Celebrity Encounters

Breadwoman

What did they say? i seen avram grant in a restaurant window one time.

KeithM89

Breadwoman wrote: »

i seen avram grant in a restaurant window one time.

Well I don't think anyone's going to top that.

6541

Met Charlie Mccreevy once.

Pataman

I met Michael Noonan yesterday.

Birneybau

Breadwoman wrote: »

What did they say? i seen avram grant in a restaurant window one time.

Not former West Ham manager Avram Grant? You lady have won the internet.

Zombienosh

WHO?

Larbre34

Met Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Jude Law and Gary Sinise all on the same evening at a theatre celebration in New York in '09.

The missus was like a kid in a sweet shop, I was less pleased. Marcia Gay Harden was the only half famous actress at the damn thing.

Generic Dreadhead

Larbre34 wrote: »

Met Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Jude Law and Gary Sinise all on the same evening at a theatre celebration in New York in '09.

Fine day for some dogging

Valetta

I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of Bobby Charlton's famous brother.

RoyalMarine

I met Dwayne Johnson after a WWF event in Albany New York in 2000. Was pretty cool.

Fr_Dougal

Breadwoman wrote: »

What did they say? i seen avram grant in a restaurant window one time.

I saw Linda Martin in a window once, over in Amsterdam.

Triboro

Worked on Paul Simon's kitchen in NY ,he even made the coffee!!!

Mr_Muffin

I met Russell Brand in a coffee shop in London. I told him I like his hair.

The Backwards Man

I told Billie Piper why the sheep outside her holiday cottage had coloured markings on them.

Didn't know who she was at the time.

jimgoose

I clocked Bono with the door of the Oliver St. John Gogarty in Temple Bar one Sunday afternoon in 1996. I think he said "Ngggmmmpphh sorry bud!" :cool:

eviltimeban

A friend of mine once punched Liam Gallagher in the face.

Another accurately threw a plastic bottle at Billy Corgan's head at a concert.

Duff

Met Cristiano Ronaldo at a Man Utd dinner thing in Dundalk in 2006. Met Ian Wright in Nike Town in Orlando in 2008. Met Anthony Kiedis in a hot dog place in Chicago in 2012 during Lollapalooza. Met Dara O'Briain in Dublin airport about 2 years ago. Didn't techincally meet, but seen Kevin James from a far in New York a few years ago and met Shane Horgan around the same time. Also seen Brendan Gleeson in Bewley's on Grafton St. a few years ago too.


Kind of a wide variety on that list :P

ThatFatGal

Met John Boy (Aka Little Finger from Games of Thrones) on Dawson Street loadsa times! He is actually quite small and very unassuming looking! Lotsa grey hair but nice looking fella

Chance The Fapper

I met Immortal Technique in the Sugar Club, very humble dude, it was unreal to speak to him

eviltimeban

OK (deep breath)

Bono in 1997 as he sat in a parked car
Jay Kay from Jamiroquai with Denise Van Outen on Stephen's Green
Colm Meany in a pub in Dublin
Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield together, outside Windmill Lane
Mike McCready from Pearl Jam on Grafton Street
Evan Dando backstage in the Village
Elle MacPhearson in Brown Thomas
The three blokes from the Cranberries in 1995 in San Francisco
One of the girls from B*witched
Various well known Irish indie bands (from being in a band)
Held a door open for Andy Bell from Ride / Oasis

CaptainInsano

Met the great Don Conroy when I was 7 years old.

Generic Dreadhead

eviltimeban wrote: »

A friend of mine once punched Liam Gallagher in the face.

Another accurately threw a plastic bottle at Billy Corgan's head at a concert.

What a total scumbag thing to do in both instances

eviltimeban

Cormac... wrote: »

What a total scumbag thing to do in both instances

I agree. The second one was just cos he didn't like him. I never thought it was a cool thing to do.

Admittedly the Gallagher one was more of a friend of a friend, and he lamped him after he asked for an autograph and LG told him to f**k off or something.

The bottle-thrower friend has some crazy ones (he's from the USA). He met Kurt Cobain about three times, had his head shaved by Kim Deal on stage at a festival, got told to f**k off by Eddie Vedder (on front of a 12 year old girl) and Frank Black was also rude to him about something else. I can't imagine Billy would've been that pleasant either.

Generic Dreadhead

"Celebs" are not paid to be nice to you, rudeness isn't grounds to vindicate assaulting people

Beano

eviltimeban wrote: »

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One of the girls from B*witched
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the good looking one hopefully.

Generic Dreadhead

Beano wrote: »

the good looking one hopefully.

The foreign one you mean?

eviltimeban

Cormac... wrote: »

"Celebs" are not paid to be nice to you, rudeness isn't grounds to vindicate assaulting people

I agree! I'm not saying he / they were right at all! It was just a celebrity "encounter" that came into my head.

All the celebs I've met have been cool. Even the likes of JK, who I stopped in the street, or Bono, who's car window I knocked on so I could say hello, were chatty, friendly, and pleasant. Mike McCreedy was with his wife and baby and he even introduced me to her. Evan Dando, post-gig, stood up and shook my hand. Colm Meany would've been great to have a pint with. Lars was really friendly.

eviltimeban

Beano wrote: »

the good looking one hopefully.

