Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?
I have met two famous people in my life that being Andrew Dentom, a famous TV host here in Australia and the newsreader Peter Hitchener.
I met Andrew Denton at a national mental health conference here in Melbourne. Andrew was an honoured guest who had come to meet people to be on his documentary about mental health called Angels and Demons. Andrew had announced that he wanted people with grnuiely funny stories about mental health to approach him, and if it was good enough, he would film it for his documentary. I plucked up the courage to approach Andrew with my funny story. He asked me to repeat it for the caneras, which I did, but then he put me on the spot and asked me a question about my own experiences with mental health. I was briefly flabbergasted by that and bumbled something incoherent, because my brain wasn’t properly connected to my mouth in that instant. I knew what I wanted to say but couldn’t get it out properly. As for the funny story, I told him about mental illness, well, that is for another blog in the future.
The other famous person I met was Peter Hitchener. Before my life centred around mental health I was involved in Plenty Valley fm , a community radio station where I did both a children’s program and an Australian music program. One of the volunteers at this station worked in the newsroom at Channel 9. Peter Hitchener was the invited guest asked to come along and launch our radiothon, to make the money needed to keep the station running. Peter was the absolute gentleman and seemed to know about me by the questions he asked me when introduced to me. I was genuinely flattered and a bit shy and nervous.
Both times I met famous people, it has given me very clear, indelible memories of good times past.
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