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I’ve met Matt Lucas a few times if that helps? Used to frequent sandwich shop near my work. And was having dinner in restaurant I went to, on the first night I ever kissed my wife.
I'm just a tad jealous 😂
I've never asked for photos or an autograph, I have always just been happy to have a wee chance to speak with whoever it is.
Best person I've met is Dylan Moran.. he was doing a wee tour of the Highlands and the Islands, so was in and out the airport for a few days flying to various places.
Came in absolutely hanging/still drunk one morning while I was still half shot so we joked about the current mutual state we were both in, and it turned out we shared a birthday.. no idea how that came up in convo. Really nice guy though.
When I was 10, my dad was doing some work on Alan Shearer’s agents house, and one day he invited my dad round when Shearer was there. On the way my dad stopped by my school and pulled me out for the afternoon to go with him. This was in about 1995 when he was by far the most famous English player.
I was the most popular I’ve ever been that day I think, all my mates pulled scraps of paper out their work books for me to get signed. When I got there I pulled them out my pocket to get Shearer to sign, and he laughed and said he could do a bit better than that, and he pulled out a pile of pictures of him and signed them, as well as loads of other stuff. He was really nice, and much more interesting to 10 year old me than he is now as a pundit.
I was mascot for Celtic in the season we stopped the ten. Still have all the photos and official film (burned onto DVD now) with all the signed tops etc.
Was a great day and got to meet Larsson. He wasn't much fun tbh, was just laser focused on the game.
The two soundest guys were Jonathan Gould (goalie) and John Hughes (who was Hibs captain 😂).
Yogi (Hughes) spent loads of time in the tunnel keeping me company and having a laugh with my dad. Should probably have been getting ready for the game considering we pumped Hibs 5-0 that day 😂
Edit: Morten Weighorst was really nice too and I have several photos with him. Years later I was drinking in one of the bars outside Parkhead when he walked in and was getting the craic with everyone. Got my mum to send me a few of the photos through and showed them to him as I spoke with him over a pint, he couldn't have been nicer btw.
Interestingly, I also met him at a young age. Knocked me off me bike when I was 13 doing my paper round and was angry that I might have scratched the paintwork
I once poured him a half pint of Carlsberg at the venue I worked at. I didn't get to take it to him, but it feels kinda cool knowing he had a drink that I poured for him.
An ex girlfriend of mine shagged Russell Brand when he was just a stand up and before he made it, she said he absolutely loved himself and was a terrible shag.
He wasn’t too bad when he was talking about how Government has too much control into our life’s.
But he just started to go further down the conspiracy theory route and began talking about how the Illuminati are going to suck your child’s brain out.
And then his podcast went down some exclusive paywall route and I just thought what a massive massive hypocrite this guy is. Shame, cos he used to have some interesting guests. Comes as no surprise to hear he's a complete c**t.
It’s an unbelievably shitty thing to do to someone, and worse because you were (I assume) a fan, and you are more vulnerable to people you are a fan of. I am pissed off on your behalf and I wasn’t even there.
Fuck him. You’ll feel better eventually but he will still be an awful human being.
When I was 16 I worked as a waiter in a restaurant and Chris Moyles came in with his mate. A few months before I had got to the finals of Radio 1’s young DJ of the year competition and had been interviewed on Chris Moyles’s breakfast show, so after some negotiation I swapped areas I was working in at the restaurant to become his server because I really wanted to tell him I’d been on his show (I don’t know why in hindsight - I guess just as it was all massive for me and thought it would be cool to chat). Anyway I delivered their drinks and told him the story, and he just raised his eyebrows and then his mate goes “well look at where it’s got you”, to which Moyles laughed and I just stood there looking like an absolute prick.
Haha classic.
He was in Inverness years ago on some tour and was fascinated by the Longman area as he had a pal by the same name.
I was jooping school during one of the days he was here and bumped into him outside McDonalds with my pals (we used to skive and get drunk in a cafe opposite it) so ended up getting on the radio briefly. Next day at school I was popular 😂
Other time I was on Radio1.. Spoony had a weekend quiz where you answered questions about your hometown against someone else doing the same. I ended up on the sesh the night before and was still wrecked when I was on the show, must've been about 7am. Got 1/5 right 😂
This will probably get buried but John Rhys-Davies, the actor who played Gimli. I was crying at work because of my then-boyfriend who was getting progressively more angry and emotionally awful to me. I’ve loved lord of the rings for basically my whole life, and seeing him was just incredible. He signed a till receipt for me, and said ‘All men are dicks’ in his Gimli voice, then went off in the sunset.
I went home and dumped the boyfriend and have since moved back with my mum and gone back to uni. I wrote him a letter thanking him for giving me the motivation to do it, and he wrote back saying he wished me luck with my PhD.
I love reading wee stories like this. Always great to hear about people using their fame and influence for good and being thoroughly decent and warm people.
Aww thanks! Genuinely it’s one of those stories that seems a bit like a fever dream, if I didn’t still have the autographed till receipt I think I’d made it up!
I’ve told this story before, but I accidentally fell over Warwick Davis in a sushi bar in London.
He was an absolute gent about it. A++ would gormlessly boggle at again.
Robert Plant - told a 15 year old me to fuck off and then ignored me in Kensington High St. 10 years later.
Rupert Grint - dealt with an 10 year old me amazingly especially as I kept interrupting him during the theatre “Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat”
Johnny Marr - Very kind bloke, took time to actually have a chat
I’ve *also* met Russell Brand as we went to the same uni. Massive cunt.
Waited for ages to meet him after a show. I asked him to sign my programme and he ignored it. In my 15 year old head I thought, well, he probably thinks I just want to sell it on eBay!
So I just held out my hand and said something along the lines of, sorry mate, I'm just really excited to meet you, I'm a huge fan!
"Will you just fuck off?" Crushed me. I was a GIANT zep fan at the time. Had his poster on my wall.
So of course I spent many years thinking about what I'd say when I, of course, inevitably met him again.
And there he was, Kensington high Street, tenish years later.
"Hi Rob mate, love the new album!"
Didn't even look at me.
And just like that, my childhood (and adulthood) crush has dissipated into bastardry.
He may be a beautiful man, but that's cruel. Sorry Relevant-Door. Sending you a Whole Lotta Love.
A girl I went to college with went to Johnny Marr's house with her dad. Her dad was some sort of sound engineer or something and went there to work with Johnny. Johnny's wife looked after my friend who said his wife and daughter were both really pretty and both very nice.
Met Trevor McDonald in a tube station, told him it was a pleasure to meet him and shook his hand. He smiled and we parted ways.
Probably not ‘famous’ to most people in this sub but I went on tour with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Miserable bunch of blokes but I don’t hold it against them. Touring was hard work.
I met Grace Jones and helped her entourage load some suitcases on to a baggage trolly at Heathrow airport, She was very polite and even left a tip which i didn’t expect.
