To ask for embarrassing celebrity encounters

[woofsaysthecat]

Yes I started the celebrity claims to fame last week.

Today I excelled myself.

I went to buy a coffee before work and I walked out of the shop and literally banged into Neville from Harry Potter. I threw my cappuccino all over him. 🙈 He was lovely and bought me a new one but it was so embarrassing!

DP's mate invited him to a gig by some famous band he vaguely knew... can't remember who but anyway they were having drinks backstage afterwards and DP was introduced to a man called James who asked if he'd been inside for the support acts. For some reason DP said good god no I'm always in the pub for them they're usually shit. Of course the man asking was a support act. DP said the soon to become pretty famous James Blunt just laughed at his faux pas and was generally a right laugh.

My sister used to work for Columbia Pictures in London and one morning she got in the lift with about ten other people and Jack Nicholson who, she found out later, was there to meet with the CEO on the 12th floor.

Her floor was the 11th, but everyone else had exited by the 4th (she was quite senior), so for what she described as 7 excruciating floors it was just her and him. She is 6 ft in heels and he was apparently quite short, and he just stared nervously at the floor the whole time 😂😂.

I served Ray Davies in a clothes shop. He was trying on shoes but couldn't get any on his feet as he is very doddery (the years of drugs have taken their toll) and we struggled for a while with me making small talk and him mumbling while I rammed moccasins onto his feet. Awkward. Although after paying he did say thank you and shake my hand.

Also once I was working at an awards ceremony as a runner and I was standing in the foyer of the building where it was taking place looking up the steps into the main function room when suddenly out of nowhere Lionel Richie is coming towards me. There were plenty of famous people about that night but seeing him temporarily stumped me and rather than move to the side in a sane normal manner I instead threw myself in a large plant pot.

I sucked off paulo nuttini, wasn't embarrassing but it's my claim to fame

As a teenager took a phone message for a choreographer from Eddie Windsor. "Was he a posh bloke Sleep?" Asks amused choreographer. It was Prince Edward. I'd insisted on taking his number despite "Eddie" insisting choreographer already had it.

Sat opposite Ricky from EastEnders on the tube, next day stood behind him in chippie. When he walked into pub day after as I was sat on stool we awkwardly locked eyes before I beat him to it by saying "are you stalking me?" Cringe.

Lovely Martin Clunes was patient and kind when my then three year old "Nemo" mad precocious daughter took him by the hand and lead him round to show him the fish pictures in a chippy in Axminster. I mouthed "sorry" he mouthed "It's fine". Bless him!

I should really cut down on the fish and chips.

DH once got into big trouble with Michael Owen's security team for being in the vicinity with a large camera (he is a birder). He wasn't even aware of MO being around to begin with.

He also had a lovely long chat with Sam West at a birding spot in norfolk (wish I'd gone with him THAT day!). Although apparently they just bored on about birds for ages.

Welshmaenad is that a certain radio presenter with triplets?

Not 'sleb, but went to a political do as a guest & mistook an MP for a clockroom attendant & made him hang up my coat.

I was looking at him in horror later on when I realised who he was & he waggled his eyebrows at me.

I pointed at the historian Neil Oliver across a grassy square with a fully extended arm. in my defence I was pointing at the large dog for DS that his companion was walking

I live in NZ and was driving up our road one day when I saw this guy and girl out jogging. Thought "I know him I should wave" and so waved. Both looked at me like "who the f**k is that" (but still waved back in a polite manner) only for me to drive past and realise why I recognised him - it was Tiger Woods. (My next door neighbour used to be his caddy and TW was staying at his house for his wedding). Felt like a complete twat and cringed all the way home.

I am from Hampstead, North London, which is knee-deep in famous people, I've helped Boy George choose some olives in a deli, when I worked in a small store that sold interior decorations, Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane were regular customers and they were lovely, Rachel Weisz's mother used to come into the shop bragging about her daughter, she was a foul woman, in the same shop I worked with Sunshine, sister of Sadie Frost, and also Vanessa Feltz's sister worked with me part time there also. The most embarrassing was in a pub, me and my mate were pretty pissed, and I went over to the end of the bar, I really needed to fart, as I was letting rip really loudly, the actor and ex-Dr Who Tom Baker walked right behind me, I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me, I apologised, profusely, he laughed and said "Don't worry my dear". :)

Was at a charity do for work and spotted James Corden and Gary Barlow sitting next to each other. As I was horribly drunk, I thought it would be a great idea to lean over the head of the bloke sitting in front of me and suggest a Corden/Barlow sandwich with me as the filling. Sadly my boss and Barlow's security declined my kind offer on their behalf and then I realised that the poor bloke I had crushed in my eagerness to approach the boys, was Michael McIntyre. The shame ...

