who is the most obscure celebrity you have met in person?

Erica Roe ............... pub in Penarth

Jack Nicholson .............. Wimbledon

Trevor Macdonald ............ pub Wimbledon Village

Anna Kournikova ................ Eastbourne

Billie Piper ................ pub Wimbledon Village

Paul Newman .............. pub in Paddington

Cliff Wilson [ snooker player ] ............ Llanwern Sports Club

Angela Rippon ............... Trocadero, Piccadilly

Doug Mountjoy [snooker player ] ............ The Blue Club, Crosskeys

Big Charlie .................. Norfolk

James Callaghan .................. Cardiff

I went to school with Tim Smith from dream team and teachers.

I saw sue pollard at the local conservative club

les battersby in majorca airport about 10 years ago

was complaining about how it takes the p1ss having to walk 2 miles for his luggage.

Jimmy Greaves .................. Gatwick or Heathrow

Paul Newman

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'Tennis players aside, who is the most famous person you have seen at Wimbledon? Apparently Angelina Jolie was a guest here a few years ago but I wasnt working then so she must have been here for the tennis. Everyone will remember Gwen Stefani at last years mens final, but do you remember how bored she looked?


The best celebrity I ever saw at Wimbledon was Jack Nicholson at the 2001 mens final. Before the match started the crowd was getting a bit boisterous and chanting

Tennis is irredeemably ** mind.

And jack Nicholson is a cokk by any standard.

Ron Jeremy - sacramento airport

amr diab. uk embassy cairo

Craig David at a bird sanctuary.

the worm 17 Jan 16:08

Dr Legg from eastenders in Maccy D's at Liverpool street station. Hot day - He had a mcflurry of some kind.

That has to be the winner :D

About 5/6 yrs ago i picked up(london taxi)the fella out of that airline docu-soap,bit tubby,glasses,gotee beard cant remember his name.always thought he was an iron but turned out he wasnt.Took him to harrods & as i was just about to set down some stupid women stepped of the pavement without looking & i had to hammer the brakes,putting the 'celeb' into the partion.When
we came to a stop i gave the women a volley,Imagine our surprise to see Gail off corrie !

Richard Stillgoe parked next to me on Derby day at Epsom once, in a battered old white Volkswagen.
Also shared a monorail at Chicago airport with Lance Ito who was the judge in the OJ Simpson trial ( Now thats obscure!)

Was at school with Mark Chadwick, a.k.a Chad 'Hear the Drummer get Wicked' Jackson.

Benny From Crossroads
Toyah Willcox
The bird who does the voice of Sue from Sooty.

Sir Denis Eton-Hogg 17 Jan 18:51


DaveEdwards 17 Jan 11:16
Whilst waiting for a train at brighton station Gary Clayle(?) asked me for a light. He was a one hit wonder.

"there's something wrong with human nature"
...........................................................................

That's the one Den! No wonder he wasn't in the charts again!

Jodie Marsh
James Beattie

when i was about 19 (sadly a long time ago) I was at my local nightclub, bit of 'slow dance music' comes on, I have a dance with a sort I had my eye on, buy her a drink afterwards, she's with a gaggle of women so I let her get on with it as it was still early in the evening, said i'd catch up with her later.

About an hour later, another set of 'slowies' arrives, I have a look over and who's dancing with her? Chris Waddle :D In full mullet regalia. Cant say I minded a bit.

I once met obscure provincial Dr Kapp (of 'right wing putsch' fame). Didn't much care for him or his views tbh

Some bloke from The Bill.

Took kids to a horse show - introduced to someone who asked 'Don't you know who I am?' Nope. Next question 'Don't you watch The Bill?' Replied don't have time to watch rubbish on tv. Bloke not happy and marched off.

the fonz read my niece a story.

I used to do window cleaning with Simon Mayo

saw Geoff Capes at alton towers once

histimenextyear.... 18 Jan 08:11
About 5/6 yrs ago i picked up(london taxi)the fella out of that airline docu-soap,bit tubby,glasses,gotee beard cant remember his name.always thought he was an iron but turned out he wasnt.Took him to harrods & as i was just about to set down some stupid women stepped of the pavement without looking & i had to hammer the brakes,putting the 'celeb' into the partion.When
we came to a stop i gave the women a volley,Imagine our surprise to see Gail off corrie !

PMSL

The motorbike that hit my car in Welwyn Garden City demolished Speedy out of Citizen Smith's porch.

i won a competition in primary school which bestowed upon me the great honour of getting to plant a tree with david bellamy.

In the bogs at Moreton In Marsh cricket club in the 70's, had a hit and miss in the urinal next to Jim Laker.

He had an ankle-spanking c0ck and a bit of his splashback landed on my shoes.

