Have you ever seen a celebrity in the street?

[BeckyRac]

I saw George Sampson once.

Oh, the actor David Ross paying for car parking at his local hospital.

Saw Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence having afternoon tea at the Pump Rooms in Bath. I only looked twice at them because they were both wearing sunglasses indoors; I probably wouldn't have noticed them otherwise. And I walked past Victoria Wood on the Strand in London (but only saw her because my mum pointed her out to me; I'm notoriously bad at recognising famous people).

Tina Turner on Oxford Street.
Michael Jordan in Chicago.

They didn't see me 🙂

Cliff Richard shopping in John Lewis
Lucy Worsley in local dry cleaners
Simon Callow sat reading paper on tube
Rob Brydon in Space NK
Sean Bean drinking pint outside London pub
Rick Ashley in street
Gail Porter at Lego Land
Mo Farrah running in park
James Norton in airport departure lounge
Bill Bailey cycling in Kingston
Kevin Clifton in JD Sports
Richard E Grant watching play at Donmar
Ant (without Dec) at a funfair
Harry Enfield in London coffee shop
Russel Grant in Spaghetti House

Linford Christie walked past my Dad & I while we were waiting for my Mum to come out of a shop in the West End.
We sat behind Lee Dixon & his family at a concert.
I walked smack bang into Russell Howard as I was leaving a cafe in Camden as he was walking in.
Craig David tried to chat my mate up when we were both at uni (I think she told him to piss off cos she wasn't interested)
Saw Ioan Gruffuyd at the theatre (he's quite tall)

I've also met plenty of celebrities at conventions/events or after a stage performance but that's not really chance encounters!

I used to live in North London:
Jude Law
Sean Bean (served him a pint of lager)
Charles Dance
Robert Webb
Ed Miliband
Liam Gallagher & Nicole Appleton
Sharleen Spiteri (spelling?)
AA Gill
Prince Andrew (in CHinawhite's)
Goldie
Clive Owen
David Bailey
some Germany footballers I didn't know names of

Paula yates and Bob Geldorf in tube station having a barney. She turned round and gave me the coldest stare! She was wearing a foul leather dress the colour of 'flesh' plasters.

My DM saw Cliff Richard at a church service once, when we were tweens/teens. She came home really excited and said we'd never guess who she saw and it was v exciting. We had a few wildly optimistic guesses of which celebrity it might have been. I was so disappointed when it was only Cliff! 😂 (although at least I disnt feel I'd missed anyone that I actually would have been interested to see!)

@amusedbush argh I'm jealous of your selfie with Jason Isaacs!

I saw Gordon Buchanan walking down Whiteladies Road / Clifton Triangle / Park Street a few times when I was at Bristol Uni. Presumably going to / from BBC natural history unit. He was quite rude to some students who went up and tried to speak to him on one occasion.

[quote costco]@amusedbush argh I'm jealous of your selfie with Jason Isaacs![/quote]
I'll be honest, I didn't even realise where we were but my feet were killing me after walking around London all day so I sat on the nearest wall. DH went to have a nosey in the window to see who was being filmed and nonchalantly told me "Jason Isaacs, apparently. Never heard of him..."

I shot off my seat like I was on fire and ran to the exit

Yea but I have a terrible eye for people - so it goes from either yelling ‘hi Fred, how’s your mum?’ (thinking they are a friend of a friend) or not having a clue. DH is good though but he always recognises people I wouldn’t know anyway (oh he was political editor on the economist on 1986, or that was the minister of transport in 200, or he was the CEO of BP in 1972 - or authors - who recognises authors??)

Ainsley Harriot in Debenhams desperately trying to be noticed.
Stephen Mulhern in Costa being too loud.
Dan Snow in Sainsbury's

Tyson Fury in the bank

I bumped into Robbie Williams in an alleyway in London.

David and Victoria Beckham in the Trafford Centre. David was holding a very tiny Brooklyn, looking at trainers while Victoria sat munching a very large bag of crisps. Bet she doesn't do that now!

I used to live near Johnny Depp and saw him occasionally walking around town

toffeebutterpopcorn

I was once at train station and said to a friend "that's John Thaw" my friend looked at him said "nah, John thaws dead". Turns out it was a friend of my dad's

Various footballers, managers and cricketers plus a few TV pundits. They stay in a city centre hotel when playing in my city and so sometimes see them walking about outside. Have seen some of the cricket commentators in the pub too.

Jeremy Paxman in Oxford. He was shorter than I expected.

MIL met Stephen Fry in Peru (he is very tall apparently). She told him off for being surrounded by the international press and said he had to meet some real Peruvians and so got a photo of him with her friend (taken by the press photographers!).

I wouldn’t know any of them... I did see Hatie Katie and Eddie Izzard (not at the same time). Funnily enough I didn’t ‘see’ who they were at first as they just caught my eye.

Katie has the coldest eyes - that’s what made me look again and Eddie was doing a ‘look at meeeeee!’ stalk and caught my attention (I just pretended not to notice, as I always do to people why try to get attention).

@Deathraystare

Paula yates and Bob Geldorf in tube station having a barney. She turned round and gave me the coldest stare! She was wearing a foul leather dress the colour of 'flesh' plasters.

Did you overhear what they were arguing about?

DH is convinced he saw Billy Murray ( Johnny Allen from Eastenders/Don Beech The Bill ) in M&S in a long black leather coat . I saw this bloke and thought "Nah he;s not tall enough to be a copper "

I do realise its not real

Peter o'Toole - at an airport the tannoy called him and he wafted gracefully (this was over 25 years ago )

@mermaidsariel

No I didn't hear but was fascinated by the foul dress that stuck out at weird angles.

I once saw Christian Slater in a department store in Edinburgh, I was so thrilled, I was a big fan in the 90s. Then I looked out the window of the shop, and saw Dev from Corrie signing an autograph in the street. It was a real moment 🤣