Famous people that you have met.

dollyk · 17-02-2017 09:24PM

At a function for charlie Haughey , I met and got fotos with
Richard Harris, Chris de burg, and Gay Byrne, Ok so I was with the cleaning group, :P but never the less.
It was in the Burlington many moons ago.:D

Parchment · 17-02-2017 09:25PM

Mark Ronson, Q-tip, Seamus Heaney (a gent), some of the Jackass cast.

Ralf and Florian · 17-02-2017 09:26PM

John Cooper Clarke, great craic. The woman who played Jo in Fair City.

Rubberlegs · 17-02-2017 09:27PM

Splishsplash wrote: »

I have met, Jonathan rhys myers, conor mcgregor, gunnar Nelson, Dan ewing, (I've actually shifted one of them), met the fair city cast and Richie kavanagh ðŸ˜‚ used to text calum best also ðŸ˜‚

Ooh, which one ??

furiousox · 17-02-2017 09:31PM

I was in a lift in Stormont once with Ian Paisley and his bodyguard.
He spoke to me, I just smiled and nodded.
No way he was getting to hear my accent!

Heckler · 17-02-2017 09:36PM

May not be famous per se but famous and gods to me at the time.

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

Jello Biafra of The Dead Kennedys. Can't emphasise enough how much I loved (still do) the Dead Kens and most of Jellos stuff with various bands (Lard, No Means No etc). Just jumped on stage during a song, gave him a big hug and jumped back into the crowd. Might not equate as meeting I guess.....

Lots of then up and coming comedians 20 years ago when I was working bars and they were doing standup. Jason Byrne, Joe Rooney etc. Not funny then either.

One_Of_Shanks · 17-02-2017 09:38PM

I "met" Steve Staunton in Liverpool airport as a kid, (before it became John Lennon airport).

I was only about 8 or 9 at the time so probably 1988/9

I was an 8/9 year old kid and going back to Dublin from watching a Liverpool match with my Da.

It was my Dad who spotted him and Staunton was in the midst of a fairly passionate kiss with some lady (probably his wife, I hope)
So I asked my dad could I go over for an autograph and he said no. "Wait til they're finished".
So with that my Dad went off to look for a loo and I went up to Steve and tapped him on the waist, interrupting the kiss.
Asked for an autograph and he started laughing (so did she) and he signed a match programme for me.
I was chuffed til my Da came back and asked how I got the autograph and gave me a good talking to.
I still have the autograph. Cringe thinking of it now but he was sound.

About six years later on a family holiday in one of the canary islands we saw Martina Navratilova sitting on a wall next to a beach and I grabbed a napkin off a beach-side bar (no pen) and wandered over to her looking for an autograph but just as I approached her she started kissing the girl next to her.
Teenager now so I got all embarrassed and moved away without the autograph.

My Dad started roaring laughing and reminded me of the Staunton incident.

You get less brave as you get older he said.

I rarely met anyone famous but when I did, they seemed to be busy kissing.

Splishsplash · 17-02-2017 09:39PM

73Cat wrote: »

Ooh, which one ??

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

TheRiverman · 17-02-2017 09:44PM

Bruce Springsteen,shook hands and had a brief word with him on two occasions outside what was then The Point in 2006.

One_Of_Shanks · 17-02-2017 09:53PM

TheRiverman wrote: »

Bruce Springsteen,shook hands and had a brief word with him on two occasions outside what was then The Point in 2006.

Did you find him incredibly sexy?

(that basstid makes us mere mortal men look like lazy ugly gits going on what my missus says)

Badly Drunk Boy · 17-02-2017 10:09PM

I met Seamus Heaney the week it was announced he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm tall, so the first thing this great laureate of words said to me was "Do you play basketball?" My head nearly exploded!! (By the way, it was at my graduation, and his daughter's too. And it didn't bother me. Just left me bemused.)

Once, I felt as if I intimidated Nick Cave. (Again, the tallness helps.) I was going to a Grinderman gig in Vicar Street with a friend, and as we approached the venue, Nick and a buddy left the building to get into a car (I think). He looked towards us, stopped (as if I were about to take some sort of long shootin-falootin' shotgun from under my long black Cromby.) I didn't, so he continued. My friend asked me "What was that!!". Therefore, I didn't imagine it.

IrishBelle · 17-02-2017 10:11PM

Michael Flatley. He was really nice, chatted for ages. He seems to get a lot of flak, but in person he was lovely

andekwarhola · 17-02-2017 10:25PM

Heckler wrote: »

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

Should have told him that everybody thinks that he looks daft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34

Cameo · 17-02-2017 10:41PM

Heckler wrote: »

May not be famous per se but famous and gods to me at the time.

Dave Gedge of The Wedding Present. Passed him before a smallish gig they were doing. In fairness he was talking to someone but i figured what the hey. Politely interupted and got a wet fish handshake and f*ck off look in return. Still love the Weddoes !

