I don't think I have. The reason I write is to obtain an autograph. For myself, I just don't see the point. I am an autograph collector.

I wrote to David Tennant after seeing Hamlet for the first time. I actually dropped the letter off at the stage door. It was only a thankyou card really, but I just wanted to say how much the show had affected me.

The only letter that I sent that was like that was to George Carlin. I didn't even think about asking for autographs at the time... he replied with a personalized 8x10.

I've already sent some, but when I was younger. Now I'm going to sent 2 more :)

Nice topic :)

When I was about 13 years old I wrote a letter to a famous German comedian (Ingolf Lück if anyone knows him ;) ) just to tell him that I found it unfair that I couldn't get any tickets for "his" tv show (Wochenshow). Once I got through and spoke to a woman to book some tickets she said that only 16yrs+ were allowed to join the audience because of the late hour the show had been broadcasted (saturdays at 22.15pm). I wrote all my anger down and sent it off to Ingolf. A few weeks later I got a real nice personalized autograph plus a letter! He thanked me for my letter and wrote down some dates. He said that I should tell him which date would be best for me so that he could book 2 tickets for me and my mom 8) I was over the moon and totally freaked out :lol: 8) So I told him the day I was able to come (to Cologne) and he really did reserve 2 tickets! After the show we met in the lobby and talked a while. That was soooo crazy. I mean, I was not only young (14 when I went to the show) but also met my first REAL celeb. I can't imagine a word I said to him or he said to me as I was too excited which is a little sad though... ;-) But I have a nice photo of Ingolf and me. After this we continued writing letters. I have 5 or 6. In one letter I asked him to send me another autograph cos one of my birds pooped on it. He sent me a new auto inscribed to me an a 2nd inscribed "to Janet's bird" looool

A year later he did the same thing again (reserving me 2 tickets) and all of a sudden the contact broke :( Last year I wrote another letter asking if he still knew who I was and I wrote about those things that had happened in the past but he only sent another inscribed auto without any reply. He's a real cool guy and I hoped it all ended differently but I enjoyed the almost 2 years we had contact. It was something special...


After this I only sent out 1 letter without requesting anything. It was just today :lol: 8) Addressed to [url=http://www.fanmail.biz/mboard/viewtopic.php?t=128275][color=#FF4000][u]Clay Aiken[/u][/color][/url]. I thanked him for sending me his auto as it's kinda hard to get it nowadays.

You know, that's really nice to do...but if they did want to return something, if you include a SASE it's actually nicer so they don't have to worry about postage and stuff. Right?

I have done that before though. But, that was only when I was younger and had no clue about autograph collecting. :)

When I ask for autographs though, I always am really nice about it though. And tell them I don't like fully expect it of them since they're so busy. I just tell them it would mean a lot to me. And it does. I never write to celebs I don't at all really care about. Why waste time on that when there are so many people I do admire.

In 2005 before I collected, I wrote to Kelly Clarkson and just told her how big of a fan I am. But, I haven't done it since. {thumb2}

-Kelsey :mrgreen:

When I was younger I used to write to some of my favourite bands and singers just to tell them how big a fan I was, I didn't know it was possible at the time to request autographs TTM so I never thought to try. Since I have been collecting, however, I have only ever sent 1 letter not requesting an autograph. This was a thank you note to Jorge Garcia, but he still send me an autograph anyway! Along with a handwritten letter :) So lovely of him.

Hey margotchanning :)

Wow :) I've never actually thought about doing that before, I know that there are people who do it {up} Just to tell the celebrity that they appreciate his/her work :D Well actually to be honest I have done that once, my first ever letter to a celebrity - Daniel Radcliffe if you wanted to know :lol: But that was in 3rd grade, I was so excited to write to him :) At the time I think they were filming thee... 3rd HP movie?
Being that young and innocent :oops: I was kind of expecting an actual letter from him replying to me :lol: But I got his PP :( So yeah.. that was the last time I did that.. I wasn't even thinking about autographs back then.

Now that I actually collect autographs my letters still tell the celeb how much I admire their work, but also I also send an SAE and a few pictures.. :mrgreen:

I just might start doing that with some people soon though :) Celebs that I don't really feel like getting an autograph from but would like to tell them that they're talented etc. :razz:

Nice topic, it would be interesting to see other people's replies {thumb2}

Nich
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I'm just curious!

Have you ever written to a celebrity and not requested an autograph?

I have done this on several occasions. Sometimes when I write a really sincere letter, I feel like it takes away from the sincerity to ask for something in return. On most occasions, the celebrity responded anyway (Bruce Forsyth, Richard Carpenter, Rita Rogers) and I got a letter as well as an autograph so it kind of worked in my favour!

Of course, 9/10 times I ask for an autograph and send a sase but there are some celebrities I love so much that I don't want them to think I'm only writing to get a signed photo.

Anyone else feel like this?