what celebs have you met and what were they like?

xzanti

Cowenwatch wrote: »

The guy with the tats from Boyzone? in Mantra, Maynooth with a gang of lads who weren't Boyzone. He wasn't drinking and looked depressed:(

Shane? He's a recovering alcoholic afaik

wingsnfire

I'm in the entertainment business so I get to deal with what we call 'talent' aka actors and actresses , both faces and names and the 'creatives' aka writers, directors et al every day. From experience I'd say my favourites who make up my dream team of people I know to work with are along with their imdb links they are Ben Cross http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002027/ he is a very funny and sweet guy who does not mince his words but will do anything he can to help you. Bruce Campbell http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132257/ is funny and quite business like but really cares. A really good mate of mine is Neil Schell http://neilschell.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770734/ who I am desperate to get over here to film in Ireland. Then you have Terrance Mann http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542994/ and http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=68216 he is an amazing talent, I say that as an 'Ecole Francais' and 'Contemporary' schooled ballet dancer as well as being trained in musical theatre Terrance Mann does really deserve a “we're not worthy” especially when you here him sing 'In My Life' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLB_wZv8wY or when he sung 'Stars as Javert in Les Miserables.

There is someone also on these boards who has been a pit singer in Les Mis and he is also someone else I admire.

darkdubh

wingsnfire wrote: »

I'm in the entertainment business so I get to deal with what we call 'talent' aka actors and actresses , both faces and names and the 'creatives' aka writers, directors et al every day. From experience I'd say my favourites who make up my dream team of people I know to work with are along with their imdb links they are Ben Cross http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002027/ he is a very funny and sweet guy who does not mince his words but will do anything he can to help you. Bruce Campbell http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0132257/ is funny and quite business like but really cares. A really good mate of mine is Neil Schell http://neilschell.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0770734/ who I am desperate to get over here to film in Ireland. Then you have Terrance Mann http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542994/ and http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=68216 he is an amazing talent, I say that as an 'Ecole Francais' and 'Contemporary' schooled ballet dancer as well as being trained in musical theatre Terrance Mann does really deserve a “we're not worthy” especially when you here him sing 'In My Life' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLB_wZv8wY or when he sung 'Stars as Javert in Les Miserables.

There is someone also on these boards who has been a pit singer in Les Mis and he is also someone else I admire.

Tell us about the people you don't like.

keltoms05

Met Christopher Samba (Ex Blackburn Rovers player, now plays for anzhi makhachkala) in a kebab shop in Manchester, really nice and approachable fella! We were playing the boxing machine in the kebab shop and he kept throwing the pound coins into it for us - heres the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmcoa-OVTw4

nigmatron

I met Mariah Carey in London., she was really nice! very down to earth and stunning in person, and much thinner than I Imagined.

tvercetti

I was playing darts in a bar in Melbourne with a mate when Tim Vine English Actor/Comedian came in. We ended up playing doubles for a few hours, he was sound and a quality darts player.

xzanti

I did the Sopranos Tour in New York last week and I met Joseph Gannascoli AKA Vito.. very friendly and obliging.. let us take a few pictures with him and signed some memorabilia..

You had to buy the memorabilia off him though from the back of his car.. I guess the Sopranos was his last big gig.

chrismartin4u

I ad not meet any celebrity but if I get a chance to meet some one I would like to meet Emma Watson..........

scdublin

I've met a few random celebs (mostly american in NYC).

Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian - reality tv stars....met them at a book signing in NYC, so obviously they had to be nice to us. But they were really lovely, gorgeous...I was completely star struck for that one. They said they love the Irish accent! Weren't allowed to take pics though

Geri Halliwell - spice girls of course....Well, my experience with her wasn't so great. She completely ignored me and my little sister when asking for a pic and her security man pushed my hand away when I went to tap her on the shoulder to ask her for the pic again...I had my camera in hand turned on ready to take one so would have only been a second or two...and there wasn't anyone else asking her for one so wouldn't have caused any trouble

Avril Lavigne - singer....this was at an event so didn't talk to her or anything but got a picture with her, and she was sweet enough to stop for that so...she's nice in my book lol

Brody Jenner - reality tv star....was with Avril at the event and stood back to let her take the spotlight but also took pics with his fans and chatted for a little bit to us....he seemed really chilled out and nice

Natasha Bedingfield - singer....watched her perform and she took pics with fans afterwards, had such a cute accent and was really friendly

Janice Dickinson - model....she was surprisingly nice and let me and my friends take pictures with her

Aubrey O'Day - singer/reality tv star/on celebrity apprentice US....She was an absolute doll, took pics and talked to fans like she really wanted to be around them. She interacts with fans so much on twitter too...love her

Russell Simmons - Def Jam record label founder....didn't exactly talk to him as it was at an event but he did take pics so that was cool

David Blaine - magician....was raising money for Haiti in times square and took pics with fans and did tricks on us...he was strange and distant (all part of the act?) but seemed nice

Chiddy Bang - rapper....he hopped down into the audience after a performance and talked to fans and took pics, really cool guy

Daniel Merriweather - singer....took pics with us, had a bit of back and forth banter with him about us being Irish and him being Australian...all fun kind of got the feeling he didn't like being recognised though

Met a few Irish ones as well...Brian Ormond (so so nice and handled an awkward situation well, one of my drunk friends at that time started slagging him asking was he in Westlife and this was around the time that he'd auditioned for pop idol...*face palm*) Mickey Joe Harte (ruuuude from what I remember, just seemed like he wasn't happy at all and didn't really want being in pictures...we were young and just excited to see a "celeb" back then)

scdublin

Conzea wrote: »

Ryan Tubridy- Bumped into him while on work experience in RTE. Our conversation verbatim was:

Me: Oh (startled noise usually made by nervous goats).

