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#824096 by ratechaser
16 Sep 2012, 00:22
Hagatha wrote:Ron Jeremy on a flight to New York City from LA. This was years ago, when I was also still in the business, but I was no "star!"


OMG!! Although I guess he must count as at least an F-lister :-)

And if you weren't a star, did that make you a planet instead? Uranus perhaps?

Really makes seeing Charles Dance yesterday pale into insignificance!
#824098 by lynnewob
16 Sep 2012, 06:10
Natalie Imbruglia on an UC flight to JFK. We even asked if she wanted help getting her luggage off the carousel as she was alone and so tiny.
#824111 by ratechaser
16 Sep 2012, 09:24
Hagatha wrote:This site doesn't seem very nice suddenly :(


My apologies, perhaps a little too much 'tongue in cheek' there... Frankly I think your entry trumps most of the rest of them!
#824135 by preiffer
16 Sep 2012, 14:03
Ooh - just remembered, years ago...

I saw Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum as a "couple" in Upper before the press knew anything was going on. About 2 weeks later, the red-tops published their "scoop"...
#824136 by ultraviolet
16 Sep 2012, 14:31
Colin Firth was in upper class on a flight to LAX.
Saw him waiting in line at passport control.

Unrelated; I saw Nicole Kidman and Orlando Bloom running for a flight to Paris while I was waiting for my flight back to LHR lol
#824148 by DragonLady
16 Sep 2012, 16:50
honey lamb wrote:
*holding her breath, waiting for DL to tell of her encounter with Naomi Campbell!! ): ): *


Do you really want to hear the rantings regarding that incident again HL ): ): ): ): . Blimey that was a few years ago :0 . Where does time go ???
Here it in it's glory forum/index.php?f=13&t=254009&hilit=la campbell&rb_v=viewtopic ( and there were a few other posts when I was ranting about that other useless waste of space Heather Mills ( Mc Cartney now no longer)...
And the others

SRB (I though I was hallucinating!)
Fergie ( Black Eyed Pea Fergie not Sarah Ferguson) who was lovely to Dragonbaby ( I had noooo idea who she was lol).
Hugh Lawrie (very very low key but his wife was a bit scary :0 ).
Jonathon Ross , wife and lovely kids
Nico Mc Brain (Iron Maiden)
Arlene Phillips ( who is TINY)
Brian Downey, Scott Goram, Darren Wheaton (Thin Lizzy) - Darren Wheaton insisted swopping seats with me as the VS IT gremlins had split us up. Had a nice chat at the bar with him later on.
DL
#824157 by pjh
16 Sep 2012, 18:21
DragonLady wrote:Brian Downey, Scott Goram, Darren Wheaton (Thin Lizzy) - Darren Wheaton insisted swopping seats with me as the VS IT gremlins had split us up. Had a nice chat at the bar with him later on.


We are not worthy... oo) :D
#824160 by RLF
16 Sep 2012, 18:43
Not VS related but had Vanessa Feltz on an Easyjet flight to Palma a couple of years ago. We shared the return flight with her to, but had to laugh at check in as she was trying to reduce her checked in weight!! Got on board in boots and thick coat!!! She seemed reasonably happy mucking in with everyone else...
#824161 by pblondon
16 Sep 2012, 18:48
Eddie Izzard in the UC seat next to me back from LAX a year ago. He'd swapped seats with a lady who wanted to sit next to her husband (and had no idea who he was!!).
#824171 by DragonLady
16 Sep 2012, 20:31
pjh wrote:
DragonLady wrote:Brian Downey, Scott Goram, Darren Wheaton (Thin Lizzy) - Darren Wheaton insisted swopping seats with me as the VS IT gremlins had split us up. Had a nice chat at the bar with him later on.


We are not worthy... oo) :D

The crew had no idea who they were LOL. Mr DL was like a star struck child commenting to Scott Gorham ( who he was sat next to) that he'd seen them at Newcastle City Hall in 1979.Scott Gorham laughed and said that there were about 20 years of his life that he had no recollection of and that 1979 was one of those years :) .Charming blokes, all of them :) .
DL
#824173 by Apple
16 Sep 2012, 21:25
I had a chat with Alan Shearer getting on a BA flight to BGI, he went right into club and I got bumped up and went left into First :).

