RHU: WAITING ON RUDE CELEBRITIES

January 31, 2011

WAITING ON RUDE CELEBRITIES

From Beauty Slave:

My little store has seen more than its share of celebrities, being that we're close to the studios and everything. Celebrities like coming to my mall too because it's not filled with paparazzi and most of the time we're too jaded to care.

The majority of them are quite sweet and pleasant, and when you give them a puzzling look like you're thinking where you've seen them before, they nod and go  "yea, I'm that person."  They don't get any special service or anything, but it's just kind of cool knowing what a red headed country singer like or how sweet a former tween star turned adult actress really is in real life.

It's also funny to see how some reality TV stars try to hide their identity from us when they're famous for being on a reality TV show. I really wanted to tell that one, "I actually didn't recognize you, but I recognize your name from reading gossip websites."

Anyhow, generally they're pretty cool experiences and cool star sightings. That is until I met her, Ms. Diva ChaCha who has only became famous a little over a year ago. 

I was a big fan of hers because she is a talented actress and I love the character she plays on TV, but damn, she is such a biatch in real life! She is one of those custys at the check out that we all hate! Not only was she on her phone the entire time, she also managed not to acknowledge me or any of my questions at all! No grunts, or nods, nothing! The only question she answered was what the CID number on her AMEX was, so I know she heard me the entire time. Plus she looked like she was smelling shit the entire time, with the shittiest face ever!!

Her bitchiness was so evident, my coworkers actually commented on it! And bitchy to me!?!?  Freak, I've met Mike Tyson before at a Coffee Bean near my college back in the days and he was nice enough to take a quick photo with me! 

But her?!? Just a plain ol' bitch. I so wanted to make a snide comment to her like how bad her complexion was and how she should consider buying some skincare items instead of more makeup to cover her blotchy skin. And how her ugly skin is soooo evident on my HDTV!

K, just wanted to rant since her ass was trending on Twitter earlier today.

--Beauty Slave

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I could've sworn Stephen King was one of my deli customers a year or two ago. Was very polite. Considering the region I live in, it wouldn't surprise me.

There is a recently published local author that comes through my register about once or twice a week. Even though he is not a big-time celebrity, I consider him as one and enjoy chatting with him.

Posted by: Snagglefrog | January 31, 2011 at 05:07 AM

I served Sissy Spacek during a lunch rush at my old job in New York once. She was pretty nice but tipped like shit.

Posted by: TheBrit | January 31, 2011 at 05:43 AM

We once had a "punk rock" girl singer's people ask to close down our store so she could shop without getting mobbed by "fans".
My company said no.
She probably wouldn't have been bothered. I don't think anybody gives a shit.

Posted by: Lemonsqueezie | January 31, 2011 at 06:37 AM

We used to have a NFL team train in our town and they'd shop at our store. I didn't really notice them much other than the side thought of "wow, that dude is built like a major household appliance!" One time I think I had to ring one of thme up at checkouts cause aside from their gargantuan size, they commented on being "low on cash" due to having less than a thousand in their wallet at them moment.

Posted by: Spritzy | January 31, 2011 at 07:21 AM

I once had Randy Orton, Edge and a couple other WWE wrestlers come into the restaurant at 10:45 when we closed at 11. My brother was a huge fan so i got an autograph for him at the end. Orton also told me to sit down and have a drink with him and then asked if I could bandage his bleeding forehead! It was a crazy table and they tipped awesome. I then sent my bro the autograph and the bloody linen! He was happy and kinda grossed out.

Posted by: Tina | January 31, 2011 at 07:50 AM

I was almost rear-ended by comedian Dennis Miller once. I worked at a YMCA in a very affluent neighborhood. The lot had limited parking and he reaaallly wanted my spot as I was pulling out. Problem was I wasn't quite OUT of it yet!

Apparently his kid played basketball there, and the coaches said he was one of *those* sports parents.

Posted by: many bells down | January 31, 2011 at 07:54 AM

Where I live, I doubt I'll ever see a celebrity at work. I met Ron Jeremy twice, though, does that count?

Posted by: Magical Shrimp | January 31, 2011 at 07:58 AM

When I was working at Lowe's, one of the local weather forecasters came in to buy a garden bench. I was pretty sure it was him, but since I didn't watch his channel for weather I didn't make a big deal out of it.

When I was about 8 I got to shake the hand of the Governor of the State of Ohio. I was at the airport with friends and he happened to arrive. I don't even remember his name, but it was somewhat exciting.

I was with friends at Red Lobster in Cleveland, OH one time and Joe Walsh of The Eagles fame came in to dinner with his new wife. I really do like his singing, but there was NO WAY I was going to disturb that poor guy's dinner.

