[NTarrant]

I think Simon, that VK was the guy next to me and I can’t tell my left from my right!!

[Bunnahabhain]

This thread has to win the award for the quickest digression from the original topic!

I met Michael Douglas, not the actor but the street barber from The One Show, at the buffet on an East Coast train earlier this year. And several years ago Jean-Paul Gaultier was at the next table to me in Burger King in Montreal station!

[NTarrant]

Yes you are right Jim, and thanks to Phil for starting it or was it BABenji for getting the ball rolling?

Did you get a hair cut Jim?

[SimonRowberry]

Jim/Nigel – yes, it’s nice to have a lighthearted thread in these troubled times!

I once met a guitar player called Alvin Lee from Ten Years After on a Tarom flight to Bucharest. I also sat behind a bloke called Ville Valo, the singer in a band called HIM, on a Finnair flight to Bangkok. And came across (so to speak) Gary Glitter in the Leamington Spa branch of Casa Fina (but the less said about that, I guess…..)

I also sat opposite Leon Brittan on a Eurostar train to Brussels.

Simon

[Bunnahabhain]

No hair cut at the buffet, he had a couple of gins in his hand instead of the scissors!

On to politicians now then – I was behind my local MP in the security queue at LGW south and he was describing it as “administrative punishment” – he’s just become chief secretary to the treasury so probably gets a limo straight out to a private plane now!!

Passed Billy Connolly in LHR T1 one day.

PS Nigel, Jonathan and I are meeting up for a beer somewhere in central London on the evening of Thursday 15th July to further discuss such important drivel. Time and venue to be decided, whatever location suits best. Seeing as this thread has already gone way off the original subject then anyone else interested in joining us might as well say so here! Waiting to hear back from Mark at BT.

[PatJordan]

A few years ago, I sat close to a young lady whose face was vaguely familiar in the Aer Lingus Lounge at LHR.

I was a row behind her on the flight to Dublin, still couldn’t put a name to the face.

Later, as passport control, I happened to see her name….didn’t recognise it.

Went home and asked my daughers if they recognised the name: Kelly Osborne?

They were greatly piqued that not only did I not recognise her, but I didn’t ask for an autograph.

Ah, well such is the price of being a middle aged fogey.

Who knows, maybe I have had the pleasure of meeting some of this forums contributors!!!

Maybe even the legendary VK…..

As JimBannerman says this thread has gone way off, but everybody is having fun: very important in this recessionary era.

[SimonRowberry]

Jim – I reckon I may well be able to make the meet, Please post further details about venue etc.

Simon

[TominScotland]

I was buying coffee from Cafe Nero at domestic departures, Gatwick North Terminal early yesterday morning and was behind the bookies favourite for the leadership of the Labour Party who paid for his own drinks and pain au chocolat and also got his Cafe Nero loyalty card stamped for good measure……

[JordanD]

@TomBaum Shouldn’t he have been in school?!

@JimBannerman – post details, would be interested in joining, assuming I’m not too busy at work in London.

Oh, and my star spot is Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the Galleries First lounge at T5. Very polite, and he relaxed as he sat back and read The Economist.

[Senator]

To continue the name dropping exercise:

I had Academy Award winning actor Sam Neill next to me on a BD flight from LHR to DUB a few years back. This is the flight when I was informed that the female staff of BD awards a “BOB” on each flight. BOB = Best on Board – I guess, providing an informal ranking to identify the most handsome male passenger which I apparently won on this particular flight with a light load 😉

In addition, I had Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden behind me on a LH flight from ARN to MUC in business as well as her mother, Her Majesty the Queen behind be on a LX flight ARN-ZRH.

I have been with footballer Zlatan (FC Barcelona and Sweden) from AMS-ARN with SK and ARN-MUC with LH whilst we were only passengers in business.

[BABenji]

Currently in the BMI international business lounge @ LHR T1. No one of note here. Just grumpy business men talking loudly into their mobile phones. Rubbish.

[Kaicat75]

best star spot was Kylie Minogue, i wasn’t on the same flight but it was hard to miss the pap’s as she went through the airport.

[CharlieBrown]

Ok, so for my name drops:

On the same BA flight as Sir Elton, U2 & Priscilla Presley from LHR to LAX a few years back. Was sat in the same row as Hardeep Singh Kohli on BD EDI-LHR around a year ago (almost knocked me out when getting up from his seat, big chap). Have done a few BA LGW-JER flights with Graeme Le Saux & Alan Wicker on board. Spotted Westlife a few times on BD LHR-DUB and Eddie Jordan floating around BD gates at T1. Notice how the A-listers quickly moved down to D-list….

[handsomestpete]

Heres mine.Farah Fawcett-Majors in the seat behind me in First[it was 1979!] LHR-LIN.

[Bunnahabhain]

Kylie Minogue eh – a colleague of mine got into a black cab in London and the driver asked him if the seat was warm – it should be because Kylie had just got out!!

I was an usher at a friend’s wedding in 1999 at the Burnham Beeches Hotel, Berks. As we drove up on the Friday there were security guards at the gates, I knew it was quite a posh place but didn’t think his wedding was that important! Plus there was a group of local kids waiting, despite the pouring rain. Turns out the England football team was based there for the Euro 2000 qualifier against Sweden on the Saturday. Once confirmed as legitimate guests – the groom to be was driving so just as well! – we were allowed to proceed to check in alongside Andy Cole. It was a mixed marriage – he was Scottish – and a number of the celtic contingent who had travelled down felt the need to celebrate by lighting up cigars in the hotel lounge – Kevin Keegan and the lads who were discussing last minute tactics promptly moved to another part of the hotel. On the Saturday morning the team bus drew up, escorted by a single policeman on a motorbike, and we offered an invite to Ray Clemence for the boys to join the wedding reception when they were back. He politely declined saying that they would just come back for a quick debrief then a cup of tea and off to their beds. Well that’s not exactly what later transpired….
There was the somewhat surreal scene of a crowd of Scots applauding the team bus as it left for Wembley, and during the wedding ceremony I could see there was about the same attention being paid to the radio earpieces as the registrar – Scotland also drew against the mighty Faroes, similarly ending their qualifying hopes. The boys returned from Wembley, all sombre of course having realised they really needed to beat Sweden, but then – party!!! We counted two who adhered to Ray’s agenda. Probably just as well it was just before the age of digital cameras when films still took time and hassle to finish then get developed, by which time yesterday’s news as far as the tabloids would have been concerned.

Confidentiality obviously prevents me from expanding any further here, but you know you want to be there for the BT posters’ next gathering… Will start a new thread for that and we can maybe agree on a mutual pub and time.

Slainte
J

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