Speaker 1: Quest. Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Yesterday on the show, we have this call from Debbie,
Speaker 2: my husband.
Speaker 3: When he was about nineteen, he worked in a sports
Speaker 3: store in Melbourne City and he actually sold a peer
Speaker 3: and runner to Leo Sayer. So he never lets us
Speaker 3: forget it, even this many years on.
Speaker 2: That's right, to never let that story ever die down.
Speaker 2: So today we want to follow this up with other
Speaker 2: stories and sightings of celebrities at the checkout. Christian, I
Speaker 2: served Harold Bishop a beer we would accept. I mean
Speaker 2: that it's a check out, one of the greatest checkuts
Speaker 2: they can be at the bar, at the bar, Thank
Speaker 2: you very much. From Mitch, I love this one. Collect
Speaker 2: My daughter served Liam Hemsworth Adam Macer's drive through.
Speaker 4: That is that's how you get that rid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Christian I sold Pierce Brosnan did wed at an
Speaker 2: art gallery at an art gallery on Laguna Beach in California.
Speaker 2: All right, So celebrities at the checkout not just if
Speaker 2: you serve them, it's if you are lucky enough to
Speaker 2: serve someone famous. A through the Zadlisters, Howld Bishop of
Speaker 2: somewhere in there you can work out where he is,
Speaker 2: but also actually just seeing anyone at the checkout or
Speaker 2: buying something. I saw a celebrity, one half of Go West,
Speaker 2: you know, we play King of Wishful Thinking, the keyboard player.
Speaker 2: I saw him returning a mop to t K Max.
Speaker 2: He always hates someone who's ahead of you in the
Speaker 2: in the cure up returning something because they've got to
Speaker 2: ring that bell, go get this, Steve's got to come out,
Speaker 2: gotta you've got to fill out your dress. It's such
Speaker 2: a fac And I was like, that's the guy from
Speaker 2: that's the King of wishful Thinking.
Speaker 4: And he wasn't happy with how the mob was.
Speaker 2: Not wisha thinking. He wished he hadn't got that mop.
Speaker 2: He I think it was only like the refund because
Speaker 2: I saw it, Like nothing in t K max is
Speaker 2: over about eleven minks. Surely there's enough go whet money
Speaker 2: left where you can afford a mop.
Speaker 4: But it's the principle.
Speaker 2: It's the principle. Yes, that's right, all right, So celebrities
Speaker 2: at the checkout, who have you seen? Who have you served?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian, I'm loving the drama, the ongoing drama. It's gonna
Speaker 2: have his own Netflix show about the device. It's gonna
Speaker 2: have own podcast about your microphone collapsing. Can I just say,
Speaker 2: cable ties fix everything? Okay, Ted Bundy, just leave it yourself.
Speaker 2: We don't need to know. Paul and Coop we rob
Speaker 2: all right. So we're asking about celebrities at the checkout
Speaker 2: on nine four one four, one oh four three. Hey Jess,
Speaker 2: Hey Christian, how are you. I'm good, Jess. Welcome to
Speaker 2: the show. So celebrities at the checkout.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I was working in a little beach, a
Speaker 5: little beach hut Stol Shops in the island Overbiza about
Speaker 5: ten years ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I happen to look up my.
Speaker 5: From my serve encounter and a lady.
Speaker 6: Walked in with sunglasses on and took them off.
Speaker 7: And it was actually Goldie Horn.
Speaker 2: Did you say?
Speaker 5: She ended up, you know, looking around.
Speaker 6: The shop, and you know, and she'd actually come off
Speaker 6: of this is an enormous boat that was parked directly
Speaker 6: opposite where the shop was situated, and she started looking
Speaker 6: around and I recommended her all.
Speaker 5: Of my favorite clothes to try on, of which she
Speaker 5: decided to she loved, and she literally bought everything in
Speaker 5: every different color possible and ended up spending about a
Speaker 5: thousand dollars in my little shop.
Speaker 2: On the ball, I could shot for the rest of
Speaker 2: the week. Can't if Goldie Horns done that?
Speaker 5: It was unbelievable. Yeah, sorrynny thing is was she actually
Speaker 5: had to call back to the boat to get her purse,
Speaker 5: bought over.
Speaker 2: My purse and got a dingy with a great big
Speaker 2: purse with Joe purse on the persing. Jess, that's a
Speaker 2: great one, Thank you very much and cool.
Speaker 1: Oh good.
Speaker 2: Simon, good mornings.
Speaker 8: There are you going?
Speaker 2: I'm going to super Sich. What have you got for us?
