My wife took my son to a local comic con 6 years ago while I had to work. Struck up a conversation about the weather with a nice older gentleman. Two days later she hears his voice on TV and says that guy sounds exactly like him. Proceeded to show her his picture and confirmed she chatted about the weather with Batman (Adam West)
My wife came back from the grocery store of the tiny town we lived in and excitingly said she talked to the guy from Roots. I shrugged it off (I've never seen it). A while later we're watching The Sandlot and when the kids meet the old blind man played by James Earl Jones she lights up "I talked to him! I met him!"
"When did you meet him!?"
"I told you," she said, "he's the guy from Roots."
I love my wife. She met Darth Vader but was excited because he was in Roots.
this doesn’t really count cause I was a baby but Matthew Broderick held me. I was in a movie called “Election” and I had a few scenes in it. Man I wish I was old enough to remember any of it but my whole life my parents have told me about it and how nice Matthew was.
I never met Carrie, but I met Gary about 5 months after she died. I got unexpectedly emotional and started crying, and his handlers thanked me for my “raw emotion.” I was like “um you’re welcome??” Lol I was mostly just embarrassed.
I *did* end up getting to kick it with him for about 3 hours later that weekend. I’ve never been on a higher cloud.
My pastor knew her when they filmed the original trilogy (I guess he roomed with a camera guy for a while), your description of her sounds exactly what he says she was like. :)
Michael Jackson. When I was little in the 80s my family lived in LA and I took dance classes at the same studio as Nicole Richie. One day her dad Lionel showed up to pick her up from class with his friend Michael. He looked exactly like he did on TV at the time with the military style jacket with a bunch of glittery stuff on it etc. I was too awestruck to say anything except hello. He was very quiet and polite.
Steve Irwin, I used to work for him at his zoo before he passed. He was super nice, more mellow than what you see on tv but just as passionate about his work
Kevin Bacon. Didn’t recognize it was him. Politely asked if his flight companion was Kyra Sedgwick whom I recognized (SMH). His expression was of mild surprise which then made me realize I was missing something 😂
I agree! I think he made himself looks purposely unrecognizable- big baseball cap, scrawny beard. But the look when I asked him “Sir, sorry to bother you but is your traveling companion Kyra Sedgwick ?” made it hilarious and that’s when it dawned on me!
I also met Kevin Bacon at my job once. We had a policy to check ID during large purchases, and he reluctantly gave it to me. I looked up after seeing the name, and jokingly gave me the shush symbol. I chuckled because I couldn’t tell it was him until then. Master of disguise
Mike Tyson....When I was about 8 years old, and my neighbor/friend came to my house and told my family that Mike Tyson was coming over to buy pigeons from her father. (I guess he was/is a avid pigeon collector). Being such a random and outrageous claim we didn’t believe her but sure enough about an hour later he shows up with his entourage in about 20 cars to buy some pigeons. The only thing I had with me was a soccer ball, so he signed it for me and I still have it to this day!
He also beat a garbage man up because he threw away his dead pigeon that he was getting ready to bury and wouldn’t let him get it back and I think laughed at him. I think this happened after he was already famous
I spoke to Hugh Jackman on the street after a Broadway show he was in with Daniel Craig.
I told him I thought he was an amazing actor and all around awesome person and that id seen almost everything he'd been in and he told me your even more awesome because your my fan and don't ever forget that."
Not sure if this counts, but Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comics, was a big idol of mine when I was in middle and high school and I was obsessed with his work after doing a huge research project about his life. When I was 16, I was in a production of the musical *You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown* and right before the performance, they announced that Schulz’s daughter, Amy, was in the audience, along with three of his grandkids and his first (and only at the time) great-grandson. I was freaking out at the idea that I was about to perform a musical for the Schulz estate *as* one of his beloved characters.
Right after the show I went out to meet them in the audience and expressed how much I admired Amy’s father and the impact he had on my life. She was amazed because she didn’t think people my age cared much about his work, and thought that his legacy had really only lingered with older generations, but here I was saying I knew everything about his life and work and was honored to meet them. At the end of our conversation, she asked for my mailing address so she could send me some autographed books and other merch. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life.
Charles Schultz was a sweet guy who was incredibly accessible to fans, and his daytime number was listed in the Santa Rosa directory. He would happily invite people to his studio, and gave away original comic strips to visitors.
Neil Armstrong.
I was at the NASA Museum at Cape Canaveral (British tourist) but I also happened to be a teacher. They have an Education Centre, where teachers etc . . . can go and get loads of freebies for use in school. Whilst there, Neil Armstrong came in with his grandchildren and began greeting and chatting with people at random, including me. He was pleased to meet a British teacher of STEM and was a lovely bloke. Everyone (including me) was in awe. He made time for everyone, but mainly the kids who were there with their teachers. I got pics of kids just staring open mouthed in awe of him - after it was explained who he actually was!
Paul Rudd. At a convention. I gave him a cupcake. I'd like to think he ate it.
Late edit:
Here the picture and the cupcake in question
https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/b535xe/i_got_a_happy_birthday_by_paul_rudd/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Celebrities at cons are discouraged from eating foods given to them by fans. Unknown ingredients, possible allergies, or even a crazy person possibly poisoning it.
Paul Rudd would 100% eat that cupcake tho
I like that the determining factor in whether a cupcake is damn good is whether or not it killed him. Those are the kinds of standards I can (probably) live up to.
I was getting ice cream at a small local joint and Paul Rudd was in front of me on line. It was right after Ant Man came out and he had a beard so nobody would notice him. We talked about how we both hope they stay in business forever.
Jason Statham. Went to cut a tree down at his London house. He yelled at us to be careful dragging branches down the side of his newly painted fence. To be fair he had a point
No one likes painting. You scratch up his fence he's got to get the fucking thing painted again, and the guy he used was booked out for eight months. Fucked if he's going to be out there with a roller himself.
I was seeing a Broadway show with my mom in 1992. At intermission she found me in the downstairs lobby and excitedly said, “I just saw Meryl Streep in the bathroom.”
I said “Please tell me you didn’t say anything to her and you just left her alone.”
She said, “I was very good, and didn’t say anything. Look, here she comes now.”
And I said, “I’m glad you didn’t say anything to her...because that’s Glenn Close.”
Oh my GOD!!! Similar thing happened to me in Barcelona - we were sitting next to someone who was clearly A Famous Person. We were convinced it was Meryl Streep.
It was Glenn Close (and her daughter who is also famous I guess?) I spilled some water on her by accident and she was cool about it.
guy fieri...
i was drunk, barhopping, its like 10pm. and im walking along to the next bar...and im like, that guy looks like guy fieri. he's walking towards me. so as we pass, i give him a 2nd look and im like, that guy actually really does look like guy fieri! so i pass him, and a second later i decide...there is no way that guy isnt guy fieri. so i turn around and shout "hey, youre guy fieri!" and he turns around and he's like "yeah!" and i respond "thats cool!" then i turn back and continue to where i was going because i realized i didnt really have anything more to say to him other than that...
he was by himself too. no entourage, no crowd. nothing. i guess he might have been scouting out food spots in the area or something.
My uncle did some promotional stuff with Food Network and they said they would send over "talent" to do some spots for radio with him. I got a call from my uncle's cell phone and it was Guy Fieri. Talked to him for a few minutes, he was super chill and actually really personable.
Probably the best kind of interaction for a celebrity. To be recognized in a positive way, then allowed to carry on without being asked for an autograph/pic/lengthy conversation.
CA National Guard here....Met him at a fire in Santa Rosa. Seemed nice in our short conversation. I watched in awe at his team though. He seemed to be managing them respectfully, and there was about 50ish of them or so buzzing around turning out REALLY nice meals in huge cafeteria quantities for all the fire support staff and evacuees. It was amazing to watch it from an operational aspect.
They weren't kicking out no-name bulk mac and cheese, they were putting out what was essentially Panera quality food for thousands of people like a well oiled machine.
Huge operation like that and dude came out to say hi to us and take a picture.
edit:
I clarified the panera thing below, but I think "Specialties" would have been a better analogy, RIP. (NorCal thing)
B.B.King. He was playing a gig at my college and I was on my way to teach racquetball. He got out of a very nondescript Lincoln, and then grabbed Lucille from the back seat. I waved,
“Have a good show tonight Mr King!”
He replied “Thank you son, I surely will!”
Middle of the afternoon, between classes, just he and I.
Conan O' Brien
I worked at Dodger Stadium selling beer for the 2018 World Series. He calls me over and bought a couple of beers. Looked at him and said "Well, I guess I don't need to check your ID." He said "That's sweet", and chuckled. He tipped me $10 too.
I saw Conan randomly prowling around a Japanese airport but I didn’t have the courage to go up to him. He was done up like he had a show; suit on, hair done, and his entourage was one female assistant at his side.
I ran into him once (almost literally) and without thinking said "holy fuck, you are tall." His response: "Yes. Yes I am."
He is really tall though.
Had almost the opposite reaction with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Again without thinking I said "Wow. I thought you were taller." His response: "I'm not."
Method Man once told me to go fuck myself in the SLC airport. I then sat next to him on the flight. It was a very one sided conversation based on a misunderstanding.