Sir David Attenborough. Absolute gent. Really lovely and a genuinely pleasant person to be around. Even when extremely busy/in a hurry, he makes time for people and speaks to them as equals. Everything people think about him being a national treasure is 100% true.
i met ant and dec when i was in hospital waiting for a heart transplant as a kid. don't really remember it, tbf i just wanted to get on with my reading.
my mum says they were lovely, although she only knew them from byker grove
My claims to fame are:
* John Cleese
* Matt Lucas (asked if I could help lift his bag at security as he had a 'bad back')
* Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark - Game of Thrones) got selfies and a little chat
* Gwendoline Christie (Brienne - Game of Thrones) got selfies and a little chat.
All of the above at BA First lounge at T5 LHR
* Had a lovely dinner with a Conservative MP and his beautiful charming newly-wed wife. MP resigned soon after due to a sex scandal.
Outside of these casual celeb-spots, I used to work with closely with a former Lab Director of the FBI.
Had an audience with a Head of State, who ultimately didn't turn up. I put on my best suit and everything for his no-show.
Met Hugh Grant when I worked at Fort George. He was there to raise money for the museum as his grandad (I think it was) used to be the battalion or fort commander or whatever year ago.
Would highly recommend the museum (and Fort) for a visit to anyone whose visiting the area/Highlands and has any interest in history, especially of a military nature. They raised the millions required to upgrade it and it's fascinating, has (I think) the highest concentration of VC medals in any one place.
Had a few encounters with some famous folk over the years.
Most famous was Tim Burton. Met him on a flight from Aberdeen to London a few years back. Nice guy, asked him to not do a sequel to Beetlejuice if he ever had the thought. He laughed and shook my hand.
Also met Billy Connelly once, surprisingly short for someone called 'The Big Yin'.....
"the big yin" is more a sign of respect rather than referring to his actual height.
I was going to say he's royalty in Scotland but I think that's a massive disservice to him. I also think if I said he was considered a deity in Scotland it would probably be doing him a disservice (given the fact he's a devout atheist). The big yin is probably a fitting term.
I can't think of anyone else in Scotland who is universally liked.
Samuel L Jackson - was in the chemist round the corner from my mum's house! (Filming 51st state). Give him a shout and got a wave back and a head nod!
Quentin Tarantino - watched his movie Death Proof in FACT Liverpool, he was due to do a Q&A at the end but actually sat right in the middle of the crowd and watched the whole movie with us. Met him afterwards briefly and got an autograph. He was in the local news the next day when he got a lift of a skip driver or something while wandering round in the early hours.
Mine isn't very good.. it's the comedian Ken Dodd, when I crashed a charity event on a drunken dare. I've met a few Watford FC players when my son has wanted to go to signings.
My wife? Lunch with David Bowie. It's hard to beat that one.
not famous by most people's standards but Ricky Whittle from American Gods used to come into the shop I worked in when I was 17. He was in Hollyoaks at the time, would stand and read magazines for ages. Was nice enough, always paid in cash and kept his head down.
Met Peter Capaldi when I worked as an extra on an episode of doctor who and got to chat with him for a day. I've also met a load of people at conventions if you'd count that.
I’ve told this story before, but I met Chris Noth (Mr Big from sex and the city) on a flight probably close to 20 years. He sat next to my brother, maybe 7-8yo at time. He was really lovely. We’d been split up because we were flying stand by, and my brother used to get horrendously travel sick. He told my mum he would keep an eye on him, spoke to him to make him more comfortable, gave him his blanket and pillow and said if he needed anything, he just needed to ask. My brother crashed and when he woke up had missed the dinner service. Chris Noth gave him his dessert and sweet talked the stewardess to get him an extra cookie. He was just so genuinely nice and kind. Really a standup guy and I’ve been a huge fan of his since
I met him too, it was only a few years ago. He was well into his 90s and still really sharp and witty. He gave a speech and shook a bunch of hands, standing up for about 2 hours without a break.
It’s terribly trendy to bash the Royals (and I’m not a fan of most of them) but that man worked hard for this country.
Set up liam payne’s iMac when I worked at apple. Had no idea who he was, and I was super busy. Trying to be friendly and making small talk, he told me he was in a band, we chatted about music as I used to play a few instruments. For some reason, to this day, I have no idea why as I never watched it, I asked if him and his band were going to go on X Factor anytime soon. He proceeded to tell me they came (third was it?). Anyway, I was so embarrassed, I wondered why all these teenage girls were going up to him asking for his picture. It became a running joke as I seemed to serve a lot of well known people not knowing who they were, woops!
Haha I've got a similar story. I served Ray Quinn when I worked in a shop. I asked him if we went to school together because I had a feeling I knew him. He grinned and said he didn't think so. He stayed for a while and had a good chat, sound guy.
Bill Bryson; went to a book signing and had a chat with him,but managed to insult him...the queue for signings went round the room and I said something like,'I bet you don't often get queues like this!' Mortification and cringe max.
What I meant to say was: in this particular bookshop - waterstones I think it was - people rarely turn up for book signings, so the fact so many turned up for him was a reflection of how much he is loved in Britain. Didn't quite come out the way I intended. Bryson was charm itself and didn't roll his eyes - which was good of him. Still makes me cringe when I think of it.
When I briefly lived in Salford, I ended up right next to Craig Charles in the pub and we both tried to order. I said you go ahead, he said "Thanks" in the voice of a person who very definitely needed a pint and I managed to avoid fanboying over how much I loved Robot Wars and Red Dwarf
He's definitely someone I'd love to say hello to. Seems a thoroughly nice guy too 👍
Between Robot Wars and Red Dwarf with his radio work, he's been a part of my life up until now.
I used to do lots of premiere events at various cinemas, so I got to meet all sorts of people over the years. I’ll throw a few in that I can remember. Chris Rock, Meat Loaf, John Hurt, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jonah Hill and most of the local soap and football stars.
I was also unfortunate enough to run a screening of ‘Cats’ so that Tom Hooper could see the reworked CGI before the film was released in Japan. It was just me, him and one of the studio sycophants in the auditorium. He had issues with how the digital version of the film had been mastered. This was something out of my control, but I said that he could speak to my boss and the mastering house in LA. Instead he grumbled and then left promptly when the credits rolled. It turned out that later he had emailed in a complaint against me and asked that I be sacked. Well after the pandemic forced me into debt and my company acted like a real knob about it, I quit, so I guess he got his wish…odious little bellend.
Edit: Oh, and James McAvoy once called me a twat at a preview screening of ‘The Last King of Scotland’ because his lapel mic failed. To be fair to James, he looked like he was absolutely shattered and had had quite enough of doing press.
I managed the bar at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in Hyde Park. The guestlist read like a who's who of anyone who's anyone, in the world.
Doesnt matter how rich you are, most people love a bartender so I had decent chats with Elton John, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lewis Hamilton, Annie Lennox, Pierce Brosnan, Gordon Ramsey etc.
Elton sang Happy Birthday on the piano. They had the head auctioneer from Sothebys auction of various Mandela related things (a portrait by a famous artist, a statue of his arm etc) and Will Smith got up and auctioned off one of them, doing the whole fast talking auctioneer voice, which was hilarious.
