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Celebrities are just like us. Of course, not always; they make millions of dollars, live in giant mansions, and travel on private jets. But when you strip them away from all of the wealth and glamor to just a person visiting a zoo or having a coffee, we might not even recognize them.

A few years back, Redditor Kimantha_Allerdings asked other users to share their funniest "I met a celebrity but didn't let on that I knew who they were" stories and their post (as well as the comments) has been making a comeback, so we decided it would be a good idea to show you the wildest ones.

Now, can you believe everything anonymous people on the internet say? Probably not. But these anecdotes are still entertaining.

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30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My mom yelled at Pierce Brosnan. She and my dad were at a ski resort getting lunch. My mother gets quite hangry (an unfortunate trait I inherited) and was waiting in line to order. Right as she's about to order a guy tried to cut in front of her and interrupt her. She snapped and told him to go to the back of the line like everyone else. She got her food and went back to my dad sitting there mouth wide open in shock.

"Do you know who that was?"

"No?!"

"That was Pierce Brosnan. You just yelled at James bond"

"Well he shouldn't have tried to cut me"

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care This happened yesterday! My wife took my son to the zoo, and he wanted to read every little plaque in the reptile area. My wife was distracted for a moment, so he asked the nearest stranger to read the plaque for him. My wife turned around to see Scarlett Johansson happily reading the info to him.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My mom is a big sports fan. One time she was shopping at and saw a really large, fit looking man who she didn't immediately recognize but seemed familiar. She thought it must of been a professional football player or something, so she went up to the only other person in the shop, who was this smaller wierd-looking guy, and asked him if he knew who the athletic looking man was. The short guy looked at my mom and said "That's my bodyguard, I'm Elton John."

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I used to be a server at a Mexican restaurant right outside LA in the late 90s. One day Leonardo DiCaprio came in with who I assume was his mom to have lunch. This would've been post Titanic so really at the peak of his breakthrough mega celeb status. He was wearing a ball cap, sunglasses and unshaven but I recognized him anyway. I didn't let anyone know and I wrote something like "your movies are awesome, I hope you liked our food" on his receipt when I dropped it off at the table.

    After he left, I swung by and picked up his payment and he had left me a note back that said "thank you so much for not blowing my cover" with a $100 tip. S**t was awesome I was only like 19, I went and got some Playstation games with it after my shift ended.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care This doesn't count because it's about my father in law, and he legitimately didn't know who she was, but we were vacationing in Maine and spending a lot of time on the beach. My father in law would walk his dog early everyone morning. He met this lady and they would meet up and walk their dogs together then go their separate ways.

    One morning I got up early to come with him, and to my surprise, we met up with Sigourney Weaver and went for a walk.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My dad met Robin Williams in an elevator. He got in and they rode a few floors in silence. They stopped on a floor and s bunch of fans ran in and started getting pics with Robin. My dad said he was gracious and took pics with everyone. The doors closed and they rode a few more floors and my dad turned and said “does that ever get old?” and Robin smiled and said “Nope. Never.” Then my dad got off on his floor and they nodded to one another and my dad went on with his day.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I helped Steven Spielberg move his daughter's bags into her college dorm.

    I was working a shift helping first-years move in and I see a guy in a hat and sunglasses who is unmistakably Spielberg. I strike up a conversation, ask if he needs help with the bags, etc. First names only -- "We're from CA. My wife, Kate, and I sent all our kids to East Coast schools though." Stuff like that.
    Later, when his daughter opened the door for the first time, he whipped out a camcorder and, wearing the biggest Dad grin, recorded the whole thing before turning the camera on my friend and me to ask us about the city.
    So, I have a supporting (the luggage), speaking role in a limited release (home movie) film shot by Steven Spielberg.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I was in a book store in RI and was in the horror section. Picked up a book by Stephen King, and flipped it over and saw his picture on the back (or inside the cover, I don't really remember).

    I look up, and in the next aisle over, right across the book shelf from me, is a guy that looks exactly like Stephen King. So I hold up the book and say "is this you?"

    "Yeah."

