Namedropper!!!

[satsumaruma]

Had a chat in the pub with some work colleagues and we got around to talking about famous people we have met over the years and I thought it might be interesting to see who people on these forums have met from around the world. And, what they thought of that celeb from meeting them.

I have met a few celebs over the years and will start with everyones favourite Eastend barmaid and Carry On 'starlet' Barbara Windsor.

Met her once when she came to my place of work visiting one of her 'friends'.

What a fecking cow she is. You know when someone is a z-list celeb is when they say "don't you know who I am" - she said this several times when she felt she wasn't getting preferential treatment.


I suspect our American friends are gonn be able to name drop so much better than anyone else on this.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Sunshine Village, the Banff ski resort has a celebrity fund-raiser every year. I met Katherine Mary Stewart in the lift line. She was in "Night of the Comet" and also on some soap or other, so definitely C-list but I liked that movie so I recognized her. She was charming and very pretty in person. I had a friend who had a couple of beers with William Shatner in the bar at the same place, said he seemed like a great guy.

[Jung_Yul]

I was visiting Hollywood - very strange place, by the way - a few years back with a friend, and while we didn't speak to him, we did see Kid Rock walking the other way. We decided not to be "those fans" by freaking out or anything along those lines. It was more like "Hey, Chuck... isn't that Kid Rock?" "Yeah, I think it is." "Cool... so, you hungry?" "Yup, let's go."

[Abramo]

Celeb = actors, singers and the like?

'Cuz if it counts, our current President had dinner at my house once (he wasn't president then, though there was a senator and a couple other high-profiles).

I might be 2-degrees away from a lot of A-lists, but the catch is they are A-lists HERE and probably don't figure in any list whatsoever in the Frigid Northlands.

[rfoxmich]

This is a bit too easy for me.. as my Uncle used to produce shows for Miami TOPA and had a few on Broadway.. we can start with Elizabeth Taylor, backstage after a performance of Little Foxes...and work our way from there if you like.

[758jo]

In Japan, I have met several celebs: Ayumi Hamasaki at a restaurant in Sakae, Nagoya (2002), BoA in Maruzen at Tokyo Station and then 2 weeks later on the Shinkansen (I think she was stalking me!), Bobby Valetine at Shin-Osaka (circa 2006), Debbu-ya in Nagoya in 2003, Matsu ken (countelss times…we enjoy the same izakaya) and Becky in Yokohama (2004).

[projecthikari]

In Japan, I have met several celebs: Ayumi Hamasaki at a restaurant in Sakae, Nagoya (2002), BoA in Maruzen at Tokyo Station and then 2 weeks later on the Shinkansen (I think she was stalking me!), Bobby Valetine at Shin-Osaka (circa 2006), Debbu-ya in Nagoya in 2003, Matsu ken (countelss times…we enjoy the same izakaya) and Becky in Yokohama (2004).

OMG. AYUMI HAMASAKI AND BoA.
How exciting!

[Ookami7]

Lets see, Saw, Sharon and Kelly Osborn, drove right next to them. Family did the star tour thing finding their house in Hollywood and happened to be there at moment they went out for a drive,

Middle school age, got to make it to 2nd Presidential election speech for Clinton when he was in Portland on Campaign trail!

Was at various conferences that had Colin Powell, Janet Renno, etc as guest speakers.

Had lunch at same dinner Kevin Costner was at in Bend, Oregon

Thats all that comes to mind at moment

[still learning]

I used to live in Brighton.

One day - out cycling.... after a steep hill climb I stopped for a rest; sat on a bench looking out to sea........ catching my breath.

Chap came and sat down; we had a very British 'small talk' conversation about the weather and cycling..........lasted all of 2 minutes.

After I had cycled away I realised it was [Lord - but before he was elevated]
Laurence Olivier........

Never saw him again.

[ScottUK]

Met both Ozzy and Tony Iommi a couple of times (through work), bump into the guitarist and vocalist from Magnum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_%28band%29) every now and again (they are always in my home town - shopping?), a few celebs here and there (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottuk/sets/72157601268647845/) - and John 'Roper' Saxon (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1020/860380722_3b6f533d34.jpg?v=0)!!!

[still learning]

... - and John 'Roper' Saxon (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1020/860380722_3b6f533d34.jpg?v=0)!!!

He has something of a grimace/rictus........
Where is your right hand and what is it doing to the poor chap?

[ScottUK]

I think that grin is a forced one after I told him I watched Enter the Dragon 25 years ago and it got me into martial arts - and he pulled this face like 'Oh god I am old...'

[Raffa]

Maybe it was not a proper VIP but i think the story worth telling...
A few years ago, during my honeymoon, i was visiting, together with my wife Niagara Falls.
Wanting a photo i ask to a nearby young man if he could shot one.
This guy say "sure!" assumed a pose and wait me to go next to him.....
I assume the photo pose near my wife, with the falls behind me and watch him perplexed..he understand the situation and a little embarrassed take a shot of us with my camera. Then i thank him and we go away with a smile...
Later a realize that there were other guys dressed like him....a national sport team of some sort with the scottish banner on the jacket, and while i was noticing this many girls were asking them autographs/photo.
Never discovered exactly who they were....

[Geordie Bruiser]

I briefly met Brian May of Queen at the Mumeishi 3s kendo taikai many many years ago!
I think I was ikkyu at the time and I had just been slaughtered by a Japanese 4th or 5th Dan (can't remember which). I came off after my match took my Men off and suddenly realised who I was sitting next to. He said to me "well done you fought well there but he was very good, wasn't he"!
He was there with his son, who I heard was actually doing kendo at the time.

