Celebrities/sportsmen/sportswomen in Unlikely Places

[Dorset Seagull]

Would that be Queen Victoria? I thought George Street had been open for donkey's years.

There you go

https://youtu.be/4NHnYcrMTfU

 

[aftershavedave]

Former Beirut hostage John Mcarthy at Dyke Road Park with his daughter in about 2009.

Nice chap started conversation with me before I realised who he was.

I guess he must have been desperate to talk to just about anyone having been incarcerated so long?

 

[Is it PotG?]

Former Beirut hostage John Mcarthy at Dyke Road Park with his daughter in about 2009.

Nice chap started conversation with me before I realised who he was.

McCarthy, Park.....did he give you a recipe for a cake?

 

[Weststander]

I saw her a few times in there back then.

Price was always in the Middle Street bar, the Berlin Bar (formerly Heneky's) in the mid 1990's, always with a Gladiator.

As with Eubank, Gunnell, Zoe Ball and Norman Cook, I've been in pubs, supermarkets and all the usual places in Brighton to Shoreham, many times.

Sounds like most other Brightonians posting here, have too.

Nothing special.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

What about YIng Tong John?

An attention seeking mate promised to arrange a MEAT, but unsurprisingly let me DOWN

 

[jakarta]

Lemmy and the entire Hawkwind band and road crew plus naked dancer Stacia in the Wing Wah Chinese takeaway in Worthing having met them in the dressing room at the Assembly hall after their gig 30 mins earlier and having had Lemmy sign my North Stand silk scarf.

That is an encounter I would pay good money to have seen. Was Stacia still with Del Dettmar (Hawkwind synth player for those what don't know) or had she embarked on her long term project to make teenage boys aware of what their meat and two veg were for?

 

[pearl]

Neil Ruddock in the Evening Star on a stag do about 6 months back. The least likely pub I'd think Razor would be in

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I saw him outside the Amex wearing a baby poo brown leather jacket

 

[pearl]

Bloody hell! That is a cracking claim to fame. That was, I believe, their very first gig in the UK. I only ever saw the Wee Papa Girl Rappers at the Carioca.

Oh yes indeedy their very first but meant little to me at the time.
Also The Detroit Emeralds of ' Feel the need in me ' fame on their introductory tour on night and sat chatting with them , really nice guys .

I remember the posters for REM at the Carioca ... I didn't go because I had no idea who they were!

 

[pearl]

Bloody hell! That is a cracking claim to fame. That was, I believe, their very first gig in the UK. I only ever saw the Wee Papa Girl Rappers at the Carioca.

Pepsi and Shirley (of Wham fame) in the bar of Victoria Stakis hotel Nottingham

Axe in the car park of Remingtons nightclub Houston

Steve Foster in the cafe by Hove Station

Ann Margret in the Spindletop restaurant of the Holiday Inn Houston

Who is Axe?

 

[jcdenton08]

Michael Aspel at Airborne in Eastbourne c.1993

My late Nana went out with Aspel in the 1970's

 

[jcdenton08]

Susan Boyle having a breakdown in Kings Cross station

Details please!

 

[whitelion]

Who is Axe?

They were a rock band based in Texas.

They were supporting Cheap Trick and Asia at the Summit Houston and one of my main reasons for attending - I was late for their act but I went to the nightclub after the show but got there as it was closing.

Axe were in this stretch limo in the car park and I had a conversation with them. They invited me to their hotel for God knows what sort of party but I declined as I was staying with a female friend living locally.

 

[Gwylan]

I thought this was about sportspeople in unlikely places but if you're talking celebrities, the most bizarre encounter I've had was in a Chinese restaurant in Chiswick. It was my then girlfriend's birthday and we'd been out having a few drinks and hadn't bothered to book anywhere. We turned up at the restaurant which wasn't exactly heaving, there was just one table occupied.

We sat down and then realised the group at the other table included Jimmy Ruffin. What's more: he overheard us talking about my girlfriend's birthday and came over to sing a song for her - it was all rather embarrassing.

 

[El Presidente]

Carl Griffiths (yes that one from Orient) on holiday in Cyprus for a week

Peter Hook at the gym once or twice a week, remarkably good shape for a bloke in his 60's.

The Nolan Sisters on Breakfast TV, along with Brian and Michael (Matchstick Men and Dogs Number 1).

Johnny Marr at a party for an evening.

Morrissey in HMV in Manchester

Gary Numan asked me where to find a decent kebab

Robbie Savage on the train back from London to Manchester, he borrowed my phone charger.

Have taught Tony Adams, Glenn Roeder, Ashley Giles, Dieter Hamann, Steve Maclaren, Tony Mowbray, Lee Carsley, Paul Hart and quite a few others

 

[pearl]

They were a rock band based in Texas.

They were supporting Cheap Trick and Asia at the Summit Houston and one of my main reasons for attending - I was late for their act but I went to the nightclub after the show but got there as it was closing.

Axe were in this stretch limo in the car park and I had a conversation with them. They invited me to their hotel for God knows what sort of party but I declined as I was staying with a female friend living locally.

That's a long way to go for a gig! No wonder they invited you to their party

 

[whitelion]

That's a long way to go for a gig! No wonder they invited you to their party

Haha.

I was over there on holiday at the time meeting up with friends I'd met in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Parchie]

William and harry in selfridges shoe dept

 

[Weststander]

Carl Griffiths (yes that one from Orient) on holiday in Cyprus for a week

Peter Hook at the gym once or twice a week, remarkably good shape for a bloke in his 60's.

The Nolan Sisters on Breakfast TV, along with Brian and Michael (Matchstick Men and Dogs Number 1).

Johnny Marr at a party for an evening.

Morrissey in HMV in Manchester

Gary Numan asked me where to find a decent kebab

Robbie Savage on the train back from London to Manchester, he borrowed my phone charger.

Have taught Tony Adams, Glenn Roeder, Ashley Giles, Dieter Hamann, Steve Maclaren, Tony Mowbray, Lee Carsley, Paul Hart and quite a few others

Does Hookie look too serious to chat with about his music?

 

[Weststander]

Was on the dance floor at Home nightclub Leicester Sq with Harry Enfield at the after party of Kevin & Perry. Also at that gig I bumped into Denise Van Outen who was posing for the paparazzi near one of the dance floors. As I slid past I saw Jamiroqui and struck up a conversation but he was so pissed he just asked me to get him a drink so we could sit and have a chat. Although it was a free bar it was about 4 deep so I decided to move on.

It was 4 deep BECAUSE it was a free bar.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Was introduced to Rick Wakeman last night in our local by a friend who knows him. Staying in area for a few days.