Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

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I was looking for one because me and kyle saw K3anu R33v3s at The Black Rider in SF last night. He had a nice chocolate brown suit on and had a great dirty beard that covered most of his face. He was pretty tall and was accompanied by a lady with crazy hair. I thought he looked good but both of the wives said he looked like ass, so I assume that they were probably more right than I.

Long may the sightings (and observations) continue. Maybe keep them googleproof tho'.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sp3nc3r Ch0w should not be allowed to post to this thread, though he did have quite a funny story about 4dr13n br0dy if I recall correctly.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few, I think

Like brushes with greatness (again)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

d'oh. I knew there was one somewhere. Sorry. :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Phi1 from Radi0h3ad, with a couple of his really cute kids, walking past the cafe where I was having my lunch today.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

okay okay. I will go and flog myself now.

xpost

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

because it would be dull

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bah those other threads aren't googleproof!! this is the one where you can be mean!

for instance what jellybean means to say is: Ph1l's children looked like ass.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean really, who gives a shit about seeing someone you have never met on the other side of the street.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Because they're like... gods!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand what you are saying (in essence), Ed.

But I just think it's fun.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen famous people. I either get thier autograph or meet them. They're all musicians though.

I also play baskettball with them. I played baskettball with Chris Brokaw and two guys from Kinski.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

See? fun.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean see them as in spot them across the street.

I'm not blind

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i only get excited by sightings of d-list slebs i otherwise have no interest in. like the food network's jill cordes!

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it that the thread linked to by Aaron above is ALL him and Spencer!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Aja I'm in awe of you. KINSKI!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

L4ur4 D3rn definitely looks better in real-life at a smoky bar than she does in teh movies.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Why exactly are we googleproofing?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Celebrities like to google themselves and shoot anyone who looks at them in the street.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought we could save the moderators having to deal with umpteen requests for pimped rides and record deals.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

But yes, there is "the James Brown factor" as described by Ally C.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i luv my britney sighting. it ended up with her grabbing me by the elbow and screaming, "i love this song!" when the dj played 'you shook me all night long.'

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren, that is great!

― rainy (rainy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

she was extremely cute and endearing in person. my friend was like, "oh my god! she's just like any other 20 yr old girl, drunk on cosmos at a cheesy club!"

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(I was just at the Emmys)

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You people make me and James Brown sick.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I will avoid this thread so as to not monopolize it with all of the B-listers that plague Los Angeles.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, you mean all of them?

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I am unable to go anywhere without instantly recognizing all of the celebrities that are around me. I was cursed by a witch.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/1_22/riversbeatdownlarge.jpg

YOU ARE NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT!

― Saucy Tart (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Orchard Street. It's all coming back. Traumatic, I can tell you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Don McKellar (Highway 61, The Red Violin) walking down College Street the other day. He saw me too, but no one cares about that.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ne1l Mitch3ll goes to my gym. I should have bonced him with a 32.5kg weight while I had the chance.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in the pub earlier tonight, and Rob Newman was in there looking like an absolute tramp. His hair was long and unkempt, he had a huge beard, and he was slumping across the bar in a very drunken manner. It was a bit depressing, truth be told.

Less recently, I saw Ricky Gervais on Oxford Street wearing a very Brentesque leather jacket.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My big sightings:

Conor Oberst with a girl on each arm walking past the Virgin Megastore in NY.

El-P in the line of a deli in Port Authority.

Rikki Rockett looking at women's clothing stores on South Street in Philly (I supposedly just missed CeCe Deville in platform shoes).

David Cross making frowny faces while waiting for Blonde Redhead to start already at the Siren Festival this year.

Chris Weisz (star of Chuck & Buck and co-director of American Pie & About A Boy), waiting for the tube in London. I actually said hi and did the little polite fan thing.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Erstwhile S3cret Lif3 star Deb0rah Mai1m4n made a pass [of sorts] at my mate in a bar.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

crikey, did he take her up on it?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Dumb twat he is.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

to be tasteless for a moment, i imagine she would bang like an outside toilet door in a hurricane

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

El-P in the line of a deli in Port Authority.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

P4tsy P4lmer was waiting at my bus stop this morning, with three children presumably hers. Apparently P4u1 McC4artn3y has now moved to Hove too although I doubt he'll be taking the bus to Whitehawk at any point.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I cycled past Gordon R4ms4y in Richmond Park last weekend. He had on proper hardcore jogging gear and looked IN THE ZONE. He probably hates cyclists on his jogging track (it was between Roehampton and Robin Hood gates, Richmond Park afficionados).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I sat behind Matthew Corbett at a recent Peter Kay show

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(I always look forward to my posts)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ste wins!!!!

Rikki Rockett, that rules Anthony!

I've not seen that many famous people of late, let me think...

Patrick Stewart in a theatre audience
J0 Gu3st at HMV in Oxford St, but that was last Christmas
Dick from Dick'n'Dom in Da Bungalow, in Ealing
Simon from Pop World at HMV in Oxford Street
The 411 in a window, but they wanted to be seen

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

When I worked on the tills at Forbidden Planet Danny Baker was always trying to push in to the queue by chatting to random people with an 'I'm famous, me' type attitude.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i met a fiery furnace this weekend, we chatted abt cities.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jerry seinfeld.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Last November I was loitering outside City Lights in SF waiting for it to open, and Paul Kantner walked past.

In 1978 I saw Robert ("Wild Wild West") Conrad in the lobby of the hotel my family was staying at in Atlanta. I was 14 and just about the same height as Conrad.

I shook Masahiru Morimoto's hand at his restaurant.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

dav3y jones complimented my sweater ('hey man, nice sweater')
touched beck on the chest and exclaimed 'b3ck!' he looked sad.
asked rick rubin for beard grooming tips. helpful.
took a picture of whichever leibowitz is a photographer.
opened a door for jack lemmon.
stole dav1d cr0ss's reserved table at a yo la tengo show.
parked next to b3ck at a radiohead show. got him to chat up the girls in my car.... he
was hanging out with his stepdad, glen.
played a game of chess with v1nc3 vaughn.
was in a car accident involving tob3y maguir3.
taught priest from antipop how to smoke using a bong.
made thur5ton m00re apologize to me for kicking me in the shin.
rented videos for sh4nnyn s0ssamon.
chatted film with |3urr St33rs.
got in argument with v1ncent ga11o.
watched ja5on l33 hit on a friend.
was mentioned by bj0rk in an interview
danced with m3na suvar1 at erlend oye dj gig.

the joys of living in LA...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

touched beck on the chest and exclaimed 'b3ck!'

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Paul McGann (AKA The British Tona Danza) in a River Island in Salisbury at the weekend.

― Richard C (avoid80), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony, even.

― Richard C (avoid80), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Just saw Martin Sheen buying his groveries in Pacific Greens

― suzisweeps, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Todd Trainer at Linens n Things.

― MDE, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This is not relevant to the thread, but when I was walking through Leicester Square this morning, I noticed that they were half way through putting up a new film poster. However, they hadn't taken the old one down, so the tableau that confronted me (and looked rather scarily realistic) was "M Knight Shmayalan's Wimbledon".

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw R45c6l3w T33l2 at Smuggers. He said hello.

― Rink Weems, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

we drove past Keith Harris in his merc on the M6 on sunday, his licence plate is ORV 1L.

we stood next to Caroline Sullivan the other week...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Last week at the Winchester Club there was a castmember from river city as well as the usual BandS suspects. A hobbit was at National Pop League once.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

L33-Lee S0bieski was in my poetry seminar in college.

― Laura E (laurae55), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have seen nobody :(

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Me either Pash, well not recently at least. Although when I was at Tenerife airport, I saw Chris Kum@r@ go into the toilet for about 20 mins!! We snapped him coming out of there!
Also, I cannot understand some of these names with the stoopid google proofing!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

two sundays ago i saw john waters coming out of remmington

― anthony, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The only celeb I've seen since moving to Chicago was Jeff Tweedy at the Black Dice/Animal Collective show.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

is remmington a gun thing anthony?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the f4t c0m3d14n from last comic standing drive out of fox studios last week. hes f4t.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The other day while I was shopping for groceries, I saw Rick Mercer walk by at a brisk pace with someone else. Yes, he was talking, but no, it wasn't being filmed.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Don McKellar (Highway 61, The Red Violin) walking down College Street the other day. He saw me too, but no one cares about that.

weird, i saw this guy in toronto, and i don't even live there..

i saw that asshole from hbo's entourage in a sushi restuarant last week.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend met held a door open for bob dylan once, in the toilets of a pub in kilkenny.

i trained one morning with colin jackson. he beat me over 400m.

spielberg and family stopped in the local pub once for lunch. i got a phone call, but couldn't go. ah well.

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, I saw Adri3nn3 Cl4rks0n! she was just walking up commercial drive in Vancouver, happy as can be, with hubby J0hn Raulst0n Sau1 by her side. It was pretty exciting, speaking as a polisci geek. I smiled at her, and started to laugh; she smiled back. She's really tiny; he's about 1 1/2 feet taller.

She's the G0vern0r G3n3ral, BTW, iow the Queen's representative in Canada.

What made me happiest is that our head of state, who is technically the most powerful person in the country, was simply walking down the street, no entourage, no cops, no security. Just walking down the street. It made me really proud of the country.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 27 September 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

On Friday night I walked past Eddie 1zzard on Whitfield St. He was coming towards us, and just before we reached him, he stopped, climbed up on the fence he was stood next to, looked in the window of the building behind it, and whistled. Then he climbed down again, laughed, and kept walking. The window belonged to a lawyer's office. I wonder what he was up to.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 September 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

After drunkenly shouting to Theresa May (the page 3 girl) down a street that I was her biggest fan. Her boyfriend, the boxer Robin Reid, replied "not as big as I am".

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 27 September 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I'm on a celeb spotting roll. Just walked down whitfield street again this morning, and passed Cl1ve 4nderson. Then went into the Wheatsheaf on Rathbone place, and the only other two people in there were Ricky G3rvais and St3phen M3rchant having lunch together. Comedians! Everywhere!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

and cl1ve anderson!

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, you beat to me a similar joke there carsmile!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hoho. :)

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

We saw Av1d M2rr10n in the BPNS the night Italy played Sweden in the Euros.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 27 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I worked fashion week here in NYC. I'll house all of you.

― Jimmy Mod, Los Sexx Yanqui (ModJ), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

adam and I saw Keanu Reeves last weekend

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd think he would have mentioned that when he started this thread...oh, wait, he did :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw george stephan0p0ulis walking his wee dog recently. he was very tiny and miserable-looking.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"I was in the pub earlier tonight, and Rob Newman was in there looking like an absolute tramp. His hair was long and unkempt, he had a huge beard, and he was slumping across the bar in a very drunken manner. It was a bit depressing, truth be told."

eh, i don't think that was him. he takes nothing stronger than coffee these days, and when i saw him on the 22nd (? i think - sometime last week anyhow) his hair was short, he was clean shaven and he looked generally fit and happy. i might even go so far as to say rowr. also saw him about three weeks ago looking the same - def not long enough for him to've grown his hair long and cut it off again. (nb i am not a stalker, he lives round our way.)

― emsk, Monday, 27 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Bluetones guitarist blokey (Adam?) got on the tube before me at Archway this morning wearing a nice midnight blue velvet jacket and looking all cute and cross-eyed. Be still my beating 16-yr-old heart.

Shane MacGowan hangs out at the hipster pub over the road from my flat a lot, but this is annoying due to said hipster content. It's nice when it's just you, Shane and the cats though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

worst. celeb. spot. ever.

This thread has been locked by the bluetones

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw Suggs on Sunday - yeah, I know, not very impressive

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My Dad met Daniel Day-Lewis at a social event last Sunday. He said he was very tall, with smiling eyes and a natural athletic ability. I'm not quite sure what kind of an event this was...

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Thursday:

1. Brett Anderson walking up New Oxford Street hand-in-hand with attractive dark-skinned lovely

2. A McGann on his own in a pub (there's so mnay McGann's however that seeing one is no great acheivement)

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't really see jerry seinfeld guys!!!!!!!!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imomus.com/eltondover.jpeg

If you want the job done properly...

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

God, elt's fat-arsedness appears to be causing chair-leg-buckling!

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Severe right buttock overhang in effect too

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Zipper is for ease of battery-changing...

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

... that's the escape route for the thin man who's trying to get out

― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i was at the trough, right? and this geezer steps up right? and it was BOB HUDSON!!! i looked up, caught his eye. nods.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I sat next to Dr Legg from Eastenders on the tube last night. He is the oldest man in the world! I win. Take that you fuckers.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 October 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Richard D James coming out of angel tube station on saturday night at about 8.10...I nudged my flatmate and said "look who's there! look who's there!". Flatmate had no idea who I was talking about. But aphex heard and gave me a grumpy look.

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Did he get his tank in the tube?

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, that came out wrong.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 10 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Delroy Lindo swimming in the pool at the Berkeley YMCA.

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

What? Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 October 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Downey Jr., sleeping under my bed. FOR THE FOURTH FUCKING TIME.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 11 October 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirst3n & Jak3 at the Argyle earlier tonight!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist was DJing!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I should add that all of them seem very nice.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The Argyle! I've stayed there!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Bjork looking very sad/tired, in the back of a Mercedes, on Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, last Tuesday

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost
Exactly!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

saddo backdated ones: Leslie Grantham on my flight to NY back in April. Avid Merrion in BPNS several FAPS ago. Cheryl and Nicola of Girls Aloud at the Popjustice £20 Music Prize a few weeks back.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Celebrities I missed sighting at recent Moz concerts: Dave Gahan (OMG), Nancy Sinatra, Michael Stipe, Conan, and of course Chloe. Perhaps I need to up my glasses perscription.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My brother and my nephew (his son obv.) saw George Bush the first AND the Dalai Lama in one airport experience. Both waved at Gus, who was four at the time.
I expect he will be confused by this. Should I save Tibet or make money in oil? HMMM.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Heap on Wardour Street. That's kind of pathetic, isn't it? Must try harder.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 18 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I spotted a fella out of River city in the bar at the CCA on Saturday, reading the indie and smoking rollies.

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

b3rnard butl3r was on the w7 with me the other morning. also, a priceless damon sighting but it's probably libelous or something like that.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In the ticket office at Waterloo last Friday: housewives' favourite Nigel H4v3rs! Looking harrassed.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 25 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

in the pillars of hercules on greek street last week, james from busted

walking through leicester square yesterday, one of mcfly (the dopey one apparently, meg saw him, not me)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 25 October 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i think people will be jealous of your Mark Heap sighting Mark, one woman especially - good job it wasn't Reece Shearsmith...

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 25 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil Babb came into our restaurant for a meal, when he came to the bar I went to serve him, clcked who it was, and instantly recalled his bollocks colliding at high speed with a goalpost back when he was playing for Liverpool. Naturally I started laughing. He asked me why I was laughing and I explained. He just grinned and said "yeah, I get that a lot."

Apart from that a bunch of footballers and rugby league players, and attendant wives, eat at ours. And one or two of the cast of hollyoaks. Not overly exciting.

N.B. I may have mentioned this before

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 25 October 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Kaye Adams off Loose Women was on the same flight as me back from my holidays yesterday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil Babb!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That reminds me, did I ever mention that I had an AIM chat in, like, 1995 with someone who claimed to be Phil Rudd of AC/DC? I never knew why anyone would want to impersonate him -- he wasn't trying to pick me up or anything and seemed genuinely interested in whether the younger generation still listened to AC/DC -- so I always wondered if it was actually him.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(I had no idea who he was, btw. I mean, I'd heard of AC/DC, but that's about it.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Same thing happened to me but it was someone claiming to be in Polvo. I didn't know who they were.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

also, a priceless damon sighting but it's probably libelous or something like that.

That's a cruel thing to mention if you aren't going to dish!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Same thing happened to me but it was someone claiming to be in Polvo. I didn't know who they were.

Was it ASH BOWIE?

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/LIBNS/pics/bandpic1.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

PLEASE TELL

xpost I THINK SO

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OK.

On Friday just gone, I took Alice swimming to Coral Reef, Bracknell.
(Dawn was at work, Amber at school). She enjoys the slides, and would
go down the fastest ones except she's not allowed to wearing armbands.
So, there we are in the jacuzzi bit, I see a girl in a red bikini who
looks vaguely familiar, but think no more of it. So anyway, we are queueing for the slide, and there she is again, with a sort of "you know me and you are not saying hello" puzzled look. I'm like, no I don't think so, but one thought does flash through. Anyway, after an hour or so, Alice and I get showered and dressed etc, and now the girl is outside in the hairdrying area, and now I realise. It was only when she had her clothes on, I realised it was Claire Grogan. (She spoke briefly to two young boys with her, so I'm now positive.)

p.s. she's a year younger than me and is looking OK on it...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It was only when she had her clothes on, I realised it was Claire Grogan

line of the day, and it's not even 10am :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just having a fag break outside my office, and very poor comedian Jimmy Carr walked past looking puzzled. Five seconds later he came back the other way, still looking puzzled. I expect he was lost.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

He'll work that into his routine at some point...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That guy from Cast who used to be in The La's asked me if I wanted to join his pub quiz team last Monday.

― Deadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw John Peel outside HMV in Oxford Street yesterday - he's tiny and gnome-like. Then when I went inside HMV I saw Danny Kelly (who, conversely, is enormous) knocking over a rack of Morrissey CDs (more in sorrow than in anger I reckon) then shuffling off like a naughty school boy, leaving a member of staff to pick up the fallen CDs.
-- Dataismus (kcoyne3...), October 15th, 2004.

― Deadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Outside the Chandos today, coming the other way: ROY HATTERSLEY!

Seconds later, I really wished I had dared to stop him and thank him for good Guardian columns and his accidental progress into such a progressive voice.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, I forgot, I saw Ed from ILX on Tottenham Court Road, near Goodge St, at lunchtime yesterday. He didn't see me.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a different thread JimD!

i saw the irish bloke who was on pop idol last year who was rubbish and had long blonde hair and bad toe nails* by piccadilly circus yesterday...

*he went for a pedicure on "the salon" which mrs carsmile watched religiously

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Er...I figured that since Ed is an ILX celebrity, he could go on the "Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?" thread. :)

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

dougie vipond, walking out of the buchanan galleries car park.

I smiled at him and he seemed to follow me, all the way to the start of sauchiehall street, where I lost him.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Patricia Potter, one of the only fanciable Holby City cast members, King's Road, 2 weeks ago.

Richard X at AnnieFAP.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

He only seemed?

You should ask him, about his one-time colleague, one time, comrade.

― the bluefox, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw richard fairbrass standing outside a sandwich shop on exmouth market chatting away happily. He was looking quite untouched by the years that have flown by since 'I'm too sexy..' was in the charts.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Random Impromptu ILxers Sighting

is the one you want JimD

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Dean, walking by himself, in the labyrinth beneath Rockefeller Center, 8:50, Tuesday morning.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know who Dougie Vipond is.

I am keeping an eye open for Wendy Craig, but no luck yet.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

hey 57 7th, was he weaving around and carrying a nearly empty bottle of Jack? This is how I picture him.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha, I would've liked to have seen him that way too, but he was as business as he could be, fitting suit, sculpted hair, etc. He could have given a policy speech the way he looked.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

dougie vipond is on "sportscene" or some other kind of "football" programme.

he used to drum, with deacon blue, and I assume PF is intending a "ricky ross" or, at least, I hope he is.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Todd Trainer at Linens n Things.

The winner.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Cor, all the 'minor' players in Scottish bands go on to great things, don't they? I am thinking of the Commotion. There must be others.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 28 October 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

RJG: I was thinking of the one that (who) died.

― the bluefox, Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

... who used to be my landlord

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw OMG WTF Ned Raggett walking down Sunset Blvd swinging an Amoeba bag.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

SWINGING it!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:49 (twenty-one years ago)

another ilxor and I spotted james iha today.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 30 October 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM MOMUSFOR HALLOWEEN

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

So I try to limit myself on this thread, but I did spot Lindsay L0han at the Argyle (adam, I think you know the place) dancing with.. me! This girl has an 8-head. I don't think I've ever encountered someone quite so pretty! Count me deeply in love...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 10:46 (twenty years ago)

i saw BEZ getting money out of the HSBC cashpoint at the tottenham court road end of oxford street, his eyes were like SAUCERS. then we were sat next to unidentifiable band from detroit (i think) who are supporting keane (?) in bradleys.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Neil M0rrissey in bistro-type place in Crouch End, London on Saturday.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 11:42 (twenty years ago)

bez has the craziest eyes i've ever seen, i think. he's completely unhinged!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I met Bez once and his eyes were going in different directions. He said he liked my dress, but I'm not totally sure I should take it as a compliament.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Bez is also vile and appalling.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago)

in a kindly sort of way, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Vile and appealing?

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago)

robert plant checking a concert at the barbican

― stelfox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:32 (twenty years ago)

when i was living in liverpool and manchester, i went thru a stage of seeing bez every weekend for almost a year. i took this to mean i should go out less and calm down a bit.

― stelfox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Dominik Diamond in Mono, Sunday. Woo!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)

exactly why is he vile and appalling?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Dominik Diamond - now he is vile and appalling!

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I spilt Dominik Diamond's pint at a Morrissey gig a couple of years ago, he was surprisingly ok about it.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago)

is he as bald, in real life?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Homophobia, I imagine. Bez, that is.

Kate Winslet went to Red Roofs drama school in Maidenhead. I haven't seen her, but it has sort of kept me going for a couple of days.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know he was like that, he certainly wasn't the only time he was ever in the proximity of me, instead he was just telling very funny stories and signing the odd autograph - seemed a thoroughly decent (if completely fried) individual.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:22 (twenty years ago)

LINDSAY LOHAN, PEOPLE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Bez is ace, according to friend who worked with him on his 'job's a good'un!' telly bits.

Kate Winslet used to work in a traiteur in Primrose Hill when I lived there, as a Saturday girl.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

LINDSAY LOHAN, PEOPLE

I know! I can't believe this has gone unremarked upon, Spencer could be the new Wilmer.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

GIVE US MORE SPENCER. WE MUST KNOW ALL.

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Every time I see Adr1an Brody in a movie I think of Spencer's story.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I was trying to figure out of Spencer was having an out-of-body experience. (I'm also completely confused -- an "8-head"?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Weirdly, I just saw Bez on Wardour Street on the corner of St Anne's Court. Spooky.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

double forehead, ned

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Now I'm even more confused! What in the world is a double-forehead? The equivalent to a double chin?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, I just realized my forehead is exactly as tall as four of my fingers!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

A fucking big forehead, Ned.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)

why are big foreheads good? is this some kind of obscure fertility connection?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I've seriously never heard either of those terms in my life. I just hear about big foreheads (I have one myself, especially in comparison to my sister).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Big Forehead = Brains

Which makes me and Markelby geniuses

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of Miss Lohan...
Last week I saw Fez (from That 70's Show) give Richard Jefferson (of the New Jersey Nets) a THUG HUG.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Bez made some comment about gays in an interview or something. I think he was just 'having it large' and being a bit of a dimbo. To his credit, he did apologise about it later. I met them once and they were very nice, gentlemen in fact. Albeit gentlemen in search of cigarette papers. Perhaps PF is barking up a completely different tree. How should I know? Eh?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes, a different tree.

The definitive statement about Happy Mondays was made not by me but by Andrew Dean, in a letter to Steady Mike, which with predictably uncanny recall Mike recited, roughly, to me, in August or September 1999. I liked the letter, as Mike recalled it, because it managed to convey contempt and hatred while eschewing obscenity.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh, do tell.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I can't - I don't remember the wording. I have given an impression of what it said, I hope.

Mr. Dean himself, or Steady Mike, might be able to fill us in properly.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I have seen Dominik Diamond at Celtic a lot. I didn't realise he counted as a celebrity (I used to go to school with him, so don't consider him a celebrity anyway, but I didn't think anyone else did either).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Was it just about music/dancing and related matters or other things?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i ate 10 tacos next to jeff weaver last night

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago)

also, GOOD on s.chow.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:26 (twenty years ago)

PJM, it was about the band - 'music and dancing', yes. It wasn't about crimes they had committed, or anything; save of course crimes against pop.

But like I say - I didn't pen the letter.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I want to see Spencer's name in the tabloids as "Handsome LA mystery man-did he split up Lindsay and Wilmer?"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

They can all chase after us for scoops, we can airily say 'no comment'...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Details! Skinnier than I was expecting - She seems to have lost a bit of baby-fat, but looks very healthy. I'm firmly in the 'I think they're real' category as 'they' seem to have shrunk a bit too. Beautiful milky skin with freckles - she thankfully abandoned that overtan/frosted look she was getting. Amazing voice. Blue jeans, low cut black top (but not really racy). Seemed very nice (hasn't gone all Tara Reid). No Fez (according to someone, they broke up last Thursday - I was like "wtf? how do you know that?"). HUGE bodyguard. I unfortunately completely lost my ability to speak near her, however I busted some dancefloor moves when they played "Gimme the Night"!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

*bows in acknowledgement* Spencer, indeed = the bomb.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

(Me, I would have been stuck somewhere in a pit with a huge wedge of asiago cheese dumped on top of me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

That's quite a bukkakeuphimism.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago)

just saw Al Pacino...5th ave and 45th

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

digits, spencer?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha, nope.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

okay i am officially jealous, spencer.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting a little bummed out because I just realized there aren't really any more actresses I want to see in person. Oh wait, I forgot about Nicole Kidman!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

The cream of Glaswegian writing talent, William McIllvanney, his brother Hugh (I think) and Alasdair Gray in the same bar at the corner of Byres Road and Great Western road.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago)

alasdair gray painted its ceiling. unless they were in the hilton's piano bar.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I used to see The Big Man around that area occasionally.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Jason Priestley at Finding Neverland at the Arclight last weekend. He's gotten all chunky and hot. I was checking out his flabby ass without realizing it was him just before the movie at the Poquito Mas across the street. I thought he was just another sexy out-of-shape khaki-clad young LA dad-type.

― Titsy Borgnine (Arthur), Sunday, 21 November 2004 01:06 (twenty years ago)

shell at justus kohncke, at the art school, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

and lucy mckenzie?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Last summer my brother-in-law and his wife took us to a supposedly trendy LA restaurant called Dolce. Very clubby, reservations checked at door by bouncer-like guy w/clipboard. Inside a bustling bar scene, people waiting to be seated and everybody gawking like crazy. tourists -- prime celebrity spotting in other words.
Food much better than expected. Drinks consumed. Towards the end of the evening a diminutive woman w/ towering afro toddles up to our table. She leans in, exhaling vodka breath. "I'M RICK JAMES' NIECE!"
"Uh, that's nice. Sorry your uncle passed away, etc." She leaves not a moment too soon, only to reappear and plunk her butt down on the banquette next to my wife. Launches into a long monologue about the dearly departed, and amusing quickly turns into annoying. So I decide to try and get rid of her. Hey, I've "had a few" as well.
"That's all well and good, but you know Rick James ripped off George Clinton and took it to the bank."
In a split second she's two inches from my face. "FUCK YOU MUTHAFUCKA..."
Cut to the chase: she gets ejected from the joint and her boyfriend, who's about 6' 10" and wearing Harlem Globetrotters sweats actually comes over to apologize.
As we're leaving I apologize to the guys at the door, you know, sorry to make trouble. "Yeah, well, it wasn't your fault. She had a bad week -- her uncle died and her tour got cancelled."
"What? She's a musician?"
"Yeah, that's Cindy Blackmon, Lenny Kravitz' drummer."
OMGWTF!
Does she count as a celebrity?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I'M RICK JAMES NIECE BITCH!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

This is a second hand story, but amusing nonetheless. I was wokring a temp job in college, and my supervisor was an pretty attractive woman a few years out of college at the time....Anyway, this was when Glam Slam was still in operation in Minneapolis and Prince still owned it etc...

She and her friends went out to dance at Glam Slam, and she was wearing a catsuit apparently. A security guard said that Prince wanted to meet her and so she agreed to go to Prince's private lair in the club cuz she was a fan.....In any case, Prince was reclined, surrounded by his "people" so the security dude took her over to Prince. Apparently, Prince just kinda looked her up and down without saying anything for an uncomfortably long period of time. Then he finally asked the question: "Is that a MYSTERY suit?"....

She was baffled, and finally just said, "Um....yeah...I guess." Then more uncomfortable silence, and when it became apparent that she wasn't going to instantly start stripping and having sex with him, the security dude said she should probably go back to her friends.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I did not take these and don't know who did, but they're fun anyway.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:11 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I just beat Reading striker Dave Kitson in a game of online Scrabble.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

Flava Flav. Wearing a silver hat. Handing a giant wad of cash to a breakdancing team. New Year's Eve. 53rd St.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Used to share a local with and live a street away from M@rk 'Ch0pp3r' R3@d. Now there's a celebrity.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

Ali Landry is HOTT up close. Had a drink next to her at the Grove last night.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Just after X-mas I saw Noel Gallagher on Picadilly.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

i saw tara lipinski on thursday!

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I saw Fab and Albert from the Strokes and Drew Barrymore at the bar around the corner from Irving Plaza after the 1st of the last 3 Guided by Voices shows in NY this year. Yes, I was drunk and offered them Klonopin and had Drew say hi to my friend in Albany. She seemed kinda hassled to do it but was nice about it. My friend I was with said they were trying to score coke but I'm not sure I believe him.

― Colin O, Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Not because I don't think they'd be rying to score coke, it's just I don't believe him is all.

― Colin O, Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

was just in new york for the last week. saw owen wilson at the broome st. grille (short), carson queer eye waiting for someone in front of my hotel (deranged; flanked by men), some designer lady from a tv show called surprise by design that my girlfriend recognized, i think her name was becky, drinking in the bar of our hotel (ugliest coat i have ever seen; trashed), bobby brown walking down 5th ave (fast walker; flanked by reality tv crew), a couple others that i might remember soon but now i am busy nursing a probably broken liver.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

i see dennis norden the other day, i think he lives on my street, he was going into a flat with a hot older woman. also the guy from rumpole of the bailey drinks in my coffee shop but we're kind of friends now so i don't want to say where in case you all mob him.

― bengo, Sunday, 16 January 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Once saw Stewart Lee in a bar in Edinburgh. We were looking for a friend of mine called R1chard Th0mas, which is the same name as the musician who SL wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera with; so we had a rather confused conversation.

Also in Edinburgh, during the festival, a few years ago: Ken Campbell was stood behind me in the queue at the all-night supermarket.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

i see dennis norden the other day, i think he lives on my street, he was going into a flat with a hot older woman

It's not physically possible for anyone to be older than Dennis Norden. You have strange taste in ladies.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Derek Jacobi yesterday, trying so hard not to be recognised it was painful to witness

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 February 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Last week (Sat. night), I was sitting next to Jamie Foxx and his entourage at Balboa on Sunset Blvd. A very un-exclusive Hollywood hang-out, if you ask me, so I was kinda surprised to see him.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

yesterday andrew w.k., bitches.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 6 February 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Last weekend: author Philip Roth, talking to a streetside book vendor w/ a table full of "The Plot Against America." "Yo, buddy, I'm not getting any royalties here."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 February 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I saw Norman Blake in Glasgow Central Station last Wednesday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

And Paul Lambert taking his daughter to her dance class up the stairs from my work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

i saw david walliams on new oxford street last week, with a very pink t-shirt on.

also the other week we *think* we saw ben stiller's parents in the princess louise.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

i saw michael pitt and kim gordon dining together at pop burger. then eva mendes at the christopher deane fashion show. and tori spelling & amanda lepore at the heatherette show. and randomly met k1ngs of convenience at a turkish restaurant tonite, and i guess im doing their merch table for their gig tomorrow and 3rlend wants to dj at my party in april i think. that should be fun!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Is saying you've seen Ann Magnuson when she was scheduled to be there anyway a sighting or not?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Phil, you never fail to amaze me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

once, i saw the dreamy keyboardist from canasta at a mexican restaurant in chicago. he's a vegetarian!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Back in the middle of December, my friend and I went to Burke W1ll1ams day spa in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and we saw P4ul4 4bdul there, naked and crying hysterically with her friend.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

she just wasn't feelin it dog.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I saw Moby at the Film Forum concessions counter last week, garnishing his popcorn. (Not as memorable a FF moment as the time Keanu Reeves and his two friends repeatedly circled the auditorium at a sold-out showing of a Lenny Bruce documentary before they secured 3 folding chairs in the back.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

So my fav thing about celebrity sightings on, say, Gawker is that they make for good restaurant recommendations.

