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To ask what your best celebrity encounter is?

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 22:01

I've snogged every member of Boyzone, including Ronan. I am incredibly proud of this...

DP is fond of telling everyone how much the Queen Mother loved his fart joke. He was escorting her around his barracks when one of the ceremonial horses which had pulled her carriage farted, the Queen Mother said "Oh, I'm terribly sorry!" to which DP replied "Oh, I thought it was the horse!"

He says she split her sides laughing... Hmm

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 22:02

And yes, I'm aware that is a joke as old as time but DP maintains he actually said it. Bless him.

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starboyz · 19/10/2016 22:03

Tale as old as time.

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 22:10

I said that to DP but he's convinced he thought of it. I don't like to rain on his parade too much... Grin

He likes to constantly remind us that Prince William used to have to salute him because DP outranked him at the time.

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BalloonSlayer · 19/10/2016 22:14

My Dad always told that story but it was about the Queen and the farting horse. Apparently she was in a parade with a visiting royal and . . . the rest is the same.

He would sometimes tell this twice a day (did not have dementia, was just boring).

He had a talent for telling self-aggrandising tales which were not strictly true so he missed a trick not putting himself in to that one.

BalloonSlayer · 19/10/2016 22:15

Sorry that reads a bit harsh, it was meant to be funny in an affectionate way.

I don't have any celeb anecdotes but I love hearing them

Moanranger · 19/10/2016 22:27

Sat right next to Ralph Fiennes at the Blubird Cafe for 2 hrs - that is, a series of two tops, I sat at table adjacent facing out, he sat facing in. It was really awkward as I had to not look at him. Every time I glanced his way, he gave me this fierce, hostile look. I think he was lunching with Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP) & they were talking Broadway plays. He gave off a nervous, high strung vibe, a bit weird. This was mid-nineties.

YouTheCat · 19/10/2016 22:29

I had a lovely chat with John Rhys Davies about his dd's reading age when he found out I'm a TA.

Sylvester McCoy was very shy.

Garret Wang was hilarious and very kind - tweeted dd's friend which made his day.

Ray Park is really funny.

Ralph Macchio (from Scrubs) was insanely funny and very rude. Grin

ssd · 19/10/2016 22:31

dh did keepy uppy in front of the Queen

OliviaStabler · 19/10/2016 22:31

Thought the Queen Mother scenario was with the King Of Tonga

I met Jean Paul Gautier, he was so lovely

doubletrouble41 · 19/10/2016 22:35

Don't know if anyone else has heard of him but here goes. Met the late great cult american comedian Bill Hicks at edinburgh festival in 1991. We hung out and went on a shoot saddam hussein fairground stall, and he won a box of chocolates and gave them to me.

Oysterbabe · 19/10/2016 22:37

I had a beer with Terry Pratchett. Nice bloke :)

limon · 19/10/2016 22:38

I've tripped over the manic street preachers, spoken to Norman wisdom and been served cider by James hewitt.

Soyouare2faced · 19/10/2016 22:38

I met Spielberg and he invited us to look at his boat in the docks, which was more like a big fuck off cruise liner , he was extremely pleasant

PipersPiping · 19/10/2016 22:39

Wow Bowie all of boyzone?! Ronan Keating, im so jealous. Cant imagine Mikey was much of a kisser was he?!
I have no celeb meetings of my own but am enjoying reading all of these Smile

mummyofmoomoos · 19/10/2016 22:39

I snogged Ray Lewis from the Drifters at reighton sands holiday park in 1999- also, Frank Bruno and Paul Frost signed my 'tyne tees telethon' sticker badge after I forgot my name on tv 😃😃😃 that's it- iv lead a sheltered life 😂

YouTheCat · 19/10/2016 22:40

Oyster, I am incredibly jealous.

I'm trying to push Hat Full of Sky on our year 5s every time they set foot in the library. Grin

MrsJayy · 19/10/2016 22:40

Seriously Bowiefan A BOOK write it 😀

mysistersimone · 19/10/2016 22:41

Chatted to Dame Edna Everage on the phone. Random but true.

MrsJayy · 19/10/2016 22:41

Even Steven Gately ?

ScarletForYa · 19/10/2016 22:42

Ronan Keating is a tool OP, sorry.

You should deny that one.

ihatethecold · 19/10/2016 22:43

I've got bloody Boyzone songs in my head now. Angry

ProjectGainsborough · 19/10/2016 22:45

Went to Ibiza and one of the guys we knew went missing for two days. Turned out he'd been with Sean Ryder the whole time Grin

8misskitty8 · 19/10/2016 22:53

My brother's best celeb encounter was that he was taught French by j.k.Rowling.

My dad had quite a few as he was in the police and was often on duty when members of the royal family came to our city. He said that prince Philip just says what he thinks. Just like how he is portrayed in the media. Princess Anne was lovely and friendly.

TamzinGrey · 19/10/2016 22:57

Came rushing on to say that Alf from Larkrise to Candleford once smiled and said hello to me, but that seems a bit tame now

Netflixandchill · 19/10/2016 23:00

I saw Shaun Bean verbally abusing his then wife/girlfriend in Camden and I stood and gawped

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