    "Good books"

    "Thanks"

    And that was that.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I worked at a Barnes & Noble in NY as a clerk, but once or twice I'd be called over to the in-store Starbucks cafe to help out whenever they were understaffed. One time, Alan Rickman came up and ordered something, I can't recall what. I wrote "Hans Gruber" on his cup though. He smiled at me when he noticed it.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I was 10 years old in 2002 when my mom took me to the Bronx Zoo for the first time. It was a rainy day so we practically had the whole place to ourselves except for 3 British kids running around, chaperoned by a woman. My mom quickly befriended the woman while I made like a kid and joined the hoard, looking at spiders and scorpians and sharing in the awe and excitement of the animals.

    After about an hour when we said our goodbyes, my mother told me that the kid, Daniel, who I had been hanging out with had played Harry Potter in the movie that came out last year.

    I had thought he looked familiar.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've served Daniel Radcliffe in bar I was working at in Lake District (him and two stunt doubles) when they were recording second to last Harry Potter movie in Scotland. I didn't expect him to be this short, bar was quite high and before I've recognised him I was thinking to ask him for id if he orders anything alcoholic, but they all had diet coke with their meals. My gf's daughters were obsessed with the books and movies and I've rang her, she came down with girls and he sat with them for like half an hour talking, nice guy. One of the waiters kept his glass with his fingerprints as a souvenir, we got his autograph for kids.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I had the fortune of being on the same plane as Stan Lee. We were being shuttled to another part of the airport. I whispered to what I assumed to be his bodyguard that I didn’t want to lead others on who he was so please just let him know that I appreciate his work. He nodded then whispered into Stan Lee’s ear. He then smiled and put his head down in acknowledgement.

    Rest In Peace big guy. You were a big part of my childhood.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I met him once too! He was the nicest guy. So friendly and sweet and unpretentious.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My friend's mom (over 70yrs old) owns a small asian grocery store. Post Malone came walking in with his girlfriend and his mom had no idea who he was. A few cute things happened:

    1. She was nervous because of his tattoos, but happy/not worried once he bought a lot of food. She had no idea he was a celebrity.

    2. She gave him a free snack for buying so much food and told him to come back for lunchtime for cheap and tasty gyoza (he did come back the next day!)

    3. She was worried he would get mugged going to his car because of 3 big men outside so she followed him outside (they were his bodyguards)

    4. She really liked his "cool car" (it was a lamborghini)

    She told my friend about the encounter that evening and he pulled up a youtube video based on the description - it was him. When Post Malone came back the next day for Gyoza she got a selfie with him (it's on my friends phone so I don't have the picture available right now). Whole thing is adorable with how innocent his mom is.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care About 5 years ago my dad was in LA for business and got into the elevator of his hotel to head down to one of his meetings. When he got in, he instantly recognized a huge, legendary, hall-of-fame LA Laker standing next to him. Normally, my father would never say anything but for some reason felt compelled to introduce himself. He stuck out his hand and said, "Shaq, it's nice to meet ya." He immediately realized he messed up and the guy responded, "I'm Magic Johnson but it's nice to meet you too." The secondhand embarrassment is real.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Sigourney Weaver. I think I was in the middle of selling her a jacket and some art from the Whitney museum gift shop before I truly recognized her. She was amazingly tall and I got to bask in the glory that was Ripley. Totally makes sense why they casted her as the Xeno queen fighter she was. Just her presence alone was both intimidating and alluring. SO cool.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Was walking out of a gas station over on Crescent Heights and Sunset and heard a "hey!...hey!" coming from a cracked window on tinted out range rover that was parked at one of the pumps. I walk over to the car to see Jeff Goldblum, who had somehow seen my gold ring I was wearing on my right hand from 20 feet away. He proceeds to tell me how he loves my ring and has been looking for one just like it and asks me where I got it. I tell him it was my grandfather's and he asks to see it up close. I hold my hand up to Jeff Goldblum, he takes my hand, gushes about the ring for a minute and thanks me. I said sure and walked back to my apartment.

