The most famous (non-Irish) person you have had a conversation with?

py2006

Well hi,

So, we have all met somebody mildly famous and sure you can trip over Irish tv personalities when out and about in Dublin etc.

So it would be interesting to find out what famous people, that are not Irish, that you have not only met but have actually had a conversation with. So I don't mean shake hands, or got an autograph or saw in the distance etc etc. I can't say that I have myself so I would love to hear your experiences and what did you talk about and what did you make of them?

Happy Christmas!

pipelaser

Rory McElroy

mikemac1

Martin Sheen

His mothers family is from North Tipp

Clearly explains why he is so brilliant :cool:

Total gentleman

My name is URL

Bill Clinton... I was volunteering with the Civil Defense when he was in Dundalk and a few of us got to chat with him for a couple of minutes before he took to the stage for his speech. He seems like genuinely nice person and his love for Ireland is clear to see.

stick-dan

Steven Gerrard

Lawrence1895

I met a few Borussia Dortmund players in the 1990s, difficult, to pick a single one out...maybe Lars Ricken, as we share the first name, and he still holds the record for the fastest scored goal of a player, coming off the bench in the Champions League, afaik

Death and Taxes

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir John Major, Al Pacino...al at Trinity. Met and spoke with them all.

wishmaster200

bill gates

Killer Wench

I told off Senator Barack Obama once.

LivelineDipso

Lucifer.

Oh wait, he is Irish. Sorry.

Death and Taxes

pipelaser wrote: »

Rory McElroy

Is he related to the golfer Rory McIlroy?

ElChe32

Henrik Larsson is an absolute gent of a man!

Birneybau

Dennis Hopper, told him I loved him in "Speed".

I was young, ok!?

Where To

How do you measure fame?

Jonah42

Royce Gracie - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend and 3 time UFC champ.

Dtp79

Birneybau wrote: »

Dennis Hopper, told him I loved him in "Speed".

I was young, ok!?

Rory mcillroy the golfer!!

Bassfish

mikemac1 wrote: »

Martin Sheen

His mothers family is from North Tipp

Clearly explains why he is so brilliant :cool:

Total gentleman

Same here. Met him a few weeks ago in Dublin, absolute gentleman. Like the grandad you always wanted :-)

Herb Powell

He's really only known on the skateboarding world, but Ed Templeton. Had a chat with him at a demo in Berlin in the summer. Sound man. Also in attendence were Kevin "Spanky" Long, Josh Harmony, and Nestor Judkins. All well known in skateboarding, but probably unknown outside.

Gran Hermano

Mary McAleese

Thespoofer

Vinny Jones

The Snipe

Calvin Harris

jenniferalan

Martin sheen held the door open for me in the Nuig library one afternoon. He was walking around for ages trying to get a seat during study week when all seats were taken by 9am! One student got up and gave Martin his seat, Martin was very appreciative and was not going to accept only the guy insisted! Total gentleman as previous poster said.

kjl

My dad had a piss beside Mel Gibson.

I've had a chat with Ant and Dec before, they were eating in a pub, Ant was sitting on the left and Dec was sitting on the right.

helimachoptor

John Shea

Death and Taxes

Jonah42 wrote: »

Royce Gracie - Brazilian Jiu Jitsu legend and 3 time UFC champ.

Yeah but have met anyone famous?:D:D:D

sogood

Lee Evans. Many many years ago when he was starting out, he did a gig in Dunlaoighre. I was there, backstage, and after his set, I had a short chat with him over a drink. It was the first time I ever saw him perform ( or even heard of him!)and he blew me away with his originality. Anyway, he was so mild mannered and unassuming, genuinely warm and appreciative of any compliments. He seemed genuinely concerned that people enjoyed what he did.

Seedy Arling

Richard Hawley!

0ph0rce0

Martin & Charlie Sheen

eviltimeban

Elle MacPherson.

JK from Jamiroquai (with Denise Van Outen).

James and Lars from Metallica.

tdv123

Killer Wench wrote: »

I told off Senator Barack Obama once.

He is Irish.

osarusan

Kazuyoshi Miura.

py2006

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Mary McAleese

I could be wrong, but I believe she may be Irish...

helimachoptor

Almost forgot, shared a urinal with dirk Benedict

YbFocus

I once had a piss and a quick chat with Fredrick Aasbo, won't be known outside the motorsport world really. Actually he's not really famous unless your into motorsport.

Joe Strummer. Maybe not as famous as some of the folks mentioned here, but a million per cent cooler than any of them. Absolute gentleman, by the way.

Also when I lived in Berlin was renting a flat from a very well known TV news journalist. Well known in Germany of course, doubt many people here will know him though so I guess it doesn't count.

Matt Lauer.

Seemingly he's very famous in America. He was filming a segment in Galway and I asked him what in the heck he was doing in Galway.

antodeco

Justin Timberlake around 8 years ago.

The whole Irish football squad from Italia 90. Most of whom were not Irish!

fryup

Linford Christie the Olympic sprinter met him in Sydney had a quick chit chat and got my photo taken with him

Hidalgo

Had a few beers in a bar in Chicago with Norm from Cheers about 10 years ago, he was on his way home from some Chicago politician's funeral.
Sound man

and got the round in too

Raminahobbin

Mel Gibson.

Twas on the set of Braveheart when I was a little kid. I didn't know who he was at the time but I had read somewhere or heard somewhere that battle scenes involving horses actually required the horses to die for real and I think I gave out to him angrily for killing the horses, so he demonstrated for me how the spears had a fake blood capsule in the head that would release on impact, and how the horses are trained to fall over.

He was really nice

keithclancy

Sir Ranulf Fiennes

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes

Nice guy.

Immaculate Pasta

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer :cool:

Supraman

Samuel l jackson , nice chap .

Sunnyisland

Haven't met one.

BrianJD

I met Kevin Bacon in a shoe shop in New York once. There was only me, him and his son in the room but I said nothing cause I was a bit star struck.

Oh and I met and spoke to Michael Flately but I like to keep that quiet...

littleteapot

Joan cusack asked me for the time and directions to her hotel once. I was at work and didn't cop who she was until about 5 minutes later

Rented Mule

Just a few off the top of my head:

Shane MacGowan
Des Bishop
Harold Ramis
Dennis Rodman
Michael Jordan
Wayne Gretzky
Dweezil Zappa
Geddy Lee
Neil Peart (although it turned out he was talking into a Bluetooth and not actually to me - I was responding as if her were)
John Cusack
Jeremy Piven

Cossax

Jack Charlton. :cool:

dixiedan

Yeah. Met Angela Merkel when we were driving through Germany last year. We stopped off to fill up with petrol and a bite to eat. The lady behind the counter was Angela and she said " vot vill you haf?" At least I think it was Angela Merkel. The wife wasn't so sure though.

population

Spoke to

Denise Van Outen
Johnny Vaughan
Rio Ferdinand
Frank Lampard
Sophie Falkiner, she is a TV host in Australia
Ian Rush

Have met but without much in the way of chat

Jeff Bridges
Mike Tyson
Denise Richards
Julia Roberts
Kimi Raikonnen

lukesmom

David beckham