(Lame) Claims To Fame

A Facebook friend has posted some photos of herself with famous people - Hi Kellie! :)

And that got me thinking....

I am so easily star struck.
So when I chatted with these three famous people, it was a big deal...to me!
It is regrettable that I don't have photos to prove it.
But these are true stories, hand on my heart promise.
Would I lie to you?

My first lame claim to fame happened while I was at college.
It was a regular Friday night, we were out at what used to be called "Charlotte's" (I have no idea what it's called now) and it just so happened that the whole Broncos football team were there that night also.
I get very brave after I've had a couple of drinks or more, and I had, so I thought it was only right that I should introduce myself to Allan Langer.
Why the hell not?
So I did.
The thing that struck me the most about him was the he was really really really short. I'm only 5'2" (and a bit) and I felt like I was eye to eye with him.
Anyhow, after blabbering on about who knows what to him, he told me he had a secret to tell me.
So what do you do if someone tells you they have a secret to tell you?

You lean your ear in, don't you?

And what did he do?
Stuck his tongue in my ear!
Yep, you heard, he stuck his tongue in my ear.
There's a fine line between cool and creepy with this one, but I'm going with cool because it was funny at the time.

But I have to say, I think the real creepy was when Gene Miles patted me on the tooshie, with his wife right beside him.....eeeeyyyyyyeeew!

At least Allan Langer was single.

My next little story involves Tom Long. My ex-sister-in-law was an actor. She was in a play with Tom Long in Sydney.  I think they had a little 'thing' going on at some stage so does that make Tom my brother-in-law-twice-removed?? 
Whatever, we went to Sydney for the weekend to see her in the play and then went out with the actors.  Well, call it jet lag (yes, it is only an hour and a half flight from Brisbane, I know!!), call it star-struckedness, call it never-having-drunk-so-many-martinis-in-quick-succession before, but....
I was ill.

Very, very ill.

In the 'ladies' of the lovely establishment we had been drinking in.

So ill in fact that I could not even open the door and walk out.

My lovely ex-sister-in-law was doing her very best to get me to just stand and open the door.  It was closing time and she ended up calling for reinforcements.

Ah ha, Tom came to my rescue. In the 'ladies'. He coaxed me to unlock the door then carried me out.
Where was my ex?? Yeah, good question! The night in shining armour certainly was not 'him' this night!
So, I know, it's not my proudest moment.
But Tom was such a gentleman.  He grew up in the country, of course he's a gentleman.
Seriously though, he was the nicest, sweetest, kindest actor I've ever met.
And I've met sooo many! hehehe

Other actors I was introduced to but never actually spoke to whilst having a family member 'in the acting business' were...Magda Szubanski, Steve Bisley, Rob Sitch, Deb Mailman, and Justine Saunders.

My third and final brush with fame was with Daryl Braithwaite *.

He played at our local suburban hotel in Brissy, yep, he was doing the big gigs.  After the show he was having a drink at the bar, and fueled by the aforementioned alcohol induced bravado, I felt the need to introduce myself...again.

I was calling him Mr Braithwaite, which he promptly told me to stop doing because I was making him feel old.

Anyway, he too, was a very nice man.  And loved it when I told him his tape (oh yes, it was the good old days of tapes) 'Rise' saved me from boredom on long drives when I lived in Roma.



My latest lame claims to fame are on Twitter.  I've had tweets from Rove, Joey Perrone, Jared Ingersoll, Daniel McPherson, Tara Moss, Cal Wilson and Myf Warhurst.
Rove was my first.
I begged for it.
I tweeted to a few famous tweeps "I haven't had a tweet from a famous person yet.  Wanna be my first?"
Rove tweeted "Sure" (It was only about a week after he got on Twitter so only had a few followers, not the 108,814 followers that he now has!)
It was only one word, but I jumped around the room singing "Rove tweeted me, Rove tweeted me!!"

So, your turn.

What's your lame claim to fame?

Or not so lame even??

*Please click on this link to listen to 'The Horses'....I love it!