[Closed] A conversation with a famous person. Had one?

Spent a wonderful few hours on a train journey north with Claire Grogan of Altered Images she was delightful

Yep. Met her when both our bands did "The Old Grey Whistle Test" (ancient TV music show).

She is indeed.

I have never knowingly met anyone famous, so you can have a vicarious one:

I met some lads out mountain biking in california and we were chatting at a break point half way up a 10 mile trail. They were saying that last time they were there, Brian Lopes and some other bloke had turned up, stopped for a few words and then set off for the 5 mile descent. One of these lads REALLY wanted to chase Lopes down it, and so he blocked off the other bloke and set off after him.

It was Troy Lee, apparently ! 😀

ooh, no, wait - I "met" two of JLS once; nice lads. I had no idea and my kids were too scared to say anything 🙄

Took Angela Ripon climbing for telly once. She bought me an ice cream.
Various famous climbers. You can't live in Llanberis for 10 years without sharing the bar or a table with them. Paul Piana was especially amusing but Joe Brown was a bit grumpy.
Has been pro cyclists Mick Bennet, Mick Morrison, Trevor Bull, Keith Lambert. Dave Brailsfords dad was head of OE at Bangor and a keen bikie and organised "training " weekends for course members and got his old mates to come along.

Spoke to Paloma Faith, couldn't understand a word she said and she was as mad as a box of frogs. Seemed a nice person otherwise.

Seen Roy (say what you see) Walkers knob in the pool changing rooms at Hilton Coylumbridge Aviemore 😯

Jo Brand used to be our neighbour, met Pete Postlethwaite (rip) a few times, got very pissed off with the lead singer of nizlopi to the point I was about ready to punch him, he kept knocking into me with his guitar because he couldn't seem to avoid all the swinging guitar Bs despite being in a tiny bar.

Used to regularly chat to Paul Heaton (Housemartins, Beautiful South singer) in bars/clubs around Hull in my late teens, early 20s. Bought him a couple of pints to apologise for only having taped his music. Grumpy bugger most of the time but I'd imagine a constant stream of "Alright Paul... Look lads, it's Paul" when you're trying to have a quiet beer is a pain in the arse.

Shared a lift with Kim Wilde in a Brussels hotel after an event where she'd been the "Star" turn. Couldn't say if she was nice or otherwise, but I can say that whilst she was certainly gracious with the hordes of 40/50-something blokes reliving teenage crushes when in the bar, she looked relieved to be getting out of there.

Chatted to Fran Millar, exchanged a couple of words with Shane Sutton and interviewed his nephew CJ, interviewed Dave Thorpe, spoke to Travis Pastrana (and what an outrageously nice young man he is) and have seen Toni Cairoli in his pants.

The Queen: "who is the Architect?"
Me: "erm, me Ma'am"
Queen: "You must be proud of your building."
Me: "Yes Ma'am"

That was it. Not my finest moment in conversation but at least I didn't say anything silly.

Blimey, working on a train station on West Coast mainline there are hundreds, nicest people have been:

Scott Quigg
Sir Alex Ferguson
Kevin Sinfield
James Anderson
Sam out of Game of Thrones
Anthony Crolla
Bez
Becky Adlington
Laura Trott
Johnny Marr
Jonathan Ross
Ricky Hatton
John Bishop
Andy Burnham
Sam Tomkins

T0$$ers:

Gary Neville
Andrew Vaughan
Paul Scholes
Simon Rimmer
Danny Cipriani
Roy Keane (a very angry man indeed)
Jason Manford (possibly the worst customer who comes on station)

I'm mates with Stewart Lee.

I also worked in football for years and met loads of 'stars' - with very few notable exceptions, almost all are dull as ditch water.

most of the famous folk i want to meet these days are a) dead b) live in japan

Having a beer in my local and spotted Richie Porte, bought him a beer for helping Wiggins win the TdF the had more beer then went chasing more beer around town with him before he headed back to Monaco. Really nice bloke but can't handle his ale 🙂
Did a race in Victoria this summer, spent a out 40mins chatting with Curtis Keene about bikes and stuff while hiding from the sun, took set up tips from Cedric Gracia and said hello to jarred graves. Had dinner that night with CG and Chris Ball from ews. All top guys as we took the piss out of CG for scraping the mayo of his sandwich so he didn't get fat.

