Posted by
lammasita
19 yrs ago
Okay - I want to hear of any moments, how ever defining they may or may not be, of when you actually bumped into that person you had a crush on.
Now they could be famous, they could just be a someone who lived in your town that you fancied from the back of the school bus.
But tell me do - what happened??
One of mine... I loved this guy on a racing program and decided that I was never going to meet him unless I did something about it.
I wrote to the whole team and the reply was welcoming and positive. I was to meet them for breakfast and then spend the day following them round during the whole days filming!!!
Couldn't believe it and told all my friends. They gave me lots of advice such as what not to wear, what not to do and what not to eat including bacon sandwiches as the bacon could stick in your teeth etc etc.
I get there, meet all the team and generally act like an overwhelmed teenager trying desperately to take this all in her stride.
My knees go weak as I meet and talk to the one I adore and we start chatting about breakfast....
gorgeous loved one says "there's nothing like a good hearty bacon sandwich is there **?**"
I reply in a (looking back) cringingly silly giggly voice "No!!!"
What happens?? I have to stick to what I said and end up with blinkin' bacon stuck between my teeth and don't realise for at least 2 hours!! How attractive.........NOT! The word 'mortification' does not describe how I felt.....!
This occasion didn't go so well.... anyone else have a similar story???
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Lammasita, what a cool story! I have something similar. This is back when I was 16, i was a huge fan of a famous gymnast who was the world champion at the time. His team came to Hong Kong for a show and I went to the show. When the show was finished, me and my mates hang around outside the stadium for an autograph. As he and his team turned up, we, along with other fans, went over and asked for the autograph. After that, we went to his hotel and waited outside there hoping we could catch another moment to see him in person. And this time, there were hardly anyone outside the hotel, maybe 2 or 3 fans. They just arrived the hotel, so I went up to him and took all my guts and asked if I could show him around Hong Kong and he said that he remembered me outside the stadium for an autograph and that he would be glad to be shown around. so next day I skipped school and took him to Shek O! What a day! Til these days, I still keep those photos I've taken when we were in Shek O and spent a day together with my star!
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Just what I wanted to hear! Good story Spacedust!
I have another - we used to own this restaurant/club and of course you had all your locals who I used to talk to often (I was about 13 at this time). Anyway, I didn't realise that this really friendly couple who always talked to me were the parents of Paul Weller! I only found out when he spent a Sunday in our club by the pool!!! I suddeny loved all his music and made my brother get his Mod stuff out so I could listen to his music. Despite being an annoying young teen, he was really cool with me and let me chat about the sh*t that small people talk about without telling me to f*** off!
Still love him to this day..... :)
On the otherhand, my mate was in a bar on the outskirts of Belfast and Van the man walked in. My friend went over and said "alright Van??"
He curtly replied "f*** off"
So my friend did!
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I used to work for Eddie Bauer, a retail clothing shop in the US. One day, John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, comes into the shop. He's looking at short pants. I ask him if he needs any help... he points to a pair of shorts and asks if we have them in his size... he was rather embarrased when I told him that we has looking at ladies shorts... I directed him to the men's section. :)
He and his wife were quite friendly... bought a few items and we never saw them again.
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Remember Bros?
Well i was 14 i think when they were really popular in Britain and their grandmother lived next door to my best friends Grandmother in London.
One weekend, we dolled ourselves up in our doc martins (with bottle tops attached...lol) Skimpy tops and tight tight jeans and went to stay at her grans house in the hope to spot them. It was summer time and my friend was positive they would be there. I really didnt hold too much hope but was a bit excited.
We arrive there and gran tells us that they are infact next door right then. We can hardly contain ourselves but re-apply our red lipstick (ahhhhh i can see it now! lol) and then go out into the back garden...and low and behold there they are sat in their grans deck chairs.
We try to act cool, my friend introduces me, i turn purple and then we go back inside....she's jumping up and down and happy to have seen them again, however, i just want to cry.
That was the end of my infactuation with luke and Matt....I'd seen them and their acne and without all the lights, music and sexy garments they looked dog ugly....i was sooo disapointed that the men i thought rocked my world really did not exist.
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gathered all these stories, sounds like we are all about the same age... hehe : )
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yeh we should arrange a party for us oldies :)
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We could call it "Those touched by fame... (or near fame..... well...maybe brushed by it??)
I did bang shoulders and give a nasty glare (until I realised) to Jose Maria Olathabal who managed to say sorry as he rushed past!
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I once sat sipping champagne with a loads of stocky looking blokes in a real nice hotel in Cardiff. I remember my best friend telling me that they were famous but i didnt quite hear why they were famous and just laughed it off. I was pretty drunk and it was about 4am when one of them invited us back.
The next day in work Im the talk of the office. Yes, she worked with me and had already spread the news that we had spent the evening with half of the welsh rugby team.
