I have met some famous people in my life. If you live in the Los Angeles area and read the sports section of the LA Times, you'll probably be familiar with Bill Plaschke. Every year since 1996 (except the past two years) his family and mine get together and make Christmas cookies. He's a really cool guy. He took my father and I to a Mighty Ducks game one time.

In August and September I went to two Jeopardy tapings. Those were some of the best experiences I've ever had. I got to see Ken Jennings play and even see him break the record for the most game show winnings. I wasn't allowed to talk to him because audience members can get a contestant disqualified for speaking to him or her. My sister got to meet him and she says he's a really nice guy.

I got to talk to Johnny Gilbert (the announcer for Jeopardy) and Alex Trebek. They like to field questions from the audience. Trebek is really nerdy, not that that's a bad thing.

Those were some really famous people I've seen in person. I've also seen a lot of famous baseball players. The list could go on and on. :lol:

My dad said he met some famous people down in Nashville but I really haven't. My dad is a big Johnny Cash fan and once he had the chance to go backstage at a concert and chickened out last minute....he still regrets that mistake :lol:

My mom met the Alabama governor when she was a kid. It's one we'd rather forget... George Wallace. :eek: She has pictures of her sitting in his lap.

I've met local weathermen before... I guess they are famous. :lol:

I remember once my dad took me to the local airport when bush came HA...I wasn't fond of him but I got to skip school so I was like "Hell yeah!"...that was back in 02 lol

I met Genevieve Gorder and Paige Davis from Trading Spaces (not at the same time). I also met Ashlee Simpson at WalMart.

And I could've met Clay Aiken, but we won't get into that right now.

Yes.

- Vicki Lawrence (twice)
- Joe Farrell (the dude in my avatar) I also scored two hugs from him. :D
- Faber Dewar - scored a hug from him too.
- Edward Walker
(The last 3 people are Trading Spaces people)
I *ALMOST* met Christi Proctor and Hildi Santo-Tomas...my family worked with Hildi and Christi worked in our house...but I missed them! :mad:
- Earl Pomeroy (ND US Rep)
- Bryan Dorgan (ND US Sen)

I *ALMOST* got to meet Ann M. Martin (she came to my city for a book signing in 97 and I didn't go. I'm still kicking myself over that) and John Ritter....if I had met him, it would have been 2.5 months before he passed away. He was doing a fundraiser at the Mall of America in MN with a few other 8SR people (Amy Davidson and Michael Spanjers) at the end of June in 2003. I was on the same floor as Hillary Clinton, but missed her. I went on a trip to Washington DC in April 2002 and we were in one of the Senate buildings and she was there...other kids in my group saw her but not me.

Originally posted by PZelda

- Earl Pomeroy (ND US Rep)
I'm related to an IL representative. :D

Various Pro football players, all of whom I can't remember, at the 1985 Pro-Bowl in Hawaii. None of them probably play anymore. :lol:

Originally posted by AllIWantIsYourClutch
I'm related to an IL representative. :D

US Rep? Hey, that's pretty cool! :D

I've met many celebs but only because they were at autograph shows. A partial list:
- Joyce DeWitt (and she hugged me twice!). :woohoo:
- Dawn Wells (no hug from her). :(
- Russell Johnson
- Cindy Williams
- Penny Marshall
- Don Knotts
- Don Adams
- Pat Priest
- Johnny Crawford
- Catherine Bach
- John Schneider
- Donny Most
- Anson Williams
- Erin Moran
- Martin Milner
- Eddie Mekka

That's all I can think of right now.

I've met my favorite band ever, Hanson! Best day of my life (and Zac twice)

Oh, and not that it matters, but I've also met:

Plus One
Stacie Orrico
Rachael Lampa
Ben Barkin (he started the Great Circus parade, but he's dead now)
Ben Taylor (song of James and Carly Simon; he's a singer, too)
Cris Clobber (a comedian)


I also have a lot of other celebrity autographs I got in the mail, but I never met them like AJ Trauth, Margo Harshman, Nancy Cartwright (she signed a picture of Bart!:) ), Jaycie Phelps. That's all I can think of now.

