Who is the most famous person you have ever met

[sejanus (Gavin)]

I've photographed a wedding of a very famous female aussie but part of the contract was that they retain the rights to the images and that I can't mention & publish anywhere. This was a few years ago when I wasn't as well known in the photo world as I am now and their agent negotiated it with me - these days I wouldn't be so eager and wouldn't have agreed to those terms.

hint she was smoking hot

Taking photos of a girl who has been in front of the cameras for a good portion of her life is childs play, jeeze they know how to look/pose for the camera!

[kinetic (Steve)]

I consider it an honour to have met Bill Bradfield

I also saw Peter Russell Clark once at the Murray Mouth, during
his heyday

Bob Hawke when I was an apprentice.....

Rob and Iain from the Curiosity Show

Steve

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

My son Tom goes to school with Levi and Chilli Lowndes. ( their Dad, Craig, drives fast for Holden)
He hates that they (seem to) get preferential treatment from the teachers in the playground.

[AdrianF (Adrian)]

Baron Knights, Cliff Richard, Shirley Bassey, Freddie and the Dreamers, John Williamson at Mt Isa (although he was very rude he told me and a few others to F*** off), ACDC (the originals at Malvern Wintergarden in UK nice guys). But no one really famous.
Amost forgot Joh Bjelke-Peterson and Flo when then came to Mt Isa in the 1970's

Adrian

[Nesti (Mark)]

John English.

Was having a chat with him over coffee in a cafe in Perth (just by chance). Along came this lady, she recognised him and started screaming and pointing him out to her friends. She came over and was carrying-on about how her mother was one of his Groupies. The cafe was packed with city lunch-time people.

Damn, that was one of the most embarrassing days of my life.

BTW, he's a very cool guy...hate to be in his shoes though.

[Nesti (Mark)]

Originally Posted by leinad

Darth Vader at Myers(1984? )

LOL, me too!!!!

And Boba Fett was there too, right?

Geez, that's old memories...felt earlier than 84.

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

I have met Wallaby John Eales at a corporate function (where I won the trivia contest he hosted !!)

Sat behind "Vulcan" from Gladiators on a flight from Brisbane and he unfortunately tried to recline his seat into my legs (I am 6"9) and I politely tapped him on the shoulder and advised it wasnt a good idea...he had a laugh (and was a nice bloke)

I was supposed to meet Bob Hawke when I was school captain as we annually went to a lunch with the PM from my school area, but alas, I was on a state sports carnival that day and couldnt go.... DOH

I met Shane Warne (who never got off his mobile the whole time) on the day of the Sydney one day match where Michael Bevan scored a 4 to win off the last ball against West Indies. He was in front of the Picadilly Hotel on Castlereagh St and he signed my match ticket. Best game ever.

I met and chatted to Peter Berner (Back Berner & Einstein Factor) when he was a comedy guest at my company function in Sydney and Melbourne. I even waited out the front of the powerhouse Melbourne with him while he waited for a cab and swapped jokes and impersonations of people in cricket and Guido Hatsis (which he cracked up about) - yeah maaaayte. Do not schpeak when I am schpeaking....

Just last Friday, saw (but did not stop to talk) Amanda Keller in Macquarie Shopping Centre at 9:30am (after her WSFM shift finished) going into the bank I walked out of....damn, she was smokin' hot! Never noticed that before....

Oh...and I crashed my car (in 1988) into John Cartwright's Mazda (Penrith Panthers League captain) after watching a game at Penrith Park. Spoke to him on the phone about it later....lucky I didnt have to confront him about it.....

My youngest has a friend around the corner whose dad is Will Leyshon (ex Melbourne Storm RL player) and we chat often when picking kids up from each other's houses.

All my addled brain can remember at the moment..

Cheers

Chris

[bartman (Bart)]

Mine are - but not limited to - :
Having dinner with Jimmy Barnes at the Cable Beach Club resort.

Having Wendy Harmer drink and party with us in the staff quaters in Broome.

Having lunch with Russell Ingall and in a V8 super car on the Wannaroo Race track. And....also with Mark Skaife in a V8 ute on the same track doing some whicked stuff!!!! BTW Mark sticks his toung out when doing burn outs and is like a kid when he is behind the wheel.
Both seriously funny great guys!!!!!!!.

Literally bumping into Billy Joel accidentally. I was a porter at Ob city and both of us coming out of the lifts at the same time. I headed one way , he the other . After apologising he said " no worries mate"....
The 'mate' threw me off and wont forget...

Apart from that I have many other encounters. As I work in hospitality, I always meet and great famous people. Some for a few secs to others I have good convos with.
Too many to list...
Bartman

[el_draco (Rom)]

In 1987 I went to Riverside Telescope Makers Conference in California. I wrote ahead and became one of the organising team which was a seriously great idea. Second night in, the organiser, a bloke called Cliff Holmes, dragged me away from a fantastic seminar. with my protest being, "Man, this better be good".