First thing when I walked out my apartment yesterday was Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing a kind of ugly outfit and an iPod. She looked cute.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Penelope Cruz in the lobby of Chateau Marmont on Friday night. Very pretty woman. Made eye contact but that's it. Love Castillian lisping. Also saw Patti LaBelle sitting with flowers. Apparently Orlando Bloomps was in a bungalow next to one where I was at a party, but no one saw him.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Julianne Moore, at Dojo on Bleecker on Sunday afternoon (NYC). She's still hot, I don't know how old she is, but wow.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

marilyn manson walking up cooper square. the eye tipped me off.

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Martin Johnson, Tom Wilkinson and the Queen, last Thursday at Buck House.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

i saw a guy that looked like comic book guy walking with a guy that looked like lenny i shit you not

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Julianne Moore, at Dojo on Bleecker on Sunday afternoon (NYC). She's still hot, I don't know how old she is, but wow.

YES! I'm so jealous of you.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

i saw that guy who played the senior lawyer in l.a. law in a copenhagen, denmark suburb ten years ago. now take that, be-yortches!

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

That bloke from Eastenders, possibly called Minty, who used to be an extra who was one of Phil Mitchell's hard nut mates and then worked his way up to a speaking role as the unrequited lover of Sam Mitchell and now may or may not be in it any more (I gave up watching it about a year ago). He moved into the flat directly across the street from my flat a few weeks ago.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Also, Bernard Butler must live very nearby too. I've seen him around a few times. Once I found myself sitting opposite him on the Victoria Line. We both got off at Finsbury Park and both queued up for the same bus. Then we both got off at the same bus stop and walked down the same three streets. By this stage I was getting worried he would think I was a mad stalker so I pretended to tie my shoelace until he disappeared out of sight.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

yeah Minty is still in EE I think. Was he also originally off Grange Hill like years ago?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

GO OVER AND ASK HIM NOW!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

saw Ed Burns after a play (starring andrew mccarthy!) last night. also saw Liev Schreiber awhile back in a restaurant.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Dave Lopez of L.A. local KCBS news - at the Santa Ana Courthouse yesterday, 10th floor. Well, he's a celebrity to me!

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

In the last week or so:

P1erce Bro$nan
Jerry O'Conne11
Ray L10tta

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

last night, Jessic@ Bie1 at a wrap party for a film I had nothing to do with.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Mike Nichols, director, creeping into a matinee preview of his "Monty Python's Spamalot" as I was buying a balcony ticket for next month. (Said to be a yearlong sellout once it opens next week, so leap if you must.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Saw W!ll3m D4f0e around lunchtime the other day at 6th and Canal. He was carrying a shopping bag and wearing a long black down-or-miracle-insulator coat that reached down almost to his feet. Call me provincial, but I've never seen this type of coat on a guy before.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed, in Chelsea Market, wearing leather pants.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

umum. . .haven't seen anyone in Dallas lately. Heading down to ATX for SXSW on Wednesday. will update when I return.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Julianne Moore, at Dojo on Bleecker on Sunday afternoon (NYC)

ew, wtf is she doing eating at dojo

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

also i saw the roly-poly black dude from NY1 (can't remember his name) but he doesn't count since like they're hqed in the same bldg.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Marr yesterday looking fat and wrinkly and with dyed hair - mind you I wasn't looking at my best yesterday either

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I saw Steve Coogan and his missus a few weeks ago. They were pulling out of the Ditchling Beacon carpark (in a silver Porsche, sadly not a Lexus) as we were pulling in. We were so excited, we almost crashed into the bugger. And I could see him mutter to his wife something like "what the hell are those prats up to?". A-ha!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I saw davie hay on sauchiehall st. last week.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Feargal Sharkey was on my tube on Saturday afternoon. He got off at Camden.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

is there a citizens advice bureau, in camden?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Crispin Glover last Friday night, on the other side of the glass from me at the WFMU studios during their fundraiser. He wore his usual vintage suit and was polite and well-spoken.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

John Turturro, on Flatbush near the Plaza in Brooklyn. He's one tall dude.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 19 March 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

Nigella Lawson and child coming out of the Ivy on Thursday nite. NL is exceedingly shiny in hair and garment.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 19 March 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

gillian anderson, on the teevee last nite

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i was just watching an episode of the x-files.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I once walked past Hristo Stoichkov on a quiet Sunday afternoon in Meguro-ku during the mercurial Bulgarian brief spell in the J-League. He was accompanied by a very Balkan-looking friend-cum-bodyguard bloke.

― darren (darren), Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Noel Edmonds, ExCel

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I just saw the King Adrock in front of me at the line in the Italian sandwich place in Soho that was perhaps once known as the sandwich nazi. His friend was going to pay for his own sandwich, but then Mr. Horovitz said "No, no, no. You come to me, you come to me."

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I think I should allow myself to post more on this thread. I walked right by Famke again yesterday. I still have no balls.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

You should show her that photo of you in the blonde wig, Spencer. No woman could resist that.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 31 March 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Now Phil Mitchell has turned up at Minty's flat and helped him put in a massive plasma screen TV. Are they mates in real life or is Eastenders being filmed in my street? Is Barbara Windsor going to turn up in a minute???

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 3 April 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Paul Shaffer on 52nd Street (with a guy who was "a suit") walking toward the Letterman theater. With the shaved head he looks a lot like Gollum. I wasn't fast enough to sing "It's Raining Men" or yell "Kick my ass!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 April 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

last night, in the 14th Street A/C stop, Leonard Maltin, movie critic.

week and a half ago it was MCA (at a rock show - man he's short) and Mike D in the subway within 24 hours.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 7 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i just found out that my fried is roommates with S0Y B0MB!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

fried what?

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Davina McCall on Wardour Street (I'm not a fan but she looked fit and pretty), and Gwyneth P4ltrow in Schuh on Oxford Street, of all places.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

fried tofu, of course.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

I saw noel gallagher in schu

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I saw Robbie Williams sitting at a cafe in Beverly Hills yesterday. Wasn't sure it was him, big sunglasses, very short hair, etc...Then I heard him say loudly into his cell phone, with inimicable English accent,"Was it in Nigel Dempster's column? Well, yeah, he's a fackin' cunt!" That cinched it for me.

― Stalker, Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

But he's northern, he wouldn't say 'fackin cunt#, he'd say 'fookin coont'. Maybe it was Michael Cane.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

It's me that can't do the accent.

― Stalker, Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I suppose it could have been Michael Caine great great great great grandson! no...pretty sure it was Robbie.

― Stalker, Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Carlos D from Interpol in an indie-orientated bar/club in Deblin last night. I'd just see the band play a gig mind you so that might not count. I said hello but he wasn't very talkative. I left him alone.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Did he have herpes?

― does that make you want to touch yourself? (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 April 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

fiona and steve from shameless walking down stroud green road the other night. we had just been watching season one on dvd, so it was very strange.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

I've only seen crap celebrities lately - Alan Davies (and you can't get much crapper than that) on Upper Street and Clive Anderson (see him all the time) on Holloway Road and another one who's so crap I've forgotten him. Oh and Sue of Mel and Sue right outside my front door. Told you they were crap.

― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Literary celeb Mark Strand walking into his surprise party at a little Italian place in NoHo.

― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Jill Hennessy of Law and Order and Crossing Jordan fame is the twin sister of Jacqueline Hennessy, who works at the same TV station I am currently working at. They were both in the hallway outside my Les Nessman-style office today, laughing and dancing with their young children.

Later, I saw a red winged blackbird.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Jill Hennessy of Law and Order and Crossing Jordan fame is the twin sister of Jacqueline Hennessy

They were both in Dead Ringers, I think.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Yes indeedy!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Charles Kennedy (leader of the Liberal Democrats) getting out of a posh BMW at Charing Cross station this morning, with a couple of aides. As he headed towards the station, one of them gave him a friendly "go get'em tiger" pat on the shoulder.

I love Charles Kennedy.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 18 April 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

David "Doll" Johansen in NYC's Riverside Park yesterday afternoon. A tottering stick figure in shades & basic black, he looked like a glam vampire reluctantly venturing forth into the harsh light of day.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 18 April 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

Minty drinks in the pub by my house and Bernard Butler often seen in Budgens.

This time last week Jason Donovan was in my current place of work.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Nick Cave and family, sitting outside his beach hut, Hove seafront.

Frank Skinner and some bird, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton.

Sally Gunnell, walking her dog with some bloke, Devil's Dyke.

Captain Sensible, some gig in a pub, Brighton.

Electrelane, some other gig in a pub, Brighton.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Electrelane? In a pub, at a gig, in Brighton? THE SKY IS FALLING ON OUR HEADS!!

;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, new cover stars of the Wire and all that. You'd have thought they'd be hanging out on Derek Bailey's yacht already.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Andre 3000 came into my day job about a month ago to buy an updater for some music software. Had one of those "wait, that guy looks exactly like..." moments until he spoke, at which point I realized "Oh, that Is him".
Nice guy, very soft spoken, and he was wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs toque!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Anna, I saw Jason Donovan this morning, in a spookily quiet Charing Cross station. He was giving an autograph to a policewoman. He looked happy and healthy.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw Margot Kidder last year in the queue leading into Fahrenheit 9/11.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. To Hell with you and your gradual evolution! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Steve Shelley, on 12th Street, again carrying a SONIC YOUTH bag.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

oh and going to work on Sunday I think PUTTY from "Seinfeld" was on my train. weird.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I saw what looked very much like Evan Dando at a reading at the Astor Place Barnes & Noble last night.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

oh and a few hours later, while eating outside at Velseka, EXCEPTER FRONTMAN sexyDancer.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i saw tim allen (i think) at barneys

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm on a roll at the moment. Camilla Parker Bowles, in a royal Bentley, crossing Kew Bridge at 9.30 this morning.

(shouldn't she be on honeymoon?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 25 April 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Virginia Madsen, at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago last Tuesday. She was milling about in the crowd after seeing some female solo act, while I set up for a variety show I was hosting afterwards.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Was she teh cuteness?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

That kinda annoying comedian bloke who was in that "My best friend" programme a while back. I saw him in Shepherd's Bush.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Marc Wootton, I think his name is. Plays that Shirley Ghostman on BBC3 too.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Bruce Willis, earlier today at Shoppers Drug Mart.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah v. madsen was cute. just wearing a t-shirt and jeans. you know. hanging out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:41 (twenty years ago)

ben stiller at tower video on west 4th two days ago. was buying something and talking on cellphone at same time.

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

It's Famous Comedian Month for my wife. She saw Robin Williams on Madison in the 40s, and Bill Murray in a doctor's waiting room at Columbia Presbyterian.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Richard Eds0n returning a De La Soul CD to Aron's Records in Hollywood!!

"Hey man, there's no CD in here!"

http://80.237.202.120/invdeo/images/casts/cast_23693/image.jpg

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

and he was the original drummer for Sonic Youth?! weird...

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

he also played in konk. he rulez. prolly their best drummer imo!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Trish Stratus, today at a marketing convention of all things!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 29 April 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

(though really, what is WWE wrestling if not marketing?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 29 April 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

http://isnothingsacred.com/alfonso_ribeiro.jpg

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

I saw Tom Hollander on his bike at May Morning (non Oxford people.. it's the one day in the year when students stay up all night, then go and watch Magdalen college choir sing, and welcome in the spring/summer) this morning.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Chicago Sun-Times music critic, author of several terrible music books, and ILM arch-enemy Jim DeRogatis at Barnes & Noble yesterday. He was browsing through the photography and craft books but mainly it seemed like he was waiting for someone else.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

I saw a shitload of celebrities at the GLAAD media awards the other night: marcia cross, felicity huffman, john stamos, brendan frasier, lisa minelli, jennifer coolige, mandy moore(!), britney murphy, the queer eye dudes, jason alexander, etc etc.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought I saw Janet Dibley (played Nicholas Lyndhurst's wife in crap sitcom The Two of Us, also played an alcoholic bafflingly obsessed with Phil Mitchell in EastEnders) in the tea room at Alnwick Castle this weekend.

Just once, I am going to see someone interesting. I see various members of Belle and Sebastian from time to time, but that isn't that random, usually.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I had my first sleb spotting today! Though he did have to be pointed out several times before I recognised him. Given that I officially cannot recognise Jarvis Cocker ie the most striking-looking man ever when he is standing in front of me, I think the chances of my adding to this sleb spot are minimal.

He was at London Bridge station with his small daughter looking very harassed and weary. He is in the unfortunate situation of both having a receding hairline and needing a haircut.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday afternoon walking down Gray's Inn Road: Michael Portillo in fuchsia Ralph Lauren shirt.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Justine Bateman at the Dodgers game on Sunday. Tom Arnold at the Nuwilshire Monday night (a few hours ago).

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

I saw Ana Maria--one of the girls from former "Popstars USA" group Eden's Crush--shopping at Ralph's tonight!

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

CLUB RALPHS

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Not as hot in person
http://www.laritmo.com/img/article/popstars/anamaria/anamaria.jpg

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

"hot"

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

Before the Ornette Coleman show at the Barbican yesterday there was a guy someone assured me was Jamie Cullen. During the interval I realised I was facing Paul Morley, and was very tempted towards the hopeless fanboy thing, but resisted.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Finally! Something I can win at!

People I have Interviewed:

Katie Holmes
Paris Hilton
Zooey Deschanel
Will Farrell
James Iha
Sophie Dahl
Heidi Klum
Rosario Dawson
Anthony Edwards
Kanye West
Common
Natalie Portman
Mandy Moore
Isabella Rossilini
Maya
Sarah Jessica Parker
James Caan
Pretty much every major clothing designer on the planet

And many more I can't remember right now.

< / starfucking >

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Travis Morrison currently is working as a contractor Web designer at a company where I frequently work as an editing contractor.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I watched the Arsenal v West Brom match yesterday in the same pub as Fran Jeffers. He is shorter than he looks on telly. And uglier.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Phil from Radiohead. Again. at the Tom Vek, Clor gig in Oxford/

It's like the 4th time in as many months. I think he's stalking me.

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

yesterday, David Arquette at Astroburger on Melrose, eating by himself, wearing a really absurd pink shirt.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

i saw keith richards and his kids drinking in a booth at hiro last week

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.americanapparel.net/presscenter/articles/images/20040800counselor.jpg
(the real one, not slutsky)

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www2.kwcinema.kataweb.it/xmen2/images/cast_3.jpg
(walking her tough little doggie)

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Bill Drummond was behind us in a Stoke Newington pub last nite.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw Russell Simmons at Atlantic Avenue subway station. I'm not sure how likely it was that it was really him though.

― $V£N! (blueski), Sunday, 8 May 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I have bummed cigarettes from Carrot Top no less than 5 times. His buddies call him CT.

― giboyeux (skowly), Sunday, 8 May 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

dinner tonight at not-particularly-fancy UES restaurant with parents, Grandma, uncle, and... Tom Brokaw

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 May 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I saw Spencer Chow in a fantasee... actually this whole thread topic is redundant if you have the current bitch day-job I do right now and live around here....Mark Hamill came into work yesterday and walked past the dishes I was washing (and said an uncomfortable "haylo" - they put too much make-up on him but thats also bcoz the make-up lady was insane and stole all the complimentary tampons we put out in the bathroom....tampons that I have to buy these days as part of this "gig," mind you) after I had made Lily Tomlin's fruit-plate... I don't care to google-proof these things anymore. For what reason?

I hate chopping fruit...I don't care if it's for Luke Skywalker or %$$% )&*!#@. If you work where I work and you're reading this...yes I mean YOU!!

― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 13 May 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Lily is still pretty fwiw, but Cheri Oteri should really take her sunglasses off when she's _inside._ Hello Ms Oteri, our studios here are not that _bright,_ kay? Also who is John Cleese again? Why does he deserve his own caffee pitcher?

― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 13 May 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Ray Davies, in Muswell Hill of all places. In the avant-garde music shop.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 13 May 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

I should start a blog solely dedicated to the goings-on of this job, right?

That way I can passive-aggressively be fired ASAP. Would any of you read it?

― Vichitravirya XI, Friday, 13 May 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Vic, I would feel honoured and privileged to chop fruit for Lily Tomlin. Not Mark Hamill, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Is there any chance Jimmy the Mod can give us an insight into what these celebs were like when he interviewed them?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Sandra Oh with some dude and the bartender from Sideways!

Also, from "Reno 9/11" the guy who plays that one gay cop and the guy who plays Garcia.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Vic I would totally read that blog. It'd be like the Pat O'Brien in rehab one but REAL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Gear!, might "some dude" have been Alexander Payne, Oh's husband?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I saw Sandra Oh outside Eat Well on Saturday!

Also, Tony Alva at the Adidas store last night for some Legends of Dogville or whatever it's called party.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

THEY R SPLIT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

GET ONE CELEBRITY GOSSIP.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

So they have.

"Oh and Payne's separation follows a string of recent Hollywood splits, which include Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, Katie Holmes and Chris Klein, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and Shannon Elizabeth and Joseph Reitman."

Isn't this the most meaningless paragraph ever?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

No, this is:

I saw Molly Shannon outside Chelsea Market yesterday.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

"Payne's seperation follows a string of 50% of American marriages ending in divorce."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I mean, was there really a RASH of Hollywood couples splitting up? Couldn't you find four couples to say that about at pretty much any time?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

Haha I can't believe I forgot that Yancey talked to James Ellroy while Ellroy was taking a shit. - brushes with greatness (again)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I THOUGHT it was PAYNE but then a friend told me the same thing, they be split. The dude she was with was about 6'5", a big fella.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

weird tracer, upon leaving chelsea market yesterday, about a block away on 15th street i saw Wallace Shawn.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Emma Granger (Herminone off Harry Potter) going to Rufus Wainwright. Saw Rufus too, but that doesn't count cos it was his gig. Sat next to Peter who used to be in Heavenly, but they aren't really that famous anymore. He was at the Jeffrey Lewis gig I went to last night too...

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

obviously that's Emma Watson and not Granger.. Brain not working...need to get some sleep.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 14 May 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Lucy Liu and Justine Bateman

After this auction thing was over, Lucy drove away in her Toyota Prius. Defamer had her in Beverly Hills a couple of days before, however, in a Range Rover. It's important to have choices.

― EComplex (EComplex), Sunday, 22 May 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Paul Morley, yesterday morning, in Archway - OK, more of an ILM "celeb"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

I think I saw Mike D this morning in Soho walking around with his morning paper, but I was bending down to release my pant(trouser)leg from my sock, so I didn't clock him properly.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

My kids go to the same school as Emma (Hermione) Watson, so we tend to see her quite often.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Ralph Nader at lunch last week. He didn't look overly concerned about the safety of his sandwich.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

bobby gillespie, years ago, at a werner herzog film at the nft.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Boris Johnson sighting number 284, entering local sandwich bar BUTTY BOYS.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

I ignore Kelly Osbourne everytime I run into her, it must drive her insane.

I said wassup to Luis Guzman and he was all weird so I considered robbing his ass

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

I helped Bobby Gillespie carry his kid in a pushchair down some steps at King's Cross on Friday, although I didn't notice it was him until I looked up past his (cute) kid halfway down.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

ethan hawke and uma thurman, with dog and stroller, walking down 23rd street. then, about two minutes later, mo rocca in a kinko's on 7th ave.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine writes:

So, there I was, over in our Other Office Round The Corner where I don't normally go, discussing work stuff with one of the engineers, and Geraldine the office cleaner was chattering on about the importance of a healthy diet.

G: I never eat crisps, or junk food, or anything like that.
Me: Mmm-hmm
G: They're very bad for you.
Me: Oh yes.
G: Just ask Shay Healy over there.
Shay Healy: Very bad for you, yes.

I think my brain just refused to deal with it for a second, and I just sat there with a WHAT THE FUCK IS A COMPOSER OF EUROVISION WINNING SONGS DOING SITTING AT A DESK IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND EVERYONE IS ACTING AS IF THIS IS NORMAL expression on my face.

Apparently due to some arrangement with our CEO, he uses one of the desks in the office a couple of days a week. Still deeply bizarre.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

if gary indiana counts as a celebrity, he stopped in to say hi to my boss the other day.

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 3 June 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

It is funny that this thread started with a Keanu sighting in SF, and now I have squared the circle by walking past him in NY the other day. Ah, the endless cosmic joust.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Neo haunts the footsteps of ilx.

― Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Friday, 3 June 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

DENNIS NORDEN, no less, rathbone place, friday afternoon...

― N_RQ, Monday, 6 June 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Sara Cox would appear to live across the road from me, or in my street at the very least

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

bobby gillespie, years ago, at a werner herzog film at the nft.

Hey, I sat next to that gimp at a Cecil Taylor concert, but that was probably about 14 years ago. Always a mystery to me how a man of such taste can make so much godawful music. Wish I'd have asked him...

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

It is funny that this thread started with a Keanu sighting in SF, and now I have squared the circle by walking past him in NY the other day. Ah, the endless cosmic joust.

This is highly unfair as I didn't walk past any slebs the whole time I was there (to the best of my knowledge).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 6 June 2005 09:07 (twenty years ago)

I saw Paul Morely on the tube yesterday, got on at Archway and got off at Euston. Had an unposted letter in his pocket. Not strictly a celebrity, but, well, this is ILx.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 6 June 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

fucking hell! that's *real* celebrity, and it means he's local. excellent stalker detail too, thx.

― N_RQ, Monday, 6 June 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I've sat at a table to Bobby Gillespie in a couple of pubs in my time as well. Once, very drunkenly, me and my pal decided to see how long it would take to piss him off by pointing out his existence at a high volume every few seconds (answer: not very).

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I saw Paul Morely on the tube yesterday, got on at Archway and got off at Euston. Had an unposted letter in his pocket. Not strictly a celebrity, but, well, this is ILx.

Yes and I saw him at Archway a few weeks back, he must live in the area now. Never mind all that tho, yesterday I saw... RONNIE CORBETT!!!!!!!! Boy, was I excited. The strange thing is he was taller in real life than he appears on screen and it usually works the opposite way.

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

if gary indiana counts as a celebrity

this might be stretching the defintion. I could imagine him STALKING & MURDERING a celebrity, though

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

Some of these are very impressive.

I believe Gillespie Jr is called Wolfman.

I once saw Terry Scott. He was licking an ice cream.

But Ronnie Corbett is very much the man of the moment, so Dadismus is in the lead.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

Gillespie Jr. is called Wolf, which was Hitler's nickname

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Haha, remember when Neneh Cherry named her son (or maybe daughter?) Tyson and the next week he got sent to prison for rape (Mike that is, not Neneh's offspring)

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Wilmer and... PINK at the Standard rooftop last Sunday. David J was also wandering around and hanging with Peaches.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

i saw amy ray of the indigo girls in front of the australian embassy to the usa yesterday.

it's odd that i would recognize an indigo girl.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

xpost, it was weird by the way. They arrived together and left together. Great cars.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

"Great cars"? Who are you, Adam Levine?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

We are occasionally "of like mind."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Miccio would've wet himself had he been with me at a bar in my neighbourhood last night, as there was his hero Fred Durst with his entourage hanging out near the bar. He's wee.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 11 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Should I really avoid this thread? I have good sightings, but maybe it's boring since I hang out in Hollywood anyway...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw al goldstein today. he's lost weight.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I saw Wilford Brimley at Psychobabble a couple of days ago. He looked grandfatherly.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I not only saw but actually spoke to Steve Davis at a Magma gig in Paris a few weeks ago. I think it reflects badly on me that this was one of the greatest moments of my life thus far.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm still trying to catch my breath after reading about that 2004 Deborah Mailman sighting. Dude, Kelly is my absolute favorite character off "Secret Life Of Us"!! She is the coolest!

Me -- well, about a month ago I ran into a local celeb. I mentioned this in another thread, I think; I was working at an election and a local TV news anchor who looks a lot like Mr. Spock and his wife went in to vote. A little over a week ago, Mom worked at the runoff and spotted them again. He looks more human-like in person, but I was really impressed by how normal his wife looked and acted! She's not a skinny plastic surgery bitch -- rejoice!

Oh, and we're having to get some work done at the house, and one of the people we've most recently called up for help was one of my dad's former cowworkers. He now works at the SBC Center -- apparently he ran into Al Michaels before Game One of the finals and said Michaels was genial and was carrying around a bunch of grapes. I would've asked about Alanis but knew he probably wouldn't have known who she was so I didn't.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Another reason why my current gig rules: Sandy Pearlman, producer of the Clash and Blue Oyster Cult, was up in Toronto today to promote his new digital music initiative. I was expecting some guy with over the top rock persona but he was surprisingly introverted and non-cliched. Cool guy.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Adr1an Chil3s, walking down my street on Sunday moring on his way to play football in the park. No idea he lived close, and didn't even recognise him until he opened his gob and started talking.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Should I really avoid this thread? I have good sightings, but maybe it's boring since I hang out in Hollywood

Don't leave the thread, you're the Mary Hart.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I exchanged banter with Ulrika Johnsson on Sunday night at War of the Worlds - she caught me nicking one of McFly's water bottles (mine had been nicked by someone else already) and made me give it back. I cracked a funny (which I can't remember for the life of me) and, when I handed said mulleted dude the water, Ulrika told me I was going to go to heaven.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

OK, in the past couple weeks I've seen Chloe Sevigny, Kirsten Dunst and Mandy Moore all poolside for various parties at the Hollywood Roosevelt (I think they're filming some kind of reality show there about promoters, but I don't think we were being filmed). Also, Eliza Dushku at a bar called, uh, "Bar" last monday.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Lots of celebs come to Martha's Vineyard. I saw Michael J. Fox a couple of days ago. He was walking quickly and trying to hide among the group he was walking with.

A few summers ago I was walking on a nature trail in the woods and David Letterman passed me on the trail.

Years ago I waited tables at the airport restaurant. My first day both Lou Reed and Spike Lee came in for coffee.

And then of course there are Clinton, Billy Joel, Carly Simon, Mike Wallace, Ted Kennedy, Mary Steenbergen and the other celebs who vacation here - seen them around.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 4 July 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Eubanks again the other weekend, driving his Hummer through the busiest part of town in the middle of Saturday, tinted windows rolled right down... how's anyone going to see him otherwise?

I really want to blab about who I'm supposedly sitting next to at a wedding this coming weekend, but ought to really not say anything, goddammit. But I saw the seating plan on Saturday for the chapel and my stomach did a fucking barrel roll. Fuck, I'm a nervous wreck today.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 4 July 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

roy moller... primark

― dahlin (dahlin), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

Tariq Ali! In Camden! This combined with the fact that one of my friends had met and had a good old natter with Robert Wyatt the day before leads me to believe THE REVOLUTION IS BACK ON!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

On Thursday, at Whole Foods on my way to Fort Reno to see the Evens (Ian MacKaye's new band), I belatedly realized that the gray-haired guy in front of me buying iced tea was Henry Rollins. (Not that I had anything I wanted to say to him.)

When I got to the park, I flopped down on an empty patch of grass. Turns out the people about eight feet away from me were the nucleus of the Dischord "VIP section." Before I finished my dinner and scooted out of the group's way, I heard Henry and Ian bantering about "pizza that keeps it real."

Embarrassed, wishing I had a friend with me to whom I could talk, and feeling too socially inept to strike up a conversation with anyone I didn't know, I moved to another part of the park. Then I spot ten feet away from my new seat Greg Dulli, presumably in town for July 4th, with a group of people. (I also had nothing to say to him. He doesn't seem to have spoken with any of the Dischord set that evening.)

Later, as the Evens take the stage, I spot Guy Picciotto. He seems to have stayed away from the Dischord set all evening. And then finally I saw Ian Svenonius, but he turns up at everything, usually about 15 minutes before the end.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

I saw Lindsay again last thursday comparing sidekicks with Eva Mendes at the Roosevelt. They both looked great. Nick Stahl was also in their little VIP corner. Kirsten Dunst was also there but was definitely not hanging out with them (not that she should or would, but celebs often stick together for moral support or something). On another night there I saw Michael Vartan (sp?) - the girls I was with were very excited and said that he is HOTT and has sad eyes (his ex had just married Ben Affleck earlier in the day, but they said his eyes are always like that).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

NickB, you are a tease. Can't you give us some sort of cryptic clue?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

i saw cate blanchett at the marc jacobs store today rummaging thru the 70% off rack

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Is Lindsay red again/yet?

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of redheads, interviewed Jean Butler (from Riverdance, Irish dance fame) a week or so ago. Achingly beautiful in person.

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

here's a weird one. i saw ian mcewan just by warren st tube station on wednesday evening.

and here's ian in today's guardian:

"The mood of a city has never swung so sharply. On Wednesday there was no better place on earth. After the victory in Singapore, Londoners were celebrating the prospect of an explosion of new energy and creativity; those computer-generated images of futuristic wonderlands rising out of derelict quarters and poisoned industrial wastelands were actually going to be built."

and then:

"But terror's war on us opened another front on Thursday morning. It announced itself with a howl of sirens from every quarter, and the oppressive drone of police helicopters. Along the Euston Road, by the new UCH - a green building rising above us like a giant surgeon in scrubs - thousands of people stood around watching ambulances filing nose to tail through the stalled traffic into the casualty department."

that UCH is just opposite warren st, and of course the most recent mcewan novel is set all around this area, and starts with an imagined terrorist attack.

― n_RQ, Friday, 8 July 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

Went to see Star Wars in Edinburgh last night. It was very quiet and I got there early so was sitting in the cinema on my own watching silent adverts when Fran and Dougie from Travis came in. Obviously still in town after the Live8 gig the night before. Exchanged a few words and they obviously didn't baulk at the food prices as I did given they were laden down with Cokes and hotdogs/popcorn.

Also last week my parents went to the blessing of my Uncle's wedding and David Soul showed up, went back to the house and stuff. Really nice guy apparently.

― mms (mms), Friday, 8 July 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

I got ogled by Jayne Middlemiss the other day!!

NICK B SPILL DEM BEANS

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 July 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

I saw Pink sitting at a sidewalk cafe in West Hollywood day before yesterday. Walked around the block, googled "pink" and "tattoo" and came up with a list of her tats. Positive ID on the bar code clearly visible on her neck. Otherwise, a surprisingly pretty, but non-celeb looking girl. Esp. for L.A.

I love Google.

― EComplex (EComplex), Sunday, 10 July 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw frank whaley in the east village. long stringy hair. unless it was someone else. kinda short.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Charles Krauthammer. Failed to call him an asshole.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

tuesday: kevin nealon in soho
yesterday: debbie harry in carmine's pizza on graham avenue in williamsburg. dining companion: "that lady looks just like debbie harry!" me: "it is debbie harry."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

wonder what's she's doing in that neck of the woods...
I mean, besides eating at one of the best pizzerias in the city.

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Last Thursday night at the Hollywood Roosevelt: Nick, Jessica, Ashley, Wilmer (after the Dukes premiere apparently). Jessica is HOTT (but not really my type).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

xpost - i dunno. we think her young punk rocker-looking friend must be her "personal assistant."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Wilmer ditched Lindsay for Ashlee?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I saw Michael Pitt at the MC5/Sun Ra/DJ Spooky Summerstage show. He's just a short skinny greaseball. I was surprised I even recognized him.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

M1ke My3rs is on my friend's street hockey team. I went to see them play last Sunday and it was kind of odd. He's pretty good though, Canadian and all.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 5 August 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

i think i saw kate moss on archway road on saturday afternoon. it's not out of the question; on the other hand, i have been smoking a lot of crack recently.

― N_RQ, Monday, 8 August 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

So can NickB tell us who was sitting next to him at this wedding now it's safely in the past???

I keep seeing Nick Cave [mainly in Waitrose] and Kevin Rowland [mainly in Infinity Foods] lately, I swear they are following me.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

M1ke My3rs is on my friend's street hockey team.

A friend of a friend is his personal assistant!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I had a face off with Gabriel Byrne on Berwick Street the other day. Him: ladyfriend underarm. Me: likewise. We realised one pairing would have to move out the way. He eyes bore through me for what seemed like eternity. I duly moved onto the road. He is a handsome devil.

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Were you anywhere near Boogaloo Enrique? That might make Moss-sense.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

indeed i was. so it *does* make sense. but possibly it was just an attractive brunette in shades.

― N_RQ, Monday, 8 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

who smiled at me.

