Famous people you have met. What were they like? Did any of them play for City? Famous people your mates have met.

[Gevans_97]

Met Tom from Kasabian on the way to a Leicester game - he was running to catch a train but saw I was wearing a Leicester shirt and made sure he stopped for a picture! 

[ElusiveEd]

Been a strange and very diverse last 7 days.

 

Nicholas Holt - The kid actor (obv not a kid now) from About A Boy

 

Johnny Marr - Complete legend and really nice bloke

 

Clint Eastwood - Totally and utterly starstruck for once. Even in his late 80s the guy still has the presence and aura of legends. Then when he looks at you and speaks, jeez it takes you back. That voice! Shook hands when we met and he shook my hand when he left. Really didn't want to wash my hands.

 

Think I will die a happy man.

 

Edited 2 May 2019 by ElusiveEd

[merlin1969]

When I was a young boy I used to go to Gary Lineker and David Gower and wash there cars

[sm1]

3 hours ago, ElusiveEd said:

Been a strange and very diverse last 7 days.

 

Nicholas Holt - The kid actor (obv not a kid now) from About A Boy

 

Johnny Marr - Complete legend and really nice bloke

 

Clint Eastwood - Totally and utterly starstruck for once. Even in his late 80s the guy still has the presence and aura of legends. Then when he looks at you and speaks, jeez it takes you back. That voice! Shook hands when we met and he shook my hand when he left. Really didn't want to wash my hands.

 

Think I will die a happy man.

 

Met lots of celebs in London when I lived there in the 90’s. The most famous being John Bon Jovi, Stallone and  Bruce Willis,  Stallone was my favourite. Where did you meet Clint? 

[Clever Fox]

I spent a night in the company of George Best and miss World at the time. Now that was a night to remember.

 

I also partnered Packie Bonner in a Corporate Golf Day. A lovely fellow and thorough gentleman.

[Rusko187]

Wife and I won tickets to the ladies final at Wimbledon a few years back, as part of that we met Tim Henman (treat). 

 

He seemed ok a bit more laddish than he comes across on TV, think he was more interested in my wife than me.

[Gamble92]

On 09/01/2019 at 22:23, Stadt said:

Speaking of East Midlands Today members I made a habit of throwing screwed up bus tickets at Natalie Jackson during her post match interviews in 15/16. Encouraged by my dad, naturally.

Big conker to aim for

Edited 3 May 2019 by Gamble92
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[ElusiveEd]

19 hours ago, sm1 said:

Met lots of celebs in London when I lived there in the 90’s. The most famous being John Bon Jovi, Stallone and  Bruce Willis,  Stallone was my favourite. Where did you meet Clint? 

Met the first two with work, Johnny Marr was starting a US tour in New York with his band. All nice guys and far from a "Rock n' Roll" persona you'd imagine. Would love to sit at a bar with him and listen to his stories. What a life he's had but seems very clean living now.

 

Not sure what Clint Eastwood was doing where we were but he wasn't linked to my work, just chatted as we were introduced in a hotel lobby bar in Los Angeles. Still making movies and has future plans for more direction of films. He asked questions about us and seemed generally interested in chatting but think I caught that he had a flight to New York to catch from a nearby airfield which suggests a private jet was waiting. 

 

Looked in great shape like he looked after himself and still worked out.

 

All those famous quotes from films come back when you hear his voice.

 

Complete and utter legend.

 

 

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

7 minutes ago, ElusiveEd said:

Met the first two with work, Johnny Marr was starting a US tour in New York with his band. All nice guys and far from a "Rock n' Roll" persona you'd imagine. Would love to sit at a bar with him and listen to his stories. What a life he's had but seems very clean living now.

 

Not sure what Clint Eastwood was doing where we were but he wasn't linked to my work, just chatted as we were introduced in a hotel lobby bar in Los Angeles. Still making movies and has future plans for more direction of films. He asked questions about us and seemed generally interested in chatting but think I caught that he had a flight to New York to catch from a nearby airfield which suggests a private jet was waiting. 

 

Looked in great shape like he looked after himself and still worked out.

 

All those famous quotes from films come back when you hear his voice.

 

Complete and utter legend.

