Celebrity Sightings/Meetings

tapu · 01-14-2014, 07:52 PM

Having lived in San Diego, LA, the Carrmel-Monterey Peninsula, SF, and Boston, I have had many a celebrity run-in. Usually celebrities whose heyday was, say, the 70s.

Like, I was in a Pebble Beach (circa '92) bar when I saw Diane Carroll (Julia, remember?) try to take her top off. The bartender stopped her.

I got a million of these, which I'll intersperse throughout the thread if it takes off.

Anyone got a story like this?

Gráinne · 01-14-2014, 07:58 PM

I used to play competitive chess, and met former World Champion Mikhail Tal at a competition. He didn't speak much English that I know of, and I didn't speak Russian, but he signed my scoresheet for a game I happened to win

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I was in the audience during a taping of The Phil Donahue Show and met him afterwards. Too bad the topic that day (ca. 1988) was "How To Get A Man" . If I'd come the day after, he was interviewing John F. Kennedy Jr.

My sister-in-law used to live in Carmel, California and worked in a department store. One day, then-mayor Clint Eastwood came in and asked her where the towels were. All she could say was "Hi....". He was really cool about it, and laughed (and found his towels).

Julie · 01-14-2014, 08:02 PM

I was 10 years old and picking garbage for a garage sale I was having. The next thing I knew... Jane Fonda was walking down her drive asking me what I was doing. (She had the best junk). I told her and then she offered me a job to baby sit for her little girl (Vanessa), more like a mother's helper for $1 an hour. So, I did and it was fun to do for the summer. They lived up the street from us.

tapu · 01-14-2014, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Gráinne

My sister-in-law used to live in Carmel, California and worked in a department store. One day, then-mayor Clint Eastwood came in and asked her where the towels were. All she could say was "Hi....". He was really cool about it, and laughed (and found his towels).

Yes, I ran into (or ran past) Clint a number of times, as he was mayor when I lived there. He's the only celebrity I've ever seen who looks exactly like he does on screen. He's huge. And he holds out that big hand and says, Welcome to Carmel, or whatever. What a time that was with him as mayor. It made Carmel always feel like a movie set.

DapperButch · 01-14-2014, 08:55 PM

My sister lives in Thousand Oaks, CA.

A few years ago she was sitting next to Cindy Crawford and her husband at an information session about the private high school my nephew subsequently went to. My sister didn't know who she was (because she is not attentive to Hollywood), but when she came home mentioned to my brother in-law that she was next to someone who must have been a "celebrity" (evidently, you can tell who is and who isn't and she knew she looked a bit familiar). Based on her description, my brother in law pulled up a picture of Cindy on the web and my sister was like, yes, that is her!

My brother in law sometimes plays golf with "Puddy" from Seinfeld.

My nephew is friends with the stunt double for one of the kids on Modern Family. The kid's father is a huge stunt double and is a friend of my brother in law.

There are other stories.

I met Meatloaf at an airport in England, but that's it.

C0LLETTE · 01-14-2014, 09:01 PM

I once arm-wrestled Frank Zappa... it's a long story.

tapu · 01-14-2014, 09:19 PM

At least tell us who won!

torchiegirl · 01-15-2014, 07:52 AM

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Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

I once arm-wrestled Frank Zappa... it's a long story.

o, c'mon n' tell it!?
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Gemme · 01-15-2014, 05:15 AM

Hulk Hogan was at the host hotel for the last Reunion in Little Rock. Joe Jackson was spotted there a couple years before that.

I used to live in Daytona, half of which was spent less than a mile from the Speedway. I saw a variety of drivers and their crews at work and at the restaurants in the area. A local newscaster came through my drive thru one day. Of course, so did the infamous jerk off guy.

tapu · 01-15-2014, 07:21 AM

I was shopping at a grocery store in the Carmel Valley when I saw Doris Day, also shopping for groceries. And buzzing around the aisles with her was Regis Philbin, talking non-stop.

01-15-2014, 07:27 AM

Phil Collins...played bass in a band with him for a week in the 80s
Prince Charles...met and chatted about parachutes the same week I played with Phil
Brian Jacks...UK judo olympic medallist. Was his demo bunny in the aforementioned week in the 80s
Victoria Wood...at the checkout in Sainsburys (Lancaster)
George Hamilton IV...getting an autograph after a gig
Vicky Entwistle...Janice Battersby in Coronation Street. Got a selfie with her in a local bar.

There's some others but can't recall off top o'my 'ead.

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