A few minutes later I was ushered through the dark to a little cabin where I was presented to a tiny little bent over man with eyes that sparkled like a teenagers.

Cliff smirked and said, "Rom, say G'day to Clyde Tombaugh". I did;.. didn't asked for a autograph, (Thank Gawd), and had a twenty minute chat with him. Amazing, amazing man!

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

At the 2000 Olympics, I went to the Archery (I was a keen archer for many years!) and found myself sitting next to Tim Fischer, ex deputy PM who had left the job the year before, who was stting with his wife and young kids. As they had no idea what was going on, I had a pleasant time explaining the intricacies of modern Archery to them.

[wavelandscott (Scott)]

Since moving back to the states and taking up my new "Corporate" role

I've had the opportunity to meet (not necessarily get to know) a whole bunch of well known folks...Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Sarah Brown (Gordon's wife), Condaleeza Rice, Forrest Whitaker, Youssou N'Dour, Smokin Joe Frasier (boxer), Dikembe Mutumbo...several Congressmen and Ambassadors for several African Countries...Oh, I should have added the "Astro" folks too...Al and David Nagler and Paul D. (Ethos designer) as well as the rest of the attendees at NEAF...

All linked to the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) work that our comapny does with the manufacture of long lasting insecticide treated bed nets in Africa to fight malaria. Interesting work...

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Mel Gibson, Malcolm Fraser, Gough Whitlam - ran head long into him - didn't see him coming round the corner. Don Burrows, James Morrison, Sir John Mills and body guards.

Judy Davis - she refused to get on board a flight and used some fairly colourful language about the weather. Darryl Somers - Hey Hey! Some very shady characters carrying suitcases to out of the way places in regional Australia. Sam Newman - does he rate a mention.

Exchanged a 10 dollar bill with the Quebec Minister of Finance - he liked to colour of Australian money - not sure who came out ahead on that transaction?

Literally bumped into Pamela Anderson, stepping backwards from the coffee machine in the business lounge in LAX. I apologized and we exchanged a few pleasantries then went our separate ways. Nice lady.

[mill (Martin)]

Me !! And afcourse my wife

[ngcles]

Hi All,

I've been lucky enough to meet quite a few famous people in my life and I'm not going to go through the whole list but will stick to several of the sporting ones.

I met Peter Brock at my high school (Jannali Boys High School in Sydney) in 1977 when he came specially to our school to do a talk on road safety. None of the other schools in the area (or indeed Sydney) were treated to this. In fact he came three times over two months to speak to different years within the school. We all I wondered -- why?

The answer came a year of so later. At the time, he was having an extra-marital affair with my Yr 9 science teacher Mrs McIntosh who (in time) went on to become Mrs Beverly Brock who we all know from her appearances at Peter's side in the Bridgestone ads on TV and elsewhere.

I bumped into Bev in the pits up at the Mt Panorama (Bathurst) circuit in 1988 (I working there for the weekend) and was pretty surprised that she remembered me (knew my name without help). I'd have loved to meet Peter again, but he was a little busy that day.

Curiously enough I've met a lot of Australian cricketers over the years too and quite few former and present captains of our team.

Brian Booth about 20 years ago was the first one.

In 1999 I was taken to the cricket at the SCG by a then work friend (Brian) who was very well connected in Cricket NSW. About an hour before the match (a day/night one-dayer -v- India), we were loitering around in the Bradman stand bar and Brian said that he was waiting to see his mate Ian Chappell. (I thought he was spinning a yarn -- to put it politely). Sure enough about ten minutes later in walked Chappelli who came up to Brian shook hands and bought us a round of beers. We talked like old friends for about 15 minutes until ... Ritchie Benaud walked up and joined in the chat. So this star-struck cricket lover got to meet and speak with two of my all-time favourite cricketers for maybe 30 minutes.

Living in the Sutherland Shire we see quite a few international cricketers around the traps -- but mostly in Westfield Miranda (better known locally as Miranda Fair). Many of our best cricketers have chosen to make "The Shire" their home. I met Steve Waugh (lives at Alfords Point) in Target Miranda (I think it was 2003) shopping with his wife. We spoke for a while about how much time men waste in shopping centres trailing around after their better halves.

Ricky Ponting (lives at Dolans Bay) in Big W Miranda in the queue to be served and of course when Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle lived in the shire a few years ago they were more than occasionally spotted in and around. I met him outside Lowes in Miranda Fair when we were both buying coffee at Rubyniks.

I've enjoyed lunch in the food court twice with (sitting next to) Glen McGrath (lives at Cronulla) (the first time, I introduced myself to and shook his hand and we talked about cricket for a few minutes) (the second time was only 2 weeks ago when he was having coffee with his new girlfriend) and I've also met Stuart Clark who lives at Cronulla. Also met Shane Lee (Brett's older brother) while we were filling up our cars at the servo at Engadine.

