Have you ever been rude to a celebrity?Whilst at school we had a field trip to the Ironbridge Gorge museum. Oddly enough kids TV presenter Johnny Ball happened to pick the same day to make a visit. We were rather excited and crowded round asking questions. Johnny took this rather well and held an impromptu lecture. This was all fun and games until a kid at the back threw a small rock at his head. Silence fell for a moment then Mr Ball blew a gasket and did the whole "no one is leaving until I get a confession" routine. Er.. typing this out makes me feel rather sorry for the chap. Anyway - can you beat that?
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rob, Wed 14 Apr 2004, 19:06)
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More Gryff Rhys Jones. And Tiff NeedellI bumped into him as I was coming out of a tube station in London. He had his head buried in a book while he was walking - as I'm 6ft tall and the wrong side of 20 stone he came off worse. I just called him a twat and carried on walking.
I'm also a motor racing marshal and one year at Brands Hatch we had Tiff Needell taking part. He does some bits for TV including launching his car off the grid in spectacular fashion, leaving bits of tyre all over our nice clean grid. So I picked up a handful of tyre cuttings and when he returned to his garage I walked over and asked him to hold out his hand. He did so and I plonked a load of dirty burnt rubber in his hand and told him "next time you think it's clever to do a big burnout you can fucking clean up after yourself"
Edit: A mate of mine spent the day in a recovery lorry at this race meeting, and in one of the last races of the day Tiff broke his transmission on his car. SO my mate is sitting in the lorry next to Tiff, reciting "Sniff Tiff's diff" to him. He didn't looked impressed.
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