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Big Daddy the wrestler. We were in Sydney, Australia, waiting to board our ship back to England (after 4 years down under) and we were walking down a back alleyway with my parents when Big Daddy and some of the other famous wrestlers came out of a gym. Big daddy went down on one knee to bring him to our height (10 yrs and 8 yrs old) and allowed my Dad to take a photo of myself and my sister with him. Plus he gave my dad his autograph. So they aren't all bad.

How lovely when I was a kid it was big daddy and giant haystacks on the tv at my grandparents house every sat afternoon. They both passed away young so that's a fantastic memory I always have, thanks for reminding me.

@rawkarenLucky her... (well, not that much if we believe that he cheated on her for years, but still....)

Howard Donald is not my type, too muscular for me

I remembered working in a restaurant and seeing famous people in it but it doesn't count as "meet"

Hey Candice!

we get to see/meet quite a few celebs at work but my most memorable one has to be Sean Connery, absolute gent, we spotted in in the restaurant downstairs so a few of us decided to wait, at our own peril, to wait for him and his party to come back up to the exit lol... he patiently signed autographs for kiddies, I waited my turn with shaky legs and I went for it!! I still have the treasured scribble of a signature, on a map of the gallery because that is all I had at hand at the time!!

Very handsome, beast of a man he is though grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian is lovely lovely lovely.

@MaryAnn
I love their music!

I just saw Antonia Quirke, the film critic on The One Show. She was at my cousins wedding in the Loire valley a few years back and we gave her a lift back to the little chateau a few of us were staying at. It being a French wedding, it went on for hours and poor thing was draped with sleeping children. She was lovely and interesting to chat to.

[Tracieknits]

My mom worked in radio in the 1960s and met quite a few celebrities then. She said Cher was nasty and rude, but Sonny Bono was a sweetheart. The "5th Beatle" - the one Ringo Starr replaced was a miserable man as well (as you can imagine).

I met Paul Young -- a doll; I had drinks with the lead singer of the Alarm, Mike Peters - really nice guy; I met Larry Mullins Jr of U2 - such a sweetheart and even played a song I requested at their concert that night, starting it with a drum solo ("Electric Co"). A boyfriend met Bono in about 1985 and said he was the nicest guy. Same boyfriend was friends with Jello Biafra, whom I have met - incredibly smart and interesting. Bjork is shy but super nice and super tiny, I met her in a convenience store! One of my high school friends is now married to a Nobel prize winning professor (Medicine) and he's a sweetheart. I worked on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's first congressional campaign - really nice and funny. I met Hillary Clinton, and although she and I have some differences of opinion on some issues, I was really struck by how much personal charisma she has - it's like a magic spell or something! I went to high school with actress Amy Breneman - really nice.

Nigel Hawthorne, James Bolam - very down to earth and nice. Nigel was a very charming man, as was John Le Mesurier. Both consummate and very professional actors of the old school. Eddy Grant and band were fun. Max Wall was very old when I met him, and a gentleman. Lord Scarman was also charming - unlike most politicians, with the exception of Tony Benn, who was very nice, talked to everyone, and went home on the bus, after refusing a car. AJP Taylor was very absent minded, but then did a whole talk without notes ( famous for this!). Robert Kee took himself very seriously. All at the BBC in the early 80s. Thank God I didn't come across any of those currently before the courts ...

Since then - Carol Drinkwater is lovely, still in touch with her every so often, 12 years after she did an author visit for us. Roger McGough quite shy, but a nice man - and very funny off stage as well as on. Andrew Davies told some interesting stories about the film world, especially about how he came to have his name taken off the credits for thr film of Bridget Jones ... Wendy Cope got very nervous before her reading, as did Ben Zephaniah before his performance. We took young poet Sophie Hannah to the local Waterstone's for book signing where she didn't sell anything. Les Murray the Australian poet very modest, but a very charismatic reader of his work.

I also had the great privilege of meeting Robert Stephens after seeing his unmatched King Lear - a friend was his hospital pharmacist, and we went for a drink in the Dirty Duck at Stratford. A family friend produced Alan Whicker's programmes in the 60s, so we met him once or twice. And I babysat for a few Leed Utd footballers in the 70s - including Allan Clarke and Terry Yorath ( Gaby at 2 or 3!)

Wow, lots of claims to fame!! I met Tom Jones in his PJs. Room service, that is. And not that kind of room service....!

I was at college with the actor Jonathan Pryce, he was in my Eng Lit group (but I'm sure he was plain john Price back then!). Also used to be friends with Willy Russell's wife, Anne. My boys went to her kids' birthday parties and I met her hubby a few times, really nice, down to earth family.

Oh i realy like JP!
Also enjoy W R's books and plays!

OMG. I totally forgot I met Sting! It was hosted by Newcastle Civic Centre years ago to welcome him back home but I can't remember for what reason.

He was there with his wife Trudie, plus Jools Holland, Mark Knopfler, and other famous Geordies.

Sting played based guitar and backed some child musicians at the event. He could not sing as he had lost his voice. Wonderful. We had a great chat as he worked the room and wanted to know if I was having a good time. He was so smooth even the guys fancied him

My Step-father in law was a guitarist for 'The Four Pennies' before they became famous, which is why he is never mentioned. One of those 'if only' situations.

Oh i remember them
Big hit with " Juliet"! X

Wow lots of famous people!!

I met Bruce Willis in Paris a few years ago, he was parading about like he owned the place and expected people to move from the pavement to make way for him...he was totally up himself.

I also met Amy Winehouse just before she became famous, she was perfectly normal at the time, and I heard her sing acapella, she truly did have an amazing voice.

Wow! Lots of famous peeps!

Me? Nada... nope... no-one.... *sigh*