Famous people you have met/chat with

Porklife

FTA69 wrote: »

Stick up his arse sorry. He was just gruff, and was wearing a deer stalker hat and glasses he looked like a nonce.

It was in a part of the pub reserved for a party and he seemed convinced he was about to be papped or something.

That's really disappointing cos he's so funny in interviews and I would have thought he'd be lovely. Shame.

smokingman

Leslie Nielson once gave me a banana.
Brian Dobson got me barred from the bleeding horse.

Stevieluvsye

smokingman wrote: »

Leslie Nielson once gave me a banana.
Brian Dobson got me barred from the bleeding horse.

What did you do on Dobbo?

Porklife

I just remembered years ago Jim Jeffries asked me out! He wasn't that famous at the time. I was wearing a red dress and was in the Bleeding Horse pub. I was with my boyfriend at the time. He walked up to me and said hey red dress, let me buy you a drink. I said.. this is my boyfriend and pointed at my boyfriend and Jim said so what! Haha.. funny.. we then broke up so I bloody wish I had've accepted that drink. I love Jim Jeffries!!

Seanachai

I met John Martyn about ten years ago in Wexford, I got a call at short notice to say he was playing a gig in a hotel. I was steaming drunk in the bar afterwards and I spotted him in the corner, I went over to him and said some unintelligible nonsense and he just reached up and grabbed me in a bear hug and said something unintelligible in a Scottish accent, it was a good night.

Bigbagofcans

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

What did you do on Dobbo?

He went to lob the gob on Dob.

Gwynplaine

FTA69 wrote: »

Adams persona is bullsh*t. Fact, and I’ve seen what he’s really like more than once.

An Alsation with glasses.

valoren

Bigbagofcans wrote: »

He went to lob the gob on Dob.

I remember the headline in The Irish Sun;

DOB SOB AT PUB GOB LOB

FTA69

FTA69 wrote: »

Johnny Vegas - was having a pint on my own in the pub I worked in and he came in and we got chatting about Cork. Got totally smashed and had a lock in til 4am. Funniest man I ever met, and I hated his standup actually but brilliant in person.

Roy Keane - from the same estate as him. Met him loads of times as a kid.

Gerry Adams - was in SF for years and had various meetings with him, can be an angry snapping megalomaniac and is far removed from the grandad personality he has now.

I heard similar before about Gerry. Someone I once knew had met him and Martin McGuinness a number of times and referred to them both as sociopaths.

Stevieluvsye

Deleted User wrote: »

I heard similar before about Gerry. Someone I once knew had met him and Martin McGuinness a number of times and referred to them both as sociopaths.

I suppose people who order the death of others are bound to be a bit nuts

Church on Tuesday

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Rectal cancer.

Or a butt plug.

JohnnyFlash

Can’t believe The Dobbo is anything other than a perfect gentleman. There was a profile piece in one of the Sunday papers last year when he moved from TV to radio. The journalist said she didn’t hear a single negative thing about him from anyone she interviewed - which she said was pretty much unprecedented in as bitchy and sarky an industry as media.

Stevieluvsye

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

I suppose people who order the death of others are bound to be a bit nuts

Well it certainly takes a certain person alright. Now they may engage in psychological gymnastics with themselves in order to do so, for example "freedom fighter" and having a "cause". But still.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Ian Bailey, if that counts. He sure loves invading personal space and talking about himself.

And Brendan Gleeson, who's lovely altogether.

endofrainbow

Bill Clinton - charismatic
Robbie Fowler (wearing roller skates and a 70's wig) lovely chap
Courtney Kennedy - quite rude
Aidan Gillen - gentleman
Karl Spain - funny phooker
Joe Hanley - quiet guy
Kenny Daglish - couldn't understand a work
Charlie Sheen - before his demons got him
Jack Nicholson - scared the crap out of me

Tammy!

I was at a wedding before when I was around 18 and the cast of Fair City were in the same hotel having a party.

I'll have to ask him and I can't remember how it came about but there was something where my dad was standing at the door of their party almost like a bouncer and messing he told one of them that they weren't allowed in as he didn't recognize them much to their disgust.

smokingman

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

What did you do on Dobbo?

Kept going up to him and asking was he x from rte news over the course of the night. Got it wrong every time (not intentionally) and the drunker I got, the more I tried.
After about 20 attempts, he got the bouncer to kick me out.
Woke up the next morning screaming "Brian ****in Dobson!!"

Gregor Samsa

Slayer met me and my mates once. Walking down O’Connell street years ago (1994?) on our way to Fibbers. Heard a shout from two guys standing outside The Gresham. Turned out to be Tom Araya and Kerry King calling us over for a chat and asking where to hang out. Tom was sound, Kerry was quiet. Think they ended up going to Bruxelles.

storker

Bea Arthur. I was driving a mini-cab in London while between jobs and got a call one night to pick up a party from a local theatre to go to a hotel in the west End. Her and two others. She sat in the front and was very chatty and friendly. I asked her for an autograph for my parents who watched a lot of The Golden Girls at the time and a few weeks later they received an autographed photo. Lovely lady.

lobbylad

Bill Gates & Warren Buffet - at the launch of Windows 95 in Kildare (in 97!!)

