To ask for embarrassing celebrity encounters

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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!

Steff13: I'd have embarrassed myself further by offering to lick it off him.

DeadDoorpost: 'My dad punched Billy Connely in the face while shooting a film...' Can we know more please?

I do have a story not involving me but involving DH. About 15 years ago DH was very interested in music tech and used to do sound engineering work. He went to a big music tech fair one year so lots of equipment being sold. He was studying the tech details for a particular piece when I guy came over and realised he knew a lot about music tech and asked for his advice on some of it. DH was pretty busy at the time so mumbled a bit of advice but didn't really go into too much detail or look at him that closely as he just wanted to get on with what he was doing. Shortly afterwards he noticed loads of people crowding around this guy. Curious he took a better look at the guy. It was Elton John. To this day he still kicks himself that he was in a position to give music tech advice to Elton friggin' John and cocked it up! In his defence he said Ellton was dressed very casually (jeans, t-shirt etc) and so just looked like a regular guy, and didn't look really look like how Elton normally looks.

OH nearly took Chesney from Corrie off your screens.

He stepped right out in front of the car in town, if OHs reactions hadn’t have been as good, then I dread to think.

Nothing was said between us, just a very worried expression on poor Chesneys face.

Matt Lucas once knocked on my door late one evening to ask if it was my bathroom that was flooding through his ceiling.

My dad totally fangirled when he spotted Michael Palin on New Bond Street. Literally chased him down and begged him for a photo, lifelong hero. Michael Palin was lovely and stopped for a few minutes for photos etc. I'm sure I spotted him checking over his shoulder to make sure my dad wasn't following him. The photo of my dad and Michael Palin replaced the photo of me and my brother on his desk at work.....

I'd have embarrassed myself further by offering to lick it off him

My first thought too, Steff

I once registered Maureen Lipman for a conference. She was a cow!

I've been told that as well.

She's a boring cow, too - I was listening to her on the radio a week or so ago, and she was so tedious and unfunny it was embarrassing. I had to turn it off.

Followed Johnny Wilkinson into the sports village at Bath Uni about 10 years ago. Early on a Sunday morning. Nobody around.
Close enough that he turned to see who was following him.
Shouted at him very excitedly 'You're Johnny Wilkinson'.
He didn't seem surprised by this, turned on heel and left abruptly.
Served Madge from Neighbours in a shop once. She was horribly rude. Didn't realise who she was and when she said 'Don't you know who I am?' , I replied ' I'm terribly sorry, I don't think we've met?'

I always grin inanely at Mark Rylance who lives locally to me. It’s involuntary. I always promise I won’t do it again but he’s got the most inviting, humane face ever and always smiles back.

@slothface lday tell WHY you were in Pharell Williams's penthouse???????????

@bananasaregood....Tom hiddlestones loo??? How??
And how can I get in there preferable with him though

So, I'm boarding at the aircraft doors looking at the passenger boarding passes being helpful, when this beautiful tall lady appears at the door. Me being friendly 'how are you? I haven't seen you for a while, we must catch up...' thinking she's a colleague.
I proceed to look at her boarding pass and note her name Naomi Campbell

Ha! Consider yourself lucky she didn't hurl her mobile phone at you.

We were once picnicing at Chiswick House and Mr. Darcy Colin Firth sat down next to us with his family and their picnic.

I couldn't carry on as normal, I was kind of frozen, so eventually my husband (a bit amused/disgusted) said 'maybe we should move to a different spot?' so we did.

I spent a good hour in the lounge at Champneys spa talking about Harry Potter with a random bloke - he'd sat on 'my' sofa as it was quite busy and then asked me what I was reading on my Kindle...

...I lied and said Harry Potter when in fact is was a smutty m/m romance as I wasn't about to admit that to a stranger!

Anyway, lovely bloke, really knew his Potter. Enjoyable chat. Friend arrives and sits with us and immediately goes all weird and the conversation dries up. Bloke excuses himself.

