I was the very first person to be selected for the Kerrang Radio Rock Test call-in quiz.
Where, if I answered correctly the three randomly selected questions out of 100 on the theme of rock and metal, could have won £1000 on the spot. Ugly Phil and Rachel New were the hosts and thus my media career was expanded, in a layby on the A14 as I was driving from Coventry to Peterborough at the time... did I win?


Well, I have evidence that I did not.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:40, Reply)

Was at the till in Game on Oxford Street
purchasing Super Mario Kart for Wii, there was some idiot with a huge stack of PS3 games loudly chatting breeze at the cashier next to me. I looked over, I faintly recognised him and then realised it was non other than ex-GamesMaster host and general dweeb Dexter Fletcher. He looked over to me, both of us trying to look vaguely unimpressed. He spots my purchase and pipes up "Actually, have you got Super Mario Kart for the Playstation?", to which the cashier replied "Nah mate, its strictly Nintendo innit?". Nice one GamesMaster, what a total knob.
(Meaver, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:40, Reply)

Kendo Nagasaki
Kendo Nagasaki gave £5 to a pub whip-round my dad did in the 1970s, when £5 was a very generous donation.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:33, Reply)

I used to live in the house nay rent the very room that Alan Bennett was born in.
There wasn't a farley's rusk under the sofa.
( jonbontempi, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:31, 2 replies)

Comedy
I do stand up comedy and see acts I've known for years on the T.V. as they are funnier and doing much better than me. The cunts.
I also once gigged with Iain Lee, he wasn't a cunt at all. He's had to watch Ricky Gervais do a bit well. That can't sit too well.
(waxdart hello., Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:26, Reply)

I've hugged Phil jupitus.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:25, 4 replies)

I shared a jacuzi with the great suprendo and Victoria wood.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:23, Reply)

My dad welded a new boot floor into Donovan's car
It was a Hillman Avenger. It was completely rotten right around the bottom of the wheel well an along the back.

I played on the swing with his son. Then it started raining so we went inside and played with Lego instead.
(gordonjcp, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:18, Reply)

Jim Bowen from bullseye occasionally visited a casino I used to work at. He played roulette and I dealt to him.
(CheeseyPeas, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:13, Reply)

I once saw "Big" Ron Atkinson on a petrol station forecourt.
He shouted 'Alright lads' at us.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:06, 2 replies)

Also
I sat next to Jim Broadbent while waiting for a connection at Acton Town tube station. We successfully ignored each other.

I'm on nodding terms with Jason Durr, out of Heartbeat and other stuff, 'cos he's married to the sister of an am-dram pal of mine.

All but one member (the bassist) of the original line-up of The Darling Buds (who had a couple of hits in a brief splurge of pretty blonde-fronted guitar bands in the late 80s) were drinking buddies of mine back home in Wales. I ponced my first cigarette from Geraint "Harley" Farr*, the guitarist & songwriter on a late night Boxing Day piss-up. It was a Marlboro.

* He used a stage name because English music journalists kept calling him "Grunt". But "Harley Davidson" is a bit of a wanker's stage name, not to mention a breach of intellectual property laws. Hence "Harley".
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:01, Reply)

Lame to fame.
Spike Milligan used to use the toilet in the Shell garage I worked in. His driver used to buy wine gums for him but once he bought them himself and said "Hello" to me.

I nearly collided with Johnny Vaughan as he was going into the Capital radio building in Leicester square. (He's taller than I expected)

Two of my friends have (seperately) met Sir Trevor McDonald. He shook one friend's hand but apparently gave my friend Big Dan a dirty look.
(CheeseyPeas, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:00, Reply)

I went to school with The Verve.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:58, Reply)

I shared a bunk bed with Wolf from gladiators.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:57, Reply)

my other mate's house was in shallow grave

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:56, Reply)

I was on the News
My 1987 Brighton seafront Hall of Residence fell down in the night and we were on the lunchtime news the next day, standing around freezing our arses off in pyjamas/dressing gowns/whatever we could grab when we cleared out at 4 a.m.

I was stood wearing only jeans, boots and a dressing gown looking glum, while my mate Andy reached over my shoulders and grabbed the lapels, flashing my bare chest at the cameras, which I hadn't noticed pointing at us.

I was laughing so much while we watched it that all I can remember was Peter Sissons (or whoever it was) saying "...but the students haven't lost their sense of humour".
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:56, Reply)

my mate's house was in the young ones

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:55, Reply)

Jim from my local swears blind he shagged Annie Lennox back in the day.
Personally, I don't really care about the validity of this particular yarn.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:55, Reply)

I accidentally nicked a scone off john kettley.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:54, Reply)

I did a puke under Jenny eclair's sofa.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:53, Reply)

Weekender
Working as crew for my granda's theatre company, we once had to use a theatre dressing room in Dublin a day after Flowered Up had gigged there.

Messy junky fuckers had left all the evidence of their MASSIVE DRUGS just lying around for my innocent wee granda to boggle at. He asked the theatre manager if one of them had diabetes.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:53, Reply)

I've seen Chris Evans's cock.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:50, 3 replies)

My dad slept with hippy troubador Donovan.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:50, Reply)

I went to the same school as the design director of Jaguar Landrover
It's the same school Clive Owen went to as well.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:48, 2 replies)

just another brick in the wall
I went to Islington Green school, which is featured fairly extensively in the Pink Floyd album 'The Wall' - it was kids from that school singing the famous chorus and also playground noises and stuff from there.

I seem to have zillions of random shitty little claims to fame.

I also accidentally squashed Desmond Tutu's hand when I tried to shake it in a manly way at a book signing when I was about 12.
(teasus likes tea, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:36, Reply)

I knobbed Chris Packham's cousin*.
Nuff said.


*female cousin, you scamps
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:30, 2 replies)

Natalie Tena gave me a peck on the cheek and a cider earlier in the year
She's nymphadora tonks or something like that in Harry Potter and in loads of other stuff including game of thrones. But what I know her as is the lead singer of the rather marvellous gypstep band Molotov Jukebox. She's rather attractive and plays the accordion like a demon so I was quite pleased.
(teasus likes tea, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:28, 3 replies)

David Cameron walked past me on my commissioning parade at Sandhurst
In the media photos you can just about make out my nose and eyebrows poking out from the guy next to me, as DC struts his stuff. He didn't stop to talk.
(Wasmaschine!, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 17:27, Reply)