Celebrity spotting with the Cheeser

OH MY GOD!!

Last night I was out with friends in a bar close to Moorgate and in there was Victor Ebuwa from Big Brother!! That's him above. Although when I saw him he was actually looking relatively ordinary in jeans and a bomber jacket I think. And he didn't have the pencil-thin moustache.

In case you didn't know, Victor was one of the contestants on Big Brother 5, which was broadcast in 2004. He was a bit of a straight-talking, sometimes aggressive fellow and somewhat arrogant too. I confess I didn't like him much back then. At the time of BB, Victor claimed that his nicknames were 'the milkman', because he always delivered and 'Mr Slick', because he always got the job done. Not too modest, then. Other charming statements that he came out with were: "My DNA stands for Dis Negro is Attractive", "Mess around with me and I leave you R.I.P.", "Shizzle my nizzle. You get me?", not to mention his chat-up technique with women: "I have an extremely large penis. I just pull it out."

Lovely. What a fine specimen of male heterosexuality he is. I suppose Victor was capable of some degree of self awareness however, as he also described himself as being like Marmite - because people either loved or hated him.

Anyway. It was rather bizarre seeing him in the flesh right in front of me, as it would be running into any famous person or celebrity. As I said he looked relatively normal and actually rather subdued and quiet, nothing like his TV persona. Having consumed several glasses of wine, I was brimming with courage and went up to him to ask: "Are you Victor from Big Brother?" To which he replied: "Yes". Great conversation eh?! I actually don't remember much of what we said but it was brief - I did ask him if he'd seen the recent BB and he said he hadn't watched it atall. Then I said something like I was sorry for having bothered him, but he was fine about it. So that was that.

It's kind of difficult making conversation with famous people I guess. Do you comment on their work, the films, tv programmes, music or whatever they've done and are famous for? As they talk about that kind of stuff all the time in interviews and elsewhere, they probably get bored sick of people asking them the same kind of things. So the alternative is to talk about ordinary, "normal" stuff. But how can you make small talk with someone well-known, acting like they're your mate, when you are both strangers? Odd. That's why I kind of ran out of stuff to say to Mr Ebuwa.

Anyway. The excitement of it all was almost too much for this Cheeser to take.

Now. What I really want to know is - who was the last famous person YOU saw for real? What was the experience like? Did you dare to talk to them? What did they say and do? DO tell!