BadAssTronaut Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Just wondering if anyone here has ever met any celebrities? I wondered because I saw Simon Weston in Hudson & Mortimers today when I popped in there for my lunch So have you guys ever met anyone famous? Link to post Share on other sites
R22Master Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Yeah, quite a lot of people actually - from the nice to the ignorant. Not going to name them here though, sorry... Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I saw Shaun Edwards (rugby player) and Heather Small (M people) when they were an item, around Wigan about 7 or 8 years back. Link to post Share on other sites
Rikkster Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Plenty of 'em, and as R22 so rightly says, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Lived in Camden for a long time - you can't walk outside without bumping into celebs galore. Nicest one I met was Edith Bowman, a lovely lady. Won't tell you who the biggest idiot was; suffice to say he's well-renowned for being an idiot Link to post Share on other sites
snowman Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Yes. Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Yes. Used to live in Tribeca, midnight shopping raids to the only 24/7 deli for ice cream, same building as Nobu, at closing time DeNiro (and Keitel) popped by occasionally. He seemed nice enough Also lived on the Upper East Side, same building as Dolph Lundgren, he had really tiny and ridiculous sharpei dogs that my siberian husky tended to want to eat Got my face poked by accident with a pool cue by Matt Dillon while playing pool (he was playing with Mira Sorvino, whose father owns the pool hall), he bought me a drink as consolation. Shook hands with Dubya a few weeks after 9/11 when he came to visit ground zero (I was working in a federal building then). M. Link to post Share on other sites
HaVoC Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I met Kieron Gillen from PC Gamer!!! Yes! *ahem* I also met Mark Webber (the F1 driver - moving up to Williams next year) and got his autograph when he was in F3000. Now I have 3 of his autographs, including a christmas card, but that's beyond the point Link to post Share on other sites
lushmonster Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 To name but a few:- Keith Chegwin Katie Hill (Ex Blue Peter Presenter - well fit in the flesh) John Savident (Fred Elliott in Corrie) Margaret Thatcher and loads more so memorable I have fogotten..... Monster Link to post Share on other sites
Ubar Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I met Kieron Gillen from PC Gamer!!! Yes! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :D him and jim rossignol are/were legends pcg has gone mad downhill in the last 3 years or so, so theyve probably got rid of those two like they did with all the other funny people Link to post Share on other sites
HaVoC Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I dunno I'm still a believer! Jim's still there, and Kieron writes freelance so technically his stuff's still in there. The loss of 'Game for a LOL' was a blow though... Oh, and not only did I meet Kieron, I got a signed copy of Bass Avenger from him Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 ...I forgot, I met Natalie Imbruglia when I was 20 and it made me feel like 14... for several days... Link to post Share on other sites
HaVoC Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Please don't go further Link to post Share on other sites
Arnie Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Never really been bothered about celebs, they are just humans like anyone else. I nearly stepped on Uri Geller once.. now if only I could rewind back to that moment. Was amazed by the number of people that miss people and events around them. I picked up a buddy from Heathrow this year and not a soul spotted that Chad McQueen or Dolph Lundgrun had walked past me.. uneducated swine. I mean He-Man right there infront of them!.. (ahem) Link to post Share on other sites
SpiKe64 Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 i met arnie (no not you arnie lol) before he was the governator of Kalifornia Link to post Share on other sites
doc_newstead Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I don't know half of these names; I'll assume some of them are sports personalities I've met Michael Palin, but it wasn't like I bumped into him; I was at a book signing Was in a pub in Cambridge once and Rory McGrath walked in. Must have been his local 'cos the landlord and a load of regulars cheered. It was 'The Tram Depot', a pub that had I not been dragged along to, I'd never drink in. £2.90 a pint or something obscene like that... Link to post Share on other sites
oikoik Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 well, i used to be classed as a .. ligger for a very short while.. being drunk at indie band type ######-ups and things.. so i met alot of the people i wanted to meet during that time, usually drunk as well... [lush, belly, curve, etc - kinda early 90s indie type stuff - anyone early-mid-late-90s would be at these types of things] even tried it on with someone i [later] found out was a gf of one of dm... i also worked in and out of tv.. worked in a tv studio for a shortwhile - met a few people there.. i am working in a tv studio atm, but not directly as before, but even so, i see a few 'names' around.. best not to get star struck in these sorts of environments cos you look like a twat.. Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 i am working in a tv studio atm Yeh, the Natalie Imbruglia-incident, as I like to call it, was at a TV studio where I sort of worked. Also passing thru were the Spice Girls and Aaron Carter among others, although I saw no reason to mention this, in fact I saw a very good reason (public humiliation) to keep it quiet M. Link to post Share on other sites
oikoik Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 oh i dunno. i thought billie piper was cute when i met her. this was all pre-'ginger evans' tho... see.. i admitted it.. well she was cute back then.. i'm not admitting to any others tho.. some are embarrassing particularly because i was a drunken idiot some of the time.. my sis met mya in nyc, but at the time didnt know who mya was.. so they chatted for ages.. about shoes.. and then at some point my sis asked 'so what do you do..?' and mya goes 'well, i do little bit of singing..' she found out who mya was when she saw her videos on mtv a bit later.. [and after i'd sent her a pile of gratuitous photos of mya [i think shes quite tasty..]] Link to post Share on other sites
rhino Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 I forgot, i once met Lightning off Gladiators (Meh, showin' me age now!) and got a signed piccie off her. I'll see if i can dig it out. Link to post Share on other sites
Marcus Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Meh, showin' me age now! ...don't worry, you already did in that thread about the soundtrack thingamabob. Link to post Share on other sites
Snake Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 My dad used to work for Don Tyson (the chicken guy, not the ear guy), so I met him. I also met Alan Jackson, I think his name was, before he got famous and won all those country awards. Link to post Share on other sites
Alex4Yu Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 I dont really care much about celebs. Its not like they would give a ###### about you anyway. They're all just another person to me, nothing special. Link to post Share on other sites
oikoik Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 which is true.. besides theyd usually rather talk about anything other than their work when they do have a chat with you.. imagine going out, meeting a complete stranger, and then have to talk shop all night with them.. bit boring really.. i was with a band when this girl came, and started doing the i'm not worth thing, on the floor... the singer picked her up and told her to er..sort herself out a bit.. but she was nice to her anyway, and then the girl started behaving 'normally'.. kinda cringeworthy really.. [er.. yeah the singer was female and 'talk shop' is talking about work.. just in case it missed anyone..] Link to post Share on other sites
M^tt Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 main ones recently being joss stone + paul merton and aload of other people @ glasto working backstage Link to post Share on other sites
HaVoC Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Actually, I forgot about seeing (not really meeting) Steve Coogan at Manchester airport... Back of the net! One Lexus...two LEXI!!! Ah hah! In fact, I couldn't help but let out a fairly quiet, yet still easily audible 'ah hah' as I went past Link to post Share on other sites
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