Ever Met A Celeb?

[iloveher]

ever met a celebrity and, if so, to what extent were they what you hoped or expected?

[DTCwordfan]

Yes they did, Chrissa, and Maggie was so well briefed. Mate of mine was MD of Penguin and got savaged at a Speaker's reception which she was attending, questions on why they were buying Swiss paper and not English. The other Prime Ministers for me inc Zhu Rhongji of China and Wim Kok of the Neths, when he was representing the EU out in the PRC, Kok was a very impressive man indeed. On a lighter note and a delight, I had dinner with Greg Norman out there - with 22 others but sat on his table.

[maggiebee]

Think the term celebrity is used very loosely these days. What in fact makes a celebrity?

[retrocop]

Db
I look forward to giving you pleasure.Sweetie. :-)

[Jackdaw33]

Not exactly celebs, at least not at the time, but I was at university with a former head of the Army, 2 MPs, Princess Anne's husband and the actor who played Officer Crabtree in Allo Allo.

Oh, and my college medical officer was a certain Dr. Harold Shipman!

[retrocop]

Good moaning. I do nit remomber you at Uni Jokdor

[Jackdaw33]

...that's because I was always in the bar.

[DTCwordfan]

Durham was it, jack?

Worst I have met was the Right Reverend Ian Paisley and I couldn't escape unless I downgraded to Business Class, a BA flight back from Nairobi....loud and very opinionated.

Then there was a question of seeing the Savile entering the Queen's Deep Throadt (Moat) Hotel in Glasgow with the Lord Provost of the city. Talk about a show-off and a boor.

Patrick Troughton was pretty miserable - and so was Robin Williams, that meeting all the way up at the top of Scotland in a fishing lodge, the Lochinver hotel.

[silliemillie]

Actor Ian Holm and his then wife Penelope Wilton. Their daughter crashed her car into mine outside my house, asked them in while waiting for emergency services.

They made a few phone calls (before the days of mobiles) and when they were leaving Penelope tried to give me £5 for the calls.

[Jackdaw33]

Yes, DTC, Durham it was.

[RATTER15]

I met Noel Edmund about 20 years ago, I didn't recognise him, his face was so bloodshot!!! I was also intervied by Judith Langford for Country file. And Charlie Watts walked into my workshop 25+ years ago looking to buy a marble fireplace, I didn't recognise him though.

[david small]

Sue Barkers sister, was a nice lady I knew.

[Psybbo]

I suppose it's who you consider a celeb, for me Alan Munro, lovely man, great jockey

[grasscarp]

You made me laugh Sqad. I was in my twenties and he forties. Also I had another household name I was dallying with watching us through the studio window waiting to give me a lift home in his Bentley. Those were the days!

[Psybbo]

Hey Grass, what an interesting life, please tell us more
by the way no lotto win but given another lucky dip, how did you fare?

[grasscarp]

My lottery entries got me nothing. No win. No lucky dip. very disappointing.
However, next Saturday looms!
My life was and still is kind of interesting, but nothing I want to reveal to all and sundry. I worked in a heady world for an out of school (convent) girl of 17 was a new life. I danced on Top of the Pops most weeks, kicked off in a celebrity football match in Windsor Great Park, was runner up Miss Office World in the Evening News, turned down Astronaut - see earlier post, loads of other stuff. I changed my ways completely when I read a quote from the founder of the BBC, Lord Reith, who wrote - I realised too late that life was for living.
That reminds me of another story. I had to phone Lord Reith at home (as part of my job at BBC). His wife answered. She said to him its for you. He said Who is it. She said The BBC. He kept saying Who.
I was itching to say to her, tell him he invented it!

[Psybbo]

WOW
The most exciting thing I had was when I arranged to meet an estate agent to show me a flat. He was late, so I rang his home, wife was not amused and when I told him he took off home like a scalded cat! Lucky escape

[grasscarp]

Ha ha Psybbo. Good story!

[Sammy48]

Too many to mention. I was a professional dancer and stood in for dancers of a famous dance troupe. Some famous were creeps and some were nice people, unaffected by fame.

[campbellking]

Have been on a few quiz shows, William G. Stewart is very nice, and also attended the audition (don't have the host attending most auditions), Gordon Burns very kindly explained to me what the pilot was going on about before I did the flight simulator bit (really struggled to understand the pilot), and Bruno Brooks was despised by all those who worked with him.