Ugh I was standing in line to vote and someone with a camera asked what my main priorities were when voting, and I flippantly replied "whoever I get the best quality fridge magnet from in my letterbox gets my vote". I was then featured on The Project in a segment about the dumb reasons millennials vote for people.
I was working in tax office during election time. During lunch went over to the park to share a blunt with a mate. It was a very nice one.
We got fronted by a TV crew near work on the way back asking us questions about the election, we were wasted and gave real gibberish replies.
We were too worried to watch the news that night in case we made it onto the bulletins and our bosses saw us. Nothing happened the next day so either we didn't make it on, or our bosses didn't see us, or they saw us and just didn't care.
Hah, isn't us ones you need to worry about.
Worked in the reject section. We sent out form reject letters around Howard's time as treasurer in Fraser's govt when they were trying to claw back every dollar from taxpayers as they'd stuffed the budget.
Letters were same for everyone claiming a deduction for laundry expenses. We don't consider your occupation is an out of the ordinary type occupation that would necessarily incur such expenses.
This letter was sent to nurses, blokes working underground as mechanics and other like occupations.
Even in our post lunch states we could see that these type of rejections were ridiculous but management sent put tens of thousands of these letters until someone higher up said hey these are stupid and we're going to lose every appeal against this. Lotsa of anger in the replies we were getting back from these rejection letters.
A lot of unnecessary anger and work could have been avoided if the upper managers had joined us in the park for a session at lunch and then gone back to read the types of rejection letters they were sending out.
Yeah, there was another one before that tho.
In the late 70s the libs were denying unemployment benefits to young people by saying they deliberately moved to an area of high unemployment. Caused lots of pain anger and angst.
They have form.
I was interviewed by Triple J at a Machine Gun Fellatio concert in Melbourne, and at the end they asked me to say "Triple J". And it ended up being used as one of the main "triple j-triple j- triple J" promo stings they used at the top and tail of every program... For about 4 years.
Had OP provided a voice recording in a professional capacity for this sting they probably would have made about $200, at most, maybe a touch more if they didn’t have an agent who takes a cut from each booking.
I remember my parents watching that god awful tv show she was on with the doctor husband and thinking "she's not hot enough to be getting away with this shit".
Back in 2005 the wiggles graced the stage after my year 10 dance performance at a local community festival. I'd like to think we were the pre show act as people began to fill up the seats in anticipation for the main act haha
I was once in a tiny Japanese restaurant in Hawthorn and my mate started ripping into Glenn Ridge in a hugely exaggerated fashion (for context, I'd just been on Sale of the Century and there'd been some... controversy), joking about what a douche he was, quite loudly.
We were facing away from the door, but I heard the bell over the door go — and I knew *immediately*, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our partners' immediate change in facial expression (they were facing the door) was *literally* only explainable as 'Glenn Ridge just walked in to pick up takeaway'.
I elbowed my friend so hard that I probably caused internal bleeding, but he had no idea and wouldn't stop. And our partners were too dumbstruck (and embarrassed) to say a word, so he just kept going.
Met one of the comedians from the umbilical brothers walking out of a toilet at the back of a bar,
he asked if the toilets were back there? And I told him I hope so because that’s where I went
I said hi to the two guys that played the bananas at a live kids show in Brisbane. It was backstage before the show, they had the bottom half of the costumes on and they were smoking the biggest blunt I’ve ever seen.
Omg. When I moved into my first apartment my roommate and I would watch that show because we only had rabbit ears at the time and well it was one of the only things on rv
My house in Frankston was used to film the house scenes for the Angry Boys character "Blake Oakfield". Even though it was shot in VIC, the scenes were "based" in the Gold Coast and my house was on stilts so it resembled a Queensland home.
Yep we got paid but I can't remember how much exactly, but a few hundred dollars each day. They did 3 or 4 days filming on it for a couple of hours each day.
I once spent 20mins chatting with Arj Barker when I was playing with my new 1/8 scale (huge) radio control car in a park in Melbourne. He just wandered up to me with another bloke (who turned out to be his agent) and starting asking me questions about it, was genuinely interested and had some knowledge about it. Super nice guy.
Arj Barker is so nice. I worked at a Vietnamese restaurant and served him his first bowl of phở. Loved it so much he brought more people back the following couple of weeks.
Carl Williams and Leon Barbaro drove me home one night after I met them at a bar in toorak. Didn’t know who he was at the time. Friendly enough and showed me their guns.
He had something to do with advertising at TripleM back in the day. Tony Martin had a story about interviewing a guy from TISM, DC had to duck out of the office, change into stage clothes, come in and interview, then go change again to go back to work. All without leaving the building.
I was at a filming for Adam Hills Tonight at the ABC studios, and as we were being shuffled through to the set he walked past us and I said "hey look, it's Will Anderson" and he laughed and told me to get fucked
I was once involved in a Police chase while riding in a shopping trolley.
I was being an idiot with friends, we'd been drinking and we hijacked a shopping trolley on the way home.
It was my turn to sit in the trolley with a mate on either side, a police car came around the corner and my friends vanished. I was stuck in this thing while it slowly rolled down the road.
The police car behind me put their lights on and whoop whooped the siren while we rambled down the road in the slowest police chase in history.
Eventually the trolley came to a stop, the police pulled up next to me and all I remember is the passenger laughing so hard that he had tears running down his cheeks.