I was in a small mall in Kokomo, IN and some gangsta rapper with three initials (I think he's dead now) came in to buy jewelry there, or so it seemed. Everybody was crowding around trying to get pictures and they had the gates all closed while he shopped. All I could think of is "WHY?" WHY would this supposedly famous guy show up out in the middle of fucking nowhere to buy jewelry? Indianapolis was an hour south and Chicago was a couple hours north. THERE'S NOTHING HERE!

Posted by: Humor_Me | January 31, 2011 at 08:15 AM

The only celeb I remember ever seeing at work was one of the local weather girls. My coworker came over all freaking out, grown woman of about 40 years old behaving like a 13 year old girl seeing Justin Bieber. I suggested she go through the back and compose herself. Nobody else cared really, a couple of customers stopped her but that was about it. She cam up to my counter for a sample, bought the product I was demoing that day.

It's something I've just never been excited about. One of my cousins is a national TV presenter, my cousins are royalty, another cousin is a fairly small time actor who rarely gets recognized. Oh yeah, and I have a friend who had a couple of number one hits a few years back and I once recorded a CD with the winner of one of those singing talent shows. Suffice it to say that I've had enough exposure to know that most celebs are as normal as people will allow them to be and I have no patience for the divas.

Posted by: N/A | January 31, 2011 at 08:22 AM

The gas station I worked at had a burger king combined with it and Joe Montana of 49ers fame came in and got a burger. I missed it but I probably wouldn't have cared much, my dad on the other hand is a huge fan and really wished I'd been their to get an autograph. Not sure I'd really give much of a shit if a celeb came into work.

Posted by: Skittles | January 31, 2011 at 08:33 AM

I get a few celebrities that roll through my work sometimes, but the one that I was super excited about and stayed an hour and a half past my 8-hour shift to meet was.. Bill Engvall. He could not have been more down to earth and friendly. First thing he did was shake my hand and call my ma'am..and he later called me "the sweetest granddaughter", because I asked him to sign a piece of paper for my grandma. He was more than happy to, and my gramma pretty much tackle hugged me when I gave it to her. :D

Posted by: Riva | January 31, 2011 at 08:50 AM

My aunt used to drive tour buses for singers, bands, etc in the 90s. Backstreet Boys, the opening act for Britney Spears, David Copperfield, I think Shania Twain, folks like that. We got some great tickets, and I got to talk to Aaron Carter on the phone once. (I was young!) She said most of the celebrities are really nice, and the lesser known ones were douchier.

Posted by: Aunty | January 31, 2011 at 08:50 AM

I met Robin Williams and Pierce Brosnan on a movie shoot when I was an extra. Robin dresses like a slob off-set but is very approachable. Pierce just lost his wife and pretty much stayed away from the fans.

Posted by: kittyfoster | January 31, 2011 at 08:54 AM

I sold a watch to Shirley Jones (Mrs. Patridge) and didn't even realize it was her.

I got served food by Jim Kelly (Bills) and didn't even realize it was him.

Watched the Mayor of Buffalo (@1995) do the damn macarena, oy.

But I did speak to Judge Judy on the phone when she called my dad when he was in hospice. They had been colleagues in family court way back in the day, and still kinda kept in touch. Damn nice of her to call to say goodbye. Thank you, Judy.

Posted by: me | January 31, 2011 at 09:11 AM

Riva, I am so jealous!

I met Lil Wayne once at college, and damn is he really as stupid as I thought.

Posted by: redheadactress | January 31, 2011 at 09:32 AM

I've mentioned it before, but Danny Glover is a semi regular at the station. My mom said he once told her our station is the only one he goes to when he's in Seattle. I think he likes that we don't make a big deal that he's famouse. The last time he came in on my shift, I gave him his change and said, "have a good day, sir." He paused and looked at me and gave me a big grin. AND he prepays! I keep saying that the next person who gripes to me about prepaying, I'm going to say,"if Hollywood actor Danny Glover can prepay... SO CAN YOU!"

My fav bit involving Mr. Glover was when he had just left. The guy behind him said, "that guy kinda looked like Danny Glover."

Me: "that's cus it was Danny Glover."

Posted by: ServiceStationSlave | January 31, 2011 at 09:40 AM

The most famous guy I ever met is a local. He played Dredger in the 2009 version of Sherlock Holmes, was a wrestler, was in 300. This guy is huge. It was a Sunday evening last summer, during the two hours where our store is dead, and we were all just chilling when he came into buy a movie. One of the GM guys was out front when he saw him come in, and ran to tell us at the front end. Really nice guy, was so polite, and I think he was glad that we tried to avoid gawking.

