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Okay, I'll start!
Zermatt, New Year 2006, nearly bumped into Richard Branson (literally) outside the ski lift station at the top of the piste. He was alone, trying to fix his ski boots (looked cheap), before gliding off down a blue. Saw him later from the air having some tuition on the same piste as we went overhead on the chairlift.
Was kinda hoping he'd wipe out and I could go and rescue him and hand him my card, but..
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I never skied with Branson, but once worked for him in Portobello Road for 10 weeks on a magazine called Event, which was a copy of Time Out (which was on strike). One evening Branson wanted to get to his gay nightclub Heaven at Charing Cross so I offered him a lift in my (first, cost £300) car. It was a Renault 16 with serious mechanical issues and an MOT.
He got into the thing with two other passengers in the back and the chassis started scraping on the road surface. He asked me if this journey was going to "affect my image?"
The only famous person I've not seen on the slopes is Jef Wickes.
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brian
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Quite some time ago, I went into a mountain restaurant in Mottaret and thought this girl was eying me up as I walked past her. It was a sunny day so we were sat outside and only she and her instructor were indoors.
I didn't think anything of it other than, "that's wierd".
A few minutes later, a girl in our group, a confirmed OK/Hello reader, came out all excited, "Do you know that Tara Palmer-Tompkinson is in there?". I confess I'd never heard of her at the time but have since realised that you can't really miss her if you have a telly and realise she probably wasn't eyeing me up at all but hoping to be/surprised she wasn't recognised by me 
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The intensely self appreciative Bono always insists on having half of Cafe Face roped off into some sort of VIP (Very irritating person) area in Val D'Isere....didn't seem to be worried about the plight of Africans when I kicked his drink over though....smug Oirish tosser
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Cheers Brian, I'll get back to work in a mo. No relation, by the way 
Admin, I'd have to see a piccy of yuo to decide weva TPT was eying you up, but I reckon she's the kinda girl to eye most guys up.
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Ooh, and I know another story.....an acquaintance of mine is a jellymepter pilot in the Tarentaise - he was chartered to pick up a VIP from Italy, and flew him to the top of a mountain, then to go and pick him up an hour later after he had conversed with the big man upstairs....t'was Pope John Paul II....
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Anna Ryder-Richardson in Fernie, Muriel Gray (on skis) in La Tania, Alain Baxter in Tignes, John Pertwee many years ago in Andorra.
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A 5 year old in Mrs Z's class bought in a picture of Victoria Beckham that she took on her trip to Courchevel (I think). But that doesn't really count for this thread does it?
How far down the scale of "famous people" do we go? Nearing the bottom of the list, Graham Kendrick (Christian songwriter) visited me in hospital in BadGastein after I lost a fight with a T-bar and broke a bone in my knee, which I thought was rather decent of him.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Guvnor, Now that si a cool VIP story..
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I have skied with Frosty the Snowman 
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I've slept with Spyderman 
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You know it makes sense.
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Ray Zorro, 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Guvnor, was he on a tray or planks?? 
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Poster: A snowHead
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admin, That Tara PT gal is a bit of a silly sausage but came out with a classic line once.
When asked what her definition of being poor would be she said "Having to turn right when getting on an airplane".
Always makes me smile when i board (and turn right). I will have to keep an eye out for her.....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've shared a table with Jeremy Nobis in Cham pre-Xmas....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ray Zorro, Kitty, Variations on a theme perhaps 
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Guvnor, Careful there that's my cousin you are refering to
I missed him but Frankie Dettori was in the Krazy Kangaroo (St Anton) last New Year's Eve.
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GLC in Tignes a few years ago
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In Verbier last year, Fergie in a cafe, and Damon Hill on the mountain, a couple of years back Bob Geldof on the train up to Zermatt.
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brian
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Paddy Ashdown (or Paddy Pantsdown as he was known at the time) in Val Thorens shouting at the top of his voice.
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My sister and her boyfriend shared a gondola with Richard Branson in Tignes last March. Does that count?
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brian
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SamTheEagle, your sister .... virgin .... let's not go there ....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Peter Ross, Who? Pope John Paul II ? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Kirsten Dunst, Pierce Brosnan Celebrity Ski Week-Banff
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Celebrity ski week!!?! that's cheating!
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You know it makes sense.
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Jeremy Paxman in TJ's bar in Courchevel a few years ago, and somebody who looked remarkably like Robbie Williams who was the middle of a group of hangers-on, also in Courchevel. Shared a chairlift with Jean-Luc Cretier, winner of the Men's downhill at '98 Olympics. Ken Read (ex-Crazy Canuck skier) next to me in the queue for food at the Panormamique restaurant in Tignes - pleasant chap who was happy to say hello. Also said hello to Bode Miller in Val d'Isere a couple of seasons ago during the Criterium de la Premiere Neige weekend.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Peter Ross, did he fall of the table in the last furlong??
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Poster: A snowHead
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Chis Evans and Billie Piper in Val d'Isere
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| redrunmarcus wrote: |
| Chis Evans and Billie Piper in Val d'Isere |
not montalbert???
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Stood behind Luc Alphand in the supermarket checkout queue in Villeneuve.
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Helen Beaumont, does not count - slopes only
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Richard Branson (he gets around doesn't he) in Avoriaz.
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I met Napolean in Kirkwood.
He had a wet nose and was a bit smelly.
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| Guvnor wrote: |
| Peter Ross, Who? Pope John Paul II ? |
no the other guy!
rayscoops he may well have, it is like the Grand National coming down from KK after a tankful (of course Frankie doesn't do the jumps).
Maybe we should change this thread to who has seen Richard Branson and where!
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I saw Eddie the Eagle jump over a car at the opening of Tamworth Snowdome. It wasn't a stretch limo.
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I've skied with Eddie the Eagle at Tamworth
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Met Jean-Pierre Vidal, shook his hand after his gold win at the olympics, he is a very nice guy. Met his sister a few years ago Vanessa but I think she's perhaps not world famous outside of france
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