Run-ins with the Rich and Famous.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Asher

And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood.

Was this a guy or a girl?

I left that out on purpose. Not saying. But they are a slut, regardless of gender.

[Asher]

Not true, it could be a stud or a slut, depending on the gender.

Remember Boris, there are double standards.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Agathon
I also, without realizing it, met Alan Minter, the former world middleweight champ. He came to our pub chatted to me and after he left some regulars told me who it was.

He's responsible for my all-time favourite sporting quote.

"No black man's ever going to beat me."

He said that the day before he fought Marvin Hagler. Ho ho ho. Minter was a prize racist tool.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Poets/writers-

Adrian Mitchell
Fiona Pitt-Kethley (she pinched my arse and groped my tackle)
Terry Pratchett
David Attenborough

Actors-

Paul McGann
Benda Fricker
Tony "Baldrick" Robinson
Frank Finlay

Sportsmen-

Geoff Hurst
Bill Beaumont
Damon Hill


TV-

Alan Titchmarsh
Frank Carson

[Hot Mustard]

I think I have subconsciously avoided celebrities all my life, despite ample opportunities to meet some.

There's plenty of NHL'ers, NBA'ers, TV and film stars I might have met in both Vancouver or Toronto, but I haven't. The closest I have come is being in the audience for Toronto Film Festival viewings when the celebs are introduced on stage.

[-Jrabbit]

Hm, forgot authors...

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood.

Well, you've lost me. I have no ideas who they are. Maybe the first, if its a singer.

[Buck Birdseed]

My grandfather's uncle was former swedish prime minister Olof Palme, though I only met him once before he was assassinated in 1986 (I lived in Hungary at the time). He gave me a book of nursery rhymes, which was nice.

Jane Goodall once came and lectured at the environment society of my junior high school when I lived in Tanzania, which I for some absurd reason was a member of, god knows why. I think I shook her hand. I might also have fallen asleep during the lecture, at least the others claim I did and she did look at me funny.

[Boris Godunov]

SpencerH: If I have to spell it out, it really doesn't matter.

I also forgot the world of opera stars/classical music. I've met:

Samuel Ramey (basso)
Marylin Horne (contralto)
Nicolai Ghaiurov (basso, passed away this past year)
Shirley Verrett (soprano)
Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
James Levine (conductor)

[GePap]

In my last job I met lots of local politicians, state reps, senators, and a handfull of congressmen from NY and other states. I also got to go to New Hampshire during the primaries- almost got run over by Lieberman's Secret Service Detail- came within inches of saying hi to Dean, and most importantly, met John Stewrt, and most of the current cast of the daily show, save Steven Coulbert. I also met William Kristol, but who cares? Oh, and lots of the local NYC newspeople.

Some in my old office had much better celebreity sightings, like meeting Bono, and my old boss knows a sickeningly large number of people.

Living in NYC I have seen or been close to various actors and such, but those are not really meetings: I have seen Issac Hayes, almost ran into William H. Macy not long after Fargo, was in line to buy a book behind Claire Daines and her mother, that sort of thing. Not like I have spoken to them.

[Tattila the Hun]

I've travelled from Rovaniemi to Helsinki in the same plane as Jope Ruonansuu. (Finnish impersonator/comic)

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Hm, forgot authors...

I've met Armistead Maupin twice, once at a book signing and once in the Tintin Shop in Floral Street in Covent Garden.


Simon Callow in a queue in the Penguin Bookshop in Camden Town, and Ian McKellen at a book signing.

Nichelle Nichols looked very beautiful at the signing of her autobiography at Forbidden Planet on New Oxford Street.

Walked past a bemused looking Francis Bacon on Old Compton Street and sat next to Bill Nighy outside Maison Bertaux in Greek Street. Also saw Alexander Siddig El-Fadil outside a bar in Frith Street.


Hurled invective at Michael Heseltine and Anne Widdecombe- two deserving Tory targets.

Said hello to Clare Short, and watched Gerald Kauffman but two grapefruits and a bottle of salad cream in a supermarket in Manchester. Met Steven Twigg at an N.U.S. conference and Blue Blake and Aiden Shaw at different Gay Prides.