Have you ever seen a celebrity in real life?

[Apple Of Sodom]

I think we need to define what a celebrity is. Some dude that played short stop for a baseball team for a season in the 90s is not a celebrity. Someone who had 15 minutes of fame on a reality show is not a celebrity. If you have to explain who they are then they are probably not really a celebrity.

 

[sdifox]

Saul Rubinek. Coworker and I were in the same sushi restaurant, we just said hi to him and did not bother him beyond that.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Thankfully, I wouldn't know what a celebrity looked like even if I passed one on the street.

 

[z1ggy]

Nope but I hear a lot of them are douches. At leas the A listers.

 

[Aikouka]

A friend and I got hammered with Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins at the Hyatt lounge, Jared got sick and threw up in a big flower pot. They tried to stick me with the tab when I went to the restroom, but I caught them attempting to sneak out the back. We ended up playing low-card for it, Jared lost. He just had a shitty night, all around.

I would expect that from Dean, but not Sam! I guess that's what you get for trusting a hunter and a fallen angel.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I stayed at a hotel with the Lakers a few years ago...so I saw Kobe and Odom, etc... in the lobby after they had a practice on game day. I didn't speak to them, but saw them heading to the elevators. I also stayed in a hotel with the NY Giants in the 90s talked with a few of the lineman in the lobby and the Jacksonville Jaguars about 6 years ago (spoke to a few of the guys at Starbucks).

Willie Nelson
Don McLean

I'm sure others, but can't think of any right now.

One of my friends got run over by Jerry Springer at O'Hare when he came out of the bathroom.

Another one of my friends sat next to the Iron Shiek on an airplane.
It'd probably be like this though these days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QllFV4D-PE

 

[Triumph]

Outside of going to concerts and shows where it is expected, i honestly dont think i have ever seen a celebrity just out and about. Im also prettyoblivious to those sirt of things so i probably wouldnt recognize someone anyway.

The only remotely relevant story is seeing kelsey grammar outside a theater where he wa ssigning autographs before getting in his limo. He had some mid 40s overtanned and over bleached bimbo hanging on him and whining, "Kelsey, I want to go to the party!" Kelsey's reply was absolutely stunning not in words but in his voice - some kind of weird whiney New Jersey trash combined with Norm Macdonalds impression of Burt Reynolds, interspersed with gross gum chewing smacking sounds. Not what i expected Frasier Crane to sound like.

 

[momeNt]

Hmm... let's see.

John Travolta
Kelly Preston
Tom Cruise
Greta Van Susteren (even more hideous in real life if you can imagine)
Jason Lee (not funny in real life)
Kirstie Alley.

 

[child of wonder]

I wonder if he thought your wife was a bit of a dick.

No, just giving him a hard time about how he was getting his own coffee and that he should cut in line being that he had a show in 30 minutes.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Mom was good friends with Rick Reuschel's mother-in-law, so I got to meet him in my living room when I was around 7, (he was a starting Cubs pitcher)

Met Oprah in the shops of the Drake Hotel, very nice and personable, she was just getting to be insanely rich at that point and only ridiculously rich.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert at Roger's wedding, both very cool, and both missed.
Jeremy Roenick and Chris Chelios at a bar in Chicago, I was a bit lit and don't remember too much
Arnold Schwarzenegger at a book signing back in 1980 or so.
Joe Walsh at an impromptu concert at the North Beach boat house (Joe is possibly the coolest man on earth)
Steve Dahl (Very, very popular Chicago radio personality in the 70's, 80's and 90's)
Angelo Moore from Fishbone kicked me in the forehead when he did a stage dive at Metro, apologized, and I got to do a stage dive with him after that.

Tim Kazurinsky from SNL and Police Academy movies lived in a town I used to work in and met him several times. Incredibly nice, down to earth guy, would even initiate conversations with me

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Hmm... let's see.

John Travolta
Kelly Preston
Tom Cruise
Greta Van Susteren (even more hideous in real life if you can imagine)
Jason Lee (not funny in real life)
Kirstie Alley.

Scientology convention???

