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To ask for embarrassing celebrity encounters

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woofsaysthecat · 27/09/2017 22:58

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. 🙈Blush He was lovely and bought me a new one but it was so embarrassing!

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Badbilly · 30/09/2017 11:39

About 15 years ago, I was at a house party in West London, celebrating the 70th birthday of a guy who had something of a celebrity photographer in the 1960's London scene. I was there in a somewhat "friend of a friend " capacity, and was supplying the sound system.

Anyway, got talking to (what I thought) was an old couple who seemed very knowledgeable about the music scene, and music in general. Anyway, we had a long conversation about music and I was telling them enthusiastically that I used to play in a band (think pubs, clubs etc).

I later found out that the "old couple" were none other than Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and Clare Torry (sang on "Dark Side of the Moon").

Spadequeen · 30/09/2017 12:25

Not me but a friend.

Our children were all invited to a birthday party, was one of those informal everyone come over and the kids hang out, really lovely and relaxed.

Anyway it was just after an election so politics was brought up and friend said to one of the other guest (who seemed very knowledgable about politics) what he did, he mumbled something about being an MP many years ago. He was Dr David Owen. She was mortified when she realised.

dalecooper · 30/09/2017 12:28

We should have a new thread not about embarrassing encounters but about encountering celebs who are arrogant wankers. I would put Alan Davies somewhere near the top of my list. Have never been able to watch him on tv after he was a cock in 1998.

tootsieglitterballs · 30/09/2017 12:49

@Dizzybintess sorry, tad late to the thread, but your James cordon story made me spit my tea out in giggles as I just visualised him saying it just like smithy! Lovely story, and how cool to have your house in gavin and Stacey!

DesignatedDriver76 · 30/09/2017 13:04

A couple of years ago, DH and I went to watch Paul McCartney play at Hammersmith Apollo. We were in the upstairs bar and Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon walked past us. DH said to me, "run after them and get a photo" and me, being tipsy, ran after them.

I caught them up and said to Steve Coogan "I'm a big fan, can I have a photo?" And then....I GAVE my phone to ROB BRYDON and asked him to take a photo of me with Steve!

What an idiot..!!!

nickamram · 30/09/2017 13:25

I entered the loo at work only to walk in on a man having a pee. I reversed out quickly, apologising profusely (even though it was his fault the door wasn't locked!). I mentioned to the receptionists what had just happened and they informed me that it was actually Jimmy White, the snooker player I'd just disturbed! 😳😳

Doreah · 30/09/2017 14:10

Not mine but DH gave Dennis Waterman a couple of quid for the parking meter as he hadn't brought out any cash with him. Rula Lenska was with him and DH said she seemed incredibly embarassed at having to ask a radom passerby for some cash!

greeningthedesert · 30/09/2017 16:14

badbilly and dalecooper on celebs who were arses. Many many years ago Clare Torry was a regular at the pub I worked at. She made very very sure we all knew who she was and what she'd done - sang on Dark Side of the Moon - and was a completely entitled cow of a customer. Glad she 'grew up' into someone nicer.

FruBayerischOla · 30/09/2017 16:47

"Saw Rupert Penry-Jones at the theatre once when he was still in Spooks, very tall and very dishy."

Haha, MumsTheWord, this has just reminded me of another one. Some years ago I was in my local pub with a group of friends. One of my friends nudged me saying "look who's over there". I turned round and just saw a group of people sitting at a table. So I said "yeah, and who and I meant to be looking at?" Friend said "Rupert Penry-Jones". So I said "who on earth is Rupert Penry-Jones?". Friend was somewhat pissed off with me that I'd never heard of RPJ ... because I'd never watched Spooks!

ButtonMooooon · 30/09/2017 22:49

@user1473337123 I bloody loved Streetmate

Sorry as you were

dalecooper · 30/09/2017 23:37

Street mate with Davina was da bomb.

townlass · 01/10/2017 00:10

As a teenager, I was quite fond of the Javelin thrower Steve Backley. We'd gone to watch the athletics at Sheffield and I was stood waiting for him to throw. He walked over to the edge of the arena getting ready to start his run up. My plan was to run down the steps to get as close as possible to him. Instead I ran down the first few steps and fell down the rest coming to a stop as I hit the barrier he was stood at. He just looked down at me and walked away!

