Jimmy White used to drink in the same pub as me.
And Colin Montgomerie and his wife had lunch at the table next to me once.
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My mum was Cliff Richards neighbour, My uncle worked with the Beatles, my Dad spat on Paddy Ashdown calling him a tosser (he is classy), I met Chris Martin before the fame and he was still a twat, and Matt Bellamy once bought me a drink. Oh and if your are into theatre and the arts I've also met Eugenio Barba.
The doctor who delivered me in Las Vegas (way back in 1963) was the ring doctor at big boxing matches in town. He patched up all the big names in boxing in the 60s and 70s.
I just Googled him and found this story about his life. Seems he just died last weekend. 
http://www.lvrj.com/sports/39703487.html
R.I.P., Dr. Romeo.
Quote: Stuart Doherty @ February 21 2009, 2:02 AM GMTabout 5 doors up from her is Sharleen Spiteri's sister.
Is she the spitering image?
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ February 21 2009, 1:31 PM GMTOh and if your are into theatre and the arts I've also met Eugenio Barba.
If I'm not have you still met him?
Quote: bigfella @ February 21 2009, 1:30 PM GMTJimmy White used to drink in the same pub as me.
My dad went to the same school as Jimmy White, but he was one or two years above my dad.
My dad's good friends with Terry Wogan's nephew, Ian. Ian Wogan got me horribly drunk on sambucca and tequila the day after my 18th and I threw up all over George Best's local pub (before he died).
My ex girlfriend's Mum is best friends with a lady named Clare Fallon, who is the sister of Ricky Gervais' long-term partner Jane. When my ex was little she played Monopoly with Ricky Gervais, and last year went to a wedding that he also attended.
I used to know the singer and bassist in almost-famous indie band The Others (the singer Dominic Masters appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and got the piss taken out of him severely by Mark Lamarr). An ex girlfriend of mine is now living with the bassist as well, incidentally.
Quote: NickTheDon @ February 21 2009, 2:35 PM GMTMy dad's good friends with Terry Wogan's nephew, Ian. Ian Wogan got me horribly drunk on sambucca and tequila the day after my 18th and I threw up all over George Best's local pub (before he died).
I think we have a new leader. Terrific tenuous tale there.
Quote: Badge @ February 21 2009, 2:45 PM GMTI think we have a new leader. Terrific tenuous tale there.
Not one but two tenuous links to celebrities in that one!
Quote: NickTheDon @ February 21 2009, 2:46 PM GMTNot one but two tenuous links to celebrities in that one!
Great stuff. Not Terry, but Ian Wogan. And George Best's pub thrown in at the end. Priceless.
Sophie Okoneda is something like my 7th cousin removed and I may be 378,234 removed from the Dutch throne.
I was in the same class at school for five years as one of Kate Winslet's sisters.
My sister knows someone who was chatted up by Ricky Gervais long ago.
Daley Thomson's mum did the flowers for my sister's wedding.
Iwan Thomas (the athlete) has seen my underwear.
I've seen Catherine Tate, Holly Johnson, Barry Sheen, Ross Kemp, Natasha Kaplinsky and Judith Keppel at the supermarket. Oh, and Take That's Mark Owen (who said hello to my child who was smiling at him).
I went to school with Christian Bale who was about 2 years behind me.
I wished I'd bullied him, I'd be the guy who beat up Batman!
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ February 21 2009, 1:31 PM GMTMy mum was Cliff Richards neighbour,
I used to work in Cliff Richards building - he had the top floor and we had the middle. There were all his gold disks going up the stairs.
I peed next to Johnny Knoxville at a urinal in Hollywood.
I sat down and drank a Coke with O.J. Simpson in 1973.
My daughter is still angry at me for cock-blocking her when one of the members of Wilco started chatting her up outside a pub in Portsmouth. I'd been forewarned to keep an eye on him.
Quote: bigfella @ February 21 2009, 3:35 PM GMTI used to work in Cliff Richards building - he had the top floor and we had the middle. There were all his gold disks going up the stairs.
Did you scratch them? Or add a plaque saying "arse hole of the year 1986"
Quote: DaButt @ February 21 2009, 3:37 PM GMTI peed next to Johnny Knoxville at a urinal in Hollywood.
I sat down and drank a Coke with O.J. Simpson in 1973.
My daughter is still angry at me for cock-blocking her when one of the members of Wilco started chatting her up outside a pub in Portsmouth. I'd been forewarned to keep an eye on him.
Were his gloves pinching him?
Quote: sootyj @ February 21 2009, 3:30 PM GMTSophie Okoneda is something like my 7th cousin removed
The actress? She's very good.