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Agreed, and it only came out after his death. Not like some celebs who seem to do charity work for the publicity it may bring.
Or the photo opportunity it brings ! Beckham's PR went into overdrive when he had to be photographed with Capt Tom at his home after doing his marathon walk around the garden, then just as he was getting loads of bad publicity for taking his pieces of silver from Quata up he pops for a 12 hour stint in the funeral queue. As my Mum used to say - "he gets where Castor Oil can't " - pillock.
 
I once had an Easter break in Spain and got chatting to a couple who had retired there, having lived in London all their lives. The man, who was a typical, cockney wideboy type, was a retired plumber who had worked for Royal parks and gardens. He used to get tasked to go to Kensington and Buckingham Palaces on occasion to sort out problems with the gaslights. He said you were told not to speak, or even look at the member of the RF if they passed them in a corridor, or if they were even in the room, they were working in. He was once repairing a fitment in the Queen's private sitting room at Buckingham Palace - the maid brought a tray of tea, biscuits, and China cups in, and HMQ dismissed her. She then commanded, "Young man (he was mid-to-late-40s at the time) ...sit down and let me pour you some tea, while you tell me all about how those lights work and why that one keeps breaking." I can't imagine how surreal it must have been to have been poured a cup of tea by HMQ! A year or so later, he was being escorted through a corridor at the palace to do another job and he heard the Queen exclaim, "Oh, there's ****** … ******, do you know, that light has never been a bit of trouble since you fixed it...how's the family, has your daughter finished at university?"

He said the nicest Royal he ever met was Princess Diana - he was once doing a job at KP and, she was still married (in name only) to Chuck at the time and she said to him, "I know you've been told not to speak to me, but I'm terribly bored. Please sit down and tell me about 'life out there'.”

Because of his Royal connections, a certain knighted singer, curried favour and a group of men from Royal parks and gardens were assigned to do a job at his country pile in the late-80s. They were taken there in a mini-bus, with blacked out windows and when they declined to meet, what I’ll refer to as the additional needs of said singer, they were swiftly transported away in the same mini-bus and dumped in the middle of nowhere...
 
Old Phil loves his super injunctions against the National Newspapers,must be costing him a fortune. He is not the only one,police seem powerless to bring certain people to court while still alive.
Do you remember in 2018 the media had a story that a 'successful businessman' had got a super injunction preventing him being named in a story about alleged misconduct and non disclosure agreements. The newspaper knew who it was but couldn't name him.

Lord Hain named Sir Philip Green in the House of Lords using Parliamentary Privilege, obviously not right but I'm glad he did. How Green got an injunction to cover up that he was paying off staff who were making allegations against him but demanding silence is outrageous. And it's not as simple as just reporting the behaviour - whistleblowers don't usually end up with the upper hand particularly with powerful people.
 
I once had an Easter break in Spain and got chatting to a couple who had retired there, having lived in London all their lives. The man, who was a typical, cockney wideboy type, was a retired plumber who had worked for Royal parks and gardens. He used to get tasked to go to Kensington and Buckingham Palaces on occasion to sort out problems with the gaslights. He said you were told not to speak, or even look at the member of the RF if they passed them in a corridor, or if they were even in the room, they were working in. He was once repairing a fitment in the Queen's private sitting room at Buckingham Palace - the maid brought a tray of tea, biscuits, and China cups in, and HMQ dismissed her. She then commanded, "Young man (he was mid-to-late-40s at the time) ...sit down and let me pour you some tea, while you tell me all about how those lights work and why that one keeps breaking." I can't imagine how surreal it must have been to have been poured a cup of tea by HMQ! A year or so later, he was being escorted through a corridor at the palace to do another job and he heard the Queen exclaim, "Oh, there's ****** … ******, do you know, that light has never been a bit of trouble since you fixed it...how's the family, has your daughter finished at university?"

He said the nicest Royal he ever met was Princess Diana - he was once doing a job at KP and, she was still married (in name only) to Chuck at the time and she said to him, "I know you've been told not to speak to me, but I'm terribly bored. Please sit down and tell me about 'life out there'.”

Because of his Royal connections, a certain knighted singer, curried favour and a group of men from Royal parks and gardens were assigned to do a job at his country pile in the late-80s. They were taken there in a mini-bus, with blacked out windows and when they declined to meet, what I’ll refer to as the additional needs of said singer, they were swiftly transported away in the same mini-bus and dumped in the middle of nowhere...
I think I've got an idea of who the singer is, in fact I'm listening to him on Spotify now. Was he going bald in the 70s and famously had a hair transplant?

And I love the story of the Queen pouring tea for the workman! And the fact that she remembered him considering the amount of people she met.
 
