Subject: Celebrities I Have Known and Met
Posted by: mnbates
Date: Aug 19 06
Suggested by Lemmyrules, IndieQueen, satguru and others. A thread for people to post their stories about meeting famous people. I will start with one of the first celebrities I have met. Ian Hendry, the actor, I was walking down the train from London to Swindon, carrying my suitcase on a trolley when I heard someone say "You know if that had wheels you could pull it along", there wasn't enough room to do this, I turned to give this bloke a few choice words and saw that it was Ian Hendry, so I sat opposite him and we chatted.
He consumed large numbers of gin miniatures in the hour from London to Swindon, but it didn't seem to affect him. He said he was visiting his mother in Bath (I was visiting my father in Swindon). We talked about films, books and families, a very pleasant bloke. I was saddened to hear of his death on Christmas eve, 1984.
Regards,
Tin
Posted by: mnbates
Date: Aug 19 06
Suggested by Lemmyrules, IndieQueen, satguru and others. A thread for people to post their stories about meeting famous people. I will start with one of the first celebrities I have met. Ian Hendry, the actor, I was walking down the train from London to Swindon, carrying my suitcase on a trolley when I heard someone say "You know if that had wheels you could pull it along", there wasn't enough room to do this, I turned to give this bloke a few choice words and saw that it was Ian Hendry, so I sat opposite him and we chatted.
He consumed large numbers of gin miniatures in the hour from London to Swindon, but it didn't seem to affect him. He said he was visiting his mother in Bath (I was visiting my father in Swindon). We talked about films, books and families, a very pleasant bloke. I was saddened to hear of his death on Christmas eve, 1984.
Regards,
Tin
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lovleyEm6767
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I met Matthew Lewis ( Neville from harry potter! !) He was really nice. Reply #81. Jun 28 08, 2:39 AM |
lesley153 
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Robert Winston's mum used to visit my mum, and sometimes she'd bring her son with her. I wasn't interested. He was a teenager - ugh - and a boy - ugh again. Oh to have known then what I know now. :) Reply #82. Jun 28 08, 5:51 AM |
satguru
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Copied from similar thread Subject: Which celebrities have you met in person Date: Jun 28 08 I've met: Joey Albert (Filipino artist) two other filipino artists that I forgot the name of Paris Hilton Society of Seven Lani Masalucha Floyd Mayweather So that's 1+Paris Hilton, + Floyd Mayweather = 7 How many have YOU met? (edit) (delete) shardar I've met: James Doohan (Scotty on Star Trek) George Takei ( Sulu on Star Trek) Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard on Star Trek TNG) Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker on Star Trek TNG) Tony Geary (Luke Spencer on General Hospital) Tristan Rogers (Robert Scorpio on General Hospital) Judson Scott (Guest Star on General Hospial) Michael Dorn (Worf on Star Trek TNG) Brandon Cruz (Eddie from The Courtship of Eddie's Father) Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi on Star Trek TNG) Donna Douglas (Ellie May Clampett on The Beverly HillBillies) I also had drinks and then later dinner with Mark Lenard from Here Come the Brides as well as Star Trek. I was truly lucky. Reply #1. Jun 29 08, 12:35 AM RL2 Bette Davis, Jay Leno, the mom from Erkel - Carls wife, Billy Bardy, Minnie Pearl, Sarah Percel & Gary Collins, Rob Nelson, Evander Hollyfield, John Ritters Mom and Brother, Sister of Karen Valentine, Drew Carry, Sally Kirkland. I know there is more...just can't think Reply #2. Jun 29 08, 1:01 AM RL2 Bernadette Peters and Ben Verene Reply #3. Jun 29 08, 1:02 AM Delete - Edit shardar I forgot to mention that I met the late Richard Harris when he was doing the play Camelot here. This was years before he did the Harry Potter movies. Reply #4. Jun 29 08, 3:03 AM rhose2000 Many members of the Dallas Cowboys: Jay Novacek, Too Tall Jones, Bob Lilly, Cliff Harris, Charlie Waters, Charles Haley, Randy White, Troy Aikman, Tony Dorsett, Quincy Carter, Robert Newhouse, Eddie George, Roy Williams, Michael Irvin Reply #6. Jun 29 08, 8:00 AM Twodeez I was in the same French lessons at school with a minor celebrity. Jakki Brambles. She was a disc jockey on radio. Reply #7. Jun 29 08, 8:32 AM RL2 Remembering another: Jon Voight Reply #8. Jun 29 08, 8:50 AM Reply #83. Jun 29 08, 8:16 AM |
