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I had this idea put in my head by the game 'back to bacon' or whatever its called - the idea being you can link to anyone in the world through seven people.

So - who's the most famous person/people you've met?
I'm curious to see how far Dakka has spread.

I've met Tony Wright from Terrorvision (that was a big deal...but maybe only if you're me)
I shook hands with Princess Diana
Gigged with Spunge
And at uni - I met Jim Bowens neice


So who have people met?

I've met and shaken the hand of the Queen of England. Top that.

Humm, let's see.

I met Mr Sulu backstage at a panto - he gave me a VHS copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As part of that, I was invited onstage where i hid under the tallest man in the UK's (Christopher Greener) robe, ran on and hit Keith Chegwin on the head with a plastic mallet.

I have also met Cannon & Ball at another panto, as well as Ozzy Osbourne and Jonathan King at a concert in my youth (Jonathan King used to be Ozzy's agent or promoter or something, I believe).

Toss up between 3 Arch bishops of Canterbury, Ex- Prime Minister John Major... or Axl Rose.

Met and terrified Gok Wan. He's really small.

 filbert wrote:
Humm, let's see.

I met Mr Sulu backstage at a panto - he gave me a VHS copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As part of that, I was invited onstage where i hid under the tallest man in the UK's (Christopher Greener) robe, ran on and hit Keith Chegwin on the head with a plastic mallet.

I have also met Cannon & Ball at another panto, as well as Ozzy Osbourne and Jonathan King at a concert in my youth (Jonathan King used to be Ozzy's agent or promoter or something, I believe).

Any excuse for a surprise assault on Keith Chegwin


Another one - I forgot I met Larry Hama.


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 reds8n wrote:
Toss up between 3 Arch bishops of Canterbury, Ex- Prime Minister John Major... or Axl Rose.

How'd you meet Axl Rose?

Guns n Roses were touring in the UK, a friend was connected with one of the venues they were playing at. He scored us tickets and .. well.. not quite back stage passes but early admittance.

I played it cool and just went " ddduurrrhhh .... errmm hello ... errr... umm .. errrrr "

I was nowt but a bairn though really. Still at school.

 reds8n wrote:
Guns n Roses were touring in the UK, a friend was connected with one of the venues they were playing at. He scored us tickets and .. well.. not quite back stage passes but early admittance.

I played it cool and just went " ddduurrrhhh .... errmm hello ... errr... umm .. errrrr "

I was nowt but a bairn though really. Still at school.

I did the same when I met the singer from terrorvision. I was so conscious not to gush - that band was the reason I started playing guitar - that I didn't say a word after hello...

I met Wil Wheaton and gave him my lucky PC killing D20...

I've also met the Walter Emanuel Jones (Black Power Ranger), Drew Carey, and went to high school with Alex Boone (Offensive Tackle/Guard for the San Fransisco 49ers), and Haruki Nakamura (Safety for the Baltimore Ravens and Carolina Panthers)

I've met all of the major cast from the old Scottish comedy show Chewin' the Fat (and had dinner with three of them). ...Which isn't much of a challenge considering most of them live within a few miles of me... However as most of the "celebrities" I've met probably aren't known outside of Scotland, and again live in the same city of me, I doubt any of them count for non Scots. =/

I've shaken hands with the Arch Bishop of York (John Sentamu) - but not by choice...

The only other famous ( or at least well known) person I've been near, and will always regret I never had the courage to speak to was Simon Weston - truly amazing man, and seemed like a nice bloke.

I've gotten pissed with Jason Leonard and Martin Johnson (Jeremy Guscott , Lawrence Dallaglio and Sir Clive Woodward were also there). Leono was a good laugh and tried to get me to use his company to staff my sites, Johno was right grumpy as his Mrs was coming to pick him up and he couldn't get steaming drunk like everyone else.

I used to live in Belsize Park which has allot of Celebs living there. John (the barman from TFI Friday) was Landlord of our local and you would frequently see Chris Evans, Ewan McGregor (pre-starwars) and other in there (Tavistock Arms). Once I stumbled round to the pisser once and this huge bloke was in the way (one of the few I met bigger than me), I push round him and some little bloke the other side apologised for getting in the way - it was Noel Gallagher. I let him of just that once!

Best one was seeing Jeremy Beadle on Oxford Street. "Give us a wave" we said, the miserable fether was not impressed.

Mikael Persbrandt

No? Well, wait till the next Hobbit flick

I met myself. I'm the luckiest guy alive.

My grandfather built Steven Spielberg's house, drank coffee with the real life version of Captain Quint from Jaws, and listened to Shatner make an ass out of himself every morning while sharing said cup with "Quint". My grandfather lives on Long Island, if it wasn't realized. The only 'relations' I've had with famous people were dating the late James Gandolfini's niece, meeting the country singer Phil Vasser, and that William Wallace (Braveheart) is my ancestor. Turns out, I guess that's not too shabby. Lol

 Avatar 720 wrote:
I met myself. I'm the luckiest guy alive.

What's the sex like?

 notprop wrote:

 Avatar 720 wrote:
I met myself. I'm the luckiest guy alive.

