celebrity interest

my colleague toby spotted this outside a cafe. it’s Chris Eubank‘s lorry cab. i wouldn’t bother following the link to his site by the way.

i walked past the This Morning studios on the way to a meeting this morning.
this lady was sitting on a wobbly chair in a rain coat

and this man was topless jogging

i’ve no idea who they were or why. but they are probably someone vaguely famous otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered filming them. although they could be just turning up for an interview (read this)

i saw this top trump card on the floor near our chalet at Spring Harvest last week. i flipped it over and took a photo, but didn’t look at who was on it until i got back home a few days later

imagine my surprise then when i discovered it was Daniel Beddingfield. He’d been the surprise guest at that same evening’s big top event. what are the chances of that ?

(by the way, just in case you are wondering, he’s definately not my taste in music !)

i walked up tottenham court road yesterday on the way back from a meeting and thought to myself “i’m going to see a celebrity in a minute” and 2 minutes later i bumped in to Ricky Gervais ! I asked him if i could take his photo and he said “of course” in an ‘extras‘ rather than ‘the office‘ style.
here he is in full holding a cup of coffee walking past NatWest Bank

i squashed my face against the window where they were filming on tuesday and they were obviously coming back.
it’s good to know kitkats are popular in the world of film.

i occasionally see film shoots around town and sometimes i’m brave enough to ask people what’s going on. but i wasn’t yesterday.
it was something quite high profile as there were quite a few police keeping guard, even hidden in doorways round the corner. it was either someone important, or someone very attractive.

for no money you can walk down Oxford Street in London and see some of your actual things as actually used in the actual harry potter film

much cheaper than going to a museum or something

but i should have told you about this ages ago as it’s gone now. sorry about that. (i’m raiding some of my preuploaded but not published entries as i’ve been ill for the last couple of days)

here’s DJ of the year 2005 Danny Baker. i saw him yesterday lunchtime and he seemed a genuinely nice bubbly chap.

yesterday i also had two separate sightings of ricky gervais from two separate colleagues in two separate places. how strange is that ?

on the way back from a meeting i walked past jono coleman trying to get britiain smiling (by playing Amarilo).

i think it was to do with this show. i was invited to stand in the background and pretent to be happy, but seeing as i was meant to be at work i thought that would be a bad idea !

i’m sure if all the people just turned round the view would have cheered them up. and it would have been much less anoying than watching jono coleman jiggling to Amarilo.

it’s Mr Denis Norden again. in the same place as last time. i think he may be stalking me.

jane and i went for a walk down the (side of the) thames yesterday near Eton/Windsor-ish. From the north side of the river you pass Oakley Court Hotel and Bray Studios.
Oakley Court Castle is famous for being in various films including Saint Trinians, Dracula (the Hammer version) and the Rocky Horror Picture Show (history here). For an obsessive fan site which shows how the castle was used for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, see here

next to the Castle are Bray Studios which are famous for the Hammer Horror films. Nowadays it’s more used for telly shows and bands practising before going on big arena tours (i think)

i spotted ian hislop in front of me as i whizzed by tate modern on the way to a meeting. he nipped in to this cafe before i caught up with him, so i took this dreadful photo through the window !
i think you can still tell it’s him !

i had a feeling i’d see a famous person whilst walking to the station this evening. so much so that i took off my headphones and got my camera out, so i was all ready when Griff Rhys Jones walked out in front of me a bit further down the street. he’s a really nice chap !

more south bank ‘this morning’ outside stuff. one of these days i’ll go by when they are actually recording something.