claims to fame: Five Star, Natalie Imbruglia, Big Daddy, Keith Moon
Oh there is a few...

My brother's mate told Five Star they were Fucking Crap on Going Live - the joy of Phillip Schofield and Sarah Green looking crimson!

Walked in on Natalie Imbruglia and the girl from Skunk Anansie doing massive lines of devils dandruff at a party.

Called Big Daddy (the wrestler) a fat bastard when I was 13. He died a week later - I still feel somehow responsible... maybe I tipped him over the edge.

My Mum ran on stage and punched Keith Moon from The Who as he spat on one of her mates at a gig.
(don the wrong, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 13:14, Reply)

My aunt...
...used to live next door to Sarah Brightman's mum, and I used to play in her back yard with my cousins.

Howzat for a crappy claim to fame?
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 13:14, Reply)

Prt 3 dammit.
Another Teacher... history or english... at my school used to play for the Harlequins.

Any man who can happily stand infront of a class of 17 year-olds and tell them to "grey-out" and think of grey for an entire lesson becuase he couldn't be arsed to teach them(despite having been if FAR too many hard-core scrums in his life) Is a Hero of mine.
Mickey Raw... I salute you and your semi-celebrity background.
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 25 Feb 2005, 13:12, Reply)

Adam Rickett's school... Prt 2
Oh god yes...

How could I forget Stewie...
An English teacher at my old school used to drum for "The Who" before they became famous.

The strange little pseaudo-homosexual also made himself infamous at school by singing "dirty old town" infront of the whole school in the blind belief that he'd become popular.
He also masqueraded as a hermit-like intellect with an air of superiority and mysteriousness that should have landed him in a home for the overtly pretentious.

And i fixed his bike for him after he promised to "make it worth my while". Lying twunt.
AND... and . AND... he's the one that writes the english papers for the CE exams...

There.

So... next week: Teachers from Hell. We obviously can't write propper answers as we all have pent-up rants regarding teachers from our past. Let it out. Tell the world. Name them adn Shame the heartless/mad/smelly (Boffer Alison, We know you're out there) bastards.
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 25 Feb 2005, 13:10, Reply)

i used to live next door to
'sonita' from coronation street

edit: and 'yestin harris' or however you say it lived the other side of sonita and i've ran through his garden many times.
(mrmonkfish yolo420weedwizard, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 13:03, Reply)

Rik
I, too, met that fine band, Compulsion.

A few years ago, Mall Monarchy had just come out and I saw them at some dive in Derby. I drunkenly staggered back stage and badgered Garrett Lee to teach me how to play said song.

True gent that he was, he showed me.

Also met them a few months later when they played Rock City and chilled out backstage with them (eating their snacks, drinking their beer, etc.) Thoroughly decent chaps, one and all. (Wicked sense of humour on Josephmary, though!)
( Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:59, Reply)

saw "Red" Ken on the tube one morning
he was sitting almost opposite me, and I considered cunting him in the murray
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:59, Reply)

I know the bloke....
...who was the first to recieve an unexpected glass of orange juice one morning while listening to his walkman, and fwapping away to the thought of twenty six-year olds.

He told me, I told everyone, and the rest is history.

Impressive huh?
So, you can touch me if you like....
.
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:56, Reply)

Autograph Hunters
I used to work in a shitty insurance brokers - used to do Bev Bevan and Roy Woods car insurance, Jasper Carrot as well.

All of them have got my autograph...
(ruminator Never knowingly overestimated, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:55, Reply)

Many moons ago....
....I sold a house to Brian Harvey of E17 fame (infamy). Just before he made his 'Ecstasy is good' references and was chucked out of the band. Hope he kept up the mortgage payments....

....I went out with the actress in the Clerical Medical ads - the one playing the vicar. She wasn't a vicar in those days.

And many more close encouters besides. One involving the Arsenal footballer Bob McNab, the opening of a 'boutique', and some very questionable flared trousers.

*sneaks away in shame at having disclosed approximate age*
(tell me about the rabbits, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:54, Reply)

almost forgot
I used to go out with a girl (hello Kate if you`re reading this!) whose uncle is Josephmary, the singer in Irish punk rock band Compulsion - lovely chap he is too; the guitarist, Garrett "Jacknife" Lee did stuff on the latest U2 album (but I didn`t know him, so that`s not a claim to fame)

they were a fine band
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:53, Reply)

My mate's
drum teacher also taught the drummer from muse.

Pretty tenuous I know.
(project-2501, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:52, Reply)

Amanda Holdem
My mate got a gobble off renowned showbiz bike, Amanda Holdn. Although it's not really a claim to fame as she is apparently, allegedly, a slut of note. Have any other readers been fellated by the lovely Amanda?
(redredrobin, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:48, Reply)

Showaddywaddy were playing in Norn Irn... and asked my dad if they could use his drum kit
.. he didn`t keep it in the boot of a Ferrari estate
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:41, Reply)

Phoenix Saturday Afternoons
I used to play rugby with Ted Robbins, aka (amongst other things) Den Perry from Phoenix Nights. We'd walk on the field and the opposition were like, "There's the bastard who burnt down Peter Kay's club."
(Spamuel, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:40, Reply)

Clutching at Straws now...
My GCSE French teacher (Mrs Jerome) lived next door to the oldest of the Chuckle brothers (aparently his daughter is fit).