[dwez]

I used to work for Granada so I got to see a fair few of the cast for Coronation Street, occasionally Peter Kay, Kenny Baker (R2-D2) popped in once. Outside the studios/canteen in Manchester I saw Scary Spice and David Dickinson, though they weren't together 'together'. Also - David Beckham in WHSmiths in Manchester Airport when Man United were off for a Eurpoean match and I was going on holiday.

I also won a competition to go go-karting with the lead-singer of my favorite band Pitchshifter (http://www.pitchshifter.com) JS Clayden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Js_clayden) so we've been on friendly terms ever since. Sure he's not A-list [to the rest of the world] by any stretch of the imagination but when you're in a scenario where you meet your idol and there's always that chance they suck, well Jon, his brother Mark and any member of Pitchshifter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchshifter_(band)) have always been down to earth, funny, considerate and welcoming.

We also bumped into the lead singer of My Ruin/Tura Sutana, the lovely/scary Tairrie B (http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&lr=&um=1&q=tairrie+b&revid=527596100&ei=IT4ySqmrJYOb-AbsycDACQ&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1) once. She's American but we noticed on a CD cover she thanked some people at the Red Lion pub in Newburgh which concidentally there is a Newburgh with a Red Lion pub just about 5 miles away from where I live but it couldn't possibly be the same one...

One or two days after spotting this credit we happened to be driving past the Red Lion only to see a massive tour bus parked up in the car park with some scary rock dudes hanging around outside. She was touring in support of the CD so we got her autograph. She's not exactly Liz Taylor but it was a big surprise.

Also - Sebastien Chabal the rugby player in Piccadilly Gardens before Christmas.
Also - Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
Also - Johnny Morris - TV zoo keeper and animal voice G.O.D.

[still learning]

I used to own + manage [1982 - 85] a shop which carried antique textiles.

One day - reading my book/listening to Radio 4, quite bored [we did not have many customers...] 2 women enter.

Rula Lenska and Annie Lambert [All Creatures Great and Small} - both of whom were appearing at our local theatre.

Rula - at that time - was a 'hottie' for me..........

[atgm]

I've met and talked with Kevin Costner, Ben Stein, and Sean Astin. I've had close calls with Utada Hikaru, Kimura Takuya, and Hara Sachie.

[Toecutter]

When I was in college I used to rig for a company in Phoenix, for the most part just got to say hi to some of the band members but some would actually talk to you, the bands varied from the Rolling Stones to Metallica. I ran (almost literally) into Halle Barry in LAX and talked a little to Anthony Kiedis in St. Thomas. Then as a developer I've met John Malkovich and a couple of other high profile people. All in all everyone seemed very nice, with the exception of Dave Navarro, that guy seemed like a real (insert you favorite description here).

[hl1978]

I held up George Bush's chief of staff while using the presidential toilet.

Went to high school with Christina Ricci.

Met various senators, generals, cabinet level officers, representatives and 1 governor.

I have also been on national TV a couple times.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Wow, some of you guys have met some very famous people. In addition to my lame C-list meeting, my sister went to high school with Mike Babcock (Red Wings coach) and my buddy went to high school with the Tweed sisters (of Playboy/Gene Simmons fame). So not quite up there with meeting Elizabeth Taylor, I must say.

My niece got dissed by the Queen on national television.

[Peter West]

Luckily my son's not on this, his list would be impressive
within the last year
Lord Attenborough,
Anthony Hopkins
Alan Rickman
Ricky Gervais
Gemma Arterton (students at college together)
Oona Chaplin (same)
Simon Pegg

that's just the ones he's told me about

In the last week:
Kate Winslet
Paul Walker

But then he works in theatre in the West End, so maybe that's cheating

[Kenshi]

meh, i think the guy behind the mask is actually a twat, but its the only thing ive got: Darth Vader (http://thevoidstuff.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/interview-dave-prowse-darth-vader-baby/).

[chrisw]

Aren't celebs just normal people?

[Redbeard]

I went to school and occasionally hung out with Jared Hess, the writer/director of Napolean Dynamite. He invited me to play a part in the movie, but I couldn't get work off at the time. My sister is in the movie though.

[Hisham]

I met Said Aouita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%C3%AFd_Aouita) when i was a kid. While i was spending some time in Orlando, i run into Grant Hill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Hill) and his girlfriend at The Universal movie theater and Dee Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Brown_%28basketball,_born_1968%29) at a steak house.
I met gymnastics' legend Nikolai Andrianov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Andrianov) while i was in Montreal.

[H.Sandsleth]

I nearly ran over the Norwegian crown princess while biking. She gave me the death stare.

[Peter West]

Harry Jones should be disqualified from this thread, unless the people she lists are not her clients.

[ScottUK]

Met both Ozzy and Tony Iommi a couple of times (through work), bump into the guitarist and vocalist from Magnum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_%28band%29) every now and again (they are always in my home town - shopping?), a few celebs here and there (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottuk/sets/72157601268647845/) - and John 'Roper' Saxon (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1020/860380722_3b6f533d34.jpg?v=0)!!!Waaah I forgot two others!

I did some HVAC design work at UB40's recording studio many moons ago, and I met Ali Campbell (singer) and Mike Virtue (keyboards).

Mike = nice guy, down to earth.

Ali = complete cock, loves himself.

My only regret in life is not putting him on his arse when I had the chance.

[SanguineKendoka]

Bill Oddie turned up to an outdoor party I was playing at.

He gave a very boring speech about birds.

