Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

No, sadly the place where I saw him closed a long time ago. It was called Sweet Melissa, and it was a sort of upscale bakery/cafe that did lunches.

ah yes, that space is a gynecologist now

Recently in Amsterdam:

Elle Fanning biking past

Ariel Pink in a local bar. Asked me if I knew
where to buy a mechanical doll
that pole dances (!?!).

I think you people are making these up now.

True story.

This is the second consecutive Labor Day weekend in which I've seen Michael Shannon. Last year I passed him and his daughter on the sidewalk in Red Hook. Today he was on the train back to Chicago from the Steely Dan show in the suburbs.

that's weird!

I've done likewise 'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

― kinder, Friday, 15 March 2019 21:11

I've also done this (a long time ago now) with Liam Gallagher. was in a pub in Belsize Park, some wanker comes in prancing about like Kathy Burke in Kevin & Perry, and I say "look at that twat, thinks he's Liam Gallagher"

Lesley Joseph of Birds of A Feather fame sitting outside an ice cream parlour in Eastbourne in full stage makeup (she was in Annie in a theatre across the road). Looking damn good for nearly 74 as well.
(I know this will mean nothing to non-UK readers - and most UK readers probably).

mike leigh ambling through st. james's park the other evening

eating out w.my sister and a friend nr tate modern: in walks linton kwesi johnson

where near tate modern, enquiring ex se1 resident wants to know.

feels like a doxx too far to name it but you can see tate modern from the front door unobstructed

My guess is Northbank on the other side of the river.

I've seen two celebrities in my life. By coincidence they were both departing from a jetty in a boat. The first was Hugh Scully from television's The Antiques Roadshow. It was in Weymouth. To this day I'm not sure if he was waving to the general public, or specifically to friends of his on land. There was something absurd and yet majestic about the sight of Scully sailing off. He was David Niven on a lower budget, but he did no-one any harm.

The second was Brad Pitt, at this year's Venice Film Festival:
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But that doesn't really count because it was a specific celebrity event where people go to deliberately spot celebrities. That's like spotting a footballer at a football match. It's easy, because the pitch is brighly-lit with floodlights and there are twenty footballers and two goalkeepers in full view of everybody. Even if the outfits are the same colour as the pitch you can still see their legs.

No, Sting! That's the third one. He used to go to the same dentist as me. I walked past him while he was in the waiting room.

I walked past Jay Rayner just off Trafalgar Square a while back, I'm sure the voluminous hairdo wasn't helping, but I remember being taken aback at how large his head was.

Christa Ackroyd - a monastic Church in Mirfield 2010

Princess Diana - St Patricks Irish centre Hudds - early 80's

Nick Cave - Camden Dingwalls - 90's

Norman Lamont - Somewhere near Notting Hill - 90's

Some ginger haired actor who played one of the Dingles on Emmerdale in the 90's - Rothwell

Dave Stewart Tate Modern 2007

Pope John Paul II York racecourse 1982

lol I don't see many famous people

Pope John Paul II York racecourse 1982

Surely this doesnt count unless like, I dunno, the pope was strolling along on his own with a walkman on and a pair of high top sneakers.

OH apparently Rene Zellweger was in the little Italian restaurant at the end of my street a couple of weeks ago. I guess she was in town cos of the Judy premiere?

Paulie giamatti and some young black chick, cheers

I was at the Madonna Inn this weekend with James Gunn and his girlfriend for her birthday. Ok I wasn’t there with them but it was happening while I was there. I managed to not see them or even know it was happening until after the weekend was over though.

The Madonna inn rules.

Diane Morgan aka Philomena Cunk and the single mum in Motherland, in the Bloomsbury street around the corner from mine with all the nice restaurants and clothes shops. I’d spotted a scruffy toy poodle that looked just like my mum’s, and was in the middle of chatting to its owner when I realised who the owner was (no, I did not own up to that recognition, we just chatted about the dog for a bit and went our separate ways).

lol i saw Ryan Adams out in the wild this weekend, he was drunk as fuck

Tracey Thorn sitting directly behind me at The Raincoats gig in London.

Did I mention that we saw Rod Stewart in front of the Vatican, last weekend?

was it a scale model of the vatican

No, the real one (but, vg+)

Paolo Nutini watching the Old Firm game in a pub in Camden. Good man there.

Saw Janet Bean and Sally Timms out together w another friend (I didn’t recognize) at Xylouris White show last night !!!!

They’re not “celebrities” but they are queen-like figures

Saw them out together again at the John Cale show!!! #friendgoals

the guy who plays jughead in riverdale. v handsome irl

Chris Morris in the library today. Reading "Spycatcher".

A N. Wilson today. LOL celebrity.

I can't think of A.N. Wilson without thinking of that amazing literary hoax from years back by the rival Betjeman scholar.

I enjoyed how it was "A N Wilson is a shit" rather than "is shit" or "is a cunt" - somehow both ruder and more classy a putdown.

and it has such a lovely rhythm to it too

Samuel L Jackson was eating in the small Italian diner Da Sandro in Birchencliffe, Huddersfield last night. Not that I was there, but wtf!

Last of the Summer Wine reboot takes an unexpected turn?

The Runaway Bathtub extended universe. He's been in Halifax and Leeds filming some shite and is having a round at Fixby golf club today!

the previous most famous person to dine there was Lee Clark

Chris Morris was in our local fishmongers, being quite charming.

Could you see his birthmark, or was he covering it up?

Saw him in the library twice. Terrible dress sense.

Claire Grogan. I was on the 91 on my way into work when I spotted her getting off at the stop outside Pentonville Prison - but I'm trying not to read too much into that. I wasn't sure it was her at first but then I noticed she had an Altered Images shoulder bag.

And there was I dreaming that she lived in Cumbernauld.

Is CIndy Blackman really related to RIck James? Asking for a friend, who has been dining out on that story for years.

Rod Stewart. I was passing through St Pancras Station on my lunch break and noticed a grand piano and drumkit had been set up. Coming back there was Rod and Jools Holland deep in discussion. His hair is still very impressive.

Ha I was walking into a big Central Park NYC playground maybe 10 years ago and noticed a dude right in front of me with that same unmistakable hair. He turned to hold the gate for me and indeed it was Rod.

Saw John Stamos and Ben Stiller the same day on a long walk to Tribeca. Huge day for celebraties.

I was on the number 30 bus in Dalston recently alongside Bobby Gillespie. And in a café in Birmingham with Jess Phillips. Never see anyone up here except Pat sodding Nevin everywhere I go.