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

PS reminded by outher posters. Met tony Been, charming, winked at me. Brian rix lived locally saw him in local shops he chatted. Also saw David Essex coming out of my newsagent with his leg in plaster. In the sixties frequented a club The whisky ago go in Wardour Street, Frankie Vaughan would come with his wife and do a turn. Also (famous??) Jimmy Saville lived around the corner in a b and B from my place of residence in the early sixties, and I saw him with his hair half black and half white running up the road when he was late for his stint as a DJ. He also had a motor home parked in the square I lived in and used the red telephone box next door as his phone. He would come into the local cafe "the Green Cafe" which my friends and I would frequent and talk to all of us (teenagers)!!! he had a wallet full of notes and of course we were transfixed!! he would say "good morning" in the evening and "good evening" in the morning" eccentric to say the least. I do know of stuff I have been told by a friend which links in to recent news of his behaviour, but I knew nothing of it at the time.

I was on a fairly small voluntary committee with Carol Vorderman. Just a friendly straightforward person who listened to other people and applied herself to the task in hand. Attractive and charming but not in the least starry or precious. Unlike a computer inventor I met about the same time!

My mum was Martin Clunes' cleaner.
She said he was a lovely man: humble, quite shy, and very kind.
Neil Morrissey, on the other hand, she dismissed as "full of himself".

I always thought her smile was fake when she did Masterchef.

I shook hands with Charles and Camila at a Garden Party

I grew up in central London and Danny La Rue lived in our area. I used to see him when shopping, when he had dark hair, very handsome. My mother knew him and took me to see him in pantomime. We went backstage afterwards and he took falsies out of his costume (he was playing an ugly sister) and said "what would I do without dunlop") because they were rubber. Also she knew Robert Beatty, film actor, in the fifties, sixties. She took me to see him in a play in Streatham and took me backstage. Cliff Richard came to my youth club when I was fourteen. We all stood at end of ping pong table and he had a bat with each of us, then Group leader asked who was a fan of his. I was jumping up and down, so he chose me and a boy to say "thank you for coming here and we hope to see you again". I was mad on Cliff at that time. Georgie Best came into a club in London I was in with friends in the eighties, I spoke to him. He was being hounded by the press at the time! Have seen many well known people in the West End when I was working there, but didnt speak to them.

Nina the nana, I have met Kriss Akabussi many times. He's been to our house ( when I still lived with my ex) and we've been to his. This is because my ex did a lot of work for Kriss' charity in Nigeria. He is a nice chap but very loud!
My ex still sees him.

Met Rudolf Nureyev twice but that was just stage door autograph stuff.

Yes, Granmags!

George often used to hang around the outside of the shop, hoping to attract the girls, I think, as the shop was on the main road, a bit away from the other shops.

I lived in Sale. Is that the shop you remember? I bunked off school to go to the shop the day it opened.

Bellanonna , you must live near me. A good friend of mine lives next door to Brian Murphy and she would agree he is a charming, unassuming man and also a good neighbour.

I was about 10 years old when Our Queen Elizabeth not only visited my school in the 1960's, but visited my classroom too.
My Teacher bowed to her, and we the children, bowed and curtsied to her. I remember thinking that she was a lot shorter than I expected her to be. I thought that the Queen was a lot taller. We were so proud though and felt so privileged to be chosen for this very special visit.

I bought dinner once for Nick Knowles. TV presenter. Nice guy, exactly as he comes across on TV.

When I lived in America I met Patrick Swayze several times and have a few photos of me posing with him to remember him by. Firstly, outside a stage door after he performed in Love Letters in LA with his wife, Lisa,and then at a horseshow in Arizona (where I lived at the time). He owned an Arabian horse and was showing him. He was very friendly and spent a lot of time chatting and having photos with fans.

I met John Stamos at a car show. He joked with my daughter and asked her to marry him (she was 5 at the time)and asked what she would cook him and she replied, 'Cornflakes'. We were big fans of the tv show Full House in those days.

