Celebs on BA
Mar 20, 2012, 5:08 am
#3541
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Mar 20, 2012, 5:26 am
#3542
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Bit out of date but I've only just seen this thread - JFK-LHR in F with Mrs Alpha in April 2011. On landing, the Captain (a lady, of all things) almost pushed me back into my seat in her unseemly haste to get to the passenger behind me while clutching a book. No idea who the pap was but I can only assume she was an author and the Captain wanted her copy signed? Phone call to BAEC resulted in a reasonably generous "sorry" in the form of multiple miles (before they became Avios) but it would have been nicer to see good manners from a crew member who should have known better...
Mar 20, 2012, 10:30 am
#3543
Join Date: Nov 2010
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Monday morning on BA175 from Heathrow to JFK, I spotted Piers Morgan and someone I now know to be the bespectacled presenter of the Gadget Show. Imagine my surprise when Gadget Show guy turned out to be even more irritating than Piers Morgan. I think he had been pestering BA crew for a free upgrade to business class because not long after the flight took off he vacated his World Traveller Plus seat (I had a prime view from World Traveller!). He seemed a bit "look at me, I'm on the telly!", and a bit annoying.
Hmmm...I was sat behind the Duchess of York and her two daughters not too long ago in club Europe down to nce.
They were standing at the exit as we left the plane at nce,waiting for special services,so we walked by them smiling.
They were whisked down a side corridor,presumably to a waiting car and did not do passport control.
They were standing at the exit as we left the plane at nce,waiting for special services,so we walked by them smiling.
They were whisked down a side corridor,presumably to a waiting car and did not do passport control.
Mar 21, 2012, 4:47 am
#3544
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Gareth Southgate in South Galleries now near the back of the cinema room
Mar 21, 2012, 7:14 am
#3546
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: MAN
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Mar 21, 2012, 7:19 am
#3547
Join Date: Jul 2005
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The (I assume) highly fragrant Joanna Lumley this morning LHR-AMS. Wonderful to see her in real life and looked just as good as she does on TV 
Mar 21, 2012, 7:54 am
#3548
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Mar 21, 2012, 7:57 am
#3549
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Mar 22, 2012, 5:38 am
#3550
Join Date: Jun 2005
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As for Gareth Southgate he was with a woman and an older man. I think I recognise the old guy from football but was only passing quickly. Well I was until I had to stop and explain to my travel companion who Southgate was
complete with google images!
Mar 22, 2012, 6:01 am
#3551
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...yes but I don't think he got seat 1A on the last scheduled R from NY to London in 2003, since Jeezer was sitting in front of him and managed to chuck his glass of 'poo over PM.....
Mar 22, 2012, 6:14 am
#3552
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Herts, UK
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saw her recently at the WA syon park when filming for sport relief. She was very classy, and seemed very down to earth as well, unlike a lot of the other celebs there that day
Mar 22, 2012, 7:10 am
#3553
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Should have been the hold - preferably the un-pressurised one!
Not sure the heads of state do get away without having their passports checked for state visits etc., it's just that they don't have to go and wait at passport control it's done for them by staff. Visas also have to be issued with special ones for certain people like the one that allows Castro to visit the UN which limits his travel in the US. I saw a prog on the Secret Service when last in the US and they detailed the work that goes into staging the General Assembly of the UN from a security point of view. Although one head of state that doesn't have one is the Queen who doesn't need one see here for more details. If they did ask her for something issued by the government with her picture on it, she only need produce a Stamp, Bank Note, Coin etc 
Last edited by Jimmie76; Mar 22, 2012 at 7:47 am Reason: tyop
Mar 22, 2012, 7:38 am
#3554
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 932
Fairly sure the NFLer Ben Graham was in 11EF on yesterday's BA295 with his wife and a significant amount of LV luggage. He was connecting onto Detroit.
Last edited by COOLIO; Mar 22, 2012 at 9:04 am
Mar 22, 2012, 9:01 am
#3555
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Michael Kors was on my flight from LHR-EWR last month.