Messaged "celeb" crush and now feel like an idiot

I did this when I was 15. Quite a niche/not well known actor, and my first 'love'. I messaged his forum thing he had and got a kind message back from his agent or whatever. I die even now, aged 37, thinking about the cringey, emo, angsty things I wrote, and I wish I didn't remember.

To make things worse, I then got an e-card from his very own email address that said 'Thinking of you' on it, and for about ten blissful minutes thought I'd made a real impression ... until I emailed back and discovered he had already anticipated this, and blocked me.

No doubt I then tried adding him to my MSN, but clearly wasn't successful, as I never spoke to him again, except in my dreams. I can't even embarrass myself further by saying who it was as I'm too worried he will Google himself, find this and somehow remember me. 😱

I've seen Gary Lineker around loads of times, in SW London. He's really gorgeous and dresses so well.

This is quite the most insane thing I’ve ever read on Mumsnet. And Mumsnet already reset the bar for insanity.

You're 35 I take it?

Still young enough to think you're a teenager, enjoy it, have wine and send people messages!!!

I had the BIGGEST crush on Stuart Pearce when I was about 13!! Absolutely idolised him! You are the ONLY other person i have ever heard say you had a crush on him too! 🤣

Don’t worry about it at all op. As long as you don’t act like a nutjob stalker then you are fine. I once tweeted a celeb, sent a gift on behalf of other fans and they ended up inviting me onto the set at a taping of their show.

Aww maybe he will still reply yet! Keeping fingers crossed for you x

I very much doubt he handles his own SM.

Forget about it.

Just saw you said it was. Sorry for being slow!

There were some really great fandoms on Twitter before Musk ruined it.

I emailed a former England football manager (initials GS) via the FA last year to thank him for his work as manager. Not sure why I don’t fancy writing his full name, as he’s very well known - but I’ve gone all shy 😂 I don’t fancy him but just really respect and admire him. I never got a reply, and I doubt he even saw it, but I’m glad I did it.

Also emailed Adrien Brody’s agent earlier this year to congratulate him on his Oscar win. Again, just felt like it and never got a reply but glad I did it.

During Euro '96, I think. my daughter wrote to a member of the German team to wish him luck! After the tournament she received a huge envelope full of memorabilia and signed stuff from him and the team.

The mortification of being vulnerable.... its always a good check to see if your human.

Think I said I was his cousin - don't forget football players weren't celebrities like they are now. My sister and I used to walk down White Hart Lane to the turnstile and the team bus would disgorge the team next to us - Jimmy Greaves liked a green suit! - and then they disappeared through a door to put their kit on. All very relaxed 😎

I rarely comment on the stories of people I actually know 😅

🤣 That's bonkers!!

Half the time on social media it's some random with their name liking or replying to the comment anyway.

It's fine to ask a q, but you also have to just remember that he probably gets lots of messages so can't reply to them all. It's as simple as that :).

Oh my god I love this - especially as a fellow Spurs fan 😍 So lovely that you thought to wish him well and that you both had a chat. Do you mind me asking who it was? Please be as cryptic as you wish! I’m not sure I’ll know who it was, but my Dad - long-suffering Spurs fan from before the 70s - might!

Yeah, people I’m pretty certain won’t ever see them though. Like Charli Xcx gets vegan recipes, Idles get crochet patterns, Sam Fender gets vegetarian recipes. I find it easier to find what I was looking for than the save post function.

I messaged, on instagram, my favourite voice actor/narrator. He’s not “famous” but is incredibly well regarded if you know who he is.

We had such a lovely chat (only a few messages but all I wanted was to tell him how much I appreciated his talent.) Was fangirling to my husband about it the whole way through (he is equal fangirl as me).

Without me knowing (and this is so outing if you know) he messaged him to ask for a voice message for my birthday. It was so funny….I’d planned on doing the same for HIS birthday (but he got there first).

And that was that. He did a lovely thing for a fan. I got to “meet” a hero. No one was harmed in any way. Hope you gave him a smile and I bet he’s never given it another thought.

A semi-famous person who has a very very famous parent "liked" quite a few of my tweets (in the pre Musk days) and replied to a some of them in a polite and humorous way. They moved to Bluesky and so did I (not because they did but due to Musk making Twitter such a hell pit) aind they actually re-posted one of my comments. I was rather thrilled!

Haha I did the same to a DJ (we actually have friends in common but he’s semi-famous) and felt like such a melt the next day!

Who is it? I Love indie music.