Close encounters of the bored kind...
My celebrity claim-to-fame is that I once had a pizza with Kylie Minogue. Yeah.. touch me...

The family and I were having a pizza in central London, many moons ago, roughly at the time when Kylie was making the transition between soap actress in 'neighbours' and international pop super-stardom. The lovely Kylie happened to be sharing a quiet meal with her then-bloke Jason Donovan (Incidentally, according to Wikipedia, this dates the encounter fairly accurately), in the next booth over.

My brother and I noticed this magical turn of events, and began turning around in our seats excitedly, before proceeding to turn around fully and to kneel up against the side of the booth, in order to strike up a conversation.*

Our witty opening gambit was something along the lines of "hey, you're the actress who plays Charlene in 'neighbours'". Quite the conversationalist, if I do say so myself. It did its job, however, and Kylie proceeded to have a lovely chat with us both. Apparently she was taken with the fact that we were able to separate the concepts of Charlene the character from Kylie the actress. This put us several steps in front of most of the whooping mongoloids that had introduced themselves thus far in her career. (My words, not hers... probably... most of this tale is half-remembered, and details filled in by Mum somewhat more recently)

Ah... lovely, lovely Kylie. If only I had been fourteen or fifteen years older, things could have been so very different...

And what of the other protagonist in this story? The delightful Jason Donovan? Well, according to my Mum, he was a world-class bellend. Rude, surly, clearly bored by the whole exchange, and unwilling to say more than 2 words to us. In short, a complete bollock.

And that was my best ever celebrity encounter.

*It is worth noting at this juncture that my brother and I were aged about 4 at the time, and as such this behaviour was par for the course, rather than us being about our 20's, and gibbering simpletons.
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