They were out there in force, but you may not have known.
Liverpool's actors, musicians, sportsmen and business names were invited to join the Capital of Culture opening party on both Friday and Saturday nights.
Many of them appeared on stage in Lime Street but due to either some strange editing decision or a glitch in the system, their appearance wasn't beamed up on the giant screens.
Maybe in retrospect the hard-hatted compere on top of the Wellington column should have read out their names so the crowds knew who was celebrating with them.
But still, they were here and they told me they'd had a marvellous time.
I caught up with a few of them over the weekend.
Brothers Paul and Joe McGann proved even stars can get starstruck when they bumped into one Anfield legend at the ECHO Arena and insisted on having their photograph taken with him.
I popped over for a chat and was greeted by two excitable schoolboys in men's bodies - one with facial hair - going "we've just met Kenny Dalglish! That's made our evening."
What, I have to admit, helped make my evening was when Paul McGann then said "haven't you got beautiful coloured hair."
What a charmer!!
They were sitting in the "celeb section" of the Arena crowd alongside the likes of Alison Steadman, Cathy Tyson, David Yip, Peter Reid, Dalglish, Sue Johnston, Mickey Starke, David Morrissey, Gerry Marsden, Paul Barber and many more.
I was keen to speak to Alison Steadman, one of the best actors ever to come out of Liverpool.
As yet she's not involved in any Capital of Culture production, but I sense from what she said that she's keen to do something so if anyone out there wants to offer her a plum part, now's the time.
Cathy Tyson told me she'd do anything for Liverpool except sell her children - although she didn't rule out loaning one for a while!
And Liz McClarnon and Les Dennis both admitted welling up with the emotion of it all.
Liz couldn't made Saturday as the Kittens were due to record their video for the Number 1 Project single Anyone Who Had a Heart yesterday.
I had a brief chat with her downstairs in the Empire on Friday night where guests were tucking into the usual assortment of drinks and canapes.
We looked longingly at the food coming through until someone took pity on use and actually left us a whole plate of them!
David Morrissey (luckily sporting none of the Regency hairdo he's been wearing in Sense and Sensibility) also popped in for a chat.
He spoke about Liverpool's great cultural tradition and the theatres which had inspired him to become an actor, particularly the Everyman which he described as "a theatre for the people."
And of course Doddy was there, proving for showbiz troopers the show ALWAYS goes on, whether you've just had a major operation or not.
