Famous People you've met

FatherTed

List the famous people you've met. Stuff like saying you saw Mick Jagger at a Rolling Stones concert once doesnt count or saying you saw Paul McGrath playing for Ireland at Landsdowne Road.


For me the most famous person I met was Mother Teresa. It was 12 years ago in New York, a few of us were sight seeing around town and we went to take a look at the revolving restaurant at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. We noticed a lot of bishops and the such around, for some conference we found out later. We get the in the elevator but got off the wrong floor. A security guard told us to step aside because someone was coming along. To our surprise it was Mother Teresa in a party of about 10 people, she came over and we said Hi and how's it going or something. Then she was off. Tiny. Four foot nothing. Definetly a spooky feeling came over the 3 of us. We felt like complete idiot after cos the only thing we said was how's it goin.

Also met Roy Keane last year after training with Man Utd in New Jersey. Had my pic taken with him. Then I asked him why he had bailed out on the Irish team before the world cup. He gave me one of his looks and said 'gotta go'.

Also met Joe Lieberman at a charity function when he was running for VP. Very nice fellow. Had a nice chat when at the end he asked if he could count on my vote. Told him sorry but I couldnt vote as I wasnt a US citizen yet.

Tusky

You should have licked her to see if she tasted like a peanut.

tinkerbell

I cannot believe that you asked Roy Keane why he "bailed on us in the World Cup".

HE WAS SENT HOME.

landser

once rescued the actor who plays paul brennan in Fair ly Sh*tty from the jacks in lillies. he was in the cubical and the latch stuck, so i used a coin to open it from the outside. that's the most famous person i ever met.... sad!

pickarooney

Haven't met too many internationally famous people. Jarvis Cocker asked me for a light once. Myself and my mate (fanboy) were waiting outside the venue an hour before the concert as he wanted to meet the big thin man. He sneaked up from behind, the cad!

Silverfish

Ian Dempsey stood on my foot, and I shook hands with Big Tom at mass.

Oh and Sinead O'Connor walloped into me on Grafton st and said sorry, unlike Ian Dempsey.

Blisterman

I met Bono, Ewan McGregor, John McEnroe and a bunch of minor celebrities, like Ray Darcy.

Chalk

i also seen sinaed o connor, at temple bar steps she was, telling everyone shes a witch/nun/pries/lesbian/musican/angel

i often see your man off dempseys den when im doing me shopping

and finaly i was working in a garage once and was washing a car, gay byrne came in on his big harley and asked me what i was doing.
i told him washing cars and he drove off .

fletch

Colin Farrell in The Carpenterstown Inn, Castleknock.
The Fair City crew
Louis Walsh in the George
Brian Dowling in the George
I'm sure I've met more but can't remember em

Homer J Simpson

I met Anthony Foley, Mick Galwey, Brian O'Driscoll, Shane Horgan and David Humphries in Oz last year during the World cup. Foley and Humphries are 2 sound out blokes....really down to earth.
Met Nadine's sister ( girls aloud) in Derry last August. We went there for a few nights out. She was arrogant and was living off her sisters fame. Defo didnt get the good looks of the family.
Met Bob Geldof, Kimberly & the blondey one ( From girls aloud) last Sept. They were waiting to board a flight back to Heathrow.



Sad I know.

Homer J Simpson

and finaly i was working in a garage once and was washing a car, gay byrne came in on his big harley and asked me what i was doing.
i told him washing cars and he drove off .[/QUOTE]

His daughter Crona married my cousin a few weeks ago. Wasnt invited to the wedding....of course all the knobs from D4 were.

Giblet

Thom Yorke, outside the Olympia.

Canis Lupus

I physically bumped into Pierce Brosnan walking out of a shop once.....

Raskolnikov

I've met Gerry Adams at a funeral, I talked to his wife as well, very nice person.

monkeyfudge

I had dinner with Mussolini's grand daughter once....

oh and I shared a taxi with Samantha Morton once too... although I didn't really know who she was at the time, it was before she did Sweet and Lowdown I think.

ixoy

I met M.E. Collins who writes school history books and Noel Dempsey, then Minister for Fisheries, at one event once. Beat that.

