Is anyone friends with anyone well known/famous?

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Just wondering what some people are like really. Whether different or the same as they come across.

Best friends with and work for an MSP who is quite high profile right now. A more caring person you could not meet.

Wow @Clawdy what an achievement!

That’s fantastic Clawdy. A great achievement.

It did bump up her sales! It was a sea-faring adventure.

I know an actor on a long running drama series, he’s very down to earth and a nice bloke.

I'm friends (more acquaintances I guess) with two very different celebrities. One is rather fame hungry - think staged pap photos in the Mail. The other is so normal and nice you and you wouldn't be able to pick her out of a crowd. She's worth mega millions.

One of my best friends is in eastendersand has been for around 12 years, he is lovely.

@thefirstmrsrochester is it RD? I always imagine her to be good fun.

Yes an ex boyfriend who is very famous as a sports person in his own country as was his Dad - same sport. I mentioned he was my ex in passing to a person from that country one time and they just about fell over with shock. He kept saying to the people we were with “you don’t understand, her being his girlfriend is to me like meeting someone who is David Beckhams girlfriend would be to you. If she went into a bar in P........(name of city where father and son both played) and told them she knew him, she’d never have to buy a drink again! I can’t believe I am out with someone who knows him!”

He was quite drunk to be fair.

I honestly hadn’t realised. Ex was pretty modest.

I am friends with a reasonably well known author, and am also friends (from uni days) with someone who is often on TV. Both are very nice and totally normal.

A close relative is a well known academic/author. He's humble, lovely and chats to anyone. Preferably in a good pub.

I know a retired MP, she was and still is an inspiration. She’s regularly on the school run for her grandkids and is lovely.

I also know a well known ex premiership referee. He came to our wedding and my friends husbands’ were all ‘star struck’... I was like, it’s just our mate / neighbour . He’s also lovely as his wife and kids.

Yes, fakr few Olympian sports people friends here. And have relatives in showbiz.

Some celebs are indeed arseholes but experience of relatives with pretty big name stars says most are lovely.

I know someone who is the lead singer in a very very well known band (think ageing rocker). He's a very down to earth, laid back man. When he's not on tour he's very much an average 50 something family man. His wife is fairly annoying though - always has to be queen bee of social events and needs to be the one calling the shots in her group of friends.

I'm friends with a v famous pop star ie currently famous and an MP. Both are really lovely.

Ooh love this thread, did people know the famous people before they got famous? Or did they become friends after? I bet some of you are famous

Neighbour is a celebrity who is quite hated on mumsnet and our kids go to the same school, much nicer than people think but peronally wouldnt want to actually be friends with them.

No-one who is genuinely friends/ married to/ is a celebrity is going to come on here and say so and give clues- you'll get plenty of people down the street or random school mums or regular checkout workers etc. People in the public eye are usually wary of 'friends' who do this, even the more minor celebrities drop friends from their inner circle who name drop and have loose lips. Because a miscarriage/ affair/ financial trouble is gossip fodder and will end up with the readers of The Sun and The Mail passing comment on their lives. Take a look at any upsetting thread on here about the things I've suggested. A woman who finds messages on her partner's phone and is dealing with it in RT and we're all supporting her. Now imagine she's your most liked female celebrity and she's dealing with that + the added stress of being splashed all over the papers and gossiped about on here on other threads. Imagine she's your daughter or sister and her only crime is being in the public eye. Or her DP being in the public eye and she's never even courted it. Anyone on here who is or knows well a celebrity I take with a pinch of salt.

I know a few soap actors, all really nice.

Many years ago as teenagers, one of my good friends was good school friends with Sophie Hunter (Benedict Cumberbatch's wife). I was at a different school.

I remember her as extremely confident, pretty and rather intimidating to a shy and not so pretty teenager. I only thought of this as my sister said something a few years back and I had an internet stalk!

Not in contact with said friend now (and certainly not Mrs C!) but it's strange to think of the different paths our lives have taken!

Yes. One is my ndn. She's just my ndn (and is v nice!)

I don’t know many other politicians, but I would imagine they would leave their hectoring and haranguing voices in the office

True in my experience. The ones I know are nice people, even if I'm completely at odds with some of their policies.