Met OJ Borg (think he's a Five Live presenter and does the Lotto results on occasion) last year during the Giro D'Italia big start in NI, really nice dude.

Haven't met anyone else but a friend went to school with Rory McIlroy and has met him since, says he hasn't really changed at all though his parents are a nightmare apparently. She has also served Ant and Dec and says they're so down to earth

I agree with you about John perhaps being on something when I met him. I was only fourteen and I was naive about drugs back then, but he could have been into the heroin. I remember reading later that he used to snort it, and he was thin when I met him.

Yoko was very quiet and sweet, and as I mentioned, I spent most of the short time I had in their hotel suite talking with her as she was such a nice woman.

A friend of ours who also met John and Yoko the same day we did, but went to the room after my friend and I left, once was in New York and spotted Yoko Ono on a street somewhere. She followed Yoko and caught up with her, and said hello to her. She told me that Yoko could not have been more gracious and friendly, though quiet.

That is wonderful! She is as generous as she is kind, isn't she? I don't understand why the media at the time, perhaps not now, were so harsh regarding Yoko Ono.

We should go on a double date with the Sutherlands! Your choice who your date is, I don't care. I agree with you, they are both gorgeous! *drool*

Thank you very much regarding my way with words, beer on the weekend helps a little!

I was lucky to dance with Donald Sutherland, and he was very handsome, gorgeous. What made him even more attractive was his personality!

He has a retreat in Quebec's Eastern Townships, did you know that? He's still a Canadian boy at heart.

Here is the link I promised to find for you on that Canadian site, featuring photos of John and Yoko meeting our late former Prime Minister, Pierre ElliotTrudeau, and (yours truly and my friend )

Year One

If you scroll down to Photo #7, you will see my friend and me with John and Yoko.
I don't mind posting my old photos here as, trust me, I don't look anything now like I did back then.

Here's my friend and I with our 'name tags' added to it.

I have to give credit where credit is due. Had it not been for my friend's perseverance and outright stubbornness, I would never have met John and Yoko. She would not give up, and she hounded John Lennon's manager via telephone for days until she wore him down.

Thanks to my friend!

Oh that so cool! A memories you can certainly treasure!

I think you just won the internet . Amazingly cool, and you got to dance with the lovely Donald Sutherland - officially extremely jealous

Simon Day (Tommy Cockles, Billy Bleach in the Fast Show), mentions him in his autobiography. He was on Live From Pebble Mill with Tichmarsh, who kept turning to the studio audience and saying 'I don't get it!' during his act. The Grade A prick.

Never got how Titchmarsh got from Tv gardener to chat show host.

Thanks for that, Ann T. Terrific memories for you. I saw the Beatles twice at the height of their fame, and loved John, but I know now he was a much more complex and difficult character than we could have imagined. I was 14 or so when I saw them and had no idea at all about anyone taking drugs then.

I met Joey Essex in Westfield last year. Most arrogant/ stuck up person I've ever come across. I spotted him with his mates and asked if I could take a photo with him and gave me the dirtiest look ever then very reluctantly said yes. I then took a photo with whilst his mates were sneering and hurling abuse at me for no reason (saying that the shirt I was wearing horrible ) (His mates are horrible too). After I thanked him and walked away, I heard him say to his mates ''what an idiot''!!!!!!! I suffer from autism so I'm not very good in some social situations therefore I was nervous! Very horrid person!

I've got nothing against and was a huge fan of him until I met him as he seemed like a really genuinely nice guy. He's got a Jekyll and Hyde character.

Shame more people don't realise this side to him and can't see beyond the pretty boy / 'I'm nice but dim' facade! He's certainly not the nice boy he portrays.

He's a no mark who appears on a show that no one will remember in 20 years time. Most of these reality show z listers seem to be on people's not nice lists.

Doesn't surprise me at all, other people who have met him have said similar.

My friend met a few of the TOWIE cadt and ex-cast recently, Sam Faiers and Amy Childs are the friendliest apparently

I've met Tori Amos a few times and she's always been so caring about her fans, stopping to sign things, have photos taken, hug and listen to stories of her fans before her concerts. You can tell it's genuine because she does it before almost every show and is out there until every last fan has met her. Lovely woman.

I met Michael Jackson back in 2002 at a fan event. The only time in my life I've ever been truly starstruck. He was very friendly and let me have a photo taken with him and signed my CD. I didn't get the chance to say much to him because the other competition winners were these three annoying teenage girls who were screaming and crying and basically making it impossible for me to really say anything to him. He seemed quite concerned that they were taking over the meet n greet and asked me numerous times what my name was and if I wanted him to sign anything else, which I thought was pretty cool of him.