SprostonGreen

Billy Connolly in Sydney, have photo of it too.

Eddie Izzard in Jackie Skellys gym.

azezil

Bono - U2
Bumped into him on Dame St. a few months ago, asked me if i wanted an autograph or somthing... i said no

AARRRGH

Bono
The Edge
Kylie Minogue
Travis from Blink 182
Krychec from The X Files
Skinner from The X Files
Denise Van Outen
Sporty Spice
The singer from Moloko (she said I was very skinny, the bitch!)
...and many others, too hungover to even think.

gobby

Met Dave Fanning once at a U2 gig. Shook his hand. I was a bit pissed at the time.

bennyx_o

Most famous people I've met are Brian and Kerry McFadden. :rolleyes:

RuggieBear

I've met
bono,
Jewel,
Chris de Burgh,
the cast from Glenroe and various other RTE "personalities",
Maeve Binchy,
Ray Burke,
Gareth Fitz and CJ,
Henry Kissinger,
John Kerry's sister,
Robbie Keane,
loads of rugby players...

went drinking with the British and Irish Lions in Townsville in 2001 (Good laugh except when i had to push a rather inebriated Mal O'Kelly off the dance floor).

Met Taine Randall (NZ All Black Captain) in a lift at Los Angeles Airport...I was wearing an all black rugby jersey at the time....he smirked and said "nice shirt"! Me and my mates just erupted in laughter....

RuggieBear

azezil wrote:

Bono - U2
Bumped into him on Dame St. a few months ago, asked me if i wanted an autograph or somthing... i said no

lol....

Looks like everyone has met bono....

monkeyfudge

ixoy wrote:

and Noel Dempsey, then Minister for Fisheries, at one event once. Beat that.

Bah... I've only met Noel Dempsey, Minister for Education and Science... My pay cheque pretty much comes from the Department of Education...

I haven't met Mary Hanafin yet... personally I miss Micheal Woods... he was great.. well about as great as a fianna fail politician can get anyway...

Blub2k4

azezil wrote:

Bono - U2
Bumped into him on Dame St. a few months ago, asked me if i wanted an autograph or somthing... i said no

Did you tell him to stick it up his ar5e?



or do you not like him that much ?

irlirishkev

I used to go to the Olympia a lot years ago and met the following people there:

EMF
Ride
The Charlatans
Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher (who legged it down the road with my vinyl copy of DM.. I had to chase after him to get it. That was embarrassing)
Evan Dando (wearing Kurt Cobain's jacket)
Inspiral Carpets

I met The Stunning in their heyday, in Virgin Megastore, doing a signing.
I met Michael Stipe in O'Connors Jeans. I said 'hello', and he replied 'I don't sign autographs'!
I shook Ray Davies' (The Kinks) hand in HQ when he was doing 'Storyteller'

Think that's about it..

Kevin.

PS - A mate of mine served The Edge some ham when working in Super Valu a few years back.

irlirishkev

azezil wrote:

Bono - U2
Bumped into him on Dame St. a few months ago, asked me if i wanted an autograph or somthing... i said no

You should have said "...Ah gowan then, at the very least it'll be worth something when you're dead!"

Blisterman

Oh and I met Victoria Silvstead at a signing.

irlirishkev

Oooh and I tried to plant the gob on Edith from MTV, at the MTV awards a few years back.. She wasn't having it though..(odd that!)

K.

What happened to the anyone for tenuous? forum?? I want to paste mine...



I'm so lazy...

Got it!!
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Micro1

Met Mick Jagger coming out of a jacks once. I got out of his way and he said thanks.
Gone on the piss with sinead o'conner.
And gone on the piss with the boys from orbital.
Met David bowie a few times when he was going through his drum and base phase.
My mate went out with a girl off hollyoakes, went over to liverpool and went on a 2 day bender with some of the cast of hollyoakes and brookie.

ixoy

monkeyfudge wrote:

I haven't met Mary Hanafin yet... personally I miss Micheal Woods... he was great.. well about as great as a fianna fail politician can get anyway...