Posted by: Self Scan Queen | January 31, 2011 at 09:43 AM

I just remembered a whole bunch more. I once held Craig Charles jacket for him, that was kinda cool. I also chatted with aerosmith at the airport once, everyone but Steven Tyler who is apparently too famous to stand by the language carousel and pick up his bags. If we're going to list everyone that we've ever seen then that list is going to be very long. I used to live in a town that attracted loads of big names so I'd see celebs all over the place. Some of the bigger names include George Clooney, Arnie whose last name I won't even attempt to spell correctly, Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas, and several royals. One of my friends used to work in a swanky hotel so she knew when they were all in town because she was serving them dinner. On her first shift ever she accidentally spilled peas all over Prince Andrew, now that's a celeb encounter worth sharing! Thankfully he was a real sweetheart about it and even remembered her every time he came back. He would tease her about the carrots every time.

Posted by: N/A | January 31, 2011 at 09:48 AM

The closest we've come to a celebrity/famous person at my store was Aunt Jodi of "Jon and Kate Plus 8" (I live in the same town as Jon and Kate). I didn't actually see her because I was off that day, but my friend rang her out and told me about it. So there's my store's claim to fame...Kate Gosselin's sister-in-law.

Posted by: CiCi | January 31, 2011 at 09:53 AM

The store where i work has had it's share of celebs. A few years ago, the Dixie Chicks had an album (CD?) signing event at our store. A couple of pro wrestlers came through when there was an event in town, Ozzy Ozborne was in the store and several others who were part of OzFest came in too. That was years ago, and I "sort of" know who Ozzy was...but the rest of them I had no clue..except to remember that the one guy was covered with a lot of tattoos.
The only celeb I ever MET was when was in college (back in the 1980's) I worked in the county courthouse, and shared an elevator with Muhammed Ali, who was in town visiting friends. He was really nice and at the time, I honestly didn't realize he was famous...he was just a guy in the elevator who talked to me. Later co-workers came up and asked me what he was like and then I realized he didn't just "look like" someone famous...he was that person.

Posted by: Katie | January 31, 2011 at 10:02 AM

I had a friend who worked at one of the big high end stores and the K-sisters known for their reality whore fame wanted to shop there. They asked the store to close it down so they wouldn't have to deal with the photographers and mobs of fans. Talk about being entitled. Of course, the company said no and the girls were pissed they had to be treated like regular folk. As far as I'm concerned, their lame ass boutique looks sucky and their clothes overpriced.

Posted by: Queer Geek | January 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM

Okay, I've been trying to figure out who the actress is in the post and I can't. Can I have another hint?

Posted by: CiCi | January 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM

When I was working for the Mouse one day, I clocked in and heard that the Jonas Brothers had been on my ride an hour before I got there.

Nowadays, the closest thing I've gotten to meeting a celebrity is the mayor or a local news anchor.

Posted by: McSparkles | January 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM

Best I got is most of the TNA wrestlers from when I worked at Universal, Drew McIntyre (WWE) and Ron Jeremy.

Posted by: Mouse Mastered | January 31, 2011 at 11:24 AM

Growing up and working in and around NYC I met a lot of people that would be considered celebrities. By far Howard Stern was the nicest followed by Billy Crystal and Eddie Murphy. Kind, courteous and very generous tippers.

Worst was Joan Rivers. She expected far too much and was too full of herself. I remember her stealing a cab away from a woman with a baby in a pram. Bitch.

Posted by: Krissy | January 31, 2011 at 11:52 AM

One time I was walking into work at Red Lobster and passed by some drunk guy walking out and thought, "He kinda looks like David Hasselhoff." Turns out it was...he was having lunch there and got a little wasted with a buddy...at like 3 in the afternoon.

Master P lives reeeeeally close by to the hotel I work at now, and he's always coming by with his friends and eating in the hotel restaurant and then coming to the front desk for cookies, lol.

Posted by: dan | January 31, 2011 at 12:29 PM

When I worked for Worst Try I got to meet Robert Matthew Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) in the late 90's. He was playing a local gig in Springfield, VA.

No, he didn't have the extreme hair, he had entered his grunge stage at that point.

Posted by: Bitch Boy | January 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM

I sold tickets to Rowan Atkinson once - he was really nice and shockingly normal.

Posted by: schnabeldame | January 31, 2011 at 12:49 PM

Back when I worked at a diner in B-town, we had John Cougar Mellencamp come in. He had us close off half our seating area (which wasn't very large to begin with) and he was VERY rude. Cursed out the staff and stiffed his server.

My older sister also served Snoop Dogg when her visted her bar. She said that he was full of himself, but pretty nice overall.

