What celeberties/famous people have you seen in real life?

Cunobelin

biondino wrote:

I got drunk once with Rik Mayall and Michaela Strachan - just the three of us. It was brilliant. And I got Johnny Depp's autograph for a transsexual friend who's in love with him.

She's ridden my trike!

de_sisti

Bernard Theveanet at last year's Semaine Federale in Saumur. Dead nice bloke. Speaks good English.

Greg Lemond whilst cycling up a climb in France 2000. He was hosting a group of fat executives (who paid lots of $$$)
to be shown around the climbs. I thought he was a very friendly guy as we exchanged a few pleasantries.

Sven Montgomery in a cafe March 2003 before the start of a stage of a race in Spain race. He preferred Campag to Shimano
because it was a European brand. He was fluent in several languages. Nice bloke.

Feltup

Tonymufc wrote:

I lived in America(New York) for a short while in my late teens and met a few stars over there.


New York city mayor Rudolph Guilianni

He sat on the table next to us in little Italy once. We had a good idea someone important was coming in when two very big and very ugly blokes walked in wearing serious suits and with bulges under their arms and by their ankles where their guns were hiding (not very well).

Apart from him have met the President of Ukraine before he was President though. His daughter was very good looking, think Ferris Buellers Day Off but even better.

Quentin Tarantino in LAX

and Robbie Williams in Barbados (taller than I thought he was).

reecesanford

Managed to get into a film premiere in LA in 2005 and met Jack Black,Quentin Tarantino,Johnny Knoxville,Juliette Lewis,Ethan Suplee and a few others.

Also met Evangeling Lilly from LOST in Hawaii.She is HOT!!

Anonymous

blackworx

Pierce Brosnan in a hiking shop in Dublin. He had security with him and was acting like a total tw@t.

Stewart Lee was a regular for a few years during the Fringe at a place I worked, and Sylvester McCoy left a bit dazed when he accidentally walked in. The joint was popular with metalheads, goths and the like, pretty much all of them sci fi nerds. It was like god took a wrong turn on his way to see the pope and wandered into a latter day saints worship night.

bigjim

In my childhood days lived with Pierce Brosnan [we were both scruffy little kids] when he stayed at my gran's in Ireland. Worked as apprentice engineer at Top of the Pops in the 60s so met a lot of that crowd. Met loads of actors while working as an extra. Met a lot of the MUFC team in the 70s. Contracted to the club as a cab driver. Matt Busby one of the best and nicest guys. See a lot of the corrie mob around Manchester and current MUFC crowd. Would not recognise so called celebs now.

Jim

RufyBear999

Billy Bragg was queuing behind me in our local Spar shop yesterday morning.

CyclingBantam

Stewie Griffin wrote:

I live in Lundun so I have obviously seen faaaahsunds of celebs. The one I will always remember is John Craven (I can sense how impressed you all are). I was leaning on someone's wall on Scrubs lane waiting for a bus (late 1980's) and I saw this fellow running towards Shepherds Bush Green. WOW, I thought to myself, thats John Craven running down Scrubs lane, just as he tripped up and pretty much face planted on the pavement in front of me and slid down the road on his front for a few feet. He got up and looked at me rather sheepishly hoping I hadnt seen him (he was 10 feet away) or really I guess in the hope that I didnt recognise the face of John Cravens Newsround lying down on the pavement in front of me. I tried not to laugh out loud until he was out of earshot.

This reminds me of one of mine*

In 1974 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded; I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat beside a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies; buckaroo! I looked up and saw it was none other than Peter Purves, it was the height of his Blue Peter career. He said, "You jammy b@stard" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!"

* Please note, this story may not be true. All charactors are fictional. Any similarities between real people is purely coincidental.

biondino

Cunobelin wrote:

biondino wrote:

I got drunk once with Rik Mayall and Michaela Strachan - just the three of us. It was brilliant. And I got Johnny Depp's autograph for a transsexual friend who's in love with him.

She's ridden my trike!

You know my transsexual friend? How's she doing?

HoHoHoBlueGiant

I've seen snooker ace Willie Thorne's erm willy :shock: We were both getting changed in a gym in Sheffield, I turned round, and there it was. I did think at the time, "oh, Willie's willy". It did seem funny at the time :oops:

And Bruce Springsteen once asked me the time.

FSR_XC

mmitchell88 wrote:

Toseland and Agostini? Who are you???!

No-one special. I do a little photography that's all.

I've got shots of Ago @ home & here's one of James:

synchronicity

nobody.

bigjim

nobody.

No loss.

NWLondoner

Well how is this for star spotting

I have seen David Mellor TWICE :!: :!:

I also sat next to Steve Coogan on a flight to Manchester a few years ago. Thought i recognised the face but didn't click until i got off the flight and he was asked for an autograph at the gate.

Seriously the most stars i have seen in one place was at Cubby Broccoli's memorial service at the Odeon Leicester Square. Just spending 3 hours in the same room as many of the Bond stars and others and listening to their funny and sometime moving stories about Cubby and filming Bond was just brilliant.

Gavin Gilbert

Stewie Griffin wrote:

I live in Lundun so I have obviously seen faaaahsunds of celebs.

I'd suggest that living in London, particulary my smug well-heeled close-to-the-BBC-TV-Centre bit of West London rules you out of claiming bragging rights. Afterall, newsreader John Simpson lives in the next street to me, and John Sargent just down the road. In fact you might as well just hang around outside Sainsburys in Chiswick with an autograph book....

I'm claiming.....