He must have thought you had a right Brassneck. But nobody was twisting his arm.

PistolsAtDawn · 17-02-2017 10:46PM

Splishsplash wrote: »

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

I bet you are really good looking.

I'm hideous.

Nice to meet you.

Cameo · 17-02-2017 10:49PM

Splishsplash wrote: »

Gunnar Nelson, the ufc fighter now not the singer haha I did get to grab Jonathan rhys myers arse tho, God be with the days!!!

Was thinking I hadn't met anyone well known, but you reminded me I met Jonathan RM a couple of times - although it was before he was famous.

Irish Guitarist · 17-02-2017 11:06PM

I was buying a CD in Golden Discs years ago and saw Ritchie Kavanagh standing beside me at the counter. He said hello and I didn't answer him.

I've dined out on that story for years.

LETHAL LADY · 17-02-2017 11:13PM

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I was buying a CD in Golden Discs years ago and saw Ritchie Kavanagh standing beside me at the counter. He said hello and I didn't answer him.

I've dined out on that story for years.

Met him entering The National Reptile Zoo in Gowran, Co. Kilkenny. Don't know what smelled worse, Richie or the reptiles

muddypaws · 17-02-2017 11:18PM

I worked in the music business in London for 10 years, and met a lot of musicians, my last job was working for a management company that included The Who and Page and Plant as clients. I hadn't been there long and had to take some papers to a rehearsal studio for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to sign, I was absolutely bricking myself walking into the studio, but they were really lovely, Robert in particular is an absolute gent. I also met Harvey Weinstein in that job, one of the most powerful men in the movie industry and such a nice man.

George Clooney wanted to come in and have a meeting with my boss about a film his production company wanted to make, and no matter how much we begged him to take the meeting, he wouldn't. It wouldn't have killed him just to let George come in would it?

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-02-2017 11:23PM

muddypaws wrote: »

I worked in the music business in London for 10 years, and met a lot of musicians, my last job was working for a management company that included The Who and Page and Plant as clients. I hadn't been there long and had to take some papers to a rehearsal studio for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to sign, I was absolutely bricking myself walking into the studio, but they were really lovely, Robert in particular is an absolute gent. I also met Harvey Weinstein in that job, one of the most powerful men in the movie industry and such a nice man.

George Clooney wanted to come in and have a meeting with my boss about a film his production company wanted to make, and no matter how much we begged him to take the meeting, he wouldn't. It wouldn't have killed him just to let George come in would it?

I don't think I could speak if Page and Plant walked up to me

Freddiestar · 17-02-2017 11:24PM

Jackie Chan in a Tescos in Dublin, shook his hand and said hello, he said hello back

andekwarhola · 17-02-2017 11:25PM

Alex Higgins once kicked over my mate's Vespa in a fit of alcohol-induced pique if that counts as a celebrity encounter.

beggars_bush · 17-02-2017 11:25PM

Mick Foster (foster and allen)

Cameo · 17-02-2017 11:26PM

The closest I've been to The Who is meeting Irish Jack.

Jackie Chan in Tesco - brilliantly surreal. Reminds me I once saw the guy from Fun Lovin' Criminals (I wouldn't be a fan) getting money out of an AIB ATM - with bodyguard in tow of course.

Mr. FoggPatches · 17-02-2017 11:27PM

The lad in Mullingar who remembers the make and model of every car associated with all the number plates he's ever seen.
Can't think of his name. But weirdly, he doesn't drive

AnthonyCny · 17-02-2017 11:29PM

Met Peter Ebdon in Luton airport.

Very shinny head

Freddiestar · 17-02-2017 11:29PM

Cameo wrote: »

The closest I've been to The Who is meeting Irish Jack.

Jackie Chan in Tesco - brilliantly surreal. Reminds me I once saw the guy from Fun Lovin' Criminals (I wouldn't be a fan) getting money out of an AIB ATM - with bodyguard in tow of course.

Hughie, thats funny because I shook his hand in Lillies one night too, he's tiny

Cameo · 17-02-2017 11:31PM

Oh I met two ex members of The Smiths.

Not THOSE ones of course though.

WestWicklow1 · 17-02-2017 11:35PM

The late great Noel Purcell. Met and talked to him numerous times. His son Victor, (RIP), and I were friends many, many moons ago.

mrsgiller · 17-02-2017 11:35PM

Bob geldof, the fureys and Davy Arthur, David gest, Ricky from eastenders , Brian Ormond 😂 Paddy Reilly (ballad singer) , he wanted to buy my family a round of drinks but stupid barman told him we had had enough 😂 My 8 year old nephew was recently given the chance to meet Conor mcgregor but was in a bad mood so said no, regretted it about 5 mins too late

Famous people that you have met.

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