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What losers! They are not cute AT ALL.

I've seen a ton of celebs but only met a couple. I've met members of about every band you can think of. I met Samuel L. Jackson once...he's cool as hell. He's probably one of the coolest people ever. So nice. I met Kanye West briefly once. He wasn't awful, but he does seem to have a pretty huge ego.

Yeah, Luke and Owen seriously need to get over themselves.  What a turn-off. 

that is so disappointing about the wilson brothers!  you'd think they'd be a lot cooler to their fans than that.

i've seen a lot of celebrities around -- once robert redford and i made extended eye contact in a restaurant, and i almost fell out of my chair -- but only spoken to one, an actor named peter hermann, who used to be on a soap opera my mom and i watched together and now he's on law and order svu sometimes and is married to mariska hargitay in real life.  he was also in an episode of sex and the city, the one where charlotte is trying to get over harry and all these women at the synogogue try to fix her up with their sons.  he played the one who was very good looking and smart but she just didn't want to date anyone, and he says "i understand.  do you want to go to my apartment and have sex?"  anyway, he was at a christmas party i was at, and he kept walking around and i recognized him and finally went up to him and said "excuse me, but aren't you an actor?"  and he said "yes, i am" and i asked him "and you played the doctor on guiding light who cloned reva?" (very weird storyline) and he laughed and said "yes, that was me" and we talked about it for a few minutes.  he was really nice and shook my hand, asked what i did for a living, and then he went on his way.  i used to watch that show every day from the time i was 13 until i started working full-time, so it was exciting to meet someone from it. 

-- Edited by scarlett at 09:54, 2005-06-17

ok, here's my shameful experience... so i was at a club in LA (ya, i've seen & met lots of celebs, but this is the most interesting experience) w/ my girlfriends & kinda just gazing off into the distance while they went & got drinks.  suddenly i realized i was gazing at Mario Lopez (AC Slater from Saved by the Bell) AND he was gazing back!  (now keep in mind i had NO idea he was with anyone - specifically Ali Landry, this was before their divorce)  When one of my gfs came back i told her & she was like "go over there".  so we both went over & introduced ourselves.  we all (he was w/ a guy friend) talked for a while & then he asked me for my number.  i gave it to him cuz he was so HOT in real life!  then we met up w/ our other friends & went to the car.  i told the other girls what happened & they were disgusted.  i couldn't figure out why til they told me that he was married to Ali Landry!!!  not long after that they got a divorce & i wasn't too suprised.  oh & he never called, what a jerk .... haha, so kidding, i didn't expect a call & was relieved i didn't get one!

luckylily wrote:

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 I've mostly met musicians - most recently Kaiser Chiefs and Kasabian, but also most any band from Seattle - I've always found them to be reserved yet nice.

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how was kasabian?  my friend and i love their music and have their recent cd but hate that you can't download it to your IPod b/c they have that decoding on it that makes the computer spit it back out as soon as you load it!  grrrr!

i've seen a bunch but had few real interactions.  here are the ones i can remember:

reese witherspoon complimenting shoes i was trying on, we both happened to be shoe shopping at the same time in the same place, she was really cool.

ice cube talking to me at my desk (i used to be an asst. at a talent agency), he was really cool too.

sharing a moment w/ tom selleck at a party (i only got to go because i'd helped the agent's first asst. w/ the invite list), and thinking he was really cute.  i remember being disappointed when he didn't ask for my number.

shaq asking me out-- was in the car w/ my friends after our other friend's bday party, my friend saw his cousin's car (she had stalker tendencies and was going through a bball groupie phase at the time), made an illegal u-turn and pulled up next to them, i was in the back seat, driver's side, he was in the front passenger seat of his cousin's car, he made eyes at me, asked for my number, i didn't know whether i should give it or not because i didn't know if my friend liked him, she gave him my number, he called two days later, saturday, and wanted to take me out but i had a paper i had to finish so i said no he was like well i'm going to be out of town for a month but i'll call you when i get back. i was like ok.  i told my friends, they were like you are the biggest nerd ever, i was like oh well, what am i supposed to do w/ him anyway, besides i love C (we were dating at the time but not exclusive yet).  anyway, a month later, he called again, spoke to my roomate, she was like i'll give her the message.  she told me, by then C and I were exclusive so i never called him back.  oh yeah, and his first words to me were how old ar you? soo funny, i'd just turned 21 at the time. 

i think that's all i can think of for now...

I've met a lot of band members, too. I'm kind of a junkie when it comes to certain band peeps. But then I'm such an idiot around them. I just grin stupidly and say "hi - y'all rocked tonight." I'm cool like that.

But the most memorable celeb encounter was when I met John Waters (one of my all-time favorite directors) and Selma Blair. Two things about her: not the nicest person you'll ever meet and freakin' skinny! Like get that girl a milkshake, pronto skinny. I remember seeing her and thinking she looked like a sack of skin and bones. Gross. Of course that's probably why she's perpetually pissed off. She's just hungry.

Oh and John Waters? So cool. But I'm a girl and therefore not really his speed.

Meow wrote:

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esquiress wrote:  sharing a moment w/ tom selleck at a party (i only got to go because i'd helped the agent's first asst. w/ the invite list), and thinking he was really cute.  i remember being disappointed when he didn't ask for my number. shaq asking me out-- was in the car w/ my friends after our What year was this?  Was it during his Magnum days?

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let me think, i was 22 at the time and I'm 27 now so it was about 5 years ago.  I guess that would be during his Friends days?  Gosh, I still remember the butterflies--and what was weird was there were people who were much more famous at the party but for some reason, to me, he was the most interesting person there. sigh.

I do see your point Maddie about celebs not always needing to be nice, because it would be hard to always have to meet people. However, I think that any fan should be respected unless they are being rude to you or aggressive in some way. At the same time, we are the people that go to their movies and help them afford the lifestyle they are living in. A person could be the greatest entertainer in the world and without ticket sales you are nothing. So in a way they do have that public image to maintain if they want to keep driving around in those fancy cars. He should have said "You bought a ticket to my last movie, well thanks for helping to pay my house note last month, let me get that elevator door for you" HA!!! Like that would happen, but it would be funny!

Let me give some positive energy to this topic and say that my FAVORITE celeb that I have met was Mr. Lenny Kravitz. He was the nicest, coolest guy ever, not to mention totally hot! I was glad that he was just as great in person and made you feel like he was just a regular guy. Did I mention the fact that he was really HOT!!