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I think I saw
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:35 pm
by cj
Malcolm Rifkind in Tavistock last week. This was very exciting as Devon is not over-populated by well-known faces like London or Brighton. However, it might just have been a bloke who looks like him, but don't spoil it for me ... Has anyone else seen a famous person recently? Or maybe you are famous and saw an ordinary person once.
Re: I think I saw
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:53 pm
by Richard Ruck
cj wrote:Malcolm Rifkind in Tavistock last week. This was very exciting as Devon is not over-populated by well-known faces like London or Brighton. However, it might just have been a bloke who looks like him, but don't spoil it for me ... Has anyone else seen a famous person recently? Or maybe you are famous and saw an ordinary person once.
Tim Benjamin and I found Andrew Marr lurking in The French House in Soho. Tim had a quick chat with him (after a couple of liveners, of course....).
Is he famous enough?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:14 pm
by Mid A 15
Alan Curbishley signed my copy of his book a couple of weeks back.
Does that count?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:20 pm
by Great Plum
I was at Madame Tussaud's last Saturday - I saw lots of famous people there!
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:07 pm
by Hendrik
I passed Boris Johnson as I was going out of University Parks in Oxford a few weeks ago. Not that surprising I suppose, as he is MP for Henley.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:24 pm
by Great Plum
At least he is in or near his constituency which is more than a number of MPs!
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:42 pm
by Deb GP
Boris! Yay. I like Boris. I often see him on his bicycle near my work. I guess we must be en route between Westminster and his London pad. The poor chap had the women leaning out of the windows of the London Deanery wolf whistling him a month or two ago. He was very gracious about it.
We're also quite near ITN so often see types like Nicholas Owen and other people who I can't remember the name of. And Ricky Gervais is occassionally spotted on the Bloomsbury side too.
Re: I think I saw
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:43 pm
by cj
Richard Ruck wrote:Andrew Marr
I like him. Not in a pervy stalker kind of way, he just looks like a nice bloke.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:45 pm
by cj
Mid A 15 wrote:Alan Curbishley
I shall probably get hate mail now, but who is he?
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:06 pm
by Deb GP
Dunno.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:08 pm
by Mid A 15
cj wrote:Mid A 15 wrote:Alan Curbishley
I shall probably get hate mail now, but who is he?
Former manager of Charlton Athletic FC and a failed candidate for the England job recently vacated by Sven Goran Eriksson.
If football leaves you cold then it is not surprising you've not heard of him so I forgive you, this once
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:47 pm
by englishangel
I once went to the ballet and Michael Heseltine was two seats along from us.
It was a long time ago though.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:52 pm
by J.R.
John Bird, (of Bird & Fortune fame)
Dame Virginia MacKenna (Born Free' fame)
But then, they both live near me. Only the best neighbours will do !
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:00 pm
by Hendrik
I am guessing, as the thread evolves, we will mainly see reports from Oxon, the Cotswolds, London, Surrey and Brighton. Loadsa famous peeps live in the above places. I guess because they're all nice places to live if you can afford it.
Switzerland and the French Riviera fall nicely into the same catagory.
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:12 pm
by Jeeves
I live in Brighton and very rarely see famous people... when I was working in one of Brighton's leading record collectors shops the 'famous people' used to come in on days that I wasn't there (I missed the opportunity of meeting Brian Wilson)! Over the last two years I have only spotted a few: Mark Williams (Fast Show), Fatboy Slim (in a VW Camper) and Robert Rankin.