Who's the most famous person you've met?

[Norelco]

Who's the most famous person you've met?

Rules
1. Don't tell us who your friend met, or who they know. I want to know who YOU met.
2. The meeting has to have been in person. So phone calls are out. This includes getting autographs from them, or any sort of altercation that requires you actually speaking to them in person.
3. Famous relatives count, but only if you've physically met them.
4. "Famous" can range from actors/actresses, musicians, sports figures, politicians, etc.

I'm just curious.

[Dezzimal]

Went drinking with this guy and some members of his band

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poncho_Sanchez

[Izzy]

I got Dominik Hasek's autograph after a Sabres playoff game in 2001-2002 or something like that.

[Fhqwghads]

Chuck Billy from Testament.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1716/chuck5za.jpg

I liked their music back in the mid-80's. My cousin who was in a popular thrash band in the S.F. Bay Area knew Chuck personally, and his band toured with Testament. I never met him via my cousin, however. In the early 90's I used to install stereos at a place in Dublin. One day some guy in a black BMW with a COTLOD license plate pulls up, and out steps Chuck Billy. He wanted to get a system checked out that was acting all screwed up. Was cool, we bullshitted about his band, and I told him who my cousin was and talked about him too. Chuck's a really cool guy.

Oh yeah, I guess this douchebag is more popular than Chuck, but he's a douchebag.

http://www.metalmartyr.com/wp-conten...chine-head.jpg

He was in my cousin's band before he split off and made Machinehead. Guess he got tired of being made fun of for being a dork.

[omgaggrohelpme]

Sandy Koufax, Andruw Jones, Fernando Valenzuela, Andre Either, and James Looney last night @ a Dodger/Giants game that was Rain-Delayed.. YAY! Box Seats on top of Dodget Dogout, and showing up 2hrs before game start lol..

Also Met Shaq at the Atlanta Airport while we were both changing flights, well I was changing he was taking a flight somewhere..

[crazyrabbit]

I met Heino at breakfast in an amusement park hotel >_> yay lol
He ate at the next table and after telling the press idiots to fuck off he talked a little with my parents and me.

[Norelco]

I got Dominik Hasek's autograph after a Sabres playoff game in 2001-2002 or something like that.

That's pretty cool...an autograph from the Dominator. Are you/were you from the Buffalo area?

[Gilanth]

Barry from Eastenders.......


Sean Williamson is his real name he is also in Extras.

[Quixon]

I sat behind Q-Tip at a movie theater and got his autograph afterwards.

I got Michael Strahans autograph at a Net's game. He was kind of an asshole though.

I shook hands with Michael Jordan after another Nets game. I'm a huge Jordan fan so this was pretty insane.

I met George Clooney when he was filming Michael Clayton in my home town.

Last but not least, I met Mario Rivera at this immense outlet mall near my house.
http://www.premiumoutlets.com/outlets/outlet.asp?id=7

I've seen so many celebrities at the same mall but when I was working there I never really approached them. Most of the companies I worked for had policies in place to keep these people from being harassed.

When I worked for Timberland we saw David Justice, Allen Houston, and one other guy who used to play for Knicks and got traded to the Jazz..... Can't remember his name for anything now. But these guys were regulars, we saw em at different times at least once a month.

[Blackice]

Ben Stein, met him at a resort in Idaho.

[IncredibleGulk]

At the NHL all-star game in Colorado:

Sergei Gonchar, Mario Lemiuex, Wayne Gretzky, etc. Met most of the players. (A lot of players were staying in the same hotel as I was in.

At the airport when we were leaving, Bill Guerin and Tony Amonte were grubbin some McD's breakfast sandwhiches. Cool ass guys

[Max™]

Samuel L. Jackson when I was driving a cab.
He was leaving the hotel at a Casino I was picking up a fare at.

Oh, and my mom played Bass with Pantera when she was setting up a Satellite TV system at a club they were playing at once.

[Norelco]

My cousin used to be a guitarist for Warrant. Also got autographs from Chris Hall of Stabbing Westward (actually hung out with the band for like 30 minutes outside of their bus), and also met the lead guy of Godhead, Jason Miller (was at his mother's house for a party). He's a cool guy...he's also an anime voice actor (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Hellsing, Read or Die and the Nickelodeon produced Avatar: The Last Airbender)

[Shuemue]

Neil Kinnock, former leader of the Labour party used to live round the corner from the house where I grew up.

Various minor celebrities when I was acting, mostly low ranking TV actors. tbh, even I can barely remember their names, but they were vaguely famous.

[Yuri-G]

If you chill outside the SNL studios on a Saturday night, the actors usually come out and greet people, and I met Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon that way. Met some of the other actors too but they were mostly rude, Jimmy and Tina were both really nice. Some idiot-bitches were screaming Jimmy's name while my friend was trying to get an autograph, and he actually said, "Hold on a moment, this girl was here first." I thought that was pretty cool. As for Tina, she was just a sweetheart, not much more I can say.

[Arcana]

lead singer from trivium, cant remember his name & corey taylor when stone sour were performing in glasgow, and tim "ripper" owens.

[AlexRuzhyo]

I met Christopher Reeve at the Liberty Bell in Philly on a school field trip. By "met" I mean him and his family walked/rolled(?) by us to the front of the relatively short line without saying a word. I wouldn't have known if it was him if a couple of the teachers and people behind us mumbled his name. But yeah, I was at one point in my life less than a foot away from him, I guess.

[AoE]

My first semester of college, I met up with a friend of mine in Bryant Park in NY. Talked a bit and then started walking around. Walked passed the Sean John store and saw a couple of cameras with the WWE logo on it. Surprisingly there were no crowds outside and not even any customers inside even though the place was still open. So we both walked in and saw Ivory in there promoting the store for one of the WWE shows that used air on Sundays (I forgot which one it was because I pretty much stopped watching wrestling after the name change). After she finished, she motioned for us to come over and we talked for about 20 mins. She told me she loved my hair (I wear dreadlocks) and told me about how her niece tried to do something similar but didn't work out. Gave me a big hug and then we left. Despite her ringside persona, she was actually extremely nice and probably much hotter in person.

Also met Veronica Taylor (original English Ash Ketchum va). Didn't really say much because I didn't know what to say but she was looking through some anime that was on sale at the only convention I've ever went to.

[Jeny]

Hmm, I met Amy Lee and the band of Evanescence when they opened their tour at UM. We were hanging out by the tour buses with only a few people who decided to stay for autographs. (It was like 1am)

I know Shakira and her mother due to my mother being their personal banker. (Citibank) @.@

Also met Ryan Shuck, the lead guitarist of Orgy and the Sick Puppies Crew on the same night.

[layoneil]

Rudy Guiliani, when he was running for mayor, he was at the train station shaking hands and talking to people. he told me to tell my parents to vote for him.