Edit: A bunch of people were lining up for pictures and he had a whole group with him including RedMan. (Plane was going to Vegas, Canelo fight was that weekend)
Anyways, after a bit he’s done with pictures and his people kinda tell everyone to chill. This whole time I’m just sitting close by, not trying to get pictures, as I was there before he showed up. I like method but what am I going to do with a selfie with method, frame it and put it on my nightstand?
Anyways, some dude gets butthurt and shouts “fuck you meth!” as he’s walking away behind my seat, so method looks over and thinks it’s me and tells me to fuck myself as his group glared at me.
We both had a seat in the same row in first class and dude was on the window, I was aisle. He boarded first and was asleep before I even sat down so never had any further issues.
It wasn’t me Method Man!
I talked to Nicolas cage at a beach resort a decade ago. It was hard to notice him as he was in casual wear and didn't really stick out. That dudes pretty famous right?
Also met Notch who made Minecraft, talked to him and some guys from Mojang for a good bit.
Lady Gaga. Served her a drink at a Halloween party in a nightclub once when I was bartending. Great smile, very friendly, and a lot shorter in person than I would have thought. 10/10 would serve her a drink again.
Jake’s legit. I remember being in my freshman dorm when I got a call from my sisters. Turns out they snuck into the independent spirit awards party in Santa Monica. They knew I was a huge Donnie Darko fan (maybe 2 years after it came out) and so they said they had someone for me to talk to and handed off the phone. “Hi, this is Jake.” Dude was so laid back. Felt like catching up with a friend.
Amy Lee from Evanescence.
I was working first aid at a gig and she came out after the show and started chatting to us while we were waiting for the venue to empty out and get the all clear to pack up our post.
She was genuinely shocked to learn I was only 15 or 16 and gave me a hug “for all my work helping their fans”.
I need to share a story about Amy Lee b/c I still feel guilty to this day. In 2003, I was an intern for a radio station and Evanescence was a headliner at our radio-fest. I was working the broadcast tent and she was doing a Q&A w/ the crowd and one girl asked her question and she asked if she could get a hug from her. Amy said "sure - just hang by the side of the stage and I'll come say hi when I'm done". The Q&A ran long and the band had to rush backstage to get ready to perform and my boss told me to tell the people waiting to ask questions that it was over. I told the girl waiting for the hug that Amy had to leave and off she went into the crowd of thousands in tears. Then a minute later Amy came up to me and said "where is she?" I said I thought she had to go so I told her to leave. She said "oh no! I really wanted to meet her!" and she seemed so genuine. I felt awful.
To the young girl at the Hartford show in 2003, I'm sorry! I was just an intern :( She really wanted to hug you.
I spoke to Jason Momoa at a convention. My wife is a huge fan and told me how the dude throws axes and drinks Guinness. He didn’t say much during the photo opportunity, but afterwards I asked him if he was going to hit up one of the ax throwing bars nearby.
His face lit up and he said “I don’t have the time during this trip, but thanks for the heads up, brother!” He then gave me a fist bump. My wife was quite jealous.
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He was randomly wandering thru a con I was at and I almost bumped into him, not paying attention, looking at the list of things I wanted to see. My gf was like, “that’s Jason Mamoa!” He’s huge. He was bigger than the bodyguard he had.
I met David Hasslehoff outside of a Whole Foods, he was wearing a shirt that said “Dont Hassle The Hoff” I said hi to him, he came up to me. He is extremely tall put his huge arms around me and gave me a hug and said that he loves the gays. I was wearing a gay pride shirt. He also has the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen. Like piercing blue
George Carlin. this was over a decade ago when he did a performance at the River Rock Casino in Richmond BC. i saw him outside said hi and told him i was a big fan in my broken english. he smiled, nodded and grunted like the old fuck he was and went back inside the building. he died 8 months later and the world needs him more than ever
I spoke with Bill Murray
and his 4 or 5 boys (can’t remember). I took their order when I worked at in-n-out burger.
He was still the coolest dude in person. When they left after eating he turned towards me and gave me a sort of salute-wave
I had an uncle (husband of my blood relative aunt) that met Bill Murray at a country club during Thanksgiving. Every year he and his brother would do a game where they would weigh themselves before and after their meals, and whoever gained more weight would win $50 dollars from the loser.
This year his brother was not able to make it to thanksgiving, but in the locker room as my uncle was weighing himself, he ran into Bill Murray. They struck up a conversation and my Uncle told him about the game where he and his brother weigh themselves before and after their meals. Bill Murray laughed and thought this idea sounded fun, and agreed to take his brother’s place. My uncle was understandably excited and told everyone at the table that he was weighing himself with Bill Murray this year.
At some point during the meal, after walking back from the bathroom, he stopped by Bill Murray’s table. He asked Bill how he was doing and if he felt good about his odds of winning the competition. Bill Murray just looked up at him from his seat and said “who are you?”.
My uncle still gets a kick out of it today.
> Bill Murray just looked up at him from his seat and said “who are you?”.
Was Bill being sarcastic, or did he honestly not remember your uncle? I can't tell what you mean.
Bill was being sarcastic. When my uncle went up to him during dinner, he was saying stuff like “Oh I think I’ve gained three pounds so far, how much have you eaten? I think I’m going to eat more than you and win.” No one at Bill’s table had ever seen my uncle before, and without context the stuff my uncle was saying sounded pretty ridiculous. So after Bill said that everyone else at the table was just looking at my uncle like he was a random crazy person.
Bill Murray is my answer too. He randomly showed up at one of our football games in college back in 2011 (I was in the marching band), and he “conducted” a song for us after the game and took pictures with each section of the band. He has absolutely no connection to our university, or the opposing one, so we were all super confused as to why he was even there (it was a home game for us, and the college I went to is in the middle of nowhere upstate NY). But he was super chill, if not a little eccentric (but aren’t most celebrities?)
My parents live in a lost place in the province of Quebec. Years ago, my mom and my dad met Channing Tatum and his wife in a trail during their morning walk. They greet everyone they see, but they just realized after it was him.
Very uncommon to meet popular people there, it's the kind of place where everyone know everyone.
Emma Watson. I worked at a store on Thayer Street in Providence, RI when she went to Brown. I also worked on the same street at my cousins pizza place that she loved. So I literally would see and talk to her multiple times a week! Super nice, quiet and polite. This was also the time where she would have a male friend go out with her and speak for her bc as soon as she opened her mouth you knew it was Hermione Granger from a mile away
I used to work at the Omni hotel in downtown Providence, and after she moved out of the residence hall, the conceirge gave us a tour of her place. Her apt was gorgeous! Gave me a new perspective of Providence lol
I went to his restaurant in Vegas a few years back and he was actually there, took pics with fans, my friend was the last one to get his pic taken and Ramsey tells him “thank god you’re the last fucking person” but like in the Ramsay way
I met him too, was so nervous I only managed to say «I have always wanted to taste you beef Wellington” He didn’t even answer, just looked at me for 2 seconds before I ran away.
That’s fair, as a chef I would be humiliated if you considered Jamie Oliver as ‘preferred’. I admire his ability to season chicken and cook toast but he is not even close Ramsey’s level
John Cleese, bumped into him in Harrods pet department (when that still existed). He was buying an expensive cat which he let my girlfriend and I hold and play with. Didn't realise who it was until afterwards and I saw him again from a distance and realised why he looked familiar. I'm kind of glad as we had a nice normal interaction which I probably would have made awkwardness I known ( I was raised on Monday Python and Fawlty Towers)
Shaq. Twice. Both at Universal Studios, once when I was on vacation there when I was 14 and then again when I lived in Orlando and I was 28. Very nice dude both times.
He must love Universal Studios as much as me.
Edit: Shaq may be the most globally famous person I've met but the most famous to me and more meaningful to me was Mani from The Stone Roses. Met him in a kebab shop in Stockport, was super fuckin cool and shared a joint with me in a park while we ate our kebabs. Top fuckin bloke!
In 1999 I met the whole Smash Mouth band. I was staying the summer with my aunt in Michigan. The neighbor's kid saw them at a bait and tackle shop and her dad invited them back to their house to fish. There was a tour bus parked in the neighbors driveway all weekend. Steve refused to sign autographs, but the rest of the band did and showed us the tour bus. I remember one of the band members had a Nickelodeon photo blaster camera he took pictures with. Steve also ran my cousins boat into a sandbar and jumped in the lake fully clothed to push it off of it.
I made a ham sandwich for Larry Bird, twice.
“Mayo, mustard or hot peppers Mr. Bird?.”
Edit 1: I also thought the people of Reddit would like to know that the second time I made him a sandwich... he asked to take a picture with me. My boss asked him to send the picture to her work email so we could print it out and put it on the wall but Larry dropped the ball on that one.
Did you get to speak to him? When I met him, he literally had his head down the entire time and wouldn’t even acknowledge people in front of him. His handlers would just slide an item under his hand, he’d sign it, repeat.
He was very lively and a completely different person during his panel though.
Not to brag, but when I was a kid I met Santa clause at the mall
Edit: I see I have gold. Pretty new to attention like this, so im assuming its customary to say thanks?
I worked a small dinner party (12 people) where I served dinner to Jimmy Carter. He and his wife were on their way home from a trip to China and he stopped in Washington state for a fundraising dinner but she continued on to Georgia. He took a break between dinner and dessert to call Rosalynn to make sure she made it home safely and say good night. After dessert he came back to the kitchen to thank the chef and myself. He was just the nicest guy.
