Ahhhh I almost forgot about this!
I have never really met anyone famous, but this is mostly because I am fairly shy. I have, in my time, had the opportunity to meet a multitude of famous people, never more so than when my little home village became famous for a while.

Many years ago, this sleepy little backwater was livened up by having a movie filmed here. No wishy washy unknown stars for us, though, this one had actual stars of the silver screen, including Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Pat Roach, Ian Bannen and Billy Connolly! It was called "The Big Man", but for the 'Merkins I think it was renamed "Crossing The Line", and was a gritty tale of bare knuckle boxing.

The main character's house was a house just round the corner from mine, and throughout the film many of the locals put in an appearance. My cousin and a mate of mine are seen running up a street laughing in one scene, and a few minutes later Liam Neeson is hit in the face by a piece of wadded up paper during a parade.... my cousin threw that. My uncle actually had a line in the film, ordering a pint at the bar (in what was actually the local scout hall), but he was gutted as it was cut. My ex wife claimed Billy Connolly had dinner in her house one day during filming, but she also claimed to have never shagged anyone else in our house, so I wouldn't put too much faith in that one. And I am one of few to be able to lay claim to watching Liam Neeson slug it out in a car park with the late Pat Roach live.

Erm. It was very exciting, but I never met any of them. I haven't been on TV, but my house has.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 16:34, Reply)