James May being chatted up by middle aged women in a BP on the A303 , his battered white Porsche was dented and scratched , he wore his trademark floral pattern shirt and Wurzel Gummidge hair .
Dominic Littlewood in London , coming out a tube station, he looked surprised when I said hello .
Tony Hadley in Portugal , post Spandau fame, played football and drank beer in a small town near Coimbra then he played at the Expo in Lisbon.
Stephen Mulhern, while filming In for a penny .
Prince Charles in an open top Aston Martin with the body guard in the passenger seat, most likely visiting one of his Duchy farms .
Was deliving building supplies to some site in Manchester city centre was waiting to get in.
amir khan the boxer was walking past few people stoped asked him for a selfie and to be fair he stopped had pics took signed a few things seemed chatty enough.
Had a bad experience years ago was deliving building supplies to Carrington (man United’s training ground)
Got down the lane 12ish security bloke said be careful the players will be leaving anytime soon.
So got in parked best I could to deliver pallets of tiles. Was hiabing them.off.
Few players came.out some.nodded said hi etc then next min all.could here was a car horn beeping away like mad.
Then some.huge fella walked over got a player here trying get home how long you going to be a said about another 10 mins. Thing is everyone else.manged.get round me and.
He got back in his car slammed the door. as he drove past the passenger window came.down and robin van persie was sat in passenger seat stuck 2 fingers up at me and.basivally told to.me f off
As a teenager in the early sixties I was out on my bike and came across a Ford V8 Pilot broken down at the roadside. It was a well known vehicle locally in the Reading area, purple but with alloy cycle type mudguards and the reg number was KAR 365. I stopped pedalling and watched the five long haired occupants attempting to fix it. One, Brian Jones, shouted to me “Why don’t you f***k off kid” so I did as he asked! That was the first of many times in my life that I have been sworn at, however I’m still a big fan of ‘The Stones’ though so he didn’t put me off them.
Around 2003, working as a parcel courier in the Market Harborough area. I delivered a parcel to Geoff Betts of Shawoddywoddy fame. I remember him being a right miserable git. Around the same time Michael Palin wandered out from the main bookshop after a book signing exactly as I was walking past. All the biddies were loving it (though I don’t know how they felt about Palin ).
Not a famous person I’ve met, but a colleague (allegedly )
One night, a driver walked into the drivers tearoom in Westbury Dairy, swearing blind that had just had an altercation with Madge and Guy Ritchie .
Apparently he was passed by a Range Rover in a narrow lane, when said Range Rover clipped its mirror on his trailer , but drove off. Thinking nothing off it, he carried on with his collection round, until he was blocked off in another lane, by another Range Rover. A bloke got out, and shouted about ‘him having driven into his missus’ car’ blah blah. Our hero driver then said that he got out (at this point thinking this was a random stranger), to argue. Being of a Yorkshire breed, his debating skills were blunt and direct, and he insisted that they started to square up. At this point a companion of the stranger allegedly got out of the Rover, shouted 'come on Guy, it’s not worth it ’ and pulled him back in the Range Rover. Our here then realised that he must have knocked Madonna’s mirror, and he was about to deck Guy Richie…
Thing is, Madge and Guy did live in a big house out there at the time.
The problem is, if you give ex army people to much time to think…
Ah! Nearly forgot.
Had a job shunting trailers in and out of CineCitta in Rome. Film studios used by Bertolicci, Fellini, Matin Scorcese, Sergio Leone, and many others. I was there, on and off, for a UK production. Moved some equipment around, plus the living quarters trailer for the stars.
Went out on the wrap party with the real full time crew to a restaurant on a boat on the Tiber river, followed by a night club.
The stars never came out with us though, they stayed on site.
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This link is to some of their earlier works. Classic stuff and with a transport link too. youtu.be/ZfkquXqhMdA
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Near Edgware Road/Marble Arch in the 1970s I had to anchor up sharply to avoid running over a jaywalking Jimmy Savile dodging traffic while crossing the road.If I knew then what I know now.
hotel magnum:
Princess Anne at the rnli Weymouth, Prince Charles in his rangey over Berkshire way, and best of all i was fortunate to meet with Switchlogic at an RHA seminar in Bristol, only Jennifer Aniston to go and lifes a goodun
Met her in the late 90’s in Manchester doing a gig for the Prince’s trust absolute stunner
Edit, Jennifer Aniston was the stunner not Princess Anne, although whatever floats your boat
I gave way on the A4 in Knightsbridge once to let a Range Rover out. As it edged forward and found a gap, the driver wound down the window, gave me filthy look and sped off. It was John Terry.
I was also double manning a few years ago and co driver shouted “it’s that little bloke from Star Wars!!!”. When I looked across I could see that we were overtaking Warwick Davis driving a massive Chrysler.
That spooky as I was in Membury services today waiting for a shower and Caroline Quinton was buying some stuff in smiths, I thought I recognised her voice then she laughed and took her mask off to look at her credit card to confirm it…
Guy behind the counter had never heard of her.[emoji54][emoji849][emoji54]
Jenson Button over took me on the M4 in his black McLaren then I stopped in the MSA and he was there too and his Dad in a separate car , I had a chat when he was buying coffee from a self service machine, his girlfriend was with him .
I delivered ceramic floor tiles from Spain to London at Gaby Logan’s house but unfortunately she was out but hubby was in, apparently they had issues with interfering neighbours who objected to commercial vehicles on their street, this old posh guy took photos of my truck and accused me of breaking the pavement of which was already broken before I got there .
He was going to report me to the council but he didn’t understand tachograph rules as I had ran out of time and parked outside the Logan’s house , a menacing thundering juggernaut in leafy Richmond .
I heard a driver saying he was delivering to Switzerland and a lady was doing the washing up in her Marigold gloves when she turned around it was Tina Turner .
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That spooky as I was in Membury services today waiting for a shower and Caroline Quinton was buying some stuff in smiths, I thought I recognised her voice then she laughed and took her mask off to look at her credit card to confirm it…
Guy behind the counter had never heard of her.[emoji54][emoji849][emoji54]
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I got all confused then…I was thinking if you’d seen Caroline Ahern today, that would really have been spooky!
But back when I was late teens. In the 90s was a big WWF wresting fan.
Used go all over the country watching it.
One day went to Birmingham NEC. It finished . Dad who was driving me.mum and sister
decidedd .we decided we wanted a curry from.birmigham. so we set off was a sat night late on…tried few places all.booked out.
In the end we went into some.hotel asked if they did food as we were all hungry guy on from desk said residents only.
Then a voice shouted it’s ok there with us.
It was.vince.macmann. And Bobby the brain heanon.
Might have to Google them.if you don’t follow the WWF wresting.
They saw me in my.and.my.sis in WWF t shirt s shouted us over.
Story short they boight paid for us all to have a meal few drinks spent about an hour in there company.
Got there autographs they even.manged to get us a few autographs off the wrestles got Hulk Hogan the undertaker the bristhbulldog.
Still.got them.in a book.
Just happened by chance we walked.into.qere they were staying and they were nice and friendly guys.
Never ever forget that night
polytrotter:
That spooky as I was in Membury services today waiting for a shower and Caroline Quinton was buying some stuff in smiths, I thought I recognised her voice then she laughed and took her mask off to look at her credit card to confirm it…
Guy behind the counter had never heard of her.[emoji54][emoji849][emoji54]
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I got all confused then…I was thinking if you’d seen Caroline Ahern today, that would really have been spooky!
If only I had my ouija board with me…[emoji1787][emoji1787]
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