Have you ever met a celebrity in real life?

Submitted by Lindwyrm on December 29, 2025
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To tell you the truth, it never happened to me, so I'm curious about your experiences.

32 Comments
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Level 61
Dec 29, 2025
Sadly no, but my dad saw Donald J. Trump tho.
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Level 68
Dec 29, 2025
Unfortunately no, not that I know or remember.
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Level 56
Dec 29, 2025
I met the former pm of singapore when i was like 6 or 7 years old if that counts
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Level 82
Dec 29, 2025
Yew? fr?
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Level 65
Dec 29, 2025
Maybe lee hsien loong though, he's retired now
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Level 56
Dec 30, 2025
Yeah it was Lee Hsien Long
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Level 61
Dec 29, 2025
Surprised there hasn't been a [BLEEP] [BLEEP] joke yet.
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Level 53
Dec 29, 2025
I met both tommy wiseau and greg sestero from the room not long ago, tommy was just as you would expect lol

Also met burt ward (1960s robin) at a convention once

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Level 45
Dec 29, 2025
Idk if this counts, but me and the fastest junior (in the 5K) in the U.S. have the same running coach, and I got to watch one of his practices
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Level 61
Dec 29, 2025
And I know a Golden Horseshoe (The golden horseshoe is a test given to 8th graders in West Virginia based off of this expedition) winner
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Level 71
Dec 29, 2025
Oh, one of my friends won a national spelling bee once.

And a few years after a church friend also won

And they got to meet the prime minister as a prize.

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Level 65
Dec 30, 2025
I went to the Parliament house place in Canberra for Year 6 camp

The other group got to see the Prime Minister speaking in I forgot if it was the senate or house or representatives

But no, my group didn't.

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Level 71
Dec 30, 2025
That's sad... Lol, my school got to go to Phillip Island...
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Level 65
Dec 29, 2025
I’ve met a couple famous athletes, but I feel like that’s easier than other celebrities
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Level 54
Dec 30, 2025
Who?
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Level 65
Jan 5, 2026
Most famous is probably Jim Rice
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Level 15
Dec 29, 2025
I took a selfie with Eli Mac, I guess.

Not celebrities, but I also saw both my state senators and the representative.

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Level 27
Dec 29, 2025
peter jacobsen lives near me and i’ve seen him at the grocery store and the gym
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Level 62
Dec 30, 2025
I'm from Scotland, and have always been into Nirvana. I visited Seattle once; I got dropped off in the city, and there was Krist Novoselic, standing on the street corner.
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Level 81
Dec 30, 2025
Whilst working in exhibition transport during the 1990's I was setting up a business jet mock-up on a tour around many airports in Europe.

Off the top of my head...

Niki Lauda in Vienna

Silvio Berlusconi in Milan

Chris de Burgh in Brussels

The Aga Khan in Paris

I also delivered to the Vatican but never met the Pope.

And missed Nelson Mandela in Pretoria by one day.

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Level 82
Dec 30, 2025
toowise lore
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Level 34
Dec 30, 2025
I met a professional cricket player and he signed my hat
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Level 92
Dec 30, 2025
I met an author I like twice actually. When I was like 13 and 14. It was a convention two years in a row (he's came there since but I don't need to see him every single lol. Twice is enough. I don't even read his stuff anymore). His name is Stuart Gibbs.
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Level 71
Dec 30, 2025
OH... I LOVE HIS BOOKS.

I just finished reading another yestertday...

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Level 34
Dec 31, 2025
I've also met a few authors
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Level 92
Dec 31, 2025
Who?
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Level 34
Dec 31, 2025
JJ Arcanjo who wrote the crookhaven series and some others that I can't remember
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Level 56
Jan 2, 2026
Ive also met lots of authors in primary school when the school would organise events where we could meet authors and do stuff with them

I dont remember their names though

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Level 57
Dec 30, 2025
The closest to meeting a celebrity I've ever been was that Marcus Freeman, a former NFL tight end was the principal at the school I went to before moving to my current residence
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Level 76
Jan 3, 2026
I met Lea Michelle and Ramin Karimloo (Broadway stars)

I also met Tyler Kolek (on the Knicks)

Also Andres Jasson and Justin Haak (plays for NYCFC)

You see a lot of people in NYC...

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Level 81
Jan 4, 2026
Just remembered, I briefly met Michael Palin, the guy from Monty Python, and lots of travel shows, at a book signing on the South Bank in London back in about 2006.
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Level 33
Jan 5, 2026
Random obscure French celebrities, but no "known" celebrities.