So what's your claim to fame ?

I was in a little coffee shop in Scotland a few years ago on holiday . It was at at a place called Craobh Haven , cracking little place and near to Cory Vrecken , the third biggest whirlpool in the world . We got talking to the owner and she brought out this book for us to read .

The front of the book was titled " So what's your claim to fame ? " and when we opened the book it made for some interesting reading . It had been filled out by the customers of the coffee shop over the last few years . There was all sorts of stuff in there , folks who said they had met the Queen , folks who'd climbed all the munroes in the country, even someone who said there claim to fame was they were in a gents toilet and they had a piss standing next to Roger Daltry !

I bet there's some interesting stories on here .

So what's your claim to fame ? It can be anything you think is special but must be true .

John H

i once slagged off newcastle united football club to one of the Chairmen while i was servicing his boiler, i only found out who he was when i left, oops.

I kicked Geoff Capes ( worlds strongest man at the time ) in the nuts..

Was at a panto with the school and Geoff decided to pick me up out of my seat so I thought it would be funny to kick him straight in the nuts.. All my friends where pissing their pants with laughter. I got a weeks detention and put on report for it tho lol

I am a shop fitter and we used to do all sorts anyway I was working in London brooke street strait opposite claridges the top class hotel ,I used to see famous people on a regular basis ,anyway one day I walked out of the office door strait into chris eubank ,of course I said sorry before his mountain of a bodyguard pounded me ,I have also done a lot of footballers stairs and a oak bookcase for Richard Grffiths (pie in sky actor)

When I was a kid my babysitter was Lisa Stansfield and I went to school with Anna Friel. Then, when I worked for Shepperton Studios I got to meet quite a few famous people like Sir Richard Attenbrough, Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Eric Cantona who is possibly one of the nicest, most humble people, I have ever met

I showed up David Beckham in our patrol base in afgahn lol he was trying to show of that he thought the body armour was light not best thing to do to lads that have just spent 18 and a ½ hours out on the ground and a three hour fire fight. Long story short I throw my body armour at him and he didn't realise it was 4x heavier than the civiy body armour he had to wear he feel flat on his ass in front of all the cameras

I repair Alan Shearer's wife's car, used to do Shay Given cars too. Played football and bandits with Gazza, Paul Bracewell, Stuart Elliot (Footballers) and regulary beat them at pool when I was a abit younger, my dad knows them all. Played golf with Peter Beardsley too.

done work for loads of them as i work in pont often,michael chopra,michael bridges,peter lovencrands,alan pardu,sisse loads of others i would not know as i am not a football fan,got asked off robbie williams if i could get him some coke,had beers with richard branson,worked with loads of famous dj's,told kate price she looks shit in bed in her porn,grabbed danni minoges ass,been on telly loads of times,more will come to me but thats enough for now,met 100s of famous people,dj'd on all the local radio stations aswell as radio1 for the love parade

ooh...fitted mario's fiber broadband...he is quite famous now!!

HAHA, I 7 balled Chopra a fair few year back and me dad laughed and said, shite at pool and football, nitemare!

did loads of work for him and his wife..well ex now when he lived up in medburn

StickT wrote:

HAHA, I 7 balled Chopra a fair few year back and me dad laughed and said, shite at pool and football, nitemare!

did he not put a bet on it

discodaz wrote:

ooh...fitted mario's fiber broadband...he is quite famous now!!

That's the most important claim to fame mate

Nice to be named amongst such esteemed celebs

I have a really funny claim to fame story about me and Sebastian Coe and I started to write it out today and I thought nobody could be arsed to read it because it was such a long story,....was thinking of asking Amazon to put it on their Kindle download list

Kicked a ball around with George Best and had a few beers with him afterwards when I did a trampoline display with the Irish trampoline team on the pitch at Windsor Park at his testimonial game in 1988.

When I was a young amateur boxer I lived in the poorest area of West Belfast and the boxing club was a complete mess but run on a shoestring budget. Our water bottles for drinking in between sparring rounds in the ring were just big glass 40oz vodka bottles coverd completely in silver gaffer tape so they didn't smash when they got dropped. When Barry McGuigan first turned pro he used to come up to our club to spar with our coaches son (Danny McAllister) who was a welterweight and quite abit heavier than Barry who was a featherweight. We were all in awe of Barry and used to stand all around the ring and watch him get put on his arse quite often by the bigger Danny. During one sparring session I was standing at Barry's corner and at the end of a round he shouted down to me "Mario, give me a drink please son" - I was honoured and so excited I jumped up with the aforementioned 40oz glass vodka bottle and instead of gently putting it to his lips, smashed it straight into his teeth, drawing blood from his gums. I was so upset I apologised and got a bit teary-eyed. He just reached over the ropes and gave me a big hug and told me not to worry as he'd been hit harder than that before...Legend and one of my heroes.

Marietto wrote:

discodaz wrote:

ooh...fitted mario's fiber broadband...he is quite famous now!!