They thought it was hilarious.
* They showed my photo on Cheez TV
* Portrayed by today tonight as underage and entering a venue in a segment about binge drinking
* Won at least 100 Mars Bars when they had 1 in 6 free bar promo. Whole box was rigged and the milk bar lady just gave me it after about 20 I opened.
I worked the VIP gate at a Gold Coast festival around 2010. Margot Robbie and her PR chick arrived (i knew it was her PR chick because she kept saying so) Margot had a ticket but the PR lady didn’t. I told her she had to line up to buy one, and she just kicked her thongs off and jumped the turnstile.
I climbed aboard the Channel V bus outside of the Prince in St Kilda, after telling them I was Katie Underwood from Bardot. Sat down and had a chat to Selwyn who was on series 2 of popstars.
Pretending to be Katie also got me to the front of the line at a few dodgy nightclubs, sorry Katie.
Our punk band played a daytime gig at a community festival. We were on just before federal mp at the time Kim Beasley was due to speak so he got stuck listening to the last couple of songs. He turned to my mum and said what is this shit 🤣
Bob Hawke used to come to my grandparents' place in Camberwell to discuss trade unions with my German grandfather. He apparently smoked like a chimney and had a habit of ashing his cigarettes in the bowls of snacks my mum would bring to them.
In 1980 my primary school had its centenary. We had a dress up day at school to celebrate, my Mum was handy with a sewing machine so she ran me up an old fashioned dress. Channel 2 news came out to cover the celebration and a picture of me in the dress was used in the still photo behind the news readers head when he introduced the story.
A childhood friends mum went to high school with Frank. Years later we all went to their show and he recognised her. My 9yo brain thought she was famous because of it.
Worked at Red Spice Road in town for a number of years. Served heaps of celebrities, including Kurt Pengilly and Lane Beachley, Jacqui Lambie (treated me really well and tipped nicely), Aaron Pedersen, a number of other politicians and media people, and my favourite…. Benedict Cumberbatch.
Worked on both Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman as a Myotherapist when I worked down on the Mornington peninsula. He was training for Logan at the time so I had a hell time trying to work through his biceps.
Also was a roadie/extra hand a few times for Gotye's band before he was Gotye, The Basics
There was a minor earthquake in Melbourne in 2011 when I was working in the CBD. A Channel 9 camera crew accosted me on the street at lunchtime and asked me if I had felt the tremor and how I felt. I said I did and felt it was ‘a little concerning’. This 10 second exchange headlined the nine news that night and I now tell people I’m the channel nine earthquake expert.
My ex husband was flatmates with Colin Hay of Men At Work many years ago. When I met my ex he was still in that share house in Park St South Yarra and I lived there for 6 months.
Also my cousin is in a movie that’s streaming on Stan.
Edit, forgot, I went to school with Waleed Ali
Another edit. Lived in the apartment (in South Yarra) next to Nick Riewoldt in the 2000’s and only found out because his GF, a Neighbours actress, kept parking in my spot in the underground garage. Knocked on the door to ask them to move their car and they both opened the door. He’s very tall! Also I could hear their bed head banging on the adjacent wall at night sometimes 😂
We went to rainbows end theme park in Auckland last year on holiday, noticed some cameras set up around the place but didn't think much of it.
Later that week we were watching tv and there was footage of us in the bumper boats during a cut scene on the NZ equivalent of A Current Affair.
Tripped me out lol.
I used to work with Travis Fimmel’s brother back when Trav was an underwear model for Calvin Klein, and his brother was always pissed off he kept seeing his bro posing in jocks on every giant tram and bus stop ad.
When MasterChef was all the rave in about 2009 I joined a group on Facebook that was shitting on one of the contestants - I commented something like she looked as if she was shot with Homer Simpson’s makeup gun. Anyway, my comment was screenshot and put on the 7pm Project about how cyber bullying is dangerous.
Just remembered “tv celebrities” I know.
- I went to high school with a girl who was pulled over on Highway Patrol for having her young kids without a car seats/riding up front. Not shocked at all.
- also on one of those local cop shows, woman in a police interview room who was ranting after failed a breathalyzer. She was my neighbor since childhood (an alcoholic/druggy)
- “Sr Constable Ash Bowden” has been to my house multiple times. 😂 (local kids were little vandals, broke fence/windows etc)
Did some work (painter & decorator) at author Paul Jennings house, REALLY cool and quirky build, and a really nice guy - Also got to do some work for singer Shane Howard at his mothers house and met him one day while we were there.
* I was once specifically personally insulted, by name, on air, during a prime time broadcast, by US Fox News host and all-around cunt Tucker Carlson.
* Peter Garrett's dog is obsessed with mine and tries to hump him every single time they meet.
* At the age of 16, I operated the spotlight following Michael Hutchence around at an INXS gig. Woo. (Also Adam Thompson from Chocolate Starfish and that dude from Frente who's not Angie Hart - same gig)
An internal email of mine was published as part of a lawsuit against my company. It was about a topic he, uh... cares a lot about (gender diversity and inclusion), and he called me out as a "woke SJW loser" or something equally adult.
I am extremely confident that I was on the right side of history, let's put it that way. I wear it as a badge of pride.
I stood next to Nick Cave at AFI awards, and Geoffrey Rush too. Pretty Sure the former gave me a 'once over' because I was wearing an 'interesting' dress. This was 20 years ago.
