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Before they were famous.....

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squizy ·

Ok....we all know someone from our past I'm sure who's made it onto bigger things. So who is it that you know from your past, who is now famous?

Bizarre ·

The bloke that lived down the street when i was a kid was the chief suspect in the Wanda Beach murders.

Several years ago he was chased across Canada and gunned down by the cops

[Edited on 21-3-2005 by Bizarre]

squizy ·

Ooooh nice start to the thread Barry. Here's my 20c.....

Went to school in the same form as David Wenham. Paul Osborne from the Raiders was the year below me. Also played lots of lower grade cricket with Gavin Robertson and Jason Gallian [Eng] before they played for their countries.

theverybigtallman ·

one of my mates in primary school lived near a bloke who had a few guns and an unhappy life. one day he went and shot up port arthur....

HotRodMatt ·

Beat up Mark Geyer several times at school.

Took Max Sharam for a ride in Beetle (her short-lived fame was just begining).

Made Neddy Smith lose his temper [not funny] (he was already infamous).

GL1972 ·

Went to school with Jeff Miller (former Wallaby and coach of the Reds)

Oasis ·

I played (music) with Max Sharam, and I went to school with Elle MacPherson.

zac_smits ·

i'm only 18 so this doesn't count really.

mark seymour (hunters and collectors) long time family friends, sand in a choir with his sister.

the guy that owns ray's tent city (ray frost) went to school with his two daughters

the daughter of ripcurl (lisa warbrick) was another school-mate...

rich fathers with spoilt daughters is all i can say..

dodge ·

a friend of mine went to school with delta goodrum....
said she was stuck up and was so up herself that she demanded a nose job so she would look better :duh

NigeType3 ·

Took acid once with the dude who played the son on kingswood country.
I can't even remember his name!

dodge ·

maybe because you were taking acid..... :duh

Desert Moose ·

squizy wrote:Ooooh nice start to the thread Barry. Here's my 20c.....

Went to school in the same form as David Wenham. Paul Osborne from the Raiders was the year below me. Also played lots of lower grade cricket with Gavin Robertson and Jason Gallian [Eng] before they played for their countries.
hey did you know that Gavin Robertson had a beetle

zac_smits ·

jet played at my school formal :P

(managed by one of our yr12;s dads 😀)

akean1 ·

HotRodMatt wrote:Made Neddy Smith lose his temper [not funny] (he was already infamous).
can you tell more? was there any guns or messy undies involved?

HotRodMatt ·

No guns. Interview - wrong question!

akean1 ·

still scary, i was picturing something in a pub

Special Air Service ·

Ive known Troy Bayliss (2001 world superbike champion and current Moto GP rider) since highschool still train with him (Cycling)when he's home in Taree on the odd occasion. And went to school with a chick who was in a "Wet & Wild" calender a couple of years back.

sneak_e ·

My best friend was in high school with Mary Donaldson. I sat behind Gough Whitlam on a plane from Coffs Harbour to Sydney (not that it counts, but yes, those eyebrows 'are' as big in real life!)

ancientbugger ·

I went to school with Mick Jones from The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, also one of my mates played for Arsenal (English soccer team!) Dave Price. Don't think it counts but my younger sister was in Face Off with John Travolta and ....I can't remember his name but the character was "Caster Troy", my sister was also in Friends for one or two shows and Dharma and Greg and I never watched either of them.

HotRodMatt ·

I took photos of Holly Graham when she was starting to look for work as a model.

She has since been seen in Fast Fours, Blokesworld and heaps more.

squizy ·

ancientbugger wrote:I went to school with Mick Jones from The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, also one of my mates played for Arsenal (English soccer team!) Dave Price. Don't think it counts but my younger sister was in Face Off with John Travolta and ....I can't remember his name but the character was "Caster Troy", my sister was also in Friends for one or two shows and Dharma and Greg and I never watched either of them.
Mick Jones....you are god...!

Nicholas Cage played Castor Troy.

