(I’m) Almost Famous (too)

This is for Camie, in response to her post about celeb encounters. They are in no particular order except that the first ten are people that I've actually met, while the rest are people I've passed in the street or seen round and about.

1. Paul Daniels, British "magician" (I was a kid)
2. Adam Ant, fucking icon
3. Derek Jarman, gay film-maker extraordinaire
4. Mark Wingett (DC Carver from The Bill); he saw a play I was in and complimented my performance
5. Jane Bodie, who is apparently now one of Australia's most important playwrights; was one of my closest friends for a couple of years in my mid-20s
6. Valerie Colgan: she was in Aliens and was one of my acting teachers
7. Esther Hall, from the UK Queer As Folk and the recent BT ads; she auditioned for a play I was co-producing/co-directing
8. Rhino from the UK's Gladiators show; he complimented me on my Manics T-shirt
9. Debbie Isitt, film-maker
10. Susan Powell, BBC weathergirl; not seen her for about 20 years, but we used to live in the same street and go to the same school

11. Marc Almond (almost bumped right into him on Camden High Street)
12. Diego Abatantuono, Italian acting god
13. Lucio Dalla, Italian singer
14. Keith Flint of Prodigy, dressed in country-gent garb at the airport
15. Mark Addy, eating pizza close by
16,17,18,19. Ian Broudie, Kylie Minogue, and two people from EastEnders at a Manics gig at the Royal Albert Hall
20. Carol Vorderman
21. Russell Crowe at Wagamama
22. Justine Elastica at an Adam Ant gig at the Shepherd's Bush Empire
23. Jackie Mason, eating at Artie's Deli in NYC
24. Chris Lowe, Pet Shop Boy, on Islington's Upper Street
25. Gary Olsen (RIP), of 2 Point 4 Children fame: sat next to him on the Tube
26. Ken Livingstone, London Mayor, on Old Compton Street, Soho.
27. Robert Powell, aka Jesus, on his way to the video store where Red used to work
28. Sister Wendy Beckett
29. that bloke out of Crowded House trying to find his guitar at the airport
30. Stefan Dennis (Paul from Neighbours)
31. Jennilee (from Britain's Next Top Model); she was entering our local Sainsbury's supermarket as we were leaving
32. some bloke out of Hollyoaks in Tesco Metro, Covent Garden
33. Shadow from the UK's Gladiators show outside Tesco Metro, Covent Garden
34. Tom Baker, former Doctor Who
35. Simon King, BBC wildlife genius
36. Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow: I spoke to her on the phone; does that count?
37. Ricky Gervais at an ATM in Camden Town
38. Bill Paterson, British actor, in Soho Square not long after Truly, Madly, Deeply came out
39. Phil Davis, excellent British actor and star of Quadrophenia and Face; he was standing in the doorway of the now-long-gone Dillons bookshop on Long Acre. He's short
40. Samantha Morton
41. Graham Norton
42. Giorgio Locatelli, celeb chef, at his restaurant; he signed a leaving card for a friend who was going back to Australia
43. Simon Callow, genius Brit actor and Orson Welles biographer, who is sadly probably most famous for Four Weddings and a Funeral. Saw him at Leicester Square Tube station
44. Helen Baxendale, actress from Cold Feet and Friends, outside Ed's Diner in Old Compton Street, with a man and a baby in a pushchair
45. Jason Priestley, of Beverly Hills 90210 fame, in The Maple Leaf pub, in Covent Garden, one lunchtime