Which celebritities have you had a conversation with?

Quite a few.

Stewart Granger (brief one in a hotel he was staying at)
Gerry Marsden (in a casino watching the footy, nice chap)
Bill Maynard (in same casino)
Eddie Large (in same casino)
John Charles (in same casino)
Peter Bowles (I was getting off a train in Leeds, he was getting on. I nudged him slightly, said sorry, he said that's ok)

Oh, and Sean Bean, in the Midland Hotel, Bradford. He was filming nearby and sat down with a chick. He came to the bar and seemed unsure what to order. I said the Landlord's nice. He said cheers pal.

Johnny Morris
Thierry Henry
Peter Doherty
Geoff Hurst

Pete Stringfellow regularly, when he was the DJ at Cinderellas/Rockerfellas in Leeds, early 70's. Very friendly guy.

Jimmy Saville
Stuart Hall
Max Clifford

Ed de Goey (former Chelsea and Netherlands goalkeeper).

Wouldn't normally bother a celeb but he was standing next to me in a long queue at the Post Office. Decent chap btw

Jonathan Pearce although the conversation wasn't up to much.I met him outside Selhurst Park at about 10am the day of a match he was commentating on.

Me: "Alright Jonathan, got a tip for the match?"
JP: "No"

Bob Wilson. Although he threatened to call the Police. Was a long time ago so I'm not sure why.

It was funny with John Charles. He'd been to a boxing night at the Hilton Hotel, Bradford. George Best was booked as guest speaker.

John came into the casino with loads of others, all dressed in bow-ties and dinner jackets. It was very busy and I found him standing next to me at the roulette table.

Did George turn up, I asked (he was notorious for breaking appointments)

Did he boloks, said John. End of conversation.

So I had a very brief conversation with one of the greatest footballers of all time, about another all time great.

lol Barry

call the police ha ha

Bob Wilson. Although he threatened to call the Police. Was a long time ago so I'm not sure why.

i brushed past bob outside highbuy once and he gave me the deadliest stare.

Paul McCartney

Steve Winwood. and played pinball with Peter Noone.

sir bruce nils lofgren and richard hoiles

Hope thats Springsteen,not the other twerp.

forgot

Hugo De Vernier..the french mayor in Kelly's Heroes

Joan Collins, but she never spoke back, so i stuck a pin in it.

Richard Harris (actor) when he was alive of course.

I once called Edwina Currie a dopey cow does that count?

David Hemery & Glenn Turner

Gregory Peck, Christopher Walken, Telly Savalas, Roger Moore, Steve Cauthen, Jimmy Greaves, Pat Jennings, Eartha Kitt, Barry Hearn, Ian Poulter, John Conteh, Clive Anderson, Tim Vine, Ali Carter, Adrian Lewis, Mariella Frostrup. In fact I've had a drink with at least 3 of that lot.
Several other sportsmen, and many slightly lesser known TV people, a few I've probably forgotten, and a couple of MPs. Most, though not all, of these while working in Casinos, or working on Golf courses or when being on TV quizzes and on a couple of occasions whilst playing gigs.
And, I walked past Frank Sinatra once, when coming off a break while working in a casino. He'd been at a private party there (same night I got to chat with Gregory Peck) and was leaving the back way, as I opened the door, he was on the other side of it - one of his minders was about to open it for him. I remember thinking 2 things; 1. Isn't he short? and 2. He looked really scared. The door opening when he wasn't expecting it made him jump.

Burton Brewer - yes.

no it was the other twerp, peter shilton,the $hitty sandy lyle, david toms, mike rutherford. paul jones,andy fairweather lowe

Victor Korchnoi and Mark Taimanov.

Have also played against them in simultaneous displays...and lost.

Robert Maxwell, Bamber Gascoigne, Ian Botham, Gary Sobers, Phil Lynott

Met quite a lot of sports people and a few assorted others.
I had a good chat with Sir Henry Cecil at the July Course before he became unwell, none of the others warrant mentioning in comparison to my hero Sir Henry.

Derek Thompson Gentleman and good company
John McCririck Not very pleasant
Lou Macari Good laugh
Jim Baxter Great company when sober but was nippy when on the gargle.
Lots of other football players.
Stephen Hendry Tipped me a 7/1 horse winner so therefore my favourite.
John Alderton and Pauline Collins Met them at York racecourse in the 70s. They were guests of the company I worked for

James Brown - I cornered him at an airport and got my photo with him, he was a gentleman.

