I graduated with Hilarie Burton. We were friends back then and then Facebook friends back when it first came out and you had to have a .edu email address to join. I was in college in Boston and took the train to the NYC to attend TRL a bunch and met tons of musicians through her back then. We lost touch in around 2004 when her career really started to take off and she'd booked One Tree Hill and moved to NC.

We reconnected in 2010 when I was sent by the company I worked for to be an "expert on set" for the show White Collar. I had no idea she was guest starring on the show during that time. We reconnected because she'd given birth to her first kid earlier that year and I was pregnant at the time. We've stayed in touch since then.

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.

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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 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)

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.

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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.

Dave Chappelle went to Ellington.

Julia Louis Dreyfus went to Holton Arms.

Katie Couric went to Jamestown Elementary School and Yorktown HS. Google's Eric Schmidt is also a Yorktown graduate.

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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.”

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.

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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.

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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.

Julia Louis Dreyfus went to Holton

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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.

Dave Chappelle went to Ellington.

Julia Louis Dreyfus went to Holton Arms.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to college with Mika Brzezinski in the 80s before she transferred to another school.
She was fun. And um, I don't think that's her natural hair color.

No idea who this is.

MSNBC news anchor and the #1 woman I think Trump hates at the moment. Though the rankings rotate.

On another tangent - I wonder if news anchors, which used to have celebrity level fame and still do, are getting less popular with the advent of online streaming and the 'cord cutting' movement. If you don't have cable you're more than likely not watching any of the mornign segment shows on ABC/Fox/NBC etc anymore.

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.

Anonymous wrote:I went to college with Mika Brzezinski in the 80s before she transferred to another school.
She was fun. And um, I don't think that's her natural hair color.

No idea who this is.

Anonymous wrote:My husband is in the NBA. He is like most players and not really famous outside of the baller world. However one of his best "work friends" is an uber famous player. They met at a camo in middle school and are like brothers at this point. My husband also looks.way "more famous" when hanging out with him because it's like "o look another 6 ft 7 black guy is next to Kyrie so he's prob in the NBA too, ooo yea, that's xyz from abc." I don't envy there fame. I use to envy his deals and money but it's fine now because DH is 34 and still playing; I can't be more greedy than that.

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