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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jun 30, 2006 9:42:28 GMT
Whenever I see Alan Rickman (on the telly or that) I automatically say "It's Britain's most over-rated actor". It has become instinctive, so that's what I said without thinking about it when I saw him on the street in London a few years ago. He didn't looked pleased! Saw Ewen Bremner from Trainspotting talking to Fish outside a chip shop in Edinburgh once. A friend of mine went into a cafe on the front in Scarborough and Jimmy Saville was in there, he was hiding his face behind menus and stuff, and if anyone went over to him he waved them away and grunted. But he was wearing a brightly coloured tracksuit, all the jewellery and smoking a big cigar. When he finished his food he walked to the door, turned round and shouted, "It was I, Sir James of Saville OBE, all along, I fooled you all!" and ran out. Brilliant!
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jun 30, 2006 11:39:19 GMT
Brian Dowling! I was standing right next to him in a bar. I could have spoken to him. I could have spat on him. That's no great boast, I'm afraid. There are multiple Brians in every gay bar in Soho. Amusingly, he doesn't really like me, but sometimes forgets when we meet, so I never know whether he's going to be nice or bitchy. Keeps things interesting!
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Post by jem on Jun 30, 2006 11:42:33 GMT
There are multiple Brians That's a scary thought!
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Post by Adrian on Jun 30, 2006 12:04:58 GMT
Do you work on a Mac counter?
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Post by LoveMusic on Jun 30, 2006 12:12:58 GMT
My dad saw Bruno Tottionlini (i have no idea on how to spell that) from SCD today
He made me guess what celebrity he had seen. It took me well over 100 goes.
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Post by Bungle on Jun 30, 2006 12:13:54 GMT
Sam from this year's Big Brother was in the main (aka, pretty much the only) Southampton gay bar/club last night. I didn't meet him/her but my mate did - and I mention it just for the fact that she's apparently moving into a house just down the road.
I am a little scared.
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jun 30, 2006 12:21:20 GMT
Whenever I see Alan Rickman (on the telly or that) I automatically say "It's Britain's most over-rated actor". It has become instinctive, so that's what I said without thinking about it when I saw him on the street in London a few years ago. He didn't looked pleased! I'd have been more likely to rip his clothes off, but each to their own.
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Post by Adrian on Jun 30, 2006 12:48:23 GMT
she's apparently moving into a house just down the road. What the hell is she doing in Southampton? That's no way to launch a Z-list celebrity career! A
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Post by [james] on Jun 30, 2006 13:03:10 GMT
What the hell is she doing in Southampton? That's no way to launch a Z-list celebrity career! That's no way to launch anything besides a drug habit or a high-flying career working in Pilot.
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Post by Becky on Jun 30, 2006 13:05:02 GMT
met pamela anderson and helena christenson this week - pamela is lovely and very small. Helena is lovely and moderately tall. helena is 'flattered' paris hilton tries to copy her in her new video and thinks nobody should slag off kate moss as it's what 'everyone in every industry is doing at that age'. pamela's kids regularly boast that their mum was a real lifeguard and shout it loudly to all around as they are swimming. she seemed to wish both her ex husband and baywatch would go away forever. I've met Helena before. She was lovely.
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Post by Adrian on Jun 30, 2006 14:11:03 GMT
What the hell is she doing in Southampton? That's no way to launch a Z-list celebrity career! That's no way to launch anything besides a drug habit or a high-flying career working in Pilot. Or a very big boat. A
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Post by David Hunter on Jun 30, 2006 14:12:21 GMT
Brian Dowling! I was standing right next to him in a bar. I could have spoken to him. I could have spat on him. That's no great boast, I'm afraid. There are multiple Brians in every gay bar in Soho. Amusingly, he doesn't really like me, but sometimes forgets when we meet, so I never know whether he's going to be nice or bitchy. Keeps things interesting! I saw Brian and boyfriend(?) in Glasgow when Kylie kicked off her last tour. They were walking right down the centre of the pedestrian street on a saturday afternoon and were both bright orange. I don't mind him though. He is what he is and doesn't pretend to be otherwise.* *Does that make sense? I mean he's not like that man from UK Queer Eye with the small dog who's camp as Christmas on telly, but offscreen is a miserable old camp curmudgeon.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jun 30, 2006 14:28:28 GMT
I once entered my local M&S Simply Food at the same time as Dean Sullivan i.e. Jimmy Corkhill from Brookie. Unfortunately we both took opposite paths to the first aisle so we ended up doing a sort of continuous interlinking figure 8 thing round the shop; the net result was that I kept walking past him in the middle of each aisle. By about the fifth time I was so embarrassed that he thought I was some sort of cheap celeb hunting whore trying to capture his pic on my camera phone that I headed for the spirits aisle and stayed there until he'd reached baked goods and it was safe to return.
