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Post by trainzfan on Mar 9, 2007 10:36:09 GMT
Peter Ainsworth, MP for East Surrey, and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural affairs.
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Post by Davey on Mar 19, 2007 18:55:20 GMT
I've met a couple of famous people. Well, relatively famous anyway. When I was on work experiance last year, I met Dhani Harrison (George Harrison's son) at the game shop I was working at, and he was a sound guy. And a few years ago I met Trevor Brooking at a Watford vs West Ham game. And when I say "met", I really mean "stared at him like an muppet trying to make sure it was actually him".
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Post by cl31basher on Mar 28, 2007 20:21:30 GMT
I've met loads of profeesional skateboarders. so famous if you like skateboarding. Kevin Keegan when he managed Newcastle United (YAY).
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Post by trainzfan on Mar 29, 2007 7:21:55 GMT
Jude Law was looking around my school today. Does that count?
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Post by duckpond on Mar 30, 2007 20:24:44 GMT
I've met bono, amd erm, rou and rob from the band enter shikari....
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jun 29, 2007 19:32:41 GMT
I had a star-studded night last night. My flatmate had bought us tickets for an event, but he wouldn't tell us what it was. On my way there from work, I saw Pete Docherty (I didn't kill him, sorry). Then when we got there, it was revealed that it was a gig by David Cross, US stand-up comedian and one of the stars of Arrested Development! There were other comics there as well - performances from Daniel Kitson, Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry, Kristin Schaal and Glen Wool. Plus we saw Dave Gorman in the audience. We weren't sure if it was him at first, and considered going up to him and saying, "Are you Dave Gorman?"
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thommob1987
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Post by thommob1987 on Jun 29, 2007 23:04:53 GMT
Went to watch the British Touring Cars last week at Oulton Park and had a banter with some of the drivers I met. If you live outside Britain, you are missing the 2nd most followed motorsport in this country (behind only Formula 1) and it's more aggressive and fun than the World Touring Cars. Team Halfords drivers Matt Neal & Gordon Shedden (a dumb blonde nearby asked why Shedden was nicknamed Flash, Matt's response was 'cause he's fast') VXR drivers Fabrizio Giovanardi & Tom Chilton (I must be jinxing Tom Chilton, things go wrong when I meet him, big OOPS. Best banter was with Giovanardi. It went like this: Me: Hey, Fabrizio. Go kick Jason [Plato]'s a**. Fabrizio: Go kiss Jason's a**? Me: No, go kick Jason's a** Fabrizio: Jason has to kick mine first!!) BTC Racing's Chris Stockton (Local team, local driver. Shame the Lexus wasn't having any of it) Kartworld Racing's Fiona Leggate (Asked her for her hopes for the day. She wanted a hat-trick regardless where she was, she got 16th, 15th then her MG's engine lunched itself, though before its meltdown, it didn't sound healthy and that can't be her car's biofuel) Jacksons MSport's Mat Jackson (Asked him whether he could win over the weekend, he was coy on his chances but he shouldn't have been, he won the last race) A-Tech's Dave Pinkney & Richard Marsh (Luton FC chairman and his anonymous team-mate. Pinkney crabbed it in race 1 after a coming-together with SEAT's Darren Turner) Sibsport's Simon Blanckley (The guy is amazing, he sold his house to race in the BTCC, that, my friends, is DEDICATION. That's the only word that sums up Blanckley) Team Eurotech's Mike Jordan (I asked if he hoped for a win or podium, he was more optomistic for a podium which came in race 2) Arkas Racing's Erkut Kizilirmak (Turkish touring car champ, I hoped he could grab that elusive top 10 but 11th in race 3 was the best he could do)
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Post by ~RDG~ on Jul 2, 2007 17:59:17 GMT
Well, my dad once saw the queen at a local park, but that's about it...
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Post by toxinkid93 on Jul 8, 2007 16:55:33 GMT
I've met Jim Carrey and Mike Myers, as well as Terry O'Quinn aka Jonathon Locke from Lost.
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Post by S57Firebox on Jul 8, 2007 20:01:57 GMT
Scott Carpenter: One of the Mercury Astronauts, I was visiting Kennedy Space Center, and he was a doing a book signing for his new book, I bought one, and he signed it.
The Tuskegee Airman: They were an african-american P-51 squadren in WW2, they came to a school assembly.
