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.)
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.
Or Pete Burns, who I once saw in a Starbucks in Notting Hill. I expect Mark Lawson and Pete Burns would have got on like a house on fire.
Reading more about Emo Philips i learned the word: “paraprosdokian”!!
Def: “a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected”
"I like going to the park and watching the children run around because they don't know I'm using blanks." —Emo Philips
"If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." —Dorothy Parker