 

 

Clint Eastwood!!!! You’ve took things to another level with that one! What a legend 

[Dr The Singh]

I meet Tommy Robinson & Nick Griffin quite often, lovely chaps

[Stoopid]

Used to know Ric Grech 

(Family, Blind Faith - you name it). Nice bloke, could care less about football.

Used to drive him around a bit in his later days after his life got a bit chaotic. Ended up drinking himself to death,  but as I say a lovely bloke & a bloody brilliant musician.

[Father Ted]

Met Matt Oakley on the train back from Burnley away last season. He was/is Exeters assistant manager and they were playing in that neck of the woods. He travelled on his own and was fairly pleased to see a drunken group of young City fans! A top fella who answered pretty much every question we threw at him. Opened up on Pearson, the Wayne Brown story (not wise to post on here I suppose but had a couple of variations to what was posted around), Levi Porter and several other controversial things. Top top bloke who spoke like a real gentleman. 

 

Controversial one now, was travelling to Liverpool away, also last season I think and Tommy Robinson got on the empty train and sat on the table next to us with some Luton lads. He was really friendly and spoke about football for a good 30 minutes like a normal until he got off at his stop for Port Vale. Again, a nice bloke when treated like a normal person, didn't talk politics once and he didn't even have any interest in talking about it either. 

 

Drunkenly ended up on a mad one with Steve Walsh in fan club is another to add to the list. He literally is here there and every ****ing where these days anyway so I suppose that doesn't count. 

 

Regularly used to bump into Knockaert at the barbers and Sosho (was Life before that). Again, a top bloke, took time for a chat and loved to banter. Bit forward with his women though... ?

 

Got told to f off by that sky reporter who did the infamous commentary on the Watford play off game (Jonny Phillips?) at Marks and Spencer's at St Pancras again after another away day ?

 

Not related to me but one of my mates became best mates with Dany NGuessan after they regular bumped into each other in the casino and one night NGuessan offered him a lift home. Ended up going out regularly on 2 man missions and on the couple of occasions I met him he was a real down to earth lad. 

 

Bumped into Liam Moore on the market the night we got promoted from the Championship, lo and behold it broke in the media the next day that he took a bit of a pasting moments later from the Ghost bouncers before Wasyl stepped in. Not surprised at all, he could barely string a sentence together or stand up straight, fair to say he enjoyed promotion ? 

 

 

 

 

[ScubaBlue]

Worked in a Leicester pub that a lot of the O’Neill era players frequented during his tenure. Muzzy izzet bday was a highlight when half the squad turned up.

 

Most were sound a few were massive ****s tho.

 

 

[Tiny earl]

25 minutes ago, ScubaBlue said:

Worked in a Leicester pub that a lot of the O’Neill era players frequented during his tenure. Muzzy izzet bday was a highlight when half the squad turned up.

 

Most were sound a few were massive ****s tho.

 

 

Not just Savage then!

[fuchsntf]

32800 Leicester football fans,all famous every single lad & lass quite humble really

but can go into phsyco mode ..even schizophrenic once they get behind a keyboard...

[Nick]

My brother was asked out by Kate Beckinsdale when he was about 20. At the time he was dating another beautiful girl who he remained with for another four years or so...

 

He turned her down and let’s just say hasn’t watched Pearl Harbour as a result.

[cambridgefox]

42 minutes ago, Swan Lesta said:

My brother was asked out by Kate Beckinsdale when he was about 20. At the time he was dating another beautiful girl who he remained with for another four years or so...

 

He turned her down and let’s just say hasn’t watched Pearl Harbour as a result.

Good looking lad then.

[Stoopid]

4 hours ago, Stoopid said:

Used to know Ric Grech 

(Family, Blind Faith - you name it). Nice bloke, could care less about football.

Used to drive him around a bit in his later days after his life got a bit chaotic. Ended up drinking himself to death,  but as I say a lovely bloke & a bloody brilliant musician.

Spooky postscript ...

Turned on the TV tonight (Fri - 10. .45pm) on Channel 81, and what's the first thing I see?

Blind Faith playing Hyde Park in 70-something  -Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Stevie Winwood and of course my old mucker Mr Grech!

(Well, ok, it was the second thing I saw - The Stones were first - but still...)

[RoboFox]

2 hours ago, cambridgefox said:

Good looking lad then.

I feel like I want to ask @Swan Lesta out just to experience that gene pool.