Friend says 'what were you talking to xxxxx about' - turns out the England football team were staying at the spa and using the pitch out back for practice and the HP bloke was a very well known player.

This is a rubbish story as I'm that not into football I couldn't even remember his name for the story. Lovely guy though.

A bit outing for me, but one of the celebs mentioned above was a parent at school.

He was looking very shifty and grubby, and skulking near the gate and obviously just trying to keep a low profile from other parents, but I thought he was just a dodgy character hanging around the school gates, so reported him to the office. Nope. Much laughing at me.

A couple of years ago, my niece was as most girls were, a huge huge fan of one direction.

They had somehow managed to get book signing tickets, and last minute her parents couldn’t take her, so I took her instead. They had two tickets which meant two books. I held the other and said I’d wait for her when we got closer to the front as I couldn’t imagine anything worse!

I’m sure their team decided to all be arse holes as soon as we got in the queue. One of them convinced me to get the second book signed, then when we got to the front, they let me niece go, then stopped me (it was a constant stream getting them signed until this point). They waited until she’d got through all of them, then they let me go up. They made the next person wait until I’d seen them all.

So there I was, absolutely cringing with my little book asking them to each sign it as if I was 13, with all of them free waiting for me to make my way across the table. I could feel my face burning up and each of them aswell as the bouncers were clearly enjoying my utter embarrassment! Once I’d finally got to the end of it, the constant stream of kids going through resumed.

Never will I ever take her or my kids to one again

I'd just left work for the day and there was a woman walking towards me; she looked very familiar and I thought she was one of our clients - but I simply couldn't remember her name to say hello to her, so I opted for a friendly smile. As she passed me she smiled back. It was only when I was halfway home that I realised it was Trudie Goodwin (June Ackland, The Bill).

This is sort-of in reverse. Donkey's years ago I was friends with Duncan Goodhew (swimmer) - before he became famous as a gold and bronze medal winner in the 1980 Olympics, although we lost touch. Some years after his Olympic fame I was walking through Mayfair when I saw him walking towards me. I was too embarrassed to say hello to him in case he'd forgotten me and might think I was some random fan!

@Kitkat1985 no idea what film it was for but Billy Connelly was meant to be the one punching my dad my dad's a big guy so it was going to hurt. He didnt hit him hard though, as it suddenly occurred to him what was happening and pulled back. Thankfully he took it well 😂

Seeing the Rowan Atkinson one, my dad was at a car show and was opposite the Jaguar showspace. Rowan Atkinson loves Jaguars for anyone not aware... anyway, as RA was looking at this car my dad watched him do a whole Mr Bean spiel as he was sitting in it and trying it out, totally oblivious to my dad watching him across the space. Dad says it was really cool to see him just relax for a bit and enjoy himself. (Dad has seen and met a load of celebrities over the years as a chef and through other jobs. Just seems to find them. No idea how)

Sorry, tagged you wrong @KitKat1985

My grandmother was at an event with George Clooney and Helen Worth. She walked straight up to George Clooney, only to ask him where the raffle tickets went.

I also nearly knocked poor Candice Brown out last year at the train station. To be fair, it was a tiny little shop, but I'm glad I wasn't holding anything!

My drunk friend asked a very drunk, not attractive in the slightest and not very funny comedian to come and join us for a drink. He declined. I was mortified.

Accidentally hit a Beatle in the bollocks then while at star struck and reeling from the event let a door swing back into Jonathan Ross' face.

The time I told 9 Leeds Rugby League Football team players that I could only do 2 at a time 😮😮😮

I used to walk my dog in the local park and quite often chatted to a man with 2 unruly poodles. Didn't think anything of it as always chatted to other dog owners.
Anyway one day I was at work and the man turned up, I cheerily greeted him saying oh hello poodle man. He looked a bit embarrassed and once gone my colleague said he was Chris Packham. Didn't have a clue who that was at the time so had to google.

A former colleague of mine overdid it a bit at a BRIT Awards afterparty and vomited all over Andrea Corr.