Celeb spotting new level !

littlegreenman

In the last few years at work I've had nice chats with Dominic Monaghan, Bradley Wiggins, Jimmy Anderson, Jenny Frost, Gee Atherton and most recently Lena Heady. I was really tempted to ask Cersei to say "I choose violence", but you know, like professionalism and stuff, and she was jet-lagged to fuck!

Apparently several famous footballers and boxers also but I had no fucking clue who they were.

ICBM

robgilmo said:

Ah, I thought we were talking about properly famous people like Elvis and Jim Morrison, I feel slightly disappointed now.

I saw Elvis and Jim Morrison in Egypt about twenty years ago, playing in a street band with Jimi Hendrix.

Or at least it looked a bit like them! Unfortunately it was the last day of the holiday and I had run out of film (remember film cameras?) so you will just have to take my word for it... it was quite surreal and funny though, they really did look like Arab versions of them.

Apart from that I only get to meet famous people when they come into the shop, which is not often when I'm actually there. I did sell Lou Barlow an HH bass amp a few years ago though.

(Who? )

Iamnobody

richardhomer said:

I saw Stuart Maconie and the guy who plays Peter Barlow in Coronation Street outside a bar near me recently (though not on the same day....)

I hope he lived up to his on screen persona, and was actually ‘Barlowed’?

You often see lots of Corrie ‘stars’ and ex-street actors in Manc. 

Seeing Les Battersby in a shitty boozer mid morning with his only his Aldi carrier bag and a pint for company was a bit sad...

Disclaimer: It might have been a Lidl bag - definitely wasn’t Waitrose.

richardhomer

Iamnobody said:

richardhomer said:

I saw Stuart Maconie and the guy who plays Peter Barlow in Coronation Street outside a bar near me recently (though not on the same day....)

I hope he lived up to his on screen persona, and was actually ‘Barlowed’?

You often see lots of Corrie ‘stars’ and ex-street actors in Manc.

Badly Drawn Boy was the most regular ‘celeb’ near me - but not seen him for ages. His son (and Peter Barlow’s daughter) were in my son’s class at school.

simonk

I’ve got a mate on Farcebook who jogged past Olivia Newton John in Hyde Park just the other day. A thread winner for sure.

Edit: Olivia Newton John was also jogging, if that matters.

richardhomer

simonk said:

I’ve got a mate on Farcebook who jogged past Olivia Newton John in Hyde Park just the other day. A thread winner for sure.

Edit: Olivia Newton John was also jogging, if that matters.

It got physical, then?

Jonathangus

A few years ago, a mate and I were heading up to London to see Lez Zeppelin (female Led Zep covers band).  We're standing at Reading station, and I said to him, 'don't make it obvious, but turn round'.

Which he duly did, to see Jimmy Page wander past.

simonk

richardhomer said:

simonk said:

I’ve got a mate on Farcebook who jogged past Olivia Newton John in Hyde Park just the other day. A thread winner for sure.

Edit: Olivia Newton John was also jogging, if that matters.

It got physical, then?

He wished... he’s hopelessly devoted to her.

skunkwerx

Tone71 said:

I was in Kensington High street the other week when the motorbike police came screaming down blowing whistles and stopping everyone from moving (fairly common) then some range rovers passed by and inside was..........only the bloody queen!!

I'm no royalist but was actually quite moved by the experience, it surprised me that she didnt have the windows blacked out as usually they are.

Stopping everyone and bullying their way through sounds standard practice for old birds in range rovers around here... 

Freebird

skunkwerx said:

Finally, I was on till myself one time, when a right little Essex sort with pink hair came over. Jodie Marsh was her name. And by God was she ripped. 

I was just about hitting on her and chatting about her game of thrones dvd purchase when an actual brick outhouse rocked up beside her. I presume it was her bodyguard, or other half. 

She was also lovely.

I wonder if that is the same brick outhouse who is trying to strangle her? ...

https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/07/Jodie-Marsh-300x400.jpg

Philly_Q

Jonathangus said:

A few years ago, a mate and I were heading up to London to see Lez Zeppelin (female Led Zep covers band).  We're standing at Reading station, and I said to him, 'don't make it obvious, but turn round'.

Which he duly did, to see Jimmy Page wander past.

I saw JP at Victoria station a few years ago.  He's apparently not averse to public transport...

skunkwerx

Freebird said:

skunkwerx said:

Finally, I was on till myself one time, when a right little Essex sort with pink hair came over. Jodie Marsh was her name. And by God was she ripped. 

I was just about hitting on her and chatting about her game of thrones dvd purchase when an actual brick outhouse rocked up beside her. I presume it was her bodyguard, or other half. 

She was also lovely.

