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!

Back in 2008 I went with my boyfriend to Rome for a long weekend (he's now my husband as he proposed there). We were on the plane out with Hugh Bonneville & presumably wife which I found amusing. But then it became apparent that we were pretty much doing a tour of Rome on foot in the same order. So we kept seeing him everywhere. It was ridiculous! They were even on the same BA flight home. Except we flew business and he was in economy. Haha! I think this was pre-Downton so I expect he private jets it places now!

I once nearly knocked over Pete Waterman, in the lounge, at a Boxing Day match at Walsall FC in my defence, I'd just finished working in the football shop and was trying to get to the window so I didn't miss any of the game

I also met Terry Pratchett at a book signing, I wasn't very well and having to wait in a queue in miserable November weather was not doing me any good. When I got to the front, I was completely starstruck and the 'fans' (workers at the store) at the side of him were really rude. He was so lovely and kind.

One of my first early teen crushes was Jason Donovan. Recently he was in a play in Glasgow and we got free tickets through work to go and watch. We bumped into him afterwards outside -loitered at the stage door-. There were only a few of us but he was pretty grumpy and said he could only do "a few" autographs. So of course we started posing for selfies with him until the only way he could get away was to -run- walk quickly away from us on his own down the road. How times have changed from his Scott Robinson hey days xxx

My MIL was in Topshop in Manchester when she passed Deirdre Barlow from Corrie going up on the escalators as she was going down. When MIL got to the bottom, she went back up as she'd realised she'd forgotten something. Deirdre saw her and gave her a really dirty look, like she thought my MIL was a super fan who was following her.

A few years ago DP and I went out for the day with DP's adult DS and his DD (so, DP's DGD). We'd stopped at a small playpark for DGD to play on all the equipment. At one point DP pointed out to us a guy sitting outside the cafe with a woman watching their DC playing - DP said "that's Nick Clegg". I hadn't noticed, but eventually agreed that DP was right (this was during NC's period as deputy PM in the Coalition).

The woman wasn't NC's wife, but we thought she was probably a bodyguard/nanny - and his DSs playing were similarly guarded by two, rather burly, male bodyguards. We hadn't intended it this way, but it turned out the Clegg group and us left the park at the same time and took the same route down a public footpath. Us closely watched by the Clegg's bodyguards!

We were having lunch in the garden of a village pub and Mark Williams came over to ask if his little girls could say hello to my dogs.

While they were making a fuss of them, Boy Dog pissed on Mark Williams' shoe. He was very decent about it and found it funny, and still said hello on the couple of occasions I've bumped into him in town.

Boy Dog had form for that sort of thing, I'm afraid.

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

Once I was in M&S in Camden Town and I saw a man wearing a t-shirt with lots of writing on. As I stood there staring at the shirt trying to work out what the shirt said, the man looked up and it was David Walliams. He looked bemused!

Another time I served Paul Young at work in Enfield (I had no idea who he was but my boss pointed this out). A few hours later I was in Nandos in Camden with my friend and he was sitting at the table next to us. Then later on he drove past us, he must have thought I was stalking him!

working in the local Labour Party offices during the 1987 election - my mum and I stuffing envelopes

in walked a gaggle of young lefty chaps dressed in the uniform of Levi's and jumpers - my mouth fell open but before I could speak my mum looked up and said ' either stuff some of these or make a cuppa - either way don't just stand there'

Paul Heaton made the tea and the rest of The Housemartins started on the envelopes

NB they had turned up to do a gig for us later in the day!

I was drinking in a pub with a friend near Charlotte Street a good few years ago, and Jack Duckworth from Corrie was standing drinking with what looked like a tv crew next to us.

I was standing by a table with an umbrella up and started fiddling with it whilst talking to him and the whole umbrella collapsed on my head.

He thought it was fucking hilarious. I was mortified!

But what band was it?

Paul Heaton made the tea and the rest of The Housemartins started on the envelopes

LOVE that.

