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- Morning_star3
On a family trip to Brighton we parked in an underground car park and got all confused about the most appropriate exit for The Lanes.
I stopped a nearby older gentleman and enquired. He pointed to the nearest exit and said "That's your best bet, hope you have a wonderful day". We thanked him and headed to the door.
Well readers, that helpful gent was none other than Ken Barlow (actor William Roache) of Coronation Street fame.
Wanting to seem all cool, we never acknowledge who he was but i got the vibe that he was a little disappointed because we didn't.- this would have been even better had the gent been sethans_glib
- MrT4
I was an extra in Memphis Belle (in the hangar dance scene at the end).
I interviewed George Lucas (via phone) in the early '90s for my uni dissertation.
I was on Jim'll Fix It, not as the fixee but because I played clarinet in the school orchestra with the kid that got to be Mayor of Bridlington for the day. I was not fingered.
MrsT was at school with Tim Minchin and he came to our do when we left London for Sydney.
These are for late on at the pub when everyone's a bit pissed all the good stories have been rinsed...
- uan3
I called Albert Hofmann at his home in 1995 and asked about LSD and if I could visit him. It was right before Xmas and he told me to ask again in spring, which I didn't.
- YakuZoku1
Had a back n forth FB message with Henry Rollins like 10 years ago.
- wckd1
- Told Massimo Vignelli I thought his conservatism with fonts might not be the greatest idea.
- Got Grooverider's personal number just before he got jailed. We've lost touch since.
- YakuZoku0
I bused Uma Thurmans table around the time she filmed Pulp Fiction, she left a big fat mess.
- pango1
Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal hugged me
- scarabin1
I set up email on lou ferigno’s phone. He’s pretty deaf so we were yelling at each other a lot. He’s also terrible with technology. He has a son who at the time was a kid of jackass stoner. Met him through work
- hardhat1
I had a milkshake with Peter Jackson :|
- CyBrainX1
No me again but a close friend of mine has had a few.
Helped Mick Jagger sign papers to buy real estate in Midtown Manhattan
Got Frank Gorshin (the only real Riddler) to laugh like the Riddler outside a theater when he was doing his one man show on Broadway portraying George Burns.
Pissed next to Dizzy Gillespie in the Blue Note in Greenwich Village. He thanked him for a great show and Dizzy said, "Yeah I blew their doors off."
Had lunch next to Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead in a hotel. (I forget the circumstances but my friend was a huge Deadhead and did a lot of traveling). Phil introduces my friend to other people sitting nearby as the new member of the band for the current tour. Then he says quietly to my friend, "I just love fucking with them."
- DaveO0
We were on a plane going to my friends Stag / Hen do in ibiza and David Cameron was on the front row of the Easyjet flight. We got him to sign our mate's t shirt and we ended up in The Sun newspaper.
- David Cameron – Ex UK prime Minister and the one blamed for BrexitDaveO
- http://3.bp.blogspot…Gardener
- face_melter0
Get ready for dynamite action... For a short bit I was one of the top PS2 Psyvariar players in the world.
Psyvariar is a bullet hell shoot-em-up with a buzz mechanic that allows you to graze enemies and bullets without taking damage to rack up points - the more points you get it opens up further stages outside of the regular six or seven. For the most part you can play the entire game without firing a shot. The game carved out a small niche in the shooter scene because of this and still has a dedicated fanbase. The reason I stopped and no longer play it is because the Buzz mechanic - to get it working you had to rapidly smash the joystick left-right to simulate rolling the ship or you could continuously tap a button if you played on a joypad. Practising and playing for a month straight almost broke my hands.
This is from the PS4 version (not me), all the PS2 footage is blurry garbage.
- Game looks nuts. Also looks like you can fly through bullets lasers and ships without getting damage. Always.monospaced
- Gardener6
OK, I have to confess to a claim that is not related to anyone famous, I am unique with this skill which I have never been called upon to use for money although I once performed it on a TV gameshow - footage is on Youtube but am not linking it.
This skill is now sadly totally useless as the item I can do an impression of is sadly no longer in general use, but there was a time it was very popular so I one am a dying breed. I have never met anyone else with this skill indeed I may be the last person on earth with it, ladies and gentlemen, I am...
- deathboy0
Just being me
- doggydoggdog2
All these stories are about being near famous people.
- renderedred0
i was doing some tilling for a turkish hotel owner in london on a sunday morning for some good cash. with a few mates. in the late 80s.
i walk out to go to the corner shop shop for some smokes.
on my way back, 10 o'clock in the morning the streets are pretty empty, i see this guy walking. as we approach each other i begin to recognize him with his sunday paper under his arm, but like i really know this person. i've seen him a thousand times, i am sure, but have no memory of him. i probably made a face while we passed because he just smiled.
i continued walking totally confused. who is this man? why is he smiling at me? why do i know him "so well"? and then it came to me. michael caine!
i am not sure if i yelled his name but i did turn around and he was very far away. he probably saw that face thousands of times :)- That happened with me and Tom Hanks once. We made eye contact and even smiled but he was so normal I didn’t realize it was him until a half block later.monospaced
- CyBrainX2
Not my celebrity meeting but someone I worked with and her friend got into an elevator with Andre the Giant. The friend asks "How's the air up there?". Andre replies "Why don't you stick your head up my ass and find out."
- fooler2
I was having dinner in NYC and Cindy Crawford was sitting at the next table away from us. Some of our table had worked with her before and we exchanged pleasantries. I went to the bathroom and one my way back noticed someone sitting in my seat. Just as I was approaching the table the waiter was also approaching with an entire entree of sea bass and tripped and spilled it all over the guy sitting in my seat. He was wearing white pants and made a huge diva fuss. I walked up in between Cindy Crawford's and my old seat and said "Well, I'm glad I'm not sitting there anymore"
She laughed and I got my seat back.
This is probably my biggest celebrity interaction besides the time I shared an Elevator with Henry Rollins and my insecure girlfriend mentioned to him "if I had know I was going to bump into you I would have dressed better" and Henry just said " darlin' you look fine"
- _niko3
Since this is no longer claim to fame but cool stories of bumping into celebrities, here’s mine:
Was walking home one night with my brother and we pass by a late night grocery store and he looks inside and says “holy shit that’s gene simmons!”
I look and see a tall, very tanned long haired, well dressed gentleman standing in line at the checkout. At this point, this was before his reality show so most people, me included only knew him with full kiss makeup. So I say “no it isn’t” he says “of course it is, I’ll bet you anything” I say ok you’re on.
We walk in and approach him, we notice he’s standing next to what looks like an 18 year old prostitute of the run away variety.
I say “excuse me, can you settle a bet for us?” He looks at me and says “ that depends, what’s in it for me?”
I look at him puzzled, and he goes “I want a piece of the wager, what did you bet?”
Thinking quickly I say “ we bet a smack in the head, you can have one too if you’d like”
He laughs and then says go ahead, what is it?
I say are you gene simmons? He says yes, we say nice to meet you and shake hands and begin to walk off. He calls out to us as we’re leaving:
“A piece of advice kid, never do anything for free!”
We glanced back and chuckled and walked out into the night.