Celebrity encounters

floydfreak wrote:

I met Nigel Mansell when he raced in the BTCC in 1998, the event that day attracted one of the biggest crowds i had ever seen!

was that at Donington Park?

T'was Silverstone, it was the season finale, and after Rickard Rydell became champion, i headed across to the paddock to see the celebrations.

Then i had wander over to the Volvo garage and the mechanics were piling up bits of broken car from Rydell's team mate (Gianni Morbidelli, an ex F1 racer), and after asking one of the crew, i was allowed to take one of the pieces home with me.

I got to meet Nigel Mansell during the pit road walkabout, as back then, the first few thousand tickets sold would receive a pit lane pass.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:I've also met Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Tsushimamire, though I didn't know enough Japanese to ask for a picture with the former, and the latter refused without a VIP ticket, of which 5 were sold.

A little addendum to the shutdown from Tsushimamire; I ordered the live album of their London/Paris set, which arrived today, and they signed the invoice sheet!

Hooray for closure!

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:Paul O’Grady - I was in a clothes store in Amsterdam and there he was trying a coat on. Said hi and got my photo taken with him and a small chat. He was very friendly. It was definitely him even though I had a space cake the previous day.

Are you definitely sure this actually happened and you weren't just accosting a tramp at a urinal?

OnlyShallow wrote:I also got really drunk with Steve Jones whilst playing Trivial Pursuit. Really decent guy. Funny and good looking. Bastard.

For a while back there I thought you meant the real Steve Jones and you'd won the thread.

Octoroc wrote:

OnlyShallow wrote:I also got really drunk with Steve Jones whilst playing Trivial Pursuit. Really decent guy. Funny and good looking. Bastard.

For a while back there I thought you meant the real Steve Jones and you'd won the thread.

A rather tenuous link here, but a friend of mine met Steve Jones back in the mid 2000s and he proceeded to show said friend his phone which contained the numbers of both Pamela Anderson and Halle Berry.

Bastard.

Yesterday while I was waiting for my Nando's someone that appeared on channels 4s "four in a bed" came in and we nodded at each other

I have now won this thread