Really Minor Celebrity Encounters

[joggerjayne]

Me first (obviously).

There's a programme called The Best House Wins, or something like that.

Four members of the public vote on each others houses, and the winner gets £1,000.

A couple of weeks ago, it was set in Brighton.

One of the women on the programme was in a pub called The Mesmerist on Monday when I was having lunch with the GD and her pal.

[NazNomad]

A friend of mine got home one day and said to his wife, "You'll never guess who I saw in the bank today ... Frank Bruno".


To which she replied, "did he see you?"


Had us in stitches for weeks.

[chrissa1]

I was once on the same plane as Alan Shearer.

[dotty.]

I served Bill Beaumont the other week,

[tinkerbell23]

I love that prog JJ.... I really wish i could c more celebs...i like celebs lol go to concerts etc...but i saw elaine C smith in next in glasgow once, and rula lenska getting of a train in glasgow once too lol...xx

[craft1948]

I've had a date with an olympian.........

[B00]

I got told to eff off her reserved table, which id sat on before she'd got there, by Julie Goodyear Bet Lynch/ Corrie) in a gay bar in Manchester many moons ago. Snotty bloody mare.

[dotty.]

did the Olympian keep budgies?

[bibblebub]

In the mid-1980s I was waiting in the foyer of a Nottingham hotel and sat just a couple of yards away was Joe Brown (of Joe Brown and the Bruvvers fame). I deliberately ignored him for the 10 minutes that we were both there.

[NazNomad]

Craft, is that a brand-name?

[joggerjayne]

Some of these are not exactly "minor" celebrities.

Surely Bill Beaumont is "England Grand Slam Hero Captain" ...

... rather than "minor" celebrity? LOL

[dotty.]

well he's from round ere and so he's just another bloke to us, his family business is up the road

[B00]

Sat across from Jane Horrocks in a resturant near me too.

[craft1948]

Budgies.....lol it wasn't Jeff Capes, and he wasn't English.

[craft1948]

Is what a brand name Naz?

[dr b]

In the mid-80s I was in Los Angeles in front of a store, waiting for it to open in a few minutes. Donald Sutherland drove up, rolled down his window, and asked me when they opened. I said 10 am. He nodded and parked his car. The encounter was minor; whether the celebrity was or not I leave for you to judge.

[dotty.]

oh, was he a boxer?

[tinkerbell23]

Also met footballers in airport actually x

[arwyn]

Alan Shearer lives beside me, He's never been for a cuppa yet lol

[Stephen_G]

All the time, in the sports shop I work in.

Derek Thompson from Channel 4 racing. Sunderland Footballer Lee Cattermole. Ex Middlesbrough striker and Journo Bernie Slaven
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Slaven ). Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson was also browsing on Saturday night.

[joggerjayne]

dotty ... just a local bloke to you ...

... just a national hero to the rest of us ...

... whose local celebrities, rather than being sporting legends, tend to be people like Leo Sayer.

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