Have you met anyone famous?

missfluffyuk

Most of you won't even know who this is, except maybe a few Aussies.... I studied German at university with Cornelia Rau last year. She didn't say it was her, but we're all 99% sure it was -- it's not exactly a common name, and she looked almost exactly like her (only thinner).

And one of my friends met Rupert Grint.

meerkat70

Does Simon Baron Cohen count as 'famous'? Or just his less talented nephew?

acasey0123

david ortiz (im from the boston area so its even better)
whoppi goldburg

kgillikin

I have met Marli Matlin (Deaf Actress), Steven Baldwin. Tracy Bird (country singer) mother was my PE teacher in elementary school and he used to come sing to us before he got famous. Also Clay Walker (country singer) used to come eat at the restuarant I worked at as a teenager.

FrenchMob

Sly Stallone - Very cool guy and humble.
John Schneider (old Dukes of Hazzard)...another very cool dude.

stormieweather

Jimmy Buffet - ran into him in the Bahamas, just chillin at one of the lesser known islands
Hulk Hogan several times - shopping at Publix, getting his car detailed. He lives nearby.

JennieAL

Steve Nicks, Amy Grant, Isaac Hayes.

vanessaclarkgbr

Dale Winton, in a gay pub in Covent Garden. I told him his eyelashes were fabulous (fake) and he said "you should see my c*ck". Sadly I laughed like Barbara Windsor. My very camp friend dragged me over and introduced me as his wife, which was embarrassing as it was, he must have thought I was dense for not noticing my 'husband's' sexuality (he was wearing a tight t-shirt with Princess on the front.)

I also said hello to Johnny Briggs who used to play Mike Baldwin (only relevant, as the above, to UK people ) at Manchester airport. I was knackered and thought I knew him from somewhere. He said hello back and asked how I was. I waffled a bit as I remembered who he was and got embarrassed, he clearly thought I had a screw loose but was lovely.

sylvuz323

Forgot someone, Edward James Olmos while walking out of my high school on a Saturday morning. He was filming in front of our school for the movie Stand and Deliver. Of course there is also Jaime Escalante (RIP), for those who consider him famous....yes he was my Calc teacher in high school.

mpbfmom

Captain Kangaroo (had dinner with him)
Dennis Miller
Edie Brickell
Fran Lebowitz (satirist)

I've heard several famous people speak, but haven't up front & in person met them including: Maya Angelou, Chris Matthews, Cornel West; among others.

amerr

Lance Bass

James Valentine from Maroon 5 and Joshua James were both in my church growing up.

amysj303

oh, Montel Williams was a motivational speaker at my junior high before he had a show. I remember the message, "Mountain, get out of my way!" it was about overcoming obstacles.

surfrgrl1

I went to school with Melissa Etheridge, before she was famous, don't know if that counts!

kiely13

Drew Brees :]
3OH!3
Boodock Saint's producer (CB - Chris Brinker), director (Troy Duffy), and Rocco
Daniel DeSanto

RILEYRED

Richard Simmons,haha,he was odd. John Schneider,from Dukes of Hazzards, OJ Simpson,Joe Nameth.

trainguy917

He wasn't famous at the time, but I had Yankees Outfielder Nick Swisher in speech class when he was in high school.

pattycakes726

Barack Obama (when he was campaigning). He shook our hands and said a few words to my very star-struck son.
Alex Trebeck (when I was on Jeopardy)
Jon BonJovi (my brother went to high school with him)

blink1021

I didn't actually meet him but in 2007 I was sitting next to Chris Brown (before Rhianna) in Richmond, VA airport and I had no clue who he was even after all the 16 year olds on my flight told me who he was I still had no clue ( they all wanted to know if I touched him). I remember sitting there really ticked off at this kid next to me because he was eating a bag of chips and was brushing his crumbs all over me and for some reason he would not speak to anyone even the people he was with. There was a woman with him I thought may have been his mother and I almost asked her to switch seats with me. Looking back on it I should of know because of all the girls crying (and one asked for his autograph) and the big guy who sat across from us. Oh well I probably still wouldn't know who he was if it happened again, but to my defense I had just flown down to Richmond the 4th time that summer because my father was in the hospital so I hadn't slept much.

RicSnyder

Rush Limbaugh
Played golf with Charles Nagy (Pitcher for Cleveland Indians ~'90-~'00)
and Santa Claus – several times. Actually he was just at my house about a week ago.

Bevbl3

These will mainly be known to UK folks and even they may not have heard of some of them!

