I spoken to Hugh Cornwell out of The Stranglers live on Hawksbee and Jacobs on Talksport.

Bonus!

Alistair Pierre*(spelling????) signed my arm in biro!!!!

I've been onstage with the Waterboys at the Fleadh in Finsbury Park, doing 'Whole Of The Moon.'

Oh and I once stood on one of the twins out of Neighbours.

Edwin Collins lived a few doors up from me when I lived in West Hampstead

I 'starred' in a full-length advert for the national Lottery, shown for 6 months on TV and in Cinemas too!

pools against watford sang elton elton gives a song elton then me & jonah where chucked out ,old wooden stand ,was a while ago but thats my claim to fame,must be getting old???????????

da Savant got mentioned in this weeks NME which pleased me

met Albarn and his screw outta Elastica and all of Pavement in a bizarre halfhour once

'roadied' for Sebadoh and lou barlow said he'd put us on the list - he did!

met mark e smith once, he smelt of wee!!

told alistair griffin he was a mong [soz phil] and that i wouldn't dare've got beat by a lezzer!!

I went into the Millhouse pub with a darlo shirt on

My claim to fame is I know "Salty friend of the Stars"!

pissed stalker type'd be closer rob!!

One of my heroes!!!!

I beat Fatima Whitbread at Ping-Pong.

Now that is a claim to fame!!!!

I watched 'Quadrophenia' in a Cinema in Brighton!!!!

Apparently Phil Daniels and some of the other 'stars' were there aswell!!!!

I was "in the spotlight" on a half-hour French radio show last year playing and singing songs live, does that count?

If not I was in a TV news report from our former pub once.

Still no good?

I shook hands with the Chief Scout once (left hands of course).


no?


er....


I scored the winning try for West Hartlepool at Streatham and Croydon?


sorry


That's about it

I bet you wouldn't beat her at a 'pissing highest up the wall' competition.

aye she be a dab hand with her "javelin",ahem nudge nudge wink wink

I used to be mates with Ian Kilminster & I know Chip Fierball

Match of the Day a few years ago. Southamption v Newcastle at the Dell. Local leg-end Matt Le Tiss cracks in another wonder goal from several hundred yards out to equalise in the 97th minute.

Camaras cut to the away end and there's me. In the front row. In my Pools shirt. Laughing quite hard.

Interviewed Steve Howard for Monkey Business.

Was once given directions to the gents in a pub by Stephen Fry

Stumbled across Reeves and Mortimer filming an outside 'Bra Man' sketch in Kilburn.

Ex-Man Utd skipper Martin Buchan gave me directions to get on the M62.

Had to limbo-dance round a very blaked impressionist John Culshaw in a Hampstead pub. It's owned by the Irish bloke who was the barman on TFI Friday. He was in there once, drunk as a newt, and I had to move out of the way of him in the bogs as he was pissing all over the place and I didn't fancy wet feet!

When my dad was working at the Fiesta nightclub in Norton, Tony Christie was appearing there the weekend that M'bro played Leeds. I went to the match and was sat between my dad and Tony Christie !! I met all the players and officials afterwards and got their autographs.

I was only about 15 at the time as well!

Me and me mam and dad were in a big pub in London somewhere, and I needed a slash, so went into the corridor to look for them. There were no signs anywhere, so I went to ask a tall chap stood near the tab machine with two old hags (might have been old drag queens). I realised it was Stephen Fry, and thought 'shit, I can't ask him where the bogs are', so I asked one of the boilers/trannies.

It was Mr Fry who very politely and kindly pointed me in the right direction. I pissed as quickly as I could, as I was worried he was going to follow me in and try to bum me! [/quote]

I once told Jan Leeming the time!!!!

I was in an half hour documentary on Tyne Tees about Pools plight and how they might go out of the league pre GG days then again in the follow up a year or so later when we got promoted both shot in the Millhouse pub (in the days before all day opening it was shot between closing time in the afternoon and opening time in the night ) (oh free bar as well:) )the funny thing was out of the ones on camera only about 4 of us actually went regularly to the match

I appeared on the Lottery quiz show 'Winning Lines' with Simon Mayo presenting. It was the second ever show, to qualify the last six digits on your telephone no had to match the six numbers they drew in the studio. I was sat in seat no 49, next to the winner, who went on to win a world cruise.
You had to answer a question if it related to your seat number. In the rehearsal I had to prompt the bloke next to me that the question 'how many pennies in four shillings in pre decimal currency' was his number. I was waiting for something like what is seven squared, but it never came. But I did have an embarressing moment on 'live' tv with Mr Mayo, as I buzzed on the 'number of dots in SOS in the morse code'

I once bought a cup of tea in a canteen and the person stood behind me in the queue was Gary Lineker

I was queuing for a No 2, before the start of the London Marathon, when my turn came JPR Williams came out of the trap I was about to go into.

I went to school 'with' Wayne Sleep
'The Technical High School for Boys'
always wondered how he got in

Well, 'technically' he is a boy!!

I scored the winning goal for England in the World Cup Final.



































Alright then I didn't.

I support the football team with one of the best five runs of success of all time.

Paul Gascoigne once bought me a glass of champaigne in Pzazz in Sunderland and proceeded to take the piss out of me for a good 5 minutes......

me and our kid starred on telly addicts...and the best thing was i was pissed....they give you that much free drink....we started drinking at 3 and didnt film til 8....what a superb day....and to top that.....gt pic took with noel edmonds....fookin ell....it cant get much better....

I forgot to mention, I am a character in a book by Michael Smith called "Shorty Loves Wing-Wong" (although I am only mentioned once. Check out my avatar, i'm the cat on the left)

Michael was a friend of mine who is from Hartlepool but moved to Brighton and then London. The book is a short story about growing up on the Headland.

He's written another book called The Giro Playboy.



It also has a large section about Hartlepool (even mentions Daddy Cool!)

Check them out. Both good reads!

My Dog eats Seaweed!!!!