[JSchmidt]

Hmm..
Peter Jackson
Tony Scott
Ridley Scott
Hugh Hudson
Tim Burton
Guillermo del Toro
Keneth Branagh
John Lasseter

Non-film stuff
Bjork
Sinead O'Connor
Douglas Adams
Bjarne Riis (TDF winner)

[Ken Morgan]

:wink:I've been involved with Canadian politics for more than a few years, so I've meet/chatted with the PM and various cabinet ministers a few times each, but really? No one important.

[DCPan]

I'm defining "met" loosely here.

Patrick Stewart was my graduation speaker. I shook his hand while lining up outside waiting to go in as he walked by me. I was a Star Trek: Next Gen fan too...so it was sweet!

If being in physical proximity was sufficient, one of my cousins wrote music for Taiwanese Pop Singers..., so he gave me his 3rd row seat ticket to Emil Chou's concert in Taipei back in the 90's...so I was sitting next to a bunch of Asian MTV stars like Ekulele, David Wu, and others. But didn't get to say "Hi" to them because the kid that was suppose to hand me my cousin's backstage pass had the wrong name.

Oh well :D

BTW, do kendo celebrities count? How about a list of the 8th dans that you've keikoed with? :)

[rfoxmich]

If I want to go 'B-list' I went to high school with Tim Busfield (plays Kevin Costner's brother in Field of Dreams), I can say I was in a production with him too.. (well I was in the pit for our high school production of Guys & Dolls which he starred in).

[Ralutin]

Current Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquao last year training for one of his fights:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/2320678894_1e17b0435f.jpg

And the rest of the pictures from his training session:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocbpictures/sets/72157604074132420/


Film star and former model Rene Russo at an exhibition baseball game last year at the L.A Coliseum:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2329/2376745950_b145798516.jpg


Former L.A. Dodgers baseball player Nomar Garciaparra at an event he hosted after a Dodgers game:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocbpictures/sets/72157601244926061/


The voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, spoke at my high school graduation and one of the 'junior' Mythbusters, Grant Imahara, attended my high school.

[chidokan]

I am famous. Jeremy Paxman interviewed me for the politics show (ok I was only on tv for 30 seconds!:silly:) My cousin played drums in Generation X for Billy Idol and was road manager for a few bands like Oasis... at his wedding Big Country were among the guests.

I am also going to be on Rory and thingy's weird sports show for my longbow archery skills next weekend. (obviously I'm a man of many talents...)

Many senior sensei have wanted their pics taken with me at seminars when I was good enough to turn up to help out, join in etc...

A friend at school went to play for Southampton under Brian Clough, and told him to f!@ off!! Brian was awarded a degree at the same time as I got mine (but I actually got a proper one, not like his where he didn't even do a course...the cheat) and was on stage a bit later on than the 'proper' people..

A couple of my japanese mates were in Last Samurai...and I know someone who was a stormtrooper in Star Wars (he does iai in Nottingham dojo)

and as I live in Darlington I may even know the guy who nicked Jimi Hendrix's guitar when he played at the Imperial...

Bow down you lesser mortals and worship at my feet!:D

DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM????:rolleyes:

[H.Sandsleth]

Lol, you are famous! And Ralutin can be your paparazzi. : D

[1stdan]

Well if we are name dropping. I used to work for the Dallas Cowboys, dont hold that against me. So through them I have met Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, Jerry Jones, Randy White several times, Drew Pearson, Roger Staubach, Dion Sanders, and the elusive Terrel Owens. All very nice at least to me, though i was not impressed with Aikmans handshake, kind of like a wet fish. I also had dinner once with "The Assassin Jack Tatum" The man scared me by just eating ribs. Nice guy though.

Outside that I work as an editor in Dallas and have come across Actor Barry Corbin. Very nice. Michael Martin Murphy Western Musical artist. Tom Cruise, Ehhh. That kid from the movie "Office Space" with all the flair,is one of my little brothers best freinds. He's kind of a cool guy. I watched the super bowl last year with the scary guy from the "Scream" movies. His name is Brian Avery, you never see his face but he is the guy in the costume 90% of the time.

My little bro is a stuntman in LA. he has doubled Gary Busey and Mark Dacascos, beat up Keifer Sutherland on 24, he has also been shot several time on TV. Can i claim half points for those?????

[Wraith]

Sat next to Terry Waite a couple of days ago, on a number 23 bus from Liverpool Street Station. Various other Z Listers over the years.

[Maku-san]

Sat next to Kris Kristofferson in church.

Met & shook hands with Mike Tyson in, of all places, a big-name American bookstore. :grin:

[Fonsz]

The singer Barry Hay of the Golden Earring practiced in our dojo a loooong time ago.
He was not a regular visitor because of the fact that he was on tour or in the studio or living the Rock star life.
They are world famous in Holland an d best known for their hit "Radar Love".
Yes, yes I told you it was a looooong time ago.:rolleyes:

[satsumaruma]

Okay I'm back

The few others I have met are.

Stephanie Beecham - served her when I was a manager of a jewellers in the Metro Centre. She was really really lovely.

Harry Secombe - same jewellers- but in York. Nice bloke but wasn't in long

Dionne Warwick - same jewellers in York. She came in wearing lime green crimplene trousers, pink top, covered in a pac-a-mac and headscarf trying to look inconspicuous. Which would have worked but for the two largest black American gentlemen I have ever seen. And if that didn't give you any clues, the fact they were both wearing 'Dionne Warwick tour of Europe" bomber jackets was the giveaway. And she was quite possibly the rudest person I have ever met (after Babs Windsor).

