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

My cousin is Gary Vincent from Magic radio and we meet up once a year at our family reunion. I have known him since he was a baby .... lovely man and so very funny :-)

Jimi Hendrix.

My boyfriend was in a band playing at a club in London in the late 60s when Jimi Hendrix got up and jammed with them. Afterwards he came over and had a chat with me. He was a lovely man.

I also went to school with Robert Palmer although he was called Alan Palmer then.

Does anyone remember Richard O'Sullivan (Man about the House etc)? In the '70s I went with my sister to see him in a play at a theatre in Birmingham. As we were leaving, he walked past us and went into the bar so we followed him. He was absolutely lovely, chatting and signing autographs. I feel sad that he has been quite poorly for many years.

As a spotty teenager I met Peter O'Toole. He stood and talked to my father and I outside the stage door of the theatre he was appearing in. Charming, handsome and very tall. Also very kind to a besotted teen.

I sat opposite Tony Benn on a train. I had always liked him and I liked him even more after that. He had the air of an absent minded professor about him.

Working in the hospitality industry I have met many well known people who stayed with us in hotels. Many of them are no longer with us unfortunately but one of the most charming was Patrick Moore of Sky at Night fame. A real gentleman. Bob Monkhouse,who did so much for charity, was one of the few who paid his own bill and did not expect the charity to pick up the tab as so many who shall be nameless did.

Sort of following on from Beth - went to see Brendan Cole (Strictly Come Dancing) at our local theatre with DH and both DDs (one in a wheelchair, the other on the autistic spectrum). The show was great and he is very informal with the audience, running up the aisles and even climbing up to talk to people on occasions. Afterwards, we went round to the stage door and he was charming with both our girls, very chatty. He was going off for a pint in the local pint with his wife and in laws who were "in" that night. Also saw Nicole Cutler and some of the other dancers come out and just amble off to the car park, just like anyone else.

These are brilliant. I love finding out who is nice and who isn't.

Oh Bobbysgirl19 I met The Drifters too. I won a competition - what they call a Meet and Greet - and we were taken to their dressing room before the show. They were utterly charming... and when I mentioned we'd been married 40 years, they asked me what was my favourite Drifters song. When "Under the Boardwalk" came up during the Show, they asked us to stand, told everyone how long we'd been together, and dedicated the song to us. A wonderful night.... in Wellingborough of all places !!

Princess Margaret was the patron of a project I managed and visited us.

Lionel Bart came to lunch one Boxing Day and bought a beautiful bunch of gold wrapped, grapes......he offered me one and when unwrapped it was chocolate, (I was 11) I popped it into my mouth and it was a liqueur....almost blew my head off. He was fun and was one of the many famous people who came through our lives at that time.

Zoe Ball used to present a children's TV show and my then 10 yo DD was in the audience . Afterwards , I bumped into her in a corridor and she was absolutely delightful - very chatty and natural. On the other hand my friend asked Lulu for her autograph in a shop and I am told she was extremely rude and bad tempered.

I might have mentioned before that I have a photo of myself and another group of people with the Beatles. George Harrison (my hero) chatted to a group of us dumstruck girls on another occasion and he was really lovely. I had a little chat with Tom Jones whilst getting his autograph back in the '60s. He was also very nice. Have seen lots of the '60s pop stars live on stage, including the Rolling Stones but no one could top the Beatles (especially George) for me.

I was carrying a pile of files up a flight of stairs in the MOD when I tripped and fell, scattering them everywhere. A man in a grey suit stopped to give me a hand to pick them up. It was Lord Mountbatten, who was, in 1965, coming to the end of his tenure as Chief of the Defence Staff. He asked me if I'd hurt myself and we exchanged a few pleasantries and both went on our way. He had a lovely smile!

Oh I am so jealous lefthanded I love Alice Cooper.

I once bumped into Prince Charles (literally) when he was visiting the offices where I worked - but as far as meeting and chatting goes, my main boast would have to be that I once had a drink bought for me by Vincent Fournier (aka "Alice Cooper"). He was staying in a local hotel where my son was the chef and was drinking in the bar. He turned out to be a really nice chap, very interesting to talk to, and very appreciative of the fact that his fans were the ones who paid his wages!

I had a long chat with Julian Clary in a restaurant in Northumberland when he was filming in Seahouses. He was writing a childrens book at the time and we chatted about the kind of things my own grandchildren like to read. He was absolutely charming. My mum and dad were staying in the same hotel as he was and they had breakfast with him too. My mum had embarrassingly told him that I had read all of his books and I was his "greatest fan". he replied that I must be "quite naughty" and my mum, bless her didn't have a clue what he was talking about. (For anyone who doesn't know his books are rather saucy to say the least).

I have also met and chatted to various (old) Labour politicians including Neil Kinnock, The Millibands, John Smith, John Prescott etc. If they count as "being famous"

I used to organise Corporate events before I retired. Met and worked with many celebrities. The nicest three were Terry Wogan Bruce Forsyth and Cilla Black. The funniest were Lesley/Dorian! and Chas and Dave! I won't mention the prima donnas!!

In the 60s a friend and I met the Shadows and Frank Ifield who were all on the bill at The New Theatre in Oxford. We spotted them during the day near the stage door and were invited to the cinema with them, where they were perfect gentlemen.

DD2 met the Duchesse of Cambridge sitting alone reading among the sand dunes on a quiet beach in Anglesey when they lived there. No security in sight! They exchanged a few words then left her alone.

I unexpectedly met Prince Philip around 40 years ago. He was touring the hospital where I was at working at the time, and he turned right at the top of the stairs instead of left to find me in the library. He chatted for a couple of minutes before being escorted off by the entourage.

I also once had Alex Salmond squashed in the passenger seat of my Fiat 126! He was our constituency MP at the time and had come out to the village to support us in a campaign against a developer. He's a lot taller than you think he is and practically had his knees under his chin in my tiny car!

I've met Tony Blair when he was Shadow Chancellor. I thought he was very young and handsome .

I bumped into Margaret Beckett in the ladies' at work. And I held the door open for John Prescott on the same day.

I've met Jimmy Savile, too, when I was a child. He had a Rolls and half-black, half-white hair.

Interesting your comment about Paul Daniels Merlotgran perhaps our school got him on an off day.

When I was on Brain of Britain Peter Snow was presenting it and afterwards had wine and sandwiches with us and was really friendly, lovely man, very tall.

Had a nice chat with Vanessa Redgrave while we were outside Pentonville with The Howard League trying to get prisoners allowed books. I mentioned a play I'd seen her in years before in Manchester, neither of us could remember what it was called. Incredibly Gove, of all people, changed the ruling on books back to allowing them to be sent in.
Been kissed by Papa John Phillips after a 60s revival concert when I thanked him for the concert. Also kissed by Isaac Asimov at a Sci-Fi meeting, he was a friend of a friend.

I met William G Stewart when I was a contestant on Fifteen to One, back in 1997. He was very nice.

Told this before on here, Was sort of flirted with by Prince Charles at a ball in Windsor Castle, spent a few evenings at Denny Lane (was in Wings, with Paul McCartney) house, sat next to Gary Numan in chemistry classes at school when he was Gary Webb.

I used to go regularly to a hairdresser in Mayfair (I've got challenging hair ) and looked forward to the gossip from the stylists re the celebrities who used the pub across the road. They loved Bert Kwok, Joan Collins and Jerry Hall. I won't say who they couldn't stand - a celeb who lived just round the corner, but was horrible to his fans, despite his cultivated everyman hail-fellow-well-met image.