Status Quo at Schiphol Airport (told Francis Rossi he was my mum's favourite)
Bryan May from Queen in a record shop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (helped him look for a Miracles album)
Marillion - a friend of mine married Steve Rothery the guitarist
Anna Ford - newsreader - El_Rapido and I sat in the same row as her on a flight from London to Manchester and she offered me her sandwich.
Donald Sinden - he told us a joke on an internal flight in Egypt.
Ricky Warwick - was the lead singer with the Almighty at the time - in the guest area at Donington 1991
Brian Robertson - (was Thin Lizzy drummer) - guest area at Donington 1991
Robin George - sang Heartline (looking very skinny - guest area Donington 1991)
The Quireboys - they used to drink in the pub I worked in in Newcastle.

ShapeUpSidney

Ugh, never. I suck at celebrity sightings. And yet, I've dated 2 guys who have both met Steven Tyler while we were dating.

Scratch that...I met that guy from Entourage in SF. I stopped him to ask for directions to a restaurant, and he smiled all slyly. I didn't realize who he was for like 2 blocks. I still have to google him for the name...Kevin Connolly

LuckyLeprechaun

Back in the day, my Uncle Jack was the station director for 1580AM KDAY in Los Angeles, so there aren't too many late 80's-early 90's rap/hip-hop stars I didn't meet. And that was all well and good, until I had the ULTIMATE:

When I was in 7th grade, my aunt used her giant brick cell phone from the Grammy's to have the NKOTB call me at my house.

:blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

No more entries, we have a winner.

Misiaxcore

Dave Hunter came into the restaurant I was a take-out girl at. He got take-out lol.

kristidem

Donny Osmond (my fave and very very nice) a couple times, Marie Osmond, Joey Fatone, KC Jones (basketball hall of famer). Alec Baldwin, who put his arm around me for a photo - I have the cheesiest smile on my face in that pic! Got "live" autographs from Mary Lou Retton, Bart Connors, the tennis playing McInroe brothers, and many others I just can't remember. I spoke to Andrew McCarthy on the phone.

kittytrix

David Crosby
Graham Nash
Nichelle Nichols
Gary Coleman
Pete Rose (I've met tons of baseball players)
Mickey Avalon
Jennifer Lopez
Marc Anthony
Santana
Jaime Jarrin
Ron Cey
Eric Gaugh (Drummer from Sublime, after Brad's death)
Bullet for my Valentine
Nas
The Roots
Fred Savage (They filmed the Wonder Years at my high school. He was a little ****)
Soleil Moon Frye

My brother has met Huell Howser. I'm jealous.

I'm sure there have been more but I can't remember off the top of my head.

Krushchev

Back in the day, my Uncle Jack was the station director for 1580AM KDAY in Los Angeles, so there aren't too many late 80's-early 90's rap/hip-hop stars I didn't meet. And that was all well and good, until I had the ULTIMATE:

When I was in 7th grade, my aunt used her giant brick cell phone from the Grammy's to have the NKOTB call me at my house.

:blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

No more entries, we have a winner.

Oh for sure!

kittytrix

Oh yeah, and I went to school with Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas. His name is Jaime Gomez. He knocked up my friend.

strawberry1969

i was in the WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO video and met George Michael and Andrew Ridgley

mortla

Jim Caviezel.

Oh, and my cousin is (was) Rue McClanahan. I hung out with her while she was in the hospital in New York. She said Betty (as in, Betty WHITE) came by shortly after. We just missed her...

JEALOUS! I am a MAJOR GG fan! Rue was awesome!!!!

DannyMussels

I ran into Ronnie Coleman at the Toronto Pro Supershow. (lol at this pic)


I worked for John Parish (grandfather founded Worth baseball, which partnered with Rawlings and got sold to K2 the snowboard people) He owns a aerodrome, museum of planes, and other stuff. Mad rich. Always chews an unlit cigar.

At the same place I worked for Lamar Alexander (senator of tennesee I believe). Had never seen nor heard of a cordless drill.


Dean Dillon (wrote country songs for brooks & dunn, kenny chesney, george strait, toby keith) Actually pretty normal.


Barney Hanes (represented exxon oil in the 80s after their oil spill, sr partner in an atlanta lawfirm of 800 lawyers) Spend days upon days tackling weeds in his driveway with every method imaginable.

This creature. (heidi newfield)


And a number of other country writers, they all came up as a group, none as 'famous' as the 2 i mentioned. I remember about 6 or 8 of them all with their macbooks daily in the lodge writing songs, when they weren't on the beach jamming, or playing by campfire.

They all leased property owned by the first guy on land he owns. They pay about $25,000 annually for it. Some were there less then 2 weeks of the entire year.

The owners son had a cabin worth a good $1million or more, a little ways down the river.