On holiday, this year, met Hannah Barnes

me, (having never met the woman) "so, Hannah, do you cycle at all"?

Hannah Barnes (pro-cyclist and brand ambassador for Specialised) "Yeah, a bit..." She was lovely, which is why she has a Bazillion followers on twitter and FB, no doubt...

On the same day, at supper, sat next to Tracey Moseley, I know who she is ...

Another one I remember fondly was Julia Carling - who brought her pet dog to the local hospital to cheer patients up (yes, it was an official thing).

I'd seen her in the papers being cheated on by Will Carling, but she was far more beautiful in real life. I remember that interview took much longer than most, with lots of pointless questions about her dog.

About 2/3 of the names mentioned in this thread I have never heard of, having a piss next to somebody who was the drummer in an 80's band who had 1 top ten hit is obviously a big deal in the shires.

Met loads of famous people through work, I guess the most notable was photographing Cherie Blaire (I don't mean snapping her in the street but a studio shoot for an ad campaign) funniest was Ozzy Osbourne, he's a wrongun 😯

Oh, famous by proxy...my father tells a story of meeting Prince Phillip (twice) the first on the occasion of the Queen's visit to Hong Kong in the 70's my dad was there with an unruly bunch of cubs (to which Phillip made a bee-line) and chatted with many of them regarding badges and such. Met him gain some 10 years later in a line of folk at a building being opened by Phil. My father is introduced, Phil looks at him closely...

Phil "Have we met before?"
Dad "with some cubs, your highn..."
Phil, "ah yes (interupping) in Hong Kong, bloody hell, what a mob they were (laughs)

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew came up to see my etchings.

I got along well enough with Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Holly Johnson. He asked me to paint his portrait. I duly did and MCA used it for an album cover.

Wayne Sleep came for dinner at the Towers of Moont.

I was once in a chain gang with the brownlee brothers, i was giving it full beans and ended up on the front when my legs were starting to scream. I though i cant die now so gave it my all to stay in front when mercifully the lights changed to red and i got a break. Then the words that shattered my illusions were uttered by Johnny b "right shall we start from here"! Thats right,they were warming up while i was at full gas,suffice to say i only rode with them for about the next 12 seconds!

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Oh, famous by proxy...my father tells a story of meeting Prince Phillip

My grandad helped make the royal wedding cake, he was a proper full on royalist and freaked out every time one of the family dropped in to see how it was going... But King George VI being apparently an all round nice bloke always made the effort and finally got my grandad to engage him in conversation, at which point while trying to make a joke he fumbled it and sorta kinda accidentally told him he was a disgrace to the country and the crown for smoking himself to death. He literally never told another soul for about 40 years and to his grave he was still mortally embarassed about it but I always thought, that's exactly the sort of thing I'd do too.

Him on the left, pre-treason:

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Chatted to a fair few musicians that are famous through working in industry. Went on tour with The Fratelis (cool guys) Jim Davies formerly of The Prodigy (seriously nice guy!) Static X (no surprise when Wayne OD'd sadly) Used to teach Harry Styles, met John Bishop through work.

Was on a snowboarding holiday with Wayne Bridge and his wife in April.....they were both really nice and down to earth......Wayne was a great guy actually. They're just people at the end of the day!

As always on these type of threads though, my fav ever stw famous person story is the guy who's mate 'took Dierdre from Corrie up the reverend' 😆

Met Mike Mcshane last week at the festival, he was doing a show with a pal's cousin. There was conversation going on while I stared in awe at the legend. Fortunately there wasn't a suitable break so I could blurt "iusedtowatchyouonwhoselineisitanyway25YEARSAGO!!!".

Diedre backdoor Barlow

Oh, and also met Dave Mcleod (famous climberist) in an easy jet queue years ago. We were going climbing so had helmets on our bags, he was just flying home. We said hi, so asked where we're off to (Sardinia), he said he'd never climbed there..... Then 2 hours of awkward queuing stood next to him. The chats I've had with him in my head since!