What's the sex like?

You wanna find out?

Just remembered... When I was a kid, I met Grotbags ...and Rod Hull. But he didn't have emu so I wasn't fussed.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
....William Wallace (Braveheart) is my ancestor. Turns out, I guess that's not too shabby. Lol

Not to piss on your bonfire but mathematically speaking, you can choose pretty much any historical figure from a certain era and you are related in some way - depending on how far back you go:

Mathematically speaking, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne. This is because everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so on. By the time you get to the 13th century, you have more direct ancestors than have ever been human beings - about 80 billion. Therefore you must have shared ancestors. In 1995, a man called Mark Humphries at Dublin University discovered this information. He discovered his was wife was King Edward III's great-granddaughter 20 generations down the line. After closer examination, he discovered his wife was also related to Hermann Goring. He then managed to calculate the mathematics of the information.

http://old.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/2012/01/ancestor-tester.html

Met Mel Gibson at Planet Hollywood, he was very short (well comparatively).. and it was hard to see him in the same light in future movies as this wasn't too long after Braveheart, and in his movies they do a good job of making him look taller lol..

I also sat with Kathleen Madigan at the restaurant attached to the club she was at the night before I left for the Navy, this was before she became a little more "well known" after being a contestant on Last Comic Standing. She liked me because I was a strapping 6'4" hunk-o-man according to her lol (she is 5'1" btw). She ate with me and my folks and is an all around awesome person.

I met Warren Moon (recently departed Houston Oilers QB at the time) when I was out for dinner with my parents at Mortons Steakhouse. He signed a napkin for me as he was leaving I caught him on the way out.

Probably not the coolest collection of people:

Ate breakfast with Ralph Nader.
Hang backstage with P.O.D.

That's pretty much it for me...

 filbert wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
....William Wallace (Braveheart) is my ancestor. Turns out, I guess that's not too shabby. Lol

Not to piss on your bonfire but mathematically speaking, you can choose pretty much any historical figure from a certain era and you are related in some way - depending on how far back you go:

Mathematically speaking, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne. This is because everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so on. By the time you get to the 13th century, you have more direct ancestors than have ever been human beings - about 80 billion. Therefore you must have shared ancestors. In 1995, a man called Mark Humphries at Dublin University discovered this information. He discovered his was wife was King Edward III's great-granddaughter 20 generations down the line. After closer examination, he discovered his wife was also related to Hermann Goring. He then managed to calculate the mathematics of the information.

http://old.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/2012/01/ancestor-tester.html

Well, seeing how the Wallace Lineage was a direct line and my grandmother is a Wallace...my line to him is pretty much straight. I realize "everyone is related to everyone", but I have a direct line.

 filbert wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
....William Wallace (Braveheart) is my ancestor. Turns out, I guess that's not too shabby. Lol

Not to piss on your bonfire but mathematically speaking, you can choose pretty much any historical figure from a certain era and you are related in some way - depending on how far back you go:

Mathematically speaking, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne. This is because everyone has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so on. By the time you get to the 13th century, you have more direct ancestors than have ever been human beings - about 80 billion. Therefore you must have shared ancestors. In 1995, a man called Mark Humphries at Dublin University discovered this information. He discovered his was wife was King Edward III's great-granddaughter 20 generations down the line. After closer examination, he discovered his wife was also related to Hermann Goring. He then managed to calculate the mathematics of the information.

http://old.qi.com/qi_quibble_blog/2012/01/ancestor-tester.html

The Emperor is related to me... so that explains why he's so awesome.

Though i didn't really "meet" him, I made Michael Jackson walk around me at the Forum Shops in Caeser's Palace in Las Vegas.
Outside of that, I've mainly just met a bunch of [American] football players and a bunch of bands.

OH YEAH! I forgot I met "The Hedgehog" himself (Ron Jeremy) at an event he did in Silverdale WA, he was signing some movies or something but at the time I was a Submariner on the USS Ohio and he signed a picture of himself that stated:

"I like to go deeper too!" ~Ron Jeremy

I hung (hurr hurr) it up in the radio room and wouldn't be surprised if it was still there lol.

He was also a really nice guy who was very down to earth (in more ways than one)

Ok I think I got all the necessary puns in..

I've met Richard Dean Anderson before and regularly saw/said hello to John Travolta before his son died.

Travolta was a well-known individual at the Outer Banks who was as friendly as you'd ever meet, so long as you did not gush over his movies or interrupt him when he was spending time with his family.

I suppose the most famous person I ever met was the late Robert Bork, with whom I very (very, very) briefly debated the death penalty in a law school seminar.

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I've met and shaken the hand of the Queen of England. Top that.

My history teacher almost ran over Prince Harry with her car. He was jaywalking

Clinton at Pope AFB when he was POTUS.
2009 AVN Awards in Los Vegas
Original members from Blackhawk Down
Colin Powell
Toby Keith
Luke Bryan
Robin Williams
Kid Rock

Met Alexi Sayle once at a book reading (very funny guy) and saw Jeffery Wright (Felix Leiter in the 007 films) in London a few years ago.