To ask what your best celebrity encounter is?

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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...

Sat next to Bill Nighy on the train from Paddington to Bath. I didn't know it was him till we got off. He had his head buried in a book the whole way.
He prolly wasn't reading it though. Ditto Jimmy Carr, who was groomed to within an inch of his life. He was actually sitting in somebody's booked seat, and when they came along and asked him to move, he apologised, collected his bags and stood in the vestibule.
If you catch the Leeds to KX regularly you will see most of the cast of Corrie and Emmerdale coming and going.

So did I!

At least, I was having all day breakfast (as brunch) in a cafe near the theatre where they were on. And they came in and had breakfast too.

I was star-struck

oops that was to Lelly

Oooh i have quite a few, used to work in luxury hotels.

1. We had David Bowie and Iman in our restaurant. I made him banana fritters with honey ice cream for pudding and he sent a compliment on how delicious it was
2. Looked after Martina Navratilova and her partner for a week at eastbourne tennis, they were lovely and i got to escort martina out past some japanese press and say "no pictures thankyou"
3. Have seen Liam Gallagher naked save for strategic hand towel. He was really lovely to all the staff. I've served a lot of slebs and he was genuinely the only one who had a aura of "something special"
4. I have made toast for the Spice Girls :D
5. Anna Kournikova's coach tried to get me to go up to give him some personal service in his suite. She was married to Sergei Federev at the time and we founds used condoms in her bin - and he was in Russia at the time

Tilda Swinton shops at our local garden centre where I used to work. Nice person, her husband was an interesting guy and her kids were well-behaved and polite.

Ewan McGregor-his brother lives nearby.

Jimmy Yuill. Met him last week at local coffee morning. My MiL explained who he was (loudly) whilst I (just as loudly) said who? Actor. Wycliffe.

And thats it. I live in a quiet area!

OP, did you tongue Boyzone?

Oh and while on holiday with my parents in Yorkshire Gary Rhodes was filming based in the same hotel. The only guests were us, him and the crew. He took me out in his sports car for rides as i was trainee chef at the time. Ironically i did work experience at his restaurant and never saw him !

Mine are so crap.

Sat on the table next to Kirk from Corra in a Pizza Hut in Bolton. I recognised his voice before I saw him!

Stood behind Beckham at the Disney store in the Trafford Centre.

Literally bumped into Fizz from Corra in Asda.

Chatted to Jarvis Cocker in a random mall in London.

Saw Dev (from Corra, of course) having a latte at Cafe Rouge on Deansgate.

Corra is clearly my main source of culture

Oo and we sat next to Liam Neeson at the Hotel de Crillon on the night DH and I got engaged.

I also have met many famous chefs. My ex was number 1 on the Times restaurant list last year, he owns a michelin star restaurant on the Wirral.

So i guess that's my fave claim to fame. A kiss and tell on a well-known-in-elite-gastronomic-circles chef :D

Chris Tarrant, wearing a dressing gown, offered me an egg sandwich.

I also got goosed by a very old Edwin Starr. Proper made me jump!

This is turning into a Bill Nighy thread but strangely no-one seems to have mentioned the usual suspect Anthony Head yet.

Littleprincesssara - I can contribute meeting 4 Doctors. Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Peter Capaldi. Also a pretend Doctor - I've met the lovely David Morrisey who thought he was the Doctor in a Christmas special.

Someone up thread has mentioned Peter Cushing - he was a movie Doctor! We're getting there!

When I was a wee slip of a girl an older friend asked me to go to meet her boyfriend who was in a band, I met the band members of T-Rex

metaphoricus, funny you should say that because I was going to post I used to work as cabin crew on the Leeds/Bradford- Heathrow flights and we would have lots of celebs on board, Emmerdale actors a-plenty were regular passengers!

Patrick Stewart was a regular passenger, and was lovely, Roger Black was very rude, Nicky Campbell flew every week with us for a few months and would board first, with a seat in the front row, (not first class, it was just one standard cabin in those days!) and take ages to sort his handbaggage out making everyone wait behind him to board.

