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[Dissy]

A copule people mentioned meeting, or seeing, several famous people.  So whynot have a thread about all the famous people you've met or know.

Ready?  GO!

What? Me first? Fine.

I use to live in Chicago, born there actually, and my dad use to play basketball with some members of the Chicago Bears.  My dad became fast friends with the late, great Walter "Sweetness" Payton and I met him several times.

Luc (Luke?) Longley was also in my mum's economics class in college.  He use to drive an old Honda Civic hatchback. In order to fit into the car, he had to remove the driverside seat.

I've seen Ah-nuld a few times, once when he was filming Twins, and several times down in Cabo San Lucas.

I've also met Sammy Hagar and his band down in CSL.  They were some awesome dudes.

[öde]

Lee from Steps, I guess. He's a nice guy. I'm not really sure who's famous or not, so I can't think of any others.

[SeanBateman]

After this lets make a thread about who has the biggest penis.

[tania]

hey you can never have too many threads about chuck

[ruyi]

while riding on the bus, i overheard a woman tell the bus driver that she went to high school with john legend.

i saw george lopez walk out of the premiere of miss congeniality 2 at mann's chinese theatre.

also, my grandfather went to college with jiang zemin.

[tania]

as related in a previous post, i saw edward norton in a markham grocery store last september but was too terrified to actually say anything to him and hid in the cereal aisle instead.

i also met the coheed guys when i was 16 and somehow thought they were really great but i think maybe that one counts for negative points now.

[yelley]

i met jason mewes when he hosted some kind of battle of the bands thing at my college.

i met vienna teng (does anybody even know who she is?) and skybox at concerts they gave at notre dame.

and i met jason mraz and talib kweli after a concert that notre dame has every year to deter students from going to the rally in the alley party the first weekend of school. i gave them directions to the rally, which was postponed until after the concert ended.

yaaaaay.

[Liz]

When I was in NYC for choir we went to the Early Show. David Krumholtz (Numbers, Serenity, etc) was on and I got his autograph and a picture with him. He was ridiculously nice to all of the people in to audience and was chatting with everyone.

Also on that trip we had a choir workshop with some Broadway performers. One was playing Raoul in Phantom of the opera at the time, the other was in Rent. They were both really nice and were cracking lots of jokes. I got a picture with them also.

As for musicians, I met all the members of The Spill Canvas after a concert of theirs and got all of their autographs on a poster, which is hanging above my computer. In a similar fashion I met the guys from Minus the Bear while heading to their show. I was going to get in line, they were going to Subway to get some food.

I talked to Ted Leo himself before they started their set, and also Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses on a differ occasion. This is why I get to the shows early so I can stand front and center.

And lastly, I shared a couch with Phil Elv(e)rum (The Microphones/Mt. Eerie) and had a nice chat with him throughout a concert before he went up on stage.

[jhocking]

My favorite celeb story is the time my gf and I barreled past Philip Seymour Hoffman and his son while rushing through Greenwich Village.

[Lunchbox]

I used to work at the Uni bar, so I have served a whole bunch of Australian bands hot chips during their sound checks. I waitressed at Jennifer Hawkins' (in her Miss Universe year) brother's wedding and accidentally stuck my butt in her face while I was offering canapes to someone on the next table.
Also the bastard Bank Manager from the Greater Building Society ads used to be a regular when I worked at an Italian cafe, and every time he spoke to me I wanted to punch him.

[Blue Kitty]

I met Gordie Howe when I was little, and my dad went to school with Glenn Frey and played baseball with him.

[Ladybug]

I met Ricky from Kaiser Chiefs (and saw the other guys, but they were busy carrying stuff, Ricky was just roaming around) at an airport before a festival a couple of years ago. He had the softest hands I've ever felt on a man, and I guess he was a nice guy - dunno, didn't talk too much.

Other than that, just a few minor Norwegian celebrities, none you'd have heard of. A couple of Norwegian football players (John Arne Riise, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Thomas Myhre, Steffen Iversen ++) as well, but more like "Hey, could I get an autograph?" than actually meeting them.

[SeanBateman]

My favorite celeb story is the time my gf and I barreled past Philip Seymour Hoffman and his son while rushing through Greenwich Village.

I thought he was gay.

[Fellyfiasco]

I met Bob Saget in California two years ago, and I saw Johnny Depp at the Premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. I didnt actually speak to him though.

Also,I dont know if this counts as "Meeting" but the lead singer of Boys like girls said he loved me [He mouthed "I lvoe you too" In the middle of playing the Great escape at Warped tour].My friend and I were making the "♥" symbol with our hands and pointing at him,and he apparently saw me and noticed. My friend pretty much went catatonic for a few seconds and then snapped out of it and we started screaming bloody murder,and the girls in front of us turned back and looked like they wanted to murder us. After they finished we snuck around back [You were only supposed to get in if you had a wrist band] and we yelled his name and he smiled and waved at us, but then security came so we bolted. It was a fun day.