Posted by: Slinky-san | January 31, 2011 at 01:13 PM

I met Eddie Izzard outside the fruit and veg shop in the shopping centre my pharmacy is in which is in a middle of nowhere suburb of Glasgow which was failry random. I had been sent out to buy the tea things and the only paper I had was a receipt for scones which he very politely signed!

The Scottish TV presenter Carol Smillie used to come in from time to time but I've not seen her recently and she seemed kind of a bitch (yelling at her elderly wheelchair bound father to hurry up!)

Posted by: Steph | January 31, 2011 at 01:16 PM

I got to meet Josh Groban once. He's extremely polite.
A lot of movies are being filmed where I live, so we tend to see a lot of celebrities in our town.

Posted by: ShoeDevil | January 31, 2011 at 01:53 PM

i got cut in line by Tracy Morgan in NYC's airport last summer.

Posted by: Damien | January 31, 2011 at 02:34 PM

Not to speak ill of the dead, but my mother met Chrisopher Reeve once and was not impressed. She did ask for an autograph, but instead of just saying "no not right now sorry", he pretty much told her to fuck off.

She also met Jackie Mason, and they sorta dated for a while. I still have the answering machine tape where he left a message at our house.

Posted by: me | January 31, 2011 at 02:39 PM

In three of the restaurant jobs I've had I met Ric Flair, Muggsy Bogues (sp?), Tammy Fae Bakker, and one guy who was a local news anchor (that last one was in South Carolina, I didn't watch the news so I had no idea who he was). Several (former) members of the Carolina Panthers have accounts at the same credit union as me. Celebrities I've met in general (non work related), Paul Stanley of Kiss, Andy Richter (back when Conan was still on NBC after Jay Leno), Neil Patrick Harris (in the middle of Times Square), Tempestt Bledsoe (from the Cosby Show), Rob Zombie (back when White Zombie was starting out), members of several different rock bands (Warrant, Circus Of Power, Testament, Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies, Slaughter, Warrior Soul, Mr. Big, Extreme, Peter Steele (my wife STILL hates me for this since Type O was/is one of her favorite bands) and those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

Posted by: NC Tony | January 31, 2011 at 02:56 PM

How I hate it when people say "biatch" instead of "bitch". Is this supposed to make it sound bitchier or what? To me, it sounds like a redneck talking...

Posted by: Bill | January 31, 2011 at 03:06 PM

I aw Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) all the time at my old job. he was sweet to me, and I loved to help her shop (I worked at an antique store and we helped with personal shopping a well).

Dick Van Dyke is also the nicest guy. He worked with my high school choir every year for years so i got to see quite a bit of him. =)

Posted by: Obvious | January 31, 2011 at 03:15 PM

Cool story Bill.

Posted by: Logan | January 31, 2011 at 03:30 PM

I met Jared Leto once... if he counts as a celebrity anyway. That's as close as I'll ever get to a celeb I think, considering I live in the backwoods of New England, lol. Drove several hours to Boston Mass to see his band in concert... he's such an asshole! He showed up at the meet and greet (that you had to pay to get into by buying merch) wearing medical mask and nitrile gloves, and didn't look up from the table once. Didn't acknowledge a single person in front of him. I don't like him OR his band anymore after that...

I've actually met a LOT of rock bands... all of the ones I've met have been simply amazing people (except for the above). The nicest two though have to be the members of Anberlin, they're a rock/alt rock group out of Florida; and Sick Puppies, a rock group originally from Australia, now based in LA. Both groups are insanely nice... they take time to talk to their fans like actual human beings, they don't have that "I am better than you because I'm famous!" attitude.

Posted by: Myst | January 31, 2011 at 03:58 PM

I had Michael Carrick (plays football for Manchester United and England) come through my till back when he played for West Ham. He was quite quiet and very polite. As soon as he'd left, the guys from the chiller cabinet came over asking questions xD I have to say I was really pleased when he signed for Manchester Utd, as I'm a red devil fan!

The only other "famous" person I've had through my till is the oldest woman in Britain to conceive through IVF, although I think she's since been overtaken. Her little girl was a pain in the arse, leaving sticky hand prints on our freshly cleaned mirrors and throwing temper tantrums, but the mother was nice enough.

Posted by: Shell | January 31, 2011 at 04:03 PM

I was serenaded once by Train (my favorite song by them at the time was "Hey Soul Sister"). I saw them at the table next to me at a restaurant in Columbus and got caught singing their song (I didn't really recognize them... just thought they were another group of guys) and they offered to sing it to me... it was kinda awesome : )

Posted by: Bitchy Barista | January 31, 2011 at 04:03 PM

My wife once got chewed out by a Bengal's player for not giving the rich fuck a discount on a $3 pretzel. She hold him to fuck himself.

