Celebrities you've met (or came close to)
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) but I've met/bumped into quite a number of celebrities in my time.The most recent one was when the Royal Shakespeare Company came to Singapore to perform King Lear for two weeks, with Sir Ian McKellen himself in the lead role! I got tickets to watch the play, but about 2 days before that, I was down at the theatre cos my cousins were in town. Walking along the bay, who do we think we see coming out of a nearby restaurant?
McKellen, along with his entourage - two misc. managerial types, and apparently his boyfriend.
At first, I didn't notice (his beard had grown out and was shaggy for the role), then my sis pointed him out to me, and I was: "No. Effing. Way"
Unfortunately, he noticed we noticed, so he bowed his head and started walking off.
You've never seen an old man walk that fast. Ever. I grabbed my cousins and we gave chase at full run. And we still couldn't catch him! Eventually, they DID stop at the King and I banner to take pictures, but we lost our nerve and didn't care go up to them =/
And then I remembered I could use my camera phone.
DAMMIT!
Another time was I found out that members of the Lord of the Rings cast stayed at my family's apartment in Queenstown, Australia. The last time I was there, it was possible they had started filming but of course, noone had heard of LOTR then so we didn't notice anything...
Anyway, did you guys have close encounters with the glamorous kind as well?
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Most recently, I went to the Wrestlefanfest at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California last October. Myself, my family and a friend went to go see the Ring Of Honor show there (Quick aside: If you're even remotely interested in professional wrestling, you need to check out Ring Of Honor). It was an absolutely awesome show. And afterwards, some of the wrestlers hung out with the fans. They are some of the coolest people ever (aside from one Roderick Strong, but that's a different story), and I was lucky enough to get autographs and some pictures with them:
Brent Albright (AKA Gunner Scott, formerly of WWE)
"American Dragon" Bryan Danielson
"Double C" Claudio Castagnoli
Bobby Cruise (Ring Announcer)
Delirious (Warning: Extreme Dorkiness Ahead)
Chris Hero
I also got an autograph from Jay Briscoe. No picture, unfortunately, as the batteries to the digital camera died. My friend, my brother and I also talked to the President of ROH, Cary Silkin. It was pretty surreal to be talking to the dude who runs the company. Vince McMahon would never do that.
I also met voice actors Spike Spencer (Shinji in Evangelion), Crispin Freeman (Alucard in Hellsing), Chris Patton (Greed in FMA) and the musician Voltaire at a convention in July. I apologized to Chris Patton for keeping my cellphone on during a panel, Voltaire gave me an extra free CD and told me he saw my name in a Death Note.
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I think two of the thoroughly nicest people I have met (both on more than one occasion) are Julian Cope and Henry Rollins. Lovely chaps the pair of them.
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I usually don't really notice celebrities unless they have something that inspires me or gives me something to admire, and Amy Lee is one of them.
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Oh yeah, and Minae Matsukawa (one of the producers of PW) at Comic Con.
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I also met the voice actress for (Disney's) Mulan (can't remember her name) on a flight once.
Ugh, we don't get the benefit of cons, so that's about it, although I REALLY want to meet Keith David (his voice as Goliath always strikes me as brilliant).
I saw Stephanie Sun (popular Mandarin singer) at my school's open-house. Apparently she's an alumnus and came in incognito. Also met the World's Tallest Man (at that time) from the Indian embassy at the same open-house.
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Other than that, not what I remember. I've seen many international stars live on stage though. Shakira, for example >____>
The 27th I'm probably going to meet the former minister for foreign affairs of Finland when he comes to visit where I work, though. He used to work with my mom when he was the minister of Trade and Industry and my mom his first secretary (never got to meet him back then) He's an admired man in and outside politics. :D
Politicians, politicians... I know a lot about politicians thanks to a Finnish political satire show, but that doesn't mean I'm interested in politics. T_T
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The most recent was Bruce Campbell at the local cult cinema, whom I kissed on the cheek.
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Byakko wrote:
Any kind of 'celebrity' really.
Oh well if *anyone* will do, then I know a whole bunch of comic book folks, although mostly Americans and Brits. That's about as famous as it gets in our house on any kind of semi-regular basis. It's amazing who you get to know at comic book conventions. I'm still honoured that I once got to chat with Will Eisner very briefly.
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seems interesting!
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Aaron Dismuke (<3!), Troy Baker, Jerry Jewell, Michele Knotz, Greg Aryes, Chris Aryes, and Bill Rogers. Troy called Travis Willingham during one of the panels and put it on speakerphone, but I'm not sure if that counts. XD
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And my brother saw Angelina Jolie and got a picture, I'll upload it later.
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Through a wedding I met "Big O" (Oscar Robertson) the basketball player and got a autograph and picture with him. That was seriously awesome! I'm 6'4 and he was taller than me!! I actually think he's my cousin!!! MUAHAHAH!
That's it really.
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Wayne Coyne... and Richard Garriott. The former is great, the latter is a huge SCA-type dork. As to be expected.
YOU MET LORD BRITISH HOLY SHIT
On a side note, I've never met a 'celebrity', because I do not acknowledge that such a status exists.
