So who has met a sleb properly, to speak to? and how did you meet them?

[UnquietDad]

I suppose for me it's various Doctor Who personnel due to my peripheral involvement with the "franchise" - Sophie Aldred, who was lovely, and Tom Baker, who didn't disappoint as he was mad as cheese. (My mum also taught him French for a while.) And the luuuuurvely Nicola Bryant who has a dazzling smile!

I was in the company of Will Self for a while at a book do. He didn't really say anything I remember.

Mine aren't especially stellar, so I hope for more from you lot!! No glancing encounters - proper conversations only!

Well its a bit embarrasing but the parent of one of my students is a TV presenter and I didn't know it and had never heard of him.

Another parent told me when I said I had been trying to get in touch with him and she told me he was away on a famous persons charity function. I looked very blank when she said you do know he is xxxx from the xxx programme. Have since made an effort to watch the programme.

But then again I'm not into sport. Two other parents were is that him, no it isn't, yes it is, when he last came into school.

Sally Gunnell came to my son's Tumble Tots class, she seemed really nice. Also we got one of the fast food rockers in to teach a dance class (remember a pizza hut, a pizza hut kentucky fried chicken etc.)

The nicest celeb (well sort of) was Andy Abraham. I was chaperoning a children's choir at one of his concerts and he was so nice. Kept coming to me to check we were all OK and knew what we were doing/where we wrere going. He was brilliant with the children.

Oh, I forgot to say I was at school with Stuart Miles, who was on Blue Peter about 5 years ago. I knew him quite well then, but not since he became famous. So I don't think that counts!!

My SIL is a bit of a sleb, so I have met one or two through her. My DB on the otherhand, can namedrop for Britain (apparently Angelina Jolee has very small feet)

Oh and I used to work with Pippin from Lord of the Rings. And have met David Dickinson. And he is, for example,...

have just worked it out UQD!

I was friends with Jarvis at college only he wasn't a sleb then.

Met Tracey Emin at a party a few years ago and she was perfectly nice!

A few years ago my SIL was renting a house in a small village in Gloucestershire. We were driving back to London one night after a weekend with her and we came to a junction on a small country lane. It was one of those grass triangle things where apparently one side of the triangle was for cars coming off the main road and one was for people driving onto. Being the city slickers we were we didn't instinctively know this and trickled down the wrong side at a not very fast speed. Zooming towards us - and forced to drive ONTO THE GRASS a little (horrors) was a dark mid-sized car. The driver pulled down the window and we were about to utter a 'ooops sorry' when the driver hissed a really very rude word. My husband was stunned and stuttered a rude word back. As we drove away I said, 'that was Dom Joly by the way'.
Thank God my husband hadn't recognized him as he regretted not making some awful joke about his large mobile phone. Close one.

Back at home I decided that the world needed to know about his rudeness and emailed Heat magazine spotted column who published my spot.

But Dom Joly had the last laugh as he got an Independent on Sunday column out of it. One thing that was odd was that he got huffy about the fact we accused him of hissing single rude word and he claimed to have said 'effing seeyounexttuesday'. I would trust my memory above his on this as I doubt he rushed into work the next morning and said, 'oooh guess what. Last night I almost ran into a man with glasses who was completely unfamous on a small country road'.

Dh met Ricky Tomlinson at a book signing, he happily posed for a photo with dh & ds2, he said he was great and was always cracking a joke.
Dh asked if he would sign the book for me and he said sure, thats the way to keep the wife happy!!!

My parents also met Kilroy silk and said he was a true wanker

I used to work as a dogsbody at a music agency in the early 90s, so briefly met a few slebs then. Made Malcolm Mclaren a cup of tea (not especially pleasant person), spoke to Mark Thatcher on the phone (bizarrely my boss was agent for Maggie to appear on a Spanish TV chat show just after she'd been kicked out of no. 10, Mark was her 'manager'), one of my favourites was chatting to Mo Tucker - former drummer in the Velvet Underground - she was very kind and polite, like your auntie. I also took the Gypsy Kings' shirts to the laundrette between shows at Wembley . Was at a backstage bar at a show by Morrissey, when the usually extremely reclusive man himself made an appearance. Didn't talk to him though. The room did go a bit quiet.

In the 70s, my aunt was on a plane to Dublin (she's Irish and very friendly), I think she got upgraded to 1st class, got chatting to the nice young black chappie next to her, along the lines of 'what do you do?' 'I'm a musician, going to play in Dublin' 'Oh, that's nice, good luck with that, dearie'. She only found out after talking to her children about this very nice polite young man that it was Bob Marley.

oh Riven - Johnny Depp?!?!? Was he as beautiful as he looks on screen? Is he tall?

I spent an afternoon with Roger McGough when I was a school (with a few others and a teacher o'course) as a prize for winning a poetry competition. He was lovely and funny and liked my poems.

Morrisey nodded and said hello

Christopher Eccleston touched my bottom (by accident I hasten to add oh lawyerly ones out there)

Brian Moore (ex rugby player)

Austin Healey very drunkelnly bought me a drink at a rugby club do about 10 years ago

at meeting Brian Blessed - I want him to be my surrogate grandad

I've met Noel Edmonds, who seemed absolutely lovely and very genuine.

Sean Connery cut my mum up on a road in Scotland and she yelled at him before realising who he was (not that it would have made any difference).

This doesn't really count as meeting slebs properly, but when I was very small my Dad had to take me up to London where he had a meeting. He left me in the bar with the barman keeping an eye on me. When he got out of his meeting he realised that there'd been a meeting of some big design group and that all its (very famous and influential) members were in the bar where I had them all playing My Little Pony with me on the floor - this included people like Terence Conran, Vivienne Westwood and so on. Sadly I don't remember it at all but quite proud of it

Strange that Sophie Aldred pops up here - she went to my school and was very very nice even then. I have met a few slebs (BiL was in an 80's band, some of whom went on to be v famous)but proudest moment was going to Damon Albarn's HOUSE .
More excitingly, I saw Rupert Penry-Jones, Dervla and kids in my next door neighbour's garden a few weeks ago (staring out of window in a casual, non-stalkerish kind of way - me, not RPJ).
My fave story is that DP used to live in a grotty council flat next door to Jarvis Cocker - tehy once had a rambling conversation about Iceland... DP thought Jarvis was going to the country, turned out to be the shop on Walworth Road .
I hope this thread now self combusts as I have prob identified myself in real life!

I met quite a few famous people from bands in the late 80s/early 90s due to a boyfriend at the time who was an agent in the music industry.

Went out drinking with them, to clubs/gigs, to their houses etc. They varied from "old timers" like Jimmy Sommerville and Buster Bloodvessel to bands like Radiohead and Supergrass (and various others who were famous at the time but have disappeared into obscurity!).

Quite a few - through work in the old days and because of where we live now.

Work ones were: a lot of sports people, some music people, loads of TV people.

I can tell you this:

All footballers are dirty shaggers (without exception). Believe everything you read.

There's barely a brain cell between all four members of Blue.

Louise Redknapp is a very, very sweet girl

Zoe Ball is probably the nicest, most genuine famous person you'll ever meet. Apart from Jane Horrocks.

Les Dennis is kind and very funny.

Liz Jones (I know not a proper sleb but of interest on MN) is even more of a loon than her columns suggest.

Well I can top the lot.

Alf from Coronation Street AND Keith Chegwin stayed at my house when we ran a hotel, Keith Chegwin's agent then used the names of my parents in a BBC kids programme about a hotel.

Cheggers! That definitely tops Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp