Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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Keith Fielding, rugby player and participant in Superstars was on my paper round. Used to give a £5 tip at Christmas.
Famous/semi famous people you know/knew
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randynewmanscat
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So was my cat.
randynewmanscat
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David Hemery was on my paper round when he lived in Hale Barns for a few years, big tipper at Christmas. Edit for extra name drop.
Colin Bell was also on my paper round, not a big tipper as I remember.
randynewmanscat
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I met Gérard Depardieu on a film set, needless to say he was hammered and there was an argument between him and my mates gran as he had not bothered learning the lines for the day.
Freds Dad
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- Gawsworth.
I met Robbie Williams when I went to fix the phone system at his house near Betley. Nice bloke who I had a chat with and he brewed up.
He sold the house a few months later to a Mr Robert Williams
He sold the house a few months later to a Mr Robert Williams
randynewmanscat
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I was drinking in one of my old locals on a new years eve god knows in the mists of time. Fred Talbot used to drink there to save heating his house, I kid you not you would never meet a miser like him. He used to nurse halfs of mild and sit on his own looking fairly glum. One of my mates who knew him from school (er, yes) set fire to his broadsheet newspaper as he hid behind it.
Edit for another name drop: It may have been on the same night of Fred Talbot mayhem that on our way back to my mates flat we pulled Brian Pettifer out of a hedge that he appeared to be having a sleep in.
Edit for another name drop: It may have been on the same night of Fred Talbot mayhem that on our way back to my mates flat we pulled Brian Pettifer out of a hedge that he appeared to be having a sleep in.
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How about this for a coincidence? My grandad was Arthur Askey's paper boy but always disliked him because he never got a tip from him at Christmas. My dad was Ken Dodd's paper boy but never liked him because he never got a tip from him at Christmas. I was...no one's paper boy because I couldn't be bothered getting up in the morning! I once sat next to Leona Lewis when I was bumped up on a flight to the UK from California and feeling I had to say something, I said 'We've got your new album and absolutely love it!' Her reply? 'Whatever.' as she pointedly turned her face away from me to utter not another word for the rest of the flight!
Freds Dad
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Fred is now being kept warm at our expense in Her Majesty's hotels.
randynewmanscat
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It is awkward meeting well known people if you are not used to knowing well known people, people generally feel they have to acknowledge them. A friend who knows says it goes with the job but I disagree with him on this, us Joe public are the tip of the iceberg for some of them who have to lock their bins in a corral to stop bin dipping journo's from taking a look at what hair products they use.
I was parked up taking a phone call in Manchester one day when Rod Steiger walked past my car, he is one of my favourite actors and I was sorely tempted to put the window down and say something. I said nothing, the man was on his own taking a walk and it seemed wrong to bother him. I told my girlfriend that evening and he popped up on the local news about five minutes later, he was in town promoting a play I think.
randynewmanscat
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I doubt there were many in my town who did not know he was a perv. The same goes for Ray Teret, he lived about half a mile from the family home and from my first house. In the 70's people used to make humour of him having a liking for schoolgirls.
Slow But Determined
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Lloyd George knew my father.
randynewmanscat
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Yes but did your father know Lloyd George?
He's not famous or nearly famous.
He's the real deal , a superstar.
Was in some great films and even more bad ones, particularly the American ones.
Reynard
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I went to school with Sir Trevor Brooking's daughter. She was in my year though not in my class. She wasn't a very nice person, but then again, I wasn't in any of the cool people / beautiful people cliques.
That aside, loads people involved with motor racing; as a fan, in my decade of working the fenceline as a snappy, and also in the assorted times I was doing research in academia and for a book that ended up being an aborted project. Far too many to mention individually really.
Plus I was interviewed for a job by John Barnard (a former chief technical bod for the Ferrari F1 team) - didn't get the job, but he did give me some excellent advice.
And I will say that Derek Warwick is an absolute diamond. Even if he does have this innate ability to reduce me to a stammering wreck unable to string a coherent sentence together...
That aside, loads people involved with motor racing; as a fan, in my decade of working the fenceline as a snappy, and also in the assorted times I was doing research in academia and for a book that ended up being an aborted project. Far too many to mention individually really.
Plus I was interviewed for a job by John Barnard (a former chief technical bod for the Ferrari F1 team) - didn't get the job, but he did give me some excellent advice.
And I will say that Derek Warwick is an absolute diamond. Even if he does have this innate ability to reduce me to a stammering wreck unable to string a coherent sentence together...
