To ask about your celebrity encounters?

[checkingforballoons]

I’m anxious and overwhelmed by everything right now and I need distracting. Can I have your stories of celebrity encounters please? The more ridiculous and tenuous the better. Bonus points if you can tell me about any ludicrous diva behaviour.

I was almost run over by Jude Law once!

He pulled over to let a black cab pass, which I didn't see, so I thought he had stopped to let me cross the road.
He gave me a filthy look, so I gave him one back.
All the while I didn't recognise him.

I was with a work mate and after JL drove away - moment or two passed and we both said at the same time 'Was that Jude Law?'

Glad it was only almost!

I was in a supermarket in North Walesand popped intoa supermarket to collect stuff for dinnerand while browsing dairy section to find the correct yoghurt for the picky child who was with me I had a chat with the woman next to me. She commented how cute my DS was, passed me the yoghurts I was looking for and she left while I got the milk and cheese.

Wasnt till I was in the car with my mum that she asked if I had seen Kate Middleton while I was in shopping as she had seen her come out.

If you want some entertainment, look up what’s happening with Ellen and the stories of her being awful at the moment

Will definitely keep you entertained

Loving Kate Middleton passing the yoghurt and off to Google Ellen!

I was acting as an impromptu barkeep at a friend's parents' Xmas party and ended up getting pissed with puppeteer who activated the back end of Sprocket the Dog from Fraggle Rock.

@checkingforballoons
If you’re interested there are currently 7 pages of secret celebrity gossip, that each have over 50 pages each some of it contains personal encounters. Most of the stories on there would be removed on MN for libel but I’m sure an American owned site so same doesn’t apply. My face was like reading some of them. The site is tattle.life

It was in the 1980's and after 11 p.m. I and two male friends were waiting for our car to be retrieved from a parking garage in midtown Manhattan, after having seen some obscure movie. We were chatting when my friends suddenly fell silent and looked down at their feet. I sensed people behind us and turned, to see Paul Newman and an friend waiting for a car just like we were. It is the custom in NY to act very very cool and affect not noticing a famous person, so my friends didn't say anything. Anything. All conversation stopped dead. I had my back to Paul Newman and was google eyed, mouthing "Is that Paul Newman??" and my friends were trying to nod yes very discreetly. No one said anything at all. Then their car came and they drove off.

Very old Emma Thompson with her kids in a shop. She was loud, the daughter was really loud and she kept her sunglasses on. Given how loud she was being I wasn’t sure what the point was.

Oh, and for a very shocking story google Madonna Oprah Tom Hanks Harvey Weinstein 😶

I went to a dog training class with Martin Clunes - his dog was very naughty

I was browsing in a haberdashery shop in London when Gok Wan came in with a film crew. I think he was making one of his, "Tart up your boring old clothes by adding sparkly trim or buttons" TV shows. Londoners being Londoners, all the rest of us customers in the shop utterly ignored him.

I've worked with Diversity twice. They're all lovely, polite and really hard-working.

I've met loads, but can I just say... Chas and Dave?! 😍

I work in the media and they were my heroes. I interviewed Chas, he was such a total gent. A real professional. I'm so glad he didn't ruin my fandom.

I cried like a baby when he died 18 months ago.

People think they were a novelty band. But they really weren't. Two very talented and hard working individuals.

Paul Heaton from The Beautiful South whilst on holiday in Majorca

And Sheridan Smith at a Football Centre in Leeds

Years ago, I went to the vet with Bill The Cat to check up on the aftermath of an abscess on his face. Whilst sitting there, minding our own business, a man came in with a ginger dog.

The ginger dog excitedly came over to sniff at Bill's carrier and make friends. Bill turned his face away and flicked The Ear Of Disdain.

I glanced in ginger dog's owner's direction and did that sort of speechless apology expression.

The ginger dog's owner looked at me like I was something he had trodden in. He had no need to be rude but fine, I didn't really want to interact anyway. I was just trying to be polite despite the fact his dog had harassed my cat.

And then I observed, "Hang on. He looks like James Nesbitt. But he's got too much hair."

A few minutes passed. And then ginger dog owner happened to speak to the receptionist. I didn't take notice of what he said but I thought "He sounds like James Nesbitt. But he's got too much hair."

I did google it when I got home. Apparently, James Nesbitt lived in the vicinity of that vet. And had recently had a hair transplant.

Name changed as this might be properly outing if ex-colleagues are on here

Went to a gig in London - big group of us. Wine had been drunk.
Boy George was in the bar and I was delegated to get an autograph.
He was very nice (and also quite drunk).
I asked if he could sign it to the Pioneers.
Ended up with a piece of paper signed to the Pie and Ears.
If I ever own a pub it will definitley be called the Pie and Ears.

Had a chat with John Humphries in a passport queue once. He was quite nice.

Have already said on another thread but Woody from the Bay City Rollers was buying shoes in my Sainsbury’s a few months ago, I see The Proclaimers all the time, no one looks at them. I used to live in the centre of town and have sat behind both Clint Eastwood and Nic Cage in the pictures.

Nearly got run over by Barak Obama's motorcade on Holloway Road when he came over for the G20 a few years back. Also got stuck in the same section of a revolving door with Jonathan Edwards (I don't know why I did it and we had to both shuffle round) which was a bit awkward...

Well this is ancient history but I went to a concert at Wembley in 1967 and was sitting next to Paul Jones. You've probably never heard of him but he was a singer in Manfred Mann and you've probably never heard of them either but it was very exciting to a teenage me.

Kate Moss and Jamie Hince stayed at my work. Treated the place like they owned it, putting cigarettes out on the bedside table (in a no-smoking property ). Jamie was really lovely as a person though!

Back in the 70s I wanted a new watch and went to a jewellery shop in Gloucestershire that was closing down and had everything at half price. My DM was with me and had fallen for a very expensive clock [VERY expensive ]. The shop was about to close for lunch and so they agreed to put it aside for my DM, to enable her to go and draw the money from her Building Society and return at 14:00.
When we returned, Princess Anne was at the counter with 2 security guards. My DM said in a very loud voice 'I hope they're not letting her have MY clock!'. They didn't.

Yes! Yes to all of this! But especially Martin Clunes and his naughty dog

I've just been reading all that Ellen stuff on twitter! I'm shocked I always though she was one of the most loved people in America, but there are just so many stories of how horrible she is

I've just been reading some on tattle life celebrity gossip