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Have you ever met a celebrity? And did they act or look different to what you were expecting?

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PrincessHoneysuckle · 04/01/2024 22:18

I met Chris Gascoigne once who played/plays? Peter Barlow in Corrie.Very short and quiety spoken.

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peachgreen · 05/01/2024 15:44

Oh Stephen Fry was also a bit of a knob. Sorry.

jackstini · 05/01/2024 15:44

Amanda Holden presented me with an award once. She's tiny! And apologised for touching my bum when the obligatory photo was taken 🤣

Stuart Pearce - quiet, v down to earth and signed autographs for everyone who asked him

Tara Palmer Tomkinson - an absolute delight. Very self-deprecating, honest, generous with drinks and cakes, told wickedly funny stories and a great pianist. One of the most memorable nights of my life at her place.

Sat opposite Demi Moore once in a salon - both having manicures. She never spoke to anyone, just kept sending her assistant for a Diet Coke

MaggieNextDoor · 05/01/2024 15:46

I briefly worked alongside Ant and Dec (before Ant's fall from grace) and they were pretty much how they are on screen, friendly and chatty. During the same period, I met Amanda Holden and to my dismay, she was really nice Grin Ditto with Simon Cowell and (shudder) Piers Morgan. All of them much smaller in real life apart from Ant and Dec who were actually slightly taller than I'd thought.

piscofrisco · 05/01/2024 15:47

Dh and I met Sue pollard in a pub last year. She was fabulously dressed and very lovely. We chatted to her for ages, she told us lots of stories about other people she had worked with and then when she found out we had just been to buy my engagement ring (we got engaged the week before) she bought us a cocktail each. She also spoke to my FIL on the phone as he was a huge fan of hers. I was sad to leave her in the end as she was so amazing!

whatausername · 05/01/2024 15:50

StarDolphins · 04/01/2024 22:22

Not really a celebrity but I had Bruno Langley (& one of the others off Coronation St, looked similar(ish) babk to my flat for a party one night.

He shoved my cat off the sofa so he got asked to leave🤣

Wasn't he convicted of sexual assault? Never trust anyone who isn't nice to animals!

Theyarehere · 05/01/2024 15:51

Noel Fielding held my hair whilst I was being sick.

HangoverFromHell · 05/01/2024 15:55

@peachgreen I’m so jealous about Paul Gross. I (and my mum!) fancied the pants off him in the 90s. And adored the dog in the show 😭

peachgreen · 05/01/2024 15:57

HangoverFromHell · 05/01/2024 15:55

@peachgreen I’m so jealous about Paul Gross. I (and my mum!) fancied the pants off him in the 90s. And adored the dog in the show 😭

He was sitting behind me at the theatre (he spilled his Malteasers into the hood of my coat!) and every time he did his big old explosive “HA!” laugh, I could feel his breath on the back of my neck. SWOON. He was handsome as ever, although by now a silver fox. He was very nice too and chatted for ages.

OiGetOff · 05/01/2024 15:58

I met Bob Mortimer at a house party, must be over 20 years ago.

Quite a few at the house didn’t know he was a ‘celeb’ (I was a BIG fan, but hopefully kept it contained 😬) but he had no superiority complex and just came across as a lovely, fun bloke. I’ve encountered him a few times since (we live in same area).

He seems to be the epitome of ‘what you see is what you get’.

I adore that guy.

GothConversionTherapy · 05/01/2024 15:59

I saw clive Owen once, he's much taller and better looking in real life. Actually the person I was with recognized him. Good story I know ! Usually celebrities are smaller though, and I had never found him attractive on screen.

TidyDancer · 05/01/2024 16:00

XelaM · 04/01/2024 22:34

James Norton was absolutely lovely and incredibly chatty when I met him outside the Harold Pinter theatre. I then met him again in the same area and he recognised me. Really really nice guy and such an incredible actor.

I can't tell you how happy this makes me. 😂

I regularly fantasise about that man! So pleased to hear he's a nice guy!

slackademic · 05/01/2024 16:02

Early 2000's I was at the back of a venue in Manchester trying to work out how to get through the back of the crowd to somewhere nearer the front - I'd only just had my ticket ripped in half when Evan Dando - lead singer, guitarist, songwriter of the band I'd gone to see (The Lemonheads) appeared right on my shoulder leaning on my back over me - as I turned to look at whoever-it-was he said something like "looks pretty full now...cool" and then disappeared back out through the way in: seemed pretty relaxed to me - one of my top 3 gigs of all time.

Ebokebok · 05/01/2024 16:04

Doseofreality · 05/01/2024 14:37

Joe Wicks is very strange. A hyperactive toddler in a thick as pig shit man’s odd looking body. He would shag himself if he could.

@Doseofreality 😆 You liked him then??!!

GothConversionTherapy · 05/01/2024 16:05

slackademic · 05/01/2024 16:02

Early 2000's I was at the back of a venue in Manchester trying to work out how to get through the back of the crowd to somewhere nearer the front - I'd only just had my ticket ripped in half when Evan Dando - lead singer, guitarist, songwriter of the band I'd gone to see (The Lemonheads) appeared right on my shoulder leaning on my back over me - as I turned to look at whoever-it-was he said something like "looks pretty full now...cool" and then disappeared back out through the way in: seemed pretty relaxed to me - one of my top 3 gigs of all time.

