Once said a very cheery, 'Hello! How are you?' to Tom Cruise with 2 mugs of tea in my hands, as if I just hadn't seen him for a bit. He replied, 'Great, thanks! How are you?' with that absurd smile and carried on walking down the corridor. c1998 https://twitter.com/MavenofHonor/status/1260626632395685889

Working in a fairly famous London antiques centre and at so very many art fairs over 20 years, you meet quite a lot of famouses. Mainly, they are excellent and normal, and mundane. Some are horrorshows, but that's probably another thread.

Lucian Freud used to love our late Border Terrier Bridie and would spend at least 10 minutes fussing and talking to her in the street. If I attempted to speak to him (even acknowledge he was there), he would walk away. But he did genuinely love our dog.

Once sold Leslie Phillips an 18C teapot as a wedding present. He asked me to gift wrap it for him, beautifully darling, pinched my bum and when I *looked* at him, burst out laughing to the point where we were both in hysterics for about 3 minutes.