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Between game shows, reality TV, and social media, there are more chances than ever to accidentally (sometimes literally) stumble into fame. Someone asked people online “What’s your “15 seconds of fame” moment?” and netizens shared their experiences. 

From live TV fails and trivia game victories, to being featured in the news, people who had a brief moment in the spotlight shared their stories. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorite examples, and if you have any experiences of being briefly famous, feel free to share them in the comments section below. 

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I beat a man half to death for ra$&@ my sister and got 4 years in prison when I got out I had the biggest party thrown for me by some people I knew and tons of random people who gave me cards with cash to start over I tried not to accept because I’d do it again and I’d think any brother would do it for there sister,but they wouldn’t take no for a answer and met my now fiancée there been with her ever since….never thought violence and prison would change my life forever for the good 😊

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No one came to my rescue... but hearing that others do helps. Bless you.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ When I was 10, I got hit by a car.
Dented the fender with my knee, broke the windshield with my back, flew 10 feet, when they slammed on the brakes and didn't get hurt.
Local paper wrote about it with the title " boy hits car, car damaged"
Someone sent it to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and he talked about me and showed the newspaper clipping with my picture. Said something like, " The terminators kid is running around and to be careful

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ A documentary crew was visiting the hospital I worked at. They were filming the average shifts of doctors and nurses etc. I didn't want to be part of it and as I came around the corner, there they all were, coming straight toward me and talking to another nurse. I immediately turned left to get away, tripped over a wet floor sign and fell flat on my face. When the documentary aired, they included the quick talk with the nurse and all you could see in the background was me run, fall and then see my feet poking out of a cupboard.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn’t want to be part of it. Unintentionally became a legend.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I voiced a video game and when I recently looked up the game reviews on Reddit, people said one of the most annoying aspects of the game is my voice!

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I ran with the Olympic torch when I was 10 years old in Connecticut.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I found myself on People of Walmart

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I once donated a signed piece of tv show merch to a charity auction and it turned out to be the main attraction that people were really battling over. No one knew it came from me or anything but it was pretty cool sitting in the audience watching people fight over something I contributed.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s pretty cool, I hope it helped the charity a bit more!

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was at a Transiberian Orchestra Concert. I was really into it and after a solid guitar solo from one of the bandmembers, I looked at him and stuck my fist in the air. Well, he saw it, looked at me, and did the same. He then encouraged the rest of the crowd to do the same when they were "feeling it"! Moments like those make you feel like you can command legions.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I went to a baseball game for my bachelor outing. I moved over to a standing section just over the bullpen (where relief pitchers warm up in case they're needed). I shouted at a pitching coach to put in a red-hot, young rookie relief pitcher. When he got sent into the game, the pitcher pointed at me and gave me a thumbs up.

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I'm a white Aussie woman, in my mid 20's I was flying to the USA and had a layover in Japan- Narita Airport. Went to the food court Macdonalds and I don't really know what what was said, but it became clear the girl at the counter mistook me for someone famous. Next thing I know I'm being mobbed and asked for pics with everyone! I just went with it and now have a pic of me sitting on the counter of the Maccas with about 80 Japanese people all posing with me very excited. I still have no idea who I was meant to be. I'm average looking and don't wear make up or fancy clothes.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bunch of guys at a Jiffy Lube were convinced I was Ellen DeGeneres. I'm not blond, not tall, kinda pudgy. It was hilariously surreal.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ 2-day Jeopardy champion. One of the best experiences of my life.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was (14yo, 1985) a recipient of of one of the early Cochlear Implants this side of the country. I went on speaking engagements, did some interviews, articles in newspapers and teen magazines, did a benefit with Woody Paige (he wrote the newspaper articles too) and I met with prospective patients around the state for a couple years.

I stopped wearing my implant a few years after high school. I had had enough. Silence is golden! Remain a staunch supporter but it wasn't for me.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very cool that you still help and support. These days, silence is bliss.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was on Google Street View. Recognizably.

That's global, man!

