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Old Dec 23, 07, 4:12 pm   #751
 
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Old Jan 2, 08, 5:37 am   #752
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A very tired looking Bill Neely in the IAD pre-flight dining on Friday. Was flying CW.
http://www.newschannel.org.uk/newscasters/neely.php
Another flight, another journo...

BBC's Jon Sopel in the T4 F lounge yesterday.

Forgot to mention, Little Orphan Annie's stunt double () also in the T4 F lounge and on my flight to IAD! She was maybe 7yrs old, pale with bright red, curly hair and was accompanied by someone who looked nothing like her (added nicely to the orphan thing ). I whispered a little of 'It's A Hard Knock Life' in my wife's ear and she looked confused until she looked round the lounge and then struggled not to burst out laughing!
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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:07 pm   #753
 
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From trip I've just got back from, can offer Michael Winner (that guy needs to lose some weight) and the guy that dreamed up/managed Take That in the '90s/also did one of the first Pop Idol-esque shows albeit can't recall his name.
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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:09 pm   #754
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From trip I've just got back from, can offer Michael Winner (that guy needs to lose some weight) and the guy that dreamed up/managed Take That in the '90s/also did one of the first Pop Idol-esque shows albeit can't recall his name.
Hmm, bet that was BGI!!! And could it be Simon Cowell you're thinking of?

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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:15 pm   #755
 
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Evening sunrisegirl. It was BGI of course. And, Simon Cowell was on the island staying at Sandy Lane, yes. But, I think I'm thinking of Nigel Martin Smith (can't find a picture on the net to confirm) who was at Royal Westmoreland.
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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:19 pm   #756
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Housewives favourite Alan Titchmarsh on the 155 to CAI last month. He was in Club, but downstairs. Seemed a right miserable northern git (plus was wearing a blazer and slacks ), and was quite charmless to the tour rep meeting him.
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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:27 pm   #757
 
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Spotted Michael Brown, former Conservative MP and currently a columnist for The Independent checking-in at JFK T7 last month.
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Old Jan 5, 08, 12:31 pm   #758
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Evening sunrisegirl. It was BGI of course. And, Simon Cowell was on the island staying at Sandy Lane, yes. But, I think I'm thinking of Nigel Martin Smith (can't find a picture on the net to confirm) who was at Royal Westmoreland.
Thanks! I managed to find this photo of NMS.

Oh, and John Barnes (of footie and Strictly Come Dancing fame) passed through LGW yesterday. Caused some excitement with my female colleagues who wanted to see his hips wiggle like they did on the dance floor!!
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Old Jan 5, 08, 1:06 pm   #759
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Housewives favourite Alan Titchmarsh on the 155 to CAI last month. He was in Club, but downstairs. Seemed a right miserable northern git (plus was wearing a blazer and slacks ), and was quite charmless to the tour rep meeting him.
Oh, so not like the cheery,friendly easy going guy that he portrays on television.......

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Old Jan 5, 08, 5:41 pm   #760
 
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From trip I've just got back from, can offer Michael Winner (that guy needs to lose some weight) .
I thought he had lost lots of weight and was looking gaunt on the tele a few months back - maybe he has put it back on again.
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Old Jan 5, 08, 6:06 pm   #761
 
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In the CR at JFK with Jonathan Ross and whole family - have a feeling sharing the cabin back to LHR with them!
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Old Jan 7, 08, 4:03 am   #762
 
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MPs Des Browne and Ming "The Merciless" Campbell in EDI lounge this morning.
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Old Jan 8, 08, 5:15 pm   #763
 
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  • Director Mira Nair in the YYZ Terraces in mid-September '07. We were both on BA 98 YYZ-LHR, though she was in First and I was in Club. She was very friendly and polite, heading out after the Toronto Film Festival.

  • Not on BA, but Martin O'Neill, thoroughly pissed and screaming at the top of his lungs, as well as the entire Aston Villa team in the KLM Crown Club lounge in YYZ a month prior. The boys were all drinking sodas and water, but their manager was clearly on something more fortified.
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Old Jan 9, 08, 6:11 am   #764
 
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Housewives favourite Alan Titchmarsh on the 155 to CAI last month. He was in Club, but downstairs. Seemed a right miserable northern git (plus was wearing a blazer and slacks ), and was quite charmless to the tour rep meeting him.
Never heard a good word said about him.A friend ex-crew said he was a right nasty piece of work.

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but Martin O'Neill, thoroughly pissed and screaming at the top of his lungs, as well as the entire Aston Villa team in the KLM Crown Club lounge in YYZ a month prior. The boys were all drinking sodas and water, but their manager was clearly on something more fortified.
Looks like he is really taking after his mentor Cloughie
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Old Jan 12, 08, 2:50 pm   #765
 
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Alex Salmond at few times at ABZ but never shared a flight with him
Saw Jimmy White on ABZ-LHR and Rolf Harris as I was going thru security at ABZ
Whilst in Crown lounge AMS me a friend and I saw some Z-list-Diva. She had to be pointed out to us by another traveller but the name still meant nothing to us from a soap or something.
Oh and some very nice Professor lady who’s often a guest on news programmes in LHR Terraces
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