When I was police officer in the 1980s we were on the second or third of our force procedures course. The inspector taking the class, who was a large and extrovert type, began to veer away from the syllabus and start to talk about some of the well known people he knew to have been taken into custody over his time on the job, so to speak. Now I need to respect the libel laws of the country so I will avoid being too specific; but we were told about a well known and late Lord who was arrested on the railway for something rather seedy in a public urinal, whose request for an at the nick phone call was to a very well known singer. We never got told why. Plus, similar arrests featuring household and now deceased male celebrity names of the period for similar type offences. Fascinating stuff.

On a more detailing note- my late wife was quite a senior nurse within the NHS. Whilst working in Stafford ED a few years back, a bearded and bespectacled old man was brought in to the Department handcuffed to two screws from the nearby prison. A more offensive and entitled individual she said she had yet to meet. Demanding to be seen immediately and generally rude and unpleasant to all. His name? Well, come Sun Arise, I might tell you.
 
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I watched a behind the scenes tv doc about the Corinthia hotel in London and they asked the housekeeping staff for the even posher than normal rooms, which have their own butlers etc, to name their favourite guest. They immediately called out James Corden and said he was lovely to them and always polite. So it was surprising to hear about the restaurant incident.

I read about Cilla Black on that airline staff forum where they exchange stories. No one had a good word for her.

As for Phil and Holly, I laughed when they denied walking past the queue, when the tv coverage showed film of them doing exactly that. You couldnt make it up really.
I do wonder what the issues are with him .. I think alcohol can loosen a person up and they explode where normally they’d be rational etc .. i don’t know if James corden drinks of course but I’ve got neighbours who are th loveliest people but when a drink passes their lips they change so much it’s been offensive but I keep quiet because it’s too close to home and I don’t want aggro 🤦🏻‍♀️
Phil and Holly should have humbled themselves but for some reason they dug a hole
There’s a politician whose name I can’t think of but he was having interview on radio a couple years back and he said … “I was horrible … it goes to your head .. I had to do something and I changed “
 
When I was police officer in the 1980s we were on the second or third of our force procedures course. The inspector taking the class, who was a large and extrovert type, began to veer away from the syllabus and start to talk about some of the well known people he knew to have been taken into custody over his time on the job, so to speak. Now I need to respect the libel laws of the country so I will avoid being too specific; but we were told about a well known and late Lord who was arrested on the railway for something rather seedy in a public urinal, whose request for an at the nick phone call was to a very well known singer. We never got told why. Plus, similar arrests featuring household and now deceased male celebrity names of the period for similar type offences. Fascinating stuff.

On a more detailing note- my late wife was quite a senior nurse within the NHS. Whilst working in Stafford ED a few years back, a bearded and bespectacled old man was brought in to the Department handcuffed to two screws from the nearby prison. A more offensive and entitled individual she said she had yet to meet. Demanding to be seen immediately and generally rude and unpleasant to all. His name? Well, come Sun Arise, I might tell you.
Yeah, I think I've got the bearded old man, didn't he sing about Jake the Peg with his extra leg?😳.

I love your police stories, I was a Met Police civilian for years, started in 1989. I never heard any 'interesting" stories like this though!
 
I think there were Two Little Boys in at the same time in ED, so yes..that’s the man!

My wife had the honour of escorting the then Prince Charles around the QMC back in the 2000s. She didn’t suffer fools, apart from me, and it took a lot for her to say she actually liked a person, but she was hugely impressed with Prince Charles as a person. She found him humorous kind and approachable. On a more amusing note about him, his equerry, prior to him arriving inside, told my wife the Prince had to be ‘rested’ (I think it was) at defined set times..I.E. take a Royal urination and where. How the other half tiddle, eh?

She also royally hacked off Brian Clough when tracksuited up just after again he rocked up at A&E with Scott Gemmill who’d injured himself during a home game. Clough was becoming more and more annoyed that the situation wasn’t being addressed as quickly as he would like. Somebody came out to my wife and told them of his displeasure when he was probably just a few feet away from her. My wife very loudly said who is Brian Clough, I’ve never heard of him. The look on his face apparently was a real picture.
 
I think there were Two Little Boys in at the same time in ED, so yes..that’s the man!

My wife had the honour of escorting the then Prince Charles around the QMC back in the 2000s. She didn’t suffer fools, apart from me, and it took a lot for her to say she actually liked a person, but she was hugely impressed with Prince Charles as a person. She found him humorous kind and approachable. On a more amusing note about him, his equerry, prior to him arriving inside, told my wife the Prince had to be ‘rested’ (I think it was) at defined set times..I.E. take a Royal urination and where. How the other half tiddle, eh?

