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When I lived in Scotland the first Christmas I was working for a jewellers and I sold a Gucci ring to Colin and Justin, that camp pair of interior designers from Channel 5. The following year I was managing an adult store and they came in to purchase an anotomically correct replica of a porn star's appendage, complete with handy suction attachment on the base. They did laugh when I reminded them of this compared with their purchase the previous year.

I was a little disappointed, when I recently watched a programme were they did up Christine and Neil Hamilton's flat, not to see what they'd bought happily swinging, suction cupped onto the window of the pairs lovely home.

'Who lives in a house with a twelve inch phallus stuck to the window?

David it's over to you.'
 
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Wow this is a name dropping thread, all these famous people :) I have spent a night drinking with Billy Connolly, the next day was .................I also had a couple of swift ones with Mike Harding an up and coming comedy act that may take off one day.....he wrote Napoleons retreat from Wigan before we went to the bar and continued editing as we drank, as you can imagine it was a funny night. Good old folk scene days.
 
Bazf said:
I also had a couple of swift ones with Mike Harding an up and coming comedy act that may take off one day.....

If you're talking about the Rochdale Cowboy, currently presenting Radio 2's folk programme, I went to school with him..... we used to cycle about ten miles, detouring through Piccadilly (the Manchester one), & then Moss Side, just to see how many 'Ladies of the night' we could spot en-route!
 
Ouch! - I have to say I have met a lot over the years, partly because such a lot of them live in London, and partly because of the job.

My daughter went out with a Beastie Boy - Adroc (Adam) for a while, then with a well-known DJ, then with Flavor Flav - they had to hide her on the tour bus because they were a Black Power group and it wouldn't do for FF to have a white, red-haired, girlfriend. Both of them were very polite and charming, very different from the stage image. Also, my daughter used to work for Prince Charles in polo, so got a nod from him and a smile from Diana (whom the polo girls loved, because she was so ordinary and nice).

Sort of met Princess Anne when she asked me to hold her horse's foot as I was walking past her at a horse do.

Met George Best in the Phene Arms a few times, later came to know his second wife, Alex, very well.

My ex used to work for Columbia Pictures, so met quite a number of people at their dos - even Rock Hudson once!

And, of course, I also know Garinda!
 
KiTChener said:
If you're talking about the Rochdale Cowboy, currently presenting Radio 2's folk programme, I went to school with him..... we used to cycle about ten miles, detouring through Piccadilly (the Manchester one), & then Moss Side, just to see how many 'Ladies of the night' we could spot en-route!

Of course the one and only M Harding esq, for a while I was entertainment manager for a folk club in the midlands and meet a lot of folk acts, Mike was a gentleman and scholar.
 
I forgot Sarah Lancashire - got her over to a promotional thing a few years back.

Plus, a few of the Rovers players here and there!
 
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