Ever meet your hero/someone famous?

15-04-2015 11:51PM

Elvis, Darth Vader and Dracula all turned up at this fancy dress I was at.

They came as the Three Degrees. Strange night.

pauliebdub · 16-04-2015 12:01AM

Met Gay Byrne at some town fair back in 85/86. I think he was having a bad day which is why I can remember it after 30 years.

Met many members of the Labour party a few years back. Pat Rabbitte was the only one who was less than lovely.

_Whimsical_ · 16-04-2015 12:07AM

Met both Dinny and Miley from Glenroe!

16-04-2015 12:10AM

Yet another person I completely forgot I met. Jaysis, I get around, it seems.

Friend of mine was drunkenly chatting up this girl in a bar a while back in Galway. I was laughing away at him until this big hairy fella comes over and puts his arms around her. My friend, who, as nice as he is doesn't know when to shush when drunk, says that he looks like he should be someone famous. Yer man says that he was and my friend asks what he did. Yer man says he was a wrestler and my friend thinks this is hilarious, asks what his name was. Yer man says, "I'm Bret Hart".

My friend was drunkenly chatting up Bret "The Hitman" Hart's missus! The guy was one of my idols during my teen years, but hadn't seen anything about him since the late 90s (even if that), so hadn't recognized him!

Turned out to be an fantastic laugh - got to touch his bicep (I was drunk and that bicep has hit a lot of people!), he offered to buy us drinks, but we declined and left him with his missus.

Oh. And pretty sure I met BiBi Baskin when I was a young youngin. Not sure which is more impressive :pac:

Andre Salmon · 16-04-2015 12:11AM

Didn't happen to me but wish it did, a load of friends were on a j1 in Chicago about 20 years ago. Two of them were going out together and had a blazing row in a club they were all at. My mate was shouting at his girlfriend and suddenly gets a tap on his shoulder, turns around and Johnny Rotten says to him 'you're a facking c*nt mate'
My (now)wife and friends were standing beside them at the time.
My mate was thrilled and still talks about it.
John lydon saying you're a c*nt, deadly

FouxDaFaFa · 16-04-2015 12:28AM

Ha, I did actually meet Samantha Mumba when I was a kid. She was much less enthusiastic than I was.

Calista Flockhart - Nice, normal. She came into work when she was on holidays in Galway and Harrison Ford rang her to see how things were going while I tried not to hum the theme to Indiana Jones.

Kristen Schaal (and Kurt Braunohler) at a party - Pretty much mowed Kurt down to get to Kristen. Made a complete tit of myself because I think she's great and I was drunk. She could not have been nicer. I cringe every time I think back on it.

I wouldn't count Hugh Grant and Eddie Izzard because I didn't actually have deep conversation with them to gauge their worth as people, just "hey, how's it going". But neither of them punched me in the face so it's a win.

John Green (famous to me anyway!) - very very nice man

Tyson Ritter in a pub - I told him I was a fan and he said he was a bigger fan of me. I giggled like a 12 year-old.

Tommy Wiseau (again, famous to me) - as off-the-wall as you would expect. Wearing multiple belts at the same time. Sunglasses indoors. Indecipherable accent. Threw a football at me. The works.

Maximus Alexander · 16-04-2015 12:32AM

I nearly knocked John Cleese over like a bowling pin when he walked out the side door of a theatre and directly across my path on a busy street in Sydney a couple of years back.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 16-04-2015 12:41AM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

I nearly got Marty Whelan run over

I smoked a joint with b-real

How did that come about with Whelan? Did he get thick with you over it?:D

Agricola · 16-04-2015 12:46AM

Marty Morrissey outside a chipper in Thurles on Munster final night. Legless, dishevelled and dominating a greasy quarter pounder. Never meet your heroes kids.

AnonoBoy · 16-04-2015 12:51AM

Agricola wrote: »

Marty Morrissey outside a chipper in Thurles on Munster final night. Legless, dishevelled and dominating a greasy quarter pounder. Never meet your heroes kids.

I've met loads of quarter pounders. They were all lovely burgers.

Jesus Wept · 16-04-2015 12:54AM

pauliebdub wrote: »

Met Gay Byrne at some town fair back in 85/86. I think he was having a bad day which is why I can remember it after 30 years.

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Nah he's just a cunce

dubscottie · 16-04-2015 01:28AM

All the time.. An former Irish international player lives next door and one other visits.. He is on RTE..

FloatingVoter · 16-04-2015 01:40AM

Plenty of people who have met Roddy Doyle have actually met me. Once they're buying, I'm lying.

Macavity. · 16-04-2015 02:09AM

Agricola wrote: »

Marty Morrissey outside a chipper in Thurles on Munster final night. Legless, dishevelled and dominating a greasy quarter pounder. Never meet your heroes kids.

Oh, I've actually met him when I was a young lad. Just forgot about it. Shook his hand as well.

FloatingVoter · 16-04-2015 02:43AM

"Dominating a greasy quarter pounder". Upon such words are great porn movies based.

Zemuppet · 16-04-2015 02:53AM

Was once at a table script read for a potential Simpsons episode. Met most of the cast, found Matt Groening to be a gent, with Nancy Cartwright who plays Bart a lovely down to earth and friendly person.

Dyr · 16-04-2015 09:03AM

pauliebdub wrote: »

Met Gay Byrne at some town fair back in 85/86. I think he was having a bad day which is why I can remember it after 30 years.

