15 minutes of Fame

[Deleted User] · March 2003

I think it was one Andy Wahol that famously came out with the statement that everyone has 15 minutes of fame in their lifetime.It set me wondering, how many Forumites have had their 15 minutes,and if so what was it?I,m knocking on a bit and still waiting for mine...but there again i,ve always been unlucky!

[Deleted User] · March 2003

10 minutes left then, if sommat good turns up!

Don Minquez · March 2003

I was in the audience for the Really Wild show once...

[Deleted User] · March 2003

Cosmic

Don Minquez · March 2003

T'was a magical experience!!!

Nicko. Hdau · March 2003

I was on the BBCnews during the miners strike.......

[Deleted User] · March 2003

Your ahead of Old Timer that is for sure!

RunRabbit RunRabbit · March 2003

My left arm is famous. They used it in a programme about BCG's. It was injected into!!!

Does this count?

[Deleted User] · March 2003

I was an extra in a short TV film with Julie T Wallace and Steve Frost. They panned across the cafe we were sat in - and there I was - large as life and twice as ugly!

Nicko. Hdau · March 2003

What BIG CEE GULLS

[Deleted User] · March 2003

A half page picture of me was in the Mountain Biker International magazine a few years ago... That was a whole month of fame. Trouble was they got my name slightly wrong and for a couple of years after that spectators at races called out that name to me as I went by rather than my real name.

[Deleted User] · March 2003

As a prelude to my sporting success ..I was on breakfast TV ( in the early days) with my rugby club and the "Green Goddess" doing aerobics at an eistedfodd (cultural country fair for the non-Welsh).

Barkles · March 2003

With my job, I get asked for tv and radio interviews fairly frequently usually avoid if possible.

Spent several weeks avoiding Martin bashir a few years ago.. that awful programme about education.. only one chance.!

Didn't want to end up looking like jacko.

iron fraggle · March 2003

I think Snoop's made it into a GRIM photo in this months RW (just arrived this morning)

[Deleted User] · March 2003

Anyone wondering,but the original post has gone missing,RW problems again.It kinda went as follows...Andy Wahol famously made a statement that everyone has 15 minutes of fame.How many of you Forumites have had your 15 minutes and what was it?I,m knocking on a bit and i,m still waiting for mine........ Mines beginning to look like the day RW lost me thread! A legend in me own lifetime? Nah!

[Deleted User] · March 2003

nope. never been famous for anything.

Suffolk Punch · March 2003

Was once on Thames news for promoting the Prudential Tour cycle race a few years ago at the Pru Building in High Holborn. I was quite prominent, but it was more like 15 seconds than 15 minutes.

[Deleted User] · March 2003

when I was a nipper I did an advert for Rowntree's sweets and one for BA - they were probably desparate!!

[Deleted User] · March 2003

Had my photo taken by a bobby once. Made me stand with a board in front of me and took the photo from all sides.

Must have thought I was someone famous, even asked for my fingerprints even though I can write!

Jez · March 2003

I think I mentioned it on another thread a while ago, but my naked backside has been seen by members of the Royal family at the premiere of a film in which I (or at least my backside) appeared.

Could have been 15 minutes if someone hit the pause button on the projector.

Don Minquez · March 2003

How could I forget! When I did the Carlton london Run and it was televised, I was on telly for about half a second after the break!... I was a bit fatter then, therefore more noticable... Ho hum!

[Deleted User] · March 2003

i gatecrashed the elite start at coniston 14 last week does that count

Don Minquez · March 2003

LOL!

Nessie · March 2003

I've been interviewed on BBC Scotland by Craig Anderson, and in a programme on environmental management systems when I was in my last job (pretending to work and have a "meeting").

I was also on the front page of the Forres Gazette when I was doing a sponsored local race.

That's about 12 minutes gone.

[Deleted User] · March 2003

Got enticed into a Hare Krishna recruitment drive in Grafton St, Dublin. Long story but combination of beer, sun and an hypnotic chant led afew of us to perform some strange song and dance routine to passers by

[Deleted User] · March 2003

I sang on Look north as a nipper

[Deleted User] · March 2003

I was asked to play the guitar on some tv programme with Bernie Clifton when I was about 8 but apparently children needed some sort of licence to appear on tv which I couldn't get in time so I missed out on my 15 minutes.

My only claim to fame now is to have a famous relative!

RichardM · March 2003

I got on stage when The Clash were playing White Riot in Brixton in the early eighties and jumped back into the crowd just before a bouncer nabbed me.

old father tim · March 2003

Whilst visiting Iran, a few days after the S.Rushdie fatwa was issued, I somehow got featured in the 'Tehran Times'..

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