Most famous person you've met

[ducasi]

Only person I can think of really famous that I've properly met is Tom Baker, at a book signing, when he was still Doctor Who. That was a long time ago, when I was very young!

I've "encountered" a few other famous folks... Most recently, Michelle McManus back at Hogmanay, and Robert Carlyle walking down the street, near to where I live...

I'm not really the sort to be wowed by fame, so although I know I've met a bunch of other famous folks, no names immediately come to mind...

Let me think... Ian Macaskill's dad was my headmaster in primary school, and I think I went to school with David Moyes (or was it his cousin? Either way, I know his aunt.) I don't suppose anyone really cares about these folks though...

[djtrev]

My wife used to be a cabaret dancer in her teens and early twenties,having done all the Pantomime stuff when she was very little,so she has been on stage with a few "stars" of the day-Bob Monkhouse,Clive Dunn,Jimmy Young but the one I think she enjoyed meeting the most was Bobby Ball of Cannon and Ball.Whenever they appear locally she always makes a point of going to see them.

[Asif]

Well .....

I had dinner with Bobby Moore (footballer), John Conteh (British World Champ Boxer) and Nigel Mansell (World Champ Racing Driver) many years ago at my works Xmas party, while being entertained by Hale and Pace. At the same time, my boss was Jeremy Bates's Brother (British Tennis Pro, before Tim Henman)

I went out with a first cousin to Princess Grace of Monaco.

I am related to the actor Art Malik (some distant connection)

I was "ushering" at a Cinema during a Royal Premier, where i met Mohammed Ali, David Attenborough ..... and Meatloaf!!

I met Princess Diana at the Royal Premier of Miss Saigon.

Another time,at the same cinema, I had to ask Princess Micheal of Kent to stop moving seats because they were all allocated numbers and it was causing problems with all the other people coming in, who's seats they were now sitting in. Their plain-clothed security guard kept looking at me, while keeping one hand INSIDE HIS JACKET

I got a "thumbs up" from Graham Norton, while i was pretending to be one of the paparazzi at a premier film showing becuase i was using a disposable camera

But best of all, i not only got to meet my childhood icon Johnny Ball when i was young but i then SAT next to him during the one of the last Strictly Come Dancing shows .... and we even relived old memories!!

[foxylady]

hmm...
I shook hands with Tommy Steele when I was quite little (young), I was at school with Telly Savalas' daughter, and Michael Heseltines', I was at uni with Vanessa Feltz, Prince Edward (but I only danced next to him at a disco, and my husband (to be) tackled him at rugby - does that count ?)...


When I was on set with Swing Kids, I spent a lot of time with Robert Sean Leonard, and Christian Bale ( ), Tushka Bergen and Jessica Stevenson... (the latter two I knew for quite a while afterwards), I sat next to Barbara Hershey in make up, and was in scenes with Martin Clunes and Noah Wylie...

I know Michelle Collins, Dermot Murnaghan, Lesley Garret, Steve McFadden, Juliet Stevenson and Edward Highmore (Leo from Howards way) via school and other childrens stuff ... Infact I have taught Michelle and Dermots daughters to dance.

My tennis coach was Steve Dury (Jo Dury's brother), and I spent a week in La Manga on a Jo Dury tennis week, and spent oodles of time eating drinking and playing tennis with her and her coach, and we met Jeremy bates when we were there too !!

Clive Owen goes to my gym (but I haven't actually met him, just watched him, , whilst he works out....)

[Ste]

Not in any order and some are unknown to ordinary punters but famous to professional musicians:

1. I was a friend of Craig Charles, when we were kids. He did visit my dad a few years ago but I wasn't in. Strange thing was when I was in Hertfordshire I was in a park and met him there. Then about 2 years later I heard someone call my name. It was Craig and this time it was Birmingham Broad Street. Strange ,eh. What people don't know about Craig is that he was brilliant at sport and probably could have made it as a pro footballer.

