Have you met a celebrity, someone famous, seen the Queen of England, a Prime Minister, a sporting champion? Tell us here! If you have pics of you with them, all the better. I grew up knowing Geoff Lawson (ex cricketer) from Wagga very well. Our families were friends. Even played 'spin the bottle' with him and his brother when we were about 10 or 12.  

Here are some of the one's I have met, chatted to and photographed. I am a couple of stone lighter these days.

Big jealous glare @ Suzi for playing spin the bottle with Geoff Lawson and for meeting Ian Botham.  

My only claims to fame are that I danced with Malcolm Fraser in the late 70s (or might have been early 80s) and raced (and beat hehehe) David Tonkin (former Premier of SA) to the bar at a Liberal party "do".

Quoted from SuziH

I am a couple of stone lighter these days.

Totally off topic but well done at losing all that weight!    I have lost 51.5 kgs, so know how hard it can be to do it.

I lived down the street from Hulk Hogan, lived briefly near Lorne Greene (spelling), lived near Chad Everet (Apparently caught tresspassing on our property in the middle of the night by my dad and his explanation was "No it's okay, I'm Chad Everet"), went to school wiht Tracy Gold from growing pains before she was on the show and sister Missy Gold from Benson long after she was on the show, was the nemisis of Kirk Cameron from Growing Pains before he was on the show, was friends with Don Adam's son while at boarding school, met Farah Fahwecet when i was about 6 or 7 (spelling and I thought she was ugly at that age), and thought I was also at boarding school with George Lucas' son but a quick read of his bio on IMDB told me that they guy was lying about who his dad was.  That was a recent find after seeing Star Wars 3 and hearing that one of his kids had a small role in it.

Near misses (never met but could have or almost did):
The guys who played Bo and Luke Duke in the original TV series.  Redd Foxx.  A whopping majority of the best players of the LA Lakers (back when Kareem was still playing).  Reverand Jesse Jackson.

Almost forgot, when I used to be in the city more often it seemed like I'de see David from At The Movies like twice a year (and once... while "at the movies") but I never stopped him to acknowledge him.

As for the people I've met, only Hulk Hogan was famous at the time and it was really odd but my reaction was to freeze up while I thought it was no big deal since there were other celebrities that lived close by that I'de never met so I was used to it in theory.  Farrah Fawcett thought she was top stuff... easy to see even at that age, my older brother was high on life for at least a week after though.

At the do where those pics were taken, I finished off my film with a couple of pics of Rani, Kamahl's daughter. She was lovely and so personable we stood talking for a long time. Right beside me about 18 inches away, was... Patrick Rafter, Ian Botham, Dermott Brereton, and a very drunk professional golfer. (He is not one of the well known golfers and I don't even remember his name except he was legless). As Rani and I were chatting there must have been a dare discussed. We were on the decking over the water of a lake at Twin Waters Resort (just up the road from me) and Patrick began to strip... down to his boxers, as did the three others except only Dermie had boxers also I think, the other two wore jocks. I had NO FILM left and Rani said 'Now aren't you glad you finished off your film on me?' we laughed but it was such a missed opportunity. They walked down to the water and dived in, obviously having a race but the golfer kept going under... Ian Botham saved him twice, the second time he stayed on shore with him to get him to stay there. The other two, Pat and Dermie disappeared into the blackness and didn't reappear that night. It was great.

Geez, I didn't regognize a single Australian celeb in those pictures, except for Bob Hawke, and he aint a celeb, lets face it. Yet I have heard of all the celebs MeanDean has met/almost met! So I wouldn't be surprised if I've stood next to a whole bunch of Aussie celebs and never knew!

About the most famout person I met was Rachel Beck after a performance of Singing in the Rain.

Well, the name of the thread is 'Have you met someone famous?' and Bob and even Geoff Gallop could pass for famous or in Bob's case 'infamous'. Rachel Beck definately qualifies as she was on TV and now doing so well on the stage. Plus she is a sweetie.
I have also met and had a chat to John Farnham and one of his backups then, Jack Johnson. Jack chatted for a long time and told me a lot about himself. That was before his interlude with Rebecca Gibney. He was a very nice young man.

Wasn't his name Jack Jones.Gee that is going a long way back where is he now.

It WAS Jack Jones and it just hit me like a ton of bricks and I was hoping to sneak in and change it but someone was on the ball! Yes it was a fair while ago, ahem... like 15-17 years ago.

I'm envious about the Dido Autograph.

Bjelke Jo circa 1980.  I was in an ag store in Peanutland when this short man walks in.  I was gob-smacked at his height, I thought he was much taller from what I've seen on telly.  He said hello and then mumbled something about God and rain and how we deserve our lot in life.

ROFL at your post Red, that is great!
How funny that must of been.
Polaris, now I am envious. It must have been so interesting. (being a Taxi driver and meeting celebrities from time to time).