Close encounters with the famous

This is all very well, but nobody has claimed to have met Moog.

 

I meet him every time I look in the mirror.

 

I haven't met him, but my dad once fitted a car stereo for Graeme Souness as my uncle was mates with him.

 

Has he still not sussed that you fitted that one way mirror in his bathroom?

 

Seem to have had a load of encounters including:

Going back a long way and testing many people's age on here I had a Christmas job delivering the post in Rickmanworth and we covered West Hyde. **** van Dyke (Mary Poppins fame) was renting a house there and attacked us with snowballs when we delivered to him.
On another holiday job working at a petrol station in Denham met Cilla Black and Roger Moore.
When with the Inland Revenue I had a meeting with the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Dennis Healy - his eyebrows were truly unreal.
Elton John knocked my daughter over on the steps of the Watford Hilton (it was not a Hilton then) and picked her up again with a smiley sorry when we were celebrating the 1984 Cup Final.
I got to be on the BBC news and was falsely described as George Graham's lawyer again at the Watford Hilton as we were going up the steps together during his bung scandal.
Met George Bush in the White House on a guided tour there
Was introduced to the Queen - and helped her "check in" two passengers on an easyJet flight to Aberdeen when they opened the new terminal at London Luton Airport.
Chatted to Princess Anne - who was actually a really nice person at a golf reception at Loch Lomond in Scotland.
My wife "groped" Marty Pellow (? Wet,Wet Wet ?) when we were coming out of a theatre in London
Was on a TV programme called Escape to the Country presented by Nicki Chapman.

 

Ooh, Sting: did you escape to the country? The purchases never seem to happen...

 

Details please, it'll be on youtube somewhere. Year & location?

 

September 2009. Couple moving from Cassiobury Watford to Carmarthenshire. We got paid £1 for the show plus repeats - and they never actually paid up. We DID buy one of the houses shown. It is still shown from time to time on one of the odd channels - sometimes even on BBC2. They were really hot on us not wearing anything with a logo etc but I managed to get my Watford Mug showing

 

A couple from my youth on the Isle of Man I never mentioned earlier

Pam Ayres ... laid a patio
Norman Wisdom ... garden wall
Barry Sheen and lots of other motorbike racers, Dunlop, Heron, Hailwood etc, etc. I drank in the company of most of them as my mate Ralph also races and knew/knows everyone around bikes.

 

Found it. You've met Nikki Chapman then.

On another note, pugs are awesome.
This is my brother's, "Dug" He is always sad.

 

Am I the only one to feel that the "fourth wall" of the forum has been breached?

Looks like you used to live near my uncle, Sting. Mind you the houses in Cassiobury look quite similar in design, difficult to tell one street from another at a glance.

EDIT: I stand corrected. Meister has taken the vid down. The magic is preserved!!

 

A like for meeting Mike the Bike, the greatest ever rider, taken far too soon. By all accounts, I was conceived in IOM during his comeback in 78, my dad tried to name me Stanley Michael Bailey when I was born but my mum was having none of it. The dog got called Bailey instead but as he was a golden retriever, people thought it was because he looked like Baileys the drink!

 

I lived on Cassiobury Drive not many houses up from Ricky Road. Getting to Vicarage Road in those days was much easier than from Carmarthen. Yes best not to have the video here - I never watch it of course - far too embarrassing.

Mrs S has resisted getting another pug since we left Wales but gave in two weeks ago and we now have a baby pug called Bennett. He looks like a miniature version of Dug. Not my choice but she adores him. ( He is rather cute though )

 

Yes, my grandparents lived on CD. Before your time, though - 1970s. Uncle lives a couple of streets up.

 

Ha - looks like your parents are as bad as me and Mrs S. We have always told our daughter she has "fabrique en France" on her rear due to our holiday in the Dordogne.
Mind you my son who was born on 11th October never knows whether to believe me when I tell him if he had come a day earlier he would have been called Tintin (Ten Ten ?) He just says he would have been beaten up at school

 

Clive, you may be interested to know I once met SubCommandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatatistas who are the Chiapas Peasant Revolutionary party.

I was backpacking around Mexico in 95 , in San Cristobal where he was in secret talks with the government , when he started randomly walking the streets. He had been in hiding for years and many rumours were spreading he was dead. So when he showe d his face , within seconds he was surrounded by well wishers. I was walking alongside him pretending I was his compadre, but the charade didn't bear up because I'm not Mexican and I wasn't wearing a balaclava like he was.

Still got the pics somewhere.