I was a school with Liz Hurley. We danced together in a school production of Oklahoma!, Liz is 2 years older than me, which makes her the first 'proper woman' I ever held 8)

A handful of years later I dated a Bangle.....

I was taught to fence by Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden. Bruce being one of the nicest, down to earth blokes you could ever meet.

Having a clubmate point out a 12 year old Bradley Wiggins, with the words "one day that lad will be a National Champion"

And Vicky Pendleton once gave me a chocolate bar 8)

2tired2ride

I met Fat Boy Slim whilst on hoilday in St. Lucia.

8)

wiffachip

The Clash in Newcastle and Pele in New York

Spoke to Joe Strummer, but didn't speak to Pele, which I've always regretted

mrushton

Kim Kirchen and another Columbia rider in Majorca on Tuesday on the San Salvador climb and various pros out on the road. The odd musician/actor but really no-one of any importance in the real world. I was once having ski lessons and another guy in the class turned out be the man who runs the astronaut pool at NASA (see the film Armageddon) which uses water to simulate weightlessness. He'd also done a couple of shuttle flights and spacewalks and had flown helicopters for the US Marines. He'd been banned from skiing (too risky) whilst on the shuttle roster. A genuinely interesting man.

Le Commentateur

Music people: (apart from session musicians, who know everybody and are best company in the pub) Bowie, David Byrne, Brian Eno, one of the percussion players from kraftwerk (asked me to design a book, but it didn't work out).
Sports people: Hoy, Pendleton, Romero (and some other guy) in Majorca last year (May); rode near Mont Ventoux with biathlete Kati Wilhelm; Ligget; Riding in the dolomites with Casagrande and Bartoli; Moser; Jackie Durand (a bizarre encounter near Avignon where he almost mowed us down with his car); Richard Virenque and Davide Rebellin (after the finish of the 99 Giro, as well as scary team boss Stanga).
Artists: Paolozzi, Auerbach, Freud.
A number of TV chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Keith "F*ck off" Floyd and the nerdy-looking Grosman from Masterchef (who is actually very nice & extremely reliable to work with).
Vince Cable (working on his soon to be published book about the big bank cock-up).

Stewie Griffin

Saw Oliver Cromwell on TV over the weekend and remembered that I saw Richard Harris on Oxford Street many moons ago. It was fairly late at night, we thought that we were quite drunk until we saw someone even more so propping up a whole building. "'ere, aint you Richard 'arris" enquired one of my friends. You wanted to hear the mouth on the Man, shocking it was, quite shocking :shock: .

Elganesh

Hmm, let me see. I met the Hairy Bikers in Chester not long ago but I think the best is the one and only Tom Baker who will always be my Doctor Who.

Oh and Lemmy once said, "Who are you?", to me.

Frank the tank

A bloke out of "the bill" I don't know his name.
The blonde woman out of birds of a feather.
The woman who played Alma in corrie.
Jasper Carrot.
Muhamad Al Fayed
Ducan Mackenzie.
Norman Hunter.
Emlyn Hughes.
John McGovern.
Jimmy Greaves.
Tommy Smith.
And last but not least, HRH Her Majesty the Queen literally stood a couple of feet from her on a visit to Nottingham a few years ago. Some souls had been waiting for lord knows how long. Mrs "Tank" and myself walked out of M&S and almost fell over her, unbelieveable.

JackBenson59

I have seen Linkin Park live (not met though), the 2008 F1 drivers on the pre-race truck lap thing, Sebastien Bourdais and Oliver Gavin (both 24 Le Mans drivers and also got autographs), other Le Mans drivers at the parade.

Nuggs

Gaz from Supergrass @ Victoria Train Station
Arthur Smith @ London Bridge Train Station (see a theme developing here?)
Billy Bragg backstage @ Brighton West Wing
Dave Gedge outside Joungleurs
C'est tout

HungryCol

Bono sat beside me in a pub with his mate. Had a pint and left.

Pierce Brosnan (when he was Bond) with his folks at a table next to ours in a restaurant.

Stephen Roche in 1987 at the Nissan Classic in Dublin. A few days before the start of the race and just back from a training ride he was looking for his hire car in the car park which I helped him find.

Elganesh

Almost forgot I went to see The Rocky Horror Show (no fancy address for me I'm afraid) in London and Richard O'Brian was in the row in front of me with, I presume, young members of his family. He politely applauded everything but didn't seem to enjoy it much. Weirdly, considering the content of the musical there were a lot of children in the audience. I was mildly shocked but maybe I'm just being an old fashioned prude. :?

nick hanson

JackBenson59 wrote:

I have seen Linkin Park live (not met though),

erm.....don't think that counts,otherwise the thread will descend into which concert have you been to,what have you watched on TV,etc

JackBenson59

I guess :oops:

1892

The Queen drove past me and waved when I was a kid. (the whole school was out waving flags)
Micheal Elfick (Boon) coming out of the lift in the Holiday Inn Brum
Jamie Redknapp in the car park @ Anfield.
Fernando Torres in the car park @ Anfield.
Cisse in the shop @ Anfield.
Allan Hansen walking along the Annie Rd
Gary Mac in Burger King M6 services.
Jason McAteer in Liverpool city centre.
asked Danny Murphy if his misses (Joanna Taylor) took her handcuffs home, when he was warming up. (From the grin on his face I think she did)
Kathy Lloyd (page 3 girl) in Liverpool city centre.
The crafty cockney in a shop in Hanley.
sold a bloke from Central news a radio for his car. (Can't remember his name)
Roy Cropper from corrie @ Anfield
Either Ant or Dec in the local woollies (don't know which one is which)