Almost forgot, where I grew up at Oyster Bay we had a vacant block next door where there was a lot of fiercely competitive backyard cricket played. One of the occasional participants (he was about 10 years my senior) was John Dyson who grew-up just around the corner in Carina Rd (great street name yeah) and played about 20 tests as an opener (but with no great success).

Quite a little list huh?

Did someone mention Sam Newman? I had the dubious pleasure of meeting him in 2001. I was the senior police prosecutor at Burwood/Bankstown/Ryde and I prosecuted him at Burwood when he was booked near Ashfield driving in his Lambo. Got to cross-examine him for about 20 minutes. He is as un-likable in real life as he is on T.V -- and industrial strength pain in the posterior. I won, we didn't shake hands. His lawyer appealed and it was lost up there on appeal.

I have also prosecuted (not a hearing -- just a mention after arrest) Dallas Hayden -- wife of our former Governor General when she was arrested for shoplifting. For some strange reason, that charge was later dropped.

One non-sporting personallity I bet no one on this list can match was meeting Zhao Ziyang who was at he time the Premier (2IC) of Communist China (that one's a looooong story) in 1982 in a Chinatown restaurant, Sydney ... (not kidding)


Best,

Les D

[Gallifreyboy]

Hate to be a name dropper.....but hey everyone else is. While still at school in 1981 played in a musical performance for HRH Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the prince shared a few nice words with me afterwards. Playing cricket got to meet Clive Lloyd (when he was manager) and all the West Indies touring party at a function and even better bowled to them in the nets before the WACA test. While working in the US had several meetings with Muhammed Ali, everybody calls him champ, even his kids. Also met Ted Turner and when he found out I was from Perth chatted a bit about the Americas Cup.

[Waxing_Gibbous (Peter)]

Actually I forgot this person, but she is arguably the one of the most famous people in the world, though hardly anybody new who she was: Maria von Trapp (for those of you born after 1990, you might have to look her up )
I met her at the ski lodge her family owned in Vermont, when the original place we booked burned down. I think I was about 17 or 18.
Quite frankly I was totally gob-smacked as I tought the whole "Sound of Music" thing was fiction.
She was really shy about her fame and virtualy no-one knew where she lived except the locals, who stayed pretty 'mumb' cuz they're New Englanders and do that sort of thing really well.

[peterl]

It was a Friday afternoon when Glenn Shorrock and the Little River Band walked in to the Camera House store I was working in the late 70's.
I still work there now!!
They were on their way up the coast to do a gig and I ended up selling them a full movie outfit. A Sankyo Super 8 camera,movie projector,
Film etc. It was high tech stuff back then..

I also went to school with Liz Hayes.We used to skateboard around our
home town in a small group and she grew up and was a local journalist
and called in to our store to pick up film etc for her work.

I must be showing my age!!

Peter.

[GrahamL]

You know I don't think I've ever met anyone famous.. really .. I can't think of anyone at all .

my wife working in hospitality for many years has met a few though

Bart cummings, really nice fellow
Farnsy and Barnsy .. the laters vocal warms ups by all accounts sounded like someone throttling a cat.

All the city origin players a few years back .. really nice well behaved young men who attracted a bit of attention when they had there ice baths after training sesions
Sorry I can't see anything great about athletic young men getting about in there scunnos.. so maybe she was wrong on that observation ..

Tommy Raudonikis on the same time frame walking back in the door to ask my wife for a Dam phone as the team bus had driven off without there team manager

A well known large metal band on a world tour who had one of the members convinced he had a serious memory problem .. whenever the chance arose they would steal his motel room keys and leave them at the front desk saying they were found somewhere obscure...My wife perpetuated the game of course.

A couple of large well known MC clubs over the years who were much less a task than many other group bookings .

[Davros (Lauren)]

I've met JJJ :thum bsup:

[Spanrz (Brett)]

I remember along time ago as a kid, I used to annoy Molly Meldrum when he was DJ'ing at the St.Kilda Footy club back in the early 80's.
Everytime after the game, he be downstairs in the ballroom cutting up tracks.
We as kids used to go up to him and request songs and piss him off... Haha.

When to my wife's work function one year, stumbled back to the Hotel, just happened to get in the lift with Troy Cassar-Daley, however, I had to keep my mouth shut, because I was so drunk, I would have made an idiot of myself.

Met the late Brian Naylor (CH9 Melb News Anchor), he bought a small dozer from my work, for his property at Kinglake.
Met Sam Kekovich a few times, 2 different purposes. He even had the decency to buy me a beer. (Brother was in a reality TV football gameshow and my wife also bought office supplies through his company)

But in recent times, I've met Al Wordon of Apollo 15 fame.
Also just missed meeting Henry Winkler, he literally walked right behind us, just as my wife and I had our backs turned to get some food at a stall, in a Kansas Airport (USA). Wrong time to get hungry.