Have you ever been personal friends with a seriously famous person?

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My mother is lifelong friends with a Grammy winner in an obscure category, but the friends’name is recognizable to most anyone in music (and older than 60)!

How does it work? Friend lives a distance away but my mom keeps in close touch - Christmas cards, calls, funerals, sadly and gatherings in their small hometown.

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Anonymous wrote:Who’s Dee Snider?

Lead singer of Twister Sister.

NP. I've never heard of Twister Sister.

have you ever heard the song 'we're not gonna take it, we aint gonna take it, were not gonna take ittt anymoreeeeee'

if not...are you from the US? did you grow up here?

NP here. Never heard of the singer or the band either. Born and raised in Virginia. Age 38.

I'm 44 and in the mid-80's everyone knew who he was. He would do cameos in things and it's not like they had to say "It's Dee Snyder from Twisted Sister!" He was instantly recognizable to anyone with a TV.

No he's not. Give it a rest.

He is to GenX-ers. Not millenials.

Just older Gen-Xers. I'm guessing most early 40s & late 30s Gen-Xers wouldn't immediately recognize his name.

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Yes, I have - someone uber famous. Y'all know her. She's just a person underneath the persona. She treasures old friends who don't act like her shit doesn't stink.

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Anonymous wrote:A very close friend of mine is up for an Oscar as best actress this year. I've known her for about 20 years.

OMG, Who??!!

Not Meryl Street or Frances Macdermond

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 38 and consider Dee Snider very famous. How cool! One of my childhood friends is a stunt double for a few very famous actresses in popular and recognizable movies and TV...but no one ever knows the stuntpeople, lol.

That is cool!
I wonder how frequently the stunt double plays the actor....like, only for heavy stuff like car chases and fight scenes, where physical risk is involved? Or for everyday scenes, like walking down the sidewalk, where they are trying to save money / lessen crowds so they can use the double and not the highly paid, highly recognizable actor?

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Anonymous wrote:DH was friends with Billy Bush.

Why ‘was?’

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Anonymous wrote:Someone here has to know (or knows someone who knows) either Justin Theroux or Jon Bernthal. Not exactly the kind of household names even your grandmother would know, but still pretty famous.

Justin went to Lafayette and the Field School, and Jon went to Sidwell.

Or Jared Leto- He went to Longfellow
Or Sandra Bullock - Washington and Lee HS

Kerry Washington went to GWU.

Chadwick Boseman went to Howard.

Chris Meloni went to St. Stephens in Alexandria.

Taraji Henson went to Oxon Hill in MD and Howard.

Bill Nye went to Sidwell.

Martin Lawrence went to Roosevelt.

Julianne Moore went to Stuart.

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Anonymous wrote:My uncle (mother's brother) is one of the most famous and highest-earning athletes of all time. So famous that to say who he is would be to out myself. No fun, I know.

If its not Michael Jordan no one knows. The only other athletes that immediately make people think 'he must be a billionaire by now' and SUPER-STAR fame is Cristiano Ronaldo and he's not old enough to have adult nieces/nephews.

Or Kobe, LeBron, Brady...

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A member of the current first family but not in touch anymore.

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I was good friends with Brittany Murphy for most of the last 20 years of her life.

I don't know if she would have been considered "seriously" famous (maybe only during the height of her career &/or among a certain age group -- "Xennials", I guess?)? She was, in any case, well enough known to the public to be followed by the tabloid media (unfortunately) & respected enough within her industry to be featured in the In Memorium segments at both the Oscars & the Emmys.

Her level of fame notwithstanding, she was an amazing human being -- one of the most genuinely sweet, kind hearted people I've ever known. I still tear up just thinking about the way her life ended.

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Anonymous wrote:I was good friends with Brittany Murphy for most of the last 20 years of her life.

I don't know if she would have been considered "seriously" famous (maybe only during the height of her career &/or among a certain age group -- "Xennials", I guess?)? She was, in any case, well enough known to the public to be followed by the tabloid media (unfortunately) & respected enough within her industry to be featured in the In Memorium segments at both the Oscars & the Emmys.

Her level of fame notwithstanding, she was an amazing human being -- one of the most genuinely sweet, kind hearted people I've ever known. I still tear up just thinking about the way her life ended.

I loved her.

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Anonymous wrote:My uncle (mother's brother) is one of the most famous and highest-earning athletes of all time. So famous that to say who he is would be to out myself. No fun, I know.

If its not Michael Jordan no one knows. The only other athletes that immediately make people think 'he must be a billionaire by now' and SUPER-STAR fame is Cristiano Ronaldo and he's not old enough to have adult nieces/nephews.

NP but I doubt that.

I bet it's a golfer -- maybe Nicklaus or Palmer.

Or Tiger.

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Anonymous wrote:Shemar Moore
Kelly Rippa
Anderson Cooper

What is Kelly Ripa like in real life?

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My childhood daycare lady lived next door to The Beach Boys brothers.

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Anonymous wrote:Gary Janetti and Brad Goreski

For all the people who are going to say they don't know who they are, use Google.

And yes, I knew who Dee Snyder was - I'm 41 and I had the record when I was a little girl.

Please tell Gary that his Insta of Prince George is ON FIRE!! From a SAHM twitter follower in NoVa!