Most random celebrity you have seen

mudcow007

SimonAH wrote:

if Eke hasn't had his chocolate. :-D

if you offer him a cookie he will be dribbling from the mouth like an over excited springer spaniel

gert_lush

I almost ran Rich Hall over the other month near the Arnolfini in Bristol

then a few weeks ago I saw Noel Edmonds Whilst I was riding on the south side of Cheddar

Have Professor Alice Roberts (formally Dr) cycling and driving around Bristol a few times and also the annoying Justin Lee Collins, oh and randomly Harry Enfield outside Tesco express in Clifton

Bristol is where its at!

veronese68

bdave262000 wrote:

It was his 1982 visit to the Uk, he stayed in the Ponitff house along Park Side in Wimbledon. We were the nearest Catholic School and our class got invited to meet him. I remember queing up with my classmates, he was sitting on a bench in the grounds. He shook my hand and blessed me and said something I cannot recall, didn't do me any good as I still carried on nicking sweets from the local corner shop without feeling a twinge of guilt, never admitted to it in confession either.

Wimbledon College and Jenkins' along the Ridgeway? Or is there a nearer school Southfields way?
I remember him being there, don't remember anyone from school going.

Twostage

Dustin Hoffman outside a pub in Covent Garden. He's tiny.

Oh, and the Queen at a 'do' at The Palace. She's tiny also.

Hoopdriver

Bumped into Vladimir Putin once in a corridor at the Grande Hotel Europe in St Petersburg...

pigeontoes

Saw Steve Redgrave 3 x in a week on a ski holiday in Whistler. Each time was either in a cafe/restaurant, no wonder he's put so much weight on min you he's bloody tall.

Twostage

Memories are coming back. Saw Mrs. B'stard (remember that series with Rik Mayall) coming down the stairs in a hotel in Exeter. My wife couldn't stop herself from exclaiming 'eee, it's Mrs. B'stard'. She took it well.

redvee

gert_lush wrote:

then a few weeks ago I saw Noel Edmonds Whilst I was riding on the south side of Cheddar

Was he in his fake taxi?

gert_lush wrote:

the annoying Justin Lee Collins

Spotted him doing the male christmas shopping thing, aka christmas eve at 5pm, in Brizzle coming out of BHS.

Ginjafro

I've been mistaken for a random celebrity. About 20 years ago in Preston a very drunk Irishman was convinced he had bumped, lurched, into Mick Hucknall. He was so chuffed and burst into song, Money's Too Tight (To Mention) in very pisshed pub singer stylee, fantastic! He then demanded my autograph, for his daughter though, of course. Amazingly, he actually had a pen and paper. Well, not that amazing it was a stubby pen and betting slip from a local bookies, classy. Humoring him I obliged and scrawled a message and signature for him and off he staggered, delighted and now singing "If You Don't Know Me By Now", ironic really.

Him being so drunk he probably would never remembered his encounter with stardom nor why he had "The Boys Are Back In Town - Love, Phil Lynott" written on his slip. If he did have any sort of memory it would have been pretty fecked up anyway, considering Phil had died a couple of years previous.

SimonAH

Ha! I was mistaken for Darius (some pop reality show chappie) in a motorway services and mobbed by a gaggle of fortysomething women a few years ago - and they (apparently) were sober.

Stevo_666

I bumped into this bloke a few years ago on holiday: not sure if he's a 'celebrity'? Anyhow, he'd just left his job a few weeks before and was feeling quite relaxed so he let us take a pic of him with my kid (should keep the PIDH brigade happy )

mouth

I once played inline hockey vs. Rankin' Roger I guess in the mid/late 90's.

For a while I worked in a petrol station and it seemed you'd see some kind of reasonably famous person on a weekly basis. Joe Absolom, The Corrs, Mark Evans and several high profile footballers during my stint. The most famous person though was Sid Owenw ho asked for the toilet key because he needed to 'drop the kids off'.

redvee

SimonAH wrote:

Ha! I was mistaken for Darius (some pop reality show chappie) in a motorway services and mobbed by a gaggle of fortysomething women a few years ago - and they (apparently) were sober.

Were they colourblind ?

PBo

TheEnglishman wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

As a former BBCer I've been told that I've seen loads of famous people, usually just after I've walked past them.

I'm glad it's not just me.

I got accosted by Paxman in a lift once - I was reading some book and he grilled me about it. Jesus that man's scary!

But did he let you finish?
"so tell me about the book"
" err , yeh, well, I quite lik.."
"really? Your telling me it's actually readable"
" ahhh, perhaps on holid..."
" we are seriously expected to believe that?"
[The Englishman sits jibbering in corner...]

PBo

mudcow007 wrote:

SimonAH wrote:

if Eke hasn't had his chocolate. :-D

if you offer him a cookie he will be dribbling from the mouth like an over excited springer spaniel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anRKT3hYz60&feature=youtube_gdata_player

PBo

Ross, Rachel and Monica (Friends) at a theatre. Think it was when they were here filming those London episodes. In the crowded bar at the interval, despite my best efforts to avoid it, I brushed past Jennifer Aniston's arse.

