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Celebrities in your hotel?

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:06:24 GMT

I was wondering if anyone had any celebrity stories to tell from their skiing trips?

A few years ago I was in sauze d'oulx when they were having the crystal week and Steve Redgrave was in the hotel bar every night. Nice guy, very unassuming.

Last week in champoluc, Stan Boardman (don't mention the Geeeeeeeeermans) was in our hotel. He kept himself to his own group, and I have to say he was a pretty decent table tennis player. "I've got you defending like the Japanese......."

Anyone spotted anyone famous in their property?

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:16:21 GMT

Bit obscure this one. Mrs Gaz went to Serre Chevalier with a friend, while I looked after her children may I add :evil: , and spent the week skiing with a group which included Carl Green (Herman's Hermits). Who? -)

Probably doesn't count as a 'celeb'. Don't think they had 'been invented' when the Hermits were in their heyday. :-)

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:46:09 GMT

if I found some one famous in my apartment I'd kick them out to find a place of their own :twisted:

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:10:25 GMT

:DAmazing Tony.Last feb in les arc 1950 saw Steve Redgrave in a restaurant.Went to Obergurgl for xmas week and while having a pitstop on the first day who skis in with all the family,you guessed,Mr Redgrave.I had to say something as it was such a coincidence,so as we got up to leave i simply asked if he was following us around as we saw him in Les Arcs.He laughed and said ''where we off to next''.

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Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:53:25 GMT

Mark Lester, child actor and friend of Michael Jackson and Uri Geller.
I hadn't a clue who he was until I was told (someone in our party recognised him) and I didn't realise how wellknown he had been until some time later.
His daughter was in my son's ski group and they stuck together cos all the other kids were Austrian. Nice girl.
This was Schladming new year 2000/01
Believe he's an osteopath In Cheltenham now - funnily enough where I've been tonight (Chelt not the osteo).

My nephew drove a mini bus a few years ago in Morzine and had James Morrison in the back of his cab.

Re:Celebrities in your hotel?

Fri, 1 Feb 2013 00:36:36 GMT

Gaz C wrote: Bit obscure this one. Mrs Gaz went to Serre Chevalier with a friend, while I looked after her children may I add :evil: , and spent the week skiing with a group which included Carl Green (Herman's Hermits). Who? -)

Probably doesn't count as a 'celeb'. Don't think they had 'been invented' when the Hermits were in their heyday. :-)

I'm not sure that skiing had been invented when Herman's Hermits were famous :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:33:41 GMT

Had a good crack with Will Greenwood in Soll few years back in the Salvinstadl, apparently the England players are not allowed to ski when they are playing dont know if this is right.

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:36:22 GMT

Had a good crack with Will Greenwood in Soll few years back in the Salvinstadl. Great bloke to be fair.

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 06:38:51 GMT

I know its far too early !!

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:28:54 GMT

Gaz C wrote: Bit obscure this one. Mrs Gaz went to Serre Chevalier with a friend, while I looked after her children may I add :evil: , and spent the week skiing with a group which included Carl Green (Herman's Hermits). Who? -)

Probably doesn't count as a 'celeb'. Don't think they had 'been invented' when the Hermits were in their heyday. :-)

He certainly was " into something good" and I bet he had a "Lovely Daughter" :wink:

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 08:48:30 GMT

Once saw 7 times Mr Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger in Whistler (about 7 years ago). Granted it was only a celeb spot as he has a chalet which sits under the main Whistler gondola, he was leaving the house as I was going over.

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:02:09 GMT

I bumped into my optician once in a bar in Les Deux Alpes but I don't think this counts as he is only famous in Newmarket!

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:15:38 GMT

felthorpe wrote:I bumped into my optician once in a bar in Les Deux Alpes but I don't think this counts as he is only famous in Newmarket!

You must have tripped over some famous little fellows in Newmarket -)

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:05:18 GMT

Cervinia - 1979 or 1980 - the female from smash hit combo Marshall Hain - in the hit parade with Dancing in the City - You Tube it, if you don't remember it. She was in the hotel bar.

St Anton - early 1990s - Ooo Gary Davies on your radio - a popular disc jockey who appeared on the national wireless at the time.

Pretty feeble, I know, but that's the best I can do in 40 years of skiing!

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:47:53 GMT

Not a ski holiday, but many moons ago, Ian Kelsey from Emmerdale/Casualty/Holby City was in our hotel in Tenerife...

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:49:45 GMT

Scraping the barrel now I see .......

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:51:27 GMT

Yep!!

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 14:53:58 GMT

Frank Bough
Davina Galica
Peter Duncan (Blue Peter)
Chris Quentin (Corrie)

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Fri, 1 Feb 2013 15:00:09 GMT

All in the same hotel......where were you, Branson's place?

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Sun, 3 Feb 2013 18:23:58 GMT

Saw Keith Allen at a cash point machine in Ellmau about 12 years ago. That is all.

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Sun, 3 Feb 2013 19:09:00 GMT

Saw Keith Allen in a pub in Stroud hundreds of times in the last year or two! (He lives here!!!)

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:16:25 GMT

We met Ian Botham having breakfast in our hotel in Andorra last year!

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:20:52 GMT

dan55 wrote:We met Ian Botham having breakfast in our hotel in Andorra last year!

Now that is impressive! What sort of hotel was it? Expensive or not?

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:15:06 GMT

To be fair we didnt pay much but it was very last minute! We booked on friday and flew on Saturday! The hotel was the Princesca Park in Arinsal. Nice hotel, skiing wasn't brilliant though!

Funny thing was, I'm a cricket fan and didn't recognise him, until the wife said 'There's that guy who used to be on Question of Sport!'

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:54:01 GMT

Tony_H wrote:Scraping the barrel now I see .......

There's always photos of celebrities skiing somewhere, but where they go I have no idea.

Apart from Tara PT who flies by helicopter into Courcheval. As you do.

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 11:58:24 GMT

dan55 wrote:To be fair we didnt pay much but it was very last minute! We booked on friday and flew on Saturday! The hotel was the Princesca Park in Arinsal. Nice hotel, skiing wasn't brilliant though!

Funny thing was, I'm a cricket fan and didn't recognise him, until the wife said 'There's that guy who used to be on Question of Sport!'

I would never recognize a celebrity, even if they were ski-ing with me, so I could have seen loads of them :lol:

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:00:47 GMT

AllyG wrote:

I would never recognize a celebrity, even if they were ski-ing with me, so I could have seen loads of them :lol:

I struggle to recognise anyone when I'm skiing. All that clothing/goggles/helmets just gets in the way.

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Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:56:41 GMT

I bumped into Richard Branson jogging on a street a few times. Laurence Dallaglio and James Blunt are other two faces I see fairly often.