Have you met someone famous?

Australia
April 23, 2008 11:40pm CST
Who is the most famous person you've met? Did you know someone before they became famous? I wanna know what brushes with fame everyone's had!
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26 responses
@gcrew931 (228)
• Philippines
24 Apr 08
Oh yeah. I have met Ne-yo and it was really amazing. I couldn't even talk and I was just looking at him for the whole time. I met him because I work at a local radio station and ne-yo went there to promote his album "Because of You". I told him I am a big fan and he gave me a signed CD this is so memorable!
• United States
24 Apr 08
My only claim to have shook the hand of someone famous was Bozo the Clown when I was 6 years old, and he kissed me !
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@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
24 Apr 08
ok. i use to be a in the music industry during the nineties and i should say i have met, shook hands with, talked with, corresponded and became friends with a lot of music artists.let us see...uhm. some people i have met are tony hadley of spandau ballet, go west which i had fun with. vanilla ice, david pomeranz, paula abdul. some jazz great artists like tom scott,dave koz , patti austin, david benoit and deodato! here are 2 of my best , julia fordham whom i became really close with and mr. frank sinatra whom i shook hands with on backstage, it was an honor. thanks for this post, it made me reminisce a bit.
@AmbiePam (94118)
• United States
24 Apr 08
The guy who plays Holden on As the World Turns, I think his name is Jon Hensley? Also an old western star of movies, Ben Johnson. Oh, and Wanda Jackson, but I don't know if anyone remembers her. I think only Americans would. My dad met Jerry Rice. My mom met Joe Namath (American football player, really famous).
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
24 Apr 08
The only famous person I can think of at the moment that I have met is the mayor of a city in Oregon. She is actually my husband's aunt, by marriage, so we don't think of her as someone famous, but rather just one of the family.
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@auckwang (43)
• China
24 Apr 08
Well,the most famous person I've met is a emcee,and he's very talented.
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24 Apr 08
Many many years ago I worked in a solicitors office and they were media law specialists. As such they had many famous clients, mainly in the music and film industry. There were days when it was really hard for me to keep a straight face and remain professional when certain clients came into the office. After all, I couldn't ask for autographs or anything like that but I did get to meet and talk with lots of rock stars. Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and I was lucky enough to serve coffee to Richard Harris who was a lovely man.
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• United States
24 Apr 08
I've met members of several bands. The ones that I can remember (that people might have heard of) are Midnight Oil and Catherine Wheel. I'm also friends with the members of Abney Park, which is a somewhat lesser known band, but they're really talented and fun to hang out with. And I've met a bunch of similarly lesser known bands: Greenberry Woods, The Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness, The Last Dance, Voltaire, and Distorted Reality. Not quite famous, but they could be some day! :)
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• Australia
29 Apr 08
so did you meet peter garret? i don't know catherine wheel's music but i know they are thanked in Siamese Dream .
@kbourgerie (8780)
• United States
24 Apr 08
When I was working for J.C. Penneys I met one of the retired team captains of the San Francisco 49ers. I can't remember his name for the life of me, but he was one of the nicest guys you ever would want to meet. Very tall. Had on both his 49er's and Super Bowl rings, which were absolutely the hugest things you could imagine. He was there to pick up some bras I had on hold for his wife. LOL. He even opened a credit card through me while he was there. Very, very nice person.
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
24 Apr 08
A friend in high school went on to be an actress, with a recurring role on M*A*S*H, and a movie with Linda Evans. I also met and talked with the band Toad the Wet Sprocket last summer... they signed my shirt, too! Hun, in his capacity with a float-plane airline, has met Jody Foster, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Chuck Norris (twice), George Kennedy, kenny g., Christopher Lloyd, Harrison Ford, and Robert Redford. We also know pilots who have worked for other celebrities, including John Travolta.
• Australia
24 Apr 08
You get best response simply because he's met Chuck Norris TWICE!! What's better than meeting Chuck Norris once? Why meeting him twice of course!
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
24 Apr 08
He met him the first time in an elevator in the Manila Hotel when he was working with a group from RJ Reynolds Productions. Chuck Norris asked him about his hat, which had the company logo, and Hun told him about the flights they made up to the Canadian and Alaskan fishing lodges. Two months later, after C.N. finished his movie, he flew KAH up into Canada. When they got back to the float plane base, he asked for Hun, and told him that it was the best idea anyone had given him in years... he'd had a whole week of fishing and relaxing, and was a very happy man. It never hurts to keep 'Prime Chuck' happy!
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
24 Apr 08
OH! TY for BR!!
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@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
• United States
24 Apr 08
Noo, I can't say that I have but some of my friends have, and I had plenty of opprotunitys to myself but I mean they aren't that great to meet lol, it's not like they're any different then us, just well-known.
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@Aingealicia (1905)
• United States
25 Apr 08
Where I live you meet them a lot. I party with some. I don't name drop but let me tell you the ones I party with, ROCK. Mostly Artist, writers, and song people. Ainge
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@gemini_rose (16264)
24 Apr 08
This is hard as I have not met anyone famous that you would probably know. But I will tell you anyway, over here in UK we have 2 programmes on tv, one is called Heartbeat and one is called The Royal and they are both loosely based around each other and so are filmed in the same place. They are filmed in a place in England called Scarborough, and we went on holiday about 2 years ago they were filming at the time so we got to meet all the cast members and we got loads of photos and it was so exciting!!!
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• United States
24 Apr 08
yeah I've met reggie miller. and he was a butthead. donnell jones was a butthead too. keenan and kel were so cool. method manis cool too.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
24 Apr 08
I once met Ellie Mae Clampet (played on Beverly Hillbillies) at an extravaganza here in Missouri. I have a pic of her somewhere. It was really nice meeting her. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
24 Apr 08
Hi coffeeshot! I met our country's leader, President Gloria Arroyo in a wedding party. She was vice president of our country at that time and well. I could say with that few minutes with her, she is one nice, intelligent person. I have met some political figures too but the president is the most famous one. Just my thoughts dear friend! Take care and have a nice day!
• United States
8 May 08
I have lived all over the country and have been very fortunate to have been able to meet quite a few "celebrities" most recently Shirley Mclaine who was very nice and Kurt Russell who was very nice as well most I have met have been polite except Rich Little and Wayne Newton they were both real jerks
• India
24 Apr 08
Yes i have met they really look more beautiful on the screen but to see them in really really you think we are better than them . . But their way of dress their way of talking with people their way of walking their way of giving auto graph to their fans their way of waving hands and giving fly kissses to their fans made fans to go mad about them and fight among them self to see her and every fan want to talk with their fans and get photo graph with thems so that they can show that to their friends telling that my fan said to of like this that but how i know all there because i also did this . . . Yup
@bdkiller (201)
• United States
8 May 08
i have never met a famous person although i have seen a couple of famous people on the street....
• United States
7 May 08
I went to high school with Delta Burke. She was absolutely GORGEOUS. She was a "Senior Superlative", & voted Most Beautiful & Most Likely to Succeed. I was a sophomore when she was a senior, and when I accidently wandered into the senior lunch room, she protected me when the other seniors pounced - told them I was her "pet sophomore".