Omg so jealous Shock

GreyWednesday · 05/01/2024 16:12

mrskimsneakattack · 05/01/2024 14:09

Didn't meet her as such, but I was on e in Selfridges shoe department and Keira Knightley was in there trying on some shoes. She was on her own and just so normal and low key and really polite to the sales assistant when they didn't have her size. For some reason I expected her to be a bit of a diva!

Oh this makes me happy! 😍

She’s on my dinner party guest list as I think she seems hilarious in interviews and she’s in some of my favourite films. However, I’d actually probably just end up staring at her the whole time and wondering how her face is so perfect symmetrical…

Ebokebok · 05/01/2024 16:14

I'm friends with the world superbike champion. He's lovely but has a steely focus and is very single minded (obviously).
I had dinner with Anita Roddick. She was quite dismissive and aloof.
Gary Linekar - A letch.
Mel C - Really nice and friendly.
Albert Gubay (founder of Kwik Save) - One of the rudest men you could ever possibly meet.
Joan Collins - Very beautiful and tiny.
Ulrika Johnson - Gorgeous.
Michael Barrymore - Tall and plastered in make up.
Christina Ricci - Tiny
Iona Grufford - Skinny, very handsome and a real twinkle in his eye and flirty!
Sting - Gorgeous!
Sue Johnson - Very glamorous.
Ashley Roberts (Pussycat Dolls) - Lovely!
Tony Blackburn - Very charming.
Adam Ricketts - Like a ken doll.

ReadtheReviews · 05/01/2024 16:17

@blahhblahhblahh she seems like she would be. Was forced to watch that Evening with...Load of self congratulatory shouty-singing cheesy drivel. More fun to do than watch I expect and lucky she had enough friends to fill the theatre!

JubileeJumps · 05/01/2024 16:17

Cate Blanchett she was at a museum in London with her kids. She was stunning and her kids were lovely. No one bothered her she was with her kids doing the children's activities and then in the queue for the cafe.

Carouselfish · 05/01/2024 16:21

Jack White. Bouncy, friendly and enthusiastic.

LenaLamont · 05/01/2024 16:38

Su Pollard is as friendly, batty, enthusiastic and eccentric in real life on the two times I've met her. Her ring tone is the Cagney and Lacy theme, so how couldn't you like her? I found her much more likeable than I expected, and how she chatted to people regardless of status (unlike others in same room)

DragonMama3 · 05/01/2024 16:40

Shaquille O' Neal - He's lovely!

LoveLuna · 05/01/2024 16:53

I met Billie Piper and Lawrence Fox - she was lovely, down to earth and really pretty. He was a knob! Looked down his nose at everyone.
My son met Graham Norton recently, he said Graham is really friendly and very funny. He also met Mel C - who he said was lovely.

ConstitutionHill · 05/01/2024 16:59

ssd · 05/01/2024 12:19

I served Jim Kerr in a shop with his girlfriend , he was lovely and friendly.
Also Robbie Coltrane was friendly too.

Was the GF Liz Jones? Grin

JaneyGee · 05/01/2024 17:02

David Baddiel. Utterly vile. Exactly as I had expected him to be - a sneering, sarcastic arse. The sort of person who hangs around with the playground bully and laughs at his jokes.

Gary Lineker was also a complete asshole. Really arrogant and rude.

My dad met John Cleese in a lift and said he was very nice. Very shy as well.

Oh, and Joanna Lumley was an angel. My god that woman has class. Beautiful manners, self-effacing, speaks to everyone the same way, etc. All that you hope she’ll be.

elp30 · 05/01/2024 17:10

I've met many famous people over the years like Bono (he's small and soft-spoken), Jay Kay from Jamiroquai (he was very friendly and polite), Jim Kerr and all the Simple Minds members as their my favorite band and many others but I do have favorite stories:

I was studying journalism writing in high school and was invited to a meeting with the actor, Gregory Peck (along with 30 other students) as he was appearing in a play in the city and got to interview him to learn how to interview and write up a story. He was the most kindest man and had the most interesting stories.

That same journalism teacher, unbeknownst to me, was once married into the Estevez family. She casually told me that her nephews were in our town and were joining us for lunch in our classroom. I thought nothing of it. It turned out that the Estevez family are known professionally as Sheen. Her nephews were Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. That was back in the 80's when Emilio was a "Brat Pack" member and Charlie had just done "Platoon". It was a very interesting lunch.

My favorite story was when Jack Nicholson was in my city filming a movie in 1982, when I was 12. My relative was an extra on the film. She overheard him ask what there was to do in our city and she casually invited him to her house for a "cookout" with her family. He said he would think about it. She gave him her number and she went home. He called and said that he'd love to come to a cookout and asked for the address. There was no cookout. She took the opportunity and didn't think it through. She called every member of the family to come to the house and bring food and drinks. It was a completely crazy afternoon and pulled off a "family cookout". I didn't know who he was at the time but I liked him because he was the most fun and charming man. He played with us kids, he helped cook, he brought lots of beer, helped clean up.