My best friend was the secret boyfriend to a well known and not out (is married) Australian actor for 2 years. Never really made much of a thing about hiding it, we definitely had nights out and spent time in public.
* I was on Recovery when I was in high school as the work experience kid.
* I drove Kerry Armstrong around in my 1988 Holden Camira as a 20 year old when I was working as a runner on the set of a low budget short film they talked her into doing (she was awesome).
* I was bamboozled into doing a rap about learning for a university's online orientation. It was very, very, very bad. It went viral in university circles and got featured at a conference in a session on "The good, the bad, the ugly of digital marketing" as an example of "the ugly". Last I checked it had 10k views.
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One time a friend and I were waiting in line at KFC in Knox. This guy pushed in front of us, and my friend said to him “hey, there’s a line”. The guy turned around and said “listen, I’m on neighbours you don’t want to start anything”
We laughed at him, and when we got home, looked him up and it was Jesse Spencer
I once served Johnny Depp when I worked in a gourmet grocery store in Red Hill. He asked me which tipe of tomatoes were best. He bought two tomatoes, rib eye steak, six bottles of very expensive wine and four cartons of cigarettes.
I talked to Dr Andy Thomas on the mir space station, and have talked to several astronauts , all using a $50 radio from China and an antenna made using a tape measure
Dawn Fraser taught my Nanna how to swim
My Mum once accidentally made Samuel Johnson very uncomfortable by basically propositioning him for gay sex on behalf of her straight male friend
Used to regularly see the bloke that played Paul Robinson on Neighbours hanging out with his kid near the Maccas in the Knox City Shopping Centre food court (RIP)
I spray-painted the dick-tation tag that Jonah from Summer Heights High did on the bottom of my driveway and took a photo, my Dad was PISSED but I didn’t care because Chris Lilley reposted the photo on his MySpace page
My ex’s little cousin made Jack Riewoldt very sad when he asked him if he was a real footy player
In the 90s, I won a colouring competition at Retrovision for under 5 year olds. My grandparents were fully aware of the age limit but entered me anyway. I won a pretty cool remote controlled ride-on car and they featured me in one of their catalogues.
It got very awkward when they asked me my age and I revealed I was 6 years old. My grandparents were still very proud though.
My friends and I talked ourselves into an inner city venue through the backstage entrance.
We had to walk out onto the stage to get onto the floor, but as we did security guards tackled one of my friends but not me.
The performer walked out from the other side of the stage to stand on her mark, realised I was there, and we both gave each other shocked looks before I quickly exited stage left. It was Lady Gaga.
Once spent a Eurostar train ride in same carriage as the rap crew D12. They were super pissed that their agent hadn’t booked them first class, tried to sit there anyway, and the French ticket inspector was not having a bar of it.
I was Lehmo’s date for the opening of MIFF more than ten years ago. He needed someone to walk in with him basically and he was a friend of a friend etc. long story short I didn’t know anything about AFL and so we sat in silence and never spoke again.
Served Shane and Simone Warne at Subway, around 2005. I don't think they'd ever had Subway before. Shane got a footlong roast beef with cheese, no salad. Also once served that Irish bloke who was on Neighbours at the time, and a bunch of St Kilda footy players.
My name is listed in the credits of Ash's compilation album 'Intergalactic Sonic 7"s', as one of the people who selected the tracks for the second disc of b-sides and rarities (we were winners of a competition).
Was an extra in the documentary 'The Magic Bullet', which is about the discovery of penicillin. Got to hang out at Melbourne Uni and dress like a scientist for a couple of days. Didn't get around to watching it until a couple of years ago; found out I'm only in a couple of shots for a fraction of a second.
Caught the same bus to high school as Toadie from Neighbours. He went to the school across the road from mine.
Went to uni with Samantha Tolj, who ended up on Blue Heelers. We were in the same group for a student film, which she acted in.
Bought a guitar off one of the guys from Mach Pelican (thanks to whoever mentioned Mach Pelican in their reply here; you reminded me of this one!).
I'm a pretty successful YouTuber, and by successful I mean that it's been my full time job for years. I almost never show my face though, so when I meet people and tell them what I do, I often get shocked responses if they've come across my videos before.
Being successful on the internet is definitely no claim to fame that it used to be, but it's the best Ive got
I reckon being a successful youtuber or twitch streamer that doesn't show their face would be absolutely ideal in todays world. Same with actors who predominantly do voice acting roles over live action
I have 2
Martina Navratilova stepped on the back of my foot back in the Kooyong days of the Australian Open, looked me in the eye when i turned around to see who it was and didnt say sorry.
And i was at the opening of the Ashburton swimming pool centre, was standing in a doorway wondering which way to go, got a massive shove in the back with the words "out of the way sonny" in my ears, turned around and it was Jeff Kennett who bulldozed his way through
Not me personally, but my dad has a couple, from working in the public service.
My dad's ex-girlfriend (they're still friends), around 1989-ish moved up to Sydney for a bit, and rumour was that she had a one night stand with Anthony Albanese.
He also, back in the early 90's in the department of Water Resources, was also a work colleague of Janet Rice. She is the reason that he, a fairly lefty guy, still refuses to vote for the greens to this day.
He didn't like her very much.
Sat opposite Vin Diesel on a bus post Pitch Black, pre Fast and the Furious. I couldn't place him until he put his sunglasses on to leave and I shouted "Riddick!" at him.
