Have you ever met any famous people?
 

Actors, Musicians, Athletes, etc...

I almost got to meet the cast of the PBS show Ghostwriter but in true Minnesota fashion, I skipped out on it and went to a hockey game.

For the longest time, I thought I had gotten my picture taken with Baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett, but I found it was a cardboard cutout.

Have you met anyone famous before?

I played Halo and Socom with AJ Styles and Samoa Joe in the TNA Locker room.

Kind of a long list I guess....

I was lucky enough to be able to meet Geoff Johns, Jeph Loeb ( yeah he'll poke fun at you), Jim Lee (its true, one of the nicest guys around), Frank Miller ( I was surprised at how much he loves to kid around) margot kidder, Ale Garza, James O'Barr, Joe Quesdsa, John Romita Jr., Brian Azzerello (sit and talk with that guy once, he has some really good points on comics in general plus he draws a kick ass fly) and Alex Ross.

They may not be famous to you but they are to me....well um not really margot Kidder....

lesseeee....

Kid Rock was eating Tacos at my favorite Sat night hang out...we had a couple together.

Hank Williams jr and Kid Rock gave an impromptu sing along there once too

Michael Jordan owned a motorcycle race team and I talked to him in the pits at a race I was in once

Jose Canseco, Mark McGuire, Bo Jackson, those 3 played baseball in my home town.....Shaun Alexander was at a fundraiser I was at

I bumped into Wynonna, and Steve McNair at a Wal Mart here in town once each

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban eat breakfast in a place I like to get coffee from...

My dad worked for Bear Bryant back in the day....that's only important if you like a certian college football team.....

there's more I'm sure...but I can't think now :(

I've met some local celebs (a couple radio personalities and Mamma Scott of Mamma Scott's Hot Sauce)....I've met Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davey Jones....umm.. I met Pikachu.... this saturday Im gonna be meeting 2 of the TMNT, a Cabbage Patch Kid and one of the Winx Club peeps. :lol:

I've also met Boomer Esiasen (sp?)....and Reggie Rivers (back when he was playing for the Denver Broncos).

Im sure I've met others...Oh! I passed by the Gordon's Fisherman once at the grocery store... :lol:

Here's a pic of me and Pikachu:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/Dierna/pikame.jpg

I've met Corey Feldman, and he signed my Donatello figure! Whoohoo!

I also met Erica Durance, Ray Park, and one of the chicks from bring it on.

And I'll also be meeting two of the turtles this saturday at the mall.

Frank Cho was signing autographs at a comic shop I go to one Saturday. Didn't bother waiting in line to talk to him because I haven't read any of his work since Liberty Meadows was in the newspaper.

And that's the closest I've ever been to a celebrity.


Well...not counting the tinted limozeens that pass me by on occassion which may or may-not contain actual celebrities within.

I think I saw ZZ Top go by my friend's car in a tinted limo when we were on the highway once.

We also saw Gary Burghoff (Radar from M*A*S*H) and Mel Gibson's houses down in Florida.

I've met a bunch of wrestlers and hockey players. I also met Mr. T, as a women who was in the tv show T&T with him lives in my apartment building.

I met Holly from "Under the Umbrella Tree." I've met some other people but I like that one the best because she was so shocked. Poor lady was shopping for bricks at the time.

DrSpengler, you saw Frank Cho? It wasn't at Closet of Comics was it? :) I used to love that place.

I've got a question, if anyone wants to answer: Why are you excited to meet "celebrities" or "famous" people? Maybe I'm a little jaded about it.

Nah, it was Phoenix Comics at University Mall.

If he wasn't sitting at a table and there was a big sign saying "Meet Frank Cho", I probably wouldn't have noticed him because all azns look alike and I'm a horrible person. :|

Been to the trek cons, mets lots of them. I remember shaking the hand of DeForest Kelly, my favorite from TOS. He was one hell of a guy, funny stories about the parrot who cussed and the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" poem.

If it's anything...we provide the fair shuttle service for the Orange County fair and I was driving the employee shuttle in my bus, a big one......suddenly I get a call to go switch to a small bus and to go back stage at the Pacific Ampitheatre and so I do. The dude back there tells me the Doobie Brother's limo failed to arrive at their hotel to otake them to their performance....so I went to go pick them up and take them. Only one of them said HI...it's not like I was star struck, I wasn't all ooooo aahhhh i got famouse people on my bus....i could care less, they're just people. I let our trainer take them back and I went back to my own bus to resume my shuttle work.


