#146

surely a celebrity is just a well known person, what other definition does it have?

#147

Jedward

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#148

Billy Idol

#149

Jurassic 5

:wink:

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#150

excellent.

#151

Does this include ones I’m friends with or went to parties with or just ‘encounters’

clang

#152

Off the top of my head…

  • Richard Madeley walking around in Looe, Cornwall with a big rucksack on. He lives very near there.
  • John Simm (star of Life on Mars and other TV) at a Nick Cave show.
  • Thom Yorke on the street in Oxford, many times.
  • Anthony Head (Giles from Buffy) at Bath train station. @LilWoodyToodelly reminded me of this one.
  • Paul Weller in the audience at a William Bell gig, at the Union Chapel.
  • Nick Lowe at the same gig (he wasn’t with Paul).

Of these, I’m only really a fan of the last two, and I only spoke to Nick, who was lovely.

#153

I saw the Queen go past in a car once. Does that count?

#154

Opened a door for Juliette Binoche once. It was a boulagerie in Paris - I was going in, she was leaving. I didn’t know it was her when I opened the door for her, only realised when she gave me a lovely smile of acknowledgement. My heart skipped a beat.

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#155

holy shit!

#156

She was probably pretty much my first celebrity crush as well - yeah European art house actresses, I know…

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#157

Forgot, thom yorke was stood next to me looking at a painting in tate once, thought it was limmy at first.

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#158

I wondering who it was on here who had said that he’d turned his back on the whole industry or something, I guess it was you.

#159

Oh yeah sat across the aisle from Helen Mirren on a Ryanair flight from Brindisi a few years ago. Apparently she has or had a holiday home in Puglia so probably not unusual. It was a 6.00 am flight with me, Helen Mirren, 2 Daily Mail island Brits and about a hundred Italian teenagers jacked up on Nutella and caffeine. Brits were complaining about the riotous kids, HM couldn’t have cared less. She is stunningly beautiful.

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#160

Sean Connery at the MOMA

#161

Yeah, I think someone brought his name up in some other thread a while back. He told me he wasn’t going back to the BBC ever because, and I quote, “they’re all a bunch of cunts”.

#162

I was stood behind Connery in a shop on the Kings Road a few years back. My German companion recognised him and nudged me. I don’t really notice anyone famous when it’s somewhere mundane.

#163

Saw Louis van Gaal on an easyjet from Manchester to Amsterdam

Not particular beautiful.

Also saw Gok Wan at Sheffield train station

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#164

Off the top of my head :

Stewart Lee (passed him in the street once, much shorter than I was expecting).

Lily Allen (stood behind in the queue to get served in the pub, hadn’t realised it was her, even after exchanging hellos…had to have it pointed out to me by more pop-savvy company)

Ian Rankin (frequents my local and Coda Music in town, inadvertently amused him with a “Mark E Smith’s jazz direction” impression, hadn’t realised he was also in the shop).

Jarvis Cocker (stood next to him for several minutes at Green Man, none the wiser - was too busy looking at something going on in the other direction).

Paul McGann (sat opposite me on the Tube once, looking a bit exhausted/harrassed, clutching a box of merch/tat, probably on his way to/from a convention. Decided that was perhaps not the moment to tell him I thought he was great in Call The Midwife).

#165

When I lived in Stoke Newington I’d often see Stewart Lee looking furious that the 73 bus was too full and he couldn’t get on with a pram.

Jarvis Cocker, outside the Dublin Castle in Camden Town, once pulled some flyers out of my hand, threw them on the ground and declared them to be ‘a waste of trees’. A couple of weeks later he was on the guest list and I had the clipboard. And I pretended that his name wasn’t there.

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