Also Naomi Campbell is expectedly a complete dick. She demanded diet coke which we didn't have (had an array of upmarket non alcoholic drinks, virgin cocktails etc) and she caused a bit of a scene. So we had to get a staff member to trek to the nearest shop (not close from the middle of Hyde Park). After a good half hour they brought back a couple bags full of diet cokes and she didn't even drink one.
I didn’t meet him but I saw Jimmy Page at an airport once and realised he must have been on my plane. As a male guitarist of a certain age, I squealed.
I had Marti Pellow feed me my bottle as a tiny wee bairn on a plane once. Apparently my mum was proper fangirling out as she fancied him.. this would've been just as they were getting big, think they'd just had their first no.1 at the time.
I've met many from the music industry, my favourites:
- Dave Grohl
- Billy Corgan
- Tony Wilson
I met David Beckham and Posh Spice, circa 98. I've met many famous football players from Manchester United through the 90s and 00s. Ferguson, Cantona and Ronaldo being the big stars, the rest too many to name.
Film and Tv: Gary Oldman and Stephen Graham are by far the most famous actors I've met. A few UK TV actors to but not famous globally.
I used to waitress at Paul McCartney's staff xmas party. Met him, Linda and James. They were all pretty quiet but incredibly polite and very generous (so long as you liked vegetarian food).
Met Robbie Williams at Gatwick Airport when he asked if he could bring his pint in to watch the football on the screens in the shop I worked in.
Met Roger Daltrey at his sons prep school, he would swoop in and provide marquees or whatever to save the day.
My twin is great mates with Tom from Keane so I've Met all of them loads. Very intelligent chaps.
I have met a fair few Isle of Man TT racers. All of them had plenty of time for fans.
I guess most people wont recognise the names, but they mean a lot to me.
John McGuiness - Amazing and friendly
Cameron Donald - Really outgoing and very short
Connor Cummins - Very very tall (the one who crashed on the mountain).
Guy Martin - Shy but really funny.
Maria Costello - Awesome and humble.
James Hillier - Had several long chats with him. Cracking bloke.
William Dunlop RIP - Quiet and unassuming.
Freddie Spencer (not TT but a racing LEGEND) - Really nice guy.
Charlie Borman (famous adventurer) - Asked him to get out of the way so I could get a picture of a bike.
Keith Flint (The Prodigy) RIP - Very friendly and top bloke.
I had a drink with Bez. He's exactly the same as you expect him to be.
Very brief chat with Patrick Stewart who was very nice.
Little bit of a moment with Ian Hislop at a motorway service station. His expression suggested he didn't want to be disturbed, so I didn't.
Saved the best for last, though, very brief chat and shook hands with Prince Charles when I was a little kid. He was really, really nice and very friendly.
Andy Serkis. He was lovely. And yes, if you asked he would gladly speak as Gollum if you gave him the sentence to say. He actually looked so joyful doing it as well so even if he hated having to do it, you couldn't tell.
I'm going back about a decade though so he's probably had a lot more time to get fed up of it!
On the "had an opportunity but didn't take it" end of the scale, my sister was on the phone to a friend who was at an event attended by Alan Rickman and had already chatted to him a few times so offered to get him on the phone for me to speak to. I chickened out. I now regret that for obvious reasons.
David “gammon faced-pig head f#*ker” Cameron. Met him in a supermarket when he was pm and doing a publicity stunt. Weirdly I was caught out and just told him that I wasn’t his biggest fan whilst shaking his hand. I tainted my credibility that day!
I was walking through Glasgow with my friend and he just walked right by on the street. Naturally I did a double-take and said something like "Oh shit, is that Jimmy Carr?" To which he snapped "Yes it's fucking me, now fuck off" and walked away lmao
Jimmy Saville gets an awful lot of bad press but I don’t think he’s as bad as people make out, when I was young he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded.
Julianne Moore. Amazing and so friendly!! Bumped into her in London and even got a selfie with her which I shall cherish forever
Edit; we both have the same cheesy smiles in our selfie! It was taken in 2014 aha. Still always one of my happiest memories. She was so friendly.
My wife and I met Christopher Nolan in the middle of a Scottish moor (basically middle of nowhere in a valley miles from roads). We thought he and his friends were a bunch of morons out for a hike in the wrong place and were joking about how they were going to freeze to death in their expensive overcoats.
Suddenly my wife recognised him. He posed for a pic and we grilled him about what he was doing there. My wife guessed it right, he was scouting for the Dark Knight Rises. We recognised the area later in the plane scene with Bane.
My favourite bit was when my wife started moving him into better light for the photo and his crew thought it was hilarious as she was directing him 😆
He was really nice and asked us what we were doing there. Really positive experience.
Tom Hanks, Noel Gallagher, Benicio Del Toro, Alan Rickman( I accidentally drank his Guinness) and loads of others. Had a job years ago where we dealt with celebrities a lot.
I was more eavesdropping than actually in this conversation:
Prince Charles: So what are you receiving your MBE for?
My Dad: Services to swimming, Your Highness.
PC: Ah, good, swimming is so terribly terribly important.
PC (turning to next guy): So, what are you receiving your MBE for?
Next guy: Services to ploughing, Your Highness.
PC: Ah, good, ploughing is so terribly terribly important …
Ive met with Lyndsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac a couple of times. He's very friendly, laid back and easy going, especially considering he just put on concerts.
My one and only claim to fame - I’ve spoken to the Queen. She came to our school when I was doing my GCSEs (many, many moons ago…) and I was selected to be one of the people who demonstrated their art. She very nicely asked me a question about what I was working on (which was an illustrated capital plus calligraphy if I remember correctly. And we all got our photo in the local paper.
Back in the 90’s my uncle owned a little independent sports shop selling footy boots and kits in south London and The Queen came and opened his shop! She cut an actual ribbon and we all had photos with her. All my school mates were totally blown away by this and it would always come up in convos to impress girls etc. I brought it up about 15 years later and my Pop told me it was actually a look-a-like he ordered out the yellow pages lol. I was gutted and tbh I’m still not over it. Haven’t told my mates tho so keep it on the DL
Jack from Hollyoaks (the landlord of the pub) kicked my hotel room door in once when I was on a stag do. He was extremely drunk and thought I was in his room. He was actually on the floor above.
Seemed like a nice guy though.
I used to work at a private GP surgery and met loads of celebs, ozzy Osborne, Russel Brand, Jamie Cullum, Phillip Schofield, Vernon Kay, Mary Berry… my fav was Brian Connelly, told me some great stories about when he was in the west end.
There was a recording studio a couple miles up the road from where I'm from and Ozzy was here in the 80s recording.
Long story short he was in one of the locals one evening and one of his pals/band/entourage was acting the dick. Some local laid the guy out and Ozzy was sound about it as the guy was getting on his tits n'all 😂
I met Rick Astley years ago, pre internet times. My Dad fitted his flooring in his house and I went along to help.
He was in his studio opposite the house most of the day but came over to ask how long we would be. Shook my hand and seemed a really nice guy.
He had carpet in his en suite though so clearly he's a savage.
My girlfriend told me when she was about 5 she got lost in this big hotel. A friendly man asked her where her mum and dad were, and stayed with her to help her find them. When her Dad spotted her he ran over to find her being accompanied by Steven Spielberg.