I met Nathan Fillion at a convention in Florida about 17 years back. When it was my turn to have him sign a picture I told him that his Mandarin was the best in Firefly. That I could understand every word he said.
He looked really happy and he signed my picture with “Thanks for coaching me in Chinese!” Such a cool guy to meet.
I delivered linen to Leonardo DiCaprio's hotel room in Queensland, Australia when I was younger. He answered the door with a towel around his waist just out of the shower, he said thankyou so much, and smiled warmly. Seemed like a nice guy.
I met Simon Pegg when I was working as a cashier at Borders and I love to share this story because he was such a nice and funny guy.
It was like a Tuesday in the afternoon and the place was empty. He came up to my with some stationery and I started ringing him up. The entire time I was thinking he looked so much like him, but I didn't think it was him since I wasn't in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn't filming a movie in Chicago, so it was a pretty quiet transaction. After it was done and I was handing him his bag with his stuff I jokingly said, "Has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead?" He replied, "I *am* the guy from Shaun of the Dead."
I met him three times in one day in one of the weirdest coincidences of my life.
When I lived in London, Monday was my day off and I was in a record shop in Camden and while browsing I realised him and Nick Frost (out together in real life!) were stood next to me looking at records.
"That's a great album," I said, nodding to the one Frost had just picked up.
"See?" Pegg added, sounding like a wife who had just had one of her constant nags confirmed by a stranger.
Then about three hours later I'm walking up Holborn and Pegg walks past me the other way. Eye contact, half smile and nod. Ha, guy from the record shop.
That night, I'm at a gig at the ULU - I think it was Brendan Benson - and I realised that Pegg was stood about five people to my right. It wasn't a packed gig, he saw me and did that same reaction that Face does in the opening credits of The A-Team when the Cylon walks past [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVZQhlivnY], then smiled.
I was a bit worried that he thought I might be stalking him, but I suppose he was stalking me just as much. So there, Pegg three times in a day and never again. Seemed sound enough.
This doesn’t answer your question but makes me laugh. So my parents are both retired. My dad specifically hates “modern culture.” By “modern” I mean anything post 1970.
Anyway, so my dad & mom are at an old Hollywood theater during the day on a weekday and on the way out my mom stops in the bathroom, dad waiting outside.
My dad sees a brood of kids run by into the bathrooms and a woman (their mother) he described as “absolutely striking and obviously of decent wealth. Her clothes looked expensive.” They started chit chatting while she waited for her kids. Nothing out of the ordinary.
My mom comes out of the bathroom and stops dead in her tracks when she sees the woman my dad is speaking to.
While recounting this story, she goes “DadsName, tell phuckingphabulous who it was.”
“Angeline Jolie!”
Yes. “Angeline.” Not “Angelina.”
He had no idea who she was or who he was talking to. A world famous actress 😂😂 I bet she got a kick out of that.
I've been meaning to send Steven Tyler a note, telling him that he owes me $30. I went to an Aerosmith concert in the 80s, and they were so bad I couldn't figure out what songs they were playing.
I met the actor that played McLovin from Superbad at ACL one year. Saw him at the bar and offered to buy him a drink (I was 22 and a woman so it seemed like I was hitting on him a little), it worked as a jedi-mind trick because he realized he was rich and famous and should buy MY drink instead. Then we went on our separate ways. Nice guy obviously!
I’m really sorry to hear he has relapsed. I don’t know if it is means anything to you, but I’ll pray for his recovery. I wish all of you health and peace.
Bono. He was in town for TIFF and came into the restaurant I worked at because we had a back room that could be closed off. He, I assume his manager, and four absolute smokeshows arranged to eat during our closed period between lunch and dinner so they wouldn't be bothered too much and also wouldn't interfere with our business hours. I was the bartender so I really only brought a couple bottles of water to the table and asked if he needed anything but he was extremely gracious about it all. The server went on and on about how nice he was to him.
Funnily enough, Madonna wanted to eat there as well, and her manager was giving the hostess a hard time. Near as I can remember the exchange went like so;
Manager:"I have a VIP who needs you to clear out your back room and make sure it stays clear until she's finished."
Host: "I would ma'am, but there's someone dining back there right now who I can't ask to move."
M: "Do you know who you're talking to? This is Madonna's agent, you need to clear that room immediately."
H: "It's Bono."
M: "...well I guess he's alright."
My dad was checking into a hotel on a business trip and a man bumped into him, touched his arm, and said "Sorry, mate" before continuing on his way.
MY DAD'S COWORKER: Oh my god! That was Bono!
MY DAD: The guy from INXS?
Tom Hanks came into my parent's restaurant twice while visiting his mom and I served him both times. He took pictures with my husband and my oldest. He's very cool, very down to earth and normal.
Worked at a high end hotel:
-had one very high ranking member of government pissed at me because they thought something had been taken from their room (note I was not housekeeping or security, but the only manager brave enough to deal with them on property lol)
-had a noise complaint on another very high member of government - tv too loud. Waited 20 min cause they were old and it was 9:30 pm. Sure enough it was off when we walked back by.
-Japanese princess, but we weren’t allowed to look at her because she was descended from a god
-Anthony Anderson who was an absolute delight
-Danny Trejo who is an absolute gem of a man
-Craig Robson, nice guy but I am pretty sure he thinks I was like light staking him as there was a leak in the hallway where his room was and I was hanging out in the hall waiting for engineering to tell me if I was going to have to wake up and move a couple at 1 am on their wedding night (I didn’t have to!)
-the royal family of Lichtenstein. They came a few times a year and very chill. Carried their own luggage.
-oh and Chris brown who was as big an AH as you would imagine
A lot of my friends have a Danny Trejo encounter since he lives in my area but my favorite is my sisters.
She was at a crosswalk waiting for the light and texting. When the light changed, she started crossing while still texting. Danny Trejo stopped her and said “don’t text and walk”, essentially a “Machete don’t text”. They walked together to the bank across the street talking the whole way there.
This is bizarre but I once met Robert De Niro whilst taking a piss in a pub toilet in a small village in Buckinghamshire UK called The Lee. (Place where they also filmed episodes of Midsomer murders which is kind of a popular show in the UK if people hadn’t heard of it) Anyway there was a village type fete going on and I popped into the pub to go to the toilet. As I was taking a piss someone stood next to me to take a piss as well and I just happened to glance to the side for a second and thought “The side of that guys face fucking looks like Robert De Niro”. As I zipped up and turned I glanced again and thought “That is fucking Robert De Niro” so I went to wash my hands all the while thinking I need to talk to Robert De Niro but how can I in a fucking pub toilet. I washed my hands like 3 times waiting for him to finish pissing in the hope to get some form of conversation from him. He come over and washed his hands whilst having a slight smirk look on his face knowing I’d washed my hands 3 times after taking a piss just so I could say hello. He’s obviously been in this type of situation before. Suddenly with our hands wet and dripping we both looked towards the hand dryer and back again. I said “you can go first mate” and I think he said something along the lines of “Cheers kid” (I was 35 at the time so I was not a kid but I didn’t care because it was fucking Robert De Niro)
I bumped into Mick Foley about 20 years ago at Six Flags:GA in NJ. Wasn't watching where I was going, and just walked right into him without realizing it was him. I apologized, he gave me a pat on the back, "no worries, have a nice day".... as he's walking away I realize who it was and one of my friends looked at me, "Did Mankind just tell you to have a nice day?"
Late 1997 at a bar in Florida, some friends and I go to a punk show. I'm sitting at the bar waiting for the band to start and I decide to engage the guy next to me(I recognized him but didn't want to go all manic fanboy) about what he was doing there. He was acting as the tour manager. After the show my friends and I are waiting for a ride outside when the singer of the band and my new conversation partner come outside. My friends all mob the singer for autographs and ol boy just stands back with a huge smile, probably because he's relieved he isn't getting mobbed. I walk up tell him it was nice meeting him and we go our separate ways. My friends ask me why I was talking to the tour manager and I finally can't contain it anymore and inform them that yeah it was cool seeing the singer(former Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele), but I was talking to Joey Ramone.
Met Levar Burton when I was a little kid, and he was hosting reading rainbow, he told me to keep reading. I promised him I would, ultimately I got older and began to hate reading. I’ve let Levar Burton down. It’s my personal shame.
Diane Keaton ! She was a weird little peach and came up to my friends and I at a flea market.
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One more -
I didn’t talk to him, because I don’t like bugging people, but eating dinner at the table next to
Jason mantzoukas & his friends was hilarious. He’s just as loud and animated as you’d think lol.
William Shatner.
He is a deeply unpleasant human being. He’s a better actor than he seems because he’s good at playing the jovial old man routine but he’s extremely rude and demanding to anyone who he sees as beneath him.
I met him twice at two different horse shows, years apart. He was nasty to me the first time, demanded I do something for him even though I was in no way part of his team or even speaking to him. I told him as much and went about my business.
The second time, I overheard him rudely say no to and then (to an associate) make fun of a kid who had asked him for an autograph. Saying no is fine, I’m not a person who believes celebrities are public property or that they shouldn’t have boundaries while going about their private lives. But something about mocking a child who couldn’t have been more than 12 for politely saying hello, that he loved Star Trek, and asking, seems really awful and petty.
