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Thought I would start a thread where we can brag about when we met someone famous, our little brush with fame..... Tell us........ OK I'll start..........

It was xmas 1980, and I was on holiday in QLD at what is now called schoolies week on the Gold Coast. At the time, I was one of the first guests at the Greenmount Resort at Coolangatta, as it had just opened. Around the same time there was a pommy comedian named Dick Emery touring Australia and also doing commercials for Fisher & Pakel fridges. I was waiting for the lift at the resort and when the doors opened, there was Dick Emery travelling in the lift. He was very polite and said hello etc, and was looking to commence a conversation, I was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say, so I said "have you sold many fridges" :oops:

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What are ya doin posting in the "for the youngies" ya old carn't :lol:
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Oh and I met Val Kilmer, Bill Clinton, Mal Maninga and Wally Lewis all at Pt.Douglas (not at the same time) :kuda:
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seiko1 wrote:What are ya doin posting in the "for the youngies" ya old carn't :lol:
You and you youngies thread got me a thinken who was a funny back then, so I'm a remembering............. (couldn't spell reminissan).......
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smithy5 wrote:
seiko1 wrote:What are ya doin posting in the "for the youngies" ya old carn't :lol:
You and you youngies thread got me a thinken who was a funny back then, so I'm a remembering............. (couldn't spell reminissan).......
Can't spell it either I just discovered :lol:
I was thinking "god help me" and then this popped into mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TXBuVUQJw&feature=fvw :D
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smithy5 wrote:Thought I would start a thread where we can brag about when we met someone famous, our little brush with fame..... Tell us........ OK I'll start..........
..................
Who's next.....................
hmmm how much space do i have...???? :lol:

Sheeney on a 2hr flight to Brisvegas :kuda:
Peter Brock numerous times inc a ride around the speedbowl at GMH Langlang...sitting on a milkcrate on '05' at 280 :twisted:
and John Harvey and Dick Johnson
Cam McConville and Nathan Pretty in 3 MAD laps around Sandown (ending with rear brakes on fire..thanks god it was a GMH press vehicle)
John Waters (tv)
Nadine Garner(tv)
Bud Tingwell..on tv and in a film I helped make (Bushfire Moon for Disney Channel)
Michael Hutchence..in another film I was on the crew (go watch.......... Dogs in Space)
Kylie...who was Michaels squeeze at the time
Kylie's dad Ron was my boss at Schweppes..so i saw lil' Kylie when she was ..little and NOT famous
Sean Connery...oops SIR Sean
Meryl Streep (who saw Evil Angels..?)
Michelle Pfeiffer ( I always spell her name wrong)
Darryl Hannah
Steve Martin...who is an art freak (and nice guy to boot)
Willie Nelson
Charles Dance
Sam Neill
Kim Gyngell
Dee wallace Stone (the mum in ET)
Chris Haywood
Happy Hammond (on the SSB show)
Zig and Zag..on their show! :)
Robert Flower - Melbourne start (went to school and played footy with him)
David Cloke - Collingwood (went to school and played footy with him)


fingers are getting tired ;)
that'll do
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seiko1 wrote: Can't spell it either I just discovered :lol:
I was thinking "god help me" and then this popped into mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TXBuVUQJw&feature=fvw :D
Forgot all about that..... I just watched it twice..... Fits in nicely with a Famous thread.....Those diggers were all heros........
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seiko1 wrote:Oh and I met Val Kilmer, Bill Clinton, Mal Maninga and Wally Lewis all at Pt.Douglas (not at the same time) :kuda:
Pics or it didn't happen ! :twisted:
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Smitty wrote:
smithy5 wrote:Thought I would start a thread where we can brag about when we met someone famous, our little brush with fame..... Tell us........ OK I'll start..........
..................
Who's next.....................
hmmm how much space do i have...???? :lol:

Sheeney on a 2hr flight to Brisvegas :kuda:
Peter Brock numerous times inc a ride around the speedbowl at GMH Langlang...sitting on a milkcrate on '05' at 280 :twisted:
and John Harvey and Dick Johnson
Cam McConville and Nathan Pretty in 3 MAD laps around Sandown (ending with rear brakes on fire..thanks god it was a GMH press vehicle)
John Waters (tv)
Nadine Garner(tv)
Bud Tingwell..on tv and in a film I helped make (Bushfire Moon for Disney Channel)
Michael Hutchence..in another film I was on the crew (go watch.......... Dogs in Space)
Kylie...who was Michaels squeeze at the time
Kylie's dad Ron was my boss at Schweppes..so i saw lil' Kylie when she was ..little and NOT famous
Sean Connery...oops SIR Sean
Meryl Streep (who saw Evil Angels..?)
Michelle Pfeiffer ( I always spell her name wrong)
Darryl Hannah
Steve Martin...who is an art freak (and nice guy to boot)
Willie Nelson
Charles Dance
Sam Neill
Kim Gyngell
Dee wallace Stone (the mum in ET)
Chris Haywood
Happy Hammond (on the SSB show)
Zig and Zag..on their show! :)
Robert Flower - Melbourne start (went to school and played footy with him)
David Cloke - Collingwood (went to school and played footy with him)


fingers are getting tired ;)
that'll do

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Well I've got a list but most of them I don't really care for so I don't remember names.
Can't compete with smittys list tho... :shock:

All of the idol winners
delta goodrem
Molly meldrum
few of the wallabies ( don't follow the sport so I didn't bother remembering, but one of them was George gregan)
mr t
Hugh jackman (on our wedding day while going into the hotel)
Jennifer lopez
Dave#3 (he was on tv)
and more than likely any future idol winner unfortunately
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Pictures are worth a thousand words....

Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne)
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Jim Goose (Steve Bisley)
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Went to school (same year & classses ) as Hugh Jackman & here is a new one......used to hang with Angus worland...you know Gus (cricket fan come wannabee) :roll: He & I used to practice High Jumps in his back yard :lol:

oh...My twin sister remembers me dating Catrina Rountree... (one of her school friends) :lol: I cant remember...kinda sux that :lol: True ;)
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Have you seen the latest Womans Day ?? Its got a picture of Katrina on the front with her *massive hooters* out !!!! mmmmmmm she floats my boat.......did you get to tit her off ??

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As a 15 year old in the mid nineties I was lucky enough as a budding young cricketer got to face big 6ft8 Joel Garner former West Indian fast bowler in the nets for 30 minutes. Despite being retired he'd managed to bounce and break the previous guys brand new helmet in two! Was an experience I'll never forget :)
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