The Ongoing Celebrity Spotting Thread

[Bellenda Carlisle]

On 5/24/2025 at 2:16 PM, Scratch said:

Brad Friedel harbouring an overpriced Toblerone at Gatwick Airport.

I was amazed you recognised the composer who did the score for The Terminator - then I realised that's Brad Fiedel. No idea who your guy is. 

[Scratch]

19 hours ago, Bellenda Carlisle said:

I was amazed you recognised the composer who did the score for The Terminator - then I realised that's Brad Fiedel. No idea who your guy is. 

He was the goaltender for Liverpool, The Blackburn Rovers and The Tottenham Hotspurs.

[SuperBacon]

5 hours ago, Scratch said:

He was the goaltender for Liverpool, The Blackburn Rovers and The Tottenham Hotspurs.

Was also Hellboy.

[cobra_gordo]

On 5/25/2025 at 4:35 PM, Bellenda Carlisle said:

I was amazed you recognised the composer who did the score for The Terminator - then I realised that's Brad Fiedel. No idea who your guy is. 

TIL That I've been misreading Brad Fiedel's name as Brad Friedel for years

[BomberPat]

Susan Wokoma off of Taskmaster and probably lots of other things I've never watched, buying a lobster roll in a hipster chippy in Hackney Wick.

[Onyx2]

1 hour ago, BomberPat said:

buying a lobster roll in a hipster chippy in Hackney Wick

I mean you didn't need both of those phrases.

I can just see it in the Chippy Tea thread now.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

40 minutes ago, Onyx2 said:

I mean you didn't need both of those phrases.

I can just see it in the Chippy Tea thread now.

The kebab deniers will have a meltdown. 

[SuperBacon]

I think this wins for just how crap a spot it is, but the four lads (couldn't even tell you their names) who present the Tifo football podcast/YouTube videos, waiting to be let in to the Walthamstow theatre, before their live show on Saturday night.

 

[wordsfromlee]

Not a celeb spot as such but Dave Hill from Slade came to my work to pick up a guitar we had built for him. 
 

He’s absolutely tiny, still has the hair and can talk for England, but he’s a lovely bloke and we had a great chat about Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen. 

[HarmonicGenerator]

Tilda Swinton, walking through St Andrews Square in Edinburgh. No Fringe flyers in her hand.

Edited August 18, 2025 by HarmonicGenerator
She does have a house round here to be fair

[deathrey]

I saw Joe Lycett at the Early Bird Bakery in Kings Heath, he was with his partner and their baby. He does live round the corner from the bakery so not a massive surprise.

[Gus Mears]

David Icke on Chancery Lane, necking neat brine from a jar of silverskin onions. Honestly more troublesome than the lizard people beliefs.

Like to think this happened immediately before.

Edited August 19, 2025 by Gus Mears

[TV Time Remaining]

David Seaman singing along to Go West (the band) at Rewind Festival Henley on Saturday 

[chokeout]

Charlie brooker having to do an awkward shuffle around me as he left Pret in Manchester. 

[SuperBacon]

53 minutes ago, chokeout said:

Charlie brooker having to do an awkward shuffle around me as he left Pret in Manchester. 

I once saw him at Waterloo and actually said a quick hello and that I really enjoyed his Guardian column at the time (christ, what a dweeb)

When I got to work and told a mate, one of the women overheard me say I saw Charlie Brooker and was amazed at this.

She then asked me if I'd asked her what Barry was like in real life, and it then twigged that she thought I'd seen Charlie Brooks aka Janine Butcher from Eastenders, who incidentally I've seen hundreds of times in the part of Surrey I lived. Very attractive in real life.