The small claims court

[YaBB Master (Colin)]

Andy started this because he was at the vets one day and Kate Bush was there.

My small claim was that I was standing watching a match on court 4 at Wimbledon and looked around. I was standing next to Venus Williams. She was lovely and friendly, but still terrifying.

Any more?

[GubGub (Al)]

Cliff Morgan dropped his cigarette on my foot once.

[Nick Reg]

The first time I met a certain "lady" football director (on business) her baby had just been sick on her.

[steve-n]

At a festival, many years ago, Jim Moir (Vic Reeves) cadged a cigarette from me.
Same venue,different year, couple of minutes discussing the football results with John Peel !

[StephenB]

Way back when in my early student days, I got a summer job as a Betterware brush salesman  (door to door), I  sold a back yard broom and a lawnmower brush to Violet Carson aka Ena Sharples. She was delightful, even had me in for a cuppa...

[Nick Reg]

As Has been mentioned elsewhere I played table football with Stacia.

[davidmjs]

a) I had a pee next to Phil Lynott backstage at Reading Festival in 1983.

b) I played pinball with Derek Dick and Lemmy (the latter wasn't playing) backstage at Reading Festival in 1983.

My life has been downhill for 4 long decades....

[mickf]

I witnessed Ritchie Blackmore chatting up my brother's girlfriend in 1972 (when I was 16) She was the same age as me. My brother was torn between being angry because Ritchie Blackmore chatted up his girlfriend and being pretty chuffed because......Ritchie Blackmore chatted up his girlfriend!

[Malcolm]

a) I had a pee next to Phil Lynott backstage at Reading Festival in 1983.

Sorry to sound snobbish   but I was in a Country & Western venue in Nashville in 1978, having a pee next to George Jones.

[Jamie73]

I once knocked Jane Birkin's (full) wine glass over. I said sorry, and she said "don't worry, it saves me from getting smashed!"

[Mark J Salt]

A few encounters with muso's and actors when working in a South London hotel in the eighties mainly from Catford town hall and Bromley Theatre, Gino Washington was a late night regular, also met the Stranglers and a few other bands of the time, 50's heartthrob Anthony Newley stayed quite a while loveley but quite demanding, Gary Wilmot who was in Panto and our only guest over Christmas, he even came to our Staff Xmas Party, Lovely chap, in fact they were all nice, apart from maybe the actor  Alfred Marks who was a complete a*$e (to me at least).
Sat on the next table to Norman Wisdom and Linda Lusardi in a Dartford Curry house after panto, What lovely, lovely people.
And finally, had the honour !!! of giving room service to the one and only Madame Sin, Cynthia Payne, Loads of Champagne courtesy of a National newspaper. Happy days....

[Dan O.]

I encountered Mick Jones of The Clash in a Covent Garden pub Gentleman's.

He was indeed a gentleman, probably because I politely asked him a question about something he was doing at the present time (Carbon/Silicon with former Generation X man Tony James) rather than bothering him with some dumb Clash-related enquiry. He even held the door open for me on the way out...

[Lubiloo (Lorna)]

I walked past Rory Bremner on a bridge in London in the 80s, exclaiming ‘Is that Paddy Ashdown?’.

[PJayBe]

My flatmate Tom and I went to see Motorhead on the Another Perfect Day tour.  Walked into pub near theatre in Derby and we ordered two pints.  saw Lemmy having a pre-gig drink at the bar, so asked him if he fancied a beer.  He simply said,

"Vodka.  Large.  Ta."

So I asked the barman for a large vodka.  Said cheers and were about to swig from our pints when a voice rumbled,

"Drink lads?"  After hearing us say yes, he continued, "Vodka.  Large.  Three."

We drank and once again heard,

"Vodka.  Large.  Three."

This continued until he went to play what was apparently the best gig of the tour and we were put in a taxi by the landlord who knew Tom and sent to his sister's where we were staying for the night.  Apparently our beers were completely untouched.....

[PJayBe]

.....also had a row with Mel Smith when working in Brighton over his hotel bill.  After he shouted at me for a few minutes about an overcharge, I turned the page and showed him where we had taken the charge off.  He went VERY quiet all of a sudden!

[Andy]

In the 80s, Clement Freud was on the same flight to Nice as me. As I had only a backpack, I walked straight out without going to the baggage claim. He followed me, then looked puzzled and said "where do I get my case?" I pointed to the area behind him upon which the doors had just closed.

Last I saw him, he was banging on the doors wanting to get back in to his luggage.

[wayne stote]

I almost cycled into Joanna Lumley, who stepped into the road just as I was going round the corner. She was mortified and very apologetic, bless her.

[Poor Will (Bill)]

Around 1977 I was on a narrow boat holiday on the River Wey with a group of friends.
We managed to run aground right under the Yvonne Arnnaud Theatre in Guildford.
In our efforts to get free we managed to snap a barge pole in two.
In the end, two of us had to get into the river and pull on ropes to release the vessel.
All the while we could hear someone bellowing with laughter at our predicament.
It turned out that it was larger than life actor Stratford Johns.

[Jim]

Tony Gubba poked me in the back with his umbrella once, he did say, and I quote, "Sorry mate" when I turned around looking wounded.
We were in the queue at the Old Trafford ticket office.
It would have been before he moved to national tv, early 70's

[Mark J Salt]

Peter Howitt (Joey Boswell in Bread) before he was a big star was great fun at a rugby club i used to manage, he came in once with one of the first mobile phones, size of a breeze block. and on occasion did wear the leather trousers just like Joey. Great bloke.