[jhocking]

I thought he was gay.

I don't think so, and anyway gay couples sometimes adopt children.

ADDITION: Wikipedia says he has two children with his longtime girlfriend.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I met Dicky Barret (The Might Mighty Bosstones) when I was 10. It seemed cool back in the day. And I saw Russel Crowe at the zoo. I would have gone and said hi but he was with his hot wife and inexplicably hideous child so I thought he might beat me to death with a household item (this was soon after the phone incident).

[SeanBateman]

I thought he was gay.

I don't think so, and anyway gay couples sometimes adopt children.

ADDITION: Wikipedia says he has two children with his longtime girlfriend.

I meant you, Joe Hocking.

[Skibas_clavicle]

Dennis Leary past by me in New York City. That counts, right?

[jhocking]

I meant you, Joe Hocking.

She's my beard.

[Darkbluerabbit]

I have had my picture taken with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. 

I have also been quite close to a couple of the major Democratic U.S. presidential candidates.  I worked for a non-profit that thought it would be worthwhile to wave signs and generally annoy them. 

A few years ago I had a conversation about playing bass with Richard Davis.  Kudos if you know who Richard Davis is. 

[FUBAR]

I talked to John Lovitz once while my friend was cutting sushi for him at a Bristol Farms grocery store.

[ForteBass]

hey you can never have too many threads about chuck

[Storm Rider]

i also met the coheed guys when i was 16 and somehow thought they were really great but i think maybe that one counts for negative points now.

jesus it is like you are asking me to make fun of you

[Slick]

This one time I

[mooface]

the time my gf and I

She's my beard.

???

[mummbly_joe]

At warped tour 2003 I was running to get to the mosh pit when I slammed into this guy with huge green mohawk and thought nothing of it untill a few sets later when I saw Rancid on stage. Turns out the guy i ran into was Tim.

I live near Vancouver and was at a battle of the bands for a local radio station at the the Roxy, one of the judges was Chad Krouger( Nickleback) who happened to be absolutly shitfaced. I was up at the bar and about to order my drink when chad was apparently getting people to back out so they could kick some guy out. As he is walk ing by a turn around to see wft is going on and he was right behind me and ended up with both my tits in his hands. At the time I was 5'3" with a 6g septum ring, and the look that I gave him was enough for him to jump back and yell OMG I am so sorry, and then run away. I scared a "rockstar".

[PretentiousYoungSuitors]

I saw Khofi Annan when i was in London a couple years ago, around the time of G8 in 2007.  Then I met Ralph Nader in at Powershift in November.  Bowling for Soup was at my school last semester, i didn't go to the show, but they made a huge scene in the cafeteria belittling the staff.  Finally (I think) the guy from Killswitch Engage used toteach guitar at the local music shop, and he was a guest judge at the talent show at my old high school.

Oh yeah, if Derrick Jackson or Bill Mckibben count (they are big-time journalists) they came to my school too and i had to do Q&A forums with them for class.

Oh and Ben Kweller gave my g/f a hug and me a high 5 at a concert at Pearl Street last spring.

[RobbieOC]

I ended up at a beach party in Hawaii at the same time as Kelly Slater and Gabrielle Reece (the volleyball player). Also, this was the same time Lost was first filming, and I could have sworn I saw Domonic Monaghan, but I can't confirm that.

When I was in Hong Kong, some of my friends met Jackie Chan, but I wasn't there for that, so it probably doesn't count, huh?

[Caiphana]

Oh, heavens... I used to go to Disneyland a lot, and there were always "famous" people there.

I saw Nicholas Cage and his daughter getting on California Screamin. I met John Ritter about a week before his death at California Adventure, the entire cast of "Just Shoot Me." I was at my friend's dad's restaurant and sat in the booth over from Mel Gibson... at a drama festival, there was some kid from the cast of All That, whom I beat in a cold reading event... *shrugs* I live in Orange County. I forget who all I've seen. I worked in a high-end entertainment store (think those stores that build super rich people those home theatres), and several very big names came in, but I'm literally not allowed to talk about it. Oh, and our beaches always have those surfer kids with way too much money. I know a couple Moto X "stars" (Kyle Loza goes to my church... he's the guy who won best trick at those extreme olympics thingies... I forget what it's called. Meh).

I actually "know" one big "Hollywood" person (he's family), but I feel like a dirty little whore when I name drop like that. Suffice it to say he's on TV every night, and he came to my wedding.

[Boro_Bandito]

My Dad went to High school with Patrick Swayze, apparently they were decent friends, were in the same drama class one year, and my Dad crashed at his house after a party. I've seen the yearbook. So I believe.