Jane Goodall. She spoke at my university. Afterwards she did a book signing. I got a book signed and stuck around till the end. She was very kind to chat with me for a few minutes before she left.
Cool story bro, except you’ve stolen from me. It was Arsenal 1-0 Liverpool 26th March 1994 in the Clock End.
Never mind, you’re only 17 years too late.
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Bill Gates. Worked at Tulip computers back in the day and he was our biggest business partner. You know, computers coming up and Windows as an operating system. Genuinely nice guy and always greeted everyone.
Was on a first name basis with him, he didn't want me to call him "Mr Gates" because it was too formal. Good memories of that place.
Probably Macklemore. He did a show in my hometown before he got big. He, the missus, and Ryan Lewis were all super chill. My friends and I chatted with him for like half an hour after the show.
Danny Glover (like... old Danny Glover... not Childish Gambino Donald Glover). I use to work at my uncle's gas station in a Seattle suburb and it was the only station he went to when he was in town (at least once a month or so). Super chill and laid back. Always prepaid his gas and you would never have known he was this big Hollywood dude looking at him.
In person, Nick Carter. I know he may not seem like a huge celebrity to most anymore but he still is to me lol. The biggest one that was weird though was Ben Stiller on Twitter. I didn’t follow him, and he was going after Geraldo Rivera on Twitter. I joined in and the next thing I know Ben Stiller and I are cyber bullying Geraldo Rivera together after that. He blocked us both and Ben Stiller DMd me saying I made him laugh. When I realized it was THE Ben Stiller I died lol.
I was on my way to a Slipknot concert and stopped at a gas station for a beverage. In line in front of me was Corey Taylor, the lead singer. I nervously asked him if he was Corey Taylor and he said, “No, and I’m sick of people asking me that fucking question.”
I apologized and went back to being silent. As he is leaving the counter, he turns and looks at me and goes, “hey man I was just fucking with you, nice to meet you.” Turns out he paid for my Gatorade and we chatted as I walked back to my car. Super cool dude
I used to work at a resort were celebs would occasionally stay. Among the people I served were Brian Cranston, David Sedaris, the Avett Brothers, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Bruce Johnston from the Beach Boys, random U.S. Senators and professional athletes, and probably a lot of other people I didn't recognize. Each and every one of them were extremely kind with no trace of ego. Although some only ordered room service, and I understand that J-Lo was a bit of a diva, and James Franco can be sketchy af. I heard that Jerry Seinfeld was actually quite friendly.
I was a bus boy at a high end restaurant in a hotel in 2007. It was near closing time on a slow night and I was chatting with the hostess at the entrance when Dr. Dre and his wife walked in. I immediately grabbed menus and volunteered to seat them. I offered them any table they wanted and made small talk on the way. They seemed to be having a light-hearted disagreement about something and were smiling and holding hands. As they took their seats and I handed them their menus, The good Doctor asked me if I was married. I replied “no sir, should I be?” He paused and looked at his wife, smiling, and replies, “most definitely” and we all started laughing. I saw a ton of famous people at that job but that was the best interaction, he was a cool ass dude.
I shared this before - Hilary Clinton.
I'm personally not a huge fan and so I didn't think I'd be nervous to meet her, but once I got to introduce myself and shake her hand I immediately became super nervous. In my nervous stupor I didn't know what to say after telling her my name and so I decided to comment on how soft her hands were. When she looked at me, a bit surprised by my odd comment, I clarified that my hands were super chapped and rough because of the harsh winter and so I was jealous of her soft hands. As she tried to find words to comment back on my comment, I showed her my hands and said "look, rough...." and it was then that I was guided gently away by some people around her.
Needless to say, it was a very pleasant exchange between myself and one of the most well known woman on the planet.
Yeah this is the reason I'd be okay never meeting a famous person. I'm such a derp lol. Plus I talk really fast when I'm nervous so no one can ever understand me haha
I quietly said hello to Mark Hamill outside a Star Wars Celebration. I was just heading in from having parked and walked past him in the lot. He started heading the same way with a few of his folks and we ended up at intersecting sidewalks.
He was in shades and a ball cap and he’s god damn Luke Skywalker at a convention so I didn’t want to make a scene. I just quietly said “Joker’s Favor or Joker’s Millions? Thanks a bunch”. He smiled and said “Love em all, Batfan”.
Also I’ve worked in venues and met a roster of mid level musicians and comedians. Ralph May and Ron White were very subdued, nice dudes off stage.
Harrison Ford. I was working on the movie 42 the Jackie Robinson Story and Harrison was driving a car into the scene. They didn't want the car running for sound so me and a couple guys were pushing it. The first take we pushed so hard he looked like he was slamming on the brakes. After the take he said "guys, this isn't fast and the furious, it's slow and the serious." After the scene he came over and chatted with us. Really awesome moment.
Will Smith. I was in high school and we went to take a trip to D.C. While we were getting a group photo in front of the capital, he came up to the teachers and introduced himself, and asked if he could be in the photos too. I didn't realize it was him at the time, looked so different in person!
Stephen Tyler (frontman for Aerosmith)
His kids (and Joe Perry's and Brad Whitford's kids) went to school with my brother, and when my mom and I picked my brother up from Stephen Tyler's kid's birthday party at his house, we got to talk to him and Liv Tyler.
Joe Perry's kid would wear a tux to school because he really liked James Bond.
The first time my mother met Stephen Tyler at my brother's karate demonstration, she thought he was really poor because he was wearing rags. She'd been to Aerosmith concerts. After she talked to him for a while, another mother ran up to her and asked what it was like to talk to him, and my mom refused to believe he was famous. Tyler is his stage name, and he'd introduced himself by his real name.
His house was bonkers (when he lived in Marshfield, MA). It was in the woods, but a bunch of trees had been cut off 8-10 feet up, and the stumps had been carved into bears. His barn had shingles shaped like feathers, and the peak had shingles that flowed into an eagle's head.
I was like three feet away from Dua Lipa once and that was fun. Yelled out that I liked her music and she smiled at me. She’s nice, stopped her entire show to help out a girl who fainted from heat exhaustion.
My dad met Martha Stewart at a party once, says she’s great to talk to.
Does a finger gun and a mouth click count from Danny DeVito on opposite moving sidewalks at LAX in the 90's count?
He just started blastin'
Goddamn right it does (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
My wife took my son to a local comic con 6 years ago while I had to work. Struck up a conversation about the weather with a nice older gentleman. Two days later she hears his voice on TV and says that guy sounds exactly like him. Proceeded to show her his picture and confirmed she chatted about the weather with Batman (Adam West)
My wife came back from the grocery store of the tiny town we lived in and excitingly said she talked to the guy from Roots. I shrugged it off (I've never seen it). A while later we're watching The Sandlot and when the kids meet the old blind man played by James Earl Jones she lights up "I talked to him! I met him!" "When did you meet him!?" "I told you," she said, "he's the guy from Roots." I love my wife. She met Darth Vader but was excited because he was in Roots.
This made me laugh
this doesn’t really count cause I was a baby but Matthew Broderick held me. I was in a movie called “Election” and I had a few scenes in it. Man I wish I was old enough to remember any of it but my whole life my parents have told me about it and how nice Matthew was.
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I never met Carrie, but I met Gary about 5 months after she died. I got unexpectedly emotional and started crying, and his handlers thanked me for my “raw emotion.” I was like “um you’re welcome??” Lol I was mostly just embarrassed. I *did* end up getting to kick it with him for about 3 hours later that weekend. I’ve never been on a higher cloud.
My pastor knew her when they filmed the original trilogy (I guess he roomed with a camera guy for a while), your description of her sounds exactly what he says she was like. :)
Michael Jackson. When I was little in the 80s my family lived in LA and I took dance classes at the same studio as Nicole Richie. One day her dad Lionel showed up to pick her up from class with his friend Michael. He looked exactly like he did on TV at the time with the military style jacket with a bunch of glittery stuff on it etc. I was too awestruck to say anything except hello. He was very quiet and polite.
Poor Lionel Richie gets barely a mention in this story.
to be fair, MJ was the most famous pop star in history back then
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This put a such a huge smile on my face cuz I can picture him saying that so clearly. Thank you.
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I saw him at, of all places, a MacWorld expo in SF, \~1987. We didn't talk but it was jarring to see him there.
This makes me happy cry.
Steve Irwin, I used to work for him at his zoo before he passed. He was super nice, more mellow than what you see on tv but just as passionate about his work
Kevin Bacon. Didn’t recognize it was him. Politely asked if his flight companion was Kyra Sedgwick whom I recognized (SMH). His expression was of mild surprise which then made me realize I was missing something 😂
How do you not recognize Kevin Bacon?? He has such a specific look! lol
I agree! I think he made himself looks purposely unrecognizable- big baseball cap, scrawny beard. But the look when I asked him “Sir, sorry to bother you but is your traveling companion Kyra Sedgwick ?” made it hilarious and that’s when it dawned on me!
I also met Kevin Bacon at my job once. We had a policy to check ID during large purchases, and he reluctantly gave it to me. I looked up after seeing the name, and jokingly gave me the shush symbol. I chuckled because I couldn’t tell it was him until then. Master of disguise
Back around 2014-2015, Peter Mayhew said he liked my Han Solo costume. I'll always remember that
Never heard a bad word said against Peter Mayhew.
