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Who is the most famous person you have ever spotted out an about?

314 replies

glovestrains · 26/04/2023 01:16

George Sampson

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spaghettina · 26/04/2023 22:02

Woody Allen and Soon Yi in London
Bryan Adams in a Falafel bar, early 1990s
Michael Jordan at a London club
Amy Winehouse in Milan with her husband and Kelly Osborne
Linda Evangelista in Paris, positively glowing
Olivier Martinez
Alan Rickman
... And others I can't remember!

Baabaaric · 26/04/2023 22:13

Carol Vorderman in Canada of all places!

newtb · 26/04/2023 22:16

Serena Sutcliffe, Michel and Albert Roux - book signings in Waterstones
Princess Anne while on a guide trip to London - people watching outside a building, so de waited and saw her go in.
Richard Branson coming out of the Derry & Toms building in London
Bobby Charlton behind me in the queue at the butcher in Knutsford
Jacky Charlton in a restaurant in Morpeth
Cynthia Lennon at a coffee morning in Hoylake

poppym12 · 26/04/2023 22:17

Joanna Lumley and Peter O'Toole. They were staying at the same hotel as me whilst they were filming something.

BasiliskStare · 26/04/2023 22:24

Apart from the Queen and Queen Mother , Tom Ford at Heathrow by the Concorde desk - ( I was not flying Concorde ) but Oh that man is very very good looking.

Martin Clunes in Waitrose

David Soul in a pub once.

TellUsAJokeTrevor · 26/04/2023 22:25

Tom Hollander a few months ago at the Tate restaurant in London. Very small and asked to move to a corner window spot - despite not one person paying him any attention at all

CheeseLouisePlease · 26/04/2023 22:30

Emma Thompson in Glashow, her head was shaved.
Cameron Diaz at an airport, ridiculously thin.

BarelyLiterate · 26/04/2023 22:52

Dan Wooton, (a poundshop version of Piers Morgan who appears on GB News) spotted on the Jubilee Line this afternoon.

NorthernSoul55 · 26/04/2023 23:08

Victoria Wood and Anne Reid at Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire.
On a different occasion, but same place, Jimmy Saville with entourage...

BasiliskStare · 26/04/2023 23:22

Oh - Bryan Ferry at an antiques fair once . I have to say I took an interest in textiles just to have a corner of the eye gander.

Doihavetogotoworkdotcom1 · 26/04/2023 23:30

David Cameron in the park.

beguilingeyes · 27/04/2023 07:04

Billie Piper in the passport queue at Heathrow. It was just after the first series of Doctor Who with her and Eccleston so I went up to her in the baggage hall and told her how much I loved it. She was very sweet

SophiaElizabethGrace · 27/04/2023 12:15

CheerIeader · 26/04/2023 21:24

He's my number one pin up. I'm soooo jealous.

😊 he was lovely but quite bemused by me being there.

Bouledeneige · 27/04/2023 21:56

I've met the Queen and the then Prince Charles. They are probably the most famous.

Others include David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Duke of Westminster, Terry Waite, Terence Conran, Esther Rantzen, Anne Widdecombe, Angela Rippon, Jim Broadbent. Not a glimmer of glitz or glamour.

echt · 27/04/2023 22:41

I used to see Barry Humphries in various art galleries and shops in Melbourne quite often.

IsThePopeCatholic · 27/04/2023 22:45

Ant mcpartlin with wife and dog in Wimbledon village.
kate winslett with husband Ned and dog in west wittering.

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 27/04/2023 22:45

Rihanna, in Bloomingdales in NYC. DH wouldn't let me try and get a sneaky photo!

Birchtrees · 27/04/2023 22:52

Tom Baker in anChinese restaurant in Aberdeen.
Jim Kerr in his hotel in Sicily
Lenny Henry at an awards ceremony at the BBC.
The Queen passed in her car .
Prince Charles in the street opening something or other but just him and a couple of other people there.
Princess Anne at Gatcombe for a fair .
I didn’t speak to acknowledge any of them. It seems intrusive.

SockGoddess · 27/04/2023 23:11

Charles and Camilla getting out of a taxi, when they were visiting my town. Only after I spotted them did I turn round and notice loads of photographers and minions.

Justin Mr Tumble on a work trip.

Alistair Darling in Tesco. He was looking at champagne.

Giggorata · 28/04/2023 02:15

“The Queen passed in her car .”

Is it just me who thought that a mistype of one letter, changing passed to pissed would have been very funny?
I'll get my coat.

Birchtrees · 28/04/2023 09:29

Giggorata · 28/04/2023 02:15

“The Queen passed in her car .”

Is it just me who thought that a mistype of one letter, changing passed to pissed would have been very funny?
I'll get my coat.

Haha!

MaitreKarlsson · 06/10/2023 06:51

Many years ago, Terence Stamp in Brown's Hotel. I was a big fan having just read his 3 volume autobiography (he's a great writer). Went over to talk to him (he was chatting to the manager) and he was very nice, chatted and signed a card for me. This was pre-selfies.
Met some others too. I would like to put it on record that Liam O'Maonlai of the Hothouse Flowers was a complete arse to me as a young fan. Stared at me till I backed off apologising. I was probably 15.

SUCkythings · 06/10/2023 07:17

Loads of them. I respect their privacy and leave them to it. Everyone needs a personal life.

ForTheSakeOfThePenguin · 06/10/2023 07:21

I had a conversation with Tom Jones, I complimented him on his performance, I thought he was an excellent Tom Jones impersonator.

MrsClatterbuck · 06/10/2023 07:27

Kirk Douglas father of Michael on Valentines day in Harrods buying chocolates. My friend and I were on a weeks holiday in London.

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