Meeting Celebrities?

[wareagle24]

That would mean Billy Joel graduated HS at age 50? Born 1949

Busted.

[dartag1829]

Used to give tours at my work. I met.
Richard Childress
Danny Chocolate Myers
Kevin Hamlin
William Crow (Chairman of the Joints chief of staff) Had 2 Big Dudes with him. One had a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
Bobby Unser
Al Unser
Ginger Lynn at a gentelmans club in Canada. ( Guess she used to be in movies ).

[86 inches]

Oh dang, I forgot.

Mike Pence.

We were in the same frat at Hanover. I was a couple of years ahead of Mike, being a junior when he pledged. He moved into the house second term of his frosh year. He was on the second floor with the born agains and I was downstairs with the cool dudes.(No, I wasn't cool, studying too hard to make the cut for med school.) We were all pretty close being in a small frat at a small college but there was some upstairs downstairs tension; Bible study group vs drinkers/partiers. Good times, bad times. Once, he even ratted us out to the admin for having a kegger.

Brothers for life. That's what we pledged back then. Yet, he never once called me for advice when he was in The White House. What's with that?

[BOATS]

Played catch with Thurmon Munson outside a Gino's during a promotion back in the day. I work with a former Dolphin and a Former Jaguar.

[turfy49431]

Ive delivered pizza to Madonna and Jon Cougar Melloncamp. I drove the cart shuttle for Hunter Hayes when he did a concert at our Base. Fred Couples and John Boehner played my golf course when I worked up north

[bassnman81]

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans=walked into my tent in Viet Nam.
Katherine Hepburn- gave her a ticket when I was a LEO.
Ray Scott, sat net to me at a weigh in on LKN.
Michael Jordan, talked with him for twenty minutes while fishing his doc on LKN.

[castforcash]

Met Billy Joel several times…. Even graduated HS with him….. In 1992.
That supermodel was there too.
Many PGA golfers, my wife’s company had the contract for the tents, tables, chairs, etc for the private party at the Masters.
Almost,(probably all) of the mid-80’s New York islanders.
A few others along the way as well

Never knew he was a high-school dropout, pretty cool you got to be a part of that!

[Gthunter5]

George the animal Steele is about all ive met.

don't care to meet any (well id like to meet Elon musk) and probably couldn't recognize any.

[geodebasser]

Rod Stewart was next to us on the beach at the Four Seasons in Maui. He had an entourage of fine women.
Christine Lahti elevator at Grand Wailea Resort Maui In elevator
I met and talked to Kevin Bacon at the Phoenician in Arizona . He likes to fish and love’s country music and Nashville
Tony Curtis at Spagos restaurant in Hollywood. He tried to flirt with my wife.
Jack Lemon getting into his car with golf clubs Belair
Gene Wilder passed out facedown in a plate of food at Trader Vic’s in the Beverly Hills Hotel
Whoopie Goldbug Trader Vic’s in the Beverly Hills Hotel
A guy who played on Three’s company at a bar at the Beverly Hills Hotel at Golden Globe awards. Can’t remember his name, No I wasn’t invited to the Golden Globe awards
I had a coworker who was Julia Roberts first cousin, She kept saying she would introduce me to Julia but never happened.
Carlos Santana at a frat party after he performed while I was a student at Auburn.
Vanilla Ice on a flight to Winnipeg .
Jeff Cook of Alabama. We had a mutual friend.
Pat Upton of the Spiral Staircase who was in a supper club with us in Guntersville Alabama. He had one hit. “I love you more today than yesterday “ He once had a club in Guntersville that was the last gig his friend Ricky Nelson every played at before his infamous plane crash after taking off from the Guntersville airport. He told us a lot about Ricky.
John Denver’s wife Annie who was the sister to a VP for a company I worked for at a function at the Biltmore at Phoenix .
Pat Robinson at the Century Hotel in Century City. He had an entourage like an oil Sheik
Numerous pro fisherman and got to spend a day fishing at Wheeler with Roland Martin thanks to my BP oil distributor friend.
Ray Scott once while participating in his famous three pound test tournament. I am glad I got to meet him. Nice guy
Numerous editors and writers like Hall for BASS.
The past President of BASS whom I became friends with. He saved BASS.
Lee Iacocca at a company meeting in the eighties. He was our inspirational speaker. I got to meet him.
Last but not least my dad was on Werner Von Braun’s team as a telemetry engineer. We used to go to picnics at his lake house at Guntersville. I remember having a crush on one of his daughters. Dr. Von Braun was all business and a bit intimidating.


I never set out to meet celebrities or run into them. I was just fortunate enough to hang out in the kind of places they went to.