Saw one of the women from that program years back Goodness Gracious Me at a cinema about 7 years back

Trevor Bailey

miserable old bu gger .......... though I think his wife had recently died.

Jack Bauer '24' 17 Jan 02:01
I saw Jools Holland once in the early nineties turn up at Walthamstow dogs. He had about £100 on his dog Witches Dean at about 7/4, watched it scoot up, collected his winnings and left. I stood a couple of yards away in the stands as he watched the race but I didn't speak to him.

Met Jools Holland at leapordstown horse racing

patrick moore in dublin airport
had a fun/ nice chat
Footnote:
sandwiches: white bread only 'whatever the filling'

also met some guy called Pele


whoever he is......

rick parfitt status quo in a car park in kingston

tim westwood cut me up at the roundabout in wimbledon village,t wat

Couch [ Mark Winstanley ] ........... great bloke .... tres amusante ........... or as he would say

'Cher's pantie '

Played pool with Glen Tilbrook & Charlie Williams (not at the same time), and know the bloke that did the "you do the maths, we'll do the pizza" voiceovers.

ok i've been saving this....
i once got very drunk with the guy who played mo the crow, a puppet on saturday superstore kids tv program. i remember being very jealous that he spent every saturday morning sitting under sarah greene's desk.
obscure or what?

david ball the other one from soft cell

JORDI 18 Jan 14:51


tim westwood cut me up at the roundabout in wimbledon village,t wat

you should of rammed the**t

Met Leo Sayer in a lift in the Malmaison hotel in Manchester. My friend asked for his autograph for "his Mum". He is a right short arse. We tried to drag him out to sing at the piano bar and when he refused we held him in the lift until he managed to hit the security bell. Only for teh fact there was 20 of us at the bar and had racked up at 2k bar bill, I think we'd have been in a spot of bother. The potential shame of it .....we could have been nicked for attempted kidnapping of Leo Sayer.

brngtwt 18 Jan 11:28
the fonz read my niece a story.

Fonz three places in front of me in queue for free Starbucks taster samples at USC v UCLA College Football game in Pasadena. Friend had to point him out to me as he'd gone grey and lost the leather jacket.

Ricky Tomlinson in a car park in Keswick, he didn't have enough change for the parking ticket so I lent him 20p !!, never did get it back, tight get !!, was dying to say something like "car park my a***" but I bottled it.

Once served Tessa Wyatt (Robins' nest) afternoon tea when working for British rail many years ago.

took a bird out once and went to this pub by wimbledon common,sat down at table and other side was this old bloke sitting on his own,as the evening went by he started butting in saying this but not rude as i got more**ed i realised it was olly reid,lol

windsor davis in a pub in morden

think people are being quite liberal interpreting the word 'met'. I think met means more than just 'saw'.

how are all these obscure? I used to play chess with Ted Moult's daughter every Sunday morning, now that's obscure.

Is 'playing chess' some kind of euphemism?

Obscure and met are clearly very tricky things to understand.

when i used to manage an off licence in high street kensington ....angus lennie who was crossroads shuey mcfee used to be a regular customer ......i also used to serve jill rossington aka jill mortimer jill harvey jill chance from the same show ....exciting times !!!!!!!

lord and lady tebbit both gave me a lovely wave a couple of weeks back when i gave way to them as they manouevered their wheelchair across the road

I once met the guy who's feet were filmed for the opening title scene of The Bill way back when...

Guy was a right tool as well.

:^0 ^ The best yet

Trevor Laird in a gym in bloomsbury,very nice fella.

Judith Charmers sat in her car as it**ed it down at a charity cricket match

madsimon 18 Jan 13:53


saw Geoff Capes at alton towers once

he is a**t ive heard

tt

ThirdTimeLucky 18 Jan 09:22



Also shared a monorail with Lance Ito who was the judge in the OJ Simpson trial ( Now thats obscure!)

Wasnt at Brockway, Ogdenville or North Haverbrook by any chance?

Met 2 Dominic Diamond and Danny Baker, I also had David Wilkies autograph when i was a bairn.

alan shearer when he was having a** in the far end car park at catterick,
jimmy white at a club in southampton in the 80s

I once spoke to a woman who had looked inside Compo's matchbox and gasped in Last Of The Summer Wine.

I once met a woman who looked into Linford Christies lunchbox, but she was unavailable for comment as she fainted.

Frank Sidebottom at a concert backstage and my uncle ended up with his head on!! was quite funny actually

Howdi 19 Jan 07:51
Judith Charmers sat in her car as it ****** it down at a charity cricket match

Are you Ossie Wheatley ?

I babysat for Billy Crystal's brother.

