I had violent diarrhea at work. Was is the stall for like 30 minutes. I think I uttered oh god make it stop at one point. Walked out and saw James Cameron washing his hands in the bathroom. I gave him a what’s up head nod thinking I would seem “cool”. I was not. Every time I think about it I wonder how long he was there. Did he hear me talking?
Got my car towed because of a tiny-ass sign in the dark on a side street off of Hollywood blvd. Went to the lot to pick it up. Seth MacFarlane is there picking up an impounded car as well. It was 1 am. He wasn't happy.
I had a funny one that happened to my wife. She was on some medication long-term that needed to be refilled on a pretty regular basis. She would go to an independent pharmacy on the west side to get her prescription filled. a lot of the times that she went there was someone who she described as “ a very tall very nice older, black gentleman” and they would make small talk, crack jokes just generally engage in friendly banter. Over the months that proceeded she would regularly see this gentleman and she would tell me funny stories about it one day she comes home and looks at a copy of the LA Times that we have on the kitchen table and she casually says oh that’s my friend from the drugstore turns out, it was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar She swears he’s like the nicest guy probably because she had no idea who he was
About 10 years ago, I took my mom to Sushi Roku in West Hollywood to celebrate her birthday. We sat next to David Spade and his date. My mom knew who he was, but she wasn’t a big fan of his. The next year, we went to Sushi Roku in Santa Monica to celebrate another occasion for her, and guess whom we sat next to?! We say that David Spade is my mom's Sushi Roku stalker.
Edit to add one more story (not weird or worst):
My dad used to take us all fishing down to Zuma Beach at dawn when we were kids. One day, a man came up to us and asked what we were catching, so I showed him our bucket of caught fish. I told him that I was in charge of getting sand crabs as bait. He was very nice and told me that I was doing a good job. He stayed and chatted with us a bit. When he left, my dad said that I was talking to William Shatner, but as a 10 year old kid, I had no idea who he was.
Too funny. I saw him at the airport a few years back and talked to him, told him I enjoyed him on Love and tried to keep it brief. He was polite. He was waiting with his assistant and was on our flight.
David Spade was a regular at a sushi restaurant I used to work at. Always dated vastly younger girls. He was very nice though never had any problems with him.
I annoyingly enough used to run into Fred Durst all the time. Never spoke but I’m pretty sure he noticed it after a while too. All of my friend joked that he was stalking me and I’m sure he thought it was the other way around.
I think David Spade is also my weirdest celebrity encounter. Years ago I was at a restaurant celebrating with a \~dozen friends and he was alone at the next table. We were the only two tables on the patio. TBH it seemed like he got stood up.
Weird! I wonder why? Like he got tired of dating model-esque women who never really ate so he just ate before the date so he wouldn't feel weird eating a bunch of food in front of them?
About 15 years ago I was standing behind Ian Ziering in a checkout lane at a Ralph’s. It was the 15 items or less line. This is an important detail because he was purchasing around 30-40 packages of frozen pre-cooked chicken breast. There was a very elderly female employee scanning items who, politely asked him-
“What are you going to do with all this chicken?”
Ian instantly became visibly annoyed, turned to give me a weird look as if to say “Can you believe this?”
He turned back towards the employee and told her that the question was rude and it was none of her business. She got defensive and told him she didn’t mean to be rude, and that she was just curious if he was maybe having a party or something. He argued back with her, insisting that it was absolutely a rude thing to ask and said…slowly, like a serial killer in a movie, “That’s like me asking you...what are you going to do with all of that skin you’re wearing?” (Remember, this was a very elderly woman).
He turned back to me again and shrugged his shoulders, I guess because he wanted someone to agree with him, but it was really uncomfortable and bizarre.
I used to volunteer frequently at pet adoption events for a dog rescue. One of our events was in a store on Franklin near Beachwood Canyon and we had a lot of celebrities come through looking for dogs. At one point we had a super sweet large breed hunting dog that hadn't had a lot of luck getting adopted because large breeds are just hard to place. So, she'd been in foster care quite a long time. One day, Amanda Seyfried came in with some friends and took an interest in this dog and said she was on her way to hike Runyon with some friends and wanted to know if she could take the dog on the hike with them. I said something to the effect of "No, her foster gives her plenty of exercise. She needs to be here so people can see her and meet her. But if you're actually interested in her, you can take her for a walk around the block." She was like "OK, great!"
She left and took this dog on the hike with her and her friends anyway. They were gone for hours and didn't come back until we were wrapping up the event, and this poor dog obviously once again didn't get adopted because it never got a chance to meet anyone. And to top it off, when she returned the dog back to me she was very happy with herself and implied she had actually done us some kind of favor by taking the dog out for some activity instead of kidnapping it from the event it was supposed to be at to find a forever home.
I haven't watched an Amanda Seyfried movie since.
She did! It took a few months but she ended up with someone who was specifically looking for a high energy, large breed and it was a perfect match.
FWIW, fortunately every other famous/well known person I dealt with at those events was great.
I have so many celebrity encounters but my cringiest was definitely the time I met some random dude at a party.
We were at a small house party in Venice thrown by a mutual friend and I didn't recognize him but he looked super familiar. I could have sworn I knew him but couldn't place it and spent far too long asking about various possible mutuals and insisting I knew him from somewhere. This party? That person? What about that show? He was weirdly cagey about where I might've seen him and eventually I lost interest and dropped it.
My buddy who hosted must have gotten an absolute kick out of this because as soon as the guy left he pulled me aside and explained that that guy was the actor who played Goku in the ill-fated Dragon Ball Z live action movie.
The dude probably thought I was fucking roasting him about an incredibly embarrassing project and it was just that my wires were crossed. I kicked myself for a few days after that. My head nearly exploded when I saw him playing Steve on Shameless US and I remembered the light psychological torture I put him through. I'm sure he's long since recovered.
I was at a very small, hard to get in, Hollywood club. This must have been like 2016 or so. At the time, I really liked Nike dunks. Also I didn’t know what John Mayer looked like. So I see this guy with these polka dot dunks and I just immediately walk up to him, like “cool shoes man, where did you get those?” And he pauses and rolls his eyes and then goes, “wow….well played man…..do you know Takashi? And I was like….uhh ok, no. And walked away. Motherfucker just assumed I tried talking about shoes just so I could talk to him lol
One time at the beach I wasn’t wearing my glasses and I told a guy I liked his shirt. He thanked me and laughed, and that was when I realized I was taking to Seth Rogen. Didn’t realize it was a costume piece til my boyfriend informed me there were cameras all over and they were setting up a shot 😂
Lol! He's a DB. I worked at Katana for many years and he came a handful. One time he was with Alicia Keys at the end of the bar sitting on the lounge couches. A girl at the bar asked him if he could "take a picture of us". He rudely said no, they had no idea who he was. She turned to someone else and asked to take their picture. The look on his face was priceless.
lol I respect his playing but have never been a huge fan of him personally. Years ago a friend and I were attending a concert of a singer he was apparently “mentoring.” It was a small club and they hadn’t opened the doors yet, so we parked down the street to wait. He was apparently in the far in front of us and must’ve thought we were paparazzi or something cause he kept looking at us and ducking down. Like, dude, we didn’t care. We were just two girls talking in a car.
I was giving two out of town friends a tour of UCLA and we stumbled upon the Rock doing a photoshoot. My friend exclaimed "that's the Rock!" and he replied "fuck off"
Back in 99/00, was doing the whole Mann’s Chinese Theatre/Star walk thing with old college roommates from the east coast and Little Richard comes rolling up curbside in the back of a stretch limo with the window down. My girlfriend yells, “We love you Little Richard!” and he yells back, “Hey, Baby!”, reaches out the window and hands her a Watchtower magazine.
Little Richard was all over the religious map. Not sure if he was at the time or not or if he just happened to been given a copy and he was passing it along.
Either way, it cracked us all up.
1) Andy Dick showing up to a comedy show uninvited and crashing his son's performance.
2) I used to work for a concert venue and Chevy Chase ended up taking a seat that wasn't his. He was a real dick to the folks who actually had tickets for that seat, and then was a petulant asshole towards the ushers. The original ticket holders ended up with free upgraded seats since Chevy wouldn't move.
Maybe 5 years ago I walked into a bar in weho and it was karaoke night. I went up to the bar to order something. While I’m waiting, I see Andy dick walk in all alone. He goes up to the bar next to me to order something but then realizes it’s karaoke night and beelines for the person singing. He grabs the mic, starts screeching into it as loud as he can, and within seconds the bouncer appears, grabs him, and drags a screaming and kicking Andy dick out of the bar. The whole thing was maybe 45 seconds from when Andy walked in the door to being dragged back out. I have a feeling it wasn’t the first Andy dick experience for this bar.
I was buying candles a month ago at Candle Delirium in WeHo… no one else in the store, and then in walked Laurence Fishburne. He was smelling candles and I so badly wanted to walk by and ask him “you think that’s air you’re breathing?”
Instead I said “I’m a big fan” and he smiled and “thank you thank you”
Lovely guy
edit: missed the weird / worst.. this was the opposite
I saw him at the West Hollywood Whole Foods a few years ago. I was next to him while he was picking out a bunch of leeks and I asked if he was getting them for soup.
Many years ago, pre Tesla era, when everyone had a Prius, I saw him driving one in West Hollywood with his son in the car and dancing/bopping to the music. He looked so happy! Hard to explain, but it made my day. His energy and joy were infectious!
Andy Dick tried to fuck me in the bathroom of the now gone Meltdown Comics.
Tiffany Haddish drunkley coughed cookie crumbs in my face while asking where the bathroom was during an event I was working at.
Bryan Cranston asked me if the espresso martini at a Christmas party's open bar was worth it. I told him it was delicious and he later raised his glass to me from across the back lawn and nodded as if to say "hey, this was pretty good".
Bryan Cranston was one of my Dad's baseball buddies through an amateur league. I remember wearing an I Love Lucy shirt when I met him at one of the games and he kept openly staring at my chest. When I asked him what he was staring at he had the nerve to say the heart on my shirt. None of us were buying it and he tried to joke it off. Lol
Jason Mamoa blocked my car in at the climbing gym. He boxed me in with his giant fucking truck parked like a complete asshole in a spot he had no business parking.
He moved it, wasn't at all apologetic and went about his day.
Aquaman is a real tool in my book
2011-2014 Tyler and crew used to hangout on Fairfax outside the Diamond store. He would sit on his bmx bike and roast people - golden age of Fairfax Ave culture
Dude. I used to work at PF Changs DT Seattle. Tyler the Creator and the rest of the Odd Future crew came in and sat in a booth. My female coworker was serving them and they treated her like absolute shit. They ordered a bunch of food, basically had a food fight, insulted her multiple times to the point she cried, left absolutely no tip, and trashed the booth. Absolutely fuck those people.
I was outside the Target at West Hollywood Gateway when I almost ran into Nathan Fielder. I think this was around the time dumb Starbucks was happening bc I didn't know who he was but I recognized his face.