Then you're going to be jealous! Because it was actually Michael Woods I met, not Dempsey (I'm tired). I even got my piccie taken wirh him for the E&L supplement in the Irish Times. And I still met M.E. Collins.

Cianan2

Ive met a few "clebs" in me time(17 years)....

Ken Doherty(my mates dad knows him),
Dermot Morgan(at a football match with the same mate and dad)
Saw Louis Walsh when i was workin backstage in the NCH, he snubbed me the f*cker!
The guy who played Manuel in fawlty towers on Las Ramblas in Barcelona!(have a pic somewhere)
Oh,and appareantly...My cousins grannys cousin was Ben Stiller's mum!
Now for ya!!

cujimmy

I've had a drink with lester piggott and Dennis Waterman
Used to bump in to Bono a lot on the beach when I lived in Killiney
Lent Jim Kerr of Simple Minds a pen to sign autographs on a flight from Glasgow to Dublin
In a "professional capacity" as it were I've met sinead O'Connor and Shane McGowan
I've met too many politicians but they cant be classed as famous or even important.
Used to hang around with a lot of the cast of Take The High Road and other minor Scottish actors(all drank in the same pub in Glasgow)
And last but not least I met Peter Mullan a good few times as I used to be friendly with his sister

Kingp35

being from dalkey ive met loads.here is some I can remeber;

Bono
The edge
Adam Clayton
Naomi Campbell
Lisa Stansfield
Eddie Irvine
Damon Hill
Pat Kenny
Neil Jordan
Enid Blyton
Hugh Leonard
Ryan Tubrady
Keith Wood
Robbie keane
Damien Duff
Packie Bonner (had breakfast with him in the burlington one morning)
Robert Plant
Roseanna Davidson (Im good mates with her)
Chris De Burgh

good few more but cant remember them. They are always going around dalkey but no one usually pays much attemtion to em. Was good craic having a drink with duffer and keane. If you wanna see celebs go to either the queens or finnegans in Dalkey. Bound to see someone at some stage

Shazbot

i've met

bono - in blackrock clinic , i said " its a beutiful day" in a really sarcastic tone (it was stupid , i know )

Roy Keane and Liam Miller - when working at a rugby match in landsdowne.

The guy who plays doctor Cox on scrubs , cant think of his name- working at landsdowne , nice guy. he had a huge cigar in his mouth.

Samantha Mumba - in westwood gym. she said " hi , hows it going " i turned and laughed cause she looks like a monkey face to face.

Cianan2

I forgot to mention that I saw yer man Mondo the other day,he tried to stare me out of it-i was havin none of it!
Oh,and Keith Wood at christmas mass a few years ago. He shook my hand and said "Peace be with you" What a cool guy.....

Kingsize

famous people i have met

ive met a few of the firrr city dudes,cos a mate(who shall remain nameless) used to be in it.
beastie boys,
public enemy
faith no more
supergrass
fun lovin crims
bearded dude from th queens of the stonage whos name escapes me.
shared urinal with the sacked drummer from the stereophonics.
sir jimmy saville (said hello to him on one of his charidee runs he was wearing a green tracksuit)
i almost got K.o'd by chris eubanks at the top of grafton st last year.but he said sorry (or should that befffffffforry)
My dad once met charlie haughey & lied to him!!(told him he was the lord mayor of coolock!!!)
that bint who plays candice in corrie was in eamonn dorans about a year ago I was drunkenly shouting my jancice battersby impressions in her direction.
peter mayhew (chewbacca)
Anthony daniels(c3p0)
oh & mike murphy !! there are more i just cant think...

Kell

Used to work in very snobby restaraunts and the list goes-

Sean Connery
Mel Gibson
The French one from Braveheart with the nice jabs (Sophie Marceau I think)
Gwyneth Paltrow
Brad Pitt
Boycey from fools and horses
Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour & Nick Mason)
Dave Fanning- he bummed at least half a pack of ciggies off me in a wine bar and also discussed the finer points of Led Zepplins recordings
Bono
The vocalist from Dodgy
Siobhan Fahey ex Bananarama- she's niiice. Shared a few drinks and bummed some fags from her and her mum
Turned Aidan Quinn away from a restaurant one night which he took surprisingly well
Gabriel Byrne
John Hurt

I think theres more, but that'll do for now.

