People Are Sharing Their "I Didn't Know I Met A Famous Person" Stories, And They're So Freaking Funny

1. "My boyfriend, astatine the time, and I were successful Borders bookstore connected Michigan Avenue conscionable northbound of Chicago Avenue. I was looking astatine the magazines erstwhile we heard a batch of small kids screaming and freaking out. My ex looks astatine maine and asks, 'Who the hellhole are they and wherefore are each of these kids losing it implicit them?' I looked up, and successful the mediate of each the kids screaming was Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, aka Kenan and Kel. I told him who they were, and they some jokingly said that helium had amended admit them. My ex made a astute remark astir them not being that famous. So, Kel jokingly acted similar helium was going to unreserved him, but Keenan grabbed his garment similar helium was stopping him. Then Keenan acted similar helium was going to unreserved him, and Kel pulled him back. The kids successful the store and I were laughing hysterically astatine their antics. My ex recovered it precise annoying and was adjacent much annoyed that I couldn’t halt laughing."

—Anonymous, 47, Chicago, Illinois

2. "In 2006, I was surfing with a friend, past rode into the formation to rest. I sat down adjacent to different surfer, and we started talking astir surfing stuff. We ne'er exchanged names. About fractional an hr later, helium near portion my person was riding in. 'How bash you cognize Jimmy Buffett?' helium exclaimed! 'I don't... wherefore bash you ask?' I replied. 'Dude, you've been talking to him for fractional an hour!' my person replied. He was a wholly chill, nice, humble guy."

—Anonymous, 45, Montauk, NY

3. "My fiancé and I got a summertime gig successful the 'Midwest Las Vegas' doing lights and sound. We heard rumors that absorption had procured a Hollywood large sanction to hone caller worldly successful beforehand of smaller crowds, but didn’t cognize who. Day Two, a tallish, jovial feline successful the nicest janitor-style suit I’ve ever seen came into our signifier room. He complimented the lights/sound, past zoomed implicit to maine to speech astir music, movies, showbiz, and our cats. When helium walked away, my fiancé came implicit and asked if I knew who that was. The information that helium didn’t TELL ME is wherefore the adjacent time happened. Next day: crowded room. Multiple radical with my fiancés name. I needed his attention. Me, astatine the apical of my lungs to get my boyfriend's attention: 'YO, BIG DADDY!' Michael Winslow successful response: 'As opposed to Medium Daddy?' And that’s however I got invited to a excavation enactment with Michael Winslow."

—Anonymous, 30, Midwest

4. "After eating meal with my lad astatine our section Waffle House, I went to the cashier to pay. A gangly young antheral came successful and was instantly greeted and hugged by the waitresses, who congratulated him connected his caller job. We exchanged a fewer wide words of conversation. After leaving, my lad said, 'Do you cognize who that was?' He had to archer maine it was Chauncy Billups, a retired NBA subordinate who had returned to unrecorded successful his hometown of Denver and was evidently a regular astatine the restaurant. He’d conscionable been hired arsenic manager of the Portland Trail Blazers."

—Anonymous, 77, Littleton, CO

5. "I worked successful a pub and was serving a ample radical of radical astatine a household get-together. My co-workers were telling maine however fortunate I was and kept wanting to get into the country to get his autograph. Who?! Neil Young. I continued to service the family, pretending I wasn’t told who helium was. Leave the antheral and his household successful peace."

—Anonymous, 53, Canada

6. "I grew up successful a second-home assemblage extracurricular of NYC. Seeing celebrities who lived successful our municipality was a regular occurrence (and inactive is). When I was 3, I told Mary Tyler Moore to 'shut up' aft she interrupted me, painfully trying to enunciate what I wanted my ma to drawback disconnected the support successful our tiny section market store. Luckily, she didn’t perceive what I said, and adjacent told my ma what a 'cute child' I was. But my ma was mortified, paled, and rapidly apologized, fundamentally moving retired of the market store with maine successful tow."

—Anonymous, 41, Albany, NY

7. "I was surviving successful LA, trying my manus astatine acting. I was doing a tiny portion connected a short-lived amusement called Love & Money, starring Swoosie Kurtz and David Ogden Stiers (a large guy!). We broke for lunch, and I was strolling, scrolling, and taking my sweet, wholly unaware clip walking down the mediate of a 'road.' I was wholly unaware of this car crawling down me. No honking, nary yelling, nary hurry. This feline conscionable patiently sat down maine successful his car waiting for me. I looked up and saw that it was Ted Danson! He conscionable smiled and waved."

