The Most Famous Person You Have Met?

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muhammad ali

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Met Ian Botham and asked him how he trained for his leaukaemia fund raising walks, He replied he walked.... Have also met Phil the Greek.

between nigel mansell and ian botham,huge fan of both,but mansell edges it for me,what about you?

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

The classic golf shot. A bit fat but you wouldn't mind being up there.

Kate Winslet was best friends with my mates missus at school and was supposed to show up at their wedding.

I was gutted when she couldn't make it at the last minute.

 

[Beach Hut]

Graham Taylor, Kevin Keegan, David Bowie, Bob Geldof and sat next to John Tarode on a flight to Glasgow a few weeks back.

Used to drink in Rottingdean on Sundays nights with Corrigan, Robinson, Smith and many others

 

[cloud]

Bill Gates, Tom Baker, Ralf Schumacher, Annabel Croft, Mariella Frostrup

 

[RexCathedra]

Yo Yo Ma. Middleweight world champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

From a purely selfish point of view has to be Peter Osgood.

 

[hitony]

Only because of golf, but I have had the good fortune to play with / meet many famous people, but I suppose my highlight has to be playing a few holes with Tony Jacklin not long after he won the US open, and it was at The Dyke!

 

[Rugrat]

Prince Albert, Nilkki Lauda, Eddie Irvine, Jackie Stewart, Penny Lancaster (yum) and a few others at a big beano at Monaco Grand Prix about 8 years ago .. those were the days!

 

[The Camel]

Bill Gates, Tom Baker, Ralf Schumacher, Annabel Croft, Mariella Frostrup

After Bill Gates it goes downhill a bit!

How did you meet him?

I heard he was very shy and unapproachable.

 

[Norman Potting]

Shook hands with Leslie Crowther at a village fete when I was about 4. Saw Spike Milligan a couple of times at book signings. Got Kenneth Copes autograph at a celeb. football match when I was about 10 - it was when he was famous.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Michael Johnson.

(the runner, rather than the Man City footballer)

Or Bobby Moore - whichever of the two you consider to be more famous.

 

[seagullsdaz]

Sir Trevor Brooking.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Lawrie McMenemy, Alan Ball, Mark Lawrenson, Brian Horton, Peter Ward, Gary Stevens, Alan Mullery, Greg Stanley (!), Jake Burns, the geezer from All Creatures Great and Small married to Prunella Scales, Lily Allen, Pete Doherty, Sean Bean, Jeremy Clarkson, Geoffrey from Rainbow!, Patricia Hodge, I could say just about everyone from BHAFC in the 70's/early 80's that I haven't already mentioned, as said my all time hero Peter Osgood, Peter Bonetti, Tina Gifford and her brother Short (as we call him (Josh Giffords kids)), as soon as I post I'll remember a few more.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Buzz Aldrin

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Buzz Aldrin

Hope you didn't ask him if he really did walk on the moon! Oh no that is Armstrong that won't talk about it.

 

[Pevenseagull]

He was cool enough to have walked on the moon

 

[Beach Hut]

Shook hands with Leslie Crowther at a village fete when I was about 4. Saw Spike Milligan a couple of times at book signings. Got Kenneth Copes autograph at a celeb. football match when I was about 10 - it was when he was famous.

Oh er, Leslie Crowther kissed my Mum once and she didn't was her face for two days !

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Bazzing Bazza's Sheene & Davies
Jock Stein
Bobby Charlton
Linford Christie
Steve Davies
Nick Cave

 

[chobby]

Randy Crawford and Robert Vaughan (Man from UNCLE)