lovelyā
Well I met him and I thought he was a ****.
God forbid people have different experiences of people. That could never happen.
āMeeewh, I met him and I thought he was really lovelyā
Well I met him and I thought he was a ****.
Greg Bobkin
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Mrs Bobkin met Bobby Zamora many moons ago when she worked at the Alex Ave she said he was shi... a bloody lovely bloke 
Seeing the international cricketer reference above, years ago when he was still playing for Essex I was leaving the ground after a T20 game and saw Ravi Bopara in the garden of The Cricketerās taking selfies with all and sundry, seemed a lovely chap.
Not sure his Essex teammates heād left waiting on the coach agreedā¦
Not sure his Essex teammates heād left waiting on the coach agreedā¦
JamesAndTheGiantHead
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I said hello to Dave Benson Phillips in a park in Worthing when I was about 14 and he replied āf*** offā.
It absolutely made my day, so letās put him in ālovelyā.
It absolutely made my day, so letās put him in ālovelyā.
Lenny Rider
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And thatās the point old boy, a lot of the time itās about how you catch them on the specific day.
Not on the Cilla scale but I was once told National hero Sir Bobby Charlton wasn't that āfan friendlyā
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'Grumpy old Bastard' was the phrase I heard Lenny, but then we've all had days like that, haven't weAnd thatās the point old boy, a lot of the time itās about how you catch them on the specific day.
Not on the Cilla scale but I was once told National hero Sir Bobby Charlton wasn't that āfan friendlyā
Iām going to have one of those āideal dinner guestā nights with this lot and get to the bottom of it.
If Cilla is a no-show Iāll know I was right.
If Cilla is a no-show Iāll know I was right.
You are, of course, right.And thatās the point old boy, a lot of the time itās about how you catch them on the specific day.
Not on the Cilla scale but I was once told National hero Sir Bobby Charlton wasn't that āfan friendlyā
Donāt worry, some days even I donāt agree with me
Mine are, to a degree, BHAFC related.
2x lovelies- Norman Cook, a spectacularly decent geezer and Sid (Gary) from CBeebies who I sat next to at a few games in The Championship - funny, modest, great with kids and genuinely does loads for charity.
Shit - Teddy Maybank unfortunately. Got pissed and tried to fight half the pub,
2x lovelies- Norman Cook, a spectacularly decent geezer and Sid (Gary) from CBeebies who I sat next to at a few games in The Championship - funny, modest, great with kids and genuinely does loads for charity.
Shit - Teddy Maybank unfortunately. Got pissed and tried to fight half the pub,
He held the door open for me at a coffee shop in Glasgow. Thatās my only vague famous person interaction.
And I know for a fact* that David Attenborough kicks ducks up the arse for fun when he thinks nobody is watching.
*I donāt know this.
*I donāt know this.
Spiros
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Iām going to put Chris Eubank in both categories from personal experience.
Shit: back in the days when you could drive across the front of Brighton station there were disabled bays at the front. Just as I was crossing into the station I saw Eubank berating a warden who had asked him not to park there. He was giving it the worst possible ādonāt you know who I am?ā routine, it was embarrassing to see.
Gold: only a few months later we joined the check in queue for our Monarch flight to Alicante only to see Eubank with his missus and kids about 3 groups ahead of us in the queue. A member of check in staff spots him and invites him to leave the queue and check in at the premium desk. Eubank not only refused but points to people in the queue in front of him and very politely suggests that they check them in instead. I heard him say āI have the same tickets as these people and they were here before me ā. On the flight he was about 3 rows in front of us and dealt with a constant stream of kids and blokes approaching him and was nothing other than great with everybody for a 2 hour flight. Posed for photos, signed autographs and just was a top bloke. Completely changed my opinion of him
Shit: back in the days when you could drive across the front of Brighton station there were disabled bays at the front. Just as I was crossing into the station I saw Eubank berating a warden who had asked him not to park there. He was giving it the worst possible ādonāt you know who I am?ā routine, it was embarrassing to see.
Gold: only a few months later we joined the check in queue for our Monarch flight to Alicante only to see Eubank with his missus and kids about 3 groups ahead of us in the queue. A member of check in staff spots him and invites him to leave the queue and check in at the premium desk. Eubank not only refused but points to people in the queue in front of him and very politely suggests that they check them in instead. I heard him say āI have the same tickets as these people and they were here before me ā. On the flight he was about 3 rows in front of us and dealt with a constant stream of kids and blokes approaching him and was nothing other than great with everybody for a 2 hour flight. Posed for photos, signed autographs and just was a top bloke. Completely changed my opinion of him