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I Saw Rolf Harris Today

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  • #62
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    take everything wrote: »
    I was convinced i saw William Shatner 2-3 months ago in Dublin.
    Passed him on the street and i couldn't help staring.

    Anyone know if he was in Ireland recently.
    I think he did a book signing in Easons not too long ago.


  • #63
    35notout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭35notout


    my mate was working in a bar in Kensington, London during the World Cup 94.

    I arrived very early for the Ireland v Italy game and spotted George Best at the corner of the bar.

    being a huge United fan, I sent a drink over to him. He asked me to join him for it which I jumped at the chance


    He said he was waiting for a mate - next minute Jimmy Paige walks in!!!!

    2 of my aboslute heroes - best day of my life EVER

    (oh, and Ireland beat Italy too)


  • #64
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Dammit. I'm pretty sure she was going to be my example as well.
    Aye, she'd turn milk sour.


  • #65
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    SkidMark wrote: »
    I'm calling Shenanigans on this one.

    Dermot Morgan died 28th February 1998.

    The Father Ted episode featuring Richard Wilson where Ted shouts 'I don't believe it' at him wasn't broadcast until 3rd April 1998.

    Unless you cannot tell Richard Wilson and Dermot Morgan apart, it never happened :confused::confused::confused:

    Nerd.

    Okay, I did pass Dermot Morgan and his family, and just stared slack-jawed at them.

    You have made an enemy today SkidMark.


  • #66
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I met several of the boards.ie mods. Although that's more 'infamous' than 'famous'.

    I'm related to Christy Moore, and I've met most of the big snooker stars of the later 80's when I did some work for RIBSA (Rep of Ireland Billiards & Snooker Association).

    Oh, and I've met June Rogers a few times too.


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  • #67
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    It seems to be top secret!

    I reckon Biggins is some really famous celeb :D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Biggins

    Mystery solved.

    But then...
    Biggins wrote: »
    Had a lot of the cast of Buffy, Angel, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly/Serenity etc at my second wedding to begin with. (Honestly)
    Wikipedia wrote: »
    "Biggins was married to Australian actress Beatrice Norbury from 1971 to 1974.[3] He is now openly gay and formed a civil partnership with his partner, flight attendant Neil Sinclair, on 30 December 2006 at Hackney Register Office.[4]"

    It wasn't a second wedding, it was a civil partnership!


  • #68
    jayteecork
    Site Banned Posts: 5,676 ✭✭✭jayteecork


    Once there was a group of us in An Brog pub, Cork, when someone came in and shouted "Lads - Rolf Harris is strolling up Olive rPlunkett Street!"

    So not only us buyt most of the bar pegged it out to go look for him.

    Couldn't find him at all.


  • #69
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    SoulTrader wrote: »
    ...It wasn't a second wedding, it was a civil partnership!
    LOL Right country, wrong location ...and it was a wedding. :p


  • #70
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    [quote=[Deleted User];66030275]I always thought he was some kind of secrect agent spy?[/QUOTE]

    He's James Bond :eek:
    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • #71
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    Biggins wrote: »
    LOL Right country, wrong location ...and it was a wedding. :p

    Damn! I'll keep looking, I'm on to you! :D


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  • #72
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    35notout wrote: »
    He said he was waiting for a mate - next minute Jimmy Paige walks in!!!!

    The guitarist? Oooooh, what was he like?


  • #73
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    alwaysadub wrote: »
    He's James Bond :eek:

    Whats the link? That they are both fictional creations?


  • #74
    xoixo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭xoixo


    A girl I know met Breffny Morgon (the Apprentice) on a night out.
    She gave him her number, and he calls her up the next day going "I'm going to do an Apprentice style interview with you ok? Tell me why I should meet up with you again. Tell me why you should be my girlfriend, what you can offer that other girls can't."

    She told him where to go and hung up.
    Sounded like the biggest creep going.


  • #75
    35notout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭35notout


    Kiana Wonderful Latch wrote: »
    The guitarist? Oooooh, what was he like?

    an absolute gentleman Kiana Wonderful Latch, very chilled out and not at all "celeb". Besty was the same

    I was too gobsmacked to make much sense tbh - but we had tequila shots!!

    and this was all before midday...............


  • #76
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    I passed Julian Clary in the Essex Exchange shopping centre. I thought he was a mannequin but then saw him move about a shop a few minutes later, think he was doing an ad for some clothes shop. :)


  • #77
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    xoixo wrote: »
    A girl I know met Breffny Morgon (the Apprentice) on a night out.
    She gave him her number, and he calls her up the next day going "I'm going to do an Apprentice style interview with you ok? Tell me why I should meet up with you again. Tell me why you should be my girlfriend, what you can offer that other girls can't."

