In Brighton, I've seen Steven Berkoff in the street in Kemp Town....he trod in some dog shit and was trying to wipe off his shoe on the kerb ...I did laugh and he did glare at me, I know I shouldn't have but he did write a play called Brighton Beach Scumbags..
I also saw Jeremy Hardy, the comedian, in a supermarket check out queue in what used to be Presto, then Safeway (what is it now?) at the bottom end of St James Street. I was with dd1 at the time and she pointed him out (loudly) and he looked really nervous...
I've also seen Erasure (both of them) walking along the seafront...they were like a gay version of little and large...that Andy wotsit is huge and the other one's tiny...dd1 "ooh look its Erasure!"
We (dd and I) had to walk past Chris Eubank on a tiny little pavement on the nudist beach below Kemp Town Enclosures once...he was in the full jodhpurs and crash helmet, carrying a riding whip outfit and flanked by a couple of minders...there was no room for us on the pavement, we had to walk on the pebbles, doubled up with laughter...
Came round the corner of the Brighton Centre once during the Labour Party Conf, and came face to face with Roy Hatterrsley, well would have been face to face except he's a midget...
Got chatted up in a well-known Brighton nightclub by someone who used to be in Heaven 17 (Glenn Gregory)...he was boring...
A friend of mine got chatted up in a different nightclub by Arthur Smith.....puke.....
Pete McCarthy used to live round the corner from me and share the gardens of Kemp Town Enclosures....