| What's your claim to fame? 09:05 - Mar 18 with 25146 views | W13R |
Right, a bit of lighted fun in these testing times.
Mine is, performed twice at The Royal Albert Hall.
First time around I sang a solo to a full house. |  | | |  |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:06 - Mar 18 with 2326 views | LongsufferingR |
Used to play in a Sunday football team with Jamie Theakston (before his TV days) and we got chosen to do a Snickers ad which went out regularly during the 1994 World Cup. Approximately 0.47 seconds of my face in view. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:13 - Mar 18 with 2307 views | StraightR |
I once got into the same lift as Rod Stewart in a hotel in Sydney. He asked me which floor I was going to and pressed the button. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:17 - Mar 18 with 2293 views | Northernr |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:13 - Mar 18 by StraightR |
I once got into the same lift as Rod Stewart in a hotel in Sydney. He asked me which floor I was going to and pressed the button. |
I had that with Gino Padula in a hotel in Plymouth once. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:18 - Mar 18 with 2290 views | rrrspricey |
About 5 seconds of me on the Four Year Plan, walking past a reporter outside LR (as it was then) in May 2011 on my way to the Adelaide before the Lids game.
Incidentally, this was about 30 seconds after i'd given Paladini a piece of my mind as he was walking up SAR with his minders...prick |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:24 - Mar 18 with 2260 views | francisbowles |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:40 - Mar 18 by Northernr |
I sang in a group on a charity single for Telethon 1990 (an old ITV equivalent of children in need) with Jive Bunny. Got to 17 in the charts or something sht and my mum has loads of VHS of me touring round television studios looking absolutely terrified because I hadn't realised all the puppet co-hosts on kids TV had a bloke operating them from below.
Think the song was a horrendous mash up of don't like Monday's, brick in the wall and Baggy Trousers. |
Are you still getting royalty cheques? Lol |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:25 - Mar 18 with 2255 views | Northernr |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:24 - Mar 18 by francisbowles |
Are you still getting royalty cheques? Lol |
No, I bet that fcking rabbit is though. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:27 - Mar 18 with 2247 views | BostonR |
A full-on night out with Motley Crue after their Dr Feelgood show at Wembley Arena in Nov 1989. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:38 - Mar 18 with 2210 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
A true story, not about fame for me as such but some bragging rights.
1974
I use to swim at Lime grove.
The Osmonds were doing some stuff at the studios, use to hang around for the girls that were there and got talking to some of the security guys and drivers, some of which were trying to pick up girls themselves.
Anyway, ended up meeting all the Osmond family and going back to Rod Stewart's house out on the M4 with a few girls and stayed in a cottage in the grounds.
The embarrassing thing is, I had to call my mum to tell her where I was, her going mental for me to go home until someone reassured her I was ok. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 11:42 - Mar 18 with 2214 views | W13R |
| What's your claim to fame? on 09:26 - Mar 18 by WokingR |
For some school event we went to the Natural History Museum and I played the Didgeridoo which was televised live.
Unfortunately Rolf Harris WAS there  |
Talking of Didgeridoo's, I was mates with Wallace who played with Jamiroquai and also knew Andrew Levy from Brand New Heavies and went to school with Femi from the Young Disciples. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:55 - Mar 18 with 2180 views | francisbowles |
I used to play football (mainly as a sub) for the airline midweek team as they were good enough to win the Hanwell and District League. One of our players, who went to play in the conference, knew the manager of the Fort Lauderdale strikers (Ron Newman, I think). So he arranged a fixture for us although he couldn't go himself.
So we all flew of to Florida via Washington, there was some sort of strike on. We had recruited an ex Brentford legend as centre back. We read in the local paper that George Best had returned from injury recently and had been subbed in the last couple of games. George wasn't very happy with this and had thrown his shirt at the manager whilst exclaiming 'how do you expect me to get fit if you keep subbing me'?
A couple of days later we turned up at their training ground expecting to play against their reserves. Their manager had replied to George 'if you want to get fit you can turn out against BA on Wednesday evening' So George was made captain of this reserve side and played the full 90 mins. We had roll on roll of subs and I got about 10 mins at the end of the first half and twenty at the end of the second. Our goalie had a nervous night and seemed to be passing to George with a couple of his goal kicks which George immediately fired back with dippers that made him pull of some great saves and others hit the woodwork. Anyway, we lost 10-1, George was magnificent and a lovely fellow chatting to us at half time, he must have scored about six of them himself.
They arranged another game for us two days later but this time against a local side at a lower level which we managed to draw. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:01 - Mar 18 with 2162 views | qpr1976 |
| What's your claim to fame? on 10:56 - Mar 18 by Lblock |
I’m Spartacus |
I’m Brian. | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:03 - Mar 18 with 2153 views | qpr1976 |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:04 - Mar 18 by LongsufferingR |
"As a small boy I went to a cub scout performance at the Royal Albert Hall by Rolf Harris. Only part that I really remember is his Jake the Peg routine!"
