Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

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Jonathan Dimbleby. Who's about 2 foot tall.

Tom D., Tuesday, 8 May 2007 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Norman Blake again, standing in the window of a building down the back of George Square.

ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Bjorn from Abba walked past me last week, just off Great Portland Street.

Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Douglas Hurd. Just along from Bank station.

Tom D., Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Ryan Gosling at La Cita in downtown L.A. a few weeks back. Very friendly.

MikeyH, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Walter Smith outside Ibrox. Shunsuke Nakamura outside Celtic Park.

(seeing people outside their place of work probably shouldn't count, should it?)

ailsa, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i love la cita! i propose an laxor downtown dance night there.

get bent, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

saw mindy k4l1ng (kelly from the office) at the pinkberry in los feliz the other night. with some dude. they kissed. ; _ ;

max, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

aww.

get bent, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

since i've been working in ldn: jeff brazier in holborn, angelica bell near kings cross, gordon ramsey on london bridge and arthur smith near barbican this morning.

acrobat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I nearly forgot: Maggie Gyllenhall, Peter Saarsgaard, and some older woman, walking in Soho; Maggie and the older woman sat down on a bench to talk, while Saarsgaard was sent into a store to fetch Maggie some frozen yogurt.

P.S. Maggie G is evidently the sort of celebrity who looks 1000x times BETTER in person than in any film she's ever done.

nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I see Ben Folds a lot (and usually resist the urge to throw things at him). The last time, when my mother was in town, he opened the door for her as we were exiting a restaurant. She greeted him with buoyant "Why, thank you!" and he looked confused and midly frightened. She didn't know who he was. She was just being her regular friendly self.

molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would you want to throw things at Ben Folds? Even if you don't like his music, he seems like a hard guy to hate.

(Wait, you don't look like Axl Rose, do you?)

nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

nabisco, I do, actually. Spitting image.

molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Good lord, I'm making mid-90s Ben Folds lyric-reference jokes, someone help

nabisco, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw Steve Buscemi chilling at some Village cafe looking exactly like Steve Buscemi.

sexyDancer, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - nabisco, for me, lyrics like that create an urge to throw small objects. I met this girl... oh sweet jesus. Now it's stuck in my head.

molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Forgot to catch up on my posting here...

Cybill Shepherd at the Charles Phoenix show at the John Anson Ford Theater.
Rob Corddry at The Grove
David Spade at The Grove later on
Ryan Gosling at the corner of 4th and Hope downtown.

...and Matt Groening at the Electrelane show tonight

Elvis Telecom, Friday, 1 June 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahah I can outdo you guys! I totally saw Fr4ncesc4 V4nthi3l3n who is a famous presenter and actress in Belgium. She came into my shop asking for batteries for her watch.

stevienixed, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Alison Steadman looking lost near Oxford Circus.

Mark C, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw James Nesbitt on Berwick St last week.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 1 June 2007 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Bill Nighy (again). Kentish Town. Standing by a dustbin separating the Family, Travel, Money sections from his Sunday papers before binning them like the rest of us do.

Tom D., Monday, 11 June 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Dane Bowers at Casablanca's in Brighton. Drinking £1 tequila shots and being fawned over by plastic blondes. Cock.

Interestingly (or not) a friend of mine once saw another of Jordan's hole-fillers Dwight Yorke being refused entry to the same place. Gareth Gates for the set.

Uptoeleven, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

that's not nice

RJG, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeremy Vine + family on Drury Lane, Sunday morning, carrying lots of newspapers.

ailsa, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

(uncorroborated sighting of Jo Whiley on same bit of street five minutes before, but I wasn't looking out the window at the time, so only have a "I think Jo Whiley just walked past the window" bit of hearsay to go on there)

ailsa, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

jonathan frakes at my work last night

jergïns, Monday, 11 June 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

mariska hartigay next to me at the playground while we were both pushing our sons on the swingset. i had no idea it was her until my wife pointed it out. i guess her son was having a birthday party there. i got to hear her talk to a friend about her son's eating habits for about 4 minutes. my failure to take notes pretty much dooms my celebrity-reporting career.

tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link

oh also andy rooney apparently lives around the block from us. we can see the back of his building out the back of ours. i have not sighted him, but my wife has. she said he made grandfatherly smiley faces at our kid.

tipsy mothra, Sunday, 8 July 2007 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link

I just made a complete tit of myself in front of Dave Chapelle, whose polaroid is up in Peets' Coffee as "customer of the week". My boss and I stood there talking loudly about DAVE CHAPELLE and I WONDER IF HE COMES HERE EVERY DAY when none other than...DAVE CHAPELLE got up from a table in the corner and bolted out the door. I hope I didn't make him run away to Africa.

admrl, Monday, 9 July 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link

bbc economics guy evan davies, store st, london, at some point in the last month.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 9 July 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link

Drew Barrymore came to our party on Saturday.

Spencer Chow, Monday, 9 July 2007 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link

That's quite excellent. Did she have a rider?

humansuit, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link

damn, spencer kind of trumped me there.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link

We did a night at a small club/bar where she had been two weeks before (so I don't think she came just for us!). She is very pleasant.

Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link

I think I saw Matthew McConaughey when I was jogging thru downtown Asheville on Sunday. I was running; no time for double-takes. But this town gets occasional celebrities in the summer.

wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link

myself: i think that was tim westwood
Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman: you sure?
drunk person: WESTWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman: alright then

carmody would have been proud

acrobat, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link

i saw his suv once

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link

not 100% on this, but i think i saw kyra sedgwick near sunset/vermont

get bent, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link

My favorite was at the the West Hollywood Halloween carnival. I saw Weird Al and was like, hey, that's a pretty good costume. Anyway, he was eyeing the chicken dish I had purchased from a vendor.

humansuit, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link

My maw and da' were on the same flight as Smokey Robinson and his band today. My dad shook Smokey's hand and told him he was a legend. He saw fit to phone me right after they got off the flight and tell me the story, I can't blame him, SMOKEY ROBINSON! Tears of a clown, when there's no cunt around!

jim, Thursday, 12 July 2007 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link

on sunday, saw andy richter kicking it with his wife and friends at Birds on Franklin. Andy was on his second martini before they even got their table, seemed real cool and was being nice to some lonely "fan" next to him while he settled his bar tab. too bad about that failed sitcom :(

bobby bedelia, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link

i saw jimmy fallon in barnes & noble on union square today. some asian bro and friend were trying to convince him to say hello to their friend via their cell phone. he looked pretty pissed.

poortheatre, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 07:08 (sixteen years ago) link

also, Moby eats at my restaurant every weekend brunch and is with a different girl every time. talk about PLAY amirite?

poortheatre, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 07:09 (sixteen years ago) link

too bad about that failed sitcoms :(

tehresa, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link

YES YES
JUST SAW PAT KIERNAN ION THE STREET
FINALLY
FUCK YEAH BATCHES

sanskrit, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link

PAT KIERNAN YESSSS

I LOVE HIS DRY CANADIAN WIT

get bent, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link

Lemmy, Terminal 4, Heathrow Airport, 7/7/07.

Mark C, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link

Dave Navarro next to me in line at the Coffee Bean on 3rd St.

Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link

pat kiernan is canadian? my image is shattered.

hstencil, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link


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