Celeb spotting

Ladilia

that makes me seem like some sort of stalker doesn't it....

sambora

I've met Kevin Spacey a few times, Matt Lucas & David Walliams, Adam Brody, Pat Kenny, Keith Duffy.

DublinWriter

I met Tony Blair in Old Trafford in 1994.

We were on a junket in the corporate box, tanked up on free champagne at 11am on a Saturday when in walks TB with two serious looking minders.

Even then, and in my baloubous state, I remember thinking the guy was false to the point of being oily and uncomforable to be around.

I shook his hand and said that I never shook hands with a PM before and winked (he was in opposition at the time) and I noticed the two plain-clothes special branch minders either side of him bristle a little at the sound of my Irish accent (was the year of Arndale Centre IRA bomb in Manchester) and he just laughed and said "yes yes yes very good".

serena06

this is the second day in a row i see colin farrell. i thought he was taller!

I would kill to see him

Lola123

Scored mondo from fair city (before he was mondo) on hols one time.
Met Michael Barrymore in the porterhouse a few months ago.
Met Dean Gaffney and Gus from eastenders a few years ago (sleazy f*cks!).
And yesterday I saw Orlaith from fair city although i only spotted her in the distance!

mcauley

yeabutnobutyea wrote:

i rode mark mccabe

Absolute Classic

/wonders: why would you tell anyone??!

foxy06

pinchmycheeks wrote:

i saw katie holmes and tom cruise and there baby a few weeks ago in la and they let me hold suri it was cool

Would ya g'way outta that!

Lynibeth

I saw the beautiful, glorious Gay Byrne on Grafton street last week.. Phwoar!

r3nu4l

On my honeymoon flight I saw McKenzie of Celebrity Big Brother and Blazing Squad (remember them) "fame".

I actually ended up feeling sorry for him. He was with his girlfriend, flying on Virgin Atlantic (economy) but he spent most of the flight kneeling in his seat and looking out to see who had noticed him. He also spent a lot of time trying to attract attention by talking with the flight crew. Kind of sad to see the attention-whoring he was doing.

Ah well, he's obviously trying to work his "fame"...didn't get him an upgrade though

inspiron77

Lynibeth wrote:

I saw the beautiful, glorious Gay Byrne on Grafton street last week.. Phwoar!

How lucky are you :-) I wish if i can see angelina jolie on the road :-)

Lynibeth

Angelina Jolie is no comparison to Gay Byrne

niavie

i worked with ryan tubridy and pat kenny in rte on my work experience...:rolleyes: and i met the kings of leon after an awards show:D

ashyle

i saw sonia o sullivan today on lr mount street out side my hoffice

kelle

I went ski-ing in Andora with Rita from Fair city in 1999, and I was in the queue behind Jane Asher in a supermarket in London in 1993 when I lived there. Oh, recently you asked? Sorry, I don't get very far these days (3 small kids).

Buttons_sb

Met the McFly guys, so sound, really nice guys.

Aaand might aswell throw in i saw Jimmy from Fair City, on my flight to Paris a few weeks ago. Mondo a few times and your man from harry potter, the irish kid, and Jimmy Carr actually on Dame street. Hmm, more then i thought.

Parents were takling to Keith Duffy in Monaco at the grand prix aswell.

Oh and the Sugababes in London in House Of Frasier, they were doing a photo shoot. Christ im on a roll.

Stench Blossoms

I met Jimmy from Faircity in Boomerangs a few weeks ago.

Met all of Westlife once and Nicky about a million times.

r3nu4l

I saw Keira Knightly while visiting Chatsworth House in the Peak District last Sunday. It was the last day of filming for her new film, "The Duchess". I only saw her in the distance.

panda100

I think mondo might be the winner of the most spotted 'celeb' award.......

S.I.R

i met gary moore ( from thin lizzy ) and many other lizzy members over the years....

i worked on collins farrels house and met joe duffy on the street...

lifes fun

Ms Inquisitive

Stayed in the same hotel last month in Mexico as Ashley from Corrie!!

Chillwithcian

Met some famous RTE people, Tub's, Duffy, some of the news presentersAnne Doye & Cassin
Was on the Disney Club when I was seven! Score
Met a few DJ's through the course of my work
Saw Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary and Billi at an eviction
Shane ward in Ddrum!
about 20 autographs from famous and mediocore people!

