Which famous person would you love as your best friend?

Lorraine Kelly, she seems down to earth!

Those two would be on my need to avoid!

We have no idea what these people are like in the real world. We think we know them but we don't. I actually know a TV name who is nothing like her TV persona so it's hard to say.

Bit if I had to say, I met Pete Burns many years ago and adored him. He would have been my choice. Had he still been alive/

Sandi Toksvig. She seems caring, funny and intelligent.

I picked Miriam because she’s older than me, seems to have lived a rich varied life, no children, no male partner, so completely different to my life.
It’s nice to have someone different.
I don’t always agree with her and actually find her very irritating at times, but what you see is what you get with her ( I think? ) so she’d tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
But yes, I’m sure a lot of famous people are very different in RL.

Since I do not know any celebrities, I have no idea whether I would like any of them if I knew them.

Miriam Margolyes always strikes me as one of those people who hide a bullying and unpleasant nature under a cloak of outrageous eccentricity.

She doesn't have a male partner because she is gay, but I think she does have a partner, but they live separately.

Anthony Hopkins but only meet away from cameras and the world is to never know I'm his friend ( limelight avoider )

Claudia Winkleman- would keep me laughing

Rylan Clark

Joanna Lumley as Patsy!….?

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Paul O’Grady for me. He seems to have a very genuine love of children and animals and a lovely way with both. That’s good enough for me.
No, I don’t know him personally but am entering in to the spirit of the original post.

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What an hilarious description Eviebeanz - I've had to put my coffee down

None of them. I’d rather have th3 friends I’ve got.

Nah thanks I really aren’t very keen on showbizzy people they are usually up their own asses anyway and I d have absolutely nothing in common with any of them, preferring to be out the limelight
I think Miriam M hides a very good heart under all the bad manners and coarse talk but I think she could be quite intimidating if you hadn’t enough in common a highly intelligent woman

No one mentioned in this thread so far has made me change my mind
if he were alive I would have loved to talk to Nelson Mandela but he’s not showbiz

Lewis Carroll

Eviebeanz your unpleasant description of Miriam Margolyes has made up my mind. I want her for my celebrity friend, thank god she’s a normal human being with normal bodily functions who isn’t constantly obsessed with her own appearance!

Chris Packham. He loves nature and fights for it. And he seems as weird as I am.

Gwenisgreat1

Lorraine Kelly, she seems down to earth!

I know this is bad but the squeaky voice would do my head in

I am not keen on Miriam, either. What you see isn’t quite the reality of what is underneath the surface. I was thinking Joanna Lumley , I like her .

Eviebeanz

Rylan Clark

Is he the teeth one ?

Joanna lumley is too good looking.
I like friends who aren’t particularly attractive - makes me look better. Haha.

I think he probably is the teeth one

@Eviebeanz Describing another woman as a “pig in a frock” is sickening ?