That's the most important claim to fame mate

Nice to be named amongst such esteemed celebs

I have a really funny claim to fame story about me and Sebastian Coe and I started to write it out today and I thought nobody could be arsed to read it because it was such a long story,....was thinking of asking Amazon to put it on their Kindle download list

Kicked a ball around with George Best and had a few beers with him afterwards when I did a trampoline display with the Irish trampoline team on the pitch at Windsor Park at his testimonial game in 1988.

When I was a young amateur boxer I lived in the poorest area of West Belfast and the boxing club was a complete mess but run on a shoestring budget. Our water bottles for drinking in between sparring rounds in the ring were just big glass 40oz vodka bottles coverd completely in silver gaffer tape so they didn't smash when they got dropped. When Barry McGuigan first turned pro he used to come up to our club to spar with our coaches son (Danny McAllister) who was a welterweight and quite abit heavier than Barry who was a featherweight. We were all in awe of Barry and used to stand all around the ring and watch him get put on his arse quite often by the bigger Danny. During one sparring session I was standing at Barry's corner and at the end of a round he shouted down to me "Mario, give me a drink please son" - I was honoured and so excited I jumped up with the aforementioned 40oz glass vodka bottle and instead of gently putting it to his lips, smashed it straight into his teeth, drawing blood from his gums. I was so upset I apologised and got a bit teary-eyed. He just reached over the ropes and gave me a big hug and told me not to worry as he'd been hit harder than that before...Legend and one of my heroes.

Did you start writing that yesterday!!!

discodaz wrote:

Did you start writing that yesterday!!!

That was the really short one......

My father was a record producer in the 80's, I nicked madness's drumsticks and sold them at school

I also met David belemy and Eddie Kidd in my front room along with Roy chubby brown and various other famous people when me father did York for ITV

Most famous was madonna and jamaine jackson before they hit the big time.

Was sitting in a hot tub with Jim Davidson last week, I was gutted that he didn't touch me once

Jonny Gav wrote:

Was sitting in a hot tub with Jim Davidson last week, I was gutted that he didn't touch me once

WTF!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent idea for a thread John H!

Got a few good claims but I can't use em till I get clearance for me book

One dull one - I'm the only person ever to have rappelled down Cows Green Reservoir dam wall (in full assault kit and climbed back up)

And I banged a well known ITV journalist/reporter who was embedded with another unit. Bedding the embed it became known...... Was all good fun until like a right fooking knob I fell in love with her and blew me marriage out the water!

Robbo_22 wrote:

Excellent idea for a thread John H!

Got a few good claims but I can't use em till I get clearance for me book

And I banged a well known ITV journalist/reporter Trevor McDonald who was embedded with another unit.

Fpmsl

drew@drewsautos wrote:

Robbo_22 wrote:

Excellent idea for a thread John H!

Got a few good claims but I can't use em till I get clearance for me book

And I banged a well known ITV journalist/reporter Trevor McDonald who was embedded with another unit.

Fpmsl

T W A T! Once you've gone black, you won't go back

I was on a programme on bbc one when I was 15 with school, a full half hour or hour whatever it was

Scales of justice lol

Some great stories been submitted . Thanks to everyone so far . It's made me laugh . So here's my humble offerings ;

When I was at Newcastle Polytechnic I had a chance to do a parachute jump . Being young and daft , I thought why not . I'd never been a plane before either so that was going to be a new experience too .

So I did the parachute jump and lived to tell the tale .

But it was another 8 years before I flew in a plane again .

So , for that time , I had the strange distinction of having taken off on a plane but never landed in one !

As for people , one of my relatives on my fathers side , was a member of the crew on the Terra Nova , the ship that Robert Falcon Scott used on his fateful race to the South Pole .
Fortuneately for my ralative he wasn't chosen to be in the team that set out to the South Pole but he did help with the setting up of the supply bases and suffered severe frost bite in the process.

So , when I was at Craobh Haven , I entered my "Claim to fame " about my relative in the coffee shop book .

The owner of the shop started to read the stories we'd written as we got up to leave .

Just as I opened the door to leave she said , " Wait a minute , this relative of yours who was on the Terra Nova in the Antartic ? "

" Yes , what about him ? " I asked .

" You do know that Scott's grandson , Falcon Scott , lives here in Craobh Haven ? "

I'd had no idea .

John H

Worked in a bar in the early 90's, the DJ had some famous friends, went to London to watch the DMC (disco mixing championships) of the world, remember it was early 90's, driving down to London and car phone rings, FOOKIN car phone, nobody had one, Me mate driving so I answer, Alexander O'neil speaking, (he was big in 90's), DMC at Royal Albert Hall, class, big VIP party at Roof top Gardens hotel, anyway spent all night knocking in Hollywood lines and smokin u no wot with the likes of Yazz (The Only Way is up) S Xpress and the Pet Shop Boys, all for free, loved it, Was only 20 then, next day am in background of picture of Yazz leavin the party, Front page of Daily Mirror, danced with her for at least an hour, wonder wot she's doing now???
Best days of my life, huge pop stars of the day, and really nice people, but boy did they like the powder etc, am all grown up now and defo no regrets, felt like a superstar for couple of days, anything u wanted u got, no questions, prob the same now, ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS JLS/1D lol.