She also royally hacked off Brian Clough when tracksuited up just after again he rocked up at A&E with Scott Gemmill who’d injured himself during a home game. Clough was becoming more and more annoyed that the situation wasn’t being addressed as quickly as he would like. Somebody came out to my wife and told them of his displeasure when he was probably just a few feet away from her. My wife very loudly said who is Brian Clough, I’ve never heard of him. The look on his face apparently was a real picture.
Love these anecdotes! And there's nothing worse than people not knowing who celebs are, their ego won't like that.

I've got a police anecdote for you. I recently worked with an older retired police officer who had been at Hendon Police College with the murderer Denis Nilson (hopefully didn't murder people then!). They had to practice marching on the parade ground and Nilson was the only one who could March as he'd been in the army! I shouldn't think cops learn to march these days...
 
Funny you say that about him. I joined in 81 and was based in the City (I was in the BTP). On my walk home from Highgate Tube, I sometimes walked down Muswell Hill Road and then took a right down Cranley Gardens down to where we lived near Crouch End. I used to pass 23 (I think it was) - probably as Nilsen was cooking up a stir fry of the very worst sort. I think he worked at the Job Centre in Camden Town and picked up some of these deeply unfortunate young men that way.

Well..from Phillip Schofield to Dennis Nilsen. You couldn’t make it up if you tried other than - WE TRY ANY SERIAL KILLER..
 
Funny you say that about him. I joined in 81 and was based in the City (I was in the BTP). On my walk home from Highgate Tube, I sometimes walked down Muswell Hill Road and then took a right down Cranley Gardens down to where we lived near Crouch End. I used to pass 23 (I think it was) - probably as Nilsen was cooking up a stir fry of the very worst sort. I think he worked at the Job Centre in Camden Town and picked up some of these deeply unfortunate young men that way.

Well..from Phillip Schofield to Dennis Nilsen. You couldn’t make it up if you tried other than - WE TRY ANY SERIAL KILLER..
🤣
 
I’m not sure if a shared this already lol … lady whose son photographs celebs .. Prince William the loveliest and Gary linekar .. shall we say … not as nice 😁
I saw Kevin spacey come out of watching a play with Ralph fiennes … he wasn’t in it he watched it … he comes out with a long plant pot held up to his face to stop us peasants from seeing him … from the moment on I thought .. “ plank” … so obvious he wanted to attract attention but ignore us too. No humour no smiles …
 
Anyone trained by her late majesty has a good chance of being the real deal. No guarantees of course, just a high probability of behaving like a decent human being.
I met Diana Princess of Wales. She had a lovely manner about her and was very eady to talk to. A colleague who worked in the same store ignored the queen while ringing up customers and was mortified about it, but the queen didn't have a stuck-up attitude. The queen always enjoyed it when things went awry, so no doubt it amused her.
The only other definitely famous person I've interacted with was George Best. Gorgeous looking, very flirtatious and easy to talk to.
 
My now partner when she was in her 20s and at university in Manchester was out at a club one evening in the 1980s. She was blonde and not far off six feet tall - er..well she still is but has shrunk a couple of inches. As her and some friends were having a drink, a flunky type member of David Essex’s entourage (I would have thought by 1980 and on, his entourage would have shrunk significantly) approached her and said: “David wants you to join his party,” he said. She replied: “Tell him if he wants to Hold Me Close, he can come over to the Lamplight and ask me himself!” The simpering flunky slunk (slunk??) off. Mr. Essex didn’t take up her invitation.
 
I used to work in a store close to the town theatre and we have had minor celebs come into the shop.

Les Dennis...drunk as a skunk
Little Jimmy Osmond...lovely
Nasty Nick from East Enders...lovely
Another of the male East Enders cast who asked me 'don't you know who I am? I'm in East Enders' I said to him that I had no idea who he was but a colleague told me it was Leslie Grantham (sp?)

Couple of years ago I was chatting to a chimney sweep and he told me that he had swept the chimneys at Catherine and William's country pile in Norfolk.
He happened to mention to the housekeeper that it was a funny way to spend his birthday.
When he had packed his equipment in to his van he was invited into the kitchen and Catherine had a birthday tea set up for him complete with cake.
 
My mum and I met Helen Shapiro in the foyer at a small jazz concert in London. We had been introduced to her once before at a 60's concert and we said hello thinking she'd just be polite. We started talking about jazz singers, she's really into it. We had a good chat, when she went to the ladies she asked whether we'd still be there when she came out to continue our chat! Really lovely
 
I think I've got an idea of who the singer is, in fact I'm listening to him on Spotify now. Was he going bald in the 70s and famously had a hair transplant?

And I love the story of the Queen pouring tea for the workman! And the fact that she remembered him considering the amount of people she met.
Nail hit firmly on head...no pun intended 🤫
 

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