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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    I've been mulling this over for a while and, thanks to a couple of days lying around feeling ill, I think I've got it:
    THE COURIER CELEBRITY CHALLENGE.
    What famous people have you met while delivering? Or maybe you just spotted them on the street? Did you chat to them? How were they? Shorter, taller, uglier then expected? Friendly, helpful, polite? Perhaps they invited you in for tea and biscuits? Or had their Filipino maid sign for the parcel?
    To start the ball rolling I can reveal that Noel Gallagher is surprisingly friendly, though not a morning person. And, I'm told, he'll even help the van drivers unload when necessary which his younger brother probably wouldn't do.
    Surely you can do better than that? And, also, keep Bill on his toes making sure nothing libelous is written about well known people with expensive lawyers.
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      CommentAuthorJosh
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    man off the telly who's name i've forgot, reads the news, gave me a quid
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      CommentAuthorEye Man
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    I've spotted Suzi Perry quite a few times around the Custard Factory (where they film the Gadget Show) but she's hardly a real 'celebrity'...
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008 edited
     
    man off the telly, suzi perry. this is gold dust
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    Nearly knocked over Jeremy Paxon once. As usual, his facials features told a story of concern and scepticism. Saw John Snow later that day. Bunch of legends. Was meant to deliver to George Galloway by hand, but he didn't show. That's about it.
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      CommentAuthorEye Man
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    Paxon or Paxman?
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008 edited
     
    I saw John Snow cycling along Grey's Inn using his mobile. And he's president of the CTC.
    I think you had a narrow escape with Galloway.
    One of our guys recently had to do a hand-to-hand delivery to Lauren Bacall which, I think, takes some beating.
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    That nice Mr Paxman corrected my grammar the other day - he said it should say "one fewer fixie"
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      CommentAuthorfromemory
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    Sorry, I meant Paxman.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    paxman gave me the dirtiest look as we passed in opposite directions on old bond st.

    i delivered sleeping pills from harley st to caroline aherne :sad: she seemed very nice, genuinely embarrassed about not having cash to tip- i've never been tipped!*

    numerous boris the boofhead sightings although to my discredit i never actually punched him.

    almost slammed a door into gary lineker's face in gt ormond st childrens hospital, had one of those "i'm sure i recognise you from somewhere but just don't know" moments. he's tiny... :wink:

    *libelous? you decide.
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      CommentAuthor69dec
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    Jeffrey Archer's penthouse flat on Albert Embankment opposite MI5, he had a union jack painted on his ceiling. Thats as far as the story goes i'm afraid.:shocked:
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      CommentAuthorchewy
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    I saw gareth gates on new bond street a week ago...and like OMG!! he was so cute!!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    I've picked up from Gordon Ramsey,dropped at a studio where Paul Mc Cartney was sitting having a chat and I've also done Caprice.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    By the way,well done Will it's about time the courier community embraced celebrity.It's what's been missing from our lives.:clap:
    • CommentAuthorMr Livid
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    I once delivered to Saatchi, he had bad breath. I didn't know who he was, when I asked for his name for a POD he said "Saatchi" and breathed all over me.
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    I've delivered scripts to Felicity Kendall, Edward Fox and Bilbo Baggins and pointy shoes to Brett Anderson of Suede. All of them were very nice and spoke to me like I was a person instead of 'just' a delivery boy, which is more than can be said for 50% of the receptionists I have to deal with.
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      CommentAuthortofu
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    crap all.

    jude law, bitches! to his home, no less.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    Was nearly doored by that f*ckwit from Men Behaving Sadly.The cnut with dark hair.
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      CommentAuthorBuffalo Bill
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008 edited
     
    This really is the worse thread ever. Oi westcoast! Where's the Millport report? Slacker.
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    That's funny John, i almost took out the guy from men behaving badly (the one with the big ears) in soho. I had to brake hard in front of metro on the footpath to stop myself from running over Grahem Norton and his 2 poodles. I bumped into Dazzler at the front of metro today, apparently he is about to go on T.V as a working london courier, does that count? Delivered to Brian Adams house in sw10 but his pop start girlfriend answered the door. Man this is sad.
    • CommentAuthorDazzler
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    I got a POD from Cherie Blair and had a little chat with her as well. Do I win?
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008
     
    there are no winners, only losers, in this game.
    My last controller but one used to save me the deliveries to Alan Bennett's house in Camden. I got talking to him about Cyril Connolly a couple of times; the only person I've met in the last twenty years who knows who Connolly was. "Come in you poor sod" he said to me the last time I went there in the pissing rain. Sadly he didn't ask me to stay for a nice piece of Battenburg.
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      CommentAuthorredrum
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2008 edited
     
    I spotted brad and angelina, mr beckham, and some bird getting chased by paparazzi or maybe they were stalkers, who cares. delivered to george galloway.

    Bill... here's my report of millport; lots of drunk people, some worse than others, a race on on saturday that made everyone feel sick (but still excellent). A few crashes, some worse than others. and someone getting knocked out!! hahahahaha Wicked weekend

    oh and this too...