― N_RQ, Monday, 8 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

So can NickB tell us who was sitting next to him at this wedding now it's safely in the past???

Err, N1gell4. Except she didn't sit opposite me, cos last minute seating malarkey scuppered it. Boo hiss drat!

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

On Regent Street yesterday teatime I saw proceeding towards me in a slow but stately fashion Stephen "Inspector Blakey" Lewis as immortalised in this greatest ILx thread ever!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I saw Pauline Quirk last night, near Covent Garden, with her little piggy eyes.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

i saw michael fielding at my friends' gig the other night. i was excited, but my companion totally took the wind out of my sails: "eh. he goes to everything."

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Stewart Osborne will appreciate this, if no-one else does. Not only did I see T.V. Smith and Gaye Advert on Friday but they beat me in a pub quiz and I was later introduced to T.V. (as Tim) before I realised who he was, I never got introduced to Gaye, who is still a (very) fine figure of a woman!

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

... but seeing Inspector "I'll 'ave you Butler" Blakey beats all!

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

i saw a guy who looked a lot like the drummer from elastica wearing an old elastica t-shirt on oxford street yesterday.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

actually, not michael fielding. the other one - noel.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

.. methinks this is stretching the concept of celebrity to breaking point... thinner than an old Elastica t-shirt in fact (xpost)

― When You Wore a Tulip (and I Had a Big Red Nose) (Dada), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

R0bert R3dford was in the cafeteria at work last month. He was sitting talking to Fr@nk R1ch. He looked good if weathered about the face, very slim, casual in a black tee and jeans.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

My wife claims to have seen John McCrirrick (sp?) in Maidenhead. Pre-outburst, obv.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i saw leo fitzpatrick (aka telly from kids) outside the knitting factory lady sov show talking on his cellphone (i always seem to catch celebs mid-phone conversations for some reason)

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

R0bert R3dford was in the cafeteria at work last month. He was sitting talking to Fr@nk R1ch.

you work at the ny times?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

In a remote corner of the empire.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Tuesday I saw Bruc3 W!ll!s wearing white shorts t-shirt sneakers and baseball cap walking with a cute curly headed brunette girl next door type going into the same Soho boutique K4t3 M0ss or her double went into- L3g4cy.

Today when crossing Canal from Soho into Tribeca, I saw a tall sexy fullgrown woman walking a little dog while holding a silky parasol. She went under some scaffolding and closed the parasol and, even though she was wearing shades, I could see it was Dr Jean Grey, F4mk3 J4nss3n.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Noel Gallagher in New Quebec Street, Fitzrovia, looking around in wonder at his surroundings.

Tom Baker on Dean Street, just walking.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

The bloke who played Mark Fowler in Eastenders and Gabriel on the Bill (until last week) was in an offy on Muswell Hill Broadway buying beer and wine. He then got in some kind of SUV and drove off towards Hornsey. How exciting.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I walked past the Pussy Cat Dolls, there were dozens of them (since their entourage all looked exactly like the actual Dolls) and they smelled like a drugstore.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

The bloke who played Mark Fowler in Eastenders and Gabriel on the Bill

Here's a generational issue. Most people I know would say 'Tucker in Grange Hill'. I r old etc.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

jo wiley, new cavendish street, friday (again)

― N_RQ, Monday, 17 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I met Keith Duffy last night. He seemed like a pleasant chap.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

i had that michael jackson fellow in my shop the other day. also had the (dis)pleasure of g4, vernon kay, michael caine, noel gallagher, john terry, jose mourinho, jordan (+peter andre) dale winton and parky over the last couple of weeks.

― michael grant (michael digby grant), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

It's almost like you work in one of the most up-market and famous stores in the world, Michael...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I saw perma-tanned former SSP leader Tommy Sheridan in Buchanan Street underground station today.

Yeah, Michael, show-off :)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

David Attenborough! HMV, Oxford Street, Sat'day! Classical section of course!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Burt Bacharach! Last Friday at a Starbucks in midtown Manhattan!

Even if you didn't recognize him as a genius/popicon you'd see him and think "wow that guy's got the most amazing head of grey hair."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

ian mcewan, fitzroy square, last tuesday afternoon.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Richard Lewis at the Arclight yesterday afternoon. He's much shorter in person and has hunched shoulders

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 31 October 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Juliette Lewis at the Chicago Music Exchange (fancy guitar store) with her bandmates, looking at pricey guitars (including a $6500 Firebird).

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

my mum saw them rather than me, but i was in the building: jeffrey and mary archer, fitzwilliam museum, cambridge, yesterday.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

m.i.a.'s in the office. shorter than i thought.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

i saw matthew perry, paris hilton, that greek shipping guy and kim stewart at the roosevelt hotel in hollywood last night

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Once I saw Edward Norton (3dw4rd n0r70n?) getting out of a limousine downtown and I yelled "Hi Edward Norton!" to him. My friend literally soiled himself, but in his defense it was on a dare and not out of excitement. I also saw the singer for Okkervil River in a Japanese restaurant; he bought the Vegetarian Bento.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I stood next to TV dreamboat Dermot O'Leary at the football tonight. He's terribly handsome in real life.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

My friend literally soiled himself

LITERALLY??

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Michael "Kramer" Richards at my fave Village health-food diner last night. I looked up from my salmon chowder and found myself staring into his eyes as he lumbered in; how I avoided laughing I can't say.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 November 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

i saw lohan getting out of a black escalade into the soho grand hotel in nyc. she was with some dudes who looked like they were in a band. maybe it was good charlotte.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

nah they only hang out with the duffster

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

it was mobb deep

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

chap on the right, on the bakerloo line last night, got out at kilburn park, talking about improv!

http://www.channel4sales.com/programming-and-schedules/images/peep-show.jpg

(oh my life is so glamorous)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Years ago, when my kids were little, we were at the clothing-optional end of the beach here. K3vin C0stn3r walked by and my kids struck up a conversation with him a few yards away from where I was lounging on my beach towel. I wanted to get a t-shirt made that said "K3vin C0stn3r Saw Me Naked."

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

last night went back to the Roosevelt Hotel and actually got in this time. saw rachel bilson, kirsten dunst (party animal), eva mendez, vincent "sell my sperm to aryans" gallo, adam levine of maroon 5 - not ilm, josh jackson (pacey from dawson's creek - fatty), one of the guys from Cabin Fever. and supposedly the lohan and ashley simpson were there, but i didnt' see them. oh and Bai Ling was outside

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

MR HUGH GRANT oozing charrm and savwah faire, while waiting for single occupancy restroom at NYC restaurant. Looked like he does on screen only shorter of course. I suspect he wanted me to give up my place in line so a bonafide sex symbol could take a piss. No way.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 13 November 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

ian mcwean, for the third time on this thread, and in pretty much the same place (grafton way, nr TCR), yesterday evening.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

proxy sleb spot - the belgian saw posh & becks on monday morning in kensington somewhere.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I sat right next to Les Dennis in a Thai restaurant in Soho last night. To my disappointment, he didn't do his Mavis impression once. Maybe I should have asked him.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

BILL FUCKING CLINTON

weymouth st, london, just now.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I sold a shirt to Sally Jessie Raphael last night.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Stuart Murdoch on the underground again the other day.

Someone who may or may not have been Craig Bellamy outside my work in Glasgow.

Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot's dad, amongst other things), also outside my work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Was at the Arclight last night and stumbled into a Category 5 celebrity sighting courtesy of the private showings of both Brokeback Mountain and Match Point that ended around the same time. In the space of about fifteen minutes I saw Woody Allen, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyer, Brian Cox, Emily Mortimer, and Heath Ledger. Ang Lee was next to me in the line to pay for parking.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I almost saw Mariah Carey the other week. She was doing an appearence at HMV on Oxford Street, I walked past all the waiting fans. About a minute later they all started screaming, I didn't look back. I'm assuming the screaming was because she'd turned up.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

jel = post of the day.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Last night I met Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett from Mighty Boosh and then Razorlight singer (Johnny Borrel?!) came over and we all hung out for a bit.

Then on the train back to Canterbury today Orlando Bloom sat next to me.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Bloom looked like hell.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I accidentally went to see Corrine Bailey-Rae(sp ?) last night. The evening was not an entire disaster, however, as I stood next to "Ooh" Gary Davies.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Stephin and Claudia of The Magnetic Fields at the silent Hitchcock double bill at Film Forum. He was chain-drinking tea.

Curtis Sliwa in characteristic red beret walking down 6th Avenue this afternoon, not a potential mob assassin in sight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

jivey handshakes with devendra banhart in the warehouse today.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Tricky looking irritable in the drizzle in the middle of Santa Monica Blvd. at Doheny this morning.

― Gogi Ormsby-Gore (Arthur), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

that wasnt tricky that was ashy larry

― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

[big spam]

― Ginger, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jannifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn at this restaurant in Los Feliz today

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ralph Fiennes in church, Christmas Day, 1:30am.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

paul weller in a chip shop around noon london time today.

― hstencilinium in londonium (hstencil), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

A few New Additions:

Charlize Theron (who is inhumanly beautiful)
Shane Black
Val Kilmer
Shirley McLaine
Cameron Diaz
Pierce Brosnan
Greg Kinnear
Jeff Daniels
Rip Hamilton
Sissy Spacek
Kurt Russel
Dakota Fanning
Steve Martin
Jason Schwartzman
Madonna
Guy Ritchie
Rachel McAdams
Laura Linney
Depp
Geddy Lee
Tim Burton
Helena Carter
The Guy who Played Big Pussy
The chick from Muriel's Wedding

― Jimmy Mod Is The Damnation (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I saw spiderman standing in the middle of the PCH on Monday as traffic was at a standstill heading north because of a huge accident. I love LA.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Charlie Higson, at the bottom of my street, on the way to work this morning (me not him)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

... oh and David Baddiel at the top of my street a few weeks back, but who cares about that?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do Ricky Gervais sightings in W1/WC1 even count any more?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the girl in the Vanish advert (wears nasty shiny jackets, lots of dark pink) yesterday.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Pat Kane standing at a taxi rank in Partick with a small child yesterday. He's gone bald.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

he can't drive

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Merton, last week, swanning about Bristol centre (in town for a Harold Lloyd retrospective at Bristol Silents). He's much taller than I thought.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Tall guy, used to play a doctor in Casualty, possibly called Clive Mantle, on Tottenham Court Road today. I am rubbish at this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 2 February 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

also, a priceless damon sighting but it's probably libelous or something like that.

What was this? Did we ever hear?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 2 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

bill murray, having brunch at barney greengrass, saturday afternoon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Quentin Tarantino, jabbering, gesticulating and walking south on Sixth Avenue near Film Forum last night with unknown female companion.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

brushes with greatness (again)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Couple of days ago I saw Peter Riegert, in his Mercedes, making a left turn from Melrose to Crescent Heights.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me about the skies, McIntyre.

sighting > brushing

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Peter Riegert last Indian Summer when he showed me (and a few other people) his movie in Seattle.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Sawyer from Lost on Brewer Street last Friday. I also saw Albert Reynolds' (ex-Irish PM) wife in Tesco on Monday. Woo!

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I saw both Alan Rough and John Beattie outside my work the other day within half an hour of each other. Non-Scottish or non-sports fans, or any combination therewith, may not care. Neither, actually, did I.

I'd rather have seen Sawyer from Lost. Or even Lara, tbh.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was certain that Elvis Costello was at Avalon for the New York Dolls/Optimo shenanigans, standing way up high above and behind the stage while the bass player for Hanoi Rocks and David Johanson and the rest of the original band plowed through their old numbers. My friend said it couldn't be him because he wasn't fat enough.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

kirstie alley at the post office, pursued by paparazzi

― gear (gear), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

mickey rourke right now at the coffee house! he looks like he's in pain.

― gear (gear), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Debbie Harry (I think!) crossing Bowery westwards a few days ago.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Urkel last Friday at a restaurant my friend was DJ'ing at in Santa Monica.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

just remembered, Muse in Amsterdam airport. bit blurred but you can tell it's them.
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full size
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― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

AT our local petrol station, the girl who plays Tracy Barlow, filling up. Gave me a funny look for some reason. whatever. I wasn't after her autograph or shout at her for pretending to be preg in the show or owt.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the white guy from those cingular raising the bar commercials. the sort of schlubby balding one who is paried with the asian dude. the ones that were on during the ncaa tournament. he was at the bank depositing like dozens of checks. he looked really nervous.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 15 May 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

omg i saw PETER STRINGFELLOW on old compton street today after work! he is not as... leathery as you expect him to be. he looked very chipper. (nb this in NO WAY = hott.)

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

my friend S saw MIA outside top shop at oxford circus, the other day.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 19 May 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

He is too leathery. Had to go to a press screening of The People v Larry Flynt and THERE HE WAS in all his orangey glory. He was I believe still glowing when they shut off the lights for the film.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 19 May 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

Jimmy Carr was in Bodeans last night - he looks like he has an invisible piece of poo on his top lip in real life too.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 19 May 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

that was what i'd've thought he'd be like suzy! like that other bloke, the antiques one whose name i've forgotten. but he wasn't *that* orange or *that* leathery. still ewwwwww though. and he is TINY, like about 3 feet tall.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

I saw gold medalist speed skater Apollo Ohno walking down the street the other day. Very exciting.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh No Apollo Ohno Oh No!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

In the last 2 days, Moss from the IT Crowd, James Lance from Teachers & The Book Group and Beth Orton from 'She Cries Your Name'.

Clubbed with Patsy Kensit last month. She is mondo petite and has seemingly lost 20 years.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Friday, 19 May 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Wayne Coyne in the Seattle airport, wearing a dingy suit jacket and laughing with some dudes. He was towing a loveable Barbie-pink vinyl suitcase that could've been from the set of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

The singer from Suprgrss in Oxford last wednesday with partner and child(ren) in tow, heading to the new Castle development for Krispy Kremes (probably).

Even when it's 'only' the singer from suprgrss (and don't get me wrong I like them amd think them acey, etc.) I still find myself staring at them like an idiot.

Also xpost - I was in a taxi behind Peter S' limo stuck in traffic near Kings X. He got out went and got a paper, went somewhere else to get a coffee and cooly stepped back into his car (which had moved about 100 yrds). I was strangley impressed. But, yes, very orange indeed, also strange coat with odd furlike trim.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Richards at First Slice, a cafe connected to an art gallery/studio six blocks from my house.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 10 June 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Green, found sleeping under my bed (with a bottle of Jack Daniels and Scofield Reference Bible in hand) while I was vacuuming. I nearly mistook him for a dust bunny.

― latebloomer's potater chip of the proletariat (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 June 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

This is stretching the definition of the thread title somewhat but I did see the lead singer of Hot Chip walking down Church St. in Stoke Newington last night.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Gary Owens in a used book store in Burbank yesterday afternoon.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

did you hear him, tho?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kelly Osborne and three friends eating lunch at California Pizza Kitchen at the Beverly Center last Wednesday. She looked thin and adorable.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how many people outside the four of us even know who Gary Owens is?

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Alan Sues?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I got confused about Take That members when I read Gary Owens.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lately:

Beyonce, two tables over at a crappy restaurant on Lexington, talking to some industry-looking guys about film stuff. (Best line: "I said I would only do it if it was with Mark Wahlberg.")

Fiona Apple, looking appropriately disgruntled and walking down the east end of Central Park.

Embarrassing: this girl who did a bunch of softcore teeny web porn around the turn of the millennium, sitting next to me at the movies, looking cute.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

janeane garofolo, several times recently around 14th street. so tiny... like 5ft, size 2 tiny.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

also, sarah m. gellar in my friend's shop. very friendly and also very tiny (the 26" w jeans she tried were too big for her).

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

i saw val kilmer walking around downtown this morning. he was wearing a suit.

― you're killing me, larry! (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

hopped on the elevator the other day greeted by Anne-Marie Johnson who instantly shot me a 'keep it moving buddy' glare(I know, the nerve...) but I couldn't help doing a double take before I turned around. She looks the same as ever, soooo skinny in person though. I work in a screen actors guild building so I see a lot of character/commercial actors I don't know the names of, the bigger stars probably send assistants to pick up their checks or whatever it is they do there

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Gellar is one of those celebrities I actually hope I never encounter, because I'd have a lot of actress/character confusion and probably get all OMG BUFFY I LOVE YOU about it.

ILX Carly once saw Buffy's mom (aka Earnest Excedrin User) on the subway, and I have no idea how she managed not to do a bunch of creepy "hug me, I cried for days when you died" stuff.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

2 weeks ago: WILLARD SCOTT hustling into office building on Bway.

MC: "Yo Willard you gotta do something about this heat!"

WS: [100 watt shiteating grin]"Hey How Are Ya!"

MINDERS: [angry stare] inaudible

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Nabisco, I am envious of your Tawnee Stone sighting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

i haf just been in edinburgh for almost a week and thus have the following list for yr delectation:

dara o'brien in waverley station (this within 30 second of getting off the train)
will self walking up the road, looking v tanned and healthy
welsh bloke from coupling, in the assembly rooms toilet
les dennis watching richard herring (we nearly sat next to him!)
bloke who plays bradley's dad in eastenders hanging around pleasance dome with his mates
drummer from khazi cheese watching josie long
half the comedians IN THE WORLD in the pleasance courtyard last night (there was a radio 4 "28 shows in 28 minutes" show on, so most of them were doing a minute on that), also alan rickman.

will this do?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I saw this guy who looked a ton like Michael Ian Black at a Go! Team show in NY last aprilish but I'm not sure it was actually him...

Goddamnit, I go to NYC all the time and I NEVER see famous people!!!

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did you actually *see* Alan Rickman, or are you just believing me? I thought he had gone before you arrived.

You forgot about Tinker from Lovejoy! (though I think only Neil saw him)

(I am just miffed because I was going to revive this thread and Steve beat me to it)

Fred McAulay was apparently wandering around shaking hands with people and introducing himself with "hi I'm Fred McAulay, I have a show on Radio Scotland", which NO-ONE was impressed with, which is only right and fair.

I also saw a bloke who looked like George Clooney in the bar of what used to be the North British Hotel, but for some reason I decided not to go back and double-check. If I find out that he was at the Film Festival and I missed my opportunity to do something inappropriately silly like, erm, get his autograph/get my photo taken with him/convince him to marry me (ignoring husband for now, c'mon, it's George Clooney!), then I'll be very cross. I don't think it was him though. However, blokey in the bar of what used to be the North British Hotel, you're very goodlooking and you have a definite Clooney-esque air.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am envious of Nabisco's Beyonce sighting as I have a banal crush on her.

She and Jay-Z are taped up here at my desk.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Thursday, 17 August 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Carsmile in "economy of scale in edinburgh" shock! (ah)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

i just saw vernon kaye, in a car rolling on great portman street. he was in a jag. he beeped and shouted something at someone. i think i made out the word 'bowman' -- which would make sense, being near broadcasting house. i couldn't see bowman, but i didn't look very hard.

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

He was shouting, "Bow man, you are in the presence of showbiz royalty!"

― Dadaismus (a rattly old puffin who remembers ILX in the days when...) (Dada), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Mischa Barton, but I suppose it qualifies more as a meeting than a sighting. She's cool.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Friday, 18 August 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Triangulatin' bastard Bill Clinton walking around on the field during batting practice at Shea Stadium.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

saw parker posey the other night. also there (so i've been told): jimmy smits, peter dinklage, liev schreiber. i'd trade em all for a clinton sighting, though!

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Mischa Barton, but I suppose it qualifies more as a meeting than a sighting. She's cool.
-- Badrock Example (b4rim4_...), August 18th, 2006.

you were in china whites or something?

― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

This should be here, really...

Early summer 2004 , We all went up to Belsay Hall. As we have English Heritage memberships, we've done a fair amount of going round old houses/mansions, big paintings on the walls, racks of books in bookcases, furniture behind thick decorous ropes, you get the picture.

This was different, as instead they had invited all the top fashion designers to install an art piece in one room each. Zandra Rhodes, Alexander McQueen, Stella Mac, Viv West, nearly everyone you could think of created 'art spaces'. On entering one of the halls, Amber and Alice had spotted a sheepdog, not much older than a pup, tied to a rail. They made a fuss of each other, the dog called "Red" eager to please, doing the 'sit' 15 times a minute.

Anyway, at one of the smaller halls was one of the bigger rooms, with an exhibit of a horse, made by hanging curtains of scharovski crystals (with sponsorship signs dotted around), and quite spectacular with the one shaft of light from an uptop open window. Dawn nudges me and says "Isn't that Stella McCartney over there?" and it was. Now, we'd bought the souvenir postcard pack, and Dawn wondered about getting the horse card signed. I suggested that actually, as it's obviously a low key visit, and most people had either not noticed or were too shy, probably best not to. (I'd seen how the three from New Order that arent Barney went from being casually noticed at a J&MC gig to getting swamped after one person was braveenough to ask).

Anyhow, a little later, we were entering one room as Stella was leaving another, so Dawn 'whispered' "I love your horse by the way". "Oh, thanks!" smiled Stel, and hugged her quickly. Afterwards, Dawn asked me "Was that OK?" "Yeah, of course!"

Anyhow, further/later, I'd gone to the main gate to get a poster of the exhibition, but they'd run out. On walking down the hill, Alice says "Oh look, there's Red again", chasing a ball. Thats when I saw that Dawn, Stella and Amber were full in conversation while playing with the dog. We stayed chatting for about 10 mins/1/4 hour about all sorts. What struck me was how Stella and Dawn were quite similar in a lot of ways, both being the same age. She was very complimentary about Amber's hair, remarking that her sister was dark haired although she was red herself, a bit like Amber and Alice.

I heared her say something about how difficult it was getting a good photo of the horse, so I said, "Oh , I took one, let me check" getting my camera out. (I never really thought about it..) but on checking, I said "Ah, no it's not that good" and put the camera away. I think she wondered if I was trying to get a 'quick photo' but actually, the thought hadn't even crossed my mind, and in any case I wouldn't have anyway.

Amber was quite keen to throw the ball for the dog, so Stella showed her how to bat the ball a distance using the tennis racket she had. But, Amber is a girlie and cannot hit a ball ten paces, so Stella tried to show her how by standing in front and throwing the ball to her. There was a moment I thought Amber was going to hit her a glancing blow, but no. Although, it wasn't until much later that it occured to me that a black eye would probably have made the front pages (She'd only that day announced she was expecting).

Anyway, we said cheerio, and she went back to her Family picnic, and we went home.

I did wonder if she'd pick Amber as a name for her kid, and actually not wanting that! (It was a boy in the end).

So, more recently, she was in Heat mag with Gwinneth, and I pointed the pic to Amber saying "You remember Red the Dog, and the lady?" "Oh, she famous then?" so I told her about the fashion designing, and how she'd complimenter her hair, to which she felt quite proud of herself. Oh, and eventually, pointed out Paul in the film "Help" and said that was her dad.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jeffrey Eugenides, last night at the Empty Bottle, talking to an attractive Asian woman. I'm not sure who he was there to see -- I showed up just in time to see Azita, but he left before she took the stage.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

fatnick saw r1cky g3rvais lurking round bloomsbury not so long ago, talking into his mobile phone and laughing like a girl, apparently

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ricky Gervais lives and works there and is always wandering around in grotty trackies. Hi DG!

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

hello suzy!

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Conti outside the National Portrait Gallery, and Kim Clijsters on the train from Waterloo heading towards Surrey (NB this might not have been her as it seems so unlikely but it was the absolute spit).

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not a sighting as such, but we were walking in Knightsbridge, passing a shop where a bloke comes out with his son and says "That was the ROCK! In there! You know, the Rock! shopping in there!"

I think it was Accessorize, or some such.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pat Nevin at the Belle and Sebastian/Camera Obscura gig in Edinburgh on Sunday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

did you hear him, tho?

That's how I first identified him... I wanted to say hello, but he was busy talking to the book store owner about old LA, Frank Sinatra's paintings, and the Coconut Grove.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Robert Winston (he is a celebrity isn't he?) at, and this is perfect, the NT production of "The Life of Galileo" (two rows in front of me)

― dud Hab 'C' dEva (Dada), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

I did see Garry Bushell at the Reading Hexagon, watching Lily Savage's "Prisoner H block" or whatever that aussie soap was called.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

.. a long time ago, I should have said.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Morley in Archway again.

Mark Lamarr at Kilburn Car Boot. He was scoping a vintage turntable, but left with some wooden things instead.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mrs Vague had a dance with Bobby Gillespie on Saturday. She said he was kinda funny lookin'.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

I hope she fumigated after, NV.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor on the road to my friend T's house, looking really rather stunning in red vintage patterned dress (late '60s)with flame-haired toddler in tow. Friend who lives on the road was excited to tell me that she has seen SE-B the night before in front of her at the cinema.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 10:37 (nineteen years ago)

Emma Watson, on a boat.

We avoided making any type of Harry Potter references (well tried to) for the whole duration of the journey.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

i held the door for 0mar Epps the other day, and he said "thnaks, man"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

er, "thanks" but "thnaks" would have been cooler

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

saw jeffrey wright the other day at habana outpost. as an admirer of his i was kinda psyched. everyone i was with was all pshaw we see him like everyday. not sure how i got left out of the ft greene jeffrey wright sighting club, cause i've never run in to him before.

also last night i had a dream that me and a few other people were hanging out with brittany spears and kevin federline in their kitchen and they were really down to earth and mellow -brittany was making us scrambled eggs and hash browns, everyone was just cooling.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

and also i had a dream about my oink ratio

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 9 September 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

fiftys cents, russel simmons & overreaching trophy bride, courtney cox, olsens, iman, curtis martin, li'l kim

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Last weekend, Montréal, bachelor party, very drunk, Deni$ R0dm@n, buying cigars. We handed him a beer (Sleeman's Creme Ale), he looks at it cautiously and asked "what is this"? No idea if he drank it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Toothy Brit actress Tara Fit2gerald walking across Leicester Square; 80s comic Norm4n Pace, sitting next to me at a poker table (also present: Oliver Chr!s, D3xter Fletcher and Richard Herr1ng).

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

last week at work while covering for receptionist, james cromwell was wandering around the offices. i was on the phone but he totally shot me a smile :)

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

TS: james cromwell vs oliver cromwell

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how it happened, but I never, ever come within a kilometer of any place where a celebrity might possibly be caught, either dead or alive. We inhabit different universes.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

gwen stefani w/boyfriend and baby at the spotted pig on w 11th

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

You mean husband (Gavin Rossdale, innit?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

apparently Justin Long (the kid from the macintosh commercials and Dodgeball and a bunch of crap) is living in Rock Hill, SC while shooting a movie. my sister goes to college there, and she and her friends are hunting him down at all the parties around town he's been haunting. if they find him, they're gonna try and get him to call me and tell me he owes me tree fiddy.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'll report back if they succeed.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

harold ramis at the w hotel in los angeles yesterday. and some dude who looked important and familiar, but i couldn't figure out who he was. the only notion i had was he was the guy who played the evil soccer tycoon in 'shaolin soccer', but it probably wasn't him.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

justin long is the next generation/multiplicity version of jimmy fallon

― gear (gear), Saturday, 9 September 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc: oh yeah, you're right

― sleep (sleep), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

i told calvin johnson he was boring

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

last night in Selfridges - Nigel Quaashie (sp?) and also some Charlton also-ran.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

also: ian svenonious talking about his book and making the awkward joke that it was titled "Garfield". I mean...I think it was a joke. He was kind of boring too.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

hhaha! nation of BORElysses

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

where did you see Johnson and Svenonious?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

justin long is the next generation/multiplicity version of jimmy fallon

-- gear (speed.to.roa...), September 9th, 2006.

no way, he's not nearly as annoying as Fallon.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

i see what you're saying though. but at least he's not a "comedian"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how it happened, but I never, ever come within a kilometer of any place where a celebrity might possibly be caught, either dead or alive. We inhabit different universes.

-- Aimless (aimles...), September 9th, 2006. (Aimless) (later) (link)

this has always been my life until this job (thanks forks!). the only famous person i'd ever spotted before the past month or two was jared leto once at the mall in rochester (weird, but it was totally him).

anyway...
saturday evening: steve buscemi and david byrne.
tonight: joe morton

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

jumped on the subway with two youngish co-workers and lo and behold, bebe neuwrith was sitting across from us on the train. she gets off, a few stops later i idly ask if they noticed, and they not only not know who she is, but are unfamiliar with the show Cheers.

i'm not even 30 yet but feel so old.

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit what is wrong with your coworkers? i would have been psyched to see her - is she as hot as i imagine she'd be in person?

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

m.i.a. at the cat power show last night, talking about her new record. guess that u.s. work visa wasn't a problem after all.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

micha barton, helena christensen, maria sharapova, ashton kucher, dita von tesse, zooey deschanel (!!!!), ummmm... whichever baldwin was in the usual suspects... posh spice.

― Jimmy Mod: THE HANDLESS ORGANIST (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Cynthia Nixon again.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

i saw an almost nude picture of Momus

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tehresa, do you work at J03's?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I saw more celebs in one year (1985-86) in Natchez, MS than in all the rest of my years combined.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ jaymc being a crepe!

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes, j, i am forks' intern bitch person.

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rod Liddle....................................... I know, crap isn't it?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

jake gyllenhaal. taller than i expected.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Drew Carey, in the front row at the AFI showing of Dr. No last night at the Arclight.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 14 September 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Pauline Quirke and family in "House of Caviar" in Gatwick Airport in 2003.

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

consistently underwhelming bbc-stipended comic marcus brigstocke, on gt portland st, about a week ago.

― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Skinner two feet from us at The Fall gig in 93 Feet East on Tuesday

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

vince colosimo nearly ran into me coming out of a bottle shop in northcote last weekend

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

Who is vince colosimo?

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

greek-australian actor

http://imdb.com/name/nm0173194/

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Cynthia Nixon again.

Walking toward subway w/my wife yesterday she said "oh that was Cynthia Nixon, you've seen here around too, hmm?" As it happened, I was ogling another woman at that moment, so I grunted "Uh huh."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough, there's plenty of British "celebrities" on this thread who no-one outside the UK will ever have heard of (xpost)

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Last night, N4than L4ne, walking his dog, avoiding eye contact, near Holland Tunnel exit. Then I saw Cat Power on the A train, wearing Joey Ramone-style knees-missing jeans, but maybe it was just a ringer.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ek. Jared Leto. I think I'd vomit right on the spot.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 21 September 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Bryce Dallas Howard at the Loteria Grill inside the Farmer's Market. I only recognized who she was because posters for that damn Lady In The Water movie were saturating L.A. for so long.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 25 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

nina sosanya (pic below as i had no idea what her name was until now) outside a caff on upper st (i think it was upper st, can't really remember) last week.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:NvJWBxFri3H57M:http://www.kingwiki.ru/images

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

B3n Aff1eck and Jennifer were making out on a bench in the courtyard of my dorm last year, no joke! I should have taken some pics and sold them.

― vingt regards (vignt_regards), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

J4n3an3 Garofalo, last night in Soho.

Chr!sty Tur1!ngt0n, this morning in Tribeca.

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hayl3y West3nra at the "Wicked" London premiere the other night. Astonishingly I didn't see a single other celeb.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

saw common again - dude is always wearing the worst hats. a knit pageboy, ugh.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

what was wicked like?

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed it. The music wasn't all that, the lyrics a bit meh, but the story was great fun and it looked fantastic. If brassy west end musicals are your thing then I'm sure you'd like it.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 29 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Indie-film perennial Josh Hamilton and alt-comedian Todd Barry at Yo La Tengo show in Jersey City.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

cheers mark - they aren't generally but once every four or five years i like to do something like that.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 2 October 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

rode in elevator with ed harris one day at work (cuet!). also saw philip seymour hoffman but supposedly that's not a special sighting as he's there all the time.

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

a knit pageboy, ugh.

Someone Common loves is a knitter. Give the man a break.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

last week: carlos santana (a regular customer at my place of employment) and lady sovereign. i was forced by my superiors to do a brief meet-n-greet with sov and her manager & dj, and a rep from def jam. all of us, including sov, were not thrilled to be chatting.

― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

this dude came into the coffee house i usually go to yesterday. i didn't see him but the girl behind the counter said he was on 'gilmore girls' playing some foreign kid. so i guess him, whoever he is.

― gear (gear), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

The other day, Ms Dynamite and both of the Mighty Boosh within thirty seconds of each other on my road.

― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

last week they shot a gilmore girls episode on my campus -- they were pretending it was yale.