I've shook hands with Paul Simon and Bill Clinton on separate occasions, and said some brief words with them. Paul Simon I saw in Central Park when we first went up there a couple years ago. And I high-fived Wierd Al at the concert I went to for him after the show.

I saw Harrison Ford once, but didn't get very close.

And I was really close friends' with the son of the local Weatherman Ron Roberts back in Lubbock, and ate dinner at their house several different times. But that one isn't as cool as the others.

Edit:
Its Carlos Diaz isn't it? I bet she's talking about Carlos Diaz guys.

[mummbly_joe]

Caiphana unleash your inner whore and let it out. You know you wanna. And now I am curious, so if not for you, do it for me, some person on a forum that you dont even know.

[Slick]

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance.

[jhocking]

Slick, sit down for a minute. I have to ask you something important. Are you doing drugs? For a while now you've been talking kinda funny. I didn't say anything at first because I didn't want to make a big deal, but it's been weeks (months maybe, I can't remember exactly when it started) and it's really starting to concern me.

[Slick]

Joe, thanks for asking.
No, I'm not on drugs.
I don't know what it is.
It is kind of weird.

[Johnny C]

He has basically shamed a bunch of lesser threads and posters over the last six months. He also beat the shit out of the Postmodern Image Macros thread.

It is disconcerting but also really entertaining.

On-topic, Canadian readers will appreciate this one. I met Star! TV personality and minor sub-celebrity Sean Gehon at a friend's going-away party prior to Sean's time on MuchMusic. I beat the absolute hell out of him in Scene It! and he was not pleased.

[doki]

my ex's dad went to art college with John Lennon, Lil Eric Clapton, and some of the floyd guys (i dont remember which ones)
when i was 6 or so we saw the Doug Anthony Allstars and Tim Ferguson stole my brother (pram and all), Paul mcdermot tried to sell him

yo

[Caiphana]

Who the hell is Carlos Diaz?

[Narr]

I went to junior high school with Brenden Yurie, lead singer of Panic! at the Disco.  Kid is a major douchebag and makes shitty music, but I knew him.  I also know a lot of people who were friends with Brandon Flowers of The Killers.  Something about being Mormon I guess, you tend to "know" every other famous Mormon person.

I've met and shook hands with Gladys Knight.  My dad's played golf with a number of famous sports celebrities from Las Vegas (Greg and Mike Maddux, and Andre Agassi).

I also have met and shook hands with Nevada Senator John Ensign, attended a church Sunday session in Nevada Senator Harry Reid's ward in Washington D.C., and passed by Hilary Clinton in a tour of the Senate building on a vacation with the folks to the nation's capital a couple years back.

[Gemmwah]

My dad dropped a piano on Kriss Akabusi's foot when he was helping us move.

Har har.

[öde]

Who?

[valley_parade]

Lesseeeeeee...

Sarah Chalke and Johnny Pesky.

Also, Jake from The Casualties, Quentin and Ryder from Vaux, and Mark from The Unseen.

[†]

I met that guy from Tool once, he was pretty fucking arrogant.

[valley_parade]

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

I think Mari won the thread, guys. At least to me.

[Patrick]

I hung out with Bo Diddley for like half an hour, and I met one of the Drifters in Sea-Tac Int'l Airport. I've met John Penney, who is only truly famous in air racing circles, and Brian Shul, an SR-71 pilot and famed author. I've hung out with Steve Hinton, who has flown just about every airplane stunt you've ever seen in the movies. I talked to Dave Lerner back when he was still playing bass with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. I met John Mayall and got his autograph, he was a fucking asshole.

Also, you know that guy who did the cover art for The Sims, The Sims 2, and just about all the expansion packs? Yeah I jam with him whenever I'm back in my hometown and I'm best friends with both of his sons. The only guy I've ever paid for guitar lessons? He's played several gigs with his band at the Whiskey A Go-Go. I've jammed with a man who has opened for B.B. King, Santana, Ray Charles, and many others.

tl;dr lots

[öde]

Kanye West is my avatar?

[2wenty7]

The only (remotely) famous person i've met is Bill Oddie, and that was in Ikea in Wembley.

How's that for a claim to fame.

[Ladybug]

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

I think Mari won the thread, guys. At least to me.

I didn't really "meet" him, though, more like "Hey, can I get an autograph?" and "Yeah, sure.". I think I've lost it, though, which kinda sucks :/

But yeah, he's pretty damn awesome. More football players/people should be like him.

ETA: I'd love to meet Bjørn Dæhlie. He's just..awesome. He was an idol of mine when I was a kid, and I wasn't even that into skiing.

[ledhendrix]

My mum met Robert plant who lent her his coat, thought that was pretty cool. I personally havn't met anyone famous though.

[SeanBateman]

I really hate this thread, but Caiphana's obvious desire to have people beg to know what C-List Pseudoceleb is "family" was nauseating.

[öde]

Hey Kieffer, how far can you piss?