| lesley153
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DD, she's changed the spelling to Jackie and done quite a lot of TV work too. Reply #84. Jun 29 08, 8:53 AM |
PatsyNYC
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Gregory Peck Yoko Ono Ladybird Johnson Joe Biden John Goodman Woody Allen Al Pacino Kyra Sedgwick among others, whom I can't think of at the moment. Reply #85. Jun 29 08, 10:01 AM |
gillimalta
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I met Leonard Cohen when I lived in Aegina, worked on many occasions with Shel Macrae (The Fortunes),Terry Wogan at the Pebble Mill studios, Carol Thatcher at my uncle's (David Leitch- author/journalist) party, Su Pollard at a train station and Rosie Boycott is my auntie. Reply #86. Jun 29 08, 11:54 AM |
Pagiedamon
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I met most of the casts of "Young and the Restless" and "Bold and the Beautiful." I've also met the band Hootie and the Blowfish. Oh, and I met Meredith Baxter Burney. Not a very impressive list, I know. Reply #87. Jul 13 08, 9:54 AM |
JuniorTheJaws
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Reposted here, as the single thread about Celebrity Spotting, was turning into a Celebs I have met type thing. No sense in having two threads the same, when one can do just as good. ---- Agnes (JTJ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Posted by: satguru Subject: Celebrity Spotting Date: Jul 21 08 From my last thread, here are some of the bigger names I've seen around without speaking to to protect their privacy, but was still pretty good being right next to in the street or shop. Hampstead is my first list from memory: John Cleese and Connie Booth (separately), Sting, Elaine Paige, Gordon Jackson, Peter Cook, Michael Foot (I think), Marty Feldman, DJ Alan Freeman, Terry Jones and Michael Palin together going to play squash, and also Arthur Mullard and Bill Oddie who I did speak to but only to say things like excuse me. Richmond has a few more, Bamber Gascoigne, Sebastian Coe, Peter Sallis, Liz McColgan (the top runners train along the river) and nearly ran over Nerys Hughes who stepped out in front of me. Surprisingly I've never seen anyone in Golders Green or Hendon, but more people I know which is actually a lot less common round here. Who have you spotted locally just doing your normal things? (edit) (delete) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 replies. On page 1 of 1 pages. 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- honeybee4 The only one I met near me is our mayor of Fresno, California. He is Alan Autry, he played Bubba on "In The Heat Of The Night." He is from a little town near me. I met Kirk Douglas on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. Reply #1. Jul 21 08, 9:51 PM Delete - Edit Twodeez Not so much a celebrity but a sports commentator. Derek Thompson from Channel 4 Racing. Sat next to me on a train recently on his way to work on the Scottish Grand National. Very down to earth man, and we spoke for the whole 50 minute journey. He was actually more interested in which golf course, out of the many we passed, was Royal Troon than horses. I asked him why he wasn't flying with the rest of the Channel 4 team and he told me he was at Darlington opening a bookmakers shop straight after Thirsk races. ps, his tips are crap. Not one winner did he give me:) Reply #2. Jul 22 08, 7:28 AM Delete - Edit gillimalta There are a few Man. Utd players who have properties, here in Malta but I've only seen them from afar when pointed out by over-excited ex-hubby. Fish (Marillion) is here quite often, we're on nodding terms! Reply #3. Jul 22 08, 8:02 AM Delete - Edit dj168 I met Mayor Willie Brown once lol. He shook my hand when I was little. Reply #4. Jul 22 08, 4:47 PM Delete - Edit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All respsonses have been reposted along with the initial poster's topic. Reply #88. Jul 24 08, 6:41 AM |
Ilona_Ritter
