Messaged "celeb" crush and now feel like an idiot

I wrote to John Barnes when I was about 12. Ooh, he was so fit and handsome back then! He sent me a signed pic and a ton of LFC stationery. I was chuffed!

Well obviously what you have to do now is post him a dead squirrel with a card saying, "Unlike this squirrel, my love for you will never die."

I messaged my celeb crush and he messaged back. We have a back and forth once in a while. Made my crush worse. I message more when I’ve had my weekend vodka. He has a partner and is never flirting but it’s a bit if excitement in my mundane life of pets and small kids/house renovations.

YES! well guessed, tho my user name is a bit of a give away. I have had a couple of lovely "chats" with him and he once told me I was "very funny" I nearly fainted! He seems to be a lovely bloke

Duncan Jones?

About 8 years ago I rediscovered a boy band that I'd liked as a teenager, followed them on Twitter, Instagram etc. I started interacting with my favourite member, liking his posts and tweets, writing comments etc. I always try to make sure my comments stand out and are a bit different to everyone else's fairly generic comments about how good he looks in the pic he's posted. It was a good feeling when he started liking my comments!

Then he came to a nearby town as part of a touring show, and they were doing meet and greets. He knew who I was by then. I think he makes a point of remembering his fans individually as much as he can. A few months later he followed me back. I've seen him in several shows since and met him afterwards every time, I always let him know when I'm coming to see him. I like to think we're friends now 😁 So commenting on posts can pay off!

My friend used to write to Fran Healy from Travis on a regular basis when we were in school. He used to reply but was often not around so his girlfriend (now wife) used to send lovely handwritten letters back to her. It was only this year when I saw them supporting Killers at Coop live that I realised how famous he was at the time and how nice it was of both him and his girlfriend!

@Notascouser1990 Please could you tell me who it is too. Otherwise it'll be keeping me awake tonight 😂.

If it's any consolation I had one of the most mortifying encounters of my life with an incredibly well known person. To the point where even years on I shudder when their name is mentioned.

I'm so glad social media wasn't around in the days when I was young enough to have crushes on celebrities. When I was about 15 (40 years ago), my friend and I got hold of a bottle of wine somehow and proceeded to drink a small glass each before collapsing into giggles then writing some very heartfelt, passionate and tipsy letters to The Beastie Boys. Ya, all of 'em.

The cringe was so bad the next day that we never spoke of it again.

Yup, he can look dog ruff but generally just looks very expensively dressed.

Are you talking about the same Gary Lineker?!

😂this is giving fields of wheat - a la Theresa May... I love your innocence!

Add me to that list. I was 14 during the 1990 World Cup and I just loved him. I even wrote to him with a questionnaire for my GCSE project which was designing a fanzine. He replied answering all the questions (oh God, I can’t remember what they were now and actually dread to think) and sent a signed photograph.

You tease! I really want to know 🤣

Love some of these! Early days of twitter I tweeted the lead singer of my fave band asking about something quite specific on an album track and he sent me a really lovely set of replies. Made my day and still makes me smile now 😊

I DID THIS TOO!!!!

I went a bit further and would phone his agent fairly frequently and ask where he would next be appearing. I also sent a birthday card, in which I invited him out for a curry.

Um, there's more. I waited at the stage door a couple of times and got his autograph. One of the times I was pretty drunk and thought about following him.

Don't worry, he's dead now (it wasn't me).

Awww 😘

Exactly. My local hairdresser outsources all socials, so very unlikely any celeb will be doing their own (unless it suits them).

@Notascouser1990 Don't worry about it! Steve Diggle of Buzzcocks blocked me, after following me (though he did later unblock me, and now we're friends on facebook.) I can't know why, but I suspect it was because I suggested Buzzcocks should get a female singer after Pete Shelley died. (I met Pete Shelley (and Steve) - did I ever tell you that story? He bought me a G&T.)

A very well-known classical musician told me to 'piss off'. That one was weird. I would reply, retweet or like his tweets on twitter when it was twitter, then he'd PM me, and we'd have a very civilised chat. He always initiated these conversations. This went on, very occasionally, for maybe a couple of years. Then one day, as I'd done several times, I replied to a tweet, and he sent me several PMs saying I'd pissed him off, he'd been sick of me for quite a while and he didn't want to interact any more. I said, no problem bro, didn't mean to bother you, wished him all the best for the future, and unfollowed him.

The perils of parasocial relationships! And I'm a 58-year old man.

I once drunkenly offered Russell Crowe some smelly cheese on Twitter and he very politely replied to thank me but decline.

I'm not sure why I did this

Lol this is adorable

I wrote a letter to the queen years ago when I was little because some foxes were culled due to them eating some swans! Mi mam must have said that all swans belong to the queen and so I wrote her a strongly worded letter telling her to leave foxes alone in the future or else. Months later I received a fancy letter back, wax seal and everything, telling me they’d passed my very serious concerns on to the queen! 🤣

You talk as if there was any dilemma 😆

I wrote to mine (pre-internet) via his agent, who I had to look up in the town reference library. Several weeks later I got a signed photo back from him!

Messaging is fine and what I presume celebs want when they post stuff. I posted happy birthday to someone famous this week which I don’t really do as a rule but I never expected a response!

So not being unreasonable or daft to post but you are a bit unreasonable for expecting a reply (and feeling silly for not getting one).