SKEWtYpe3 ·

*Joe Mangles wife from neighbours, her dad was an old school panel beater in my back street, top bloke, we share b/days.........
*Red Simons lived at the end of my street and came into a cafe i worked in, right cockhead, would walk to the front of the counter through everyone demanding/expecting service b4 everyone waiting then w his feral son would sit w someone else on their table (if there wasnt a free one) using most of it w his newspaper letting his feral som annoy the shit out of the stranger and make a fricking mess...................did i mention he is a cockhead ?
*hoddle street masacre (sp?) was 1 ro 2 blocks away and could hear gunshots in our house. Cousin was a copper and got shot, the bullet grazed his back from shoulder to shoulder and is scarred from it. All the cops took their reflective hats off coz it was note. The big wig cop got there and made them put them back on. My mum's family fainlty knew the shooters family. i can point his house out.
*Met heaps of celebs from doing VIP functions and found out many interesting things in high class boardroom luncheons 🙂
*Dillan Lewis' wife workes with my mum, he's a cockhead aswell..............
*blah blah blah......

ancientbugger ·

That's the bloke:kiss After the film was done everyone involved got given a poster with everyones face on it with their names attached in no particular order and all shots were the same size but Nicholas Cage and John Travoltas names were transposed as a joke, pretty cool !😎

squizy ·

Bruce Samazan [E-Street] used to work in Men's Gallery when his fame waned.....don't ask me how I now that.

SKEWtYpe3 ·

how do you know that ?

:P

Chewy ·

Went to school with the girl who Quicksilvers ROXY brand was named after..
she wasnt that hot.

CoopGirl ·

SKEWtYpe3 wrote:*Dillan Lewis' wife workes with my mum, he's a cockhead aswell..............
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Dylan Lewis is way cool.


My claim to fame is that I went to school with Anthony Mundine(St George NRL & Boxing ... hahahaha) and Lance Thompson(St George NRL). Won't tell you what I really think of them. Also went to the same school as the Smith's Gobbledock (sp?), well the person that used to dance around in the suit. Peter Coyne (St George NRL) was a substitute teacher at my school and coached me in hockey for a while.

Chewy ·

Oh and the really hot chick MX racer whos famous now, cant remember her name
I was at the breakwater track when she beginning, she stacked going round the last corner going 5km/h and came offf the track halfway through the race crying.
She used to get changed in the pits, she was hot.

J&SBlue ·

Mark "Chopper" Read is my cousin. Only meet him once though, when I was a kid.

SKEWtYpe3 ·

Mark read used to come into the cafe i used to work in w his mates ! it was a connectd place 🙂 And i used to drink in the pub he worked in when he moved back to melbourne. AND my friend used to live next to him, if u r in melbourne call me, i can take u over............if he still lives there that is. Good customer and nice bloke i found.

Fossil ·

Delta Goodram - :repuke how sick

Fossil ·

Used to play Rugby Union against Ray Price in the early to mid 70's and then the late 70's touch footbal with Peter Sterling, Brett Kenny but these guys had already become known.

akean1 ·

SKEWtYpe3 wrote:Mark read ....... if u r in melbourne call me, i can take u over............if he still lives there that is. Good customer and nice bloke i found.
nice bloke if you dont have breasts. i dont know how happy he and his wife would be about tourists at their house

akean1 ·

oh yeah, ME. been in stingers, secret life of us, you and your dumb mate (yet to be released) and ghost rider (still being filmed)

[Edited on 22-3-2005 by akean1]

CoopGirl ·

akean1 wrote:
SKEWtYpe3 wrote:Mark read ....... if u r in melbourne call me, i can take u over............if he still lives there that is. Good customer and nice bloke i found.
nice bloke if you dont have breasts. i dont know how happy he and his wife would be about tourists at their house
They live in Tasmania where he writes childrens books...... or so I've heard.

squizy ·

akean1 wrote:oh yeah, ME. been in stingers, secret life of us, you and your dumb mate (yet to be released) and ghost rider (still being filmed)

[Edited on 22-3-2005 by akean1]
I can't compete with that. Only did extra work for Home and Away :repuke and the Miraculous Mellops. Thankfully that was when Marilyn was on H&A.... he he....

