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

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Johnathan Knight of NKOTB
Kirstie Alley
a few others

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Anonymous wrote:My sister used to nanny to fill in after they moved to a new city for her husband's job. As a colllege educated, middles aged mom of older kids and former teacher she was in high demand on care.com

One of the families she regularly nannied for asked her to come along to a meal out with their old collgege buddy to sit at the table and keep an eye on the kids so everyone could visit. It was a very casual "Hey, my old college bff Joe is in town and we'd like to catch up. Would you mind helping out that week with the kids? Joe loves seeing them but we want to be able to visit uninterrupted."

Only the dear college buddy was not an average Joe.

Joe was my sister's favorite 80s sitcom teen hearthrob, along the level of famousness as Ricky Schroeder, Kirk Cameron or Michael J Fox! Her boss never refered to him by name, just as an old friend. Imagine her surprise when she walked into the restaurant and saw who he was.

She texted me that night from the restaurant bathroom, a 40 something year old woman going "Omg, omg, omg!!! I am eating dinner with (insert 80s hearthrob name)!!!"

She ended up nannying for them all week. She did not get any pictures or autographs because she was working but she really wanted to. She was like a giggly 13 year old girl pouring over Teen Beat magazines all week.

She said he was very nice and very down to earth, and it was really like a bunch of old college friends getting together.

She was startstruck, but to her boss it really was just Average Joe dropping by to spend the week.

The guy is still active in the entertainment industry, and still good looking. He is an actor that people would still recognize today.

She got to chat with him throughout the week, and he was just as nice as can be. It was fun for her but for her boss it was just a regular friend who just happened to be a star.

Her boss was not someone famous btw. Just someone on a generic upper middle class career. She just happened to meet him at college somewhere, the dorm, a class, a party, who knows and they became lifelong friends.

OMG just name him already

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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.

I need to do some research on this. My high school boyfriend who I’m still friends with was Field ‘89, so he must know Justin Theroux.

I and all my SFS classmates know Jon Bernthal. Cool popular nice guy. Impressed
He’s so successful but he is certainly not a household name. Chelsea Clinton more likely (same crowd will know her).

So are all his stories about being a troublemaker BS?

I mean, he wasn't an angel, but nothing serious that I ever heard of. Cool guy, athlete.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a14443788/jon-bernthal-the-punisher-cover/

At school, he watched his brother Tom meekly roll the ball back to an adversary during dodgeball. When the boy mocked Tom, Bernthal picked up another ball and whipped it into a stack of chairs near his brother’s tormentor. The force of the throw knocked the chairs on top of the kid. But Bernthal also wants you to know that he came from a prosperous, caring family. His father was a powerful corporate lawyer in D. C., and his mother watched over a handful of foster kids in addition to her three boys. The family lived in a tony suburban neighborhood, and Bernthal attended Sidwell Friends, where Chelsea Clinton was a few grades below him.

When he was seventeen, Bernthal got caught by a D. C. policeman with some dime bags. He was taken to jail and put in a cell. “One thing that I’ve always been afraid of, my whole life, was crickets,” Bernthal told me at an Ojai biker bar. “I get into this jail cell and I’m sitting there and I see there’s two crickets in there.” An older man was put in the cell with Bernthal, which scared him until the man crushed the crickets. “I told him I was worried about how my dad was going to react to me getting arrested. He said he’d been in and out for twenty years and never heard someone mention their dad.”

The day before the Fourth of July, he took Boss for a walk near the beach. A drunk man called Boss over and grabbed the dog when he got close. Bernthal rescued Boss, which led the man and a few of his buddies to start following Bernthal home. The man didn’t listen when Bernthal warned him to back off. So Bernthal wheeled and punched him in the face. The man was out before his head hit the pavement. This wasn’t an isolated incident. Bernthal had been brawling since his teens. An hour after the punch, Bernthal was cuffed to a bench in a police station. In a life of last chances, this was it. The cops taunted him: “If that guy doesn’t wake up, you’re going away for life.”