Is Doc Cox fromThats Life a celebrity. He used to come to my boot sale every week. He collects vinyl records.Has a house full apparently.
Peter Vaughn (Grouty) was a regular when I managed for Hills a long time ago but my favourite was Ted Dexter who was also a regular punter. The great thing about Ted was he only backed horses that won ..truly. There weren't that many,maybe five a year and his conversation didn't amount to much more than "I'll take the price" but hey, you cant have everything.

Henry Cooper
Steve Davies (snooker)
John Cleese

.. not at the same time :)

I've slept with Liz Mcdonald on numerous occasions above'rovers

mind thee i where dreaming and newton n ridley where flowing

The scene: the checkout at WH Smith's in Slough High Street one Saturday afternoon in 1978

Isla St Clair off The Generation Game: Twenty Marlboros, please. Hoots mon.
Me: I'm sorry. Could you say that again, please?
Isla St Clair off The Generation Game: Twenny Marlboro. Och aye the noo.
Me: I'm sorry. I'm very hard of hearing.
Isla St Clair off The Generation Game: TWENNY MARLBORO, YA WEE SASSENACH!
Me: Is that twenty Marlboros?
Isla St Clair off The Generation Game:

If I weren't deaf and she weren't Scotch, I reckon we might have had something going there.

Alan Bennett in the local supermarket last summer. We were in each other's way. He said excuse me. I said excuse me. We each took avoiding action and went on our merry way. Oh, and his boyfriend kept at a discrete distance. Saw him again last week in the same supermarket. ANd, no, he didn't have custard creams or cream crackers in his trolley.

Patrick Stewart back in the mid 80s, just before he got the Star Trek Next Generation gig. He said "Well done", I said "thank you." It was the school prize giving and he was doling out the prizes.

Mike Harding aka The Rochdale Cowboy. Passed him while out walking. I said "Afternoon!" He replied "How do?" I see him quite often in my local hostelry.

Thommo (talked non stop and never listened- amiable enough chap though)
Statto (useless tipster asked me who I was backing, talked me off my 6-1 winner to lose my cash on his 'banker' that he gave!
Big Mac (kept going on about the Boobies wobbly bits. As his moobs were quivering in the gentle breeze)
Couple of Nicky Hendersons jockeys (who told me the horse I had a share in would 'do better next time.' It never.)

Raymond Blanc (Sat down for a long chat with me and gf over over our breakfast at one of his coffee shops - very nice chap)

Roger Black (v nice guy - did a lot of work for company I used to work for)
Rebecca Adlignton (bit dull - again ambassador for company I used to work for)
Sarah Shorey (nice looking girl, if it wasn't for the arm I defo would)

Dominic Holland at Edinburgh airport lounge (v funny guy and incredibly decent chap)

Hayley Hunt (The Scottish Widows girl off the adverts who prior to that was underwear model for M&S - very approachable lass!)

Two for the price of one in the early nineties when Toyah and hubby Robert Fripp popped into an electrical shop in deepest, darkest Cornwall. They bought a calculator, quality salesman me .
Toyah had a walking stick and looked dreadfull and Robert perked up when during the sales bollox I was more intrigued in him/his career than hers.

In the same shop and possibly the same year but maybe the one after a friend (mildly famous artist - of the paint variety) introduced me to each of the members of The Fall. I then had "lunch" with them and later that evening was backstage at the opening night of The Winter Garden, Penzance where they headlined.

Don't remember too much but I can recall that I phoned in sick the following morning

Derek Thompson (I echo previous comments ... a thoroughly nice guy).
John McCririck ... asked very politely for his autograph and he signed, albeit grudgingly as if I were a nuisance, and thrust book back at me without a glance.
Alan Shepard (commander of Apollo 14 and 5th man to walk on the Moon) ... approached him at the Bob Hope Pro-Am charity event at Moor Park in 1980 and asked, ever so politely, for his autograph. Called him Admiral, said please etc etc ... and he blanked me completely, so can't really claim we had a conversation, I suppose.
Bobby Crush (Opportunity Knocks, Liberace etc.) ... was in my class at school and we were good mates. He and I went together to Wembley on 20 April 1968 to see Leytonstone win the Amateur Cup.
Lance Gibbs, legendary West Indian off spinner.
Bernard Hill (Yozzer Hughes). Served him at a betting shop on Grand National Day. Very amiable chap, spent several minutes chatting to him as my son was a great fan of his. BH signed some photos for my son and wrote him a personal message which is treasured to this day.

