[Misc] Mundane celebrity encounters

[Happy Exile]

It's lunchtime, and it's too long until the next game so I thought I'd start a mundane thread on mundane celebrity encounters. As in, the encounter being mundane but if the celebrity is too that's also enough to pass the time. Conversation/interaction has to have taken place, so I once sat opposite Gareth Gates on a train but we didn't speak so that doesn't count. Here's mine:

Cliff Richard asked me where the tins of tomatoes were when I worked in a supermarket. Hannah Gordon once also asked me if we had any single cream. It was a supermarket near quite a posh area. (Circa 1990)

Natalie Imbruglia asked me for directions to a car park in Canterbury, and I said "I'm only visiting and came by train, sorry, I don't know anything about parking." I didn't realise it was her until my girlfriend pointed out it was, and that the singer was in the Canterbury panto at the time. (mid 90s probably)

Anthea Turner apologised when she picked up a magazine at WH Smiths in Waterloo station and the leaflets inside it fell all over the floor next to me. (around 2004-ish). (Weirdly, I saw her several times around London and also once in Brighton over a short period.)

Lily Allen asked me to get a card down from a high shelf in Paperchase in Brighton. I'm tall. She isn't. (8 or 9 years ago)

 

[HeaviestTed]

I was in a lift at itv and was soaked by the rain, Jon Snow (channel 4 news was in same building) made a joke about me needing an umbrella. I don’t reply just gave him a dirty look.

 

[HeaviestTed]

Also at itv melinda messenger said my sandwich looked nice, I don’t reply as half of it was in my gob.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Steve Foster randomly nicked my crisps at our schools sports quiz v Albion.

 

[Pickles]

Hugh Cornwall manhandled my bottle of 660cl Punk ipa from me.
Didn't mind too much, as he could have strangled me, I suppose.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Ben Crenshaw asked me where his ball had gone at the The Open at Turnberry in 1986 on the day when it was blowing a gale and pissing down. I was delighted to tell him that it had gone in the bunker. He wasn't happy.

 

[Bodian]

I once gave Annie Nightingale some money. (I was a bank clerk at the time)

I pressed the lift button for Boris Becker in Adelaide Hilton after asking him what floor he wanted (I was a tourist, not the lift operator). Shame really - it was long ago, in hidsight would have been great to ask 'Going Down?'

Asked Prince Charles why he didn't have a name badge like the rest of us at a Princes Trust function (I also serve Annie Lennox and Frank Bruno with canapes at the same event).

 

[DavidRyder]

I once held the door open to the unisex loo for comedienne Katherine Ryan in Starbucks off Oxford Street. That was the beginning and end to our fleeting relationship

 

[wolfie]

Harold Wilson once walked off with my biro after signing his autograph for me outside the Labour Conference circa 1969.

 

[jcdenton08]

Right, I'll tell you an anecdote! In 1975 I was catching the London train from Crewe station. It was very crowded, I found myself in a last-minute rush for the one remaining seat with a tall, good-looking man with collar-length hair, it was the seventies - buckaroo! When I sat down on the chair, I looked up and realised it was none other than Peter Purves! It was at the height of his Blue Peter fame! He said "You jammy bastard!" and quick as a flash, I replied, "Don't be blue, Peter!" Needless to say, I had the last laugh, now f*** off!

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Early 80's accompanied my Dad to waterhall to see David Wilkie training with the brighton u18's (or whatever was the equivalent those days, yts?) Dad worked for Thames tv and they were filming David for a bit on a magazine type show. I wasn't interested in David Wilkie, and didn't know who any of the trainees were. All i remember is they spent most of the time running up and down the hill.

 

[Insel affe]

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"

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I met Michael Winner on a kids roundabout on Bognor seafront.

I also (accidentally) kicked Graeme Sharp the Scotland and Everton forward in the shins while in a shop at Orlando Airport.

 

[Berty23]

I spoke to rob Beckett on the phone the other day and it was played a few days later on the radio.

I was watching an ODI on my phone on the platform at Bicester station after our train had broken down and a bloke asked if he could watch with me because he wanted to see how “stuart” got on in first game back from a knee injury. I said “sure” and glanced at him and said “aren’t you his dad” and it was Chris Broad. He was off to meet Gladstone small for a drinking session in Birmingham.

Speaking on Gladstone small. Years ago I met him when we were both battered in the Burger King at Marylebone station. He had been at an event at lords.

 

[Petunia]

I followed Felicity Kendal in a toilet and she apologised as she came out that it hadn’t flushed properly!
I stood with Zoe Ball at the airport carousel chatting as we grabbed our bags.

 

[WATFORD zero]

The Wz family once had to share a minibus transfer to a ski resort with Timmy Mallet and his son. Timmy Mallet was surprisingly normal and pleasant.

His son was a complete Arse

 

[Is it PotG?]

Had a pee in the hospitality bogs at Cheltenham next to Niall Quinn.

"Alright Niall?"

Was at a meeting in a London hotel, lift door opened so I could get in and Reg Holdsworth sauntered out in a loud, flowery shirt.

 

[Beanstalk]

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.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Maybe we need a separate thread for mundane celebs you have pee'd with. Neil Morrisey for me

 

[Bakero]

In 1999 or 2000, I cleared Ruby Wax's table at the Mildmay Tearoom, Glyndebourne.

Circa 2010, I bumped into Johnny Vegas in a little bar in Hoi An, Vietnam.