I also won a competition to fly to Dallas to meet the cast of the show and visit the Southfork ranch. Larry Hagman was most ungracious but several of the cast were very friendly- Linda Gray, Ken Kercheval and Victoria Principal especially.

I've also met Nigel Farage and he is very nice and amusing (don't believe everything or, in deed anything,you read in the papers which say otherwise!)

Very interesting that most celebs are reported as being charming. The proprietor of Guy's splendid restaurant in Glasgow used to provide catering for films and television and says that Jennifer Aniston was a delight, but Jimmy Nail was the most unpleasant person he'd ever worked with.

Met Richard Wilson , he was visiting the hospital where he worked as a lab technician before his acting career. Lovely man, very charming .

Anne Widdecombe toured our government office once many years ago. I forget what she was minister of but she was really nice and friendly and I remember she had lovely manicured fingernails.
Actor Tim Healey is a great bloke down to earth and friendly as you would imagine.

Although I am a member of the LibDems, I have never stood for office or had any kind of prominent position in the party, yet I have met Jeremy Thorpe, David Steele, Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy, Ming Campbell, Nick Clegg and Tim Farron - all of the leaders of the Liberals/ Liberal Democrats of the last fifty years, and three of them have been in my house. I liked them all.

I remember Jeremy Thorpe making a funny faux-pas at a social occasion near our home. It was not the first time he had been to the town, and like a lot of politicians, he prided himself on remembering names. He spotted one of our members, a rather verbose older lady (well probably about the same age as I am now). Her name was Miss Gass. Jeremy Thorpe strode across the room with his hand out-stretched and said "How delightful to see you again, Miss Bag" !!

Michael Buerk's twin sons Simon and Roland were at school with my children in the 1980s and we met him and his wife Christine (also a journalist)socially sometimes. Both were friendly and likeable - no airs or graces. This was soon after his famous tv documentary about the famine in Ethiopia. Both his sons are now journalists and sometimes on tv or radio.

I met Joan Bakewell several times in the late 1980's. She was charming, as was her husband. Barbara Castle in the very early 70's, enough said.

My dad met Wanda Bentham (Benedict Cumberbatch's mum) walking her dog on a beach in Wales. He said she was lovely.

I met Maurice Flynn (East Midlands Today presenter) at a Food Fayre - he was charming. I also met Geoff Capes - olympic shot-put champion and budgie breeder at a budgie breeder's evening get together. He asked my daughter (then aged 10) if she wanted to sit on his knee for a photo. She said no!

I ought not to play this game cos I used to work in theatre and have friends in films, but I can say what you all expect, that Victoria Wood and Al Rickman were both fab and wonderful.

Lewis Collins....I worked with a cousin of his, and we were 'set up' on a date.
We dated for almost four months, but then he got his big break in 'The Professionals' and it fizzled out.
There was no big dramatic break up, our lives were just heading in separate directions. He was obviously going places with his career, and I wanted to be a Librarian, we wanted very different things.
We stayed in contact for a while, but eventually lost touch.
He was a lovely man, and as gorgeous as he was on TV, that was nothing compared to how devastatingly beautiful he was 'in the flesh'!

I flew as co-pilot with Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS when I was in the WJACs and she was the pilot in the Grey Dove. She was the first British woman to break the sound barrier. She was lovely. So friendly and so inspirational to us youngsters.

I have also slept in Cliff Richard's bed. Unfortunately he wasn't in it. He had visited this couple's house the week before we did. Does that count? :-)

I also met 'Spit the dog', 'Supergran' and 'Emu'! Nice people.

Also met Prince Phillip at a museum and he stopped to say 'Hello'. So normal and not a bit unproachable. Well, I was in a line-up of staff so cannot say I knew him personally.

The picture of David Attenborough prompted me to remember I met him at a book signing, and Michael Caine and Franceso Da Mosta. All were lovely (but then I was buying their books)

Just William of the tv series came to stay with us for several days - with a mutual friend. Was rather odd to see him as an adult, but he was lovely.