[Neil Gendzwill]

Totally forgot - I met Juliette Lewis when she came through town and played a gig with her band The Licks. She couldn't be nicer.

[1stdan]

One more I remember. I met Pro Golfer John Daly. He was attending a country western concert in Dallas and I happened to end up standing next to him at the urinal. He was absolutely Sh## faced. I asked him if he was John Daly. He muttered yes. I replied "i knew it was you because i can see your balls" I thought he was going to swing at me, but he had to hold on the the urinal to stand up. it was a classic.

[willszenith]

does pornstars count?


kiera knightly, way back in 02 i was a lighting assistant on a photoshoot but she wasnt that famous then...


piss poor rack tbh...

[chidokan]

wait... we have people working on porn films???? (thats better than being famous....)

So.... the BIG question (mainly on Sats lips) is... "when are you holding a seminar during a shoot???" (OBVIOUSLY HE WILL ASK IT QUITE CASUALLY AND OFF THE CUFF...)

Ooer missus have you seen the size of my weapon?:D

we could help write a script or something....

[Theodore]

Upton Sinclair (I was a baby), Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, a bunch of famous Roosevelts (family - go figure), Gerald Ford, Rosalyn Yalow, Glen Seaborg, Jack Webb, Julie London, Randolph Mantooth, Martin Milner, Richard Dreyfus, Robert Redford, James Fletcher (NASA), Dame Judith Dench, Yul Brynner, Charles Heston......those are the ones that come to mind right now.

[MartialArtsGirl]

One of the girls from Heartsdale goes to my dojo. They were famous in Japan for awhile...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsdales

Anyway, I'm not into hip hop (Japanese or otherwise) but apparantly she was kinda famous. (She and her sister decided to finish up with the music buisness and go into something else). She's super nice.

Here's a youtube video of one of her songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUcDhWoGqE

[cesarekim]

Gina Cervi, Pavarotti and various other opera singers and musicians. My mother and wife were opera singers...

I went to Lehigh so got to listen to Lee Iacocca talk of how he had made Chrysler the poster child of US automakers... 20 some years later, I live in the country that seems set to buy it.

[JoDuncan]

wait... we have people working on porn films???? (thats better than being famous....)

So.... the BIG question (mainly on Sats lips) is... "when are you holding a seminar during a shoot???" (OBVIOUSLY HE WILL ASK IT QUITE CASUALLY AND OFF THE CUFF...)
.........

Off the cuff.... haha, dirty bastard!! :D

Haven't seen many celebs out on the mean streets of the deen but I saw that dude... what's his name... was in that detective show with Jasper carrot and I shouted, "F**K me! It's Jesus!" Very cool of me I thought :smoker:

[The great I AM]

One for residents of Japan. I sat next to Giant Shiroda (http://blog.mcr.shop-pro.jp/images/moblog_440773.jpg) on a train into Shibuya a few months back.　The guy is enormous. A good 20cm taller than me at least. And he eats alot too. It's one of the things he's "famous" for.

Edit: that's his real chin.

[xvikingx]

One for residents of Japan. I sat next to Giant Shiroda (http://blog.mcr.shop-pro.jp/images/moblog_440773.jpg)
Ha ha! Yeah Shiro... Wait. Sorry. I have no idea who that freak show is. Apparently I need to start watching TV.

[The great I AM]

Ha ha! Yeah Shiro... Wait. Sorry. I have no idea who that freak show is. Apparently I need to start watching TV.As long as it's not Japanese TV....believe me, speaking from experience, you don't want to waste your time with it unless you like watching other people eat and "celebrities" win holidays and fat cash prozes.

[xvikingx]

As long as it's not Japanese TV....believe me, speaking from experience, you don't want to waste your time with it unless you like watching other people eat and "celebrities" win holidays and fat cash prozes.
Which is exactly why I don't watch it. I swear I can feel my blood pressure rise everytime they get all bikkuri over some stupid shat like an oversized bowl of katsudon for ￥500.
「ヘエエェッ！！！スッゲッ！」 --> brick flys into the TV (I always keep one handy) and the cat gets kicked.
The only thing that is worth watching is when they have grown men and women run an impossible obstacle course over cold muddy water. I will indulge myself with beer and 1.5 hours of watching people fail over and over again in slow motion. Heh, sometimes they even cry!

[still learning]

...., "F**K me! It's Jesus!"

Robert Powell.........

[Spendius]

I briefly met Luc Besson during a trip to the US when I was a kid. I must have been 11 or 12 at the time (so like 16 years ago), we met him in a hip hamburger joint in LA. He was very nice, and told me how useless it was to learn German since the US are so much better than Germany.

JSchmidt, what kind of guy was Douglas Adams ? Best name in this thread so far...

[satsumaruma]

does pornstars count?


bh...

too bloody right they do!!!


wait... we have people working on porn films???? (thats better than being famous....)

So.... the BIG question (mainly on Sats lips) is... "when are you holding a seminar during a shoot???" (OBVIOUSLY HE WILL ASK IT QUITE CASUALLY AND OFF THE CUFF...)

Ooer missus have you seen the size of my weapon?:D

we could help write a script or something....

If I told which films I have been in you wouldn't believe me.:ko::smoker:


Robert Powell.........


"That's not Jesus, it's just a fella":smoker:

[chidokan]

we all know you were in Lord of the Rings....:laugh:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/gillis15/gollum.jpg

[braxtonhicks]

Hung out with Tommy Davidson (Living Color) one time, Jacky Mason (complete with two hookers and bodyguard), Lenny Pickett gave me a saxophone lesson (he's the guy who leads the band on Saturday Night Live), and I played with Joss Stone once, and I played with Merry Clayton (the chick who sang Gimme Shelter with the Stones). That's about it. Oh yeah, I met Lorne Greene once. Not when he was in Westerns, when he was hosting that boring-ass nature show.