Posted by: Tutor Stupor | January 31, 2011 at 04:06 PM

I helped Kim Cattrall in my little outlet mall store a couple of years ago. She was very kind, but she looked terrible, almost like she had been ill. She definitely wasn't as glamorous as her SATC character, Samantha :) The guy I was working with was oblivious as to who she was, and asked her for her zip code and email when he was ringing her up- quite hilarious when I filled him in after she left!

Posted by: merelywords | January 31, 2011 at 04:32 PM

I met Rudy Tomjanovich, who was the head coach of the Houston Rockets at the time at the Texas Renaissance Festival. Dad pointed and said "Hey, look...who do you see?" I'm a huge Rockets fan, so it made my day. Mom told me to go introduce myself and I thought he'd be mad. So she approached him herself and he came and took a pic with me. He teased me about being only 5 foot tall at the time and was generally an awesome guy. I came up to just above his waist, I swear! Calvin Murphy, former Rocket, posed for a pic for me in one of his awesome way-out-there suits.

Posted by: Another craft store slave...... | January 31, 2011 at 04:41 PM

Also, my bf went to the same high school as John Goodman (altho a few years later, JG still came by often)and he still hates him to this day. the bf said he was a massive dickwad. Rob once chucked a water balloon at the back of his head one time at a school carnival and intentionally ran into him every chance he got telling him he needed to drop a few pounds. I still laugh when he talks about it.

Posted by: Tina | January 31, 2011 at 04:46 PM

"Rob once chucked a water balloon at the back of his head one time at a school carnival and intentionally ran into him every chance he got telling him he needed to drop a few pounds." Wow you're right John Goodmand does sound like a massive dickwad.

Posted by: Logan | January 31, 2011 at 05:26 PM

Slinky-san reminded me that although I never had the "pleasure" of meeting Mr. Mellencamp, I did have the pleasure of meeting his guard dog once when I worked at a kennel near Bloomington, IN. A HUGE German Shepherd. Actually, the dog wasn't that bad to deal with since it wasn't at home protecting it's property.

I did hear a very funny story about the dog though that I have to share. Apparently the dog got into the kitchen trash and spread it all over the kitchen floor shortly after it arrived. Mellencamp called the training company furious. The trainer told him to make the dog pick everything back up and put it back in the trash can... which he did. The dog never got into the trash can again!

Posted by: Humor_Me | January 31, 2011 at 05:54 PM

I've never met a celebrity.

Though my dad met Jeff Healey in a bar a while back, he's one of my dad's idols so my dad got really emotional and Jeff gave him a hug and an autograph. He was amazing.

And Davey Havok smiled at me at an AFI concert in 2009, because my boyfriend and I were at the corner of the stage and when he came over to sign he smiled and waved xD

Posted by: Burger Bitch | January 31, 2011 at 06:19 PM

There was a local boy from my town that was on American Idol- after he was voted off the show, he came into my bookstore once or twice. The second time, he ordered a drink from me and I said nada. Treated him with kindness like everyone else- I recognized him right away.
Rang up, made his drink and sent him on his way. As he was walking out the door, a coworker walked up next to me and said, "That looks like so and so."
I replied, "That's because it was him." She went into fan-girl mode and I looked at her and said, "And you are EXACTLY the reason I didn't say anything. Leave the kid alone."
She was pissed at me for the rest of the night but I didn't care. 

Posted by: Book Bitch | January 31, 2011 at 06:26 PM

Hey Bitch_Boy:
I used to live very near Springfield, and my husband's band opened for Vanilla Ice (when he went all hardcore).
He was a TOTAL DOUCHEBAG. We were hanging out at the bar (Jax) and VI walked thru. Someone from another band said "Hey!" and he answered "Hello Fan." and kept on walking.
He also took up every channel on the soundboard, so all of the other band's mixes sounded like shit.

Posted by: Lemonsqueezie | January 31, 2011 at 06:29 PM

Michael Cera comes into my theatre occasionally, he's always very polite and really quiet.

Posted by: Popcorn Junkie | January 31, 2011 at 06:43 PM

Orlando Bloom was the nicest, sweetest guy in the world when he was filming in my area not a lot of years ago. He stuck around past when he was supposed to leave just because people had been waiting to see him. That said, his assistant was smokin' hot and a total fun guy. I had way more fun with him. I think somewhere along the lines I failed...

When I worked in a very upscale resort/spa, we had celebrities come in all the time. They frequently gave pseudonyms, but come on, how many people look like Reese Witherspoon? (She's a sweetheart too). My idiotic coworker went up to her and said, "You look like Reese Witherspoon!" to which she laughed and said she got that a lot. No shit, Sherlock...