2. Diane Loiuse Jordan ( spoken to her a few times); Bill Oddie ( at a Spyro Gyra/ Robben Ford gig ...probably best gig i have ever been to)

3. Gary Moore, George Harrison ( just a hallo in Harlesden at McD's just before a Robben FOrd gig), Robben Ford ( he used to play with Miles Davis), Brian Connolly, Tony Clarkin ( Magnum), Brian Connolly ( the Sweet) , Buster Bloodvessel ( he said I was a great singer...hehehe...but Donna and Will know how badly I sing) Oscar ( Mari Wilson Band) ... I was doing some session work in London on stuff he was going to play on , Sal Solo ( New Romance?)who told me off for not becoming a pro musician; Tygers of Pan Tang; Sammy Hagar ( he gave me a plectrum). I would have liked to have met John Sykes who played with THin Lizzy and is still one of my heroes; Birelli Lagrene (the legendary young gypsy guitarist ...he is a bit older now!) and I think I also met Babique Reinhardt who is the son of Django Rheinhardt and is well known in his own right; Pete Brown ( who was famous in the sixties for being the writer of the lyrics of Cream). I met him at the Pat Martino ( see below ) gig. I did not know who he was. I just got talking to him.

4. I have played onstage with David and Carrie Grant and also their friend Jo who was another Fame Academy coach (she told me off when I was noodling on my guiitar before playing and said I was unprofessional)

5. I once met a guy called Ralph Salmon (top session drummer) and he took me backstage at a gig and I met one of my great heroes Larry Carlton who was probably the top session guitarist at one time (I know some of his stuff note for note ) and my great great hero Steve Lukather ( Toto/ "Thriller"/ Lionel RItchie...he plays the solo on Running in the Night) who was then top session guitarist. I know loads of his stuff note for note.

6 Martin Taylor ( he played on the Clio adverts and used to play with Stephane Grappelli ). I have met him a few times. I know his stuff note for note. Once at a guitar show I was messing on a guitar and playing Martin's stuff ....then he walked by just after I had stopped. It could have been very embarrassing.

7. Ike Isaacs who helped to develop Martin. Ike (RIP) used to be BBC guitarist. I went to his house in Australia and he fed me and then jammed with me.

8. I have played in bands that supported Amazulu ( so I met them) and Mud ( I met Les Gray and he gave me some strawberry cake which I took to the lady I fancied at the time).

9. Stuart Elliott. He used to play on Kate Bush albums and maybe still does. I went to his house because I know his son who I have played in bands with.

10. Hermann Li. I was in a band in London and our bass player left and joined a band called Dragonheart now called Dragonheart. The bass player had a party and I met Hermann and I think the lead singer there.Hermann was voted best young guitarist by Metal Hammer.

11. Louis Stewart, a great Irish Jazz guitarist and friend of Martin Taylor. I can't remember whether I have met him at my tutor's house but I did meet him at a gig.

12. The Dum Dums. I was playing a gig and we the house band were supporting this unknown band. The singer liked my guitar sound and I said he could borrow my equipment. They were very bare but I could hear the quality and told one of the event organisers. Later I heard that Robbie Williams were interested in them and I think they signed to Sony. I think they had several top 20 hits but were dropped. They were better than many of the bands that you hear today and were compared to the Beatles.

12. Will Hargeaves. ( hehe) I have supported him in various bands!

13. Derek Hatton ( I served him at my Dad's restaurant and met him again years later on a street in Manchester); Bryan Hamilton the former Tranmere Rovers and Northern Ireland Manager ( I served him at my Dad's chippie...he asked me if I knew anyone with money!);Steve Coppell (I met him when he was very young and came to my school); Steve Heighway ( ex Liverpool): John Barnes ( I have met him a couple of times with Donna and Donna keeps complaining that I am star struck...but one of friend's is a friend of his lad).

