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Have you ever met or almost met a celebrity?

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GhoulishGremlins · 24/10/2018 22:07

I've just been stood 12 feet from John Partridge Grin

And I met Andrew Lee Potts.

And Raven from CBBC.

How about you? Grin

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slug · 26/10/2018 15:16

Dawn O'Porter. Her and DH had a long, involved conversation about the state of nappies when you start weaning.

FaithInfinity · 26/10/2018 16:53

Love the Michael Winner story!

I’ve only had a few...saw Cherie Booth in a café at Cardiff railway station. Couldn’t think of anything to say to her though! This was when Tony was running the country, she’d been in Cardiff for a court case.

Went to a posh do when my school won an award (only a handful of students were chosen) and had two celeb interactions. Philip Schofield gets a big 👎 because he agreed to sign autographs but not meet us! However we also met Princess Diana. She was lovely. She looked stunning and she was very softly spoken. She asked us each a question and shook our hands. Smile

ThePortlyPinUp · 26/10/2018 16:57

I drove past the queen who was being driven in the opposite direction. We reckon she was nipping to the local garage for fags and whiskey.
Prince Harry and Prince William drink in our local sometimes and it was immediately so over Facebook last time they went in, if I hadn't already been in my pjs I'd have gone for a quick pint and checked them out.

DioneTheDiabolist · 26/10/2018 17:08

I met the Beastie Boys in the pub across the road from where I worked. They invited me and my friend to their concert (and dinner afterwards). We all lost track of time and 7 of us had to squeeze into a Ford Fiesta and rush to the venue of the gig.Halloween Blush It was brilliant.

A few years later I met Lionel Blair in the pub next door. He was lovely.Halloween Grin

Elderflower14 · 26/10/2018 19:25

Just remembered a few more.
Jake Quickenden and Paul from X Factor.
A Great Big World. They were lovely and signed autographs after their gig.
Joseph Fiennes
Matthew Horne on the tube
(he has long legs like a flamingo)
Una Stubbs
Carolyn Pickles. (she was lovely when I thought I had got on the wrong tube train and calmed me down!)

thecatsarecrazy · 26/10/2018 20:53

Me and my brother met Ross Nobel

happinessiseggshaped · 26/10/2018 21:00

Ive met the queen and spoken to Prince Edward, Gordon Brown and a few other politicians at Buckingham Palace.

Gary Lineker spoke to me after I ran towards him to speak to DH, who was stood behind him in a queue for a cash machine!

Kenworthington · 26/10/2018 21:05

I net Chris Martin once on the train station platform. Vaguely recognised him, weirdly assumed it’s becasie maybe I got off with him in the 90s (I know wtf), chatted a while. Left none the wiser til she mentioned it she. He got off the train. Am such a tit. He was very nice btw

Also used to sell furniture quite often to Adrian edmonson and Jennifer saunders. They were really lovely and down to earth too. Also sold a chair to tori Amos who was a bit do you know who I am. I didn’t really and wasn’t that bothered. Which I suspect may have been disappointing for her Grin

starrynitelight · 26/10/2018 21:23

What a fabulous story @ShatnersWig
Made me feel all warm inside

AaahhwoooooOOOOooOOOOo1 · 26/10/2018 21:24

Well I may as well be the first to say it (surprised he hasn’t come up before as he normally does on these threads).

I met Anthony Stewart Head on an EasyJet flight to Belfast.

We both had speedy boarding (which got us as far as a bus Hmm) but that meant I had the opportunity to speak to him. Really lovely, very tall, and very chatty.

Was happy to tell me all about working with David Boreanaz 🤣🤣🤣

Accountant222 · 26/10/2018 21:26

Alec Baldwin, chatting to him in the bar at The Beverley Hilton in Los Angeles, I didn't realise it was him, we were laughing about a previous bar in the hotel called the Red Lion, which was supposedly based on an English pub, the fire place was so huge, it would have taken a tonne of coal to fill it. Bar man told me next day who he was.

