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Who is the most famous person a family member/friend has bragged they have met?

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ThisPlumShark · 16/03/2025 13:17

My dad said he met Dave spikey once

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TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 17/03/2025 06:45

Had a couple of bevvies with James Brown too!

Sockmate123 · 17/03/2025 09:31

JandamiHash · 16/03/2025 22:04

I have a mutual friend of the Princess of Wales 💁🏼‍♀️ she never talks about her though, except to say they’ve been to see them for a few days, and I don’t ask.

I would have to ask! 😂😂

BlondiePortz · 17/03/2025 09:34

A, now, saint, a work thing

DoNoTakeNo · 17/03/2025 10:28

Onedancewontdo · 16/03/2025 23:58

I was on work experience very early 80’s and met rik mayal in the lift. Rik being rik let off a huge fart and as he was our biggest client no one else apart from me laughed. Led to a long friendship and many coincidences including when rik had his accident off-roading and my fil had a stroke being in ICU at the same time. The day before he died I was diagnosed with cancer and he sent me the most beautiful message I ever read. He was one of the most beautiful souls I ever met and his love for his family was unique xx

What a lovely story; it’s so nice to hear what a kind person Rik was.
I was only thinking of him this morning & remembering how funny he was, and how clever. Such a great loss.

I hope you’ve recovered from your illness.

mindutopia · 17/03/2025 11:36

I have a friend who once dated Charlize Theron. This was slightly before I met him. It wasn’t something he bragged about or would really even talk about unless someone probed, so I’m inclined to believe it. He’s a well to do and quite fashionable guy who would be the right age. Apparently, she took him to some quite strange private club, the details of which were much more interesting than who he was with.

RunLikeTheWild · 17/03/2025 11:42

I met Prince Andrew about 25 years ago 🤢 of all the royals to meet!

GottaWork · 17/03/2025 11:53

My Mum went to the same Primary School as Jimmy Page. They are the same age but she doesn't remember him from that time. She only knows because of Wikipedia. In our family this translates to 'Mum went to school with Jimmy Page and they were besties'!!

Horrace · 17/03/2025 12:12

I bought Charlton Heston a drink many moons ago in the bar at Theatre Royal Bath. I was slagging off the hammy acting of the leading actress in said play making a complete tit of myself. I was very drunk and young at the time. He still accepted the drink and listened to me make a fool of myself.

SirDanielBrackley · 17/03/2025 12:18

Cousin of mine had his house re-wired by David Jason (who was a sparks before his acting career took off).

Movinghouseatlast · 17/03/2025 12:26

My friend met Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at a barbeque.

Mick said "I'm Mick and this is Keith" which has always amused me!

crouchendtigerr · 17/03/2025 12:27

Me, I met all the Spice Girls Grin

Sleepthief · 17/03/2025 12:28

My FiL said he had a pint with Beyoncé round the back of Manchester Piccadilly bus station in 1976… 🤔

Clawdy · 17/03/2025 12:33

The Beatles were the warm-up act for my dad's jazz band at the Cavern back in the early sixties. My dad said " We just thought they were a bunch of yobs in leather jackets!"

madaffodil · 18/03/2025 10:59

ohtowinthelottery · 16/03/2025 18:15

DH has met Queen Camilla - (although it was before she was Queen) and Prince William. Weve also both met and spoken to the Duchess of Gloucester.@madaffodil We also met Red Rum in the early 1990's.
We've also met quite a few celebrity chefs.

What surprised me about Red Rum was how relatively small he was for a racehorse.

Oh, I forgot - I once met the black horse that used to be in the Lloyds Bank adverts years ago. Can't remember the name though.

Oh yeah, I also just remembered - I once went to the Windsor Horse Trials and stopped to let a land rover go past. There was an elderly woman in a headscarf at the wheel... took me a moment to realise who it was. 😂

TwoWildlings · 18/03/2025 11:45

Sleepthief · 17/03/2025 12:28

My FiL said he had a pint with Beyoncé round the back of Manchester Piccadilly bus station in 1976… 🤔

🤣I really did LOL at this.

I used to see quite a few actors from different soaps on nights out when I was younger. One of them was a Hollyoaks actor.
He and his mates were abit weird though, one night, they kept taking their shoes off and pretending they were mobile phones, the Hollyoaks actor held his smelly shoe to my ear & thought it was hilarious😑

JitterbugFairy · 18/03/2025 12:32

Onedancewontdo · 16/03/2025 23:58

I was on work experience very early 80’s and met rik mayal in the lift. Rik being rik let off a huge fart and as he was our biggest client no one else apart from me laughed. Led to a long friendship and many coincidences including when rik had his accident off-roading and my fil had a stroke being in ICU at the same time. The day before he died I was diagnosed with cancer and he sent me the most beautiful message I ever read. He was one of the most beautiful souls I ever met and his love for his family was unique xx

How lovely. Hope you're ok now. I've always been a huge fan of his 💕

Dontlletmedownbruce · 18/03/2025 12:40

Family member and partner are friends with Messi and his wife, they lost touch since the move to US but often hung out when in Barcelona and Paris. They will tell us absolutely nothing, which is probably why they stayed friends!

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