The Ongoing Celebrity Spotting Thread

[HarmonicGenerator]

Rory Bremner at Edinburgh train station this morning. And it’s not even Fringe time.

[Dead Mike]

Tyson Fury walking his dog on the promenade in Heysham. 

[hallicks]

Alf from Home and Away sitting outside the Bear & Staff in Leicester Square, wearing a hat and looking slightly concerned (which I think is his default face). 

[Guest]

Nothing's beating that, close the thread. I could not have kept it together. Father Ted meeting Richard Wilson would look respectfully constrained next to all the crows being stoned and hoons being flamed.

[Jonny Vegas]

I live on the same street as Aston Villa and Scotland footballer John McGinn's parents and see him up visiting sporadically.

[TheBurningRed]

Roy Hodgson got on my train at Clapham this evening with his wife and sat opposite me and my girlfriend. Instead of saying hello like a normal person, when he stood up to get off I said “Go on, Roy”. Like I was at a football match. He did laugh but the cringe within me won’t go away as my girlfriend has repeated it all the way home while laughing at me. 

[Gus Mears]

I am haunted by Phil from Time Team.

See him probably once a week. I have great respect to his committment in living the gimmick, he's never without his daft floppy hat, even when he was in a full suit when I saw him going to the swearing in of the new Bishop of Salisbury. He frequents a lot of the same pubs I do, and they've erected the harrowing statue below in a window I walk past daily so I think about him more than I do most of my close relatives. I wish it was someone from a TV show I didn't detest occupying this much brain space.

 

Edited November 16, 2022 by Gus Mears

[BomberPat]

I once saw Phil from Time Team in a real ale pub in Jersey.

He had a pint of strong scrumpy, a map, and a big rock on the table in front of him, exactly as you'd expect.

I asked him to sign a beermat for my brother, who at that point was a History student who watched Time Team religiously, and he seemed completely perplexed by the question, as if nobody had ever asked him to sign anything before. 

[Glenryck Pilchards]

Jet from Gladiators was swooning over my one year old son at my local Tesco yesterday.

[wordsfromlee]

My wife drunkenly accosted a guy from the last series of The Great British Sewing Bee in our local last weekend. She professed to him her life long dream of learning dress making and knitting and asked for advice on how to start which was news to me considering we've been together ten years and this is the first I'd heard of it.

Edited November 26, 2022 by wordsfromlee
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[LaGoosh]

Character actor Alun Armstrong at Clapham Junction yesterday. 

[HarmonicGenerator]

Simon Callow reading a newspaper at King’s Cross on Monday evening. Very dapper hat / overcoat combo on show.

[Fatty Facesitter]

A rather meta-entry - Francis Bourgeois at Liverpool Street station. A celebrity spotted....Spotting. 

[MFrV1]

Went to the Motorcycle Live show at the NEC during the week, and along with TT heroes John McGuiness and Peter Hickman I saw Paul Hollywood wandering around.

[BomberPat]

Centrist melt "comedian" Matt Forde on the train, looking like shit and absolutely demolishing a Greggs pasty, starting from the middle.