Biggest Celebrity You've Met..

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I saw this on another forum (give some love to celticsblog.com) and i thought i'd bring it here ..

My Aunt saw Kevin Mchale back when he played for the C's and she says he was really tall.. obviously .. but she didnt know who he was so she told him he should be a basketball player.

My other aunt saw Antoine Walker at Stop n Shop waitng in line to check out. He was with someone else possibly JR Bremer, she didnt know who he was but he starting talking to her and eventually paid for her stuff .. cool guy ..

My Grandmother met Robert Parish at a charity event ..


Those really dont count, but I thought the stories where cool haha ..

I met Twitch (Motocross Star) at Miami airport. He was with some other MotoX stars but i only recognized him and he gladly signed stuff for me and took some pictures.

I met the Kratt brothers and the Franklin Park Zoo and got some autographs, I idolized them at this point in my life .. it was a good day.

Lastly, New clippers guard Jason Williams. I Met him at AAU Nationals in Orlando 2 weeks ago .. He was getting a pretzel with his wife .. or just some girl (idk if hes married) I was behind him and we talked for a bit.
 
I ran into a group of the SHowtime Lakers in a downtown LA hotel during high school. I also met Dudley Moore down at a restaurant in Newport Beach...we were both celebrating our birthdays.
 
The king from robin hood men in tights. i saw jeremy irons in NY...and I actually met PAMELA ANDERSON in London at this fancy shopping place. And i have to tell everyone...she looks BETTER in person
 
Geeez, film I guess would be Tom Hanks who I bumped into on the set when working on a movie. Ran into plenty of minor tv celebs on the lot, also Stevie Nicks in the commissary. I met Carl Weathers on the set of Action Jackson in Old Sac (funny story, we asked his stunt man for an autograph first... whoops!)

Music, far too many to name, Stevie would probably be the biggest but hung out with a number of punk, metal and rockabilly musicians before and after shows, all of Tesla when I lived in Sacramento. My brother's band played a gig with the Deftones when they were all in high school. Rode in an elevator with the 5,6,7,8's, very cute/funny gals. I would shop at the same Star market in Boston as Ric Ocasek of the Cars, met him and Paulina on several occasions. One time we were buying dinner to host a friends birthday and didn't have a present, we bought a birthday card and got him to sign it. Very cool guy!

Sports, well I have met a ton of bmxers over the years when I rode (Mat Hoffman, Dave Mirra, Ryan Nyquist being the most famous, Rick Moliterno and the Standard BMX team in the mid 90s being the most fun)... a few old school skaters, Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero. Saw Spud Webb in Tower Records when he was a King, got his autograph. Channing Frye watched one of my kickball games and said hi to us afterwards and I've bumped into other Blazers in town. The two biggest though would be Jack Nicklaus who literally fell down a step at the Masters tournament and I almost had to catch him and Dan Marino also at the Masters.

I met a handful of California politicians when my mom owned her restaurant. She met Muhammed Ali among many others who dined there including at least one President, that is one of the few that I am extremely jealous of.

And I was very briefly related to Frank Sinatra through marriage.
 
Let's see, I played pinball next to ICE-T in Chico, CA once... he was there for some anti-drug talk and I was cleaning up, yet he did terrible... honestly, I less met him than I made him mad as he was being owned by a fat little kid.


I met BEN FOLDS after one of his shows in San Francisco... he was really short and complimented me on my Weezer t-shirt.

I met JAMES GARNER at his mom's funeral that I was helping work... my wife actually made the arrangements with him... she also made the funeral arrangements for GEORGE HAMILTON's sister with George.

Hmmm... seems like there are more, just cannot place them right now.
 
Enrique Iglesias – Doesn’t speak English very well. I was working a concert in San Diego and he was refusing to perform because the projectors were too large.

Macy Gray – She was running from the cops when I met her. We had to push her to the opening act. Then after she performed, she got back in a car and continued to run.

Tom Hanks – Remember….his kids went to Sacramento Country Day School. Colin was a senior when I was in 5th grade. Colin got voted “Most Inspirational Player” on the high school soccer team. According to my coach (who was also Colin’s coach) the trophy is next to Tom’s Oscars. Anyway, I met Tom a few times. He only gives out handshakes when he’s at his kids events because he didn’t want to take any attention away from them. Class act

Ricky Martin – He was the lead act for a show I was working in San Diego. All hell broke loose when he came back stage. After the concert, we actually had some people following us home, thinking we were Ricky Martins car. Luckily our driver was an ex-cop, so he called the police and they were pulled over.
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She bangs....

Erin Carter – Great story. I was playing basketball in a private parking lot backstage at a concert, and guess who runs out…the 15 year old Erin (I think he was 15). I was 18 at the time, and had a significant height difference. He threw back his hair (trying to act hard I guess) and asked “you a baller?” I told him I played, and he told me we were playing one on one. I extended my hand and said “what’s up, I’m Ryan. What’s your name?” He laughed with a “yeah”, like I wasn’t serious. “No really, what’s you name”. This seemed to knock some of his swagger out. In any case, I destroyed him. There are some great pictures of me blocking his shots. He whined and called a lot of fouls. Haha.


