What sightings do you have of famous people doing mundane stuff? Prompted by walking past the Sainsbury's Local where I witnessed Peter Stringfellow buying a pint of milk (semi-skimmed).
In another Sainsbury's, I saw David Trimble considering a Secretary DVD. (That Sainsbury's has since been demolished.)
@internetsdairy My brother sold some eggs to Andrew Lincoln, which was funny because he played Egg, you see.
@internetsdairy Saw a miserable looking post-scandal Philip Schofield following his wife around a service station M&S. He didn’t buy anything.
@internetsdairy I sold petrol to Matthew Letissier once, back in the days when he was famous for playing football rather than being a vaccine truther.
@internetsdairy My mum once served either Paul King or Pete Burns in the drycleaners she worked at in the 1980s. She doesn’t know which, because they had similar hair at the time.
Lol just saw Ant (sans Dec) in Wimbledon village coming out of a corner shop with two carrier bags full of Evian bottles
@internetsdairy I used to work in Soho, so we'd see all sorts, but I think my best was standing behind Bill Oddie in the Tottenham Court Road Virgin Megastore a few days before xmas, who was trying to buy a (very sold out) Playstation 2
@internetsdairy I once collided with Nick Cave coming out of Shoreditch High Street tube station.
@internetsdairy I believe Sara Cox once ran past me in Birmingham New Street station. I didn't try to stop her to make certain though
@internetsdairy I once was behind Sophie Marceau in the tabac, if I recall correctly she got Marlboros
I've got a ton of these. I nearly ran over Russell Brand who was jogging past my flats and didn't look where he was going as I pulled out of the car park (in hindsight an opportunity missed).
The best one (I've mentioned it before here) was actually my mates sister when we were about 15. She worked in WHSmith at Heathrow airport and sold porn magazines to Bob Monkhouse (forever known as Bob Wankhouse thereafter).
@internetsdairy Steve Coogan in the chip shop at Baker St, Brighton.
@internetsdairy A couple of weeks ago I sat beside Stewart Lee when he was having his lunch with his kids (a kind of kebab thing).
@internetsdairy Of course when some people do mundane things they still get in the local paper: https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/25197993.noel-edmonds-spotted-cirencester-town-centre/
“On May 16, Mr Edmonds was seen visiting Seasalt in Cirencester's Cricklade Street.
As was the case on Sunday, the presenter was believed to have been with his wife.
He was also photographed visiting the Decimal. skateshop in Cirencester’s Swan Yard and was pictured outside the Simply Crystals shop in the yard.”
@internetsdairy Dion Dublin was on our (budget) flight from Krakow to Luton. He somehow got whisked to the front of the long queue at passport control
@internetsdairy I once saw John Barnes with his kids in a Frankie & Benny’s on the Wirral. He recognised my partner’s sister from her career as an exotic dancer and winked at her on the way out.
Actually probably the most notable one I have is: a friend and I were in Sausage & Mash in Islington. Boris Johnson (then Mayor) pulls up on his bike, comes in and sits down with and chats to a tight-lipped woman and her three or four young children. After five minutes, he gives her a wad of money, then leaves.
@internetsdairy I danced next to Tim Minchin at a Maceo Parker show at Koko. Minchin was barefoot. At Koko.
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Nodded to Lembit Opik (he nodded back) as I passed him coming out of the toilets at some motorway services when I was heading in.
Saw Jim Bowen standing outside what's now the Primark in Commercial Road, Portsmouth with a plastic carrier bag in his hand.
Saw Andy Jenkins (now disgraced former darts player) with family buying a TV in a Dixons.
@internetsdairy Marc Almond in a Waitrose, Jonathon Morris from Bread in a pub, less mundane but my partner kicked over Ed Sheeran’s guitar backstage (surprisingly this was by accident), Jon Snow in the lifts at work (he liked my hair), Boy George pissing in the bogs at The Fridge, and I only fantasised about pushing Simon Heffer in front of that tube train.
