Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

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I was looking for one because me and kyle saw K3anu R33v3s at The Black Rider in SF last night. He had a nice chocolate brown suit on and had a great dirty beard that covered most of his face. He was pretty tall and was accompanied by a lady with crazy hair. I thought he looked good but both of the wives said he looked like ass, so I assume that they were probably more right than I.

Long may the sightings (and observations) continue. Maybe keep them googleproof tho'.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sp3nc3r Ch0w should not be allowed to post to this thread, though he did have quite a funny story about 4dr13n br0dy if I recall correctly.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few, I think

Like brushes with greatness (again)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

d'oh. I knew there was one somewhere. Sorry. :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Phi1 from Radi0h3ad, with a couple of his really cute kids, walking past the cafe where I was having my lunch today.

― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

okay okay. I will go and flog myself now.

xpost

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

because it would be dull

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bah those other threads aren't googleproof!! this is the one where you can be mean!

for instance what jellybean means to say is: Ph1l's children looked like ass.

― jones (actual), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean really, who gives a shit about seeing someone you have never met on the other side of the street.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Because they're like... gods!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand what you are saying (in essence), Ed.

But I just think it's fun.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't seen famous people. I either get thier autograph or meet them. They're all musicians though.

I also play baskettball with them. I played baskettball with Chris Brokaw and two guys from Kinski.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

See? fun.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean see them as in spot them across the street.

I'm not blind

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i only get excited by sightings of d-list slebs i otherwise have no interest in. like the food network's jill cordes!

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it that the thread linked to by Aaron above is ALL him and Spencer!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Aja I'm in awe of you. KINSKI!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

L4ur4 D3rn definitely looks better in real-life at a smoky bar than she does in teh movies.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Why exactly are we googleproofing?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Celebrities like to google themselves and shoot anyone who looks at them in the street.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just thought we could save the moderators having to deal with umpteen requests for pimped rides and record deals.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

But yes, there is "the James Brown factor" as described by Ally C.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i luv my britney sighting. it ended up with her grabbing me by the elbow and screaming, "i love this song!" when the dj played 'you shook me all night long.'

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren, that is great!

― rainy (rainy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

she was extremely cute and endearing in person. my friend was like, "oh my god! she's just like any other 20 yr old girl, drunk on cosmos at a cheesy club!"

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(I was just at the Emmys)

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

You people make me and James Brown sick.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I will avoid this thread so as to not monopolize it with all of the B-listers that plague Los Angeles.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, you mean all of them?

― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I am unable to go anywhere without instantly recognizing all of the celebrities that are around me. I was cursed by a witch.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/1_22/riversbeatdownlarge.jpg

YOU ARE NOT TO TALK ABOUT THAT!

― Saucy Tart (x Jeremy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Orchard Street. It's all coming back. Traumatic, I can tell you.

― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Don McKellar (Highway 61, The Red Violin) walking down College Street the other day. He saw me too, but no one cares about that.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Ne1l Mitch3ll goes to my gym. I should have bonced him with a 32.5kg weight while I had the chance.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in the pub earlier tonight, and Rob Newman was in there looking like an absolute tramp. His hair was long and unkempt, he had a huge beard, and he was slumping across the bar in a very drunken manner. It was a bit depressing, truth be told.

Less recently, I saw Ricky Gervais on Oxford Street wearing a very Brentesque leather jacket.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My big sightings:

Conor Oberst with a girl on each arm walking past the Virgin Megastore in NY.

El-P in the line of a deli in Port Authority.

Rikki Rockett looking at women's clothing stores on South Street in Philly (I supposedly just missed CeCe Deville in platform shoes).

David Cross making frowny faces while waiting for Blonde Redhead to start already at the Siren Festival this year.

Chris Weisz (star of Chuck & Buck and co-director of American Pie & About A Boy), waiting for the tube in London. I actually said hi and did the little polite fan thing.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Erstwhile S3cret Lif3 star Deb0rah Mai1m4n made a pass [of sorts] at my mate in a bar.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

crikey, did he take her up on it?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

No. Dumb twat he is.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

to be tasteless for a moment, i imagine she would bang like an outside toilet door in a hurricane

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

El-P in the line of a deli in Port Authority.

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

P4tsy P4lmer was waiting at my bus stop this morning, with three children presumably hers. Apparently P4u1 McC4artn3y has now moved to Hove too although I doubt he'll be taking the bus to Whitehawk at any point.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I cycled past Gordon R4ms4y in Richmond Park last weekend. He had on proper hardcore jogging gear and looked IN THE ZONE. He probably hates cyclists on his jogging track (it was between Roehampton and Robin Hood gates, Richmond Park afficionados).