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Y'know those plywood cutouts of wide butts that are supposed to look like someone is bending over in the garden and pulling weeds or something? Yeah, we've never had one. Which confused me for a sec when I looked up my parents' house years ago on Google. Mom says she had no idea the Google car was even there.

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My husband’s 15 minutes of fame is when we went and saw Bert Kreischer and as Bert was joking about having a hairy a*****e I pointed at my husband and for the rest of the bit he kept pointing at my husband and saying things like “this guy knows what I’m talking about.” My husband was mortified and it was the best birthday I’ve had in awhile lol

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I bought the winning ticket for my work lottery group. $10,000,000. 

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Tagged along with a friend to a house party where I barely knew anyone. Was walking in the kitchen when someone decided to prep a big fruit salad and I offered to help with the mango because just a couple days prior I had watched a Youtube tutorial on how to easily cut up a mango. (Cut off “flat” sides, cross score, flip inside out to get a “mango hedgehog”, cut off spikes, easy!). I had never tried that technique before but still gave it a shot. Somehow I managed to pull it off perfectly. When I looked up everyone in the kitchen was astounded by how skillfully I had prepped that mango. One of my buddies female friends so much so, that we ended up hooking up that evening and had a months long fling.

TL;DR Handled a mango, got the girl.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He showed: Confidence, competence, kitchen skills, helpfulness, and just being willing to pitch in on food prep and chores. Guys, if you don't have the oportunity to peel a mango, try loading the dishwasher correctly.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ My google reviews are marked as helpful by thousands

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to give bogus Google reviews for prisons. Both the Bangkok Post and Daily Mail UK picked up on one I did for Wormwood Scrubs; I'm not entirely sure they know I was joking

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ There was a while when American eagle in Times Square had a thing where if you took a picture in their store, it would show up on their massive billboard in the square for 15 seconds. The biggest one there. You didn’t have to purchase anything. So my friend and I went in and they took our picture and sure enough within a couple minutes we were on the biggest screen in Times Square!

And it never went away 😂 I guess nobody else wanted to do it…. Because our picture stayed there all night. We returned after dinner and a show and it was still there. Still wonder how many people saw that goofy picture of us just smiling at the camera.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That’s really funny. You think let’s do it bc it’s brief. Never did it cross your mind that no one would line up behind you to replace your photo.

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I used to do gymnastics, and to this day I can still just pull a backflip pretty much anywhere

So I was out clubbing w some friends, and we’re at the dance floor, and this group of guys decided to make a circle, so ppl are dancing and s**t. And a lot of girls were taking turns twerking, which there’s nothing wrong w that, but everyone was kinda waiting for someone to do smth else. So I go in and I do my little backflip, and I thought that would be the end of it.

Everyone starts cheering and going crazy as if I just scored the winning point at the Super Bowl. And for a while ppl kept like following me as we were leaving to get to our table, and the same group of guys even bought us a round of shots.

Obvs the hype ended up dying as the night went on, but I felt pretty cool abt myself, like a lil adrenaline came in lmao

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Russell Howard asked me a question while he was performing stand-up in a tiny venue, and my panicked answer made him laugh so hard he bought me a drink afterwards. Most of the details of our interaction are lost to adrenaline, sadly, but he was nice.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Russell Howard is a great comedian and always seems to be a genuinely nice guy. Especially love his stories about the West Country and his family

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I made a reference to one of the fanfictions I wrote. And somebody was like, "HOLY S**T, IS THAT _______" they shouted it out in the middle of a grocery store......... that was my 15 seconds of fame moment.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For once BP is not to blame for censoring. But can't get the word, or good/bad?

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Cramming a hotdog in my mouth while a famous golf shot was made in a Major. It is a rerun in a lot of sports highlight reels.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I became somewhat known in the retro gaming community for doing this insane YouTube video on an obscure shooter (SHMUP) from 1992. I’d go to cons and get recognized. It was incredibly bizarre but wonderful at the same time. It led to me meeting a somewhat well known game dev. In 2019 he invited me out to San Francisco to a game release party where I spent the day with a bunch of legendary game devs as well as Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Good times.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was killed at the red wedding (Game of Thrones)

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry, but every time I see a reference to the red wedding, I think to myself, "But father... I want to sing!" The worse thing about ripping off Monty Python's Holy Grail is that there was an entire episode of Northern Exposure where an artsy film-maker was devastated to learn his idea of seeing a cow flying through the air was an accidental rip-off of that movie. Never has someone been so distraught by hearing, "You mean like fetchez la vache?" Sorry, I went ADD again, didn't I?