Did he ask you to feel his middle leg? |
“Can you guess what it is yet ?”
“C0ck” !! | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:24 - Mar 18 with 2107 views | loftboy |
Just thought of another one, they did a report on QPR during the Warnock promotion on the FL show, I was right behind the reporter with a couple of my kids for the entire clip. [Post edited 18 Mar 2020 12:24]
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| What's your claim to fame? on 12:26 - Mar 18 with 2101 views | MrSheen |
I was in the film "Spring and Port Wine" about 1969. Susan George tried to pat me on the head. Like an idiot, I ducked.
I used to sit next to Andy Serkis in physics. He did pornographic doodles and turned the gas taps on. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:34 - Mar 18 with 2079 views | qprxtc |
Gary Herbert, the cox that cried at the olympics, was in my class at Primary School. He didn’t have a posh accent back then. And he used to write in his text books the wrong way around. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:50 - Mar 18 with 2057 views | rrrspricey |
I went to the BBC for Jim'll Fix It where he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded...which was strange as i'd requested to train with Rangers.
Never did make it to the screen for some reason? | | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:56 - Mar 18 with 2048 views | headhoops |
I once broke into the Blue Peter garden but keep it quiet. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 13:30 - Mar 18 with 1998 views | Tonto |
two from me (is that bragging)
I played Ultimate Frisbee for Great Britain at the world championships 1988
I am on IMDB (really - not making that up), so that basically makes me a famous actor. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 13:38 - Mar 18 with 1986 views | aston_hoop |
I played in the same youth football team as Ashley Young for a year - I'd love to say he was a diving cheating type back then, but I have hardly any memory of it
I also went to school with the first guy convicted under the UK's anti-stalking laws....erm, thats a claim to fame right? |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 13:38 - Mar 18 with 1985 views | BlackCrowe |
Two from me.
1. I played drums in school band fronted by Clark Datchler who went on to find 15 minutes of fame as lead singer in crap band Johnny Hates Jazz.
2. i spilled a full glass of vodka and cranberry down Caroline Aherne's white top in the Met Bar. She was very nice about it. The next day The Sun's front page was headlined along the lines of "My alcohol shame' with a photo of her staggering out of the Met Bar with my red stain prominently showing down her front. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 13:59 - Mar 18 with 1951 views | TheChef |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:01 - Mar 18 by qpr1976 |
I’m Brian. |
...and so is my wife. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 14:13 - Mar 18 with 1930 views | A40Bosh |
| What's your claim to fame? on 11:17 - Mar 18 by Northernr |
I had that with Gino Padula in a hotel in Plymouth once. |
and myself and the Mrs shared a lift in a Brum hotel with Matt Ingram and wee Paul Symthe on the Sat morning the Villa v QPR game was cancelled due to the snow
Half an hour later I pee'd off Ollie by expressing the positive that it was the best result we could have got that day.... the replayed match we went on to win 1-3 I think with Manning scoring that header with JT going face first in to the dirt.
Les was more affable after breakfast when discussing the trip up to Brum on the coach taking them 4hrs on the Friday night. |  |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 14:16 - Mar 18 with 1918 views | A40Bosh |
| What's your claim to fame? on 12:34 - Mar 18 by qprxtc |
Gary Herbert, the cox that cried at the olympics, was in my class at Primary School. He didn’t have a posh accent back then. And he used to write in his text books the wrong way around. |
......and he was the year below me at secondary school and I think lived down in Netheravon Road in Chiswick the same as my best mate. Seemed to remember him some years later him pulling up in an old Triumph convertible with the roof down and saying "hello chaps" to us - he was posh by then. | |
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| What's your claim to fame? on 14:23 - Mar 18 with 1897 views | flynnbo |
Off the top of my head:
Spending a Saturday night with the Indian cricket team in 1979 in London.
Taught Chris Perry, Jason Cundy, Stephen Finnan and Ben Chilwell.
Won the QPR LInk It Up competition in the programme in 1976/77 season. |  | | |
| What's your claim to fame? on 14:28 - Mar 18 with 1873 views | stowmarketrange |
My brother,his mate and I played our guitars at the school concert in about 1974.We played apache by the shadows as none of us could sing.I was taught(?) bass guitar by my art teacher James Lampard,Who was a member of the Portsmouth Symphonia,who made a few bad records in the 70’s.We had to stop twice mid song as we all got out of time with each other.
I’ve played football on rod stewarts pitch a few times at his house in Epping.They had a few stars in his in his team including Peter Kitchen,Bradley Walsh and Terry Gibson.They beat us 4 times on the bounce and they were happy.Including Walsh scoring 3 goals against me in one game.We beat them once and they never asked us back again.
We used to go back to his local after the games and he was quite sociable.Never bought us a drink though.
One time I walked into one of the ceiling beams and his wife at the time asked me if I was ok.I can’t remember if it was Rachel or penny though. |  | | |
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