AARRRGH

Noel & Liam Gallagher on the Street
Bono when very drunk
The Edge in McDonalds
Kylie Monogue in a club
Underworld at a party
Puff Daddy at a party
Denise van Outen on the street
A couple of lads from the X-Files (the FBI director and the alien FBI guy) on the street <- that one was really weird
Sporty Spice in my gym
P.O.D on the street
Travis from Blink 182 in a restaurant
...and probably lots more I can't think of.

I live in Dublin City Centre so I see many celebs...

keefg

I saw James Cromwell in Grafton St yesterday - he's been in tonnes of films, may be here for whatever is being filmed in Christchurch???

This guy for those who don't know him....http://www.starpulse.com/Actors/Cromwell,_James/gallery/LRS-004521/

Driver 8

He's in a play in the Gaiety, saw him during the week on grafton street myself. Was tempted to walk up to him and say "how are you, boyo?"

But he's a very tall man, I wouldn't mess with him

Mint Sauce

have met and spoken to

paul mcgrath
damien hill
mick hucknell

tried getting autographs from

boris becker
koran ivaninsvice (totally spely wrong)

but they were in a totally differnet zone after a wimbledon semi final 14/15 years ago

seen seve balistoris at dublin airport after the seve trophy a couple of weeks ago

living in the NW, dont get to see many celebs, and when ever in london or dublin, a celeb could have walked past me before i relaise it

I've met a few sporting people.. no one really famous though, except for Stargal of course!

I did however insult Sinead O'Connor while drunk one night at a cash machine*

*I didn't know it was her at the time nor that I was talking so loudly

Stargal

Deleted User wrote: »

I've met a few sporting people.. no one really famous though, except for Stargal of course!

lol:)

Searlait

Driver 8 wrote: »

He's in a play in the Gaiety, saw him during the week on grafton street myself. Was tempted to walk up to him and say "how are you, boyo?"

But he's a very tall man, I wouldn't mess with him

Yeah, he's here doing that play, and he also did an interview kinda thing in the IFI a couple of weeks ago, it was quite cool, I went along and he was being interviewed by some dude from the Times in the cinema and then afterwards they showed LA Confidential! I hadn't seen it in years and he gave a good background to it all.

Jeapy

Was on the tube in London about 3 years ago and saw Leigh Francis aka Avid Merrion. Somehow got the b@lls to go over to him and he was so nice! He's a normal London accent. Had no camera or pen...was so annoyed!

Met Neil Delemere and Andrew Maxwell in Galway, both sound and posed for pics with EVERYONE who wanted one...not like Colin Murphy who just went straight to the bar and ignored all his fans!

Filan

Will always remember a jewel from Fr. Dougal Maguire of Fr.Ted "They sayy Ted that You should never meet your heroes, you'l only be disappointed".....That I thought was very true.... A famous soccer star refused to sign autographs when I was 10...As an adult I now realise that he couldn't sign everyone's....but at the time it really annoyed me!..... Haven't met many celebs...but I know of others who felt disappointed as Fr.Dougal suggested!

Would be interested to hear others experiences...positive and negative!

Karoma

Moved from AH.

flanzer

Met a certain member of Take That who was the first band member to go solo in the airport in 1998. The most arrogant obnoxious cnut I've ever meet. I was working as a cashier in the Duty Free and he bought a pair of Police sunglasses off me and the credit card machine took slightly longer than usual to authorize and he started fcukin and blinding saying that he had a 'fcuking unlimited limit on the card' A couple of girls asked him for his autograph while he was at the till and he said 'he hadn't the fcuking time and was in a rush to catch a flight', yet he was waiting for the authorization!! A complete a$$hole!

Stargal

I've merged the last three posts with this thread cos it's basically the same topic.

lucyburn

I've met all the members of Take That and they were all lovely especially Mark.
All the members of Boyzone-again all very nice,i got a kiss from Keith (i didn't wash my cheek for a week:))

Touched Justin Timberalands hand at a concert.also met 911,some of the members of Backstreet boys, and many many more but that's all i can think of at the moment.

KIVES

lucyburn wrote: »

I've met all the members of Take That and they were all lovely especially Mark.
All the members of Boyzone-again all very nice,i got a kiss from Keith (i didn't wash my cheek for a week:))

Touched Justin Timberalands hand at a concert.also met 911,some of the members of Backstreet boys, and many many more but that's all i can think of at the moment.