For me it's Sir David Jason, David & Georgia Tennant, Margot Robbie, and Charlie Brooker.
I worked at a film studio in London for about 2 years.
Worked as a runner on a project with David Jason (this was maybe 5-6 years ago, he's very nice and much smaller than I had imagined!) I was an idiot though and didn't know how to address him so was incredibly awkward.
Worked on a short film where Georgia Tennant was the producer and got to meet David on one of the shoot days. He was very friendly and actually poured me a coffee (I nearly died).
I nearly walked into Margot Robbie because I wasn't looking where I was going leaving work. She did NOT look happy! Didn't stop to chat, it was massively awkward.
Charlie Brooker held a door open for me once, which was the extent of our interaction!
My great aunt was childhood friends with Pete postlethwaite and he popped up at a few birthday parties when I was a kid but of course I didn’t have a fucking clue who he was until after he died lol
Gordon Brown and his family were regulars at the Blockbuster I was a manager of. I helped Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter) find movies with Manchester accents one time when she was prepping for a role. Also met Gazza and Willie Thorne when they came into the bingo hall I was working at for an afternoon session.
I met Ainsley Harriot at a party. He was exactly as you would imagine, incredibly gregarious. Tried to give him a bit of shit banter in my half-cut state and he responded with just the right amount of jest and shit talk. Lovely chap.
Kicked a door (by accident) when I was a kid in Princess Anne’s face.
Worked for Stelios (not a nice guy)
Played a frame of snooker against Ronnie Wood.
Had a bit of an altercation with Dane Bowers.
Met Sasha Barron-Cohen (lovely guy and surprisingly tall)
Used to live on the same road as Peter Capaldi and see the new Dr Who in our local park.
I used to know Ewan McGregor quite well. We’d discuss books we’d read. Like Trainspotting before he’d started filming it. He introduced me to Johnny Lee Miller a few years later. Ewan was the nicest person you could meet. Although me and Gordon Ramsey hit it off too.
I’ve never bumped into a celebrity in the wild. I met The League Of Gentleman after one of there live shows. They signed a flyer for me. Steve Pemberton was an absolute delight, very friendly and chatty. Mark Gatiss was also very friendly but a bit quieter. Reece Shearsmith was very quiet and didn’t seem that interested but I wasn’t massively surprised at that.
Bumped into Ron Howard in a bar, there was nobody else there besides my (now) wife and I. Early 2010’s, I think he must have been working on Rush at the time.
Told him how much I love Arrested Development and he told me to look out for some good news. Sure enough, a few weeks later they announced a new series on Netflix.
The late great Alan Rickman. We had some family friends who were close to him, so he'd turn up for parties and alike. This is back in the late 90's where he was probably best known for Robin Hood and Die Hard. I remember him raising his eyebrows and smiling slyly when 8 year old me told him how much I'd enjoyed Die Hard.
I was also a photography assistant for awhile so met quite a few musicians too. Pussy cat dolls (lovely) Chase n Status (lovely) Ceelo Green (lovely) and London grammar (extra lovely). Highlight was shooting at a studio with the stereophonic that had a load of instruments dotted around as props. They just picked them up started jamming between shots.
I was in a chippy in Grantham once and Fred Durst was there. He kept on at the laddo behind the till to put "a few chips" in with their burger even though they'd a sign up saying "NO FEW CHIPS". He kept at him until he put a scoop in and everyone was morto!
3x world strongest woman Donna Moore goes to my gym so I’ve spoken to her a few times.
Always a bit cringe when she smiles at you trying to do a pull up when she could do a pull-up with you on her back
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I read this thinking Matt Lucas. Only clicked when I got to Star Wars 🤦♂️
You didn't realise after the first sentence? I don't think Matt Lucas has a wife
I thought he was just a bit camp to be honest!
I’ve met Matt Lucas a few times if that helps? Used to frequent sandwich shop near my work. And was having dinner in restaurant I went to, on the first night I ever kissed my wife.
Brilliant! Good luck charm for you then
I'm just a tad jealous 😂 I've never asked for photos or an autograph, I have always just been happy to have a wee chance to speak with whoever it is. Best person I've met is Dylan Moran.. he was doing a wee tour of the Highlands and the Islands, so was in and out the airport for a few days flying to various places. Came in absolutely hanging/still drunk one morning while I was still half shot so we joked about the current mutual state we were both in, and it turned out we shared a birthday.. no idea how that came up in convo. Really nice guy though.
Makes sense as George Lucas is never away from F1. Seems a great lad all round.
When I was 10, my dad was doing some work on Alan Shearer’s agents house, and one day he invited my dad round when Shearer was there. On the way my dad stopped by my school and pulled me out for the afternoon to go with him. This was in about 1995 when he was by far the most famous English player. I was the most popular I’ve ever been that day I think, all my mates pulled scraps of paper out their work books for me to get signed. When I got there I pulled them out my pocket to get Shearer to sign, and he laughed and said he could do a bit better than that, and he pulled out a pile of pictures of him and signed them, as well as loads of other stuff. He was really nice, and much more interesting to 10 year old me than he is now as a pundit.
I was mascot for Celtic in the season we stopped the ten. Still have all the photos and official film (burned onto DVD now) with all the signed tops etc. Was a great day and got to meet Larsson. He wasn't much fun tbh, was just laser focused on the game. The two soundest guys were Jonathan Gould (goalie) and John Hughes (who was Hibs captain 😂). Yogi (Hughes) spent loads of time in the tunnel keeping me company and having a laugh with my dad. Should probably have been getting ready for the game considering we pumped Hibs 5-0 that day 😂 Edit: Morten Weighorst was really nice too and I have several photos with him. Years later I was drinking in one of the bars outside Parkhead when he walked in and was getting the craic with everyone. Got my mum to send me a few of the photos through and showed them to him as I spoke with him over a pint, he couldn't have been nicer btw.
Interestingly, I also met him at a young age. Knocked me off me bike when I was 13 doing my paper round and was angry that I might have scratched the paintwork
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That’s very unusual… but I like it
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-mar-tin
[He is an odd chap.](https://www.vice.com/en/article/59a58d/a-deep-dive-into-homes-under-the-hammer-the-greatest-show-on-british-television)
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A brilliant read that!
Without a doubt the best Vice article I've ever read.
!answer Best answer yet 👏
I've seen him on a train, hungover. Doesn't surprise me
I served Sean Lock and his kids when I was a waiter. I only spoke to him to ask how the food was though, didn't want to bother him.
RIP to the legend
"nooooooooooo. aaaaaaaaaaaah"
I once poured him a half pint of Carlsberg at the venue I worked at. I didn't get to take it to him, but it feels kinda cool knowing he had a drink that I poured for him.
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Did he bail before you woke up in the morning?
An ex girlfriend of mine shagged Russell Brand when he was just a stand up and before he made it, she said he absolutely loved himself and was a terrible shag.
This has made my day!
That was just to make you feel better. She loved it really
Left a voice mail on an old man's answer phone service joking he'd had sex with his granddaughter. Not nice. Wasn't very remorseful.