@internetsdairy Oh, and Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli, and Slash from Guns and Roses (incl. hat) all on the same flight to LA. We’d splashed out on silly tickets.
@Polypompholyx Jon Snow did a talk at our work one time, he seems really sound.
@Polypompholyx Does Slash's hat have its own seat?
@Nickiquote "Who cares about Noel Edmonds poncing about Cirencester. I'm more worried about the state of the town and the roundabout at Watermoor it's a absolute disgrace"
@internetsdairy That’s quite right about the roundabout, it was a disgrace. It took almost a year longer than promised and caused traffic jams daily.
But I’m not sure that this story about the business brain behind Blobbyland, Morecambe really took away much investigative journalistic resource from that story.
@internetsdairy I once had dinner with a lady who had been Noel Edmonds’ PA when things went south for him. She was retraining to be a teacher. I got the impression that the toils of Lynn from Alan Partridge weren’t far from the truth.
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@artnacrea @Nickiquote I've seen the news in New Zealand and I would not be at all surprised if sightings of Edmonds featured pretty much every day.
@Nickiquote OMG Noel Edmonds' PA! she needs to write a book
@Nickiquote I once saw a harrassed-looking Rebecca Front and her young family getting dinner in Wagamama near the British Museum.
@internetsdairy She does harassed very well. It would suit a Wagamama, especially if they’d run out of Katsu chicken and she really wanted Katsu chicken.
@Nickiquote I'm not sure if she was acting. She was looking harrassed before they even got the menu. Chatted with her on another occasion and she was very nice.
@TwoClownsEating If Monkhouse was in Smiths before his flight, one can only assume he wanted to be in the Mile High Club (onanist's version). Did he buy a massive Toblerone as well?
I saw Russell Brand coming out of Mildred's once as we were going in. He was with a young lady.
Can't confirm the Toblerone I'm afraid.
I once hailed a cab in the rain and as it pulled over Noel Fielding appeared out of nowhere, jumped in the cab and they fucked off (this was in the old days before he did bake off and looked like somebody's auntie Jean).
@TwoClownsEating this behaviour doesn't surprise me
@jaygooby my friend's cousin saw Bill Oddie in Borders on Oxford Street, it was probably the same day! Bill Oddie was looking at him strangely and he later realised it was because his fly was open.
Also saw some guy in Wimbledon Village Oxfam who makes "sick cycling TikToks" apparently but I only know this because some kid shook his hand and then had to explain why to his mates
@LMac1970 By about 2014 there was no mistaking Pete Burns for anyone other than Pete Burns
@internetsdairy you’re assuming 19 year old me cared way more about the fuel they were selling than he did.
@rtfm oh yeah one day I saw Jimmy Carr in three subsequent service stations up the M1. He was queuing for Burger King in each
@eleanorrees lol he's in a play at the moment, some serious thing, and every time I see the poster I'm like, "Ahhh you're Egg and always will be" and in the Adam and Joe toy version of this life, he was of course an actual egg. Giles was a moose.
In the late 80s, Emo Phillips came into the Oxfam in Durham at which I worked, presumably to look for the sort of clothes Emo Phillips wears (he was dressed in a kids' Looney Tunes t-shirt and half-mast nylon flares). I persuaded a colleague to ask if he was Emo Phillips (she had no idea who he was but I was too shy) and he said, "I'm not him, he is me" in Emo Phillips ' voice.
Saw Mark Lawson outside a Sainsbury's Local in Bayswater a couple of times, too. Don't know where he was going. Possibly to visit Mel B who I once saw getting out of a car nearby?
Opposite the Sainsbury's that is now demolished, I once saw Polly Toynbee walking down the street, literally writing in a notebook as she walked like a caricature of a journalist. And just after that I saw a pigeon with a slice of cucumber stuck to its back. The pigeon wasn't famous but it was still a cool thing to see.