    I like to think we're friends now.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I imagine having a conversation with Jeff Goldblum to be like a really good acid trip or good jazz. It is surreal, never goes where you think it will, and you just find it delightful.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My husband was vacationing in Arizona, killing time in a bar over a burger and a beer. A guy sits next to him and my husband has a nice chat with him. The guy leaves and my husband goes to close his tab and the bartender tells him it’s been covered by the guy he was talking to.

    The bartender asks if he knows who he was talking to. My husband has no idea. Chuck Norris, it was his bar.

    Edit: How embarrassing. It wasn’t Arizona, it is Woody’s Wharf in Newport, California and still exists today. The story is still true. I just flaked on the location. Thanks for all the fun comments!

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You want to be careful "killing time" with Chuck Norris!

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care The Rock was at the Gold Coast, Australia to film San Andreas. He came into the place where I worked in Surfers Paradise with a woman and a young child. He was kind-of in disguise, had his head covered and had something partially obscuring his chin.

    I served them and didn't recognize him at first. The woman handled the talking, and he just kind of hung back quietly. I looked at him once, and probably wouldn't have given him a second thought, but his eyes widened for that split second (possibly he was wondering if I'd recognized him and was about to cause a scene, it was a packed centre) and it just clicked in my head to connect the eyes with the news of the Rock being in town.

    Once I made the connection, it was totally obvious who he was, and since I was still looking at him, I could tell by now he knew he'd been spotted.

    Then I just wished the group enjoy their day and half-smiled at him, and he gave me a nod, and they went about their business.

    I didn't tell anyone at work, because I didn't want the dude to get swamped when he was trying to spend time with his family. I didn't tell anyone I knew, because it's really not that much of a story. In fact, this is the first I've ever shared this story with anyone.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The thought of Dwayne Johnson trying to fade into the background is a funny one.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Met Elon Musk in a Tesla store in LA. Really wanted to meet him but didn't want to be that guy. Decided I had a plan, so walked up to him and said, "Excuse me, do you work here?"

    He replied, "I mean yeah kind of".

    I say, "Ah what can you tell me about the entertainment console of the Model S?"

    He says, "let me see if I can find someone to help you."

    To which I say, "nah I'm just f**king with you"

    He laughed and shook my hand and walked off.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I met Justin Timberlake and had no idea it was him until someone told me afterwards. Went to a basketball game with my dad and we stopped by the bar area in the arena first. The game had just started so it was pretty empty except for the bar itself. My dad goes to the restroom and I walk up to the bar to order a beer. There's only one seat at the bar next to a guy in a baseball cap and sunglasses. I politely ask if the seat is taken and he just says "nope, it's all you, man." We shoot the s**t for a couple minutes. He's sitting on my right and eventually he says he and his wife are going to go to their seats. He extends his hand and asks my name. I tell him and ask his name. He says, "Justin. Nice to meet you dude, have a good night."

    He and his wife leave and the bartender comes up to me and says, "You know that was Justin Timberlake, right?"

    I immediately did a double take and couldn't believe I didn't recognize him even with the hat and sunglasses. I told my girlfriend at the time who was a huge Justin Timberlake fan and she couldn't believe I met him without knowing it was him. She wouldn't let it go for like a month.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I was at a test screening of the movie Valkyrie. Me and my friends were near the front of the theater talking before the movie started, and I went on this big, loud rant about how "normally I like Tom Cruise movies but War of the Worlds was such a piece of s**t, one of the worst movies I've ever seen, plot didn't make sense, they strung a bunch of cool scenes together and put a s**t happy ending on it and called it a day. " after I wrap up my 5 minute rant outlining everything wrong with War of the Worlds the person sitting behind us tapped me on the shoulder and point 4 seats down in my row to Tom Cruise glaring at me, I gave him the nod and sat there for what might have been the longest 10 minutes before a movie started ever.

    Not quite what you were asking for but close enough for an excuse to tell that story.

    TLDR: Didn't notice Tom Cruise was listening while I talked s**t about one of his movies.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care A couple of years ago me and my sister were at Comic-Con. You tend to see some a lot of famous people there, but it's usually with them in booths with guards and stuff (with the exception of Seth Green).