[Guest seanfox778]

I worked backstage at a Blackpool Comic Con once. No one really of note but I met the guy who played ‘Mini Me’ in the Austin Powers films. I couldn’t actually believe how tiny he was, he was nice though and actually came over to me and started a conversation. That skinny guy from the film Road Trip was there and he stormed off in a huff because no one recognised him. Robb Stark from Game of Thrones was there and he just smoked cigarettes a lot. The WWF/E wrestler Mankind was there too, he was quite extravagant and seemed a good laugh. 

[urban fox]

I was contracted to do some work by the club back in 2005. Part of this involved a couple of visits to Belvoir drive. Standing in the car park sorting out my paperwork before the first meeting when a jag pulled up and out stepped dion Dublin.  He came over asked if he could help me and then took me in to reception got me signed in and showed me where I needed to go for my meeting. Top bloke and a real gent. Bumped into him a couple of times during the next few days and he always took the time to ask how the job was going and if I needed any help getting around or finding the people I needed to see.

Edited 3 May 2019 by urban fox

[Tuna]

Saw Rob Dorsett in Grantham M&S a few weeks ago.

[ScubaBlue]

On 03/05/2019 at 19:44, Tiny earl said:

Not just Savage then!

I couldn’t possibly comment...

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. Lennon gave him a good run for his money! 

[South Shire Fox]

On 03/05/2019 at 18:31, Father Ted said:

Met Matt Oakley on the train back from Burnley away last season. He was/is Exeters assistant manager and they were playing in that neck of the woods. He travelled on his own and was fairly pleased to see a drunken group of young City fans! A top fella who answered pretty much every question we threw at him. Opened up on Pearson, the Wayne Brown story (not wise to post on here I suppose but had a couple of variations to what was posted around), Levi Porter and several other controversial things. Top top bloke who spoke like a real gentleman. 

 

Controversial one now, was travelling to Liverpool away, also last season I think and Tommy Robinson got on the empty train and sat on the table next to us with some Luton lads. He was really friendly and spoke about football for a good 30 minutes like a normal until he got off at his stop for Port Vale. Again, a nice bloke when treated like a normal person, didn't talk politics once and he didn't even have any interest in talking about it either. 

 

Drunkenly ended up on a mad one with Steve Walsh in fan club is another to add to the list. He literally is here there and every ****ing where these days anyway so I suppose that doesn't count. 

 

Regularly used to bump into Knockaert at the barbers and Sosho (was Life before that). Again, a top bloke, took time for a chat and loved to banter. Bit forward with his women though... ?

 

Got told to f off by that sky reporter who did the infamous commentary on the Watford play off game (Jonny Phillips?) at Marks and Spencer's at St Pancras again after another away day ?

 

Not related to me but one of my mates became best mates with Dany NGuessan after they regular bumped into each other in the casino and one night NGuessan offered him a lift home. Ended up going out regularly on 2 man missions and on the couple of occasions I met him he was a real down to earth lad. 

 

Bumped into Liam Moore on the market the night we got promoted from the Championship, lo and behold it broke in the media the next day that he took a bit of a pasting moments later from the Ghost bouncers before Wasyl stepped in. Not surprised at all, he could barely string a sentence together or stand up straight, fair to say he enjoyed promotion ? 

 

 

 

 

What happened to Levi Porter then?? And might aswell spill the beans on Wayne Brown while youre there! ?

[baldeagle]

On 03/05/2019 at 17:22, ElusiveEd said:

Met the first two with work, Johnny Marr was starting a US tour in New York with his band. All nice guys and far from a "Rock n' Roll" persona you'd imagine. Would love to sit at a bar with him and listen to his stories. What a life he's had but seems very clean living now.

 

Not sure what Clint Eastwood was doing where we were but he wasn't linked to my work, just chatted as we were introduced in a hotel lobby bar in Los Angeles. Still making movies and has future plans for more direction of films. He asked questions about us and seemed generally interested in chatting but think I caught that he had a flight to New York to catch from a nearby airfield which suggests a private jet was waiting. 

 

Looked in great shape like he looked after himself and still worked out.

 

All those famous quotes from films come back when you hear his voice.

 

Complete and utter legend.

 

 

I’m sorry but meeting Clint just trumps everything. Game over .