Met Wiggo today

shipley

...in a boutique London hotel where the BBC were filming some background stuff for sports personality of the year.

He was waiting at a lift to go to his room and was asked for an autograph by one of our marketing girls. To my surprise he was utterly charming with her, so i held the lift for him while he personalised the autograph and we had a little chat about his career and I wished him luck in his track plans.

I'd gone off the bloke having read about his 'arrogant antics' and although it was a brief encounter it showed me how you can develop an opinion about someone via the media.

He seems to be a genuinely nice bloke.

I don't like his beard much, he is very tall, and bloody thin !!

Colinthecop

Selfie with Wiggo...?

shipley

Er no... I thought it a little crass to ask - and also though he might be rude to me in front of my customers !

joelsim

Wiggo is a legend, and I'd happily share a couple of bottles of vino with him. Top man.

type:epyt

...

cgrenn

Hes now in an Anime cartoon.....

http://animatorexpo.com/hillclimbgirl/

johnboy183

CGRenn wrote:

Hes now in an Anime cartoon.....

http://animatorexpo.com/hillclimbgirl/

Tried several times now and get to watch it on my iPad. Any clues anyone pls?

RichN95.

johnboy183 wrote:

CGRenn wrote:

Hes now in an Anime cartoon.....

http://animatorexpo.com/hillclimbgirl/

Tried several times now and get to watch it on my iPad. Any clues anyone pls?

You'll need to download and install an iPad compatible Flash player. (That's as far as my tech expertise goes though).

mfin

Shipley wrote:

I'd gone off the bloke having read about his 'arrogant antics' and although it was a brief encounter it showed me how you can develop an opinion about someone via the media.

He seems to be a genuinely nice bloke.

Well, a lesson might be to not form opinions about people based on the way you react to the media about them. But, the same goes for people who voice judgements on people they meet from a passing 'hello' and find the experience somehow negative, those judgements are mostly rubbish too.

mfin

Joelsim wrote:

Wiggo is a legend, and I'd happily share a couple of bottles of vino with him. Top man.

He might find you tedious and boring though and not want to do the same with you.

Manc33

I still don't believe he won it and probably never will even though he did. :oops:

I bought a road bike the day before he won it (sheer coincidence). 8)

iainf72

mfin wrote:

Well, a lesson might be to not form opinions about people based on the way you react to the media about them. But, the same goes for people who voice judgements on people they meet from a passing 'hello' and find the experience somehow negative, those judgements are mostly rubbish too.

But if they have a brief encounter and find the experience positive then that's the right judgement?

dabber

I don't think you can come to any real judgement based on just meeting someone.
I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.
He was relaxed, pleasant, humorous, polite and all round good company. Has that changed my opinion of him. No, not at all but at the actual experience of being with him was positive.

RichN95.

Dabber wrote:

I don't think you can come to any real judgement based on just meeting someone.
I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.
He was relaxed, pleasant, humorous, polite and all round good company. Has that changed my opinion of him. No, not at all but at the actual experience of being with him was positive.

You are either an international arms dealer or a caddy.

andyp

RichN95 wrote:

Dabber wrote:

I don't think you can come to any real judgement based on just meeting someone.
I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.
He was relaxed, pleasant, humorous, polite and all round good company. Has that changed my opinion of him. No, not at all but at the actual experience of being with him was positive.

You are either an international arms dealer or a caddy.

Or an armed protection officer.

tailwindhome

andyp wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Dabber wrote:

I don't think you can come to any real judgement based on just meeting someone.
I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.
He was relaxed, pleasant, humorous, polite and all round good company. Has that changed my opinion of him. No, not at all but at the actual experience of being with him was positive.

You are either an international arms dealer or a caddy.

Or an armed protection officer.

Or dogging

dabber

:oops: :shock:

Actually, when I retired I did some caddying at a couple of rather upmarket golf courses. I went out with a lot of "interesting" people. Some famous, some captains of industry and some just plain rich. It was good fun and, with a few exceptions, the people I caddied for were pretty pleasant and good company to go round with. I think the dynamic here is that although these people may be quite powerful or respected in their own environment, many of them are pretty crap at golf so you see them at their weakest.
Not true of Prince Andrew though... he plays golf pretty well.

Manc33

They do say never meet your heroes.

deejay

RichN95 wrote:

Dabber wrote:

I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.

You are either an international arms dealer or a caddy.

Whichever one, then you need the Brass to get into Wentworth.

dabber

deejay wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Dabber wrote:

I spent 4 to 5 hours on the golf course with Prince Andrew. I was expecting it to be a bit heavy going but in reality it was a pleasant experience.

You are either an international arms dealer or a caddy.

Whichever one, then you need the Brass to get into Wentworth.

It wasn't Wentworth.

ridgerider

I used to caddy at Wentworth when I was a boy. I was my second job after I retired from my paper round. Apart from the afore mentioned pillars of commerce, I was almost picked once to caddy for Bernard Gallagher, but he chose someone else from the line up. However, I did once caddy in a pro-am containing Sir Douglas Bader and Henry Cooper.

ocdupalais

Did Doug bring his dog along?

shinyhelmut

OCDuPalais wrote:

Did Doug bring his dog along?

I think you're thinking of Guy Gibson VC. He's tge one with the famously named dog.

bianchimoon

Colinthecop wrote:

Selfie with Wiggo...?

14 months back(ish) was riding a c2c through the lake district, just stopped for a drink by hayeswater and a Sky team car drove past, Wiggo had window down and waved to us, a few miles further on we across the car parked up, once he'd finished getting changed ready for his recce ride for ToB, he was more than happy to have his piccie taken with us, asked us what we were doing etc, wished each other good luck and on our way.. nice bloke!