Which Famous People Have You Met

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just a simple question , which famous people ( eg like TV stars , music stars , filims ,sports people etc) have you met and what were they like

i have met Clare and Sarah, Suzanne of Hollyoaks and they seemed nice

Doon the Water wrote:Talked to Shir Sean Connery for 10 minutes without knowing who he was.

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It was when he started to lose his hair, filming near Edinburgh about 1964.
Nice guy, seemingly did not give a fig about being recognised.

Mind you Dame Doon always says that she would pity the innocent man if I was ever called up to an identity parade.

Met Shane Long up in Birmingham on saturday night.

Really nice guy, had a picture taken with him and had a chat, bought him a drink to.

Makes a difference to some other footballers who might have told me to f off.

He is a sound fella alright, humble fella from Tipp. Met Lesley Vainikolo in London a few weeks ago. Long couldn't get into Cork City's team when he was there!

He's a good lad, had a quick chat about Estonia games.

Being a Villa fan I apologised for Hutton's tackle on him, he smiled and said these things happen.

Was hoping to bump into some of the Villa squad on our travels, closese was being at VP

Long is the first irish footballer i've met.

Marcus treschothick

Met him at lords a few years ago, had a very intresting conversation with him.

I've met Doyler and Roy Keane too.

Doyler seems like a good bloke.

Sound fella, I met him when no one knew him! At a garage about 6/7 years ago. Nobody besides me batted an eye.

The Late Sir Henry Cooper (he did a talk at my school when I was 14) - he had MASSIVE hands!
Richard Briers - lovely bloke
Musician Richard Stilgoe
Vince Ibrahim who played the grandad in the Kumars at No42 - lovely bloke but I couldn't remember where I'd seen him before...
Once saw Duncan Goodhew in Harrods
And also bumped into The Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry outside Farringdon Tube Station. She's rather nice
Oh, and Touring Car champ Matt Neal.

Had a quick chat with Nick Robinson at the Trafford Centre during the summer, he was as excitable as a political correspondent could be.

Met Nicky Robinson (rugby player, now with Wasps) when he played for the Blues. He used to live in the next street and I was walking to work one morning and his dog started jumping up at me. Nicky was very apologetic but I didn't mind. We had a brief chat whilst I petted his doggy. They were both very sweet

I met the whole Welsh football squad once upon a time;

Craig Bellamy
Ryan Giggs
Robbie Savage
Dean Saunders
Chris Coleman
John Hartson
Andy Legg
Andy Melville
Mark Pembridge
Paul Jones
and others.

And completely unexpectedly, Craig Bellamy was by far the nicest and had time for every single one of us (about 20 awe-struck kids on a "school trip"). I've been a defender of his ever since.

Michael Atherton- at the oval one time. Spoke for about 15 minutes was cool.

Didn't actually speak with him but stood next to Raymond Illingworth in a bar in Torremolinos, Spain. It was just after he had been booted out as the England cricket supremo. Guess what this hard as nails Yorkshireman was drinking? A pint of larger top!

Was taking a pee at the UCI cinema in Derby when the late Kevin Llyod (Tosh from The Bill) came into the bathroom. Can't remember the exact date but it wasn't long before he died. Didn't know he had a drink problem at the time but remember thinking he didn't seem 100% with it, almost like he was a little confused.

Sat a couple of rows in front of Andy Reid on a flight from East Midlands to Malaga when he was still at Forest. Although it was off season he was still pretty out of shape for a footballer. We first saw him in the bar having a pre flight pint like we were - it was 5.30 in the morning!

Also met Alistair Cook down at fortress Chelmsford. Spoke to him as well, he was talking about his batting.

I've met Michael Atherton. He was rude and arrogant, so my mate called him a p***k and we all walked off. I don't think he was very impressed.

My Dad is a white van man in Warwickshire and met Robbie Di Matteo at Robbie's kids school in Leamington. Also I went on a round with him once and delivered to ex-Leicester captain Matt Elliott.

One time he had a parcel for B.Knowles in Nuneaton but it wasn't Beyonce.