If i'd have heard her i wouldnt have believed her, being short sighted and drunk as a skunk didnt help too much either. I could have kicked myself though as when we were about to leave one of them passed me a 20 for the taxi and i refused!? ahhhhh
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Boy George once told me to 'get the f* out of the way' I was a mere babe hanging out in Covent Garden on one of the first 'Live Aid' days.... Dont like that guy !!
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suze
19 yrs ago
Lammasita, Paul Weller you lucky thing, my ultimate heart throb!!! When I lived in UK, just after Robbie left Take That I was horse racing in a village near where I lived. Robbie was there so I approached him and got his autograph and he asked me where the toilets were!!! Stiull waiting for him to publically announce he is searching for the girl who showed him the toilets many years ago!! Also met Boy George at a club, for some stupid reason, went up to him and couldnt think of a thing to say so just said I can see you are busy bye!!!!
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AOP1JF - Have a similar story to yours luckily I knew I was talking to half the Welsh team (prolly cos I'm Welsh and follow rugby.)
Actually my brother had a far more amusing story. Stood in a bar with his mates in Cardiff, some drunken bird comes staggering past and swipes his pint. She takes a swig, say 'ta very much' and staggers off again. It was non other than Cerys of Catatonia fame.
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nice one Vulvic...im welsh too and i watch Rugby, however, i find myself transfixed on legs and rarely get their faces.....
Heres another sort of claim to fame
My mate was having her wedding in some really nice hotel in Wales and just two weeks before the wedding the hotel called and asked if she could change the date.
Of course she said there was no chance as she had over 200 guests going to the reception and had booked 8 rooms for family that were arriving from all over the world.
The hotel seemed very distraught but said they would need to call her back. She assured them that she would not move the date however many calls they made to her or her fiancee.
Her fiancee called her an hour or so later and said that they had offered to give them 5,000 discount should they move the reception to just one day later.
After days of calls like this the money was going up and up until eventually the hotel said that they would put on the reception for free.
And still she said 'NO' knowing full well that the hotel had obviously made a mistake and desperately needed the hotel available.
After much fussing they finally came to an agreement that the entire wedding, including the rooms and everything would be completely free and she would have the reception a day later.
She just had enough time to change the wedding day and arrange a fantastic honeymoon with all the money they had saved.
Her wedding arrived and everything was fantastic. After the reception she received a card from the hotel.....
she opened it and inside was a cheque and a note saying 'thank you for changing your special day' signed.......................
David Beckham wow if only she had known she could have milked him for so much more...lol
Apparentely it was for the christening of their first.
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Showing my age here, but when I was a wee whippersnapper I was a HUGE Ultravox fan(the moody raincoats in the Vienna video had an effect) so about 6 years ago I was really excited when i found out that Midge Ure was coing to my town to do an acoustic gig. I bought my ticket and had to go on my own as everyone else was being too cool.
I was sitting in the front and kept catching Midge's eye and then him being the nice guy that he is said that he would stay and sign autographs afterwards. I took my programe up and he signed it. Then he looked me up and down(I am 5 11") and said "Jesus you could pick me up and carry me home" my teenage crush came flooding back and I just stood there and giggled like a demented hyena.
Not cool, not cool at all
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These stories are brilliant!! Thanks for cheering me up so much...(meant in the most heartfelt of ways!)
You've made me think of a few more too!
This was over 10 years ago!
It happened in Mold (North Wales...good name for it). My friends and I went to watch an improv show starring Eddie Izzard.
Being students at the time we went to the bar afterwards for a pint and Lo! there was Eddie and his fellow (meagre) stars signing autographs.
Being ill prepared as usual, i didn't have anything for him to sign on, then remembered the lining of my purse! The thing was, was that my purse was a bright red spiky latex number....
however, it was perfect. Eddie said 'Ooh... Never had to sign anything like this before!!!' I laughed told him I didn't have anything else and after a few other one liners got introduced to the others.
One asked if we were going to buy them a round for doing so well.... I piped up 'we're students!!!" So he ended up buying us a round instead!
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evohe
19 yrs ago
Something tells me that soon we will talk about JC Van Damme and Mes Amis in Wanchai.
Justin, I let you tell this story. Ppl listen up but "Dunt tell anybodiiii"
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Lammasita - I learnt to drive in Mold, lol!!!! Agree though, there's not much there.
So Dorris, you're a taff too? Agree about the legs and bums - far more entertaining.
OK one more story. Me, 11 years old, sitting on a minibus home from Central. Get off the bus and am tapped on the shoulder by an elderly gentleman who is asking directions...........to my house! Apparently the folks had met him the night before and invited him to dinner. I ask him to follow me home and we are greeted at the door by my Mum who is looking very pleased to see her dinner guest.
It is only years later that I realise how famous this man is........the late and great Sir Harry Secombe.
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Ha Oyster, sligtely off the subject but that just reminded me ..of a time when my mouth also got me in deep....lol
My BF introduced me to his mate the one day and he was drop dead gorgeous..i was blown away.
