To ask what do you say when you meet a celebrity?

[Mollymoo78]

I feel like the only person who has never met a famous person and I wouldn't know what to say if I did!!

I ended up having a conversation about terminal velocity with a couple of premier league footballers in the hairdressers once. That was odd.

I told David Beckham that batteries were cheaper in Boots.

It was 1998, I think, the Manchester united team were flying out somewhere. i worked in a music shop in Manchester Airport.

We got a fair few celebs through, but that was probably my most embarrassing moment.

(My other favourite was selling Neil Sedaka his own cd- and trying not to giggle at the fact he was clearly wearing a hair piece on the album cover- which he hadn't bothered with at 6.30 am ). I can't remember what I said to him , beyond 'hello'. My mother was jealous .

Nothing.
Got no interest in this so called celebs.

Well in the case of Mr Bloom he is most fantastically charismatic in real life. Close up and personal, he has incredible star quality, which is relatable warmth to the 3 year old he is squatting to talk to, and when he looks up to the mother of the 3 year old it's all still there but turns into... heat. Somehow.

I once went for the till in a Garden Centre at the same time as Clive Anderson. I let him go first. After all, Whose Line was it anyway.......

(It actually did happen - he said thank you and I said you're welcome. )

I met Artem from Strictly and Fern Brittan in a salsa club. (They had a salsa that week and were 'getting in the mood'). Everyone else in the club was politely ignoring them, but being such a Strictly fan I just had to say hello.

I said a polite hello to Fern and then fired loads and loads of questions to Artem about Strictly, but didn't quite have the guts to ask him to dance (although I really wanted to).

I've met 3 celebrities in my life: Danny Dyer, Miley Cyrus and Dani Harmer... The easiest celebrity encounter was with Dani, mainly because we spoke over Twitter for a year before we met. Miley was literally a 5 second hi and bye (with no photos ) and Danny was a DVD signing!

When I was about 7 and on holiday in Littlehampton we saw the woman who plays Dot Cotton on the beach. My sister and I were dumbstruck and my dad waltzed over and chatted to her for a good 10 minutes about the weather and whether or not it was a good beach for dog walking😂

I met Sean Bean in a bar in Leeds in the late 90s and spent a good hour half heartedly fighting off his pissed up advances.

My dad knew Kenny Baker (died today, played R2D2 in star wars) and we once to his house for tea and Carrie Fisher was there. I didn't know who she was and talked to her for over an hour about utter shit. She was lovely.

Who was it dodo?

I just ignore them, I wouldn't know what to say.

I've met more than I can count over the years. Got drunk with several - that helps!

I treat them in the same way I would treat anyone else. I don't give any indication that I recognise them.

I get to fly first class so sometimes meet 'famous' people on flights. I'm not in awe of someone just because they are famous though I might be in awe of them if they had done something awesome

Thymelord, I demand to know why you resisted Mellors' advances!

'My sister loved you when she was 12'

Yes, I was drunk. Thankfully, so was he

I met Peter Andre in the queue for security in Heathrow. The queue was empty, it was late and most flights gone at that stage. I could see him ahead of me for a while as I approached so I was preparing what to say!
I said "Nice tan". It was impressive and he glowed from a good distance away!
He was very nice to me and asked where I was going and how the weather was there. He was off to Cyprus.
He was tiny and skinny and orange.

Don't do what I did when I met a very famous Chinese writer in the elevator at the Hong Kong Literary Festival. I was getting off at a different floor to use the loo, and for some reason I decided I ought to explain this to the famous writer, in Chinese. However, I chose a rather crude way of putting it, akin to "I'm just going to take a shit." He looked at me like this:

My work meant I had clients who were well known so I tend to treat them as people and find the nice ones are fine with that although there are some complete knobs out there too.

My teenage crush once crashed a conversation I was having with a member of his band whilst waiting for luggage at an airport and we chatted for about half an hour . It was a bit of a goldfish bowl moment as a lot of people were staring at him . Don't think I'd like that every time I went out.

The other memorable one was also at an airport. Waiting for luggage (again) at Crete I sloped over to the smoking area and there was a bloke there already smoking. He just started chatting to me and I was trying to work out where I knew him from , did I know him from work, a Dad from school perhaps , the penny finally dropped that I didn't actually know him but he had the lead in a popular daytime soap. I didn't let on and just chatted on which was probably the right thing to do as someone else saw him in our resort and started gushing to him about how she watched him on TV and he couldn't get away fast enough. He was sat behind me flying home a week later and as we were getting off I said "hello it's the man with great taste in kids names " smiled and walked on ( wed discovered we'd named our sons the same name during our chat) .Going through customs the gushing lady came over and said nastily "Hobnobbing with the celebrity again are you" Her DIL had apparently told her he had chatted to me despite his snub to her and she was really annoyed.

Had a celebrity live in our road , he and his wife were very nice and normal , would say hello and made sure the fans who'd sometimes hang around outside their house didn't annoy the neighbours.

They are just people .....some nice , some not so much.

I've seen Alan Bennett (King's Cross station), Nick Cave (Southern trainnfrom Brighton to London), Oasis (Manester airport BA lounge) and Ethan Hawke (on the street in New York). Never spoke to any of them. Would have loved to have spoken to Nick Cave as I love his music but he was with his family and I didn't want to intrude, and I'd have said hello to Bennett too if I'd been able to remember the names of any of his books - I've read/seen pretty much everything he's written but I couldn't remember antting but The Histort Boys which was in the cinema at the time. I didn't want to look like some Johnny come lately who'd seen the film and vaguely connected it to the northern bloke with the big scarf

Oh and I saw Michael Gove once in a Gap in Kensington. It was long before Brexit though so I didn't go up and verbally abuse him

I have bumped into a few celebs (in London) and I smile and say "hi" because they look familiar so I think I must know them from work (big corporation) or the gym or something like that. I bet it happens a lot to them!

In the eighties I was a nanny to a celebrity and I used to go to the BBC and ITV canteens and take her little boy so met a few but was young and in awe. Did go on location a few times but one after the makeup artist done he makeup then mind, another celeb said ohh is this your younger sister she said no the nanny the next day she put me on the train back to London !

I sat next to a famous Manchester footballer on a flight from europe to UK. We said hello as we sat down, and then didn't speak again until the last 5 minutes of the flight, then we talked about the weather!

"I've met Johnny Vegas at John Lewis in Westfield Stratford. He was patiently queuing to pay for wrapping paper just ahead of me. I thought shall I ask for a pic (note: NOT a selfie)"

How weird! You mean you were just going to take a photo of him standing there alone?

I used to work in a swanky hotel and met loads of celebrities. David be khan, spice girls, Micheal Owen, sting.

I used to be really good at acting professionally.

Then for some reason when Mark Owen appeared I couldn't stop grinning like an idiot. I had to go back and ask him what he asked me for, because I had completely forgotten anything he had said. Thankfully he was very nice and not one of these celeb arses and still left a big tip

"Omg you're amazing, I love you so much, will you marry me? Please please pease please? What's that?"

FP "no"

Me being dragged away "I love you... We'll always have the restraining order"