Names officially dropped.

[still learning]

we all know you were in Lord of the Rings....:laugh:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/gillis15/gollum.jpg

Nice one, Tim.

I think he bears a striking resmblance to...

Quark; Deep Space Nine. Perhaps even 'Nog'.......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/gallery/ds91/ds9nog02.shtml

[Neil Gendzwill]

JSchmidt, what kind of guy was Douglas Adams ? Best name in this thread so far...He was a fellow who really knew where his towel was.

[Spendius]

He was a fellow who really knew where his towel was.
He was so hip he had difficulty seeing over his pelvis :happy:

[Neil Gendzwill]

So cool, you could keep a side of beef in him for a week.

[still learning]

Just thought of another chap;

about 1969-70 [ish] ??? - - dementia has set in...

I was an 'extra' in 'Macbeth' - Roman Polanski actually spoke directly to me!

[He said - get out of my bloody way!]

Actually - he spoke to a bunch of us - - simply to explain that it was not
his fault we were standing around in the [very] cold weather.

His 'chief luvvies' were still 'preparing'...........

[hl1978]

I met the inventor of Tivo, some of the guys who created MPEG and various other video related technology over the years.

[Wraith]

Claire Sweeney passed by recently

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_01/SweeneyBrooke_731x496.jpg

[JoDuncan]

Claire Sweeney passed by recently

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_01/SweeneyBrooke_731x496.jpg

The best thing I have ever heard about Claire Sweeney came out of The Viz...

"There once was a time when I would have gladly eaten my dinner off of Claire Sweeney's minge... now it looks like she'd beat me to it"

:D

[Peter West]

When I was a part-time post grad, I worked in a department store in south East London. I sold a TV to Glenda Jackson. (She was still an Actress back then)

[satsumaruma]

Gina Cervi, Pavarotti and various other opera singers and musicians. My mother and wife were opera singers...

I went to Lehigh so got to listen to Lee Iacocca talk of how he had made Chrysler the poster child of US automakers... 20 some years later, I live in the country that seems set to buy it.


pavarotti huh? Well that is impressive. Best one yet I think.


we all know you were in Lord of the Rings....:laugh:

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/gillis15/gollum.jpg


No I was in "Lord in Her ring"....it was the adult version


okay luvvies, lights, camera,.....and action...

"Hey Dildo baggins, put down that axe and make use of the chopper instead. Mmm that really is good for my Elf"

I'll stop there I think.


The best thing I have ever heard about Claire Sweeney came out of The Viz...


:D

Ooh forgot about Viz. I once went to a pub in Newcastle with my female flatmate and there was the guy who created Viz. Spent most of the night talking to him and his friends. He wasn't that great to talk to but some of his girly hangers on were very nice:wink:

[satsumaruma]

Will be meeting the Rt Rev Sentamu, Archbishop of York this thursday.

If anyone has anything they would like me to say, just let me know.


And no KH I am NOT going to ask him for his views on the KJE!!!!

[ScottUK]

Ask him if I can join his Idi Amin fan club.

[Andrew S]

Once went and watched a sumo training session. Sat next to and talked to Kokonoe Oyagata - former yokozuna Chiyonofuji.

[hl1978]

Will be meeting the Rt Rev Sentamu, Archbishop of York this thursday.

If anyone has anything they would like me to say, just let me know.


And no KH I am NOT going to ask him for his views on the KJE!!!!

I met Desmond Tutu one time as a kid, but I don't remember all that much about it.

[amatsuda]

Yasuhiro Yamashita
Chiyonofuji
Takamiyama

80s Skate & Surf Stars
Christian Hosoi
Steve Caballero
Rob Roskopp
Bod Boyle
Marcel Soros
Tom Carroll
Shaun Thompson
Hans Hedeman

[cesarekim]

Forgot, Steve Bishop at Sportilia 2009

[Scotty Allen]

Okay, I'll play. I met and had a beer with Napolean Murphy Brock and Ike Willis a couple of years ago, former members of Frank Zappa's band.

[Wark 1978]

Which is exactly why I don't watch it. I swear I can feel my blood pressure rise everytime they get all bikkuri over some stupid shat like an oversized bowl of katsudon for ￥500.

That is precisely why when my wife and I bought our new house in Japan and it didn't come with an attached TV antenna, we didn't bother getting one. Haven't seen Japanese TV (unless being at the inlaws) in about 4 months. Sweet. My sould is that little bit cleaner.

As for meeting famous people, I met Griff Rhys Jones at a fundraiser for a cancer charity many years ago and got my photo taken with him.

Met Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) at a sci-fi convention in London about 15 years ago.

John Wark, Ipswich Town FC and Scotland legend turned up at my house with my uncle one day. That guy is my hero. I had heard someone say many years ago, never meet your heroes, you will only be disappointed. I was. Not because he was a dick or anything but because I couldn't think of anything decent to say.

Ken Russell at a pub in Southampton. When I was at film school in Southampton, Ken Russell, because he was a local lad, was employed as a guest lecturer to give advice to final year students on their final projects. My groups consultation was in a pub near the college where he regaled us with stories of buttering his own head and putting it between two slices of bread at some film party in the 70s.

Spoke to Gaz from Supergrass at a pub in Southampton. Rather he said to me, "Excuse me. Can I get to the phone?"

