Have you ever had a meal or drink when a personality is also in the building

Nortsat

We were once eating in Joe Allen’s in Covent Garden and Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) was at the next table. He smiled at me.

We were in the queue in Gare du Nord, waiting to get on the Eurostar and Leonardo Di Caprio was in front of me, with his children (they were youngish, then). I wouldn’t have noticed him except that he had beautiful Louis Vuitton luggage!
We were travelling in Premier class and he went into Business Class, where the seats cost about 4 times more than Premiere.
His luggage was stunning !

I didn’t think leonardo Di Captio had children?

I've had many a social evening, every Friday, with a well-known BBC newsreader.
This was while we were in a group of friends in the sixth forms at our respective boys' school and girls' school though, does that count?!

NotTooOld

Petula Clark came into a restaurant in London while we were having dinner. She was in a West end musical at the time. Michael Elphick was having dinner in Chinatown while we were there. He moved to a private room as he said people were staring. We hadn't noticed him until that point and the people we were with had no idea who he was!

Had my 21st in a restaurant where Gordon Banks sat behind me at the next table.

Struggling to know who many of these folk are!

I once sat next to Peter Maxwell Davis at a concert in Dartington. Interesting chap and good to talk with.

Madonna dashing from a building and getting into a car, in London, with press hanging around and snapping. John Cleese in a bookshop in Manchester.

Sydney airport (many moons ago) was sitting having a coffee and Jimmy Barnes from the rock band Cold Chisel was at the next table. (One for any Aussies on here)
Company awards night in Birmingham , Gok Wan was several tables along (he was compere for the night)don't know if that counts!
Apparently I sat in the seat that Kylie Minogue had just vacated at Melbourne airport - or so I was told by one very disappointed 8 yr old who had dashed off to grab their mum!

On a plane to Russia in 2003 we sat behind Prince & Princess Michael of Kent and they happened to also be staying in our hotel in St Petersburg. Same flight home as well!

Met Luciano Pavarotti in a supermarket in Barbados he was being wheeled around the aisles on a typists chair!!. Met Louis Walsh in a restaurant in London got chatting. The best has to be David Beckham had a meet and greet with him after an LAGalaxy game, met in the dressing room spent loads of time with him and his dad just chatting, great guy so friendly.

As a star struck Peter O'Toole fan I was visiting Londonwith my father. Mr O'Toole was in a rather saucy play at the time and the stage door manager said it was unsuitable for a 15 year old but we could leave my autograph book. When we went back to stage door next day I collected my autograph book and was walking away with my Dad when Peter O'Toole and his wife Sian Phillips came towards us.

I thanked him for his autograph and he looked surprised so I showed him. He laughed and tore the page out as someone had done it instead of bothering him. He sat on a bench with us and chatted for a while. He had been out on Hampstead Heath learning to throw a boomerang for the film he was making with Audrey Hepburn.

This starstruck teenager was overcome and had to leave most of the talking to Dad !

In the 90’s DH and I had a long weekend in New York. We went into a very quiet restaurant on the Sunday evening and there were only two other tables occupied. The nearest one had Lulu dining with a friend. We flew back from that trip with the designer Jeff Banks at the front of the plane.

I once walked past David Walliams and Rob Bryden with my bf and told him as we had passed them, he insisted we double back and speak to them and we had a chat. When we went to see Little Britain live Barbara Windsor and Steve McFadden were in the row behind us, and when I went to the loo I walked past Max Beesley on the stairs. My mum got talking to Russ Abbot in Oxford and told him my brother was a teddy boy called Vince (early 80s) so he invited us to meet him before the show and in the interval my brother had a photo taken with him. My son and I spotted Tom Ward (Silent Witness) sitting on his own in a pub reading a newspaper. I queued behind Edward Woodward and his wife Michele Dotrice in WH Smith in Banbury. When I worked in a BP Garage in 2003 the whole of Showaddywaddy piled in to buy drinks and snacks. I pretended that I didn’t recognise them because I was so shy! Finally I spotted Sean Locke walking across a car park in a service station on the M6, I kept trying to get my son to look but he missed him because of his damn Nintendo DS! I still wind him up about that, we’re both huge fans of 8 out of 10 cats.

