Which Famous People Have You Met?

Kylie, the goddess - have worshipped Kylie as a longtime fan 

I’m not sure there’s enough space. . Been doing conventions for 21 years now and met some really cool people. Best experience though was getting Sir Patrick Stewart to drop his posh accent when he realised I’m from a town over from where he was born. After that it’s the lord of the rings and star wars cast members I’ve met that are the most awesome. 

Many... all just folk with jobs in the public eye, ultimately (shudder )

Politicians, too many to mention, some decent, some not so much. It's a different world, honestly. Never believe they don't live in a bubble of privilege.

Their late Majestys, and kin, always gracious, however boring the occasion.

A number of T.V. guys, and girls. Either justly or fashionably famous. Fame is a fickle beast, and frequently baffling. 

John Hurt, on the train.

Members of a glam rock band, friends and neighbours of my uncle. I had no concept of their former fame as a child, grown-ups - meh. 

Now my world is small, the big world seems very remote.

I doubt if he would have been interested, his boyfriend was with him. He stayed afterwards and posed for photos with most of my family, as usual I just observed from a distance and only managed yes/no answers.

I bet Debbie (if she were still here) would've liked to have oiled his tools.

I’ve seen Kylie Minogue live at the Aphrodite Tour a few years ago (Joan Collins was in the VIP area) and all the gays in Manchester were nowhere to be found in Canal St that night 

It’s a case of some celebs have no class as “clothes don’t make a lady” and are arrogant self-entitled and conceited - yet poorer people have bags of class, self-respect and dignity 

Fellow Irishman - I’ve always liked Sir Terry Wogan, Limerick’s finest - he was with RTÉ for a short time before he went to the BBC (when both stations were proper broadcasters) and he interviewed Princess Anne and Joan Collins, as well as being at the Irish State Banquet in Windsor - he was quite rightly critical of what the Eurovision had become and he did not pull any punches 

And very handsome looking too xxx

Quite a sad one to post really, Robin Windsor had his Callander shot in my workshop, he was very polite and a nice person.

Due to faceblindness I have met many famous people and not known who they are. Means that I treat everyone the same unless their individual attitude displayed towards me is lacking in good character ans respect. Why I met two newscasters within months of each other as part of my job I was in, and the one was followed round with a whole film crew who attended to his every need but his attitude towards me was lacking so I walked off and let them carry on and they had no help from me!

The other from another TV company (Actually two TV companies depemding on if one could speak Welsh or not) who had to do everything hi!self from hoding his own camera to interviewing the people and encouraging them to relax and be at ease, and he was absolutely brilliant, and we had lovely chats with him when he could do no further filming while on my train. (Was a rainy day and his lens eventually misted up!) 

What I am saying is that just because someone is famous, does not mean they conduct themselves in real life in a righteous way. 

I do understand the best of people can have off days, and I respect that. 

I do not regard fame as any different to not having fame, as I look deeper than that to see who the people really are. 

I have not knowingly spoken to and entertained people in the highest and lowest positions in society due to faceblindness, and I can honestly say there are good and bad in all walks of society. Some homeless have the kindest hearts who would willingly share all they have to help others. Other homeless I have seen are of bad character.

But the same I have seen with those at the very top be they famous or not. Some are so kind and generous that I could just want to be with them for always and would feel guilty as I could never give anything back!  Others I would walk away from and go no where near because of their nasty attitudes towards others!  

(I realize we all get good and bad moments so one can judge wrong on occasions). 

I do not look at fame because having faceblind moments when I may recognize a few but other obviously famous people may puzzle why I may not have a clue who they are! I could walk past our Royal Family and probably not notice unless they had some noricable feature such as an unusually posh car or be followed by security which gives the game away as to who they are! (I actually knew when someone important was coming by the odd behaviour and odd clothes their special security individuals have or display in "Trying to fit in" and I would notice them as I see patterns, but may miss the important person even if they came up to me and said "Hello!"  It is patterns and odd patterns that stand out a mile that I pick up on! Such as someone pretending to be a fisherman or a farmer when they are not.

 I think it has something to do with faceblindness or autism.

That's awesome. Favourite I would love to meet is Tom Baker - he's so charming and eccentric - I would love to meet him! I love how in public he is so Doctor... He's definitely on my list of people to meet someday.

I met Terry Wogan twice, he was a really nice person. The leader of The Togs, his first name was actually Michael.  I also met Tom Baker at our local bookshop, he wore his Doctor’s scarf, I also met Patrick Troughton, I was doing some work in his house and wasn’t told who he was until afterwards.

I spent a couple of days at David Cassidy’s ranch in California, my relation was his children’s nanny so I got to explore the place on my own  and meet him.

Im envious for Marina Sirtis.  She I would have liked to meet. 

James May i spoke to at some festival, maybe V festival, yonks ago.  He was there with the other two musketeers, in the Radio 1 VIP tent, along with a bunch of other people who didn't seem to have any real reason for being there because they obviously had no interest in the Trance music that was being blasted out, but the bar was free, so probably get drunk and pay nothing was the reason.  Eventually i got bored and went off to watch Daft Punk's closing set which was more interesting than the snobby individuals hanging out in the Radio 1 tent.

My sister and I were part of the audience on Harry Hill and during the commercials he was really funny. Made jokes, talked to the audience, just hilarious from start to finish! I count this as meeting him as he did talk to us. One of my fondest memories. I count myself lucky that I went and was confident enough at the time to talk to him.

Wow - great post __Pathfinder__, thank you for sharing.

I bet that there's a fair few tales that you can tell, or how about writing a book "The life of a roadie"?

I used to be a Roadie and do other things in that industry.  So i got to meet many big A list people over the years.  I met Bratney and I can see why her family got a conservatorship, she was grade A nuts and rocking a 30 person security detail.  Christina Aguillera was much more down to earth and sat down for dinner with us all.  U2, Rolling Stones and actually pretty much every major band.  I've lost track of who and how many.  Kylie Minogue is nice to talk to, but really shy.  She sat with us on one job and had dinner every night with us.  The Metallica guys were friendly as well, nothing like the persona they sell.  Also through that job did loads of TV related stuff so met TV people from the UK and US, most were forgettable (well actually pretty much all of them).

Ones I wish i'd never met.  Westlife, Boyzone, Take That and pretty much every boy band in existence.  All stuck up, with that gold spoon rammed up the backend attitude like they were more important than everyone else.  Their shows were always autotune affairs, because they couldn't sing in most of the time and had no real talent besides a pretty face.

I met Alan Shearer a few years back. Managed to get a lot of my football memorabilia signed. He was really good with me as because of my collection obsession he had quite a lot to sign haha 

It's a mixed bag. The novelty of the glamour wears off quite quickly and you really need to be good with connections and be willing to work ridiculous hours. I wasn't very good at either.