I had an unscheduled stop in Heathrow one afternoon (aircraft broke!) and walking through the terminal saw someone who looked familiar, so I thought he was one of our regular passengers, said 'hello , how are are you?" then a few minutes later realised it was actually David Bellamy, and I'd recognised him from the TV

Aircraft was repaired, next flight, first passenger on was David Bellamy. He was lovely

As a painfully shy but football-mad 11 year old I saw then England manager Graham Taylor in Sutton Coldfield M&S. I had gone bright crimson, he obviously saw me all nervous so , put down the bottle of wine he was looking at and came over and said hello to me. I remain touched by it to this day and get oddly defensive when people criticise him.

In other football managers being nice human beings encounters, my former housemate had taken his mother for afternoon tea, he encountered then Sunderland manager Mick McCarthy.

Big Mick's Sunderland side were deep in relegation trouble at the time. Seeing my former housemate struggle with two trays worth of cream teas, Mick McCarthy bounded over and asked him: 'Can you manage'? 'Yes thanks' said my housemate.

For years afterwards he kicked himself that seconds after this encounter, he'd thought of a witty rejoinder to being asked 'can you manage?' by a beleaguered football boss: 'Yes, a darn sight better than you can.'

I have had dinner, separately, with David Bellamy and Irvine Welsh, and drinks with Atomic Kitten in the Kerry Katona days.

Consecutive posts made by users who have 'If you're feeling sinister' inspired user names. High-fives Judy

I used to work in a shop that had a good amount of celebs come in - the best two I saw were Kylie and John Cleese. I wish I'd been working the day David Attenborough came in!

I met Bradley Walsh, who hosts The Chase, about 20 years ago when I was a barmaid in a 5 star hotel in Torquay. He was staying overnight and was great fun in the bar, really friendly and chatty. Quite the contrast to Simon Mayo, who was a miserable old sod.

I can help with the "meet all the Doctors" part of the thread.

In the mid-late 80s I met Jon Pertwee! We had a very brief chat and I managed to get a photo.

I also directed Liam Neeson to the restroom.

I can help with meeting all the Doctors too; I met Peter Davison with David Tennant.
I also drank beer with the late great Terry Pratchett, & agree, a lovely bloke. At the SF convention we were at, when the hotel fire alarm went off in the middle of the night, he was happily signing autographs in his dressing gown.
I also had a cuddle with Brian Aldiss on his 80th birthday.
Numerous other actors & authors, all at SF conventions.

Dp didn't wake properly from an audience participation thing with Derren Brown. Had to go to a side room and be put under again and woke up correctly

DB was very in the zone, I think this is quite common though

Walked passed Bob Geldof at Heathrow Terminal 5 once - there was no one else around just him and me passing each other.
Bought Ken Livingstone a drink on a flight to Corfu once - he was with his wife and children and grandchildren. Turned out he was staying in the same town as us,, bumped into him out walking one day and he chatted for ages to us about the best places to eat. He was lovely. Bumped into him a few times after that including eating in the same restaurant as him and his family one night. I got worried he was thinking we were stalking him!

I was on The wide awake club in the 80s and won a game called Silly Senses with Timmy Mallet - i used anne diamonds dressing room ! Met Jarvis cocker and Liam gallagher later in life.

In St Andrews 2001 my geordie pal and I approached two lovely looking students in a bar and tried chatting them up, turned out one was kate Middleton, my friends opener was "alreet ladies wheres you all from then ?" kates reply was do i look multicultural ?

DD (aged7) was thrilled to be chosen to present flowers to Princess Margaret at opening of new Brownie camp facility. Burst into tears immediately afterwards. Portly, middle-aged woman in a navy blue coat and hat did not quite live up to DD's Disney Princess expectations!

On another occasion, my sister, suffering the after effects of flu, fell asleep at a Lenny Henry show and was spotted by the great man. It did not end well for her but gave everyone else a good laugh!

I served Paul Daniels in the shop I used to work in. He was looking for picture frame mounts and we didn't have any the right size. He was very nice.
I also served Dawn French. She was very polite, but looked quite hacked off about something. Still, she didn't take it out on me like a lot of customers used to.