I wonder if that is the same brick outhouse who is trying to strangle her? ...

https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2016/07/Jodie-Marsh-300x400.jpg

Mmmm I’d do terrible, unspeakable things to her.. which is funny, I don’t usually go for the whole swollen looking fish, masculine arms shit. 

bacchanalian

I have reasonably high hit rate with celebrities. Willie Nelson, Caprice, Curly Watts, Tim Robbins. Liam Neeson was in my workplace filming last week. I was queing for a couple of pizza slices for wife and daughter in Venice and Emily Watson (proper actor, not Hermione) was beside me. I grinned, eyes agog wanting to say 'I loved you in "Punch Drunk Love"' but she just shook her head to say ''Hey Dude, I am on my hols with the kids, don't make a scene." She had quite big hands.

IvisonGuitars

I had a piddle next to Ian McCaskell in a Welcome Break services once...

west

EricTheWeary said:

richardhomer said:

I saw Stuart Maconie and the guy who plays Peter Barlow in Coronation Street outside a bar near me recently (though not on the same day....)

Stuart lived for a few years near Bearwood ( suburb of Birmingham which contains the comedy club The Bear which gave us the comedy careers of Frank Skinner and Alan Davies) and I saw him several times at the same Indian restaurant, MrsTheWeary saw him once in Tesco. When the singer in my band was house hunting around that area he looked at Marconie’s house up for sale. Although Stuart wasn’t there his collection of signed photos and gold records,etc, from various pop stars were. 


https://i.imgur.com/k9R9pGP.jpg

I saw Tal Farlow at "the bear" there was hardly anyone in , maybe 10 15 , it was like a private concert , his hands were like shovels , he played polka dots and moonbeams for me , very cool ... 

EricTheWeary

west said:

EricTheWeary said:

richardhomer said:

I saw Stuart Maconie and the guy who plays Peter Barlow in Coronation Street outside a bar near me recently (though not on the same day....)

Stuart lived for a few years near Bearwood ( suburb of Birmingham which contains the comedy club The Bear which gave us the comedy careers of Frank Skinner and Alan Davies) and I saw him several times at the same Indian restaurant, MrsTheWeary saw him once in Tesco. When the singer in my band was house hunting around that area he looked at Marconie’s house up for sale. Although Stuart wasn’t there his collection of signed photos and gold records,etc, from various pop stars were. 


https://i.imgur.com/k9R9pGP.jpg

I saw Tal Farlow at "the bear" there was hardly anyone in , maybe 10 15 , it was like a private concert , his hands were like shovels , he played polka dots and moonbeams for me , very cool ... 

The Bear Tavern at one point was a pretty successful jazz and blues venue as well as comedy club. I saw Shuggie Otis playing with a pick up band in the bar. 

stimpsonslostson

I played water polo at uni & was late to a game so missed the first two quarters.
 The coach sent me in with the words "you get number 3. He's a big unit, but I'd go easy" then winked at me. 

I assumed the wink meant "do everything short of drowning him". Which I did. 
A great battle ensued. I kept thinking he looked familiar, but it's not exactly possible to chat mid match. His nickname was Whales- big & swims... Original. 

Anyway, he came over to shake hands after the game. Then I realized where I knew him from. I'd been grappling with (Prince) William or "Wales" as his squad shirt said. 

west

EricTheWeary said:

west said:

EricTheWeary said:

richardhomer said:

I saw Stuart Maconie and the guy who plays Peter Barlow in Coronation Street outside a bar near me recently (though not on the same day....)

Stuart lived for a few years near Bearwood ( suburb of Birmingham which contains the comedy club The Bear which gave us the comedy careers of Frank Skinner and Alan Davies) and I saw him several times at the same Indian restaurant, MrsTheWeary saw him once in Tesco. When the singer in my band was house hunting around that area he looked at Marconie’s house up for sale. Although Stuart wasn’t there his collection of signed photos and gold records,etc, from various pop stars were. 


https://i.imgur.com/k9R9pGP.jpg

I saw Tal Farlow at "the bear" there was hardly anyone in , maybe 10 15 , it was like a private concert , his hands were like shovels , he played polka dots and moonbeams for me , very cool ... 

The Bear Tavern at one point was a pretty successful jazz and blues venue as well as comedy club. I saw Shuggie Otis playing with a pick up band in the bar. 

yep i used to go quite a bit , i liked tom hill and the straightjackets    neil bullock on drums .....

stickyfiddle

My father in law used to sell drugs to Ozzy Osbourne...

(he's a pharmacist)

CHRISB50

I see James Cosmo in the supermarket quite a bit. 

I used to to see John Terry and his Mrs there quite a bit too, when he played for Chelski. 

Another shopper was Max Clifford. 

I saw Annie, the bassist from Elastica in Bodyshop down Carnaby Street a long time ago. She was buying face scrub.