Met many members of the Labour party a few years back. Pat Rabbitte was the only one who was less than lovely.

Prionsios derossa grabbed me when I was a kid to use as a prop in a telly interview. He was outside kilmainham during an easter commeration. He never noticed I was wearing a pin Easter lilly rather than the workers party sticky one.

Dick spring did the opposite, elbowed me out of the way the be the centre piece of a photo op. He's a miserable prick. Had a few drinks with Neil Kinnock that night, gas man.

Met Joan Burton too, she was using a venue during an industrial dispute, all smiles while she desperately tried to evade us

TheBeardedLady · 16-04-2015 09:42AM

I met one of them: Dave Couse the leadsinger of A House. Met him in London at a solo gig about 10 years ago and went up to talk to him after. Told him a story about how I'd used his CD to put on mascara at work and had it propped up on the hand dryer at but it fell behind it and I couldn't get it out. He thought the story was gas and gave me a new signed CD and t-shirt and asked me if I'd like to go for a pint...but I said no because I was working the next day

? I'm still kicking myself about that. He was very sound.

Would love to meet Michael D Higgins then my life would be complete!

Salvation Tambourine · 16-04-2015 09:59AM

Met one of my favourite singers, David Ford, a couple of times. Lovely guy.

I also met one of my favourite bands, Hope & Social, when they played in Liverpool. Went over especially for the gig, which was in a tiny pub. I mentioned on Facebook that I was going over for it and I met two of the band beforehand. They were delighted that they met the guy from Dublin that was coming over. I spent a few hours after the gig with them and even got asked for an autograph because someone thought I was in the band.

While working in the airport I served a good few famous people, the only one I be overly fond of was Neil Hannon.

castletownman · 16-04-2015 10:12AM

Stayed in the same hotel as Chris Jericho at a stag in Cork a few years ago. Got a group pic with him the following morning when he was waiting to check out. To say I was star-struck is an understatement!

One of the members of Welsh rap band Goldie Lookin' Chain used the shower in my flat in UCD after they played in the Student Bar years ago. Had a party with them all after. Mad bastids.

elefant · 16-04-2015 10:21AM

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Tommy Wiseau (again, famous to me) - as off-the-wall as you would expect. Wearing multiple belts at the same time. Sunglasses indoors. Indecipherable accent. Threw a football at me. The works.

That is the dream!

eamonnq · 16-04-2015 10:27AM

pauliebdub wrote: »

Met many members of the Labour party a few years back. Pat Rabbitte was the only one who was less than lovely.

Are they your Heroes ?

MathDebater · 16-04-2015 10:27AM

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Would love to meet Michael D Higgins then my life would be complete!

The big fella is a huge soccer fan. Galway United is his team. If there's LOI games, hes at one.

Everlong1 · 16-04-2015 10:33AM

Had my photo taken with Bono while they were recording the Pop album in Hanover Quay. He was lovely, although just as my mate was getting ready to take the photo, he started staring at something odd on the wall of the building. I had to ask him to look at the camera as I had visions of the photo ending up with me looking at the camera and him staring off to the side.

Afterwards when my mate and I went for a drink he started laughing at me saying " I can't believe you ordered Bono to look at the camera!"

MathDebater · 16-04-2015 10:41AM

Everlong1 wrote: »

Had my photo taken with Bono while they were recording the Pop album in Hanover Quay. He was lovely, although just as my mate was getting ready to take the photo, he started staring at something odd on the wall of the building. I had to ask him to look at the camera as I had visions of the photo ending up with me looking at the camera and him staring off to the side.

Afterwards when my mate and I went for a drink he started laughing at me saying " I can't believe you ordered Bono to look at the camera!"

Ha!

I've heard that Bono is meant to be an absolute gentleman.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 16-04-2015 10:49AM

I was at a talk given by Ingvar Kamprad about his life and approach to business. I then had a quick chat with him afterwards at a wine reception held after the conference. In case you don't know, he is the founder of IKEA.

I find his story inspirational as in many ways it mirrors my own. He grew up in a rural area, came from a farming background, quickly realised the importance of education, spotted a business opportunity and went for it.

He used his skills and business acumen to develop IKEA as a brand and. I used my skills and talents to land a great job here in Frankfurt on the cutting edge of high finance.

I suppose one difference is that I would never buy anything from IKEA because of the generally poor quality and the false-economy of then having to put the thing together yourself.
Some of the Kamprad family do use the services of our firm for wealth management and strategic investment advice.

The Corinthian · 16-04-2015 10:52AM

I've just realized that most my stories involving 'famous' people are not really for public consumption.

Salvation Tambourine · 16-04-2015 10:58AM

TheBeardedLady wrote: »

Would love to meet Michael D Higgins then my life would be complete!

My mate's granny was mates with his mother, he was invited to lunch with Michael one day, had a lovely time. Talked a good bit about Galway FC

TheBeardedLady · 16-04-2015 11:03AM

Nokotan wrote: »

My mate's granny was mates with his mother, he was invited to lunch with Michael one day, had a lovely time. Talked a good bit about Galway FC

So jelly. :cool:

kjl · 16-04-2015 11:05AM

I have a few,

I've met
Ant and Dec
Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Louis Walsh
Andrea Corr
Liam Cunningham (Davos from Game of Thrones)
Mel Gibson
Neil and Christine Hamilton
Tony Blair's wife
Pat Kenny
Ray Darcy
and I scored Mel from big brother 1

Ever meet your hero/someone famous?

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