First encounter of a famous kind.

[Julianking93]

I met Drew Barrymore at Bonnaroo (music festival) last year along with Christian Finnegan, Brian Poshen and Justin Long.

They were all standing next to me when I saw Bruce Sprinsteen. It was pretty cool

 

[Macgyvercas]

Their famous if you're in the right part of the world, but I've met the members of Tanglefoot on multiple occasions.

EDIT: AND I have pictures to prove it!

 

[DividedUnity]

I saluted mikhail gorbachev once hahaha does that count?

Also I've tried so many times to talk to people from my favourite bands but I always get caught :/

 

[The_Decoy]

I've hugged Joey Comeau and chatted to him about eating sweets for breakfast

 

[KiruTheMant]

I met the drummer for Avenged Sevenfold.I won backstage passes off the radio.

 

[serenitatis]

My brother, a friend of his and I went to see Sepultura and In flames play in dublin. Well we went to see Sepultura, we are not fans of In Flames. Sepultura played first and we decided to leave. Across the street was a fast food place and we decided to get some. While waiting in line in walks Andreas Kisser and Paulo. we all got photos with Andreas but Paulo went straight to the seaing area in the back. Next in came Roy Mayorga who was filling in for Igor. more photos were taken. We waited a while but there was no sign of Derek Green. We were walking away when we looked back and saw him crossing the street to go eat, we ran back and got more pics. good night that was

 

[Strategia]

I met and "interviewed" Robert Picardo (the EMH from Star Trek Voyager) when I was 8. Apart from that, well, I've had several courses taught by Maarten van Rossem (a prominent Dutch historian and sour, sarcastic old coot), some Dutch writers (most prominently Harry Mulisch, who wrote The Discovery of Heaven), a handful of more-or-less-known current and former Dutch TV presenters (Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, Monique Hagen, Jeroen Kramer, Loes Luca). Not really anyone that's well-known (or known at all) outside of the Netherlands.

 

[gameo53]

I met Kenny G golfing At my home course one time
(jazz music)

also I met David Wright(3b mets)

and Ken Jennings (jepordy guy)

 

[Elonas]

Hmm.. Let me think. My grandfather and J.R.R. Tolkein were good friends. My father has had a convorsation with Sir Ian McKellen. Afterwards I recieved a funny text from my dad after the encounter, saying "Just spoke with Gandalf, no magic. Though". He didn't even know who he was til he stood up and left!

 

[snide_cake]

I've met Michael Palin and Glyn Parry at their book signings.

And I know you said not to mention your own uncle P), but my Uncle Peter Blyth has written two books (Gold fever and other diseases : the life and rhymes of a ten quid immigrant) and been on Landline, where they interviewed him and toured his farm, Bugger Up Downs.

I'm also a few degrees of separation from Carson Kressley - my sister's friend knows him and has ridden with him.

 

[spinFX]

Had lunch with Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Won it through work (Australian Pay TV company). Was awesome. I love the show

Holy crap, no way! You lucky bastard. What was he like? What did you talk about?! WHAT DID HE EAT?! Details, the fangirl in me desires them!

He ate a bit, we were served a platter of sandwiches. It was me, his publicist, and 5 other people including 1 HARDCORE fan. He was embarrassing the rest of us I think. 2 of the girls there didn't even watch Dexter, which I guess is forgivable because at the time Dexter wasn't even out in Australia but by illegal means I had seen season 1 and most of season 2.

He was a funny guy, and his accent was hugely noticeable in real life (American accent of course) but somehow not how it sounds in the show. Weird. The way the 6 of us won the competition was to email in and tell them what question we would ask Michael. My question was "Can you never stop making Dexter?". It was a cheesy way to suck up a bit but I knew they'd like that question

When I got him to sign a poster he asked "What should I write" and I said "Anything you like!" and that is what he wrote. "To Michael, Anything you like! - Michael" - my first name is Michael I should mention.

OOOOOOOOOO I should mention that the lunch date fell on my ex-girlfriend's birthday, so I lost some GF points that day

All in all it was worth it. Food was good, his publicist was interesting (had good incites into TV obviously), and Michael was charming.

 

[Jolly Madness]

I met Norway's most famous meteorologist, yeah, it sucks.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Nobody interesting.
David Dickinson from Bargain Hunt, half the cast of Emmerdale.

Oh, Jimmy Carr in Scotland!!

 

[nick n stuff]

my best mates Grandad makes guitars (jaydee) and he made Tony Iommi's First SG called the old boy. i was at my mates and we got a call saying that the guitar was in the workshop do we wanna come and play it. yes...yes we did. about 2 hours in Iommi appears. extremely embarrassing as we were playing really bad cos were not left handed. he just took it off of us and showed us how it's done. we grabbed our own axes and joined in. have you ever jammed with one quater of the band that bought heavy metal to the world?... cos i have.

also, me and a friend got work experience at a guitar shop and my mate tried to sell a bass to john paul jones, neither of us realises who he was until he left and the boss told us who he was. we felt so small.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I've cooked for both Dogg the bounty hunter (and his wife) and Matt Cooke when he played for the Canucks.

I have to ask, what did his mullet eat? There's no way that thing is natural.

 

[FairlyFrightenedFeline]

I met Eddie Izzard (the stand up comedian) when he was doing his 32 consecutive marathons for Sport Relief beacuse he marathunned through my town.

 

[ChaosDragon]

i've made Cliff Blezinski's lattes for the past year or so.

::edit:: i've also met some players from the Carolina Hurricanes; and got to touch the Stanley Cup in 2006. Was sweet ::/edit::

 

[PixieFace]

Had lunch with Michael C. Hall from Dexter. Won it through work (Australian Pay TV company). Was awesome. I love the show

Holy crap, no way! You lucky bastard. What was he like? What did you talk about?! WHAT DID HE EAT?! Details, the fangirl in me desires them!

He ate a bit, we were served a platter of sandwiches. It was me, his publicist, and 5 other people including 1 HARDCORE fan. He was embarrassing the rest of us I think. 2 of the girls there didn't even watch Dexter, which I guess is forgivable because at the time Dexter wasn't even out in Australia but by illegal means I had seen season 1 and most of season 2.

He was a funny guy, and his accent was hugely noticeable in real life (American accent of course) but somehow not how it sounds in the show. Weird. The way the 6 of us won the competition was to email in and tell them what question we would ask Michael. My question was "Can you never stop making Dexter?". It was a cheesy way to suck up a bit but I knew they'd like that question

When I got him to sign a poster he asked "What should I write" and I said "Anything you like!" and that is what he wrote. "To Michael, Anything you like! - Michael" - my first name is Michael I should mention.

OOOOOOOOOO I should mention that the lunch date fell on my ex-girlfriend's birthday, so I lost some GF points that day

All in all it was worth it. Food was good, his publicist was interesting (had good incites into TV obviously), and Michael was charming.

Ahhh. *swoon* What I would give.

Sorry that you had to put up with the one loser fan, though, seems like that could've been pretty awkward if he was spouting off show trivia or something. And I'm curious why the two girls were there in the first place if they hadn't even seen Dexter. Maybe I'm just jealous of them. Okay, yes, I am.

Lmao on it being your ex's birthday. What a cool story. =)

 

[Strykz]

Uh, my Dad saw Boris Johnson on a plane, and I saw a member of S club 7 once in town. (Yeah amazing celebs i kno rite?)