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GearsoftheApparatus wrote:
zuddharina wrote:
Wayne Coyne... and Richard Garriott. The former is great, the latter is a huge SCA-type dork. As to be expected.
YOU MET LORD BRITISH HOLY SHIT
On a side note, I've never met a 'celebrity', because I do not acknowledge that such a status exists.
You're denying that many people get widely renowned for things, such as acting or music?
If you come across an older post of mine, sowwy
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Quote:
YOU MET LORD BRITISH HOLY SHIT
Yeah.
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RufusLLS wrote:
I met Lex Luger (wrestler)
Did he call you Billy What's-his-name?
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Attorney Hatman wrote:
Never met anybody famous for anything.
Did he call you Billy What's-his-name?
RufusLLS wrote:
I met Lex Luger (wrestler)
Did he call you Billy What's-his-name?
Naw, wasn't close enough to actually talk to him. He seemed cool to the people that was crowding him.
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Other than that...no one "big" yet.
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The most recent was Bruce Campbell at the local cult cinema, whom I kissed on the cheek.
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GearsoftheApparatus wrote:
On a side note, I've never met a 'celebrity', because I do not acknowledge that such a status exists.
Wikipedia wrote:
A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention.
You're also denying the status of 'sergeant', 'queen', 'member of parliament', 'plumber' and 'Egyptian' exist? It's like acknowledging that the moon doesn't exist because you don't like the colour white.
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I met Charles Wang, richest guy on Long Island or definitely up there with the richest. He's a cool guy. He goes to my dad's restaurant often XD;
I haven't met many famous people, but my dad has. Famous jockeys and hockey players go to his restaurant all the time o__o;
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And I've met David Crowder, a Christian singer. He's really sweet, but I don't have a personal relationship or anything. I'm actually going to one of his concerts tonight!
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I also met the danish prince Henrik, I believe it was, at a small car show. I was googling over one of the cars, and I was shoved aside by the press who followed him like a swarm of angry bees.
On top of that, I've met one of the winners from the Robinsons Expedition (that's 'survivor' in the US, right?), from before he went on there, and I've met the owner of Deadline Games.
I'm not a fan of celebrities, so I don't put anything INTO any of it, really.
Oh, and while my father's not famous, he did make something famous: the large shell at the new opera in copenhagen. He did the majority of the planning and figureing out how it could even be possible to do, not to mention actually doing the work on programming the cutter, and supervising the assemply. Afterwards, his boss took all the credit for his work.
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He and my brother have met the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, last year during a large ritual festival and they both flew to Nepal to attend.
Also, this man, His Holiness, the Venerable Chokling Rinpoche regularly visits our home about once every two years when he comes to Singapore to teach.
(Rinpoches are spiritual teachers with an honorific title. They are often reincarnations of previous rinpoche incarnations. They are also allowed to marry and have children.)
On a small note, I used to chat with a girl who claims she was Brendan Fraser's niece. She sent me a photo once, of Brenden Fraser cuddling a little girl who she says was her little sister. Once, while chatting, supposedly it was Rachel Weiss who happened to be using her computer and so I chatted with her as well.
I have no idea why Rachel Weiss could possibly be using Brendan Fraser's niece's computer, unless they were using a laptop while filming. Or something.
In retrospect, I really should have kept that photo. If anything just to see if it was true that it was a private family photo and I wouldn't be able to find it on the net =/
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I worked at G8 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany, met and stood next to a lot of the Heads of State, such as Stephen Harper (he smiled at me XD), Angela Merkel, GW Bush, Tony Blair, Wladimir Putin, Shinzo Abe and Nicolas Sarkozy. Their press conferences were uber cool - somebody stood up during Putin's, threw leaflets and shouted "PUTIN IS A SWINE!" in German. Putin then got up and said "Young man, calm down and hand me that piece of paper", or something along the lines of it. Was happening too fast, but it was hilarious - Putin answered it perfect German.
I also ate with the J8 people. :D
Met a handful TV people and writers, my mom's an author.
Mikker wrote:
Oh, and while my father's not famous, he did make something famous: the large shell at the new opera in copenhagen. He did the majority of the planning and figureing out how it could even be possible to do, not to mention actually doing the work on programming the cutter, and supervising the assemply. Afterwards, his boss took all the credit for his work.
WOW.
I was working with classical singers once and they were trained in Copenhagen, so I did some research. Man, that's really cool.
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And, um...I kind of...threw one of them at his head :3
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The Doctor wrote:
I've nevermet anyone famous. I've always wanted to, though.
If you read my post above, meeting all these hyperfamous people at G8 made me realise one thing - something that'll sound tritely taken from some kind of kids cartoon - even famous people only walk on two legs and struggle with costiveness every once in a while. Now while you're hopefully trying to forget the awkward analogy (XD), having direct access to celebrities.. well, while of course it's pretty cool to meet them, they're not superhumans. But of course you can really admire someone for their work.
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hugged Nick Frost and Simon Pegg at the hot fuzz autograph/free hug booth.
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...Never heard of him?
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