The 50 Most Famous People I've Ever Met

Celebrity is a weird thing. You recognise it when you see it. But what makes someone a celebrity, and why are so many people desperate to become one? I've never sought fame or celebrity, although I am happy to admit that it's sometimes nice to be recognised. I am certainly not a celebrity even though I've appeared on one or two celebrity programmes like 'Pointless Celebrities'. I don't really think anyone involved in current affairs media deserves the description, with the possible exception of Piers Morgan.

Over the last few weeks I have been creating an online (but private) photo archive and come across a lot of pictures of me with various well known people over the years. It's one of the perks of what I do that I get to meet some very famous people - some of them heroes, some of them people maybe I wouldn't have gone out of my way to meet.

Most of them are people I would never have expected to meet. Some weren't at all what I expected. The Queen, for example, was incredibly chatty, even gossipy and far easier to talk to than her reputation might have suggested. Given I have every record he has ever made, the only celebrity I have met, who I was completely tongue-tied by was Cliff Richard. I still don't understan why to this day. At the same even I met Cilla Black and we got on like a house on fire.

Anyway, here is a rogues' gallery of fifty or so of some famous people I have met over the last twenty years. And these are the ones I can remember!