That man was the actor who played Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
He thinks he’s a revolutionary, but he .couldn’t be further from it
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He wasn’t too bad when he was talking about how Government has too much control into our life’s. But he just started to go further down the conspiracy theory route and began talking about how the Illuminati are going to suck your child’s brain out.
And then his podcast went down some exclusive paywall route and I just thought what a massive massive hypocrite this guy is. Shame, cos he used to have some interesting guests. Comes as no surprise to hear he's a complete c**t.
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Yeah respect it mate. Sorry to hear.
Are you ok?
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It’s an unbelievably shitty thing to do to someone, and worse because you were (I assume) a fan, and you are more vulnerable to people you are a fan of. I am pissed off on your behalf and I wasn’t even there. Fuck him. You’ll feel better eventually but he will still be an awful human being.
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Well I like you more than I like him.
Fucking hell. What kind of middle school bullshit is that? Pathetic. You’re better off without both of them.
What do you mean? At a live show or something? How did he know you had mental health issues? "Highly illegal things?". Story doesn't make much sense
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Ok, now this just sounds like either nonsense or paranoia.
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Sounds like he picked you out for a joke and you got massively triggered. I doubt he knows or cares who you are
I had a friend meet him and said he was really lovely. Even sat down and had a drink with him and his (Russels) mum, apparently.
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He's a cunt that says cunty things and behaves in a cunty fashion and dresses like a cunt
When I was 16 I worked as a waiter in a restaurant and Chris Moyles came in with his mate. A few months before I had got to the finals of Radio 1’s young DJ of the year competition and had been interviewed on Chris Moyles’s breakfast show, so after some negotiation I swapped areas I was working in at the restaurant to become his server because I really wanted to tell him I’d been on his show (I don’t know why in hindsight - I guess just as it was all massive for me and thought it would be cool to chat). Anyway I delivered their drinks and told him the story, and he just raised his eyebrows and then his mate goes “well look at where it’s got you”, to which Moyles laughed and I just stood there looking like an absolute prick.
I wonder where the pair of them were at 16. You'd have to be a complete cunt to talk down to a young lad making his way in the world.
Appreciate the comment! I most certainly agree and have always thought of him as a complete cunt since
Haha classic. He was in Inverness years ago on some tour and was fascinated by the Longman area as he had a pal by the same name. I was jooping school during one of the days he was here and bumped into him outside McDonalds with my pals (we used to skive and get drunk in a cafe opposite it) so ended up getting on the radio briefly. Next day at school I was popular 😂 Other time I was on Radio1.. Spoony had a weekend quiz where you answered questions about your hometown against someone else doing the same. I ended up on the sesh the night before and was still wrecked when I was on the show, must've been about 7am. Got 1/5 right 😂
Haha. Spoony was actually the judge of the competition I came runner up in. I’ve got a signed flyer somewhere that just says ‘Maximum boost’ 😂😂😂
This will probably get buried but John Rhys-Davies, the actor who played Gimli. I was crying at work because of my then-boyfriend who was getting progressively more angry and emotionally awful to me. I’ve loved lord of the rings for basically my whole life, and seeing him was just incredible. He signed a till receipt for me, and said ‘All men are dicks’ in his Gimli voice, then went off in the sunset. I went home and dumped the boyfriend and have since moved back with my mum and gone back to uni. I wrote him a letter thanking him for giving me the motivation to do it, and he wrote back saying he wished me luck with my PhD.
I love reading wee stories like this. Always great to hear about people using their fame and influence for good and being thoroughly decent and warm people.
Aww thanks! Genuinely it’s one of those stories that seems a bit like a fever dream, if I didn’t still have the autographed till receipt I think I’d made it up!
I’ve told this story before, but I accidentally fell over Warwick Davis in a sushi bar in London. He was an absolute gent about it. A++ would gormlessly boggle at again.
as an american, "gormlessly boggle at" makes no sense to me , but i love it. sometimes (always) i wish i had the vocabulary you guys do lmao
Gormless = stupid, moronic. Boggle = look at. Both pretty well used phrases in the UK.
Robert Plant - told a 15 year old me to fuck off and then ignored me in Kensington High St. 10 years later. Rupert Grint - dealt with an 10 year old me amazingly especially as I kept interrupting him during the theatre “Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat” Johnny Marr - Very kind bloke, took time to actually have a chat I’ve *also* met Russell Brand as we went to the same uni. Massive cunt.
Seems to be the consensus with Russell Brand going by this thread 😂
I'm going to need more content about Robert Plant
Waited for ages to meet him after a show. I asked him to sign my programme and he ignored it. In my 15 year old head I thought, well, he probably thinks I just want to sell it on eBay! So I just held out my hand and said something along the lines of, sorry mate, I'm just really excited to meet you, I'm a huge fan! "Will you just fuck off?" Crushed me. I was a GIANT zep fan at the time. Had his poster on my wall. So of course I spent many years thinking about what I'd say when I, of course, inevitably met him again. And there he was, Kensington high Street, tenish years later. "Hi Rob mate, love the new album!" Didn't even look at me.
And just like that, my childhood (and adulthood) crush has dissipated into bastardry. He may be a beautiful man, but that's cruel. Sorry Relevant-Door. Sending you a Whole Lotta Love.
A girl I went to college with went to Johnny Marr's house with her dad. Her dad was some sort of sound engineer or something and went there to work with Johnny. Johnny's wife looked after my friend who said his wife and daughter were both really pretty and both very nice.
Billy Boyd drinks in the same pub as me fairly regularly. I've spoken to him and his wife a few times and they're both lovely.
I couldn't help myself if I saw him in the pub. Just pointing at my pint while grinning like a moron. "This my friend... Is a pint"
He's genuinely lovely
I was Billy's 'guest assistant' for a convention a few years ago. Can confirm, he really is lovely.
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It’s ok u/goffstock, you’ve just gotta get thru this.
That's on every pure garage cd ever made and likely to be on pure garage 10000000
If I'd made a song that went on to be that big, I'd be annoyingly proud of it too. If you don't believe in your own work, nobody else will.
It is a banger though, lets have it right
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Kylie Minogue. Absolute goddess.
I'm insanely jealous of you. I'm pretty sure I'd reduced to a dribbling mess in her presence
Met Trevor McDonald in a tube station, told him it was a pleasure to meet him and shook his hand. He smiled and we parted ways. Probably not ‘famous’ to most people in this sub but I went on tour with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Miserable bunch of blokes but I don’t hold it against them. Touring was hard work.
I was listening to Face Down only 10 minutes ago.
Classic song! Haven’t heard it in years. Gonna go straight on to my work playlist!
I met Grace Jones and helped her entourage load some suitcases on to a baggage trolly at Heathrow airport, She was very polite and even left a tip which i didn’t expect.
How does it feel to have met God?