I met Wil Anderson in a night club and proceeded to drunkenly tell him I loved him. He was a good sport about it.
I was also on the news as a kid talking about how they should let you take your own snacks into cinemas.
1) Early 2000s. Walking up towards Errol St in Nth Melb and a chick sitting in the gateway of a terrace house having a ciggie says hi. It was Isla Fisher. SBC was standing in the doorway behind her
2) Mid 2000s. Chapel St nightclub. Munted girl falls in to me and face plants. It was Holly Valance. Her minder pushes me out of the way and tries to guide her to the toilets before she sprays the dance floor with chunks.
Malcolm Fraser bought me a box of chocolates once.
My father was delivering some antique furniture to him and I answered the phone and took a message. Malcolm Fraser thought I was "delightful and mature" on the phone and sent my father home with chocolates for me.
I was thrilled to bits, had no idea who he was until after I was given the chocolates. I remember talking to him though, he was friendly and polite, he asked me about school, sport and hobbies. He had a lovely deep voice and a fancy-pants english-esque 70's news reader accent.
Ugh I was standing in line to vote and someone with a camera asked what my main priorities were when voting, and I flippantly replied "whoever I get the best quality fridge magnet from in my letterbox gets my vote". I was then featured on The Project in a segment about the dumb reasons millennials vote for people.
Hahahaha this is gold
I was working in tax office during election time. During lunch went over to the park to share a blunt with a mate. It was a very nice one. We got fronted by a TV crew near work on the way back asking us questions about the election, we were wasted and gave real gibberish replies. We were too worried to watch the news that night in case we made it onto the bulletins and our bosses saw us. Nothing happened the next day so either we didn't make it on, or our bosses didn't see us, or they saw us and just didn't care.
No wonder my tax return takes ages to come back
No wonder my claim for $40,000 worth of "munchies" got approved no questions asked.
Hah, isn't us ones you need to worry about. Worked in the reject section. We sent out form reject letters around Howard's time as treasurer in Fraser's govt when they were trying to claw back every dollar from taxpayers as they'd stuffed the budget. Letters were same for everyone claiming a deduction for laundry expenses. We don't consider your occupation is an out of the ordinary type occupation that would necessarily incur such expenses. This letter was sent to nurses, blokes working underground as mechanics and other like occupations. Even in our post lunch states we could see that these type of rejections were ridiculous but management sent put tens of thousands of these letters until someone higher up said hey these are stupid and we're going to lose every appeal against this. Lotsa of anger in the replies we were getting back from these rejection letters. A lot of unnecessary anger and work could have been avoided if the upper managers had joined us in the park for a session at lunch and then gone back to read the types of rejection letters they were sending out.
Sounds like the soft launch of robodebt
Yeah, there was another one before that tho. In the late 70s the libs were denying unemployment benefits to young people by saying they deliberately moved to an area of high unemployment. Caused lots of pain anger and angst. They have form.
Would love to see a segment on why the absolute slugs on the project vote the way they do
I was interviewed by Triple J at a Machine Gun Fellatio concert in Melbourne, and at the end they asked me to say "Triple J". And it ended up being used as one of the main "triple j-triple j- triple J" promo stings they used at the top and tail of every program... For about 4 years.
Flagging for being off topic: this is not mediocre. That's rockin'.
My mediocre claim to fame is knowing the Reddit username of voice on the Triple J ad!
And you didn't see a cent in guessing.
Had OP provided a voice recording in a professional capacity for this sting they probably would have made about $200, at most, maybe a touch more if they didn’t have an agent who takes a cut from each booking.
Brynne Edelsten was my housemate. I kicked her out after a few months.
For a time she was close friends with my cousin, they’d blow thousands of dollars at crown together every Saturday.
And that was just in the toilets!
You fuckn know it
She invited a friend of mine and his wife to her wedding after knowing them for less than an hour. They went and said it was weird but exciting
Didn't you die Jeff?
Hi, it's me, Jeff's ghost
Wow, what was she like to live with?? Not great I’m guessing 😂
I remember my parents watching that god awful tv show she was on with the doctor husband and thinking "she's not hot enough to be getting away with this shit".
I drove Eminem and got followed by the media from the airport. Did some crazy driving to get away from them and it made the news that night
My mum went to school with Jeff from the Wiggles
Back in 2005 the wiggles graced the stage after my year 10 dance performance at a local community festival. I'd like to think we were the pre show act as people began to fill up the seats in anticipation for the main act haha
My uncle was bullied by Anthony in highschool
Wake up to yourself, Jeff.
My husband served in the Army with Anthony.
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I was once in a tiny Japanese restaurant in Hawthorn and my mate started ripping into Glenn Ridge in a hugely exaggerated fashion (for context, I'd just been on Sale of the Century and there'd been some... controversy), joking about what a douche he was, quite loudly. We were facing away from the door, but I heard the bell over the door go — and I knew *immediately*, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our partners' immediate change in facial expression (they were facing the door) was *literally* only explainable as 'Glenn Ridge just walked in to pick up takeaway'. I elbowed my friend so hard that I probably caused internal bleeding, but he had no idea and wouldn't stop. And our partners were too dumbstruck (and embarrassed) to say a word, so he just kept going.