    Anyway, me and my sister were at one of the booths waiting for their giveaways when a man suddenly came up beside me all excited and in a bit of wonder. He told us how great everything was there and how much of an experience it was for him there, all in a while I was probably looking at him strangely because of how familiar his accent and his voice and his face and his blond hair was. He asked where we got our poster tubes, and that's probably when I remembered who he was but decided to just not mention it because I was kind of still in disbelief and pointed him to one of the far off booths where they sell poster tubes.

    The man was Owen Wilson. I hadn't been sure it was him, because I always thought he'd be a lot taller. It was kind of warming to see how excited he was to be there in the crowds.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's nice. Just a normal dude doing normal stuff and enjoying it!

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care One of my best friends doppelganger is Ethan Hawke. Like it's scary how much he resembles him, to the point that during those stupid facebook challenges he just changed his profile picture to him and nobody realized it. Also his favorite story was one time at San Diego Comic Con he actually confused Rosario Dawson at a hotel bar.

    Anyway one night I'm walking home from work in NYC, and I see who I thought was my friend, John just walking on a kind of secluded part of of 9th ave around Hells Kitchen, and I yell "JOHN!"

    He doesn't turn around.

    So I decide to yell it again, and instead of responding his pace quickens. I decide the best thing to do is to run at him which seemed to terrify him as keep in mind it's late and there are very few people around. Anyway I catch up to him and say "Oh, you're not John" and then walk away from what was a very frightened Ethan Hawke.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My cousin rode a ski lift with Jack Black in Vail. Just the two of them. Her husband and I were in the lift behind them, freaking out. When we got off the lift they’d gone their separate ways. We made our way to her she was like “wow, that guy on my lift was so nice.” We were like NO S**T THAT WAS JACK BLACK. She was like “THE SCHOOL OF ROCK GUY?!?!”

    She was so embarrassed. She said she rambled on about living in Iowa for most of their conversation. We laughed our asses off.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprising at all that he was nice. I've heard that he's lovely.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care When I was younger with fewer responsibilities I used to just drive around for the hell of it. To me, driving is a hobby. Late at night was my favorite time. The streets are empty. My uncle is like this too. I asked him if he wanted to meet at American Coney Island. We sat down in a booth. A couple guys walked in after us and sat down behind us. Eminem, Dr. Dre, and a guy I later found out was Jimmy Iovine. We paid them no attention, but we knew who they were. They finished before us and as they were walking out, Eminem nodded at us and said, "thanks for not making a big deal about this. We got you." He and the other guys disappeared around the corner.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It irritates that people think every entertainer owes them a recognition award when they're out. Yeah, sure we watch their movies and such, but hey please let them have some life. I've met celebrities several times, not once have I gone all crazy. Bets are off over Jason Mamoa though.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I served Daniel Radcliffe brunch one time. All the other servers were freaking the hell out that he was in our restaurant, so, given I don’t care much about actors and would remain professional, I was chosen to take care of him. He ordered the eggs Benedict, no sides, extra Benedict. I dubbed it “The Quad Benny”. He was incredibly polite and appreciative, tipped well, and his accent was downright intoxicating. After that experience, I became a big Radcliffe fan.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, he was good in the films nd maybe a very nice person but why do people go silly over actors? After all they are making lots of money from what they do, it is just another job

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My dad and I bumped into Michael Jordan at a Walgreen's near Chicago. This was back in 2006 or so.

    We were picking out birthday cards for my mom, and MJ and his son came in the same aisle browsing some cards. My dad kept his cool and continued to look through different cards, giving him his personal space. I, on the other hand, was 9 years old and in awe, sort of staring at him. After MJ picked out his card, he winked at me and gave me a walk-by fist bump.

    Didn't really set in until I was older how cool that was.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is good to hear seeing as how he's known to be a major asshole

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Used to work at a posh hotel and we had wedding there all the time. I was pretty young at the time, say 15.

    David Tennant was at one wedding, Doctor f**king Who and I was pouring him coffee.

    At first I was sat there thinking is he/isn’t he so I was playing it cool. I went back to the kitchen to top up more coffee in my coffee jug and the staff were talking about it too before deciding it actually was David Tennant.