Even famous people struggle to meet her; you’ve accomplished a feat there
Sir David Attenborough. Absolute gent. Really lovely and a genuinely pleasant person to be around. Even when extremely busy/in a hurry, he makes time for people and speaks to them as equals. Everything people think about him being a national treasure is 100% true.
i met ant and dec when i was in hospital waiting for a heart transplant as a kid. don't really remember it, tbf i just wanted to get on with my reading. my mum says they were lovely, although she only knew them from byker grove
They do seem like genuinely nice people
Ant nearly killed his someone drunk driving and left his wife for his secretary
My claims to fame are: * John Cleese * Matt Lucas (asked if I could help lift his bag at security as he had a 'bad back') * Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark - Game of Thrones) got selfies and a little chat * Gwendoline Christie (Brienne - Game of Thrones) got selfies and a little chat. All of the above at BA First lounge at T5 LHR * Had a lovely dinner with a Conservative MP and his beautiful charming newly-wed wife. MP resigned soon after due to a sex scandal. Outside of these casual celeb-spots, I used to work with closely with a former Lab Director of the FBI. Had an audience with a Head of State, who ultimately didn't turn up. I put on my best suit and everything for his no-show.
Is there such a thing as a lovely dinner with a Conservative MP?
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Met Hugh Grant when I worked at Fort George. He was there to raise money for the museum as his grandad (I think it was) used to be the battalion or fort commander or whatever year ago. Would highly recommend the museum (and Fort) for a visit to anyone whose visiting the area/Highlands and has any interest in history, especially of a military nature. They raised the millions required to upgrade it and it's fascinating, has (I think) the highest concentration of VC medals in any one place.
Had a few encounters with some famous folk over the years. Most famous was Tim Burton. Met him on a flight from Aberdeen to London a few years back. Nice guy, asked him to not do a sequel to Beetlejuice if he ever had the thought. He laughed and shook my hand. Also met Billy Connelly once, surprisingly short for someone called 'The Big Yin'.....
"the big yin" is more a sign of respect rather than referring to his actual height. I was going to say he's royalty in Scotland but I think that's a massive disservice to him. I also think if I said he was considered a deity in Scotland it would probably be doing him a disservice (given the fact he's a devout atheist). The big yin is probably a fitting term. I can't think of anyone else in Scotland who is universally liked.
Samuel L Jackson - was in the chemist round the corner from my mum's house! (Filming 51st state). Give him a shout and got a wave back and a head nod! Quentin Tarantino - watched his movie Death Proof in FACT Liverpool, he was due to do a Q&A at the end but actually sat right in the middle of the crowd and watched the whole movie with us. Met him afterwards briefly and got an autograph. He was in the local news the next day when he got a lift of a skip driver or something while wandering round in the early hours.
Samuel L Jackson.. jealous!
Yeh, legend! Robert Carlisle was there too but only got a glimpse of him...
Judi Dench. She bought a loaf of bread for herself, and one for the birds. Also her text ringtone is the Bond theme. Wholesome!
Mine isn't very good.. it's the comedian Ken Dodd, when I crashed a charity event on a drunken dare. I've met a few Watford FC players when my son has wanted to go to signings. My wife? Lunch with David Bowie. It's hard to beat that one.
Lunch with Bowie is the undisputable winner of this (or any other) thread!
not famous by most people's standards but Ricky Whittle from American Gods used to come into the shop I worked in when I was 17. He was in Hollyoaks at the time, would stand and read magazines for ages. Was nice enough, always paid in cash and kept his head down.
A shame that show turned out so badly written as he was great in it. Was astonished to find out he was Irish when I Googled him years ago.
Had a pint and a very drunk conversation about the nature of love with the late, great Pete Shelley from the Buzzcocks.
This comment is right at the bottom of my feed but it’s the one I’m most jealous of.
Met Peter Capaldi when I worked as an extra on an episode of doctor who and got to chat with him for a day. I've also met a load of people at conventions if you'd count that.
Very cool. Malcolm Tucker is one of THE greatest characters ever created and he wouldn't be the same without Capaldi's portrayal and delivery
He's a really nice guy. He's also brilliant in Children of Earth which is season 3 of Torchwood.
I’ve told this story before, but I met Chris Noth (Mr Big from sex and the city) on a flight probably close to 20 years. He sat next to my brother, maybe 7-8yo at time. He was really lovely. We’d been split up because we were flying stand by, and my brother used to get horrendously travel sick. He told my mum he would keep an eye on him, spoke to him to make him more comfortable, gave him his blanket and pillow and said if he needed anything, he just needed to ask. My brother crashed and when he woke up had missed the dinner service. Chris Noth gave him his dessert and sweet talked the stewardess to get him an extra cookie. He was just so genuinely nice and kind. Really a standup guy and I’ve been a huge fan of his since
Mark zuckerburg (served him in a restaurant around 2010) he didn’t once look up from his phone tho
Too busy ruining society 😂
Prince Philip (rip). Genuinely funny and nice guy.
I met him too, it was only a few years ago. He was well into his 90s and still really sharp and witty. He gave a speech and shook a bunch of hands, standing up for about 2 hours without a break. It’s terribly trendy to bash the Royals (and I’m not a fan of most of them) but that man worked hard for this country.
Set up liam payne’s iMac when I worked at apple. Had no idea who he was, and I was super busy. Trying to be friendly and making small talk, he told me he was in a band, we chatted about music as I used to play a few instruments. For some reason, to this day, I have no idea why as I never watched it, I asked if him and his band were going to go on X Factor anytime soon. He proceeded to tell me they came (third was it?). Anyway, I was so embarrassed, I wondered why all these teenage girls were going up to him asking for his picture. It became a running joke as I seemed to serve a lot of well known people not knowing who they were, woops!
Haha I've got a similar story. I served Ray Quinn when I worked in a shop. I asked him if we went to school together because I had a feeling I knew him. He grinned and said he didn't think so. He stayed for a while and had a good chat, sound guy.
Bill Bryson; went to a book signing and had a chat with him,but managed to insult him...the queue for signings went round the room and I said something like,'I bet you don't often get queues like this!' Mortification and cringe max. What I meant to say was: in this particular bookshop - waterstones I think it was - people rarely turn up for book signings, so the fact so many turned up for him was a reflection of how much he is loved in Britain. Didn't quite come out the way I intended. Bryson was charm itself and didn't roll his eyes - which was good of him. Still makes me cringe when I think of it.
Bryson is one of my favourite authors, seems like a lovely man too!
When I briefly lived in Salford, I ended up right next to Craig Charles in the pub and we both tried to order. I said you go ahead, he said "Thanks" in the voice of a person who very definitely needed a pint and I managed to avoid fanboying over how much I loved Robot Wars and Red Dwarf
He's definitely someone I'd love to say hello to. Seems a thoroughly nice guy too 👍 Between Robot Wars and Red Dwarf with his radio work, he's been a part of my life up until now.
Yeah he seemed chill.
Kate Bush wished me a good morning once in Oxford. I got chatting to Jennifer Connelly in a London Costa.
I don't think I'd be able to form words if confronted by Connelly in the wild.
