To ask if you saw a 'celebrity' would you approach them?

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Just been in a pram shop and saw an actress from Hollyoaks, DH told me to ask for a pic but I said no because she was clearly busy being shown a pram 😂 so just wondering if you saw a celebrity in a shop would you approach them? Or let them get on with their life.

Also should they be ready to be approached constantly or not? Whats your opinion x

@Pgqio because if you watch Hollyoaks or read the news when the actors are in it you are 100% LOWER CLASS 😁😁😁

No, I would never approach a celebrity. I have seen a few out and about when I was in London during the late 60's & very early 1970's. Seems like famous people walked about more in public back then.

I always ignored them as did everyone else.

@MrsEricBana is your friend the Supervet? I was friends with someone who had met him once and said she literally felt like she was in the presence of her Divine Leader and should bow down to him, she loves him and his work so much. 🤣

I have it on another Mumsnet thread Good Authority that the SuperVet is a complete tool.

Back when Ashes to Ashes was huge on TV I bumped into Marshall Lancaster buying luggage. I knew I knew him, and as he was in my local shopping centre I assumed I perhaps went to school with him. Did the usual nod, hello etc. Then I realised I knew him cos I was binge watching him on Tv.

Similarly Tony from Hollyoaks was in our local Wacky. Again, assumed I'd been at school with him. Sat chatting about nothing really whilst DD and the child he was with played.

I've never been very quick on me 😂

I've never understood why people want to meet celebs or take photos with them. They're just people.

Disfordarkchocolate
How did you control yourself @SilverySurfer?

I sort of followed him at a distance round the antique stalls, sighing loudly until I realised the futility of my actions as he was unlikely to leave his long term other half for a crazy stalker.

I also casually said hi to an old lady who I recognised sitting in the back of a car stopped at traffic lights. Then realised I didn't know her, it was the Queen Mother, gabbled apologies, did a half curtsey and she sweetly said hello while giving me a royal wave

I'm not sure really. However all that rudeness particularly the Eastenders actress about wanting their privacy and not wanting to be approached is not just part of choosing to be famous. Some would say if they can't handle members of the public asking for pictures and autographs.
Perhaps they're in the wrong job.
After were would they be now without their fans

OK, I did to this once. It was the day after my wedding. I walked into breakfast at the hotel and my favourite singer from my favourite band was there!
I said hello and told him I'd got married the day before. He was lovely. Shook my hand, wished us well and gave us two tickets to the band's next concert in our city...which for the first time ever I hadn't been quick enough to get tickets for. Top bloke!

Its Paul Brennan isn't it Jospheeen.
The old hound dog!

No. I saw Richard Madley last year. I passed him the canapés and moved on.

Although I did ask Jaz from love island for a lighter

Although James May goes back to Lancaster Uni sometimes and people always ask him for pics (he's alumni)

No I wouldn't....I walked into my optician with my son and sat down next to a little boy playing on his iPad. I pointed out to my son that he had the same game...I then looked at this boys dad and realised it was Mark Owen. I just sat there in shock trying to look casual!

In the normal course of things, I wouldn't dream of approaching a "celebrity". However, I would make an exception of I ever saw the manager.of the football team I support. As I'm old enough to be his mum, if also ask for a hug. He appears to give his players wonderful hugs at the end of games.

Sigh, he's made an old woman very happy ☺

My sister once stood in front of a bloke thinking "that looks like Nigel Mansell; is it Nigel Mansell or just some bloke from work?" As he walked past he said "yes I am" - clearly it happens a lot.

I wouldn't purposely approach someone- must be very tiresome for them.

However I did once make small talk with a familiar looking bloke as we arrived at a restaurant at the same time. I couldn't quite place him, but I worked round the corner in community healthcare and assumed he was a patient's husband or something. Sat down at my table and DH said "why were you talking to Mike Leigh?". Mortified

I quite literally bumped into Richard Ayoade in a guitar shop on Denmark St, I didn’t ask for a photo, but I spoke to him and he is a wonderful man. Really kind!

About 20 years ago when I was about 18 or 19, I bumped into a then Fair City actor in a local Cafe.
He was a complete and utter knob (no, not Bela or Paul Brennan) but now I'm REALLY wondering if it was the same guy!

No, absolutely not!

In what seems like a previous life now I used to have a job that included dealing with quite a few celebs. Lessons learned: they're just ordinary people, some are lovely, others I would dearly like to slap.

These days I'm in a corporate setting and can't stop cringing at my idiot colleagues who enter full puppy mode when they run into a board member. If it makes my toe nails curl, how bad has it got to be for those on the receiving end?

DD had her degree day in the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay (outs self as someone whose child didn’t choose a Russell Group Uni). While meeting up with her dad to show him where we were for pre-ceremony coffee she met Peter Capaldi. Apparently they shared a fairly formal nod. Made her day.
I wouldn’t approach or speak and neither did she.

@NottonightJosepheen Not Bela,Leo.Is it Charlie or Decco

I live very close to a large film studio and work next to another one so there are a lot of famous people knocking about. I don't watch a lot of TV or films so don't recognise most of them but I see others smiling or approaching them so know they must be actors. On the whole if I recognise them I'm not bothered about them so don't feel the need to acknowledge them. I did have to restrain myself from approaching David Tennant once because I adore him but he was with kids (I assumed his own) and that must be so annoying, I did smile at him though.
I did once stop an Australian actress on the street in London, I don't think she's really known in the UK and I vaguely recognised her but thought we went to school together. We chatted for a couple of minutes about nothing much before I asked her if she was going to the reunion and she said "I don't think I'm who you think I am" and I cottoned on. I was so apologetic but I think she thought it was funny.