[xvikingx]

Christian Hosoi
Was he wearing spandex shorts and a leather jacket?

[Neil Gendzwill]

Well if we're name dropping pro skaters, I've met a few of those. Interviewed Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero back in the day for a zine. Rick Ducommun of Skull Skates and later stand-up comic fame got started in the biz locally. Colin McKay learned to skate here. Met/saw a bunch of them at Expo '86. Never met Christ but I saw him skate at Expo.

[still learning]

Ask him if I can join his Idi Amin fan club.

He also runs the 'Mugabe for Pope' campaign........


Sat next to and talked to Kokonoe Oyagata - former yokozuna Chiyonofuji.

The Wolf!
My hero in Sumo;
not physically 'big' - but 11 out of 10 for fighting spirit.

[Usagi_Yojimbo]

When I was in the 6th form my friend and I were nominated to interview Gryff Rhys Jones who was coming there to talk about his new upcoming sit com (I think called 'Michael') and how to write comedy - this was about 14 years ago now.

He sat down all happy and ready to field some easy well thought out questions about the industry from us school kids. Our opening question was something along the lines of, 'why are you no longer funny?'...

Incidentally the sit com he came to talk about never got as far as the screen.

[chidokan]

can we talk about 'proper' famous people now, instead of these so called 'celebs', most of whom have no talent with a sword, and therefore hold no interest for me. Yabe sensei from Himeji, who was in Last Samurai, therefore qualifies as a true celeb, as obviously the film revolved around him, not that tosser from the USA...:grin:

SO....how many 8dan+ have you personally trained with (ie not been part of a huge seminar, but got personal tips from on a face to face basis....) Personal pics will count if it is obvious its not a 'put up with a grinning idiot junior' type of pic... 7dans are two a penny so we can rule them out as just 'almost famous'...like a Big Brother inmate or something..

[Neil Gendzwill]

This guy, but he's not very famous...

http://www.kendo-sask.com/kenhaga.jpg

[JByrd]

I passed John Malkovich in the hall outside my office last week.

[chidokan]

Is he hachidan in kendo or iaido? If not....not qualified...

[ScottUK]

No way is John Malkovich a hachidan.

[chidokan]

hachidan ninja perhaps? you wouldnt know, would you....

[Toshiro Mifune]

One of the girls from Heartsdale goes to my dojo. They were famous in Japan for awhile...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartsdales

Anyway, I'm not into hip hop (Japanese or otherwise) but apparantly she was kinda famous. (She and her sister decided to finish up with the music buisness and go into something else). She's super nice.

Here's a youtube video of one of her songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcUcDhWoGqE


I know Candy Pop was popular but probably because it featured Sould'Out. They are both cute but I don't think they were that famous but they had a couple hits.

Allen Iverson (NBA Player) I met him in an airport before boarding a plane he sat next to me. We gave each other the nod and I went back to playing my Nintendo DS.

I met Good Charlotte before they released their first album. They were at a small college party performing at George Washington University. I guess the Madden Brothers count as B List celebrities.

[Paikea]

I passed John Malkovich in the hall outside my office last week.He's not a communist - what's he doing at Reed? :D

[satsumaruma]

He also runs the 'Mugabe for Pope' campaign........

.


Did you know that one of The Archbish's middle names is Mugabi? Seriously.


can we talk about 'proper' famous people now, instead of these so called 'celebs', most of whom have no talent with a sword, and therefore hold no interest for me. ..

...which is where you are really, you're not a celeb; and you have no talent with a sword!:silly:


I know Candy Pop was popular but probably because it featured Sould'Out. They are both cute but I don't think they were that famous but they had a couple hits.

Allen Iverson (NBA Player) I met him in an airport before boarding a plane he sat next to me. We gave each other the nod and I went back to playing my Nintendo DS.

I met Good Charlotte before they released their first album. They were at a small college party performing at George Washington University. I guess the Madden Brothers count as B List celebrities.

Was in bands as a yout and met lots of now famous people -they did well, we didn't - so will try to refrain from dropping these names.


One other I did forget was Steve MacLaren, ex England manager (Wally with the Brolly). I used to go to school with him, he was the year above me and was actually alright from what I remember.

[absenteekendoka]

Theres a few.....

Met actor Powers Boothe at a farmers market in Flesherton ontario a few years ago, he and his wife and kids apparently had a cottage in the area and loved doing the local art crawl.

Was at a local organic cafe back in (don't quote me) 1997 and bumped into Larry Gowan, chatted and had some humus......was a really nice guy, really humble guy, the humus however was awful....

Was at the Arnold Classic in 2000 in Columbus Ohio and went to a local club (go figure, Canadians going drinking....) and literally ran into wrestler Scott Steiner, I was pretty drunk already, but he laughed it off, came over sat with us and had a few rounds before leaving. Was actually a pretty nice guy.

Same weekend I also managed to piss off Lou Ferigno by taking his picture.......apparently he wasn't so into that....what added fuel to the fire was one of the other guys we went there with chimed in "Whats wrong Lou, are ya gonna get mad and smash your boat?"...what was funny was we went two years later and I ran into Lou autographing posters, he saw me, looked angry, tore the poster he was signing in half and glared. Guess he remembered me........Lou's a dick.

Theres more, but hey whatever. :)

[satsumaruma]

Okay, met with Archbishop John Sentamu today and he was...
well...a bloody nice bloke actually.

Very funny, charming. Shorter than he looks on telly and shorter than me!!!

I think I expected a shit load of piety but he was really down to earth.

hmm.

[ScottUK]

Very funny, charming. Shorter than he looks on telly and shorter than me!!!Is he a Pygmy or a Smurf?

