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!

@serenity45 did you live in Sutton Coldfield?.

thenightsky You must live near me! I once had an argument with him. I worked in a newsagents which he frequented, we had a softee ice cream machine and one day he took a “99” flake from the box and ate it. There were children in the queue and he couldn’t see why his behaviour was inappropriate.

I was rather pee’d Off when Gemma from towie waltzed into my hairdressers in Brighton, the 2 stylists there suddenly dawned over her and dropped everything to deal with her. I sat there with hair dye on for twice as long as it’s normally on. When the hair dressed finally finished sorting my hair I was late to collect my sen daughter! I’ve always allocated an extra hour in case of incident for things like that, an extra hour spare wasn’t enough!

She was very loud. To be fair though, it was the hairdresser I was annoyed at, not her though...

Ah well!

Granny Beale on a ferry to France once! She was very sweet :)

I've met quite a few due to my job and also by circumstance
Lewis Collins - absolutely lovely (and I got a kiss, but I was only little)
Michael Hutchence - not very friendly at all
Desmond Harrington - absolutely lovely, flirty and kind
Joshua Homme - again, absolutely lovely, very flirtatious and stunning in real life.
Jesse Hughes - a very kind soul who has become a personal friend
Ginger Fish - another kind person who has become a personal friend.
Sarah Harding - very sweet and shy - totally not like she was on BB.
Dennis Law - one of the rudest people I've ever met - so much so that I started to refuse to serve him.
Matt Peacock - really rude the first time I met him but absolutely lovely the second time
Sally Lindsay - such a lovely, lovely woman and her kids are so well-mannered
Joanne Froggatt - lovely and no snobbishness at all
Sheridan Smith - condescending and rude and sneered down her nose at me
Greg Wood (Trevor in Hollyoaks and now he's in Coronation Street) - meet him quite a lot and he's really lovely
Alan Rothwell - such a lovely treasure of a man with no airs and graces.
Again like another PP said, I work in retail and get to meet loads of people - there's more I've met - some are arrogant but most are actually lovely. I tend to pretend I don't realise who they are and they seem to appreciate that

I either don’t realise I’m meeting famous people or I just don’t meet famous people. These are the only ones I can think of;

Chuckle Brothers. Lovely guys, really chatty.

Jimmy White. Staying in a B&B, walking the corridors in a towel asking where the shampoo was in his room. Jokingly offered me a game of pool but I was 13 and it was uncool 🙄

DH used to work for a rugby club so knew a lot of players and he was interviewed for Sky Sports news. He also features on a PC game of football manager from when he played for a little know team back in the day. He met Chris Kamara who is apparently brilliant. And some golfer who asked him not to tell anyone he’d met him!
Mum went to school with the actor who played Joe Mcintyre from Corrie. Went to a wedding and Liz from Corrie’s daughter was there too. No prizes for guessing I’m Northern No A listers on my list!

I used to work at Heathrow airport so met a few famous people:
Cliff Richard- buying a bar of bournville.
All Saints - just squealy and irritating.
Peter Andre- walked by him and did a double take (he was quite small)
That band with Dane Bowers in - friendly and signed an autograph for me (cringe)
Diana Ross - wore dark sunglasses in a terminal (says it all)

It's when you see famous people flying out somewhere that you realise they're just average people wanting to catch a plane like everyone else.

I have met a few footballer's wives. Usually quite embarrassingly entitled.
I have worked for quite a few well known folks because I was a specialist interior decorator.
I did paint a mural that Princess Diana would have seen as it was for a special banquet.
I once got my ear breathed in by Gabriel Byrne . But I had to leave as I was with my partner and he looked cheesed off when I went. ( hee hee)He was knocking back tequila.
I was friends with Rachel Weisz before she was famous. She is totally divine and kind and yummy. I adored her.

I've met Michael Eavis. He's as lovely in person as he always seems in interviews. I've met Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock who is likewise lovely and inspirational. My dh has met Chris Boardman who he says was an absolute arse.

Spent a day with John Challis and his wife at a conference. He was selling his book. He was absolutely charming not at all well that day so we helped him to break down his stand and put it away.

I worked on the cheesy nightclub scene in the noughties. My job was to ensure the dressing rooms were nice and stocked with whatever was requested on the "rider" and general dogsbody! Lots of famous folk as well as some "has beens". I was checking venue before lock up one night after an act had played. I only found the artist sitting on the stairs by the locked front door, he asked me so politely how to get out and if there was a bus there! It was the legend that is Leo Sayer!

Most of mine are part of the dance music scene. I've met Normski, Mr C from the Shamen, Bez from the Happy Mondays and Aphex Twin.

Also children's presenter Dave Benson Phillips and Snooker player Steve Davis.

