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In pretty much every town, there must be some kind of local, national or indeed, international celebrity living.

And I would like to collect together our annecdotes about such personalities. Think of this thread as Dakka's very own insipid, mind numbing 'sleb' Gossipp Mag.

I'll start off....

10:50a.m. this morning!

Tom Baker, of Doctor Who fame, spotted walking past my good self next to the Tunbridge Wells War Memorial. He kept looking at me, as if seeing a potential Doctor (long curly hair, Great Coat...)

This is not the first time this legend of man has crossed my path. He used to drink Coffee next to the Opticians I worked for, and I have bought him a pint of some ale or other at my favourite watering hole, the Guinea Butt.

I come from the same town as Simply Red's keyboard player, and sold Janet Street Porter a telly in the Argos there. I was in the same tube carriage as Boris Johnson the other week, I was trying really hard to think of the most challenging question I could for him, but I had a complete brain fart. Really annoying, because I've spent months arguing that he's a tool. In the end he just got off. I'd planned to moon him if I got off first.

Blimey. Gosh! Crikey! Old BoJo eh! Gosh! Cripes!

Still, nice to hear the Mayor of London using the Tube. Then again, not being a Brazilian Electrician it's probably pretty safe for him

And on a Ragga BoJo tip, I served not only Ian Hislop in Games Workshop, but the legend that is Bob Mortimer. 100% true that.

I also sold some Popcorn to that 'The Thick of It' guy that turned out to be a Paedo. Yeah. Not so proud of that one.

Used to see George Bush sr. around here on occasion.

Once when I was living in L.A. I had Buffy right next to me in a salad bar line. If only I had planned ahead, I could have brought something heavy to konk her on the noggin and drag her home to make her mine for always.

Oops, did I say that out loud?

I work at Disney. I've met:

Brooke Hogan (tall)
Paris Hilton (short)
Miley Cyrus
Phil Donahue
Michael J. Fox
Uma Thurman
Warrick Davis (who is awesome, BTW. Saw him in this shirt: http://lh3.ggpht.com/_q5xOtqsWwh0/RuXjHbzUB5I/AAAAAAAAAao/0GmSvM6FV80/CIMG1388.JPG ) The front says "Judge me by my size, do you?"

I just missed meeting Harrison Ford by about a 1/2 hour.

I went to school in NYC, and they filmed a bunch of movies on campus, so I got to see a bunch of celebs:

Olsen twin (surprisingly the other was nowhere to be seen...they're even tinier in person)
Tobey MacGuire (they were flming Spider-man....missed a chance to see Kirsten Dunst)
Sam Raimi
Chris Evans (would've gotten to see Scarlett Johansen too, but she was blocked by light filters...damn lighting).
Julia Stiles

The other day I was walking around the city and went through a street fair and I'm pretty sure I walked right past John Shea (Lex Luthor from Lois & Clark Adventures and Mutant X). There was definitely eye-contact made with looks of "Holy crap, I know him!" and "Oh geez, this kid recognized me.

My one school friend ended up drinking with Tony Danza one night.

Worked in a tiny chain of record stores a couple of years ago.

We saw:
Katie Melua (yum)
Angelina Jolie (small)

And the cream of the crop...

Terry Nutkins!

Apologies to US/rest of world readers, I am definitely sure you will not recognise this name (and only English people of a certain age will know anyway). It was wild.

Ah yes, the Nutkins Diet.

Simply get Ferrets to bite off the end of your fingers, and PRESTO! Instant, diet free weight loss. Effortless, and animal friendly!

I used to work with the person who played 'Sasha' in Rock Rivals. She was also the Receptionist in Respectable.

And, my Bosses son, Adam Leese, has been in a film with Van Damme.

Fixed your typo.

you say that but im willing to bet you wouldnt pass it up if the chance ever arrived

Greebynog wrote:

Valhallan42nd wrote:
Paris Hilton (slut)

Fixed your typo.

Trollop is so much more fun to say. Harlot is also good.

I would. She's a lexicon of Hepatitis...A-Z, more or less guaranteed.....

Oh, and I'd like to add that, despite being a wretched hive of scum and conservatism, Royal Tunbridge Wells has surprisingly solid Punk credentials, being the birth place of Shane McGowan (Pogues) and the Schooling place of Sid Vicious! Yeah....get that right up ye!

I used to work in the B&N in Baton Rouge. Off the top of my head we got:

Jennifer Love Hewitt
Hillary Swank(regular)
Christopher Lloyd
Chris Evans(my friend charged him twice for a movie on accident)
Bryce Dallas Howard

That's not to mention authors like David Sedaris(great guy, we were his favorite signing event evar) and Holly Clegg who come in for signings, obviously. We've gotten plenty of famous musicians on their way to gigs, too, but I never recognize them.

JD21290 wrote:

Fixed your typo.

you say that but im willing to bet you wouldnt pass it up if the chance ever arrived

I don't think you quite understand my level of disgust for that horrible little tart. If I had a gun with one bullet in it and had her, Hitler and Osama Bin Laden in front of me, well, it'd be a good day for international super murderers.

On another note, Chris Evans...

I've met some famous folks, used to work at an exclusive hotel in Cornwall years ago. (apologies to folks in other countries, half the folks I mention won't mean anything).

Dame Judi Dench with her late husband Michael Williams and their daughter Finty - amazingly nice folks
John Hurt - quiet and polite guy, swore alot, dry sense of humour
Catherine Zeta Jones - didn't care for her much, she spent most of her time 'powdering her nose'
Sean Pertwee - filming the same film as CZJ, a shitefest called Blue Juice, this bloke was amazing and totally friendly to everyone

some other folks as well (like Russell Grant... what a gakker).

