Who is the most famous person you have met?

[WomenHour]

I would have to be George Sampson.

Kirk from Corrie!

@IntermittentParps
I'm so glad I told it then...Mum took a photo that she cherishes

On another note, my DH actually peeped in on John Travolta! DH is kind of clueless..as in like the characters Chevy Chase portrays in films.
He was visiting NYC...decided to go for a walk early one morning. He's walking along and sees one of those old family station wagon cars that people in America had in the 60s and 70s to haul around their large families. He couldn't quite pencil out why is was sitting there in the middle of a plaza and it was all banged up with mud covering the windows ... So he walks up to the driver's side window, wipes away a bit of the mud ( he's a bit of a Curious George), puts his hands up to his eyes like you do and peeps in.....only to find John Travolta with a big grin on his face looking back at him.
A security guard runs over, tells DH to beat it because he has just walked into the movie set for the film, "Michael " !! John did roll down the window and say a proper hello...he wasn't even a bit angry with DH for causing the set to be ruined. Great film if you like John Travolta and comedy. Btw, John Travolta is super nice AND was born in the same hospital as me

Just thought of something...does anyone even know who the great Tony Hawk is? He's World famous but you would never know it. He comes from an extremely salt of the earth kind of family.
I also met Shawn White and his mom before he was famous. He was an phenomenal athlete even at about 10 years old. He is very down to earth and nice.

Jimmy Saville - absolute creepy weirdo. Flirted with me when I was 17
Jane Krakowski - very friendly and happy to sign lots of autographs at the stage door between shows. When asked, told people Ewan Mcgregor never came out to meet people
Bobby Davro - very nice, though my little brother smacked him in the mouth on stage
Todd Carty - lovely

Vinnie Jones
Roger waters from pink Floyd
Austin Healey
Spoken to Ritchie McCaw and Dan Carter on the phone!

You from Hereford by any chance!

Credenhill22
I was referring to your post re Andy McNabb!

Seeing all the SAS posts... I've let Rusty Firman and the late Pete Scholey... My late DH was in the SAS.. He served with PS and trained RF... DH retired two weeks before the Embassy Siege...
Ten years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to a Special Forces Day at the Army Museum in Chelsea.. It was such a special day.. I bought both of the guys books and they wrote lovely messages in for ds2...

let met

Made Christ Tarrant a cuppa once - he didn't make eye contact which was odd!

Jacob Rees-mogg. Prob more famous now than he was when we met a few years ago! Met him a few times and I like him.

Michael Moore, Ronan Keating, Sultan of Brunei.

also,
Monty Don
Colin Firth
Alan Titchmarsh

Christopher Lee and Amber Benson.

Johnny Depp probably.

Or Cameron Diaz.

I bought a trampoline from Chas Dingle (Lucy something I think her real name is) last month if that counts?!? (Well it was her nanny but it was at her house! 🤷🏼‍♀️☺️

@Lovelivelaughcry

Russell Howard

JEALOUS!

@Bouledeneige

The Queen.

😯

Oh and Sheridan Smith, Ralf Little & Will Mellor

@teejayem

Steve Jobs Dave Grohl + Foos Bruce Dickinson All of biffy clyro Bobby Davro Bruce Forsyth Tim Cook Alan Carr Amy Winehouse Idris Elba

DH has a massive list as his dad was a fairly well established session musician for ITV and the west end.

I also sat next to Gemma Whelan on the tube when we were both heavily pregnant but all I did was nod and smiile, my girl crush rendered me useless.

What was Steve Jobs like?

Hannibal Lechter

I was in the next cell to him.

I'm enjoying reading these with attached stories since silly o clock when I can't sleep, so adding a few more of my own with stories...

Dame Vera Lynn - I didn't recognise her when I picked up a glove dropped by an elderly lady to give back to her in what turned out to be her home town. She was so lovely, down to earth & so grateful & we stopped & chatted fir about 15 minutes, she wanted to know about my shopping trolly & lipstick & went off to get herself a MAC lipstick after I told her😂. Still didn't realise who she was until later, even though she introduced herself as Vera it didn't click,but I did think she was strangely very familiar, but I just thought I might have seen her before.

Kylie Minogue. Came into my shop & bought from me a few times, tiny, always very friendly, funny & swore like a trooper which was a bit of a shock & even more funny at the time as she was still goody 2 shoes on TV

Danny Minogue, again via work but years later when she was at the height of her fame. I was working with her on a project she was basically just the face for. Don't think I've ever worked or met with a more obnoxious cow & I've known a lot. My job was to keep her in check on the project too, so that was a fun job, not. I was ready to strangle her before the few days were up. Gobsmacking difference between her & her much more famous & truly lovely sister.

Idris Elba, met via his then girlfriend who worked in the same industry & knew friends & I went out drinking with them several times. It was pre him hitting the big time, but he was acting & known, just not to me, so I miss heard his name as Chris & spent the night calling him that instead the first night. He didn't correct me & was a really lovely genuine, funny guy, very ordinary looking, with a bit of a paunch though.

Michael Gove, met at a school when he was Ed secretary. He was attempting to be charming, but he made my skin crawl in a way that I've experienced only one before & that person was put away for child murder & multiple rape. I literally felt nauseous when he shook my hand.

& I really want to know the story to meeting Geoff Goldblum, I never do star struck & weak at the knees, but I might for him 😆

Was he nice ?

Jaws

@SingingInTheShithouse I directed jeff Goldblum reading his first (and only) audiobook. He was amazing, brilliant performer who too directing from a nobody and then invited me and my family to hang out with his family in his pool, has become a peripheral friend. A true gentleman

Ijumped. Thank you, I hoped he would be a nice guy as he comes across as one, but he's an actor, so who knows, great to know he actually is