Any Personal Encounters with Famous People?

[FlashKat]

Over the years I have been fortunate to have met several celebrities which all were really down to earth.
Melissa Gilbert, Emilio Estevez,, John Stamos, Patricia Arquette, Pearl Jam, and The Bangles.

 

[Anonnn]

Over the years I have been fortunate to have met several celebrities which all were really down to earth.
Melissa Gilbert, Emilio Estevez,, John Stamos, Patricia Arquette, Pearl Jam, and The Bangles.

FlashKat, (and anyone else, for that matter) I would be completely intrigued to hear any stories you might have from your encounters that you are willing to share.

 

[FlashKat]

I use to work doing sound & lighting for nightclubs where the owner knew these people. I would either be introduced or run into them at the DJ booth, and just talk.
Patricia Arquette I knew before she became really famous where she use to date a friend of mine, and we all hung out together.
Pearl Jam we were invited to the concert by the guitar tech, since we made road cases for them once in a while.
Those were fun days, but now memories.

FlashKat, (and anyone else, for that matter) I would be completely intrigued to hear any stories you might have from your encounters that you are willing to share.

 

[dudemar]

Not sure if anyone's into boxing, but I met Nonito Donaire. We actually went to the same high school together, and his older brother was in my class. Super nice guy.

Also met Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero in the back of the arena parking lot after the fight. He won that night so he was being interviewed big time. Me and my friend tried to meet him post-fight in the arena, but the security wouldn't let us through. Disappointed, we made do by taking pics with the Chicas Tecate. A blond and a redhead to be precise. After that we slowly exited the arena and just sat in our car chatting it up. A few minutes later we see the Ghost walk out the back, and that's how I met him.

Met Andre Ward at a press conference, but he was pressed for time and he couldn't talk much. Nice guy though. Mikkel Kessler was a d-bag, pretty forgettable.

Met a couple of other boxers and for the most part they were really cool people. I'm really into figure skating as well (interesting combo, yeah?) and have spoken with a few over the internet.


This might be pushing things a bit, but I met Kara Monaco, a model from a magazine well known for its... literature. She is stunningly beautiful, she could be Miss America every year if she chose that direction.

 

[Imon]

I was in a hotel in Vegas with my family and I took the elevator down before my brother could catch it. He came down in the next elevator and to my surprise Kobe Bryant came out of the same elevator.

He said they had a brief exchange. What a shame, I'm not a Lakers fan, but I'm more interested in basketball than he is.

 

[Nyctophiliac]

I've met quite a few actors in the course of my work. So I shouldn't talk about them individually. But very very few are anything but pleasant, normal professional people with an endearing vulnerability that seems to streak through their kind.

Away from work, I used to drink in a Soho (London) pub in the early eighties and regularly chatted to many of the actors popular in voice over work, which was recorded around the corner. So people like Bill Mitchell, Ray Brooks, Ed Judd, Tom Baker, Ronald Fraser, Stephen Greif, John Thaw, Anthony Jackson, Martin Jarvis, John Le Mesurier, they were all regulars to this particular Soho bar (As well as many others I believe). They were all very encouraging to me as someone who was trying to get into the industry at the time. Some fond memories.

I think actors get some very bad press at times and I think a lot of the negativity is because they try and have as normal a life as possible right in the public eye. It must be Hell.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Mike Douglas (really, really nice guy - RIP)
Dubya (and his secret service detail)
Mitch Albom
Garrison Keillor and Tom Keith
Richard Dawson
Various local newscasters and sports figures
The Rockettes
A couple of the guys from Trans Siberian Orechestra

...and a few others that I'm blanking on at the moment.

