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To ask what your best celebrity encounter is?

517 replies

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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Lara2 · 19/10/2016 23:02

I read bedtime stories to Bob Geldof and Johnny Fingers as part of a Rag Week publicity stunt at uni in the 80's.
I was in a walking stick shop in Arundel a couple of years ago which was tiny and cramped and full to the brim of stock. There was man walking round, we brushed past each other as we squeezed past all the stuff. I left DH and my Dad looking round, sat outside where there was a cute dog tied to the bench. I sat down, stroked the dog - who had a good sniff of my legs - while I waited. Man came out of shop, takes dog and walks off. I went back in, and the shop owner said "Did you recognise him?" It was Bryan Ferry! Grin It was the last place I'd expect to see him - not very rock 'n' roll! My sister was very jealous - she's a huge fan. I had at shirt made for her that said "Bryan Ferry's dog sniffed my sister's leg" Grin

Lurleene · 19/10/2016 23:03

If you want a celebrity encounter hang out in Waterloo on a Monday night about 7pm. My DH seems to see every single week when he goes to catch his train home. This week's celebrity was Bill Nighy who had surprisingly curly hair apparently.

MsJudgemental · 19/10/2016 23:05

Sat on George Best's knee in his yellow Lotus Elise.

gunting · 19/10/2016 23:06

Mine are a bit shit and really shit.

I saw Lenny kravitz builders bum in New York

I served Rolf Harris a panini

OvertiredandConfused · 19/10/2016 23:06

I work in the charity sector so have quite a few! My favourites are:

Bill Nighy took (just) me out for afternoon tea

I've shared dieting tips with Tony Hadley over a glass or two of wine

I shared a cocktail jug (with three straws) with Alan Carr and Gok Wan

I had to help host Hugh Grant at a drinks reception

emmeline7725 · 19/10/2016 23:07

Friends and I were in a kebab shop in Birmingham. Standing in front of us was a famous Irish comedian. We were drunk and debated (we thought quietly) what his name was.
"Ardal O'Hanlon" we decided.
He turned to us and said "It's Dara O'Briain"
We were a bit mortified. He was lovely.

needsahalo · 19/10/2016 23:09

Kiev from Coronation Street asked me, politely, to move when I was between him and his suitcase going round On a luggage carousel. Sat opposite Richard E Grant on the northern line once.

DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 19/10/2016 23:10

I served Aled Jones fish and chips and an orange juice, and I snogged Chesney Hawkes' brother.
Gave Ed Balls a walk through a major city centre (as a police officer).

Clandestino · 19/10/2016 23:13

I met Keith Flint at the Heathrow, he was standing beside me talking to a journalist I believe.
This was 1996 and Prodigy were at their peak. I am really proud of myself because I totally maintained my cool and pretended I don't know who that tattooed guy is, except for the fact that I must have looked like a madwoman with hypermobile ears as I was trying to eavesdrop. Inside I was jumping up and down like a kangaroo on speed.
Other than that, even if I saw a celebrity I wouldn't recognise them because I have the shittiest memory for faces ever.

AndOtherIdiotsBlog · 19/10/2016 23:15

As a teenager I 'won' a place on a debating panel next to David Bellamy. He was an absolute GIANT.

God I'm dull.

cattychatty · 19/10/2016 23:15

I read that as gave Ed Balls a wank Grin

newnameforamoment · 19/10/2016 23:16

NC for this as it would definitely out my usual name.

I met, kind of through work, Alex Papps. He played Frank in Home and Away when it first started. We got on, had loads in common, and ended up seeing each other for a couple of months. He was over for a panto, and when it finished, he went home. We stayed in touch, he is still a really good friend and has been to stay with me, and me with him.

But if you are not of a certain age the name will mean nothing!!!

And if you are a football fan, then Gary Mabbutt has been to my house. I was 12, a member of the junior fan club, I wrote to him and he decided to answer in person as he lived not far away.

AndOtherIdiotsBlog · 19/10/2016 23:16

Dontbuyanewmum I totally read that as 'gave Ed Balls a wank' 😂

SpiritedLondon · 19/10/2016 23:17

I got up close and personal with James Blunt but then another 3000 women will be along with the same story in a minute. Grin

babybythesea · 19/10/2016 23:22

David Bellamy! Reading AndOtherIdiots made me remember I could in fact add to this thread and not just lurk!
I went on holiday with him - it was a nature conference/tour of Corfu looking at wildlife. He was eccentric with some, um, interesting, views, but he was brilliant to be around for that length of time.

ashamedtoask · 19/10/2016 23:24

I got in the papers with Barney the Dinosaur. I was picked out of children's hospital for press photographs during a UK tour in early 90s. DM maintains it was because I was dressed head to toe in pink , and thinks that she had to sign release forms for American publicity too. Made it on a front page here (local news) and don't know what they did in America if anything. Barney's 'people' gave me all sorts of stuff (annual, polaroid photos, colouring books).

I just remember my mum telling me to be quiet as I kept shouting out that Barney wasn't really talking (I was 6, and to be fair it was obvious that he was 'talking' via a tape player in the corner of the room)!

babybythesea · 19/10/2016 23:25

And through work I've met John Cleese and Andrew Sachs. Must somehow accost Prunella Scales to complete the set....

And Princess Anne. I liked her. Knew what she was talking about and was enthusiastic and interesting.

And my grandparents used to live next door to Natalie Cassidy - she was a real sweetheart to them, even when my gran started offering careers advice (better get some elocution lessons, dear, it will help you find work....). They missed her a lot when she moved.

ashamedtoask · 19/10/2016 23:26

(Perhaps mine is the most embarrassing encounter?!)

Smol · 19/10/2016 23:29

Met David Tennant

A couple minor YouTube celebrities have tweeted me.

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 23:31

Yes, every member of Boyzone. It was for charidee so they had no choice. Ronan was best obviously, but Stephen wasn't bad either. Sigh.

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SylvesterMcM0nkeyMcBean · 19/10/2016 23:33

I cleared rod hull's table in a cafe at my Saturday job when I was 16. He didn't have emu with him...

littleprincesssara · 19/10/2016 23:33

AndOtherIdiotsBlog, I've worn a animal costume originally made for David Bellamy. I am 5'2. It was not a good look.

I've met and shared cake with Christoper Eccleston, and my dad was once in a hotel bar with Tom Baker.

Can we try to get all the Docs?

TheFlyingFauxPas · 19/10/2016 23:37

I met one of the actors who played the horses Joey and Topthorn in the play Warhorse. We'd just been to see it, shortly before it ended in the West End. Oh he was so lovely. I stopped him to take a photo of me and ds outside the theatre and we got chatting. He answered all my daft questions and chatted for ages before he said he really had to go to get some tea before the evening performance.
Oh I was walking on air for days Smile I wouldn't call him a celebrity though. More of a.... god? Wink

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 23:37

Oh and I'm fairly convinced I walked home with somebody's BRIT award once. It was when I was working as a seatfiller and it was just sort of left on the table at the end of the night. It was either Bon Jovi's or Alanis Morisette's. I only remember because they weren't there and someone else picked it up for them.

And then when I woke up the next morning it was in my living room. So we kept it and then it turned up in the paper as having been stolen so I had to take it back and tell them what had happened. I wish I'd kept it now, it'd be worth a fortune!

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TweeBee · 19/10/2016 23:38

OP I'm so jealous! How I wanted to marry Stephen.....
Anyways, I once asked Wayne Rooney to move because I was trying to get something and he was in front of it. He apologised politely. I didn't know who he was.