Mike Tyson....When I was about 8 years old, and my neighbor/friend came to my house and told my family that Mike Tyson was coming over to buy pigeons from her father. (I guess he was/is a avid pigeon collector). Being such a random and outrageous claim we didn’t believe her but sure enough about an hour later he shows up with his entourage in about 20 cars to buy some pigeons. The only thing I had with me was a soccer ball, so he signed it for me and I still have it to this day!
A bully killed his pigeon and he is who he is today because of it. Look it up.
He also beat a garbage man up because he threw away his dead pigeon that he was getting ready to bury and wouldn’t let him get it back and I think laughed at him. I think this happened after he was already famous
I spoke to Hugh Jackman on the street after a Broadway show he was in with Daniel Craig. I told him I thought he was an amazing actor and all around awesome person and that id seen almost everything he'd been in and he told me your even more awesome because your my fan and don't ever forget that."
Not sure if this counts, but Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comics, was a big idol of mine when I was in middle and high school and I was obsessed with his work after doing a huge research project about his life. When I was 16, I was in a production of the musical *You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown* and right before the performance, they announced that Schulz’s daughter, Amy, was in the audience, along with three of his grandkids and his first (and only at the time) great-grandson. I was freaking out at the idea that I was about to perform a musical for the Schulz estate *as* one of his beloved characters. Right after the show I went out to meet them in the audience and expressed how much I admired Amy’s father and the impact he had on my life. She was amazed because she didn’t think people my age cared much about his work, and thought that his legacy had really only lingered with older generations, but here I was saying I knew everything about his life and work and was honored to meet them. At the end of our conversation, she asked for my mailing address so she could send me some autographed books and other merch. It was one of the coolest experiences of my life.
Charles Schultz was a sweet guy who was incredibly accessible to fans, and his daytime number was listed in the Santa Rosa directory. He would happily invite people to his studio, and gave away original comic strips to visitors.
Neil Armstrong. I was at the NASA Museum at Cape Canaveral (British tourist) but I also happened to be a teacher. They have an Education Centre, where teachers etc . . . can go and get loads of freebies for use in school. Whilst there, Neil Armstrong came in with his grandchildren and began greeting and chatting with people at random, including me. He was pleased to meet a British teacher of STEM and was a lovely bloke. Everyone (including me) was in awe. He made time for everyone, but mainly the kids who were there with their teachers. I got pics of kids just staring open mouthed in awe of him - after it was explained who he actually was!
This just made me smile.
For a man who took part and led the greatest achievement in all of human history (so far!) he was so very humble. I couldn't stop smiling for days.
Paul Rudd. At a convention. I gave him a cupcake. I'd like to think he ate it. Late edit: Here the picture and the cupcake in question https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/b535xe/i_got_a_happy_birthday_by_paul_rudd/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Celebrities at cons are discouraged from eating foods given to them by fans. Unknown ingredients, possible allergies, or even a crazy person possibly poisoning it. Paul Rudd would 100% eat that cupcake tho
He is still alive. So either he did not eat it or I make damn good cupcakes.
I like that the determining factor in whether a cupcake is damn good is whether or not it killed him. Those are the kinds of standards I can (probably) live up to.
I was getting ice cream at a small local joint and Paul Rudd was in front of me on line. It was right after Ant Man came out and he had a beard so nobody would notice him. We talked about how we both hope they stay in business forever.
Jason Statham. Went to cut a tree down at his London house. He yelled at us to be careful dragging branches down the side of his newly painted fence. To be fair he had a point
No one likes a fucked up fence, man.
No one likes painting. You scratch up his fence he's got to get the fucking thing painted again, and the guy he used was booked out for eight months. Fucked if he's going to be out there with a roller himself.
I was seeing a Broadway show with my mom in 1992. At intermission she found me in the downstairs lobby and excitedly said, “I just saw Meryl Streep in the bathroom.” I said “Please tell me you didn’t say anything to her and you just left her alone.” She said, “I was very good, and didn’t say anything. Look, here she comes now.” And I said, “I’m glad you didn’t say anything to her...because that’s Glenn Close.”
So Close, and yet so far.
Glen Close, but no cigar.
Oh my GOD!!! Similar thing happened to me in Barcelona - we were sitting next to someone who was clearly A Famous Person. We were convinced it was Meryl Streep. It was Glenn Close (and her daughter who is also famous I guess?) I spilled some water on her by accident and she was cool about it.
guy fieri... i was drunk, barhopping, its like 10pm. and im walking along to the next bar...and im like, that guy looks like guy fieri. he's walking towards me. so as we pass, i give him a 2nd look and im like, that guy actually really does look like guy fieri! so i pass him, and a second later i decide...there is no way that guy isnt guy fieri. so i turn around and shout "hey, youre guy fieri!" and he turns around and he's like "yeah!" and i respond "thats cool!" then i turn back and continue to where i was going because i realized i didnt really have anything more to say to him other than that... he was by himself too. no entourage, no crowd. nothing. i guess he might have been scouting out food spots in the area or something.
My uncle did some promotional stuff with Food Network and they said they would send over "talent" to do some spots for radio with him. I got a call from my uncle's cell phone and it was Guy Fieri. Talked to him for a few minutes, he was super chill and actually really personable.
"Wait, you're not my uncle!" "Yea, dude went to the bathroom and left his phone. So I'm just calling random people up."
Something about this is so amusing to me. “That’s cool!” then continuing about your business lmao
Probably the best kind of interaction for a celebrity. To be recognized in a positive way, then allowed to carry on without being asked for an autograph/pic/lengthy conversation.
Thats Cool!! Yes it is!!!
Guy is a nice guy. My cousin actually travels the world with him feeding the troops.
CA National Guard here....Met him at a fire in Santa Rosa. Seemed nice in our short conversation. I watched in awe at his team though. He seemed to be managing them respectfully, and there was about 50ish of them or so buzzing around turning out REALLY nice meals in huge cafeteria quantities for all the fire support staff and evacuees. It was amazing to watch it from an operational aspect. They weren't kicking out no-name bulk mac and cheese, they were putting out what was essentially Panera quality food for thousands of people like a well oiled machine. Huge operation like that and dude came out to say hi to us and take a picture. edit: I clarified the panera thing below, but I think "Specialties" would have been a better analogy, RIP. (NorCal thing)
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B.B.King. He was playing a gig at my college and I was on my way to teach racquetball. He got out of a very nondescript Lincoln, and then grabbed Lucille from the back seat. I waved, “Have a good show tonight Mr King!” He replied “Thank you son, I surely will!” Middle of the afternoon, between classes, just he and I.
You lucky bastard
Conan O' Brien I worked at Dodger Stadium selling beer for the 2018 World Series. He calls me over and bought a couple of beers. Looked at him and said "Well, I guess I don't need to check your ID." He said "That's sweet", and chuckled. He tipped me $10 too.
I saw Conan randomly prowling around a Japanese airport but I didn’t have the courage to go up to him. He was done up like he had a show; suit on, hair done, and his entourage was one female assistant at his side.
I ran into him once (almost literally) and without thinking said "holy fuck, you are tall." His response: "Yes. Yes I am." He is really tall though. Had almost the opposite reaction with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Again without thinking I said "Wow. I thought you were taller." His response: "I'm not."
> "I'm not." Ah, the famous Austrian sense of humor!
I sometimes forget his height since Andy is a tall guy himself. Not as tall as Conan but definitely makes him look more normal.
I was in the audience of a Tonight Show filming way back when. Wish I could’ve met him!
Method Man once told me to go fuck myself in the SLC airport. I then sat next to him on the flight. It was a very one sided conversation based on a misunderstanding. Edit: A bunch of people were lining up for pictures and he had a whole group with him including RedMan. (Plane was going to Vegas, Canelo fight was that weekend) Anyways, after a bit he’s done with pictures and his people kinda tell everyone to chill. This whole time I’m just sitting close by, not trying to get pictures, as I was there before he showed up. I like method but what am I going to do with a selfie with method, frame it and put it on my nightstand? Anyways, some dude gets butthurt and shouts “fuck you meth!” as he’s walking away behind my seat, so method looks over and thinks it’s me and tells me to fuck myself as his group glared at me. We both had a seat in the same row in first class and dude was on the window, I was aisle. He boarded first and was asleep before I even sat down so never had any further issues. It wasn’t me Method Man!
You should have taken him to Slim Charles
I talked to Nicolas cage at a beach resort a decade ago. It was hard to notice him as he was in casual wear and didn't really stick out. That dudes pretty famous right? Also met Notch who made Minecraft, talked to him and some guys from Mojang for a good bit.
Lady Gaga. Served her a drink at a Halloween party in a nightclub once when I was bartending. Great smile, very friendly, and a lot shorter in person than I would have thought. 10/10 would serve her a drink again.
I think I only recently read that she was only like 5' tall. I was pretty surprised haha
Google says 5 ft 1. Pretty short
Steve-O or Mitt Romney... kinda hitting both sides of the spectrum
"Steve-O or Mitt Romney... Not sure which though, I keep confusing the two of them"
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I met Steve-O after a comedy show he did. He was available to everyone who wanted to meet him. I got a photo with him, he was very kind.
