Famous People you've met

omnicorp · 17-12-2004 09:49PM

you met a smiley face!?
Maybe he was famous in the sixties but now...

_blank_ · 17-12-2004 09:56PM

Can you see the Smiley?

irishgeo · 17-12-2004 09:59PM

Was pissed in Castlebar one night and ended up trying to chat up Kylie from Fair City. Very nice girl. Aslo met Ronnie Whealan and seen Robbie Keane from me in a pub in Dublin.

I aslo seen Hear' Say (not famous anymore)leaving a toy shop in london while on holiday. Myleene is a fit Bird.

Paulj · 17-12-2004 10:20PM

I was behind 'The Edge' in the queue in Supermacs in Naas 5 years ago. It was just after Radiohead played their tent tour gig at the racecourse there. Can't remember what he ordered.
Saw Ken Doherty in the restaurent in some hotel in Killarney.
Gave a light to Rachel Loshak (apparently she supported Norah Jones at the grammy's or something?)

threebeards · 17-12-2004 10:29PM

Bill Clinton
Bono
Ronaldo
Ronaldinho
Thierry Henry
David Beckham
The Pope
Sting
Jennifer Aniston
Alex Ferguson
Billy Connolly
Metallica
Ozzy Osbourne

I never met any of the above but I did have my photo taken with Norman Whiteside after Utd won the cup in '85. Pat Crerand took the photo but being 12 at the time, I had no idea as to his significance. Met George Best too a few years ago in his heavy drinking days (come to think of it, yesterday was probably a heavy drinking day for George) in Mick Byrnes hostelry in Castlebar. Saw Pierce Brosnan having his photo taken in St. Stephens Green about 4 years ago. Once played Steve Davis in a frame of snooker at an exhibition - I broke, end of story!!!

LadyPenelope · 17-12-2004 10:31PM

Met Depeche Mode in HMV in London, they were just shopping for stuff. They were really cool, and i got my photo taken with them by my friend.

Larry from U2

And Ray Darcy lives in my estate so have to say hiya to him a lot.

Lump · 17-12-2004 11:05PM

TBH Andrea Corr is probably the nicest "Famous" person I've met, was on work experience in ardmore studios, she was lost, I showed her the way to her studio, had a really nice chat with her. I didn't actually know it was her until one of the guys I was working with pointed it out. Nice lady though.

John

rabbitinlights · 18-12-2004 01:14AM

I danced next to woody harrelson while he was wearing a skin tight pink dress in the blackbox in Galway, I got talking to him later and while i was sitting next to him asking him what he was doing in galway, alicia Silverstone walked through the crowd and patted both myself and him on our bald heads and ran off into the crowd...........

Totally true story.

About a week later i kicked his ass at wipeout on the PS1 at a mutual friends house (he was fairly baked!) He was in town to promote a film he did the voice over for.

Link

Read down to 2000.

Sean

TCamen · 18-12-2004 02:16AM

Right, I'm not sure if everyone is counting famous ppl they've actually met or just seen? I'm leaving out any that I didn't directly meet... (some good ones like Sarah Jessica Parker & Will Smith were in close proximity but I didn't meet them)...

Claudia Christian (Ivanova B5)..Forbidden Planet (back when it was on Dawsons St).

Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis) @ MGM Studios back when that was still on TV.

Brian Kennedy...on the New York subway.

Brian Dowling in The Chocolate Bar.

Scootch (wannabe Steps group, they didn't last long) @ Splash in Vicar's St.

Jordan & Peter Andre...At a Brand Licensing Expo in Earls Court (I also got to sit in the BB5 Diary Room Chair, WOW!

)

Derek Davis...comes into my dad's shop.

Mary from Glenroe...same as above.
Seen a load of Fair City actors around the place, but only met/talked to the Police Guy, dunno his name, Detective something

asphalt-cushion · 18-12-2004 02:26AM

Got a band pass from the band james at witness 4 years ago. Met practically every band playing there on the sunday.

Met the band million dead, hell is for heroes' lead singer and a few other bands that probably no-one has heard of.

My uncle is the photographer for damien rice. He's recording the next album in my grandmothers house!