    She told him where to go and hung up.
    Sounded like the biggest creep going.

    *cringe* :pac:


  • #78
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Met President Clintion. He thought i was from Argentina. He Gave me a signed copy of his Book.

    True story


  • #79
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    ardinn wrote: »

    Pierce Brosnan - cool as ice, was bond at the time - Loves fishing - one of the house-keeping girls went to his room for turndown on his second day, he had been fishing - not to rush into the room, she knocked, waited, knocked again, waited he slowly walked up behind her and whispered in her ear, in that voice that women seem to love "I dont think hes in" Made her year!

    Sounds like a creep.


  • #80
    rodgered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭rodgered


    Its been done!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055430630


  • #81
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Biggins wrote: »
    LOL Right country, wrong location ...and it was a wedding. :p

    You must be an actor or something are ya?

    I'm intrigued now:D


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  • #82
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    rodgered wrote: »
    Its been done!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055430630
    I'm not gonna bump a zombie thread to talk about Rolf fucking Harris, am I?


  • #83
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm not gonna bump a zombie thread to talk about Rolf fucking Harris, am I?
    Digging it up from down under is never a good thing. :D
    (mods don't approve either with zombie threads)


  • #84
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Biggins wrote: »
    Digging it up from down under is never a good thing. :D
    (mods don't approve either with zombie threads)
    Bumping zombie thread vs 'This has been done before'


    T'is a cruel world, isn't it Biggins?


  • #85
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    I passed by Dermot Morgan & his family around Stephens Green many years back. Was tempted to scream "I don't believe it" in a Victor Meldrew voice.

    Saw him at an Ireland match many moons ago when I was a lad. A few fellas behind me were shouting down to him 'Hello Father!!'.

    I thought it was hilarious but at the same time wondered... maybe it gets a bit annoying.

    But do you know what?
    .... I bet he loved that.

    vibrant wrote: »
    I have seen the man, the legend, Brendan Kilkenny on more than one occasion. Yes, yes... I know you don't believe me. That's why one time, I took a photo! *smug* ;)

    Yea, so have I unfortunately, never a pleasant experience.
    I was remember his manky feet that he showed them on telly.
    Euro_Kraut wrote: »
    I met Jonny Logan in an airport.

    I think I win the thread.

    If you met him in McDonalds, you'd win.
    Unlucky.
    35notout wrote: »
    I sent a drink over to him. He asked me to join him

    Sounds about right.


    Have seen a few random z-listers, McFadden, those gob****es from Bewitched walking around Blanch shopping center with security personal (lol), maybe a few others, possibly others - don't tend to remember or care as most of the people I've seen are tossers.


  • #86
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Walked passed Des Bishop outside McDonalds in the Blanchardstown shopping centre.
    Also I saw someone who looked a lot like Jason Byrne wearing a baseball cap screaming "Get a real ****ing job" to the guy in Temple Bar who stands on a box and makes sudden movements to scare people.


  • #87
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    brummytom wrote: »
    Bumping zombie thread vs 'This has been done before'
    T'is a cruel world, isn't it Biggins?
    It is.
    On one side I got a wonderful wife :) - on the other I gained her mother too. :(


  • #88
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    I've met a good couple of "RTE celebrities", and they all seem to have exactly the same kind of Eoin McLove sense of smug over-entitlement. People really do fawn all over them just because they act like they expect it. It grinds my gears.

    And not in a cool sexy way, neither.
    Biggins wrote: »
    Aye, she'd turn milk sour.

    I was working somewhere she was doing a book signing. I saw her literally make tiny little girls cry.

    Nice celebrities I've met include Seasick Steve, who is absolutely the dude you think he is, Gemma Hayes, who's is lovely and might I add absolutely stunning, and some of Arcade Fire who were incredibly Canadian and bent over backwards to help me out.


  • #89
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    brummytom wrote: »
    I'm not gonna bump a zombie thread to talk about Rolf fucking Harris, am I?

    Brummytom in 'Rolf Harris is a zombie' revelations.


  • #90
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Met Bono one day out in howth. He was eating a 99 with some woman. I was very young and with my mam and she dragged me up to him and had a quick chat :P

    Met Angeline Ball in Dublin airport (not a bad lookin lady)

    And shook Bill Clintons hand at a book signing.

    Not bad for a 20 year old :D


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  • #91
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    I think that might be the most humanising story about a celebrity we've heard, anyway. Bono eating a 99, swinging his feet under him.


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