But the greatest there was when I got to sit and talk to David Bowie and his wife Iman for about an hour, they were bloody amazing, I was 16 at the time and talked to them about my music interests, growing up in a small Cornish village and all kinds of things, it's never left me how freaking awesome those two were to talk to.

since then (cos a hotel like that was a big cheat for this):
I worked with Thandie Newton's mum and have been out on the beer with Thandie, she is jawdroppingly beautiful and you find yourself following her about wagging your tail
Stephen Fry came into the shop I was working in during his 'disappearance times'
Shared a train carriage with Nick Cave


And about a month ago I collided in the street with Les 'Family Fortunes' Dennis who was on his mobile and instantly apologised to me in a stronger scouse accent than I expected and hurried off, he's not very tall.

I work in downtown Sacramento, CA. Gov. Schwarzenegger loves to have lunch at a restaurant just two blocks away from where I work. A place called Lucca's. You always know when he is there. Two Suburbans and 4 - 8 bike cops. He is really short. I'm 6'4", and I was looking down on the guy.

And time for an addendum to your posts....what is your....

LAME TO FAME!

By this, I mean examples of how you know someone who once walked Sean Connory's 2nd Cousins Poodle. Really really lame links.....

My wife work as conceige at a certain hotel owned by a certain mouse and helped Trey Parker get a dinner jacket for his big honeymoon dinner.

Trey, by all reports, was superawesome and very down to earth.

there is a designer lives in my city, I think he stays because he likes the river.

I knew a woman who was personal friends (through her parents) with Alan Greenspan (I saw photos).

I met General Chuck Yeager when I was 12. That was AMAZING.

Did you read The Right Stuff about the American Space program? Chuck
Yeager features in there for a bit.

Pretty much every celebrity I have ever seen has been a result of me being inconvenienced.

I saw many celebrities at world film premiers in Leicester Square when I used to work nearby - the movie premieres block off huge chunks of the street between my office and my train station, and then loads of people stand around so it becomes a real pain to get home. I never really tried to see anyone in particular so just saw a lot of the backs-of-heads and a lot of blonde women that I cant identify due to not following the latest films much at the time.

I was taking a shortcut past buckingham palace one time and the police asked me to wait next to the entrance, as the queen was coming back in to the palace in her car. She was at least nice enough to smile and wave at me (roughly arms length away) in the traditional queen-waving way which was kind of amusing to see.

In 2005 (ish) I was told by police to STEP BACK SIR as I leaned forward to see george bush and tony blair in their motorcade. They waved too but I gave them a good disapproving frown. I couldnt see too clearly but there were some other big wigs with them too, but the glass in their cars was too dark.

In boston I was delayed in my taxi as roads were held up for kofi annan and a UN delegation going past. I didnt see him clearly but my wife did.

In rome I was delayed by roads being closed off for GWB again, but we took a detour as we didnt care to see him.

The current pope happened to be addressing the crowds at the vatican the day we wanted to go in and see the basilica (so couldnt get in - gah). He looks just as much like the star wars emperor in real life

I've seen numerous other mayors and UK politicians through good timing too. Just hang around the houses of parliament and you'll see as many as you want. I used to go past the houses of parliament when walking to waterloo so would often see some coming home from their day in the commons.

I was taking a shortcut past buckingham palace one time and the police asked me to wait next to the entrance, as the queen was coming back in to the palace in her car. She was at least nice enough to smile and wave at me (roughly arms length away) in the traditional queen-waving way which was kind of amusing to see.

should of thrown something at the ugly old cow

I see professional wrestlers around here all the time. That's what I get for living in the American south though. I also saw Ron White at a bar once, he was drinking a scotch whisky.

JD21290 wrote:

I was taking a shortcut past buckingham palace one time and the police asked me to wait next to the entrance, as the queen was coming back in to the palace in her car. She was at least nice enough to smile and wave at me (roughly arms length away) in the traditional queen-waving way which was kind of amusing to see.

should of thrown something at the ugly old cow

Hand grenade?

Oh yeah, on the subject of wrestlers my dad (a policeman) pulled over Jake The Snake in Hatfield (a sleepy English own) for being wasted on coke at the wheel, a la George Michael.

Hand grenade?

nah, following the luck against previous german related tyrants (hitler) grenades have a tendancy to not work, chance are you'll jus give the bitch a black eye.

Plus if some cranks are to be believed (David Icke anyone?) she's just a massive lizard in human form anyway. I'm pretty sure those crusty old scales will give her a mean armour save.

I got high in this guy's limo...





Story goes like this....myself and a buddy were out clubbing back in the "college dayz" and Sam Jones walked into the door. I immediatly recognised him. Seems he was in town doing an episode of "Walker Texas Ranger" and everyone in the club crowded him. I managed to get closeby and ask him a quick question about a crappy TV show that he started up back in '88 (the Highwayman) that only lasted a season....we struck up an interesting conversation that wound up deviating into everyday stuff instead of "hollywood/star" stuff. His group wound up more or less merging with my buddy and me.

During our partying, he leaned over and asked me, "Are you or {my buddy} holding tonight?" I told him "Not right now, but for Flash Gordon?!!! I'll damn well find some!!!"

30 min later we were getting high and drinking from the Bar in his limo.....

Thats right, I got high with Flash Gordon!

legoburner's political figure run-ins reminds me of my freshman year in college during the UN assembly when Putin came to speak at my school. That man is frightening beyond belief. Not to mention the 4 SUV's full of kitted out security detail, and 2 visible snipers (and probably the several other hidden snipers).