Sean Connery
Prince
The Queen of England

errr that's it

Oh yeah, I saw LL Cool J in boots the Chemist once

I saw Weird Al Yankovic (in concert)
And I saw some local news personality.

Snoop Dogg
Steven Tyler
Billy Corgan
JLo
Mariah Carrey
Keith Caputto
Jeanne Tripplehorn

I can tell you the people i've met - seen is too many and i'm feeling lazy:

- Terry Wogan
- Norris McWhirter
- All the Everton football team
- Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding and Caron Keating (Blue Peter)
- Anne Diamond & Timmy Mallett
- Frank Boff
- Sarah Green
- Tom Baker & Linda Bellingham
- Debbie Greenwood (i kissed her )
- Michael Brandon (Dempsey from Dempsey & Makepeace) - he was great.
- Ray Reardon
- Gary Lineker
- That big fucking monster from Labyrinth

That's about it i think. Most of these will be unknowns outside of the UK probably.


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[This message was edited Thu Apr 15 5:18:06 2004 by TheFrog]

Frog
U've seen Norris McWhirter

Im jealous I always wanted 2 ask him who has the world's biggest ass when i was a kid watching record breakers

FunnyWayOfStoppinTheJuice said:

I met him and he was a lovely guy. We chatted over tea and biscuits and then he gave me something very dear to me (and i ain't going no further than that).

And i didn't ask him, but i'm sure he was well aware that you have by far and away the biggest ass.

for me the 'biggie' has to be George Clinton:
I crossed his ways when he was going to the toilet in a recordstore in Vienna some years ago and he said some friendly 'Hi' to me when I just entered the store. (He was giving a tv interview there, the store was picked cause it's specialising in Funk & Soul)
Of course I approched him - not on the toilet but when he came back - and made him sign my newly purchased Parliament CDs

Howard Jones once went shopping in the record store I was working at back in 96.

Ally Sheedy once shopped at a bookstore that I worked at.

I've met Living Colour before a few shows. I have pictures!

I met Duran Duran back in 1990. I have pictures!

I think that's it.

My ass is not that big have a look...

Met :

Dennis Taylor (was official photographer when he did a show in a local holiday centre)

Bob Geldof (talked briefly to him on a plane from Dublin to London)

Chris De Burgh (met him after his concert in Simmonscourt, circa 1984/5)

Bono & The Edge (met and talked briefly to them in the security clearance queue in Dublin Airport)

Johnny Logan (who was in the holiday centre the same day as Dennis Taylor, didn't really have any interest in meeting him, but had no choice, nice guy though)

all the current members of Fairport Convention (after their gig last time they played in Dublin)

Charles Haughey (git) (was official photographer at an endurance diving world record attempt opened by him)

Neil Morrissey (shared a joint with him at the Fleadh in Finsbury Park)

Jimmy White (had a pint with him in Richmond)

Ronnie Wood (played pool with him in Richmond)

You don't have to hang around Dublin for very long to spot a famous person, so I've seen loads (and probably passed by even more that I didn't recognise) including Christy Moore, Gabriel Byrne, James Nesbitt, Neil Jordan, lead singer of Def Leppard whose name escapes me right now (seem to bump into him on a regular basis), various other dj's, musicians, actors, tv personalities etc, who probably wouldn't be considered famous outside Ireland and would probably be miffed at being described as such.

TheFrog said:

David Bowie?!

On tv, I've seen thousands.

met....but will they remember me? uuhhhh no in fact, we're really riding some people's jocks if you think about it, but oh well, I do it.

LL Cool J
Usher - dude talkabout a little man, tiny
Yo!!! the Beatnuts!!!!! well, I interviewed JuJu anyway
P Diddy
Redman (he put me in a headlock, shoved me everytime he saw me in the hallway, and popped my ass with a towel....I liked it ha ha)
Jay-Z
Ludacris (well everyone in radio knew who he was before he became Luda, Chris Lova Lova)
Queen Latifah
Lil Jon
Kanye West ... well hell! check my link

OK I'm stopping, I sound like a serious dick rider.

noepie said:

Ludo, Bowie - whoever it was, it was big and hairy.