—Anonymous

8. "I was lasting astatine the Costco pharmacy, and a pistillate successful a large hat, sunglasses, and a trench overgarment dropped her recognition card. I picked it up and softly said to her, 'You look overmuch amended successful your Wonder Woman costume.' It was Lynda Carter. Then we some started to laugh."

—Anonymous, 42

9. "Years ago, my dada was a manager successful a gathering that had immoderate signaling studios successful it. One day, a radical of radical is trying to load a ample magnitude of instrumentality into the rider elevator. 'What are you doing?' helium asked. 'Take that to the freight elevator.' It was similar 20 feet away. 'Don’t you cognize who this is?' idiosyncratic from the entourage asked. 'I don’t care. Put it connected the freight elevator earlier you harm that elevator.' 'This is STEVIE WONDER,' they say. Then, my dada responds, 'I don’t attraction if it’s Wonder Woman, the worldly goes connected the freight elevator.' And that was however my dad, who had nary thought who it was, kicked Stevie Wonder disconnected an elevator."

—Anonymous, 57, Phoenix

10. "One day, my dada got connected an elevator with a shorter man, and they conscionable stood successful soundlessness for 5 afloat minutes. Later, the antheral said a punctuation from School of Rock, and my dada conscionable stood determination dumbfounded. That antheral was Jack Black."

—Anonymous, 16, Connecticut

11. "Years ago, my teenage lad worked the evening displacement astatine a tiny state station. A antheral walks successful wearing a cowboy chapeau and asks to usage the washroom. My lad apologized and said they didn't person a nationalist washroom and would get successful occupation if helium fto him usage the worker washroom successful the back. The antheral said nary occupation and left. My lad thought helium looked acquainted but couldn't instantly ID him. It turns retired that my lad refused to fto Kiefer Sutherland usage the washroom. But said Kiefer was truly bully astir it."

—Anonymous

12. "My parents met a mates by the excavation successful Panama and got truly friendly. So my parents invited them retired to a tiny section pizza spot to stock a pizza for lunch. A fewer days later, my dada called to inquire if I knew a comic publication creator who had worked connected Spider-Man. Turned retired my parents took Stan Lee and his woman retired for pizza."

—Anonymous

13. "I grew up successful Orlando, truthful seeing celebrated radical happens a lot. My ma and I went retired to Universal CityWalk for meal and amusive 1 night. I really, truly wanted to spell to NBA City to eat. So, we went. The Magic was successful the playoffs, and you would get a tiny battalion of cards aft eating. I opened excavation astatine the table. I was sooo ace excited due to the fact that I pulled a Shaquille O'Neal!! Our waiter told maine that if I were truly lucky, I mightiness conscionable Shaq, and helium would motion it for me. He said Shaq liked their sundaes. We wage and are leaving. Walking down the steps to leave, I spot this MASSIVE-sized quality being."

"Lil' ol' maine is conscionable staring slack-jawed astatine this man. He notices maine and says, 'What’s up, lil' man?' All I could accidental was, 'You're big.' My ma hollers astatine maine to drawback up due to the fact that I had fallen behind. As I drawback up to my mom, I perceive this dependable yell, 'Hey, kid!' I crook astir and it’s our waiter. He said, 'Why didn’t you inquire Shaq for an autograph? I looked astatine him similar helium had 3 heads. The waiter said, 'Here, travel with me.' He took maine backmost wrong to Shaq's table. It was astatine this infinitesimal that I realized this monolithic quality was Shaq. He so did motion my paper helium adjacent invited my ma and I to articulation him for immoderate crystal cream. So yeah, that’s however I met Shaq."

—Anonymous, 40, NC

14. "I worked connected the movie Killers of the Flower Moon by Martin Scorsese erstwhile it was being filmed. I ended up getting a enactment successful the movie aboriginal on, but that day, I was conscionable a time subordinate playing a chauffeur for a wedding scene. There were the evident ace celebrated radical similar Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and such, but we weren't expected to speech to them."

—Anonymous, 42, Auburn, California

15. "I was astatine Disneyland once, walking close down Gavin Rossdale, talking connected the phone, portion I was trying to fig retired who helium was. He ended up walking close up to Gwen Stefani and their kids! I, of course, conscionable walked by, staring with my rima unfastened wide."

—alienhairdresser

16. Lastly, "I was astatine a edifice successful London entertaining concern guests from the US. We were seated astatine 1 extremity of a benignant of U-shaped seat with tables astatine each end. Seated astatine the different extremity were Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley. We exchanged pleasantries arsenic they were seated a fewer minutes aft we had arrived. Admittedly, being successful the luxury edifice business, I've met galore divers celebrities and governmental figures passim my career. Like most, Grant and Hurley were polite and reserved."

—meusbellum

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