This is just a bit of a weird story
Back in the mists of time - must have been around 1979/80, when I was still quite young, I did a bit of inter-railing / Youth Hostelling. One place I ended up was a Youth Hostel in the South of France, on the coast at a place called Frejus.

As I sat around chatting with some other young people, an elder man (in his 30s) edged over and joined in the conversation. He spoke French, and when he spoke English, he had a French accent, but I wasn't fooled, as it was clear to me that this was none other than Patrick Mower - minor star of TV and screen in the 1970s. I didn't say anything though, as being a kid of 17 I didn't have the big brass balls that I do today.

Anyway, he had a car and offered to take some of us to a little beach near by that he knew, where you could sunbathe nude. Don't ask me why (cos it's obvious - we wanted to see nude women), but some of us accepted and we went with him to this nude beach. I clearly remember one of the guys was British-Chinese and I was amazed to see that he had straight pubes!

Nothing untoward happened; we spent the day at the beach and then he took us back to the hostel. Probably the oddest brush with 'fame' I've had - and I've accidentally stood on Neil Kinnock's foot as he held the door open for me at the Brentford Waterman's Arts Centre.

As for tenuous - my Dad was in the rag trade and he once made dresses for both Princess Anne and Miss France, and one of his best friends in the business was the life partner of Freddie Fox, the Queen's milliner (http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/238020/Royal-secrets-of-the-Queen-s-hat-designer) - this has to be the origin of the 'wear the fox hat' joke surely?
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 25 Sep 2012, 10:41, Reply)