Which famous person would you love as your best friend?

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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Joanna Lumley as Patsy!….?

Rylan Clark

Claudia Winkleman- would keep me laughing

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

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.

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.

Sandi Toksvig. She seems caring, funny and intelligent.

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/

Lorraine Kelly, she seems down to earth!