Ever met somone famous.......

Zapp Brannigan · 15-04-2006 09:13PM

Mate of mine's Uncle spent a flight sitting next to this South African Gentlemen. They made small talk, then my mates uncle brought up his favourite hobby: Golf. The South African Dude turned out to be very interested and talked alot about golf. As the plane landed my mates Uncle realised he didnt know the gentlemens name so he stuck out his hand and said his name. The South African responded "Hi .... I'm Ernie. Ernie Els"

WallysWorld · 15-04-2006 10:09PM

Nightwish wrote:

I served some guy from Fair City, Dermot I think his characters name is, in work last summer.

Define famous for me? I wouldnt know someone from Fair City if they came up slapped me and roared IM IN FAIR CITY to my face.:D

ChityWest · 15-04-2006 10:51PM

I saw john Torturro (Jesus from big lebowski) in southampton airport once - think he had gotten off a flight from Nice.

Didnt speak to him though I spent about 5 mins thinking about a big lebowski joke then decided that that could end badly. Also sat opposite that astrologer guy (patrick something) from Sky at night once on a tube years ago.

DOH - after re-reading the original post

....and not know they were famous at the time?

What ~I meant to say was No - never did.

Gone West · 15-04-2006 11:06PM

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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You work in NEXT.
lol.

I once met Charlie Haughey without knowing who he was.

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(in the kilkenny sense of the word)

Little Goose · 15-04-2006 11:34PM

FuzzyLogic wrote:

You work in NEXT.
lol.

What is funny about working in Next?

Sorry, that one went over my head..

branners69 · 15-04-2006 11:35PM

Bought Harvey Keitel a pint in Toner's, sh1t cool bloke..

For you movie philistines he was Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe in Pulp Fictions and Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs;)

Mimikyu · 15-04-2006 11:38PM

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Little Goose · 15-04-2006 11:49PM

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Thats what I just asked!!

16-04-2006 01:53AM

Its a fcuking ****e kip tbh....that what he meant tbh

NotWormBoy · 16-04-2006 02:07AM

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Crash and burn... Excellent.

While working in JD Sports (anyone want to make jokes about that one? Its a hole, get over it) I served shoes to Ken Doherty (he was buying astroturf boots for his nephew, I think). I also managed to be (allegedly - according to her) quite rude and unhelpful to (I found out afterwards) Samantha Mumba. Man, she was a minger.

Thats about it.

Gone West · 16-04-2006 02:34AM

NotWormBoy wrote:

Man, she was a minger.

I hear you.

Font22 · 16-04-2006 04:23AM

i serve georgina ahern quite regularly. lovely girl. prettier in real life than on tv/in mags.

Roen · 16-04-2006 04:37AM

I was walking the Sheeps Head penninsula down in west Cork last september and was doing a bit of map reading on the side of the road before heading up into the hills when this fancy ass lexus pulled up alongside me. The guy waved me over so I ran to the car and opened the passenger door. He offered me a lift, so I explained that I was walking the whole circuit so he was alright. Besides he was kind of giving me the glad eye. We chatted for a bit and I thanked him for stopping by to offer me a lift.
It was only when he drove off that I realised that it was Christy Moore. I think I didn't recognise him 'cos he wasn't covered in sweat.
Still fair play to him for stoping off.

Tha Gopher · 16-04-2006 04:57AM

branners69 wrote:

Bought Harvey Keitel a pint in Toner's, sh1t cool bloke..

For you movie philistines he was Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe in Pulp Fictions and Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs;)

*grabs a rabbit*

"Would ya look at this one, he looks just like your man, Harvey Keitel"

Ive met/seen/or shook hands with (excluding concerts) Anne Doyle (seen about 3 times round town), Joe Duffy (saw him from top of a bus), Ray Darcy (team won a schools thing, he presented prizes, sound lad), Gerry Fleming from the weather (his son was in the competition Ray presented prizes at. Yer RTE influence got you fcuk all that day Gerry!), John Bruton (at the opening of the Blanch shopping centre, must be 10 years now, shook his hand) Mary McAleese at.....something, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the weatherman off UTV weather, Father Stone from Fr Ted, and I could swear I once saw Ricky Tomlinson (Jim Royle), if it wasnt him it was his twin brother.

God, it must be 4- 5 years since I saw anyone famous, bar at gigs.