This was about 10 years ago,

When the evening standard did free cinema tickets, I was in the que of the cinema and in front of me was boris Johnson. I then turned round to my friend and said " why the hell does boris Yeltsin need free cinema tickets, he is loaded" he just laughed at me

I just remembered another one. My dm trampled a child belonging to Miles Jupp when running away from a swan. There were big signs everywhere telling you not to feed the swans. My dm accidentally dropped a sandwich, a deranged swan nicked it then stuck its neck right out, started honking and chasing my mum. Mum then flattened a small child and Miles Jupp helped him up while giving mum evils and saying very loudly 'some people think rules don't apply to them.'

Half my life is me or members of my family embarrassing ourselves.

My DP and I were doing a private party at Tom Hardy's house and he found himself in a que for the loo with Tom Hardy........as in queuing for his own loo! They had quite a chit chat apparently, I was livid, I LOVE Tom Hardy

@thedowntontrout an old colleague of mine met Amy on a beach too - she has pics on her desk of her son's with her. Think it may have been St Lucia? I'm probably wrong on that

A minor Coronation Street character was having lunch in a pub near me. I couldn't remember his name so texted my friend. She called back when I was walking to my car and told me his name. I said it out loud and heard someone behind me laughing. Of course it was him and his friends getting into the car near me. FML. Couldn't get out of there fast enough

DP and I went to a gig last year for my favourite artist. It was a tiny little venue. As we walked in the merch table was to our right, manned by a couple of burly American guys. We stopped and bought t-shirts and had a little chat. One of the guys says 'Think this'll be my last sale for the night, I'm on stage in five'. DP and I sorted of giggled and said 'Suuuure, okay!' and walked off.

He wasn't joking. He was the support act. The support act that I had been insanely excited to see, and utterly failed to recognise when he was stood right in front of me. Spent the next week kicking myself.

Got the chance to be a runner for a foreign TV show one holiday when I was a teenager. The cast were unknowns here and all pleasant as I asked their names. Except one bloke who was English and was very snotty and barked "Don't you know who I am?"
No, I replied.
"I'm Bill Oddie."
I'd no idea who Bill Oddie was even though I knew the name.

But my most embarrassing one was telling Ben Elton he wasn't allowed a drink in our bar because he wasn't a member. It was in a theatre. About to show a play by Ben Elton.
It's possible it wasnt him and my friends were just winding me up, but I don't think so...

Half my life is me or members of my family embarrassing ourselves

This sounds like me . . . and the other half of my life is me or members of my family embarrassing each other

I also once went to a guiding leaders function as I am a Guider and got a little tiddles on white wine
I met this lovely lady who was sat next to me and I whittered away for an hour solid about guiding and how I became a brownie...
after I finished they called her on the stage and I discovered she was lord Baden powell and lady Baden Powell granddaughter!!!

I've embarrassed myself in front of two of my biggest girl crushes

I couldn't speak to Cerys Matthews and had to communicate through my partner.

Perhaps unfortunately I did manage to speak to Sarah Nixey (singer from a brilliant but not very well known band called Black Box Recorder). She was walking through the crowd after her solo set and my friend and I basically pounced on her, told her we loved her and then just sort of stood staring at her. She politely said "I'm just going to go to the bar..." and I practically shouted "I'll buy you a drink! Please!". I did but I'd not be surprised if she didn't drink it.

Also when they were filming Gavin and Stacey in our house, Matt Horne aka Gavin was staying in a flat right where my hubby worked. They did some midday filming and my hubby had a half day. Gavin started walking to the train just before my husband was leaving for work, so my hubby followed him down the hill, got on the same train as him and then proceeded to follow him from the train to gavins flat/hubbys work...
my hubby said he kept looking over his shoulder and at one point as they rounded into the street where the flat was... Gavin broke into a bit of a run to try and lose my hubby as he must have been convinced he was a mad stalker!

Elledouble.... an ex of mine dated Cerys Matthews!