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

On the way to Jay-Z+Beyonce+Nas+Chris Martin+Gwyneth+Memphis Bleek last week, Sam "Preston-but-not-Britney's-kid" Preston from some reality series jumped out of a black Beemer with a smirk. He was heading for a hotel.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

where did you see Johnson and Svenonious?

they DJed in a hayfield here in the middle of the night to about 20 people! it was bizarre

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Why are people named Preston? I just don't understand.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Because there are already enough "Paris"s in the world.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

there is never enough paris

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Preston that Barima saw = Samuel Preston. He's the lead singer of the staggeringly-appropriately-named Ordinary Boys, but is "famous" for being on Celebrity Big Brother and marrying the non-celeb one who was on it who is more famous than him, despite not actually being famous. Or something.

My friend had a dog called Preston. It's a nice name for a dog.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Miami Steve Van Zandt, in Sylvio Dante drag!

― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Thursday, 5 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Saw Lou Reed yesterday, he looked better than I did. It hurt.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Stuart Murdoch today at the CCA in Glasgow. He was trying to get into the bar, but he couldn't because it was being used as a lunch venue for the seminar I was at. Poor love, I hope he found somewhere else to go and drink/eat.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

bono, the edge, dave stewart.
but it wasn't exactly a random sighting.

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

barima, did you see Bey-Z???? If so I am jealous. Why they are hanging around GweynthChrisPlay I don't know.. . .

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Friday, 6 October 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Paul Weller in Woking Shopping centre, about five years ago. He mentioned it in a subsequent interview (he didn;t mention me though)...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

Danny McNamara (I think he counts if only cos he did a football song) in the Mash Tun in Brighton on Monday.

― uptoeleven (uptoeleven), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

When William Macy was in a play in London a few years a go I saw him twice on consecutive weekends around covent garden and in a wagamama. He was with family so I probably saw Felicity Huffman too, but she wasn't famous in those days.

― Mark Co (Markco), Friday, 6 October 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

i forgot to mention that i saw corky from life goes on in the deli near work the other day.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 6 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Beymer (Ben Horne in Twin Peaks, and Tony in West Side Story) at the Peets Coffee on Larchmont yesterday.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 6 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Ben Folds at Starbucks. He is smaller than expected.

― molly d (mollyd), Friday, 6 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

barima, did you see Bey-Z???? If so I am jealous.

I lucked into a ticket at the last minute from one of my best pals, so I was very fortunate. It was off the chain. Gwyneth Aguilera's guest spot was mildly diverting.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

crossing 57th St & Broadway in Manhattan last Monday, I spotted a pale green Jaguar from like the early 50s stopped at the light. cool. scoping out the car, a convertible w/top down I recognized the driver as "journalist" GERALDO RIVERA. he was dressed all tweedy, rocking the Ralph Lauren look, he might've had on an ascot or maybe that's just my imagination. plus 1 young dude riding shotgun.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

what's funny is that happened around 5 PM and walking toward midtown earlier that morning I caught a glimpse of the same car going past.

Geraldo was out cruising instead of atoning for his sins I guess.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

boris johnson! whistling! on his bike! on the way to poptimism (me, not him) the other night!

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Frank Dobson in M&S a few weeks back. How unexciting is that? Can you top that?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 8 October 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

umm... i saw nicola from big brother 1 walking down oxford street with her entourage the week after she was evicted?

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

oops. it wasn't oxford street; it was tottenham court road.

― emsk ( emsk), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

julie white. not sure if she's actually a celebrity but she does shit on law & order a bunch and was on grace under fire (haaaa)

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Monday, 9 October 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

WHY DO *I* NEVER GET TO SEE BORIS JOHNSON?!?!?

Everybody has, but me. Bah. Why did you not knock him off his bike and put him in a sack and bring him to Poptimism for me, Emsk? I am very disappointed in you, being totally remiss in your managerial duties.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

i was deep in Important Emotional Conversation with sande and just sort of stared and turned cos i was still thinking about what we were talking about, half-thinking "is that boris johnson? is it?" then he clocked us and raised his eyebrows at us and "it is! well bloody hell, where's kate when you need her". also i could not run in those boots.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, just as well. I would have knocked him off his bike and asked him for his ~~lovechild~~ autograph.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

If he's got one, he's probably keen to get rid of it! No, wait, that makes no sense. More coffee required.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Andrew in "not quite understanding the facts of life" shockah.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am a simple soul, these things are beneath me (as I understand it).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lily Allen in Westbourne Grove last Thursday night at around 10:30 pm, standing on the sidewalk with a very tall, very thin, besuited man; she was shivering and had headphones on and was giggling as she was shivering.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 9 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hazza316.co.uk/b3ta/boris.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Monday, 9 October 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Botham on Argyle Street, Glasgow.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I saw handsome Thierry Henry in the sports dept of Selfridges the other day - he is not as tall as I would have thought. Dunno what he was doing there either as I assume he gets all stuff like that for free.

― Mark Co (Markco), Monday, 9 October 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Peter Oborne, Highbury Corner this morning.

(I thought my Rod Liddle upthread was bad enough but this surely takes the biscuit!)

― Diddumsismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

caroline rhea. her face looked a lot chubbier in person than on tv. weird.

― sometimes my entire life be like DAMNNN! (tehresa), Monday, 23 October 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Calum Best on a train on Friday, me going up to Sheffield - him to.... Chesterfield?!?!?

He seemed the shy type, weirdly.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 23 October 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

Just saw Boris on his bike again, round the corner from Farringdon station. On his phone while cycling along, someone should tell him that the highway code applies to cyclists as well as motorists

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMNIT, Boris keeps riding his bike round and round my work hood. But I never see him. ever.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

Michelle Wie at California Pizza Kitchen last night. Girl is fucking TALL. Was wearing golf clothing, so it was easy to notice her. That, and she's on the news every night in Honolulu.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

apparently jeffrey "neck tattoo dude" from project runway was at the mojave 3 show at bowery ballroom saturday night.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dylan Moran on Denmark Street. Dude is so iconic - trudging around in the rain lookin' mildly torqued is so his steelo.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Hannon at the NPL last night in Glasgow. He was standing outside having a fag, and I was all "ooh, that guy looks really like Neil Hannon" until someone pointed out to me that it was Neil Hannon. He was sitting at the same table as Stuart Murdoch and a couple of ILXors.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Julia Stiles out on Friday night, not dancing to my friend's enjoyable electro set.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Ex-NME journo turned football pundit and media mogul Stuart Cosgrove at Kokuryo, Argyle Street on Saturday night.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Were you in Glasgow? (or is your eyesight just really good)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! And my eyesight is terrible.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Stuart Cosgrove somewhere quite recently, but I can't remember where. That's not much use, is it?

Glasgow must be teeming with celeb-types, and I never see any of them. I did see Rab Douglas out doing his shopping once.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was tempted to go up to him and ask him about Mark S. But thought he'd probably think I was a bit of a sad case, which would sadly be true.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

You should have asked him if himself and Tam really do nick their banter from the Scottish Football Predictions thread on here.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think I saw Don Letts in Fopp a couple of weeks ago.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 6 November 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

An uncomfortable-looking Natalie Portman being shoved through a Saturday night/Sunday morning clubbing crowd at 2am over the weekend.

― Badrock Example (Barima), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Double sighting at the Grove over the weekend...
- Jennifer Tilly (who is roughly 230% more attractive in real life than she is on camera)
- Evan Handler (Harry from Sex And The City)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Philip Glass buying garlic bread at pizza place on second avenue around 9:30 pm last night!!!!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

I see Don Letts quite a lot. He lives in my part of NW London -see him, his wife and kid strolling through a small local park on Sunday afternoons. He wears a lot of Stussy and has one of those big woolly hats for his dreads.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Julia Stiles out on Friday night, not dancing to my friend's enjoyable electro set.

she was saving her first dance

PS wtf parties are you going to?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Harry Hamlin was on my flight do DC two weeks ago. Upon reporting this to my friends, saying "You know...Harry Hamlin...the guy from LA Law that wasn't Corbin Bernsen," I was scolded with "No. He was Perseus. He killed Medusa and the Kraken, and then rode away on Pegasus."

― B.L.A.M. (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw Lily Cole on Charlotte Street. And you know, she isn't too thin, she just has a teenager body. She looks pretty healthy.

He was standing outside having a fag, and I was all "ooh, that guy looks really like Neil Hannon" until someone pointed out to me that it was Neil Hannon.

I did this to Simon Amstell at a party. Except I was talking to him without the faintest idea who he was and then managed to slur 'That's it! You look just like that Simon Amstell off Popworld!' Lauren was with me and equally drunk and popped up and shouted 'You're the Eight Out Of Ten Cats dude!' at him. He moved away.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Simon Amstell waiting for a bus on New Oxford Street - he was probably going to the same cool party that Anna and Lauren were at, and thus by this post you can tell what sort of life I lead compared to Anna's glam life - HEIGH HO!! Anyway I tried to take a sneaky photo but mostly just got his t-shirt and a mass of hair. Pfft.

And who is Lily Cole anyway - I am wary of googling female slebs anymore, have I mentioned I hate the internet recently?

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Lily Cole is a young model type who kept getting mentioned in the great 'Are Models Too Thin?' debate. (Yes, what is there to debate, yes)

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Neil Hannon at the NPL last night in Glasgow. He was standing outside having a fag, and I was all "ooh, that guy looks really like Neil Hannon" until someone pointed out to me that it was Neil Hannon.

I know I've repeated this on ILx before (perhaps upthread) but it's still funny. Houston movie theater, see tall, bald man all in black, companion says, jokingly, 'look it's Billy Corgan, haha.' Of course, man turns around and is Billy Corgan, doh.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

I once stood outside the Barrowlands in Glasgow after a Smashing Pumpkins gig as one of those dodgy blokes who sell cheap and nasty knock-off Tshirt tried to flog James Iha a bootleg Pumpkins Tshirt to the amusement of the gathered crowd, refusing to give up even when Iha pointed himself out on the picture on the Tshirt. I was pleasantly surprised Iha gave him the time of day, let alone not punch the fuck out of him for trying to undercut his merchandising profits by flogging Tshirts for ten quid less then you could buy them in the gig.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

This one was just ... weird: Chris Connelly, formerly of MTV News and apparently now of ESPN, wandering in front of my house and looking confused.

(Celeb sightings in my immediate neighborhood are always thrillingly minor, especially now that Julia Stiles is gone: my favorite is still seeing one of the guys from Chromeo over and over and wondering if I'd ever see him with the other guy from Chromeo, and then one day seeing the two of them driving together in a tiny Volkswagen full of moving boxes.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot two fairly rubbish sightings in the last month: Carluccio outside Carluccio's on Neal Street and George Wylie in the Collins Gallery in Glagow. And today I sent an email to Tony Benn without realising it, and he replied!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

That is good, about Tony Benn.

Yes, Don Letts was wearing his hat. I like Don Letts.

It is about time I saw some more celebs.

Was it the bus stop outside Argos, Starry? I need to get some context.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

Rob Brydon on City Road just north of Old St. roundabout, earlier. Woot.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Tommy The Tan Sheridan, outside my work, this morning. I stopped for a wee chat.

― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Talking of famous Weegies, it was a while ago now, but Stanley Baxter got on the 134 at sat behind me. "Wherrabus?" "Errabus!" Seerabus?" etc

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Simon and Yasmin Le Bon and their wee doggie on Sunday.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I do appreciate the texts, btw

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Glad to hear it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

A friend saw Amy Winehouse on the 134, sitting at the back singing one of her own songs to herself really loudly.

― chap (chap), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

The 134 is obv. a good bus for celebs

― Tom D. (Dada), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

At the Arclight last night: Tom Hanks & Chloe Sevigny

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Lindsay was at Teddy's on friday night, I felt like an enabler!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Gene Wilder(!) at the Grove on Thursday night

(to be fair though, he was in Barnes & Noble for a book signing)

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Daniels in Dublin airport. He was coming out of arrivals at the same time as a bunch of other expensively-dressed guys, who all looked like they might be on their way to a poker game or something.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

steve coogan, who sheepishly signed an autograph for me at the weekend in tesco.

― darraghmac, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

there's a fairly good chance that the guy i saw today at the grove who looked like brad pitt was in fact brad pitt. fancy seeing tyler durden on my way to another fincher film!

(btw if anyone happens upon a jakey g sighting, please trap him in a shoebox and call me immediately)

― get bent, Sunday, 11 March 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

Paris Hilton in Venice, shooting some commercial on the street we were walking down. She was wobbling a bit, like a Thunderbird.

― moley, Sunday, 11 March 2007 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

yesterday i saw tom wilkinson in highgate woods

― ^@^, Sunday, 11 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

The bloke who plays Nathan Barley on Regent Street.

― chap, Sunday, 11 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

DOG the bounty hunter and his wife @ costco. We were eyeing the selections in the fish department at the same time. Contents of DOG's cart: One Weight Watcher's bathroom scale.

(this hardly counts since its the second time ive seen him and the 3rd time ive seen his wife.)

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

and the first time you've seen that scale!

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, i know that doesn't even make any sense but the situation seemed to call out for a punchline like that.

how about...

"and the first time you've ever seen a scale!"

can we do a re-do?

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

maybe a punchline about fish?

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, also in Jan we saw R*n Jeremy at the AVN afterparty - too scared and awed to say hello.

― moley, Monday, 12 March 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

soleil moon frye, the boyfriend from ugly betty

― 冷明, Monday, 12 March 2007 07:01 (eighteen years ago)

I thought I saw Trent Raznor in Streatham this morning. And did a double take thinking, what on EARTH would he be doing in Streatham? But then Tim Windmill told me that apparently loads of Merkin bands (especially ones playing at the Academy) go down to Streatham to score dope. So go figure. Still no idea if it was actually him or not. He was certainly *short* enough.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Win and Regine from Arcade Fire talking to Nick from the Frank Ferdinands in Mono on Saturday night.

― Stew, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

I really like the idea that Trent Reznor chills out in Streatham. I hope it was him.

― chap, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

boris johnson (sorry kaet!) again, this morning at 9.30 on rosebery ave by exmouth market. i was on the 38 facing backwards, he was on his bike and he and the bus had to stop at the same time. he was wearing a red woolly hat and i couldn't help giggling, he looked up and saw me and smiled sheepishly.

A friend saw Amy Winehouse on the 134, sitting at the back singing one of her own songs to herself really loudly.

this makes me SO SO HAPPY.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Whoopi Goldberg leaving the Dreamworks complex in her Mercedes yesterday afternoon.

And then last night at the Jerry's Deli next to the Beverly Center (I don't usually go there since it's overpriced and mediocre quality)...

Tobey Maguire
James Spader
Sam Moore!

Only way it could have been better was if all three were at the same table

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

in decreasing order of interest, on my recent holidays I saw:

Clint Eastwood buying petrol just outside Celebration, FL
Davis Love III walking down International Drive, Orlando
Julia Foster & Bruce Fogle on my flight from Tampa to Gatwick

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Joan Cusack at a Bulls game! I didn't recognize her until that put her face on the Jumbotron. She was 3 seats away from me.

― Jeff, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

in the past two months or so:

whoopi goldberg at the calexico taco cart in soho. (she didn't buy anything)

ed koch at an awards ceremony i went to.

sofia coppola on broadway and prince (the day of the oscar broadcast)

― impudent harlot, Friday, 30 March 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin Rowland queued up behind me in the chemist's the other week. He was sort of dressed like a weird cross between a country gent and a Cuban pimp. A sartorial development from my last sighting when the look was more Ali G meets Catweazle. Anyhow, he bought mouthwash and Handy Andies - poor man must have a touch of the sniffles. It's all that hanging around on the front of records in his mum's knickers I think.

― NickB, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Chris Tarrant was in my work local a couple of weeks ago - the Glassblower on the corner of Brewer St & Glasshouse St.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

jared leto (wearing a groovy shirt) at the echo on tuesday night

― get bent, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh this week has been a great week for celebrity sighting for me...

Natalie Portman and Peter Gabriel at a conference I was working at.
Johnny Greenwood's cheekbones and jawline just from wandering around town.

― Jill, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny Greenwood's cheekbones and jawline just from wandering around town.

!!!

Around where? Is he beardy?

― Melissa W, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Miranda July at a vegetarian restaurant in Chelsea (which wasn't very good). She was with some dude, and she was making the same over-deliberate "endearing" faces she makes in the film.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Tobey Maguire
James Spader
Sam Moore!

Only way it could have been better was if all three were at the same table

And they all had their nobs out.

― Mark C, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Martin Freeman on Great Marlborough Street last week - he was the only person in Soho wearing sunglasses.

― Mark C, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Around where? Is he beardy?

Oxford. He was pushing a pram with a kid. There was a lady with another kid behind.

I always forget how sharp his bone structure is.

― Jill, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oxford. He was pushing a pram with a kid. There was a lady with another kid behind.

I always forget how sharp his bone structure is.

Ah yes, it is quite sharp. Is he looking good? Or is age creeping up on him yet? :)

― Melissa W, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

One thing I love about the Upper West Side of Manhattan is that you get a more interesting variety of celebrity sighting -- less star power, more fondness. This week has totally delivered for me with two great ones:

1.) Saturday morning, looking really rumpled and messy, crossing Amsterdam somewhere in the 80s -- Garrison Keillor

2.) Just now, standing next to me on the 1 train from 50th to 79th: Richard Kind (who I love), of Mad About You / Spin City not-exactly-"fame."

Richard Kind was double-interesting because (a) just before I left for work I watched the last episode of Spin City before Michael J. Fox left, which is of course kinda teary and lovable (and incidentally makes mention of Fox's character hating a junior senator from Ohio named Alex P. Keaton), plus (b) the only other people who had a noticeable "hey wow that actor is on the train" were black, which may or may not have to do with the last few times I've seen him being on All of Us and Bernie Mac, plus (c) he may have thought I was a big weirdo, because I couldn't help spending the whole ride smiling broadly and thinking "wow Richard Kind! I love that guy! He's so lovable! It makes me smile just looking at him!"

― nabisco, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

i love richard kind too !!! lucky.

― chaki, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

richard kind fucking rules

― get bent, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

french stewart over by raleigh studios on melrose. what a freak!

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 06:28 (eighteen years ago)

aw richard kind is so grebt!

i never see famous ppl anymore even though i work at 30 rock (wtf?! where is tina fey?!). i think i saw one dude from snl once (i can't remember which one) and i have seen one of conan's band members a few times.

― tehresa, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

i see people from snl all the time and im on the wrong coast! recent sightings: molly shannon, amy pohler, fred armisen.

― chaki, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

today at lunch was steve carell eating with his wife at jinkys on ventura blvd then while walking back to the office i saw muhammed ali's daughter coming out of a dance studio! 2 in 1

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't the office film in van nuys?

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

fun fact: fred armisen was in one and directed another video for my roommates' band! the one he directed was shot all around my neighborhood/in our basement. i don't know how long ago this all happened, but i secretly wish he'd show up at our house some day for more fun! i am too embarrassed about being starstruck to even ask roomies how they know him!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:07 (eighteen years ago)

i duno if they film in van nuys but i think steve lives in the hills above ventura blvd.

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

apparently you can drive past the dunder mifflin building (aka "chandler studios") on 13927 saticoy st, which is either van nuys or panorama city depending on which source you believe. zip code is 91402. the characters' cars are in the parking lot.

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:17 (eighteen years ago)

oh i know where that is.

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

thats panorama afaic btw

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

i thought i saw nicole kidman driving on santa monica blvd in beverly hills. i didn't take note of what she was driving.

― get bent, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Most of the cast of Grindhouse + Tarantino at Graumans Chinese last night for the 8pm showing. Also there were Simon Pegg and Chris Parnell.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 April 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

conversation with friend of a girl i'm friends with who came into my restaurant and sat in my section:

me: so, what do you do?
her: um, i'm in a movie.
me: really? awesome. so, what, is it like an indie or...?
her: uh, no. it's a hollywood movie.
me: wow, that's cool. who's in it?
her: ben stiller
me: holy shit, you're serious? not joking? how much time do you get on the movie, how big is your role?
her: uhh... i'm the main character.

!!!

― modestmickey, Sunday, 8 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

this person walked past me last week singing "ain't no sunshine" quietly to herself:

http://www.patswayne.com/ppage/ppcs3.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

genesis p-orridge

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Honestly, it's just too good not to tell. So I go to Teddy's on wednesday and see Eve, Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton (standard clientele), and... Sean Penn. My friend's sister steps on his foot, but we were relieved when he's cool about it. 5 minutes after we leave, Eve crashes her Maserati Quattroporte into a median. The big news is that Sean Penn went to visit her in jail at 4am and offered to bail her out! He didn't seem like he was on the make or anything. I think he was just like, 'gotta bail out my drinking buddy'. Also, I may have been freakin' on Eve on the dancefloor...

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:34 (eighteen years ago)

wow. that makes me really wanna befriend sean penn! even moreso than before... also puts elvis costello and philip glass sightings to shame!

i don't know if she's really a celebrity but i also saw caroline rhea while walking down 6th ave after work one day. she looked really shitty and was wearing some of the ugliest pink track pants i have ever seen.

― tehresa, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Robert de Niro at Trinity Church screening of Passio

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Who or what is Eve?

Sally Phi11ips on Berwick Street, looking pregnant.

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Alison from Big Brother 2002, Epcot Florida.

Dawn says "Oh, there's Alison from BB!" I say "Oh, she looks like her..."

And then she produces a microphone and starts talking into a camera in brummie..

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I saw someone that looked very like Sandy-that-pissed-in-a-bin-and-jumped-over-the-fence from Big Brother at London City Airport last Sunday. I've still never seen any of the Scottish Big Brother contingent (I must be the only one never to have seen Shahbaz!), though my brother was on first name terms with Cameron's mum when she was flying down for all his eviction nights back in the day.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Eve is a rapper/singer/actress. She was in Barbershop and, most recently, a mugshot.

Who's Sally Phi11ps.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Comedy actress - Smack the Pony, I'm Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones films, rubbish sitcoms.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I love her!

― Dr.C, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I fear you're too late (I used to love her too, in Alan Partridge, sigh).

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

note: no one asked who ROBERT DE NIRO is

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

My dad did, once, when he met him. Well, he came home and told us he'd met some American actor called Robert De Niro and had we heard of him because apparently he's quite famous?

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

in th shop:akron family,fred schneider,jolie holland,mercury rev,martha stewart,harvey fierstein.chanmarsshll,mr ibold,banhrt(doesnt really count),
in town:dan aykroyd,philip glass(not fair he lives here),alan cummings,heath and his wife,carly simon!(me 2),kate pierson,mike tyson..etc

― danbunny, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I used to love her too, in Alan Partridge

That sounds so ew. I don't know why. Maybe I have a filthy mind.

― stevienixed, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Last weekend in London - Louis Theroux cycling up Oxford Street, Peter Bowles in Covent Garden, an obscure British actor called Milton Johns also in Covent Garden, Jack Davenport and Jenny Agutter in Soho (not together).

And about 3 minutes after arriving back in Cardiff, saw Stuart Cable!

― nate woolls, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Milton Johns is in the middle in this photo:

http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tvgraphics/housebledtodeath2.jpg

― nate woolls, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

for some reason I think I had assumed peter bowles was dead

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

He looked close

― nate woolls, Monday, 30 April 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

lauren laverne, outside royal festival hall, yesterday afternoon.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

nathan lyon, yesterday at a hollywood farmer's market

someone who looked like kevin costner walking on santa monica in weho this afternoon

― get bent, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Jonathan Dimbleby. Who's about 2 foot tall.

― Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Norman Blake again, standing in the window of a building down the back of George Square.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Bjorn from Abba walked past me last week, just off Great Portland Street.

― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Douglas Hurd. Just along from Bank station.

― Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ryan Gosling at La Cita in downtown L.A. a few weeks back. Very friendly.

― MikeyH, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Walter Smith outside Ibrox. Shunsuke Nakamura outside Celtic Park.

(seeing people outside their place of work probably shouldn't count, should it?)

― ailsa, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

i love la cita! i propose an laxor downtown dance night there.

― get bent, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

saw mindy k4l1ng (kelly from the office) at the pinkberry in los feliz the other night. with some dude. they kissed. ; _ ;

― max, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

aww.

― get bent, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

since i've been working in ldn: jeff brazier in holborn, angelica bell near kings cross, gordon ramsey on london bridge and arthur smith near barbican this morning.

― acrobat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I nearly forgot: Maggie Gyllenhall, Peter Saarsgaard, and some older woman, walking in Soho; Maggie and the older woman sat down on a bench to talk, while Saarsgaard was sent into a store to fetch Maggie some frozen yogurt.

P.S. Maggie G is evidently the sort of celebrity who looks 1000x times BETTER in person than in any film she's ever done.

― nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

I see Ben Folds a lot (and usually resist the urge to throw things at him). The last time, when my mother was in town, he opened the door for her as we were exiting a restaurant. She greeted him with buoyant "Why, thank you!" and he looked confused and midly frightened. She didn't know who he was. She was just being her regular friendly self.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Why would you want to throw things at Ben Folds? Even if you don't like his music, he seems like a hard guy to hate.

(Wait, you don't look like Axl Rose, do you?)

― nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

nabisco, I do, actually. Spitting image.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, I'm making mid-90s Ben Folds lyric-reference jokes, someone help

― nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Steve Buscemi chilling at some Village cafe looking exactly like Steve Buscemi.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - nabisco, for me, lyrics like that create an urge to throw small objects. I met this girl... oh sweet jesus. Now it's stuck in my head.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Forgot to catch up on my posting here...

Cybill Shepherd at the Charles Phoenix show at the John Anson Ford Theater.
Rob Corddry at The Grove
David Spade at The Grove later on
Ryan Gosling at the corner of 4th and Hope downtown.

...and Matt Groening at the Electrelane show tonight

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 June 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

hahahah I can outdo you guys! I totally saw Fr4ncesc4 V4nthi3l3n who is a famous presenter and actress in Belgium. She came into my shop asking for batteries for her watch.

― stevienixed, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Alison Steadman looking lost near Oxford Circus.

― Mark C, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

I saw James Nesbitt on Berwick St last week.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Nighy (again). Kentish Town. Standing by a dustbin separating the Family, Travel, Money sections from his Sunday papers before binning them like the rest of us do.

― Tom D., Monday, 11 June 2007 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

Dane Bowers at Casablanca's in Brighton. Drinking £1 tequila shots and being fawned over by plastic blondes. Cock.

Interestingly (or not) a friend of mine once saw another of Jordan's hole-fillers Dwight Yorke being refused entry to the same place. Gareth Gates for the set.

― Uptoeleven, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

that's not nice

― RJG, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Jeremy Vine + family on Drury Lane, Sunday morning, carrying lots of newspapers.

― ailsa, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

(uncorroborated sighting of Jo Whiley on same bit of street five minutes before, but I wasn't looking out the window at the time, so only have a "I think Jo Whiley just walked past the window" bit of hearsay to go on there)

― ailsa, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

jonathan frakes at my work last night

― jergïns, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

mariska hartigay next to me at the playground while we were both pushing our sons on the swingset. i had no idea it was her until my wife pointed it out. i guess her son was having a birthday party there. i got to hear her talk to a friend about her son's eating habits for about 4 minutes. my failure to take notes pretty much dooms my celebrity-reporting career.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh also andy rooney apparently lives around the block from us. we can see the back of his building out the back of ours. i have not sighted him, but my wife has. she said he made grandfatherly smiley faces at our kid.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

I just made a complete tit of myself in front of Dave Chapelle, whose polaroid is up in Peets' Coffee as "customer of the week". My boss and I stood there talking loudly about DAVE CHAPELLE and I WONDER IF HE COMES HERE EVERY DAY when none other than...DAVE CHAPELLE got up from a table in the corner and bolted out the door. I hope I didn't make him run away to Africa.

― admrl, Monday, 9 July 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

bbc economics guy evan davies, store st, london, at some point in the last month.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 9 July 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Drew Barrymore came to our party on Saturday.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 9 July 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

That's quite excellent. Did she have a rider?

― humansuit, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

damn, spencer kind of trumped me there.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

We did a night at a small club/bar where she had been two weeks before (so I don't think she came just for us!). She is very pleasant.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I think I saw Matthew McConaughey when I was jogging thru downtown Asheville on Sunday. I was running; no time for double-takes. But this town gets occasional celebrities in the summer.

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

myself: i think that was tim westwood
Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman: you sure?
drunk person: WESTWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman: alright then

carmody would have been proud

― acrobat, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

i saw his suv once

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

not 100% on this, but i think i saw kyra sedgwick near sunset/vermont

― get bent, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite was at the the West Hollywood Halloween carnival. I saw Weird Al and was like, hey, that's a pretty good costume. Anyway, he was eyeing the chicken dish I had purchased from a vendor.

― humansuit, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

My maw and da' were on the same flight as Smokey Robinson and his band today. My dad shook Smokey's hand and told him he was a legend. He saw fit to phone me right after they got off the flight and tell me the story, I can't blame him, SMOKEY ROBINSON! Tears of a clown, when there's no cunt around!

― jim, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

on sunday, saw andy richter kicking it with his wife and friends at Birds on Franklin. Andy was on his second martini before they even got their table, seemed real cool and was being nice to some lonely "fan" next to him while he settled his bar tab. too bad about that failed sitcom :(

― bobby bedelia, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

i saw jimmy fallon in barnes & noble on union square today. some asian bro and friend were trying to convince him to say hello to their friend via their cell phone. he looked pretty pissed.

― poortheatre, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

also, Moby eats at my restaurant every weekend brunch and is with a different girl every time. talk about PLAY amirite?

― poortheatre, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 07:09 (eighteen years ago)

too bad about that failed sitcoms :(

― tehresa, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

YES YES
JUST SAW PAT KIERNAN ION THE STREET
FINALLY
FUCK YEAH BATCHES

― sanskrit, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

PAT KIERNAN YESSSS

I LOVE HIS DRY CANADIAN WIT

― get bent, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy, Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, 7/7/07.

― Mark C, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Dave Navarro next to me in line at the Coffee Bean on 3rd St.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

pat kiernan is canadian? my image is shattered.

― hstencil, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

pat kiernan = dave foley lite y/n?

― sunny successor, Monday, 23 July 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Jasper Conran at a farmer's market in Sherborne. Had a nice jacket on.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

John Barrowman, from Dr Who & Torchwood, getting into a silver Porsche in Cardiff Bay. His teeth were dazzling!

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend at the Notting Hill Farmers Market for the third week running.

― suzy, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy, Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, 7/7/07.

-- Mark C, Monday, July 23, 2007 5:23 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

i love this one

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

dude at my gym looks exactly like John Tormey (Louie in Ghost Dog); could it be him?

― gabbneb, Friday, 7 September 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Ashley Olsen, West Hollywood Target last Saturday.

― luna, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

I lie - it was Mary Kate.

― luna, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

i was at that target on wednesday.

― get bent, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

i saw bob balaban last night ~66th and columbus.

there was some red carpet thing going on at lincoln center last night and i was joking that i wanted to see bill clinton. then this morning when i looked up what it was, it turns out it was a save the children benefit honoring him! i am now extremely sad i did not get my billy sighting :(

― tehresa, Friday, 7 September 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Sarah Silverman in front of a club on the east side of Cahuenga Blvd.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 30 September 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Bruce 'Cousin Brucie' Morrow on the downtown R train.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

clu gulager

― omar little, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I barely even register celebrities anymore.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Who? Oh yeah. I've seen that show. Anyway...

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Although I enjoyed seeing that one Superbad kid not having any trouble getting a drink.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

(he's like 23 or something)

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 October 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

We saw a bunch of the cast of some Belgian series the other day in a Japanese restaurant. Bunch of annoying loudmouthed boring wankers. Of course they had to ask for seperate bills at the end of the meal.

― stevienixed, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Mark Kermode, in my local. (100 miles from where I thought he'd be)

― aldo, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yesterday I saw Jessie L Martin shooting an episode of Law and Order. The funnest part was walking right past the director while he was doing that directing thing with his hands.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ashley Olsen, West Hollywood Target last Saturday.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

oooo...nice!

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

I lie - it was Mary Kate.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

a less valuable sighting?

― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

nice too! xpost

ashley is famous - marykate is infamous

― sunny successor, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

so which one's vagina have i seen?

― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

I just bumped into Momus in the streets of Brussels

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Lou Reed at Black Watch

― gabbneb, Sunday, 4 November 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

Xtian nutjob Sally Phillips in both Soho AND Richmond!

