famous people you have spoken too and what was they like

Good job you didn't shout Fat Bob at him ....

 

Can’t compete with the Queen, but a few

Letitia Dean - local pub regular
Keith Flint (Prodigy) - Heathrow Airport
Will Smith - Rick’s Cafe Jamaica
Couple of Spice Girls (pre fame) Reading Nightclub
Ian Botham - distant relative
Jamie Clapham - relative
Bobby Hassell - Friends Birthday party
Jim Rodwell - grew up with
Grant Brown - related
Graham Taylor - youth football
Tony Blair - Company worked on No.10
Robbie Fowler - worked in his property
Nick Knowles and crew - supplied labour on big project in Manchester.
Most of Ipswich team that beat us in play off final.
Robbie Williams, Steps and S Club 7 through children’s charity.

 

Yep she was one of them, seem to recall she was wearing a similar off shoulder jumper. Also seem to recall she was wearing skin tight leather jeans and heels. Not that I was taking much notice like.

 

He wasn't wearing his Mr clutch overalls

 

blimey you should write the new 50 shades of grey, 50 shades of red the story of a well travelled reds fan, a novel full of pork pie and blackpudding naughtiness

 

Spoke with both Nuno Bettencourt and Billy Sheehan on the same flight as me to LAX , both had plenty of time for us and chatted away , good lads

 

A long time ago I met Pele in a hotel bar in Milan ..... got his autograph too .... lovely guy, we chatted for ages (in a mixture of Portugese and Barnsley) - until the bar began to fill up with people then he politely excused himself.

 

Whilst walking down the production line at Jaguar in 1999, John Thaw was having a factory tour (Jag had just launched the S-Type and as Inspector Morse he famously drove a 1950s S-Type). I stopped and said hello and we shook hands and although we didn't get into a conversation, he had the broadest smile on his face like a small child in Santa's Grotto.

 

After getting off the bus at Wembley in 2000, me and my dad turned the corner and there was Dickie Bird, he was talking to anybody and everybody.

 

Swapped / shared newspapers with the late Alex Higgins whilst on holiday on Corfu. very shy and polite. He invited us to join his party for drinks at a taverna later that evening. Went to join him but taverna was quite full so gave it a miss.

 

In 1974 I was meeting my girlfriend at Newcastle station and went to the wrong platform. She was coming to see Pink Floyd at the Newcastle Odeon that night. As I walked down the platform I bumped into Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Dave Gilmour. I got their autographs on the cover of the album "You" by Gong which I'd just bought on the way to the station. Roger Waters said "You don't listen to that rubbish do you?".

 

Lucky you, that tops the list big time[/QUOTE]

 

As a relative of Keith's I think this story may be a little apocryphal. Keith lived in Higham Common road Higham, until he went to Liverpool at 17. Nobody with 19 kids lived next door and I've never heard Keith, Reg & Beatty (parents) or his four older sisters ever tell this story. I'll ring him or his one surviving sister and get back to you.

 

Just banging tunes and DJ sets and
Dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness

 

Story my grandma told me who was one of the 19 and lived in Higham

 

Sat on the table next to Craig Charles at Manchester airport once. My then wife was nutty about him, even called our oldest lad Craig. Anyway she was in the toilets and me and my two lads were sat there, never said a word, she came back and went doolally. She got a selfie with Mr Charles and he was really friendly and pleasant, very chatty and quite amiable.

 

Either way, you've got to admire somebody getting the word "apocryphal" into a football forum thread, in context too.

 

Also sat at the next table to Jeremy Kyle and his son in Heidis in Windsor. That's not a lie either

 

19 kids!!! wow, your Grandad and Nannan were busy lol

 

Chris Bisson off Emmerdale, in Nerja in Spain. Bumped into him early morning walking down to Burriana Beach. What a lovely man. Turns out him and Keith Duffy from Boyzone we’re on a stag do with a load from Hanley in Stoke. Saw them at a bar on the beachfront that night but didn’t go up to them, cameras flashing everywhere. Him and Keith Duffy were smiling, laughing and having their picture taken with anybody that wanted. Keith Duffy seemed a top bloke too.

DI Jack Meadows off The Bill (Simon Rouse). Was behind him and his wife in the queue to get in at Earls Court to see Fleetwood Mac. Spoke to them once we got inside, they were so lovely. I asked his wife to get in for a photo with my wife and him, but she insisted I did instead and she took the picture.
George Best - him, his son Callum and his then girlfriend Mary Shatila. At Waterstones in Albion Street in Leeds between 1989 and 1992( cant remember which year). I was first in queue, at lunchtime, so had a 5 to 10 minute chat with them. Awestruck and couldn’t believe I shook hands with George Best. Signed his autobiography (The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly). He also signed my dad’s George Best Soccer Annual 1968 that I took with me to show him. Amazing.
Sir Bobby Charlton. WH Smith’s in Meadowhall. Signed his autobiography, got two for Christmas that year for my dad and father in law. Minders we’re stopping people talking to him, but I mentioned Barnsley to him when he was signing the books. He looked up and we had a chat about it, he said Jackie lived there once and he was impressed when I knew it was Rockley. He stood up and shook my hand to have a picture taken. Lovely, nervous man.
Feargal Sharkey - when he came to town for Live in Barnsley. Was with him a few times during the day and at the pre-festival press event. Nice man, and he can shift his drink. Spoke to everybody and anybody that came up to him, never refused one autograph all day. Genuinely loved his day in tarn.