Resto64 ·

my wife went to school with that Hicks bloke who is locked up for the sep 11 stuff
he's in all her school photos

theverybigtallman ·

chopper lives in melbourne nowadays. he used to live in tassie. try telling his victims he was a nice bloke...

akean1 ·

when i was at you and your dumb mate madeline west was there playing one of the cool girls at the club, the make up lady was running around fixing everyone, when to my supprise she started putting foundation or powder or something on madeline's bum. i started saying i had a pimple on my iner thigh that neede patching, but was ignored..guess i wasnt important enough😀

squizy ·

I never knew Robbo was into VW's......

J&SBlue ·

theverybigtallman wrote:chopper lives in melbourne nowadays. he used to live in tassie. try telling his victims he was a nice bloke...
Yep he is in Melbourne now.
Not sure his victims were that nice either.....not that I agree with what he did or said he did.

HotRodMatt ·

Uncle chop chop never hurt anyone that wasn't invovled in the same shit. The Melbourne and Sydney gang wars should never have been stopped. But then again without organised crime how would our governments survive?

boersch ·

dad used to be head chef at a pub in collingwood, cooked chopper read chicken schnitzel a few times.. damn good chicken schnitzel as well!

frenzix ·

my school captain was greg from the wiggles, my mum photographed daniel johns for his school photos, my mum retouched bob cars mums photos, i love my mum, i smoked bongs with a certain home and away star who i am not going to mention (serious), a mates dad is the drummer for the radiators.

frenzix ·

ian turpy HAHAHAHAHA

buzzbug ·

i went to school in bris with "kane" from H&A.

Was taught to swim by a commonwealth gold medalists mum,

Worked as a barman at Lisa Curry Kennys b'day, got her and all her friends really really pissed. And saved Grant Kenny from going over the railings on the hire boat the party was on.

Also use to do my surf life svaing proficiancy training with Grant Kenny.

thats it.

[Edited on 22/3/2005 by buzzbug]

57kombi ·

My cousin is Steve Prestwich, the drummer in Cold Chisel.

Cheers
Dave

akean1 ·

oh yeah, speaking of cousins, one of mine is a nova radio host

~air fooled~ ·

hmmmm

brent tate from the brissy broncos has a dodgy shoulder, i absolutely smashed the living sh#t out of him in a high school footy game back in 98.
i reckon i had something to do with it hahaha... he got taken off the ground after that, i thought i had nearly killed him..poor fella

shook kamals hand at a carols by candle light thing when i was like 10

ummm, thats it, i got nothin...

pete wood ·

Desert Moose wrote:
squizy wrote:Ooooh nice start to the thread Barry. Here's my 20c.....

Went to school in the same form as David Wenham. Paul Osborne from the Raiders was the year below me. Also played lots of lower grade cricket with Gavin Robertson and Jason Gallian [Eng] before they played for their countries.
hey did you know that Gavin Robertson had a beetle
He told me he owned a squareback too, had a pobjoy in it apparently.

WABaja ·

Heath Ledger owns a Kombi in Perth... I've touched it...:thumb










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baybuscamperkid ·

went for a ride in Glen Rich's alfa rally car around the Melbourne GP circuit a few GPs agoe after my uncle sold him a Camaro (i think it was the Camaro)one if the girls from a couple of years below me is currently in X-factor, when a guy threatened to go on a kiling spree with his chainsaw in 1986 (i think it was in Bayswater) i was evacuated (was a couple of houses down). a family friend is the host of the Rock Quiz on SBS and does lots of stage plays. thats about it, pretty boring really compared to some of you. know alot of dudes in bands who deserve to be famous one day, but none that are currently.

Bizarre ·

frenzix wrote:ian turpy HAHAHAHAHA
Ian Turpy did the best version on Denton once of Smells Like teen Spirit :thumb

Desert Moose ·

squizy wrote:I never knew Robbo was into VW's......
yeah ........ it was me that got him into them....lol

my dad is his godfather

ancientbugger ·

Years before I went there Boris Karloff (can't recall his real name) went to my school so did a couple of guys from Fleetwood Mac. By the way if anyone remembers Madness from the eighties 2 of them had Karmann Ghias-Suggsy the singer don't know who the other bloke was though.

Bizarre ·

my best man at wedding hitch hiked round the world on yatchs. Pick em up in the Med and deliver to Carribean - fly back. Do again. Then the reverse when the season changed.

Ended up looking after Mick Fleetwoods yatch for a year or two. Sort of like beeing told to mind the 959 for a while.