Oh and bono's daughter went to my school. woohoo :rolleyes:

steveland? · 18-12-2004 02:32AM

seansouth wrote:

Can you see the Smiley?

dammit...

pork99 · 18-12-2004 12:52PM

I was meeting some friends in a restaurant when who walked in and sat at the next table but Satan, Old Nick, the Lord of the Flies.

He's about 30 foot tall, is a dead ringer for Desmond Lynham and smells of pine cones. We got talking to him about badminton, really nice down-to-earth bloke.

Lump · 18-12-2004 02:30PM

I saw Vanessa Feltzzzz when I poped into work for a moment today.

John

Bungalow Bill · 18-12-2004 02:45PM

Met most of Oasis after a gig in Belfast, got Noel's autograph, it was great!

Lafortezza · 18-12-2004 04:27PM

Have played poker with Ken Doherty, Steve Davis and Joe Dolan.

Bumped into Pierse Brosnan and his dad on Grafton St and gave him a savage dirty look.
Saw Bill Clinton in Dublin Airport when he was over for his book signing a while back, big smiley head on him.
My dad was at a funeral where Bono said the eulogy and got chatting to him afterwards, he told us later that "Mr Bono is an awful nice man", fs.

EKRIUQ · 18-12-2004 04:42PM

Met Martin Sheehan in Madrid airport last year, was very friendly with everyone he talked to because the flight was 2 hours delayed, then in Dublin airport he just queued up with everyone else to collect his bags off the conveyer belt, and this was a time when in was in bad favour in America over his stance about the war.

weemcd · 18-12-2004 05:33PM

John Goodman

ferdi · 18-12-2004 06:39PM

a mate of mine saw Glen Hansard, lead singer from The Frames, walking down the road and pointed him out to his companion.

noticing this, Hansard said: "i suppose you want an autograph?"

to which my mate replied: "**** off you ginger tosser"

Lump · 18-12-2004 06:56PM

ha ha

john

Shrimp · 18-12-2004 06:59PM

haha ferdi (or should that be ferdinand)

thats a good one...

ferdi · 18-12-2004 08:16PM

Shrimp wrote:

haha ferdi (or should that be ferdinand) thats a good one...

yes, it should be....who might u b>?

ferdi · 18-12-2004 08:19PM

ah, hey Y o u s s e f

Astro1996 · 18-12-2004 08:30PM

Jack O'Shea
Padraig Harrington
Patrick Moore
Gillian Anderson

Shrimp · 22-12-2004 08:14PM

Yeah.. I'm Y o u s s e f... Superman's Brother!!

conZ · 22-12-2004 08:19PM

Fran Healy from Travis in a pub i was working in, in Ennis.

goin'_to_the_PS · 22-12-2004 08:19PM

met that fellow something trainer who runs brothels and drugs. He is in portugal waiting to be exergated back to ireland for the murder of veronica guirean(yes, i also the film). He seemed sound enough for the 5 minutes i talked to him

Dempsey · 22-12-2004 08:38PM

goin'_to_the_PS wrote:

met that fellow something trainer who runs brothels and drugs. He is in portugal waiting to be exergated back to ireland for the murder of veronica guirean. He seemed sound enough for the 5 minutes i talked to him

Jesus, John Traynor?

I have met NOBODY famous

Zaph · 22-12-2004 08:54PM

I'm somewhat deficient in the famous people I've met department. Only ones I can think of are Donall Farmer, who used to play the priest in Glenroe for years and Pat O'Mahoney, who used to present fashion and (I think) music shows on RTE. Always thought Pat was a bit of a tosser when I saw him on tv, but I've been out on the batter with him a couple of times and he's a sound bloke.

Agent Smith · 23-12-2004 03:53AM

i was given out to by sir bob geldof about 13 years ago, i live across the road from his sister,
i was playing football with my friends and i smashed her window,

she and him came outside and told me "to tell my mother what i done"

even now he reconises me when he's over and chats, nice guy.

also met ray darcy in a abarakabbara one night last year, he was with some blond one and he had kabbab sauce all over his face, the one time i wished i had a camara phone.

keu · 23-12-2004 03:56AM

i sang some songs in a pub with leonardo di caprio (although his bodygaurd was doing most of the singing) and his mother.
bumped into other smaller celebrities like fair city cast members (who i had known previously) and ray d'arcy types.

alto me dad met kings and queens and presidents, various heads of state and the pope (twice).
(ooh and he was a guest on the late late show years ago

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