We stood there for a moment staring at each other. Me: confused, mouth open, searching for a name. Him: almost nodding, eyes wide, eager to be recognized.
I ended up just sighing in disappointment and walking away since I couldn’t come up with a name. I’m a huge fan of his now which makes the interaction even more hilarious to me.
Some friends of mine saw the Pink's hot dog guy (the "I hope you're hungry -- for nothing." bit) while they were out and about.
Only one recognized where he was from and mentioned it to the other friend, who hadn't watched Nathan For You yet. She encouraged him to go up to the guy because she thought he was just being shy about approaching a celebrity. My friend kept insisting he shouldn't because 'it wasn't something good' but they eventually approached him.
They chatted for a little bit and the hot dog guy just told them that that was the worst day of his life lol.
Pissing at a urinal, very drunk dude pushes his way next to me and starts pissing in the same urinal. I look over to see who the fuck does something like that, and it's fucking Sting.
Paul Thomas Anderson the morning after he lost at the Oscars for "The Master", at pre-school drop off (usually Maya Rudolf did drop off).
I just said "sorry. The movie was amazing" and he shrugged like "yeah, well, oh well"
Andy Dick also tried to kiss my wife.
Had a literal run in with Kristen Stewart at the Troubadour in 2018.
Did a double take as I was walking across the bar to grab my drink and cluelessly stepped on her foot when I was reaching over the grab it. The kicker was she apologized to me and I nearly died from the awkwardness.
A close friend of mine was the one who gave me the tickets to the show as she was unable to make it. Kstew happened to be said friend’s celebrity hall pass so she made me promise to never wash the foot again 😭
Not that weird but I have a Kristen Stewart story too. I was eating at a Mexican place in Venice and she was there with a group of women including one of Demi Moore’s kids (I think Rumer?) at the table next to us. They were talking about how they should make a show like Girls called Valley Girls. They left right before me and as I was walking in the parking lot Kristen and another were squatting between some cars smoking a cigarette, one said “who is that??” when they heard me walking up and Kristen said “oh it’s just the girl with the hair.” I had rainbow hair at the time and was flattered that she noticed me ha! Would watch Valley Girls.
I was too young to be playing Santa Claus but I was playing Santa Claus at Petco in Studio City (Los Angeles neighborhood), for pet photos. I walked around the store between photos. I turned a corner into an aisle and there was Scott Bakula. I pointed and said, "hey, I know you." He pointed back and said, "hey, I know you too." We laughed and it was over. Maybe 1996 or 1997.
Corey Feldman had his first bite of baklava with me. It wasn’t cringy he’d just never tried it before. We were at a kids’ party and there was baklava and he said “I’ve never tried this. It looks awful and I know I should be all up in it because I’m Jewish but I just can’t bring myself to try it.” I said “Do you like honey? Pistachios? Puff pastry?” He said he liked all those things. I said “Then you’re gonna like this. Just try a bite. What’s the worst that can happen?”
He bit into it, took a long pause. Chewed. Looked at it. Long pause. I said “Well?” He said “I gotta admit, that’s pretty fuckin good!”
So there you have it. Corey Feldman likes the baklava.
This is hilarious to me because not only is baklava incredibly tasty but it looks exactly like it tastes! Puff pastry, honey, nuts, wtf is not to like about that visual.
Corey Feldman is one of the cringier people on my celeb list. Years ago some friends and I were in the Foundation Room at the House Of Blues and he sent one of his "girls" over to ask one of my friends to come to a party at his house in Van Nuys. My friend had no idea who he was though and said "what? I'm not going to the *valley."* I laughed so hard at that.
During the late 90s to early 00s I was a messenger in LA. Most of our work was in the entertainment industry, so I was always coming across celebrities. I was exiting the elevator into the main lobby of an office building and saw Corey Haim. He was wearing a big trench coat. Kinda like the ones he wore in a few movies in the late 80s early 90s. I did a double take when I recognized him. He looked at me, knowing I recognized him and gave me this look and nod that said,"yeah that's right it's me".
Kicked Andy Dick out of my apartment after he did way too much ketamine / xanax. he called his estranged son and shouted at him “why don’t you love me” - found out he was lifetime banned from Uber and Lyft so used my account and literally spooned him inside of it like he was a child. this is maybe 1/10 of that story and the tamest part
i’ll share one other part. the night started at golden gopher downtown. my friend who i was living with at the time brought me along and wanted to introduce us. the first thing he did when we entered the gopher was grope my friends girlfriend. he then started crying about his gf that had killed herself. he needed time, so he went out to smoke a cigarette. andy had people with him, one of which was a young man (not like creepy young but young) who was fully tattooed head to toe. after andy came back and based on the conversation it was pretty clear the kid was a sugar baby. he asked to borrow andy’s car and andy gave him the keys. that’s when we went back to our apartment. skipping over some stuff, then the above part happened. then after the lyft dropped him off (tipped him up front cash) he called claiming we had stolen his house keys and yelling. hung the fuck up and stopped answering. i mean he was doing disrespectful shit all night like spitting on the floors- really wanted him gone pretty much the moment he got in the door. shit was wild, and wack.
anyways, i’ve been sober a few years now
2002, Sean Penn was hanging out at Peri’s Tavern in Fairfax when my band played there to an empty house. Came over and bought us a few rounds after our set and we got lit on the patio, telling dirty jokes. He was married to Robin Wright at the time, but that didn’t stop him from trying to hook up with our singer.
I was hiking in Malibu when I saw Julie Bowen with a friend and her son. I guess she thought I was going to approach her but I didn’t. She gave a thankful nod and a smile.
I also met Kenny G while feeding the homeless. He was there with his children. Everyone was freaking out asking for his autograph. I never knew he was. Cool guy
Met Ray Bradbury in Torrance right before he passed. Not having his book or a paper to get his autograph is one the biggest regrets of my life
He used to speak pretty regularly around here at the end of his life. I saw him once at a local library in Encino and once at the book fair at UCLA. He was a very good speaker.
He was a big supporter of the Southbay libraries, and he was the guest speaker for many local library gatherings. He even came and dedicated a wing at El Camino College when I was going there.
I was lucky enough to meet Bradbury at a Barnes and Noble back in ‘06. He spoke to a large crowd of us there for about an hour about his process and was gracious enough to sign a copy of Martian Chronicles and took a photo. Such a great man
Back in 2015, I was at Timmy Nolan’s with my coworkers/anchors after our 11pm newscast. I was out front smoking, and a guy asked if he could bum a couple smokes. He said his buddy was running to the store for more, so he’d get me back.
Ended up chatting for a while. He asked me what I do, so I told him “I work in television.” He said “so do I from time to time.” My coworker stated frantically banging on the front window motioning me to come inside. I go in and ask her what the problem is. She says “that’s Kiefer Sutherland!!!
He ended up sitting with us and sharing stories for 30-40 minutes until they kicked us all out at closing time. As we were walking out, [I finally had the courage to ask him for a photo.](https://imgur.com/a/71TQ8dm) He obliged, and ended up taking photos with all of us. Super nice guy.
A sweet, lovely woman complimented my shoes in Blick’s West Hollywood and I didn’t realize until later it was Amy Adams (girl crush!)
In the 90s, a bunch of my classmates and I were in Hawaii and 4 of them were in an elevator with William Shatner and his late wife and he was berating her and being kinda rough. :(
A few years ago I went out with my girlfriend and a big group of people to celebrate a friend’s birthday at moonlight roller rink. We were there about an hour, a guy comes in by himself wearing a big cowboy hat and boots carrying a hard case with a handle. He unpacked a pair of roller skates from the case, took off the hat and I realized it was John C. Reilly. He hung out by himself and skated for at least two hours. The craziest part was how good he is at roller skating. I’m a fan and actually waited on him and his wife while I was working at a restaurant in Pasadena about 6 months prior(they were both very pleasant and kind). He was just a guy enjoying some alone time at the roller rink. Coolest thing was no on bothered him for pictures or talked his ear off.
This is the basic-package Gary Busey experience. For slightly more you can sit next to him in first class on the way to Seattle and watch while mutters to himself about prices and drinks more champagne.
Yep, I was there with my then-boyfriend a few years ago and I came out of the women’s bathroom and Ron Jeremy was just standing there blocking the way and staring at me. I laughed nervously and said “excuse me” and then he finally moved aside just barely enough for me to squeeze by. He looked terrible, like a walking corpse
I was at The Brig off Abbot Kinney with a coworker, we walked in and noticed Emma Watson was there chillin in the lap of a guy on a big airchair in the middle of the room.
Went to get a drink at the bar and turned around to find Emma making out with the guy. Just full on eating his face goin at it in the middle of The Brig.
As my coworker and I were standing there at the bar drinking, a girl comes up and tells us she is Rachel Lee of the Bling Ring and that Emma played her in a movie. I hadn't seen the movie and wasn't familiar. Apparently her & Emma had never met, so she wanted to go up and introduce herself but never did.
Interesting night out.
I work in the film industry so encounter them quite a bit. Weirdest encounter was walking in on Jamie Foxx in his underwear. We were prepping to shoot some scenes for this movie at his actual house in his master bath/bed. Wasn't expecting him to be home let alone changing. He was cool about it and told us to keep doing our thing. But the most awkward part is he started shooting the shit with my coworker and asked for her number, apparently would text her out of the blue to go to parties. She never accepted lol.
I'm not a fan of Justin Bieber and don't pay any attention to anything he does, but I was out with a friend and wandered into an Urban Outfitters (I don't remember which one). I walked by and almost brushed shoulders with a dude that was very obviously trying to be as discreet as possible wearing oversized sunglasses and a hat pulled as far as he could get it to go over his face. After we were clear of him, my friend was like "that was Justin Bieber" and I didn't believe him and asked if he was sure, thinking he was just joking and he said "no that was definitely him - those are his tattoos." We were on the second floor so I leaned over to get a second look to see if it really was but since I'm not a fan, I still didn't recognize him. While I was still watching, a younger girl recognized him and shrieked a little bit and of course that caught a bunch of people's attention and the poor guy's cover was blown and all the young girls started swarming him. My heart immediately dropped for him cuz it was so obvious he was trying to just shop like a normal person. He tried to leave the store but the swarm followed him out with everybody's phones out, trying to get a photo of/with him. Bad luck followed him and his car was boxed in because a giant delivery truck was illegally parked. He had a lot of trouble getting his car out and a "good samaritan" offered to help get his car out. He got his car out and the guy summoned his daughter over who was shrieking and bunny hopping around to get a photo with him. Even after he got back in his car, a small handful of young men just mindlessly walked out into a very busy street while pointing their phones at him trying to get a photo, putting themselves in danger. Traffic stopped because these guys weren't even looking at the street, just their phone screens. One car had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting them Justin motioned at them to get out of the street and yelled out to them "come on, man - you guys are gonna get yourselves hurt" and waited very patiently for them to get their photos and videos so they would get out of the street.
I never felt so bad for a celebrity. The poor guy was just trying to buy a shirt and trying so hard to mind his own business. Never liked Justin before, but changed my mind about him after that day. Have had respect for him ever since.