 

[Echo63]

I have met quite a few famous people and had a bit of a chat too them
Peter "Possum" Bourne (kiwi rally driver)
Peter Brock (Aussie racing driver)
Danny Green (Australian Boxer - I have actually been to his house)
Mark Webber (Australian Formula 1 Driver)
Dean Herridge, Neal Bates, Coral Taylor (Australian Rally Champions)
Adam Harvey (Aussie country singer)
Johnny Ruffo (Aussie X Factor contestant)
Mick Gatto and John Kizon (Aussie underworld figures)
Blair Evans (Aussie swimmer)
Lauren Mitchell (Olympic gymnast)
Kate Hollywood (Aussie Olympic hockey team member)

I have also photographed all of the above, except Peter Brock and Possum Bourne

I'm sure there is a bunch more "famous" people I have met or photographed, I just can't remember them all, it just part of my job

EDIT - tonight I met and photographed John Cleese (yes that John Cleese, from Monty Python)

 

[Nitroz]

Over the summer American Pie was filmed in Monroe and I was able to see Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott, Tara Reid, Shannon Elizabeth and Eugene Levy. Tara and Alyson came into my ice cream shop and ordered something though I was not there when that happened.

The film crew spent a lot of time in my shop while filming was going on either buying ice cream, milkshakes, floats, or bottled sodas.

 

[TedTheLed]

too numerous to mention, yawn..

 

[firelord777]

too numerous to mention, yawn..

Ur so cool

 

[Jrubin]

When my daughter was in junior high school she played against the Wasilla Alaska high school team that was coached by sarah palin and her daughter bristol palin was on it. i know its not much but there it is

 

[Cataract]

My dad was a musician, so I got sitted by some Quebec local celebrities between their sets when my mom worked evenings (mostly comedians and some singers). He also worked with Hanna Barbera, Ritchie Valens and a bunch of others I can't remember (I wasn't born yet.)


One of the most interesting encounters I personally have had was at a local gym. This guy I didn't know was talking to people and presenting himself and asked if I recognized him, but no (even though he had been on TV for seven years ) I even spotted him while he was bench pressing free weights and he was really nice and joking a lot. Turns out it was one of Canada's best magician Alain Choquette (you might have seen him in Vegas).


During the years I worked at a bar there was this new regular client that told us he was a comedian on the rise, did tours and that he'd be on TV one day and I should remember his name. Great guy and fun to have him around, but I thought he was full of it. Well, he wasn't and he's been hosting of the most watched shows on Quebec channels for almost 2 years now. Probably the only celebrity I could meet in the street and walk over like I knew him from way back.


I knew a guy who worked at the Queen Elisabeth hotel and escorted Madonna and Steven Seagall (among many other celebrities) from the limo to their room when checking in.


A woman I worked with had her behind grabbed by Sidney Poitier a looong time ago (but she didn't like it.)


The rest of my encounters are not worth mentioning.

 

[SCEMan]

I had the honor of meeting Louis Zamperini last May (http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/luckylouie.html ).
His biography, Unbroken; is an amazing read.

 

[PharmerMike]

I was in a hotel lobby in Boston when I ran into Darryl Strawberry. He was very cordial and signed a number of autographs.

In a mall in Toledo I ran into Steven Tyler and several others from Aerosmith. They were in town for a concert that night.

 

[276]

The only person i can remember at this time is Gene Wilder, i have met him several times since he lives in my hometown.

alex

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I have a good friend who used to be Leslie Nielsen's neighbor. Does that count? I'm serious. And don't call me Shirley.

 

[Swede74]

In the late 1980's, a couple of years before he became the Prime Minister of Sweden, I saw Carl Bildt on a flea market. (he is currently Minister of Foreign Affairs) He is probably not well-known outside of Sweden, and to be honest it was a sighting rather than an encounter, but I have a feeling this thread allows grasping at the opportunity

 

[glendayle]

I haven't had anything all that spectacular. I went to the celebrity golf tournament in lake tahoe a few years back. Got a bunch of autographs and shook hands. the.most notable were Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Grant Fuhr, Claude Lemioux.

The night before we saw Emmit Smith and Maury Povich playing craps. Smith went through a couple benjamins and then reached into his pocket and pulled out a money roll of hundreds almost a big around as a soda can.

 

[JacobJones]

When I was 6 me and my parents went to chatham dock yard for a day out and bumped into Fred Dibnah, turned out he was filming a programme there, I have a photograph of me with him. At the time I didn't know who he was but now he's my idol, I only wish that I could have met him again before he died.