One of my academic colleagues looks a bit like Bob Mortimer. One time near our labs I saw him walking towards me and I warmly said Hey Kevin. It was Bob Mortimer.
Please share your very low impact celebrity encounters here.
Fun low level anecdote: I once sat near Peter Mandelson in a theatre but I had a name blank and said rather too loudly ‘ooh look it’s Michael Portillo!’
He was visibly unamused.
I helped Kevin Keegan move a fridge down a flight of stairs from a flat his son-in-law was vacating in Ponteland.
It was surreal to say the least.
Feb 5, 2026 12:18