A few days later this friend phoned the house and my BF wasnt home so he gave me a message ...just before i hung up i said 'love you!' ahhhhh i have no idea how i said it or why...it just came out of my mouth and i didnt actually realise until after i had put the receiver down....hehe
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These stories are so great!
Unfortunately I was a baby at the time that my dad decided to have John Pertwee (Doctor Who - the good years) over to our club.
My brothers were 7, 9 and 11 at the time and all loved Doctor Who. He was brilliant, he arrived before tea time and played with the boys, ate tea with them and then told them what was coming up next in the series. He was there for an evening stand up show and he came early because he knew Dad had children.
What a top bloke! Even though I don't recall, I completely adored him...(wanted him to be my Dad (after Danny Kaye))
Needless to say my brothers were very popular for a few weeks at school!
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One of my classmates in school was actually a member of Catatonia, but was booted out by Cerys before they got famous. Saw him a couple of years ago - not a happy man.
I met Michael Stipe in the toilets of the Grand Hyatt, after the REM gig in HK. He was on his way out, and I had just finished my call of nature. Dilemma: wash my hands and let him go, or say hello and shake his hand? Tough call.
I met Cynthia Payne (Madame Cyn - the ex-madame of a London brothel, famous for her infamous Luncheon Voucher Programme - and subject of the film "Wish you were here") in Covent Garden. She was absolutely lovely...just like yer mum...and really chatty.
Robbie Coltrane came in to a bar where I was working once. He asked for a wineglass, and then proceeded to eat it, to the amusement of his friends, and the horror of a couple of old ladies in the corner.
Once met Eason Chan (OK, somewhat different league here) too. I was oblivious, but my 2 Chinese friends were going ape, trying to fish out their digital cameras and have their photos taken.
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oyster - nah, the guy didnt say anything later on ...lol....actually neither of us said anything... i knew that he knew and he knew that i knew....and my BF was oblivious as to why there was this funny atmosphere in the room....hehe
bit gutted really cos it was just a slip of the tongue and i never got the opportunity to explain myself...ahh well
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Fantastic stories.
Cynthia Payne - wasn't the film about her 'Personal Services'? Or have I got that completely arse over tit, lol.
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Nemesis - you could be right about Witley's comment, but only if we choose to listen to it!
Yes, famous people are the same as us and we shouldn't be boasting etc etc, but I don't think we are. We're just sharing stories that are entertaining about people that others may know!! Harmless..... and not an ego trip...
A simple chance to air them without resorting to boasting with our friends and like Witley says, a way to see just how small the world is!!
BTW my perception of John Pertwee hasn't changed, I like the thought of him being lovely and that's what I shall keep!!
:) xx
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Vulvic - I think you're right. 'Wish you were here' was that film starring Emily somebody... (sound like my mum now!!)
Emily has a famous dad!!!
Can't remember anything anymore!!!
......Where am I?......
:D
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I want to say Emily Watson but I think that's wrong. Her Dad was Trigger from Only Fools and Horses. Incidentally the folks also met him when he did a show at the HKFC. Apparently he doesn't like it if you call him Trig, lol!
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Yes! Yes! Thank you Vulvic - now the name is on the tip of my tongue - but still unreachable...
Emily Dickenson?? nnnnn..no....
I've flatlined again..
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HHmmmmm will check now - tis starting to annoy me too!
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Yes!!! Just looked it up too! Phew! I can go to Singapore this w/end with a happy heart....:)
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Yes, it could have spoiled everything!! You'd have spent the whole weekend asking strangers if they knew the name of the girl that sang 'up yer bum!' whilst running round the garden in her nightie.
Think I might get the DVD out tonight.
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Witley - Yes Sean Pertwee is his son I believe. He's rather good looking in a squashed-up face sort of way.
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I wouldn't kick him out of bed for farting!!!
Alright - do you want another?? This is a corker!
I, yes I, was a dancing frog in our village pantomime that Patrick Moore starred in as the evil dragon!!
No, no, please don't bow to me or anything.... it's hard to believe I know, but you know, some people are just so lucky!!!
:D (btw - for those that have no clue who this famous non-famous person is, he had one of the longest running late night T.V spots on British telly called The Sky at Night - he lived in my village and I haven't admitted this before, but I got to look at his telescope in his garden!!!)
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wow lammasita if only i had known all this im sure i would have reconsidered my move...i honsetly didnt realise who i was rubbing shoulders with my friend. There's no stopping me now GF i will be back there in January !!! :)
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I love you Dorris!!!
xxxxxxx
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Patrick Moore - the old bloke who looked at stars?? You lucky, lucky girl.
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Ha ha!! Don't I know when I've been touched...(what a horrible thought!!!
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That's Patrick Stewart and I wouldn't mind him touching me!!!!!
Patrick Moore wears a monocle and speaks incredibly fast.... big bloke rides round our village on an old bicycle - almost swallows the saddle.... won't ride over bumps incase of an injury.....
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