PEOPLE I'VE SEEN

prince(in 1997...walked right past me wearing a black cropped jacket,blue-purple bodysuit,and the boots he wore in the "face down "video.he put his finger up to his mouth because he didn't want nobody to know that he was late for the soundcheck!...i lost my vioce for a week!)

the president of the united states(shook his hand twice at a rally.)

petey pablo(at the mall)

porsche foxx(radio personality here)

i was going for a job interview and saw ben affleck...he was wearing dark shades,black shoes,khaki pants and a brown quarter-lenght jacket...he looks just like any regular guy...that is,until he smiled...no doubt.

I've met Mr T he gave me a couple of cans of coke, he was staying at the same hotel as me in Miami. I pity the fool!

TheFrog said:

That's the one. Guess it was Bowie after all.

Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Nicki Katt
Bruce Campbell
Kevin Smith
LeVar Burton
Adam West
Marina Sirtis
Mayte
Prince (sorta. I said "hi", he acknowledged my existence)
The JOTY Tour NPG
Larry Graham
Todd McFarlane
Peter David (he's an author)
Willie Nelson
Michael Dorn
George Takei
Bela Fleck
Victor Wooten (Bass player for Bela Fleck)
Futureman (Percusionist for Bela Fleck)
Sheila E (I sang with her!!!)
Eric Leeds
Django Walker (alt country singer, son of Jerry Jeff Walker)
Grace Lee Whitney
Armin Shimmerman
Andy Pettitte (went to my high school)
Richard Linkletter
Harry Knowles

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head

I saw MC Hammer in concert in 1991 or something. Man he can dance...he sure was one dancing fool.

TheFrog said:

How did U come 2 meet all those people Froggy?

FunnyWayOfStoppinTheJuice said:

Are we counting people we've seen in concert too ?
Don't think I'll bother because my list would include some bands that split up long before some of you were born, it would be just too embarrassing!

And personally met...

Stevie Wonder
Mayor Maynard Jackson (R.I.P. )
Andre 3000
Big Gipp from the Goodie MOb
Kyle from Jagged Edge (okay who cares about him )
Case (another who cares, I know )

My most favorite brush with greatness was when I was in college and I got to spend the night hanging out with Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz from Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, and I got to watch Tina giving the lead singer of James a haircut in the green room before the concert.

My second most favorite brush with fame was having dinner with Ed Koch - it was a very, erm...interesting evening. A friend was having a get-together after Thanksgiving one year, and neglected to tell me that one of the people he had invited just so happened to be the former mayor of New York. WOOPS!

My best New Years Eve involved walking Debbie Harry and Chris Stein to their car after they performed at Squeezebox (ahhh, Squeezebox...) - after then, I'd see her at that club a lot, checking out the performances.

And working retail in NYC put me face to face with a lot of celebs - the only ones I can remember right now are Brad Pitt, Eric Stoltz, Bridget Fonda and Gene Wilder. I used to see Willem Dafoe ride his bicycle around all over the place in the East Village, which was really cool at first but after a while it was like, "oh whoop de doo, it's Willem Dafoe on a bike AGAIN."

SexLovely said:

Yvette Fielding was nice. I very briefly played 2-on-2 basketball - me with Mark Curry vs. Yvette and Caron Keating. I was on a few tv programmes when i was younger and the above were presenters or guests basically. Gary Lineker i met when i was mascot for the Everton footie team - Gary was around because he was checking out clubs he might come back to from Barcelona.

TheFrog said:

Yvette seems lurvly....
Did U hear bout Caron dieing of breast cancer yesterday Froggy??
Twas on the news.

Cool, what program were U on? What did U do.

Cant believe Gary sold out to play for Cruyff :disbelieve: But he came back 2 play for Tottenham!!!
They were my fav team when I wassa kid....Lineker and Gazza....

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SexLovely said:

yeah, i did. Very sad I can't believe Gary Lineker ever left Leicester (I was a bit weird when i was younger and supported Everton even though i was from Leicester - long story but i'm cured now). You can kinda guess the progs i was on from the people there, but anyways i'm gonna shut up now. I was lucky to meet some really nice people anyway.

[This message was edited Thu Apr 15 7:59:53 2004 by TheFrog]

JediMaster said:

Did you ask to meet him?