Steven Spielberg, Katie Taylor, Bono, Chris De Burgh, Rosanna Davidson, Sally Fields, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sinead O'Connor - all at premier of Lincoln in Dublin

Rio Ferdinand - at a corporate gig in London

Stevie Wonder, Hilary Clinton, Will.i.am - corporate gig in USA

Vint Cerf - co-inventor of TCP/IP and thus the internet, had 2 pints with him in Amsterdam. At the time he was working with NASA/JPL to extend TCP/IP so that it would work with the upcoming Mars rovers.

My parents had a rural Auctioneers, and over the years 2 notable visitors: Mick Fleetwood and David Bowie (I never met them but my father did).

ziedth

I haven't met too many.

Golfer Jason Duffer (Who most of you say?) I got talking to in a hotel in Kilarney. Seemed genuinely very sound and laid back, wanted to talk and make conversation which I found odd for a "celebrity"

I played football against Ireland International Noel Hunt when he was in his mid to late teens. an absoulte cock of the highest order (Weren't we all at that age in fairness) but he is by an immeasurable distance the best player I have been on the same pitch as in each game he was unbelievable. I literally thought this guy must have been good as Brazilian Ronaldo was at that age. He had a perfectly respectable career but it goes to show the gulf in class between the top level and the rest of us.

Jack Charlton in Waterford when he was trying to flog his book and I was just a young lad. Seemed like an absolute gent.

Yea man Gary from Geordie Shore had a pint kind of with me kind of beside me. He was in town on one of those VIP nights in a little town in Waterford and was just having a drink waiting on his entourage to turn up. He started up the conversation, He was fairly sound all around.

I drunkenly tried to talk to Charlotte Church in a VIP area that i wandered into in a nightclub in Ibiza. She didn't even make eye contact just kind of glanced over at security who escorted me back to the rest of the unwashed. Can't say I blame her as she was near enough in the height of her fame at the time. She was very attractive from what I remember.

Stevieluvsye

lobbylad wrote: »

Bill Gates & Warren Buffet - at the launch of Windows 95 in Kildare (in 97!!)

Steven Spielberg, Katie Taylor, Bono, Chris De Burgh, Rosanna Davidson, Sally Fields, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sinead O'Connor - all at premier of Lincoln in Dublin

Rio Ferdinand - at a corporate gig in London

Stevie Wonder, Hilary Clinton, Will.i.am - corporate gig in USA

Vint Cerf - co-inventor of TCP/IP and thus the internet, had 2 pints with him in Amsterdam. At the time he was working with NASA/JPL to extend TCP/IP so that it would work with the upcoming Mars rovers.

My parents had a rural Auctioneers, and over the years 2 notable visitors: Mick Fleetwood and David Bowie (I never met them but my father did).

You'd struggle in a thread titled "Famous people you haven't met"

lobbylad

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

You'd struggle in a thread titled "Famous people you haven't met"

I forgot Dustin Hoffman, he was the only other customer in a jewelers in Lanzarote, said hello to him and he said hello back.

8-10

John C McGinley
Arcade Fire
Bono
Pierce Brosnan
Jon Reep (US comedian)
David Ortiz (baseball)

Murdoc90

Scoundrel wrote: »

Andy Lee an absolute gentleman very down to earth seemed very genuine chatted away about boxing and various other topics.

Met Andy Lee at Slane in 2011, he was trying to get into the VIP area but the security guard hadn't a notion who he was, until we came up asking for autographs and pictures security guard let him right in. Very nice fella!

Met Glen Hansard in Galway couple of weeks back. Very patient and pleasant man despite having to ask his lady friend to hold his Apache while we took pics.

rgmmg

lobbylad wrote: »

Bill Gates & Warren Buffet - at the launch of Windows 95 in Kildare (in 97!!)

Odd that it was in '97.

I worked in Sandyford for a printers and we produced the windows 95 disks in the Summer of '95.

As every other week was a night shift, we'd often head into town afterwards to an early house, some using the disks as beer mats.

So the unofficial Irish launch was before the worldwide launch

tmabr

Met Dermot Morgan AKA Fr Ted in a bar in temple bar around 1997 during the height of his fame.
There were about 3 of us having a beer and he sat beside us with his girlfriend. We were half watching the Ireland match on the TV.

We ran out to buy a disposable camera to get a pic, asked him politely for a picture and his girlfriend took it while he pulled the Fr Ted face - legend, very nice man.

Then he unexpectedly continued talking to us about the game and how bad staunton was playing. (none of us knew anything about football). Very awkward but he was cool.

diusmr8a504cvk

Stephen Kenny, nice guy.

Bannasidhe

Back in the early 80s I used to work for a small record company whose offices were above a very popular recording studio in Soho so I met a load of famous people. Both at work, in the studio, at parties, and backstage at concerts ... sadly it being the 80s I don't remember all of them.
I do remember that going for a quick drink with Bananarama turned out to be a very very bad idea.
Those women had a scary capacity to consume alcohol :eek:.
I don't remember much about the night in question, but I clearly remember being sick as a dog for days afterwards.
After that I briefly worked for Derek Jarman as a film editor on his private 8mm stuff. He knew he was dying by then so he wanted to get his extensive collection of footage in order. He threw great parties. Met a lot of actors at those.

Mr.Fantastic

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Which accent was she using? I have heard so many different ones at this stage.

Did she go for the Dublin inner city wan loike?

You wouldn't think she was from Carlow anyway haha