Then low and behold first day on the beach at Sandy Lane my sun bed for the week is bang next to him!
#824182 by simonallardice
17 Sep 2012, 02:01
Met Pamela Anderson in the CH a couple years back just after New Year.
Helped Lorraine Chase with her customs forms at JFK and then took her luggage off the carousel for her.
Sat next to Ron Howard on a VX flight from LAX to JFK, I had no idea who he was the entire flight, and only knew when someone asked me what he was like, while I was waiting at luggage claim.
#824196 by slinky09
17 Sep 2012, 08:00
pblondon wrote:Eddie Izzard in the UC seat next to me back from LAX a year ago. He'd swapped seats with a lady who wanted to sit next to her husband (and had no idea who he was!!).


Oh, I sat in Eddie's seat on the way to SFO once ... he was not amused.

Of the many:

- Colin Farrell in his undershorts on the way back from Miami ii) .
- Joan Collins, delightful all the way to LAX.
- Mike Tyson, surprisingly polite and reading broadsheets on the way to New York.
- Bob Geldof. Smelt v( .
- The fabulous Miss Cleo Rocos on the way to CUN, of course!

I don't recognize the younger Z-listers anymore.
#824206 by LovingGold
17 Sep 2012, 09:34
Lisa-Marie Presley (with husband and two kids)
Elijah Wood (Hobbit) and others from the movie.
Denise Van Outen (who is much prettier live IMHO)
Robson Green (nice man)
and others that I can't remember. I spent half the flight talking with Lisa-Marie Presly and playing boo with her kids. The the FSM asked Ms Presley if there was anything she could do for her. I then went all a bit shy!!! :|
Nearly off of them on the LHR-LAX route.

Man I would like to sit next to on an aircraft - Stephen Fry. Would be an outstanding coversation I think!! y)
#824214 by MrDoob
17 Sep 2012, 10:37
Chris Martin (Coldplay) UC into JFK on his own. Cabin Crew were a little star struck. Slightly ashamed to say I collared him later for Autograph for my GF (under orders) when we ended up both getting cash out of the ATM at the terminal once through immigration (no fast track for him I might add).

Oh and Jamie Oliver.... I guess he counts too.
#824246 by DoomWolf
17 Sep 2012, 14:55
I don't recall ever seeing anyone famous on a flight, but I've seen a couple at LGW. Years ago when I was with my parents waiting for a flight we saw Lionel Blair with his family. Then last year my wife and I (on our way to the VH v-room before our flight to Las Vegas) were behind Kerry Katona on the escalator in the departure lounge.
#824268 by Pianofunk
17 Sep 2012, 19:37
Russell Brand in UC from LAX in 2011 .... had his headphones on and slept most of the way .... was endearing at the carousel & seemed like a genuinely humble bloke
#824270 by Spill
17 Sep 2012, 20:03
DragonLady wrote:
pjh wrote:
DragonLady wrote:Brian Downey, Scott Goram, Darren Wheaton (Thin Lizzy) - Darren Wheaton insisted swopping seats with me as the VS IT gremlins had split us up. Had a nice chat at the bar with him later on.


We are not worthy... oo) :D

The crew had no idea who they were LOL. Mr DL was like a star struck child commenting to Scott Gorham ( who he was sat next to) that he'd seen them at Newcastle City Hall in 1979.Scott Gorham laughed and said that there were about 20 years of his life that he had no recollection of and that 1979 was one of those years :) .Charming blokes, all of them :) .
DL



Thin Lizzy were the first band I saw live. Awsome.
#824272 by Adamsjay
17 Sep 2012, 20:07
LovingGold wrote:Lisa-Marie Presley (with husband and two kids)
Elijah Wood (Hobbit) and others from the movie.
Denise Van Outen (who is much prettier live IMHO)
Robson Green (nice man)
and others that I can't remember. I spent half the flight talking with Lisa-Marie Presly and playing boo with her kids. The the FSM asked Ms Presley if there was anything she could do for her. I then went all a bit shy!!! :|
Nearly off of them on the LHR-LAX route.

Man I would like to sit next to on an aircraft - Stephen Fry. Would be an outstanding coversation I think!! y)



I'm thinking, Simon cowell, Tony Blair, and... Jeremy clarkson! What an interesting flight that could turn into!!
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