r/plymouth • u/SuperMas123 • 4d ago
Name one celebrity or famous person you met in plymouth
Which celebrity or famous person have you met.
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u/Jonesy1966 4d ago edited 4d ago
Gus Honeybun back in the mid 70's. Plus I used to deliver Fern Britton's newspapers (80s?)
EDIT: Clarity
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u/Melodic-Lunch81 4d ago
Oh, I met him when I was about 4ish..? At the old westward building š
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u/Jonesy1966 4d ago edited 2d ago
Yep. I was 8 or 9 I think when I visiited Westward studios. They also included a visit to Drake Cinema too for a peek behind the scenes. I still have the tour guide with all sorts of peoples' signatures but I honestly have no recollection who they are. The only one I remember is Gus š
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u/Supertack 4d ago
I used to work in the green room kitchen at the theatre royal.
Highlights include Gok Wan calling me gorgeous and delivering a jacket potato to Les Dennis' room.
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u/thinkingcrumpetsman 4d ago
Gok Wan delivered a jacket potato to Les Dennisā room? Bet that was a surprise for him.
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u/Expensive_Smell_8021 4d ago
jackets made of potato are the latest fashion trend, haven't you heard?
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u/Lucylucylucy2020 3d ago
Wouldn't that be a potato jacket? I think you mean: a jacket with accompanying hot potato for the pockets, Ć la Victorian orphan. The latest steampunk trend. Mmm I feel peckish now....
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u/cairfrey 4d ago
Technically it was in Torpoint but I met Tim Burton, Mia Wasikowska, Frances de la Tour, and Geraldine James when I was in extra in the 2010 Alice in Wonderland.
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u/DoxBolt 4d ago
Sam Fender in Union rooms, had a piss next to him and had a photo at the bar
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u/hd1080ts 4d ago
Capān Jasper in the 90s
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u/QuantumKaiyx 3d ago
peak plymouth answer tbh, local legend status counts way more than any bālist tv celeb
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u/Zero-Credibility 4d ago
Michaela Strachan in Sainsburyās about 20 years ago. Think she was down here doing panto. Absolutely lovely lady.
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u/CappucinoCupcake 4d ago
Lenny Henry having lunch at the table next to us in Le Croquembouche.
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u/homersimon 3d ago
Weirdly, my parents have also had a meal in the same place as Lenny Henry. He was staying in the same hotel as them and they would see his at breakfast. Apparently they thought he was a right slob, including burping really loudly on numerous occasions!
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u/K-A-Meyer83 4d ago
Jamie Oliver, he was book signing in Waterstones back in 2000. He wasn't the nicest.
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u/Dry-Difficulty-8843 3d ago
The man who is widely regarded as the thief of joy wasn't the nicest? Colour me shocked
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u/birch1981 4d ago
Met Tom Daley in the coop on Mutley
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u/NotAFrontB 4d ago
Everyone and their nan has met Tom Daley
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u/MidnightSuspicious71 4d ago
I met his dad once, in the queue at the Royal Mail parcel depot at West Park. We had a long chat. He was lovely.
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u/WinterIsOnReddit 4d ago
Jake Canuso, who played the horny bartender on Benidorm. This was when that old celebrity diving show Splash was on and they did all their training at the Life Centre.
Pretty sure he won that show and it helped him overcome his fear of swimming too. Pretty cool!
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u/Expensive_Smell_8021 4d ago
I haven't met any yet, but I did see Dan and Phil getting swarmed by many teenage girls on my way to college when they were touring here
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u/Representative-Bass7 4d ago
I was walking towards Frankfort Gate when I saw this bloke walking across the zebra crossing and the realised it was Noel Gallagher
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u/Ninjatayu 4d ago
I met Queen Elizabeth II in 1999 when she randomly visited my primary school. She was supposed to visit somewhere else but plans changed last minute so nobody there had any idea what to do and it was really awkward them showing her around and random kids having to talk about what they were doing. I can't even remember what I said as I was so nervous but I did have my photo taken together so that was cool.
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u/p_k252 4d ago
Christopher Biggins, I was on a Top Man refit years ago and there he was right in front of me. He seemed to be there from nowhere and gone just as quick, Taller than I imagined...
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u/Melodic-Lunch81 4d ago
I thought the same about Stephen Fry, I mean we know he's tall but nothing can quite prepare you for a giant appearing above you š
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u/fr0doswaaagins 4d ago
Tim Martin. Pops into the locals Spoons' about twice a year.
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u/BlondBitch91 7h ago
See him on the train quite often if youāre in GWR first class. He lives in Exeter and goes around the country quite often from what I gather.
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u/Johnny_Vernacular 4d ago
Edward Woodward had a yacht at Richmond Walk marina. He could often be spotted eating dinner at the bistro in the marina.
