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Have you ever seen a celebrity in the street?

630 replies

BeckyRac · 07/04/2021 21:06

I saw George Sampson once.

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Pepsipepsi · 07/04/2021 21:51

Michael Sheen
Julian Clarey
Dave Coaches from Gavin and Stacey
Russel Tovey
Sarah Hadland

Two of these were entering and exiting shops but I'm still counting them!

Dee1975 · 07/04/2021 21:52

Ben Price (nick tisley - Corrie) in church. My mum says she’s seen him there a few times.
Was sat on a table next to Nicolas cage once. I kept giving my husband the ‘secret nod’ and he was like ‘what? What you doing?’ Despite us watching a film only the night before with him in it, he didn’t clock on!
Noel Edmunds came into the sandwich shop I worked in and I served him.
Buster merryfield (uncle Albert in only fools and horses) came into the cafe I was working in regularly for an afternoon tea and soup when he was starring in the local panto. Very nice chap. Gave us all his autograph :-)

Still waiting for the day tom cruise bumps into me .... !

KatherineJaneway · 07/04/2021 21:52

Eddie Izzard

Chicchicchicchiclana · 07/04/2021 21:53

Loads of times as I live and work in London but for some reason the most memorable was when my work colleague Mandy and I were taking a short cut through a mews near Shaftesbury Avenue and we walked towards and then past Paul Young who was at the height if his fame in the mid 80s. We smiled at him and he smiled at us. Will never forget it.

daisyducky · 07/04/2021 21:53

Chantelle & Preston
Chantelle & Rav Wilding
Patsy Palmer
Fern McCann
Andrew Marr
Jenni Falconer
John Hannah
Lawrence Fox

SpeckledyHen · 07/04/2021 21:54

The Queen in Windsor Great Park
Andrew and Fergie in Windsor Great park
Michael Parkinson and Mary in John Lewis in Windsor
Jonathan Ross and family in a Spanish theme park
Gail from Corrie outside Harrods
Ulrika Johnson with her kids on the swing next to us in Henley
Janet Street Porter on the tube
Nigel Havers and wife in Waitrose
Anton Rogers in the same Waitrose
Rod Stewart also in Windsor Great park , parked up in a yellow Lamborghini. He lived around the corner at one time
George Michael in his car in Goring
A lot of the footballers from the local championship team , shopping in town and petrol stations.

PradaBallbag · 07/04/2021 21:54

Keith Duffy from Boyzone in a restaurant in Spain
Sean Tully from Corrie walking down the street in Manchester
Have met Andrew Lincoln a couple of times, he's related to an old friend of mine
Wynne Evans (Go Compare man) through work
Gino d'Campo (in one of his restaurants, does that count?)

Slackarse · 07/04/2021 21:54

Sat next to Abba-Björn on a plane from London once. We stood next to each other waiting for our suitcases. My husband still can’t believe Björn didn’t fly first class and that he picked up his own bags.

Babyroobs · 07/04/2021 21:54

I saw Todd Carty once in Dublin.

Pedallleur · 07/04/2021 21:55

Jane Asher with husband Gerald Scarce, drummer from Wet Wet Wet Tom Cunningham who I had seen the previous night at a warm up gig for a few hundred people before going on a big tour. Michel Hutchence/Kylie when they were an item.

MajesticWhine · 07/04/2021 21:55

Too many to mention in NW london. Some of them annoyingly often.

Andithoughtiwasspecial · 07/04/2021 21:55

Nianh cusack shopping on deans Street
Jason orange eating in Manchester
Rik mayall bath
Jeremy guscott also bath
Jane Mcdonald on a train
Richard whiteley Belgrave
James Dyson cricket match bath
Jamie Dormand jfk Airport
David Beckham Ryan giggs and Lee Sharpe oldham 90s tbf getting in Cars to go home
Wes brown nightclub manchester

Pedallleur · 07/04/2021 21:56

Should be Gerald Scarfe. He did the drawings for The Wall and Yes Minister

PurpleFadesToGreen · 07/04/2021 21:56

Emma and matt Willis and kids, local park and shopping centre, a couple or so times.

Sharon small, flying through a shopping centre pushing a buggy.

Pay St Clement, local shopping centre.

Linda Robson outside Costco.

Tom Felton, driving behind me quite a lot, quite unnerving to look in the rear view mirror and there he is ... again!

Lacey Turner... shopping centre.

Nikki Grahame (BBrother) local Poundland!

SpeckledyHen · 07/04/2021 21:56

Another one .
Nicholas Hoult in a restaurant on his own .

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doadeer · 07/04/2021 21:58

@SpiceRat

Saw Rhod Gilbert walk past me on a zebra crossing in Muswell Hill. He was with his partner / wife.
Oh yes I see him about a lot. Never smiled at me 🤣
ConnieCaterpillar70 · 07/04/2021 21:59

Mike Reid (DJ) came into my work and had a natter - as did Richard Ashcroft (The Verve). He was surprisingly attractive, and not as grubby as he always looks on TV. Also was uber polite and smelt divine, very expensive aftershave.

Saw Professor Winston walking by the Royal Albert Hall and I stupidly smiled and said hello because I thought I knew him and then realised it was off the TV ...... Blush

Saw Naeve Cusack (Heartbeat) walking along the embankment

GivenchyDahhling · 07/04/2021 22:00

Loads (used to live in West London). Most famous was probably Cameron Diaz or Maggie Smith, funniest was Rod Stewart walking around looking very obviously like he wanted to be seen and recognised (most of the time when I’ve spotted celebs on the street they’ve been keeping a low profile).

Not quite in the street but saw the whole Beckham family in a crab shack restaurant on the King’s Road.

Ilovelblue · 07/04/2021 22:00

Earl and Countess Spencer (Princess Diana's father and stepmother) in Fortnums.
Paul Burrell outside his house near Chester
Simon Gregson aka Steve McDonald from Corrie in Sainsbury's Wilmslow

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 07/04/2021 22:00

Van Morrison opened a shop door for me in Sheffield.

Lollypop4 · 07/04/2021 22:01

Mel C was infront of me at our local Tesco.
Kate Humble was a local at pub.
I havent seen him yet but Rhod Gilbert is local and often seen down the beach

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 07/04/2021 22:01

Oh and the Pet Shop boys a few times in our local shops.

Heronsnest · 07/04/2021 22:01

Prince William. M & S in Cambridge.