I had a huge bust up with a main cast member of The Bill years ago. She was a poisonous bully.

Which one?

At dh's friend's wedding reception, I noticed the photographer wasn't around and thought I'd do the bride and groom a favour by taking some candid pictures myself.

There was a particularly friendly and very photogenic couple nearby. I didn't know who they were, but I took lots of photos of them anyway. It was a small wedding, so they were bound to be relatives or close friends. When I handed the groom my nice collection of pictures, he told me that I'd done a great job of photographing the bodyguards

(The B&G aren't famous, just tremendously rich, so I'm cheating a bit with this story!)

Years ago, I ran into Tim Brooke-Taylor's ankles with my trolley in a Tesco. I apologised profusely before I realised who he was and then when I realised, I blurted out, "OMG! You're Tim Brooke-Taylor! Of course you know who you are!.... Sorry. "

Many years ago I was on my way to the gym at lunchtime with my work colleague. Whilst we were walking we saw a really gorgeous guy with a filming camera. As I turned round to look at him I bumped into someone and knocked them off the path into the road - that someone was Davina McCall, she was filming Streetmate at the time oops!! She was very nice about it

Many many years ago, not long after my student Withnail and I phase, I was crossing the green on a wintery day and walked past Richard E Grant. My glasses completely steamed up with the heat of my blush and I tripped over. Two days later, exactly the same thing happened again. Never saw him before or since.

Oh and as a barmaid I served Roger Waters a pint once. And, separately, Dusty Springfield a drink. Each time I was so embarrassed I blushed deeply and couldn't look them in the eyes.

The only celeb I could serve at the pub was David Dixon, the actor who played Ford Prefect in the TV series Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. He was a lovely, gentle man.

It's interesting how people come across differently in different circumstances. With a remote tenuous connection, I know some people who know Maureen Lipman as a friend. They've always commented how very down to earth, kind and thoughtful she is. Sending thoughtful gifts or writing cards way beyond what anyone would expect of a friend. Lovely but not luvvy.

I was waiting outside a hotel in Kensington with my, then 14year old, daughter and 3 of her friends, hoping to see One Direction - they were relatively new to the music scene (2012) when Harry Styles came out of the hotel and ran up to me and enveloped me in a huge hug 🤗!!! The girls were absolutely gobsmacked!!! I still have the photo 😂😂😂

I have another one. Bumped into this bloke in M&S Food and apologised - it actually wasn't my fault but I just automatically apologised. Heard him saying I was 'stupid' to his wife so rammed his ankles with my pram and thought I recognise that voice. It was Michael Owen - although he'd put a lot of weight on which is why I didn't recognise him at first. He lives locally and is a miserable tit.

What did Prince Edward want the choreographer for Sleep?

As a teenager, I was addicted to My So-Called Life. One day I saw Jared Leto in Camden Market. I was excutiatingly shy, but screwed the courage up to go over to him and tell him I thought he was great. He just stood there and smirked, looking me up and down. He didn't say a word until I turned around and walked away with my face burning. I will never forget what an utter wanker he was.

Nathaniel Parker (Inspetor Lynley), on the other hand, is an absolute gent. He offered my sister (newborn baby in a sling) and me his table in a cafe. My sister didn't realise who he was and blithely chatted away with him about having kids. He was charming.

Went to a restaurant really near where I worked as a community health type person, where I was meeting DH. On my way in, I saw I bloke who I definitely recognised. I am terrible with faces, but was pretty confident that he was the husband of one of my patients. I strode up, said "Fancy seeing you here!" and made small talk about the local area for a minute or two. When I sat down at my table DH asked me why I'd been harrassing Mike Leigh.

When we moved house I got chatting with a friendly neighbour. As it happened we were holding an informal get-together in our garden that weekend, so I invited him and his wife to pop over and join us for a drink and some food.

One of my friends spotted the newcomer and said "Wow, is that xxx yyy? How do you know him?" I was baffled, said "oh that's just xxx, our lovely neighbour who grows hollyhocks. I don't know his surname".

Turns out he was a well-known political mover and shaker, and as soon as I heard his surname the penny dropped . Lovely chap, rest his soul.