Tell me about any famous people you've met please

[Butterfly98]

I want to hear about your good or bad encounters with a celebrity/famous person please! In the late nineties I met the chef Ainsley Harriot at a London train station when I was cueing to buy a ticket! I was very excited about this and told him I loved the show Ready Steady Cook which he was on at the time, he was really nice and chatty but I didn't get his autograph though! More recently about 2 years ago Ray Winston was sitting at the table beside us in a Chinese restaurant but we didn't get to speak as he was engrossed in conversation. I nearly forgot Todd Carty aka Mark from East Enders used to use our local newsagent in the morning on way to Elstree again in the nineties, he was always very smiley and drove a little MG!

Oooh who mention Johnny Logan? I still have a crush on him! Please tell me he's a nice guy!

Davina McCall: incredibly kind, generous, open, friendly and just fantastic.

Before he entered politics jeremy hunt ran a publishing company. At the time I worked for an IT firm which was commissioned to instal the comms in the office. Due to a 3rd party failing to deliver on time we were a week late, he phoned me up and gave me the hardest time on the phone, like a proper impotent bully. He is the only man I want to kill.

Every Royal I've met has been nothing but very polite and friendly. I know they have to be, but it feels like they're good people. (Queen, Philip, Charles, Camilla - she's especially lovely)

Same with politicians (one is friends of the family) Even ones who get awful press (a specific headline Tory) in real life have always been nothing but very pleasant to me and anyone else I know. I sort or treat them as separate people in my head or else I don't think I'd be invited many places at least it's not Farage - I'd not be able to hold my tongue.

David Beckham is one of the nicest guys I've met. So much time and patience for his fans. Not spoken to Victoria but she also seemed nice.

Mariah Carey - absolute dick head. Up her arse so far it's hard to believe.

Selma Hayek - lovely lovely woman.

Emma Thompson. Also lovely.

Cliff Richard put up with me very well when I was small and being somewhat annoying and calling him the wrong name apparently.

Jim Davidson - twat

Vic Reeves - hurts me a lot to say it but also not a nice guy IRL

Oh! Two other super nice guys. Not quite A list but I think that's part of their charm.

Barry from Eastenders.

Chesney Hawkes.

I've remembered other people I've met -

Michael Heseltine - horrible
John Major - one of the nicest people I've ever met. So lovely.
Gloria Hunniford - pushy
Sylvester McCoy - crazy but nice

Scott Brown - plays for Celtic and Scotland, was lovely as was his wife.

@Parly My dad met Princess Anne. He's a staunch republican but was very impressed with how she interacted with some blind children who were at the event as well. He also met Prince Charles who he has no time for as he's been very opinionated about dad's field of work so he was never going to give him a fair chance!

Frankie Boyle- very shy and quiet. Really smart and interesting person very interested in social issues and politics. Was nice in a reserved way.

@MissEliza Ahh that's great to hear thanks! Imagine most of the Royal family to be pretty decent, down to Earth people and not fussed or rattled by much.

Princess Anne is someone I've always imagined must be a really grounded stellar sort it's good to hear :)

My husband met Todd Carty, and they had a parking argument (TC blocked my husband).

Neil Morrissey is a friend of a friend and drinks in a local pub. He's lovely.

I'd never approach a TV personality directly, as they must get beyond sick of it and I'd not want to embarrass either myself or them. But there's a story behind one accidental meeting I had: visiting Brownsea Island with DH; DH mentions Bill Oddie. Me: 'Ah who could forget Bill Oddie, I still laugh when I think of the Springwatch episode when he mentioned the "duck gang bang!"' What I hadn't realized was that said TV persona was well within earshot and standing right behind me (he was also really short and I dwarfed him by about a head and a half) ...

Crimson with mortification, I made my escape. He passed me later in the passenger seat of a Land Rover, and when we moved off the path to let it pass, he gave me the broadest grin!

Not a Kodak moment.

David Mitchell and Victoria Coren, when we were all guests at a wedding.
He was lovely, she was a bitch

Her and I were both pregnant, and were ‘introduced’ by someone who knew us both and said ‘oh you two both have bumps’ which I took to be an ice breaker, so congratulated me and asked how far along she was.
She said ‘I don’t want to talk about it’ and turned her back to me
David Mitchell congratulated me and asked when I was due

I googled her that night and she hadn’t yet publicly announced her pregnancy but we were at a small wedding, ffs. I wasn’t about to sell the story to the Mail

I once went on a speed awareness course with Phil Tufnell. Didn't talk to him really apart from the group discussions we had to have. Seemed like a nice bloke.

These threads are a bit addictive.

But also not very nice, or fair.

Someone met someone famous and they weren't all lovey dovey (who knows maybe they were having a bad day, maybe you were quite charmless yourself!) and they are written off as Ts or B*.

oops, read some more posts and they are more generous!

My hobby is concerts, and tend to find out where the celebs stay and go have a wander to their hotel after the shows. Well, before DS arrived anyway! Those I've met -

McFly, all lovely and as nice as they come across on TV etc. Met them numerous times, and always stopped for a while for a chat.
Busted, Again, so lovely and chatted to us for ages!
Ant & Dec, really as nice as they come across, happy to pose for photos etc.
Robbie, was only brief but he was lovely.

I met Christopher Eccleston shortly after his tenure as The Doctor. He came on holiday to my hometown a few times and used to drink in the pub I worked in whenever he was in the area. The first time I met him I did a double take as he placed his order at the bar and he just and nodded as if to say "yes, I am who you think I am!"

He was very friendly as long as people didn't make a fuss over him. He told me he liked it in our pub as people might notice him and maybe say hello and ask what he was doing in the area, but mostly he would be left alone, whereas in the other pubs in town he'd be bothered by people from the moment he walked in the door when all he wanted was a quiet pint in peace!

I walked past one of the cheeky girls.
Don’t know which one

Cillian Murphy. Very unfriendly and refused to do an autograph for someone else who bumped into him earlier that day.

Charlotte Riley. Absolutely lovely. Chatted away like I'd known her for years.

Tom Hardy. Really lovely. Down to earth bloke. Handing out hugs and posing for photos. Met him twice and 2nd time he was really poorly with a cold but still stood and talked to fans. Did photos etc

In all seriousness, it must be bloody annoying to be an easily recognisable person and not be able to just pop to the shops or go about your business each day without being recognised.

Morrisey in the early 90's. Biggest twat that ever lived. The most arrogant, petulant little shit with an attitude far bigger than his talent he's such a cock it's impossible to describe

Arrogant?! The man who released a song called 'I Have Forgiven Jesus' ?!

Taylor Swift is on another level. She is nicer than anyome I personally know! So so lovely.

This makes me very happy. 😆 I love her music and always think how lovely she comes across. I think she's a really good role model for young girls too.

DanTDM is lovely and is good with kids

Someone mentioned Mariah Carey as up her own arse, that's not a surprise though is it? It's well known she is like this. I'd be more surprised if she acknowledged anyone from the public and was nice!

Is it just me who wants the reasons why the celebs weren't nice?

Vic Reeves - knob.
Bob Mortimer - only a knob in Vic reeves company
Ian Wright - lovely
Someone or other hasselbank? Footballer (I’m rubbish) he was lovely.
David from Corrie- much shorter in real life than you’d think!