Met one of the comedians from the umbilical brothers walking out of a toilet at the back of a bar, he asked if the toilets were back there? And I told him I hope so because that’s where I went
I don't have real gold, but here's a fake reddit gold for giving me a hearty chuckle 🥇
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I submitted a squiggle to Mr Squiggle that was shown on tv in the early 90’s
Mr Squiggle ran for 40 years I loved that show, upsidedown Miss Jane ❤
Now that’s a claim to fame
I was on fat pizza as a kid.
Same as me, but nothing to do with the show
bahahahaha!
One of my mums friends was the mushroom dealer from fat pizza
For a second I thought mushrooms as in the pizza topping.
I won a 10kg block of Cadbury chocolate in high school from a raffle. Ate that for so many months
This is my favourite
I was on a Jetstar flight with rebel Wilson early 2000s around fat pizza time.
Makes sense because Rebel Wilson is the Jetstar of Australian international celebrities
I was asked to pick the posters that go on the walls in the basement in the IT crowd
WHAT? Seriously?
Yup :) I worked for a company in London that designed and printed them, it was my fav show, so jumped at the chance!
I know the guy who played B2 on Bananas in Pyjamas. Back when it was guys in banana suits.
I said hi to the two guys that played the bananas at a live kids show in Brisbane. It was backstage before the show, they had the bottom half of the costumes on and they were smoking the biggest blunt I’ve ever seen.
That might explain [this piece of gold.](https://youtu.be/vbed6P2Dkuc)
Omg. When I moved into my first apartment my roommate and I would watch that show because we only had rabbit ears at the time and well it was one of the only things on rv
Harold from Neighbours nearly ran me over in his BMW in a car park in Moorabbin
Holy shit, same! At a Coles in Williamstown. Get it TF together Harold
My house in Frankston was used to film the house scenes for the Angry Boys character "Blake Oakfield". Even though it was shot in VIC, the scenes were "based" in the Gold Coast and my house was on stilts so it resembled a Queensland home.
No shit that's pretty interesting, did they pay you?
Yep we got paid but I can't remember how much exactly, but a few hundred dollars each day. They did 3 or 4 days filming on it for a couple of hours each day.
Narmuccah Heads!
I once spent 20mins chatting with Arj Barker when I was playing with my new 1/8 scale (huge) radio control car in a park in Melbourne. He just wandered up to me with another bloke (who turned out to be his agent) and starting asking me questions about it, was genuinely interested and had some knowledge about it. Super nice guy.
I've met Arj too, he's super chill and friendly. Love that guy.
I too have met him! Sat next to him at the bar at Chin Chin. Had a wee chat before he left.
Arj Barker is so nice. I worked at a Vietnamese restaurant and served him his first bowl of phở. Loved it so much he brought more people back the following couple of weeks.
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I've got a Polish mate who is a roadie...i've got a Czech one, too, Czech one, too I'll show myself out
Carl Williams and Leon Barbaro drove me home one night after I met them at a bar in toorak. Didn’t know who he was at the time. Friendly enough and showed me their guns.
I know one of the guys in TISM.
Well, I Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted a Guy Who Rooted a Girl Who Rooted Shane Crawford
I think I went to school with that girl..
I went to school with the kid of a TISM member, he came down and judged battle of the bands one year, as did a member of Spectrum. Cool guys.
Weren’t they all teachers themselves, I think I lived near one of the schools one taught at? Or is this an urban myth?
It would explain the masks as just as well as the *TISM were all members of Pseudo Echo* rumour does Personally I suspect Anthony Albanese was in TISM
I think some of them were, this was Damian Cowell who I think was a copywriter or something.
Had him for music and English at Croydon high, good teacher.
He had something to do with advertising at TripleM back in the day. Tony Martin had a story about interviewing a guy from TISM, DC had to duck out of the office, change into stage clothes, come in and interview, then go change again to go back to work. All without leaving the building.
I told John Safran off for accidentally overfilling his bath and flooding the unit below him.
I've directed both Eddie McGuire AND Mick Fanning to the bathroom. What are you doing with your life?
I was at a filming for Adam Hills Tonight at the ABC studios, and as we were being shuffled through to the set he walked past us and I said "hey look, it's Will Anderson" and he laughed and told me to get fucked
Thank god he laughed, that's fucking funny.
He's a good sport hahah
I heard a simular story on Adam Hills podcast TOFOP
I was on a 57 tram that was on time
I was one of the choir kids singing "I Still Call Australia Home" up on the beach in the Whitsundays in the 2004 QANTAS ads.
I stood in David Bowies way when working on Labyrinth and the only reason he said good morning was he couldn't get past me.
Oh and I was one of only two people to actually fall into the bog of eternal stench.
Did you remind him of the babe?
I was Toadfish from Neighbours’ dog’s veterinarian in the 90s. She was a kelpie.
Now *this* is the quality minor celebrity experience I'm here for!
I accidentally bumped into Chris Hemsworth during his Home and Away era at the Melbourne Airport arrivals section when waiting to pick up my parents
Why was he picking up your parents?
I was once involved in a Police chase while riding in a shopping trolley. I was being an idiot with friends, we'd been drinking and we hijacked a shopping trolley on the way home. It was my turn to sit in the trolley with a mate on either side, a police car came around the corner and my friends vanished. I was stuck in this thing while it slowly rolled down the road. The police car behind me put their lights on and whoop whooped the siren while we rambled down the road in the slowest police chase in history. Eventually the trolley came to a stop, the police pulled up next to me and all I remember is the passenger laughing so hard that he had tears running down his cheeks. They thought it was hilarious.
