Anyone for Tea?

Working with the stars.

Strange place Hammersmith, and Barnes for that matter too. Where else in London could you regularly find yourself in a mildly delapidated looking Argos store in a mile long queue next to none other than authentic celebraties such as newsreader extrordinaiire Moira Stewart (as I did earlier today)?

Or where can you wander out of Hammersmith tube only to almost bump into GLA member and former Lib-Dem candidate for 'Mayor of London' Susan Kramer, or even wait to pay for your lunch at Tescos with Chelsea's Eider Gudjohnson or even Tim Henman?

More to the point, should I really wonder so much whether Moira got herself a pack of video tapes or a desk-lamp? Is it just another form of the same 'connection' with the random people that we see on TV and websites that sells several thousand 'celebrity gossip' magazines every week - do these 'minor celebs' get used to it after a while, or what is the acceptable protocol?!

Or even just to expand the question to our Christian brothers and sisters in the media, when you spot a member of Delirious, or the pastor of your 'mega-church' or some other 'celebrity' in the Christian world is there an unwritten code of conduct?! Or should I just keep sticking to the 'subtle nod of recognition and general good wishes' that I've been practicing?

posted by RichB @ Friday, February 11, 2005