Seeing Celebrities in the flesh

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Started this evening seeing a Jamie Leigh Curtis look a like in the hotel bar then someone I thought was spitting dab of Romesh Ranganathan…

He looked so much like a younger version of what I thought he actually looked like that I didn’t think there was any chance it was him in a village hotel in Glasgow… then I remembered, he does weakest link in BBC just opposite…

Funny watching people coyly speak to him while he’s sat eating… he seems to be taking the attention in his stride…

He certainly looks like he’s lost some timber recently though…
 
During Covid I found myself in the queue for Tesco behind Glen Durrant.

Not hugely surprising as at the time I lived around the corner from him, but it was one of those "Do I bother this semi-famous man, especially during a global pandemic" moments.

I did not bother him.
 
I used to live in Chiswick and it was full of minor celebrities and people I barely recognised. I do remember bumping in to Richard Osman. Fairly obvious characteristic of his but he is sooo tall in the flesh. Though probably less of a targetman threat than Shearer
 
Stood behind Sally Lindsay in our local Co-op.

And browsing vegetables next to Manny in Tesco - he's small too.

Remember bumping into Stuart Pearce in Flannels Newcastle, and was surprised that he was fairly slim and not really that tall. Expected some big brick sh*thouse.
 
Around the area I live(and the other small towns near by) quite a few celebrities live, my step daughter went to primary school with Mark Wright's niece and she is now friends with another celebrities niece in senior school(I don't know who it is), my father in law used to drink down the pub/club with Nick Berry and my sister in law's husband is friends with Danny Dyer. But in all honesty I don't really pay much attention to the celebrity thing and probably wouldn't recognise them if I saw them, I see lots of flash very expensive cars most days but wouldn't know if it was celebrities in them or not(although I think I saw Djed Spence getting out of a car in a car park not long after he signed for Spurs, but again can't be 100% sure).
 
I see loads of Celebs in the West End, Stephen Fry often jogging early morning. Only person I’ve chatted to is Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown in a Service Station queue. He actually struck up the conversation, it was a couple of days before the ZDS Cup final, we were filling up before heading south.

I once sat next to Baby Spice in the Reception of Global Radio. I didn’t realise until the receptionist told me after she’d left.
 
Walked past Dan Walker on the Cleveland way just before he was to appear in Strictly, he was with his family and talking but didn’t make eye contact, I so wanted to say something witty like, “hope you haven’t got two left feet Dan“, where we both would have laughed awkwardly no doubt,
I also had a sprint finish at the London marathon a few years ago with Gordon Ramsey, it was spotted on telly by a few mates who lip read me saying a choice word as he beat me across the line 🤦‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️
 
John Barnes - proper chubster
Phil Thompson - not as tall as you'd think
Steve Claridge - really scruffy
Faith Brown - tiny lap dog, big whaps
Patsy Kensit - spotty as a leopard with acne
Jim Kerr - tubby
Sam Fox - tiny
Nicola T (page 3 girl) - lovely and chatty
Chubby - scruffy get
Richard Hammond -scruffy, misery guts
Anthea Turner - very pretty and engaging
Paul Daniels and Debbie - really friendly and chatty
Neil Innes - absolutely charming and a real gent
Robin and Graham Grumbleweed - great fun
Gene October - a gentleman
Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson - hungover but ok
Prince Andrew - fat
The King (not Elvis) - not very tall
Prince Harry - quite tall
The old Queen - tiny
Sarah Ferguson - barmy
 
Was in a pub in Soho last Friday evening, stood on the pavement outside in the sunshine.

Who should I see but Mick Jones from The Clash stood with a group of people. I haven't seen him since we were both looking in an estate agents window in Marylebone about 20 years ago.

Looking again at the group I saw Ian Hislop stood talking to him. Hislop was tiny, and stood on the road (the rest were on the pavement) and so looked even smaller than usual. He was also drinking a pint of coke through a straw which made him look like a small child.
 
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Daniel Craig in front of me at the queue for the cash machine in Helmsley. Looks like..... Daniel Craig. Couldn't see Rachel Weiss anywhere - gutted.
 
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