[Misc] Mundane celebrity encounters

[Muzzman]

Jimmy White asked me directions to Burger King when I was at Thorpe Park once, I was only 12 at the time. I got his autograph, had no paper, so he wrote it on the back of his Burger King receipt. Still have that scrap of paper to this day.

 

[A mex eyecan]

I once stood and pissed in the urinal next to the bloke who played Alan Turner out of Emerdale while I was up in the Welsh Marches. I said ‘ah well pint in pint out’ he replied ‘got to flush ones kidneys’

 

[Bakero]

I sat next to Rami Malek and Emma Corrin on the tube the other night. Everyone kept themselves to themselves and got on with their own thing.

They didn't ask for a selfie?

 

[jamie-oh]

i once nodded at Steve Lamacq in the crowd at glastonbury festival. He's absolutely tiny, and i don't quite know how else to say this, but he's also spectacularly ugly.
He did nod back at me though, so he has got that going for him.

 

[Beanstalk]

They didn't ask for a selfie?

I would've been happy to oblige. Was nice of them not to make a scene.

 

[Shins]

Held the door open for Keira Knightley at a Citarella in New York as I was leaving. She said I was cute and asked for my number but I was with my ex at the time so had to turn her down.

 

[A1X]

I once served Peter Andre while working on the deli in Tescos, I think he ordered ham

 

[dwayne]

I was at a bar in west Hollywood and Ronaldo sat next to me with his entourage there as well, they stayed for 5 mins then went to a private room. That was pretty surreal .... this was when he had just got his Madrid move and on the same trip got accused of rape in Vegas ! His mates looked like trouble. I wasn't drunk enough/didn't have the balls to say anything to him.

On a dancefloor in Cannes got the piss taken out of me by Duncan banantyne for having a tight shirt on. Wanker. But in all honesty probably an ok bloke, having some banter with the peasants!

Restaurant in Miami I caused a kerfuffle because I tried to take a pic of Kanye who was a few tables down and his entourage saw me and tried to make me delete the pic to which I told them to f off.

I got loads of these type of things. The hey day of going out and seeing celebs and z Listers cause trouble in London was pre camera phone. Nights out were so much more fun then. Prince harry was out every night in chelsea and Mayfair around 2003/2004. Loads of footballers used to go out as well. Hasselbank was a heavy drinker/smoker.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I once served Peter Andre while working on the deli in Tescos, I think he ordered ham

I used to serve Brian Capron (Grange Hill's Mr Hopwood) his corned beef every Saturday behind the deli.

 

[HeaviestTed]

Held the door open for Keira Knightley at a Citarella in New York as I was leaving. She said I was cute and asked for my number but I was with my ex at the time so had to turn her down.

Not sure I believe this one!

 

[Trevor]

I saw Lee Dixon on Lewes high street a few weeks ago, I think he was doing some shopping with his Mum

 

[A1X]

Held the door open for Keira Knightley at a Citarella in New York as I was leaving. She said I was cute and asked for my number but I was with my ex at the time so had to turn her down.

 

[The Rattler]

Sat next to Kele Okereke (Bloc Party) on a tube. Told him I liked his music and he said thanks. He got off next stop.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Mine all have a local connection

Was served a coffee and ice-cream by Norman Cook during that weird semi-lockdown where outside things could be open but not nightclubs. So were half of West Hove though.

Was introduced to Dennis Healy during some fund raising event at the Gardner Centre. I said 'hello'. I was about 8 years old.

Met Ed Giddens in the nets in Hove. He bowled a bouncer at @Scoffers

Oliver Peyton from Great British Menu was randomly one place in the queue ahead of me for Tony's Coffee Van at Portslade Station. 'You won't be giving that a ten' I quipped. How he laughed*





*gave me a withering look and minced off as far away as possible.

 

[ken tiler]

The Modfather Paul Weller nearly kicked my pregnant wife in the stomach when he took a wild swing at some pigeons as he came round a corner of a coffee hut in Kensington Gardens back in 2009, he did apologise.

I went to see Al Murray at some comedy club in London, before he made it big and I was stood next to Phill Jupitus at the urinals, he politely nodded at me and asked me "do you come here often?" silence for a few seconds and he then said "you don't need to answer that"

Phil Jupitus was the last encounter I had with a celebrity- he brushed past me a few months ago at St Andrews bus station of all places. No witty words were exchanged

 

[BNthree]

In the mid 90s Roy Walker (who used to present Catchphrase) got off a train at the same stop as me as he’d realised he was on the wrong line so he asked me for directions to a cab office.

Solly March asked me for a dog poo bag in Hove Park as he’d run out.

 

[ferris_ferrit]

Cycled behind Jodie Kidd for a bit on a charity cycle ride. She was always just a little faster than me

 

[Insel affe]

Solly March asked me for a dog poo bag in Hove Park as he’d run out.

That is odd, considering he has not got a dog.

 

[Titanic]

I did bob-a-job for Teddy Maybank... cleaning leaves from around his above-ground pool in his back garden... and I wasn't even a Scout.

 

[jcdenton08]

In the mid 90s Roy Walker (who used to present Catchphrase) got off a train at the same stop as me as he’d realised he was on the wrong line so he asked me for directions to a cab office.

Solly March asked me for a dog poo bag in Hove Park as he’d run out.

My old company (a retailer) had a number of crazy Christmas parties over the years. They’re out of business now…

Roy Walker was booked for a staff version of Countdown, there were dancing girls recruited from a local strip club, and it was madness.

Roy was partial to sampling/ingesting the delights of the party, with eyes like saucers.