Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

Warks said:
Was stuck in the OOL VA lounge last Friday arvo and there was an immense number of football players hanging around for their delayed MEL flight. They didn't seem the usual tall muscly AFL blokes, looked rather ordinary, if fit looking. Turns out they were the Southport Sharks a VFL team. I didn't realise the VFL still existed except as a sort of Melbourne reserve grade competition. I counted 35 players in travelling uniform plus there were any number of support staff and a few WAGs by the look of it. Must be more money in a second tier football comp than I thought.
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The VFL is basically an Eastern state reserves comp for the AFL.
All 14 Eastern state based AFL teams have a reserved team in the VFL and then there are 7 standalone clubs such as Southport that are in the comp. In the not too distant future the 2 Adelaide and 2 Perth based teams will have teams in it too. The AFL foots all the travel and accomodation costs. Stand-alone clubs have a salary cap of $220k so as you can see the players are only on a pittance
 
Well apparently we saw someone very famous at the happy hour of the Kimpton May Lau Bangkok tonight. A young Chinese woman who had 12 hangers on plus 2 photographers and a security guard and bouncer.
Told no photos and the security guard positioned himself between her and me.
So I got up and said loudly I am going to take a photo of the Conrad. Then got a picture of her leaving. The security guard saw me but she was in a public place.
Told she was a Chinese actress and superstar. So does anyone recognise her.

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drron said:
Well apparently we saw someone very famous at the happy hour of the Kimpton May Lau Bangkok tonight. A young Chinese woman who had 12 hangers on plus 2 photographers and a security guard and bouncer.
Told no photos and the security guard positioned himself between her and me.
So I got up and said loudly I am going to take a photo of the Conrad. Then got a picture of her leaving. The security guard saw me but she was in a public place.
Told she was a Chinese actress and superstar. So does anyone recognise her.

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Was she in Blurr? 🤣
 
drron said:
Well apparently we saw someone very famous at the happy hour of the Kimpton May Lau Bangkok tonight. A young Chinese woman who had 12 hangers on plus 2 photographers and a security guard and bouncer.
Told no photos and the security guard positioned himself between her and me.
So I got up and said loudly I am going to take a photo of the Conrad. Then got a picture of her leaving. The security guard saw me but she was in a public place.
Told she was a Chinese actress and superstar. So does anyone recognise her.

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Hey Drron? Can you take Live Photos because that allows you to scroll through and usually finds one without any blurring, or a better expression etc etc.
 
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Don't all famous people use the Chairman's Lounge, but you may see them in the concourse? I'm sure I say Billy Connolly in the Syd Intl QF lounge once, but that was a while ago.

New Zealand Phoenix in the Q lounge in WLG and Hurricanes on a flight from HKG, again some time ago.
 
Beano said:
Don't all famous people use the Chairman's Lounge, but you may see them in the concourse? I'm sure I say Billy Connolly in the Syd Intl QF lounge once, but that was a while ago.

New Zealand Phoenix in the Q lounge in WLG and Hurricanes on a flight from HKG, again some time ago.
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Well once I did see Charlize Theron being escorted past the entrance of the F lounge and I doubt they were taking her to the J lounge.
Of course Mrsdrron had to tell me who she was. A few minutes later she again had to tell me I had seated myself next to Gretel Packer in the Flounge.
 

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