    Spent the rest of the night playing it cool because I was in that yeah whatever stage of teenage life. Inside I was freaking out.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What fun! Our favorite Doctor and yet so creepy in the Harry Potter movies.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Jared Leto. I work in an outdoor goods store in Boulder CO, which for those who don’t know is one of the biggest climbing towns in the US. He came into the store to get some stuff as he’s known to travel here and climb with other big pros, notably Alex Honald who is a buddy of his. He had been outted in the middle of the footwear department by a coworker on mine in front of a big group of customers so by the time he got over to the climbing area where I work he was really on edge and unfriendly. I walked up to him and honesty just acted like he wasn’t hot s**t. I acted like I didn’t really know who he was and just spoke to him like any other customer even breaking conversation with him at several points to answer questions for other folks as opposed to giving him my full undivided attention.

    After about 5 minutes of that he totally relaxed and his entire demeanor changed. He went from being somewhat rude and cold to being very chill, calling me bro etc. and I ended up walking around the store with him for like 25-30 minutes helping him shop. The only time I implied I knew who he was was towards the end as I was ringing him up. He asked me to recommend some climbing spots close to town like the flatirons. It was a beautiful Saturday and I said to him that those places are great but he’ll get bombarded by people if he goes there and I recommended some spots just outside of town instead. He sorta leaned in and thanked me for my discretion and that was it. It seemed like he really just wanted to be treated like a normal guy.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care My father has the best one.

    He was coming back from work and was stepping around a bus that was outside the Port Authority in NYC. As he's coming around, someone else is coming the other way and they bump into each other. My father apologizes and the guy just gives him a smile, letting him know it that it's cool. As walks away, he looks back again and realizes that it's Henry Winkler, AKA The Fonz, and he almost knocked him on his ass. This was before cameras in phones were a thing.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Not sure if this counts but when I was 15 I was really into playing Starcraft (being a 3 month old game at the time) on battle.net. I did mostly 3v3 games. After finishing this one particularly epic match (close game, we won), we all got into a chat room to talk about how fun that was. Iirc, one of them says something to the effect of "not sure if you all care but you just beat Ben Affleck." Of course we all ask him to prove it, so he told us to wait a minute and visit his official website's message board (benaffleck.com or something like that). He had just made a post in red (red being Ben Affleck himself) about just losing a game of Starcraft.

    We briefly chatted with him and that was it.

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    I didn't meet him but a friend did. In our town Brendan Fraser was shooting a film, he went out to a local beach to (I assume) take some pictures abd just generally relax. Well, out of the blue my friend, his brother and and another guy rolled up in their s**tty beat up nissan micra. They got to talking, and somehow convinced him to hop into the car handed him a can of beer and went diffing. Best part was they didn't know his actual name so they just kept calling him george of the jungle.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not surprised. Such a loveable person. Very enjoyable as an actor too.

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    #32

    I've shared this story on Reddit before...I actually had no clue I was sitting next to a celebrity in an airport for about 90min.

    People asked him for his picture. Some people asked me if I should be in the photo. I declined. The celebrity asked me to smile and play along if anyone else asked for a picture of us both.

    At first I was confused, as time wore on I was a little embarrassed. He told me he was on TV and we chatted about where we were flying, what books we were reading etc... but I didn't want to ask who he was because it seemed rude.

    After he left someone asked me how I knew him. I said I didn't. They told me he was Michael C. Hall from "Dexter"...saddest thing is I watched that show but didn't clue in.

    I think about it and laugh...someone got a picture of me and Dexter and showed it to their friends trying to figure out who the other guy in the picture was.

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    #33

    I walked right past Stevie Wonder in a small hallway once. My face lit up with excitement, but he didn’t know.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Robin Williams used to walk around my lone childhood country town near SF. I saw him once (after hearing many rumors about his sightings, not entirely unlike Bigfoot or Nessy sightings).

    My brain didn’t fully comprehend what it was seeing. But I could tell he was trying his very best to remain incognito and not draw any unwanted attention.

