What's your least impressive celebrity story?
Doubtless you will have noticed the joy that a few people around here take in telling us of all of the celebrities they had great experiences with. I say that the less stellar of us should take up our arms and stand a defence. We should all tell our 'least impressive encounter with celebrities' stories.
These can be unimpressive celebrities or they can be unimpressive encounters with impressive celebrities.
Here are a few of mine -
I served a drink to Bill Bailey the comedian at the Reading Festival. He was wearing a long black coat and he had a lemonade.
When I was a child I met David Bellamy. He was stood next to his jeep in the school playground, all beardy and in khaki shorts. I plucked up the courage to go and talk to him. Instead of asking for his autograph, I asked him whether the bars on the front of jeep folded down to scoop up animals. He just looked at me witheringly from behind his beard.
In Lewisham shopping centre I saw Don Estelle from famous racist comedy 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' stood there next to a stall hawking CDs of himself singing old easy listening tunes. He was dressed in his old costume, pith helmet, shorts etc. No one was paying him an ounce of notice, every so often he would gesture at the photographs of him with people like Richard Stilgoe and Floella Benjamin, but the people just kept passing by.
Come on kids, I know you won't be able to resist trying to underwhelm us...
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