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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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RockinHippy · 19/10/2016 23:38

I have lots, but I think my favourites are...

David Bowie asked me to dance

Lemmy Kilminster proposed to me okay he was so drunk he couldn't stand up & probably couldn't remember it

I shared a bottle of JD with Micky Finn

uggerboff · 19/10/2016 23:39

I snogged Billy Idol. It was a long time ago.

lilywhite32 · 19/10/2016 23:39

I was offered a private box at the local races and ended up sharing it with Bono and his kids and their friends. He was really nice and they seemed like normal people.

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 23:41

littleprincesssara

David Tennant helped me get my pram down some stairs at Cardiff railway station. Lovely man.

Oh and someone on another thread had their bum (accidentally) touched by Paul McGann. Now if we can just find someone who used to mow Jon Pertwee's lawn we've got nearly all of them Grin

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Twogoats · 19/10/2016 23:42

A (male) friend of mine asked Robbie Williams for his autograph. Robbie's response: "Fuck off, are you gay or something?"

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 23:42

RockinHippy

So jealous. The furthest I ever got was David Bowie buying me a drink. I've always loved him and still do!

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AndOtherIdiotsBlog · 19/10/2016 23:43

littleprincess I'm just stuck on 'an animal costume originally made for David Bellamy'

Wtf?

I remember thinking that he was the size and shape of an actual mountain, kind of tall and vaguely triangular.
Was his animal costume Wizbit from Payl Daniels?

Sweetdreamsaremadeofthis · 19/10/2016 23:43

My best friend of 20 years has a fairly big part in a scottish soap.

thenightsky · 19/10/2016 23:46

DontBuyANewMumCashmere I read that as 'gave Ed Balls a wank' too

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AndOtherIdiotsBlog · 19/10/2016 23:46

Oh wait I have another. I am friends with TV's Jonny Benarr from To Buy Or Not To Buy.

He's actually known to us as 'TV's Jonny Benarr'. I think he likes it.

almondpudding · 19/10/2016 23:47

I had a nice chat with Tom Hardy for about half an hour. This was orchestrated by my friend.

I've also met Eddie Redmayne.

I also made an absolute arse of myself in front of Jim Broadbent (not in any interesting way, just talking bollocks and inconveniencing him and his partner). He was absolutely lovely in return and called my daughter beautiful.

I still burn with shame to think of it every time he appears on TV.

GinIsIn · 19/10/2016 23:48

I work with 'slebs so get to meet a lot of 'A Listers'. Some nice, some not so nice. However my proudest celeb encounter, which has nothing at all to do with work, is that I once went to Chesney Hawkes's Christmas Party! Grin

IamtheZombie · 19/10/2016 23:51

Chatting with Rita Moreno when we were next to each other shifting from foot to foot making the floorboards squeak and groan. (Audio background track for an Alan Alda movie. Zombie did 3 days work as an extra.)

Tequilamockinbird · 19/10/2016 23:51

I was trying on a pair of shoes which I couldn't afford in a shop in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Kim Kardashian and her entourage came in and the security guards closed the shop so she could browse quietly Hmm.

I had no idea who she was, not much make up on and dressed really casual. If it hadn't been for the bodyguards, I'd have had no idea she was even famous!

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BowieFan · 19/10/2016 23:52

Alan Rickman made me melt in a lift once. Well, he basically just asked me where the best place to eat in the area was and his voice was so lovely my knees went a bit weak.

I just need to cross Bill Nighy and Colin Firth off my "gorgeous actors" list.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 19/10/2016 23:54

I used to live in Romania and flew back to London regularly. I always used to get a seat on the plane next to Ilie Nastase (famous Romanian tennis player from the 1970s). He used to largely ignore me, and on the fifth time said "You again!" and asked to be moved. The steward upgraded me to Business and left him where he was. Grin

5Foot5 · 19/10/2016 23:55

I once posed in a leotard for Douglas Bader.

This was in the very early 70s when I was still a Brownie. There was some big event at the local RAF base and he was the guest of honour. All the local Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies had to present a float. The theme for Brownies was a well known nursery rhyme so the 73rd Doncaster Pack did Sing a Song Of Sixpence. It was a low budget production so the costume for the blackbirds was a black leotard and a cardboard beak held on with elastic. All the girls who did dancing lessons already had a black leotard so we were automatically cast as blackbirds.

I remember it was a chilly day so all of us blackbirds huddled together in the pie. The pie was a wide strip of corrugated cardboard stapled together to make a circle. (I said it was low budget.)

I remember I was actually quite excited about seeing Douglas Bader because when I was a child the film "Reach For The Sky" was on all the time and I had quite a thing for Kenneth More when I was 9 and that was sort of who I was expecting to see. The real Douglas Bader was mobbed for autographs (WW2 was more recent then than the Falklands is now) so he ended up running late. After nearly an hour shivering in my leotard on the back of a lorry the great man eventually turned up. And walked past giving us hardly a second glance. Shortly afterwards Brown Owl told us we could put on our cardigans and stand down and that was that!

GabsAlot · 19/10/2016 23:57

sorry i cant see robbie ever saying that he loves the gay scene ;)

anyway i met him a few times myelf always lovely and even better looking

so nice to hear david tennant is nice wold love to meet him

met seal lovely and polite

PickledCauliflower · 19/10/2016 23:58

I met Peter Cushing in LIverpool back in 1983. He was utterly charming - I didn't think to ask why he was in the city. I just kept telling him how fabulous he was..

I am very envious of the Edna Everage / Barry Humphries telephone conversation! I love him.

MothersGrim · 19/10/2016 23:58

Scottish Soap... Is he in fact PC Plum from
Balamory Grin

PickledCauliflower · 19/10/2016 23:59

Illie Nastase :)

MamaMiaBebe · 19/10/2016 23:59

Judi Dench and Maggie Smith who were on holiday together in Scotland, got their autographs, I was in my teens.
Jimmy Savile (unfortunately), again in my teens.
Glen Michael when I was a kid.
Dave Gorman the comedian, after his show he did autographs.
Oh, and Cate Blanchett in a bathroom, I didn't realise it was her until she left.

PickledCauliflower · 20/10/2016 00:00

The irate tennis player - I can't even spell his name correctly!

LellyMcKelly · 20/10/2016 00:06

I once had breakfast with the Chuckle Brothers. Top that for glamour 😂

MyPeriodFeatures · 20/10/2016 00:09

i have lots. However most would be bad taste to share or illegal ;)