― Mark C, Sunday, 4 November 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

on Friday night outside the Park Lane Hilton (veeeeery long story) - Clarkson and Hammond from Top Gear(unsurprisingly they're a bit twuntish, and Hammond is truly a dwarf) and Barry Hearne in a tuxedo

― Porkpie, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

tracey ullman pinkberry brentwood

― remy bean, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks ago:

donald sutherland ventura blvd in a badass bentley

― remy bean, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

andy zax standing in front of me on line at the spiritualized show last night

― get bent, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago)

Last week:

Terry Pratchett at Acid Mothers Temple.

― aldo, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:35 (seventeen years ago)

did i say this? greil marcus in Malaprops

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:43 (seventeen years ago)

Get Bent, you should post on ILM to discuss that Spiritualized show. New tracks?

― Pillbox, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:51 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

do opera singers count as celebrities? i saw dmitri hvorostovsky yesterday and damn, that man is gorgeous.

― tehresa, Friday, 7 December 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago)

oh man, i just saw m1a sara at the local supermarket with her daughter. she's still so beautiful.

― gershy, Monday, 10 December 2007 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

walked by maya rudolph on houston st. a few nights ago

― impudent harlot, Monday, 10 December 2007 03:46 (seventeen years ago)

jason lee in an irish pub, didn't see him drinking but he looked blazed.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 10 December 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

Quentin Tarantino at MoMA taking in the Joan Blondell vehicle Blondie Johnson (1933) and jabbering amiably with the Cinemaniac with the high-pitched giggle.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 23 December 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

Saw Chl0e Sevigny on the streets of St Marx the other day. I know, a Chl0e sighting in New York is like a yellow M&M sighting in a bag of M&Ms, but at first I thought I recognized her from college, then I was all, 'oh shit, it's totally Chl0e Sevingy' and looked away before she thought I was gonna be all starfucker

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 23 December 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

Ke||y 0sborne ate at the restaurant where I work in Chicago. She and 5 friends sat in the private dining r0om. They were all very nice and polite.

J3ss3 J@ckson comes into our restaurant frequently. Also, Sc0tty "No Tippin'" P|pp|n.

― Jesse, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago)

Hahahaaa

― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

Why did I googleproof "r0om"?

― Jesse, Sunday, 23 December 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

Beetlejuice (from Howard Stern shows past) walked into my post office yesterday.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

oh man, i just saw m1a sara at the local supermarket with her daughter. she's still so beautiful.

-- gershy, Monday, December 10, 2007 1:27 AM (1 week ago)

whoa. I still have a crush on M1a Sara!

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Sunday, 23 December 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://johnsmeaton.com/wp-content/themes/tarski-111/headers/greytree.jpg

Out doing his Christmas shopping this morning.

― ailsa, Monday, 24 December 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

Lamest celebrity sighting ever, but last night I saw that big curly haired Christian guy with glasses that was on American Idol (kinda looks like how Jack Osborne used to look)at a Carrabba's restaurant here in Greenville (he's from here, or was from here, or something like that iirc).

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 December 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

Sat across the aisle from M1nni3 Driv3r on the train between Bath and London yesterday.

She has a quite sweet 2 year old son and reads The Independent.

― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

recently, John Turturro w/ his son (in Knicks jacket -- brave boy) on sidewalk in front of Brooklyn central library; Gene Shalit looking like a recently deinstitutionalized circus clown in the Strand bookstore.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

They were all out last night:

Charles Clarke
Derrin Brown
Nick Moran
Sandy Toksvig
Amanda Platell
That woman from Holby City who was also in Extras
Dude from Coupling
Possibly Minty from Eastenders but probably just a fat bloke.

(All at Speed-The-Plow at the Old Vic)

― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:08 (seventeen years ago)

Gok Wan at Southwark Station.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:09 (seventeen years ago)

This bong that looked like Yoda, yeah?

― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:10 (seventeen years ago)

Some motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:11 (seventeen years ago)

Dan out of Big Brother whatever. Every day.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:13 (seventeen years ago)

ugh fuckin' rush limbaugh was in this restaurant we went to a couple weeks ago, at a corner table lurking behind a small forest of water and wine bottles. i was restrained from approaching him and saying: "McCain in 08 LOL you drug-addled fat fuck"

― m coleman, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

Jarvis Cocker in a caff in Soho.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:43 (seventeen years ago)

philip roth upper west side ny

― Zeno, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 11:01 (seventeen years ago)

giovanni ribisi at my restaurant a couple of weeks ago. dude is lactose intolerant and has a super annoying nasally voice.

― Rubyredd, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

Slip him an ice blended Mocha frappe, and he'll be sounding like Brian Blessed in no time!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 12:19 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

i ambled into madison square park today and saw a bunch of people. i thought they were excited to go to shake. then i noticed there was a photo shoot, but wondered why so many random people were huddled around it taking pictures. then i saw it, the WHITE HAIR! karl lagerfeld!

― tehresa, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:52 (seventeen years ago)

Lou Reed at Whitney Biennial. Looked old.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 27 March 2008 03:57 (seventeen years ago)

Ivanka Trump - jogged past me. Pretty (and tall).

David Byrne on bicycle.

Julian Schnabel and (totally beautiful) wife taking evening stroll.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 27 March 2008 08:33 (seventeen years ago)

Had a extended chat with Lee Hurst (does he still count as a celebrity) at the FymFyg last week. Somewhat hammered so fairly fuzzy recollection of what we were talking about. He did inform me, however, that Ally McCoist was originally first choice for Think It's All Over, ahead of Gary Lineker, but Question of Sport poached him.

― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 27 March 2008 09:23 (seventeen years ago)

Rodney Slater (Google him - he's my idea of a celebrity) just along from Trafalgar Sq.

― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:24 (seventeen years ago)

Dan Cruickshank (BBC2 antiquities n travel presenter) on a tube.

― ledge, Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:47 (seventeen years ago)

Last Saturday, in the King's Road, Dr David Starkey trying to get past me on the pavement like the remaining 98% of available pavement was built on quicksand or something. When I pointed out the latter he hissed in my ear "YOU. ARE. A. CUNT!" and went on his merry way.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:55 (seventeen years ago)

Tom D. Did you go up to him and say "HELLO?"

― Mark G, Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:57 (seventeen years ago)

... and followed him up the street saying it? Unfortunately not.

― Tom D., Thursday, 27 March 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

I'm enjoying the idea of someone viciously calling an anonymous stranger a CUNT and then going on their way merrily.

Also Roger Lloyd Pack in a restaurant in Queen's Park a few Sundays ago.

― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 27 March 2008 11:04 (seventeen years ago)

Keeley Hawes and Matthew Macfadyen coming out of their house one day last week.

Richard E Grant walking down my street yesterday.

― Dr.C, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:44 (seventeen years ago)

my wife shared an elevator with sarah jessica parker at a hospital last week. sjp reportedly very nice, inquired about my (very pregnant) wife's forthcoming baby. sjp was in hospital because her sister was having a baby. a little later she walked past the room where my wife was waiting for a checkup, stuck her head in and waved and said good luck. friendly celebrity.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 30 March 2008 06:18 (seventeen years ago)

oh i also saw hope davis in an italian restaurant in midtown a few weeks ago. she was very attractive.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 30 March 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

Kate Beckinsale at the Arclight.

― felicity, Sunday, 30 March 2008 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

rachel zoe on beverly drive

and ghost whisperer was filming on my campus today (i just saw crew, no cast)

― get bent, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 06:29 (seventeen years ago)

Mike "Dirty Jobs" Rowe at Dodger Stadium

― felicity, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 07:18 (seventeen years ago)

Page McConnell of Phish!

― gabbneb, Sunday, 13 April 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

This dude

http://www.boldoutlaw.com/images/praed2.jpg

was sat next to me in a bar last night.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

http://entertainment.msn.co.uk/pidl/120858925/robin_michael_praed1.jpg

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

I saw Sting last week, in the passenger seat of a Bentley, driving onto the City Road. He had one of his poncey scarves on.

― G00blar, Sunday, 11 May 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

Heather Mills on North Street in Brighton on Saturday. She did not look very cheerful.
Preston (of 'and Chantelle' fame) on Hove Lawns yesterday.

― Upt0eleven, Monday, 12 May 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

Rick Parfitt, gazing upwards, High street, Henley

― Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

Ted Kennedy, Christopher Llyod (dressed suspiciously like Larry David) and Kate Hudson - all at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in Boston but not all at once.

― ENBB, Monday, 12 May 2008 15:24 (seventeen years ago)

Christina Ricci, hiking Beachwood Canyon.

― felicity, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:47 (seventeen years ago)

Fairmont Copley Plaza

read that as fairmont cosplay plaza. if only

― jergïns, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

awww...teddy k!

― sunny successor, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

robocop, on tv

― latebloomer, Monday, 12 May 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

sarah michelle geller and freddie prince jr at indiana jones in battery park city last night

― jhøshea, Sunday, 25 May 2008 14:34 (seventeen years ago)

julian sands out for a hike
michael rapaport wrangling a posse of kids at an ice cream joint

― omar little, Sunday, 25 May 2008 16:25 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Crappest batch yet:

Danny Kelly. Pub. Monday Night.
Paolo Hewitt. Caff. Monday Morning.
The son out of "My Family", you know, the one who just got done for drugs... not Kris Marshall? Different Caff. 15 minutes later

― Tom D., Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:51 (seventeen years ago)

Two members of Propaganda at a wedding last weekend. Top notch stuff.

― Anna, Thursday, 19 June 2008 09:58 (seventeen years ago)

Yesterday:
Sonia from Eastenders in a pub.
Don Letts on a train.

― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

xpost did they get up and sing "the first cut won't hurt at all..."

(Duel, I know..)

― Mark G, Friday, 20 June 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

Clare Short in Camberwell pub.

― ledge, Friday, 20 June 2008 09:44 (seventeen years ago)

Robert Plant having dinner at Paradise Cove in Malibu on Sunday evening.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:00 (seventeen years ago)

hey, nice

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:26 (seventeen years ago)

Claire Daines on the subway (!) wearing jogging shorts and sweaty (!!).
It was raining out, I guess.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

laura dern near hollywood & highland, looking glamorous as hell

― get bent, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

i saw kareem abdul jabaar the other day, but he was sitting down so i feel cheated

― velko, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

I had dinner with Ned Ragett last night. On our way out of the place, in walked Jessica Lange, looking quite well indeed. I bid Ned goodbye and walked East on 9th Street. Half a block later, I passed Sam Shepard, presumably on his way to go meet Jessica.

That's all well and good, but my jaw really hit the ground this evening when walking East -- again on 9th -- I passed the great Arto Lindsay.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 02:50 (seventeen years ago)

arto lindsay,east on the 9th = 80's cliche

― Zeno, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

Some sorta good ones in the last few months

Mary Kate Olsen, Chloe Sevigny, and Lou Doillon's at Paris Paris
Elton John at Dover Street Market last month.
James Iha on my flight to Tokyo, and at the Comme des Garcons store in Tokyo.
Fred Schneider from the B-52s at the Bowery Hotel in NYC
Kirsten Dunst outside Santa's in NYC arguing with some skater dudes
Vivica Fox in Paris
Kanye West a bunch of times in Paris... Look!

http://web.mac.com/philtwo/iWeb/Site/Library%206_files/kanye_sm.jpg

― phil-two, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:20 (seventeen years ago)

After the Issey Miyake show. it was on some image wire service as Kanye West and Friend!

― phil-two, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:21 (seventeen years ago)

awesome

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 04:43 (seventeen years ago)

Whoa, Phil.

Mar1sa T0me1 dancing with/leaving with some (random?) dude at APT. (Not me. Sob! )

Chloe Sevigny at Other Music

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 05:16 (seventeen years ago)

Charles Dance. In the pub. Couldn't tell if he was 'acting'.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

phil is kanyes friend!

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

Bill Oddie at a show by his daughter's shitty band. He's a midget.

― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 18:41 (seventeen years ago)

some good ones guys! dang.

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

GUYS

http://www.aolcdn.com/red_galleries/keri-russell-400ds0828.jpg

this woman was watching us play tennis today, with her beautiful blond baby and hot husband.

― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:12 (seventeen years ago)

like pointing at the ball, showing her baby what tennis is.

thrilling.

― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:15 (seventeen years ago)

remember when her show got cancelled because she cut her hair and no one could stand to watch the short haired version?

― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:27 (seventeen years ago)

she seems to get better looking as she gets older, btw. so unfair.

― sunny successor, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

Her kid (River, if I remember correctly) is so cute.

― ENBB, Monday, 7 July 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

i do remember that! shoulda kept the curls. the kid is sooo cute!

― Surmounter, Monday, 7 July 2008 15:43 (seventeen years ago)

Tina Fey. Los Feliz. Looking good.

― admrl, Thursday, 17 July 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

where in los feliz?

― get bent, Thursday, 17 July 2008 05:40 (seventeen years ago)

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (as pictured in the other thread)

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 July 2008 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

Ed Koch

― gabbneb, Monday, 21 July 2008 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

my most prized one was Uma Thurman in Bklyn a year ago.

gave me goosebumps

― warmsherry, Monday, 21 July 2008 21:21 (seventeen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Michelle Dotrice at RHS Wisley. Oooh Betty!

― NickB, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:17 (seventeen years ago)

judy davis on beverly drive, looking like she was in a hurry

― get bent, Monday, 18 August 2008 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

Thurston and Steve at Damrosch Park

― gabbneb, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:11 (seventeen years ago)

judy davis on beverly drive, looking like she was in a hurry

-- get bent, Monday, August 18, 2008 7:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

fuck, lucky

― Surmounter, Thursday, 21 August 2008 03:25 (seventeen years ago)

George was on my bus on the way home from work on Tuesday, I think I recognised his suit before I recognised him! No sign of Gilbert however.

― Tom D., Thursday, 21 August 2008 09:13 (seventeen years ago)

Thurston AND KIM and Steve Shelley

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

dont forget gabbneb

― max, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)

judy davis on beverly drive, looking like she was in a hurry

-- get bent, Monday, August 18, 2008 7:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

fuck, lucky

-- Surmounter, Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:25 PM (Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:25 PM) Bookmark Link

i know!! <3 her!

― tehresa, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

tony conrad, for like the fifth time.
oh yeah, and gabbneb.

― tehresa, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

i didn't see kim, tho, i don't think. i may have seen her separately?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

my streak of missing the 'neb is blessedly intact

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:57 (seventeen years ago)

kevin mcdonald.

and andre royo!

― omar little, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

tim robbins and susan sarandon

― max, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

but i have seen you in all your sartorial splendor, morbs!

― gabbneb, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

― tehresa, Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

I just walked by the big Ben's Chili Bowl 50th Anniversary lineup on U street and I spotted many celebrities, no doubt, but I mistook them all for unusually well-mannered DC buppies because I am a rangy white bigot and a fool who did not know it was Ben's 50th bash with celebrities attending

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

I seriously did not read the news today and my situational awareness was so bad I probably could have looked Bill Cosby right in the eye and thought "man that guy looks a lot like Bill Cosby, wow"

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 August 2008 23:24 (seventeen years ago)

this happens to me all the time!

― tehresa, Friday, 22 August 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

kim is really short compared to thurston, i barely saw the top of her head above the crowd

― roxymuzak, Friday, 22 August 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)

john c. reilly (his hair is looking very art garfunkelish)

― velko, Saturday, 30 August 2008 03:46 (seventeen years ago)

Item! Was that a lugagge-less BOBBY GILLESPIE running through international arrivals at Gatwick yesterday?

Item! Was that a verrry pregnant KIRSTY ALLSOP trying on clothes in the dressing room of the MATERNITY section of Topshop today?

Item! Was that really a be-hatted and be-stubbled MICHAEL STIPE walking by an atm off of Carnaby Street HOLDING SOMEBODY'S HAND today?

Item! This reporter would not have GUESSED that SIENNA MILLER fancies the clothes at Topshop, but there she was, LEAVING the shop, WITH A SHOPPING BAG in broad daylight today.

― G00blar, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

It would appear that Finlay Quaye is currently stalking me, I've seen him round Camden three times in the last couple of weeks.

― chap, Monday, 1 September 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

Richard Ayoade in Kennington, and outside the Royal Festival Hall. Meredith MacNeill, peep show occasional and Man Stroke Woman stalwart, in the BFI. My cup runneth over!

― ledge, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

Triple sighting today...

#1: Doris Roberts in the lobby of the Arclight
#2: Oscar from The Office sat next to us at "Burn After Reading"
#3: John Densmore from The Doors in front of us in the checkout line at the 3rd & La Brea Trader Joes (he was buying cat food)

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 15 September 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

saw nick cave browsing at polyester records in melbourne

― soderborg, Monday, 15 September 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

I just saw Mogwai at a Mogwai show...

― ilxor, Monday, 15 September 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)

Paul Cook standing on a street corner in Soho... he looks like WH Auden these days. Then, half an hour later, Steve Diggle strolling along nattering on a mobile phone. 'Tis the season for old punk rockers, me hearties.

― Wrinkled Aeneas (Tom D.), Monday, 15 September 2008 10:54 (seventeen years ago)

michael cera (seen him a couple times over the past week because he lives across the street from me, lol)
"mclovin" - visiting michael cera

― omar little, Monday, 22 September 2008 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

Paula Poundstone in a bright blue suit on Lake Street. (On her way to a Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me taping, I assume.)

― jaymc, Monday, 22 September 2008 17:20 (seventeen years ago)

andrew "dice" clay with blonde companion having lunch at the nosh of beverly hills

― matthew barney frank (get bent), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:56 (seventeen years ago)

Jennie Bond in Tesco, Cardiff!

― nate woolls, Friday, 26 September 2008 08:36 (seventeen years ago)

vera wang, martha stewart, helena christensen, faye dunaway, parker posey, zac posen, nico muhly, etc.
not exactly a "sighting" like running into them on the street though.

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Friday, 26 September 2008 13:37 (seventeen years ago)

Mia Farrow in a restaurant in NYC.

― Fr. Jemima Racktouey (ENBB), Friday, 26 September 2008 14:30 (seventeen years ago)

I just met Haruki Murakami.
I think he was embarassed that I recognized his name on his credit card and was like "omg u r teh writer!U(@*!??! u are very popular and good!&(*@"

― ian, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

wow that's big league! was he friendly?

― Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:10 (seventeen years ago)

very nice guy. we didn't have toooo much of a conversation. mostly me being like "you can have this record for free" (cuz he spent a lot of money) and then him asking for the new location of our manhattan store. but yes, very nice and humble and friendly.

― ian, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:14 (seventeen years ago)

i saw peter bogdanovich the other day, looking kinda old but still rocking that little scarf/ascot thing

― velko, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:15 (seventeen years ago)

after reading "underground" I always figured he was a really good friendly person.

― Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:17 (seventeen years ago)

Most of the Dandy Warhols at the My Bloody Valentine show

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:20 (seventeen years ago)

Also at the Spiritualized show at the Echo a couple weeks ago...

Clem Burke, Kid Congo Powers, and Eric Erlandson

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

- Walked past Chris Noth on the way to work this morning. He is genuinely pretty large. Managed not to say "I really liked your one line as a tranny hooker in that Richard Hell movie."

- Also Law & Order-wise: saw Bebe Neuwirth this summer, standing on a streetcorner in bike shorts waiting for someone. Bebe Neuwirth is fantastically gorgeous.

- Couple weeks ago: bumped into Lukas Haas's bike. Did a whole "oops, sorry" / "no, my bad, Lukas Haas" thing.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

Also, maybe from spring: walked past the guy who played Michel on Gilmore Girls, and was getting really excited about it, then noticed curly-haired scientist-guy from Bones walking right behind him (some sort of casting was going on nearby, maybe?) -- this was sort of trippy, in that having two minorish network-TV actors just wandering around created a weird Truman Show effect where it felt like all the people around in daily life were being replaced by actors

― nabisco, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

i, too, have seen chris noth (wearing a terrible sweatsuit) and bebe neuwirth recently! also adam duritz (his apt is right by my office), daniel day lewis (in that ridiculous leggings/big hat/plaid cape ensemble), kevin corrigan (<3), and hilary duff.

― lauren, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

at the obama concert - michael kors, jon bon jovi

― gabbneb, Friday, 17 October 2008 05:13 (seventeen years ago)

mentioned on thread but kenley from project runway in my neighborhood last weekend.

i wanna see chris noth! would smash.

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Friday, 17 October 2008 05:15 (seventeen years ago)

daniel day lewis (in that ridiculous leggings/big hat/plaid cape ensemble)

Yeah he really gets into the method actor thing. While studying in Dublin in 2001, one of my housemates saw him walking around our neighborhood in what we would later realize was his Bill the Butcher costume from Gangs of New York which, of course, came out the following year.

― Pillbox, Friday, 17 October 2008 05:25 (seventeen years ago)

the veronicas were eating in the crab restaurant we went to last night. that's right, THE VERONICAS

― jabba hands, Friday, 17 October 2008 05:53 (seventeen years ago)

jason jones of the daily show, manning the duck-pond game at a school fundraising fair in our neighborhood sunday afternoon. it was one of the least popular attractions, but that wasn't his fault. hard to compete with inflatable bounce-houses and decorate-your-own-cupcake.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:18 (seventeen years ago)

cupcakes always after bouncy castle, never before.

― ian, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:30 (seventeen years ago)

yes.

― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 03:54 (seventeen years ago)

I met and chatted with Kelis once. I made a dick of myself by trying to talk about her album that never got a U.S release that I couldn't remember the name of.

― Oh no, Guadalajara won't do. (Kate.), Tuesday, 28 October 2008 06:10 (seventeen years ago)

Eventful walk to work this morning. I passed:

- Gilbert Gottfried, muttering to himself and making that squinty face

- Reg E. Cathey, who played Carcetti's head advisor in The Wire (if you don't watch the Wire I think he was in Airheads), looking sceptically back at me looking admiringly over at him

― nabisco, Friday, 31 October 2008 17:23 (seventeen years ago)

i keep seeing rachel zoe around, but she's not a real celebrity i guess.

― we are 538 (get bent), Friday, 31 October 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

Charlie Gibson on york avenue

― gabbneb, Monday, 3 November 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

Ken Clarke MP in the Royal Academy last Thursday
Jenny Agutter at the Duke Of York's theatre on Saturday

― Dr.C, Monday, 3 November 2008 16:14 (seventeen years ago)

Paul Shaffer sat in with the band tonight

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:20 (sixteen years ago)

you have a band?

― ;n_n; (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:49 (sixteen years ago)

i didn't say i was in the band

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:51 (sixteen years ago)

ambiguity: helpful in widely interpreting , not so helpful in determining gabbneb rockstar status.

― ;n_n; (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:54 (sixteen years ago)

i didn't say it was a rock band

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:55 (sixteen years ago)

The Capris

― myspace password secretary (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

was it medeski martin & wood??

― ian, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:57 (sixteen years ago)

no, it was Dave Matthews and the Blowfish

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

edwin mccain and i claim my $5

― ;n_n; (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:05 (sixteen years ago)

Congratulations, you're from South Carolina, here is your $5.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago)

i've been mostly Edwin McCain-free for a decade now

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:07 (sixteen years ago)

it's ok, i won't judge if you come clean.

― ;n_n; (tehresa), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:12 (sixteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/29/arts/29kapl600.1.jpg

she was there too

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 06:17 (sixteen years ago)

saw Bebe Neuwirth this summer, standing on a streetcorner in bike shorts

yooooowwwwwww

― you made my mum eat Pick Only One (sic), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 07:58 (sixteen years ago)

That geezer who's the main guy in "Taggart" these days, Holloway Road

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 11:47 (sixteen years ago)

as i was pulling out of a parking lot, michael cera rode by on his bike. he waved.

― creator of 2008's most successful meme (velko), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago)

I saw Stuart Pearce at Tottenham Court Road station on Friday, wearing a moody black leather jacket.

― Pete W, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 10:58 (sixteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Saw Pete Doherty schlepping about with twenty carrier bags in HMV Oxford Circus last night. Don't know whether he had anything in any of them though.

― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 11 December 2008 14:50 (sixteen years ago)

probably drugs!!!!11

― miss precious perfect (musically), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

One would hope so, for the sake of his career

― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

steve schirripa @ knicks game.

― very quotatious (tehresa), Thursday, 11 December 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Sat opposite me on the tube earlier was Shakey Hands Man from Banzai! I should have shook his hand as a hilarious joke.

― chap, Friday, 9 January 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

http://rachelweisz.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/rachel_weisz.jpg

i told her where to get her giftbag and gave her the tickets

― Surmounter, Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

she looks like one smart girl

― Surmounter, Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)

I love her.

― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:36 (sixteen years ago)

i like her necklace!

― PLODwyn pig more like (get bent), Thursday, 22 January 2009 04:19 (sixteen years ago)

Isn't she married to Darren Aronofsky?

― sam500, Thursday, 22 January 2009 07:05 (sixteen years ago)

ya he was there too!

― Surmounter, Thursday, 22 January 2009 07:50 (sixteen years ago)

Properly gorgeous, that lady.

― sam500, Thursday, 22 January 2009 07:57 (sixteen years ago)

rather disarming. she gave me one of those no-nonsense actress looks before she realized i wasn't a creep, and then she smiled and it was nice.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:01 (sixteen years ago)

Mike Leigh, in the young trendy person's hair salon in Lamb's Conduit Street.

― Choom Gang Gang Dance (suzy), Thursday, 22 January 2009 12:35 (sixteen years ago)

b-list sighting: jonathan "weekend at bernie's" silverman at my local Rite-Aid with a cute blonde who looked very familiar. Turns out she's tv actress jennifer finnigan and they are married. surprisingly didn't give off any douche-y vibes.

― velko, Monday, 26 January 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

Saw Dennis Leary taping some stupid show he does at the uhhhh drunk polish german tavern looking place a while ago. he was very tall and was wearing unfashionable clothing

― burt_stanton, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:28 (sixteen years ago)

maulik pancholy (jonathan on 30 rock) on the jay st. A/C/F platform

― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Monday, 26 January 2009 04:35 (sixteen years ago)

Avey Tare on the 4 train into Brooklyn. I wasn't 100% sure it was him until I checked photos later. I kept looking at him because I wasn't sure if it was him, and I think he kept looking at me like "I wonder if I'm being recognized."

― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Sunday, 8 February 2009 07:30 (sixteen years ago)

i saw dennis leary taping that crappy show in greenpoint a while ago. i didn't recognize him at first, but he looked to be about 7 feet tall and was wearing these ridiculous boot cut jeans ... the kind-of thing you'd expect to see in 1998-2000 or something.

― burt_stanton, Sunday, 8 February 2009 07:41 (sixteen years ago)

Ha! Funny that velko mentions Jonathan Silverman. I saw him last weekend at the White Horse in LA. Then just when I thought it couldn't get any lower on the celebrity spotting scale, on Friday night I saw the blond surfer guy from TMZ out in Long Beach.

― robotsinlove, Monday, 9 February 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

god. that guy.

― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Monday, 9 February 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)

the white horse = that dump on western?

― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Monday, 9 February 2009 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

exactly. the place inside the super 8 that smells of maple syrup and offers free hot dogs? yes, that place.

― robotsinlove, Monday, 9 February 2009 05:00 (sixteen years ago)

Rex Reed at a screening of a very putrid film

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

you GUYS. i just had a conversation with kim cattrall. ok fine it was about business. but then something was held up with her tickets and so she was just standing there like wondering what to do. so i go "i know this is a really inopportune time to tell you this but i'm a huge fan of your work"

and she did a little smile thing and said oh thank you

she's TINY and NICE. i'm going to get a glass of wine now and try and forget how not smooth i just was/.

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 00:49 (sixteen years ago)

british character actor roger allam, walking through middle of cambridge

― spnknghands (special guest stars mark bronson), Saturday, 28 February 2009 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

i only saw her face for half a second, but i think i spotted debra messing driving a black bmw on santa monica blvd.

― the pelvis of a mammoth (get bent), Saturday, 28 February 2009 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

Saw Hugh out of the Housemartins on Newland Ave the other day but I do that most weeks.

― Sugban Stevens (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 28 February 2009 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

nancy travis was in my intro to judaism retreat this weekend

― and how (omar little), Monday, 9 March 2009 06:16 (sixteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

Larry King, looking v much like Montgomery Burns and Nosferatu, walking into Citi Field on Saturday with Mets owner Fred Wilpon.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:06 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, he's mad withered irl

― velko, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:11 (sixteen years ago)

and he had his son with him who's about 12. yeeesh

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1x1mvb2W23Q/Sce239pqNoI/AAAAAAAABAY/5ZzAr6p_Fgo/s400/king.jpg

― Dr. Phil, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

scrubs/roseanne actress sarah chalke in local supermarket
looking way too skiny

― velko, Monday, 20 April 2009 01:28 (sixteen years ago)

oooh you should tell the enquirer she's on smack.

― Edward Aetheling (Viceroy), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

shooting up with julia roberts

― velko, Monday, 20 April 2009 01:44 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

this week:

parker posey at an opening
gilbert gottfried on 22nd street
david byrne at a dance performance

― ice cr?m, Saturday, 30 May 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

Saturday: classy young British actress Rosamund Pike, sitting next to us at a Dexter Sinister event at the ICA.

― don't fear the freeper (suzy), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 06:52 (sixteen years ago)

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

― Emotivism, aka the yay/boo theory (get bent), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 07:46 (sixteen years ago)

Emily the Indie Racist from Big Brother buying bread in the Christian Bread Store in Bristol at the weekend.

― dada wouldn't buy me a bauhaus (aldo), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:01 (sixteen years ago)

eric balfour (b-list, i know) walking down vermont ave with some chunky gal

― L. Ron Huppert (velko), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 10:06 (sixteen years ago)

elvis costello wearing a purple hat which was more interesting as guy-in-purple-hat than elvis costello (to me)

― corps of discovery (schlump), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 13:23 (sixteen years ago)

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

Yeah. Kate Flannery lives in our neighborhood so we see her all the time at the grocery store, etc.

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 08:19 (sixteen years ago)

Greg Germann (obscure name, but recognizable from the hundreds of TV shows he's been in) next to me at the to-go line at Sunnin in Westwood.

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 08:21 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? Well, he is to me, so there. Saw him last night at a Marshall Allen gig, he even spoke to me but I couldn't make it what he said, pretty sure it wasn't "Kick out the jams, motherfucker" though.

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 09:05 (sixteen years ago)

What was the gig like though?

― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 09:09 (sixteen years ago)

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 09:15 (sixteen years ago)

For a second there I thought you meant John Gordon Sinclair and I was puzzled why you'd find him hard to understand :/

― Stevie T, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 09:18 (sixteen years ago)

i saw old-school character actor clu gulager for the second time this past weekend, at a screening of the hurt locker.

― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

I bet it was too.

― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:55 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I saw Gok Wan near Oxford Circus on my lunch break today. He dined in the dim sun place on Eastcastle Street.

― salsa shark, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? - He used to regularly play at a jazz club I worked at. Truthfully, he always came off as kind of a prick, but at least his ant-capitalist values held out enough to sell me a brand new, signed first edition of Guitar Army for like $15. He'll always be A+++ in my book b/c of that.

― Pillbox, Thursday, 23 July 2009 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

Last week on the train to London I sat with Justin Lee Collins on the way up and Dick Strawbridge on the way back.

― If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:31 (sixteen years ago)

Eddie Izzard - wandering around Soho
Dr. Liam Fox - on train to Glasgow
Phil Tufnell - on train from Glasgow

― Nuts, whole hazelnuts, HEEUUUUUUUURGGHHH! (Tom D.), Thursday, 23 July 2009 15:32 (sixteen years ago)

Stephen Tobolowsky at the Ikea in Costa Mesa
(probably don't know him by name, but he's been in damn near every TV show ever and a bunch of movies)

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 2 August 2009 06:32 (sixteen years ago)

i just looked him up and he should totally play dr morbius in the ilx movie

― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Sunday, 2 August 2009 06:33 (sixteen years ago)

cable host and reactionary prick LOU DOBBS in a doctors office friday AM. unfortunately it wasn't the urologist (where some karma would be delivered).

― m coleman, Sunday, 2 August 2009 15:46 (sixteen years ago)

he looked up and smiled at me w/that self-satisfied "you know who i am doncha" expression and i was in the elevator before I realized who he was.