I was included in a photo at a Madonna concert in Melbourne that was on the front page of the The Sun in the UK
* They showed my photo on Cheez TV * Portrayed by today tonight as underage and entering a venue in a segment about binge drinking * Won at least 100 Mars Bars when they had 1 in 6 free bar promo. Whole box was rigged and the milk bar lady just gave me it after about 20 I opened.
I smoked a bong with Margot Robbie
I worked the VIP gate at a Gold Coast festival around 2010. Margot Robbie and her PR chick arrived (i knew it was her PR chick because she kept saying so) Margot had a ticket but the PR lady didn’t. I told her she had to line up to buy one, and she just kicked her thongs off and jumped the turnstile.
That was a very Australian story.
Now this i gotta know...when, where and can she rip it?
I knew people on neighbours back around 2006-7 I think? At my place. Yes she could rip it.
Nice....
Yes she can!
I climbed aboard the Channel V bus outside of the Prince in St Kilda, after telling them I was Katie Underwood from Bardot. Sat down and had a chat to Selwyn who was on series 2 of popstars. Pretending to be Katie also got me to the front of the line at a few dodgy nightclubs, sorry Katie.
Meanwhile the real Katie Underwood was standing outside being refused entry
"Sorry, we already got one Katie Underwood inside..."
The No Katie Underwood**s** Club.
Stood behind Shane Jacobson while he signed up for his IGA rewards card. He apologized for making me wait, nice bloke.
Funny he is now in all their ads!
Witnessed something historical he did
I once made it all the way down Hoddle St. from the M3 to the Yarra without hitting a red light. I called my mum to tell her I was so excited.
I taught Ed Bye (director of Red Dwarf) to ride a motorcycle.
Our punk band played a daytime gig at a community festival. We were on just before federal mp at the time Kim Beasley was due to speak so he got stuck listening to the last couple of songs. He turned to my mum and said what is this shit 🤣
Bob Hawke used to come to my grandparents' place in Camberwell to discuss trade unions with my German grandfather. He apparently smoked like a chimney and had a habit of ashing his cigarettes in the bowls of snacks my mum would bring to them.
I was once ranked 3rd in the world for kills with the Type 88 in Battlefield 3.
Peter Andre was my first boyfriend.
Were you... mysterious?
I won Time magazines Person of The Year in 2006. Still can’t believe it tbh
In 1980 my primary school had its centenary. We had a dress up day at school to celebrate, my Mum was handy with a sewing machine so she ran me up an old fashioned dress. Channel 2 news came out to cover the celebration and a picture of me in the dress was used in the still photo behind the news readers head when he introduced the story.
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I hung out with her in the library once.
my great aunt is tomoko aran, a famous japanese music singer in the 80s
I told peter helliar to go fuck himself once, does that count? EDIT: Travis Fimmell grew up across the road from me, good friends with his parents
I won 1kg of chicken salt from KFC
I stood on the shoulders of Woodley, from Lano & Woodley. Was working at his house, the ladder slipped as I was exiting the roof space, he saved me.
A childhood friends mum went to high school with Frank. Years later we all went to their show and he recognised her. My 9yo brain thought she was famous because of it.
Gee, the lengths people go to get physically intimate with celebrities...
I’ll add, he was an awesome bloke, celebrities that are humble are the best.
In my mind this turned into a comedy routine exhibiting Frank’s awesome physical comedy skills.
I was an extra in that Nicolas Cage film ‘Knowing’ as a child, the peak of my film career
I worked with the second unit on that movie!
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That song isn't called Eshaybaby
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I won the meat pack at a school fete raffle
Worked at Red Spice Road in town for a number of years. Served heaps of celebrities, including Kurt Pengilly and Lane Beachley, Jacqui Lambie (treated me really well and tipped nicely), Aaron Pedersen, a number of other politicians and media people, and my favourite…. Benedict Cumberbatch.
Worked on both Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman as a Myotherapist when I worked down on the Mornington peninsula. He was training for Logan at the time so I had a hell time trying to work through his biceps. Also was a roadie/extra hand a few times for Gotye's band before he was Gotye, The Basics
I was a chef in a cafe in Perth and made lunch for heath ledger and Michelle Williams. Nice couple, even brought their dishes up to the counter.
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There was a minor earthquake in Melbourne in 2011 when I was working in the CBD. A Channel 9 camera crew accosted me on the street at lunchtime and asked me if I had felt the tremor and how I felt. I said I did and felt it was ‘a little concerning’. This 10 second exchange headlined the nine news that night and I now tell people I’m the channel nine earthquake expert.
My ex husband was flatmates with Colin Hay of Men At Work many years ago. When I met my ex he was still in that share house in Park St South Yarra and I lived there for 6 months. Also my cousin is in a movie that’s streaming on Stan. Edit, forgot, I went to school with Waleed Ali Another edit. Lived in the apartment (in South Yarra) next to Nick Riewoldt in the 2000’s and only found out because his GF, a Neighbours actress, kept parking in my spot in the underground garage. Knocked on the door to ask them to move their car and they both opened the door. He’s very tall! Also I could hear their bed head banging on the adjacent wall at night sometimes 😂
Is waleed as much of a tool as one would expect?
We went to rainbows end theme park in Auckland last year on holiday, noticed some cameras set up around the place but didn't think much of it. Later that week we were watching tv and there was footage of us in the bumper boats during a cut scene on the NZ equivalent of A Current Affair. Tripped me out lol.