I have met Derren Brown a few times and he is lovely every time. I have also met Andy Nyman and he gave me a hug as I had just watched Ghost Stories and I was shaking like a leaf! He is a lovely man

Worked in a shop while at uni and served Cannon & Ball, the singer from Funeral for a Friend (what a runt) and the black guy from Faithless. I didn't recognise him though, and asked him to re-sign his receipt because I didn't trust the look of him and his signature was a bit different to his card. Bumped into Jamie Cullum in Brum once, which was less interesting for me than it was for him. Oh, and I had a good conversation with the guy who used to play Buck Rogers, at Memorabilia in Brum a couple years ago. Lo0ads of cool people were there; Warwick Davis, The guy who played Kuato in Total Recall, Jason Mewes, Tony Todd...Ken Norton, Nigel Benn...

I bumped into Laurie Daley tonight having dinner at my local. He looked so relaxed. Gave him a nod and he nodded back. Think he's a top bloke.

Ben Sayers

Oxlade chamberlain,
played against him, tackled him, run past him.
he tookt eh urine outa me supoorting bournemouth!

Toby Faletau, he was in some of my lectures last year and my mate used to play in the same Filton College side so we'd sit next to him

Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Liam Williams (Wales/Scarlets) and Sam Davies (Wales u20/Ospreys) were all in my comprehensive school.

Charlotte Edwards, Laura Marsh,Danielle Wyatt (england cricketers)

I have met all of the Norwich squad. I have been training with Jed Steer and Declan Rudd. Met Sir Geoff Hurst as well

Matt Skelton about 10 times now. But if you live in Bedford and haven't met him you must be a recluse.

Roger Federer when i went to Wimbeldon a few years back.

Valerie Giscard d'Estaing, former French president.

Mike Gatting and JPR Williams were playing in a cricket charity match in France a few years ago so managed to meet them too.

Murali when i went to lords.

Rio Ferdinand played football for about half n hour with my son a few months back.
Wayne Rooney lives next door to my mother in laws work and after his son's first birthday party Colleen came round with half of the birthday cake which I still have the decorations to.
I once told Gianfranco Zola and Faustino Asprilla they looked like a pair of d***ks when wearing matching shell suits in the middle of Amsterdam.
Sir Jimmy Saville has stood in my urine.
John Cleese once told me to p**s off.
I've slept in the same bed as EuroPop star Lolly (though nothing happened)
I've shared noodles with Paul Heaton from the Beautiful South
I'm mates with Marshall Lancaster who played Chris Skelton in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes.
I've snogged the woman who was the singer/dancer on the song 9pm till I come by ATB
I've shook hands with Prince Charles when he visited my home town when I was 6
I've breakdanced for Mr Bronson from Grange Hill too (well my mate span my legs around while I lay on my back and he watched).
Also met Kenny Baker, David Prowse, Anthony Daniels, Jeremy Bulloch and Peter Mayhew at a few Star Wars geek fests.
Also nearly appeared on Friday Night Project as a Mark Lamarr lookalike after being interviewed by Debra Stephenson.

Just looked back on this one and I have more to add...

My wife got into a verbal fight with Jason Robertson the England Rugby Union star after he allowed his son to kick ducks, she wasn’t impressed.
I’ve got royally drunk with Angus Deyton, Rob Rouse the comedian and Kai Owen who stars in Torchwood at the John Hartson charity match. Also met Calzaghe, Richard Ashcroft, Idris Elba, Dan Walker, Robbie Savage, Gethin Jones. All of this was because Adam (one of the other founders) invited me along, so still a great big thank you to him.

Oh and whilst it's not me meeting someone famous but I appeared on BBC1 a few months ago being interviewed about Macc Town and if I thought we could stay up, I said yes, we lost nearly every game after that and went down

Golfer Ben Sayers

I was about 4 years old and he was about 90.

Almost walked into Richard Hibbard (Wales international rugby) in Cardiff once. He was coming out of a shop and I was walking along the road. He was mahoosive!

A few weeks ago Alex Cuthbert (Welsh rugby international) walked passed me on Castle Street in Cardiff and he was walking with actor Iwan Rheon from Misfits.

Bumped into Stevie Gerrard and his missus in London Euston the day after England beat Croatia to qualify for the 2010 World Cup, signed my programme for me no problem, he seemed strangely downbeat considering the day before though!