I also had the bloke from Jemini say "hello sexy" to me in the Revolution in Liverpool, which turned my stomach so fast I could only quelle the bile with a few flavoured shots.
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Post by Adrian on Jun 30, 2006 15:36:54 GMT
I can confirm he is still orange. Me and my Irish friend did really want to ask how Irishmen like him could get such a lovely deep tan. We chickened out though. A
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Post by queenmurphy on Jul 3, 2006 17:00:42 GMT
Frank Skinner was in the bowling lane next to mine a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by Becky on Jul 3, 2006 17:56:21 GMT
Bill Bryson was watching the England match in the same bar I was the Sunday before last.
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Post by jamie on Jul 3, 2006 20:09:50 GMT
Will Young I saw when I was in POpstarz I think it was on New Years Eve but I can't remember. I was very close to him but then didn't know what to say.
Like others before me, I have walked past Brian Dowling bitching about something in Old Compton Street.
And there's some others but I am not that good at seeing celebrities/recognising.
Phil Cornwall from stella street. Oh and I saw/met Jon Lee last week when we saw him outside the theatre where he's back in Les Mis.
And then there's the ones where I met people after gigs like Rufus Wainright but they are not really celebrity star spots are they?
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Post by Nick on Jul 3, 2006 20:10:52 GMT
I saw Brian Dowling on TV the other night! Seriously! I think this beats all the other Brian spottings hands down.
It was only ITV Play, but even so.
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Post by jamie on Jul 3, 2006 20:16:55 GMT
I saw Brian Dowling on TV the other night! Seriously! I think this beats all the other Brian spottings hands down. It was only ITV Play, but even so. And I've seen Christopher Eccleston on tv/dvd so that beats any of these spots in supermarkets hands down! Wow we are both so good celebrity spotters!
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jul 3, 2006 22:16:47 GMT
I saw the Cheeky Girls in Regent's Park!
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Post by frap on Jul 4, 2006 0:44:28 GMT
Phil Cornwall from stella street. Oh and I saw/met Jon Lee last week when we saw him outside the theatre where he's back in Les Mis. And then there's the ones where I met people after gigs like Rufus Wainright but they are not really celebrity star spots are they? Ooh, he's back in it? I must go. I loved him when I saw it for the first time back during his first go. He was really good. I can't do that. Don't ask me why. I just have this thing about refusing to get autographs. I want to meet my celebrity at a party, during an interview I'm doing with them, or through a mutual friend down the pub etc.
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Post by Golden Meg on Jul 4, 2006 15:28:37 GMT
The only famous people you ever get in Cardiff are Doctor Who actors. So far I've spotted Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, Simon Pegg and Claire Rushbrook. And all of them in shops: HMV, M&S, Virgin and M&S.
I need a Doctor Who version of those Eye-Spy books you used to get for long car journeys.
It is a little sad that I will probably never get a 'Billie Piper' or a 'Camille Coduri' to complete the set.
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Post by frap on Jul 4, 2006 16:10:17 GMT
I walk past Art Malik's house regularly. It's five minutes down the road from me.
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Post by Steven on Jul 4, 2006 16:47:44 GMT
I walk past Art Malik's house regularly. It's five minutes down the road from me. You're not Smeeta Smitten, Showbiz Kitten by any chance, are you?
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Post by David Hunter on Jul 4, 2006 17:12:29 GMT
When I used to visit my friend in Battersea, Susannah Constantine of Trinny & Susannah lived one door down. I never saw her, but one night she was holding a barbeque and we just caught a whiff of Lulu's kitten heel as she hopped out a taxi and through the gate. Had I been prepared I could have given it a 'Howz it gawn rerr Lulu!?" as we know she loves the Glasgow banter(?).
Ross Kemp lived at the other end of the road and had a large Budda in his garden. On second thoughts it may just have been him sunbathing.
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