Jessica Simpson – Sooo hot...but damn, she’s short. Yeah i was a little dork for wearing my Sunglasses on my head. Whatever, i was in high school.
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Me, Jessica and my sis back in 2001

Tyrese – “Yo Tyrese, why didn’t you take off your shirt during your performance? The girls would have gone crazy” . “I don’t know, I was feeling a little puffy today”

Marc Mcgrath –I watched the 2000 Lakers vs. Suns playoff game with him backstage. He was a great guy. You can always tell good artists when they stay for the whole concert. We were also joined by Hanson.

LLCoolJ - This guy is HUGE

Christina Agulera – We call her “80 pounds of *****” for a reason

Mario Lopez – He saw me dressed as a cow at game 7. He ran out and asked me if he could get a picture with me (how ironic). I let him grab my utters for the picture.

John Landis - He’s the director of Animal House, Coming to America, Thriller…a comic genius. He visited Savannah College of Art and Design when I was there for school. I got to have dinner with him and a bunch of other students.

Other pop stars: Ja Rule, O-town, No Doubt, 98 degrees, Jordan Night (he’s a punk), Shaggy, Eifel 65 (remember the song “I’m blue”), Nappy Roots, Jennifer Love Hewitt (sweetheart), Lyonel Richie, Bowling For Soup (they came to my aunts place the next day to watch the Angels game), Brandy..some others

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J-Love, me and my sis

Sports Stars:
Drew Gooden: Played poker with him in Vegas. When I told him I was from Sacramento, he said “man, that place is crazy! One time I had a guy follow me down the street yelling “DREW!!”

Allen Iverson: I’ve mentioned this story before. I met him at a hotel bar in Philly.

Chris Webber, Summer Sanders, Lebron James and the entire 1992 kings team.
 
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Ryan@CU said:
Tom Hanks – Remember….his kids went to Sacramento Country Day School. Colin was a senior when I was in 5th grade. Colin got voted “Most Inspirational Player” on the high school soccer team. According to my coach (who was also Colin’s coach) the trophy is next to Tom’s Oscars. Anyway, I met Tom a few times. He only gives out handshakes when he’s at his kids events because he didn’t want to take any attention away from them. Class act
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I totally forgot that I used to play inline hockey with Colin quite a bit with some friends that went to SCDS (actually I went there too for 2nd-8th grades). I think he was a freshman when we were Seniors. Cool kid.
 
Hubie Brown taught me (and my high school team) a couple of plays and defensive sets 6 or 7 years ago. It was cool, because I went to a very small school in Canada
 
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Ah, this takes me back... to the days when I was working as a pastry chef at Royal National Theatre's Mezzanine restaurant in London. At the time, I was studying, lectures were 9.30am-16.30pm Mon-Fri and the only jobs I could get were in restaurants or as a security guard. I desperately needed money as I had to pay full, foreign student fees (as non-EU citizen, this was years before UK gave me full resident rights). I literally met 100's of celebrities there. You see, when you work at a nice 50-a-head restaurant that is actually inside the theatre and tucked away from street traffic (and on the "wrong" side of teh river Themse) you have nothing to do during the play (up to three hours in the middle of your shift). So, sous chef, sauciere and I would go to the Green Room and hang out (play chess, talk and drink super cheap Carlsberg on tap). Actors, directors, assorted minor celebrities would just come in and out and hang out as this was off-limits to general publi. Saw all the usual suspects - Judi Dench, Fiona Shaw, Jude Law, writer/director of Angels in America (forgot his name), bunch of british actors whose names now escape me. It was there where I saw Wallace Shaw from Princess Bride (although back then I recognized him only from My Dinner With Andre). He said hi and thanked me for wonderful meal (I didn't bother telling him that I didn't work in the canteen) and offered to buy me a beer. John Cleese came in once and I froze, I probably stared at him for good 10 minutes before I realized it.

On the restaurant side, Harold Pinter was a regular guest. At the time he was a very strong voice in defence of Serbia and what he called unfair "demonization of Serbia and Serbian people in the West". He heard that I am Serbian so he he started saying hi and asking about "family back home".

The biggest one would probably be Pricess Diana. Once a year, there'd be a big do at the Theatre on the same day when Evening Standard Theatre awards were given out. After the award ceremony 800 VIPs would descend on our restaurant/main hall for set lunch. We'd come in at 2am and start preparing. Around the lunch time, I was just finishing about 2400 pieces of chocolate dipped fruit that I had to decorate and put on trays. This was messy business at the best of times, when you have to tray-up 2400 of them in no time you tend to forget health and safety regulations. One of the organizers stormed into the kitchen and started shouting at me to stop licking my fingers "Princess Diana is in the room and she can see you through the glass on the kitchen door...". I really needed a Southwest Airlines one way ticket to get away that time. ;)

I already mentioned in the film draft thread that I met Johnny Depp and Jim Jarmush back stage at the show during a film fest in Belgrade.