I wanna meet Uncle Joe Benson from the classic rock station 95.5...just cause he's cool, he's a great DJ, I've learned tons from him about rock history and he seems pretty cool.

Oh yeah I forgot...met a few of the DrWHO actors too...Sylvester McCoy back in '87 just before his run...Colin Baker...

Adrian Paul (of 'Highlander - The Series' fame)

I guess I've never been "excited" to meet one. Nashville's one of those towns where it's not unusual to be in the toilet paper aisle of the grocery store and look up and see someone famous. Most of mine have been chance encounters like that and usually i stare out of the corner of my eye trying to decide if that IS the person I think it is...then if i speak it's a shy "hi" and they usually say hi back (but what I do with just about everyone I see anyway so it's not that big a deal)

also, I don't get star struck easily....They're regular people to me...alot are neighbors... If I end up getting into conversation, I treat them like a buddy. I do this to everyone though also...I do not believe in being different around different people just because of their status or position or whatever. *shrug* I'm so tired. I hate going to work this early :dead:

I've met Dave Prowse, the guy who was in the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars movies. He was kind of a dick.

Also met the band Amon Amarth (the guys in my signature) when they came to Dallas last December.

I met Jim Carrey, Will Smith and Jamie Foxx on HBO.

:roll:

When I was little, I got to meet Sticks Franklin, me and my brother's fav DJ on the long dead radio station 1280 AM Radio Aahs (yes, that how it was spelled)

I also met Jason Davis, who does a program after the 10:00 news on Saturdays called "On the Road"

I have met Roger Metzger, a family friend, who played for the Astros and Giants in the '70s. I believe that he was the last Astro to earn the Gold glove award. I have also met the atheletic trainer of the Houston Astros whom lived on my block. Another Astro that I have met is Billy Hatcher, whom I invited to visit my 3rd grade class.

I have met several authors in the past 3 years and they have signed their respective books.

I personally know some university presidents and board of regents.

I know some regional celebrities but no one would know who I am talking about.

musicians: ian brown (king monkey!), ocean colour scene (mods!), stereophonics (welsh rockers!) and shed seven (britpop band)...

sport: colin hendry (played for scotland in his day)and most of the aberdeen fc team circa early 90's... (football - or "soccer" as y'all call it!)

comics (and their sketches i got!): andy lanning (judge dredd vs batman), chris weston (rogue trooper), steve yeowell (spiderman), phil gascoine (wolverine), james hodgkins (death, of the endless), john mccrea (batman), and d'israeli (donatello, master splinter, batman) oh, and ian edgington!

dont think i've ever met any actors, although i did meet michelangelo as a youngster!!!

When I was 10 the Disney characters came to Germany. It was a thing for kids who's parents were fighting in the gulf war.

So.. I met Goofy, Donald, Daisy, Minnie, Pluto, and got ignored by Mickey... :ohwell:

I've met an assload, and I mean it. Everyone from Sci-Fi actors, to voice actors, to game designers to Paris Hilton. It'll take a while to list.

Dude, you met friggin' Miyamoto.

No one else counts. :lol:

Does anyone know any places in L.A where these celebs hang out :

Burt Young & Talia Shire (of Rocky fame)
Burt Ward/Julie Newmar
Melrose stars
MASH stars
John Savage & George Dzundza (of Deer Hunter fame)
Dolph Lundgren , Frank Langella & other He-Man actors
Friends stars
Bolo Yeung (martial artist , Enter the Dragon and numerous MA films)

Was thinking of getting their autos IP....but it's gonna be tricky if I don't know where to look :/

Thanks.

Captain Kangaroo

I think I met a rockets basketball guy once... but I can't remember which it was.

I met Don and Mike today! :evilgrin:

Mah, I met Miyamoto twice :D :D :D

and....... *deep breath* shook Iwata's hand at the press conference, talked to Reggie & Kaplan about how much the fanbase adored Nintendo, spoken to Miyamoto (God) on two occations (and discussed MKDS's battle mode with him last year while it was in beta), met and talked with Takishi Tezuka (right hand of God) about New SMB and Yoshi's Island (SNES), told Naoto Oshima that I knew he was the real creator of Sonic and thanked him (for which he seemed grateful due to the lack of reconition), gave Yuji Naka three ditry looks (For the win. I hate that bastard), briefly spoke with George Lucas about what he thought of Red Steel, cracked a few jokes with William Shatner, ramed right into Paris Hilton and her stupid (and smelly) little mut (100% b*tch, I assure you), traded Mario voices with Charles Martinet, thanked Koji Kondo in the Wii booth for making the music of my childhood so memorable, yelled "SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!" when Mashihiro Sakuari asked everybody what characters we wanted in SSB:Brawl, told Ron Pearlman that I thought Hellboy was one of the three greatest movies ever made by human hands, made fun of cliche' internet terminology with Tycho and Gabe, met every Star Trek actor, living or not (including DeForest), every Stargate (both series) & and Andromeda (man I miss that show) actor, half of Battlestar Galactica, and a large percentage of Star Wars, gotten Mark Hamill to sign my Batman TAS season one set and give me some voice acting tips, talked to Stan Lee twice at two different events (kickass dude), was with the crew while we were interviewing Tony Hawk, tried to catch Yozo Koshiro but lost him in the crowd, Rob Van Dam, Hulk Hogan (for the FU*KING win), and I just barely missed a chance to talk with Alexy Pajitnov (If you don't know who he is, then I'm ashamed of you.)

There's some of the list for you. :)

Now, whenever I can just add Cynthia Stephanie Ann Lauper to that list, I can die happy.

I've only met Terri Runnels, she lives in my town. My friend used to deliver groceries to her house, and brought me along, once. She was kinda pissed that I showed unexpectedly, but mostly flattered that I'd go out of my way to help deliver to her for free. :)

Also met Steve Spurrier (former football coach for the Florida Gators, won a championship). His son used to play in a basketball league with me.

Ludacris & OutKast came through my town and gave a free concert, and my friend knew Big Boi (from OutKast), so I went backstage and met both OutKast members (which was a dream come true... these two are legends), and Ludacris (who is one of my favorite rappers, currently). Most orgasmic experience.

And that's about it.

You must die by my Power Glove.:x :P

I can tell you Burt Ward lives like 10 minutes from me in Norco. But which house, no idea. He and his wife(whom I've spoken to) rescue great danes. One day this gorgeous blue dane puppy girl followed our yard dog into the bus yard! No collar, I took charge and got ahold of Mrs Ward, I spoke with her and she had one of her friends come pick up the giant puppy and take her to the Ward's home. I've seen it on tv that they do it and that's how I found they're in Norco.

I'll be seeing Dir en grey September 15th. If I can meet them after the show, I can die happy.

just the guys from jurassic 5, they were cool

I've met Billy Boyd (pippin, LOTR) and Derek Acorah, though those of you from the US probably won't know who he is! He's a ghost hunter fella. :)

I was good friends with Patrick Stumph, the singer for Fallout Boy back when I was in 5th grade. I was kind of a dick to him back then but I saw him a few years later in High School and apologized profusely. I guess from there on we were aquaintances.

Fallout Boy? omg the girl I often talk about on the irc channel digs them so much lol

I have a magazine that has an article about Fall Out Boy ruining music. lolz

I've met Michael Sinterniklaas twice, and Wayne Grayson once this year, the NT Leonardo and Michelangelo's VAs. Briefly saw Mike Pollock (Garbage Man and Kirby), and Marc Thompson (Casey) when I first met Mike and Wayne at the same convention they were all at together this summer.

I met up with Mike again a couple of weeks ago at another con that was only a couple of hours up the road from me. If you ever meet Mike, you'll love being around him. He has an outstanding personality. He's sweet, silly, dorky, and a geek. ^^ He loves talking and hanging out with his fans, and tries to make time out of his busy, hectic schedule to go all over to these cons. He'll seriously ignore five cellphone calls in fifteen minutes to talk with you (this happened at AnimeNext), and he doesn't mind that fact either. He'll sort of just shrug it off, and say it's no big deal because honestly he'd rather be having fun with you.

His story of how he came to audition for the cartoon, and cast as the role of Leonardo is quite amusing. It's one of his favorite stories to tell.

A friend told him about it at the time, and he basically "crashed" the audition. Seeing as he was there, Laird and 4Kids let him take a stab at Leonardo's lines, and a few from the other turtles too, and Mike botched them up so badly he thought he wouldn't get called back. At any rate if he did, he thought he would get casted as Donatello because he's a geek like Don. Surprise, surprise when he was actually called back, and cast as Leo to boot. :D He loves the role, and Leo is one of his favorite characters to voice.

I live in the middle of nowhere, so I'm never gonna meet anyone famous ever. D:<

You never...gotta kep the faith!

And I've met Penn & Teller after one of their shows (in which i was actually selected out of full theater to be a part of a magic trick-so, if you thought those people that get picked are actually plants, like i did, you're wrong)...pretty cool guys...