In my experience there, the ones that didn't give fake names were the douchiest. Like LOOK AT ME! WORSHIP ME! (Ahem, John Mayer.)

Billy Bob Thornton almost ran me off the road once. Can't say I've ever liked him much, but he has an ego the size of Texas.

There have been more, but those stand out.

Posted by: Sisu | January 31, 2011 at 07:07 PM

I'm sure no one except for the person who posted under "me" (mentioned Jim Kelly and Mayor of Buffalo - were you served by Jim Kelly at his restaurant? Remember when he had a restaurant?!) but when I worked at a tanning salon, we'd get players for the Buffalo Sabres in. They were generally okay but ALWAYS asked for free sessions. It wouldn't have been such a huge deal if they didn't come in every single day. I think it's ridiculous to ask me for things for free when the car you pulled up in could put me through college. There was one player who was SUCH a jerk whenever I refused him. He liked to hit on (and sleep with and then ignore) all of the employees hoping that they'd comp him sessions. When I didn't, he pretty much told me I was ugly. I let him know I felt the same about him.

Posted by: buffalobabe | January 31, 2011 at 07:47 PM

I met David Hasselhoff in an airport, though we didn't speak (I was with my HS's marching band, and he took a pic with us). I met the cast to So You Think You Can Dance season 2 because we saw the tour show; they were all so ridiculously nice, especially Benji (we praised him to high heaven and he was all blushy and "You guys are so nice!" XD) Then I met and talked with a good chunk of the cast of As the World Turns at the fan luncheon; Billy, Marnie, and Tom (played Casey, Ali, and Riley/Adam respectively) were so much fun! Billy gave me the biggest hug, and Marnie was such a sweetheart. My sis was pretty much flirting with Tom :3 So all my celeb encounters have been good ones thus far.

Posted by: Luna | January 31, 2011 at 09:15 PM

I've met two celebs that I knew at my work and they were both super nice. One is famous for playing a witch on TV and having the first lesbian kiss on public broadcast. And let me tell you, she is as polite and sweet to retail personnel as the person she played on TV.

The other just recently released a movie with Harrison Ford about news broadcasters, has one an academy award for best actress and worked with Woody Allen a lot in the late 70's. And she is a LADY and has absolutely no celeb complex at all even though she's extremely well established. I've helped her multiple times, she remembered my name. She's an extremely nice person. And I'm a doofus because i had NO IDEA who she was and spent the whole time going "derp... this lady looks familliar." (I have sub-par facial recognition skills in general)

I'm sure I've met a couple other celebs too, but honestly, i'm not into celeb culture and hardly notice when I'm helping someone famous. My boss makes fun of me for being oblivious. (I mean, not mean-spiritedly makes fun of. my boss is pretty nice.)

Posted by: therampantferret | January 31, 2011 at 09:55 PM

Sisu - you are so lucky!!! I am a HUGE Orlando Bloom fan! I would hyperventilate and go into super fan girl mode if I ever saw him.

Oh I once met some guy who was a reporter on MTV back in the 90s or early 2010s, and we're talking about how awesome my manager is (because she is!), when I just go, "wow, you look like some guy on TV!" He just had that good looking guy charm, so I continue, "I think he as on MTV. I don't remember." He's just like, "yea.. I am that guy." My face went red and I apologized. Oops? Celeb sighting fail?

Another time I thought I helped Chloe Sevigny, but it turns out that there's a girl walking around who looks just like her. I thought I Helped her return a dark brown Nars eyeshadow, so hen who I thought was her came back, and I needed her ID for one thing or another, we struck a conversation on how much she looks like Chloe Sevigny. Apparently her spin class thought she was Chloe Sevigny for the longest time.

Posted by: Beauty Slave | January 31, 2011 at 10:03 PM

When I worked at a camera shop, I dealt with several of the Trailblazers. I treated them like normal people. They were fine with that.

Posted by: Book Baby | January 31, 2011 at 11:20 PM

I forgot, but I also met Tom Felton of Harry Potter a few weeks ago. Very nice guy.

Posted by: redheadactress | February 01, 2011 at 12:15 AM

Well, a couple of years back, while working in the west texas town of ... (and while working Night Audit in a small hotel off the interstate), John Goodman stayed with us. He didnt say much, and he looked like he'd been driving all day, and by the time he came in (3am) I couldn't blame the guy for being more cordial. I didn't really recongize him at first, I just remember that he was a freaking skycraper! Once I started all the check-in procedures and asked for his DL, it hit me, and I nearly messed myself. (I always figured that if I ever met a famous guy while working, I would just do my job, and let them be.) He just looked at me and asked if anything was wrong, and I just composed myself and finished checking him in and he went on his way. Turns out he stayed there once a year or so, and when I told the Managment they went out and got him a gift basket. Turns out he liked for us not to make a big deal, and I dont think he stayed there after that. (either that or it could have been that the place was kinda run-down).

