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I'm a bit like Domane - could only manage something in the style of Radio 2's "Top Tenuous" - my Dad has chauffered Michael Crawford and Lulu, a friend's uncle was one of The Stranglers and I went to school with a relative of the Dalai Llama and Clive James' daughters

Jonathan Pryce is MrsPete's eye candy, from when she was a student. I have met world-famous people in very restricted fields so nobody knows them, and climbed with some of them, but I was in the sixth form at school with the bass player from Queen (John Deacon) who was a nice lad, and very bright...

Never mind D ..at least nobody famous has told you to eff off! X

My hubby was close protection officer to The Duke of Edinburgh (the Queens husband to those abroad). He says the Duke is a right 'rascal' to put it politely.

I went to college ( Institute of Early Childhood Studies Waverley) with the blue Wiggle Anthony Field. Have you heard of ' The Wiggles' over in the UK? He seemed nice and was very popular as there were only 3 boys in our year of 90. He was well known then as being in a band called 'The Cockroaches'.
Xxx julianna

@julianna you win with the blue wiggle!! Jimmy Barnes was staying at Perisher manor when I was there. Some of the people with us had their photo taken with him, he was very nice.
Some Aussie will know Manu a celebrity chef. Met him at his restaurant, he was very nice and spent a lot if time outside smoking with our husbands. I got a photo with him and yes he is even better looking in person.

@Julianna no i havent heard of Wiggles but i do like yr photo! Nice to see you :0) x

Thanks @CandiceMarie! I asked Moogie to turn my photo into my avatar because Dominic's instructions are Chinese to me.
@Wineoclock,Manu is dead sexy. The french accent gets me every time.
Barnsey is ever cool. I'll tell you a funny story. Before hubs and i were going out we were friends. He couldn't go to Cold Chisel's Last Stand concert as he was doing his HSC and they were his absolute favourite band. I got tickets and went even though i wasnt really a fan and have rubbed it in ever since!:-)
Xxx julianna

As a choral singer I've come in contact with a lot of famous singers, mostly opera/classical. With one exception (The Poison Dwarf), the really good ones are lovely. It's the wannabes who are a pain in the arse. One of the groups I sing with has Yvonne Kenny coaching the kids in the YAP and she's always charming. Always looks elegant even when it's hot and the rest of us just look, well.... wrinkled and red. And for whoever it was in the eye candy thread who fancied David Hobson (and who wouldn't?) he's lovely to work with although off stage it would appear he doesn't own a conb!

@julianna, I told my husband if I ever had an affair it would be with Manu, but I really only want to look at him and listen. Hubby would even it out with Sofia Vergara but I said he'd have to share as even though I'm completely straight I find her extremely sexy too.
@Chook David Hobson Yummo. I've seen him in a few shows..

the Dalai Llama

Which reminds me of Ogden Nash:

The one-l lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama.

That's one of my favorites. My dad was an Ogden Nash fan who wrote his own, self-published book, back in the days before self-publishing was a thing, called "The Oggle Gnash Book of Worse Verse."

Having been a bookseller I have met some wonderful people from overseas - the magnificent and very chatty and friendly Maeve Binchy as well as Monica McInerney, and the lovely Joanna Trollope.

I also met Jeffrey Archer, and a host of Australia authors as well.

@julianna- love your photo.
@wineclock

I would love to have an affair with Manu and David Hobson, boy can he sing! I can always Dream...!!

cheers Maggie.

@julianna Love your avatar! @maggiee I only ever met one 'author', Mary Barry the baking queen in the UK, last year. She was so lovely, just like on the telly. We had a lovely chat, she signed my book, and then I won the raffle (it was a charity lunch) so she presented me with the prize. Pity I don't eat sugar anymore or I would bake her cakes

Years ago I went backstage with a boyfriend who was a big fan of Chicken Shack. Stan Webb tried to arrange a "private appointment" with me, and I was the one to tell him to "eff off". I don't think that he quite believed that someone would turn him down!

Martin Carthy once asked me to look after his guitar! He is a lovely person.

I chatted with David Hockney on a Scottish ferry once. He was lovely and spoke about his elderly mum and our home town.

I once came across Terry Nutkins in a small restaurant in the Scottish Highlands; I wasn't impressed.

The current Dean of St Pauls used to be the Dean at my local cathedral and is a wonderful, open-minded person.

Years ago I worked with a colleague who, like me, was a big Jack Nicholson fan. One year she went to watch the tennis at Wimbledon. Who did she see there? You've guessed it...doh! What I wouldn't have done then to meet him. I so wish she'd phoned me. I think I would have dropped everything to see him. Anyway, she did give me a photo of him signing autographs...fag in mouth, tatty sun hat on...typical Jack!