Hmmm, met a few, most of them pretty nice...
Princess di - opened a local swimming pool and I was one of the reps for the school at the time, got to say hi

Dave Prowse - as a teeny weenie primary kid he came to our school in his green cross code outfit and gave us all the 'road safety' lecture he'd done on the tour of every known primary school known to man... When it came around to the 'any questions' bit, first one to go up was 'whens the next star wars film out'? - his expression was priceless, the crestfallen features of a man in decline, realising his hopes of saving a few kiddies lives as they crossed the road dashed by the fact that he was in fact the dark lord of the sith, and we all knew it

Bob Monkhouse - met him in Manchester briefly. A god, AND a legend, and a true inspiration to me, nicest bloke you could ever meet

During the course of my first employment at an architectural company also got to speak to John Cleese and Alan Davies...

Davies is a bit of a totally self obsessed nut that thinks he's the funniest man on the planet, and wanted a conservatory built to put his precious Arsenal memorabilia in... Enough said

Weirdest encounter with a celeb was also during the same job, called down to meet Terry Pratchett at his home in salisbury, just prior to the release of 'the fifth elephant'... The final draft of which was sitting in huge piles all over his kitchen.
Lovely chap, but VERY shrewd and wouldn't budge an inch... he knew best... Mind you, his wife couldn't make tea for toffee, a complete nervous wreck... and the house had the same feel as student digs... and the same looks too... even the vacuum cleaner had cobwebs on.

finally, just last year, walked past David Icke on a holiday here in North Norfolk, went to say 'hello' and he brushed past me with such a look he must have thought I was one of those reptilian people that rule the world.... He'll regret not saying Hi when we put our master plan for world domination into action, it'll be like 'V-the mini series all over again'
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