Someone famous on the street?
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- whatthefunk0
I work in Soho on Broadway/Prince so I see a lot of celebrities.
1. Anna Paquin
Was walking in front of her while she was pushing a stroller with her two kids. Paparazzi were hounding her taking photos and all I wanted to do was say to her, in Bill's voice, "Sookie."2. Joe Montana
I was crossing broadway and I saw him on the curb looking confused at all the stores like he was trying to find something and couldn't. He looked so confused and I wanted to say hello or ask if he was looking for a receiver. I couldn't bring myself to say hello b/c he looked so lost.3. Gerard Butler
I was smoking a cigarette outside of my office when I heard someone walking down the crowded street talking so loud to a friend. I was thinking to myself, who's this asshole talking like that as he walked by I recognized him. I thought to myself, what a douche.4. Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead.
This time I introduced myself because I'm a huge fan. I was walking on Broome and I notice him walking toward me. As he passed I recognized him and I said "Phil" rather loudly because I was surprised. He turned around and said "Yes, do I know you?" I responded, "I can see how you would think that by the way I said your name but no, I'm a huge fan and we don't know each other." I shook his hand and thanked him for years of great music and he we were both on our separate way.
- formed0
Used to see celebs all the time while I was at UCLA. John Lithgow would park in the same parking lot I did, used to walk by him all the time (his wife is/was a professor there).
But I'd never interrupt their day. Fun to say it here, but I prefer to give them their space, just another person that happened to be in the right place at the right time.
- sothere0
Meet Joey Santiago and Dave Lovering from the Pixies in a bar in New Zealand. We hung out till 3am drinking while Dave showed us magic tricks. Best night ever.
- CygnusZero40
Ive only met a few random celebs in random places in public on acciedent. Ian Ziering from 90210, Steve Urkle, Dennis Green NFL coach, Chris Berman from ESPN and some dude named Troy from MTV Road Rules.
- monoboy0
Had a drink with Edwin Starr after his set at the nightclub I was working in. Motown legend in Aberdeen, Scotland. Nuts.
- lowimpakt0
i got drunk with venetian snares a few years ago.
- Beardy0
I took a dump beside Jarvis Cocker once. He was in the other cubicle, we weren't together.
- sem0
I've seen a good few famous people, Amy Winehouse lived near me and I've seen Nas, Kanye etc, but one person that sticks in my head was Britney Murphy. Because I didn't expect her to be sitting having a coffee outside a small cafe in London. She looked amazing and I almost walked into a lamp-post looking back. Shame she passed a couple years later.
- stoplying0
I was staying at the same hotel as Anthony Bourdain in Detroit last summer while he filmed his Parts Unknown episode there.
Sat a few seats away from him at the bar and I just ignored him. I'm a big fan, but I didn't want to bother him. People were walking in off the street to shake his hand right as he's about to eat his burger...nice. Then someone asked me to take a picture of them with Tony and I asked him if it was okay. He was chill but he's just a beer-drinking cheezburger eatin sonofabitch.- i love anthony, one person i would love to just hang out and drink with.sea_sea
- OSFA0
- Peter0
Sat in an audience of アッコにおまかせ some time early 2001 or 2.
Which would not have been so special if it weren't for her seeing me in the audience and started to ask me a bunch of question, live, and me trying to answer them in my then near non-existant Japanese.
I think I said "very cold" when she asked wwhat I was doing in Japan, while I rubbed my body in some sort of motion to support my notion.
Rest of the questioning went on in that fashion.
Again, live.Some Japanese coworkers called me up after the show saying they saw me on the tv-show.
...and nothing else.
- nb0
"Tell Count Fuckula"
- yurimon0
I saw ashy larry character dude from the chappelle show in chelse today. proceeded to talk to an asian chick who seemed to recognize him. tryin to use fame to get some tang.
reminds me of the similar game moves, I saw david chappelle pull before not long before his show really blew up when i was walking near nyu at night some years back..
- eoin0
In Dublin, no one really gives a shit if someone famous is walking around. Happens regularly and people tend to just ignore them and they ignore everyone else, it works pretty well. But a couple of years ago Sean Penn was in town making a film, and everywhere he went he had about four minders surrounding him, really drawing attention to himself like a big fuckwit. Anyway, I was walking home from work one evening, the same public street I always walk, and guess who's walking ahead of me with his bunch of dicks minders? Yes, Sean fucking Penn. And they are walking really slow, making a point of their presence. So I try to walk ahead of them on the narrow footpath and one of the minders starts to block me saying I can't pass. I say something like 'I'm trying to catch my train, I live in this city' and continue to walk, and the little prick pushes me off the footpath! And Sean Penn goes "You shouldn't have to be told twice". Prick!
- Minders = British speak for bodyguards?omahadesigns
- Yup.eoin
- And yet we're supposed to respect Mr Penn's highly-valuable and frequent political opining...detritus
- What an angry cock wound that guy is.detritus
- opps! That is pretty dam gayJamiehutber
- lol @ angry cock woundeoin
- lowimpakt0
i shook the hand of BB King
- kingsteven0
Game of Thrones shooting here ATM. They're everywhere, John Snow eats in the restaurant my GF works at... between there and the pub, saw him 4 times last week...
- Projectile0
I was once in Hampstead Heath in London doing some exercises, and was doing them next to this fucking legend. Didn't say a word but smiled at him and we just had a "yeah we the only ones badass enough to be here at 6am" moment.
I see Ricky Gervais and a few other famous faces in that park, but none who I really love as much as Vas. It was all I could do to stop myself from say "you're going to have to work very hard to stay alive, my pedigree chum!"
- that's what you thought. he was thinking "stop smiling at me you faggot"sine
- HA! Likeing the way you calling him Vas :p Legend! Imagine how many times he must have to talk about sour milkJamiehutber