― m coleman, Sunday, 2 August 2009 15:48 (sixteen years ago)

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

Also, Toby Maguire and his wife motorcycling down 6th in front of our apartment last night.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:18 (sixteen years ago)

Rick Witter at a bus stop in York.

― ailsa, Friday, 14 August 2009 10:16 (sixteen years ago)

Jesus at Taco Bell, in my gordita.

― if i have a child i will name it satan (latebloomer), Friday, 14 August 2009 11:11 (sixteen years ago)

Nick Cave on the beach at Hove in his swimming trunks.

― Peinlich Manoeuvre (NickB), Saturday, 22 August 2009 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

*Murray Melvin! In Soho yesterday! This excited me no end.

*(Younger ILXors are advised to ask and older friend or relative)

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

I saw Keith Chegwin in Soho on Tuesday. Wasn't all that excited tbh.

― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

Was he naked?

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:48 (sixteen years ago)

Younger ILXors who like the Smiths might recognize Murray Melvin!

― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Thursday, 27 August 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

Two weeks ago, I ate sushi at Katsuya on Ventura not 10 feet away from both Matt Parkman from Heroes, and B-Real from Cypress Hill.

Give it up for Valley sushi spot bringing the celeb love.

― Adventures of Dog Boy and Frank Sobotka (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 27 August 2009 17:54 (sixteen years ago)

Murray Melvin lives? I can't imagine how big those ears must look now... I'd recog him primarily from his Barry Lyndon clergyman.

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 August 2009 18:42 (sixteen years ago)

Mike Leigh in Waitrose. An old lady, who he seemed vaguely acquainted with, said to him 'you still making your films then?', in the same way your grandmother might ask you about one of your little hobbies.

― gnarly sceptre, Friday, 28 August 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

Mike Leigh lives locally, I see him walking around near my house all the time.

― lacoste intolerant (suzy), Friday, 28 August 2009 10:14 (sixteen years ago)

Four Poofs, minus their Piano, in Edinburgh.

(note for Americans, yes, the UK has an unfathomably popular cabaret troupe called Four Poofs and a Piano. lol Britishes, etc)

― ailsa, Friday, 28 August 2009 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

its cute that they hang out together as a group

― crutie can't fail (roxymuzak), Saturday, 29 August 2009 03:39 (sixteen years ago)

yeah 4 realz that's always heartening to know!

― crappy, use her name (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 August 2009 03:44 (sixteen years ago)

jesse bradford (the guy kirsten dunst likes in bring it on) in los feliz

― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

haha just saw this after my last post

― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:15 (sixteen years ago)

I saw Amir Khan at Blackpool Pleasure Beach a few weeks ago.

― Chris, Saturday, 29 August 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

TIMMY MALLETT at the football, Maidenhead Utd vs Newport County.

― PJ Miller, Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

Steven K Amos at the Edinburgh Fringe getting his photo taken with a procession of fans of bad comedy. Also Marcus Brigstocke being totally ignored.

Timmy Mallett lives in a house called Mallett Mansions, you know.

― ailsa, Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

Does he? Must follow him home next time.

― PJ Miller, Tuesday, 1 September 2009 19:56 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Noel Edmonds, driving a vintage Ferrari (at about 40 mph) on the M4 yesterday.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

Currently sitting with Katie Hopkins on the train. She is charming but I don't like her boots.

― I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:15 (sixteen years ago)

Ask her if she's really only 34.

― nate woolls, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:19 (sixteen years ago)

I can tell from here she isn't. She is currently smirking at Private Eye.

― I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:25 (sixteen years ago)

Noel Edmonds, driving a vintage Ferrari (at about 40 mph) on the M4 yesterday.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 12:26 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

bad driver signifiers

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 29 September 2009 10:29 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I nearly forgot to share one: Mila Kunis, Jack McBrayer, and a Culkin, chatting outside nearby venue. Or really mostly McBrayer cracking up a fourth party, Kunis looking cool, and a Culkin standing somewhat to the side looking left-out and extremely, extremely Culkiny. Like we live in a fantasy world populated by humans, elves, dwarves, hobbits, and then Culkins.

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 15 October 2009 20:53 (sixteen years ago)

several times recently on sidewalks near our apartment, this dude from house:

http://www.fox.com/house/images/bios/peter.jpg

(is he off the show now?)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

I think its still up in the air if he is off for good or not, I'm like 2 eps behind.

Very very very jealous of a Mila Kunis sighting. Major crushage.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

uma thurmon in the w village this morn

― ice cr?m, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:22 (sixteen years ago)

walking w/her son looking good but not famously beautiful

― ice cr?m, Monday, 2 November 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

I bet she wasn't as irritating as she is in the horrendous Motherhood

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 November 2009 02:31 (sixteen years ago)

joel mchale in studio city last week

― the tamiflu show (get bent), Monday, 2 November 2009 03:58 (sixteen years ago)

studio city sightings probably shouldn't count... the place is a petri dish of industry scum.

― the tamiflu show (get bent), Monday, 2 November 2009 04:01 (sixteen years ago)

christopher meloni looking v determined exiting his trailer in willaimsburg - prob filming some law n order - is he still on that show

― ice cr?m, Monday, 2 November 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

did his determination make him look v v hot? my guess: yes.

― ms. thighs (tehresa), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 01:41 (sixteen years ago)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/SWHl8n5GgoI/AAAAAAAATAA/YJofEKs3J0o/s400/Christopher+Meloni.jpg

― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

WHERE? <3 <3 him.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 6 November 2009 21:33 (sixteen years ago)

LOL I only read Roxy's post and thought she was saying that she had seen Meloni.

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Friday, 6 November 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

haha oops. i wish

― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Saturday, 7 November 2009 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

yesterday saw tim allen at sidewalk cafe across from $cientology celebrity centre looking kinda sloppy and with very young woman

― velko, Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago)

Crispin Glover, sharply suited and pretty damn hot-looking outside the Museum of Modern Art.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:18 (fifteen years ago)

Danny Boyle, pushing a trolley around the Tesco yesterday evening in Bromley-by-Bow.

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

Nicky Wire coming out of Top Shop in Cardiff.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 07:26 (fifteen years ago)

wow yall!!!

― Delhomme 3030 (roxymuzak), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago)

Matthew McConaughey at LAX Terminal 3 yesterday

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 November 2009 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

josh from 30 rock asking for the bathroom key at lennys sandwiches ina west village

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:36 (fifteen years ago)

everybody pees.

― ian, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 05:51 (fifteen years ago)

last night @ a 1920s jazz party:

willam h. macy, felicity huffman, dana delany, jennifer grey

― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago)

<3 william h. macy

― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 06:40 (fifteen years ago)

i thought i saw blueski on the tube yesterday but it was actually just someone who looked a lot like him (not as good looking)

― I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago)

(but better coloured pants)

― I sb'ed your mum (ken c), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:44 (fifteen years ago)

Jon Culshaw and Penny Smith at a play at the trafalgar studios a few weeks ago. He looked sorely unimpressed throughout but she seemed to enjoy the GMTV and Lorraine Kelly jokes.

― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:51 (fifteen years ago)

Jonathan Frakes, aka Commander Will Riker, outside the Sherman Oaks Guitar Center. Introduced myself to him - Nice dude. Tall.

― Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

'70s film icon Brooke Adams watching her husband being interviewed by a drunk and a guy in his underwear on live radio.

― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago)

in the last few weeks:
In or near my place of work:
Bill Nighy (nearly poked his umbrella in my eye)
Rachael De Thame from Gardeners World
Jimmy Carr (v. short!)
Ade Edmondson
Nick Hewer from The Apprentice
Stephen Tomlinson

On a train
Sarah Alexander

In a bookshop
Rob Brydon

Outside the Prince of Wales Theatre
John Simm

― Dr.C, Thursday, 3 December 2009 10:10 (fifteen years ago)

in my office RIGHT NOW -

Helen Sharman, the astronaut!

― Dr.C, Thursday, 3 December 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago)

I've seen Bill Nighy a few times. And Bill Paterson shops in my local Waitrose.

― E Poxy Thee Thule (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 December 2009 10:28 (fifteen years ago)

julie delpy in hollywood yesterday looking frumpy and a little bit chunky : (

― velko, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

iCarly/miranda cosgrove sitting a couple tables away from me

― velko, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

julie delpy in hollywood yesterday looking frumpy and a little bit chunky : (

I don't know what the sad face is for, this sounds nice

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

there's caual & real-looking, and then there's "wow, what happened?"
(i saw here a few years back and she looked non-glam but good)

― velko, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

casual

― velko, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

i thought you meant to write caudal and i blamed avatar.

― estela, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 01:05 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

That's an incredible run, Dr C.

― PJ Miller, Friday, 22 January 2010 07:21 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Paul McCartney on Madison Ave around 84th St. today! With a much younger woman on his arm!

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Saturday, 27 February 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

bit late cos this was in december: artist/playwright John Byrne, having a smoke, just next to my flat (i live next to a theatre).

― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 27 February 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

josh from 30 rock having lunch at aroma cafe on tujunga

― shiksa kabab (get bent), Sunday, 28 February 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

Oh yeah, saw Jack Donaghee's assistant on Boerum Place a week or two ago too.

― pithfork (Hurting 2), Sunday, 28 February 2010 07:16 (fifteen years ago)

i've seen toofer out and about.

― shiksa kabab (get bent), Sunday, 28 February 2010 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

L!ndy M0rrison from The G0-Between5 at a Necks gig in an unlicenced warehouse on Friday night, so genially sloshed that she tried to pour a seated mate a glass of wine and got it all over her lap and the floor, drummed arythmically on her arse while peering at a small fire engine, and at the end when the owner got up and said "we've had a wallet found, so if you're missing one, come up and describe it," she stood on a chair and shouted "ME! I'VE LOST A WALLET!" - "Well, come up and tell me what it looks - " "It's BROWN! It's a BROWN WALLET!" - "Well, this is probably yours the-" "It's a BROWN WALLET! It MATCHES MY SHOES!"

― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Sunday, 28 February 2010 08:21 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Keanu in dark suit and shades, crossing 6th Ave near Canal and talking to a woman who might've been a handler (Tribeca fest?); looking very Neo-like aside from the scruff.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:11 (fifteen years ago)

jessica simpson a few weeks ago, having lunch with friends.

― altered dominant (get bent), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:12 (fifteen years ago)

Pretty sure now that the guy I saw in a River North art gallery a couple weeks ago was Eddie Vedder.

― jaymc, Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:01 (fifteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

i saw a real (but shitty) celebrity today: jay leno. at universal studios, conan's old turf.

― EGOT Schiele (get bent), Thursday, 27 May 2010 03:19 (fifteen years ago)

Was he plowing a field with his chin?

― Aimless, Thursday, 27 May 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

he was talking to some fawning tourists.

― EGOT Schiele (get bent), Thursday, 27 May 2010 03:20 (fifteen years ago)

Keanu hangin' outside my office again, tilting back a soda can. Must have an office/people nearby.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 May 2010 03:27 (fifteen years ago)

He's just hoping you'll come out and chat him up.

― Señor Communications Adviser (sic), Thursday, 27 May 2010 09:38 (fifteen years ago)

seriously morbs what are you waiting for, an engraved invitation

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 27 May 2010 09:47 (fifteen years ago)

saw john higgins

― cozen, Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:08 (fifteen years ago)

saw christopher eccleston

― jed_, Thursday, 27 May 2010 10:23 (fifteen years ago)

Toby Jones, two weeks ago on Lamb's Conduit Street.

― when the fertilizer hits the ventilator (suzy), Thursday, 27 May 2010 11:08 (fifteen years ago)

Kathryn Bigelow at the conclusion of Marina Abramovic's "The Artist Is Present" at MOMA yesterday

― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 00:52 (fifteen years ago)

The Jonas Brothers doing a meet-and-greet type thing with about 50 high school girls at the delivery entrance to the Warner Theater in DC. Viewed from my office window at 8 am this morning. Girls were totally running through traffic to try to keep up with their Escalade when they left.

― Otherwise you're kinda being comp-lit in his racism. (kkvgz), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

They shot this crappy looking movie at the hospital I work at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Od-P_avIOo

I walked by Keri Russell on my way to lunch. Very pretty IRL!

― Darin, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:29 (fifteen years ago)

I saw Sir Christopher Lee when I was in London.

― If the US had a dictator we'd call him coach (Michael White), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

I walked by Keri Russell on my way to lunch. Very pretty IRL!

that's surprising... she's so ugly on tv! #sarcasm

― aix-en-pains (get bent), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

warr3n ellis of bad seeds/dirty 3 in westfield shopping centre closely followed by zaina badawi in the tube round the corner. also accidentally nicked billy braggs seat on the tube the other day, what a run!

― straightola, Thursday, 3 June 2010 13:01 (fifteen years ago)

James Murphy in front of the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon, last Saturday.

― jaymc, Thursday, 3 June 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)

a week before the election Clegg walked by me at a distance of about 10 yards away. if only i had jonny from dead zone-esque powers things might have all been different!

― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 3 June 2010 19:13 (fifteen years ago)

...

LAMB'S CONDUIT STREET?!?!

― ...Funtown. (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago)

the best street name in london

also kinda sad cuz it's near gt ormond st and last time i was there i saw this terribly ill looking lil kid apparently undergoing chemo

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

I'm quite fond of Haunch Of Venison Yard, near where about 3 weeks ago I saw a guy who looked a whole lot like R Crumb.

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:41 (fifteen years ago)

There are gazillions of telly trucks over at Great Ormond Street right now because that's where they took the fox-mauled twins. No kid getting treatment is more depressing than watching patients at the neurological hospital on Queen Square having a fag in their tracksuits, while rocking an IV stand.

I live a block away from all of this but on the plus side, the pharmacy at the homeopathic hospital is a cheaper Holland and Barrett and the tiny coffee shop across from GOSH is the best in London.

― WHEN CROWS GO BAD (suzy), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

And Abeno on Museum St too!

― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 22:58 (fifteen years ago)

John Madden getting a cheesesteak at the Cheesesteak shop on Divisadero in San Francisco about 1/2 hour ago.

― svend, Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:43 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Pretty sure that was Tim Harrington I walked by in front of the Met last Wed.

― Pissed off our Weingarten (Stevie D), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 05:18 (fifteen years ago)

this is the most boring thread on ilx

― proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)

And here's another boring sighting! I saw Jarvis Cocker crossing the road in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. I followed him into a deli where he purchased some pies. Pretty exciting eh?

― there are so few places i can wear my jester costume (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:07 (fifteen years ago)

that ones actually pretty good tbh

― proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Thursday, 12 August 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

harry hamlin, walkin round my hood

― diurnal eternal falafel (get bent), Friday, 13 August 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

Also this summer I have hugged Alan Cumming, shaken the hands of Martha Wash and Michael Rother, and had Jimmy Cliff walk past me.

― En Moog (Stevie D), Friday, 13 August 2010 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

And here's another boring sighting! I saw Jarvis Cocker crossing the road in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. I followed him into a deli where he purchased some pies. Pretty exciting eh?

― there are so few places i can wear my jester costume (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, August 12, 2010 5:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. What kind of pies? I need to know. JK. That is a good one. I would probably have died a swift fangirl death if I saw him out in public tbh.

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:48 (fifteen years ago)

Joek or no, I was interested too. I'm not sure what precise pies he had - he was having a discussion with this other person about how many they had to feed and I felt a little rude trying to eavesdrop, also I had my son standing next to me saying "tell him you prefer the Shatner version of Common People" so I was trying to sush him, but they were from this delicious range - http://www.pieminister.co.uk

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 13 August 2010 11:55 (fifteen years ago)

I was rather trying to think of something to say to him that didn't sound too much of a cliche and which he might have appreciated. And about ten minutes after he had gone I suddenly remembered this...

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-events-sounds/

I bet no-one asks him about that. I would have looked super cool.

― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:00 (fifteen years ago)

He is generally very kind to people who approach him - even if they're drunks in Soho at 2am.

― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

Esp. if they come bearing pies

― tom d: he did what he had to do now he is dead (Tom D.), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

I had to mediate an art talk between Jarv and one other at the Tate; afterwards the Talks woman took all of us to dinner. We decided to carry on afterward and made our way to Dean Street from the restaurant in Lexington Street and Jarvis was apprehended so often it was like watching a politician making his way down a rope line...entirely filled with drunks. We didn't want a posher version of same so we swerved the Groucho for Jerry's Theatre Bar and a Bontempi organ where Jarvis wound up leading the room's singalong to Andy Williams tracks.

― duchy of Pornwall (suzy), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:11 (fifteen years ago)

also I had my son standing next to me saying "tell him you prefer the Shatner version of Common People

lol

― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Friday, 13 August 2010 12:14 (fifteen years ago)

suzy that is a great story

― proprietor of gib (roxymuzak), Saturday, 14 August 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

Still the only celebrity I've ever seen is Joan Cusak. Where are they all at??????

― Jeff, Sunday, 15 August 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

David J standing next to us on the floor of Lady Gaga's show at Staples Center.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 19 August 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)

Shooting fish in a barrel Edinburgh festival sighting section; Arthur Smith, Matt Green, Al Murray, Lucy Porter, Richard Herring. Not all together. My sister claimed to have seen Annie Lennox, who I missed.

― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Saturday, 21 August 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)

i don't know at least half of the celbrities on this thread

― Zeno, Saturday, 21 August 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

At a wedding that Ann Curry is attending

― Aerosol, Saturday, 4 September 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)

Omg!i totally have a crush on her. She is dancing so cuet!

― Aerosol, Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

i don't know at least half of the celbrities on this thread

― Zeno, Saturday, August 21, 2010 1:49 PM

Sometimes I don't know either. Like, who the fuck is David J?

― van smack, Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:48 (fifteen years ago)

I think he's Steve J's brother?

― iatee, Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Sometimes I don't know either. Like, who the fuck is David J?

Member of Bauhaus/Love & Rockets

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 4 September 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

Gilbert and George, artists, at Notting Hill Gate on Saturday afternoon.

― trollin' with the homies (suzy), Sunday, 12 September 2010 06:35 (fifteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

justin long at a local gourmet joint. i was waiting outside for my food and he came out and said hi to me before i even recognized him. guess he was anticipating me saying hi to him and wanted to get it over with? or he's just a friendly dude.

― buzza, Sunday, 10 October 2010 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

who the fuck is justin long

― avinha, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:25 (fifteen years ago)

oohhh ok i am smitten

A likable, boyish-looking actor with thick eyebrows and a friendly smile, Justin Long is a native of Connecticut.

― avinha, Sunday, 10 October 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

he is friendly!

― buzza, Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:16 (fifteen years ago)

so far this week: Giovanni ribisi, Taylor negron and the girl from the nanny and californication

― little puppy (jeff), Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:36 (fifteen years ago)

last week: crispin glover, Michael cera, Michael angarano (sp?), clu gulager

― little puppy (jeff), Sunday, 10 October 2010 07:38 (fifteen years ago)

Although I've lived in this neighbourhood for almost three years, the past two weeks have offered me my first hungover-and-going-for-coffee-in-sweatpants sightings of Rupert Everett, who lives around the corner. First time I was sitting with a bunch of gay friends on a corner table outside the pub, and he stared at us (one of them was a well-known gay journalist) while passing - three times - and the second was last Saturday when I was getting on the Tube at Holborn. It was 8am, so somebody getting out to go home had clearly ridden the Slut Express and picked up a newspaper on the way.

― are you robot? (suzy), Sunday, 10 October 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

keanu reeves at the poquito mas in studio city, lookin' scraggly

― womack and bolio's (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

the one on cahuenga?

― that's so percussion (get bent), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

Like it when a thread comes full circle.

― jaymc, Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

yep. right by my workplace

haha jaymc i didn't even notice that!

― womack and bolio's (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)

this morning: kinsey from mad men, zack de la rocha

― los angeles raidsers (jeff), Friday, 22 October 2010 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

together?

― third sock from the sun (latebloomer), Friday, 22 October 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

separate but very near. kinsey was crossing the street by my bank while looking shifty eyed and a little disturbed by people recognizing him (not me). zack de la rocha was getting into his car in front of a posh coffee place.

― los angeles raidsers (jeff), Saturday, 23 October 2010 08:55 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Matthew Modine walking near the Bowery w/ a friend

Thurston Moore (he counts?) at the Tuli Kupferberg film tribute

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 November 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago)

It's questionable to you if Thurston Moore counts but Matthew Modine is a given?

― Gukbe, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago)

This summer, while having drinks with Alex in NYC in NYC, Courtney Love staggered out of a building across the street and got into a town car parked five feet from our outdoor table. Besides a lot of nose wiping with the back of her hand she looked pretty together.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 15 November 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

what I meant is seeing Thurston in NYC is pretty easy if you travel in the same cultural orbit.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah, i've seen members of sy so often in new york that i don't even count it as a sighting anymore. they're part of the furniture.

i suppose mad men sightings in los angeles are the same way now! pete campbell was eating at the same restaurant where we met up for a brunch fap on saturday.

― if you take Hinder and replace the ND with TL (get bent), Monday, 15 November 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Alec Baldwin today on Madison Ave in the 50s. He was sort of forcefully rushing his way into a building and getting annoyed with people. He had a very impressive presence, I must say.

― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 December 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago)

Quite a while ago, but still - was at the Tame Impala approx a month ago here in Denver and Wayne's nephews band Stardeath & The White Dwarfs is supposed to play: well, they don't and instead we get a fairly bland local band that seemed to view this as their time to shine to the biggest audience they ever were going to get and thus their set-list took for fucking ever.

Anyways, dude comes up behind me and it's Wayne Coyne - I didn't even need a double take, it was just *him*, with the hair and the scarf and the suit which I didn't really think he wore in ~casual lyfe~. I wanted to shake his hand but he was getting a video of the concert and generally, as I saw him later during the night, was somewhat glad I hadn't as the hand-shakes he was being asked for seemed incredibly brief and seemed to contribute mostly to annoying him.

― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 31 December 2010 05:27 (fourteen years ago)

I've always despised the way people would give you every detail leading up to celebrity sighting in their recounts done in their heads, so I'm a little shocked I just did it. I didn't even warrant seeing Wayne Coyne as a facebook status update - I basically wanted to reserve it for my friends whom liked the band (not many).

― heh (kelpolaris), Friday, 31 December 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago)

Ron Jeremy, walking out of the elevator as I was walking in with my boss and coworkers.

― Sauvignon Blanc Mange (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

that reminds me, i was on a bus in chatsworth a few weeks ago and overheard a conversation between two male porn actors, talking about chicks they knew that they wanted to bang (or had already banged).

― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

"Chatsworth Confessions," filled with scenes like what you saw, would be the most depressingly smutty Showtime show ever.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:56 (fourteen years ago)

haha, i have to admit I was a bit off-put by reading "on a bus in chatsworth" on the celebrity sighting thread.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:01 (fourteen years ago)

i wouldn't have mentioned it at all, but ya know, the ron jeremy sighting.

― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 03:13 (fourteen years ago)

thats heartening that porn bros still care abt banging chix

― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:25 (fourteen years ago)

minnie driver & eric stoltz at the playground where I brought my kids. they weren't together and didn't even seem to acknowledge each other (poor celeb etiquette to do so?)

― buzza, Monday, 17 January 2011 01:50 (fourteen years ago)

I was introduced to Johanna Went a week or so ago. She has an installation at a gallery (based on Grey Gardens) and one of her friends there couldn't remember the directors' name and when I said Maysles she said "She's here do you want to meet her?" All I said to her was "I saw you perform at the Hong Kong Cafe in 79 or 80."

― nickn, Monday, 17 January 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i think serena williams was standing behind me in the security line in the aspen airport. i resisted the urge to swoon (and of course, my wife rolled her eyes at me).

― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 5 February 2011 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

angelyne, in burbank!

― the mu-ney su-zvuki (get bent), Monday, 14 February 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

maggie gyllenhaal at the hollywood farmers market yesterday

― buzza, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:57 (fourteen years ago)

i saw jake at a restaurant downtown about a month ago

― minsktrans.by (get bent), Monday, 14 March 2011 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

bill pullman at trader joe's, looking a bit unkempt

― velko, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 07:51 (fourteen years ago)

mine for the past week: mark ryden, one of the duplass bros, charlotte gainsbourg, dude from extreme home makeover

― jeff, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 08:02 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

within 10 feet of me right now are both Stephen Merchant and world triple jump record holder Jonathan Edwards

― Dr.C, Friday, 8 April 2011 14:26 (fourteen years ago)

saw mike skinner in bodeans in soho earlier this week.

― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Friday, 8 April 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

and kate moss on gt portland st a few weeks ago

― Will.Have.Known (Local Garda), Friday, 8 April 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

gary shteyngart outside early girl eatery in asheville nc

― congratulations (n/a), Saturday, 7 May 2011 10:49 (fourteen years ago)

bf left me a message that he saw 'the asian dude from lost'. jealous. that guy was hot!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 May 2011 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

Jimmy Page! Yesterday, waiting in line at a cash machine just round from Goodge Street Station, noticed him checking out a girl who passed him, same old Jimmy, eh?

― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:00 (fourteen years ago)

only caught a glimpse, but i thought i saw adam scott walking past the coffee bean at chandler/lankershim in north hollywood. parks and recreation shoots on location here sometimes.

― Nardil the Human MAOI (get bent), Friday, 13 May 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)

actually their soundstage is nearby but i don't know exactly where.

― Nardil the Human MAOI (get bent), Friday, 13 May 2011 21:37 (fourteen years ago)

Will Arnett at my workplace today, 'citing.

― Per Yngve's having his brain out (MaresNest), Friday, 13 May 2011 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

met a friend for breakfast in midtown Manhattan at a touristy faux diner and in the next booth, of all the cliched NYC celebrity sightings, was Jerome Seinfeld

― backlash stan straw man fan (m coleman), Saturday, 14 May 2011 11:13 (fourteen years ago)

Rupert Everett (who lives a couple of blocks away) smiled at me in the street the other day, thus delighting my inner 16-year-old fag hag.

― that's when i reach for my ︻╦╤─* (suzy), Saturday, 14 May 2011 11:28 (fourteen years ago)

saw mike skinner in bodeans in soho a few weeks back...

― Phelan Nulty (Local Garda), Saturday, 14 May 2011 11:29 (fourteen years ago)

Nick Knowles was having breakfast (alone) in our hotel in Bath last weekend. He's a pretty big guy in real life.

― nate woolls, Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

OK, so I just saw Rob Newman pushing a pram (with a baby in it, in case you're wondering) down the same street where, twice in the last two weeks, I've seen Julia Davis leaning against a fence txting... same fence... same phone... same text? Not sure. Apparently Julia Davis lives with Julian Barratt, which would make sense as I've seen him hanging round too. Phew, North London, eh? Oh yeah, Gavin Esler almost knocked me over, out jogging with his dog... him out jogging with his dog that is, don't know him well enough to go jogging with his dog, or don't know his dog well enough, I don't jog anyway. North London, eh?

― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 May 2011 11:04 (fourteen years ago)

Nick Cave and John Lydon on a flight to Barcelona. Cave was back with us in economy. Lydon walked into the gates and said loudly, "Hello riff-raff!" Presumably he was talking to his crew but he was looking at everyone.

― Gukbe, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)

miranda july yesterday buying kitty litter and looking skinny

― buzza, Sunday, 5 June 2011 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Edwina Curry and daughter laughing their heads of at bridesmaids in Cineworld, Ashton-Under-Lyne.

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 26 June 2011 17:05 (fourteen years ago)

Stephen Jones the milliner, bouncing along London's Trendy Lamb's Conduit Street.

― chavatar (suzy), Sunday, 26 June 2011 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

Ant or Dec, you decide
The security tried to block me and he wasn't to happy with me.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5274/5912616233_a15af0e901.jpg
Untitled by carljgodwin, on Flickr

― not_goodwin, Thursday, 7 July 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

only one during my 6 days in LA: Dennis Franz not laughing much, then nodding off, at a late-night Upright Citizens Brigade standup show.

― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

i see josh hartnett p regularly---we're sorta neighbors, i think?

― g++ (gbx), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:22 (fourteen years ago)

As I said - Marc Maron.

Also Azazel Jacobs and Michael J. Anderson aka the "dwarf" from Twin Peaks.

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

And Steven Soderbergh

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:38 (fourteen years ago)

and this guy

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Brian_Posehn_1.JPG/428px-Brian_Posehn_1.JPG

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

I will avoid this thread so as to not monopolize it with all of the B-listers that plague Los Angeles.
― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry)

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:40 (fourteen years ago)

man, Azazel Jacobs as a celebrity gives me pause

― you call it trollin' i call it steamrollin' (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:51 (fourteen years ago)

critically acclaimed movie director and scion of the modernist avant-garde Azazel Jacobs

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 19:58 (fourteen years ago)

license plate on a luxury car: D VON T

hoping it actually was miss dita:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dita_Von_Teese

― apihopatcong weehawkul (get bent), Friday, 29 July 2011 01:03 (fourteen years ago)

I will avoid this thread so as to not monopolize it with all of the B-listers that plague Los Angeles.
― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry)

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:40 PM

haha i love b-listers. bring 'em on.

― apihopatcong weehawkul (get bent), Friday, 29 July 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)

Muppet Movie shooting in Downtown LA - ALL members of Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. I told them I loved their work.

― Patrice Leclerc Delacroix Poussin (admrl), Sunday, 31 July 2011 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

Ian Hislop, alighting from a train in deepest Kent.

― /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\etc (Matt #2), Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

Richard E Grant filming outside Cargo near Old Street a few weeks ago.

― Upt0eleven, Sunday, 31 July 2011 22:14 (fourteen years ago)

laura prepon having drinks with some guy the other night

― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 05:04 (fourteen years ago)

bring 'em on

here you go:

http://images.fandango.com/r85.7.0/ImageRenderer/200/295/images/performer_no_image_large.jpg/0/images/masterrepository/performer%20images/p374722/mariathayer-9.jpg

http://blog.rounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/heroes-hiro-nakamura.jpg

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/08/01/03_royo_lg.jpg

http://genemyers.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/aimee_mann_main2.jpg

http://www.mtv.com/onair/human_giant/assets/images/personalities/paul_281.jpg

http://content7.flixster.com/photo/11/13/17/11131741_tml.jpg

http://hiphop-n-more.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Meagan_Good_1-1.jpg

― jeff, Monday, 1 August 2011 06:26 (fourteen years ago)

Garry Bushell walking along Euston Road. \o/

― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Monday, 1 August 2011 11:59 (fourteen years ago)

no gaunty, sure, but a pretty big fish nonetheless

― nakhchivan, Monday, 1 August 2011 12:01 (fourteen years ago)

Jeff - Bubbles is an a-lister in my book!

― pandemic, Monday, 1 August 2011 12:14 (fourteen years ago)

I'm about 80% convinced I saw Peter Lewis in downtown DC a few weeks back.

― kkvgz, Monday, 1 August 2011 12:16 (fourteen years ago)

i think the black guy from the "flash mob at grand central" commercial was on my bus (in the universal/studio city area).

― dance cook (get bent), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:54 (fourteen years ago)

an alka-seltzer commercial is filming on my street!

― chavo pendergrass (get bent), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 22:38 (fourteen years ago)

Azazel Jacobs, playing pickup b-ball, at my gym.

― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Saturday, 20 August 2011 23:36 (fourteen years ago)

these don't really count: ariel pink, some cute girl from ace of cakes

― jeff, Saturday, 20 August 2011 23:49 (fourteen years ago)

ace of cakes?

― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Saturday, 20 August 2011 23:58 (fourteen years ago)

Mine doesn't count either, I just posted it to annoy Dr. Morbius

― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Saturday, 20 August 2011 23:59 (fourteen years ago)

actor/comedian RICHARD BELZER walking into an office building in mid-manhattan, late friday aft. he looked spectral, frail. dressed in black. accompanied by small dog.

― chief content officer (m coleman), Sunday, 21 August 2011 00:40 (fourteen years ago)

love that guy

― Lophar Andreusz DeLeone (admrl), Sunday, 21 August 2011 01:05 (fourteen years ago)

that is a true celebrity sighting. mad jeal.

― chavo pendergrass (get bent), Sunday, 21 August 2011 16:54 (fourteen years ago)

Nat Portman (pretty sure it was her) walking with two older gents on Hudson St. in NYC looking tan and fiiine.

― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 21 August 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

Also that Waris Ahluwalia dude on a separate day, same 'hood. The West Village is becoming Wes Andersonland.

