I met St Patrick Moore backstage-ish
after he had been sponsored to do a celebrity lecture in my hometownm of Stourbridge by my dad's company.

I was all of 14, wanting to impress him by the fact that such a whey-faced youth recalled his earlier TV career when he was a guest on a special Tomorrows' World edition, where he sprayed bacon flavour from a soda siphon onto lettuce, for the amusement / gourmet amazement of his fellow special guests, as they claimed they could not tell the difference between it and real fried pig. However, he didn't recall it at all and after several attempts to jog his memory - to no avail - I slunk off into the background to burn in the heat of my own embarrassment.

However, 12 years later he graciously answered several of my questions for a boxout panel in an article I wrote for T3 on the future of space travel so he was mightily redeemed in my eyes. And I didn't have to remind him that he owed me....

To finish this off, I don't think I ever want to MEET the members of Rush, becasue if they turn out to be cunts then I will have to kill myself for loving 99% of everything they've ever done... so long as I don't meet them, our relationship is perfect. Unless they are actually all really nice guys (which I suspect and expect to be true) but I don't want to take the risk...

Oh yes, and I accosted Pop Will Eat Itself frontman Clint in the Swan in Stourbridge and basically implied that his then-hairdo was reminiscent of an alien queen and his companion accused me of having a 'star complex' meaning all I wanted to do was knock famous people. Funny, everyone else who has met Clint says I must have been a cunt to do that as he is actually a really good guy. The shame. However Jonn from Ned Atomic Dustbin is the nicest bloke you could ever hope to meet. I was once on his pub quiz team although I suspect he needed no help from me.

On a mitigating note, Ruth Madoc from Hi-De-Hi (and recently Daffyd's mother in Little Britain) was opening my dad's friend's garden centre and she nicely posed for me to take loads of pictures as an 18 year old student. So she makes up for any celebrity who is being a twat by being so nice.
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