14. Matthew Allright or Allbright (the cosumer rights guy). I actually met him at a pub in Acton watching a liverpool game and did not know that he was famous. He didn't have a car with him and so I offered him a lift home in my D reg escort and took him home and it was only later that someone from the BBC (his mate) told me that he was a presenter.

I have met a lot of famous musicians and rarely felt overrawed. But there was one time when I got really really excited before I met him and this was the bebop jazz guitarist Pat Martino. He is an incredible guitar player and I know some of his stuff note for note as well. He is also incredibly humble. He taught my tutor a little some years ago and also offered to teach me. I suppose what these guys don't realise is that you know their music so well and their notes are so much part of you that they are in a sense your mentors. So when you meet them it means so much more to you than they can imagine. Their guitar chops are now part of your psyche.

One guy I would love to meet is a gentleman called Reinhard Bonnke. I have never met him but I have been just a few feet away. I was once asked to play for a band at Wembley Arena where he was speaking but strangely I turned the opportunity down because I wanted to go away with my youth group ( I did actually have a great time!).

[fletch]

Well, I've met naebdy' famous but Melanie has...

Jimmy Saville & Chris Eubank

(not at the same time!)

J x x

This was Scarborough last month

[Crazy Russian]

Audrey Hepburn in my dream...

[Rhythm King]

I used to work for Robert Stigwood

My parents knew him, he used to come to our home and once, when he wanted to use an estate car, my father loaned him ours and in return, had the use of Robert's car for a week.

I was at boarding school and my parents came down for a visit one weekend (an exeat). As we walked out from the boarding house there was this fabulous Bentley, with the private plate RS1 and I went up to it and said "this will be ours then, will it?" Imagine my surprise when my father produced the keys and ushered me into it.

R-K

[Aleks]

Ninette de Valois - founder of the Royal Ballet School.
Viviana Durante - gave her a lift to her first lodgings when she moved from Rome.
Used to babysit for Arthur English's youngest (caretaker in Rentaghost) and Carl Myers/Sherilyn Kennedy's two children.

And....Torville/Dean used to train at the same ballet school as me. Their class was straight after mine.

[TA Guy]

I got pushed out of the way by George Micheal at the start of his pop career at Hartspring sports center bar in Bushey. I, apparently, missed Robson Green when he came to a Mojive freestyle (does that count?), My lady friend told me after. Female queue was reportedly a mile long. There's was a group of less famous comedians in ankle length leather coats looking like the mafia who bummed a fag off me in Soho years ago , but noone I can really say I've 'met' Oh, Matt Le Tissier in Eastleigh Macdonalds but he was to busy stuffing down a Big Mac

[Daisy Chain]

I've had my bottom pinched outside Nantwich Civic Hall by John Kirkpatrick (the famous folk musician)

And I've been on the Shuttle with ALex Ferguson and some Man U footballers (apparently). Can't say I recognised them...

Daisy

(A Slighty Bruised Little FLower)

[Asif]

Oohh, just remembered another.

I did the "Run the World" 10 km run around Hyde Park and was running alongside Bob Geldof for a while. Funniest bit was when the run finished - runners were told to keep moving/running for a bit longer so as not to block the finish line area. Cliff Richard finished, jumped into his chauferred car and then tried to drive out AGAINST the direction of all of us after the finish line!!

Security stopped his car and made him turn around and go back!!

[Lynn]

One guy I would love to meet is a gentleman called Reinhard Bonnke. I have never met him but I have been just a few feet away. I was once asked to play for a band at Wembley Arena where he was speaking but strangely I turned the opportunity down because I wanted to go away with my youth group ( I did actually have a great time!).

If you've heard of him (never met him or heard him myself) you might have heard of John Piper, RT Kendall etc? I look after various international speakers when they come to NI for a summer conference.

I'm sure I've met other folk but I'm not usually terribly star struck - when people say 'oh so and so is over there', I don't tend to rush over for a better look or to say hi (unless its someone I would actually like to talk to.) And living in NI most of the 'celebs' I would meet are local and most folk here wouldn't have heard of them.