Posted by: NightAudit Slave | February 01, 2011 at 12:18 AM

buffalobabe - actually Jim Kelly served me at the Taste of Buffalo, outside his restaurant, I think the year it opened. Got my food, went back to my friends, and they go, "OMG did you see who served you???" Uh, not really, busy eating here ... ;-)

I also saw Pat LaFontaine stoned out of his gourd on pain meds, but it wasn't his fault. When the Olympic runners were coming thru Buffalo (1996?), he carried the torch thru downtown to city hall. He had had dental surgery or something earlier that morning and the meds hadn't worn off. So he proceeded to run the wrong way, instead of up to the city hall steps. Got pictures and everything. Pretty amusing.

Posted by: me | February 01, 2011 at 05:32 AM

I have one degree of separation between myself and Kevin Bacon - and Kyra Sedgwick. He brought his son into the theatre to see Holes--a play in which we worked with the author for much of the time. They were wearing baseball caps--the official incognito uniform of actors who come to our shows.

When I worked during the summer of student shows, Adam Arkin (of Northern Exposure, Boston Legal, Sons of Anarchy, Monk, and every other show ever made) was watching his daughter who was in a play. He came to all the rehearsals, and used to come out and hang with me at the concession stand. We chatted a lot. When he came back the next year, it was the same. He liked to hang out with me when his daughter was waiting to be in a scene.

Also:

Tom Hulce (walked in to watch a couple scenes and then left)
Colin Powell (napped on the couch in my office)
James Earl Jones (doing a gig for Verizon)
The Seattle Supersonics (I served coffee to Detlef)
The Secret Service (Clinton was speaking next door)

Posted by: Hellbound Alleee | February 01, 2011 at 08:09 AM

...and I dog-sat for Adam Horowitz (Beastie Boys) and Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre).

Posted by: Hellbound Alleee | February 01, 2011 at 08:11 AM

A couple more I remember, Jim Coronette (back when WCW was in business and he was still the manager of the Midnight Express), I saw Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton (The Midnight Express) walking around another part of the airport. Roger Daltrey was filming a movie across the street from the apartment building where I grew up. I saw the lights from my bedroom window (they were filming down a side street), and when I went down to see what was going on, I not only met him, but Whoopi Goldberg as well (apparently at the time she was dating one of the producers), they both signed autographs for me and Whoopi and I just sat there and talked for about 5-10 minutes (I had seen her one woman show a few months earlier with my parents). I also met all the members of L7 and they even gave me the guitar picks they used in the show that night!

Posted by: NC Tony | February 01, 2011 at 02:02 PM

Keeanu Reeves came to Winnipeg to do the part of Hamlet for the play... well, Hamlet. My dad and his buddies (stage hands, they are/were) took him out one night and he won all their money in pool xD He bought them drinks with it though so it was all coo'. They had to disguise him tho.

Posted by: Kat | February 01, 2011 at 03:08 PM

"'Rob once chucked a water balloon at the back of his head one time at a school carnival and intentionally ran into him every chance he got telling him he needed to drop a few pounds.' Wow you're right John Goodmand does sound like a massive dickwad." Oh God yes, he sounds like such a jerk, doesn't he.

Posted by: A. | February 01, 2011 at 04:01 PM

Oh, I got to thinking... When I was breeding Giant Schnauzers 20+ years ago, one of the people that bought one was a former soap opera actress. A minor role for about 6 months, and I can't even remember the name of the show since I didn't ever watch them. It was funny when I went to deliver the dog because I saw the picture of her with all the cast members and she was trying to convince me that it was a really good show. Too bad her character had been killed off/divorced/sent to prison/sold into slavery/eaten by shrews/abducted by aliens or whatever.

Posted by: Humor_Me | February 02, 2011 at 04:53 AM

If I did I wouldn't even know, don't follow them at all

Posted by: Jenn | February 02, 2011 at 12:20 PM

I barely missed meeting M. Night Shyamamlan and Kevin Smith at my workplace.

I did graduate with Corey Barlog, who was in a movie and was one of the head guys for the first two God of War games.

Posted by: Projection Peon | February 02, 2011 at 12:43 PM

This is a fun thread =)

Tina that is FUCKING AWESOME, haha. Randy Orton is the love of my life, he just doesn't know it yet ;)

I used to live in Buffalo so I met a few of the football players around town, Jim Kelly and Doug Flutie being the most memorable. Flutie was in the grocery store and took a picture with some guy's kid, which I thought was so sweet.

