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!

Bumped into Calum Best in a nightclub in London about 15 years ago.

I just said Hi - how are you? We chatted some stuff then I got all emotional telling him how my dad is (now was) an alcoholic too and I really understand him! Jeez cringe worthy - to be fair to the poor bloke he nodded politely and we chatted more and then I think I cried and walked off! Omg! How ridiculous!

Picnicking at Cliveden with the kids and DH nudged me to point out Louis Theroux sitting nearby with his kids. Ooh, we said.

But then we went into the maze which is fucking impossible and so did he. We walked into him at least eight times and had to do the 'oh, sorry, excuse me, no, not that way' before we gave up and left out of sheer embarrassment

Not superstar famous but I walked into the local coffee shop with my toddler recently and recognised the woman ahead of me in the queue. Assumed she was another mum/gran/aunt who I've come across at playgroup, Rainbows, tennis or whatever so I smiled and said hello. She was very pleasant, commented on my toddler's red hair, made a comment about the weather. Wasn't until I'd sat down that I realised it was Sally Magnusson who reads the news on the telly.

Love these.

I made a fool of myself in front of mark owen years ago he was very lovely and charming and ignored the fact that I spoke total gobbledygook. I wouldn't mind but I'd never fancied him, but just completely lost the plot!

The day my DH got to the end of the Starbucks queue the same time as another gentleman who let my DH go first. As I joined them I realised it was Bradley Wiggins who'd let him go first!

Then people started queueing up to have their pictures taken with him and he kindly obliged. We watched on. He asked Dh do you want a picture and my DH replied "Nah, it's alright mate!"

PoppyPopcorn - My Mum had the exact same thing but it was Roger Moore!

As drunken 17 year olds on a 6th form trip to London 20 years ago a mate and i saw gaby roslin filming. Well we thought she was walking down the street but when we accosted her we found out she was.

Im well known for being a shit celeb spotter, they can be next to me and I'm blind so family make a joke about crap celeb spots. There's a certain pub that Russell brand's dad frequents and I may have been over to tell him about him winning my crap celeb spots game so far.... he's a bit of a twat ( and that's before he knew about the game) but he greets my husband like he's am old friend every time we see him

Husband gets mistaken for Noel Gallagher fairly often!

Worked as a night porter in a hotel. American driver comes in at about midnight, "Hey buddy, can you help get these bags in !?" Of course, so popped out to be met by two elderly gents and young lady all with McDonald's takeaways. They were so polite and appreciative as I took their bags in to the desk and booked them in. First guy says he's really tired snd could I help take his case to his room. He had one of the most amazing talking voice, really gravelly southern drawl. "No problem, Mr Nelson, follow me."
He'd been booked into the smallest most uncomfortable room we had. On our way, due to his politeness and age I mentioned we had more comfortable rooms and would he like me to upgrade him (free of charge). He smiled and told me it really wasn't necessary and went for his wallet to tip me. I refused politely, wished him good night and headed back to the reception/bar area.
Second guy asks if he and his daughter can get a drink, it's been a long day, they've just played a gig, etc...
Had a great chat, realised he'd been a famous singer in America in the 50's and 60's and that I'd earlier helped his best friend to his room....
Ben. E. King!!!
Stand by me is my favourite song and to have met the man unknowingly, and for him to be so gracious and humble... absolute delight.
Gary U.S. Bonds was awesome too.
Not very embarrassing, sorry.....

I once delivered a lawn mower to pat sharp. He was only wearing a towel... is that better?!

When he was manager at Rangers (and therefore having hard man reputation) I basically skied into Graeme Souness at Hillend Ski Slope. I was very sorry and in great fear but he was fine about it and helped me up. Told be to stay on the nursery slope though!

Had to serve Alexander Armstrong in a shop many moons ago. My boss forced us all to do that very annoying upselling malarkey and threatened to sack us if we didn’t sell a certain %. So I offered Alexander Armstrong a 12 pack of AA batteries and then laugh snorted in his face because all my colleagues were stood behind him pulling faces at me.