I had a good chat with Sir Henry Cecil at the July Course before he became unwell, none of the others warrant mentioning in comparison to my hero Sir Henry

Suspect that story (and sentiments) could be repeated by many people.

Had a long conversation with him at Doncaster after Daggers Drawn won the Champagne Stakes. Then again one morning on the gallops at Newmarket and at the July Course. Doubt you'll find anyone with a bad word to say about Henry.

Otherwise - Loads of jockeys and trainers, loads of Rowing 'names', I worked in a gym in the early '80's and did fitness assessments and workouts with loads of celebs - Marti Caine (really pleasant woman), Jim Davidson, Cannon and Ball, Simon Climie (from Climie Fisher), Dula Lenska and Dennis Waterman.

Oh yeah, I know all the greats, me.

peter alliss...talked about golf betting

alan minter...in a bookies (crawley ?) had his dog with him

david coleman and cliff morgan ...at gateshead athletics, my mother stopped them for a chat

cash asmussen ..longchamp races...mrs asked him to take a photo of us

johnny Vegas

back of cab,edinburgh festival

forgot where he stayed,south side edinburgh,flat

described to me a fast food place,street next to it,got there

personality is exactly as you see him benidorm

physically smaller than I thought

Shared a taxi with john conteh from the west end to Highgate he was blathered & only had one shoe on.seb coe,was at a bar in Portugal neither of us knew who was first so I asked him shall we have a race for it.stevie wonder Bombay brasserie Kensington,he played happy birthday for my girlfriend.robert redford bumped into him Dorchester hotel both apologised he was small & very freckly.had drinks with jimmy white,charlie magri & the blond one from bananarama.ed milliband busy train asked him if anyone was using the seat next to him he grudgingly moved his papers laptop etc,knob

Went to York a few years ago, and shared a taxi with Mr and Mrs Thompson of Cheveley Park Stud, who insisted on paying for cab. On way back I was at front of queue and Seb Sanders ran up and asked to share cab. Cheeky tw@t jumped out about 50 yards from station and never gave me anything. Had a share in a horse with Les Eyre in 90's and Claire King fronted syndicate. She was really nice.

had a chat on the horses forum with tracksuitdave !

I dint make any comments earlier, so..

Henry Cooper, loud, extrovert, very friendly chatty - nice man.
Steve Davies, quiet, reserved, polite and friendly - very pleasant.

John Cleese - fine, okay. Not as 'warm' as the above two.

Also WAG First Minister :

Rhodri Morgan ; arrogant, brusque.. prefer to not meet again.

Charles Dance - very nice guy who I chatted to in a hotel bar in Italy
Micky Dolenz - in a pub, he was asking all sort of questions about the locale. Really nice chummy guy.
Joel Stransky - was very pleasantly surprised to see him at a small social event. No one else seemed to know who he was so spent a lot of time talking to him about rugby, SA, Mandela etc.
Daisy Donovan - We got talking one afternoon in a sparsely populated boozer just off Kensington High St. It would be accurate to say she smiled at me a couple of times so I chatted her up.

A very quick word with Adam Faith
Brief chats with Charlie Magri & John H. Stracey, spoke to Maurice Hope as he was getting into a car. 

Major Chit Chat Celeb namedrop
I have spoken on the dog to the Master of All-Weather Shrewdiosity, The Mighty Orioles.
(The Big O also met John H. Stracey, but that was in a motorway service station)

Jimmy Savile
Bruce Forsyth --golf tourn
Jimmy Tarbuck ---golf tourn
Kenny Lynch  --- golf tourn (what did he actually do)
Frank Worthingtom--footie
Peter Lorimer ---footie

That reminds me. I saw Frank Worthington in Hills in Heywood, near Rochdale about 12 years ago. He said can you pass me a pen mate. Does that count?

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He could play a bit, could our Frank. Very silky touch for a big man.

kenny mann
     09 Jun 14 16:17   

He could play a bit, could our Frank. Very silky touch for a big man.


Epic swordsman too I believe

I'm Steve Hodge's builder (and friend now I think).

He's a top bloke, and I could talk footy with him all day.

he has a certain players shirt, I think you should rob him

Jack Nicholson

Marc Bolan

Eddie Butler and Jeff Squire - both Welsh rugby captains
Wilf Wooler - Glamorgan cricket captain and Japanese pow

James Callaghan, Neil Kinnock and Hilary Benn.