Also I met Chris Benoit in Niagara Falls in '04 or so. He was actually really quiet and nice... I was working so I didn't say anything but he had a few drinks with a group of guys at the hotel restaurant. And tipped decently, too. Freaks me out to think of what happened =S

Posted by: Nocturnesthesia | February 02, 2011 at 01:25 PM

I sold parking passes to Sandra Bullock when I worked at a hotel. It was during the time she was filming "Miss Congeniality". I also met Joshua Jackson (Dawsons Creek, Fringe) He ad asked me directions to a well known bbq joint. Then there was Scott Cahn, Colin Farrell and Ali Larter.. all guests of previously mentioned hotel. Quinten Tarantino also stayed there several times. He was kinda on the nasty side. Wore the same clothes days on end, always smelled of BO and alcohol, and had tons of skanky women either on his arm or calling his room at all hours of night and day. Joan Collins, another guest at one time, was pretty high maintenance. Hotel had to special order a bed and vanity for her room,(and keep them in storage for her next visit...she didn't want anyone else to use them) add extra security and I heard something about changing the room service menu...

Posted by: In Slavery | February 02, 2011 at 04:14 PM

I've never 'met' per-say a celebrity, but when I was pretty young my friends father was a huge movie memorabilia collector and owns several Star Wars and LOTR props.Quite a lot of swords mostly.At the time he was trying to get something or another from LOTR when it was just released and my friend and I had not seen it. At the time I wasn't really into that. We had walked around to a fast food place by his office building so we stopped in hoping to bum a ride off him back to her place to avoid the cold snowy walk back.

He said he was expecting a phone call from someone on the movies and it was okay for us to answer while he left his office briefly. Sure enough about 5 seconds later the phone rings and the two of us answer together-being the silly little 13 year olds we where.

The man on the other line was very polite and sweet as we giggled and chatted for a few minutes before her father came back and quickly took the call from us giving us both terrible amused looks.

It was Orlando Bloom.
Yup xD I don't even remember really what we said accept to the extent of:
"He'll be right back"
"We're freshmen"
"I am 13 shes 12"
"-our names-"
and general chatter to a cutesy extent.

And that's how I talked to Orlando Bloom on the phone once, without ever realizing I was talking to Orlando Bloom.

Posted by: pagemaster | February 02, 2011 at 05:44 PM

This wasn't exactly me meeting him at work, but by happenstance when I USED to be workin'.

I went to the local improv after a long day and as I was leaving.... I bumped into the person who had been the headliner that night.

That person........ was Norm MacDonald.

He could not have been nicer, even as I was just in absolute awe at him. He not only shook my hand and gave me a personal autograph (which I still have to this day), but he offered to have a picture taken with me.

I still have the picture on my computer and I went to see him again a few years later, bringing a copy of his movie "Dirty Work".

Not only did HE sign it, but he got another one of that nights performers to sign it as well....

That other performer.. was the brother of the late Chris Farley, Kevin.

Since then, I've rewatched Dirty Work like 20 times and I still remember those nights....

Posted by: Meowth | February 05, 2011 at 10:15 PM

I've met Tracy Morgan as part of my job. He was actually one of the easiest contacts I ever had to work with. Really nice guy.

Posted by: Anonymous | February 06, 2011 at 02:13 PM

Another one I met was at Comic-Con....

Creator of PowerPuff Girls and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Craig McCracken.

He could not have been more down to earth. He gave autographs to everyone, talked a LOT, and even had a little one-on-one with me regarding something I hadn't gotten to ask during his panel.

In fact, I found out a lot of VAs at that convention were really sweet.

Tom Kenny (Spongebob) - Not only gave me an autograph, but even remembered me by name when he was visiting his wife, Jill Talley, during another panel (whom I ALSO got an autograph from)
Aaron McGruder (creator of the BoonDocks) - A bit quiet, but still pretty friendly and gave autographs
Kenn Navarro (creator of Happy Tree Friends) - Could not be any nicer. He gave me a personalized autograph and a poster and even had a few pictures taken with me and some of his fans

Posted by: Meowth | February 19, 2011 at 11:32 AM

I didn't get to meet her but a few times Tyra Banks came into my work. I also got to meet Damien (can't remember the name of the dance crew or what year they won) from Americas best dance crew, one of my coworkers knew him. And unrelated to work I saw Vladi Divac(sp?) From the Sacramento kings when I was like 8 in my local grocery store. I've also met Godsmack minus sulley. On a few occasions AFI, all the guys are super nice!!!

Posted by: Gwenaphyr | March 14, 2011 at 04:41 AM