Either you then fell out of bed with a sudden bump or you should write a book about your other life as an imaginary groupee - find it a tad unfathomable that you merely bumped into these people on a casual basis...

roughan

Bono nearly milled me out of it on sunday in his Maserati on Strathmore road
wing mirrors misssed by Cm's if that counts

MayMay

KIVES wrote: »

Either you then fell out of bed with a sudden bump or you should write a book about your other life as an imaginary groupee - find it a tad unfathomable that you merely bumped into these people on a casual basis...

She could have easily met them at a TV studio, outside their hotel, on tour etc...I've met most of them back in the day, it's very easy if you're a teenage girl and hang around in the freezing cold for long enough.

JoanneT

My ex had loads of contacts with "celebs"

Went to Electric Picnic with Louis Walsh.
Was on tour with the Dubliners in Cork & Kerry.
Met Ronnie Drew on numerous occasions - so lovely!
Met the guy who plays the sax in The Commitments in Reynards one night.
Made a show of myself with Mickey Harte on night in the Green Room.
Saw Nicky Byrne, Georgina and Bertie Ahern at a funeral.
Met Ed Byrne at the Late Late show!! Sweetheart.
Met Aonghus McAnally, Fionnuala Sherry (the one who won Eurovision with Norway years ago), Denis Desmond, Marty Morrissey & Phil Coulter at a party.

As you can see, top celebs!!!

MayMay

JoanneT wrote: »

My ex had loads of contacts with "celebs"

Went to Electric Picnic with Louis Walsh.
Was on tour with the Dubliners in Cork & Kerry.
Met Ronnie Drew on numerous occasions - so lovely!
Met the guy who plays the sax in The Commitments in Reynards one night.
Made a show of myself with Mickey Harte on night in the Green Room.
Saw Nicky Byrne, Georgina and Bertie Ahern at a funeral.
Met Ed Byrne at the Late Late show!! Sweetheart.
Met Aonghus McAnally, Fionnuala Sherry (the one who won Eurovision with Norway years ago), Denis Desmond, Marty Morrissey & Phil Coulter at a party.

As you can see, top celebs!!!

Woah look at all the A-listers there!!!!

JoanneT

MayMay wrote: »

Woah look at all the A-listers there!!!!

Who needs A-list when i have that list!!! Jealousy! Tut tut!!

phasers

thought I saw Mohamed Al Fayed in Harrods but it was just an amazingly lifelike waxwork

I've met nobody, not even Samantha bloody Mumba
My dad has met everybody though, from Bono to 50 cent to Sean Connery
he got me Louis Walsh's autograph

HorseRadish

Met Jerry Springer at one of the shows tapings in Chicago.

deise-lady

Brittany Spears - in Chateau Marmont in LA
Bruce Willis - in a casino in Vegas
Al Pacino - at a cinema in LA
Kiefer Sutherland - at Universal Studios LA

Lorr

Saw Brian Dobson today!

OPENROAD

phasers wrote: »

thought I saw Mohamed Al Fayed in Harrods but it was just an amazingly lifelike waxwork

Seen him a good few times in Harrods, tends to do a walk around the store when he is there.

DublinWriter

Lorr wrote: »

Saw Brian Dobson today!

I spotted him a couple of weeks ago in a shop with his wife.

Weird to hear him say 'but we already have one of those in the kitchen' in that Dail Reportage Radio voice of his.

MarinoMark

was In the rte canteen a few years delivering yoplait yogurt and went into the toilet fer a wee, Beside me at the urinal was Paul from Fair City, Our pee merged. does that make us piss brothers ??:D

xzanti

I saw Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain in Dundrum about 3 weeks ago, saw Michael Grekko aka Bepe from Eastenders in The Palace nightclub last year, Saw Dave Duffy aka Leo Dowling from Fair City at the Esso in Ranelagh a while back getting petrol, I saw Claudia Carroll aka Nicola from Fair city, walked by her house on the Merrion Rd when I was doing the Womens Mini Marathon in June and she was in her garden watching, I saw Ann Doyle in Ranelagh a while back (makeup trowelled on).. I'm sure I spotted Georga Salpa (FAS girl) in a bar on Georges Street one night too.. Can't think of anymore right now..

Ruu_Old

Someone reminded me in the After Hours thread. Brendan Gleeson oftens pays a visit to a pub in my homeplace that plays trad stuff most weekends. It must be decent because I hate the place.