Bluntness100 · 26/10/2018 21:51

Gosh quite a few actually,

Robin gibb in the ba lounge in Brussels and sat behind him. I walked past him, dumped my stuff at the seat behind him, went to get a coffee, turned back and nearly tripped up thinking "fuck me that's robin gibb"

Walked into thr ba lounge in Heathrow at the same time as John Gordon Sinclair, thr lady at the desk asked if we were together, I responded no of course not, and he looked at me and said well thanks for that.🤣

Richard Branson getting on a virgin plane in the Bahamas. Bit of a surreal one. We were escorted to the plane with him his wife and their kids, as we were late boarding, just myself, my daughter and my husband and them. They were thoroughly charming,

Many formula one drivers, from David coulthard to Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton.

Randomly stood next to rula lenska in escada at Heathrow as we were both browsing,

Had Michael portillo on my table for dinner at an event once and he was very flirty. He's not gay.

Saw gaby roselyn, her Scottish rugby playing husband, Helen mirren and trinny from what not to wear at Heathrow. Helen mirren is small and trinny is tall and very thin in real life.

Had Chris Eubanks bizzarely blow me a kiss and wink as I walked past him in a hotel in Dubai.

Got in a hotel lift with Paula Abdul and her body guards in Washington. I was rushing and was late and one of thr body guards tried to stop me getting in the lift, I just saw an arm pull him back. I got in, gave him a filthy look, pressed my floor button, turned round, looked down and Paula Abdul said "hi there" I was like " oh,,that's why ,,". 🤣I just said hi back, and turned to face the door as you normally do. She is absolutely tiny.

Elderflower14 · 26/10/2018 21:52

I had to check my original post. I had said I'd met Anthony Head. He was very impressed when DS2 showed him the sign language for vampire!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

KenDoddsDadsDogIsDead · 26/10/2018 22:02

I used to be a cleaner at a railway station - pushed my broom round Paul Hollywood once while he was waiting for a train.

Fredathetortoise · 26/10/2018 22:04

Goo Wan and a film crew came into a London fabric/sewing/haberdashery shop where I was browsing. He was filming a thing about 'Look at all the ribbons and accessories and buttons you can buy to zhuz up your dull old clothes'. Everyone in the shop studiously ignored them!

Elderflower14 · 26/10/2018 22:17

@Bluntness100 Gaby Logan is married to the 🏉 player ☺

Bluntness100 · 26/10/2018 22:24

Gaby Logan that's it! 😁

JaretsGirlfren · 26/10/2018 22:31

When DD was around 4 she barked at Su Pollard in a lift, Su Pollard barked back Grin

JaretsGirlfren · 26/10/2018 22:33

Oh, and Dean Gaffney asked me out once while I was actually busy snogging a different stranger

CalmConfident · 26/10/2018 22:36

Sat on the table next t Richard briers at hotel breakfast, sat opposite James nesbitt on the tube and queued behind Simon cowell and girlfriend in electrical department of selfridges

CalmConfident · 26/10/2018 22:36

Not all on the same day Grin

Barbayagar · 26/10/2018 22:38

Andrew Lincoln in a nightclub in Bath about 15 years ago

Wauden · 26/10/2018 22:53

Princess Anne
Mick Jagger
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
Glen Matlock
Keith Floyd
Melala
Magnus Magnusson
Mikhael Baryshnikov, dancer
Rudolph Nureyev, dancer
Simon Rattle, conductor
Sir Hardy Amies, the Queen's dressmaker

Heartofglass12345 · 26/10/2018 22:57

John Partridge was in eastenders not hollyoaks, he was also Rum Tum Tugger in Cats 
I met steps at a signing in HMV I'm cardiff in 2012, all my dreams came true 😍

AaahhwoooooOOOOooOOOOo1 · 26/10/2018 22:57

Oooh. Sorry @Elderflower14 ... I had RTFT but missed that

Still... proves my point. Someone always pipes up with ASH on these threads 🤣🤣🤣

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