Most famous person you've met....

borolad259 said:
Hell, that's tricky. I don't know how you measure it. Worked with many "famous" people.

At a guess, between Beckham, having dinner with Joni Mitchell or Mickey Dolenz, playing pool with Will Smith (had no idea who the f he was) or, probably, Little Richard, who I watched basket ball with while s living at the Hyatt on Sunset, LA. Who the **** is the most famous?
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Ha-ha, things can happen at the ‘Riot House’😉
 
I met Roger Whittaker when I was about 3 - he came round to my parents bunglow in Ormesby had tea with us. My did found him hanging around the Sporting Club in South Bank during the day before he performed there in the evening. My guess is my daid got chatting with him over a pint and may have picked him up from Middlesbrough station in his taxi. At the time RW was probably in the charts.

There is a scene in the last film about Judy Garland, where she goes round to a couple of ordinary fans flat in London one night for tea and toast, reminded about Roger Whittaker coming for tea.
 
I have another one. I was living in Southampton at the time and I got a Spotify invite to a 'secret gig' for Wolf Alice in Camden, London.
Jumped on a train after work and went to the venue. Was super early so was having a few pints in the pub / venue and the band were there doing likewise. Had a good long chat with the bass player about music and Middlesbrough! I'd recently previously seen them play at the Westgarth Social Club in boro and he was telling me how much they loved the venue.

I was completely star struck talking to Ellie Roswell and to be honest she wasn't very chatty, but she did humour me by chatting for a bit and let me get a selfie with her.
The gig was incredible. Small room upstairs with about 50 people crammed in. Was like watching your favourite band playing a private gig in your living room.
 
Saw Greg Davies at a services on the M40. He is tall.
Paul McCartney borrowed my laptop for an hour and didn't say thank you
Karen Millen sat on my table at an awards ceremony.
Interviewed Simon Pegg
Asked Clint Eastwood what he was doing in my garage at work. Turns out he was on location directing 'The Departed' and as aa vehement anti-smoker, no he didn't have a light, mate.
Paul Gascoigne outside my office who I gave a light to.
Terry Gilliam at the London Premiere of Fear and Loathing
Jake Shimabukuru at a festival on Prince Edward Island that had closed due to a storm. He did a private set for me and my mates who were working there.

All lovely, apart from the scouser.

EDIT: not the departed. the film he directed with Matt Damon in, The Hereafter
 
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Jimmy Page
David Coverdale
Meat Loaf
Lemmy
Joe Elliott & Rick Savage
Doro Pesch
Vince Neil
Nikki Sixx
Lars Ulrich
James Hetfield
Dee Snider
Lita Ford
Cherie Currie
Blackie Lawless
Eric Bloom
Noddy Holder
Don Powell
Roy Wood
Robert Cray
Francis Rossi
Stuart Adamson
Jon Lord
Brett Michaels
Steve Harris
Dave Murray
Janick Gers
Rod Smallwood
Mick Box
John McCoy
Lee Aaron
Fish
Steve Hackett
Bob Rock
Miami Steve Van Zandt
Peter Andre
The Spice Girls
Biff Byford
Ronnie James Dio
Bernie Torme
Johnny Thunders
Walter Lure
Max Splodge
John Otway
Punky Meadows
Bob Catley
Tony Clarkin
Dave Menniketti
Jean Beauvoir
Micky Free
Ricky Warwick
Stump Munroe
Tyla
Prince Nasseem
David Hirst
Ron Atkinson
Chris Waddle
Bennito Carbone
Paulo DeCannio
Bruce Rioch
Billy Ashcroft
Tony McAndrew
Eric McMordie
Frank Spraggon
Harold Shepherdson
Sally James
Pam Royle
And I once sold Dustin Hoffman a book about Flambé Cookery.
 
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parmoboy said:
Pete Doherty after he'd performed in Darlington. We'd stayed behind for a drink in a nearby bar after the gig and as we came out we'd noticed him coming out of the venue, so had a brief chat and got a selfie with him.

