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

Sir David Attenborough....twice in 2 days.

In the 60s when my father worked in the Embassy in Washington, the White House invited the diplomats children (Iwas 14) to meet President Kennedy and Mrs. Jaquelline Kennedy. I shook hands with both and had buffet than listen to an orchestra in the White House. I remember young Carolyne sitting on the stairs watching everyone.

Please tell me that David Attenborough is lovely?
I adore him.

Lemmy from Motorhead and the rest of the band Mickkey Dee and Phil Campbell.Lemmy was such an intelligent and lovely man. I've met Phil a few times and had a lovely hug off him last time. Many famous rugby players over the years and I nearly got run over by Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy on Kings Road in London - I had my washing in a black bag coming back from the launderette and he thought it was hysterical but was very nice.

Princess Anne she was wonderful so gracious and friendly.

Being in the film industry for a number of years I had a passing acquaintance with a number of celebs. I was good friends with the film critic Derek Malcolm, he is very entertaining, intelligent and has a wonderful dry sense of humour. Saeed Jaffrey and his wife Jennifer were good friends, Sayeed was a lovely, loveley man, I adored him.

One well known actress has been a very close friend and we have been through lots together and hard a lot of fun. Her daughter was my nanny and am very close to her. Still in touch but different countries etc means we don't get together much now. Name withheld as she is my friend and I don't see her as a celeb. I get very cross when people angle for an invitation to meet her because she is an actor. We keep it private.

Roger Eno was my babysitter when he was a student - lovely, guy wish I'd kept in touch.

Also met Dickie Attenborough a number of times as we were on the same charity committee. Hr was absolutely lovely, so was his wife Sheila Sim.

I have sat on Willie Rushtons knee, had a cuddle with Harry Secombe, met the original pans people, Nicholas Parsons! Anita Harris.Hot Hocolate, spoke to Errol Brown, all these in Berlin military Royal Signals Sgt mess, whilst they were there with the. Lords. Taverners. In 1979/80
Harry looked so poorly then
I also sat next to Bobby ball in a restaurant in Bournemouth in 1982, I didn't realise it was him and I was admiring his shirt. Some people we were with told me.
Jasper carrot in 1977 Cyprus

When we married and bought our house in 1970 one of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band was living here with his girlfriend and her mum. (Anyone remember them?)
I also met Rick Mayall when I volunteered to be on the switchboard for donations to Comic Relief (or Red Nose Day - can't remember as long time ago). He was very friendly and handsome and, much to my delight, gave me a kiss!

Oh, I meant does anyone remember the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band not the girlfriend and her mum!!

An 'old school' footballer, now a 'Sir' and noted for being a gentleman was once very rude to me when I was an office junior working for the firm of solicitors who did his conveyancing. I was a fan of his at the time and so looking forward to meeting him - then he was really nasty to me because my boss was running late and he had to wait. As an adult I know that everyone is entitled to an 'off' day, but I was genuinely upset and went into the toilets and cried at the time. Oddly enough I felt very guilty about it for years, as if it was my fault that he was horrid to me.

As an older teenager one of my daughters went to stay with Carly Simon on Martha's Vineyard and also had a couple of days with James Taylor - their daughter Sally stayed with us on a school exchange. Our daughter was full of praise for both of them - and if Sally (and her brother Ben who we also met) is anything to go by then they certainly did something right. She was an absolutely delightful girl and remained a pen-friend for many years. The lovely James Taylor gave us all front row tickets for his concert in Manchester the following year and my family sat with his then all went backstage for a bit of a party with him and his (teenage) children afterwards.

Princess Anne may be noted for being abrupt, but my youngest daughter once had a major role at a very big event with her and said that without Princess Anne's kindliness to her she may not have coped.

Richard and Judy lived very close to me in Manchester almost thirty years ago - at the height of their fame - and we often saw them out shopping etc. When my 5 year old had an accident on a bouncy castle at the local fete, Richard was the first to offer help. I met him again a few years ago when I was accompanying the same daughter to a TV appearance; he was saying how much he admired her so I reminded him of the incident. He'd been sleeping rough the night before to raise awareness about homelessness so we chatted about that until it was his turn to go on. Before we got chatting together he'd been very pleasant to the other 'ordinary' people backstage, taking time to acknowledge them and asking a little about each one and thanking the server who came in to replenish the breakfast trays. I thought he came across as a thoroughly decent bloke - especially considering he'd had very little sleep the night before.

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.

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)

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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" !!

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.

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

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.

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!)

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