DubCrazy ·

mmm some of mite not know these people but anyone from the uk will....... my father was a"friend" with the kray twins and buster(the great train robber) i rememebr meeting buster when he was selling flowers on the bridge(after he did the naughty stuff ) but i dont remember meeting the krays even tho my dad says i have.

myself through mototrcross have met most of the big names (a few years back nows) McGrath,larry ward,mike"mad"jones etc etc etc, good friends with jamie dobb,mark eastward,warren brown,karl nun and dave thrope..

myself 🙂 been on tv , in mags, videos all for the motorcross

steff..........................

DubCrazy ·

ancientbugger
it was suggs and Mcpherson that had the kg's. suggs still does and last i heard McPherson had a splitty. and as for rememebering madness now could u NOT .. bloody greatest band to come out of north londen EVER!!!!! yes yes i have all there stuff 🙂


steff................

Bizarre ·

DubCrazy wrote:....... my father was a"friend" with the kray twins ..........................
you mean doug and dinsdale???

Did they nail 'is head to the floor???





or did they use.............sarcasm????

ancientbugger ·

Steff, Good to hear someone has good taste😀 Buster used to sell flowers outside Waterloo station just round the corner from where I lived and I actually went out with a girl by the name of Karen Richardson whose dad was never home when I was there (luckily enough) I'm afraid that when it was explained to me who her father was I decided as discretion is the better part of valour so cowardice is the better part of discretion and stopped seeing her as I thought I might need my testicles later on in life. By the way if anyone knows who the Krays were check out how bad the Richardsons were🙁

DubCrazy ·

I know the name richardson from that era, the old man would to i guess... also new there reputation. nice people honest "guv"..

It has to be said tho when that lot were around you didnt have little shits muggin old people for 10 quid and such, they kept it all in order. Makes u wonder really who did a better job of keeping the crime rate down...



steff...............

vanderaj ·

I know a fair amount of the famous geeks on the planet, e-mail many of them regularly, and have had some of them at parties and conferences I've run. I am almost one of them (will have a higher profile soon when I finish writing a book).



The guy in the year before me at school is the Hoddle St massacre dude. I didn't know him though - my own year level had 300 students and I didn't know most of them either. My school has more people in the Australian Who's Who than any other school in Australia, so I wont drop too many names as it's simply not fair to the rest of you. 😉

Andrew

cray ·

my wife runs the official website for the chick that played DJ in Full House, and they chat on email all the time...

beetle_girly ·

well my famous stories are pretty sad...lol

i met billy connelly in NZ when i was on a contiki tour. he was lovely, posed for our pics and i was all embarassed!

my bro is in a band and he will be famous one day (www.notwritenow.2ya.com). they have been on the tv and radio a little bit...

my uncle was an extra in home and away...lol

and finally...my dad was good friends with eric grothe snr (footballer man) and he sold his rickenbacker (sp?) guitar to my dad. i remember this one time eric and his sons come over and the boys spilt tomato sauce on our brand new kitchen floor...i was cut...
as it turned out, his sons went to my high school.

oh one more lame fame...i went to arj barkers show the other day (comedian)...and he was chatting to my friend and i (he was chatting to everyone really) but he referred to us (in a nice way) in one of his impromtu jokes...!! how excitement

thats all guys...sorry about the long boring post

ColumBUS ·

beetle girly

ive organised gigs for not write now! first time i saw them play was a battle of the bands at liverpool rsl a while back. they did a punk cover of a ja rule song that kicked arse! i helped run a battle of the bands that they were finalists in in camden last year.
ive also done gigs for bands antonamasia, 4 sale, and too selfish for sunday. the lead singer for 4 sale is in my drama class, and he does the c91.3 ads. and if your into ska, look out for los capitanes. their currently touring with the porkers; good friends of mine from canberra that i met at onstage.

beetle_girly ·

NO WAY!!
thats crazy...i was at that battle of the bands in livo...hell im at all their gigs...!
and i know antonamasia and for sale and stuff...not personally but yeh
so r u going to/organising some of their upcoming gigs...i have just been to one at the hard rock tonite...acoustic.
check out the website for upcoming gigs too...
do u know my brother....he is the bassist with the hair!