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2745288362_cf108c3ff6_b.jpg
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2008
     
    Almost ran over Lilly Savage/Paul O'Gradys poodles coming out of ITV upper ground tape despatch, exchanged "arights"s with Russell Band outside the church at Thyer st/Hind st, Michael Portillo on the bridge in st James park, Marah Carey and Jack Nickelson in Claridges, Cherie Blair in lincons inn fields, Ricky Gervais in a shellsuit on jermyn st, Arch Bishop of Canterbury on the millbank, Heather Mills on the "this morning" set (where i was forced to wait with 6 lingere models who gave me a Becks), POD from Pete Waterman, shook hands with Jerry Springer at the seven dials, delivered Ian Hislops contact lenses, Prince Harry on the mall, the busty blond woman off "ground force" on oxford st, and Lloyd Grossmann lives at 10 Bury st, flat 8, sw1... Also got my foot over the threshold of 10 downing st, through the front door of buckingham palace, into st james palace, into the inner lords chambers in the house of lords,a gay s&m dungeon in soho and spearmint rinos on TCR. (i think thats it?):confused:
    • CommentAuthorJP
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2008
     
    And Nicholas cage in covent garden...
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    nothing to do with couriering, but I once threw tony wilson out of a club
    and DJ Shadow once bought me a coke
    and i offered the All American Rejects out, not one of them had the bottle
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2008
     
    Well, I think we've all thrown Tony Wilson out of a club at one time or another.
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    I feel really guilty about it.

    Also, topically enough, Nicole Cooke once burned me off her wheel going up towards the peaks. I was OK with it when I realised who she was.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
     
    delivered to gilbert and george off brick lane. :shades:
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 11th 2008
     
    Well, since you ask, my favourite celeb delivery was to Christopher Lee at his flat in SW1. When I got to the door he was waiting there with his wife, both of them wearing silk dressing gowns -at 2 in the afternoon. He is really tall and imposing and she had a kind of Elvira look and an east european accent. They looked like they had just stepped off the set of a Hammer horror film. The landing was quite small and dark and the whole episode was wonderfully creepy and in keeping with the image of a man who has played so many malevolent characters.
    Second to this was being called 'darling' by Dale Winton at his front door.
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      CommentAuthorcoco
    • CommentTimeAug 12th 2008
     
    kevin spacey...soo moody!!
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      CommentAuthorNikita
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    Daman Blur (Alban?) every morning I see him being trendy with croissant etc on Westbourne Grove, if I had anything on board at that time, I would throw it at him... Simon Pegg looking very lost on charlotte street the other day and Pete Burns numerous times floating around soho on a cloud of enhancement.
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      CommentAuthorEye Man
    • CommentTimeAug 14th 2008
     
    Are you sure he was looking 'lost' and not 'spaced'?
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      CommentAuthorNikita
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    A happy medium between the two...
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      CommentAuthorGertie
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
     
    Sleepy, when you delivered to G&G did the one who came to the door sign 'Gilbert and George' ? Did when I delivered to them:cool: Also delivered to the late great Douglas Adams who was really tall
    • CommentAuthorpapillon
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
     
    Now i'm in the office, don't catch many celebrities but did bump into a few during my days on the road....recently saw Lily Allen in Kensington.she's tiny...delivered to some guy from the Fast Show in Primrose Hill..caught Jerry Hall running down the Marylebone high st...Sting in Mayfair..one of the Olsen twins...Pete Doherty getting petrol at the station in Shoreditch...was right behind John Snow once in Condor...Jimi Carr in Covent Garden...Coutrney Love in Soho....Boy George round the same area...model Erin o'connor...gave directions to some T4 presenter...Chris Eubank driving his lorry in Mayfair...got to deliver to 10 downing st so while i was waiting in the lobby for someone to sign, lots of politicos milled about....Peaches Geldof in H&M....some Big Brothers villains...Graham Norton in that suit shop in Berwick st...the Michelin man on Totteham Court road...Madonna asked me if i had a patch to spare 'cos she had a puncture while on a ride to the gym, she was lovely and gave me 50 quid for it....saw Vanessa Paradis around Brick Lane, unfortunately without Johnny....quite a few packages adressed to celebs but their minions usually sign for it....and not related to couriering, did some filming in my younger days,on set the lovely Joanna Lumley came over and told me how great my tattoos looked...had to do some figuration work on a Halloween special of Eastenders the next day so got to meet the whole set of Eastenders, a day to remember:beard:
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008 edited
     
    Well, Papillon, there's no doubt: your Madonna story, if it's true (£50?), is unlikely to be beaten.
    Ladies and gentlemen, unless someone out there got a blow job off Nelson Mandela whilest standing by, I think we have a winner.

    Wasn't that fun?:swingin:
    • CommentAuthorpapillon
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
     
    Awright i owe up.....she didn't give me 50 quid for it...i wouldn't take it...those americans, they'll tip you for anything:beard:
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      CommentAuthorchewy
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    oh i saw "sex machine" from dust till dawn in leicester sq, that was cool and i saw danny "shrek" from the late hear say getting abuse hurled at him on upper st...AWESOMO!!!
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    my last job ever as a courier was to Saffron Burrows, who lives less than 200 yards from the Duke, which was a nice touch....had a celebratory pint on my own.
    • CommentAuthorDazzler
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    Saffron Burrows :heartsabove:
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      CommentAuthorwill
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    Sorry guys but during my reign of terror in the office Saffron Burrows came to visit us - with her girlfriend.
    Allegedly she was thinking of setting up a 'green' courier car company. I know, I know.... By an odd coincidence it was that very morning before her visit that we got a paper recycling box in the control room. Keen to be green indeed.
    And well done Papillon for turning down Madonna's money - she'll need it when that talentless arse of an husband divorces her.
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      CommentAuthorSuicide
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    Bumped into the one and only Pink Nick flyering for his festival show on the Royal Mile last Friday.
    One drink led to quite a few (as they do) and ended up having a pint and blather with a very drunk Ed Byrne.

    NANU! great to see you're finally finished, proper job!
    Best of luck for the launch!
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     
    wow Pink Nick!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     
    I recently saw Crackhead Dave!
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      CommentAuthorjontyponty
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2008
     
    delivered a printer cartridge to tony blair at his new yard a while ago. loads of police lookin bored outside.