Who's the most famous person you've met, and what were they like?

To be fair to Denise Black, she didn't make a bitchy remark.Iwas told she wasn't very nice,and asked her,she just said "I've heard that too.Perhaps she was just having a bad day.

Remember the old Byre but not her. About the same time - mid to late 60's- Jill Gascoigne was leading light at Dundee rep. Only met her once. She went on to star in The Gentle Touch which I enjoyed.

She was at The Byre when we were in 2nd or 3rd Year I think. The "old" Byre, the one where the audience were requested not to rest their feet on the stage!

New id again, *MB^? Hard to keep up!

Don't think I ever encountered her at St A, maw.

No, never listened to it once MawBroon.

Clearly not an Archers Addict Charleygirl?

Oh no! Young friend met David Attenborough not long ago and found him charming.

David Attenborough, he opened a centre at Warwickshire Wildlife some years ago. I found him very unfriendly ?

Sorry but I do not have a clue who Carole Boyd is!

Carole Boyd

Tall, auburn hair, stunning when she was young and still vey striking!

DH has a famous relative but we've never met him
I suppose that doesn't count either.

I saw David Dimbleby once and he smiled (kind of)
The Duke of Edinburgh stopped for a chat on a walkabout too
I met Hayley Mills because our sons knew each other.

I can't picture her

I don't suppose knowing Lynda Snell aka actress Carole Boyd when I was at university counts?
No?
Thought not

Elenkalubleton
You're quite obviously referring to Cilla Black, and I have to tell you that Denise Black's opinion of her could not be more wrong!
Cilla was a truly lovely woman, kind, loyal, considerate, naturally funny, generous to a fault, and had been a friend of my family since the 'Cavern' days.
You quite obviously never met Cilla, or you would have known that Denise Black is way off the mark with her bitchy comment!

Oh, just remembered, I met "sporty spice" when I worked with adults with learning disabilities
She was lovely, actually. Tiny, and very friendly.

Sorry meant to say on a plane from Manchester to London.

I sat next to Denise Black (she was Ken Barlow Hairdresser girl friend) she told me That Rita was almost completely bald with wispy hair.We also discussed a famous red haired singer who's statue was recently erected, she was not a very nice person.

I am finding the "histories" of what the posters have done in their lives to come to encounter these "famous" people is almost as interesting as who they have met.

Second hand famous. Richard Burton's brother Graham Jenkins. It was about 1967 when I was working down there with some children in care who were on holiday in Port Talbot.
The council or whatever hosted a tea for them. He was very friendly. He looks/looked? very like his brother but rather less ravaged.

Holidaying in Portugal, in the early 80s, with three young children, we met Eamonn Andrews (remember him?) and his wife in a restaurant in Carvoiero(?). We had a conversation about the area and the weather and he spoke to each of the children, individually. Lovely, charming, pleasant man
Then about ten years ago, waiting to go through security at LAX airport, my friend and I found ourselves chatting to Amanda Holden. She wore no makeup, was dressed in a plain shift dress and said she was just as frustrated by the queues as everyone else - but accepted it all as a necessary inconvenience. When we boarded the plane, we turned right and she turned left.

I met Mike Reid when I worked (very briefly!) as a wine waitress
I had to go backstage to his dressing room, dressed in my short skirt and frilly apron and ask if there was anything I could get for him.
He was quite cheeky, made me a bit uncomfortable, but friendly enough.

DH was working as a minicab driver in the early 70's. Peter Cook, Lulu and Olivia Newton John were regular passengers. He wasn't very taken with Lulu but adored Olivia. She used to send him out to get her fish and chips. He got on well with Peter Cook who wrote him into a sketch he did on Behind The Fridge.He also took Jane Seymour to her audition for James Bond.

I forgot to mention earlier that I was at Art School with Ian Maclagan of the Small Faces. Unfortunately I was besotted with one of his friends at the time so I hardly noticed him.

Declan McManus aka Elvis Costello was in my class at school. He was always nice and polite and perhaps acted more mature than the average boy in my class. I remember him wearing a bow tie to the school dance and said I was wearing too much makeup once.