Which Famous people have you met?

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I haven't ever met any famous people.

Had a cup of tea and biscuits, and a lovely chat about lightbulbs with Johnny Ball at a school science careers day. (I was there telling people his great it is to be a civil engineer). Not sure if he counts as famous or not!!

Anthony Hopkins - DM distantly knows him, he gave us tickets for King Lear (when he was Lear!) at the National Theatre and went backstage afterwards.

Nick Knowles - in a lift in Birmingham. I thought he was a nob head, but I have a friend who was some of the local labour (gardener) on a DIY SOS, who address me he is OK.

Eddy Merckx (old pro cyclist, won the Tour de France 5 times), at luggage reclaim at Las Vegas airport. Was a bit star struck. He was a bit grumpy, but we had all been flying fir about 14 hours.

I delivered paper to much of the mid80s Thatcher cabinet.

Worked at Cullens in Hove years ago ...
So met lots of Brightonians
Chris Eubank
Fat boy slim
Zoe Ball
Saw Alex james from Blur in Biscester shopping centre car park ..
Saw Peter stringfellow on Brighton pier
Sue Pollard opened my mums shopping centre when I was little too ha ha xxx

Not sure if Johnny Ball counts as famous? He's one of my heroes

I held Paul Merton's ears in 1992
I sat on a bed discussing Wagner with Stephen Fry in 1995
I bumped into Paul McCartney in 1998
I drove Gok Wan's car in 2008 and used to have his phone number
I've met most of the Strictly dancers
I do an exercise class next to Zoe Ball's mum
I've been to Anthony Horowitz 's house
Christopher Biggins and I have bitched about many celebs

Mine too @iklboo, but I’m not suuure if anyone under 45 really gets it.

Bob Geldof
Michael Hutchence
Paula Yates
(all the above at the same time; you can imagine the atmosphere there...)
Patsy Kensit
Jim Kerr
Ben Okri
Ian Waite
Brendan Cole
Sharlene Spitteri
Cate Blanchett
Paul Whitehouse
Gary Kemp
Tom Baker (absolutely barking mad)
Annie Lennox
Susanna Reid (much, much nicer than I was expecting her to be)
Floella Benjamin
Benedict Cumberbatch

probably some more, I can't remember.

Also Tom Baker (headcase!!!)
Peter Cushing (I didn’t realise he was famous at the time, I was 12)
Michael Rosen - I was friends with his niece at school, and went round for tea fir few times in the 1980s!!

Tom Baker served up beans at one of our breakfasts at camp when I was a teenager - all I could think was "oooh, it's Dr Who"

@elmosducks I saw Martin Platt at the top of Scafell!

Kelly Jones of Stereophonics, after a gig in Shepherds Bush - pleasant, tired, apologetic for being dragged away by PR people (for a kebab, he reckoned) after signing a few autographs.

Kika Mirylees (one of the Julie's in Bad Girls, did a stint in Eastenders and is in Not Going Out) - I vaguely knew her for a little while as we had horses at the same yard. I had no idea she was an actress at the time, I always thought she was hilarious if a bit aloof, and that she was a good horsewoman. She has a cut glass accent in RL.

I've seen files and personal details for quite a few very famous people as part of my job, but confidentiality agreements mean we dare not mention any names aloud. Some names were so big that they were redacted from the files before my team could view them, which only led to wild guesses as to who it could be...

@TwigTheWonderKid what's benedict cumberbatch like?