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I was the only kid in sixth grade who could spell "psychology". And then everybody clapped. No, really.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was one of the little kids trick or treating in the opening sequence of Halloweentown.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know the girl who lived in a house in the background of a Twilight movie. I also know a girl who was in the background of a scene that made it into the movie. It's possible that my dog is barking in the background of the same scene, I saw her walking with her friend as I was walking with my dog and my dog barked at her a lot.

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When I was a child, maybe 8 or 9, my mum took us to London, and we were just on the way out of the natural history museum and there were a couple of people on the street with a camera asking passers by if they wanted to be on TV.

Long story short, I ended up on the Disney channel (in the UK anyway) announcing one of the nominations for some awards show, i think in an ad for the show and not in the show itself. Anyway, looking directly into the camera, I was instructed to say "this year, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrect was absolutely magical", and throw my arm towards the camera like I was casting a spell.

My poor grandmother recorded hours and hours of that damn channel so I could see the footage (we didn't have Disney Channel at home) and did manage to get it. Clearly the take where I threw my arm out didn't make it as they used one of the other ones where I awkwardly look off camera at my mum. I expect that tape is long gone now, but think about it from time to time. It's my go to if I ever need to share one interesting fact about myself.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I ate 100 chicken wings in one sitting as a teenager and the chef came out to tell me he was impressed

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Profiled on Humans of New York.

Said profile also appears in Humans of NY Stories (book).

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My picture was in playboy magazine. My mom bought five copies

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was on the cover of the Rolling Stone I bought five copies for my mother.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I slapped some choking kid on the back at Disney world when I was 16. His parents didn’t realize he was choking. I didn’t even know if that was what I was supposed to do. It worked though. The awkward little emo I was hated the amount of attention it got, even if it was only a few minutes worth.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did a similar thing with a choking baby when the mum got frozen and just stood there. Turned it downed over my arm, stedy pat on back. Baby is fine and the mum is still over the moon about me if she sees me somewhere (small town)

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I was on a TV show back in the day called Forgive or Forget. In a previous episode, I’d seen this young woman who was being abused by her boyfriend, but couldn’t afford to leave so I wrote the show to tell them if she was really interested in leaving she could stay with me in my New York apartment until she got it together. I’m single with no kids still.

So I went on the show and I was excited to meet her and then **do you know what this b***h did**? After the show, she asked me if her boyfriend could also move in with us. I was so through. Removed myself from the situation.

*But I looked good on television* 🤣. I wish I could find the episode. It was around 1999, before Robin Givens took over the show.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly, abusive relationships take many tries to break free. You offered a road she wasn't capable of walking yet. I'm sorry.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was the victim of a popular prank video on Tiktok that went viral. It's completely ruined my Social life

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It's sad how much damage social media can do, especially to kids.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was on who wants to be a millionaire, i didnt participate but i was the one who came as a friend for the participant, after that episoded aired on the next day at school i was pretty popular. After 2 days nobody gave a s**t anymore.

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Did your friend reach out and use you as a lifeline during the show ?

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ My dog was in the Latin-American soap opera, ¿Donde Esta Elisa? - he was even in the opening credits. (This is more towards my ex-wife's 15 minutes).

For me, I was on ESPN during the 1992-1993 HCAA hockey championship. I was in the pep band for UMaine and they put the camera right on me playing my tenor sax.

.. and yes, the UMaine Black Bears won. :D

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Was your dog Elisa? Or did your dog help in the search for Elisa? Where *WAS* Elisa?

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I was in college when the Virginia Tech shooting happened. My school had some sort of memorial service, and a couple friends and I decided to go because we had nothing better to do and it just kinda felt right.

Turns out the photographer for our school newspaper was there and my friends and I ended up on the front page, holding our candles.