I'll be back when I think of more....

Oh yeah, Girl in my french class at Uni (bit of a languages theme here) also did german and did her year out in germany and went to a party in a hotel somewhere and her and her mates wondered the corridors at night looking for anyone who was still up to come and get pissed with - knocked on a door and who should answer but Robbie Williams - aparently he's a nice bloke and they all got trollied together - no other shennanigans though....
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:35, Reply)

I had Norman Collier`s autograph.. and Roy Walker`s
plus I`m related to ex-Manure United / Everton midfielder Norman Whiteside

err.. as is that_twat_with_the_nikon, by virtue of me being related to him!
( Reckless_Rik, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:22, Reply)

I grappled with Robert De Nero
I was an extra in the film Ronin. Because Bob is so short, he asked for the 'short, blonde english guy' (me!) I had to make it difficult for Bob to run through a crowd. I got over excited and ended up fighting with de Nero. Eventually I got told off by the director Frankenheimer.


(TechnoTeacher Twitter: www.twitter.com/maggie_thatcher, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:18, Reply)

bill oddie
not me, but my boyfriend:
'When i was younger my mates and i were wandering around Jesmond Dene in Newcastle, when we saw Bill Oddie filming for some wildlife documentary. we took the only possible course of action, which was to run up to him shouting "Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body" in a Joel Veitch stylee. He proceeded to tell us to "Fuck Off, I'm filming". Which we quickly did.'
( St3cks, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:15, Reply)

One of my friends from school
His godfather is Bono (as in U2), and has drum lessons from their drummer as their family and U2 are such good friends.

And I invented Russia*

*may not be true
(El Burro, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:14, Reply)

Dave Prowse Secret Weapon
Dave Prowse grew up in Southmead Council estate in Bristol. (Unfortunately, so did Julie Burchill, who often touts this as debatable evidence of her 'working class-ness'. But I digress). So did my dad.

Dave Prowse, owing to his massive size, used to work as a bouncer in the (then)Glen nightclub in the 60's. My dad and his mates used to go, but they were usually a bit skint. They used to jump up and down on Daves' feet until he let them in for free. And why, even though Dave was 6'6" and my dad is 5'5", did this work?

Because Darth Vader had really bad bunions! If only Luke had known that I'm sure the Force would have triumphed sooner...
(clapper, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 12:01, Reply)

I punched the
lead singer/rapper from credit to the nation and snogged dambert-no-bacon
( Vultan the real one I threw my little yellow shoe, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:49, Reply)

I work with....
One of the members of the band Mungo Jerry (as in the Song 'In the Summertime')
He's a very lovely man.

Nothing else really except that my sister used to work for a publishing company and had to look after Germaine Greer when she did a book reading in Sheffield. After the show Germaine took her out for a curry in this really dodgy curry house in the city centre. Apparently she's very nice....
(tharg99, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:39, Reply)

My....
....mum and dad's best mate (who I call uncle) is the real uncle of the Corr's.

I played football with Martin Offiah one day.

Woo! A heady life of fame I lead.
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:34, Reply)

Oh and another.
My mates sister went back stage at a gig in reading years ago and got in an arguement with Thom Yorke. When he told her who he was, she told him 'Fuck off, im more famous than you'. Silly bint.
( DumbMonkey The penis mightier than the sword, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:27, Reply)

My great uncle
has a ace claim to fame. He twatted Ricky Tomlinson (the fat, hairy cockjockey out of the Royale family on the telly) around the head with a piece of 2x4.

Serves the spanner right for getting in the way between me uncle and his pay cheque.

And my other uncle, brother of the above held the record for freefall jumping from an aeroplane when he was in the SAS...
...mainly because his chute failed. Fucksocks.
( nnnndave, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:25, Reply)

My brothers mate's
cousin used to operate oscar the grouch in sesame street.
( DumbMonkey The penis mightier than the sword, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:23, Reply)

Nice soulful tits...
...I went to City Sounds record store in Holborn years ago to see soul artist Patrice Rushen launch her "Forget Me Nots" single (the one Will Smith samples on "Men In Black").
I know she's not mainstream famous, but I stood next to her for nearly 15 minutes and she had a blouse button missing so I got to perve on the most incredible ebony breasts I have ever seen.
(Maybe not super relevant but I had to tell someone.)
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:22, Reply)

5ive + 5ive
I sat next to Abs from Five in my secondary school days

he was thick, fat and got bullied alot


by me
(saltydogstar, Fri 25 Feb 2005, 11:17, Reply)