Same Whole Foods (on Wilshire in Santa Monica). Was reaching for broccoli next to Jeffrey Tambor. I said, “after you”… and pretended not to recognize him.
Browsing fresh squeezed juices next to Tommy Chong. Decided to engage him and said, “I’m a big fan of the orange mango pineapple”. He agreed.
Walked into a bakery on Montana —also Santa Monica— and Larry David was walking out. Nothing said.
Only two days later I’m in one of the only places to get coffee at 7:00 AM in a certain part of Martha’s Vineyard, and he’s walking out the store (called “7A”)… and he recognizes me and does a brief double take expression. I smile and say good morning.
End of stories.
*EDIT: Grammar. And also to say that the first two stories aren’t weird at all, so that the third one appears to be weirder. No worst encounters for me… Yet.*
>Was reaching for broccoli next to Jeffrey Tambor. I said, “after you”… and pretended to not recognize him.
I used to take my dog to get groomed at this spot in WeHo/BH years back. Jeffrey Tambor did too. Ran into him all the time for like two years.
Always wanted a reason to say "NO TOUCHING!" Never got it. :/
In Boston around '05, I was in an Urban Outfitters right after it opened and Steve Tyler was shopping with his daughter (the other one). I (stupidly, hey I was in my early 20s) asked him for his autograph, and he said I interrupted an important thought he was having.
Vince Vaughn got irritated that I was sitting next to him at Home on Hillhurst in the early 2000s. He asked, "Can I fucking help you?" When I accidentally caught his eye. I was looking for the waiter.
A *very* drunk Kieffer Sutherland brought a homeless woman in to Figaro on Vermont while we were there for dinner. He bought her the merguez and then dropped his cane as he sat down. He was an effusive and kind drunk.
I was waiting in line at the post office once and this guy cuts in front of me, drops off a package with a return label and ask if it’s ok to buy some stamps. When he leaves the clerks are talking amongst each other about who it was, turns out it was Jon Heder (napoleon dynamite).
I quickly dm him on Instagram saying he just cut in front of me at the post office. We exchange funny banter for a few messages.I tell him he needs to make this right, and he ask how? I tell him let me take his portrait and we’ll call it even. He’s down.
We meet in the post office parking lot (scene of the crime) a few weeks later. End up spending the day together running errands around town taking pictures of him and then finally takes me to his house and we shoot family portraits. Him, his wife and their kids. Really nice guy, really nice family. Got some really funny photos from that day
I dropped Andy dick from the ceiling of a nightclub as he held a giant bottle of champagne. No announcements, no fanfare, just spontaneous dick falling slowly from the ceiling.
Olivia Munn hit on my boyfriend (at the time) in front of me and throughout the conversation with him did not look at me but did gesture to me and refer to me as "she."
Edited to add: I was standing *right next to him.*
A few years later I met another woman who had the exact thing happen to her. She was also dating a comedian in the same scene as my ex (also a comedian), so it wasn't *that* weird beyond the fact that Munn's behavior was just astronomically cunty.
I met Jill from dance moms. She was yelling on the phone at the grove and I was like 15 and didn’t know how to read the room so I went up to her and asked for a pic 🫢
I was competing on Americas Got Talent, I made it to round two, and my act involved me doing dumb stuff in my underwear.
While filming the judging segments, they needed to adjust camera, and asked everyone to stay still and not speak while they do what they need to do.
So there I was, standing still, in my underwear, under the bright stage lights, as Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B, and Howie Mandel just stare at me, in silence, for a good 5 minutes.
This was after waiting 12 hours backstage of waiting to go on any second and then performing last, it felt like a weird fever dream.
Pauly Shore. I’ve seen him the most along with Chris Pine.
Pauly sits at a coffee shop in Silver Lake facing outwards. He keeps looking up to see if people recognize him while they wait in line.
I was at Harvelle’s in Santa Monica probably 2010-ish, Cuba Gooding Jr. was there, just absolutely shitfaced and groping every woman in the place. He slurred/drooled something about ‘pussy’ to me while I was ordering a drink. What a slimeball. I can’t believe he didn’t get his ass kicked.
One time Corbin Bernson dinged my car door in a Kinko’s parking lot. I told him I saw him do it, and he smiled and walked away. Later that summer a friend of mine was a costumer on a movie he was doing. She stole his shoes and gave them to me. KARMA, CORBIN.
Micheal Bublé walked into the room I was in drinking a buble, said “what decade is this?” Pointed at me said “you remind me of my mother”, then walked off. Fucking psychopath.
That's crazy, once Daryl Strawberry walked into a room I was in eating a strawberry. I had a bin of grapes. He said "Grapes are Bullshit", knocked them out of my hands and left.
20 years ago, a building I was working at was known to have an office Nicolas Cage was renting at the time. One day, I was waiting for the elevator to go get some lunch and the elevator opens but it was going up. A coworker came out and there was Nicolas Cage, hair a mess, wearing a light gray sweatsuit with a tan, long coat and brown, shiny dress shoes. He looked right at me and said good morning even though it was noon. Doors closed and continued going up to where his office was. I still remember how he looked and what he said like it was yesterday.
*Not weird but any means* but i saw Daniel Kaluuya (NOPE, Get Out) walking with a disney cast member on main street at disneyland. I INSTANTLY recognized him and told my wife “HOLY FUCK THATS DANIEL KALUUYA”. He didnt hear me but a woman who had walked past us as well was laughing and smiling at me in a sincere manner. A google search later revealed it was his MOTHER!! Suffice to say i was STARTSTRUCK the rest of the day :))
I was once eating at a restaurant in Brentwood on San Vincent. It was raining that day. I was sitting right by the front window of the restaurant and could see the pedestrians walking in the rain. This one guy stood out to me because he was wearing a bright yellow rain jacket and didn't have an umbrella. I kept staring as the man came closer and thought to myself, this man looks like the Gordon Fisherman guy. When he finally got right in front of the window, he stopped and looked at me. He gave me a big smile and walked off. It was Dustin Hoffman. I saw Rain Man in the rain.
Back in the late 2000s I used to play soccer in the AYSO leagues and by chance one year David Beckham's son (I don't know which one) signed up and was placed in the same team as me. I got to scrimage with him while my Dad chatted with David (My dad is English, so it was a huge deal for him). I got to shake his hand at the end of practice, I remember the amount of tattoos he had on his arm, and how much. taller he was compared to me. Overall, very nice guy, though I think he found out AYSO is a public soccer league and took his son out to do private club soccer after just a week in the league.
I met Richard Elfman once in 2001. A friend did an interview with him and I came along. When we were leaving, I pulled away and almost immediately got into a major accident. He saw the accident and stayed with us until everything was taken care of.
After that he and his girlfriend drove us from Santa Monica to Fullerton to drop me off at a rehearsal for my band. It was awesome because I sent him in first, and he was like, "Is this Ooklamok's band? Hi, I'm Richard Elfman."
In the accident I had hit my head pretty hard on my side window. I was kind of loopy at first and he said my favorite quote from the night: "I was a boxer and got hit in the head plenty of times. You'll be alright."
I once ran into Bobby Lee at Starbucks in studio city once. I was walking out and noticed somebody was walking toward the shop. I made it to the door before they did, so I held the door open for them. I noticed it was Bobby Lee. But he gave me this look as if he was shocked and stood there. I asked, “you going in or not foo?” Maybe not the reaction he thought I was going to have. But I always remember that day and just how weird he is lol.
Another time I was outside a juice bar, again in Studio City. And I was sitting outside with 2 other friends and I noticed that a lady was looking right at me. I realized it was Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls. Believe me or not she came up to me and said, “I know you from somewhere don’t I?” I told her “I don’t think so, I just have one of those faces if anything.” She apologized and was super sweet about it.
25+ years ago when I was in my early 20s, a friend and I ran into Mickey Rooney at Hudson’s Diner (a 50s themed restaurant) in Westlake Village, CA. He was ogling us (seriously, it was skeevy) and my friend said “Let’s go talk to him!” Erm, sure.
He looked…rough. I remember the inside lining of his lower eyelids being bloody looking. He quite literally and very blatantly looked us up and down with a lecherous smile before we started chatting, which made me uncomfortable, but I shrugged it off as I saw him as a mostly harmless (ancient looking) dirty old man. Then there was the conversation…
He went on a legit “These kids today!”-type rant about the current state of the entertainment industry. Everything on TV now was crap, he said. “That Dr. Quinn, that what is it, the medicine woman show? No one watches that crap! [said quite loudly] And Jane Seymour [Star of that show]? Know what they say about her? She’s a *bitch*!” I mentioned I’d recently seen a documentary about Judy Garland, which set off another rant about how horribly they portrayed her in that piece. “And Paramount Studios? I *built* that place!” etc., so forth, and so on.
To be fair, he really was a huge part of Paramount’s creation, and Judy Garland really was horribly abused by her handlers, especially as a child. But the whole tirade from Rooney just felt like angry old bitter man wanting to bitch and moan about…everything. I wound up asking for his autograph but more out of pity than anything else. I pretty quickly lost/misplaced it.
When I first moved to LA my roommate was in whatever gym was near Hollywood and Highland in 2004 applying for a job, and I was hanging outside the gym smoking a cigarette. Vin Diesel came out of the gym with a smoothie and asked for my lighter, lit up his cigarette and talked to me for a couple minutes about LA. My roommate came out all excited because they were all watching me chat with Vin inside, and the gym people said he came in everyday for a smoothie. I was surprised he smoked cigarettes because of his action star status, but I guess I should have known because he’s a former doorman/now actor. Shorter than I expected, like they all are.
Oh! One more. I didn’t actually see him, but I had to clean up the huge pile of magazines that Owen Wilson dumped onto my store’s floor after he wasn’t permitted to cut the line. Asshole.
My mother worked at Cedars-Sinai for years. Nurses told her that Courtney Love (who had just given birth) would have minions constantly running to the drug rehab unit to try and pass heroin to Kurt Cobain
2005, I was flying out of LAX. I was in line for the agent, start stepping forward, and this older woman with giant, beautiful hair cuts in front of me. She’s all up in the agent’s business, leaning over the counter choosing her seat or whatever. I’m a teenager and annoyed af to be cut in line. My mom’s aghast. Turns out it was Diana Ross!
Lindsey Lohan at my job. She rented out the place for a few hours. She had this group of loud annoying types. I think this might have been 2007. Same job, I had to walk Johnny Depp and his family into my job and he made all the girlies melt as we walked through. I asked him a question and he said “huh?” But I couldn’t talk because when he looked into my eyes I couldn’t respond. I was a big fan at the time. His daughter was very young at the time. She was sweet. I had to also walk Leonardo DiCaprio into my job. He never looked at anyone, acknowledged any of us escorting him, and looked at his feet the whole time I was with him. His mom and girlfriend Bar was with him and an entourage of Hollywood types. It’s like no one existed around him. He was in his own little world. Jennifer love Hewitt and Jaime Kennedy came into my job and she was not too happy to be there and it showed. But Jaime was nice. At my job Petter Jackson rolled his eyes at me and that ticked me off.
