Celebrities/sportsmen/sportswomen in Unlikely Places

[Fignon's Ponytail]

Bruno & the comedian Joe Wilkinson in the ESL toilets....not at the same time I hasten to add.
Also Mark Williams from the Fast Show outside a pub in town years ago. As I walked past I just tapped my nose & said "You aint seen me, right". It was all I could think of tbh.

 

[pearl]

I saw Sally Gunnell in Lewes about a week ago, she was shopping

 

[ManOfSussex]

How did you get on?

I was out of her league I'm afraid.

 

[whitelion]

I was out of her league I'm afraid.

I imagine she would have been surrounded anyway.

 

[pearl]

Nick Cave in at Lou Reed Drones last May .... he was wearing the most amazing pointy shoes

 

[ManOfSussex]

I imagine she would have been surrounded anyway.

She was. She was milking for it for all it was worth. Absolutely loved the attention she was getting. I gave her a very wide berth!

 

[whitelion]

She was. She was milking for it for all it was worth. Absolutely loved the attention she was getting. I gave her a very wide berth!

As long as it wasn't a birth.

 

[Gwylan]

I blagged some tickets to the players' lounge at Wimbledon so saw plenty of tennis players ... and Chris Adams, the day before a cup match too.

I also once found myself sharing a hotel swimming pool with Kim Barnett (and once, as I've mentioned here before, found myself in a sauna with Bjork).

The most bizarre though has to be visiting a computer show and finding Lothar Matthäus on one of the stands: he looked bored out of his skull. I had a quick chat with him (and despite his reputation, he perfectly pleasant) and he signed a football for me. He'd obviously been signed up as a main attraction but I'm not sure that many people knew who he was.

 

[pearl]

past Des O Connor on the stairs at Cheltenham Festival (mid-90s) .... he was short and orange

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Peter Purves at a Fall gig in London in nineteen seventy something

 

[Beach Hut]

Sat next to John Torode on a flight to Glasgow

 

[clarkey]

Sat next to John Torode on a flight to Glasgow

Sat behind Nicola Adams on a flight to Glasgow.

 

[dazzer6666]

Went to a fishing club committee meeting donkey's years ago in Exeter in a 'pub room' upstairs. When we came down at the end of the meeting, Viv Richards and Joel Garner were at the bar. Chatted to them for about 20 minutes (was a keen Somerset CCC follower at the time)

 

[Beach Hut]

Sat behind Nicola Adams on a flight to Glasgow.

I'll raise you, Diversity were waiting to get on the plane back

 

[Is it PotG?]

Sat in the row behind Jason Leonard on an EasyJet to Cyprus.
.
Didn't flick his ear once, although tempted.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Behind Robin Cousins in a queue for a cashpoint whilst he shouted at someone for pushing in ahead of him.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Whilst playing the "don't look know but 'X celebrity' is over there" game (a game where you spot rubbish lookalikes whilst drunk) we "spotted Nick Knowles" buying coffee.

It was Nick Knowles.

 

[Icy Gull]

Ian Anderson in arrivals at Ibiza airport asked me to let Arthur Browne know that he was in the bar if I saw him. Totally random, maybe he thought I was a meet and great service

 

[pearl]

Whilst playing the "don't look know but 'X celebrity' is over there" game (a game where you spot rubbish lookalikes whilst drunk) we "spotted Nick Knowles" buying coffee.

It was Nick Knowles.

 

[clarkey]

I'll raise you, Diversity were waiting to get on the plane back

I'm either going to concede defeat, or have to lie. Give me 5 minutes...