Strange Encounters.

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A few years ago when working as a paramedic I got called to an address near Monmouth for an elderly gentleman with a medical issue.

After being there for 20 minutes and finishing off my examination whilst kneeling next to the patient, I heard a deep voice behind me asking how his dad was. I gave him a brief overview of the situation of situation whilst still looking at the patient as I was doing my final checks.

Whilst telling his son the situation I thought that voice sounds familiar. I then said ‘you sound like Eddie Butler’ and then turned around to see Eddie Butler looking down on me. He was a real gent.

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I exchanged a few words with the Dalai Lama in the foyer of the City Hall

The missus dragged me into Uniqlo in Regent Street and as we were leaving I held the door open for Zoe Ball, she said thank you, a very tall girl, especially in heels

I spoke to a very flamboyantly dressed George Melly one lunchtime in Kingsway as I was walking back to walk. He was very happy to chat about the gig he was doing that night.

I spoke to Paul Kossof of Free at a gig in Barry Memorial Hall in 1969. He was off his head.

Chatted to Ann Aston (of Golden Shot fame) in the City Hall. She was the celebrity who was at the opening of a lottery launched by the Council in the 1970s

At a Royal Academy Summer Exhibition I stood next to Dr Miriam Stoppard who was with the extravagantly dressed Marquis of Bath who was with one of his wifelets. He smelled. I moved away

I spoke to a very bored Peter Ustinov at a book signing in Dillons bookshop in Cardiff. He was not getting trampled in the rush !

Dame Helen Mirren accidentally barged into me at Oxford Circus tube station - she apologised.

I saw Ronnie Corbett in Piccadilly and, having heard from my contacts in the New Theatre that he was not anywhere near as pleasant in real life compared to his TV personality I walked past him.

I met Bamber Gascoigne on 2 occasions in his capacity as question master and, on the second occasion ,he had lunch with the contestants. I sat opposite him and his wife. He chatted away, a very interesting and learned person and an absolute delight, you couldn't possibly hope to meet a nicer person.

Mrs Gascogne was a well published academic in her own right and well known photographer and ceramic artist.

So often the wives of famous people are not only the driving force but have careers of their own which often gets lost in the attention paid to their husbands

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Many years ago while travelling from my digs to building site in London on the underground I saw the guy with the massive ears from are you being served. I had my tool bag with me and had a real urge to take out my tape and measure his wingspan.
Somehow I resisted but I was bloody mesmerised and nearly missed my stop.

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I could only have been about 7 and me and my dad were walking from Ninian Park after a game v Norwich back into the city centre, when this huge bloke stopped us and asked us was there a toy shop nearby. It was Tommy Cooper.

And about 10 years ago I was up in London working for the day when I managed to get a ticket for The Ashes at the Oval. There’d been no play in the morning because of rain. They’d announce play would start after lunch and as I was running up the escalator at the tube station to get there for the start Nigel Havers was running next to me. I really wanted to start humming the music from Chariots of Fire but couldn’t bring myself to do it.