From a Tuesday gossip roundup on Daily Intelligencer I learned that yesterday, at the very gym I'd recently abandoned:
Andy Roddick worked out in head-to-toe Lacoste (visor included) at Union Square’s Equinox.
Roddick and his sponsored clothing.... I reckon of all the millions of celebrities, semi-celebrities and pseudo-celebrities milling around NYC on any given day, Roddick in the gym is actually one I might have half a chance of recognizing and meeting. Of course, that was until I deleveraged and ditched Equinox for the much cheaper, much less glamorous Y up the road...
I have a terrible record for celebrity sighting, in spite of having lived in several places known to be rife with them. I once saw radio personality Chris Evans with his then wife Billie Piper at London's Waterloo station. And I saw Scottish comedian Billy Connolly in Union Square (Union Square and the swanky bars and restaurants in its environs are something of a celeb hotbed). Even by Cambridge standards, I think I missed out at college. Yes, Stephen Hawking was there, but he rarely hung out with the kids, and the student body's best celebrity was Lulu and John Frieda's son and a prince from Jordan (Allegedly. He had body guards, that's all I know).
But that's about it. I don't really mind, I guess, but I do feel left out when friends start swapping celeb-spotting stories. A friend in London once spotted Ben Affleck and Gwyneth (in the days of yore when they were a couple) in a pub together, and the resident American has seen Gisele twice in one day and Scarlett Johansson at least once. Completely by accident - he wasn't even stalking them, he claims.
I know we all ought to be above this sort of thing - but what's your best celebrity spot?
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I saw Jez from Peep Show on Kilburn High Road, looking extremely shifty.
I also recently was drinking in a Norf London boozer at the same time as Phil Mitchell of Eastenders fame. It doesn't get much better than that.
I've seen Steven Hawking twice in Cambridge, once on a punt (!) and the other time rolling down the sidewalk in front of the CUP store. And I saw Nigel Havers walking in front of King's College. Those are pretty much my only celeb. sightings ever, though.
The Special One says that I could spot a celebrity at 200 yards. I've seen Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet, Matt Dillon and Al Pacino on the streets of New York, and a couple of weeks ago in London, I saw Neil Morrissey, Frank Skinner and Michael Portillo (not together) on the same day.
Planes are my best spotting place though - I had an (unpleasant) encounter with Jude Law a couple of months ago, saw John Hurt on a flight to Ibiza, and once sat next to Kate Moss on a BA bus taking us to a flight to NYC.
That sound you hear is the unmistakeable clank of names being dropped...
My wife completely refuses to believe I saw Paris Hilton waiting for a train to Poughkeepsie on platform 38 of Grand Central Station.
Brit out of water - that's quite a celebrity trawl. Have you had job offers from producers of celebrity Big Brother or Bravo channel yet? They should clearly be lining up.
I like the idea of Paris going to Poughkeepsie. Apart from I know people who live there and not sure they'd get along well...
Imagine how I feel, moving to movie-star-ville USA and then learning that Daniel Craig has joined my Mum's gym in Harrogate.
Gutted!
oh, and notfromaroundhere, I see your Steven Hawking story and raise it, as I backed in to his wheelchair at the Arts Cinema in Cambridge, and no, for the record he didn't type 'ow'.
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