petersimple Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 When I walk around I notice people. I make a point of looking at them carefully without making eye contact. When you do this you often see well known people who would otherwise have walked past unnoticed. One of the things I noticed about these well known people is that they don't appear to notice you. They don't look at the people coming towards them. You can understand why this should be. People would be stopping them all the time and asking for autographs, etc. I was walking along today thinking about Alfie Bass. Everyone over a certain age would know who he was, but he would be unknown to anyone under that age. He was in a old science fiction show I was listening to on the radio in the early hours of this morning. Many years ago he was one the people I had walked past without him looking at me. As all this was going through my noggin I saw what I assumed to be a couple of gay women walking towards me. One of them was carrying a box and they were both in a hurry. Just as they walked past I realised that the one without the box was a well known writer. She is often on the TV. Sure enough she hadn't looked at me but the other one had. Often you get people who look like famous people so checked on the net if the writer lived in the area and sure enough she did. However, according to her wiki entry she wasn't gay. That surprised me. Which well known people have looked at you as you passed on the street and which ones have ignored you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I walked past whatsisface off the weather. Des Coleman I think he's called. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I very rarely notice anyone. I'm just not very observant. I also have a very limited interest in things so i might be standing next to a very famous person and not even know it. However I was once stood behind the Duke of Edinburgh who didn't pay me any attention at all, but i thought i might just stay incognito and perhaps detect if he dropped one. Another time I had the unexpected thrill of seeing Roy McFarland in Homebase. I wasn't really expecting it and so i involuntarily proclaimed 'Roy!' At which point he did notice me and we shared a brief moment of eye contact and smiles - a special moment which belongs just to me and him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 actually....... Once i saw Gail Tilsley off Corrie AND then - not long after - Ester Rantzen!! What are the chances of that! Actually about 1 in 3 thousand trillion!! Another time I was walking through London and i saw Joe Jordan and shortly afterwards Steve McManaman. Each time I proclaimed 'oooh there's Joe Jordan' or 'oooh there's Steve McManaman' but the people i was with didn't see it either time and didn't seem bothered. they didn't seem to think that it was an event of any significance. Yet that was also a 1 in 3 thousand trillion event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 actually....... Once i saw Gail Tilsley off Corrie AND then - not long after - Ester Rantzen!! What are the chances of that! Actually about 1 in 3 thousand trillion!! Another time I was walking through London and i saw Joe Jordan and shortly afterwards Steve McManaman. Each time I proclaimed 'oooh there's Joe Jordan' or 'oooh there's Steve McManaman' but the people i was with didn't see it either time and didn't seem bothered. they didn't seem to think that it was an event of any significance. Yet that was also a 1 in 3 thousand trillion event. Are you some kind of celebrity stalker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Are you some kind of celebrity stalker? Lol...no But i've always remembered these two things. Its been one of the highlights of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mafiabob Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Not walking past celebrities.... But I've been mistaking for one plenty of times. Not nowadays but when a certain Merseyside soap was airing back in the day. Had photos and signed autographs and everything because they thought I was said actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I was once in the same co-op as Mason Bennett. He played against Walsall reserves later and scored. I take 50% of the credit for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I was once asked for my autograph in a pub in Camden. I told them I wasn't him. I never actually got to ask who they thought I was. It happened again in a pub in Liberec in the Czech Republic. As soon as I opened my mouth the star struck fan realised I wasn't the Czech actor he thought I was. Didn't stop me from developing a weird identity crisis for the evening though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sage Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Gary Lineker (outside a restaurant in Soho - he is very slim), Gordon Brown (School Sport Conference, accidently got inbetween the security and him), Edwina Currie (in Derby, very unpleasant person) and Linford Christie (in Sheffield). Most famous person I have spoken to (apart from Boycie) is Dame Kelly Holmes. Had about an hour with me, made her a drink and raced her...lost. Very nice lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I once walked past Sage in Morrisons, alas, he did spot me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezza Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Roy Carroll at chessington world of adventures ( after his derby days ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 That's reminded me, jimmy cricket walking down the pier at Blackpool. I said to him "come here" He told me to fook off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I see and talk to Margarrt Beckitt MP and her husband every Thursday at work. Really nice people who always say hello and give a friendly wave. They drive a lovely big arse silver Range Rover, and it's wierd but when I walk past it I always think how nice it smells. What the bloody eckers that's about I'll never know. Walked past Lisa Faulkener (the tall blonde off the Lottery programme) in Edinburgh. She's a bit aloof. But the best one is when me & Dav had a pint with Bucko. Best hour ever :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petersimple Posted April 20, 2014 Author Share Posted April 20, 2014 Gordon Brown (School Sport Conference, accidently got inbetween the security and him), Edwina Currie (in Derby, very unpleasant person) and Linford Christie (in Sheffield). I knew an old girlfriend of Brown's. She was too much of a lady to tell me much, but I just got the impression that he is more than a bit odd. I can second the comment about Madam Currie. Archie Gemmill, John McGovern and Roger Davies all looked carefully at me when they walked past me. This was when they were still playing. I would have loved to have stopped and talked to them but in those days I didn't think it was a cool thing to show any signs of hero worship. David Soul didn't look at me as he passed, but I had already noticed that some other people near me had clocked him and I suppose he just wanted to be anonymous. Roy Hattersley gave me a very careful look. So much so that I was of the impression that he was going to stop and talk to me. Perhaps he thought he knew me. This was when he was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 I've walked past Roy Hattersley (big bloke), also Terry Scott (also a big bloke) going into a restaurant in Golders Green, presumably doing a show at the old Hippodrome. Also briefly met Tim Wannacott in Devon. He was filming for 'Bargain Hunt' or summat and had just gone into the NT cafe for a cream tea. He's so unmistakable you can't avoid eye contact, He smiled and said hello, it must happen all the time. Seemed a genuinely decent chap (apart from the custard coloured suit). When I lived in London in the 70's I played in a large (amateur) orchestra which specialised in Opera. Met loads of singers from Covent Garden and the like. The most famous I suppose was Kiri te Kanawa. The biggest was Rita Hunter, by about 6 dress sizes. Also played under Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Simon Rattle a couple of times. It's great, name-dropping, innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Eamon Dunphy, on O'Connell Street in Dublin a few years ago. Predictably, he was 'tired and emotional' - as a newt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyram Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 When I lived in London in the 70's I played in a large (amateur) orchestra which specialised in Opera. Met loads of singers from Covent Garden and the like. The most famous I suppose was Kiri te Kanawa. The biggest was Rita Hunter, by about 6 dress sizes. Also played under Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Simon Rattle a couple of times. It's great, name-dropping, innit. Aw yes! Can yer gerrus 2 tickets for Phantom of the Opera, Box 5? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cisse Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Seppo Ahti. Never looks at you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Seppo Ahti. Never looks at you. Think yourself lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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