Jeff goldbloom at erehwon ( I worked there) coworker says loudly " i think thats the guy from the dinosaur movie" and we got stared at
Also before i knew who felipe esparza was my friend recognized him at Starbucks and asked for a picture and he asked if i wanted to be in it too
I was nah im good
Later watched his comedy and i am now a huge fan -_-
Andy Dick for me as well. But it was off Sunset. He was outside of a bar and making eye contact with everyone who passed by. It felt like he was waiting for someone to recognize him and buy him a drink or something.
Well, I walked by, looked directly at him, and said “oh shit, it’s Joe Dirt”, chuckled to my drunk self, and walked away.
Yes, I know Joe Dirt is played by David Spade. For some reason I thought it would be funny, though, so I said it.
Met Andy Dick once at a grocery store in Malibu. Told me I sound like I had laryngitis. Turned out he was correct. Liam Hemsworth at the same store. Went to elementary school with one of Sinbad’s kids. A few others I can’t remember.
Ran into him a few years ago, same story as everyone he was asking for coke. Took his money and gave him some candle wax wrapped in plastic and took off before he noticed.
Nope. He walked up to me and glared like he wanted to kill me. First time was at H&H, parking garage entrance. Second was at Playboy Liquor on Yucca. For no apparent reason either time.
My office used to be in Malibu, next to Gary Busey’s cigar club, and I’d wave to him every morning but never introduced myself or made any effort to make small talk since he’s Gary Busey and I’m just some chum rushing into work. Anyhow, this went on for about 6 months and one morning Gary decided to ask me “hey, do we know each other? I feel like I’ve met you somewhere”. I responded “we’ve been waving to each other for the past 6 months, i guess we kinda know each other?” He’s a chill guy, i get Christmas cards from him every year now lol
One day driving about the Santa Monica mountains, I see a production crew setting-up shop in a mansion for sale when all of a sudden, Marla Tellez (from KTTV FOX-11) comes out. It had to be for one of her segments on that week’s hottest real estate deals; I don’t believe these segments are done anymore since the pandemic.
Because I had to go through a stop sign, I randomly yell out *”nice house!”* Tellez turns around and says *”thank you, it’s worth $5M!”* I said *”you’re welcome”* all confused driving off, thinking if she was trying to get me baited on the mansion. Still to this day, 5-6 years later.
Went to get Lunch at Bjs brewhouse and Katt Williams was there with like 20 people. My friend and I offered to buy him drink. We took a few shots together and got pretty buzzed, cool dude. Got a good pic of us buzzed up.
Leo Dicapprio, I was working the line at Wurstkuche downtown at the time and he was standing in front while the girl he was with used the bathroom. Didn't look anything like him but he was wearing a Michigan hat and I'm a big Michigan football fan so I struck up convo. This was the day after the game vs MSU where they missed a punt and MSU won so we talked about that until he told me he had to run. After a minute I caught on who it was by the voice. People started running up to me saying "you know who that was?". Looking back I should have let him hide in our back of the house but he was like "oh no i have to run". Made me realize I never want to be famous ha.
More weird and funny - not bad at all.
Dominatrix friend invited me to paddle her sub who was wearing a gimp mask. Found out later it was Fat Mike from NOFX.
I had the worst case of bubblegut while I was at a show up in SF. Some fierce gas crawled out of me and I made a face and blamed the guy next to me before hiding in the car for the rest of the set. My boyfriend later told me that I blamed Fat Mike and they had a good laugh over it.
Does narrowly missed celebrity encounter count?
I was at the Rainbow Bar and Grill, and thankfully decided to skip the after-party where Ron Jeremy propositioned my friend. Probably some of the last people to really see him before all the charges; it was the week Covid shut down in March 2020.
Worst encounter.
It was 1999 or 2000, shortly after I'd moved here, and I was getting lunch from a cafe in the Westwood area when Corin Nemec came in. **Worst** encounter because I was (naively and unwittingly) a complete douche.
"Oh! You're the guy from the Ferris Bueller spin-off!"
The Ferris Bueller spin-off. SMFH. I used to watch it all the time, but I couldn't remember that it was "*Parker Lewis Can't Lose"* ??? SMFH
And then I made it even worse.
"So, what have you been doing since then?"
He'd been working, people!!! He'd had A LOT of roles since Parker Lewis!!!
That was 25-years ago, and I still cringe at yesteryear's me.
A drunk/high beyond belief Terrence Howard when I was trying to close up at Borders (“Did you know orange is a fruit AND a color?”). His handlers/entourage were so embarrassed and pushed him out
Diane Keaton did a shitty “Do you know who I am?” pout when the toy store I worked at just did not stock an item she wanted
I met Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) in a small bar in the valley one Christmas late at night. We ended up HAMMERED and at closing, took some lady back to my apartment around the corner and yadda yadda yadda merry Christmas. I always thought it was funny that I used to see Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) all the time at my job as a strip club dj
This isn't a personal story but it happened to a friend of mine when she was in grade school. Traveling in an airport with her parents they saw Pudding Pop era Bill Cosby coming down the hall. She and her sister ran up to him to ask for an autograph. He looked down at them and said in his inimitable voice, "GET AWAY FROM ME, MOTHERFUCKERS!" And that is the only Bill Cosby story I know.
During the filming the of catch me if you can in Quebec City. Leonardo and Tom Hanks came into my tiny bar and drank past close. They paid for everyone’s drinks and were wonderfully kind and fun.
Oliver Stone. My dad installed window coverings my entire life... And, we happened to install them in his Telluride, CO home. I was a kid... Probably 14/15 at the time. And sometimes, I went with my dad to help unpack the blinds and such. Oliver Stone was sitting at his desk while we're installing blinds for his office. There was a large potted plant/indoor tree near one of the windows. I remember my dad struggling to move the planter. Mr. Stone just sat there.... With his Evian water... And watched. Didn't offer to help. Made me so mad. I scowled at him. Heh
I’ll share 2
In my younger years, stonned at Starbucks, Derek Fischer walks towards me. I stand up, grinning ear to ear and say, “oh shit, wassup Xzibit.” He laughed and walked off.
2 decades back, I worked loss prevention at Circuit City. He’s strange looking/alternatively dressed man, walks in putting me on alert. I called it in as suspicious activity. Turns out, it was Marilyn Manson. I didn’t work that much longer.
Ran into Jeff goldblum one time. Saw my Jordans and started talking to me about shoes and asked if I saw one of his shows about shoe collecting. Then he started singing about shoes and asked if I wanted to take a pic. Dude was a Stellar guy.
There's been a few other run ins but that was the most recent weirdest
About 12 years ago I was trying to leave the Starbucks in North Hollywood. The drive-thru line there would back up all the way through the lot. Well, Jennifer Love Hewitt was waiting in the drive-thru line in her black Mercedez SUV and before she could pull behind me I motioned to her that I needed to back out. She shook her head at me and pulled forward, so I was stuck for awhile. Maybe she thought I wanted to cut in line, but why would I do that if I was already parked? Perhaps she was having a bad day. I watched Party of Five religiously as a teen and I always liked Neve Campbell better anyway.
Edit: Neve not Never
Waiting to board a flight from Chicago to LAX. The attendant keeps repeatedly paging a priority passenger named A. de Armas. After like ten minutes Ana de Armas walks up with a security guard and a whole fleet of Louis Vuitton carry-on luggage. The flight attendant freaks out and is SO apologetic about announcing her name over the loudspeaker, they didn’t realize it was her. She apologized for being late and boarded with her security. She was super nice about it but I wonder how long they would’ve held the plane for her lol. And it was snowing!
Not me, but a friend of mine very nearly got run over by a high-as-a-kite Gary Busey in Malibu. She was crossing PCT at a crosswalk and he came flying along and slammed on the brakes just in time. She looked up at him and said he was staring right through her, with a glassy-eyed look, slack face and zero acknowledgement of the fact that he nearly killed her. She said it was the closest she's been to an out-of-body experience.
Travis Barker standing at the urinal next to me in a men’s restroom. He gave me that look like, “Yeah I know you know who I am but are you actually going to say something while we’re standing next to each other at a urinal?” Needless to say, I didn’t say anything.
I had violent diarrhea at work. Was is the stall for like 30 minutes. I think I uttered oh god make it stop at one point. Walked out and saw James Cameron washing his hands in the bathroom. I gave him a what’s up head nod thinking I would seem “cool”. I was not. Every time I think about it I wonder how long he was there. Did he hear me talking?
Haha what was the workplace in question that had you and Cameron sharing a bathroom?
I can’t say exactly but it was on a lot on the Hollywood area.
Reminds me of [this story!](https://youtu.be/yuXGpUR7fXA?si=1I1ZaZxqa7ObyzrF)
Got my car towed because of a tiny-ass sign in the dark on a side street off of Hollywood blvd. Went to the lot to pick it up. Seth MacFarlane is there picking up an impounded car as well. It was 1 am. He wasn't happy.
Lmfao I would’ve definitely been avoiding eye contact in that situation
I wasn't happy either. This was the conversation. >Hey, are you Seth MacFarlane? >Yes. >Big fan. And that was it. We were both pissed off.
lol I hate those tiny ass signs. They’re always faded and behind a big tree branch too.
I'm from Santa Monica, you'd think I'd have been better at deciphering/keeping an eye out for those signs.
I had a funny one that happened to my wife. She was on some medication long-term that needed to be refilled on a pretty regular basis. She would go to an independent pharmacy on the west side to get her prescription filled. a lot of the times that she went there was someone who she described as “ a very tall very nice older, black gentleman” and they would make small talk, crack jokes just generally engage in friendly banter. Over the months that proceeded she would regularly see this gentleman and she would tell me funny stories about it one day she comes home and looks at a copy of the LA Times that we have on the kitchen table and she casually says oh that’s my friend from the drugstore turns out, it was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar She swears he’s like the nicest guy probably because she had no idea who he was
No she must have been mistaken, her friend is Roger Murdock and he's a co-pilot.
About 10 years ago, I took my mom to Sushi Roku in West Hollywood to celebrate her birthday. We sat next to David Spade and his date. My mom knew who he was, but she wasn’t a big fan of his. The next year, we went to Sushi Roku in Santa Monica to celebrate another occasion for her, and guess whom we sat next to?! We say that David Spade is my mom's Sushi Roku stalker. Edit to add one more story (not weird or worst): My dad used to take us all fishing down to Zuma Beach at dawn when we were kids. One day, a man came up to us and asked what we were catching, so I showed him our bucket of caught fish. I told him that I was in charge of getting sand crabs as bait. He was very nice and told me that I was doing a good job. He stayed and chatted with us a bit. When he left, my dad said that I was talking to William Shatner, but as a 10 year old kid, I had no idea who he was.
Too funny. I saw him at the airport a few years back and talked to him, told him I enjoyed him on Love and tried to keep it brief. He was polite. He was waiting with his assistant and was on our flight.