K-

Hobbes

Lenny Henry,
David Bowie,
Various famous snooker players from the 80's (Alex Higgins a few times, parents drank with him).
Natalie Portman (meet as in sitting across the way from me on a T in Boston with a big F' off bodyguard near her).
Some various RTE presenters whos names escape me (think more famous 10-15 years ago).
The weather girl off Skynews (forget the name, the cousin lives next door to her).

Oh yea and Benny from Crossroads when I was a kid.

Crucifix

Singer from the darkness.
Voice of Shredder.

Kingsize

id love to meet boycey from only fools & horses!

FatherTed

I forgot to mention I've had chats with Brendan Grace and Brenda Fricker at the Gold Circle lounge at JFK. Also took a pizz beside Davy Carton of the Sawdoctors in the bathrooms in Seapoint in Salthill before one of their concerts quite some time ago.

Sleepy

SprostonGreen wrote:

Billy Connolly in Sydney, have photo of it too.

You bastard. You've met the only celebrity I really give a damn about meeting.

giftgrub

I've met Dennis Leary....Johnny knoxville...jamelia...Steve "The Crocodile hunter" Irwin....gary from snow patrol...paddy casey...tom dunne...dave fanning...lorraine keane...the drummer from nickleback..cant remember his name though...Grant from feeder...thats about it

DEmeant0r

I once met Tony Adams playing Tennis in Galway lawn tennis club and got his autograph... having said that I really hate Arsenal, so his autograph wasn't really that valuable to me, and I lost it as well...

steveland?

I've served a few semi famous people in work.

Bertie Aherne, Colm Meany, Samantha Mumba...

Lump

Andrea Corr, The director of Butcher Boy, U2, Girls Aloud, Pierce Brosnan, The Burd that was in Laws of Attraction with him, Neil Jordon, Ian Wright, Phil Jupitus, Phil Tuffnel... I'm always bumping into "Famous" people in the BBC... I can't keep track

John

Ray Darcy, Samantha Mumba.... B*witched..

omnicorp

semi-famous Mary Harney on a plane.
I still wonder how I fitted in that aeroplane?

_blank_

Hobbes wrote:

Oh yea and Benny from Crossroads when I was a kid.

Best yet, deadly!

Well, I used to work in The Point, so I've been in the Backstage Bar more times than I care to remember.

But the best one has to be the time Andrea Corr gave it to me.

Her stool.

It was the Robbie Williams gig, so we closed the bar early-ish, then headed backstage. Anyway, after the concert the bar really starts to fill up, this time no exception. Me and the other lads from the bars were sitting around a table, and of course I needed to use the bathroom. When I came back the place was chocka, and some other b-lister had had my seat. I was looking around for another one, and caught this girls eye, who was sitting at his table. She stood up, and handed me her stool, then took his off him, saying "Well, you took his"! I took the stool, said "Nice one", smiled, parked my arse, and the rest of the lads were just in shock.

:cool:

Others I have met include the whole Manchester United squad the night before the Beckham wedding, Fat Boy Slim played The Point, and they were all there. I called Phil Neville Gary, asked Ryan Giggs where Keano was, and he told me he wasn't there, so I told him he'd do for a photo, he just laughed.

I met David James, who has the same birthday as my brother. He was really sound, but it was in early August, back when he was playing for Liverpool, so I told him I hoped he had a really bad season!

The MTV Awards were probably where I saw the most celebs, but not actually met. Ken Doherty came up to my bar. We only served Guinness products at the time, and he asked for a Heinekin, which we didn't sell. He turned his nose up at the other lagers, and asked for a glass of white wine. He arived back about ten minutes and asked to swap for a pint of Carlsberg because, and this is a direct quote, "I look like a **** with this (the glass of wine)". Complete Tool.

My favourite meet was the lads from Ocean Colour Scene. I love the band, and was genuinely Star Struck meeting those lads, no doubt, but they were really down to earth.

After Shels won the League this season, I was back in Tolka Park and met whatever players were back in the bar that night, and the manager. That was really cool, having the players join in the chants with the fans.