 

Mike was loved by all on the island, he never hid behind an entourage as many of them did and still do now. I think Sheen was the worst for this but perhaps understandable as he put a lot of Manx noses out of joint by supporting the withdrawal of the TT's world championship status. It's reported he never raced there but any local will tell you he actually did, once pre fame and he fell off on the first corner (Quarterbridge). Of course he then never showed his face for years but as they say, time heals and the TT is too big a marketing opportunity for a serious bike builder to miss. My mate's dad Roger borrowed my bike on some pretext and phoned saying he blew the engine and was getting it fixed. That he was ... by Sheen's mechanics and afterwards my little RD 250 could easily outstrip it's bigger 350 brother and any other sub 400 cc around. A nice surprise but I nearly killed myself on it and lost my bottle for bikes, cars were much safer with the added advantage you could sha9 girls in them .

 

I love these sort of accounts. It never fails to surprise me just how much worldly experience our little band of forum posters collectively have.

 

There is an old game/story not sure which where you had up to 6 handshakes to connect with somebody. E.g If I shook hands with Fred and he had shaken hands with his friend who had shaken hands with Ed Miliband and he had shaken hands with Tony Blair then I am 4 handshakes away from Tony Blair.
If as a group any of us got together I reckon we would be six handshakes away from almost anyone.

 

I think he sits in the same block as me in LGT but nobody mentions his name

 

as many as six? .... my mum's also met the queen so by that measure you and I are practically related. Who of us older fans haven't shaken Elton and GT's hands at some time?

 

Pretty sure this is Moog.

 

When I was working in Whitehall, Nelson Mandela came to Trafalgar Square. My mate and I got out of a meeting too late and by the time we got there, the crowd waiting for him was huge so we decided to give up and go for a pub lunch and a couple of turns on the quiz machine. We cut through a service road down the side of the National Gallery just as a motorcade pulled up and out stepped Mr Mandela, right next to us. We managed to get a quick handshake before he walked off to address the crowd, and then carried on our way to play to the pub.

 

So you and I have shaken hands - two removed

 

Lol I can think of at least a dozen more, maybe I should just list who I haven't met .... I even had a hand in torturing Andy Gibb when we caught him trying to spark up our village bonfire.

anyway I've said enough, I'll let someone else have a go

 

Moot buys a season ticket for each of his accounts.

No wonder there are so many empty seats :dismay:

 

That makes you and I also two handshakes apart - do you live next door?
Agreed re EJ and GT - both have been very approachable across the years - unlike the Mazzarri

 

Not met him, but I know a Moog sympathiser

 

Another claim to fame is I probably met and watched John Barnes play before any of you lot. Not for Sudbury Court but North Wembley where my local barman a 5' 8" Iranian with the unlikely name of Tower was goalkeeper (and I think coach). I know he was pretty miffed when Sudbury nicked him and didn't pass on any of the £2000* we supposedly paid them. Of course his talent was obvious and I toyed with the idea of alerting the club myself but tbh I was very busy with my building and like most non work things back then it got put on the back burner. What I do know is once there JB probably played no more than three or four games for Sudbury it was that quick.

*Tower's figure which was considerably more than Wiki's "price of a set of kit" back then.

 

Coached Brian Bennett and Hank Marvin from The Shadows.

Know Sue Barker slightly.

Sat next to Dr Jonathan Miller twice,once on the tube,once on the next table in a restaurant in Florence.

Met Sir Stanley Rous at Vicarage Road when I was taken to the Directors Box by my sponsor in the '80s.

Fortunate to meet GT on a few occasions,lastly on the Circle Line.

A few other tennis players but not sure anyone is interested...!

 

Two days in a row I got on a Tube train at the exact same door and time as Barry Cryer was exiting. Both times at different stations.

 

[video=youtube;cjkkKO5Gsno]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjkkKO5Gsno[/video]

 

The STH behind me in the Upper Rous until a few years ago was Mick Woollett (RIP) , motorcycle GP journalist, owner/editor of Motor Cycle Weekly back in the day and mate to and author of Mike Hailwood's biography. Mick was a complete gent and I miss him. He was huge on Mike Hailwood and not so much on Barry Sheene.

 

Work in music so meet a few guys but not many that posters on here would consider "famous" haha.

Met Lewis Hamilton once at a gig that was pretty cool.

Also met Imran Khan at Islamabad airport about 10 years ago, that was quite surreal as he is a LEGEND.

 

Walked past Michael Gove today.

He looked every much the **%^# that he does on TV.