Chris Bonnington in Booths Keswick. lovely gentleman.
Sir Jackie Stewart at the Monza GP about 2 years ago, again lovely.
Took the Pi$$ out of Damon Hill at said event, he took it well

My neighbour is a loyalties manager in the music industry. Often has "famous"*** people with him. ( I often have no idea who these people are, so looooong conversations follow afterwards.) The only person I met who I recognised was Moby.

Once met David Coulthard at Silverstone at a test day. Had a little chat whilst I got him to pose for a photo with one of my work customers who I'd taken along. Very gracious and decent guy.
We were staying nearby and on checking out of the hotel , Michael Schumacher stood next to me. I was far too star struck to talk but my colleague did jokingly ask him about taking about Jacques Villeneuve on that incident. He took it quite well.

I've been near quite a few but I've either acted as though they are anyone else or just looked through them. I held open a door for Giggs in town once as he was walking behind me. It'd felt abit 'daft' to say something so I just said 'no problem'.

In London, in certain parts you see loads. Saying this if it was someone I thought was a legend/great I'd probably say something stupid and regret it.

If I saw Lewis or Damon I'd ask for a photo of it was convenient.

We're on page 3 now so I guess I can weigh in with my mega tenuous brushes the rich and famous.

I've met Rhodri Morgan a couple of times, he'd often be going one way marching along some green lanes as I was going the other on my bike - quiet an intense, smart guy, but nice to talk to, he doesn't 'chat'.

One night in some flashy (for me) bar/club thing we shared a table with Goldie Lookin' Chain, Dirty Sanchez and Danniel Beddingfield - I know, I know - Hello hasn't stopped calling me for a scoop ever since.

Oh and although we've never met in person, my wife's cousin lives with Meatloaf, she's his PA / tour manager / link to the outside world. We chat on social media a lot, she 'likes' my pics of the Alps and a hundred pics of my kids doing stuff, I like her pics of her backstage in Vegas and having dinner with Kiefer Sutherland and his stuffed rabbit toy and dancing with Jeff Bridges. It's fantastic voyerisum.

If I met Shirley Manson I'd ask her out.. Well, she can only say no 😀

My mate sublet his apartment out for a patsy kensit movie as the green room.

Sundayevening having been partying for two days I found myself talking to a man in a kilt. I must have looked a state having not slept for days.

At some.point in the conversation he asked.me.if I recognised him. I didn't . He told.me he was the bad guy from the fight scene in MI2 on the beach.

My response was less than flattering - Was that the shit mission impossible?

Mortified friends told me to call it a night at that point.

I introduced Barry Mcguigan to Tony Hawk !!

Now that was a strange conversation

I put Chris Bonington's crampon back on for him about 15 years ago when climbing a route on Beinn an Dothaidh. We were climbing a route next to him and his partner. He hadn't attached the toe clamp properly.

I,asked John Peel to play something at a Portsmouth Poly gig he was djing at. He said "OK!" Can't remember what I asked for or if he played it.
Best one was Joe Strummer at a gig in Portsmouth. Lovely little venue, the Wedgewood Rooms... Pulp were playing supported by Elastica. I saw Joe there and had to go and speak to him, had a little chat and shook his (very small) hand.
Went something like " Hi Joe", "Hi", "Just wanted to say thanks" "Cool, man" I was floating on a cloud 🙂
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Roger Lloyd Pack (trigger from Only Fools...) i never realised he lived just down the road from us in Norfolk before he died, he played peek-a-boo with my then 3 year old daughter in Waitrose cafe in Swaffham.

I was flown back as a medical emergency from Bolivia following a nasty MTB accident and flight where went via Miami, i was placed in first class with BA and was put next to Sophie Ellis Bexter in weird bed/ chairs, i was in a sling with large amount of skin missing off arm and face and on very strong pain killers, needless to say after the two glasses of the red wine i lost my nervousness and talked endlessly at her before passing out! She was really nice and gave me her email asking me to let her know how i was.

Got stuck in a really bad traffic jam in one of the tunnels at top of M25 and there were 3-4 Ferrari and other exotic cars in lane next to me, as we were in a tunnel i asked the driver of the nearest Ferrari to "give it a rev" and he did making a deafening sound, i then tried to convince him to swap his red car for my red Berlingo van as mine would be more practical, but he wasn;t having it. It was only after he went that my mate in passenger seat told me i had been speaking to Nick Mason from Pink Floyd!

