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Who is the most famous person you have met?

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WomenHour · 09/09/2020 21:52

I would have to be George Sampson.

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ChaToilLeam · 09/09/2020 23:07

Queen Mother
Tom Baker
Richard Briers
Eddie Izzard
Adam Ant 💕

WilheminaVenable · 09/09/2020 23:07

Hot Priest from fleabag before he was the hot priest

Matt Smith dr who

Mcfly

Not really massive celebrities but the best I’ve got Grin

Cookerhood · 09/09/2020 23:07

Prince Philip - much smaller than you imagine
Johnny Ball frequently
Ulrika frequently at one time
Lots at school who became famous later

Gin4thewin · 09/09/2020 23:09

Noel edmonds lived local to my primary school, i drew a picture of the queen for the summer fair programme and got to let balloons go with him😅 and my english teacher was mates with some dude from eastenders and he came to a lesson once

SummerHeatwave · 09/09/2020 23:11

Princess Diana at a school country dancing event when I was 10.

Badgerstmary · 09/09/2020 23:12

Colin Firth

Badgerstmary · 09/09/2020 23:13

Colin Firth, lived with his parents for 3 yrs.

Bouncingbelle · 09/09/2020 23:13

Ed Byrne
Lenny Kravitz
The Fonz
David Walliams
Teenage Fanclub
The Levellers
James
Shirley Manson
Damian Barr

TraverseLaRue · 09/09/2020 23:14

Alan Rickman

TheUnquestionedAnswer · 09/09/2020 23:14

Jean Claude Van Damme
TONY VISCONTI
Woody Woodmansey
Earl Slick
Som Wardner
Peter Mensch
Rosa Monckton
Robert Bathurst
Queen of Spain
All of Muse
Various TV celebs

Bouncingbelle · 09/09/2020 23:15

@SockYarn what were Edward & Sophie & their children like??

Bouncingbelle · 09/09/2020 23:15

Derren brown

why2020 · 09/09/2020 23:17

@Badgerstmary was Colin F as charming as he looks?

JustanotherTuesday · 09/09/2020 23:17

@HelloDaisy I'm so envious Envy although I have seen them at Wembley.
I've met Linda Lusardi and Peter Duncan (Blue Peter) and Princess Diana walked past me at an event.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 09/09/2020 23:19

Barack Obama.

Ok, I didn't. I was in the same room as him once though, so I think over time I'll evolve my story so it's more exciting Grin

Saggyoldsofa · 09/09/2020 23:20

Robert de Niro.
He had a lovely office.

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/09/2020 23:21

quite a few thanks to various jobs.

Elton John
Nick Clegg
Michael Gove
Howard Donald
Bobby Davro
Samantha Cameron
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Alan Sugar
Sonia Grin
David Beckham
Most of the Premiership footballers of the mid to late 90s

SheeshazAZ09 · 09/09/2020 23:24

Jane Goodall—beautiful lady. Barbara Bush. Carlos Acosta, who was lovely.

Saggyoldsofa · 09/09/2020 23:24

And Sean Connery in a lift once.

My favourite (but vicarious) famous person non-encounter was that my long term ex sat on Simone de B's knee in france. There was a lovely pic of him, her, and Jean Paul Sartre...

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/09/2020 23:25

oh and DH had a piss next to Paul Weller at a gig. Apparently he's not got anything to be ashamed of Grin

Mammyloveswine · 09/09/2020 23:26

Prince Charles... I was photographed in the local paper Grin

shesgonebatshitagain · 09/09/2020 23:27

@Blahblahblahallthetime

These are my husband’s!

The Queen
Prince Philip (who told him to fuck off!)
Diana
Andrew
Fergie
Eugenie & Beatrice
Prince Andrew
General Pinochet
Pope John Paul II
Cardinal Hulme
Mohammed Al Fayed
Nick Clegg
Teresa May
Chief of the Defence Staff

To name but a few...

Pinochet

Didn’t see that one coming

Saggyoldsofa · 09/09/2020 23:28

PP, you lived with Colin Firth's parents for 3 years?!?! Did he drop in for tea? Did you all sit on the sofa watching telly together on a Sunday?!?!?

Liddell · 09/09/2020 23:30

My friend and I passed Robert Powell, who we had seen in 'Jesus of Nazareth', on the street back in the 70's.

I coudn't remember his name and said to my friend 'Look, it's a star!'. He smiled at me!