I physically walked smack into Miranda Hart in a petrol station supermarket. I'm female and 6"3 and rarely see any other ladies my height but she is, so we were both equally surprised and it was actually quite funny!

Not really embarrassing, other than still really not knowing who the person was, but had a lovely chat with a man in a hotel reception area in Kolkata while waiting for work colleagues. When they turned up they were very excited that I had been talking to Shah Rukh Khan. He's very big in India, apparently.

Not me but DP's mate (yes, I know how it sounds!) He was walking into the town centre when a chauffeur driven car pulls up beside him and the driver ask for directions. The mate notices and recognises the man in the back - Ferghal Sharkey. He cheekily asks for a lift into town and Sharkey lets him in!

Once served a member of the royal family in a shop. It was busy.

'Don't you know who I am?'
'Nope'

Carried on serving someone else.

I used to work at the BBC, so have a raft of second-string celebrity encounters, mostly of the mundane “sat next to them in the canteen” type though....!

Did get stuck in a lift with Sean McGuire once, and rather drunk with Paul Darrow (Blake’s 7) and Paul O’Grady (separately!). Terry wogan at Children in Need was lovely albeit a bit stressed funnily enough; Craig Charles was bonkers.

This is outing.

I once knocked Englebert Humperdinck onto his arse when my cousin and I were racing on bum boards on a ski slope in Austria. In my defence I was only 10.
I was not 10 when Michael Palin asked me my name and I could only respond with honks, squeaks and desperate hand flapping. Lovely man. He was so nice to me in my starstruck meltdown.

A friend of mine is a nanny and her family were friends with a actor from friends. Her daddy boss had a friend staying and he said to my friend do you like friends and she said no it's rubbish not in the slightest bit funny and then Realises it's Mathew perry....

OP my friends & I saw Neville Longbottom (Matthew Lewis) in a bar on our Christmas work night out about four or five years ago. We we're a bit merry and approached him for a photo. He obliged and was genuinely lovely to us, despite the fact that he was just trying to enjoy a night out with his friends and had been interrupted by an annoying group of tipsy women

I nodded and smiled at a lady at a concert.
She looked confused.
I said to my firend "Havent got a clue what her name is, I think shes
' a barmaid in the local pub"

Friend looked at me "thats Jessies Wallace, you tit"

whoever Jessie Wallace is

Was working as a waitress in the VIP room in a sports ground in Sydney.

A bodyguard type bloke (all in black, one of those earpieces) asked me to get a white wine for the prime minister, which I dutifully did. The problem was, I had no idea at the time what the prime minister of Australia looked like, so I walked round and round looking for someone important looking. Never found him, and it turned out my friend had eventually been asked and brought him his wine. She also had no idea what he looked like, but did at least have the courage to ask someone.

Went to sailing club dinner years back, got chatting to a lovely couple (found out she used to live in the same village as us). Sat opposite them at dinner, continued chatting to them all evening. In the car on the way home DH said to me "you do realise who we've been talking all evening, don't you?" Turned out it was the guy who played the policeman in 'Allo 'Allo!

Many years ago when I worked in Camden, my friend and I sat next to Suggs and his wife in a restaurant.. We were being very cool about it all but when he got up to leave he tripped over a huge toaster that I'd just bought for a friend's new house. Oops. Not so cool after all he was very nice about it!

When I was underage a teen I walked smack bang into madonna. She had done some sort of appearance in a nightclub in London was being ushered off the stage, which I was drunkenly making my way to. I'm v short and was v.slim and fucking and diving between people, bounced off her and had no clue until some very excitable people rushed over to ask how I managed to get past her security.

The ONE time my phone auto corrects ducking to Fucking

Please could the lady from the similar Barbara Windsor thread who puked in front of Mark Rylance while pregnant add her story here? It's my fave celeb story of all time! Apparently he was lovely and she told him he was just like Flop in real life.