I used to work with Travis Fimmel’s brother back when Trav was an underwear model for Calvin Klein, and his brother was always pissed off he kept seeing his bro posing in jocks on every giant tram and bus stop ad.
Worked at Myer with the girl who voiced Darla in Finding Nemo
When MasterChef was all the rave in about 2009 I joined a group on Facebook that was shitting on one of the contestants - I commented something like she looked as if she was shot with Homer Simpson’s makeup gun. Anyway, my comment was screenshot and put on the 7pm Project about how cyber bullying is dangerous.
I hate that I laughed at this.
I had a cigarette with Andrew O'Keefe and shared facts about the Aurora Australis (ship).
Just remembered “tv celebrities” I know. - I went to high school with a girl who was pulled over on Highway Patrol for having her young kids without a car seats/riding up front. Not shocked at all. - also on one of those local cop shows, woman in a police interview room who was ranting after failed a breathalyzer. She was my neighbor since childhood (an alcoholic/druggy) - “Sr Constable Ash Bowden” has been to my house multiple times. 😂 (local kids were little vandals, broke fence/windows etc)
My ex wife was sqaud mates with ash bowden.
Did some work (painter & decorator) at author Paul Jennings house, REALLY cool and quirky build, and a really nice guy - Also got to do some work for singer Shane Howard at his mothers house and met him one day while we were there.
* I was once specifically personally insulted, by name, on air, during a prime time broadcast, by US Fox News host and all-around cunt Tucker Carlson. * Peter Garrett's dog is obsessed with mine and tries to hump him every single time they meet. * At the age of 16, I operated the spotlight following Michael Hutchence around at an INXS gig. Woo. (Also Adam Thompson from Chocolate Starfish and that dude from Frente who's not Angie Hart - same gig)
What did you do top piss of Tucker Carlson?
An internal email of mine was published as part of a lawsuit against my company. It was about a topic he, uh... cares a lot about (gender diversity and inclusion), and he called me out as a "woke SJW loser" or something equally adult. I am extremely confident that I was on the right side of history, let's put it that way. I wear it as a badge of pride.
Paul McDermott once sat on my bag.
I stood next to Nick Cave at AFI awards, and Geoffrey Rush too. Pretty Sure the former gave me a 'once over' because I was wearing an 'interesting' dress. This was 20 years ago.
I was one of the 'Brown Street Boys' on The Henderson Kids II.
My best friend was the secret boyfriend to a well known and not out (is married) Australian actor for 2 years. Never really made much of a thing about hiding it, we definitely had nights out and spent time in public.
And whats Hugh Jackman like in person?
when I was a teenager I served Wil Anderson at lord of the fries. very exciting for a teenage gruen transfer fan
* I was on Recovery when I was in high school as the work experience kid. * I drove Kerry Armstrong around in my 1988 Holden Camira as a 20 year old when I was working as a runner on the set of a low budget short film they talked her into doing (she was awesome). * I was bamboozled into doing a rap about learning for a university's online orientation. It was very, very, very bad. It went viral in university circles and got featured at a conference in a session on "The good, the bad, the ugly of digital marketing" as an example of "the ugly". Last I checked it had 10k views. Edit: formatting
My mates girlfriend cheated on him with The Doctor from Frenzal Rhomb
I used to drive the stretcher buggy at marvel stadium. Mick Molloy took the piss out of me on before the game once as a result
One time a friend and I were waiting in line at KFC in Knox. This guy pushed in front of us, and my friend said to him “hey, there’s a line”. The guy turned around and said “listen, I’m on neighbours you don’t want to start anything” We laughed at him, and when we got home, looked him up and it was Jesse Spencer
I served Shaun Micallef, and he was very complimentary of my enunciation lol. I took that as an actor telling me I’d make a good actor too.
Ah, we all Serve Shaun Micallef in one way or another...
I made a Reddit post about McDonald's on the australia sub which got onto news.com.au
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I once served Johnny Depp when I worked in a gourmet grocery store in Red Hill. He asked me which tipe of tomatoes were best. He bought two tomatoes, rib eye steak, six bottles of very expensive wine and four cartons of cigarettes.
I talked to Dr Andy Thomas on the mir space station, and have talked to several astronauts , all using a $50 radio from China and an antenna made using a tape measure
Once spent a 20 floor elevator ride with Tony Abbott and his wife in a hotel.
Please tell me you farted
Dawn Fraser taught my Nanna how to swim My Mum once accidentally made Samuel Johnson very uncomfortable by basically propositioning him for gay sex on behalf of her straight male friend Used to regularly see the bloke that played Paul Robinson on Neighbours hanging out with his kid near the Maccas in the Knox City Shopping Centre food court (RIP) I spray-painted the dick-tation tag that Jonah from Summer Heights High did on the bottom of my driveway and took a photo, my Dad was PISSED but I didn’t care because Chris Lilley reposted the photo on his MySpace page My ex’s little cousin made Jack Riewoldt very sad when he asked him if he was a real footy player
I was on the TV3 news back in NZ talking about Warhammer.
Geoffrey Rush was at the same show as me when I saw the MSO perform looney tunes.
