if i see a celebrity, the most i will ever do is smile and nod.. if i was famous, the last thing i would want would be people pecking my head for autographs, pictures or small talk... i suppose it depends on the level of celebrity...



for example, if i see a rugby player around the town.. i just carry on as normal. i wont stop and talk to them...mayb e a quick nod to acknowledge them.. if i see someone of the TV i will wait until they are out of range then tell the wife 'did you see that bloke off coronation street down aisle 3 then love?'... But if it was a proper grade A celeb.. someone like Stallone or Hulk Hogan... then im right up there getting my picture taken and contradicting everything i said up there ^

I've met gazza and the the Tottenham squad back in 90s when El Tel was manager. Whole squad happy to sign autographs and pose for pictures.



I beat Kevin Ashurst in a fishing match once.

Nigel Mansell - polite but not chatty.

Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis guitarist) great guy, very chatty.

Norman Hunter and Trevor Brooking. Both friendly blokes.

Various Wire players over the years but Bob Jackson, Paul Cullen, Matt King, Greg Mackey and the great Mike Gregory were always very approachable and friendly.

Met quite a few famous people over the years-



The Good-

Playing a frame of snooker with Les Boyd in Snookers (he wasn't good although TBH he had hands like shovels)



The Bad-

Sitting next to Chris Kamara on a flight back from Tenerife, thoroughly miserable sod.

Sat next to Piers Morgan at Old Trafford, him and his mate were giving Paddy Crerand a load of grief (it was around the time he had an incident with road rage and a golf club). Loads of banter.



Not being a United fan, it was a really good night......and Arsenal won the game.

Just for the record, he's not a hero of mine, but the thread seems to have become slightly broader than it started.



Following on from the urinal theme, a mate of mine in about 1984 had a slash next to David Bowie

I went to Alton Towers during the last year of junior school in 1982. I sat on the front of the corkscrew next to Cyril Regis who was still with West Brom. I asked him "What's it like to be a professional footballer"? He replied ""Not while I'm shaking like a crapping dog". #### I made the last bit up, we never spoke. We just sat there screaming all the way through.

Met various rugby players as most have said all have plenty of time for people, best mention to moz, chris riley and tony smith who all had the time to chat and have pictures taken with my daughter after a match.

I knew you were a fan, MKC, but I didn't know you'd met the great man.

Hope you didn't shake his hand, too firmly!

Those pinkys are priceless

Shook Gary Neville's hand in a bar in Manchester during his playing days. Vice like grip and death stare, presumably in case I was a toss pot. As it happens I am a toss pot and was just pretending to be alright so the jokes on him.

I don’t want to be a name dropper, and just because even the most mediocre so called celebs I’ve ever met have been so full of themselves when out of the limelight I wouldn’t give them the satisfaction anyway. My hero (and I know it may be cheesy but it’s true) was the bloke I live with and loved for eleven years, before he died, mi Dad God bless him!

'Name dropping is a sad and deluded way to gain attention'!! Mick Jagger taught me that