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  • #62
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Done a few things, wrote a few things, appeared on/in media a few times.
    (Short version)


  • #63
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    I was on Blackboard Jungle.

    /thread.


  • #64
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    After a nightclub I refused an offer to go back to a well known Irish celebrities place. I was seeing someone at that time and I never went into the cheating thing.


  • #65
    ronan45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭ronan45


    Held the door open for that one in fair city with the 24 hour sour puss in fair city reddish haired one. never even acknowledged me. So wude :rolleyes:


  • #66
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    I'm partially responsible for milk lasting longer than 4 days.


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  • #67
    EL_Loco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭EL_Loco


    I rubbed shoulders with Liv Tyler at a bar in NY. She fookin LOVED it.

    on the side, the bar man trying to play it cool while serving her was also hilarious.


  • #68
    d1975
    Closed Accounts Posts: 327 ✭✭d1975


    Was interviewing Gabriel Byrne at the Red Carpet on the IFTA's and was seen on RTE, they still show the clip now and then.


  • #69
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Ive got the same jacket as Sonny Knowles
    Saw it on some documentary about him.

    And by amazing coincidence he asked me for directions to Carrick on suir once.


  • #70
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    44leto wrote: »
    After a nightclub I refused an offer to go back to a well known Irish celebrities place. I was seeing someone at that time and I never went into the cheating thing.
    we've all turned down caroline morahan tbf.


  • #71
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    I've had my picture in the Vale Star
    I've had two letters published in the Irish Times
    and most important of all....
    I was on Jerry Ryans "Secrets".


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  • #72
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    I was an actor, played the role of The Invisible Man
    You should have seen me!


  • #73
    number10a
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭number10a


    I was going up the escalator in Cork Airport when I was small and Pat Kenny tried coming down it.


  • #74
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    recylingbin wrote: »
    we've all turned down caroline morahan tbf.

    She asked, and I said neigh


  • #75
    Eroticfishcake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Eroticfishcake


    efb wrote: »
    She asked, and I said neigh

    Neigh...I'm gaaaayyyy


  • #76
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Superbus wrote: »
    Well aren't you something else.

    i bet it was the same person... that person just had multiple personality disorder.... he probably pulled them at a nuthouse.


  • #77
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    When I was on a day trip to London in 2009, I met Britney Spears and the ginger fella from band of brothers on the same street. And I met Craig whats his name at Dublin airport a few weeks ago going to Liverpool.


  • #78
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    As a 10 year old I was a schoolboy extra in an Irish film titled ' A Week In The Life Of Martin Cluxton ' (I managed to get a copy on video a few years ago and I'm on screen for all of one minute )

    I was also an extra for a few years in the soap Brookside

    I once met and had a chat with a Beatle ( Ringo Starr in Amsterdam )

    Met and shook hands with a president ( Mary McAleese ) in Liverpool at a famine memorial event and had photo taken with her which appeared in local paper and was also filmed and shown on local Granada tv that night .

    I was once interviewed by a newspaper on the spot of a serious car accident and my quote appeared in it next day .

    I've made about 40 odd you tube music videos


  • #79
    Noopti
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Noopti


    the groutch wrote: »
    I was an actor, played the role of The Invisible Man
    You should have seen me!

    Kevin Bacon! Is that you?


  • #80
    derfderf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    Not my claim to fame but when a friend of mine was 16 he was called a clown by dunphy during the match analysis for abusing the referee at an Ireland match.


  • #81
    maximoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,220 ✭✭✭maximoose


    My main claim would be this fella, my great uncle, who was the eighth person to walk on the moon.

    He then was disgraced from NASA for selling some commemorative stuff to some German folk. GO UNCLE!

    Also have Bryan Hamilton (Ex Ipswich, Millwall, Everton player and NI Manager) who's my second cousin

    My mum also maintains that Kurt Cobain's family come from somewhere near Pomeroy in Co. Tyrone and that we're distantly related (her family name is Cobane, she tries to tell us they changed the spelling when emigrating so as to not confuse the pronounciation...sure thing ma)

    Edit: actually, I just looked up my mums story for the first time... she's only effin right!

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/kurt-cobains-roots-traced-to-co-tyrone-14737909.html


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  • #82
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I was called a "general busybody" during live commentary on South East Radio of the Wexford senior football final this year.

    Oh, I've also got two text messages read out on Off the Ball on Newstalk


  • #83
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Noopti wrote: »
    Kevin Bacon! Is that you?
    No its his irish cousin Caomhin O Bagun.


  • #84
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    Was in the court pages of the local paper. Few other things that I just couldn't be arsed typing.


  • #85
    D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,174 ✭✭✭D


    I've featured on Irish and Canadian television, and probably been filmed in other countries, and appeared numerous times in Irish papers. I represented Ireland in European politics, shaken hands with many a world leader and even have a European Parliament resolution ratified. I've spent some wonderful evenings talking to musical artists who are internationally famous. As well as helping to organise and run other events, whether they are political or artistic.


  • #86
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Was in the court pages of the local paper.

    Ahhh it's all becoming clear now, no wonder I've never seen seanybiker and Matlock in the same place :P


  • #87
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I once stood beside musical genius Richie Kavanagh in Golden Discs.

    Also my name was mentioned in the Carlow Nationalist about fourteen years ago when I was doing a FAS training thing. A girl from the paper came to ask us a load of questions about the course. She sat beside me while I was doing something on a computer. I barely even looked at her and kept typing away on the computer. She asked me questions like "what do you think of the course" to which I mumbled "ah it's alright".

    Then when I read the article in the paper I saw that she had quoted me as saying something like "this course has vastly improved my self confidence. It has given me the skills to move forward in life and in my career. I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity. It has been a great learning curve for me".


  • #88
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    hondasam wrote: »
    Does a home movie count?

    By the time I was finished showing it at parties and pub lock-ins, you were famous, so it does count alright.


  • #89
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Kevin Duffy wrote: »
    By the time I was finished showing it at parties and pub lock-ins, you were famous, so it does count alright.

    where is my share of the money?


  • #90
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    hondasam wrote: »
    where is my share of the money?

    In your g-string from what I remember of that movie :pac:


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  • #91
    maiden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭maiden


    I did 2 TV shows, one for RTE and one for Tv3, both shows were just about me/family!

    Had a two page spread in TAKE A BREAK magazine and I won a Vodafone Person of the Year award!


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