Famous people you've met

[thestud2k7]

i met liz dawn once when she opened our local shopping centre

[StarsOfCCTV]

The girl who plays Chloe in Coming of Age on bbc3 goes to my college! She does the IB. I've seen her around but it didn't click who she was until I remembered my friend pointed her out on an advert for it. I met her today in the library, she was with one of my friends who also does IB! Random...

[Hollie-x]

Oooo get you!!

[sindydoll]

i met liz dawn once when she opened our local shopping centre

i met her too she was staying at a hotel where i worked on i was running up the stairs and bumped into her so i had to apologise and she said 'it's alright love' ...bless her

[parkerman]

I've met:

Film actors - Suzannah York, Terence Stamp, Peter Ustinov
TV actors - Ross Kemp
TV presenters - Bamber Gascoigne, Dermot Murnaghan, David Attenborough, Lady Antonia Fraser
Entertainers - Roy Hudd, Jimmy Cricket, Bernie Clifton, Clement Freud, Ted Rogers, Bobby Crush, Freddie "Parrot Face" Davies
Politicians
i) Prime Ministers - James Callaghan, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown
ii) Cabinet Ministers - Anthony Crossland, Jack Straw, Tony Benn
iii) Others - Ken Livingstone, Michael Meacher
Trade Union Leaders - Arthur Scargill (and many others that you may not have heard of!)
Lots of folk singers including Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd, Sydney Carter, Shirley Collins
Miscellaneous - Dr Ramsey (Archbishop of Canterbury)
If I remember any more I'll come back.....

[Perdita]

Did you meet them in the course of your work? What do you do? Sounds interesting, if that is how you met them.

[parkerman]

I met some of them through work. I am retired now, but I worked at The British Museum for 37 years.

I was (still am!) very involved in politics and trade unions

I am also Vice Chairman of the West Cliff Theatre Trust in Clacton, which is where I met the entertainers and I used to do a bit of folk singing myself (I was half of a folk duo!)

In spite of meeting all these people through these interests, the most relevant to these boards, Ross Kemp, I met at a fete held where my wife used to work, as he was a friend of the manager and agreed to come along and open it.

Peter Ustinov I met on holiday a long time ago.

And Dermot Murnaghan I met because, as you may remember, I was on Eggheads - so I suppose I could add Judith, Kevin, Daphne, CJ and Chris to famous people I have met!

[Katy]

thats quite an impressive list there parkerman!

[Perdita]

Working at the British Museum for 37 years Well done Have you ever thought about writing a book about your time in there? I am sure it would be extremely interesting, I would certainly like to read it.

[Trinity]

Parkerman - it sounds like you have had an eventful life. Good on you! I agree with Perdy - you should consider writing your memoirs. You have done more in that paragraph above than many celebs who (ghost)write books.

Another interesting point - you are living your life not just reading about celebs living theirs.