When I was in junior high I met Kylie Minogue at a mall signing.

Susan Dey (Laurie from the Partridge Family)
Andy Garcia
Mary Hart
John Tesh
Tommy Lasorda
Marlon Wayans
David Hasselhoff
Ted Danson
Woody Harrelson
Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)
Sonny Bono
Shari Belafonte (Harry Belafonte's daughter)
Tom Brokaw
Annette Bening
Warren Beatty
The Kennedy's
Kent McCord

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I dont know how many people know of her,but i met Natalie Imbruglia in a cafe in my hometown.She was holidaying here,and had just come from the beach to get a coffee.She is only short in real life,but still gorgeous without a scrap of makeup.She was lovely,still one of my favourite celebrities.

She's not A list,but she's recognised.She's an Australian,but UK based singer,married to Daniel Johns,the lead singer of Silverchair.She was in the Australian soap,Neighbours,and was in the movie Johnny English.

The cast of 8SR was at a mall in Dallas once ( Im on vacation in my other house in Florida now, SEagrove, but back to this ) but I didnt know so I didnt meet them.


I was in Seaside when JIm Carrey was iflming the Truman Show I got a crew shirt but didnt get to meet Carrey cause he wasi n Panama City that day

I got to see Andy Griffith in person...I just didn't get to meet him :(

Some local news anchors...

and all of the guys in DL&Q are famous in the bluegrass world...
plus all 6 guys in Mountain Heart...and several other famous bluegrass people :D

delta burke

Originally posted by Pretty in Purple
I dont know how many people know of her,but i met Natalie Imbruglia in a cafe in my hometown.She was holidaying here,and had just come from the beach to get a coffee.She is only short in real life,but still gorgeous without a scrap of makeup.She was lovely,still one of my favourite celebrities. OOOOOH I love her!

I met 7 of the American Idol 3 contestants at the tour backstage (Jasmine, Diana, LaToya, George, John, Jennifer, Jon Peter) back in August. And in 2001, I went to Islands of Adventure and met this old guy from Jurassic (sp?) Park. It was like a big deal then, because there were lines everywhere, and my Mom wanted us to take a picture with him... even though I had no idea who he was.

Sara Evans (3 times)
Vicki Lawrence
Barbara Eden
Cindy Williams
Traci Lords
Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Jamie O'Neal
Mackenzie Phillips
Barney Martin
Liz Sheridan
Angela Cartwright
Dustin Diamond
Dee Wallace Stone
Lisa Wilcox
Sheila MacRae
Lorenzo Lamas
LeVar Burton
Lou Ferrigno
Greg Evigan
James Hampton
Marjorie Monaghan

Originally posted by BettyWhiteFan
Mike, you have one lengthy list going for you. You've met Dustin Diamond...and Vicki Lawrence?

*nudge* I did too. Twice. Didn't you see my list on the first page? :lol:

Originally posted by Brent88

I've met local weathermen before... I guess they are famous. :lol:
That's about the only people I've met too.:lol: I saw one local weatherman in a club once after he had been doing a special report in California and I went up to him and asked him, "how was California?" He looked at me like he didn't want to be bothered and just said, "it was good."

My wife met Chief Dan George when she was little. He was in one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies The Outlaw Josey Wales . I couldn't believe it when she nonchalantly showed me the picture of her sitting next to him. She didn't really think anything about it.

When I was little I saw Dustin Hoffman in a museum gift shop in New York. I didn't know who he was then, but some of my family started freaking out and then started annoying him like crazy fans often do :lol:

Back in the early 80s, Mahammed Ali came to this recreation center in my city. I forgot why he came, but he was with Don King and they were joke boxing with a lot of fans. I got his autograph, but I lost it at the time.

Is Howie Long famous? He grew up in the next town over from me. My cousin has a kid with his sister.

I saw Bill Cosby in person.

I've never seen anyone famous.