One of the sisters, very good looking in real life!

Beano

Cormac... wrote: »

The foreign one you mean?

who else.

eviltimeban wrote: »

One of the sisters, very good looking in real life!

so thats a no then.

eviltimeban

Cruel. Very cruel.

jimgoose

eviltimeban wrote: »

One of the sisters, very good looking in real life!

The Lynch girls were cute back in the day, but are gone quaaare rough-looking lately.

cowlove

I grew up in London so I have seen my fair share of celebs about the place.

I used to do ballet with Fifi Trixabell (Bob Geldoff and Paula Yates daughter). My mum used to chat to Paula Yates while we did ballet.

I did my work experience in the National Theatre and met Dame Judy Dench in the lift.

My ultimate celebrity encounter has to be when I went to drama club on Saturdays one of the women running it was married to Trev from Trev and Simon (swing your pants). When we did our final play Trev came to see it

FullblownRose

I saw Christina Aguilera in Bunratty Folk Park!

Highflyer13

Aylar Lie, The bird out of all the Basshunter music videos and former porn star brushed her head my leg and then grabbed it for balance before. Shes a fine bit of schtuff :cool:. Also Anthony Rapp from Dazed and Confused, The X files and Road trip was a sound guy and asked me lots about Ireland. Tbh I never heard of him before until someone butted in for a picture.

And as I mentioned in the other thread a few scoops with John Delaney:pac:

Shrap

I served Flea some vegetarian lunch in a restaurant about 22 years ago. My hands were shaking and I was completely tongue-tied! He was even tinier than I thought he would be, but he was still scary.

AnonoBoy

I did coke with Charlie Haughey a bunch of times.

michellie

Vanessa from the Saturday's at my friends baby's christening, she was lovely.

Victor McDade

Standing at a urinal minding my own business in the Citywest a few years ago during the world grand Prix darts when Eric Bristow arrives in and occupies the one right beside me. Big man...

razorblunt

Vince Cable the MP, think he was Secretary for something or other in the UK for a while. He managed to get himself stuck in those fasttrack passport gates in Charles de Gaulle airport. Had to go get security for him, never knew I had the French to say "a man is in the gate and it won't open", it was like that episode of The Simpsons.
He embarrisngly thanked me and went on his way, little did he know we'd meet in the Lounge and on the plane. This time I was retelling the story to my work colleagues, all staunch Labour folk.

Poor fella.

biko

I saw John English in the London tube once.

Fratton Fred

I was in a church not long after moving in to the area and pointed out a guy to my wife saying "look at that knob with the shades on, thinks he's ****ing Bono".

Turns out it was.

exiledelbows

Met both Daniel Radcliffe and Jack Whitehall in the same pub within a few weeks of each other. Both really nice, but their friends were dicks when my OH asked for a photo/autograph.

Bumped into Harry Enfield walking around a corner in Notting Hill. Met loads of rugby players over the years. Shook Bobby Charlton's hand at Wimbledon once.

Beano

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was in a church not long after moving in to the area and pointed out a guy to my wife saying "look at that knob with the shades on, thinks he's ****ing Bono".

Turns out it was.

she was half right.

Fratton Fred

We were walking down Killiney Hill one afternoon, towards the coffee shop when the wife let out a little shriek.

"oh my God, Ryan, I love you" she screams and throws her arms around Mr Tubriddy.

I'm not sure who was more embarrassed, me or him.

Met Johnny Vegas in Dalkey once as well. The guy is just as radio rental irl as he is on tv.

jimgoose

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I was in a church not long after moving in to the area and pointed out a guy to my wife saying "look at that knob with the shades on, thinks he's ****ing Bono".

Turns out it was.

Are you sure she wasn't talking about God??

metaoblivia

I've met:

Alan Rickman
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Anne Hathaway
Steven Tyler
Neil Patrick Harris
Gary Oldman

And also some minor celebs like Dianna Agron and Naya Riveria (Glee), Dean Cain, Sean Lennon, Miranda Cosgrove, etc.

A friend of mine is a close relative of Jon Stewart's, so I'm hoping that, at some point, I'll get to meet him too. But if not, that's alright - my friend is actually really funny himself!

sabat

A few years ago a friend of mine was down in Galway for race week when he got talking to a girl in a nightclub. It turned out she was a member of the travelling community but my friend didn't really care because she was pretty hot and well up for some action. Anyway, they headed back to her place at a halting site a few miles out of town and as they started to get down to business and my friend was warming her up with some foreplay she goes "Whoa oh oh, I'm on fire."
The traveller girl was actually Bruce Springsteen!

Head_Hunter

I shook Aaron Paul's hand after the filming of an episode of the final season of Breaking Bad, pretty sound guy.

Littlekittylou

sabat wrote: »

The traveller girl was actually Bruce Springsteen!

??? No I think you need to explain that.

creolebelle

I've met
Obama
The Clintons
Denzel Washington
Fran drescher
Nsync
Zach effron
Robert deniro

hynesie08

I'm 90% sure sir ian mckellan told me to get the **** out of his way on the escalator to the tube in London. No one ever believes it though.