Various Athletes.
Smash Mouth: Rock band, they were at a local baseball game.
Thie most famous person someone in my family met would probably be my grandma, she met Walt Disney when he first opened Disneyland.
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Post by JEFF on Jul 30, 2007 1:51:20 GMT
Ok i just came back from my 5 days at Comic-Con and here is a list of people i've met to go along with the other ones i've posted Billy West (Fry, Professor, Zapp Brannagain, Zoidburg, Various Others) John Dimaggio (Again) Maurice Lamarche (The Brain Himself) Johnny Young Bosch (We all know who he is) Richard Steven Horvitz (Billy, Billys Dad, Alpha, Various Others) Greg Eagles (Grim) Vanessa Marshall (Irwin) Maxwell Atoms (The Creator of Billy and Mandy) Jess Harnell (Wacko)
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Post by Father Austin Purcell on Jul 30, 2007 20:05:57 GMT
I've seen H.M. and the Duke of Edinburgh, Cliff Richard (I happened to be on my first ever trip to London on the day he was knighted, he happened to be being interviewed outside the Palace when my mother and I got there), and Freddie Truman at a fundraising day for a dog sanctuary (he was a big dog lover), but I don't count those as meetings as such. Oh, and I once POSSIBLY saw Fred Dibnah. I don't think it was him, but my Dad remains adamant to this day that it was . All I remember was a little chap next to a steamroller with blue overalls and a flat cap. Sort of the equivalent of seeing a man in a white cassock and assuming he must be the pope. Otherwise, I'd say the most famous people I've ever met are Christopher Awdry (who signed a book for me when I was about seven. Apparentley I was behaving like a spoiled brat a lot at that age and got a clip around the ear from my mother once we'd left the NRM ) and my local MP (a nobody backbencher whose moment of glory was a junior ministerial post in 1997. Riveting.)
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Post by bluetraindude on Aug 13, 2007 3:22:47 GMT
My dad met Alec Baldwin and saw Bruce Willis. My dad said to Alec: "My son's a huge fan of your Thomas Storytelling!" (or something along those lines). And Alec replies: "Hardly anyone knows I did that!"
I also got to meet Ernie Witt a famous retired Canadian catcher for the Toronto Blue Jays when he was coaching the 2004 Olympic Canadian baseball team. I got to go a practice because my cousin was a pitcher on the Team! I have Ernie's signature as well.
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Post by Anime Boy on Aug 14, 2007 2:37:15 GMT
I saw Hiro Mashima, the author of "Rave Master" and his current work "Fairy Tail", at the Taipei Anime/Manga Convention yesterday.
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Post by OJ on Aug 14, 2007 16:00:45 GMT
I saw Gok Wan in debenhams last month. I didn't know who he was at the time.
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Post by Ryan on Aug 14, 2007 19:55:25 GMT
Sitting in the Depature Lounge at Glasgow Airport before heading down to CtX's place in July, I was mucking about with my iPod when I saw Paolo Nutini walking past me with his girlfriend.
Needed to do a double-take when I saw him, but a general inquisitive nature saw me calling after him to ask - "Are you Paolo Nutini?"
Really nice bloke and very approachable, he'll go far as an artist and a person.
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Post by Assassin on Aug 18, 2007 0:49:54 GMT
For those of you who are baseball fans (Probably not many) I just got back from meeting Bill Lee. For those of you who don't know, Bill Lee was a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in the 70's, and is one of the most eccentric and well-known Red Sox players of all time. (And one of the funniest people I've ever met.)
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Post by douglas on Aug 18, 2007 2:15:16 GMT
You met Spaceman Lee? Assassin, you lucky dog, you!
I've only met Trot Nixon and Brian Daubach, two former Sox.
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Post by FlyingScotsman on Dec 1, 2007 20:06:10 GMT
Working at Great Ormond Street Hospital, we get quite a lot of celebrities. Some notable ones recently include Geri Halliwell, Lewis Hamilton, Orlando Bloom and, a couple of days ago, Mr Johnny Depp.
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Post by number1 on Dec 1, 2007 21:14:47 GMT
stephen fry earlier this year, plus Joanna Lumley is a neighbour of my family in london, so she did a concert for a festival my stepfather did back home in kent in late september this year, before I met her myself at a special birthday lunch for my grandfather.
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