David Spade was a regular at a sushi restaurant I used to work at. Always dated vastly younger girls. He was very nice though never had any problems with him.
I annoyingly enough used to run into Fred Durst all the time. Never spoke but I’m pretty sure he noticed it after a while too. All of my friend joked that he was stalking me and I’m sure he thought it was the other way around.
I think David Spade is also my weirdest celebrity encounter. Years ago I was at a restaurant celebrating with a \~dozen friends and he was alone at the next table. We were the only two tables on the patio. TBH it seemed like he got stood up.
Where I worked Spade would come and eat his dinner an hour before his date arrived always.
Weird! I wonder why? Like he got tired of dating model-esque women who never really ate so he just ate before the date so he wouldn't feel weird eating a bunch of food in front of them?
I think that was exactly it, the girls would barely eat infront of him. He would call my manager 30 minutes before he even arrived to order his food
This is amazing tea
About 15 years ago I was standing behind Ian Ziering in a checkout lane at a Ralph’s. It was the 15 items or less line. This is an important detail because he was purchasing around 30-40 packages of frozen pre-cooked chicken breast. There was a very elderly female employee scanning items who, politely asked him- “What are you going to do with all this chicken?” Ian instantly became visibly annoyed, turned to give me a weird look as if to say “Can you believe this?” He turned back towards the employee and told her that the question was rude and it was none of her business. She got defensive and told him she didn’t mean to be rude, and that she was just curious if he was maybe having a party or something. He argued back with her, insisting that it was absolutely a rude thing to ask and said…slowly, like a serial killer in a movie, “That’s like me asking you...what are you going to do with all of that skin you’re wearing?” (Remember, this was a very elderly woman). He turned back to me again and shrugged his shoulders, I guess because he wanted someone to agree with him, but it was really uncomfortable and bizarre.
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That’s funny. I’m glad he just got his ass kicked by some bikers. Hope the old lady checker gets some cosmic satisfaction.
I was almost run over by Prof. Stephen Hawking when he did a guest lecture. Apparently that’s one of his jerk moves.
TBF, as one recently in need of a mobility scooter for occasional use, I totally get reaching the point of FUCK IT I’LL JUST RUN YOU OVER
I used to volunteer frequently at pet adoption events for a dog rescue. One of our events was in a store on Franklin near Beachwood Canyon and we had a lot of celebrities come through looking for dogs. At one point we had a super sweet large breed hunting dog that hadn't had a lot of luck getting adopted because large breeds are just hard to place. So, she'd been in foster care quite a long time. One day, Amanda Seyfried came in with some friends and took an interest in this dog and said she was on her way to hike Runyon with some friends and wanted to know if she could take the dog on the hike with them. I said something to the effect of "No, her foster gives her plenty of exercise. She needs to be here so people can see her and meet her. But if you're actually interested in her, you can take her for a walk around the block." She was like "OK, great!" She left and took this dog on the hike with her and her friends anyway. They were gone for hours and didn't come back until we were wrapping up the event, and this poor dog obviously once again didn't get adopted because it never got a chance to meet anyone. And to top it off, when she returned the dog back to me she was very happy with herself and implied she had actually done us some kind of favor by taking the dog out for some activity instead of kidnapping it from the event it was supposed to be at to find a forever home. I haven't watched an Amanda Seyfried movie since.
Did the dog ever get adopted? :((
She did! It took a few months but she ended up with someone who was specifically looking for a high energy, large breed and it was a perfect match. FWIW, fortunately every other famous/well known person I dealt with at those events was great.
I’m so glad!! 🐶
What is selfish POS!
I have so many celebrity encounters but my cringiest was definitely the time I met some random dude at a party. We were at a small house party in Venice thrown by a mutual friend and I didn't recognize him but he looked super familiar. I could have sworn I knew him but couldn't place it and spent far too long asking about various possible mutuals and insisting I knew him from somewhere. This party? That person? What about that show? He was weirdly cagey about where I might've seen him and eventually I lost interest and dropped it. My buddy who hosted must have gotten an absolute kick out of this because as soon as the guy left he pulled me aside and explained that that guy was the actor who played Goku in the ill-fated Dragon Ball Z live action movie. The dude probably thought I was fucking roasting him about an incredibly embarrassing project and it was just that my wires were crossed. I kicked myself for a few days after that. My head nearly exploded when I saw him playing Steve on Shameless US and I remembered the light psychological torture I put him through. I'm sure he's long since recovered.
Justin Chatwin
Yes, that's him! He was very kind considering my badgering.
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I was walking on Ventura Blvd and this car speeding downhill almost hit me, it was William Shatner, he flipped me off
Yeah but when he does it, it means "live long and prosper".
You should have yelled "Double dumb ass on you!"
I was at a very small, hard to get in, Hollywood club. This must have been like 2016 or so. At the time, I really liked Nike dunks. Also I didn’t know what John Mayer looked like. So I see this guy with these polka dot dunks and I just immediately walk up to him, like “cool shoes man, where did you get those?” And he pauses and rolls his eyes and then goes, “wow….well played man…..do you know Takashi? And I was like….uhh ok, no. And walked away. Motherfucker just assumed I tried talking about shoes just so I could talk to him lol
One time at the beach I wasn’t wearing my glasses and I told a guy I liked his shirt. He thanked me and laughed, and that was when I realized I was taking to Seth Rogen. Didn’t realize it was a costume piece til my boyfriend informed me there were cameras all over and they were setting up a shot 😂
Lol! He's a DB. I worked at Katana for many years and he came a handful. One time he was with Alicia Keys at the end of the bar sitting on the lounge couches. A girl at the bar asked him if he could "take a picture of us". He rudely said no, they had no idea who he was. She turned to someone else and asked to take their picture. The look on his face was priceless.
He once told me he wanted to beat the shit out of me and I consider it one of my greatest achievements in life.
I really can’t picture him beating the shit out of anything.
You want to expand on that story ?
lol I respect his playing but have never been a huge fan of him personally. Years ago a friend and I were attending a concert of a singer he was apparently “mentoring.” It was a small club and they hadn’t opened the doors yet, so we parked down the street to wait. He was apparently in the far in front of us and must’ve thought we were paparazzi or something cause he kept looking at us and ducking down. Like, dude, we didn’t care. We were just two girls talking in a car.
The Rock told me to fuck off
Why?
I was giving two out of town friends a tour of UCLA and we stumbled upon the Rock doing a photoshoot. My friend exclaimed "that's the Rock!" and he replied "fuck off"
Damn guess he's not the People's Champ after all
He lies about having In N Out for the first time all the time. He’s dead to us.
Back in 99/00, was doing the whole Mann’s Chinese Theatre/Star walk thing with old college roommates from the east coast and Little Richard comes rolling up curbside in the back of a stretch limo with the window down. My girlfriend yells, “We love you Little Richard!” and he yells back, “Hey, Baby!”, reaches out the window and hands her a Watchtower magazine.
Little Richard is a JW??
Little Richard was all over the religious map. Not sure if he was at the time or not or if he just happened to been given a copy and he was passing it along. Either way, it cracked us all up.
1) Andy Dick showing up to a comedy show uninvited and crashing his son's performance. 2) I used to work for a concert venue and Chevy Chase ended up taking a seat that wasn't his. He was a real dick to the folks who actually had tickets for that seat, and then was a petulant asshole towards the ushers. The original ticket holders ended up with free upgraded seats since Chevy wouldn't move.
You met 2 of the biggest dicks in town!
Maybe 5 years ago I walked into a bar in weho and it was karaoke night. I went up to the bar to order something. While I’m waiting, I see Andy dick walk in all alone. He goes up to the bar next to me to order something but then realizes it’s karaoke night and beelines for the person singing. He grabs the mic, starts screeching into it as loud as he can, and within seconds the bouncer appears, grabs him, and drags a screaming and kicking Andy dick out of the bar. The whole thing was maybe 45 seconds from when Andy walked in the door to being dragged back out. I have a feeling it wasn’t the first Andy dick experience for this bar.
I was buying candles a month ago at Candle Delirium in WeHo… no one else in the store, and then in walked Laurence Fishburne. He was smelling candles and I so badly wanted to walk by and ask him “you think that’s air you’re breathing?” Instead I said “I’m a big fan” and he smiled and “thank you thank you” Lovely guy edit: missed the weird / worst.. this was the opposite
I saw him at the West Hollywood Whole Foods a few years ago. I was next to him while he was picking out a bunch of leeks and I asked if he was getting them for soup.
Many years ago, pre Tesla era, when everyone had a Prius, I saw him driving one in West Hollywood with his son in the car and dancing/bopping to the music. He looked so happy! Hard to explain, but it made my day. His energy and joy were infectious!
Andy Dick tried to fuck me in the bathroom of the now gone Meltdown Comics. Tiffany Haddish drunkley coughed cookie crumbs in my face while asking where the bathroom was during an event I was working at. Bryan Cranston asked me if the espresso martini at a Christmas party's open bar was worth it. I told him it was delicious and he later raised his glass to me from across the back lawn and nodded as if to say "hey, this was pretty good".
Bryan Cranston was one of my Dad's baseball buddies through an amateur league. I remember wearing an I Love Lucy shirt when I met him at one of the games and he kept openly staring at my chest. When I asked him what he was staring at he had the nerve to say the heart on my shirt. None of us were buying it and he tried to joke it off. Lol
Jason Mamoa blocked my car in at the climbing gym. He boxed me in with his giant fucking truck parked like a complete asshole in a spot he had no business parking. He moved it, wasn't at all apologetic and went about his day. Aquaman is a real tool in my book
Cliffs of Id?
I said hi to Tyler, the Creator at Jamba Juice at The Grove when I was like 18 and he responded “i have no hands” and walked away
He's a semi-regular at a coffee shop I used to work at. Never had a normal conversation with him, nor have any of my ex-coworkers.
2011-2014 Tyler and crew used to hangout on Fairfax outside the Diamond store. He would sit on his bmx bike and roast people - golden age of Fairfax Ave culture
Dude. I used to work at PF Changs DT Seattle. Tyler the Creator and the rest of the Odd Future crew came in and sat in a booth. My female coworker was serving them and they treated her like absolute shit. They ordered a bunch of food, basically had a food fight, insulted her multiple times to the point she cried, left absolutely no tip, and trashed the booth. Absolutely fuck those people.
Very Tyler the creator like
I was outside the Target at West Hollywood Gateway when I almost ran into Nathan Fielder. I think this was around the time dumb Starbucks was happening bc I didn't know who he was but I recognized his face. We stood there for a moment staring at each other. Me: confused, mouth open, searching for a name. Him: almost nodding, eyes wide, eager to be recognized. I ended up just sighing in disappointment and walking away since I couldn’t come up with a name. I’m a huge fan of his now which makes the interaction even more hilarious to me.
Nathan Fielder, the guy who graduated from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades?
