Have you or someone you know actually known a celebrity?

[bpatrick]

Recently I asked if anyone had ever met or e-mailed
a celebrity. Now I'd like to know if you actually knew
some future celebrity (for example, did you go to school
with someone who became famous).

I used to see Deborah Norville around the UGA campus
(she was going to school through the week and anchoring
WAGA's weekend newscasts). I remember that she dressed
for class as she did for work: no jeans or T-shirts for her,
and that she walked around with a snobbish air about her.

My dad went to high school with radio (and briefly, around
1983, television) talk-show host Barry Farber; Farber was, I
think, about two years ahead of my dad.

My stepmother has a niece who was a year behind Rick Dees
in high school; Dees was already working on Greensboro radio
even then.

I had a next-door neighbor in South Carolina who went through
all twelve years of school with Cybill Shepherd in Memphis. My
neighbor had little good to say about her; I always had the impression
that Cybill was, to use an old expression, "honey and the bees knew it."

Did anyone else ever actually know a future celeb? I'd particularly
like to know if anyone knew the ubiquitous Ryan Seacrest.

 

[LKellerIII]

When I was about 22 (1974), I worked as a dishwasher and bus boy in a trendy Sausalito (CA) restaurant. Worst job I ever had...except that I can say that Robin Williams was the bartender. Unlike most of the line managers and cooks who treated bus boys like dirt, he was friendly and pleasant, but frequently "on" - hyper and spewing out funny lines a mile a minute.

Apparently he was already doing stand-up comedy, but I was too clueless to know that. He famously came in second in the San Francisco Comedy competition a couple of years later. I assumed he was using...uh...chemical enhancements, which was likely the case, as he later admitted. Apparently it was common for the wait-staff to receive cocaine as "tips"...another privilege not extended to the bus boys.

 

[Ultimajock]

...as I've mentioned elsewhere on this site, I was well enough acquainted with Tom Snyder that he once phoned me out of the blue (and I still don't know how he got my phone number!) and invited me to an afternoon-long lunch during one of his last visits to Milwaukee...

 

[Andy Coleman]

Bill Espy who use to be on soaps Young And The Restless and Another World was born and raised in the town that I live and I have met him several times. He use to walk in our local mall and people would just walk up to him and talk but he is just one of the local town people. My mama knows country music singer Vern Gosdin. My dad is friends with William Lee Golden they grew up together. My grandma use to babysit Mitch Vogel of Bonanza . Wiliam lee or Bill as he is called around Brewton, Alabama sings with Oak Ridge Boys.

 

[robmadden1]

I know Alyssa Milano and her mother. I have spoken to Alyssa Milanos mother on the phone a few times. I also know Shannen Doherty I have sponen to her a few times in pm's.

 

[joybandit]

My cousin's ex-husband went to college with Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligans Island)

 

[ssetta]

I think the closest I can say is that I once met Jackie Bruno (new reporter at WWLP-22 in Springfield, MA) years ago in 2003 back when she was Miss TEEN Massachusetts.

 

[BRNout]

The late Ted Knight was my third cousin, which is to say that I met him a couple of times when I was a kid. In reality, his voice (and personality) were quite different than what he portrayed on film. He seemed to be a very gentle guy and was soft-spoken.

 

[AndTheLambGoesBAA]

Used to run camera for a tv station that hired a guy named Nick Clooney to host a week long variety show from the annual state fair. He'd bring his son along for the week. The son was kind of a brat as I recall...named George...George Clooney.

 

[nightfly61]

I shared my warm beer & popcorn with carrot top once.