Met and spoke to most of the class of 92 in the Barton Arms in Worsley back in the day.

Asked David Beckham if he was ok after my mate put him in a head lock in the same pub while we were standing at the bar, he said he was fine and looked a little scared, we had been out on an all dayer 😀

Ben Thornley (of said class of 92) was my brothers best mate at school seen and spoken to him a few times since I think he is on sky now and again or MUTV cannot remember which. Decent lad always asks how our kid is doing.

Met and took pheasent's off Ian Botham at a shoot "Shall I take them sir", "Yes that would be great" when I was keepering in Hereford decent bloke made a point of coming over and thanking all the beaters for there help on the day and then shot his mates hat (not off his head obviously!).

Spoke to Steve Davis at Latitude a couple of years back, had a p#ss next to Bill Oddie, when he did a talk at work in the 90s, met Bobby George in a pub in St Neots many years ago, Julian Lloyd Weber is a neighbour, and the Duke of Kent was in my lab a couple of years ago, never met any of Led Zeppelin, which is a shame as I have most of their albums

I went to a talk by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston a couple of years ago, sponsored by Benromach. The evening ended getting drunk on the whisky, whilst smoking cigars chatting to Sir R. Fascinating Bloke.

Lennox Lewis used to come find me or my mate pat at work to borrow our darts and have a game in our mess room when he was waiting for a train.
He's a big big bloke.

Sold t-shirts for Blast First merch desk for Dinosaur Jr one night in Embra (told that Stphen Pastel to get his nose out of the box...). I liked them, Lou especially.

Also manned the merch table for BF for Sonic Youth on first three dates of Daydream Nation tour which necessitated spending time with Susanne Sasic (Cool Rock Chick & SY's then lighting person) and Dan Peters (Mudhoney drummer). Blew all cred with Susanne when the Vase-lines strolled in to the Glasgow gig (not only did I not recognise them, I'd never heard of them....). But she still told me how to make glitter jeans. Thurston Moore is a ****-ing giant, I might have said something along those things... 😳 also managed to piss off Kim Gordon 😳 😳 which broke my heart as I was complete awe of her 😳

Had that Johnny Dawes call up on the phone at work once, very bizarre.

More recent spoke with Meg Baird after her set in Glasgow last year. A very interesting and pleasant person, unsurprisingly we spoke about music (Arvo Part, Tim Buckley, the fate of Espers amongst other things). She put up with two half drunk Scottish mannies yabbling at her for half an hour... Didn't even buy any merch as I already had everything (and she hadn't even considered t-shirts).

I suppose the one person I've met on a number of occasions who's closest to being famous, if not a celebrity, is the lovely Eddi Reader, once of Fairground Attraction, who I've seen a bunch of times, and met three or four, the last time at Komedia in Bath, when she turned to me after chatting to someone else and said, "hello, we've met before, haven't we!", which was nice. Thea Gilmore is another singer/songwriter who I know well enough to chat to and be greeted with a "hello, how are you?" by Thea and Nigel, her husband, the same with Sarah Howells, of Paper Aeroplanes and Bryde, her solo project; I saw her set at Green Man, and when she finished and came round the side of the stage to flog some merchandise I got a big smile, a hug and a kiss, and greeted with a "lovely to see you, really glad you could make it" as well, which made my day.
Had a chat with Sir Bill of Bragg before his gig at the Cheese & Grain in Frome, and again afterwards, lovely bloke as well.

Mid-70's, I sat next to and talked with Emmylou Harris on a first-class flight between New York and Los Angeles (my company was paying, I couldn't afford first class). A most lovely woman indeed!!

My first real job was with TWA in Los Angeles (about 1966 or so) and I talked with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton while completing a report on their lost baggage for a flight to Catalina Island. Another most lovely woman!!

My least tenuous would have to be a most bizzare lunch at the Scottsdale, AZ branch of California Pizza Kitchen with the bass player from Megadeath.
I was visiting my mate who was living there at the time and he had other friends over one of whom was a tour manager for various rock bands.
Not being a big 'death fan I had no idea how famous this wee guy from Minnesota was, nice guy though and his heavily pregnant wife was a good laugh and a touch scary when she started talking about the guns she owned.

Was at school with Smeeks from the Exploited still in touch with him.