I had quite a few autographs from the Early '80's when I was a student in London - I went to a few opening nights and you could meet stars at the theatre stage door.

My view is that it is OK to ask for an autograph if they are "working" (arriving at a theatre - attending a premiere or something like that) but I would be very nervous about asking someone who was on holiday or something.

Warwick Davis and his family was on the same tour bus as my family at NASA in Florida, but we did not stare or ask for autographs as he was with his family.

I also worked near Granada Studios in the '90's and there is a Sainsburys nearby where all the Coronation St actors used to go after finishing filming - but again I never asked for autographs as they were wanting to get home after a long day so were probably quite grumpy

Oh, that is probably the most memorable time I had in my life, and I've done a lot of strange and weird things as I am an adventurous type of person.

I remember that me late sainted Dad had traveled to Europe that May in 1969, and sent us postcards. One read, "Wish Eva good luck with Lennon."

He knew before he left that my friend and I were trying to meet him...and shortly after my dad's postcard arrived, we did!

You must come to Montreal and Quebec for a vacation sometime, Agent Krycek. Donald Sutherland has a retreat in the Eastern Townships....we could hunt him down!

I saw The Beatles at the Montreal Forum when I was a kid, I think I was around nine years old. My mother had to take me...

My friend's mother took my friend to the concert as well, though they didn't have seats near ours.

I was in the nosebleed section of the old Montreal Forum, on the side closest to John Lennon. Believe it or not, there were a few empty seats a few rows down, and I dumped my mother. A kid my own age, a boy, and I sat together and watched the concert.

It really is true about the screaming, do you remember that? I've been to loads of concerts since my first one - The Beatles - and I have never heard the like. We could hardly hear The Beatles performing due to the screaming.

When RIngo Starr kicked up his drums and began to sing "Boys", everyone at the Forum went berserk, including the boy I was sitting with and me...it was incredible! It's a wonder I can still hear!

You met Michael Jackson?! Now I am officially jealous. I really am.

It's a shame that someone who might have been working Michael Jackson's security detail didn't remove those wailing hens who were being such pains.

Despite all the backlash and negativity that surrounded him, I truly believe that he was a musical genius, and he always struck me as being shrouded in a mysterious glow...

I still listen to "Thriller" a lot; it's a classic, isn't it?

Me late sainted mum was addicted to Corrie, and through her, I became addicted to the show as well. I watched it for years and years. I absolutely loved it. I haven't watched it for quite a while, though, as my innerweb addiction has taken over and I don't watch TV that much anymore.

I'd have loved to been near the Sainsburys where you saw some of the actors; I can't believe that they'd go shopping for food after filming. I googled Sainsbury's and it's a grocery store, isn't it? Are you pulling my leg? It isn't nice to tease old ladies!

When I worked, the last thing I thought about after finishing work was going shopping of any kind, let alone for food. I'd head home, or sometimes to a nearby watering hole for refreshments.

I should think that some of the actors would just stay at the Rover's and sup a few pints, but that's just me.

I love the expression "Chuck"! Sometimes I throw it in when I'm calling people "love", though our local francophones don't notice or don't know what it means.

Anyone in Birmingham spot any BBC people in the Tesco by the Mailbox?

Not that I would ever have met him, as I was 16 when he died, but the late Dennis Wilson( good lookiing drummer out of The Beach Boys, my favourite band) wa ssseemingly one cool character. For all he was off his head on drink in his later life, his tales of generosity are well known: like the time he paid for an entire restaurant bill one night, or where he gave a tramp $ 500, and how he was always delighted to meet his fans. Seemingly his more famous brother, Brian, is known as someone who always gives his fans the time of day and even in an addled state in the seventies, let a young guitarist into his mansion to jam with him.
OTOH you get jerks like Joey Essex, whose fame will probably evaporate when TOWIE ends.

I'm a massive MJ fan. I agree, there was definitely something special about him, even compared to other famous people/celebs, he just had an aura, an intangible x-factor or something. Was amazing to have met him. I wasn't too bummed about the teenage girls, because I don't really know what I'd have said even if I'd had the opportunity. With someone like that, what can you say that he probably hasn't already heard a hundred times before, y'know? Was just great to meet my childhood hero and such a legend.

I used to work in that area as well. Queued in the checkout behind Sally, was in the next queue to Gail once, saw Alex Gilroy in there as well, shopping with his boyfriend. Also sat near Mike Baldwin at a restaurant on the Quays and got petrol at the same time as Alma at the garage on Regent Road.

Never spoke to any of them though as they were going about their everyday lives.