But all that is nothing compared to the stories my wife can tell. She worked at Up All Night, 7-24 restaurant on Fulham Road in the heart of Chelsea. Almost every night, somebody really famous would show up with their huge posse. I don't remember whether it was Tomn Cruise or Brad Pitt, but I am sure it was one of them who left 500 tip for a burger and a soda. That's like $1000. Apparently, the other waitress who was also working that night spun a whole sop story of how she cannot afford here school fees and Tom/Brad left 1000 pounds tip (500 for each waitress as it would be unfair to give it all to just one). To this day, I have some clothes that my wife bought me with that money. Before then I just wore what I brought with me from Serbia untill it desintegrated.

As for athletes - pretty easy, all former Yugoslavian players born between 68-73 (Vlade, Kukoc, Drazen and Aco Petrovic, Dino Radja, Vrankovic etc.). Toni Kukoc is the only one who recognizes me now (or is very good at pretending so).
 
will wright (of "simcity," the "sims," and soon to be "spore" fame). guy's brain is just on a completely different level. when they first finished "the sims," he talked about how he created a house with a giant backyard, built a maze-like swimming pool, had two girls chase after a guy in the pool, and then he controlled the guy to avoid them, a la pacman. just a super smart dude.

okay, maybe he's not a real celebrity, but he is to geeks!
 
I'm thinking I am going to avoid posting in this thread so as to avoid sounding like a name dropper. ;)
 
I met Bob Hope briefly and knew Jack Johnson in college, otherwise the rest are just run-ins in bars and restaurants while living in LA:

Michael Keaton
Sean Penn
David Spade
Linda Hamilton
Billy Bob Thornton
Chad Lowe
Oliver Stone (I taught his son)

I'm sure there are others, but I can't remember them right now. Oh, I did have Marg Helgenberger and some of the real CSI's they consult with on the show come and speak to my students in Santa Monica. That was pretty cool.
 
D-Mass said:
I'm pretty sure that's the point... :p

Come on...let's hear 'em...
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Let's put it this way -- you had the L.A. advantage. I have the Ivy League lawyer Washigton/New York corridor advantage. Put another way, do U.S. Presidents count? :p
 
Robin Williams and George Lucas have eaten lunch at my restaurant.
I met Cheech and we hung out a bit.
I met Carlos Santana backstage at the Bammies and was sitting right next to John Lee Hooker. I met a lot of famous musicians that night.
I was introduced to Baba Olatunji backstage at one of his shows.
Michael Franti, The Counting Crows and Darby Slick have all opened for my old band.
We opened for Jefferson Starship a couple of times.
I have met Shawn White, Todd Richards, Danny Kass, Jeremy Jones and pretty much most of the pro snowboarders.
Roger Hodgeson from Supertramp used to be my next door neighbor.
I could go on and on.
 
I met pretty much all the pioneer mountain bikers and got to hang out with them.. I used to race downhill, and was sponsored by Santa Cruz mountain bikes. Back in 1993-1995 when I was sponsored I was at all the festivals in CA, NV, UT, AZ, CO, OR, and other states. Mammoth Mountain was the most fun I had ever had. I got to meet John Tomac, Missy Giovi, Ned Overend, Julie Furtado and pretty much all the others.. Team Yeti had the best parties :D

Also my best friend from San Diego is real good friends with Corey Haim (yah I know)... Every time I am down there we go and drink, but nobody really recognizes him.

And when I was in the New York New York Casino in Vegas I was in the same elevator as George Hamilton. I had no idea but my GF was trying to tell me w/o saying anything.. It was me her, him and his wife/gf in the elevator. That was it.. I had no idea so I didn't say anything to him. then she showed me that Old Navy commercial with him and I was like oooooohhhhh yah... lol.. I guess he appreciated me not making a big deal about him though lol.
 
Bricklayer said:
Let's put it this way -- you had the L.A. advantage. I have the Ivy League lawyer Washigton/New York corridor advantage. Put another way, do U.S. Presidents count? :p
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That's right, you're a lawyer and a politico! I don't want you to compromise yourself or anything, but maybe if you just tell us which politicians are real douchebags and which ones just seem so from afar, I'd certainly appreciate it. ;)
 
bozzwell said:
That's right, you're a lawyer and a politico! I don't want you to compromise yourself or anything, but maybe if you just tell us which politicians are real douchebags and which ones just seem so from afar, I'd certainly appreciate it. ;)
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Or which ones AREN'T...whichever is easier...

;)
 
Jerryaki said:
that's awesome!
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I'll qualify it a bit...he was well-known at UCSB at the time, playing shows in and around town. I was in the teacher education program with his then fiance' and worked with her a lot at several different schools. We had a few parties in our program that he attended. So it wasn't "knew" in the sense that he and I were college buddies, but we met on several occasions.
 
My parents teach 3rd and 5th grade in Nevada City, and Michael Moore's sister lives there. Her daughter was in my mothers class, and Michael came and did a talk there and we had a meal afterwards together. He is such a funny and personable guy. And yes, he is very big.

I also waited on Ricky Williams and Jim Otto in said Nevada City. Jim Otto tips like crap:mad::mad::mad:.

I graduated in the same Chico state class as Aaron Roger's brother, and met him at a bowling alley a few days before graduation (That was also the first time that I ever broke a 200 score).
 
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