 

[PrinceofWands]

Several (if we include all public personalities, and not just actors/actresses), and I really don't notice much as I'm not taken with 'celebrity fever'. Grew up with Brian Thompson for instance.

 

[alkemyst]

The help? Why do you feel the need to cut people down every time you post?

When Bill Nunn came in and started renting cars from me I didn't even know who he was. He actually asked me if I knew who he was and I said that I did not. I think he liked that (I think he was letting a GF use the cars he rented and he would keep them for weeks at a time).

Oh, my friends and I saw Ashley Judd in Long Beach when she was dating Dario Franchitti, we were in the pit lane area and one of my friends asked her for her autograph but she denied him. We also saw Paul Newman numerous times along with his wife once. I have Dario's autograph and Mario Andretti's autograph as well. We saw Dennis Rodman in the pits at the Long Beach GP one year too.

Not trying to cut ya down bro, but that's the facts. Some are more open if you ran into them in the open, but if you are waiting on them it's usually not fair as they are a captive audience.

It's no different than me as a Network Engineer and/or PC/Server technician being bombarded by 'help desk' questions once an employee finds out my occupation.

Like I mentioned though I originally read this thread as being 'friends' with a celebrity...not just seeing one.

 

[Nebor]

Googling idiot chokes on pretzel solves that pretty quickly. Adding Texas to it is just cheating really.

Still not getting it. :\

 

[alkemyst]

I also forgot I rode the bus/had the same bus stop as these two. Bryan was in my grade throughout high school except the very end of senior year when each of them would transfer to Beverly Hills High School so that would be their Alta Mater.

Bryan Dattilo (Days of our Lives as Lucas and also did Gaydar )
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202182/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Kristin Dattilo (CHiPs, Janie in Janie's got a gun video, Chris Isaak show, much more)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0202184/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

 

[SolMiester]

I knew Craig Charles of Red Dwarf fame just before he got the part...Used to have a few parties at his house back in Stockwell London, before he left up north to start the show....

 

[olds]

I almost had sex with Salma Hayek once. I had a chubby but she wasn't around.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Not trying to cut ya down bro, but that's the facts. Some are more open if you ran into them in the open, but if you are waiting on them it's usually not fair as they are a captive audience.

It's no different than me as a Network Engineer and/or PC/Server technician being bombarded by 'help desk' questions once an employee finds out my occupation.

Like I mentioned though I originally read this thread as being 'friends' with a celebrity...not just seeing one.

Fair enough. I was the manager of a car rental office in Los Angeles so it wasn't like I was "the help" I was just someone he was conducting business with.

 

[momeNt]

Scientology convention???

$50,000 a head, I've almost met my theta master.

Are you also a believer?

 

[chihlidog]

Mario Lemeuix. Bumped into him walking down the street. Being a pretty big Pens fan, I was pretty shocked. I simply said "Hello, Mr. Lemeuix". He nodded, smiled, said "Hi" and that was it.

 

[KK]

Mario Lemeuix. Bumped into him walking down the street. Being a pretty big Pens fan, I was pretty shocked. I simply said "Hello, Mr. Lemeuix". He nodded, smiled, said "Hi" and that was it.

Thats cool.

The only person I recall seeing out in public was Larry King, he was walking I guess back toward the CNN center here in Atlanta. Boy, he is a skinny dude.

 

[Ichinisan]

... Being a pretty big Penis fan, ...

That's how I read it.

 

[foghorn67]

Tina Fey in the wild. She was eating lunch at outdoor patio setting. Didn't know who she was until I plopped down at a table next to her. Completely beautiful, sans make up.

 

[AViking]

Yeah charity events are a really good place to see celebrities. They're all dicks there though. I think they go just because they have to. They all look miserable.

 

[xBiffx]

Sat next to Dr. Drew on a plane ride to LA. Bumped into Ernie Hudson while standing in line for coffee and talked for a few. Met Charlton Heston just before he passed. Talked to Rob Zombie for about five minutes back stage when I was in college. Talked to Paul Oakenfold at an after party for a few minutes. Got to meet Shannon Elizabeth because she is cousins with one of my classmates in college.

Can't think of any others.