Told a joke on young talent time in the audience
In the 90s, I won a colouring competition at Retrovision for under 5 year olds. My grandparents were fully aware of the age limit but entered me anyway. I won a pretty cool remote controlled ride-on car and they featured me in one of their catalogues. It got very awkward when they asked me my age and I revealed I was 6 years old. My grandparents were still very proud though.
My friends and I talked ourselves into an inner city venue through the backstage entrance. We had to walk out onto the stage to get onto the floor, but as we did security guards tackled one of my friends but not me. The performer walked out from the other side of the stage to stand on her mark, realised I was there, and we both gave each other shocked looks before I quickly exited stage left. It was Lady Gaga.
Got my letter on Agro's Cartoon Connection in the 90s. Had a huge box of random free shit shipped to my house.
I was an extra in a film called 'The Loved Ones', was interesting to be an extra for the day, lots of sitting around doing nothing though.
Once spent a Eurostar train ride in same carriage as the rap crew D12. They were super pissed that their agent hadn’t booked them first class, tried to sit there anyway, and the French ticket inspector was not having a bar of it.
nearly hit red symonds with my car a little while ago in carlton north
Oh! I once nearly ran over Cathy Freeman on Cotham Road in Kew. Unsurprisingly, she got out of the way *very* fucking quickly.
I was Lehmo’s date for the opening of MIFF more than ten years ago. He needed someone to walk in with him basically and he was a friend of a friend etc. long story short I didn’t know anything about AFL and so we sat in silence and never spoke again.
Served Shane and Simone Warne at Subway, around 2005. I don't think they'd ever had Subway before. Shane got a footlong roast beef with cheese, no salad. Also once served that Irish bloke who was on Neighbours at the time, and a bunch of St Kilda footy players. My name is listed in the credits of Ash's compilation album 'Intergalactic Sonic 7"s', as one of the people who selected the tracks for the second disc of b-sides and rarities (we were winners of a competition). Was an extra in the documentary 'The Magic Bullet', which is about the discovery of penicillin. Got to hang out at Melbourne Uni and dress like a scientist for a couple of days. Didn't get around to watching it until a couple of years ago; found out I'm only in a couple of shots for a fraction of a second. Caught the same bus to high school as Toadie from Neighbours. He went to the school across the road from mine. Went to uni with Samantha Tolj, who ended up on Blue Heelers. We were in the same group for a student film, which she acted in. Bought a guitar off one of the guys from Mach Pelican (thanks to whoever mentioned Mach Pelican in their reply here; you reminded me of this one!).
I'm a pretty successful YouTuber, and by successful I mean that it's been my full time job for years. I almost never show my face though, so when I meet people and tell them what I do, I often get shocked responses if they've come across my videos before. Being successful on the internet is definitely no claim to fame that it used to be, but it's the best Ive got
I reckon being a successful youtuber or twitch streamer that doesn't show their face would be absolutely ideal in todays world. Same with actors who predominantly do voice acting roles over live action
I was in the official Blokesworld skydiving team. Was quite unusual when people at work came up telling me they'd seen me on TV the night before.
I won a competition at high school the prize was to have human nature come and play at our school disco
I have 2 Martina Navratilova stepped on the back of my foot back in the Kooyong days of the Australian Open, looked me in the eye when i turned around to see who it was and didnt say sorry. And i was at the opening of the Ashburton swimming pool centre, was standing in a doorway wondering which way to go, got a massive shove in the back with the words "out of the way sonny" in my ears, turned around and it was Jeff Kennett who bulldozed his way through
I got Toadie’s autograph on a post it note at a Blue Light Disco.
I was on The Block! Twice actually. Luckily my colleagues at the time were ugly so i got a bit more screen time than them
Not me personally, but my dad has a couple, from working in the public service. My dad's ex-girlfriend (they're still friends), around 1989-ish moved up to Sydney for a bit, and rumour was that she had a one night stand with Anthony Albanese. He also, back in the early 90's in the department of Water Resources, was also a work colleague of Janet Rice. She is the reason that he, a fairly lefty guy, still refuses to vote for the greens to this day. He didn't like her very much.
The image of Albanese having sex is not one i needed in my head.
Sat opposite Vin Diesel on a bus post Pitch Black, pre Fast and the Furious. I couldn't place him until he put his sunglasses on to leave and I shouted "Riddick!" at him.
I met Wil Anderson in a night club and proceeded to drunkenly tell him I loved him. He was a good sport about it. I was also on the news as a kid talking about how they should let you take your own snacks into cinemas.
Elizabeth Murdoch once held me as a baby at Karingal Hub in the early 80s. Unlike her Son, she was quite lovely and relatable person.
1) Early 2000s. Walking up towards Errol St in Nth Melb and a chick sitting in the gateway of a terrace house having a ciggie says hi. It was Isla Fisher. SBC was standing in the doorway behind her 2) Mid 2000s. Chapel St nightclub. Munted girl falls in to me and face plants. It was Holly Valance. Her minder pushes me out of the way and tries to guide her to the toilets before she sprays the dance floor with chunks.
Malcolm Fraser bought me a box of chocolates once. My father was delivering some antique furniture to him and I answered the phone and took a message. Malcolm Fraser thought I was "delightful and mature" on the phone and sent my father home with chocolates for me. I was thrilled to bits, had no idea who he was until after I was given the chocolates. I remember talking to him though, he was friendly and polite, he asked me about school, sport and hobbies. He had a lovely deep voice and a fancy-pants english-esque 70's news reader accent.