Meeting famous people who(se creative/professional output) you don't like

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Inspired by this:

I also met former health secretary Andrew Lansley when I was working for my previous job. Clammy handshake, from what I remember.

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Does oil paintings in his spare time, does he?

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Oh I think you posted this before I edited the thread title. I was like ā€œwhatā€™s @epimer on about now?!ā€

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Cillian Murphy. I think the only film Iā€™ve ever seen him in was the first Nolan-directed Batman which I didnā€™t care for. We just talked about music instead.

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Well now youā€™ve made me look a right (pralines and) dick.

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My area is full of wankers from nme hype bands of ten years ago, too many to mention

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Sanjay from Eastenders. Sang the Eastenders theme tune to him

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one of my ATDs is an ATD of the drummer of a relatively famous band. fucking hate the music, but Iā€™ve obviously never mentioned that.

I worked in chris evansā€™ pub briefly, so met him a few times, which was awful.

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is that the band that literally everyone seems to know personally

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I can imagine Chris Evans thinking that everyone who met him would be glad to meet him. Heā€™d go up to the bar and half-expect you to be awestruck.

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I met the Duke of Westminster. I say ā€˜metā€™. He ignored me.

ā€¦

Heā€™s dead now.

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Did you walk in the road?

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bang on, really. he came in twice during my 4 month stint there, and both times he make unsolicited attempts to interact with customers eating their meals or having a pint. overheard him asking a parent if they wanted a picture of him with her son, when they were clearly just trying to have a quiet lunch. thought that was pretty pathetic.

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Never had the pleasure of his good lady wife

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yep.

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Ed Balls

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Met a few Tory MPs through work, usually when buildings are being officially opened.

Got into some awkward small talk with one of them when he asked if we were busy and I had to say that no, we werenā€™t and that we were making redundancies as a result of the government cancelling projects.

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Ronan Keating

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What did you say to him? chips the ball into the box

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Iā€™ve met Don King. Heā€™s not very nice (was nice to me though).