Gordon Brown whilst chancellor, at London zoo.

Ben Elton, leaving a cinema in Leicester square after having been to see "Fargo". (my favourite film ever)

Kate Winslet (swoon- I would happily trade Jennifer's bum for hers). Ok, not actually that random, as it was at the premier of "hideous kinky".

Sophie Ellis bextor in a really busy bar in Camden- it was murder on the dance floor, I tells ya! (igmc)

This is deffo the most random though.... Some years ago, I used to play American football, and used to play against the guy who played "nick the Greek" in lock stock and 2 smoking barrels....

Canny Jock

Jarvis Cocker on a skiing arcade game at Pontins Camber Sands at a music festival there about 12 years ago. Matt Lucas wandered past our cabin later.

Big_Paul

I nearly flattened Van Morrison one day when he walked out of Deanes in Belfast into my path, really wet day and he's wearing sunglasses, I wasn't in the best of moods and told him to watch where he was walking.

James Nesbitt and Adrian Dunbar were filming in Belfast and we saw them a few times.

Adele Silva was in a petrol station behind me a load of years back, she's tiny.

optimisticbiker

Canny Jock wrote:

Jarvis Cocker on a skiing arcade game at Pontins Camber Sands at a music festival there about 12 years ago. Matt Lucas wandered past our cabin later.

Not really random, but I've met Matt Lucas on several occasions; I know his mum Diane (who now appears on his latest, but arguably not greatest, show) and his step-mum too.

My daughter works for a media company as a production manager in studios where celebs are interviewed for syndicated network radio so she's met just about any celeb that's in London to plug something...

cornerblock

OptimisticBiker wrote:

My daughter works for a media company as a production manager in studios where celebs are interviewed for syndicated network radio so she's met just about any celeb that's in London to plug something...

Maybe you should start a 'Most random celebrity a loved one may have seen' thread then.

msmancunia

Big_Paul wrote:

I nearly flattened Van Morrison one day when he walked out of Deanes in Belfast into my path, really wet day and he's wearing sunglasses, I wasn't in the best of moods and told him to watch where he was walking.

James Nesbitt and Adrian Dunbar were filming in Belfast and we saw them a few times.

Adele Silva was in a petrol station behind me a load of years back, she's tiny.

Plus one for James Nesbitt. He was on holiday in Portugal the same time as me and "invaded my personal space" in a queue for ice cream.

TheEnglishman

msmancunia wrote:

Plus one for James Nesbitt. He was on holiday in Portugal the same time as me and "invaded my personal space" in a queue for ice cream.

Quite possibly too much information there. :P

msmancunia

TheEnglishman wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Plus one for James Nesbitt. He was on holiday in Portugal the same time as me and "invaded my personal space" in a queue for ice cream.

Quite possibly too much information there. :P

It was a "I'm famous, so you must fancy me" type of standing too close. And I couldn't possibly fancy anyone who'd had a hair transplant. :shock:

veronese68

One of my former colleagues was in a queue for food with Rowan Atkinson at a race cisrcuit. Two girls in front of them were discussing the fact that Rowan Atkinson was racing there that day. Then one of them says "oooh look, there he is." and starts pointing at some other bloke about half his height. They then dash of to get his autograph. Leaving the real Mr Bean a bit closer to his lunch and rather amused.

PBo

Oh, forgot this one - Derren Brown, shopping down those posh streets between piccadilly and regents street.

He was really small.....

.....or did he just make me believe that he was????

Hoopdriver

I was living in Albuquerque in the late 70s and one evening when I was going out for a run on a big field at the University of New Mexico I found myself jogging past then-President Carter and his Secret Service mnders. He had been in town for some fund-raiser or something nd decided to get in a quick run before heading off to wherever...

EKE_38BPM

Hoopdriver wrote:

I was living in Albuquerque in the late 70s and one evening when I was going out for a run on a big field at the University of New Mexico I found myself jogging past then-President Carter and his Secret Service mnders. He had been in town for some fund-raiser or something nd decided to get in a quick run before heading off to wherever...

For some reason that no-one has been able to fathom, when I was a small kid (about 4 years old), I started and kept a scrap book of pictures of Jimmy Carter that I had my mum cut out (I was too small to use scissors) from the news papers.

The only thing I can think of as to why I started the scrap book is that his campaign plane was called Peanut One and I think that may have amused me.

sketchley

A few weeks agos I was stadning next to Michel Roux, Jr at twickenham eating a pork bap.

mudcow007

ohh i forgot

Tommy Walsh from ground force (gardening program) showing people how to hammer nails in with a hammer in the Trafford centre in Manchester

that was the day my life become complete

Stag on

Margaret Thatcher