Mike Reid on a beach (ex Eastender)
Richard Hammond (lives close by)
Ellen Macarthur
Jeremy Clarkson
James May
Noelle Gordon (Soap actress)
John Lowe (Darts champion)
SAS hero who shall remain nameless because thats how he likes it

@BikeRunSki your initial opinion of nick knowles is correct, he’s local to me.
Jilly Cooper (lovely)
Tim mcinnery (aloof)
Jamie Dornan - I think I upset him but I didn’t mean to, he’s a very good dad.
Mary beard - legend, actually kept up email correspondence for ages helping my dd with Latin after meeting her at a book festival
Keith Allen
Martin clunes, I felt very sorry for him he was squished in a pub with his family and so many people were there it had been empty all week.
Ranaulph fiennes - awesome, so interesting
Peter Scudamore - arrogant
Nigel twiston-Davis - lovely
Princess Anne - scary but I was trying to escape her land via the wrong route at the time (sorry)
Mary portas randomly in Waitrose
Mike d’abo (showing my age buttercup) good for a party
Hugh fernley whittinstall
Gino de campo
Michael morpurgo at a signing

Michael Gambon
Ralph Fiennes
Timothy Dalton
Matthew Modine
Simon Cowell
Adrian Chiles
Dominic West
Tom Parker Bowles
Bill Bailey

All just in passing and in the area I live in apart from Matthew Modine who I met on a film set.

David Bowie
George Hamilton
Jackie Stewart
Miranda
George Osborne
Jason Orange
Howard from Take That
George Harrison
Rosamund Pike
Colin Firth
Darcey Bussell
Jonathan Ross
Rick Stein
Samuel L Jackson

Can’t remember who else. Lots.

Ronnie Corbett lovely man and v keen on horseracing.

Gary Lineker totally obnoxious arsehole, but his wife (of the time, Michelle) was adorable. I'm glad she's rid of him.

Sarah Beeny very nice, genuine and unpretentious

Diane Abbott not as daft as depicted in the media and a genuinely caring lady

@Tinselviolin he was quite friendly and very polite.

@TwigTheWonderKid yay! I was scared you'd say he wasn't and then how would I listen to Cabin pressure?! 😂

Russel Brand - really lovely, good fun too
Ed Sheeran - he's alright, cheerful
George Benson (& band) - lovely, warm
Tito Jackson - kind, patient

A close relative works in a field where she meet lots of famous people, I've heard:
Stevie Wonder - fun, lovely
Colin Firth - polite, humble
Alan Rickman - polite, lovely
Prince - funny, sweet (& sexy)
Steve Coogan - slightly rude, dismissive
Gladys Knight - lovely
Alicia Dixon - friendly, nice

Marti Pellow - fun and generous, but loved himself
Ray Winstone - absolute gent
Michael Sheen - unutterably lovely

David Beckham - lovely proud dad
Paul Scoles - self-effacing
Sir Alex Ferguson - polite
David Ginola - smells divine
Jose Mourinho - fabulous and funny and bloody gorgeous
Jonah Lumo - a true gent
Martin Offiah - whingy
Brian Lara - lovely
Denis Law - funny
Johan and Jordi Cryuff - absolutely lovely

Paul Nicholas - lovely
Luke Goss -
Shane Ritchie
Patricia Routledge - polite but reserved

Rhys Efans - friendly and funny
Cerys Matthews - drunk
Rhod Gilbert - shy
Caitlin Moran - high energy friendly and lovely
Jack Whitehall - short but gorgeous

Margaret Hodge - awful
Ian Duncan-Smith very short
James Purcell
Kate Hoey
Jo Johnson - decent chap
Priti Patel

Guy Pearce - I used to live around the corner from him in Melbourne and we made small talk whilst walking our dogs now and then. He was absolutely lovely.

Jason Donovan - friendly, very sweaty!

Hugh Grant - chatted briefly in a pub in Marylebone, he was very charming

Barry Humphries - met him through my work. Lovely chap

Sorry Jason, sweary not sweaty

My sister worked at the BBC so we met quite a few famous people at her parties. She arranged for my 4 year old daughter to visit the set of Doctor Who and meet Tom Baker but best of all, the presenters of Play School came to our house for lunch and then opened the school fete. They were wonderful and stayed all afternoon talking to children and signing autographs. After that the BBC changed the rules about celebrities doing such things.