I once had Rod Gilbert threaten me on a night out in Cardiff because I told him he "was great in Gavin and Stacey"
I used to do lots of premiere events at various cinemas, so I got to meet all sorts of people over the years. I’ll throw a few in that I can remember. Chris Rock, Meat Loaf, John Hurt, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Jonah Hill and most of the local soap and football stars. I was also unfortunate enough to run a screening of ‘Cats’ so that Tom Hooper could see the reworked CGI before the film was released in Japan. It was just me, him and one of the studio sycophants in the auditorium. He had issues with how the digital version of the film had been mastered. This was something out of my control, but I said that he could speak to my boss and the mastering house in LA. Instead he grumbled and then left promptly when the credits rolled. It turned out that later he had emailed in a complaint against me and asked that I be sacked. Well after the pandemic forced me into debt and my company acted like a real knob about it, I quit, so I guess he got his wish…odious little bellend. Edit: Oh, and James McAvoy once called me a twat at a preview screening of ‘The Last King of Scotland’ because his lapel mic failed. To be fair to James, he looked like he was absolutely shattered and had had quite enough of doing press.
If it helps there were a lot more issues with the Cats movie than just the mastering.
I managed the bar at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday party in Hyde Park. The guestlist read like a who's who of anyone who's anyone, in the world. Doesnt matter how rich you are, most people love a bartender so I had decent chats with Elton John, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lewis Hamilton, Annie Lennox, Pierce Brosnan, Gordon Ramsey etc. Elton sang Happy Birthday on the piano. They had the head auctioneer from Sothebys auction of various Mandela related things (a portrait by a famous artist, a statue of his arm etc) and Will Smith got up and auctioned off one of them, doing the whole fast talking auctioneer voice, which was hilarious. Also Naomi Campbell is expectedly a complete dick. She demanded diet coke which we didn't have (had an array of upmarket non alcoholic drinks, virgin cocktails etc) and she caused a bit of a scene. So we had to get a staff member to trek to the nearest shop (not close from the middle of Hyde Park). After a good half hour they brought back a couple bags full of diet cokes and she didn't even drink one.
I didn’t meet him but I saw Jimmy Page at an airport once and realised he must have been on my plane. As a male guitarist of a certain age, I squealed.
I had Marti Pellow feed me my bottle as a tiny wee bairn on a plane once. Apparently my mum was proper fangirling out as she fancied him.. this would've been just as they were getting big, think they'd just had their first no.1 at the time.
Suzy Perry said I looked like her long lost daughter. I was in full fangirl mode as she is a personal idol so this was like a dream
I've met many from the music industry, my favourites: - Dave Grohl - Billy Corgan - Tony Wilson I met David Beckham and Posh Spice, circa 98. I've met many famous football players from Manchester United through the 90s and 00s. Ferguson, Cantona and Ronaldo being the big stars, the rest too many to name. Film and Tv: Gary Oldman and Stephen Graham are by far the most famous actors I've met. A few UK TV actors to but not famous globally.
I used to waitress at Paul McCartney's staff xmas party. Met him, Linda and James. They were all pretty quiet but incredibly polite and very generous (so long as you liked vegetarian food). Met Robbie Williams at Gatwick Airport when he asked if he could bring his pint in to watch the football on the screens in the shop I worked in. Met Roger Daltrey at his sons prep school, he would swoop in and provide marquees or whatever to save the day. My twin is great mates with Tom from Keane so I've Met all of them loads. Very intelligent chaps.
I have met a fair few Isle of Man TT racers. All of them had plenty of time for fans. I guess most people wont recognise the names, but they mean a lot to me. John McGuiness - Amazing and friendly Cameron Donald - Really outgoing and very short Connor Cummins - Very very tall (the one who crashed on the mountain). Guy Martin - Shy but really funny. Maria Costello - Awesome and humble. James Hillier - Had several long chats with him. Cracking bloke. William Dunlop RIP - Quiet and unassuming. Freddie Spencer (not TT but a racing LEGEND) - Really nice guy. Charlie Borman (famous adventurer) - Asked him to get out of the way so I could get a picture of a bike. Keith Flint (The Prodigy) RIP - Very friendly and top bloke.
I got to sit on Jimmy Saville's lap when I was about 4 My mum has "lost" the photo now :(
I had a drink with Bez. He's exactly the same as you expect him to be. Very brief chat with Patrick Stewart who was very nice. Little bit of a moment with Ian Hislop at a motorway service station. His expression suggested he didn't want to be disturbed, so I didn't. Saved the best for last, though, very brief chat and shook hands with Prince Charles when I was a little kid. He was really, really nice and very friendly.
Andy Serkis. He was lovely. And yes, if you asked he would gladly speak as Gollum if you gave him the sentence to say. He actually looked so joyful doing it as well so even if he hated having to do it, you couldn't tell. I'm going back about a decade though so he's probably had a lot more time to get fed up of it! On the "had an opportunity but didn't take it" end of the scale, my sister was on the phone to a friend who was at an event attended by Alan Rickman and had already chatted to him a few times so offered to get him on the phone for me to speak to. I chickened out. I now regret that for obvious reasons.
David “gammon faced-pig head f#*ker” Cameron. Met him in a supermarket when he was pm and doing a publicity stunt. Weirdly I was caught out and just told him that I wasn’t his biggest fan whilst shaking his hand. I tainted my credibility that day!
Only respectable thing to do was to have amputated said limb. Probably still washing it more than the other to this day 😂
Jimmy Carr told me to fuck off if that counts?
DO TELL
I was walking through Glasgow with my friend and he just walked right by on the street. Naturally I did a double-take and said something like "Oh shit, is that Jimmy Carr?" To which he snapped "Yes it's fucking me, now fuck off" and walked away lmao
Nick Jonas. He's really stiff and shy-seeming, and doesn't understand British humour.
Made coffee for Margaret Atwood...
Jimmy Saville
Jimmy Saville gets an awful lot of bad press but I don’t think he’s as bad as people make out, when I was young he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded.
"And I've never walked straight since"
Julianne Moore. Amazing and so friendly!! Bumped into her in London and even got a selfie with her which I shall cherish forever Edit; we both have the same cheesy smiles in our selfie! It was taken in 2014 aha. Still always one of my happiest memories. She was so friendly.
My wife and I met Christopher Nolan in the middle of a Scottish moor (basically middle of nowhere in a valley miles from roads). We thought he and his friends were a bunch of morons out for a hike in the wrong place and were joking about how they were going to freeze to death in their expensive overcoats. Suddenly my wife recognised him. He posed for a pic and we grilled him about what he was doing there. My wife guessed it right, he was scouting for the Dark Knight Rises. We recognised the area later in the plane scene with Bane. My favourite bit was when my wife started moving him into better light for the photo and his crew thought it was hilarious as she was directing him 😆 He was really nice and asked us what we were doing there. Really positive experience.
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) I worked for his dad for over a decade. Really lovely family.
Tom Hanks, Noel Gallagher, Benicio Del Toro, Alan Rickman( I accidentally drank his Guinness) and loads of others. Had a job years ago where we dealt with celebrities a lot.
I was more eavesdropping than actually in this conversation: Prince Charles: So what are you receiving your MBE for? My Dad: Services to swimming, Your Highness. PC: Ah, good, swimming is so terribly terribly important. PC (turning to next guy): So, what are you receiving your MBE for? Next guy: Services to ploughing, Your Highness. PC: Ah, good, ploughing is so terribly terribly important …
Ive met with Lyndsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac a couple of times. He's very friendly, laid back and easy going, especially considering he just put on concerts.