Met Vinnie Jones and Gazza when they appeared at the Middlesbrough Theatre a few years back but was only to get a quick snap with them.
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I met Pete Doherty when he played The Arena. I was working the door there the night he played there and I remember it was absolutely heaving in there.
Also when I left school in 2001 and before I started college I did a short course at the recording studio in Middlesbrough, I ended up with VIP pass for music live that year and met quite a few of the artists playing there. And I met Chubby Brown in boots at Teesside park.
I also met Nigel Pearson in ICI for some kind of calender competition I had entered through primary school.
Met Danielle Westbrook in my local shop as she lived in the same village as me a few years back and I have met a few actors from Emmerdale.
 
A hard one for me to pick, this ... having been in the arts in the past, I know a lot of people who have done very well and still do in the music/acting world mainly.

When I was younger I used to often see Charlotte Riley (actor from Yarm, I think, originally??) and she is now married to Tom Hardy. Crackers! Though I doubt very much she would recognise my face these days ... though there were plenty of times drinking backstage and getting w@nkered with her boyfriend's band at the time.

Have met a lot of famous guitar players ... had some master classes down in West London with some fantastic players from the session world and bands, what have you giving talks on the industry and/or guitar classes. Many big 'cats' from the industry taught in my course and we would be treated to certain famous players from around the world stopping by and doing masterclasses.

The certainly not the most famous guitar player I have met, Paul Gilbert from Mr Big fame (many won't have a clue who I am going on about, but anyway) .. I attended one of his just out of interest, though I wasn't interested in the playing style he's famous for, and what have you ... and I was blown away.

The class was nothing about 'guitar gymastics' at all and he give a brilliant two-hour class mainly talking about the Blues and where we have come from there, and really showed me what an accomplished player he is. The guy is an absolute freak on guitar and far, far more knowledgeable than I was anticipating. I had to get up on stage and jam a blues with him and it was the most embarrassing moment of my life or one of many :ROFLMAO: . I absolutely froze up and just didn't do anything.

Also had a class with Guthrie Govan, who I still think is the best guitar player in the world. Absolute freak. Looks like he lives in a bin, but give him a plank of wood with 6 strings and you can't look away.

I have seen Damon Albarn in a pub once, that was just random

Met/drank with a lot of famous footballers but who hasn't haha, so they don't get a mention. Unless it was a legend like Cruyff/Pele' or whatever. :ROFLMAO:
 
changingman said:
Mines similar. Waited around to meet him after a gig in Newcastle and he ended up in my mates front room playing guitar all night. Lovely bloke, on arriving preceded to do the dishes 🤣

I sold Alice Cooper a pair of trainers once.

Also met Boris Johnson through work and held Nick Caves hand (he was performing at the time I might add)
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That's class.

Yeah I was a bit of a fanboy in my younger days and I remember writing to him when he was incarcerated in Wormwood Scrubs. He wrote a really nice letter back to be fair.

Also remember I used to post on a fans forum, which he posted on himself under the name 'heavyhorse'. I'd noticed him online one day and posted on there to say he should come and play in Middlesbrough. A month later it was announced he was playing a solo gig at the town hall. Could have been a coincidence but I doubt it.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I met Pete Doherty when he played The Arena. I was working the door there the night he played there and I remember it was absolutely heaving in there.
Also when I left school in 2001 and before I started college I did a short course at the recording studio in Middlesbrough, I ended up with VIP pass for music live that year and met quite a few of the artists playing there. And I met Chubby Brown in boots at Teesside park.
I also met Nigel Pearson in ICI for some kind of calender competition I had entered through primary school.
Met Danielle Westbrook in my local shop as she lived in the same village as me a few years back and I have met a few actors from Emmerdale.
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Was that the infamous Libs gig? Would have loved to have been there.
 
Our current PM.... I'd just finished a sweaty & muddy hike up the hills, '99 in hand exiting Suggitts in Great Ayton, while he was out campaigning with his Tory rent-a-mob, looked at me nervously, turned & scurried away....
 
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