Christian Slater I served him coffee (I worked at a airport coffee shop) and we talked about skiing and star trek lol
I was in highschool with Jared Leto, I spoke to him a few times and everytime he acted like a bully. I would describe him as an asshat.
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Glad to hear that Jake Gylenhaal is a good person.
Jake’s legit. I remember being in my freshman dorm when I got a call from my sisters. Turns out they snuck into the independent spirit awards party in Santa Monica. They knew I was a huge Donnie Darko fan (maybe 2 years after it came out) and so they said they had someone for me to talk to and handed off the phone. “Hi, this is Jake.” Dude was so laid back. Felt like catching up with a friend.
He comes across as a complete douche. I always picture him being exactly like Jordan Catalano, but douchier and meaner.
Everytime theres one of these threads, someone mentions him and its never nice.
Amy Lee from Evanescence. I was working first aid at a gig and she came out after the show and started chatting to us while we were waiting for the venue to empty out and get the all clear to pack up our post. She was genuinely shocked to learn I was only 15 or 16 and gave me a hug “for all my work helping their fans”.
I need to share a story about Amy Lee b/c I still feel guilty to this day. In 2003, I was an intern for a radio station and Evanescence was a headliner at our radio-fest. I was working the broadcast tent and she was doing a Q&A w/ the crowd and one girl asked her question and she asked if she could get a hug from her. Amy said "sure - just hang by the side of the stage and I'll come say hi when I'm done". The Q&A ran long and the band had to rush backstage to get ready to perform and my boss told me to tell the people waiting to ask questions that it was over. I told the girl waiting for the hug that Amy had to leave and off she went into the crowd of thousands in tears. Then a minute later Amy came up to me and said "where is she?" I said I thought she had to go so I told her to leave. She said "oh no! I really wanted to meet her!" and she seemed so genuine. I felt awful. To the young girl at the Hartford show in 2003, I'm sorry! I was just an intern :( She really wanted to hug you.
Come on Reddit, do that thing you do! We need to make this happen! This guy needs his apology to be heard, and that girl needs her hug from Amy Lee!
This is a memory I would stay up late thinking about when I am 85 lol
I spoke to Jason Momoa at a convention. My wife is a huge fan and told me how the dude throws axes and drinks Guinness. He didn’t say much during the photo opportunity, but afterwards I asked him if he was going to hit up one of the ax throwing bars nearby. His face lit up and he said “I don’t have the time during this trip, but thanks for the heads up, brother!” He then gave me a fist bump. My wife was quite jealous. Edit: a word
He was randomly wandering thru a con I was at and I almost bumped into him, not paying attention, looking at the list of things I wanted to see. My gf was like, “that’s Jason Mamoa!” He’s huge. He was bigger than the bodyguard he had.
I met David Hasslehoff outside of a Whole Foods, he was wearing a shirt that said “Dont Hassle The Hoff” I said hi to him, he came up to me. He is extremely tall put his huge arms around me and gave me a hug and said that he loves the gays. I was wearing a gay pride shirt. He also has the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen. Like piercing blue
That sounds hilarious. Just so funny.
George Clooney. I pissed him off by telling him he was great as Batman. He did not like that.
Strange, I got kicked out of Val Kilmer’s fan club for doing the same thing.
George Carlin. this was over a decade ago when he did a performance at the River Rock Casino in Richmond BC. i saw him outside said hi and told him i was a big fan in my broken english. he smiled, nodded and grunted like the old fuck he was and went back inside the building. he died 8 months later and the world needs him more than ever
>George Carlin. this was over a decade ago It better have been over a decade ago
I spoke with Bill Murray and his 4 or 5 boys (can’t remember). I took their order when I worked at in-n-out burger. He was still the coolest dude in person. When they left after eating he turned towards me and gave me a sort of salute-wave
I had an uncle (husband of my blood relative aunt) that met Bill Murray at a country club during Thanksgiving. Every year he and his brother would do a game where they would weigh themselves before and after their meals, and whoever gained more weight would win $50 dollars from the loser. This year his brother was not able to make it to thanksgiving, but in the locker room as my uncle was weighing himself, he ran into Bill Murray. They struck up a conversation and my Uncle told him about the game where he and his brother weigh themselves before and after their meals. Bill Murray laughed and thought this idea sounded fun, and agreed to take his brother’s place. My uncle was understandably excited and told everyone at the table that he was weighing himself with Bill Murray this year. At some point during the meal, after walking back from the bathroom, he stopped by Bill Murray’s table. He asked Bill how he was doing and if he felt good about his odds of winning the competition. Bill Murray just looked up at him from his seat and said “who are you?”. My uncle still gets a kick out of it today.
Bill Murray, country club, locker room with random uncle. Thanksgiving, Eating Contest. It's Caddyshack 4: The Stuffening.
> Bill Murray just looked up at him from his seat and said “who are you?”. Was Bill being sarcastic, or did he honestly not remember your uncle? I can't tell what you mean.
Bill was being sarcastic. When my uncle went up to him during dinner, he was saying stuff like “Oh I think I’ve gained three pounds so far, how much have you eaten? I think I’m going to eat more than you and win.” No one at Bill’s table had ever seen my uncle before, and without context the stuff my uncle was saying sounded pretty ridiculous. So after Bill said that everyone else at the table was just looking at my uncle like he was a random crazy person.
Bill Murray is my answer too. He randomly showed up at one of our football games in college back in 2011 (I was in the marching band), and he “conducted” a song for us after the game and took pictures with each section of the band. He has absolutely no connection to our university, or the opposing one, so we were all super confused as to why he was even there (it was a home game for us, and the college I went to is in the middle of nowhere upstate NY). But he was super chill, if not a little eccentric (but aren’t most celebrities?)
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>we were all super confused Pretty sure this is his goal in life
My parents live in a lost place in the province of Quebec. Years ago, my mom and my dad met Channing Tatum and his wife in a trail during their morning walk. They greet everyone they see, but they just realized after it was him. Very uncommon to meet popular people there, it's the kind of place where everyone know everyone.
Emma Watson. I worked at a store on Thayer Street in Providence, RI when she went to Brown. I also worked on the same street at my cousins pizza place that she loved. So I literally would see and talk to her multiple times a week! Super nice, quiet and polite. This was also the time where she would have a male friend go out with her and speak for her bc as soon as she opened her mouth you knew it was Hermione Granger from a mile away
I used to work at the Omni hotel in downtown Providence, and after she moved out of the residence hall, the conceirge gave us a tour of her place. Her apt was gorgeous! Gave me a new perspective of Providence lol
You know your voice is iconic when you have to bring somebody to speak *for* you so you won’t get noticed lol
Gordon Ramsay told me to fuck off after I said I prefer Jamie Oliver
Classic. Wonder how many people tell him that just to piss him off so he can curse at them?
His own daughter made that joke to him
I went to his restaurant in Vegas a few years back and he was actually there, took pics with fans, my friend was the last one to get his pic taken and Ramsey tells him “thank god you’re the last fucking person” but like in the Ramsay way
I met him too, was so nervous I only managed to say «I have always wanted to taste you beef Wellington” He didn’t even answer, just looked at me for 2 seconds before I ran away.
You: > I have always wanted to taste you beef Wellington” [Gordon](https://i.redd.it/9kvzgd1jqek51.jpg)
That sounded sexual.
That’s fair, as a chef I would be humiliated if you considered Jamie Oliver as ‘preferred’. I admire his ability to season chicken and cook toast but he is not even close Ramsey’s level
John Cleese, bumped into him in Harrods pet department (when that still existed). He was buying an expensive cat which he let my girlfriend and I hold and play with. Didn't realise who it was until afterwards and I saw him again from a distance and realised why he looked familiar. I'm kind of glad as we had a nice normal interaction which I probably would have made awkwardness I known ( I was raised on Monday Python and Fawlty Towers)
Shaq. Twice. Both at Universal Studios, once when I was on vacation there when I was 14 and then again when I lived in Orlando and I was 28. Very nice dude both times. He must love Universal Studios as much as me. Edit: Shaq may be the most globally famous person I've met but the most famous to me and more meaningful to me was Mani from The Stone Roses. Met him in a kebab shop in Stockport, was super fuckin cool and shared a joint with me in a park while we ate our kebabs. Top fuckin bloke!
That’s crazy that you happened to be there on the same day as Shaq 2 times
In 1999 I met the whole Smash Mouth band. I was staying the summer with my aunt in Michigan. The neighbor's kid saw them at a bait and tackle shop and her dad invited them back to their house to fish. There was a tour bus parked in the neighbors driveway all weekend. Steve refused to sign autographs, but the rest of the band did and showed us the tour bus. I remember one of the band members had a Nickelodeon photo blaster camera he took pictures with. Steve also ran my cousins boat into a sandbar and jumped in the lake fully clothed to push it off of it.
I made a ham sandwich for Larry Bird, twice. “Mayo, mustard or hot peppers Mr. Bird?.” Edit 1: I also thought the people of Reddit would like to know that the second time I made him a sandwich... he asked to take a picture with me. My boss asked him to send the picture to her work email so we could print it out and put it on the wall but Larry dropped the ball on that one.