I Can't say I recognised them...

I didn't recognise Van Morrison when he was at the next table in a cafe once, until a rather star struck waitress pointed him out. He's often at one of my 'local' cafes apparently, but I possibly wouldn't recognise him again!

[Minnie M]

My parents knew him, he used to come to our home and once, when he wanted to use an estate car, my father loaned him ours and in return, had the use of Robert's car for a week........

thank you Richard - didn't think anyone on this forum would know who he was to think he was behind some of the really big names in the 70's & 80's

[Tessalicious]

I've not got many, but here they are anyway:

I went to school with, and played chamber music with, Kate Maberly (star of the film version of The Secret Garden) and her sister Polly (played Kitty in the TV Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth), as well as for years having a huge crush on one of their brothers. Also a school link, although a different school - Norman Cook, better known to most as FatBoy Slim, went to my school, although well before me, and an old guitar of his is a relic of the Physics department (with "The Housemartins" scratched in the back).

I've also played in many concerts with Richard Stilgoe at his home in Surrey, and with Guy Johnston, the Young Musician of the Year 2000. And my piano-teaching lineage can be traced back to Beethoven.

More mainstream, I've met Dame Judi Dench, and am related to Geoffrey Palmer (among other things, her co-star in that very silly sit-com, As Time Goes By). Oh, and it may be second-hand, and I don't think I'm exactly proud of it, but my ex-boyfriend belongs to a family who are on pretty friendly terms with the Bushes (particularly G Dubayah) .

[Heather M]

Met a few famous people...

Graham Norton (I was studying at Manchester RNCM - where last year's Strictly Dance Fever auditions were held), Leo Sayer, William Roache (Ken Barlow from Coronation Street), Sean McGuire (think he used to be in Eastenders?), Dieter Brummer (used to be in Home and Away years ago!), also ALMOST met Darius Danesh a couple of years ago - when I was at uni I auditioned to play in his band for some TV gigs and was accepted but they all got cancelled.

[Heather M]

oh, and Prince William while studying at St Andrews

[Petal]

Going to Prague once with friends, John Hanna (Sliding Doors, Four Weddings etc) was on our flight - my friend stopped to say hello, couldn't think of what to say so instead introduced me to him.

I am sooooo jealous .

Working at football/rugby matches met, Denis Law, Henrik Larsson, Ally McCoist, Derek Johnstone, Kenny Dalgleish, Martin O'Neill, the All Blacks rugby team. Members of coldplay, franz ferdinand, can't remember which ones cause it was a couple of years ago before they were famous. Oh and Bryan Adams when he was walking down Perth High Street.(He was doing his unplugged tour).

[fletch]

A guy I dance with at Wolverhampton is an agent of some sorts, and is best friends with Richard Branson he was in the paper recently with Richard and Nelson Mandella, they are doing something with Diana's land mines.

ho and when we were dancing last Thursday his mobil rang and it was BRAD PITT

I didn't speek but did listen in dose it count

[DianaS]

I went to see a some musicians that were friends on a friend and invited my old next door neighboor back for tea and a chat. When she turned up she brought "the band" with her as her partner was doing the sound and she had the only key.
They weren't people that I knew at the time (not really liking folk) but they stayed and stayed and drank me out of tea and eat all my biscuits. I threw them all out around 3 cas I had work the next day, and they were most put out!
Next time I met my mate she said you really don't know who they are do you?
She went on to explain how famous they all are Fairport convention people icons of their time etc. I can only remember one guy called Ric (I think) cas he was a lecturer in music at a local university and we'd talked about that. We'd just clicked and I we'd talked about loads of stuff I was a lecturer too at the time.
They'd really relaxed and not wanted to go home, they'd not met any one far ages who didn't know any thing about them. I'd only gone to meet my mate cas I'd moved away! can't say that I'd even liked the set.