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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,969
    I was in the News Shopper as the biggest baby born in 1984 in the UK at one point (5:30am on 1st Jan; weighing nearly 10lbs). I doubt this but they ran with it anyway.

    Top scorer in Pennsylvania in 2005, winning the state championship 

    My parents house was bought from the family of Sheila Hancock and featured on Who do they think they are. My dad answered the door to her on BBC1.

    I once tweeted Denise Richards will you marry me and she said yes.
  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 580
    iainment said:
    I beat Haile Gebrselassie in the London Marathon. Admittedly he only ran half of it and then pulled out but I finished. He didn’t so I, and a few thousand others, beat him.
    So hah to his World Records and Gold Medals.
    Was that 2007? I think I did too!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,972
    I used to live next door but one to Chris Difford of Squeeze for about 15 years.

    I'm the first person jumping up in the air in the Back to The Valley video in Woolwich Town Hall.

    I've stood next to Pat Nevin and Pete Farndon (The Pretenders) at gigs.

    I've had a few random Charlton fans come up and start speaking to me at length at away games like we're best mates and I've no idea who they are.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,135
    I used to date a girl when I was 16 who lived next door but one to  Noel Edmunds in New Ash Green. He often popped in for a cuppa when I was there. At that time he was on the morning show. 
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,896
    I once made a cuppa for Bruce forsyth

    I helped Tom Baker out with some change in a car park 

    I regularly play football with Peter Duncan (him off blue peter) 
  • CaptainRobbo
    CaptainRobbo Posts: 584
    I once touched Jarvis Cocker 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,267
    Gribbo said:
    aliwibble said:
    Back when I was teaching I taught someone who is now a Labour MP, and had someone who's a moderately famous actress in my tutor group.
    Initials KB, used to be a squadron leader?
    Nope. Her older sister was head girl, and is even more famous, but I didn't teach her. 
  • Bostonaddick
    Bostonaddick Posts: 810
    When I was eleven, I accidentally ran into Rob Lowe on the ski slopes causing him to injure his knee.  I was told later that the injury was a contributing factor for him turning down the role of maveric in Top Gun.  Who knows if that is true though.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,749
    My mother taught Kate Bush PE and gymnastics at St Joseph's Convent




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