celebrity interest

it’s cold feet / fast show star john thompson. Good to see my celebrity photo capturing skills haven’t been lost over the summer.

these inflatables are in a window leading down some stairs to what i assume is some kind of recording or TV studio.
one morning (before cameras began) i saw the Edge from U2 appear from this door, and another time i spotted (and photo’d) the Sugarbabes when they were at number 1 in the modern hit parade.
today it’s just inflatable sea creatures.

i’m not sure whether this is top DJ tim westwood’s car or simply a car which advertises him as a person. it’s covered floor to ceiling with his name.
i’m thinking of getting one done for funkypancake. maybe not.

i walked past the filming place from last night to see they were setting their stuff up for today. so if you want to see woody allen or some of his cast then this is probably the place to go today …

i KNEW it was gong to be a celebrity day today. i may have seen posh spice (david beckham’s wife for those who don’t know who she is, but then you might not know who he is either, and i can’t say that’s a bad thing). i would say it was a 5% chance of being her (ie not very likely).
then i saw barbara windsor again on the way back to the station in the evening:

then as i continued my journey after a while i saw some massive lights which indicating filming, so like a moth i went closer to inspect them (i did it for you readers). it was apparently a woody allen (see article)
and behind this very window he is making a film. i know this because some local residents were standing next to me complaining that he had stolen their parking spaces. she called woody something quite shocking which i won’t share with you.

here’s the building. people on the first floor and an old lady on the 2nd floor look out at what’s going on:

then, on the train, it only turns out i used to know the lawyer who is representing Libertines singer Pete Doherty (see here). i’ve not seen him for a while so it was a shock to see his name up there with the stars !
and finally, i think i walked past Richard E Grant a couple of weeks back. probably 80% chance of it actually being him.
(celebrity round up finished)

this is possibly john hegley. certainly looked like him and sounded like him. but i’m not an expert on his appearance.
i may also have walked past john cleese but it could just have been any old chap with a moustache so was probably a false positive.

impromptu new reporting on the street corner. it was a glamourous news lady earnestly speaking about iraq. no one i recognised and if i’m honest i thought she was trying a little too hard.

another celebrity comedian on Tottenham Court Road. The street is full of them.
this time it was Ross Noble. He was chatting with someone whilst walking purposefully so i didn’t stop him to ask for a photo.
but here’s his website.

here are uri geller’s front gates. they are made of metal. surely that’s asking for trouble ?

i bumped in to Heinz Wolf this evening as i left a work meeting. he was heading south from Barbican station and i asked him if i could take his photo. he said “yes, if you can tell me where something or other square is”
i said yes, took his photo then we looked at his AtoZ and we both went on our ways.
i’ve mentioned before i’m a man of science and that’s partly because of his influence when he did the Great Egg Race on telly when i was a nipper.

(by the way in the last week i’ve also stood next to Steve Wright (radio 2 DJ) in the street and Tim Burgess of the Charlatans in a record shop. I wasn’t 100% sure they were who i thought they were at the time so i didn’t take a photo, so sorry about that. i’m pretty sure they really were them though. ooops)
update: thanks to tony for pointing out that Heinz was on the BBC website today. great quote:

Heinz Wolff is a self-confessed boffin, and the affable professor is quite proud of it. When asked to define exactly what a boffin is, he pauses, and then says, “Well, I am one.
“It isn’t a negative word,” he says. “It is no more negative than egghead. It describes a person of some intellectual ability, who has unconventional ideas.”

random government minister Chris Smith spotted on the wobbly bridge

so, what did we buy at the auction ? not much. but what i did get was this fantastic piece of TV memorabilia.
it’s a T-shirt, jumper and board game which you can only get from being a contestant on Supermarket Sweep. I got it for £3. no one else bid.
but that means that someone at esther’s school has a parent who was on supermarket sweep, won the prize and gave it away to be auctioned for school funds.
Dale Winton himself has apparently touched the merchandise you see below.

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marylebone high street is the place to spot fast moving celebrities / millionaire dot-com business people. here is martha lane-fox.
i could have got a photo of her from the front but she was carrying loads of bags and talking on her mobile and i was a bit embarrased so i waited until she’d passed.
will you just LOOK at the size of those turnups !

i heard this morning on the radio that they are going to make a knightrider movie. at that moment i was standing by this sign.
how spooky is that …

remember nigel havers ? well i saw him again today. in paddington station this time. he’s my most photographed spotted celebrity. (i’ve seen Simon Pegg three times and Dennis Norden three times, but only snapped them once each). Nigel’s IMDB entry is here

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these wires on are the south bank near the ITV studios. when i worked at a previous place i walked past this space every morning and enjoyed the occasional glimpse of GMTV being presented al fresco.
i once saw dale winton and loraine kelly you know.
it’s well known that celebrities don’t operate correctly unless they are literally wired in to a television studio. these wires indicated to me that there had been some celebrity interest at a point earlier in the day and i had missed it.
oh well.

here’s a classic celebrity spot – it’s Simon Callow, of 4 weddings and a funeral fame. he was walking down the road in the opposite direction to me and by the time my camera he’d got a long way !
But it definately was him.

remember they painted over elvis ? well, he coming back (thanks to the black paint wearing off)

here is one of the blokes from Adam and Joe (not sure which one) on a bike.

minutes before i walked past Rhona Cameron. The streets were full of celebrities this evening
(updated 27nov09 as of course it was adam buxton – and also updated link to their BBC 6music page)