[castforcash]

That would mean Billy Joel graduated HS at age 50? Born 1949

He was a late bloomer

[need5biguns56]

Ward Burton
Ryan Newman
Richard Childress
Jonny Morris
Ray Scott
Russ Lane

[avidbasser]

I've met several celebrities.

One of my favorite interactions was with Steven Baldwin at an airport in Chicago. He sat next to me at the bar and asked if he could drop his bag next to mine next to the chair between us. Once I recognized him, I said "Sure man, it's Steven right?" He smirked and said yeah. After a few sips into our beers he leans over and starts chatting it up. About 15-20 minutes into our conversation we started talking movies and he asked what my favorite movie was. I told him Spaceballs, then added "Bio-Dome is a close 2nd." He literally did a spit take and laughed. I wasn't kidding, grew up laughing my tail off to it. Still watch it when it's on TV. He talked about how he was in awe working the Usual Suspect crew. Had 2 more beers before my flight started boarding. It was cool to sit with a celebrity and shoot the shit like a friend.

Worst celebrity experience...Jay Leno. So full of himself just plain rude. Tossed money at me since I was below him working at In N Out. That's about all I'm going to say about that.

[99R93S]

I’ve met a few but nothing worth writing about. I would say the most note worthy thing is that Dwayne Johnson is a very down to earth fellow.

[clayshooter]

Charlie Daniel’s at a benefit show in southern Ohio at a deer ranch.! Very cool guy.! And just a cool calm country gentleman.! RIP friend

[Jeff Hahn]

Not counting bass pro types, as I’ve met most of them.

Meet Paul Newman on a Sunday morning during hardship practice at Nelson’s Ledges SCCA race track. He had won D Production at the Atlanta run offs the year before with a TR 6. He was out on Sunday morning trying to get that car dialed in. We were walking past his pit when he pulled in. Asked “How’s it running, Paul?” His reply, “Not worth a damn!”

Mount Union was celebrating “The year of …….” First was the year of the sciences, next year was of the Arts, then the Humanities. I was the head of organizing for the Year of the Social Sciences. We had numerous speakers over the year, culminating in a major speaker. We chose Alex Haley. I picked him up at the airport and escorted him around all day. Nicest guy you’d ever meet.

Mount Union had a major speaker every year. I got to meet Kissinger and President Ford in passing. One year we had David Brinkley. I got to spend several minutes talking one on one with him at the Mount Union President’s home after his speech.

Got to meet several of the top golfers back in the day. Nicklaus, Arnie, etc. Nicklaus is my second cousin’s brother in law, by marriage, so I could at least start the conversation by telling him that was related to Marilyn ……

Meet Willie outside his bus after a concert. My wife even got a kiss!

[Toypuller]

George Bush sr.
Joan Jett
Roger Waters
Mike, Frank, Danielle, and Hobo Jack (or whatever his name was) from American Pickers..in Sturgis.

Frank, super nice guy. Danielle, amazingly nice. Mike…not so much.

Jimmy Houston

[Pilgrim]

Saw Elvis gettin' a Mountain Dew out of a pop machine in front of Venable's store back in the 70's. I was high and laughed my ass off. I'm pretty sure it was a redneck impersonating Elvis, now that I think about it.

[geodebasser]

He was a late bloomer

Or he could have met him in Cheech and Chong’s van.

[cwilt]

Played billiards with the band Everclear. I didn't know who they were at the time. They gave my friend and I tickets to their show the next night.
Also met Dion Warwick When I worked at Builders Square. I helped her with 12 ceiling fans. She said was purchasing them for her house in the Caribbean.

I forgot one more. A coworker and myself Met Richard Petty when his private jet landed on the base here for the inaugural race at Homestead. He had his crew get us some STP hats that he signed for us. Still have that hat.

[ColdSVT]

Ive met a hand of sports stars and celebs here and there
When i livef in Tampa i used to see hulk hogan and his stupid son nick at the dragstrip every week and we spoke several times. One nigh at the devil rays game hulk came walkin down and sat in the row behind my wife and i...and he says hey Mike what up?...i said hey terry how ya doin, this is my wife tina...my wife was like wtf? How? Lol
Terry then introduced us to John Cena...lol

My wife still cant believe that happened

Another time in tampa i drank beer with Don Dokken at a small dive bar in downtown tampa...he wad pretty cool. We talked about hockey lol

My most memorable was shaking Ed Too Tall Jones hand...i have yet to see or feel hands that friggin big! I played a round of golf with him, goose gosage and willie magee. Got to meet ozzie smith that day too