Also I have never met any of Led Zep.

On a flight from LA to Detroit, had the pleasure of sitting next to Scott Wilson (Hershel from the Walking Dead).

Wonderful guy and we talked for a few hours. He is extremely active in supporting the Screen Actor's Guild and has been involved in many legal disputes with studios fighting cases. Warner Brothers and Netflix being interesting ones. Had plenty of other tidbits and we had a great conversation around acting in general.

He also said that Andrew Lincoln was extremely dedicated to his role and plays a huge part in being the leader behind the scenes and keeping up the family atmosphere and camaraderie on the set of the Walking Dead. Top bloke apparently.

He also gave me his 'tip of the day'. Never put anything you care about in a plane's seat-back pocket. Scientifically proven to be one of the most disgusting places on earth apparently.

No members of Led Zep were on the plane.

Did Hershel have enough leg room:-)

Herbie Hancock (I was apologising for accidentally falling against his tour bus at Glastonbury - very nice chap)

Michael Cain (I served him while working at Harrods year ago - very charming person)

Bootsie Collins (bumped into him in a carpark after a Funkadelic concert, can't remember what we talked about)

And if you like old hiphop, I spent the day with Busy Bee Starski 😉

Ooh, just remembered. I nearly bumped into Don Whillans in the Vaynol. Good thing I managed not to!

I spent a day in Pembroke climbing next to Dick Renshaw. It was only after we'd spent all evening drinking and talking with him in the pub after that my mate pointed out who it was.

Also a mate of mine, until recently, played a particularly nasty bloke in Game of Thrones.

Had a works Christmas dinner with Steve Bull at his restaurant, along with another 15 or so workmates. He immediately took the piss out of my height.
Sat at same table with him, where he told many stories, the funniest always seemed to involve Paul Gascoigne for some reason!
Afterwards a night at the horses, thoroughly nice bloke.

Can't really compete with your tales of indie hobnobbing metalheart, but I did once get directions off deb goodge of mbv in the royal Albert hall, and nagged her to hurry up with the next album.

Must have worked as it only took them another 17 years.

My son James really loves the first Suede album and also Bernard Butlers first solo album. I'd love to say that at 9 he had discovered them himself, but as with most children his music taste is currently informed by mum and dad.

I went to see a gig by the Ben Watt (Formerly of Everything but the Girl) and Bernard had recorded his last two albums with him and was part of his touring band. After the gig Bernard walks past munching on a chocolate digestive and I overcame my natural state of awe and asked him if he would do me a massive favour and say Happy Birthday in a video to my son who was 9 in a couple of weeks and was a big fan. He was simply lovely about it - really friendly and charming. Then recorded a lovely personal message for me and was willing to do it again if it wasn't quite right. It was perfect and James was massively chuffed! I was also chuffed as he was as nice in real life as he always seemed from a distance in interviews etc... Made my week. Thanks Bernard!

So many great stories on this thread. Fantastic to see that many are still 'normal'. Some make me very jealous - Emmylou Harris above being one of them!

Had a part-time job in a local theatre way back where a lot of comedians used to turn up at for pre-tour shows so chatted to a lot of them. Also got a few up-and-coming ones through there too, Rhod Gilbert, Russell Howard, that kind of time. Lee Evans was the nicest, bought the staff drinks afterwards and was great to talk to. Might have sightly fallen for Lucy Porter one evening there too, such a lovely sense of humour... 😳
My old local pub is a magnet for famous people to stay at too, mainly theatre types but the odd music star. Had to ask JK to move one of his Ferrari's to let me out of the car park (more than once), had Robbie Williams join me and a few friends for drinks one evening, he was hiding from all the screaming teenagers outside. Bumped into the old Top Gear trio a few times in there too.
One of my sister's friends worked at Rockfield studios for a bit so she met loads of musicians, occasionally she'd turn up with them in her local. It took me a while to realise I'd been talking to Dave Grohl for 20 minutes one evening

No Robert Plant story though.

I wouldn't even recognise Robert Plant, I must confess.

I forgot my proxy Robert Plant story!
My aunt walked in to a small pub near Borth, there were only 3 other people in there, one of which was..................you guessed it! it was Robert Plant!
He was celebrating his birthday and insisted my aunt join them and all the drinks were on him.

