Celebrity Customers

[TelephoneAngel]

Don't say who it was, if you can't, just "famous actor" will do.

Who did you serve who was a celebrity?

Me today "x-factor finalist", I think that's vague eough, but at the same time, he was a celebrity and I helped him!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sheldonrs]

I think there is an old thread about this but, here goes:

Steven Spielberg(in a hurry!)
Michael Jackson(nice but nervous)
Julie Newmar(sort of out there)
Tupak Shakur(very quiet and polite and VERY short)
Rosanne Barr (a pig!)
Frank Capra III
Charleton Heston (and his son Fraser Heston)
Sinbad (the comic, not the sailor)
Diane Ladd(nice but spacey)
Sally Kellerman(borderline EW)

And a lot more but don't want to try waking my brain up right now.

[Squeaksmyalias]

I had a local news guy, not sure if that counts....his house freaked me out his wife had a very creepy doll collection in their formal living room. I used to tell the dog if it went into that room and the dolls got him he was on his own.

There is a former New England Patriots football player who is a client, I haven't been to his house, but I was told by some of the other staff that you can get lost in it. Which makes me want to visit his pets. I'm a curious girl.

[Exaspera]

Robert DuVal came into my gallery once. Didn't buy anything.

[malmalthekiller]

Usually have a Jackass that comes in regularly.
At my old job, I had a famous southern cook come in.

[KabeRinnaul]

Don't recall any at work, but Jennifer Garner went to the same school as me, though about a decade prior. I think that's the closest I'll get unless we count local politicians and their families.

[Willis]

I've met well over a hundred something so I'll just list a few.

Michael Mann (seemed snotty, very curt)
Steven Spielberg (very nice guy, quiet)
Kenny G (very talkative, nice, I think I talked to him the longest)
Al Cowlings (Yes that Al. Very talkative, seemed pretty decent)
Chris Tucker (EW)
Jay Leno (extremely nice, jovial, wouldn't have ever thought he would do what he did to Conan years later)
Kirk Douglas and is wife (Very, very nice people. Kirk was very friendly and his wife has a witty sense of humor)
Shelley Long (EW, snotty, seemed full of herself. Pretty much what cast and crew from Cheers said about her in a "Behind the..." type show I saw a while ago. I met her years before I saw that show but they were right on the money.)
Pamela Anderson (seemed shy, didn't mind chatting)
Holly Robinson Peete (very nice, talkative)
Freddy Rodriguez (very nice, talkative, personable)

[Exaspera]

When I lived in San Antonio in the 90s, Tommy Lee Jones lived there too. I think he still has a house there. He's hang out at this particular restaurant on Broadway and if you stared at him, he'd go over to your table and yell at you for staring.

He did that one day to a tablefull and got yelled at by another customer saying that if "he didn't want to get stared at to go on home!" Jones walked out.

[Rantsylvania 6-5000]

I only recall helping a local newsman in my store. My dad, however, worked for many celebrities over the years, and got some autographed pictures from some of them. Here are the ones I remember (I never got to meet them though):

John Wayne (nice)
Jack LaLanne (nice, and so was his wife)
Conrad Bain (nice)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (nice, but had a snooty secretery)
Barbara Billingsley (nice)
Tony Dow (nice)
Bonnie Franklin (snooty)
Tracy Nelson (nice)

[hinakiba777]

I had to get someone to move from Natalie MacMaster's seat when she went to a concert I was ushering for.

And Al MacInnis, formerly of the Calgary Flames, stayed at my hotel last summer.

The problem is that being famous and from CB, especially WESTERN CB, makes it hard for people to freak out about you. I mean, they live down the road from me. Natalie is my married to my best friend's uncle.

Celebrities never really excite me like they should. I think I just know to many people in the music industry. (I'm related to a few people in the East Coast Music scene, and know people through them)

Plus I'm friends with professional actors, and I'm trying to get professional voice work. Got keep pressing those connections.

[mattm04]

A CW claims to have seem sever members from "Ghost Hunters" once. I believe Steve and one of the females. Later a episode aired showing a investigation 10-12 miles away.

[ravevolution]

When I worked at an art gallery I met:

Amazing Johnathan (that comedic magician that likes to rip on his friend Chris Angel) - Looked haggered hadn't shaved for days, obviously on vacation from doing shows in Vegas. Quiet and inquired about a piece of artwork.

Mike Dirnt (Greenday) - came into the gallery, I knew who he was immediately but didn't make a scene about it, let him have his space. Was quiet in the gallery. When he inquired about an art piece I gave him into and price. Asked what he was in town for (stupid question being he is from the bay area and I knew he was here for a musical concert, was making small talk). I would have let it go and not said anything about his fame, but his GF had to pipe up and say who he was, I gave the "yeah you looked familiar" and he had this look of 'oh thanks for telling everyone' look cause of his GF. But it was cool, i think he was thankful that I wasn't all teenybopper 'OMG!! AHHHH!!!' crazy lol

[Cazzi]

I think in just about one of my first posts I mentioned serving a then famous snooker player at the bar, who was already then becoming more famous for his temper & drinking habits than snooker

I don't get star struck either so he was a bit miffed & didn't start fawning all over him I think

[telecom_goddess]

My mom went to high school with Jack LaLanne....does that count I also met Kip Winger back when Winger was hot shit...and passed by Chubby Checker on some stairs.

[gaspode]

Robert Plant
The pub I worked at, and later ran,held his daughters 21st birthday,with all-sorts of familiar faces, in fact I did turn one co-worker and say "the man I just served,I know his face but why?" and she said "wasn't it Ozzy Osbourne" "oh yea "says me"

Went to a D.J convention once and tripped over somebody,turned out to be Billy Ocean