I went to a charity polo match about 10 years ago and Prince Chatles said hello to me! The boys were both playing, it was quite an event. I was at a charity lunch in London when Judith Chalmers started to talk to me . She introduced me to her husband, Nigel Starmer Smith, who said " You must meet my good friend Bill" and who should it be but dear Bill Turnbull. Such a lovely man .

Many years ago I worked in the Carlton Tower Hotel in |Sloane Square, London, where many famous people stayed. I had tea one day with Jimmy Tarbuck, keeping him company while he waited for a press conference. But best of all was having my hand kissed by both the wonderful ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his friend Prince Radziville, after I had done Nureyev a favour. I was quite overcome!

Sorry, didn't read the question...as my teacher's used to say! There was a lunch at the polo day and the charity lunch in London was in a hotel!

I really hate these posts - and we get them on local radio also. People come up with ‘I saw xyz driving on the M4’, etc. That’s not meeting a celeb.

Many years ago DH was friends with Patrick Malahide and we often visited each others homes.

When on holiday we were sitting in a cafe when a man walked by - DH recognised him but couldn't think of his name and then said loudly "that's Danny La Rue", the man turned round and said "Yes - it is"

At an airport we had just got off the plane and were standing at the carousel waiting for our luggage and realised we were standing next to Martin Clunes

I imagine I wouldn't recognise anyone as a celeb, if they looked familiar I'd probably say hello and try and remember why I knew them. I have shaken hands with Prince Charles though and another time saw the Queen and Princess Di at a Buck House garden party. Probably wouldn't have recognised them out of context though.

Tom Stoppard outside a theatre at The Edinburgh Festival in the seventies, quietly charismatic, Celia Imrie in a queue for tickets at Stratford upon Avon, modest demeanour; George Whatshisname the telly architect on a train to London, wonderful blue eyes; Stewart Grainger at London Airport, rather over- ripe but still recognisable as the hunk I’d lusted after as a teenager in Scaramouche; Cyril Fletcher, the comedian, hired to encourage sales at a garden centre in Rugby, Warwickshire, down at heel shoes and cringeworthy demeanour of false jollity, I felt sorry for him. I would add that I am not famous, only to old students in the town where I taught who come up to me in supermarkets and say,” You’re Mrs Soandso, you used to teach me. I’m embarrassed to admit I only remember the naughty ones or the ones who were good at my subject.

A couple of years ago members of the rock band Thin Lizzie were on the same flight as us to Dublin, but also for the 2 years running we have seen Emma Thompson whilst we were carol singing on York Station ( on the same Sunday each year) both times she has slipped a note into our collecting tin and was happy to chat! We weren’t there this year, I wonder if she was!

We were running a Restaurant in Nottingham in the 80s, guests included Jim Henson, when the local theatre had a Muppet Christmas Panto, Les Dennis and Robert Plant, can't remember others at the moment

Years ago, outside Heathrow in winter... someone said, " Like your hat"... turned round... it was Rod Stewart... who was wearing one very similar.

Once spent all afternoon at Northants cricket chatting to a bloke... after he left found out it was Eric Clapton.

Had Lunch with Ilie Nastase... halfway through Boris walked in and joined the table for a drink... first time I'd ever seen him. Anyway, Ilie asked me if I'd like a signed pic of him. He was always my favourite Tennis player... so I said yes and he signed it... he put... to sexy Sue.... a treasured possession from days gone by !! Sigh !!

Oh yes, once, when a ralley came through, we had the whole Michelin team in, exclusive, no one else, their celebrations were hilarious and involved cleaning up a lot of squirty cream afterwards

I passed Derek Jacobi pushing a shopping trolley in my local Coop. He was appearing in Hamlet at the theatre across the road. He looked very tired! I went to see the play a couple of days later. Magnificent actor. Couldn't get the picture of him doing his shopping out of my head though.