Meh. That's all typical fake badass prep school stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:My sister used to nanny to fill in after they moved to a new city for her husband's job. As a colllege educated, middles aged mom of older kids and former teacher she was in high demand on care.com

One of the families she regularly nannied for asked her to come along to a meal out with their old collgege buddy to sit at the table and keep an eye on the kids so everyone could visit. It was a very casual "Hey, my old college bff Joe is in town and we'd like to catch up. Would you mind helping out that week with the kids? Joe loves seeing them but we want to be able to visit uninterrupted."

Only the dear college buddy was not an average Joe.

Joe was my sister's favorite 80s sitcom teen hearthrob, along the level of famousness as Ricky Schroeder, Kirk Cameron or Michael J Fox! Her boss never refered to him by name, just as an old friend. Imagine her surprise when she walked into the restaurant and saw who he was.

She texted me that night from the restaurant bathroom, a 40 something year old woman going "Omg, omg, omg!!! I am eating dinner with (insert 80s hearthrob name)!!!"

She ended up nannying for them all week. She did not get any pictures or autographs because she was working but she really wanted to. She was like a giggly 13 year old girl pouring over Teen Beat magazines all week.

She said he was very nice and very down to earth, and it was really like a bunch of old college friends getting together.

She was startstruck, but to her boss it really was just Average Joe dropping by to spend the week.

The guy is still active in the entertainment industry, and still good looking. He is an actor that people would still recognize today.

She got to chat with him throughout the week, and he was just as nice as can be. It was fun for her but for her boss it was just a regular friend who just happened to be a star.

Her boss was not someone famous btw. Just someone on a generic upper middle class career. She just happened to meet him at college somewhere, the dorm, a class, a party, who knows and they became lifelong friends.

OMG just name him already

Yeah this is lame, and written up weirdly. "only the dear college buddy was not an average joe!" Err, ok.

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Anonymous wrote:DH was friends with Billy Bush.

Melania, are you guys okay now? You know, what with today's news about the lawyer, the payout, the non disclosure thing, etc...?

Probably like Hillary DOESN'T CARE. Keeps them entertained while they get to do more ME things!

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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.

Oh I'm so sorry. I feel awful for her mom. Her warmth definitely came across in film. may she RIP.

She was famous. Her death was heartbreaking and I never met her. She was very talented.

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My dad and eventually both my parents were very good friends with Loretta Lynn, they met through business. My father worked in the entertainment/ music industry for decades. While he is retired now for a long time, he has met, worked with and established relationships with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Dolly Parton, many came to our house when I was a kid. You would NEVER guess looking at my dad today that he knew these kind of people. He’s just a happy grandfather telling lame dad jokes.

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In high school I was friends with the child of someone famous: a senator. 35 years later, he is still serving in the senate.

Never met the Senator.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Garner is my relative. I don't want to say how exactly, but it's not through the Affleck side of things.

Is she as nice as she seems?

Yes, and very down to earth.

I don't know why I care but I'm happy to hear this!

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Anonymous wrote:My sister used to nanny to fill in after they moved to a new city for her husband's job. As a colllege educated, middles aged mom of older kids and former teacher she was in high demand on care.com

One of the families she regularly nannied for asked her to come along to a meal out with their old collgege buddy to sit at the table and keep an eye on the kids so everyone could visit. It was a very casual "Hey, my old college bff Joe is in town and we'd like to catch up. Would you mind helping out that week with the kids? Joe loves seeing them but we want to be able to visit uninterrupted."

Only the dear college buddy was not an average Joe.

Joe was my sister's favorite 80s sitcom teen hearthrob, along the level of famousness as Ricky Schroeder, Kirk Cameron or Michael J Fox! Her boss never refered to him by name, just as an old friend. Imagine her surprise when she walked into the restaurant and saw who he was.

She texted me that night from the restaurant bathroom, a 40 something year old woman going "Omg, omg, omg!!! I am eating dinner with (insert 80s hearthrob name)!!!"

