Almost Met Take That
Guildford, 1995 or so. I'm at uni and enjoying a usual night out in Bojangles, the type of lame club you'd expect in suburban Surrey. Things are great, and late in the night who should walk in but TAKE THAT - the most amazing boy band ever to have existed. And THEY STILL HAD ROBBIE. Like the first time they had Robbie. They're filming what turns out to be the Back For Good video in the area and looking to unwind.

They buy drinks, have a dance, are happy to chat to my group. My mate, being a Vale fan, hits it off with Robbie. Great times are had by all.

So my friends tell me; I'd had a drunken row with my girlfriend and we'd stormed off 5 minutes before TT arrived. As they were entering the club, I was desperately vomiting behind Midland Bank in Guildford High Street.
(mulborough, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:44, Reply)

My mum's Uncle Bert was a professional extra
He was in Blackadder, the Bill, Howards way...

He found Arfur Fowler dead in Eastenders
He was one of the hostages at the embassy in Who Dares Wins
He played a murdered cabbie in a Crimewatch reconstruction (his first speaking part)

but best of all, he was ne of the passengers on the Zepplien in Indiana Jones and Last Crusade.

And I'm related to him... by marriage.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:43, Reply)

Remember this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OJ7NfJyjMM
If you skip to 2:21, you'll see Imrans, Sparkbrook in the Midlands. I was there, my face obscured by the ladies head.

I think I had a Lamb Saag, I probably enjoyed it, I don't recall having a bad meal out of that place.

I don't think this deserves a click, aside from the fact I had to sit through 2 minutes and 21 seconds of that shit.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:37, 2 replies)

My Mum shagged Sting.

( WormuIus, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:21, 4 replies)

Ali Campbell's dad once bought me a pint.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:19, Reply)

I helped one of the guildford four stumble out of a pub

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:18, Reply)

Stan Boardman, the seventies comic, based his whole, 'I hate the Germans', routine after meeting my mother, who happens to be German but lovely with it.
As a fourteen year old we lived in a pub he frequented. The rest is history.
( girlinthehole, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:17, Reply)

I once played a game of pool against Ali Campbell.
It was in one of the backstreet dive pubs by where he used to live in Birmingham.
I didn't let on that I recognised him and I declined when he offered me a pint. I quite enjoyed that.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:13, 2 replies)

I got one of the stars of Baywatch
(no, not the Hoff although I have met him) stoned as a monkey so he had to crawl out of my hotel room on hands and knees.

My cousin used to be married to an 80s star who played Live Aid. I'd tell you who he is, but I'll leave you with the riddle...

Richard Griffiths (Uncle Monty from Withnail and I, also in Harry Potter) broke my grandparent's antique chair by sitting on it.

My wife's aunt is a famous cook who is a regular on Great British Menu. I've cooked for her several times.

I was interviewed on BBC breakfast news dressed as a lifeguard.

I sat on Peter Stringfellow's table at his club on his birthday, next to John Major's brother.

I spent 90 minutes in a car with Yasmine Bleeth next to me. Christ she was boring company.

I'm LinkedIn "friends" with The Black Farmer.
(TheImmortalJenkins, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:10, 1 reply)

I fingered a girl who ended up in corrie or brookside or sutin

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:10, 4 replies)

I've been in the undergrowth with David Bellamy.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:08, Reply)

my cousin auditioned for the milky bar kid
but his sister gave him a black eye
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:07, Reply)

my gran knew George Formby
senior and junior
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:06, Reply)

My mate's dad was in zodiac mindwarp.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:05, 2 replies)

I nearly bought the house of the mental one out of Pink Floyd
and then I didn't.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:04, 6 replies)

I was the milky bar kid.

(Elephant Balderdash attempting to bottle the absurd, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:04, 1 reply)

I was filmed by Jeremy Beadle's crew for Game for a Laugh
It was the radio controlled car in a football skit. I clocked the camera in a Renault Espace with blacked out windows straight away and thought I'd be clever and ignore the ball.
Of course, as a result I didn't feature in the show. The smart thing to do would have been to act like an inquisitive chimp and chase the thing around, then my 15 minutes of fame would have be guaranteed.
(Bad Monkey hasn't had an abusive gaz since, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:04, Reply)

I can't remember if I've posted this one before.
The Rammstein "Volkerball" DVD digipak.

I'm on the bottom panel if you open it up fully.

In black and white and very shadowy.
( gone, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:01, Reply)

I'm the spitting image of Adam Levine.
And I used to see Rick Witter in my neighbourhood all the time, I think he's moved house though.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 19:01, Reply)

"Toadie" from Neighbours laughed at one of my arms

( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:57, 1 reply)

I know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone
who supplied the angle grinder used in the Prodigy's 'Firestarter' video.
( The Silent Channel is getting his recommended 5-a-day, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:56, Reply)

I'm mates with the drummer from Thirteen Senses

( Peej, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:46, Reply)

Oh yeah
I was speaking at a music conference last year. During a break I was swapping jokes about drummers with low IQ's with the percussionist I'd been sitting next to all morning.

Turned out he was Bill Bruford. He laughed at the jokes though.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:43, Reply)

When John Major visited St Meriadoc Primary School in Cornwall
I was in the background in my P.E. kit for about 2 seconds on the local evening news.
( Peej, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:42, Reply)

Christopher Quinten
Christopher Quinten (Brian Tilsley off Corrie) left a lurker turd in the toilet cubicle I used immediately after him in a Brighton burger restaurant. I know it was him 'cos I worked there and had cleaned it just before he used it.

By the way, I should point out that some of my posts in this thread may be entirely fictitious/libellous.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:41, Reply)

My nanny accidentally used the queen's bathroom
Or, possibly, one of the queen's bathrooms. My grandpa was the official milkman to the royal yacht, and as such he and his +1 were invited to a garden party in the palace grounds. My nan being prone to go snooping around, and also rather pregnant, she found herself caught short and decided to use an indoor bathroom, and not the portaloos which were set up outside.

After a few minutes there was a polite knock at the door, and one of the security guards tried to politely explain to her that she had to unlock the door sharpish, so she could be escorted back out to the 'proper' place.

I like to think she at least stole some pot pourri...
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 20 Sep 2012, 18:41, 1 reply)