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

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Anonymous wrote:Super attenuated but my former boss's uncle was the physician recruited by the CIA to track down Bin Laden. Very trivial but I thought it was cool.

I could look it up, but what was the physician part of the story?

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Haha, Zack from Saved by the Bell went to my high school for about a year-my friends sister dated him.

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I assumed "Average Joe" was Joey Lawrence.

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Anonymous wrote:I assumed "Average Joe" was Joey Lawrence.

I was thinking the same thing.

But then I thought it might be - oh what's his name, the greek guy, was uncle Jesse on full house? I had to look it up - John Stamos....shoot I thought his name was Joey. Wasn't there another famous Joey in the 80s?

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Anonymous wrote:I assumed "Average Joe" was Joey Lawrence.

I was thinking the same thing.

But then I thought it might be - oh what's his name, the greek guy, was uncle Jesse on full house? I had to look it up - John Stamos....shoot I thought his name was Joey. Wasn't there another famous Joey in the 80s?

Uncle Joey was the other full house uncle

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He's not super Famous anymore but Brian McKnight is a family friend. Really nice guy. My cousin used to be married to one of the members of TLC

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Pretty good friends with Chelsea Clinton. SFS ‘97.

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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!

My nanny friend once worked for her. She said she's a good Mom and lovely person.

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My brother is close with an under 50 popular female country music artist.
It would be unkind to out her, but her public accent is super exaggerated. IRL, she sounds like you and me.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Oprah? I know she lived in Columbia years ago.

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I’m friends with Miley Cyrus 1st cousin and have been to billy Ray Cyrus house. Probably doesn’t count.

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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?

It’s probably Scott Baio

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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?

It’s probably Scott Baio

Justin Bateman?

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I’m very close with a popular local sportscaster in NYC. He dated a friend years ago and we hung out all the time. If I’m in NY, at a game and text him, I can always visit the broadcast booth. In DC he isn’t popular but NY, everyone knows him or his voice.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a lifeguard with a Cincy Bengal and I went to law school with a Cleveland Brown player.

My dad was cousins with Tony Randall and Joey Bishop (old guys, I know)

Love, love, love Tony Randall!!!!