AuntieFester · 01/10/2017 00:34

Not me but my shortsighted mother:
She goes into the John Lewis Oxford St branch and approaches a chap in a navy suit standing in the middle of the shop floor.
"Excuse me, could you direct me to the haberdashery department please?"
"I'm sorry Madam, I don't know, I don't work here"
It was John Major

FeralBeryl · 01/10/2017 00:36

Oh God thought of a far worse one Blush
Ian Broudie came to view our flat when we were selling it. I in a fog of PND didn't remotely recognise him, asked what he did for a living and even when he said he was a musician and spent a lot of time in London too didn't click.
I then tried to impress him by boasting that one of the Zutons lived up the stairs, told him that music was too competitive an industry to try and get anywhere in these days, he was basically wasting his time.
Utter Tit I am.

chirpyburbycheapsheep · 01/10/2017 13:44

dalecooper here is one started about disappointing celebrity encounters:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2979699-Barbara-Windsor

What did Alan Davis do? Actually, do I want to know as I love As Yet Untitled......

dalecooper · 01/10/2017 14:17

Haha excellent feralberyl

dalecooper · 01/10/2017 14:20

Alan Davies was one of the most arrogant celebrities I have ever encountered. He came into the restaurant in Covent Garden where I was working and I said 'look it's Alan Davies' more to myself than anyone else although I did want my mate to see. He turned to me and tutted and sighed heavily and gave me the filthiest look. I have thought he was a cunt ever since Smile

SchadenfreudePersonified · 01/10/2017 19:21

I'm so disappointed Dale - he always seems so affable on the telly. Sad

dalecooper · 01/10/2017 19:40

I know! Whenever I see his face I always think 'you are not as lovely as you make out you git'. You don't know until you meet them in the flesh. Kelly Hoppen and her daughter are also a couple of cows.

SheNumpty · 02/10/2017 16:21

I once tweeted about having worried for a second that Michael Caine had died, as I had seen his name trending on Twitter and that's normally where I first saw news like that first. He was just on the telly at the time thank goodness.

My friend replied, saying that he and his wife regularly wondered if Barry Chuckle was still alive - to which Barry Chuckle himself replied, assuring us both that he most definitely was.

RhiannonOHara · 03/10/2017 09:23

Kelly Hoppen and her daughter are also a couple of cows.

Don't know about Kelly H and no idea who the daughter is, but I can vouch for Kelly's mother being a bitchbag. And tight with it despite being loaded (always 'forgot her purse' when out for a work coffee/lunch etc).

astoundedgoat · 03/10/2017 14:35

I've only met Kelly Hoppen once, and she was awful. Her advice to the entrepreneurs who had come to see her for her "mentoring" essentially boiled down to "you should build a multi-million pound business first, and then grow it". Cheers for that, Kels. She also couldn't really move her face. #botox

SansaryaAgain · 03/10/2017 14:39

A former colleague once mistook Adrian Lester for one of the IT guys from work Shock

JoffreyBaratheon · 03/10/2017 15:41

A year or two after we left uni, my friend turned up at an event with her 'new' partner. We were all in our very early twenties and this bloke was then maybe in his 40s. I kept loudly asking "What is X doing with that old bloke?" Apparently, he was Jimmy Page from Led Zepellin, who all my friends recognised (and idolised, and couldn't quite believe he was spending the evening with us) but I had no interest in that kind of music, and didn't know him from Adam. He sat at our camp fire and sang and played an acoustic guitar, and they were all so star struck to have sung with him. But I kept being objectionable because I had no idea who he was. He was actually lovely.

I also once spent all evening (a Thursday, early 1980s ) out with someone who was No 1 in the charts and on Top Of The Pops that very evening (well, his band's video was, as he was with us). And I didn't realise til afterwards and someone told me, who we'd been singing with all night (as this was a Folk Club and his band was decidedly pop).

Once at a party I chatted most of the night with a bloke who had one of the main roles in 'The Bill'. I had no idea who he was. But he looked vaguely familiar. So I chatted with him, hoping it would come back to me whether he was the bloke from the market, or the man from Tescos, or... (My ex was an actor in a cockney TV thing). It was only afterwards ex told me who he was, I realised I kept seeing him in trailers for his show - which I never watched. Apparently he enjoyed talking to me because I wasn't star struck.

I also once stood on Feargal Sharkey's foot. I was wearing heavy army boots at the time. It was the height of his fame and he was probably playing the city where we lived but not looking where I was going, I walked right into him, on the street and stood on his toe. His roadies or whatever they were, looked ready to swing for me.

Mimsy123 · 03/10/2017 16:54

I also once spent all evening (a Thursday, early 1980s ) out with someone who was No 1 in the charts and on Top Of The Pops that very evening

Intriguing, but I don't think you mentioned who this was Joffrey.

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