Too many to mention

I played in a boules tournament against a team comprising of Michael Plain, Terry Jones and Miles Kington.

*Palin

I once did a small paving job for the bloke who played the poncy receptionist/manager on Crossroads. Charlie i think his character was.

Chuckle Brothers

the dancing man in the old guinness adverts

I played cricket against The Master from Dr Who. Not John Simm but the one who was around in the Pertwee/Baker years. John Salthouse (the Bill/Abigails Party) also played that day.

i play golf with a former test cricketers and a grand nat winning trainer ;)

ive met most of the cast of eastenders and met JLS lmao

I tried to chat up Lucy Kite the weathergirl. Got knocked back, which was a 1.01 shot given my ugly face and the fact I was so p1ssed I was spitting all over her whilst talking.

I met Tommy Sheridan. I was trying to sell him t-shirts for his holiday to Cuba. He want interested in the ones i had coz he didnt agree with the country they came from or something.

chuckle brothers at a 24 hr garage at about 2am.
buste merryfield at the snooker. signed his autograph 'uncle albert'.

I'd completely forgetten about this one from years ago.

I went backstage after an Inspiral Carpets gig. Their roadie was Noel Gallagher. He had a funny haircut similar to Clint who played the keyboard/organ.

Noel was absolutely tiny. Funny to see him give it the Manc hardman act as they were making a name for themselves. If you saw him in person you'd p!ss your sides. He was also very quiet in the corner. Definitely not the main man in the room!

billy C aka "the big yin" embra pub

I met Pauline Fowler p!ssed out of her head in a little back street pub in Paddington about 1980.

wot dis oBsqure meen?

great fred imo

One of my drinking buddies in the 80's was the brother of Mark Reilly, the lead singer of Matt Bianco. He got us free tickets to a concert at Brixton Academy where we met him. Whatever happened to them?

monmore man 20 Jan 19:01
I tried to chat up Lucy Kite the weathergirl. Got knocked back, which was a 1.01 shot given my ugly face and the fact I was so p1ssed I was spitting all over her whilst talking.

:^0

DaveEdwards 20 Jan 19:42
I'd completely forgetten about this one from years ago.

I went backstage after an Inspiral Carpets gig. Their roadie was Noel Gallagher. He had a funny haircut similar to Clint who played the keyboard/organ.

Noel was absolutely tiny. Funny to see him give it the Manc hardman act as they were making a name for themselves. If you saw him in person you'd p!ss your sides. He was also very quiet in the corner. Definitely not the main man in the room!

friend of a friend saw primal scream at gloster guild hall in the early '90s. liam gallagher was there for some reason and got into an argument with him saying (whiney Manc accent) "F0ck off smelly or i'll have ya - 2 black eyes and that!"

:^0

stephen hibbert, played the gimp in pulp fiction

stu francis....he signed an autograph with oooooooooooo i could rip a tissue.....wtf he could crush a grape

statto at laddies poker milion when he was presenting the final night at the party.....

i asked him who hed backed he said donnache odea for 500 notes just as odea went all in with jack 4 and got called with queens...he werent happy...

so i got**ed and chanted statto everytime he was live on air to cheer him up

i met the tranmere rovers defender zoumana bakkayaro today

tony knowles sank vodka and orange for fun

franny lee was me dads boss for 15 years...

mike summerbee,eric nixon,warrior from gladiators(the one who has locked up)

roger de courcey**ed in a llandudno piano bar

one of the eton road blokes...right cnut

stephen welsh who was on danny dyers hardmen bought some reading glasses from me

alex higgins beat me for a pint in a pub in middlesbough

keith chegwin at butlins

keith hackett old ref

bobby ball the best one in 1987...in puerto rico in gran canaria.....
was 15 at the time was walking past him in the bottom bit and shouted rock on tommy he turned around and shouted FOOK OFF

he was drinking heavy then though so i forgive him now.

Gillian Gilbert, keyboard player with New Order.

I went to see them in the Hacienda in about 1985, and was having a drink about an hour before they were due on stage, and then I spotted her wandering across the dancefloor. Walked over to her, asked if she wanted a drink, and she said yes. So I got her a port and lemonade, and give her a pat on the bum when she left.

Jill Halfpenny,lovely girl.

The only celebrity, I ever recall meeting, was Tommy Cannon.

I met him at his home between York and Selby in the pursuit of my business.

Had I not known it was him, that I was meeting, I would not have recognised him.

He was considerably shorter and older looking than on the box.

He had a new, and quite pretty, young wife and a baby to which he made ridiculous
goo, goo ga, ga noises.

He had the biggest pile of golfing gear, and rails of suits, that I ever saw!

We never did the business as he was strapped untill the next panto season!