famous people

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jus wondering, all these people here, some of you must have a claim to fame, met a famous person, or know someone who knows a famous person?

i've met darius he's such a nice guy, stopped for photos and a chat even when he was in a rush, lovely man but very tall!!

oh and i've met the crankies too, you know comedian folks

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depends what you class as famous.

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NO famous people ever come to Belfast (pretty understandable really) except for the occasional stop off before Dublin if they're a touring band! The only two celebrities I can think of who live in Belfast are the drummer from Ash and one of the Corrs (not him) who lives near a friend of my dad's.

So yeh, I've never properly met a famous person and don't expect to if I stay in Belfast.

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Originally posted by rachie004
Barry Evans the other day

I thought he was dead :eek2:

Umm...I met someone from 911 and some people from a naff boy band group that never took off. I guess that doesn't count as fame.

Umm, the queen drove past my house. I guess I didn't actually meet her...as such.

Okay, I'll go.

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Originally posted by lucifer devil
Umm...I met someone from 911 and some people from a naff boy band group that never took off. I guess that doesn't count as fame.

Oh WOW! I so loved them! I met Bless'd (did anyone hear of them?!) and the Microsoap cast 'cos Dad did that, and Sean Maguire. When I was on Live and Kicking I met Zoe Ball (who's lovely) and B*Witched (who I went on to develop a major crush on - puppy love! ).
And when I was very small, Philip Schofield and Ian McShane.

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loads!
emma bunton
john fashanu
misteeq
terry wogan
chris evans
mr motivator
sean from 5ive

and some more I can't remember!

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i've met dave mcphearson (lead singer of InMe) twice

the first time i spent half an hour randomly talking to him after a gig and sent him to find the drummer for me and get his autograph for me

the second time, again after a gig randomly talking to him and he remembered me from the first gig! which was like a year before! apparantly i'm on their video thing they shot to remember the gig.

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jimmy saville lives down the road from my parents and i've met him loads of times. i nearly ran him over twice while i was learning to drive

and i've served harry kewell and his emmerdale wifey while i was working in shops in leeds. she's really polite and nice to lowly little shopsters

my nephew wins though - he's only 2, and he's met gwyneth paltrow, all of coldplay, all of feeder, all of starsailor, and varying other music-type celebrities. and he's been to LA. barsteward.

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Originally posted by Sugar

i've met darius he's such a nice guy, stopped for photos and a chat even when he was in a rush, lovely man but very tall!!

Aye, that Darius. He's always in Rushes.

Ha. Ha. Ha. :rolleyes:

Imma gonna have a wicked claim to fame soon enough

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Originally posted by Aspartame
Meeting all the Rangers players?

I'd rather have a life-threatening kidney infection.

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Originally posted by Aspartame
But then all the muppets on here would say stull like

"awwww hun"

Not realising that calling you a hun is evil and would in fact make you feel worse.

I you Andy

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4th one across.. DJ/Producer Paul Maddox... we flew him over and he crashed at my house for our latest Tidy Trax NZ gig that I ran (I'm 2nd across) with Taz (3rd across) last Friday (23rd January).. lovely bloke!

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i've not met any famous people, awake

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I met Geoffrey from Rainbow when i was a kid, how cool is that lol

oh and umm...julian clary, and philip schofield lol

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I've met the US Ambassador to the UK a couple of times.

I had a chat with David Milaband recently.

The ex-side kick from Midsummer Murders nearly bumped into me outside my post office.

Quite a few BBC kids presenters live in my neck of the woods, I see them quite often.

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jools holland lives down the road as does andy hunt (ex-charlton)
danny baker lives/lived round the corner, laurence lewelynn bowen lives round the corner, steve ryder the sports presenter used to go to my school and he comes and says ello when we play at the start of the marathon.
lee from blue lives across the heath
i've been in a show as a sidekick to arthur smith the comedian
more fire crew came to our school (but we dont talk about that)
martin clunes was gonna move in along the road
the drummer from oasis used to always visit the guy that used to live next door
i've met alan curbishley (and i was wearing a charlton shirt! )
and i've kissed matt skiba and derek grant of alkaline trio

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I've met some people in some bands. But bands that you over there probably wouldn't know. And if this counts for anything, my brothers ex girlfriends sisters husbands cousin is jim brewer. (ya know, goat boy from snl, on half baked...)

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My dad used to teach Saddam Hussein's cousin conversational English.

I shit thee not.