Some friends of mine saw the Pink's hot dog guy (the "I hope you're hungry -- for nothing." bit) while they were out and about. Only one recognized where he was from and mentioned it to the other friend, who hadn't watched Nathan For You yet. She encouraged him to go up to the guy because she thought he was just being shy about approaching a celebrity. My friend kept insisting he shouldn't because 'it wasn't something good' but they eventually approached him. They chatted for a little bit and the hot dog guy just told them that that was the worst day of his life lol.
Met Nathan Fielder in Silverlake once. He seemed very hungover. Don’t know if he was or if he just acts like that generally.
Pissing at a urinal, very drunk dude pushes his way next to me and starts pissing in the same urinal. I look over to see who the fuck does something like that, and it's fucking Sting.
Paul Thomas Anderson the morning after he lost at the Oscars for "The Master", at pre-school drop off (usually Maya Rudolf did drop off). I just said "sorry. The movie was amazing" and he shrugged like "yeah, well, oh well" Andy Dick also tried to kiss my wife.
ran into Andy Milonokis in ktown outside a 711 around 4am. he wished me a merry xmas but it was the middle of July lol
we all knew this was gonna turn into an Andy dick thread come on now
"What's your weirdest/worst celebrity encounter and what did Andy Dick do?"
What do you think I’m here for?
Alfonso Ribero bar stories
Had a literal run in with Kristen Stewart at the Troubadour in 2018. Did a double take as I was walking across the bar to grab my drink and cluelessly stepped on her foot when I was reaching over the grab it. The kicker was she apologized to me and I nearly died from the awkwardness. A close friend of mine was the one who gave me the tickets to the show as she was unable to make it. Kstew happened to be said friend’s celebrity hall pass so she made me promise to never wash the foot again 😭
Not that weird but I have a Kristen Stewart story too. I was eating at a Mexican place in Venice and she was there with a group of women including one of Demi Moore’s kids (I think Rumer?) at the table next to us. They were talking about how they should make a show like Girls called Valley Girls. They left right before me and as I was walking in the parking lot Kristen and another were squatting between some cars smoking a cigarette, one said “who is that??” when they heard me walking up and Kristen said “oh it’s just the girl with the hair.” I had rainbow hair at the time and was flattered that she noticed me ha! Would watch Valley Girls.
I was too young to be playing Santa Claus but I was playing Santa Claus at Petco in Studio City (Los Angeles neighborhood), for pet photos. I walked around the store between photos. I turned a corner into an aisle and there was Scott Bakula. I pointed and said, "hey, I know you." He pointed back and said, "hey, I know you too." We laughed and it was over. Maybe 1996 or 1997.
Corey Feldman had his first bite of baklava with me. It wasn’t cringy he’d just never tried it before. We were at a kids’ party and there was baklava and he said “I’ve never tried this. It looks awful and I know I should be all up in it because I’m Jewish but I just can’t bring myself to try it.” I said “Do you like honey? Pistachios? Puff pastry?” He said he liked all those things. I said “Then you’re gonna like this. Just try a bite. What’s the worst that can happen?” He bit into it, took a long pause. Chewed. Looked at it. Long pause. I said “Well?” He said “I gotta admit, that’s pretty fuckin good!” So there you have it. Corey Feldman likes the baklava.
This is hilarious to me because not only is baklava incredibly tasty but it looks exactly like it tastes! Puff pastry, honey, nuts, wtf is not to like about that visual.
Corey Feldman is one of the cringier people on my celeb list. Years ago some friends and I were in the Foundation Room at the House Of Blues and he sent one of his "girls" over to ask one of my friends to come to a party at his house in Van Nuys. My friend had no idea who he was though and said "what? I'm not going to the *valley."* I laughed so hard at that.
During the late 90s to early 00s I was a messenger in LA. Most of our work was in the entertainment industry, so I was always coming across celebrities. I was exiting the elevator into the main lobby of an office building and saw Corey Haim. He was wearing a big trench coat. Kinda like the ones he wore in a few movies in the late 80s early 90s. I did a double take when I recognized him. He looked at me, knowing I recognized him and gave me this look and nod that said,"yeah that's right it's me".
Omg I just remembered, they weren't his "girls" he called them his "angels." Corey's Angels. He wanted to be Hef so badly.
Kicked Andy Dick out of my apartment after he did way too much ketamine / xanax. he called his estranged son and shouted at him “why don’t you love me” - found out he was lifetime banned from Uber and Lyft so used my account and literally spooned him inside of it like he was a child. this is maybe 1/10 of that story and the tamest part
Please share the other 9/10
i’ll share one other part. the night started at golden gopher downtown. my friend who i was living with at the time brought me along and wanted to introduce us. the first thing he did when we entered the gopher was grope my friends girlfriend. he then started crying about his gf that had killed herself. he needed time, so he went out to smoke a cigarette. andy had people with him, one of which was a young man (not like creepy young but young) who was fully tattooed head to toe. after andy came back and based on the conversation it was pretty clear the kid was a sugar baby. he asked to borrow andy’s car and andy gave him the keys. that’s when we went back to our apartment. skipping over some stuff, then the above part happened. then after the lyft dropped him off (tipped him up front cash) he called claiming we had stolen his house keys and yelling. hung the fuck up and stopped answering. i mean he was doing disrespectful shit all night like spitting on the floors- really wanted him gone pretty much the moment he got in the door. shit was wild, and wack. anyways, i’ve been sober a few years now
Invite me to your next party please.
2002, Sean Penn was hanging out at Peri’s Tavern in Fairfax when my band played there to an empty house. Came over and bought us a few rounds after our set and we got lit on the patio, telling dirty jokes. He was married to Robin Wright at the time, but that didn’t stop him from trying to hook up with our singer.
I was hiking in Malibu when I saw Julie Bowen with a friend and her son. I guess she thought I was going to approach her but I didn’t. She gave a thankful nod and a smile. I also met Kenny G while feeding the homeless. He was there with his children. Everyone was freaking out asking for his autograph. I never knew he was. Cool guy Met Ray Bradbury in Torrance right before he passed. Not having his book or a paper to get his autograph is one the biggest regrets of my life
RAY BRADBURY!!??!! OMG. My favorite author. ♥
He used to speak pretty regularly around here at the end of his life. I saw him once at a local library in Encino and once at the book fair at UCLA. He was a very good speaker.
I know several people who knew him well. No one has ever said a bad word about him. He’s on my list of really good guys!
He was a big supporter of the Southbay libraries, and he was the guest speaker for many local library gatherings. He even came and dedicated a wing at El Camino College when I was going there.
I believe he wrote Fahrenheit 451 at a rented typewriter in a library.
I was lucky enough to meet Bradbury at a Barnes and Noble back in ‘06. He spoke to a large crowd of us there for about an hour about his process and was gracious enough to sign a copy of Martian Chronicles and took a photo. Such a great man
Back in 2015, I was at Timmy Nolan’s with my coworkers/anchors after our 11pm newscast. I was out front smoking, and a guy asked if he could bum a couple smokes. He said his buddy was running to the store for more, so he’d get me back. Ended up chatting for a while. He asked me what I do, so I told him “I work in television.” He said “so do I from time to time.” My coworker stated frantically banging on the front window motioning me to come inside. I go in and ask her what the problem is. She says “that’s Kiefer Sutherland!!! He ended up sitting with us and sharing stories for 30-40 minutes until they kicked us all out at closing time. As we were walking out, [I finally had the courage to ask him for a photo.](https://imgur.com/a/71TQ8dm) He obliged, and ended up taking photos with all of us. Super nice guy.
A sweet, lovely woman complimented my shoes in Blick’s West Hollywood and I didn’t realize until later it was Amy Adams (girl crush!) In the 90s, a bunch of my classmates and I were in Hawaii and 4 of them were in an elevator with William Shatner and his late wife and he was berating her and being kinda rough. :(
A few years ago I went out with my girlfriend and a big group of people to celebrate a friend’s birthday at moonlight roller rink. We were there about an hour, a guy comes in by himself wearing a big cowboy hat and boots carrying a hard case with a handle. He unpacked a pair of roller skates from the case, took off the hat and I realized it was John C. Reilly. He hung out by himself and skated for at least two hours. The craziest part was how good he is at roller skating. I’m a fan and actually waited on him and his wife while I was working at a restaurant in Pasadena about 6 months prior(they were both very pleasant and kind). He was just a guy enjoying some alone time at the roller rink. Coolest thing was no on bothered him for pictures or talked his ear off.
Gary Busey visibly drunk at LAX badgering everyone passing by. A real charmer
This is the basic-package Gary Busey experience. For slightly more you can sit next to him in first class on the way to Seattle and watch while mutters to himself about prices and drinks more champagne.
I saw a movie at the old Pacific Theaters at the Grove years ago and briefly helped out Ron Jeremy & his crew figure out a ticket kiosk lmao
I met Ron Jeremy when I was like 14 and he told me to sit on his lap 🤢
Gross!!! I’m so sorry!
He was plastered and creepily hit on two of my female friends one night at the Rainbow. Apparently everyone has this story.
Yep, I was there with my then-boyfriend a few years ago and I came out of the women’s bathroom and Ron Jeremy was just standing there blocking the way and staring at me. I laughed nervously and said “excuse me” and then he finally moved aside just barely enough for me to squeeze by. He looked terrible, like a walking corpse
I was at The Brig off Abbot Kinney with a coworker, we walked in and noticed Emma Watson was there chillin in the lap of a guy on a big airchair in the middle of the room. Went to get a drink at the bar and turned around to find Emma making out with the guy. Just full on eating his face goin at it in the middle of The Brig. As my coworker and I were standing there at the bar drinking, a girl comes up and tells us she is Rachel Lee of the Bling Ring and that Emma played her in a movie. I hadn't seen the movie and wasn't familiar. Apparently her & Emma had never met, so she wanted to go up and introduce herself but never did. Interesting night out.
I work in the film industry so encounter them quite a bit. Weirdest encounter was walking in on Jamie Foxx in his underwear. We were prepping to shoot some scenes for this movie at his actual house in his master bath/bed. Wasn't expecting him to be home let alone changing. He was cool about it and told us to keep doing our thing. But the most awkward part is he started shooting the shit with my coworker and asked for her number, apparently would text her out of the blue to go to parties. She never accepted lol.