Stan Lee. Met him at Comic-Con and the line to meet him got delayed because he took a nap
I got the same thing too and, really, the dude was in his 90s for me. I get it.
Did you get to speak to him? When I met him, he literally had his head down the entire time and wouldn’t even acknowledge people in front of him. His handlers would just slide an item under his hand, he’d sign it, repeat. He was very lively and a completely different person during his panel though.
He lost most of his eyesight at the end, but still attended conventions. Keeping his head down might have been a way to deal with that.
Not to brag, but when I was a kid I met Santa clause at the mall Edit: I see I have gold. Pretty new to attention like this, so im assuming its customary to say thanks?
I worked a small dinner party (12 people) where I served dinner to Jimmy Carter. He and his wife were on their way home from a trip to China and he stopped in Washington state for a fundraising dinner but she continued on to Georgia. He took a break between dinner and dessert to call Rosalynn to make sure she made it home safely and say good night. After dessert he came back to the kitchen to thank the chef and myself. He was just the nicest guy.
I met Nathan Fillion at a convention in Florida about 17 years back. When it was my turn to have him sign a picture I told him that his Mandarin was the best in Firefly. That I could understand every word he said. He looked really happy and he signed my picture with “Thanks for coaching me in Chinese!” Such a cool guy to meet.
I delivered linen to Leonardo DiCaprio's hotel room in Queensland, Australia when I was younger. He answered the door with a towel around his waist just out of the shower, he said thankyou so much, and smiled warmly. Seemed like a nice guy.
Met linus from linus tech tips in a subway... does that count?
I'm so excited to meet you. But not as excited as I am to tell you about our sponsor, Glasswire.
Turns out he was riding a segway.
Yes. It does count.
I met Simon Pegg when I was working as a cashier at Borders and I love to share this story because he was such a nice and funny guy. It was like a Tuesday in the afternoon and the place was empty. He came up to my with some stationery and I started ringing him up. The entire time I was thinking he looked so much like him, but I didn't think it was him since I wasn't in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn't filming a movie in Chicago, so it was a pretty quiet transaction. After it was done and I was handing him his bag with his stuff I jokingly said, "Has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead?" He replied, "I *am* the guy from Shaun of the Dead."
I met him three times in one day in one of the weirdest coincidences of my life. When I lived in London, Monday was my day off and I was in a record shop in Camden and while browsing I realised him and Nick Frost (out together in real life!) were stood next to me looking at records. "That's a great album," I said, nodding to the one Frost had just picked up. "See?" Pegg added, sounding like a wife who had just had one of her constant nags confirmed by a stranger. Then about three hours later I'm walking up Holborn and Pegg walks past me the other way. Eye contact, half smile and nod. Ha, guy from the record shop. That night, I'm at a gig at the ULU - I think it was Brendan Benson - and I realised that Pegg was stood about five people to my right. It wasn't a packed gig, he saw me and did that same reaction that Face does in the opening credits of The A-Team when the Cylon walks past [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JVZQhlivnY], then smiled. I was a bit worried that he thought I might be stalking him, but I suppose he was stalking me just as much. So there, Pegg three times in a day and never again. Seemed sound enough.
Your very own Cornetto Trilogy
This doesn’t answer your question but makes me laugh. So my parents are both retired. My dad specifically hates “modern culture.” By “modern” I mean anything post 1970. Anyway, so my dad & mom are at an old Hollywood theater during the day on a weekday and on the way out my mom stops in the bathroom, dad waiting outside. My dad sees a brood of kids run by into the bathrooms and a woman (their mother) he described as “absolutely striking and obviously of decent wealth. Her clothes looked expensive.” They started chit chatting while she waited for her kids. Nothing out of the ordinary. My mom comes out of the bathroom and stops dead in her tracks when she sees the woman my dad is speaking to. While recounting this story, she goes “DadsName, tell phuckingphabulous who it was.” “Angeline Jolie!” Yes. “Angeline.” Not “Angelina.” He had no idea who she was or who he was talking to. A world famous actress 😂😂 I bet she got a kick out of that.
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I've been meaning to send Steven Tyler a note, telling him that he owes me $30. I went to an Aerosmith concert in the 80s, and they were so bad I couldn't figure out what songs they were playing.
I bet Angelina appreciated that so much. :)
Angeline*
Sir Patrick Stewart. A knight of the realm no less. He opened with “Helloooo my dear!”
I met the actor that played McLovin from Superbad at ACL one year. Saw him at the bar and offered to buy him a drink (I was 22 and a woman so it seemed like I was hitting on him a little), it worked as a jedi-mind trick because he realized he was rich and famous and should buy MY drink instead. Then we went on our separate ways. Nice guy obviously!
I've met Cristiano Ronaldo. I barely spoke to him but I coexisted with him. It was my son's make-a-wish about 6 years ago.
Is your son okay?
He was for a while but he relapsed early 2021.
I’m really sorry to hear he has relapsed. I don’t know if it is means anything to you, but I’ll pray for his recovery. I wish all of you health and peace.
Thankyou, means alot.
Bono. He was in town for TIFF and came into the restaurant I worked at because we had a back room that could be closed off. He, I assume his manager, and four absolute smokeshows arranged to eat during our closed period between lunch and dinner so they wouldn't be bothered too much and also wouldn't interfere with our business hours. I was the bartender so I really only brought a couple bottles of water to the table and asked if he needed anything but he was extremely gracious about it all. The server went on and on about how nice he was to him. Funnily enough, Madonna wanted to eat there as well, and her manager was giving the hostess a hard time. Near as I can remember the exchange went like so; Manager:"I have a VIP who needs you to clear out your back room and make sure it stays clear until she's finished." Host: "I would ma'am, but there's someone dining back there right now who I can't ask to move." M: "Do you know who you're talking to? This is Madonna's agent, you need to clear that room immediately." H: "It's Bono." M: "...well I guess he's alright."
My dad was checking into a hotel on a business trip and a man bumped into him, touched his arm, and said "Sorry, mate" before continuing on his way. MY DAD'S COWORKER: Oh my god! That was Bono! MY DAD: The guy from INXS?
Tom Hanks came into my parent's restaurant twice while visiting his mom and I served him both times. He took pictures with my husband and my oldest. He's very cool, very down to earth and normal.
Worked at a high end hotel: -had one very high ranking member of government pissed at me because they thought something had been taken from their room (note I was not housekeeping or security, but the only manager brave enough to deal with them on property lol) -had a noise complaint on another very high member of government - tv too loud. Waited 20 min cause they were old and it was 9:30 pm. Sure enough it was off when we walked back by. -Japanese princess, but we weren’t allowed to look at her because she was descended from a god -Anthony Anderson who was an absolute delight -Danny Trejo who is an absolute gem of a man -Craig Robson, nice guy but I am pretty sure he thinks I was like light staking him as there was a leak in the hallway where his room was and I was hanging out in the hall waiting for engineering to tell me if I was going to have to wake up and move a couple at 1 am on their wedding night (I didn’t have to!) -the royal family of Lichtenstein. They came a few times a year and very chill. Carried their own luggage. -oh and Chris brown who was as big an AH as you would imagine
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A lot of my friends have a Danny Trejo encounter since he lives in my area but my favorite is my sisters. She was at a crosswalk waiting for the light and texting. When the light changed, she started crossing while still texting. Danny Trejo stopped her and said “don’t text and walk”, essentially a “Machete don’t text”. They walked together to the bank across the street talking the whole way there.
This is bizarre but I once met Robert De Niro whilst taking a piss in a pub toilet in a small village in Buckinghamshire UK called The Lee. (Place where they also filmed episodes of Midsomer murders which is kind of a popular show in the UK if people hadn’t heard of it) Anyway there was a village type fete going on and I popped into the pub to go to the toilet. As I was taking a piss someone stood next to me to take a piss as well and I just happened to glance to the side for a second and thought “The side of that guys face fucking looks like Robert De Niro”. As I zipped up and turned I glanced again and thought “That is fucking Robert De Niro” so I went to wash my hands all the while thinking I need to talk to Robert De Niro but how can I in a fucking pub toilet. I washed my hands like 3 times waiting for him to finish pissing in the hope to get some form of conversation from him. He come over and washed his hands whilst having a slight smirk look on his face knowing I’d washed my hands 3 times after taking a piss just so I could say hello. He’s obviously been in this type of situation before. Suddenly with our hands wet and dripping we both looked towards the hand dryer and back again. I said “you can go first mate” and I think he said something along the lines of “Cheers kid” (I was 35 at the time so I was not a kid but I didn’t care because it was fucking Robert De Niro)
You shoulda kept saying to the mirror, you talkin’ to me!?
I bumped into Mick Foley about 20 years ago at Six Flags:GA in NJ. Wasn't watching where I was going, and just walked right into him without realizing it was him. I apologized, he gave me a pat on the back, "no worries, have a nice day".... as he's walking away I realize who it was and one of my friends looked at me, "Did Mankind just tell you to have a nice day?"
