Famous people that you’ve met: What were they like?

Met Margaret Thatcher. Had Requested to visit us informally. Wore blue suit, hem unpressed, so it could be let up or down according to fashion. Was about 5ft 4ins. Lovely skin. Hooded eyes and hair colour better than seen on tv. Husband with her. He patted her hip with back of hand to get her to move faster. She was not amused. Later we all had tea in refectory.

Mike Reid- lecherous and unpleasantly over friendly.

oh and I met (properly met) Frank Borman the astronaut at a service at Westminster Abbey at which he gave the address and then there was a reception afterwards to meet him. Its a job requirement (or was then) for astronauts to be short. He was very quiet and polite..seemed a bit overwhelmed by all the attention. I have got his autograph.
I have got Ed Stewart's (Stewpot) autograph too. He did a lot of work for Boys' Clubs and my parents and I used to volunteer at the local one.

Robert Powell at theatre where I worked as a teenager. He was lovely. Also, at the same time, now a main female character from The Archers but I won’t name her. She insisted on walking round in the nude backstage and was an absolute cow. My Dad knew the members of Queen. He said they were all perfect gentlemen, especially Freddy Mercury.

Ah, the memories keep coming .. In the sixties my late brother was a student in Dundee struggling with his course and a weight problem. One day a coach pulled up beside him and the driver asked for directions. He was taking Duke Ellington and his Orchestra to perform at the Caird Hall. My brother said he was going to the concert and the driver asked him his name. At the event Duke Ellington introduced a number saying " This one's for Tubby". It was pure magic for my unhappy brother ... Oh my God, I think I'm going to cry

When I was nursing, met all sorts of celebrities.
Went to a ship launch and had lunch with the Queen, she really is very dainty.
Stood in a check out queue behind Wayne Sleep, he is quite dainty too

Purplepoppies I’ve heard very unpleasant things about Johnny Morris. He was also a raging alcoholic.
I’m glad that Alice Cooper is lovely, I knew he would be!

Several through my husband’s job. My favourite was Tim Rice. Pavarotti was charming, as was, slightly surprisingly, Bob Geldorf.

Johnny Morris was a rude man. Made me cry as a child. He may have had a way with animals but definitely not with people.
Paul Weller was polite (and very very sexy)
Jimmy Carr is polite and funny.
Joanna Lumley is nice.
Art Malik is very personable and exudes sex appeal !!
John Lynch (actor) was painfully shy.

I’ve been lucky enough to meet a few, I rather embarrassingly asked Ian Wright what he did for a living, we were chatting about motorcycles. He just laughed and said a bit of this and that. My male friends all pointed out he played football for England after he left. Also met Michel Roux, (my culinary hero) he was very lovely and signed a book for me and posed for a photo.

Funniest famous person I ever met was Spike Milligan, I was a youngster working as a waitress, he was the guest speaker at the do. A lady complained I hadn’t served her potato correctly and he grabbed a handful of roasties and started doing voices for them. It was very funny and completely disrupted the dinner, not sure the people who had hired him to speak agreed but most of the crowd did.

Before I retired I came into contact with the following people!
Bruce Forsyth….lovely, so professional
Terry Wogan ….hilarious!
Shane Ritchie extremely kind when he learned my husband was ill.
Sally Gunnell.. very down to earth
Chas and Dave ….liked a tipple or three!
Prince Philip and Prince Edward… both charming!
Princess Anne ….down to earth and chatty!
Princess Margaret. nuff said!!!!

A few years ago I met Vincent Fournier - better known as Alice Cooper. He was staying in a hotel where my son was working at the time. Had quite a long chat in the bar, and he turned out to be a genuinely nice person. He was fully appreciative of the fact that his fans “pay his wages”.

I have met, Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Louis Emerick (actor who was in Brookside) had a lovely day with him. Prince Charles. Wee Willy Harris. Terry Dean, rude and unplesant.

Again though both were tiny!

Freddie garrity was a mate of my much older cousin's in Salford .saw him loads dead funny made us little girls laugh lots! Went to school with a few once-removed girls! Alan Clarke's sister Catherine.brian kid's sister.and the absolute best? As afidgety kid stuck in a quest Manchester Piccadilly station buffet as a problem meant all trains temporarily cancelled , I stepped back and trod on a bloke who spilled his tea down his front and his mate said to me "don't worry it's and old suit!" , my mum apologised and said I must have Ants in my pants! Who were these young fellas? John Fitzpatrick and GEORGE BEST!!!!! yep! I knew immediately when I tru ed to say sorry, being from a 'red' family. But I couldn't speak. Mydad was dead jealous when we told him. George was soooooo handsome.........

Gillt57 I can assure you, the jelly legs happened in real life, too! . Actually, it was a good evening. As well as the gorgeous Alan Rickman, we met Emma Thompson (she’s still got my biro) and her mother Phyllida Law, and Greg Wise. Phyllida Law was v funny. I said I’d love a chance to speak to AR as well, and she yelled ‘Oi, Alan, someone wants to talk to you, come over here!’ and he did. ?

I forgot that my 12yo dd flew as an unaccompanied minor to the US with Sean Connery. I can’t say that he appeals to me but he was very nice to my dd and chatted away to her several times over two flights.

I love the Nureyev stories here, especially the one about the rose. How lovely. ?

As a New married in Manchester in 1976 I fought my way through a load of people outside the town hall on my way back to work one lunchtime- only to come face to face with HRH Duke of Edinburgh!!!!! I hadn't realised the situation and in those days security was a bit wishy washy as nobody was likely to attack him! My thoughts? He was TINY! Really slender and really tanned! I was dead embarrassed and had to push my way through the other side of the crowd ,best thing was-nobody batted an eyelid!

I sat in a dentist's waiting room with Larry Grayson. My husband was doing an extraction for his partner. He said not a world.

Oh Fanny

Tarrant called a 10 year old peer of mine ( ie a little boy) a ‘w***er’

Chris Tarrant opened a fete at our daughter's school many years ago. He stayed all afternoon. The children ran him ragged, chasing him, pulling at his clothes. He took it all in good part.

Princess Anne during horse trials st Gatcombe and Douglas Bader the legless wartime dare devil pilot and walked round the golf course with him.

Several members of the Royal Family and children. Queen (the band), David Essex, Jack Jones (singer) and he was my favourite. All through DHs job at the time

It was 1974 and l was staying at the Hyatt Hotel in Perth, Western Australia (l was about 15) - l had taken the lift and the Hollywood actor Gregory Peck walked in - He accidentally stepped on my foot and apologised - they were there filming one of his last movies (l think he produced it) called The Dove - my one claim to a famous celebrity icon?

I stood beside David Essex in the foyer of a theatre about 20 years ago he's a very sexy guy he smiled and asked if I was enjoying the show