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A Chance Encounter With Someone Famous
SeasideLady
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Did you ever meet a famous person by chance? Were they behind you in a queue perhaps, or shopping in the supermarket. Did you happen to speak to them as well, and were they looking good, or not their best when you saw them ?
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Probably who I would consider the biggest celebrities I have met (although not by chance) were Take That, I even got to pinch Howards bum, and collected photographic proof of me doing so!
Years ago when I was about 16 I was on the way to the pub with my pals and we saw a horse that had escaped from a field and wandered into the garden of a quite impressive house. We knocked on the door and spoke to the woman who answered to tell her that there was a horse in her garden and she looked familiar. And I said to her " you look ever so much like that woman on the telly " and she nodded with a very forced and bored smile on her face......
She actually made us coffee but we had to stand in the front garden drinking it
Same till, I served Angela Pleasence. She looked thin and not so gorgeous.
Yeah, but who was it?
Chris wanted a ready-cooked chicken and they have different flavours apparently (with garlic, lemon, whatever). So, my son asked what flavour he would like. And according to my son, he was really awkward. Get this, Chris said, 'I don't mind'.
My son wasn't joking. He thought that was being difficult! Teenage boys! But images are built on stuff like that.
Oh
Miriam Stoppard
Yes I know - 'twas a very very long time ago
Fair does. My brushes with the rich and famous - earlier post - happened years ago. I'm just waiting for someone to say 'who?'.
(But I used to like Miriam Stoppard. Where did she go? She just vanished from our awareness.)
I didn't say anything as my train was due and he had a guy with him who gave off 'don't even think about' vibes.
Apparently Take That used to stay at the hotel my dad ran, Howard liked my froggy wellies but sadly I was too young to remember this.
What? You didn't even shout, 'how's Ness these days?'.
He was in a play at the theatre in town and his Mum (who I later found out to be Susannah York, duh!) had a friend with a house close to my local, who they came and stayed with.
My birthday happened to be the weekend the play was closing, and I managed to get Ollie (as Orlando was introduced to me) to arrange for a me and friend to attend the last matinee. The following day, he and his girlfriend and some of the younger cast-members met me and a bunch of mates in another pub for a couple of pints before travelling back to London for rehearsals.
After they'd gone, there was this almighty excitement and all sorts, with my mates wanting to know how I'd managed to arrange it, and I honestly didn't know what they were on about. Until someone told me his name, And reminded me he'd just played Legolas in the first LOTR film.
I felt like a total ass
I used to fancy him like mad
Me too!!! Pity I wasn't braver back then lol.
Later the other girls really took the piss cos he was a world famous athlete who had won about 300 gold medals at the bloody olympics or something and was about 6'7" and I'll be damned if I can remember his name, even now ....
Help me out someone - it would have been about er... 1982/3 of thereabouts ????
edit - Geoff Capes - just managed to find it on google
I know, I know coulda woulda shoulda. I didn't twig it was actually him until he was almost level with me, then like the wind, he was gone.
Eh?
OH !!!!!!!!
John Prescott was written as an ex of Nessa's, a fictional character in Gavin & Stacey, he made a guest appearance in the last episode.