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

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George Sampson

All of the Rolling Stones minus Mick Jagger at Kings Cross station in 2008

Russel Brand randomly joined my yoga retreat of about 20 people in rural India

What were Harry and Meghan doing? Did they have security people etc?

Really, you wrote PAs speeches? Does she not write her own speeches then? Am I just very naive?

I’ve seen Prince Charles in the street outside where I worked. Only a few people around and I was within touching distance. The Queen was driven past my father’s hearse on the way to his funeral. He would have liked that.

Birchtrees I saw them being led out from the aircraft and there were plain clothed security men there. No one paid them any attention.

I saw Tom Baker in a restaurant in Aberdeen in the eighties. It was very quiet and only a few diners. Stayed at Jim Kerr’s hotel in Sicily and he came out and sat at the next table on his own.

God! If I saw Ralph Fiennes walking down the street the people walking behind me would have to step over my prostrate and unconscious body.

I’ve seen Bill Nighy in Soho; Hermione Norris and Graham Norton (twice) in Selfridges; Danny Baker on Piccadilly; the actor who plays the Independent sports hack in Ted Lasso in Liverpool Street tube station; a former England manager opened the door for me with a nice smile in Fenwicks on Bond Street last year but I can’t remember his name and DH, who recognised him, is snoring beside me. I’ve seen Gordon Ramsey down Bond Street. We were sat at a table near Rio Ferdinand with his children, then girlfriend and other family at Wildfire in Vilamoura pre Covid and I crossed paths with a very orange Bradley Walsh at Julia’s Beach in Vale de Lobo.

We were sat opposite Rosy Millard on Hull Trains when Hull was City of Culture. She was just lovely. She was dashing off an X words article on the train.

Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson and their then baby were rather awkwardly corralled in a small area with us and disabled DD2 at Leeds Bradford Airport. They can’t have had a functioning VIP area at the time. She was lovely and chatty, he was very reserved (no criticism) in a pulled down baseball cap. They were going to Menorca as were we.

The craziest was staying in the Ritz Carlton in Singapore during the Grand Prix where we had very close encounters with Daniel Riccardo, Christian Horner and Rosberg; and fascinatingly we sat next to Ecclestone and the next owners of F1 at breakfast and eavesdropped on a highly confidential and interesting discussion of future plans, including locations for future additional US Grand Prix. The jewellery we saw women wearing in that hotel was jaw dropping. Sadly Hamilton was staying elsewhere; he’s my favourite.

Tyson and Paris Fury in Asda but I think everyone around here has seen them out and about!

Bob Dylan going to soundcheck
Van Morrison in a restaurant
Richard Branson in hotel

I once saw Shane MacGowan and Nick Cave (and their people) having drinks and food in a pub in Hampstead. One thing as a pencil with black straight hair the other near horizontal with booze.

George Michael. I spotted him in Heaven with Pepsi, this was circa Wham! & he was staring in the direction of me & a gay male freind(undoubtedly at my friend)! Unbelievably a few nights later he was in another club & my female friend who was crazy about him asked him to dance, he politely declined stating he was tired, turned his back on her & spoke to me for a while (& mentioned Heaven) much to the chagrin of my freind. He was very sweet. We also saw Andrew Ridgely at the bar of a Soho pub buying a pint of coca cola and he bought us a drink. He seemed quite a laugh. Shirley (Kemp). Hmm let's just say she's quite short and was gobby, didn't seem nice.

I forgot, we were in a fish and chip restaurant in Whitby when I spotted Patrick Stewart.

"Would you like salt and vinegar with that"

"Make it so"