Have you ever had a celebrity encounter or near miss?

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Have you ever had any celebrity encounters or near misses? There's a radio DJ who I snogged years ago and shouldn't have. He was far too principled to take it further and I really admired that, funnily enough though I was upset. He's still on the radio now and I think about it a fair bit if I hear him.

Similar with Alex Higgins reeling around the street when I was with my mum and grandma. It was a scary thing to see in the early afternoon.

Some great posts. This thread has given me some laughs and also made me think back too.

Mark Foster lived in my town, not sure if he still does, I once ran into him with my daughter in her pram in our local co op! He was lovely and I was very apologetic!

Alex Higgins shouted, ‘Do you know who I am?!’ at me when I asked him politely to wait his turn at the bar I was working at. There were several customers in front of him and he was rudely shouting his order at me. The bouncer asked him to keep it respectful 😂.

Honor Blackman sat on my lap a the theatre in London thinking my seat was empty. She was lovely. I went to school with Tony Hadley, in my year, part of the gang and lived in the same street in Islington. Worked with Gillian Taylforth when she was just breaking into acting, a solicitors in London that my dad managed and he got me summer work there. Met the 1971 Arsenal football team at Islington town hall when they did the double, my dad was on the council. My mum told Frank McClintock (the captain) the FA cup looked like a bit of old tin. Used to have coffee in Dulwich with the woman who allegedly had an affair with Ian Botham in the 1980s, Lindy Field. She insisted it was true! Catweasle was a client of the solicitors I went on to work in, as was David James, England goalkeeper, who my boss had no idea who he was !
I am sure there is more, but that's it for now !

"Used to have coffee in Dulwich with the woman who allegedly had an affair with Ian Botham in the 1980s" 😂😂😂😮‍💨 - wins a prize as my most obscure celebrity encounter on the thread. Excellent!!

This made me laugh so much

Thank you - takes a bow. 😂

I still want to know why she addresses her husband as ‘Stumpy’, regardless of who it was she was actually shouting through a rolled-up newspaper at!

‘Stumpy’ is probably a nickname of some kind.

Well, I assumed so, but while I can imagine it being some lads group nickname from his schooldays or something, it's tougher to imagine being in an intimate relationship with someone who addresses you by a name that's a bit like 'Fatso' or 'Baldy'...?

Though this does not spoil the comedy of her roaring it through a rolled-up newspaper at Bristol Temple Meads at a man whose character was involved in a love triangle with Raquel Wolstenhulme and Curly Watts.

I read a book where one of the characters was called Bonkers. His wife made out he was hot stuff in bed.

I worked on a hospital reception desk and there was a big hoo hah.. looked over and jimmy saville was coming in with a giant dalek. Makes me shiver thinking about it now. He was headed for the children’s ward.

Lucky escape. I wrote to Jim'll Fixit, still gives me the willies.

Ugh, Jesus.

I have quite often seen him on Hampstead Heath - he is always really pleasant and really nice to my dog!

I used to go to school with 'hunter' from the 90's gladiators

He was in year 11 as I started

Nice enough chap-hated all sports (especially rugby) and was crap at maths apparently

My ex's sister met him through work. She spoke well of him: polite, friendly, and with zero 'ego' 👍🏾