Dh and I were stood having a cigarette outside St Pancras station and Gavin from gavin and Stacey walked by. We both said 'aright' like he used to in Catherine tate! He just smiled and carried on walking!
Dennis Waterman at Gatwick airport, got his autograph nice fella.
And just a couple of weeks ago our school went to space centre and Steve Walsh came down to spend some time with the class. True star lovely with all the kids, selfies and autographs for all 30 of them! Had loads to say to them all too. Lovely chap.
Have also met chubby brown once, really lovely man.
My mil once once gave a lift to Peter Bowles and said he was more gorgeous irl than on the telly, she said he was absolutely charming then got his autograph.
And back in the 70s a village near us used to have a gala and the star opening it that year was Chris tarrant. My mum said he was lovely and "dishy!"

George Alagiah - he seemed a really nice guy

Just remembered during the early 2000's I met Charles Kennedy briefly at Heathrow airport going through the security area in departures. He was leader of the Liberal Democrat's party at the time and was chatting to someone on his phone. Anyway he was a gentleman and handed me one of the plastic boxes that you put handbag etc in and let me go first too. When he finished phone call he made general chit chat conversation about the weather and travelling. He seemed like a gentle soul and I was sorry to hear he had died a few years ago while only in his 50's

My mam had a bit of a knack of meeting famous people and being all cool about it.

She sat at a table with Rod Stiger and Claire Bloom in a coffee shop in the late 50s/early 60s. She had a photo shoot in her Wren's uniform with Cary Grant. She had a nice chat with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery in Venice when they were filming Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

There are many, many others.

Oh and Vicky Michelle..... how could I forget her??!! An absolute hoot..... so genuine and kind..... and funny!

Lots, but only because I used to have a job that involved actors/celebrities - but the best/kindest/sexiest was Thierry Henry.
Gorgeous, helpful and funny and kissed me goodbye at the end of the day on both cheeks :-)))

Here goes - all of the manchetser united, Manchester City, Bolton wanders, Catalan dragons teams from 2002-2010. Footballers absolutle tossbags to a man with the honoroible exceptions if David Beckham (a sweetheart) and Sir Alex (always a gentleman who took time to chat to us and ask after our lives).

Ozzie Osbourne - exactly like you expect. Wobbly and lovely.

Damian Lewis - very striking and very polite.

Lionel Richie - my colleague did indeed say “hello!” He replied “is it me you’re looking for?”

Saw Prince William.

All of these whilst working for an airline. There were many famous, great and the good and some who just thought they were.

Sean Bean - got hammered with him actually.

Jade Jagger - see Sean Bean. We were all on the QE2 just after 9/11. No flights and the only way to get home. Ended up borrowing evening dresses from another passenger.

Mario Cantone - niche one this. He was Anthony in sex and the city. Exactly as his character.

I now work for a company packed with very famous names in their world.

I have met a number of famous folk through work, and also through family in America.

The cast of Riverdance
Brian Blessed
The Bangles
Davy Jones
Mickey Dolenz
The Hoff
Billy Warlock
Steve Backshall
Clive Mantle
Clive Dunn
Eddie Izzard
Holly Johnson
Suggs
Ann Mitchell(original Dolly Rawlins in Widows)
Jason Connery
Jason Issacs
Leslie Grantham
Dylan Moran
Neil Oliver
Jenny Eclair
Lorraine Kelly
Dawn French

There are a few more....sport related.

All these folks are just normal, like us, the only difference is, they are on tv. The only one I was nervous over was Steve Backshall back in 2011 at the Edinburgh book festival. I absolutely love his passion for wildlife conservation, and how he helps kids to see that they don't need to be scared of bugs, snakes etc. I got his Adventures book signed by himself and got my photo taken with him, which I am sure I am not alone on MN with this but for me, he is an ambassador for carrying on the awareness of wildlife conservation. To meet him was a dream come true since I followed the Lost Land programmes.

I would love to meet Emilia Fox because she is just such a brilliant actress, and I find her work fascinating.

Too much of a nonentity to meet anyone-I should have been a taxi driver.My Mum once met Kenneth Williams and said he looked a very shifty character..she disliked him on sight!!

Took shortbread up to the Test Match Special tram and had a long chat with Jonathan Agnew, Graham Swann and Charles Dagnall. It was a bit of slow day at the test so we heard them talk about my MILs fabulous shortbread for a good 10-15 minutes on air!

I have also met David Millar and Mark Cavendish - both very approachable

Dev on holiday (coronation street) whilst he was deep into his drinking issues.
The Hairy Bikers, they were lovely.
Carl Fogarty 😍 had dinner with him.
Loads of Corrie, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks when I used to go to charity football matches.

In my first job I cooked for sir Ian mckellen and Ann Widdecombe and once saw Daniel Craig and his wife eating at a local seaside restaurant!

Paloma Faith, her child attends my daughters nursery. She is very gentle and sincere, and a really lovely mom.