Barang chgout wrote:I've never met anyone famous.....not even Jamie Lambo....

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You obviously hang out in all the wrong places


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When I was working as a journalist in QLD I interviewed some really interesting people including a lot of comedians, sports personalities etc.
One of my favourites was Mark Bouris, the Australian Apprentice guy. He was so nice to me - gave me way more time than we booked and then posed for a photo with me afterwards. Very unprofessional (I know, I know) but the man is a dish!

But I think the couple who made the biggest impact on me are people who shouldn’t be famous, they should just be a normal family but circumstances prevented that from happening and they turned lemons into lemonade. Daniel Morcombe’s parents - they are absolutely amazing and inspired me a lot.

I’ve written CVs for some incredible people over the past few years - people who weren’t famous themselves but worked for famous people - such as the pilot who flew Princess Di around Angola on her landmine tour, staff of Richard Branson, the personal assistant to Harry Oppenheimer, several of Nelson Mandela’s guards including one who was with him right up to his walk to freedom and also a vet who was the zookeeper for one the Saudi royal family members’ Bird of Prey collection.
There have been so many but those are the some of the stand-outs.

Some people have fascinating jobs!
(Oops went off-topic a bit sorry).



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teakman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:26 pm Goldie Hawn and husband(forget his name)

I don't fawn over many celebrities but...

You mean Snake fucking Plissken - Kurt Russell? Awesome!

Met a lot of musicians over the years, some such aholes to never listen to their music ever again

Some oldschool kung fu stars like Chen Kuan Tai, Gordon Liu, and Sonny Chiba, some of the nicest people I ever met.

Lot of obscure or washed up people at various cons over the years, Mary-Ann from Gilligan's Island was at the tiki fest last year, Loyd Kaufman of the Troma movies(Toxic Avenger) was a really cool dude I met a couple times.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:48 pm
2 of the most infamous I had met were
Ted Bundy --when he was on the loose in aspen
and
Charles Sobhraj in Kathmandu

Tell us more about Charles Sobhraj, was this in the 70s or when he returned there in the early 2000s?

i meet Tina Turner a few times in the late 70s,i was working at a leagues club and she played at our club once.i was young and fit just out of the army and also worked as a part time roadie,she took a great liking to my friend who was a part time model and the girls loved him,Tina was so hot even in her late 40s /50yo:) hell she is still hot.we both worked as cellar men and she come down stairs with him once for a detailed inspection:)of the cellar.
i also meet Elle Macpherson a few times (she was a super model in aussie)in the late 80s or early 90s? i took her undergroung in a gold mine i worked at near Kalgoolie,again she was able to turn heads where every she was:) she was doing a promotional work for tourism W.A and i spend 2 days with her showing her and her crew around the workings and old diggings in the area,

Norman Carr, conservationist
Sir John Mills before he was Sir, and Hayley Mills
Bernard Grzimek, conservationist
Harry Oppenheimer
Dr. Kenneth Kaunda
'Jolly John' Vorster
David Shepherd, the painter


All obviously very briefly except the first three

Well I have no claims to fame here, my closest were celebrity walk-bys:

I chased then NZ prime minister Rob Muldoon around a warehouse to get his photo during an election campaign (his last one, as it turned out);
I saw Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at a walkabout event in Napier; and
I walked past Guy Sebastian in Sydney once (I kept walking)

Wait, I can probably claim the lamest "celebrity" meeting. On Aussie TV they often trot out Centrelink spokeman Hank Jongen on the news. I had dinner with him and his partner with a mutual friend of ours once.

I defy anyone to come up with a lamer celebrity encounter than me.