Nothing really came of it but it was kinda wild to see my face on the newsstands.

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I got top comment on an AskReddit thread once

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I was car-spotting and filming cars in London when a Lamborghini caught fire from revving too hard.
I had a large bottle of water on hand to help put out the car fire.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I roasted a celebrity that shall remain nameless in 2020 on Twitter, so many likes retweets replies and… bad DMs I ended up getting so scared I deleted my account.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stories like this are why my few profiles have names only people that know me would get. Mostly dog and nautical themes. Also why I won't put anything remotely political on my car, I like my windows.

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Years ago when I was a teenager I was in one of those Truth anti-tobacco commercials. My role was the popular girl at a beach party that missed out on the fun because she just HAD to go have a smoke.

They made me take huge puffs from a real cigarette to induce coughing, it was nuts lol

I never got a copy of the finished commercial but I got to see it before it aired.

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol. Do they gave a minor a real cigarette for an anti-smoking commercial? They do make fakes specifically for this kind of thing 🙄

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ I was ranked world number 3 in my sport for 4 years. I’ve been interviewed for sport specific news publications in various countries.

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I had a number one iTunes podcast and the logo for my podcast (and my face) was on a screen behind Steve Jobs while he was describing the top podcasts on iTunes. It was an Apple event for the iPod mini in 2005.

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I got scouted off the street in NYC to be in a shoot for a hair salon, which got printed in a few small magazines. The shoot was ridiculous and so were the hair pieces they put on me. They had one concept for a photo that was “think tank” themed, so they literally… had me stand inside a giant fish tank with f****n e=mc^2 and chemistry equations on a chalkboard behind it. While wearing what I can only describe as waist-length puffy witch hair. While I was having my makeup done, the hair salon guy came around and said he didn’t like the “c*m lips” they gave me which—I agreed with, foundation lips are weird but *man* what a weird thing to say to someone you just met. There was also an older, actually signed model who was clearly going through something and felt threatened by me for whatever reason. She was also a vegan, and they had us in a photo together and made her stand in front of a grill holding a slab of meat with tongs?? With like some Whoville looking hairstyle. The whole thing was a mess 😂

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of all the recent nonsense colonge/perfume ads from before Xmas. Wtf does Johnny Depp playing guitar in the desert smell like? Sweaty a$$?

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My mum won a BAFTA. Not really MY 15 second of fame, but it doesn’t stop me telling people.

If we’re talking exclusively MINE, I was very briefly featured on The One Show, in passing footage.

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Hanging out with the GZA and The Funky Nomads while GZA and my 12 year old played chess.

I will forever be famous to my son for this event! Thanks GZA!

For those who don’t know GZA is a member of the Wu Tang Clan.

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10 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So who won - your son or GZA? I've heard he is a mean chess player. And is Wu Tang really for the children? ;-)

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“I Found Myself On People Of Walmart”: 50 People That Had Their ‘15 Seconds Of Fame’ Went to a professional baseball game in military uniform as a “member of the women’s council”. Went on the field and everything before the game. I was the only male in the group (not actually part of the council) but my female army roommate gave me and another female medic the tickets and we weren’t aware it was an event.

The guy reading the names paused before reading mine. Made it a wee bit awkward 🤣

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is our next world war going to be in the Matrix or something? Why are all the uniforms digitized?

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John Daily made fun of me on the Daily show for a picture that was taken of me drunk at a football game. The same picture was on the front page of the newspaper and on every highlight of the game. Colorado 62 Nebraska 36

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I hugged prime Britney Spears when I was 16 and she was dating Justin Timberlake, she came into the store I was working at and I told her to have a Merry Christmas

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I brought a dishwasher to school

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I was on Good Morning America for about 15-30 seconds. Still have the video saved somewhere.

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A friend of mine posted a clip of us playing Lethal Company on TikTok that blew up and became the most watched clip of the game for a while. I had no idea until a bunch of people sent it to me and were like “is this you?”

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10 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if the OP is talking about the Clip about the Secret Weapon. The Ladder. That clip cracks me up every time.

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