[satsumaruma]

Is he a Pygmy or a Smurf?

More a ribena berry actually given the colour of his smock-like outfit.:D

[cr720]

I haven't met any "high-profile" people, but I did meet the guys from the band Switchfoot. A buddy and I helped them tear down their booth after a concert a few years ago

[satsumaruma]

Met the Deputy Director of The Chinese prison Service this week and several of his Governors.

He was very nice and charming, the others were, well, let's just say that there is a HUGE culture difference between the English and the Chinese. I know we English can overdo the manners/etiquette thing sometimes but I think the Chinese have no concept of such things at all

[chidokan]

People in general are just plain weird. We have loads of chinese engineers coming and going, and have the full range from miserable to cheerful, nice to nasty etc etc etc.... just like going to work anywhere I guess....

[Abramo]

but I think the Chinese have no concept of such things at all

You are right, they have no concept of the thing. The thing being, whatever you English take it to be.

You go there, and you have no grasp of their thing. See where I'm going here? We take simple behaviours and attitudes for granted because we have been taught to do them since infanthood. They have been taught different things, 's all. Out of everything in the world few are as non-absolute as ettiquete and manners, not even taste.

People in our midst should be more sensible to this fact because, when we have cultural exchanges with the Japanese, it's often quite rough-edged.

[Henry Jones Jnr]

Dear All
In regard to Mr Peter West's comment that I have clients!!???!, I would therfore like to clarify some points.

No I am not in the world's oldest profession.

I am in the world's second oldest profession......as a nanny!!. However my first job was for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Wellington, New Zealand.
In this job I met the following people....
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh...twice.
King Juan Carlos of Spain once.
I have had my jersey pulled by the Prime Minister of New Zealand. (David Lange RIP) He was very surprised that I can with it as he thought someone had stuck somthing on my back. I have been uncermonisly thrown through the double swing doors that lead to the Debating Chamber on Budget night, by the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Maori Affairs, just to piss off the waiting Media!. Ahh so many flash bulbs wasted.
My boss became the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Helen Clark EEEk!!)

And so to this country

I have
Shown a very intreagued Colin Firth around our pub when they were shooting "The Importance of Being Earnest" He was doing his best Mr Darcy impersonation.
Chased Rupert Everet because he stole a packet of crips
Waved happily at Ewan MaGreggor and his wife at a Yo Sushi. (I left them alone as they were enjoying themselves and I decided not to disturb them.
Ask the recipreiant of a phone call if he wanted to take the call as there was a nasty Australian on the line - Pat Cash.
Sat with a very impressed Billy Zane who sneaked into a Nenriki championship one year to do some research for one of his films he was working on. Does anybody else remember this??. We were all explaining the dos and don't of Kendo etc etc.

Let in Jimmy Page in and made him a cup of tea!
Had Adrian Smith yell "What the f**K do you two think you are doing!!" at Bruce Dickinson and I as we were demonstraiting Italian 16th century sword fighting techniques in Adrian's Kitchen.
Stared very quizically at Marylin Manson, who went Rawh! at me!.
Taught Adrian Naginata and Natilee his wife, Kendo

But the best one of all was when I accidentlally held up Iron Maiden whilst teaching Bruce the various shinai positions for Kendo eg Wake game, Jodan
etc at reading where there were 80,000 fans waiting!

I must say that that nanny job was the best I have ever had.

(Sorry about the spelling as the spelling thingy dosen't work on my laptop.:D

[cjjrwe]

G.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Madeline Albright, Al Franken, Gen Pretreus, Lawrence Fishburn, Theo from Cosby, a few other actors I cannot recall their names, Motley Crue, Slash, Joe Frazier, Michael Spinks, Leon Spinks, and various basketball and football players. Saw some soap actors in the Maui airport about two weeks ago. Really I don't pay them too much attention.

[chidokan]

I am on a video on Youtube with Iwata sensei. I can therefore claim that I am more famous than any of the above as my teacher would kick all their backsides even though he is 96+.
The winner is ME.:D

[ScottUK]

That is offset with the fact that you are you - and you have to live with that.

:D

[Peter West]

Dear All
In regard to Mr Peter West's comment that I have clients!!???!, I would therfore like to clarify some points.


Mistaken identity I'm afraid, I meant
http://www.kendo-world.com/forum/member.php?u=12843

[chidokan]

Me I can put up with...I have to live with my wife, who is scarier than me.... even Iwata sensei would jump when she shouts.....:laugh:

I always wanted her to do kendo, her kiai would knock birds off trees....

[MikeH]

Met the Spice Girls, plus Richard E. Grant, couldn't care less about the Spice Girls but had to restrain myself from blurting out Withnail & I quotes in the presence of the man himself....

[chidokan]

you're almost famous because you have met ME. (now just where is that 'condescending smile' smiley?:laugh:)

p.s.
are you going to Leeds with Nishimoto and Yabe senseis in September? Need to get booked up quick... spaces are running out... tell the lads at the dojo...

[MikeH]

Would love to be in Leeds in Sept but need to spend the cash on Maruyama Sensei's aikido visit next week instead :( Hopefully next year...

[Harry Jones]

Harry Jones should be disqualified from this thread, unless the people she lists are not her clients.

LOL - Ok non work related
I met Geoff Capes opening a sports hall in Brentwood when I was 6
Snogged a bloke who played football for Winbledon when I was 16 apparently he was famous at the time but I can't remember his name.
Saw Corey Haim on a beach in Jamaica (he was looking tubby)
Met and briefly chatted to Terry Pratchett (am quite proud of this one)
Sold a restaurant loyalty card door to door to a Newsreader.
Saw Bono on Tottenham Court Road last christmas

[satsumaruma]

Dear All
In regard to Mr Peter West's comment that I have clients!!???!, I would therfore like to clarify some points.