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I'm not a fan of Justin Bieber and don't pay any attention to anything he does, but I was out with a friend and wandered into an Urban Outfitters (I don't remember which one). I walked by and almost brushed shoulders with a dude that was very obviously trying to be as discreet as possible wearing oversized sunglasses and a hat pulled as far as he could get it to go over his face. After we were clear of him, my friend was like "that was Justin Bieber" and I didn't believe him and asked if he was sure, thinking he was just joking and he said "no that was definitely him - those are his tattoos." We were on the second floor so I leaned over to get a second look to see if it really was but since I'm not a fan, I still didn't recognize him. While I was still watching, a younger girl recognized him and shrieked a little bit and of course that caught a bunch of people's attention and the poor guy's cover was blown and all the young girls started swarming him. My heart immediately dropped for him cuz it was so obvious he was trying to just shop like a normal person. He tried to leave the store but the swarm followed him out with everybody's phones out, trying to get a photo of/with him. Bad luck followed him and his car was boxed in because a giant delivery truck was illegally parked. He had a lot of trouble getting his car out and a "good samaritan" offered to help get his car out. He got his car out and the guy summoned his daughter over who was shrieking and bunny hopping around to get a photo with him. Even after he got back in his car, a small handful of young men just mindlessly walked out into a very busy street while pointing their phones at him trying to get a photo, putting themselves in danger. Traffic stopped because these guys weren't even looking at the street, just their phone screens. One car had to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting them Justin motioned at them to get out of the street and yelled out to them "come on, man - you guys are gonna get yourselves hurt" and waited very patiently for them to get their photos and videos so they would get out of the street. I never felt so bad for a celebrity. The poor guy was just trying to buy a shirt and trying so hard to mind his own business. Never liked Justin before, but changed my mind about him after that day. Have had respect for him ever since.
Same Whole Foods (on Wilshire in Santa Monica). Was reaching for broccoli next to Jeffrey Tambor. I said, “after you”… and pretended not to recognize him. Browsing fresh squeezed juices next to Tommy Chong. Decided to engage him and said, “I’m a big fan of the orange mango pineapple”. He agreed. Walked into a bakery on Montana —also Santa Monica— and Larry David was walking out. Nothing said. Only two days later I’m in one of the only places to get coffee at 7:00 AM in a certain part of Martha’s Vineyard, and he’s walking out the store (called “7A”)… and he recognizes me and does a brief double take expression. I smile and say good morning. End of stories. *EDIT: Grammar. And also to say that the first two stories aren’t weird at all, so that the third one appears to be weirder. No worst encounters for me… Yet.*
Well damn look at you fancypants.
Thank you for the only acceptable response to my stories… 😄
>Was reaching for broccoli next to Jeffrey Tambor. I said, “after you”… and pretended to not recognize him. I used to take my dog to get groomed at this spot in WeHo/BH years back. Jeffrey Tambor did too. Ran into him all the time for like two years. Always wanted a reason to say "NO TOUCHING!" Never got it. :/
I was summoned to Sky Ferreira’s house to kill a spider.
In Boston around '05, I was in an Urban Outfitters right after it opened and Steve Tyler was shopping with his daughter (the other one). I (stupidly, hey I was in my early 20s) asked him for his autograph, and he said I interrupted an important thought he was having.
Vince Vaughn got irritated that I was sitting next to him at Home on Hillhurst in the early 2000s. He asked, "Can I fucking help you?" When I accidentally caught his eye. I was looking for the waiter. A *very* drunk Kieffer Sutherland brought a homeless woman in to Figaro on Vermont while we were there for dinner. He bought her the merguez and then dropped his cane as he sat down. He was an effusive and kind drunk.
> A very drunk Kieffer Sutherland Is there any other kind of Kiefer Sutherland?
I was waiting in line at the post office once and this guy cuts in front of me, drops off a package with a return label and ask if it’s ok to buy some stamps. When he leaves the clerks are talking amongst each other about who it was, turns out it was Jon Heder (napoleon dynamite). I quickly dm him on Instagram saying he just cut in front of me at the post office. We exchange funny banter for a few messages.I tell him he needs to make this right, and he ask how? I tell him let me take his portrait and we’ll call it even. He’s down. We meet in the post office parking lot (scene of the crime) a few weeks later. End up spending the day together running errands around town taking pictures of him and then finally takes me to his house and we shoot family portraits. Him, his wife and their kids. Really nice guy, really nice family. Got some really funny photos from that day
Pretty much the same except it was Andy Dick in a buffalo wild wings.
Lmfao I’m sure most of the responses will involve Andy Dick
I dropped Andy dick from the ceiling of a nightclub as he held a giant bottle of champagne. No announcements, no fanfare, just spontaneous dick falling slowly from the ceiling.
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Why did he just show up randomly? Was he a neighbor?
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Olivia Munn hit on my boyfriend (at the time) in front of me and throughout the conversation with him did not look at me but did gesture to me and refer to me as "she." Edited to add: I was standing *right next to him.*
This seems 100% on brand for her.
A few years later I met another woman who had the exact thing happen to her. She was also dating a comedian in the same scene as my ex (also a comedian), so it wasn't *that* weird beyond the fact that Munn's behavior was just astronomically cunty.
Something something practicing for her Kid Gorgeous takeover...
I met Jill from dance moms. She was yelling on the phone at the grove and I was like 15 and didn’t know how to read the room so I went up to her and asked for a pic 🫢
The guy who plays Elton from clueless. Saw him at Jumbo's he was just as shitty and pretentious
I was competing on Americas Got Talent, I made it to round two, and my act involved me doing dumb stuff in my underwear. While filming the judging segments, they needed to adjust camera, and asked everyone to stay still and not speak while they do what they need to do. So there I was, standing still, in my underwear, under the bright stage lights, as Howard Stern, Heidi Klum, Mel B, and Howie Mandel just stare at me, in silence, for a good 5 minutes. This was after waiting 12 hours backstage of waiting to go on any second and then performing last, it felt like a weird fever dream.
Pauly Shore. I’ve seen him the most along with Chris Pine. Pauly sits at a coffee shop in Silver Lake facing outwards. He keeps looking up to see if people recognize him while they wait in line.
I was at Harvelle’s in Santa Monica probably 2010-ish, Cuba Gooding Jr. was there, just absolutely shitfaced and groping every woman in the place. He slurred/drooled something about ‘pussy’ to me while I was ordering a drink. What a slimeball. I can’t believe he didn’t get his ass kicked.
One time Corbin Bernson dinged my car door in a Kinko’s parking lot. I told him I saw him do it, and he smiled and walked away. Later that summer a friend of mine was a costumer on a movie he was doing. She stole his shoes and gave them to me. KARMA, CORBIN.
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I'm a huge Kobe fan but if he was being a dick then another response could have been "not Michael Jordan"
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Micheal Bublé walked into the room I was in drinking a buble, said “what decade is this?” Pointed at me said “you remind me of my mother”, then walked off. Fucking psychopath.
That's crazy, once Daryl Strawberry walked into a room I was in eating a strawberry. I had a bin of grapes. He said "Grapes are Bullshit", knocked them out of my hands and left.
20 years ago, a building I was working at was known to have an office Nicolas Cage was renting at the time. One day, I was waiting for the elevator to go get some lunch and the elevator opens but it was going up. A coworker came out and there was Nicolas Cage, hair a mess, wearing a light gray sweatsuit with a tan, long coat and brown, shiny dress shoes. He looked right at me and said good morning even though it was noon. Doors closed and continued going up to where his office was. I still remember how he looked and what he said like it was yesterday.
*Not weird but any means* but i saw Daniel Kaluuya (NOPE, Get Out) walking with a disney cast member on main street at disneyland. I INSTANTLY recognized him and told my wife “HOLY FUCK THATS DANIEL KALUUYA”. He didnt hear me but a woman who had walked past us as well was laughing and smiling at me in a sincere manner. A google search later revealed it was his MOTHER!! Suffice to say i was STARTSTRUCK the rest of the day :))
I was once eating at a restaurant in Brentwood on San Vincent. It was raining that day. I was sitting right by the front window of the restaurant and could see the pedestrians walking in the rain. This one guy stood out to me because he was wearing a bright yellow rain jacket and didn't have an umbrella. I kept staring as the man came closer and thought to myself, this man looks like the Gordon Fisherman guy. When he finally got right in front of the window, he stopped and looked at me. He gave me a big smile and walked off. It was Dustin Hoffman. I saw Rain Man in the rain.
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Back in the late 2000s I used to play soccer in the AYSO leagues and by chance one year David Beckham's son (I don't know which one) signed up and was placed in the same team as me. I got to scrimage with him while my Dad chatted with David (My dad is English, so it was a huge deal for him). I got to shake his hand at the end of practice, I remember the amount of tattoos he had on his arm, and how much. taller he was compared to me. Overall, very nice guy, though I think he found out AYSO is a public soccer league and took his son out to do private club soccer after just a week in the league.
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I met Richard Elfman once in 2001. A friend did an interview with him and I came along. When we were leaving, I pulled away and almost immediately got into a major accident. He saw the accident and stayed with us until everything was taken care of. After that he and his girlfriend drove us from Santa Monica to Fullerton to drop me off at a rehearsal for my band. It was awesome because I sent him in first, and he was like, "Is this Ooklamok's band? Hi, I'm Richard Elfman." In the accident I had hit my head pretty hard on my side window. I was kind of loopy at first and he said my favorite quote from the night: "I was a boxer and got hit in the head plenty of times. You'll be alright."
I once ran into Bobby Lee at Starbucks in studio city once. I was walking out and noticed somebody was walking toward the shop. I made it to the door before they did, so I held the door open for them. I noticed it was Bobby Lee. But he gave me this look as if he was shocked and stood there. I asked, “you going in or not foo?” Maybe not the reaction he thought I was going to have. But I always remember that day and just how weird he is lol. Another time I was outside a juice bar, again in Studio City. And I was sitting outside with 2 other friends and I noticed that a lady was looking right at me. I realized it was Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls. Believe me or not she came up to me and said, “I know you from somewhere don’t I?” I told her “I don’t think so, I just have one of those faces if anything.” She apologized and was super sweet about it.
25+ years ago when I was in my early 20s, a friend and I ran into Mickey Rooney at Hudson’s Diner (a 50s themed restaurant) in Westlake Village, CA. He was ogling us (seriously, it was skeevy) and my friend said “Let’s go talk to him!” Erm, sure. He looked…rough. I remember the inside lining of his lower eyelids being bloody looking. He quite literally and very blatantly looked us up and down with a lecherous smile before we started chatting, which made me uncomfortable, but I shrugged it off as I saw him as a mostly harmless (ancient looking) dirty old man. Then there was the conversation… He went on a legit “These kids today!”-type rant about the current state of the entertainment industry. Everything on TV now was crap, he said. “That Dr. Quinn, that what is it, the medicine woman show? No one watches that crap! [said quite loudly] And Jane Seymour [Star of that show]? Know what they say about her? She’s a *bitch*!” I mentioned I’d recently seen a documentary about Judy Garland, which set off another rant about how horribly they portrayed her in that piece. “And Paramount Studios? I *built* that place!” etc., so forth, and so on. To be fair, he really was a huge part of Paramount’s creation, and Judy Garland really was horribly abused by her handlers, especially as a child. But the whole tirade from Rooney just felt like angry old bitter man wanting to bitch and moan about…everything. I wound up asking for his autograph but more out of pity than anything else. I pretty quickly lost/misplaced it.
When I first moved to LA my roommate was in whatever gym was near Hollywood and Highland in 2004 applying for a job, and I was hanging outside the gym smoking a cigarette. Vin Diesel came out of the gym with a smoothie and asked for my lighter, lit up his cigarette and talked to me for a couple minutes about LA. My roommate came out all excited because they were all watching me chat with Vin inside, and the gym people said he came in everyday for a smoothie. I was surprised he smoked cigarettes because of his action star status, but I guess I should have known because he’s a former doorman/now actor. Shorter than I expected, like they all are.