I've bumped into a few Preston North End players over the last few years, Billy Davies was suprising alright! Still can't stand him anyway I've also served Danny Dichio in a shop I used to work in and I've bumped into Danny Mayor quite a few times in my local

Jason Gillespie (former Aussie test bower) once threw a few balls down for me when I was about ten and he was Rishton's overseas player and it was belting down

Scraping the barrel but Kevin Simm (he in was Liberty X) presented years GCSE certificates. He went to my school but only came back when he wasn't famous anymore!

Met Roger Johnson at the bournemouth 7's, seemed an ok guy.

Also met Gary Doherty in the Shamrock bar while watching Ireland - Croatia game. Only spoke for a minute had a photo with him.

This was after the game, needless to say he was dissapointed like myself.

sorry for doing these in seperate posts, btw as i have made a few posts in this section

Ravi Bopara: had a chat with him at fortress chelmsford last season.

Theo From Dragons Den, when he was opening his new shop in Norwich a couple of months ago

Remember when I was young and a huge wwe fan I met John' YOU CAN'T SEE ME' Cena! I was so excited, made him sign my black hat (with a black marker )

Also Bobby Zamora once in a barbers, everyone was waiting for their turn but soon as he walked in the barbers let him jump get his straight away, mind you I don't go there anymore!

OK if you're really barrell scraping - Tory MP Stephen Crabbe was a couple of years above me in secondary school (for shame!).

I think there should be is a difference from meeting [eg having a conversation with] and seeing.

If not I shall include the Queen.
Actually did talk to The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson though.

he's too modest to post about this on here, but a regular from the cricket boards - Mike Selig - had the honour of having his "ICC volunteer of the year award presented to him by Richie Benaud, a true legend of the game. This was about a week ago, there's a video of him receiving the award here (you can skip the first four and a half minutes or so, that's just the president of France Cricket talking)

Doon the Water wrote:I think there should be is a difference from meeting [eg having a conversation with] and seeing.

If not I shall include the Queen.
Actually did talk to The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson though.

Yes that's why the title is "....famous people you've MET". Otherwise, my list would be huge, I've seen loads of famous people if you consider going to gigs and matches as seeing famous people. I've only mentioned people I've spoken to for some reason...even if it was just "hello, sorry"....etc

I was chosen to give a posy of flowers to the Queen on a Royal visit when I was a little girl.

I was sooooooo nervous. My mum spent all morning making sure I was immaculately turned out and I had to wait for ages with this little bouquet in my hands, desperately trying to make sure I remembered what I'd been told to do (I'd rehearsed it with my mum about a million times already)

When the Queen arrived and I was given the nod, I stepped forward, curtsied my very best curtsey and held the posy out. She took it and gave me the loveliest smile. I could hear cameras clicking everywhere and when she asked me what school I went to and what I enjoyed doing, I could hardly think to answer. When she asked me what I would like to do when I'm older, I said I wanted to be a ballerina. She was so lovely, truly a wonderful person.

She thanked me for the lovely flowers and I knew that was my cue to step back, so I curtsied again and stepped back. And that was it. All over in moments, but my friends didn't stop asking me about it for ages afterwards.

My sisters cut out a crown and wrote "By Royal Appointment" under it, then put it on my bedroom door. I didn't mind... they weren't being mean.

It was a very special occasion.


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Me and Steve Corino (Wrestler)

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Me and Doug Williams (Wrestler)

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Me and Simeon Jackson (Norwich Player)

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I said hello to Jamie Roberts (Welsh rugby player) in my local Tesco last week. I know he lives in my area, but I've never seen him before. I would've liked to have had a natter with him, but he was talking to someone else so I didn't hang around.

Jennifer - that's a massive occasion for a child. Something to tell your grandkids.

I met snooker player Steve Davies he was very interesting

I saw Bono driving around the roundabout with his wife.

Well when I was younger my uncle used to play on the same underage and reserve United teams as the likes of Beckham, Scholes, Butt and the Nevilles so have met all them, although I only know this because of pictures. Have also met SAF, Cantona and Ince.

Ravi Bopara is another one i have met....

at fortress chelmsford again!