Who is the most famous person you have ever met?

[Cheeky Monkey]

Used to work for Richard and Judy.

Do you know Gareth Jones?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Michael Bloomberg - current mayor of NY and one of the 25 richest men in the world once flew to London to see me. Yes indeedy.

 

[cuthbert]

Santa

 

[El Presidente]

I met Johnny Marr at a party thrown by the guy who build his house. Spent the whole evening listening to tales about life on the road with The Smiths (Mozza is truly a contrary bastard but very funny), The The (DON'T mess with Matt Johnson), Electronic (Too E'd out to remember much of it) and so on.

When I used to do local breakfast and evening TV met some of Manchester's Z list specials, Brian and Michael (LS Lowry song at number 1), the Nolan Sisters (utterly slutterly), Frank Sidebottom, The Gaslight Anthem, Mike Summerbee and most of Corrie.

I also signed up Nedum Onuoha to Uni when he was 18 to do evening classes, and had to convince Stuart Pearce that it would not interrupt too much with training.

In 1978 I was the first person to tell Ian Botham he had been picked for England, as was collecting cricket autographs outside the Langlands hotel in Hove, and the team was announced at 11am, just before he came out for a stroll with Sir Viv prior to a JPT game.

Best of all was meeting Peter Canning.

 

[Sir Norman Gull]

The late Lord Colin Cowdrey, a genuinely nice person.He gave me a brace of pheasants from the boot of his car after one of his pheasant shoots on the Arundel Estate. He also introduced me to his son Chris once who was en route to David Gower's stag night.

 

[scooter1]

I asked out, and got turned down by Loiuse Nurding(Redkanpp) whilst she was in Eternal. I've met Slash a few times as part of work, similar with Paul Weller

 

[FamilyGuy]

Gina Gee - oooh ah just a little bit - bought me 2 pints of stella

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOqtDtUEpVM

Craig Stadler bought me a beer in the PGA tent at the Open in Sandwich several years ago - it was me that told him that he'd missed the cut that year!

Sub-genre, who's the most famous person who has bought you a beer?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The The (DON'T mess with Matt Johnson)

Thread closed.

 

[Jonno]

Jimmy Hill, Botham, Lee & Herring, Kevin Eldon, saw Steve Coogan at Gatwick once. Met the winner of the Ukrainian Pop Idol type programme but had no f***ing idea who he was.

 

[Giraffe]

Geoff Hurst, Gordon Banks, Eddie Carson, Prince Phillip, Princess Anne, Mendoza, Adam Woodyatt (the bloke that plays Ian Beale on Eastenders), Tessa Sanderson, David Wilkie

 

[Mendoza]

Not sure who is the most famous out of this lot I have met

Geoff Hurst
Phil Taylor
Fabio Capello
David Blunkett (+dog)
John Barnes
Brett Lee
Mushtaq Ahmed
Barry McGuigan

 

[Badger]

Steve Coogan
Noel Gallagher
Paul Brooker!

 

[tonymgc]

Dave Grohl.
Plenty of Brighton players over the years, Spent a night on Sammy Nelsons sofa once (used to work with his son) & most recently accosted Ben Roberts at Clacket Lane services.
Also my cousin used to be on Eastenders.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

David Blunkett (+dog)

Lucy or Sadie?

He was with Lucy when I met him.

 

[de la zouch]

Prince Charles - charity event
David Cameron - ashes hospitality

But my favourite was an afternoon drinking with Alan Brazil and Ronnie Irani

 

[Barrow Boy]

Mick Doohan
Carl Fogarty
Jamie Whitham
Jimmy Greaves (pissed next to him in the Goldstone East Terrace bogs!)
Windsor Davies (It aint half hot mum) Gatwick departure lounge bar 1977.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I met to Tony Blair on a flight from LHR to Brussels in 1993/4.

Meeting Peter Canning at Tranmere this season was fairly memorable too.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Probably Lars Ulrich.

 

[footychick]

Liam Brady
Nigel Kennedy

 

[Hunting 784561]

I met Kim Jong Il at a neighbours barbecue in Penge, SE London.