ColumBUS ·

tall fella? bit younger than me or my age? if so then no. never met him in my life.

imn organising a huuge gig at elderslie high called the big day in... ur little brothers band is being considered to play. our line up so far consists of los capitanes (canberran ska band) and jinn (newcaslte heavy rock - opened for frenzhal rhomb and rubix cuba)

WABaja ·

The guys from Things of Stone and Wood are friends of mine...
I knew them before they were famous...

Starbug ·

went to school and dated justin wilcomes who used to do the net 50 and graveyard shifts on triple j a few years back... this was before he realised he was gay (and i thought it was so bloody obvious!) last i heard of him he caned it pretty hard in sydney (too much drugs and nightlife!) and rang me to let me know he was living and working in radio in townsville... an absolute cacker of a friend and someone i would love to get back in touch with! has anyone up north heard of him?

i went to school with ben ross who plays for penrith... and who also got shown whos boss by gordon tallis.
he deserved it. a real champ, in the most derogatory sense of the word!!

squizy ·

Andrew....excuse my naivity, but who is that picture of?

Whitty ·

squizy wrote:Andrew....excuse my naivity, but who is that picture of?
I have been busting to find out as well...........forgive our non geekness Andrew

carisma ·

i went to school with LISA CURRY and my son plays footy for HAWTHORN

decked dubby ·

Held up a pissed Baby John Burgess while working at the Sydney motor show.

Had lunch with Dick Johnson.

Been driven around Eastern Creek Raceway by Dick Johnson and Alan Grice. (sitting besides Doug Mulray)

Met Elle McPherson.

Barry Humpries son lives at my Auntie & Uncles house in Liverpool.

Met George Barris (kustom car guy, batmobile, munsters coach etc) in the states.

Went to a charity auction in Sydney at sat besides Kerry-anne Kennelly all night. At the auction met Jimmy Barnes, Brocky, and Tony Barber. At the end of the auction a very drunk Kerry-anne would not let me leave and gave me a massive pash.😘kiss :duh

ducky ·

"Libby" that was in neighbours is my cousin.
Played a game of pool with a lot of money riding on it with Peter 'sterlo' sterling as my partner in Barcelona at the 1992 Olympics, he was working for channel 9 not long after his career ending shoulder injury.(yes we won)
Met Boy George back in the day.
MC'ed an event where 'Carlotta' performed.
Had many beers with Nathan from Big Brother 2.
Met and had beers with the 2003 womens touring party for Golf at the after tournament event Royal Pines.
I kissed 'Jewel' fair on the lips (she kissed back) nice girl on girl mmmmmmmmm
I met in the grocery line Lisa Anderson Former World Surfing Champ.
Have met Mark 'Occie' world surf champion
Met Many many footballers inc Allan Langer, Kerrod Walters,Stephen 'Boxhead' Walters, Paul Vautin. My brother played in the same junior club as Mal Meninga and Peter Jackson (RIP)
I was a guest on Mimi McPhersons boat and met the nice lady not long after her much publicsised internet video.
My best friends brother was Kerry Packers personal body guard for 5 years.
When I was a young prac teacher Darren Hayes of savage garden fame was a student.
Sat next to Karla Gilbert ( Surf Lifesaving) on a flight to sydney.
Sat next to the guys from 'Human Nature' on a flight to Sydney.
Flew to sydney on the same flight as the west indian cricket team.
Sat behind 'the man' Anthony Mundine on a flight from Sydney.
Met Ryan Giggs Manchester? Soccer player in London
And I know there are others who I have forgotten but a big thankyou to everyone

ducky ·

Forgot to mention when my mum was in highschool in Holland she dated Leo Sayer.
When she was a singer back in the day she dated Col Joy.

carisma ·

forgot to mention that one of my sons friends father is married to kate kendall from stingers....and i broke my noise perving at alastra lynch a few years ago , i was a footy trainner and fillin up the water drum ALLY was in the dressin rooms near the tap and i was watchin him and putting my drum on a fridge trolley but didnt watch the trolly and smack right in my face when i put the drum on,,,,,,,well blood every where what an embarrement,,,,,,busted for perving and then had to get my noise fixed.....lession to learn when perving have no other job to do as its a distraction,,,,,,,,,