Your claim to fame?

ok, so Scrungee lives in the village next to historian Ruth Goodman.

When I was a teenager with my dad in Beccles, a Jaguar with ROS1 for the numberplate pulled over and asked directions to Southwold. It was Rosemary Connelly, the fitness guru from tv.

Also, I've been on the local Anglia news for being refused an operation for being too fat.

So, does anyone else have a claim to fame to share??

 

I've featured on the news twice so far.

When I was little, my school had a Victorian themed party to celebrate its centenary. I was playing some appropriately Victorian playground game as the camera panned past.

Years later, I was on a steel fabrication course and our workshop, in danger of being closed down, had diversified so we were making money. This made the news and I was filmed directly for long enough for me to completely destroy a piece of work I'd been on all day. I was just putting the finishing touches on a wrought iron ornamental wheel barrow and was just about to switch off the angle grinder when the news crew asked me to continue while they filmed me. I did, but I only tickled the work with the grinder. One of the crew then asked "can we see that jet of sparks we saw a minute ago?". But a minute ago I was grinding for real I thought, now there is nothing to grind apart from my finished work. I went ahead and did it, hoping the camera would go before I'd done too much damage. They didn't. After they'd finished making me destroy my work they turned to my mate who was just finishing a spot of fettling at the anvil. They got him to pummel his work to oblivion. Still, at least they showed my piece on the news. They cut my mate out

 

I have a claim to fame, but I am still not allowed to speak about it until 2020 by which time I will be deed I expect
I did the coding for the Wilson Smith talks on RHODESIA

Jack McH

 

Claim to fame via a personality/celebrity is a shallow "victory", IMHO; after all, I worked part time in my local theatre and met many a "star" of the day/forthcoming "star" and "jaded" star

Once you realised that they pooh the same as you do, the "celebrity" status wears a tad thin.

"Claim to fame" for me, rests on my personal achievements (not who I have met/lived near/know/had an autograph from).

Yes, I have made the papers (locally) for a number of reasons - but, I do not consider them "claims to fame" - merely, me being me and not really noteworthy

 

Claim to fame

I was in Casualty twice

 

Ahh, now I know who you are

 

Do you

 

Yep, that bloke that was in Casualty twice Was it the propper series, when Duffy still had a Westcountry accent?

 

It was , well before it got to silly when a accident look like a real accident,

met all the actors in the first series and they new how to feed the hungry mouths

 

I was working on The Black Castle in Bristol when they filmed one of the scenes there.

Did you play the part of a Dad, and were you carrying a staff?

 

I had to drive some heavy machiney, because there guy's were not aloud to drive it, one week of filming to get 4 minutes on tv, it had to be just right for the shot

 

Ahh, not the bloke I was thinking of then

I was having my lunch while working on the Treasurers House in Martock, when a car pulled in. I went over to tell them the building was closed, took a look at the passenger & said "You look familiar"

She replied, "Valerie Singleton"

You could have knocked me over with a Blue Peter Badger.

 

aww mum. it's only a bit of fun

 

I used to play football with Terry Cooke and Lee Hendrie when we were younger.

Rusty