― Vendo Caramelos A Veces Sin Dinero (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 21 August 2011 20:07 (fourteen years ago)

Chloe Sevigny on the dance floor of the main room in Space, Ibiza.

― mmmm, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 07:37 (fourteen years ago)

i think i saw 'departed'/'community'/'pineapple express' actor kevin corrigan at cambridge (england) railway station about a month ago

but i guess it could have been someone else

― HOOSy woosies (history mayne), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 07:38 (fourteen years ago)

looove kevin corrigan. you could do a rollcall of what he's been in that'd be a page long, he is a great bit piece actor of our time.

― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

but i can sorta see how he's high up on the index of 'it coulda just been another schlumpy guy' celebrity sightings

― (Chris Isaak Cover) (schlump), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

Keith Allen, ordering an EAT pie, Pad Station, um, about 5 mins ago.

― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

i dreamt i had tea with spike from buffy, and as we left the coffee house we encountered ross and monica geller from friends

― mark s, Monday, 12 September 2011 12:31 (fourteen years ago)

pvmic

― challopian rubes (sic), Monday, 12 September 2011 12:59 (fourteen years ago)

(by which I of course mean it is delightful to have mr s back)

― challopian rubes (sic), Monday, 12 September 2011 13:00 (fourteen years ago)

the reason there will have been no celebrity sighting thread is that nobody wants to imagine mark g thinking about posting to that thread while staring at keith allen's shrunken little skull as the familially upstaged grotty thesp thinks about the warm nutrients of the pie he is about to order from EAT at paddington station

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 September 2011 13:54 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, and they didn't have the chicken pie he wanted.

― Mark G, Monday, 12 September 2011 13:57 (fourteen years ago)

Tray Chaney selling his autobiography on the corner of F and 13th streets, NW. He had a guy along with him just saying over and over again "Poot from The Wire! Poot from The Wire!"

― kkvgz, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

lol

― diouf est le papa du foot galsen merde lè haters (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 17:15 (fourteen years ago)

I saw Dana Carvey in the lobby of my psychiatrist's office (no surprise here)

― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

Does this count as a celebrity sighting?

I took a job testing a new video chat site on Mechanical Turk. By the time I was able to log on, all of the other testers were gone and I spent about fifteen minutes pointing my camera toward the dogs and my mother-in-law and listening to M1cha@l V1ock, D1ck W1ng@te, and St@ve G0ttl1eb talking about my bad video lag and explaining details of the system to each other.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:05 (fourteen years ago)

Don't know if I just have Lulu on the brain but could have sworn I saw Laurie Anderson going into Barnes & Noble/Bed, Bath and Beyond boxstore building in Tribeca a few minutes ago.

― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:56 (fourteen years ago)

Nick Cave shopping in Asda @ Brighton Marina

Andy Sturgeon off Gardener's World

Chris Langham on a nice sunny morning in Hove Park. He actually looked quite merry - walking his new puppy and cheerily letting children come up and stroke him, so good to see he's put his recent troubles behind him.

Also my dog bit Dave Gilmour's dog while they were playing on the beach (sadly Dave wasn't there to berate me, just his wife)

― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 7 November 2011 09:59 (thirteen years ago)

Who is Andy Sturgeon?

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 7 November 2011 10:52 (thirteen years ago)

One of the few people who do gardening programmes on the telly who isn't a total nob, think he's won the Chelsea flower show a few times too. Possibly of niche interest on ILX.

― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Monday, 7 November 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago)

epic haul today

Lutz from 30 Rock
Scott Ian from Anthrax
Marc Summers from Double Dare
Omar from The Wire

― mizzell, Sunday, 13 November 2011 23:08 (thirteen years ago)

hanging out together, obviously

― latebloomer, Sunday, 13 November 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago)

Still can't believe ! saw Chloe Sevigny in Ibiza..

― mmmm, Sunday, 13 November 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago)

Sat on the tram opposite 2 members of TV on the Radio last Friday afternoon. No one seemed to realise who they were: I only twigged after they started speaking and it was obvious they were a) american and b) talking about plane flights and tour schedules (they had a gig the next day in my city)

― Trayce, Monday, 14 November 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago)

Paddy Ashdown almost getting run over by a truck on Parliament Square just now. Didn't seem in the least bit phased.

Harvey Weinstein barking loudly into a phone outside a shmancy restaurant in Covent Garden last week.

― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 10:14 (thirteen years ago)

shirley manson with her dog, which was very interested in our 5 month old. she said to us, "he loves mums and babies."

sat out on the front porch and watched connie britton filming a scene from american horror story across the street.

thomas gibson from criminal minds with that same amazingly dour criminal minds expression looking through the whole foods hot bar like it was a crime scene. (the only crime was the high prices! lol!)

― omar little, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

ok so christina hendricks

― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)

!!!

and?

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:27 (thirteen years ago)

is half a block down the street at a place i want to go to but i told my wife to go instead and she just texted me that christina hendricks is at the joint. i'm watching our sleeping kid! can't go!

― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:28 (thirteen years ago)

NO FAIR!

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:29 (thirteen years ago)

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcMOp_z26DfNxA9Ns5z9sJlFYJzqVBUpOrEkVAE_EV9VMd-UitHg

― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:29 (thirteen years ago)

i just saw tom welling at the TJ's in hollywood, lookin' fiiiiiine

and saturday i saw adam goldberg at a bar in silver lake, lookin' beeeeardy (and also kinda fine tbh)

― donna rouge, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:09 (thirteen years ago)

i've seen adam goldberg around town too!

― m white btw (get bent), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:16 (thirteen years ago)

I've seen Adam Goldberg at the Arclight Hollywood a couple times.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

So jealous of the stupid sexy Welling sighting.

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

nm i was able to switch parenting duties w/my wife and go down there so I did in fact see xtina

― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:44 (thirteen years ago)

ditto on the slab of beef wellingtom

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 January 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

Lucy Liu, outside my office, shooting Southland.

LOVE Lucy Liu =)

― Cane it for the original white tees (admrl), Thursday, 2 February 2012 18:49 (thirteen years ago)

Super Hans at my sons karate grading

― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

walked past jude law the other day but we didn't even know it was jude law cause we were distracted by the guy who was chasing after him trying/failing to get his autograph.

― iatee, Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:02 (thirteen years ago)

wtf would you do w/ a jude law autograph, I mean

― iatee, Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

I guess it'd be cool for like a week and then you'd prob just put it in some drawer somewhere? one day you'd throw it out when you were cleaning.

― iatee, Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah, I mean I'm not even sure where I stashed that half-finished crossword puzzle that Kevin Bacon left in first class.

― jaymc, Thursday, 2 February 2012 21:36 (thirteen years ago)

meat from swine

_A_RN

― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:02 (thirteen years ago)

think I just walked past Wogan.

― woof, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:03 (thirteen years ago)

Oh, my mother saw Debbie McGee in the hopital foye last week. Obviously waiting for Paul and his fingers, etc.

― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:17 (thirteen years ago)

Ken Livingstone outside my office last week - presumably coming from the Labour Party HQ which is in the same building. He didn't look very mayoral.

Also "comedian" Jack Whitehall in my local a few Fridays ago.

― Upt0eleven, Friday, 10 February 2012 10:25 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Joe Piscopo w/ a really pitiful hair dye job at the Jerry Lewis birthday tribute

(and for old New Yorkers, former daytime TV mainstay Bill Boggs)

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 March 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Not "sightings" exactly, but in the past month the mail order company I work for has sold jigsaw puzzles to both Michael Bay and Karen O.

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:52 (thirteen years ago)

The mental image of Michael Bay working on a jigsaw puzzle is killing me for some strange reason.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:08 (thirteen years ago)

He orders jigsaw puzzles like he directs movies, too: waaay too much ($350ish, shipped to a 4-star hotel/luxury condo complex in Guam) and in very poor taste (lots of Native American kitsch).

― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:22 (thirteen years ago)

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)

oh man, i just saw m1a sara at the local supermarket with her daughter. she's still so beautiful.

― gershy, Sunday, December 9, 2007 6:27 PM (4 years ago)

same market, same daughter, still gorgeous

― buzza, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:28 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

ron perlman, grocery shopping. his voice is so deep, kinda scary!

― buzza, Sunday, 10 June 2012 05:34 (thirteen years ago)

have now had two michael cera sightings: one at amoeba, one at cinefamily

― radical ferry (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:06 (thirteen years ago)

sounds like you brought that on yourself

― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)

sarah silverman having lunch on the westside

― buzza, Friday, 22 June 2012 03:37 (thirteen years ago)

what was he seeing at cinefamily?

― Cunga, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:32 (thirteen years ago)

I saw Tony Romo at a local gas station. Really. The Cowboys were playing in Green Bay the next day and they stayed at a Holiday Inn in my town, like 35 miles south. I said, "what's up, Rolo Tony?" for some reason and he just kind of smiled and said "hey"

― frogbs, Friday, 22 June 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i think i saw comedian/writer/podcast dude greg behrendt having lunch at aroma cafe in studio city.

― ostrich tuning (get bent), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 21:47 (thirteen years ago)

super hans again, this time at the swimming pool

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

lembit opik on a segway

― ledge, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 08:51 (thirteen years ago)

hahahaha pics plz

― mod night at the oasis (NickB), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 08:52 (thirteen years ago)

jay leno, surrounded by a camera crew, at universal citywalk.

― ezra kleine nachtmusik (get bent), Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)

xp i wish i'd got one. he was in the middle of the road at a junction looking exactly as much like a massive tool on the verge of causing a huge accident as you would imagine.

― ledge, Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:59 (thirteen years ago)

Sarah Silverman and Tig Notaro at Whole Foods. Tig did the bagging.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 2 September 2012 04:00 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Steve Wozniak on a segway this morning in Golden Gate park. Lots of segway sightings.

― svend, Saturday, 6 October 2012 20:44 (thirteen years ago)

Barack H. Obama

Totally random too, just chilling on my way home, looked up... there he was.
Not as big of a security detail as one would imagine, at least as far as I could tell.

― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:43 (thirteen years ago)

Martin Carr and Gruff Rhys at a children's party in Ikea in Cardiff.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:59 (thirteen years ago)

people have kids' parties in IKEA?

― kinder, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:03 (thirteen years ago)

Wee Jimmy Somerville, High Holborn, at lunch time

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:41 (thirteen years ago)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:41 (thirteen years ago)

I would follow him around all day just to see if he ever absent mindedly sings lame pop songs to himself in his angelic voice

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)

Matthew Perry with some young woman

― buzza, Sunday, 4 November 2012 06:29 (thirteen years ago)

lol rereading this thread half the sightings i cannot recall

― buzza, Sunday, 4 November 2012 07:20 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Cagney & motherfuckin Lacey sitting right across from me at the bar

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago)

shut
up

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago)

I shit you not

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago)

tell them VG says hi & um u guys are awesome fyi

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago)

according to bartender they are drinking martinis w/o the vermouth ie chilled gin straight up?

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago)

hardcore old broads

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago)

fuckin a

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago)

otm

if u could still smoke in bars I bet they'd be smoking unfiltered camels

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago)

last night: cameron diaz and drew barrymore hanging out at the next table

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 24 December 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago)

no Lucy Liu?

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago)

p harsh omission I thought

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 24 December 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago)

lol I just remembered when pinefox dropped mega-challop re c&g >>>>>the wire

― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago)

I can't claim to have been there but Tim Burton and Helena Bonham-Carter in Forfar on New Year's Eve for a game of five a side football! http://www.pieandbovril.com/forum/index.php/topic/195733-tim-burton-in-forfar/

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 10:51 (twelve years ago)

keith david at whole foods

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:34 (twelve years ago)

david schwimmer w/wife at whole foods

― buzza, Sunday, 20 January 2013 19:40 (twelve years ago)

vanishing girl Julia Stiles at a traffic-light in Culver City.

― Cunga, Sunday, 20 January 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)

Lee Ranaldo at the Who show back in early December at MSG.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:09 (twelve years ago)

Paul Jones of Manfred Mann at a hotel in Sheffield yesterday.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:13 (twelve years ago)

duff mckagan at the sherman oaks gelsons -- that's what my bf says, i didn't get a close enough look, but i believe him.

― les yper-fem (get bent), Monday, 21 January 2013 03:18 (twelve years ago)

charles barkley at the local acme

― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2013 18:26 (twelve years ago)

duff! that's a good spot right there.

― go to party leather (ENBB), Monday, 21 January 2013 21:39 (twelve years ago)

in the parking lot, and an old fancy-dressed mainline lady pulled up next to him in her car and said, "Charles!" and they chatted for a bit

― Mordy, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:09 (twelve years ago)

lol my friend used to work at a preschool and had Duff's kids

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:37 (twelve years ago)

weird that he'd answer to Charles but yay Duff

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 02:49 (twelve years ago)

at a Second Viennese School concert tonight I saw... WILL FROM TFI FRIDAY!!!!

It took me ooh maybe half an hour to remember who he was, and also that he was a famous person rather than someone I'd met at a conference or a party or some such.

― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 23:53 (twelve years ago)

Oliver Platt attending a Broadway matinee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I only see schlubby character actors in audiences. Somehow resisted the temptation to bark some lines from Bulworth at him.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 February 2013 07:02 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

Lisa Loeb (not performing, just checking out effect pedals) at the Van Nuys Guitar Pedal Expo.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 April 2013 00:40 (twelve years ago)

Was just at James Franco's "Birdshit" show at PS1.

― Evan, Monday, 8 April 2013 00:43 (twelve years ago)

thought i saw brendan fraser walking in burbank and carrying a 40 and a bag of chipotle, but i'm not sure -- l.a. is full of people who look like other people.

― is cereal a soup (get bent), Monday, 8 April 2013 01:28 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

talked to Stephen Moyer yesterday at work for twenty minutes. Didn't know who he was but figured he was probably an actor, and was clued in later that it was "Vampire Bill" from True Blood that had stopped by,

― Cunga, Friday, 21 June 2013 19:12 (twelve years ago)

Almost 100% sure I saw James O'Keefe standing on the corner of 16th and K.

― how's life, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 14:35 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Saw Tricky on the way home from work today, hunched over his phone outside a cafe on Pentonville Rd.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago)

Bill Bailey drinking a pint outside a pub in Kendal.

#fml

― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 21:24 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

I see the guy who played Ashley Peacock in Coronation Street in my local supermarket sometimes. I also sat next to him on a train journey once.

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 11:59 (twelve years ago)

Whenever I see him there are always people nudging each other and whispering as he walks past. I remember one time where this guy shouted 'Ash-LEH, I say Ash-LEH' at him after he had disappeared round a corner. I think that must be the worst level of fame in some ways- famous enough that everyone recognises you and you have dicks shouting catchphrases at you, but not famous enough that you can live in a bubble and don't have to schlep around ASDA on a Saturday afternoon buying groceries.

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:06 (twelve years ago)

Last month I stood next to Steve Coogan at a bar in Edinburgh. We were pretending not to know who he was, then someone else spotted him and he was suddenly surrounded by fangirls and fanboys all wanting photos and autographs. We left, and then found ourselves standing next to Angus Deayton, who attracted no attention whatsoever.

I forgot to mention last year that we saw Paris Hilton in the MGM Grand in Vegas, sat next to Minnie Driver on a flight from Vegas to LA, and saw Rob Kardashian on Rodeo Drive. I feel we did LA properly with an actual live Kardashian sighting (though we had no idea who he was, were alerted by a gaggle of screaming Australian teenagers).

― ailsa, Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:42 (twelve years ago)

Not a 'sighting', and barely a celebrity, but M1ch@el Byw@ter phoned me to complain about his phone bill recently.

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

He phoned the call centre where I work, I guess it would more accurate to say.

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:49 (twelve years ago)

a friend of mine has a hilarious photo of himself with zinedine zidane when bumped into him in a corridor at a youth football tournament over the summer, he told zidane that he looked in good shape and should still be playing

living in an area of london with a fair few crap british media type people of moderate reknown i am used to 'celebrities' but i have no idea how i would react to being in the presence of someone like zidane

― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:52 (twelve years ago)

Other sort of famous people I have spoken to at work: a former minister in the Blair government and a Big Brother 8 contestant.xp

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:54 (twelve years ago)

That's two separate people, btw

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 12:56 (twelve years ago)

then again i met kevin shields at a tiny media 'rock' show a few years ago and avoided uttering any fanboy platitudes despite mbv being my ~favourite band~ at the time
i suppose u could say he was the zidane of shoegazing, compared to mark gardener's tim sherwood

― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:00 (twelve years ago)

What's Kevin Shields like irl

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:05 (twelve years ago)

completely unprepossessing and drably dressed as u would expect, i don't think he was 'with' anyone although he spoke to a few people inc the person i was with who had some tangential connection to creation back in the day and exchanged a few polite words, bashful and slightly avoidant demeanour but i think he broke a hint of a smile at something

no chinchillas on his person

― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:17 (twelve years ago)

Kevin Shields is an unassuming, nice guy who I've met a few times because another member of MBV used to be my neighbour and flatmate of a good friend, so he'd come to good friend's birthday drinks etc. He once went off on one to me about some conspiracy to put silica in weed, thus slowly killing all of London's pot smokers, which is the kind of thing the uh oversmoked tend to come up with, while chatting.

― aldi young dudes (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:35 (twelve years ago)

how 'far out' do u think he got in the 1990s? i imagine it was just that sort of skunk paranoia but trusty rock history maven alan mcgee likes to pretend that he was in sly stone / brian wilson type territory

― Lama Bloody SwagYurt (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:41 (twelve years ago)

Not as far-out as one would think, given the hype. But McGee is now the bonkers one, so...

― aldi young dudes (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2013 13:58 (twelve years ago)

Ray Dalton on Grafton St.

Jim Sheridan rang me at work to give out about the property tax, and rightly so

― tuomas finnchon (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:04 (twelve years ago)

Xpost Kevin, many smoking pieces are made of glass. Silica has a high melting temperature. Smoke without worries.

― 6 Tuesdays on every Tuesday. This is called dumpy pants. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:35 (twelve years ago)

how many cats does KS own

― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Sunday, 15 September 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)

a friend of mine has a hilarious photo of himself with zinedine zidane when bumped into him in a corridor at a youth football tournament over the summer,

headfirst i s'pose

― Ludo, Monday, 16 September 2013 06:52 (twelve years ago)

Mentioned on the Real England thread, but I was on a train with Nigel Farage the other day. He was reading a Thatcher biography.

― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 16 September 2013 09:42 (twelve years ago)

I saw Jimmy Tarbuck on a train travelling between Liverpool and Manchester once. He was standing up telling jokes and answering questions from other passengers. I thought he had a film crew or something with him at first, but he seemed to be on his own.

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Monday, 16 September 2013 22:01 (twelve years ago)

Jimmy Tarbuck's wikipedia entry seems bizarrely short:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Tarbuck

― hate the christian murderer propiganda love the guinea pig vid (bends), Monday, 16 September 2013 22:03 (twelve years ago)

Gyles Brandreth is currently filming something in the building I work in and I'm finding it inexplicably hilarious

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 12:48 (twelve years ago)

xpost still crams in his "schoolmate of John Lennon" thing.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 12:58 (twelve years ago)

i was in nantucket a couple weeks ago with my wife's folks, and i was reminded of a trip there a few years ago (2007, maybe?) when my wife and i had breakfast next to christopher hitchens. he looked sooooooo hungover and probably said two words while his breakfast partner did all the talking. i wasn't totally certain it was him but felt somewhat confident it was. later that day we were watching tv and hitchens was doing an interview in nantucket, so it was confirmed.

― marcos, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 13:00 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

m emmet walsh in a Cosby sweater

― velko, Thursday, 10 October 2013 04:54 (twelve years ago)

two from Boston the other week:

getting a pile of comics & zines rung up late on a Thursday in Million Year Picnic, I become aware that the dude punching my purchases into a calculator is Jun0t D1az. I wrestle with the dilemma of whether it would be gauche to say "btw, I like your New Yorker stories." I figure if he's just filling in for someone, it would be fun for him, but if he helps out every Thursday night, then he's not in that mode. (I say nothing.)

Two days later, while DJP has gone for a pre-PSB pee, two gentlemen step into the vacant space between myself and the good Mrs P. "Sorry, but someone's standing there, he's just gone to the loo," I murmur, and they politely move to the left.

A little later, it occurs to me that the older of the two possibly looks familiar. Dan shrugs when I ask, so I just go and interrupt again, and it turns out that he is indeed Chr1s Ew3n of Futur3 Bibl3 H3roes. We chat briefly about how their 'reunion' tour kept missing me in the States three months earlier, that he loves Sydney and wants to come down, etc.

― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Thursday, 10 October 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

Whoa.

You got to meet DJP?

― pplains, Thursday, 10 October 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)

Saw Matthieu Amalric (sp?) twice on Place de la Republique (Paris) this month.

― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 10 October 2013 19:31 (twelve years ago)

Whoa.
You got to meet DJP?

― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 11 October 2013 02:14 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

Was behind Reginald Ballard, "Bruh Man" on the TV show Martin today at the supermarket. Didn't realize it was him until the bagger said so after he left. I used to watch the show and loved his appearances.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050659/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_i9

― nickn, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:44 (twelve years ago)

Josie Long @ performance of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony on the Southbank... though I don't know if she's famous anymore (anymore LOL) or if she's even still working

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 13:41 (twelve years ago)

Ken Loach. On Euston Road, running for a bus. No limos for Brother Ken.

― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 November 2013 10:39 (eleven years ago)

My wife saw Tony Iommi at an airport in Mexico recently. She freaked out and he grinned and waved at her before making good his escape on a golf cart.

― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 7 November 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago)

Jonathan Franzen at the premiere of the Mekons documentary (it was easy to recognize him, cuz he's in it).

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 November 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago)

I'd have never recognize Ken Loach

― nostormo, Saturday, 16 November 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago)

Hey Morbius, are you AP Mike from The Best Show on WFMU? (He tweeted last night about seeing Franzen at the doc last nite)

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 16 November 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago)

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 November 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago)

Jonah Lehrer (is his celebrity status still valid?) at the Magritte exhibition at MOMA.

Fred Armisen & J. Mascis at second MBV gig in NYC.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 09:09 (eleven years ago)

Lisa Loeb (not performing, just checking out effect pedals) at the Van Nuys Guitar Pedal Expo.

awww

― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Michael Shannon shopping at indie Brooklyn bookstore, in cool all-red New Balances

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 December 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago)

synchronicity, I am watching that shitshow Zack Snyder Superman movie

― mh, Tuesday, 24 December 2013 22:08 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

I don't know if she's really a celebrity but Julianna Hatfield walked with her dog across the front of my car this morning when I was stopped at a cross-walk.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Sunday, 23 February 2014 01:37 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

Jennifer Garner parked her SUV in the space in front of me on Beverly Bl.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:12 (eleven years ago)

Eric Erlandson of Hole at the Jandek gig on Saturday.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:13 (eleven years ago)

Stephen Strasburg jogging by my work.

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

John Waters looking downcast as he strolled on lower Sixth Ave last Sunday eve

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:15 (eleven years ago)

Troy Sanders, bassist vocalist of Mastodon, at a Publix in Alpharetta, GA last week. Nice guy.

― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 19:49 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Diane Keaton walking through LAX, in pinstriped leggings and a white bonnet, with her two kids.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 July 2014 03:26 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Carla from Top Chef / The Chew; her season was more or less the last time I was paying attention to Top Chef.
I thought she was a friend who I couldn't place so I started maniacally waving and yelling "WHAT UP GIRL" and she good naturedly said hi, did a double take and told me she loves my hair.
so carla loves my hair.

― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 03:57 (eleven years ago)

Currently sitting fifteen ft from chiwetel ejiofor and chris pine

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 8 September 2014 17:00 (eleven years ago)

are you on the Enterprise?

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 17:03 (eleven years ago)

I'm apparently in the serenity/nu-trek spinoff movie

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 8 September 2014 17:53 (eleven years ago)

Nicky Wire in Clas Ohlson, looking at saucepans and or cheese graters.

― nate woolls, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:48 (eleven years ago)

Yannis from Foals out jogging on Brighton seafront

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:57 (eleven years ago)

Xp Wait where? Isn't that a scandiwegian chain or is it a place in Cardiff or something

― kinder, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:58 (eleven years ago)

Yeah it's a chain with a branch in Cardiff.

― nate woolls, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:02 (eleven years ago)

Oh ha

― kinder, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:04 (eleven years ago)

apparently my wife just saw Mike D walking down Valencia street in the Mission

― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 September 2014 17:53 (eleven years ago)

apparently ... like ... according to mike d?

― schlump, Friday, 19 September 2014 18:15 (eleven years ago)

well they did not intereact so I gotta take her word for it that it was him

― Οὖτις, Friday, 19 September 2014 18:18 (eleven years ago)

my wife's all excited cos she's been asked to judge the kids talent show at our street party alongside "graham from elastica". have tried explaining that there wasn't a graham, but she's not having it at all

― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:36 (eleven years ago)

i was sitting on a bench in teardrop park in battery park city a few weeks ago. no one else in the park at all for a while but then a small group of 4 men show up, with a film camera, and one starts monologuing about something into the camera while walking around. it's just me and them. i notice that the one talking is a fairly chubby guy with ugly clothes and a goatee. as they get closer i start to make out his face and voice and realize it's leonardo di caprio. end of story. i hope i find out what the hell they were filming, someday.

― ryan, Friday, 19 September 2014 18:49 (eleven years ago)

Noted Austrian thriller writer Josef Haslinger at a Vienna pizzeria yesterday, which will no doubt be of great interest to fans of noted Austrian thriller writers.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 19 September 2014 18:54 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

just stood next to mathieu amalric at the urinals at some classical music concert. i love him <3

― yeovil knievel (NickB), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:29 (ten years ago)

i tried to go wee but i just went squee

― yeovil knievel (NickB), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:46 (ten years ago)

seen Joe Montana at least a handful of times on the street lately

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 21:55 (ten years ago)

partial list of celebs i have peed next to:

Tom Hanks
Daido Moriyama

― all my hatians if u play they make u (gr8080), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 18:15 (ten years ago)

Daido Moriyama

!!!

― drash, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 18:35 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Coupla hours ago, near the grounds of Toronto's Pearson Airport
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206878556420592&set=a.2291724330729.296975.1177643894&type=1&theater

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:21 (ten years ago)

http://imgur.com/2GQ6stD

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:25 (ten years ago)

oh ffs forget it

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:26 (ten years ago)

whoooo

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 August 2015 01:28 (ten years ago)

http://imgur.com/2GQ6stD

― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 August 2015 02:27 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Thurston Moore looked at my cock tonight. Lankily leaning around a doorframe to see if there was room to get on the other side of my dick.

― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 22 October 2015 00:19 (ten years ago)

i went to get on the subway and a group of people were staring at the stop and one woman kept taking photos
so i jumbled through them, saw the guy in the center and had two thoughts simultaneously
1) hey that's judd apatow
2) oh shit, he's gonna fuck up my commute isn't he

― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 October 2015 05:06 (ten years ago)

Just under 24 hours after the above in London, I blocked St3phani3 B3atriz' suitcase with my suitcase at an indie comic shop in Brooklyn.

― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 22 October 2015 20:57 (ten years ago)

have crossed paths with Boots Riley twice now in the past 6 mos

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 October 2015 20:59 (ten years ago)

2) oh shit, he's gonna fuck up my commute isn't he

did he make it an hour longer than it should've been?

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 October 2015 21:00 (ten years ago)

This probably doesn't count, but Bruce LaBruce's sister's office is a few doors down the hall from mine.

― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Friday, 23 October 2015 03:31 (ten years ago)

two months pass...

Elizabeth Ashley in the film lobby of MoMA, effusively praising some bygone Nic Cage performance -- i think it was Face/Off

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:16 (nine years ago)

no wait, she was in Vampire's Kiss! iMdB when in doubt.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:17 (nine years ago)

i can't believe i never updated this thread with the true fact that in march (i think it was march) jennifer lawrence attended and played in a pub quiz i run in downtown mtl (but quit after two rounds) (i think she was there to kill time before getting food or going to the hotel nearby but still)

― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:17 (nine years ago)

did you have an Indie Actors Who Sold Out round?

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 22:37 (nine years ago)

apparently the theme round was "queens and patriots". (whatever that meant. i didn't write that week's quiz on my pc.) didn't matter though; she left by the time that round rolled around.

also apparently another team accused her team of cheating? to which i responded "you always accuse people in that seat of cheating, and they never win, so stfu" gah now i'm getting annoyed at my regulars all over again

― nerd shit (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:24 (nine years ago)

btw if the tabloids are reading, her team was called BEIBER FEVER (sic), y'all can have that one for free

― nerd shit (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 14:24 (nine years ago)

three months pass...

All last night:

7:30pm - Billy Bragg in the British Library, being refused service because he'd come in too late.

8:30pm - Owen Jones (lol celebrity) doing a pub quiz.

10:30pm - *Thurston Moore in the same pub, but drinking not doing a quiz.

(*Yeah, yeah, I know I'm always mentioning him but he keeps showing up in the same places I'm at).

― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 12:02 (nine years ago)

It's ok. Members of Sonic Youth (including Mark Ibold) are just a given for celebrity sightings.

I think Steve Shelley was at my daughter's piano recital last week.

― pplains, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 13:35 (nine years ago)

ILX Seeing Celebrities at Pub Quiz Thread

― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 14:49 (nine years ago)

John Owen Jones is a celebrity, who's Owen jones

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 16:36 (nine years ago)

joelle carter, at a park

― nomar, Wednesday, 20 April 2016 16:41 (nine years ago)

You've no need of him in Ireland.(xp)

― Romeo Daltrey (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 16:42 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

the creators of Oglaf carrying groceries away from budget supermarket Foodworks

― Shakey δσς (sic), Saturday, 3 September 2016 19:42 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

95% sure that was John Krasinski on 14th Street about 2 weeks ago. Look like he slimmed way down since the Navy SEAL movie buffdom.

Even more sure that was Patti LuPone sitting in front of me for the vaudeville clips at Film Forum last night.

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 September 2016 14:43 (nine years ago)

pretty sure I almost ran into Naomi Watts in Montreal earlier this summer but I was too focused on walking to get a hamburger to really look back and make sure

― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 30 September 2016 14:47 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

Gaz. Fucking. Coombes.

― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:41 (nine years ago)

^ outside the haunted house at the funfair at my local park

― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:42 (nine years ago)

but... Gaz Coombes died 30 years ago

― did we ever get wizz sorted (wins), Saturday, 22 October 2016 20:58 (nine years ago)

oh no, not Gaz!

― sarahell, Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:01 (nine years ago)

Immortal matador of tunesmithery, always in our hearts

― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Saturday, 22 October 2016 21:10 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

Revive for Michael C. Hall in garden square near me, with really cute dog.

― jane burkini (suzy), Monday, 2 January 2017 12:05 (eight years ago)

minor indie rock celebrities: i saw sadie dupuis and dylan baldi at the whole foods i shop at. sadie had a big leopard-print coat on, it was neat.

― marcos, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:37 (eight years ago)

baldi is from cleveland and i feel like i've seen him elsewhere around town

― marcos, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:38 (eight years ago)

If minor indie rock celebrities count then I sighted one in my apartment the other night. Not sure if they count, tho.

― DJ Untz Hall (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:44 (eight years ago)

In a mirror?

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 January 2017 15:47 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

just remembered that about 6 months ago i am 95% certain i walked past julia stiles

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 January 2017 20:30 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

malcolm gladwell running the opposite direction from me on the prospect park jogging loop
had to restrain myself from malkovich-style screaming HEY GLADWELL and chucking a water bottle at his head

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:16 (eight years ago)

"On average, I can expect to be pelted in the head with a water bottle every 3 years. I guess I was due."

― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:27 (eight years ago)

HEY GLADWELL THINK FAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-lSUz0Hn10

― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:37 (eight years ago)

I actually saw Gladwell out the window of a diner on hudson street. I never thought I would be the type of person who recognized New Yorker writers on the street, yet here we are.

― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:38 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

Sam Rockwell on a bike looking v confused in Atl's Little 5 points

― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Sunday, 4 June 2017 22:20 (eight years ago)

My little niece had blisters from her new dress shoes after her Mum's very important thing. So while her Mum finished up, we wandered down Victoria Embankment to see if we could find her some Union Jack flip flops or something equally cheap and tacky. We ended up outside Charing Cross and found an Accessorize, where there were cheap kiddie flip flops. But this girl is so slow at choosing what she wants and my partner will give in to this. I was hungover and tired from the important thing so I paced up and down the shop for ten minutes while she tried on the three different options of flip flops endless times. Just as I was about to suggest this 6 year old should walk through Covent Garden bare foot, Michael Smiley walked past with the smallest handbag dog on a lead, listening to his headphones and mumbling to himself. Cheered me up no end.

― kraudive, Saturday, 17 June 2017 23:26 (eight years ago)

one month passes...

Paul Rudd at the Yo La Tengo show in Central Park

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:27 (eight years ago)

French artist ORLAN in the Whole Foods on Houston.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 24 July 2017 04:28 (eight years ago)

Michelle Yeoh on Prince St. in SoHo.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 August 2017 23:41 (eight years ago)

lead singer of hot hot heat at the jam space i go to

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 5 August 2017 17:28 (eight years ago)

Pet3r Bl4ck from The Hard-Ons behind me at the post office, holding two 12"-square packages. Presumably solo albums that someone in Denmark is paying $25 postage for, which will buy him a bag of lentils.

― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:25 (eight years ago)

kirk pengilly from inxs and his wife layne beachley (world champion surfer) at our local supermarket a couple of weeks ago

― estela, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 07:43 (eight years ago)

steve coogan outside tesco in rottingdean

― plp will eat itself (NickB), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 08:44 (eight years ago)

Served the same man in Tesco years ago.

Tiny innee

― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 12:35 (eight years ago)

saw him outside quo vadis in soho last summer

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 12:38 (eight years ago)

my wife met ravi shankar's dog yesterday

― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:08 (eight years ago)

i stood next to bob weir at a metallica show the other day

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:23 (eight years ago)

three months pass...

David Hayman, not much of a celebrity perhaps, but he's watching the Celtic v. Motherwell game in the pub right now, so he's alright by me.

― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:36 (seven years ago)

Umair Haque in his leather jacket, 34th St Herald Square subway NYC a couple of months ago

― badg, Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:41 (seven years ago)

Never heard of either of those

― i know kore-eda (or something), Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:45 (seven years ago)

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/200/200/0*lI5-avJvcBbQDmA2.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/200/200/0*lI5-avJvcBbQDmA2.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/200/200/0*lI5-avJvcBbQDmA2.jpeg

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:46 (seven years ago)

Haque is of "I'm from the internet and I'm here to help" ilx fame

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:47 (seven years ago)

Is that him in the pictures?

― i know kore-eda (or something), Sunday, 26 November 2017 18:02 (seven years ago)

Yep

― badg, Sunday, 26 November 2017 18:38 (seven years ago)

simon callow sat opposite me on the tube the other day. not sure how much he counts as a celebrity tho.

― Fizzles, Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:53 (seven years ago)

More than 90% here or in the rolling rip threads

― fake pato is kind of racist, dude (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 November 2017 20:56 (seven years ago)

(xp) More than this Umair Haque chap, for sure. And David Hayman too.

― The buttermilk of Beelzebub (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 November 2017 21:12 (seven years ago)

Keith Carradine in front of a restaurant somewhere EV-adjacent on Bond or Bleecker St.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 27 November 2017 03:32 (seven years ago)

Pretty sure jimmy Fallon has a place on gramercy Park, seen him there in the morning a couple of times, today with what seemed to be his wife and kid in a stroller

― calstars, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 02:35 (seven years ago)

Yeah I guess so
https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/5/10050662/jimmy-fallon-now-owns-five-units-in-his-gramercy-building

― calstars, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 02:37 (seven years ago)

Haven't seen him myself but Bryan Ferry is in the library today, I can tell you what he's reading though: the Hogarth Press edition of "The Waste Land" from 1923.

― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Monday, 11 December 2017 17:12 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

i saw alan bennett crossing a road in harley street

(i was not there for medical reasons though he may have been)

― mark s, Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:24 (seven years ago)

Lucinda Williams was at the last show I went to, at what the guy on stage called a boyt, b-o-y-t

― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:29 (seven years ago)

New Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker and Siobhan Finneran were on the table behind us at an Italian in Cardiff today.

― nate woolls, Sunday, 4 March 2018 20:15 (seven years ago)

Pretty sure jimmy Fallon has a place on gramercy Park, seen him there in the morning a couple of times, today with what seemed to be his wife and kid in a stroller

How’d Jimmy Fallon fit his wife in a stroller

― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Sunday, 4 March 2018 20:18 (seven years ago)

\o/

― mark s, Sunday, 4 March 2018 20:31 (seven years ago)

this is not a celebrity but i've been working on a video project for somebody and we had to do some last minute work today and at the end of it her coworker made us a nice meal. during dinner they dropped the info that he had a bit part in "Murder in Coweta County", the 1983 made-for-tv movie staring Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash. he never actually met them but he did go to the premier party and Johnny and June Carter Cash were there. so that's pretty sweet.

― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 5 March 2018 02:48 (seven years ago)

We had about a dozen program directors in my 11 years at the radio station. My favorite one was this older guy named Jimmy. Kind of a shorter fella, kind of a rugged Bob Costas thing about him, if you can imagine something so crazy. Brass pipes that sounded just as sonorous in his office as it did on the radio.

He was always vague about his background, just listing a bunch of WXXXs and KXXXs real fast if asked. He once said how "the boys" used to love a big yard he had back in Virginia, but never mentioned them again. But one time, he let it slip that he had played the bad guy in an 80s made-for-TV movie starring Mean Joe Greene.

Say the fuck what? This was 15 years ago, so with an hour of searching online and an hour of waiting for the video to buffer, we finally found some clips. Apparently, the plot began soon after the moment in the Coca-Cola commercial where MJG throws his jersey to the kid. There's Jimmy, with 80s porn stache, walking in on MJG in the locker room, admonishing him for giving up the jersey. "You should've never given away that property. It's worth a lot of money. For someone as washed up as you, Joe, with his better days behind him, that money might be worth something."

"The jersey belongs to the kid now!" says Greene, as he storms out of the room.

(Looking this up on imdb, I guess Greene tries to adopt the kid? That's one way to get your jersey back.)

My co-workers and I stared at the screen. What the fuck is this? Who is this guy? On cue, Jimmy comes down the hall, sees what we're watching. "Oh you finally found it, huh? Now put that away. We've got Bert Sugar calling in!"

So like Adam, maybe this post doesn't belong here. But then again, maybe it's Jimmy who's the real celebrity here.

― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:44 (seven years ago)

I was sure for a moment that you were making up this idea of a movie based on a Coke commercial, but...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257199/

Jimmy's the real deal

― mh, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 14:52 (seven years ago)

kinda puts the battleship movie in perspective dunnit

― War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, Umami (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 15:08 (seven years ago)

I wish I could've found those clips, but my realaudio player is on the fritz.

― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:37 (seven years ago)

- Bob Marley

― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 18:38 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Stephin Merritt, unsurprisingly attending the revived Fassbinder miniseries at NY's Film Forum.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2018 16:12 (seven years ago)

Kenneth Cranham got on the (17) bus about halfway down Cally Road this morning. Wasn't sure it was him until he started having a very raucous actorly phone conversation peppered with ironic 'darlings', unfortunately I had to get off just as he was starting an anecdote about having to brush up his Scottish accent which involved Brian Cox.

― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:13 (seven years ago)

I've seen David Tibet twice in the last 12 months. Should I ask him if Death In June are nazis?

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2018 00:26 (seven years ago)

Susan Sarandon at the movie theater. Missed the chance to harangue her about her ‘dangerous Hillary’ delusions.

― Gunther29, Friday, 30 March 2018 04:09 (seven years ago)

Saw Juno Temple and Andre Royo this weekend. LA!

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 30 March 2018 04:28 (seven years ago)

that's ok gunther, i'm sure she's been plagued by MSNBC binary nitwits for 18 months now

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 March 2018 00:27 (seven years ago)

Brad Pitt(!) at a Nils Frahm show(!!)

― omar little, Sunday, 8 April 2018 05:57 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Billy Dee Williams doing some grocery shopping

― velko, Friday, 18 May 2018 06:46 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant at gate 22 terminal 3, Heathrow, waiting for a flight to Helsinki. Arguing the rights and wrongs of labour anti semitism and whether Sadiq Khan is a good mayor.

― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 08:59 (seven years ago)

I was dancing with Karen O'Leary to Polynesian electro on Saturday night. Niche spots r me.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:03 (seven years ago)

Oooh, Tennant and Lowe, interesting!

Is Karen O'Leary a famous person?

Mine was talking to Billy Bragg and finding he was, disappointingly given the abuse I've given him over the years, quite a nice bloke.

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:06 (seven years ago)

... on Saturday.

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:06 (seven years ago)

Karen O'Leary is a Kiwi actress who is in What We Do In The Shadows and currently starring in the spinoff TV show Wellington Paranormal.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:15 (seven years ago)

i.e famous enough for me to have been aware of her back in Britain and enough to consider her a celeb now I'm in NZ.

At least Mackenzie Crook level if that helps.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:19 (seven years ago)

Oh, I had no idea you were in NZ these days!

― Father Ted in Forkhandles (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:23 (seven years ago)

Only for the summer/winter depending on your perspective. (Which is why I guess it's a celeb thing, coming from outside.)

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 09:27 (seven years ago)

and currently starring in the spinoff TV show Wellington Paranormal.

well i guess i gotta look up this spinoff show! (is it good?)

― challops trap house (Will M.), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 14:13 (seven years ago)

Humour is a bit more Wellington-centic but it's pretty funny.

Same set up as their roles in the film, Minogue and O'Leary are oblivious to what's going on around them.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 1 August 2018 19:34 (seven years ago)

Vanessa Williams, talking to her friend whilst waiting for her car to be retrieved in midtown parking garage.

― RONG Blecch Limo Wreck (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 August 2018 02:05 (seven years ago)

I guess they saved the best car for last

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 3 August 2018 02:23 (seven years ago)

four weeks pass...

dr cox in a japanese cocktail bar at the next table rn

― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:23 (seven years ago)

J0hn C. McGinl3y or some UK daytime talk show personality?

― ▫◌▫ (sic), Saturday, 1 September 2018 21:52 (seven years ago)

former

― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 September 2018 22:11 (seven years ago)

Ooh, that's a good one! I had a good one too.

Sat across from Tina Fey and her at the ferry dock over to fire island a couple weeks back. I had a minor freak out and we def had a moment where she realized I recognized her and the look on her face was "oh please don't talk to me" so I didn't. I REALLY WANTED TO THOUGH.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:50 (seven years ago)

thats my secondary school experience with women in a nutshell tbh

TINA FEY THO

― NAGL usa (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 17:59 (seven years ago)

maybe that look was actually "I hope she talks to me"

― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:04 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Bez buying petrol in Waitrose Abergavenny.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 18:57 (seven years ago)

Beautiful.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:29 (seven years ago)

did he have a car with him or was he just buying a bucket of petrol to huff

― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 19:33 (seven years ago)

He's driving a nice Merc these days.

In a tracksuit and pool shoes.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 20:42 (seven years ago)

never change, king

― heteroflexible pansexual polyamorous relationship anarchist (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 21:17 (seven years ago)

tommy carcetti held the door for me at caffe nero

― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 19:48 (seven years ago)

two weeks pass...

i saw nas outside ginza six
ate ramen with n1ck mu11en in Golden gai

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Thursday, 18 October 2018 07:20 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

Alan Davies in my local, I'm hoping he's just been to see Arsenal get humped by Man Utd, the twat.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 25 January 2019 23:00 (six years ago)

bit late now but i walked by Oscar Isaac in Tate Britain in September, in a room with some sculptures, he was looking at one by Anthony Caro

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 25 January 2019 23:13 (six years ago)

one month passes...

On the bus to work today, listening to a track by Kleenex called "Madness", bus draws up outside Caledonian Road tube, I glance out the window and standing in front of me, waiting to cross the road, is Suggs.

― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 March 2019 13:04 (six years ago)

Funnily enough, we were driving past Palmer Park in Reading, a bloke comes out of a house and gets in his car, I quip to my wife "That Alan Davies has let himself go, ...." then I realise it actually is him.

― Mark G, Friday, 15 March 2019 10:22 (six years ago)

I've done likewise 'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

― kinder, Friday, 15 March 2019 21:11 (six years ago)

John Slattery. Gastown, Vancouver, about an hour and a half ago

― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 00:58 (six years ago)

'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

otm tho

― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 01:47 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Billy Gibb0ns of ZZ T0p, leaving a brewpub in Seattle’s tourist area, five minutes ago

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Saturday, 11 May 2019 02:11 (six years ago)

^^nice one. Saw Ian Zering from BH90210 a couple weeks ago at Disneyland. A childhood hero of mine.

― tobo73, Saturday, 11 May 2019 02:20 (six years ago)

I had a good one recently but I can’t quite turn it into as good of a story as I would like.

― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 May 2019 00:31 (six years ago)

great start though

― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 12 May 2019 05:13 (six years ago)

four weeks pass...

Anthony Weiner on a city bus playing Pokémon on his cell phone

― calstars, Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:34 (six years ago)

amazing

― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:44 (six years ago)

on a city bus playing Pokémon on his cell phone

ah! a man of the people

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 9 June 2019 19:49 (six years ago)

playing Pokémon on his cell phone

is this what they call it now?

― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 10 June 2019 00:33 (six years ago)

tragic Weiner :(

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 June 2019 01:48 (six years ago)

Pokemon Go but instead of searching for pokemon you find all the political dicks.

― Yerac, Monday, 10 June 2019 01:53 (six years ago)

one month passes...

Yesterday i passed by steve ballmer in the hallway of a fancy office building

― alomar lines, Thursday, 25 July 2019 05:27 (six years ago)

saw chris morris on brixton hill a lil while back

― devvvine, Thursday, 25 July 2019 07:30 (six years ago)

Was his birthmark visible? I wonder if he covers it up when he's out and about.

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:01 (six years ago)

think so, wasn't staring

― devvvine, Thursday, 25 July 2019 08:08 (six years ago)

tegan and sara. eating at the same small resto as me a week or so ago

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:01 (six years ago)

this happens so much to my wife sometimes I think she's bullshitting me. List of people she has seen while I happened to be parking a car, carrying luggage, wrangling children, picking up food around the corner etc.:

Joan Rivers
Mike D
Willie Nelson
Owen Wilson

she did at least come and get me the one time she met Charlie Day and the Waitress

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:04 (six years ago)

just remembered that about 6 months ago i am 95% certain i walked past julia stiles

― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, January 23, 2017 12:30 PM (two years ago)

found out like last week that this WAS julia stiles, she lived in vancovuer and frequented a store someone i met worked in at that time

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:32 (six years ago)

which was in my neighb

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:33 (six years ago)

Willie Nelson
Owen Wilson

are you sure she didnt just stutter tbf

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 20:51 (six years ago)

Some people resemble celebrities from a distance
You tend to “see” people you know
Eyesight can deteriorate over time
Just sayin

― calstars, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 22:01 (six years ago)

i have not seen willie nelson take that back!

― alomar lines, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:37 (six years ago)

i saw sharon horgan on the Tube! not nearly as tall as i thought she was!

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 07:50 (six years ago)

i introduced myself of course and asked why she was so short

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 07:51 (six years ago)

Did you ask her if they got out of the sea alive?

― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 08:54 (six years ago)

re Chris Morris: I was crossing Waterloo Bridge at the traffic lights a few years ago and my eyes met those of the cyclist at the front of the peloton waiting for the lights to change: full lycra kit, helmet with loads of dark curly hair spilling out of it, birthmark visible behind his goggles and mask - unmistakably CM.

― fetter, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 09:11 (six years ago)

1. Today at lunchtime, sat next to Roger Taylor of Queen at the Manhattan bistro Lucien, 1st Ave. and 1st St. (Queen are playing tonight and tomorrow at Madison Square Garden).

2. Have been sitting on this one a while, but back in April I had a table next to Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, and Siri Hustvedt at a restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 02:45 (six years ago)

Re #2 - I once had a table next to Paul Auster at a restaurant in Park Slope as well. It was about ten years ago, though. He was being interviewed and was being kind of a pompous dick to the interviewer, though in fairness to him the interviewer was clearly an idiot.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:09 (six years ago)

Might be the same restaurant. I think he's lived in the neighborhood for many years.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:18 (six years ago)

No, sadly the place where I saw him closed a long time ago. It was called Sweet Melissa, and it was a sort of upscale bakery/cafe that did lunches.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:25 (six years ago)

ah yes, that space is a gynecologist now

― Josefa, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 04:29 (six years ago)

Recently in Amsterdam:

Elle Fanning biking past

Ariel Pink in a local bar. Asked me if I knew
where to buy a mechanical doll
that pole dances (!?!).

― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 06:09 (six years ago)

I think you people are making these up now.

― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 06:43 (six years ago)

True story.

― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 08:34 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

This is the second consecutive Labor Day weekend in which I've seen Michael Shannon. Last year I passed him and his daughter on the sidewalk in Red Hook. Today he was on the train back to Chicago from the Steely Dan show in the suburbs.

― jaymc, Monday, 2 September 2019 05:14 (six years ago)

that's weird!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:29 (six years ago)

I've done likewise 'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

― kinder, Friday, 15 March 2019 21:11

I've also done this (a long time ago now) with Liam Gallagher. was in a pub in Belsize Park, some wanker comes in prancing about like Kathy Burke in Kevin & Perry, and I say "look at that twat, thinks he's Liam Gallagher"

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 2 September 2019 14:47 (six years ago)

Lesley Joseph of Birds of A Feather fame sitting outside an ice cream parlour in Eastbourne in full stage makeup (she was in Annie in a theatre across the road). Looking damn good for nearly 74 as well.
(I know this will mean nothing to non-UK readers - and most UK readers probably).

― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 2 September 2019 15:51 (six years ago)

mike leigh ambling through st. james's park the other evening

― devvvine, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 14:51 (six years ago)

one month passes...

eating out w.my sister and a friend nr tate modern: in walks linton kwesi johnson

― mark s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:28 (six years ago)

where near tate modern, enquiring ex se1 resident wants to know.

― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:17 (six years ago)

feels like a doxx too far to name it but you can see tate modern from the front door unobstructed

― mark s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:20 (six years ago)

My guess is Northbank on the other side of the river.

I've seen two celebrities in my life. By coincidence they were both departing from a jetty in a boat. The first was Hugh Scully from television's The Antiques Roadshow. It was in Weymouth. To this day I'm not sure if he was waving to the general public, or specifically to friends of his on land. There was something absurd and yet majestic about the sight of Scully sailing off. He was David Niven on a lower budget, but he did no-one any harm.

The second was Brad Pitt, at this year's Venice Film Festival:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleypomeroy/48684960207/

But that doesn't really count because it was a specific celebrity event where people go to deliberately spot celebrities. That's like spotting a footballer at a football match. It's easy, because the pitch is brighly-lit with floodlights and there are twenty footballers and two goalkeepers in full view of everybody. Even if the outfits are the same colour as the pitch you can still see their legs.

No, Sting! That's the third one. He used to go to the same dentist as me. I walked past him while he was in the waiting room.

― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:45 (six years ago)

I walked past Jay Rayner just off Trafalgar Square a while back, I'm sure the voluminous hairdo wasn't helping, but I remember being taken aback at how large his head was.

― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 22:55 (six years ago)

Christa Ackroyd - a monastic Church in Mirfield 2010

Princess Diana - St Patricks Irish centre Hudds - early 80's

Nick Cave - Camden Dingwalls - 90's

Norman Lamont - Somewhere near Notting Hill - 90's

Some ginger haired actor who played one of the Dingles on Emmerdale in the 90's - Rothwell

Dave Stewart Tate Modern 2007

Pope John Paul II York racecourse 1982

lol I don't see many famous people

― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 23:05 (six years ago)

Pope John Paul II York racecourse 1982

Surely this doesnt count unless like, I dunno, the pope was strolling along on his own with a walkman on and a pair of high top sneakers.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 25 October 2019 02:11 (six years ago)

OH apparently Rene Zellweger was in the little Italian restaurant at the end of my street a couple of weeks ago. I guess she was in town cos of the Judy premiere?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 25 October 2019 02:16 (six years ago)

two weeks pass...

Paulie giamatti and some young black chick, cheers

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 22:06 (five years ago)

I was at the Madonna Inn this weekend with James Gunn and his girlfriend for her birthday. Ok I wasn’t there with them but it was happening while I was there. I managed to not see them or even know it was happening until after the weekend was over though.

― akm, Thursday, 14 November 2019 06:48 (five years ago)

The Madonna inn rules.

― tobo73, Thursday, 14 November 2019 07:17 (five years ago)

Diane Morgan aka Philomena Cunk and the single mum in Motherland, in the Bloomsbury street around the corner from mine with all the nice restaurants and clothes shops. I’d spotted a scruffy toy poodle that looked just like my mum’s, and was in the middle of chatting to its owner when I realised who the owner was (no, I did not own up to that recognition, we just chatted about the dog for a bit and went our separate ways).

― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 14 November 2019 07:45 (five years ago)

lol i saw Ryan Adams out in the wild this weekend, he was drunk as fuck

― buzza, Thursday, 14 November 2019 08:43 (five years ago)

Tracey Thorn sitting directly behind me at The Raincoats gig in London.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 November 2019 14:21 (five years ago)

Did I mention that we saw Rod Stewart in front of the Vatican, last weekend?

― Mark G, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:06 (five years ago)

was it a scale model of the vatican

― mark s, Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:08 (five years ago)

No, the real one (but, vg+)

― Mark G, Saturday, 16 November 2019 18:06 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

Paolo Nutini watching the Old Firm game in a pub in Camden. Good man there.

― I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 December 2019 15:36 (five years ago)

Saw Janet Bean and Sally Timms out together w another friend (I didn’t recognize) at Xylouris White show last night !!!!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:48 (five years ago)

They’re not “celebrities” but they are queen-like figures

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:49 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Saw them out together again at the John Cale show!!! #friendgoals

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 27 January 2020 20:18 (five years ago)

eight months pass...

the guy who plays jughead in riverdale. v handsome irl

― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 23:47 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Chris Morris in the library today. Reading "Spycatcher".

― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Monday, 25 October 2021 15:19 (four years ago)

A N. Wilson today. LOL celebrity.

― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:22 (four years ago)

I can't think of A.N. Wilson without thinking of that amazing literary hoax from years back by the rival Betjeman scholar.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:00 (four years ago)

I enjoyed how it was "A N Wilson is a shit" rather than "is shit" or "is a cunt" - somehow both ruder and more classy a putdown.

― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:22 (four years ago)

and it has such a lovely rhythm to it too

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:33 (four years ago)

two months pass...

Samuel L Jackson was eating in the small Italian diner Da Sandro in Birchencliffe, Huddersfield last night. Not that I was there, but wtf!

― calzino, Sunday, 23 January 2022 10:38 (three years ago)

Last of the Summer Wine reboot takes an unexpected turn?

― Tim, Sunday, 23 January 2022 10:54 (three years ago)

The Runaway Bathtub extended universe. He's been in Halifax and Leeds filming some shite and is having a round at Fixby golf club today!

― calzino, Sunday, 23 January 2022 11:01 (three years ago)

the previous most famous person to dine there was Lee Clark

― calzino, Sunday, 23 January 2022 11:12 (three years ago)

one year passes...

Chris Morris was in our local fishmongers, being quite charming.

― Tim, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 13:03 (two years ago)

Could you see his birthmark, or was he covering it up?

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 13:26 (two years ago)

Saw him in the library twice. Terrible dress sense.

― Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:38 (two years ago)

one month passes...

Claire Grogan. I was on the 91 on my way into work when I spotted her getting off at the stop outside Pentonville Prison - but I'm trying not to read too much into that. I wasn't sure it was her at first but then I noticed she had an Altered Images shoulder bag.

― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 July 2023 08:09 (two years ago)

And there was I dreaming that she lived in Cumbernauld.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 20 July 2023 08:25 (two years ago)

Is CIndy Blackman really related to RIck James? Asking for a friend, who has been dining out on that story for years.

― Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 20:58 (two years ago)

four months pass...

Rod Stewart. I was passing through St Pancras Station on my lunch break and noticed a grand piano and drumkit had been set up. Coming back there was Rod and Jools Holland deep in discussion. His hair is still very impressive.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:08 (one year ago)

Ha I was walking into a big Central Park NYC playground maybe 10 years ago and noticed a dude right in front of me with that same unmistakable hair. He turned to hold the gate for me and indeed it was Rod.

Saw John Stamos and Ben Stiller the same day on a long walk to Tribeca. Huge day for celebraties.

― tobo73, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 13:34 (one year ago)

I was on the number 30 bus in Dalston recently alongside Bobby Gillespie. And in a café in Birmingham with Jess Phillips. Never see anyone up here except Pat sodding Nevin everywhere I go.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:01 (one year ago)

Rod Stewart seems like a really decent bloke from what I can gather – filling in potholes, calling Sky News offering to pay for people's scans, joining in with some bloke who was busking on Piccadilly Circus. (Not all at the same time.)

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:05 (one year ago)

(xp) I'm assuming "tenement kid" Boab was ripping up bus seats with a switchblade and generally menacing his fellow passengers.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:09 (one year ago)

Hey Tom D., how about a new Boab sketch?

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:27 (one year ago)

xp you'd think, wouldn't you? Rather than just dodging out of the rain with his freedom pass.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:35 (one year ago)

LOL

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:36 (one year ago)

It would have to have been a free bus ride of course.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 14:37 (one year ago)

Rod does seem a decent bloke but also he's a Tory, so, y'know. His performative good deeds are good things to do, but it'd be nice to think he also does things when there's not a press following watching him do it. Saying that, he does turn up in local pubs round here sometimes before Celtic games* and get his round in (never when I'm there, though my other half has seen him, so I can't add him to the celebrity spotting thread in my own right, closest I get to watching football in the pub with a celeb is Paolo Nutini)

* Probably because we're right next to the airport - Tom D will be aware of his old haunts of the Wee Barrel and the Watermill Hotel

― ailsa, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:49 (one year ago)

Getting a round in? That doesn't sound like Rod, he's notoriously the most tight fisted man in rock music... apart from Ray Davies of course.

― Tom D has a right to defend himself (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 17:57 (one year ago)

lol rod’s tory+celtic allegiances makes him the perennial target of the celtic reddit

― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:07 (one year ago)

I ran into Joe Biden at a CVS in Wilmington, DE on Easter Sunday in 2017. Got to say hello and shake his hand. I think that has to be the high water mark for my celebrity sightings.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:46 (one year ago)

Highgate, Titshmarsh

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:50 (one year ago)

I was less than 50 ft away from Bob Weir at the San Francisco airport once.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:23 (one year ago)

Banal celebrity sighting: I got on a train with John Inverdale last week. He was carrying a golf bag and looked like he'd just got up.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:58 (one year ago)

That will only mean something to a particular subset of UK posters and even to them will mean less than a shrug.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:59 (one year ago)

Talking of banal "celebrity" sightings, I just this minute saw Ian Blackford on Holloway Road. He was hand in hand with his wife (I assume), which was kind of sweet.

― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:28 (one year ago)

five months pass...

Corbyn. He was crossing the road in front of me or else I would have said "Mornin' Jeremy".

― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:58 (one year ago)

I saw Dylan Moran walking along the main road near my flat a while ago

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:25 (one year ago)

karl ove knausgard in the children's section of a central london waterstones

― devvvine, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:54 (one year ago)

I saw the other, bad Corbyn with a bunch of his brainwormed mates at Euston Square Station last year, steered well clear.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:58 (one year ago)

four months pass...

Susan Sarandon at the 6:15 showing of the Eno documentary at NYC Filmforum a couple nights ago.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 October 2024 02:16 (one year ago)

two months pass...

B3n $tein (unnece$$@ry g00glepr00fing) at the WeHo Pavillions (lol)
If you do a dead pool you would likely be getting an easy 20 points just saying

― buzza, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 02:19 (ten months ago)

two months pass...

Is Daniel Miller a celebrity? Probably not. Anyway he's at this concert I'm at. He's about two feet away from me as I type this.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 20:31 (seven months ago)

Is he wearing leatherette

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 21:34 (seven months ago)

I stood next to him for a bit at the Quatermass thing 18mo ago, and of course referred to him to my friends as That Bloke Out Of The Normal.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 21:36 (seven months ago)

(xp) He looks very Normal.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 22:17 (seven months ago)

I haven’t run into anyone notably famous randomly in quite some time; Lanois was at the showing of the Eno doc I went to I guess.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 27 March 2025 02:02 (seven months ago)

two weeks pass...

I went to the Mark Mothersbaugh gallery (MutMuz in Los Angeles) opening, and Fred Armisen was there.

― nickn, Saturday, 12 April 2025 05:52 (six months ago)

Also Mark, unsurprisingly.

― nickn, Saturday, 12 April 2025 05:52 (six months ago)

six months pass...

Passed Martin Kemp walking down Harley Street. He looked healthy enough in case anyone's worried.

― Massage Attack (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:15 (yesterday)

Peter Capaldi on the Victoria line the other day. Had a book of pop music sheet music.

Thought about telling him Local Hero still holds up but why would he want praise for something he did decades ago.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:27 (yesterday)

Sophie Ellis Bextor was sitting across from me in Glasgow Airport a few weeks ago. She's incredibly pretty. Hugh Dallas on the same flight, less pretty.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:31 (yesterday)

Tommy Wiseau in WeHo supermarkets twice in last 6 months. Still bizarre but now old and a bit frail, the voice is crazy irl lol. he was actually in the middle of some podcast interview the last time I saw him while shopping, multitask king I guess.

― buzza, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 11:20 (yesterday)

Year ago I was at a Gerhard Richter retrospective at SFMOMA. There weren't that many people, but there was a regal redhead one room ahead of us as we went through. It was Bonnie Raitt, soaking it all in.

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 12:56 (yesterday)

The recent talk about Prince Andrew reminded me of a day about 25 years ago when I was working as a temp in downtown SF and walking through an alley to lunch when a limo pulled up in front of me. One door opened and out stepped Sarah Ferguson. No security or entourage. She walked toward me and gave a big smile and “Hi” as she passed. She looked like a million bucks.

― tobo73, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 15:37 (yesterday)

...Which is coincidentally the amount she was "loaned" from you-know-who!

― TAFKAPA (Matt #2), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 16:29 (yesterday)

Sophie Ellis Bextor was sitting across from me in Glasgow Airport

I love her, I wish she knew of my love

I saw Chuck Berry at the San Jose Airport... he was carrying a guitar case and wearing a white captain's hat

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:14 (yesterday)

My best: I was in the university cafeteria eight years ago, mid-August after summer sessions, when campus is the most abandoned. There standing by the station for poke bowls were Han Solo and Ally McBeal and their son. Khaki shorts, sun visors, tote bags, just like any other visiting parents, though I assume they'd gotten a private tour. He looked grumpy, of course.

― bendy, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:26 (yesterday)

years ago (pre-covid), I chanced upon woody allen filming cate blanchett at a little park in san francisco. I watched for a moment then went on living my life

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:47 (yesterday)

I saw Lou Reed and an entourage of younger men who dressed just like him shopping for CDs at Tower Records in Columbus Circle about 1990

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 19:55 (yesterday)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:13 (yesterday)

I have seen Rory McGrath in Cambridge four (4) times now.

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:19 (yesterday)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself

shades of slim shady

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:24 (yesterday)

(xp) Not followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself I hope?

― Massage Attack (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:30 (yesterday)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself.

I was a teenager and it was my first celebrity sighting (at least, of one I was a fan of) so I thought that was normal.

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:35 (yesterday)

xp he is very much a "lone wolf"

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:35 (yesterday)

He and his team were wearing tan sport coats and black trousers though

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:36 (yesterday)

I have a Fabio sighting in my past, but who hasn't

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:36 (yesterday)

A couple of months ago while smoking a joint on a bench in a midtown NYC park, I had walk bys from Ari Aster and John Cameron Mitchell within a 10 minute period. The latter clocked my recognition and gave me a "don't you fucking dare speak to me" look lol.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:46 (yesterday)

"There standing by the station for poke bowls were Han Solo and Ally McBeal and their son. Khaki shorts, sun visors, tote bags, just like any other visiting parents, though I assume they'd gotten a private tour"

Plot of Star Wars 2.5

― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 21:24 (yesterday)

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