No I am not in the world's oldest profession.




What profession would that be? Soldier?


G.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Madeline Albright, Al Franken, Gen Pretreus, Lawrence Fishburn, Theo from Cosby, a few other actors I cannot recall their names, Motley Crue, Slash, Joe Frazier, Michael Spinks, Leon Spinks, and various basketball and football players. Saw some soap actors in the Maui airport about two weeks ago. Really I don't pay them too much attention.

Wow, I think this is the best yet....but then Harry Jones is not allowed to list her clients. ( i know this makes her sound like a prossie or a dominatrix but she isn't.)


LOL - Ok non work related


Sold a restaurant loyalty card door to door to a Newsreader.


Did he/she sit down and read it back to you. No? Did you offer them autocue?


Saw Bono on Tottenham Court Road last christmas

Oh please tell me you started singing...."it's christmas time, there's no need to be afraid, at christmas time, we let in light and we banish shade, for in our world of plenty...."

Didja? huh? didja?


Snogged a bloke who played football for Winbledon when I was 16 apparently



:cry:..........and I'm sooo jealous..............going to have a little weep to myself now...




WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AH

[Henry Jones Jnr]

I want to meet Mr Satsumarama to inform him that he seems to think that both Harry Jones and Henry Jones Jnr are one and the same. I therefore beg to differ. One is a naughty kendoka, the other is a mid mannered, respected Proffessor of Archaeology who teaches at a small college for most of the time, the other time he packs a revolver and a bullwhip and kills people. He is very respected and very confused.

[ScottUK]

I didn't know Harry was a professor? She certainly ain't a kendoka - even though I'm sure she would be a naughty one.

[still learning]

Met and briefly chatted to Terry Pratchett (am quite proud of this one)

You may remember this........ but will he?

[vedenant]

WHOA!

Nice thread!


Here's my (very) short list:
Mrs. Jimmy Carter
Teemu Selänne
Aki Riihilahti
Jussi Jääskeläinen
Joe Lynn Turner
Noble Prize Laureates, Martti Ahtisaari & Jimmy Carter (separately)

There must have been others; I know it....I just... can't remember... it is too early......must get coffee.... :(

[ScottUK]

Hmmmm, famous Finnish people.

It would've been cool to have met Simo Häyhä.

[vedenant]

Hmmmm, famous Finnish people.

It would've been cool to have met Simo Häyhä.

You are absolutely right! I would gladly swap all of those famous people that I have met, to a single meeting with Mr Häyhä. I mean what is a peanut farmer compaired to "The White Death".:scared:

[ScottUK]

The White Death. What a name.

For those who don't know of Mr Häyhä, here's a little bio or two:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

http://mosinnagant.net/finland/simohayha.asp (great interview)

[satsumaruma]

I want to meet Mr Satsumarama to inform him that he seems to think that both Harry Jones and Henry Jones Jnr are one and the same. I therefore beg to differ. One is a naughty kendoka, the other is a mid mannered, respected Proffessor of Archaeology who teaches at a small college for most of the time, the other time he packs a revolver and a bullwhip and kills people. He is very respected and very confused.


Kills people huh?

Well, seeing as we are fellow KWF'ers I will be nice to you when you get caught. Make sure you have a nice room with someone who will be gentle when he helps you develop your sphincter stretching exercises:scared:


You are absolutely right! I would gladly swap all of those famous people that I have met, to a single meeting with Mr Häyhä. I mean what is a peanut farmer compaired to "The White Death".:scared:


THE WHITE DEATH?????Oh my god!!


This has to be erased from all posts and quick...Jakku san will read this and think it will be a good badge of honour for himself when he wears his white clobber.

Oh crap!!!

i bet he's seen it already.:dead:

[still learning]

THE WHITE DEATH?????

...Jakku san ....when he wears his white clobber.

crap!!!

Now if you re-arrange these [edited] quotes........

Jaku san..... in his White Death clobber.... is crap!

[Sorry Jack........]

[satsumaruma]

awww bless his little cotton socks.

(good job he knows we is teasing him)

[Alex_McGrady]

Had a chat in the pub with some work colleagues and we got around to talking about famous people we have met over the years and I thought it might be interesting to see who people on these forums have met from around the world. And, what they thought of that celeb from meeting them...

Sorry, I know this thread is old but I just read it. It was interesting to hear about all the famous (infamous) people that everyone has met and where they have met them. I feel a little shy saying that I am not very familiar with most of the people that were named and I think most of the names I would drop would not be much different to most of the readers.

However, there was one man that I had the rare pleasure to work with for a short project during my work at a previous company; Stan Lee. He was down to earth and just a pleasure to know. I even asked for his autograph afterwards.

Not sure how I feel about Disney acquiring the Marvel Heros, but I guess it would be ok as long as they do not get too Goofy with them.

Now stop mickey mousing around and let's hit the dojo!!

[satsumaruma]

I met some very famous people last weekend.

Scott UK, Still Learning, and 1cut!


aka

Alien, Nosferatu and Chub-Chubs


:grin:

[Kim Taylor]

I once knew a girl who lived down the street from Haygood Hardy!

Kim.

[Lloromannic]

http://estaticos01.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2006/07/01/1151766677_0.jpg

former prime minister of japan (and rokudan) Ryutaro Hashimoto.