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I saw John Belushi at the state fair last year. Oh, and I was about 345346 feet from Britney Spears at a concert when I was 9. :) Alllso last year our churchschool made us go to this really stupid Life Teen with a bunch of religious teen freaks, and some Catholic kid from the Real World spoke. Yay.

My dad works in NYC so he sees some famous people sometimes. He saw J.Lo shoot a video, and he talked to Ben Affleck, for like a minute, and didn't know who he was :lol: He also saw Matt Damon and Al Pacino.

Oh yeah and No Secrets, that stupid little girl band, who sing 'We're the Kids In America', yeah they came to our school in like the 6th grade. One of the girls from that group, Angel, who went solo, also came to our school in like October. Go us :D

Vicki Lawrence
Homer Hickam Jr. (author of October Sky)
I got to see Carly Patterson and some of the US women's gymnastics team, but I didn't meet any of them. Annia Hatch did wave at me though.

I've seen an met a few famous folks here in New York.

Well, I was about 3 feet away from a few American Idol contestants (Amy Adams, Camile Velasco, Jon Peter Lewis, Jennifer Hudson, George Huff, John Stevens, and LaToya London), all of whom saw me, waved to me, and a few even talked to me through a big plate of glass. I also met Diana DeGarmo's mom, Brenda, who isn't famous, but she was on TV! I met Gregory Harrison, Bianca Marroquin, Roz Ryan, and a few others at the stage door of Chicago (they're all Broadway names) aaaannndddd I met Kimberley Locke when I saw her in concert :D

I've seen David Copperfield performing in my city and have seen psychic Slyvia Browne perform in my city as well.

I did get to meet and see perform Jenny Berggren from Ace of Base in Sweden this summer! :D

I've never met anyone well-known, but back in the '90s I was going to a film with my mother once and we saw the weather man from the CBC channel, Howard Thornton at the theater. We didn't get to meet him, we just saw him there.

Originally posted by Pretty in Purple
She's not A list,but she's recognised.She's an Australian,but UK based singer,married to Daniel Johns,the lead singer of Silverchair.She was in the Australian soap,Neighbours,and was in the movie Johnny English.

No... Natalie Imbrluglia is a solo artitst she had a huge hit in the 90's called "Torn"... she is not the lead singer of a band... at least not anymore. sorry.

I've met Kelly Ripa's HUSBAND, Mark Consloluse once he came to our local mall... he was very nice, and cute. my mom chased him down the mall and said "can i touch you" and he said yes and she touched his arm.... he was so cute, i still have his autograph! this was back when he was still on "All My Children"...

I've also met several people from The Real World/Road Rules:

Ruthie and Justin from the Hiwaii season
Cryus from the Boston season
Danny from New Orleans (he was very cute and sweet)
Rachel from RR:Campus Crawl and lots of the challenges!
and my mother got me an autograph of Brad from the San Diego season and of Julie from the New Orleans season!

Originally posted by safety pin
i'll never forget seeing barry bonds. we all were chanting "BARRY SUCKS! BARRY SUCKS!" and screaming at him and telling him how much we hate him. man, that was fun.


:rotflmao: I hate Barry Bonds. What a douche bag.

I forgot...as far as seeing in person, I've seen tons of Nascar drivers just by attending races. And we went down to the baseball stadium to see Rusty Wallace, but the jerks thought the game was more important that the autographs, so we didn't get to actually meet him.

Originally posted by factsoflife
No... Natalie Imbrluglia is a solo artitst she had a huge hit in the 90's called "Torn"... she is not the lead singer of a band... at least not anymore. sorry.

I think she meant her husband was in the band, not Natalie.

She also does commercials for...L'Oreal? That micro-dermabrasion kit thing.

Well, as for SEEING famous people, I've SEEN

The Spice Girls
Evanescence
American Idol Season 2 Cast
P. Diddy :rolleyes:
Britney Spears
Atomship
Breaking Benjamins
Three Days Grace
Seether
Sawyer Brown

all in concert

I saw Harvey Fierstein in the Broadway show Hairspray, that was pretty cool.

I met broadway star Felicia Finley

And I got the band Default's autograph...woo.