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We all have our share of fangirling moments that come with embarrassing stories, and it appears comedian Rhod Gilbert is no different.<\/p>\n
While the 54-year-old may be wanting other stars to share their mortifying childhood moments on his chat show Growing Pains, it turns out he has a standout story of his own.<\/p>\n
Rhod actually once came face-to-face with Padam Padam singer Kylie Minogue, but it ended up going very, very wrong.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Metro.co.uk ahead of his new series of the Comedy Central show airing, Rhod explained that Kylie was one of his childhood crushes, alongside the likes of WonderWoman, Miss Piggy and Nanette Newman.<\/p>\n
He said: \u2018I did meet Kylie once, I had a teenage crush on Kylie and then I met her a few years ago.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018It went wrong,\u2019 he warned.<\/p>\n
\u2018I used to work in Curry\u2019s as a teenager, and they have packs of TVs on shelves, and throughout the day Neighbours was often on because it was on at lunchtime and then at tea-time.<\/p>\n
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\u2018So she was on like 30 TVs, Neighbours was on all these TVs in the Curry\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
\u2018And then when I performed with her on a TV show, everyone was doing their thing, and at the end we all lined up across the stage to take a bow and I leaned across to her and I was going to tell her this story.<\/p>\n
\u2018And I started by saying, \u201cI used to watch you on 30 televisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018And then the producers moved her out of the way, so she was left going \u201cWhat?!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018That\u2019s all I got the chance to say, \u201cI used to watch you on 30 televisions,\u201d like some\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
Seriously awkward!<\/p>\n
Rhod himself has had his fair share of bizarre fan experiences too though, from tattoos to interesting<\/em> gifts.<\/p>\n He told us: \u2018I always find it odd when people get tattoos of your face, or a copy of the tattoo that you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n \u2018That always freaks me out a little bit.\u2019<\/p>\n One gift was even creepier though.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019ve been sent a lot of weird fan gifts,\u2019 he began, insisting \u2018nothing too saucy\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018Somebody made me \u2013 and they\u2019ve done this with other people \u2013 a knitted version of myself, a doll, that was very anatomically detailed.\u2019<\/p>\n Well then.<\/p>\n Kylie wasn\u2019t the only awkward fangirl encounter Rhod admitted to though, as he elsewhere revealed that one involved a guest on his show.<\/p>\n Pop icon Sophie Ellis-Bextor joined the Growing Pain panel, where Rhod revealed his childhood crush on her mum Janet.<\/p>\n He ended up \u2018confessing\u2019 his love for the Blue Peter star in front of Sophie, telling us: \u2018That was embarrassing, to be confessing my love to Sophie Ellis-Bextor\u2019s mum back in the day.<\/p>\n \u2018That was brilliant\u2026 I give this little monologue where I talk about teenage crushes and that one just happened to land in the show with Sophie in it.<\/p>\n \u2018That was a difficult monologue to deliver \u2013 my love for her mother.\u2019<\/p>\n Alongside his embarrassing childhood crush, Rhod elsewhere revealed his mortifying stories, saying he himself would be \u2018a strong contender\u2019 on his own show.<\/p>\n He shared: \u2018My entire childhood was just one bad decision after another, from bad hairstyles to when I dyed my hair pink by accident, I had a terribly embarrassing flat top, to terrible fashion choices to terrible romantic decisions that saw me getting caught by the police outside the back of my own school, having some teenage fumbling.<\/p>\n \u2018To bad drinking decisions where I ended up falling through a friend\u2019s porch, where I ended up destroying the whole porch basically, the door, the windows, the vase on the table \u2013 I fell through it all.<\/p>\n \u2018There\u2019s a lot of embarrassing things, a lot of bad decisions, all of which are pretty embarrassing.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019d be a strong contender on this show.\u2019<\/p>\n While his embarrassing blunders and stories may come to light on this show, Rhod also warned that his next comedy show is \u2018pretty dark\u2019 as it follows experiences he\u2019s been through.<\/p>\n Insisting that he doesn\u2019t worry about being cancelled or having to censor himself for his shows, Rhod went on: \u2018My stuff is about me \u2013 the last show was about me talking about infertility, talking about my mother\u2019s death from Alzheimer\u2019s, talking about me having a stroke.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n