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[slemslempike]

Thank you VERY much for your tenuous celebrity connections. I enjoyed them all immensely. ankaret has inspired another nosiness in me - what is your best online celebrity (or "celebrity" encounter) online, either yours or ones you have watched friends and family have? I have some not great ones myself:

Tim Fitzhigham (comedian) retweeted me when I said Daniel Radcliffe in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead looked eerily like a young him.

Kate Bornstein followed me briefly on twitter after someone told her I researched fun, but then when I excitedly messaged her and said I was so pleased and would be happy to tell her more about my work if I could email her she clearly didn't know what I was talking about and shut me down.

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[whatho]

I saw the 1980s-90s long-distance runner Liz McColgan's competiting in (I think) the London Marathon a few years ago and said on Twitter 'Stop making me feel old, Liz McColgan's daughter', and Liz McColgan's daughter liked the tweet.

A relative of Victor Spinetti also liked and commented on a Victor Spinetti-related tweet I wrote, though I recall nothing more about it.

I've interacted with the Rev Richard Coles online, but hasn't everyone?

And Ben Goldacre once retweeted something my mother said and we were very excited about that.

[slemslempike]

That vicar gets everywhere. He's the godfather of a friend of mine so I often see him on their facebook posts.

I'm glad Liz McColgan's daughter appreciated the effect she was having on us elderly types.

[whatho]

(I missed the first instance of the word daughter out of this comment and also invented the word competiting. Liz McColgan's daughter. Competing.)

[yiskah]

Lord Buckethead liked a tweet in which I mentioned him!

I had a nice interaction with noted lesbophobe Marian Keyes on Twitter, and she now follows me (but she follows so many people that I don't think we've interacted since).

I've had quite a few exciting-to-me interactions with authors I admire on Twitter, but one thing that Twitter makes painfully clear is that most writers are absolutely not celebrities, compared to other public figures.

[katlinel]

I did not know Marian Keyes was a lesbophobe. :(

[alithea]

Me either :(

[slemslempike]

Most of her books have a snide, entirely unnecessary, weird line about lesbians in there.

[yiskah]

I am pleased to say that her latest one did not! I think she may have copped on (as she is generally pretty right on in other areas).

[katlinel]

I've only read one of her books, so hadn't encountered this often enough to see it as a pattern.

[slemslempike]

Lord Buckethead! That is really cool.

I think authors count at least for this post as celebrities, I suppose I should have said famous/noted people, or people you were excited to interact with because they had some level of renown outside your immediate circle.

[yiskah]

Off the top of my head, author interactions on Twitter that have excited me include Layla al Ammar, Nadifa Mohamed (we are Twitter FRIENDS now), Guy Gavriel Kay and Leigh Bardugo.

[katlinel]

Lucy Worsley exploded a heart(*) on my tweet where I said a picture of her at a ship's wheel was proof that she was Lucy Pevensie all grown-up as she would be if Aslan hadn't been such a bastard.

*Okay, she liked the tweet. It still looked like she exploded a heart on it.

That is sad about Kate Bornstein.

[alithea]

She liked my retweet of a post of her in a frockcoat with a comment about her dressing up photos always being cheery or some such too 😄

[katlinel]

I am so glad Lucy Worsley appreciates those who appreciate her exploration of history via dressing up.

[slemslempike]

Oh nice! Lucy Worsely does do excellent dressing up.

[alithea]

I got very excited the first time Ellen Kushner tweeted Ankaret back in my timeline!

I think the Knightmare Live Twitter account retweeted me once when I posted about Knightmare.

[slemslempike]

Those are both pretty cool! I have yet to read any Ellen Kushner but I think I would like to.

[joyeuce]

I was at university with Tim Fitzhigham. I have just looked up a picture of Daniel Radcliffe in R&GAD, and you are entirely right - dead ringer for the younger Tim.

[slemslempike]

It properly distracted me during the play! It's not a glancing resemblance, it's like he's taken polyjuice. What was Tim Fitzhigham like at university? Was he often doing daft bets and raising money or did that come later?

[joyeuce]

Not as far as I remember; what springs to mind is acting (I remember him in The Madness of George III) and getting drunk!

[shewhostaples]

I forget why I tweeted to say that I was glad that Lizzie Armitstead was world road cycling champion; I don't think it was even road cycling season; but anyway, she liked it.

[slemslempike]

It was probably even nicer for her to see it than at a time more relevant to cycling when she'd have been inundated.

[peeeeeeet]

I have been tweet-liked by Nicky Campbell (about his Big Question show), and Jessye Romeo, the daughter of Soul II Soul's Jazzie B (about Soul II Soul). The latter is infinitely cooler, of course.

[peeeeeeet]

(Also I am blocked by Matt Lucas, which I am probably prouder of than either)

[joyeuce]

I'm intrigued - why did he block you and why are you proud of it?

[peeeeeeet]

I don't know - I did once (long ago) tweet that Pompidou wasn't funny, so maybe it was that. As for why I am proud of it, that is because I am a horrid person

[slemslempike]

Soul II Soul! very cool indeed.

[miss_newham]

I set up a Mark Kermode fan community on Livejournal, and Simon Mayo told him about it on the radio and he was horrified. This was in about 2005, well before the thriving Kermode & Mayo fan community on Facebook came into being. (I have not joined the latter as I'm still a bit miffed...)

[slemslempike]

I think being miffed about that is entirely justified. Johnny come-latelys benefitting from your innovation.

[white_hart]

Suzanne Vega replied to a tweet of mine saying that based on the lyrics of "In Liverpool" I wasn't sure she knew much about bellringing to agree that that was probably true. (I didn't @ her, but maybe she or her social media people have a search set up.)

[yiskah]

This is my favourite so far. <3

[slemslempike]

Excellent! I don't know the lyrics of In Liverpool or bellringing but it sounds like a good interaction.

[white_hart]

Everything I know about bellringing I learned from The Nine Tailors, but it basically comes down to "if there are multiple bells ringing there will be more than one person ringing them", whereas the song talks about "the boy in the belfry" as if he was ringing a full peal solo.

[cellardor]

Had a conversation with actress Meredith Salenger about The Journey of Natty Gann, a childhood fave of mine she's in.

Taye Diggs follows me. I have NO idea why. Assume it was a bot or something.

Chatted to Rainbow Rowell a couple of times, but she's generally very engaged.

[cellardor]

Oh and one of the Stereophonics (one of the new ones, not an original member) liked a tweet about one of their lyrics.

[slemslempike]

I didn't even know that there WERE new Stereophonics!