Celebrities you think you could get on with.

Dara O’Briain for me - love his quick wit and humour. DH met Eddie Izzard on location (!) last summer and said he was a really nice guy. He spent lot of time with the extras just chatting so I think I’d like to spend sone time with him as well.

I ‘ looked after’ Sandi Toksvig at a Book Festival. She was delightful.
Alan Bennett was also lovely.

I didn’t ‘ look after ‘ Michelle Collins ( Eastenders and Coronation Street), but my colleagues told me she was lovely, and invited two wee 14 year old lassies she’d been chatting to on the Twitters to join her in the Green Room! She posted pics of them all on the Twitters.

acanthus Penny Smith is sometimes on The Wright Stuff. I think she is an able, interesting and amiable presenter, with a very quick wit. I don't know why we don't see more of her.

Sian Lloyd (ex weather presenter) came to my rescue with a glass of water when I was having a coughing fit, and was very sweet.

My DD has worked with Mariella Frostrup who was delightful, as was the late Brian Sewell. She also came into contact in the same job with two infamous celebrity abusers, one now dead, the other still with us. This was well before the scandals erupted, but she found both very creepy.

As for someone I feel I could get along with - Penny Smith, now sadly not on TV very much. She seems to have a great sense of humour and is very down to earth.

DD is working with Mel Giedroyc at present and says she is lovely friendly, professional and very funny.
I think I’d get on well with her.
Some years ago same DD was working with Jeremy Irons and not impressed.

Miriam Margolyse (sp?) Bradley Walsh, Jo Brand, Billy Connolly, Stephen Fry, Alan Bennett, Brian Cox, John Lennon, Richard Burton, George Burns, I could go on .........?

Maybe Rachel Johnson? She seems a lot more pragmatic and down to earth than her sibling Boris.....

Graham Norton who is a real gem
Barack Obama - a real gent
Joan Rivers - she would have been a scream!
Princess Ann - down to earth

Oh so many... In particular Graham Norton who I have always felt is my closet son really!
And Dale Winton. I think he's a lovely man.
I long to meet Dawn French, she being from the west country like myself. And she is so funny.
Amongst Americans would be Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise,
Barack Obama, (and Michelle). Oprah Winfrey, etc........

Ive heard that Bill Clinton has that quality of making everyone he meets feel they are the most important person in the world.
I haven't met him but did see him once on a visit to Warwick a University and even in a crowd he had a magnetism.
I think I'd get on with Ed Sheeran, such a nice boy, Richard Madeley, if I could get a word in! Jo Whiley, Michael Ball.
Can't think of any others but there must be lots of nice genuine people in the public eye that I'd like.

Jo Brand.

Jeremy Hardy for sure, he thinks just like me? also Alan Davies and Jeremy Corbyn although we would have to steer clear of Brexit as a topic as I am a hard line Remainer ??????

Barak Obama, Dame Judy Dench, Ian Mckellan and Orlando Bloom.

Julie Walters, Dawn French and Peter Kay

I think Jo Brand - no-nonsense, cat-loving, and with a dry sense of humour.
Bradley Walsh - genuine, funny, down-to-earth bloke.
Paul O'Grady - animal-lover, funny, genuine man.

Ethel - Yes, Portillo -to talk trains!

A trip to Pompeii or Rome with Mary Beard.

Id get on with monty don , michael portillo, david jason, and germaine greer as well as others i cant think of at the minute

I think I'd get on with Paul O'Grady. He seems such a gentle man.

Dame Judi Dench, Paul O'Grady and Dawn French.

Martine Croxall. Her presentation of BBC's 'The Papers' is so relaxed and good humoured and she always brings the best out in her guests.

I would like to invite so many people for tea, I would need a marquee, however one person who wouldn’t be on my list is Janet Street Porter, can’t stand to listen to the woman.

Hmmm, spent half a day hanging out with Jeremy Irons who is quite amusing, spent a lot of time around Uri Geller re-writing one of his books - now there's an extremely interesting man who loves his fans, has an amazing energy and it is difficult to keep up with him. I miss him being in the U.K. I've seen him do incredible things. Have met loads of celebs when I did the photography at the Henry Cooper Walkabout back in the 80's - Joanna Lumley, (wonderful and very commanding) Jimmy Tarbuck (not my favourite) and a host of others.

Gyles Brandreth, Tim Vine and Lise Doucet.

Kitty does your DH know about RufusSewell ? ?

Quizzqueen, I am definitely with you on everything you have said. I am not sure how a lot of them sleep at night.

Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman and Judy Dench as they all seem very down to earth. Some celebs seem to come from another planet.x