I know that face!

When working in Manchester quite regularly ran into groups of the Corrie cast and met Thelma Barlow at an open-air market in Cumbria. Believe in allowing famous people to remain inconspicuous, so only ever smile and say "Hi", then let them get on with their everyday lives.

Just remembered-stayed in hotel in Nairn over New Year and Andy Hamilton and his family were our neighbours at breakfast. Tilda Swinton also turned up for the Hogmanay bash with John Byrne in tow.

Prunella Scales nicked our breakfast table in a Cambridge hotel a few years ago. My tomato juice was on it and my bag on the chair so I politely told her the table was taken. She moved and joined Timothy West at the buffet. On the way out we spotted a theatre poster advertising a play they were appearing in.
Also saw John Prescott tucking into pie and mash in the members dining room at the House of Commons. We had been taken there by a local MP who'd we'd met and become friends with on holiday.
Have seen other famous faces out and about, usually in London but also in Stratford on Avon which is near my home.

I met Tom Jones back in the '60s and a lot more 'stars' of the day but they were 'in their natural habitat' I suppose, back stage outside theatres etc.

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I'd forgotten, met Terry Wogan at the Boulter's Lock pub in Maidenhead. He and dad got chatting about music. When we were leaving dad asked him for his autograph, none of us had any paper, but dad tore a cheque from his book and TW signed that!

In the 90s I went to the theatre to see Blood Brothers and Elton John was sat in the row behind us with a couple of minders.

I used to see Lewis Collins at a particular road junction on weekday mornings, we tended to arrive there at the same time, eventually we started waving and smiling.....he was devastatingly good looking! In our family, that junction is still known as Lewis Collins corner!
John Conteh, the boxer used to drink in the same pub as me when I was in my late teens!
We saw Phillip Serrell and Thomas Plant at a local antique centre, they were filming for Antiques Roadshow.
Met James Lewis at an antiques fair in Chester, he's lovely to chat to.
Viv from Gogglebox is often seen around, doing her shopping!
Met Jo Brand when she was doing her 'Hell of a Walk' for Comic Relief last year.
When they were filming 'The 51st State', Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Sean Pertwee and Ricky Tomlinson sat at the next table to us in a restaurant. Robert Carlyle is dishy, but a bit on the small side, Sean Pertwee has a lovely voice, but Samuel L Jackson is altogether gorgeous
My uncle John used to work on the Mersey tugboats with Bill Wycherley, better known to the world as Billy Fury, and he was a family friend. Even after he became famous, if he was 'home', he used to come to tea on Sunday afternoons at my Nana's house. He loved fruit salad from a tin!
We once saw Joanna Lumley when we were staying in a cottage not far from hers in Scotland. She smiled and said 'Hi' as we passed in the lane, I practically had to scrape DH off the tarmac, he'd gone so weak at the knees

I saw Terry wogan at Heathrow a few years ago. He was walking along, smiling. I also stood behind George Best in another airport. I was surprised that he was so short. I once saw Peter Kay and his family having lunch in a cafe. (I think it was in the Lake District). When in Amsterdam, Henry Cooper was staying in our hotel. Oh, I also saw Patrick Moore, the star gazer in a Little Chef about ten years ago.

I'm sure I must have mentioned on here (at least a thousand times) that Beatle George (my teenage crush) chatted to me and a couple of other girls through an open window one day. Just thought I'd throw that in for those of you I haven't bored with it before.

That must have been fantastic Sue01, I wish it had been me.

I saw Sophie Grigson on Santorini, & my late uncle spent ages talking to someone at Badminton Horse trials ( my cousin's partner was competing) and it was only later he realised it had been Princess Anne

In the early 70's my husband and I ran into Mick Jagger in a deserted street in Greece. My husband and Mick had a nice conversation about things to see in the area whilst I stood with my mouth open. My camera had just run out of film so there are no photos and the friends we were camping with never believed the story to this day.

I saw the elegant Bamber Gascoigne swanning through Twickenham, bumped into Tim whatsisname from the Goodies in WH Smith, and my friend leaped off a bus, in the sixties, onto Helen Shapiro's toe. That's my claim to fame . Oh - and we shared a carriage on Eurostar a couple of years ago with Susan Hampshire, who was trying to be incognito in enormous sunglasses and a swishy silk coat. I don't think she was trying that hard.

I spent half an hour talking to a bloke at a Northamptonshire cricket match before somebody told me he was Eric Clapton.

We once saw Buster Merryfield (Uncle Albert) whilst having a coffe in a garden centre - he was at another table (I know, why not at mine you ask)! We decided not to bother him as he was enjoying his drink and/or meal, it's not fair to him is it?

Oh and Bamber Gascoigne on the ferry to France. Old but elegant!

Simon Rattle in a lift at Heathrow. Shorter than me, but with the headful of curls.

I saw a face I thought I recognised this morning, then I realised I was looking in the shaving mirror.

I saw John Prescott at a payphone on Doncaster station once. He glanced over, then did a double take as he saw a whole trainload of people going "ooh look there's John Prescott".

I passed Patrick Moore in the street once. Jimmy Savile cycled past waving at everyone in a traffic jam we were stuck in.

Just asked DH this and he reminded me that he'd seenRoger Moore in a shopping mall in Monaco. He was also once behind Bob Geldof in the security queue at Heathrow

And Martin Clunes filming Doc Martin in Port Isaac. He was lovely.

I literally walked into Lenny Henry during an airport stopover on the way to Thailand and he very kindly apologised to me when it was me that was at fault. He is huge.

Waiting at Palma airport for son to join on us on hols, when Rafa Nadal came through arrivals having just won French open, he was utterly charming and friendly, stopped for pictures with lots of people.

I saw Timothy West and Prunella Scales having a cuppa in a cafe in Stratford Upon Avon. I saw David Soul in Birmingham City Centre and also saw Lulu looking around the shops in Brum.
Back in the day I regularly saw various members of the Crossroads cast in Birmingham

I once sat at a table in a restaurant next to the late Magnus Magnusson (he was lovely) and more recently at one next to Andrew Marr ( who is much shorter than he appears on the telly) and Nick Knowles ran past me at speed in Sainsburys recently clutching a bottle of milk. Sooo exciting [not]. He is very tall and very suntanned. The best one was Julian Fellows on an Easyjet flight to Sardinia - we watched him stand back with his rather portly son, while his very aristocratic wife heaved their luggage onto a trolley and then push it while they trotted along behind

We saw Hugh Lawrie in a queue at an airport in USA, having to slum it like the rest of us