Celeb Spot Near Misses Thread

[The_Runt]

A few near misses from New York

Who: TFK Hall of Famer - Brian Tinnion
Where: Madison Square Park, NYC
Info: From information gleaned in another thread it would appear that myself and Tinnion were in the same location a mere few hours apart.

Who: Billy Connolly
Where: Madison Square Park, NYC
Info: During Tinnions travels through the aforementioned park he spotted Billy Connolly

Who: No idea
Where: Times Square, NYC, Saturday circa 3pm
Info: A cavalcade of SUV’s with flashing lights passed along Times Square with a blacked out Merc in the middle, through the windows I could make out a man and a woman, the woman was waving to the onlooking crowd and I’m judging by the level of security it was somebody very famous indeed.

[myboyblue]

Not sure this celeb appearance in Dublins fair city was mentioned already, but a mate was telling me he was in Coppers recently (may have been Monday night) when he bumped into WWE Wrestling sensation Sheamus. He confirmed aforementioned Sheamus is quite a large unit.

[TwoRunnyEggs]

While I was off looking for a lock in, a few mates of mine met retired US sprinter Michael Johnson while we were back in Dingle last weekend. He is allegedly an alright sort.
Mates of mine also met Julia Roberts, Saoirse Ronan*, and Larry Murphy back there in the last week or two. Larry is supposedly a brilliant wingman.

[size=2]*not a celeb[/size]

[The_Dunph]

@TwoRunnyEggs

While I was off looking for a lock in, a few mates of mine met retired US sprinter Michael Johnson while we were back in Dingle last weekend. He is allegedly an alright sort.

Michael Johnson in Dingle. :o

Now that would have been a spot.

[Mac]

My brother in law and sister spent 5 mins chatting to Enda Brady of Sky News yesterday who is home on holidays for a week. He was in good form I’m told. An alright sort is Enda

[anon95599269]

@Mac

My brother in law and sister spent 5 mins chatting to Enda Brady of Sky News yesterday who is home on holidays for a week. He was in good form I’m told. An alright sort is Enda

who?

[The_Dunph]

@The All Seeing Eye

who?

+1

[Mac]

@The All Seeing Eye

who?

@The Dunph

+1

:rolleyes:

http://www.skypressoffice.co.uk/skynews/aboutus/biography.asp?id=194

His status as a celeb was in doubt last week for a couple of minutes when he chose to retweet a tweet from Bandage

[The_Dunph]

@Mac

:rolleyes:

http://www.skypresso…aphy.asp?id=194

His status as a celeb was in doubt last week for a couple of minutes when he chose to retweet a tweet from Bandage

Who?

[theLockes]

Mark Cagney was in the lobby/sit down area with his family last Sunday in Silversprings, was standing right beside him but didn’t see him, Mrs Locke told me afterwards. Sean Gallagher was out canvassing Friday week last and took the time to get a photo opportunity with Sean Kelly in the middle of Ennis; wonder does Kelly vote in Ireland or Belgium? Anyway both were working as such…

[Turenne]

@TwoRunnyEggs

While I was off looking for a lock in, a few mates of mine met retired US sprinter Michael Johnson while we were back in Dingle last weekend. He is allegedly an alright sort.

Jaysus. :o

[Bandage]

@Mac

:rolleyes:

http://www.skypresso…aphy.asp?id=194

His status as a celeb was in doubt last week for a couple of minutes when he chose to retweet a tweet from Bandage

Mac, did you see on Twitter that Sky News’ Enda Brady was golfing this evening in Wexford with former Irish international footballer Paul McGrath and current waterboy to the Wexford senior hurling team Mick Reade?

Twitter is magnificent. To think I never would have found out only for it.

[Mac]

@Bandage

Mac, did you see on Twitter that Sky News’ Enda Brady was golfing this evening in Wexford with former Irish international footballer Paul McGrath and current waterboy to the Wexford senior hurling team Mick Reade?

Twitter is magnificent. To think I never would have found out only for it.

I did. I know the other fella they played with as well. Enda and Paul seem like good mates - they were having an extended discussion about meeting up about 2 or 3 months ago via Twitter.

[Tony_Dorigo]

@Mac

I did. I know the other fella they played with as well. Enda and Paul seem like good mates - they were having an extended discussion about meeting up about 2 or 3 months ago via Twitter.

I believe the bar staff will be working throughout the night cleaning up after the lads decided to go for a pint in the clubhouse afterwards.

[Mac]

@Tony Dorigo

I believe the bar staff will be working throughout the night cleaning up after the lads decided to go for a pint in the clubhouse afterwards.

:rolleyes:

[myboyblue]

@backinatracksuit

[myboyblue]

@Rocko

Preamble

This is a thread for posting celeb spots that fail to make the grade on the main Celeb Spotting thread.

Criteria

The criteria for inclusion here is

1. they must first of all meet the primary rules for recognition, i.e. a celebrity must have been spotted. That means no non-celebrities can be included and no hearing celebrities on the phone or something.
2. they must not be valid for the main thread for reasons other than:
   [indent]2a. status of celebrityness* or
   2b. encountering the celebrity in the course of his/her professional or celebrity duties.[/indent]

Examples

So what gets included here?

• well maybe a celeb slipped your mind (shame on you) and it’s past the two week mark
• maybe you’re a new member here and you want to let people know you spotted someone a year ago
• or maybe a close relative or friend spotted the celebrity and if only you’d been there then you’d have had a legitimate spot.
• maybe you caught a fleeting glance of someone on Grafton Street but weren’t sure if it was Obama or not. A glance at the next day’s Irish Times shows Obama striding out of Burger King on Grafton Street and you’re thinking that was probably he. Your conscience won’t let you claim a full spot because you didn’t really get all the details and you can’t be 100% sure of its accuracy. Post it here instead.

Importance of this thread in its own right

This is definitely the poorer cousin of the main celeb spotting thread but I don’t want this to descend into a plate or shield for also-rans that didn’t make the main thread. Hence the rule above about non-celebs* and also the following additional rule:

Thread-Tied

Any post on the main forum and rejected as a non-spot will not be recognised as a legitimate near miss here. This is a valid thread in its own right and it will not have to make do with cast-offs from the main thread. If it’s a near miss then post it here, if it was posted elsewhere first then it’s thread-tied so to speak and won’t count here.

Exception

• The only exception to non-celebrities that may be included here are pure dead ringers for celebrities. So if someone is mildly famous but not a celebrity then it’s no dice. But if you spot a guy who you think might be tv’s Ray Meagher but you’re not sure and a google throws up nothing about him being in Ireland then feel free to let us know here.

Adjudication

The rules are fairly self-explantory but the official adjudication team for this thread shall be Locke and Rocko.

And we’re off

Locke you might start us off…

Have at it lads

[flattythehurdler]

Mollie-mae (not sure of the spelling) and Tommy fury were invited to that party that giggsy was at, but couldn’t attend because they wanted to send their first Christmas with their baby privately instagramming.
My lass got well excited when there was a GWagon at the door but alas that belonged to some young lad called Josh.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Josh must be famous or famous parents ?

[flattythehurdler]

Dunno. I’m back there in three days so I’ll find out. Was chatting to the yanited kitman all through the fergiecyears, who was sound. I was only told what he did after. Also chatted for a good long time to a lady who it transpires owns port vale.