He was an absolute gent. Whisky and water man. He did most of the bottle.
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Saw Neil Heany in a club (cant remember the name of it, but was next to New Yorks) and went up to him at the bar and said “lager please Neil”. He asked why. “After the way you played today, I think you owe me one” I replied. To be fair, he laughed and bought me a beer. Top guy. 
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I’ve met a few people that I didn’t really appreciate at the time but look back on now and realise it was quite cool, Gerry Anderson, Donald Woods (Cry Freedom), even Bobby Stokes, but I guess the A-lister would be meeting a US president, Clinton - the first one.
Biggest arsehole?
Probably Jeffrey Archer - rolled up three hours late then moaned…but young RB didn’t take any shit from that fucker. 
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Literally bumped into Jack Nicholson once in Soho Square
Worked with Ed Balls. Given his dancing he was a surprisingly good footballer
Had a drunken evening with Justine Greening (look - I didn’t know she was a Tory MP right?)
Only Saints player I’ve chatted to is Michael Svensson (players lounge at the Stadium of Light, 1-1 draw in about 2007. Bale scored for us) Very nice guy.
Fowllyd and I went to school with Colin Firth (not sure if that counts as he wasn’t famous then. Obviously)
You went to school with Fowllyd?
Cool.
Is he as nice in person as he comes across in those ads for Mr Clive?
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Oh and Tony Adams held a door open for me on a soon-to-depart train at Paddington once. I though it would have been ungrateful to have then congratulated him on his stint as Pompey manager, which he’d just been sacked from.
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I won’t do this - I’ll only be accused of showing off…
Nah - he was a cunt.
Colin Firth was ok though, for a posh boy
You won’t. In the grand scheme no one’s impressed by meeting famous people. It’s a bit of harmless fun.
Fuck me. Have you been locked up since 1978?
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Saw Ice T at a Mcdonalds in Exeter.
Got introduced to David Cameron which meant I had to shake his hand - washed it promptly after.
Had a beer with Noel Gallagher just after Definitely Maybe had been released. He was sound and drenched in women
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My eldest son was a big Muse fan, went to see them at Wembley, his 21st was coming up while at Uni in UK
They headlined a festival here I had a Snapper pass from a mate with backstage access.
We were watching Slash with Velvet Revolver from the side of the stage & spotted Dominic the Muse drummer.
Got chatting he went off & brought back a CD saying Happy 21st to my lad signed by all the band. Then let me video Black Holes & Supernova from the back of the stage & they name checked my lad before the song.
Framed the CD for him with snaps I took. It became a shrine at his digs in Uni.
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I was playing in a school football match away from home and Mum came along to watch. She sat down on a bench that only had this random bloke on it, who was the dad of one of the other team and spent the game chatting to him.
Anyway, after the match I went over and she introduced me to him. Turns out she’d been sat next to Gary Lineker having absolutely no idea who he was, cue me as a delightfully precocious 9 year old responding to “This is Gary” with “Hi, nice to meet you - how do they decide the running order on Match of the Day and why are Saints never first?” much to Mother’s confusion…
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Spent 40 minutes talking to a chap at the bar in The Wykeham Arms in Winchester. Nice chap, mentioned he was an actor. Didn’t know who he was until a friend said, “I suppose you realise that was Colin Firth.” “Ah no…I thought he looked familiar.”
On the music side…I have a friend who’s the co-founder of a US indie band whose music has been featured in “Breaking Bad”
I’m not at liberty to divulge the band’s name or the band member as every fucker here knows who it is anyway.
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Went down (ooer missus) in a lift with Terry Wogan,
Paul Gambaccini came up and had a chat with me and my family whilst waiting for a Eurostar to arrive in Paris,
I once took a piss next to John Humphries.
I stalked Rick Wakeman and then wife and Page 3 model Nina Carter in WH Smiths Kings Cross Station.
I was nearly run over by Feagel Sharkey on his bike in Islington.
I went out for a meal with Paul Verhoven and his partner only to find out later that he got done for impersonating Paul Verhoven.
Stood in a queue in Paddington Station next to Joe Strummer.
Went on a couple of dates with Tracey Childs (Lynne Howard in Howards Way).
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I am obviously not “every fucker” … so feel free to let me in on the secret.
As a small child I was cursed with both an inability to swim and an endless curiosity with flowing water. One day, whilst walking in Wales with my family, my curiosity got the better of me and and I fell into a medium size river. Unable to swim, I thrashed around and screamed as the water dragged me towards my maker. I shut my eyes and couldn’t hear a thing. Everything was black and quiet and I thought I had passed to the other side. I opened my eyes and a large man had me by the scruff of the neck, like a mother cat would hold a kitten in her mouth (except he was using his hand). It took me a good few minutes to realise that I wasn’t dead but instead had been rescued by Tom Jones.
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Gutted that I didn’t make the list of either being at BP at the same time (Ok I was in 6th form but …) or as a famous celeb attending BP at the same time. 
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British Olympian David Dear (who? I hear you ask … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dear was our PE Teacher at Alderman Quiley Secondary Modern Borstal.
Whilst teaching us how to serve during a Tennis Lesson, he accidently whacked me on the shoulder with his racket, much to the delight of the rest of the class! He wouldn’t have got away with it nowadays, I’d have sued his sorry ass to the ground and had all those that laughed expelled. 