She ended up nannying for them all week. She did not get any pictures or autographs because she was working but she really wanted to. She was like a giggly 13 year old girl pouring over Teen Beat magazines all week.

She said he was very nice and very down to earth, and it was really like a bunch of old college friends getting together.

She was startstruck, but to her boss it really was just Average Joe dropping by to spend the week.

The guy is still active in the entertainment industry, and still good looking. He is an actor that people would still recognize today.

She got to chat with him throughout the week, and he was just as nice as can be. It was fun for her but for her boss it was just a regular friend who just happened to be a star.

Her boss was not someone famous btw. Just someone on a generic upper middle class career. She just happened to meet him at college somewhere, the dorm, a class, a party, who knows and they became lifelong friends.

OMG just name him already

Yeah this is lame, and written up weirdly. "only the dear college buddy was not an average joe!" Err, ok.

Seriously, if you won’t name names, don’t bother posting at all. It’s pointless and what’s the big deal about giving a name?

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Anonymous wrote:Jennifer Garner is my relative. I don't want to say how exactly, but it's not through the Affleck side of things.

Is she as nice as she seems?

Yes, and very down to earth.

I don't know why I care but I'm happy to hear this!

Start an AMA! How is Ben affleck as a person? Is he as big of a mess as he seems. Do they really get along so well?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually old friends with Connie Britton and Kirsten Gillibrand. We all went to college together and have kept in touch over the years. I've vacationed with Connie when we were in our 20's and I've visited Kristen years ago in New York. They are awesome, awesome people.

They seem like it!

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Anonymous wrote:Who’s Dee Snider?

Lol - exactly.
Love it - this simple question on the 1st page puts the whole thread into context...

"Famous" is not an absolute - its relative.

You win the Condescension Award today, congrats!

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Anonymous wrote:My dad and eventually both my parents were very good friends with Loretta Lynn, they met through business. My father worked in the entertainment/ music industry for decades. While he is retired now for a long time, he has met, worked with and established relationships with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Whitney Houston, Madonna and Dolly Parton, many came to our house when I was a kid. You would NEVER guess looking at my dad today that he knew these kind of people. He’s just a happy grandfather telling lame dad jokes.

I love Loretta Lynn, she just seems like such a nice person!

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Anonymous wrote:My sister used to nanny to fill in after they moved to a new city for her husband's job. As a colllege educated, middles aged mom of older kids and former teacher she was in high demand on care.com

One of the families she regularly nannied for asked her to come along to a meal out with their old collgege buddy to sit at the table and keep an eye on the kids so everyone could visit. It was a very casual "Hey, my old college bff Joe is in town and we'd like to catch up. Would you mind helping out that week with the kids? Joe loves seeing them but we want to be able to visit uninterrupted."

Only the dear college buddy was not an average Joe.

Joe was my sister's favorite 80s sitcom teen hearthrob, along the level of famousness as Ricky Schroeder, Kirk Cameron or Michael J Fox! Her boss never refered to him by name, just as an old friend. Imagine her surprise when she walked into the restaurant and saw who he was.

She texted me that night from the restaurant bathroom, a 40 something year old woman going "Omg, omg, omg!!! I am eating dinner with (insert 80s hearthrob name)!!!"

She ended up nannying for them all week. She did not get any pictures or autographs because she was working but she really wanted to. She was like a giggly 13 year old girl pouring over Teen Beat magazines all week.

She said he was very nice and very down to earth, and it was really like a bunch of old college friends getting together.

She was startstruck, but to her boss it really was just Average Joe dropping by to spend the week.

The guy is still active in the entertainment industry, and still good looking. He is an actor that people would still recognize today.

She got to chat with him throughout the week, and he was just as nice as can be. It was fun for her but for her boss it was just a regular friend who just happened to be a star.

Her boss was not someone famous btw. Just someone on a generic upper middle class career. She just happened to meet him at college somewhere, the dorm, a class, a party, who knows and they became lifelong friends.

Zach from Saved By the Bell?