Speaker 8: So I got to oh, this is back when I
Speaker 8: was working at Virgin Music, the megastore on Champel Straight,
Speaker 8: so back when digging and CDs were.
Speaker 2: A thing still remember on Virgin megastores they were great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 8: It was a good times. So the first one I
Speaker 8: had was Valentine and Rossi. So he's a yes, I'm
Speaker 8: a modern of myself. I had a bit of a
Speaker 8: standing their moment and came down. He saw my helmet falling,
Speaker 8: so I was pretty pleasing that. And the next one was.
Speaker 2: You happened to have it handy just in case. Valentino
Speaker 2: and Rossi, one of the greatest motorcyclists ever, came in
Speaker 2: there is I need to day what happened years I've
Speaker 2: been lucky. I don't even have a bike.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I d I.
Speaker 8: Ride my mind back to work every day. So I
Speaker 8: was I was lucky. That was the sign.
Speaker 2: So that's so cool. You've got Rossie to sign it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 8: And then and the alarm was Chris Lily So Chris Lee,
Speaker 8: the strained actor. Yeah, I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 8: But he came up to my counter. You know when
Speaker 8: the count you're busy, you got about three or four
Speaker 8: people deep, and you sort of look at the people
Speaker 8: to say, look, oh, even in a minute. So I
Speaker 8: gave him that look. I was like, well, I'll be
Speaker 8: in a minute, and he looked back at me and
Speaker 8: he gave me a jamay look, which is one of.
Speaker 2: The amazing character been shoplifting.
Speaker 7: And he wasn't too impressed, and and then went to
Speaker 7: have the counter.
Speaker 4: So do you know who I am?
Speaker 2: Hey, Goldie Hall cute.
Speaker 7: It was a bit of that.
Speaker 8: He's probably buying his own David.
Speaker 2: All right, Simon, thank you very much. You cool. Belinda, Hello,
Speaker 2: Hello there, Belinda.
Speaker 1: Hi here you going yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2: Belinda, pick up the pace, Belinda at the checker, who
Speaker 2: you're seeing?
Speaker 3: That's twenty years ago, I said, Delta Goodrum when at
Speaker 3: the height of her saying that, Baker's thought still.
Speaker 2: Like this, now, this is worth getting with the pauses?
Speaker 2: What was she buying at Baker's Delight at the height
Speaker 2: of her fame, she was a bit indecisive.
Speaker 3: I think she went for an apple scroll.
Speaker 2: In the end, I get very indecisive. Everything looks great,
Speaker 2: sweet shop.
Speaker 3: Her uniforms were not great, but everything else was good.
Speaker 2: Also, I feel side for Delta Goodroom. If she's listening
Speaker 2: right now, she just found out she peaked twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: List your apex twenty years ago? Did you serve anyone
Speaker 2: else in Bakers? Did I? Or just Delta?
Speaker 8: I was in Port Melbourne.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of celebrities at the time, of footballers and.
Speaker 4: A lot of water bees.
Speaker 2: I think you're good enough for Bakers to light dear
Speaker 2: no apple straw for you, Belinda, Thank you very much
Speaker 2: and cool, Thanks Christian, and apologies to anyone who works
Speaker 2: with Delta Goodroom. She's still very much in a.
Speaker 1: Peek Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Come for the show, Stay for the Jeff Kennett stories.
Speaker 2: We're talking to her about celebrities at the checkout. Who've
Speaker 2: you seen being served? Maybe you've served them. I've got
Speaker 2: Suddenly two Jeff Kennett ones have come in, Christian. Jeff
Speaker 2: Kennett wants into my liquor store, stop the counter and
Speaker 2: asked how much the dreichin Jerrell was. I told him.
Speaker 2: He walked down competitive enough, went across the road to Cole's.
Speaker 2: I love the way. Easy to compare the market, you
Speaker 2: know how the price of the market, price of dry
Speaker 2: chin Jerrell. He's not sure of a bobble too, is
Speaker 2: he either?
Speaker 4: Oh, buy my liquy here, but the mixer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniel, thank you very much for that, Christian. I
Speaker 2: used to work at Target in the city, and the
Speaker 2: premier at the time, Jeff Kennet's him again, came in
Speaker 2: and brought twenty twenty dollars kettle. That's the man who
Speaker 2: was treasurer at the time. He's balancing his budgets. He
Speaker 2: also brought a heap of mops and buckets. Rachel, that's great, Christian.
Speaker 2: I serve Billy Brownless a burger and beer there's literally
Speaker 2: no surprise in that. Of course you were. What else
Speaker 2: do were you having at the Crown Christian? Just a coincidence.