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I met Anthony Rapp when I went to see Rent. I met Jane Seymour who happened to be at the same performance of Phantom of the Opera as I was. I met Michael York when I saw him in Camelot. I met Tommy Tune when I saw him in Dr. Doolittle. I've seen some other famous people peform but dindt' get to meet them. But the ones mentioned above I have all their autographs from meeting them. I have Daphne Rubin - Vega (original Mimi in Rent) but not because I met her, but becuase she is friends with my friend so my friend got it for me. Reply #89. Aug 16 08, 11:44 PM |
FUNxxNAS
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my brother got to meet HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST! WESTLIFE! and loads of others it was a gather concert and loads of people perfomed he is soooooooooo lucky he ddnt take me and he ddnt evan get me an autograph Reply #90. Aug 29 08, 11:55 AM |
dj168
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Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco. I shook hands with him. Reply #91. Aug 30 08, 8:25 PM |
ang23rose
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I have not met anyone unfortunetly ;( Reply #92. Sep 08 08, 2:47 PM |
| twinklingstars
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In 2005 I had met A.J. of the Backstreet Boys. I was able to get his autograph and able to give him a poster sized portrait of himself that I made especially for him. Since drawing is a great strength of mine I felt like a celebrity that day because other fans were taking pictures of my artwork rather than the Backstreet Boys. I knew my portraits were well done, not to sound conceited; however, I had no idea that they were that good. Reply #93. Sep 10 08, 10:22 PM |
sonora305
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I've met Ben Savage, A.J. Langer, Roy Jones Jr., Will Smith, Britney Spears, Wilmer Valderrama, MxPx,New Found Glory and Bone Thugz Reply #94. Nov 19 08, 2:43 PM |
| lesley153
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On honeymoon in Connecticut, visiting my brother-in-law, I met a photographer called Peter Simon. He was a family friend, and my brother-in-law had been engaged to his sister Carly, but her family talked her out of it and she went off and married James Taylor instead. I didn't meet her, though, and I didn't meet their cousin Paul either. Boring! Reply #95. Nov 19 08, 4:16 PM |
| LOTRluver
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my dad meet harrison ford! my dad was golfing in hawaii he left his water bottle in his golf cart and harrison ford brought to him. Reply #96. Nov 20 08, 7:07 PM |
| lesley153
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I went to a concert on Saturday. Raphael Wallfisch was the soloist, Robert Winston was in the audience, and I spoke to both of them. Swoon. Reply #97. Dec 08 08, 5:09 PM |
Janass
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These celebrities I saw close up and nodded to all, but didn't speak. Liberace twice, both times in airports' gift shops, with young men being hand cuffed to a suitcase. He wore a huge diamond piano ring both times. Leonard Cohen, shook hands with then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The most exciting was literally rubbing elbows in a Barbadian food store with Paul McCartney, Linda and their kids. My sister wanted to go and get an autograph but I think it's too much. All I needed was a look in his eyes and he 'knew'. Oh, in Vegas I saw Larry Flynt wearing a hustler t shirt being wheeled areound by a body guard. Reply #98. Dec 09 08, 3:59 PM |
| Janass
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My best friend, who still lives in Montreal[where I am from] married the Queen's grandson. No, I didn't go to the wedding because even though I see my friend regularly, I haven't seen her daughter Autumn in years. Oh, the stories I could tell. haha For years none of us were allowed to speak of it. Reply #99. Dec 09 08, 4:07 PM |
rwbidin
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I have met: Donnie & Marie Osmond, Wayne Newton, Patti Page, the Mills Brothers, Mike Connors, Eminem, and Charles Dutton from film, tv, and music. I have also met: Tito Santana, Hulk Hogan, Rick & Scott Steiner, and Bret Hart from wrestling. From sports, Al Kaline, Norm Cash, Cal Ripken, Michael McCoray (not sure on the spelling: Baltimore Raven), and Darrin McCarty. And finally, I met President Ronald Reagan. Reply #100. Dec 12 08, 5:21 PM |
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