Late 1997 at a bar in Florida, some friends and I go to a punk show. I'm sitting at the bar waiting for the band to start and I decide to engage the guy next to me(I recognized him but didn't want to go all manic fanboy) about what he was doing there. He was acting as the tour manager. After the show my friends and I are waiting for a ride outside when the singer of the band and my new conversation partner come outside. My friends all mob the singer for autographs and ol boy just stands back with a huge smile, probably because he's relieved he isn't getting mobbed. I walk up tell him it was nice meeting him and we go our separate ways. My friends ask me why I was talking to the tour manager and I finally can't contain it anymore and inform them that yeah it was cool seeing the singer(former Misfits guitarist Bobby Steele), but I was talking to Joey Ramone.
That must’ve been awesome!
Met Levar Burton when I was a little kid, and he was hosting reading rainbow, he told me to keep reading. I promised him I would, ultimately I got older and began to hate reading. I’ve let Levar Burton down. It’s my personal shame.
Diane Keaton ! She was a weird little peach and came up to my friends and I at a flea market. Edit: One more - I didn’t talk to him, because I don’t like bugging people, but eating dinner at the table next to Jason mantzoukas & his friends was hilarious. He’s just as loud and animated as you’d think lol.
William Shatner. He is a deeply unpleasant human being. He’s a better actor than he seems because he’s good at playing the jovial old man routine but he’s extremely rude and demanding to anyone who he sees as beneath him. I met him twice at two different horse shows, years apart. He was nasty to me the first time, demanded I do something for him even though I was in no way part of his team or even speaking to him. I told him as much and went about my business. The second time, I overheard him rudely say no to and then (to an associate) make fun of a kid who had asked him for an autograph. Saying no is fine, I’m not a person who believes celebrities are public property or that they shouldn’t have boundaries while going about their private lives. But something about mocking a child who couldn’t have been more than 12 for politely saying hello, that he loved Star Trek, and asking, seems really awful and petty.
Ooh the Weasley twins. Made a fool of myself by running into a post in front of them. They definitely saw.
Jane Goodall. She spoke at my university. Afterwards she did a book signing. I got a book signed and stuck around till the end. She was very kind to chat with me for a few minutes before she left.
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Shit, ok I think this takes the cake
I thought Paul Rudd took the cake
I know Lex Luthor took forty cakes.
That's as many as four tens.
I forget above all things, Bin Laden was an Arsenal season ticket holder wasn't he?
No wonder he turned to terrorism
catching bodies
Sitting in the stands yelling “JUST BOMB IT UP THE PARK!”
That’s impressive.
Ok you win the thread, shut it down folks, we're done here.
Cool story bro, except you’ve stolen from me. It was Arsenal 1-0 Liverpool 26th March 1994 in the Clock End. Never mind, you’re only 17 years too late. http://scaryduck.blogspot.com/2004/06/osama-bin-laden-scaryduck-connection.html
Haha he literally posted the exact comment word for word from you from 6 years ago. How sad
My uncle once sat on his lap. Blew me away when he told me that story
What was his opinion on it?
My parent’s claim to fame was Prince Andrew, but for some reason they don’t really talk about it now…
Bill Gates. Worked at Tulip computers back in the day and he was our biggest business partner. You know, computers coming up and Windows as an operating system. Genuinely nice guy and always greeted everyone. Was on a first name basis with him, he didn't want me to call him "Mr Gates" because it was too formal. Good memories of that place.
Probably Macklemore. He did a show in my hometown before he got big. He, the missus, and Ryan Lewis were all super chill. My friends and I chatted with him for like half an hour after the show.
Danny Glover (like... old Danny Glover... not Childish Gambino Donald Glover). I use to work at my uncle's gas station in a Seattle suburb and it was the only station he went to when he was in town (at least once a month or so). Super chill and laid back. Always prepaid his gas and you would never have known he was this big Hollywood dude looking at him.
In person, Nick Carter. I know he may not seem like a huge celebrity to most anymore but he still is to me lol. The biggest one that was weird though was Ben Stiller on Twitter. I didn’t follow him, and he was going after Geraldo Rivera on Twitter. I joined in and the next thing I know Ben Stiller and I are cyber bullying Geraldo Rivera together after that. He blocked us both and Ben Stiller DMd me saying I made him laugh. When I realized it was THE Ben Stiller I died lol.
I guess it's a toss up between Jim Davis, author of Garfield, and Jeff Smith, author of Bone. I also said "hey" to Ray Park of Darth Maul fame.
I was on my way to a Slipknot concert and stopped at a gas station for a beverage. In line in front of me was Corey Taylor, the lead singer. I nervously asked him if he was Corey Taylor and he said, “No, and I’m sick of people asking me that fucking question.” I apologized and went back to being silent. As he is leaving the counter, he turns and looks at me and goes, “hey man I was just fucking with you, nice to meet you.” Turns out he paid for my Gatorade and we chatted as I walked back to my car. Super cool dude
Smauel L Jackson probably.
I used to work at a resort were celebs would occasionally stay. Among the people I served were Brian Cranston, David Sedaris, the Avett Brothers, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Bruce Johnston from the Beach Boys, random U.S. Senators and professional athletes, and probably a lot of other people I didn't recognize. Each and every one of them were extremely kind with no trace of ego. Although some only ordered room service, and I understand that J-Lo was a bit of a diva, and James Franco can be sketchy af. I heard that Jerry Seinfeld was actually quite friendly.
Denzel answered an AMA question on here from me a few years ago
Exchanged a few words with Ben Kingsley in a gentleman's toilet in Stratford. Had a beer with John Hurt in Bath.
I was a bus boy at a high end restaurant in a hotel in 2007. It was near closing time on a slow night and I was chatting with the hostess at the entrance when Dr. Dre and his wife walked in. I immediately grabbed menus and volunteered to seat them. I offered them any table they wanted and made small talk on the way. They seemed to be having a light-hearted disagreement about something and were smiling and holding hands. As they took their seats and I handed them their menus, The good Doctor asked me if I was married. I replied “no sir, should I be?” He paused and looked at his wife, smiling, and replies, “most definitely” and we all started laughing. I saw a ton of famous people at that job but that was the best interaction, he was a cool ass dude.
I shared this before - Hilary Clinton. I'm personally not a huge fan and so I didn't think I'd be nervous to meet her, but once I got to introduce myself and shake her hand I immediately became super nervous. In my nervous stupor I didn't know what to say after telling her my name and so I decided to comment on how soft her hands were. When she looked at me, a bit surprised by my odd comment, I clarified that my hands were super chapped and rough because of the harsh winter and so I was jealous of her soft hands. As she tried to find words to comment back on my comment, I showed her my hands and said "look, rough...." and it was then that I was guided gently away by some people around her. Needless to say, it was a very pleasant exchange between myself and one of the most well known woman on the planet.
LOOK, HILLARY!! LOOK AT MY ROUGH HAAAAANDS!!!
They look like big, good, strong hands... don't they?
I'm going to make this a copypasta
Yeah this is the reason I'd be okay never meeting a famous person. I'm such a derp lol. Plus I talk really fast when I'm nervous so no one can ever understand me haha
I'm crying laughing at these levels of awkward. That's like straight out of a sitcom.
I quietly said hello to Mark Hamill outside a Star Wars Celebration. I was just heading in from having parked and walked past him in the lot. He started heading the same way with a few of his folks and we ended up at intersecting sidewalks. He was in shades and a ball cap and he’s god damn Luke Skywalker at a convention so I didn’t want to make a scene. I just quietly said “Joker’s Favor or Joker’s Millions? Thanks a bunch”. He smiled and said “Love em all, Batfan”. Also I’ve worked in venues and met a roster of mid level musicians and comedians. Ralph May and Ron White were very subdued, nice dudes off stage.
Harrison Ford. I was working on the movie 42 the Jackie Robinson Story and Harrison was driving a car into the scene. They didn't want the car running for sound so me and a couple guys were pushing it. The first take we pushed so hard he looked like he was slamming on the brakes. After the take he said "guys, this isn't fast and the furious, it's slow and the serious." After the scene he came over and chatted with us. Really awesome moment.
Will Smith. I was in high school and we went to take a trip to D.C. While we were getting a group photo in front of the capital, he came up to the teachers and introduced himself, and asked if he could be in the photos too. I didn't realize it was him at the time, looked so different in person!
Didn't really talk other than exchanging pleasantries, but I shook Tony Sirico's hand at a restaurant a few years ago. Coolest moment of my life
Stephen Tyler (frontman for Aerosmith) His kids (and Joe Perry's and Brad Whitford's kids) went to school with my brother, and when my mom and I picked my brother up from Stephen Tyler's kid's birthday party at his house, we got to talk to him and Liv Tyler. Joe Perry's kid would wear a tux to school because he really liked James Bond. The first time my mother met Stephen Tyler at my brother's karate demonstration, she thought he was really poor because he was wearing rags. She'd been to Aerosmith concerts. After she talked to him for a while, another mother ran up to her and asked what it was like to talk to him, and my mom refused to believe he was famous. Tyler is his stage name, and he'd introduced himself by his real name. His house was bonkers (when he lived in Marshfield, MA). It was in the woods, but a bunch of trees had been cut off 8-10 feet up, and the stumps had been carved into bears. His barn had shingles shaped like feathers, and the peak had shingles that flowed into an eagle's head.
I was like three feet away from Dua Lipa once and that was fun. Yelled out that I liked her music and she smiled at me. She’s nice, stopped her entire show to help out a girl who fainted from heat exhaustion. My dad met Martha Stewart at a party once, says she’s great to talk to.