Quote: Dolly Dagger @ February 21 2009, 3:39 PM GMTThe actress? She's very good.
Thanks I take partial credit for her success.
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Quote: sootyj @ February 21 2009, 3:41 PM GMTThanks I take partial credit for her success.
She was very good as Nancy in the BBC Oliver Twist. She kept scratching her head as if she had nits, which was a nice touch I thought.
I saw Leslie Crowther in his Rolls Royce over Keynsham. No, it wasn't on it's roof.
And I saw Tony Robinson and, I imagine, his wife looking through a jewelry shop window on Park Street in Bristol.
I also shook Jon Pertwee's hand when he opened a new estate near where I used to live as a child. He did his Worzel Gummidge too. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ February 21 2009, 3:49 PM GMTI also shook Jon Pertwee's hand when he opened a new estate near where I used to live as a child. He did his Worzel Gummidge too.
Ooo, I sold some strawberries to Jon Pertwee and my brother annoyed him by doing Worzel impressions at him.
I went to the same school as Alan Cumming (reaching).
An old friend met an ex-Wings drummer (Laurence Juber I think) in a car park where they'd arranged to meet. Juber was selling his gold discs to fund a move to Oz. I found it slightly sad that he was selling his discs ... and moving to Oz.
I also own a piece of Simon Cowell memorabilia. I snapped the wing mirror off his car. It was pleasing on so many levels.
I spent an evening with Evelyn Glennie before she was famous
This be her
She's deaf you know. I SAID SHE'S.....you know the rest.
Quote: roscoff @ February 21 2009, 7:28 PM GMTI spent an evening with Evelyn Glennie. She's deaf you know.
And blind? 
I have an indirect blood link (if that makes sense) to John Lennon. If you trace a direct line back through my family to a multiple great grandfather from the 18th century and split it off there via a brother, you have my distant cousin Karla who lives in Canada. Her mother's maiden name is Lennon and if you draw a line back from there...
You get the picture.
When I was about 20, I found out that I was related to one of my closest mates, whom I'd been friends with since I was 11.
Quote: catskillz @ February 21 2009, 11:26 PM GMTWhen I was about 20, I found out that I was related to one of my closest mates, whom I'd been friends with since I was 11.
Was this after you'd had sex?
Quote: Badge @ February 21 2009, 11:58 PM GMTWas this after you'd had sex?
That'll make things awkward.
Quote: Badge @ February 21 2009, 11:58 PM GMTWas this after you'd had sex?
A couple of years ago, Chris Tarrant's brother visited my local pub. Really nice guy, and so much like his famous brother. Couldn't spend too much time with him because I was helping Jan Harvey of "Howards Way" fame do a crossword.
A know a guy who's a bit of a Jonathan Creek. He devised a magic trick (which I must say was brilliant) and refused to sell it to Paul Daniels (even for £50k) because he dislikes him.
Less tenuous;
As kids, a mate of mine lived next door to Neil Innes' father. We helped Neil come up with the name "The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band".
I've dined at a table for three with Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams in Tenerife.
In the mid-1970s, I rushed the stage where Tony Blackburn was compering because I thought he was dull. I snatched his mic and managed to deliver about three gags whilst he was chasing me round the stage. It ended amicably amidst much applause.
I gave directions to Faye Tozer of Steps near Wembley Arena one afternoon.
I sat next to Herbie Hide (boxer) whilst watching the Tyson v Bruno fight on satellite TV.
I literally bumped into Clement Freud at a race meeting. He is a lot shorter than I imagined.
I've flown with Sir Anthony Bamford (Chairman of JCB) in his helicopter.
I very, very nearly tripped Terry Venables up one time, in the restaurant at Elland Road (Leeds Utd for the philistines).