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 20 September 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I sat behind Matthew Corbett at a recent Peter Kay show

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(I always look forward to my posts)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Ste wins!!!!

Rikki Rockett, that rules Anthony!

I've not seen that many famous people of late, let me think...

Patrick Stewart in a theatre audience
J0 Gu3st at HMV in Oxford St, but that was last Christmas
Dick from Dick'n'Dom in Da Bungalow, in Ealing
Simon from Pop World at HMV in Oxford Street
The 411 in a window, but they wanted to be seen

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

When I worked on the tills at Forbidden Planet Danny Baker was always trying to push in to the queue by chatting to random people with an 'I'm famous, me' type attitude.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i met a fiery furnace this weekend, we chatted abt cities.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

jerry seinfeld.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 20:50 (two years ago)

I was less than 50 ft away from Bob Weir at the San Francisco airport once.

― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:23 (two years ago)

Banal celebrity sighting: I got on a train with John Inverdale last week. He was carrying a golf bag and looked like he'd just got up.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:58 (two years ago)

That will only mean something to a particular subset of UK posters and even to them will mean less than a shrug.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:59 (two years ago)

Talking of banal "celebrity" sightings, I just this minute saw Ian Blackford on Holloway Road. He was hand in hand with his wife (I assume), which was kind of sweet.

― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 December 2023 15:28 (two years ago)

five months pass...

Corbyn. He was crossing the road in front of me or else I would have said "Mornin' Jeremy".

― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:58 (two years ago)

I saw Dylan Moran walking along the main road near my flat a while ago

― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:25 (two years ago)

karl ove knausgard in the children's section of a central london waterstones

― devvvine, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:54 (two years ago)

I saw the other, bad Corbyn with a bunch of his brainwormed mates at Euston Square Station last year, steered well clear.

― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 10:58 (two years ago)

four months pass...

Susan Sarandon at the 6:15 showing of the Eno documentary at NYC Filmforum a couple nights ago.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 October 2024 02:16 (one year ago)

two months pass...

B3n $tein (unnece$$@ry g00glepr00fing) at the WeHo Pavillions (lol)
If you do a dead pool you would likely be getting an easy 20 points just saying

― buzza, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 02:19 (one year ago)

two months pass...

Is Daniel Miller a celebrity? Probably not. Anyway he's at this concert I'm at. He's about two feet away from me as I type this.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 20:31 (one year ago)

Is he wearing leatherette

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 21:34 (one year ago)

I stood next to him for a bit at the Quatermass thing 18mo ago, and of course referred to him to my friends as That Bloke Out Of The Normal.

― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 21:36 (one year ago)

(xp) He looks very Normal.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 March 2025 22:17 (one year ago)

I haven’t run into anyone notably famous randomly in quite some time; Lanois was at the showing of the Eno doc I went to I guess.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 27 March 2025 02:02 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

I went to the Mark Mothersbaugh gallery (MutMuz in Los Angeles) opening, and Fred Armisen was there.

― nickn, Saturday, 12 April 2025 05:52 (one year ago)

Also Mark, unsurprisingly.

― nickn, Saturday, 12 April 2025 05:52 (one year ago)

six months pass...

Passed Martin Kemp walking down Harley Street. He looked healthy enough in case anyone's worried.

― Massage Attack (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:15 (seven months ago)

Peter Capaldi on the Victoria line the other day. Had a book of pop music sheet music.

Thought about telling him Local Hero still holds up but why would he want praise for something he did decades ago.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:27 (seven months ago)

Sophie Ellis Bextor was sitting across from me in Glasgow Airport a few weeks ago. She's incredibly pretty. Hugh Dallas on the same flight, less pretty.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 10:31 (seven months ago)

Tommy Wiseau in WeHo supermarkets twice in last 6 months. Still bizarre but now old and a bit frail, the voice is crazy irl lol. he was actually in the middle of some podcast interview the last time I saw him while shopping, multitask king I guess.

― buzza, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 11:20 (seven months ago)

Year ago I was at a Gerhard Richter retrospective at SFMOMA. There weren't that many people, but there was a regal redhead one room ahead of us as we went through. It was Bonnie Raitt, soaking it all in.

― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 12:56 (seven months ago)

The recent talk about Prince Andrew reminded me of a day about 25 years ago when I was working as a temp in downtown SF and walking through an alley to lunch when a limo pulled up in front of me. One door opened and out stepped Sarah Ferguson. No security or entourage. She walked toward me and gave a big smile and “Hi” as she passed. She looked like a million bucks.

― tobo73, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 15:37 (seven months ago)

...Which is coincidentally the amount she was "loaned" from you-know-who!

― TAFKAPA (Matt #2), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 16:29 (seven months ago)

Sophie Ellis Bextor was sitting across from me in Glasgow Airport

I love her, I wish she knew of my love

I saw Chuck Berry at the San Jose Airport... he was carrying a guitar case and wearing a white captain's hat

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:14 (seven months ago)

My best: I was in the university cafeteria eight years ago, mid-August after summer sessions, when campus is the most abandoned. There standing by the station for poke bowls were Han Solo and Ally McBeal and their son. Khaki shorts, sun visors, tote bags, just like any other visiting parents, though I assume they'd gotten a private tour. He looked grumpy, of course.

― bendy, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:26 (seven months ago)

years ago (pre-covid), I chanced upon woody allen filming cate blanchett at a little park in san francisco. I watched for a moment then went on living my life

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 18:47 (seven months ago)

I saw Lou Reed and an entourage of younger men who dressed just like him shopping for CDs at Tower Records in Columbus Circle about 1990

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 19:55 (seven months ago)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:13 (seven months ago)

I have seen Rory McGrath in Cambridge four (4) times now.

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:19 (seven months ago)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself

shades of slim shady

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:24 (seven months ago)

(xp) Not followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself I hope?

― Massage Attack (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:30 (seven months ago)

Amazing. I pictured a cartoon of Reed in leather and sunglasses followed by a gaggle of smaller versions of himself.

I was a teenager and it was my first celebrity sighting (at least, of one I was a fan of) so I thought that was normal.

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:35 (seven months ago)

xp he is very much a "lone wolf"

― giving you schtick (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:35 (seven months ago)

He and his team were wearing tan sport coats and black trousers though

― This dark glowing bohemian coffeehouse (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:36 (seven months ago)

I have a Fabio sighting in my past, but who hasn't

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:36 (seven months ago)

A couple of months ago while smoking a joint on a bench in a midtown NYC park, I had walk bys from Ari Aster and John Cameron Mitchell within a 10 minute period. The latter clocked my recognition and gave me a "don't you fucking dare speak to me" look lol.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 20:46 (seven months ago)

"There standing by the station for poke bowls were Han Solo and Ally McBeal and their son. Khaki shorts, sun visors, tote bags, just like any other visiting parents, though I assume they'd gotten a private tour"

Plot of Star Wars 2.5

― Minty Gum (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 November 2025 21:24 (seven months ago)

I just literally bumped into Hollywood hunk Jon Bernthal!! In the lobby of my office bldg in DC. He was going to Equinox to workout, it appears.

― tobo73, Thursday, 6 November 2025 21:11 (seven months ago)

two months pass...

Today I saw Dr Fauci in a coffee shop in DC. Kinda stared at him a bit while I was remembering who he was.

― tobo73, Thursday, 15 January 2026 18:26 (four months ago)

Was he wearing a mask?

― nickn, Thursday, 15 January 2026 18:56 (four months ago)

ordering a vaxpresso?

― This Thrilling Saga is the Top Show on Netflix Right Now (President Keyes), Thursday, 15 January 2026 18:58 (four months ago)

No but he was talking pretty loudly about Trump, the security he now has to hire on his own dime, when he does and doesn’t use the security etc. it was super early so the coffee shop was empty.

― tobo73, Thursday, 15 January 2026 19:11 (four months ago)

did you ask him how he feels about the term 'fauci-ouchie'?

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 15 January 2026 19:16 (four months ago)

three months pass...

John Waters. Just coming out of Kings Cross station on my way to work this morning.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2026 08:18 (one month ago)

Richard Kind, coming out of the stage door of a theatre where he's starring in a show, so not completely random (I hadn't gone to see the show, was just passing), but also Richard Kind!

― ailsa, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 08:47 (one month ago)

The exact same sentence, but replace "Kind" for "Schiff" !

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 09:35 (one month ago)

The exact same sentence, but replace "Kind" for "Schiff" !

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 09:35 (one month ago)

I met Sally Mann after installing a lot of her work.

She was super sweet.

I saw Bonnie Raitt at a Gerhard Richter exhibition.

― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 10:31 (one month ago)

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