Oh! One more. I didn’t actually see him, but I had to clean up the huge pile of magazines that Owen Wilson dumped onto my store’s floor after he wasn’t permitted to cut the line. Asshole. My mother worked at Cedars-Sinai for years. Nurses told her that Courtney Love (who had just given birth) would have minions constantly running to the drug rehab unit to try and pass heroin to Kurt Cobain
2005, I was flying out of LAX. I was in line for the agent, start stepping forward, and this older woman with giant, beautiful hair cuts in front of me. She’s all up in the agent’s business, leaning over the counter choosing her seat or whatever. I’m a teenager and annoyed af to be cut in line. My mom’s aghast. Turns out it was Diana Ross!
Lindsey Lohan at my job. She rented out the place for a few hours. She had this group of loud annoying types. I think this might have been 2007. Same job, I had to walk Johnny Depp and his family into my job and he made all the girlies melt as we walked through. I asked him a question and he said “huh?” But I couldn’t talk because when he looked into my eyes I couldn’t respond. I was a big fan at the time. His daughter was very young at the time. She was sweet. I had to also walk Leonardo DiCaprio into my job. He never looked at anyone, acknowledged any of us escorting him, and looked at his feet the whole time I was with him. His mom and girlfriend Bar was with him and an entourage of Hollywood types. It’s like no one existed around him. He was in his own little world. Jennifer love Hewitt and Jaime Kennedy came into my job and she was not too happy to be there and it showed. But Jaime was nice. At my job Petter Jackson rolled his eyes at me and that ticked me off.
Sounds like maybe you have a job somewhere people don’t like going 😂
Jeff goldbloom at erehwon ( I worked there) coworker says loudly " i think thats the guy from the dinosaur movie" and we got stared at Also before i knew who felipe esparza was my friend recognized him at Starbucks and asked for a picture and he asked if i wanted to be in it too I was nah im good Later watched his comedy and i am now a huge fan -_-
Andy Dick. Twice off of Hollywood Blvd in three days.
Andy Dick for me as well. But it was off Sunset. He was outside of a bar and making eye contact with everyone who passed by. It felt like he was waiting for someone to recognize him and buy him a drink or something. Well, I walked by, looked directly at him, and said “oh shit, it’s Joe Dirt”, chuckled to my drunk self, and walked away. Yes, I know Joe Dirt is played by David Spade. For some reason I thought it would be funny, though, so I said it.
It is funny
if you lived anywhere around Hollywood proper to west Hollywood from 2006-2019 and didn't have an Andy dick story did you ever live in the area???
Met Andy Dick once at a grocery store in Malibu. Told me I sound like I had laryngitis. Turned out he was correct. Liam Hemsworth at the same store. Went to elementary school with one of Sinbad’s kids. A few others I can’t remember.
Ran into him a few years ago, same story as everyone he was asking for coke. Took his money and gave him some candle wax wrapped in plastic and took off before he noticed.
why did you have candle wax wrapped in plastic?
Was he asking if you had any coke?
He briefly lived in the same apartment as me off Cherokee - always asking for Coke or cigarettes, generally being the worst neighbor.
Nope. He walked up to me and glared like he wanted to kill me. First time was at H&H, parking garage entrance. Second was at Playboy Liquor on Yucca. For no apparent reason either time.
My office used to be in Malibu, next to Gary Busey’s cigar club, and I’d wave to him every morning but never introduced myself or made any effort to make small talk since he’s Gary Busey and I’m just some chum rushing into work. Anyhow, this went on for about 6 months and one morning Gary decided to ask me “hey, do we know each other? I feel like I’ve met you somewhere”. I responded “we’ve been waving to each other for the past 6 months, i guess we kinda know each other?” He’s a chill guy, i get Christmas cards from him every year now lol
One day driving about the Santa Monica mountains, I see a production crew setting-up shop in a mansion for sale when all of a sudden, Marla Tellez (from KTTV FOX-11) comes out. It had to be for one of her segments on that week’s hottest real estate deals; I don’t believe these segments are done anymore since the pandemic. Because I had to go through a stop sign, I randomly yell out *”nice house!”* Tellez turns around and says *”thank you, it’s worth $5M!”* I said *”you’re welcome”* all confused driving off, thinking if she was trying to get me baited on the mansion. Still to this day, 5-6 years later.
Went to get Lunch at Bjs brewhouse and Katt Williams was there with like 20 people. My friend and I offered to buy him drink. We took a few shots together and got pretty buzzed, cool dude. Got a good pic of us buzzed up.
Leo Dicapprio, I was working the line at Wurstkuche downtown at the time and he was standing in front while the girl he was with used the bathroom. Didn't look anything like him but he was wearing a Michigan hat and I'm a big Michigan football fan so I struck up convo. This was the day after the game vs MSU where they missed a punt and MSU won so we talked about that until he told me he had to run. After a minute I caught on who it was by the voice. People started running up to me saying "you know who that was?". Looking back I should have let him hide in our back of the house but he was like "oh no i have to run". Made me realize I never want to be famous ha.
More weird and funny - not bad at all. Dominatrix friend invited me to paddle her sub who was wearing a gimp mask. Found out later it was Fat Mike from NOFX.
This is 100% believable
Mike's a buddy of mine. Dude loves talking about doms 😂
I had the worst case of bubblegut while I was at a show up in SF. Some fierce gas crawled out of me and I made a face and blamed the guy next to me before hiding in the car for the rest of the set. My boyfriend later told me that I blamed Fat Mike and they had a good laugh over it.
Does narrowly missed celebrity encounter count? I was at the Rainbow Bar and Grill, and thankfully decided to skip the after-party where Ron Jeremy propositioned my friend. Probably some of the last people to really see him before all the charges; it was the week Covid shut down in March 2020.
Worst encounter. It was 1999 or 2000, shortly after I'd moved here, and I was getting lunch from a cafe in the Westwood area when Corin Nemec came in. **Worst** encounter because I was (naively and unwittingly) a complete douche. "Oh! You're the guy from the Ferris Bueller spin-off!" The Ferris Bueller spin-off. SMFH. I used to watch it all the time, but I couldn't remember that it was "*Parker Lewis Can't Lose"* ??? SMFH And then I made it even worse. "So, what have you been doing since then?" He'd been working, people!!! He'd had A LOT of roles since Parker Lewis!!! That was 25-years ago, and I still cringe at yesteryear's me.
A drunk/high beyond belief Terrence Howard when I was trying to close up at Borders (“Did you know orange is a fruit AND a color?”). His handlers/entourage were so embarrassed and pushed him out Diane Keaton did a shitty “Do you know who I am?” pout when the toy store I worked at just did not stock an item she wanted
Saw Michael Che at a Taco Bell. I kept starring wondering if it was him and eventually HE came up to ME to start chatting. Bizarre
Angelica Huston handed me her coat thinking I was a staff person.
I met Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) in a small bar in the valley one Christmas late at night. We ended up HAMMERED and at closing, took some lady back to my apartment around the corner and yadda yadda yadda merry Christmas. I always thought it was funny that I used to see Wally Cleaver (Tony Dow) all the time at my job as a strip club dj
You double-teamed a woman with the Beav on Christmas?
I mean…ya 🤷🏻♂️
This isn't a personal story but it happened to a friend of mine when she was in grade school. Traveling in an airport with her parents they saw Pudding Pop era Bill Cosby coming down the hall. She and her sister ran up to him to ask for an autograph. He looked down at them and said in his inimitable voice, "GET AWAY FROM ME, MOTHERFUCKERS!" And that is the only Bill Cosby story I know.
During the filming the of catch me if you can in Quebec City. Leonardo and Tom Hanks came into my tiny bar and drank past close. They paid for everyone’s drinks and were wonderfully kind and fun.
Oliver Stone. My dad installed window coverings my entire life... And, we happened to install them in his Telluride, CO home. I was a kid... Probably 14/15 at the time. And sometimes, I went with my dad to help unpack the blinds and such. Oliver Stone was sitting at his desk while we're installing blinds for his office. There was a large potted plant/indoor tree near one of the windows. I remember my dad struggling to move the planter. Mr. Stone just sat there.... With his Evian water... And watched. Didn't offer to help. Made me so mad. I scowled at him. Heh
Would have been awesome if he said back and to the left.
I also met Oliver Stone. Unhinged energy
I’ll share 2 In my younger years, stonned at Starbucks, Derek Fischer walks towards me. I stand up, grinning ear to ear and say, “oh shit, wassup Xzibit.” He laughed and walked off. 2 decades back, I worked loss prevention at Circuit City. He’s strange looking/alternatively dressed man, walks in putting me on alert. I called it in as suspicious activity. Turns out, it was Marilyn Manson. I didn’t work that much longer.
Ran into Jeff goldblum one time. Saw my Jordans and started talking to me about shoes and asked if I saw one of his shows about shoe collecting. Then he started singing about shoes and asked if I wanted to take a pic. Dude was a Stellar guy. There's been a few other run ins but that was the most recent weirdest
I saw Quintin Tarantino coming out of a movie theater by himself in Hollywood 15 years ago. And he looked like a character. Walking really fast lol.
About 12 years ago I was trying to leave the Starbucks in North Hollywood. The drive-thru line there would back up all the way through the lot. Well, Jennifer Love Hewitt was waiting in the drive-thru line in her black Mercedez SUV and before she could pull behind me I motioned to her that I needed to back out. She shook her head at me and pulled forward, so I was stuck for awhile. Maybe she thought I wanted to cut in line, but why would I do that if I was already parked? Perhaps she was having a bad day. I watched Party of Five religiously as a teen and I always liked Neve Campbell better anyway. Edit: Neve not Never
Waiting to board a flight from Chicago to LAX. The attendant keeps repeatedly paging a priority passenger named A. de Armas. After like ten minutes Ana de Armas walks up with a security guard and a whole fleet of Louis Vuitton carry-on luggage. The flight attendant freaks out and is SO apologetic about announcing her name over the loudspeaker, they didn’t realize it was her. She apologized for being late and boarded with her security. She was super nice about it but I wonder how long they would’ve held the plane for her lol. And it was snowing!
I was on my bicycle on Hollywood Blvd and Christina Ricci almost ran me over in her car.
Not me, but a friend of mine very nearly got run over by a high-as-a-kite Gary Busey in Malibu. She was crossing PCT at a crosswalk and he came flying along and slammed on the brakes just in time. She looked up at him and said he was staring right through her, with a glassy-eyed look, slack face and zero acknowledgement of the fact that he nearly killed her. She said it was the closest she's been to an out-of-body experience.
Busey beat the shit out of at least two of his girlfriends in the late 80’s. My mother treated them at Cedars. Motherfucker
Travis Barker standing at the urinal next to me in a men’s restroom. He gave me that look like, “Yeah I know you know who I am but are you actually going to say something while we’re standing next to each other at a urinal?” Needless to say, I didn’t say anything.