Anonymous wrote:My husband was invited to the White House Correspondents dinner through work twice. The first year he went alone and I was green with envy. I told him, "if you are ever invited again, you need to pull whatever rank you have at work to get a +1 ticket." And he did! It was Obama's last WHCD in 2016 and the event was AMAZING. My interactions with celebs were basically, "I love you, do you mind if we take a photo together?" I was shameless. They were all gracious. I met and took pics with
Gladys Knight
Aretha Franklin
Tony Goldwyn
Morgan Freeman
Damien Lewis
Mindy Kaling
Samantha Ronson
Megan Kelly
Bernie Sanders
John Kerry
Additionally,
I went to a party at Woody Harrelson's hotel penthouse suite in the 1980s when he was promoting a movie that was really hedonistic and gross. Pre #metoo
And I gave Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and Kenny Loggins (separately) a private tour of a museum I worked at. Kenny then invited me to a private corporate concert he was playing that night. A girlfriend and I went and got to hang out backstage.
I met Ivanka Trump in 2014 at her office in Trump Tower before she went to the dark side. It was a business meeting re: her clothing brand. It was just me, her, and her assistant.
I saw her at the White House Correspondents dinner red carpet in 2013 and thought she was so beautiful in person. I believe that she was there because of the Apprentice.
She was truly striking and head-turning. I remember feeling surprised because I had never thought of her as particularly beautiful in magazines or even on TV.
I also saw Daniel Day Lewis. What was most striking was how he moved: like a dancer--he glided. Swoon. That was the highlight of the night.