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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: 14,136
    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: 26,268
    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




  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,579
    Addick Addict said:
    My mother taught Kate Bush PE and gymnastics at St Joseph's Convent




    Wow, unbelievable.
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  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,119
    Addick Addict said:
    My mother taught Kate Bush PE and gymnastics at St Joseph's Convent




    That would mean your mother would remember Miss Slade, Head of Lost Property (and RE)
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,344
    Addick Addict said:
    My mother taught Kate Bush PE and gymnastics at St Joseph's Convent




    Did she tell her to keep running up that hill?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Bunked into the Valley with Daniel Day Lewis and got a mention in his unofficial biography.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,136
    The other half walks her dog in Sonning nr Reading as it has some lovely riverside walks and other dog users. She said to me once she sees this nice young man who looks a bit scruffy but they always spoke for ages.

    Someone said to her once after they parted do you know who you've been talking too, she said no idea we often chat when were walking our dogs. Turns out to be George Michael.

    Once unknowingly spoke to Peter Docherty in a pub in Marlborough. Again had no idea who he was until someone pointed it out.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,551
    Literally bumped into Amanda Burton at M&S in Bexhill a little while ago. It’s a Mecca for stars there, also seen Tom Baker, the woman who played Cassandra in Only Fools, her husband actor Jesse Birdsall and Robert Bathurst.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,611
    Once had Kylie Minogue sit on my knee when she made an impromptu visit to a ward on Great Ormond Street Hospital where my daughter was an inpatient. It was only for a three of us photo unfortunately. 

    When I was a radiographer at University College London Hospital and was last person in the department and in the process of locking up when two plain clothed security policemen walked in and asked if it would be ok for Princess Diana to pop in. Of course I said yes but explained there was nobody there and she still came in for a chat for about ten minutes. She was charming.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,417
    We (my Therapy dog Bailey and myself) appeared in Sportsrelief 2014 Top Dog with the actress now playing Glenda the barmaid in Coronation street and her dog. 

  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,479
    Chris Evans (ginger) bought me a Canadian Club and coke down Greenwich, after I lifted him up in the air.

    My Mrs has done hair and make-up for various Prem League, England Rugby player's wives at their weddings. Also was meant to have done one of the King's nieces hair and make-up at a wedding that she was bridesmaid at, but didn't last minute.

    I made crepes at a Prem League player's pool party the day after his wedding. Top bloke, but as tight as a ducks arsehole.

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