My Celebrity Encounters.
These articles are all about celebrities that I have met at various times throughout my life. I have never gone out of my way to meet these people; I have just bumped into them throughout my day.
All these people were very nice, and I thank them all for their company, their conversation and the stories they allowed me to remember.
I must have been about 16 or 17 years old when I met Barbara Windsor very briefly outside a bank in Portsmouth, England.
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My good friend Derek Almond took me to the Emirates Stadium to do a celebrity-guided tour in 2014. Our tour guide was Charlie George, an Arsenal legend.
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I met Chris Eubank in Brighton when I was there for a friend's stag party.
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The first time I met Dave Courtney was in a pub in Barkingside called The Chequers. At that time I had never heard of him but I have since read his books and been told who he is.
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I have always been an Arsenal fan, and when I was a kid I did go to Highbury with my dad to see a lot of matches. I met David O´Leary, however, at Heathrow airport.
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I have a lot of family living in South Wales and I go to Porthcawl, Glamorgan, to see them when I can. Whilst there, one time I was introduced to Howard Marks in a pub in Kenfig Hill.
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In the early nineteen nineties, I stayed at my home in Orlando and decided to go to Clearwater Beach for a weekend. I met Hulk Hogan in his bar there.
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Jacqueline Carpenter is the author of the novels Louisa, Joan and Nancy. I met her at a quiz in a local bar in Los Alcazares in Murcia, Spain.
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I met Jim Quillen on a tour of Alcatraz in San Francisco in about 1992. I had gone on one of the self-guided tours where you are given a headset with a narrated talk of the island and can do the tour at your speed.
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In 1997, Les Wallace became the first left-handed dart player to win the World Dart Championship. I have met Les a couple of times since then.
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While living in Florida, I met Mickey Spillane in a downtown restaurant in Orlando.
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Noel Blake, a Jamaican-born football player, played for Aston Villa, Shrewsbury Town, Birmingham City, Portsmouth, Leeds United, Stoke City, Bradford City, Exeter City and Dundee at one time or another.
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While I was at home watching the movie Karate Kid, I remembered meeting Pat Morita in Los Angeles, California.
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When I lived in Orlando, I went to see Rod Stewart at the Orlando Arena, and I spent the evening with his wife, Rachel Hunter.
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In the mid-1980s, I stayed in Los Angeles and went to Universal Studios for the day. When I got there, I met Renate Blauel and spent a morning with her on a backlot tour.
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While on holiday in Jamaica, I took a trip to Kingston for an overnight stay. When I was there, I went around Bob Marley's house and met his wife, Rita Marley and many of their children.
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When I lived in Orlando, I went to watch Duran Duran live at The House of Blues in Walt Disney World, and I met the group's drummer, Roger Taylor.
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I met Shaquille O'Neal when I was living in Orlando, Florida, and he had just signed up for the Orlando Magic basketball team.
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I have met Tom Jones several times in America and the UK and have also seen him perform in Spain.
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I have always been an Arsenal fan and I used to go to a lot of Arsenal games, as did Tom Watt.
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Unless you were an Elvis Presley fan, you probably wouldn't know who Vester Presley was, but he was the Uncle of Elvis Presley.
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