AFTER Bros' Matt Goss visited the region last week to hoards of excited fans, we asked our readers which celebrities they had met in the North East.

Can you top any of these celebrity sightings?

Marie Summers met Sir Anthony Hopkins at Bamburgh Castle in 2017 and got this selfie with him. Hopkins is best known for his role as Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs - but he looks less than deadly in this cosy snap.

 

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Gemma Nicholson met TV chef Rosemary Shrager at Bishop Auckland Food Festival several years ago. Shrager finished in 6th place in the 2012 series of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! 

 

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Kate Charlton, said: "I met Roy Chubby Brown often on a Saturday morning in Tesco cafe and a pub in Guisborough because he knows my dad. Also Denise Welch when I worked with her dad in panto a good few years ago."

 

Tara Pybus met Australian former soap star Jason Donovan when he was sat behind her at St James' Park during a football match. 

 

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Lee Black met Wet Wet Wet frontman Marty Pellow at KFC in Bishop Auckland.

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Roy Brown met AC/DC's legendary Brian Johnson.

 

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Rebecca Wilkinson met Ant and Dec, and got this selfie with Dec.

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Tina Davies Burdis met controversial comedian Roy Chubby Brown in Marks and Spencer, Northallerton. She said he was a lovely man.

 

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Adam De-Vere met Red Dwarf and Coronation Street actor and radio DJ, Craig Charles.

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Karl Jones met boxer Tyon Fury in Yarm.

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Tracey Hall and her daughter met Mark Feehily from Westlife, who also recently performed as Robobunny on The Masked Singer.

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