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He was wearing white, baggy ''happy'' pants and showed a taste for fine wine. When martial arts superstar Jackie Chan walked into Jim Murphy's liquor store in Fyshwick one evening in 1999, retail trainee Candida Olson said she could hardly believe her eyes. The then 19-year-old had been told the shop would be shutting early so a celebrity could do some shopping in privacy, but staff members were not told who it was so they would not tell their friends. Ms Olson said she was too nervous to say anything to Mr Chan. ''He was just like in a movie … he had white happy pants, a salmon-coloured T-shirt and a white jacket over the top of that,'' she said. After he left, Ms Olsen said she asked asked her supervisor if she could hang on to the order form as a souvenir of her unlikely celebrity encounter. Now a mother of four, she said she was looking for one of her children's birth certificates when she came across the old wine order, and this week put it up for sale online. ''I love celebrities, but Jackie Chan's probably not one of my favourites, and I know there's going to be a tonne of martial arts people that will be big fans of Jackie Chan,'' she said. ''Somebody else will get something out of it, whereas I'm just a mum with four kids, it just sits around.'' The order form shows the actor shopped up big, buying more than $167,000 in wine, including Grange from 1983, 1984 and 1989 and a bottle of Penfolds Grange 1981 Magnum, which sold for $1200. It's not known whether the wine order was for Mr Chan's parents' Canberra restaurant. A spokesman for Jim Murphy's said their late founder Jim Murphy had been good friends with Mr Chan, who had shopped at the store on several occasions. But the spokesman said Jim Murphy's did not authorise the disclosure of any client information and could not confirm whether the order form was genuine. Ms Olson has since removed the order form from the sales website to reconsider her asking price. Attempts were made to contact Jackie Chan.

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