Has anyone ever met a celebrity?

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Anonymous wrote:Let me put a good word in for Vince Vaughn.....

My friends were at a bar, early 2000s in Baltimore, and Vince was there. They were trying to get up the nerve to approach him and needed some convincing.....really, no idea why they then called me, but I did convince them to walk over to him. But, when my friend got close to him she freaked out, yelled his name, and then handed him her cell and walked away! So he got on the cell and asked me what the hell just happened. I explained, we laughed about it, and then he asked me why I was not at the bar (studying) and we talked about school. It was at least a 15 minute conversation. Very nice guy who handled an odd situation very well....

My brother has a good story about meeting him in a bar in LA as well. Chatted very briefly and had a good impression of him.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me put a good word in for Vince Vaughn.....

My friends were at a bar, early 2000s in Baltimore, and Vince was there. They were trying to get up the nerve to approach him and needed some convincing.....really, no idea why they then called me, but I did convince them to walk over to him. But, when my friend got close to him she freaked out, yelled his name, and then handed him her cell and walked away! So he got on the cell and asked me what the hell just happened. I explained, we laughed about it, and then he asked me why I was not at the bar (studying) and we talked about school. It was at least a 15 minute conversation. Very nice guy who handled an odd situation very well....

My brother has a good story about meeting him in a bar in LA as well. Chatted very briefly and had a good impression of him.

Would love to hear your story.

[Anonymous]

In the mid 80's I worked at a restaurant in NY where players from the NY Mets came (Gary Carter, Lenny Dykstra and Darryl Strawberry)

Whenever they had a Sunday twilight game at home they came in for brunch. It was a lot of fun as they were really good then - won the World Series the year before.

Before they were seated they would sign autographs - once seated they wanted to sit and have a meal and the owner ran interference.

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Jim Carey is like what you see on screen in real life. All, the time. It is exhausting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jim Carey is like what you see on screen in real life. All, the time. It is exhausting.

I can imagine. Don't know how jenny mccarthy dated him.

Care to give us any more deets?

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Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton, Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore, Monica Lewinsky (I was a White House intern)

Matt Dillon, Jimmy Buffett, couple of Real World cast members from various seasons (not DC though), Michael Stipe (from REM), Taye Diggs when he was in Rent

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Anonymous wrote:Bill Clinton, Janet Reno, Hillary Clinton, Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore, Monica Lewinsky (I was a White House intern)

Matt Dillon, Jimmy Buffett, couple of Real World cast members from various seasons (not DC though), Michael Stipe (from REM), Taye Diggs when he was in Rent

OMG! Can you give some details on the Bill Clinton Monica thing or the atmosphere in the White House at that time?

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I met George Clooney because my dad knows his dad professionally and we went to an event where they were discussing Good Night and Good Luck (b/c Nick Clooney was a journalist). Both of them were very nice, and George was not at all aloof like I expected him to be.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I met Lou Gramm (lead singer of "Foreigner"), Ani Di Franco (singer), and Jim Carroll (poet, author of "The Basketball Diaries"). All were very nice. I danced with Terrell Anthony (Rusty Shayne from "Guiding Light") at a fundraiser. He was sweet.

Met Stephen Furst (Dr. Eliot Axelrod from "St. Elsewhere"). I hope he was just having a bad day, because he seemed like an arrogant dick.

Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?

Google! Google! Google! Google! Google! (b/c you just didn't appear to understand how parentheses work)

[Anonymous]

I met Bill Clinton when I was in middle school. We were taping a televised roundtable talk about teenage smoking. At the last minute, the producers made me an alternate. I had to watch from the back of the studio, which bummed me out. Between takes, I kept noticing him staring at me. I'm sure I had my best Charlie Brown "woe is me" face.

At the end of it, the producer gave me 30 seconds to go shake his hand. I'd been instructed by the secret service guy to make it quick and go right back to my perch. He shook my hand, told me to sit down, and started asking me my thoughts on the situation. Some kid interrupted, and he stopped him in his tracks. He told the kid that he'd talked to him for over an hour "and this poor guy has sat over there by himself the entire time. I want to hear what he has to say." We talked one on one for about five minutes. He didn't rush me. The last thing he asked was whether or not I had any other thoughts. When I said I didn't, he nodded to the secret service guy and they all left.

It was a closed set, so it wasn't a photo op or anything. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am hopelessly uncool around celebrities. I met DebORAH Gibson at an event in Las Vegas once. It went something like this!
Me: Oh! Debbie Gibson! I loved you so much in the 4th Grade! <singing> I think we're alone now!
DG: It's DebORAH, and that is a Tiffany song.

I also met my free pass Vince Vaughn on my birthday at a restaurant in Chicago. Here we go:
Me: Um, Vince? I loved you in that one movie? (yes, I said that) It's my birthday? Do you want to do a shot with me?
VV: <looks at me like I have 3 heads> Uh, happy birthday baby. Leaves bar in a hurry.

Sigh.

I enjoyed these stories, PP. BTW, I think Debbie Gibson and Tiffany are pretty much used to people confusing who they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I met Bill Clinton when I was in middle school. We were taping a televised roundtable talk about teenage smoking. At the last minute, the producers made me an alternate. I had to watch from the back of the studio, which bummed me out. Between takes, I kept noticing him staring at me. I'm sure I had my best Charlie Brown "woe is me" face.

At the end of it, the producer gave me 30 seconds to go shake his hand. I'd been instructed by the secret service guy to make it quick and go right back to my perch. He shook my hand, told me to sit down, and started asking me my thoughts on the situation. Some kid interrupted, and he stopped him in his tracks. He told the kid that he'd talked to him for over an hour "and this poor guy has sat over there by himself the entire time. I want to hear what he has to say." We talked one on one for about five minutes. He didn't rush me. The last thing he asked was whether or not I had any other thoughts. When I said I didn't, he nodded to the secret service guy and they all left.

It was a closed set, so it wasn't a photo op or anything. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy.

I'm glad you had that moment.

[Anonymous]

I've met Natalie Portman twice. She is really thin/petite with a boy-like figure and you wouldn't really notice her out in public (she was dressed down). She's very nice and down to earth - and smart as well.

[Anonymous]

Sat across the aisle from Bill Clinton on a plane. He borrowed my Vanity Fair magazine (well one of his security guards borrowed it on his behalf)), he gave it back personally, thanked me and told me he knew Elizabeth Hurley and that she was going to be a great mother (she was on the cover of the magazine). Sat in the same row as Gordon Ramsey on a place. He offered to get my bag from overhead when we were getting off. I told him I liked his shows and then we chatted for a few min about from where we were arriving (he was coming from London and me for India). We were going to Vietnam and I think he was going to check on a restaurant. I know there is one more but I can't remember. I also went to HS with a few actors. This was in NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sat across the aisle from Bill Clinton on a plane. He borrowed my Vanity Fair magazine (well one of his security guards borrowed it on his behalf)), he gave it back personally, thanked me and told me he knew Elizabeth Hurley and that she was going to be a great mother (she was on the cover of the magazine). Sat in the same row as Gordon Ramsey on a place. He offered to get my bag from overhead when we were getting off. I told him I liked his shows and then we chatted for a few min about from where we were arriving (he was coming from London and me for India). We were going to Vietnam and I think he was going to check on a restaurant. I know there is one more but I can't remember. I also went to HS with a few actors. This was in NYC.

Is Bill Clinton not the most charismatic person ever?

I'm so jealous about Gordon Ramsay. I really want to meet him!