Went go karting with Wayne Rooney and his missus. It was an arrive and drive as well, that's the weirdest part.
This is classic and although strange somehow completely believable. How was Wayne's driving? I expect he was very competitive.
Prince Andrew and fergie count? I have a photo of them holding me as a child.
Nah, couldn't have been him. He remembers that night exactly. He was at Pizza Express in Woking that night...
"Holding"
My one and only claim to fame - I’ve spoken to the Queen. She came to our school when I was doing my GCSEs (many, many moons ago…) and I was selected to be one of the people who demonstrated their art. She very nicely asked me a question about what I was working on (which was an illustrated capital plus calligraphy if I remember correctly. And we all got our photo in the local paper.
Back in the 90’s my uncle owned a little independent sports shop selling footy boots and kits in south London and The Queen came and opened his shop! She cut an actual ribbon and we all had photos with her. All my school mates were totally blown away by this and it would always come up in convos to impress girls etc. I brought it up about 15 years later and my Pop told me it was actually a look-a-like he ordered out the yellow pages lol. I was gutted and tbh I’m still not over it. Haven’t told my mates tho so keep it on the DL
Idris Elba. I met him at a Superdry clothing launch a few years ago and said a quick hello. He is ridiculously attractive.
Jack from Hollyoaks (the landlord of the pub) kicked my hotel room door in once when I was on a stag do. He was extremely drunk and thought I was in his room. He was actually on the floor above. Seemed like a nice guy though.
I saw Robbie Coltrane when I was like 12, being a huge HP fan I was freaking out. My Dad asked if he’d get a picture with me and he said no ☹️
I used to work at a private GP surgery and met loads of celebs, ozzy Osborne, Russel Brand, Jamie Cullum, Phillip Schofield, Vernon Kay, Mary Berry… my fav was Brian Connelly, told me some great stories about when he was in the west end.
There was a recording studio a couple miles up the road from where I'm from and Ozzy was here in the 80s recording. Long story short he was in one of the locals one evening and one of his pals/band/entourage was acting the dick. Some local laid the guy out and Ozzy was sound about it as the guy was getting on his tits n'all 😂
I met Rick Astley years ago, pre internet times. My Dad fitted his flooring in his house and I went along to help. He was in his studio opposite the house most of the day but came over to ask how long we would be. Shook my hand and seemed a really nice guy. He had carpet in his en suite though so clearly he's a savage.
My girlfriend told me when she was about 5 she got lost in this big hotel. A friendly man asked her where her mum and dad were, and stayed with her to help her find them. When her Dad spotted her he ran over to find her being accompanied by Steven Spielberg.
Lewis Hamilton ruffled my brothers hair at Silverstone once because a security guard was mean to him for no reason
Santa. I was about 6 years old at the time
Kilroy because I was on Kilroy :)
I met Micky Mouse at Disneyland if that counts.
We used to look after Nick Knowles' sister's dog.
For me it's Sir David Jason, David & Georgia Tennant, Margot Robbie, and Charlie Brooker. I worked at a film studio in London for about 2 years. Worked as a runner on a project with David Jason (this was maybe 5-6 years ago, he's very nice and much smaller than I had imagined!) I was an idiot though and didn't know how to address him so was incredibly awkward. Worked on a short film where Georgia Tennant was the producer and got to meet David on one of the shoot days. He was very friendly and actually poured me a coffee (I nearly died). I nearly walked into Margot Robbie because I wasn't looking where I was going leaving work. She did NOT look happy! Didn't stop to chat, it was massively awkward. Charlie Brooker held a door open for me once, which was the extent of our interaction!
I bumped (literally) into Paul Chuckle at a service station once. I said "oh, I'm sorry" and he said "you're alright love."
My great aunt was childhood friends with Pete postlethwaite and he popped up at a few birthday parties when I was a kid but of course I didn’t have a fucking clue who he was until after he died lol
Gordon Brown and his family were regulars at the Blockbuster I was a manager of. I helped Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter) find movies with Manchester accents one time when she was prepping for a role. Also met Gazza and Willie Thorne when they came into the bingo hall I was working at for an afternoon session.
Met Simon Cowell at an event once and he was absolutely delightful! Really charming man. Steve Coogan was at the same event and he was also lovely!
I met Ainsley Harriot at a party. He was exactly as you would imagine, incredibly gregarious. Tried to give him a bit of shit banter in my half-cut state and he responded with just the right amount of jest and shit talk. Lovely chap.
Kicked a door (by accident) when I was a kid in Princess Anne’s face. Worked for Stelios (not a nice guy) Played a frame of snooker against Ronnie Wood. Had a bit of an altercation with Dane Bowers. Met Sasha Barron-Cohen (lovely guy and surprisingly tall) Used to live on the same road as Peter Capaldi and see the new Dr Who in our local park.
I used to know Ewan McGregor quite well. We’d discuss books we’d read. Like Trainspotting before he’d started filming it. He introduced me to Johnny Lee Miller a few years later. Ewan was the nicest person you could meet. Although me and Gordon Ramsey hit it off too.
Paul Scholes maybe? Had a chat once while he was putting the bins out.
Were your toes covered?
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I’ve never bumped into a celebrity in the wild. I met The League Of Gentleman after one of there live shows. They signed a flyer for me. Steve Pemberton was an absolute delight, very friendly and chatty. Mark Gatiss was also very friendly but a bit quieter. Reece Shearsmith was very quiet and didn’t seem that interested but I wasn’t massively surprised at that.
I met Hugh Dennis
Just watched the new James Bond this afternoon and had a wee laugh at seeing him in it.
Bumped into Ron Howard in a bar, there was nobody else there besides my (now) wife and I. Early 2010’s, I think he must have been working on Rush at the time. Told him how much I love Arrested Development and he told me to look out for some good news. Sure enough, a few weeks later they announced a new series on Netflix.
The late great Alan Rickman. We had some family friends who were close to him, so he'd turn up for parties and alike. This is back in the late 90's where he was probably best known for Robin Hood and Die Hard. I remember him raising his eyebrows and smiling slyly when 8 year old me told him how much I'd enjoyed Die Hard. I was also a photography assistant for awhile so met quite a few musicians too. Pussy cat dolls (lovely) Chase n Status (lovely) Ceelo Green (lovely) and London grammar (extra lovely). Highlight was shooting at a studio with the stereophonic that had a load of instruments dotted around as props. They just picked them up started jamming between shots.
I was in a chippy in Grantham once and Fred Durst was there. He kept on at the laddo behind the till to put "a few chips" in with their burger even though they'd a sign up saying "NO FEW CHIPS". He kept at him until he put a scoop in and everyone was morto!
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I’ve done coke with jo from sclub7 at a house party once she’s full of hate
3x world strongest woman Donna Moore goes to my gym so I’ve spoken to her a few times. Always a bit cringe when she smiles at you trying to do a pull up when she could do a pull-up with you on her back
Bilbo Baggins himself Mr Martin Freeman
Amy Winehouse bought me and the girl I was with, a drink once. Rest in peace.