[Sussex] Mingling with the Rich and Famous

[SeagullinExile]

Out in Melbourne back in 01-02 for an afternoon beer at The Charles Dickens Tavern, went for a wazz and noticed Pete Postlethwaite at the urinal next to me, I said, "I recognize you!" To which he replied - "You really shouldn't say things like that whilst we're both holding our cocks!"

Thoroughly nice bloke, even bought me a beer. Told me he was having a few beers before his early evening performance of Scaramouche at a local theater! Legend.

 

[Jam The Man]

Actually George bumped into you first, but changed it with CGI 20 years later.

One for the Star Wars nerds...

Like it!

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Once gave directions to Emlyn Hughes when he was trying to find the Forte Hotel at Gatwick.
Once saw Lord Longford and Malcolm Muggeridge sitting together in first class on a train from Charing Cross to Hastings. Also Tom Baker on another occasion.
Jockeys Graham Bradley and Steve Smith-Eccles joined us on our table at an open day at Sandown Park once. Before Bradley was warned off for dodgy dealings I should add. He was okay but Smith-Eccles was a loud mouthed tosspot.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

Brief chats with Nigel Mansell & Ian Botham (two of my heroes,that will do for me)

Was on the same plane as Robert Plant once,but never said anything (didn't want to disturb him,regretted ever since)

Shook hands with Linda Lusardi back in her pomp (never seen another woman like her since,stunning)

Quite a few other racing drivers,Hill,Herbert,Alesi & Mario Andretti (very small man,but a giant of a driver)

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I once scored a signed photo of Roger De Courcey and Nookie The Bear. Nice lad Nookie. Roger, on the other hand, is a Palace bastid

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I went to a pool party at Michael Barrymore's house once.

You couldn't sink any lower could you?


TNBA

TTF

 

[Bodian]

Met Frank Bruno, Annie Lennox and Prince Charles at a Princes Trust charity launch many years ago. The latter was the only one without a name badge - so I asked him who he was. 'Ha, ha, very droll' came the response, which I quite admired really.

When Teresa May was Home Secretary she whisked passed me in a corridor at speed with a huge armful of (presumably) important papers - it wasn't till she was gone that I realised I had missed an ideal opportunity to create a comedy moment by 'accidentally' tripping her up. It would have been so easy.

And what is it about lifts? Met Boris Becker in a hotel lift - and simply didn't know what to say. So didn't say anything (this was in his paying days) - what a waste.

 

[Justice]

Some years ago I did some work for a duchess we became quite friendly for a while. Couple of years ago I did a job in Chelsea for ELO they all stayed in the same apartment and to be honest only one wasn’t up himself, the wives complete nightmares.

 

[dsr-burnley]

And what is it about lifts? Met Boris Becker in a hotel lift - and simply didn't know what to say. So didn't say anything (this was in his paying days) - what a waste.

Be glad it wasn't a hotel cupboard.

 

[lawros left foot]

I was in the same train carriage as Patrick Moore.

There was a kid , about 8 years old running up down the aisle , shouting, and generally being obnoxious. His Mummy was doing nothing to stop him, “oh, Quentin, please sit down, “ that type of thing.

As the kid ran past Patrick Moore, he surreptitiously put his foot out and tripped the kid up. Quentin landed with a bang, Mummy picked him up and sat him on the seat, and Patrick Moore, realising that I had seen him trip Quentin, gave me a sly little smile.
There wasn’t another peep out of Quentin for the rest of the journey.

 

[Brownstuff]

Nigel Farage at the Rose Bowl cricket ground during a test match against Sri Lanka
He came over to us lot on a stag do to have a chat whilst supping a beer of course
I didn't talk to him because I am an unsociable sod but my mates did

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I once scored a signed photo of Roger De Courcey and Nookie The Bear. Nice lad Nookie. Roger, on the other hand, is a Palace bastid

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I hope that isn't a Palarse rosette that Roger has pinned on poor Nookie.

Cruelty to animals if it is.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I hope that isn't a Palarse rosette that Roger has pinned on poor Nookie.

Cruelty to animals if it is.

Indeed. Far more animal-cruel than Roger sticking his hand up Nookie's arse for public consumption. Is there no END to the depravity of the man?

 

[RossyG]

I hope that isn't a Palarse rosette that Roger has pinned on poor Nookie.

Cruelty to animals if it is.

It is, but I got his autograph once and he's a nice guy.

He signed it Roger & Nookie with the double O as cross eyes.

Lousy taste in football, though.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Indeed. Far more animal-cruel than Roger sticking his hand up Nookie's arse for public consumption. Is there no END to the depravity of the man?

Yes l do worry for poor old Nooks to be honest, l wonder where he is now? stuck in a cupboard somewhere by Roger l suppose.

Nookie Bear, my all time third in glove puppetry, only just beaten by Sweep, and Emu.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Quite a few came into my shop in SA, the most famous of which was John Cleese. Others included half the Natal Sharks rugby team (the Du Plessis brothers had to sidle through the door sideways as they were so wide), Shaun Pollock, Tony Johnstone the golfer and Blade Nzimande, the minister for Higher Education and leader of the SA Communist Party who, as a committed Communist, was staying at the most expensive hotel in the area and being driven around in his chauffer driven top of the range Merc (nice bloke though, used to buy loads of handmade pens as he said that every time he went to a cabinet meeting, they got pinched).

Other than that I have met the old Speaker of the HoC George Thomas (Viscount Tonypandy), went to a wedding that was attended by Frank Bough, saw George Takai sitting in the window of the restaurant opposite the Dome, walked past Richard Briers in North Street and bumped into Roy Hattersley on the train to Brighton who, as a committed socialist, was sitting in first class.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yes l do worry for poor old Nooks to be honest, l wonder where he is now? stuck in a cupboard somewhere by Roger l suppose.

Nookie Bear, my all time third in glove puppetry, only just beaten by Sweep, and Emu.

Hmm...contentious. I'd have Sweep just out of the medal places in favour of Spit The Dog. Sounds like we need a POLL

 

[ManOfSussex]

I got off a train one Friday in 1999 at Battle station and walked along the platform and over the footbridge chatting to Desmond Llewelyn aka 'Q' from the James Bond films, having found myself right by him upon getting off. I asked him if he'd seen the upcoming 'The World Is Not Enough' to which he said he hadn't and that he only had a very small role in it. I said to him that a Bond film without him in it what not be the same and he thanked me. Lovely guy. He sadly died about a month-or-so later.

 

[patchamalbion]

A year ago yesterday I had a chat with Craig David going through connections at Dubai Airport...

 

[mjking73]

Been on cruises with an eclectic mix of the famous...Tyson Fury...Vera Duckworth (Liz Dawn)...Paul Burrell...random