(Few seconds pause)

Tubbers: I have that effect on people.

That's all he said before walking away! TRUE STORY

haha classic!!

RUCKING FETARD

chrismartin4u wrote: »

I ad not meet any celebrity but if I get a chance to meet some one I would like to meet Emma Watson..........

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

GiveEmHellKid

I ran into Liam Cunningham coming out of the Apple Store in Dublin. (literally) I was mortified because I just plowed right into him. I should really look where I'm going....
I won backstage passes to the Childline concert years ago and met Busted and Westlife who where all lovely. I now can't stand Westlife.
Saoirse Ronan at a premier I was at last year. She's so down to earth!
Anne Doyle when I got lost in Rté after watching Gemma Hayes on Eye-to-eye (A since defunct show I believe)

bernardamaac.

Meet gabriel obertan before he joined united in turner's cross.Started speaking french to him and talking nice guy.Also meet mark noble ,aaron lennon and stuart pscho pearse.all sound.

therealme

Ronan O Gara, The Edge and Risteard Cooper are lovely guys.
Brian O Driscoll...and Tubs are quite nice too!!

Ray Darcy is a complete tool!!!!

coolgal52

I met Robbie Williams and he was such a gent! so cool and friendly!

Chocoholic84

Louise Walsh is a dote!

pavb2

Saw George Hook at the ploughing match couple of weeks back loads of people coming up asking to take pictures with him. Sound bloke stood there very relaxed chatting away for ages.

Shivers26

Niall Quinn - nice
Sinead O'Connor - lovely (it was years ago, before she got so mad)

Mickey Joe Harte - met him at an event
Jamie Oliver - same event, just saw him up close but didn't get to talk to him properly

Saw Ronan Keating with the wife and kids in Eddie Rockets a couple of years ago. They just seemed like such a nice, normal family and I never even flinched. If that was my 13 year old self I'd have needed paramedics

Bill Clinton, Gordon Ramsey and Eddie Hobbs in a hotel I used to work in. The men in black guarding Clinton were cool.

Huey Morgan from Fun Lovin Criminals in Eamonn Dorans - lovely guy, really down to earth

stop animal cruelty

l met Bressie lovely, down to earth guy & obv absolute beaut!

Littlegirllost

I met Nicky from Westlife, was a really nice friendly guy, no airs and graces.
Met Colin Montgomery at a golf event he was so obnoxious. At the same event met a few other golfers who were lovely Sergio Garcia and Andrew Coltart were especially nice.

longjacket

I am always wondering if I have never met a celebrity , or if I just couldn't recognize them..

juan.kerr

Twink is some wagon.

Norris is sleazy.

Chris Ryan

I shook hands with Bertie Ahern when I was in primary school. I also saw Roy Keane in a book shop in Cork Airport. I got him to sign my Manchester United annual I had just bought to read on the plane, he was managing Sunderland at the time

emmabee

Silverscott wrote: »

I got to meet Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Louis Walsh, Al Pacino, Joe Elliott,
Mark Wahlberg, Jack Charlton, Glenn Close, Sinead o Connor, Martin Sheen, Gary Moore, Girls Aloud, Michael Madsen, Thin Lizzy, Chris O Dowd,
Armande Assante, Glen Hansard, Bill Cullen, Brendan O carroll, Ryan Tubirdy, Gerry Ryan, Brenda Fricker, Pat Short, Brendan Grace, Gay byrne, Liam Cunningham, Niall Quinn, Emmet J Scanlon, Amy Humberman, Brian O Driscoll, Noel Gallagher, Andrea Bocelli, Dana Delany, AJ Buckley, Allen Leech, and the only one who wouldnt pose for a photo out of them all was Glenn Close and Michael Fassbender.
The nicest was Chris o Dowd, Al pacino, Michael Madsen , Martin Sheen, Andrea Bocelli, Bob Geldof ,Midge ure and Armande Assante that they spoke, shook hands, signed autos and posed for photos.

Who are ya, Piers Morgan? Quite the list.

yew_tree

Bruce Springsteen and most members of the E street band on a number of occasions - could not be more down to earth people and yeah Bruce is cool

stop animal cruelty

yew_tree wrote: »

Bruce Springsteen and most members of the E street band on a number of occasions - could not be more down to earth people and yeah Bruce is cool

ah jealous your so lucky! where did u meet Bruce?

Klaas

I've met Shakira and Pique. At Mykonos. Great couple and very friendly people. They didn't behave like stars. I laughed at first when i recognised them because Pique is so tall and Shakira so small. They looked funny. I tried to speak to them in Spanish but i sucked at it. I greeted them in english and they understood

Bazinga_N

Met Amanda Brunker there lately! I heard she was supposed to be a bit snobby, but she was so nice when I spoke to her! She was lovely about it and took a photo with me and my friend no bother!

D-FENS

I'm a huge Breaking Bad fan so was delighted to win tickets last week for the premiere of Argo, the new Ben Afleck film co-starring Bryan Cranston.
No luck in nabbing Cranston for a photo or autograph but met Martin Maloney who plays Eddie Durkin in Hardy Bucks, sound man who happily stopped for a photo despite "dying for a piss" (His words!)
Didn't remember his real name either so called him Eddie several times, he didn't bat an eyelid

tipptopper

I have a drink with the bould Shadrach, ex Emmerdale every week or so, he drinks in my local in Leeds, he the finest, likes an oul drink, likes the Irish so we do have good oul craic with him. Doesn’t loike to be called shadders though, it’s Andy or nothing at all. Met a few of the cast through him and all were spot on I have to say.