Famous People you've met

Micro1 · 17-12-2004 04:47PM

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 · 17-12-2004 04:50PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:06PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:10PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:18PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:21PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:23PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:33PM

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 · 17-12-2004 05:50PM

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 · 17-12-2004 06:04PM

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 · 17-12-2004 06:05PM

Singer from the darkness.
Voice of Shredder.

Kingsize · 17-12-2004 06:06PM

id love to meet boycey from only fools & horses!

FatherTed · 17-12-2004 06:39PM

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 · 17-12-2004 06:50PM

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 · 17-12-2004 06:57PM

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 · 17-12-2004 07:04PM

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? · 17-12-2004 07:40PM

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

Bertie Aherne, Colm Meany, Samantha Mumba...

Lump · 17-12-2004 08:07PM

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 · 17-12-2004 08:30PM

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

_blank_ · 17-12-2004 08:38PM

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.

DEmeant0r · 17-12-2004 08:42PM

Oh yeah, and I met a semi-famous Hong Kong actor in Hong Kong, by met I mean walk by and realise five seconds later that I recognised that face on Telly.

is_that_so · 17-12-2004 08:50PM

Gabriel Byrne when he was still a Spanish teacher

Only Human · 17-12-2004 08:54PM

I was working in a shop in Roundstone. Mary Benotti(ran for president of Ireland in the last election) has a house down there and she came into the shop I was working in and asked for her paper(she gets the presidential treatment......... a reserved paper). Suddenly I felt an urg to wind her up. Ive never seen such a dirty look in my life than the one she gave me after I asked her for her name. I even had my boss in stitches. Other than that Ive seen Bono, met the senator of the American Democratic Party, Bob Geldof. Not alot compared to some

_blank_ · 17-12-2004 08:59PM

Only Human wrote:

Not alot compared to some

It's quality

Only Human wrote:

Mary Benotti

:eek:

Not quantity

abccormac · 17-12-2004 09:02PM

Gerry Ryan gave me a dirty look on grafton street once. The w*nker.
Oh, and i met Kim Deal out of the pixies once aswell

jonny68 · 17-12-2004 09:04PM

Met Mani before in Temple Bar (Ex Stone Roses,now Primal Scream Bassist) top bloke

met the Inspirial Carpets at an afterparty after one of their gigs in London last year..also top lads..bumped into Snooker player Steve Davis before,nice guy also,met Gerry Adams a few years back very nice man indeed..eh thats all i can think of off hand.........

gonker · 17-12-2004 09:07PM

Had a pint with Niall Quinn in my ex local (I have moved) really nice guy. Met Tommy Cooper in the airport when I was a kid.
gonk

steveland? · 17-12-2004 09:09PM

gonker wrote:

Met Tommy Cooper in the airport when I was a kid.
gonk

Your reputation has gone up a million in my books gonker

_blank_ · 17-12-2004 09:11PM

SteveD wrote:

Your reputation has gone up a million in my books gonker

Just like that?

steveland? · 17-12-2004 09:14PM

Ya!

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