Speaker 2: Actually had dream last night. I worked in a servo
Speaker 2: and sold Frodo Baggins some AFLs. Oh the stars are
Speaker 2: lining up for your rob it's a premonition. All right.
Speaker 2: This is a great one from Ben Christian listened to
Speaker 2: the show to me, he's ago in my Uni day.
Speaker 2: So this is amazing story. I hope someone sends this
Speaker 2: to I was going the thing of Peter one night,
Speaker 2: delivered to an absolute megastar of the AFED at the time,
Speaker 2: Brendan Favola. And he was, wasn't it. Yeah? Yeah, Brendan
Speaker 2: was very friendly and polite. We'd expect no less as
Speaker 2: a hand in him is fourteen dollars ninety five pizza.
Speaker 2: It gave me fifteen bucks and waited its five cents.
Speaker 2: A hell of a buyer, but could have been a
Speaker 2: tad more generous when holding on a five cent tip.
Speaker 2: That's a great one. Thank you very much. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go to the lines down. Last couple of calls, Melli,
Speaker 2: thank you very much recording in what's your story?
Speaker 3: Hi guys, I actually served Mark Jacko Jackson in the
Speaker 3: city at one of the Seven elevens I used to
Speaker 3: work at many many years ago. This was back when
Speaker 3: his energizer adds were out and I sold him batteries.
Speaker 2: Was he filming a new land and you just didn't
Speaker 2: realize it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 4: And did he buy energizers?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, no, he thought the competitors.
Speaker 2: That's even better. Did he say to you, don't tell
Speaker 2: about this okay buying them?
Speaker 3: No? He actually looked a bit cheap because I actually
Speaker 3: said to him, haven't you got lo a lifetime supply?
Speaker 3: But yeah, he looked a bit sheepish and didn't didn't
Speaker 3: say much.
Speaker 2: It's amazing scenes, great story, many thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You cool.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Bye bye, Judy.
Speaker 7: Hi, Christian Fagang.
Speaker 2: Game welcomes you to the show. What have you got
Speaker 2: for Judy?
Speaker 7: Well, I was at I worked at Bunnings and I
Speaker 7: was on the toolshop register, which was across from the
Speaker 7: service desk, and there was a young girl at the
Speaker 7: service desk, and all of a sudden, Brian Taylor walked
Speaker 7: up to her register and I'm waving my hands and
Speaker 7: I'm trying to point to her and I'm saying, that's.
Speaker 1: Brian Taylor, b T legend T Yes.
Speaker 7: So she finally clicked on. She's laughed, and she's pointed
Speaker 7: at me, and she actually sent him over to my register,
Speaker 7: so I had to serve him.
Speaker 2: That's great, that's an sisters. Yeah, that's a friend helping
Speaker 2: out a sister.
Speaker 7: Oh well, she was gorgeous girl, and I was so embarrassed.
Speaker 7: I think I was as red as my uniform.
Speaker 2: What was BT bind by away?
Speaker 7: I think he had a hammer? So yeah, so he
Speaker 7: thought like he was lovely. He sort of smiled at
Speaker 7: me and he said, you know, I'm guessing you're calling
Speaker 7: with supporter, and I'm like, yeah, absolutely. So then he
Speaker 7: saw her apron for.
Speaker 2: Me, that's lovely holding that hammer, and then just casually
Speaker 2: wanders out holding a hammer.
Speaker 7: Absolutely he did.
Speaker 2: Wow. All right, Judy, thank you very much. You cool.
Speaker 7: Thanks, Thanks guys.
Speaker 9: Vanessa, Hello Vanessa, Hello, Hi everyone, Hello world.
Speaker 2: We've been waiting for you. Vanessa. What's your story about
Speaker 2: celebrity at the checkout mate?
Speaker 7: Yes, I was working in my mail then.
Speaker 3: It would have been back in the late eighties early
Speaker 3: nineties and a lot of celebrities through that busy store.
Speaker 2: When you're in town, when you're playing the rod Labor,
Speaker 2: you go.
Speaker 7: To Mile That's it the place to be.
Speaker 3: And I actually was working at the Christian deaw Fragrance
Speaker 3: counter and I met this lovely Irish guy and it
Speaker 3: ended up that he was Bono's drummer.
Speaker 2: Otherwise simply as Bono's drummer, he's actually who too, drummer
Speaker 2: even Pa and drummer picked up Drake cleaning. Hey, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: When what was he was he buying some dior obviously
Speaker 2: from your counter?
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 7: He bought Sarrenheit.
Speaker 2: Which is got it for he would have gone for
Speaker 2: his Master bonner, another Splitzer bonner Well.
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