Mimikyu · 16-04-2006 12:28PM

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tbh · 24-04-2006 04:49PM

I went for dinner with a few friends once, and with us was the lead singer of Powderfinger. (aussie band). I'd never heard of them at the time. Thats about the height of it for me. HOWEVER a girl I knew in college came in one morning and told us she had been with a guy the night before who was an Irish soccer player. She didn't believe him, and couldn't remember his name (which she assumed was fake anyway - classy girl!). Anyway, one of the lads in the class was reading a paper and she saw the back page and went mental - she saw the guy (for obvious reasons, I'm not saying who it was) and couldn't believe he was who he said he was. If she was lying, she's the best actress I ever met - she was really shocked.

anyway, this thread just reminded me of that

Katykaboom · 24-04-2006 05:22PM

I met Beyonce about 5 years ago

ChityWest · 24-04-2006 05:25PM

Katykaboom wrote:

I met Beyonce about 5 years ago

What was she like ? Did you get a photo ?

jaggeh · 24-04-2006 05:26PM

i met nigel planner when i was 4. obviously before i knew the difference between famous and normal people :rolleyes:

Met Lenny Henry while he was filming the skit about the pirate radio station, i was wearing street hockey gear and he made a joke about me being scared he was going to hit me.

i met andrew fletcher when i was 11, again didnt really cop who he was till a few years later.

Met john hurt in 1999, kind of knew he was famous

ive met other famous people but i knew they were famous. (most recently the Dirty Sanchaez boys)

Katykaboom · 24-04-2006 05:29PM

it was a load of gay really was mad into destiny's child back then, went to concert, won a backstage pass, met all three of them, she is really small, absolutley caaaaaaked in make up, yer wan Michelle was a snooty cow, and Kellie, prettiest out of lot of them and was bang on.

We werent allowed take any pictures, or even bring cameras they took a picture and told us they would put em up on a website, but I lost my password blah blah blah, my friend printed me a copy I have it at home somewhere...

ctrl-alt-delete · 24-04-2006 05:29PM

DubGuy wrote:

I pulled Mary Harney in one of our many trndy, star studded bars before!........ but she's really down to earth and just like the rest of us!

In all honesty, with the size of her, how could she be anything but down to earth?

netwhizkid · 24-04-2006 05:41PM

DubGuy wrote:

WoW! It's like living in hollywood around here! :eek:

I pulled Mary Harney in one of our many trndy, star studded bars before! I was a bit star struck at first, I admit, but she's really down to earth and just like the rest of us!

What a disturbing mental image that is, I really wish you could temporarily clear your real memory like with an internet browser. The thought of that could leave me damaged for life !!

Now where is PacMan when you need him!

Mary Harney :eek: :eek: :eek:

Guru Maith Agut · 24-04-2006 06:00PM

Gary Pallister, shook his hand and had a pint with him and some other mates I was with, while over for a United game a few months back. Sound bloke and really tall. You don't really get the height thing from watching them play on tv until you're standing in front of them..
Oh and nearly hit a prat who walked out in front of my van there about 2½ yrs ago at 7:30 in the morning in Ferbane with a bag of rashers in his hand. Beeped my horn at him and as he swung around to flip me the bird I realised it was Tommy Tiernan :eek: Sorry I missed the c**t

Femelade · 24-04-2006 06:22PM

went to dublin zoo last tue, there was a famous guy there with his wife and 3 small kids...i dont know who he was or why he is famous, i think he either plays soccer or he's in hollyoaks or something like that.

ps. met colm meaney there the same day.

Guru Maith Agut · 24-04-2006 06:29PM

Femmy wrote:

there was a famous guy there with his wife and 3 small kids...i dont know who he was or why he is famous

How did you know he was famous? Had he bodyguards or did you just recognise his face as being familiar..?
That's happened me before and it bugs me that I can't remember why I should know the person! Tis like celebrity deja vu..

Femelade · 24-04-2006 06:38PM

oh he just looked kinda familiar, no body guards, but he just had the "i'm famous " look about him too, as well as his perfectly groomed and dressed wife and kids.

dubtom · 24-04-2006 06:40PM

I've met a couple, well when I say met I'm probably streching it. Delivered a pair of drum sticks to Adam out of U2, short and sweet, alrigh, alrigh, sign here, thanks. Drove that fat one from celeb big brother, the blond one, to Tallaght from the air port. Took delight telling Her NO when she asked was there anything in Tallaght to do. I think she was opening a centre up there. Drove that guy who does the club orange add, thank you for asking, very posh him.
And some news reader from RTE, who was pissed, told me who he was and how much he earned, which went up by 10 grand by the time he got out of the car, but he mustn't have been that famous because I've never seen him since.

ferdi · 24-04-2006 06:41PM

i met mary harney coming out of burger king

also me and a mate followed ryan tubridy around the grafton street area one saturday - he does his food shopping in M&S

N90user · 24-04-2006 07:02PM

ferdi wrote:

i met mary harney coming out of burger king

lmfao!

Hagar · 24-04-2006 07:10PM

ferdi wrote:

i met mary harney coming out of burger king

Not much point going in then was there?

Ever met somone famous.......

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