Ann Robinson.

Can you edit that last name off the page please - she does NOT exist - or rather SHOULD not. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

she spoke highly of ewe Ivor.

I envy just two of the posts on this thread so far ....Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro (Wow!)

Ray Stubbs.... really nice bloke, decent conversation
Dennis Taylor...decent enough bloke but was p1ssed
Cliff Thorburn... as above
John Virgoe...stand offish, not really wanting to talk
Willie Thorne.... as above
Matthew Stevens.. not bad bloke but loved himself
Tony Knowles... fine but desperately wanting me to ask " don't I know you"
Bloke from the Bill and now Doctors ( Chris, I think ) ... really decent bloke
Claire King from emmerdale... sort of I dont really want to be talking to you attitude
Brian ellison ( racehorse trainer ) ....havent a fcukin clue what he was saying
Derek Thomson....cheery enough, cr@p tip though ( odds on and nowhere !!! )
John Francombe... decent enough bloke
Jimmy Greaves...friendly and willing to chat and sign autographs

Just remembered, The Duke Of Edinburgh, when he came to a boys club in east London. I was about 12, and we were all lined up in the main corridor to shake his hand. The boy next door but one to me still had his boxing gloves on.

'Everything okay?'

'Yes sir.'

Not exactly top class banter, but that was about all it amounted to for most of us.

I had a Commodore 64 that sounded like Stephen Hawking. Other than that nothing.

Flavor Flav
Isla St Clair

Didn't meet them at the same time, I might add.

How remiss of me, have also spoken to several darts players, T O Shea - lovely bloke, Ted HAnkey - again nice guy, and my favourite: John 'Boy' Walton and I once trod on Peter Manleys toe and apologised. He was fine! John Walton was very funny actually. Ah yes, the Phoenix Bar at Bob Potters....that's were the A listers will happily share a pint and yarn with you

I think those two names top De Niro and Nicholson by some margin!

Was on holiday in South of France, around 1982 (?), me and my (then) wife were sitting at an outside table at a bar in St. Tropez around 1 am. It was very quiet there that night, and a couple strolled up the little back street we were in, and out of the blue asked if they could join us. It was Bryan Ferry and his girl of the moment, a blonde American, but it wasn't Jerry Hall, that's for sure.
They stayed about an hour, chatted all the while, shared a few bottles of this and that. Really nice guy as it happened. of course my wife just sat there with a stunned expression the whole time.

Me and the Rebel MC used to be pretty tight.

Jim kerr ,chrissie hind ,steven hendry,
When they lived in south queensferry,
Kim wilde she was at jim kerrs birthday party,
Bob hoskins ,malcom mc dowell,rohna mitra ,mel gibson when doing a bit of extra work on a couple of films,
fergal sharkey,francis rossi,rick parfitt,lemmy,lee brilleaux, and rory gallaher what a fevkin guy ,annie lennox
the waterboys through a friend who organised gigs,
Russ abbot,les dennis,bella emberg and dustin gee when they were staying at the caledonian hotel in ayr doing panto.
davy cooper,lly mc coist in the bookies.

Jimmy Savile,when he was the 'Chieftain' of the Lochaber Highland Games.

I've known a number of Olympic athletes and international footballers though I doubt if any of them would consider themselves to be a 'celebrity'.

James wade, Hi james, unlucky losing to Barny tonight, he replied Raymond is a great player

Tony Ennis at Ayr races a couple years back

Really nice guy

Paul Scholes apologised to me for blocking my passage.

Pug didnt u gave a convo with emma spencer, went like this Emma can i spa ff on ur chebs, no u cant

You're right about the shirt BB. I think it's in the National Football Museum in Manchester. I'm sure there was talk of it going to the football academy in Burton at some stage though.

He did deserve the shirt though, it was a great assist!

not on THAT occasion bhoys

also met tommy sheridan in a couple of pubs near my way

good laugh is tommy

Steve Mcfadden and Stan Collymore. I wouldn't 
have thought they'd be friends but they seem quite close.

Des Lynam...he was a really nice guy.
Willie Carson...I scared the life out of him...he seemed to be nervous...obviously has a guilty conscience.
Denise Van Outen... a strange experience. It was a few years back and she was so down to earth and very provactive.