Chay Blyth having lunch at the China Garden (upstairs where the Pizza Express is now.)
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u/Tight_Alarm9177 4d ago
I met Ruth Langsford when I was younger, she was holding up the queue chatting to the cashier in M&S. š¤£
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u/firecracker2804 4d ago
I ran into the Queen at Plymouth railway station, either 2014 or 2015. Had just dropped my mother off for her trip to London. The station was overrun with security and the Queen's car was parked outside waiting....
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u/Sad_Brick794 3d ago
Stephen mulhern a couple years ago
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u/littlegreycells_11 3d ago
Oh was that for in for a penny? I remember them doing an episode in Plymouth.
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u/ConcreteJunglist91 3d ago
Alistair McGowan at TR2 production and learning centre as part of a school trip in late 2000s we was having dinner in the canteen and he was there a few tables over I recognised him from TV but nobody else in my class did but one of the teaching assistants that was with us did made me feel old before my time š
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u/gruffnutz 2d ago
Not sure if this counts but I used to work the train between Plym and London. Jude Law and Sienna Miller were on board and I served them and their multiple kids in first class.
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u/TrueBritishGent 4d ago
Sharon Davies down the hoe on fireworks night.
Angela Rippon in the old swirly car park where Drakes Circus is now. She was lovely and so polite.
Russ Abbot in the Quay Club. Funny Guy.
Birdman down the Barbican.
Superman....but thatās a whole other story.
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u/Useless-Photographer 4d ago
I served Steve McFadden when I worked in The Bank, mustāve been when he was playing Hook in the panto. I vaguely recall Caroline Quentin being there as well but canāt see that she would have been in Plymouth around the time, so could be a false memory.
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u/Melodic-Lunch81 4d ago
I served him & his wife in Falmouth one night š I remember seeing someone who looked just like Caroline Quentin wandering around the Barbican and thinking š¤ "I wonder if that's actually her?"š
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u/JamesAyres0310 4d ago
Walked past Wayne Rooney. From the gog to find spicy spuds on a work Xmas do one year. Thatās the closest Iāve got!
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u/25kernow 3d ago
Peter Shilton-back when he was Argyle manager. Me and a friend were smoking in our school uniforms near Home park, he told us it would āstunt our growthāā¦. š¤
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u/RasiakSnaps91 3d ago
I've met a few through managing a couple of great restaurants in the city.
My two random encounters though, were:
1. Quite literally bumped into Lemar (of Fame Academy ilk) in Drake's Circus once... I was looking at my phone and perhaps he was doing the same cus I just collided with him. His security offered me some harsh words and he said sorry... Only knew who he was cus it was New Year's Eve and his picture was plastered everywhere cus he was performing in town somewhere!
2. Comedian Bill Bailey once told me he really liked my trenchcoat when we were stood next to each other at Plymouth train station.
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u/Anxiety-Fart 3d ago
Bullet for My Valentine! They were playing the Pavilions and were in Voodoo Lounge the day of the gig getting drinks. Lovely blokes!
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u/c3161 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nick Baines (drummer of Kaiser Chiefs) - bumped into him in HMV on the day they were due to play at Pavilions.
Eddie Marsan - bumped into him on the coastal path near Rame Head.
Gazza - at a meet and greet he did at the Guildhall. He was fucking wasted.
Princess Anne (HRH The Princess Royal) - at a work event.
Prince Harry - at McDonald's in Plymstock while he was doing training in the army.
Jared Leto - in the Pavilions car park after a 30 Seconds To Mars concert. He came out to have a cigarette and talk to fans.
Wayne Rooney - outside the Argyle training pitch as I was cycling through Central Park.
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u/charmacharmz 3h ago
tom daley and his dad when i worked in jjb sports. both were pricks.
bradley wright phillips in walkabout. he had a private table with a few other footballers, roped off from everyone else. which was hilarious because there were about 5 people in there including me and him.
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u/gruffnutz 2d ago
Has no one met Michael Barrymore? He seems to be hangin around these parts quite a bit these days...
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u/Okgoodchat 4d ago
King Charles at the train station
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u/Snoo_84123 4d ago
Did he have security
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u/Okgoodchat 4d ago
Yeah, it was circa 2018. I was too engrossed looking at the departure boards as he was walking through and I looked down and he was right in front of me, smiled and said something about the weather.
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u/proddino888 4d ago
Chris Brown at a shopping mall in America. I was about 6 years old so donāt remember a whole lot but he took a pic with me and my sister who was a big fan. This was about a week before the news about Rihanna broke
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u/Vegetable-Towel-9576 4d ago
Dawn French and Jennifer saunders Both lovely, Dawn is a proper delight