man off the telly who's name i've forgot, reads the news, gave me a quid

man off the telly, suzi perry. this is gold dust

Paxon or Paxman?

That nice Mr Paxman corrected my grammar the other day - he said it should say "one fewer fixie"

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 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...

*libelous? you decide.

I saw gareth gates on new bond street a week ago...and like OMG!! he was so cute!!

By the way,well done Will it's about time the courier community embraced celebrity.It's what's been missing from our lives.

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.

Was nearly doored by that f*ckwit from Men Behaving Sadly.The cnut with dark hair.

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.

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.

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?)

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

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.

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.

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.

A happy medium between the two...

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

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

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.

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.

wow Pink Nick!

delivered a printer cartridge to tony blair at his new yard a while ago. loads of police lookin bored outside.