I accidently bodychecked Jimmy Saville and knocked him to the ground in the foyer of the Moat House hotel in Glasgow.

I was storming through the hotel in a foul temper, dripping wet, wearing full highland evening dress after unsuccessfully trying to lock my car without the alarm going off in the car park in the pissing rain.
As I was walking past the lifts in Reception*, Jimmy walked out right in front of me and I knocked his frail, shellsuited form to the floor. I growled an apology and stormed off before I realised who he was.

When I told my wife and the other people at the party they thought that I was some sort of monster for assaulting a kindly old guy who does so much good work for charity.

Hindsight eh?

*Robert Plant may or may not have been observing from the bar.

Every working day....

whats a famous person?

I met Jackie Chan at the start of the Hong Kong - Beijing Rally in 1996. He had a team entered or something.

Not strictly a conversation because he couldn't speak much English back then.

Kevin McCloud wandered up to me with a pair of ski's over his shoulder whilst I was doing a bit of transfer driving in the Alps... bit of an understatement to say I was a fan so I decided to play it cool and not let on I knew him... told him why I was there and that I couldn't get hold of the pickup... he rang on the intercom for me and he suspected it was his friends flat and proceeded to talk in a French accent "madame you av urr blockage in your toilette, i come to fix it"... he freaked her out quite nicely and she was who I was waiting on so it all worked out well! As he wandered off laughing I shouted "bye kevin"... never have I felt so sad!......

Apart from dancing with Tim Booth at a festival - a bit loved up on life and all I could do was offer him a banana I had apparently been carrying around for 2 days... he politely declined - we danced a little more and then he made a tactical escape!

A few weeks ago Steve Cougan nearly took my wing mirror off coming round a corner into Coniston in his 3 wheeled Morgan? He did a full open mouth expression which I populated in our car with "AHHHHAAAA".

Mick Doohan in the run-up to his first Brit GP before he was famous. He was at a bike shop in Towcester and I was in the crowd of 1. Thoroughly nice bloke we agreed Schwantz wasn't that good I got some merch and he signed my crash helmet (still got it).

Similar encounters with James Toseland Neil Hodgson and that Stalker bloke

While working as a guide I took Ben Shepherd out riding while working in Spain and got drunk with him and the BBC film crew, although he didn't touch the tequilas if memory serves. I had my 30 seconds of fame later that year on 'Holiday' programme.

Apparently a friend's wife saw a silhouette of Ben and I riding up a hill and said 'I recognise those legs'. Friend wasn't sure what to make of that.

As an MTB guide used to show a certain Cy Turner around the Elan Valley. He was only a nipper then and not so tall.

Met Dominic Behan and Chris Woods (Traffic) (whilst hitch-hiking)
Met Alan Rusbridger a few times, kids at same school
Chaired meetings addressed by Richard Wilkinson and the late Paul Foot
Had lunch with John Carey
Met Mick Jagger. Didn't really but I did chat with his brother Chris in the Thatch in Croyde (also Wingnut)
Chatted with Kelly Slater and Tom Curren at Bell's in 1992
Bill Oddie comes to town every year for the birds of Rutland and I (just) see him down the local, alongside hundreds of birders

Captain Eric Brown. Twice. A lovely gentleman

You win!
I would imagine that the sheer volume of potential subject matter must be quite daunting 😀

Wife once got shouted at by David Baddiel. She said he was a right ****er.

When I was about 14 I got yelled at by Dave Hemming. Proper, red faced, sweary, bawling in the face of a slightly frightened child, yelling. Complete ****. He wasn't that famous outside of MBUK though.

I spoke to Steve Peat at the same event and he was really nice.

Escorted John Cooper Clarke from a friends house to a cafe in Mumbles after she called me up saying he was making a nuisance of himself, John wanted a cappuccino but all the cafe had was filter coffee and startled looks

I've had dinner with (sat next to) Jonathan Aitken and black Stig, hoped to get an introduction to Jonathan's daughters but failed but did get him to sign a copy of his book - for my Dad.

Tried to have a chat with William Hague whilst waiting for a train, resisted following him on to sit next to him though.

Went to school with Martin Lewis, I'm sure I gave him some money tips.

Erm...I sometimes ride with the bloke that used to own Evans....

I went out for drinks with Richard Herring and the rest of the crew when he was hosting a program on poker back in the early 00's. Nice bloke and a decent poker player too.

On a different note, I got into a discussion outside Tesco Huntingdon last but one election with the local MP (Djangoly) about Trident and the role of a strategic nuclear deterrent. He didn't get it in the slightest and told me that it would protect us from terrorists. Some gentle pushing on my part that this was bolleaux because terrorists have no state and therefore won't be scared by something that can turn a country into glass did not go down well with him.

Escorted John Cooper Clarke from a friends house to a cafe in Mumbles after she called me up saying he was making a nuisance of himself, John wanted a cappuccino but all the cafe had was filter coffee and startled looks

Definitely Chickentown.

Wife once got shouted at by David Baddiel. She said he was a right ****.

i spent an afternoon in his Hampstead flat he shared with Frank Skinner, was a nice enough bloke then, also had Jo Brand offer me a brandy (it was 12pm) in her Denmark hill flat, this was mid 90’s i’m guessing their properties are a bit bigger now.
when i was an assistant photographer i met loads of famous people through work, too many to remember them all.
most recent notable was Alan Ford (brick top in that Guy Richie thing) as a friend did a short film with him as the lead and i was B-camera, just small talk over lunch.

I used to train with Graham Bell and Martin Bell back in the day, used to go to their house quite a lot.

I've asked Steve Peat where the easier trails were on Wharncliffe as I minced down a DH track whilst he was coaching some of what I guess are now top UK DH riders. He was actually very helpful !

Geoff capes as a kid, Christ he scared me.
Ari vatanen as a kid, absolute hero.
Johnny hartson on several stag dos/weddings, wouldn't arm wrestle me the big girl, daisy lowe in a hot tub (not a lot of chat just me and the brother in law worried our wives would see us, we were like two children), few beers with Ricky Wilson from the kaisers, erin O'connor "model type" , mylene klass looked very good that day, Emilia fox gave me the kiss on both cheeks, and that janine Bird from eastenders. So all pretty much b list.

Not a conversation as such but a full scale punch up with Liam Gallagher at the log flume in universal studios, La. I stood on his foot by accident and he got shouty and tried to hit me, I had a bad hangover and was a grumpy man so hit him back. Thus ensued some man wrestling eventually broken up by patsy kensiy screaming and his security. He scowled at me all day. I thought it was quite funny by then....

Once met Frank Sidebotton in a bar in Salford in 91, girlfriend at the time was studying there, chatted to him for a bit but cant remember much apart from the papermache head.

I've met many 'famous' people over the years, mainly through family.

But the one that sticks out was a nice chat with Nick Frost by a taco stand in universal studios when him and Simon Pegg were promoting Hot Fuzz, none of the locals had a clue who he was so he was fairly happy to have a chat and a picture. A few minutes later he came passed me and the Mrs with Simon Pegg in tow and sent him over to us which was nice. He was also a thoroughly nice bloke.

More recently me and the Mrs spent an hour or so in the company of the band We Are Scientists who my wife loves, we paid for a VIP package with a meet and greet expecting a signing and a free tshirt, ended up hanging round the venue with them and a couple of other people for well over an hour. Not so famous these days, but were fairly massive in the 2000's, great live band too, and top guys.

Princess Anne

And Tim Farron, twice, yesterday (and once a while back when he was helping save our post office)

Once met Frank Sidebotton in a bar in Salford in 91, girlfriend at the time was studying there, chatted to him for a bit but cant remember much apart from the papermache head.

Thus ensued some man wrestling eventually broken up by patsy kensiy screaming and his security. He scowled at me all day

Surely Liam is the hardest man on the planet and would've drowned you in the log flume??! 😆

Muttered some guff to Howard Marks once after he did a talk. Spoke briefly to Abdominal after a DJ Format gig (nice guy).

Working at the FW World Cup I tried to bar a bemused Phil Saxena from the closed 4x track unitl I spotted his named pass. Also told Robbie Bourdon to get off the track during the DH finals.

(Mis)Spent extensive amounts of time in Ewen Vernal's (of Deacon Blue / Capercaillie) old house as I was mates with his nephew. Still speak to his daughter who is pursuing a music career of her own and has also met Robert Plant.