    We locked eyes. He smiled, I smiled and nodded back, and we both went ur separate ways.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep they just want to go about their business and not be swamped all the time, I've also just done that thing - nod acknowledgement - when seeing someone famous.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I met a celebrity but I didn’t realize who he was: I posted before in a thread buried in 10k comments. Doubt anyone saw it.

    Years ago, like 20 years ago, I went to see Adam Sandler standup at a small comedy club. Clearly I knew who he was because I got tickets to his show. My date and I were running a smidge late and ran into a guy in the lobby. A guy I used to work with, so I was like, “Hey! Danny, how are you doing, what have you been up to?” He was like, “I’m good, how are you?” I responded that I was good, but running late for the show, had to run and he said, “ok, have a good night” and walked off. As my date and I walked into the club, he said, “you know who that was?”

    It wasn’t Danny. It was Adam Sandler. But, gotta say, he played the part of Danny well. One of his better roles.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I worked at a movie theater in Albuquerque at the time they we're filming the first avengers film. Captain America was about to come out, I remember because we had the huge standee of him in the lobby. I was reading in the box office when three people came up. Guy asked for 3 tickets to Bridesmaids. It was dark out and he had a green baseball cap and sunglasses. He paid with a credit card. Christopher Evans. I stared at the card after I swiped it. Handed it back. "I need you to sign the receipt" he did. And then he walked in.

    Edit: thanks for all the comments guys. Just to add on. I didn't recognize the other two with him. One was a blonde woman and the other was a guy with buzzed hair and a six o'clock shadow. Also I only lived in ABQ for a year in 2010-2011

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    Samuel L. Jackson was on my flight. I was second to last to board the flight and there was all this commotion with the flight attendants and gate crew. Once I approached the door of the plane I realized they were all looking at Samuel L. Jackson. He was standing by the cockpit making himself available to passengers/fans. I played it cool. Didn’t say a word. Turns out, I’m shy around celebrities. I’m just glad I didn’t make a snakes on the plane joke.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Missed opportunity for that joke 🤪 but I understand completely. If I attempted, it’d probably come out a weird jumbled mess of words haha. I know this because it’s how I speak normally (chronic lack of sleep lol)

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care In the Mid 90's I was a cab driver. Our service was like a cross between a limo and a taxi, and we serviced some fancy resorts. As I dropped off my passenger at a resort, another guy asks if I'm a taxi, and I say yes, so he tells his friend their cab is here.

    His friend got in the car and said "this ain't no cab, smells too good to be a cab" in that unmistakable Chris Rock voice.

    He and his friend just bulls**tted with each other for the ~15 minute drive to a local night club. There was a white kid trying to talk to a yellow-cab driver ahead of us in the parking lot and Chris Rock started imitating the kid, like "I need a ride, yeah, I'm drunk, but I need a ride", and I was trying really hard not to laugh out loud.

    He wasn't nearly as famous yet at the time, but I had seen his stand up routines on Comedy Central and knew exactly who he was, but didn't go fan-boy on him.

    10/10 would drive Chris Rock again.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Not sure if this counts as a celebrity, but last fall I was flying from LA to Dallas and the person sitting next to me was a real housewife from Bravo. I didn't recognize her since I don't watch her show, but she did mention it to me multiple times during the flight. She wanted to apologize in advance in case there were fans hounding her at the baggage claim. Spoiler alert - there weren't.

    Hours later when I was checking into my hotel, she was there in the lobby and made sure to tell me again that she was on TV.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care Was at a convenience store in LA when me and a very nicely-dressed black gentleman walked up to the cashier at the same time to pay. It was night time and he had his dark shades on and was talking on his phone. I gave him the "after you" gesture and he nodded and said "thanks buddy", paid and left. It wasn't until he was out of the store that I realized he was Jamie Foxx.

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    Before I realized who he was, Shaun Alexander asked me if I liked football. I told him I liked the Steelers. He said, "Yeah, I lost to them in the Super Bowl." I felt pretty stupid, but he thought it was funny. Super nice guy.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I was at IKEA in Vancouver and noticed this lady in a low hanging hat had dropped something. I helped her pick it up and noticed it was Sarah McLachlan. Didn't let on that I knew who she was because I couldn't think of anything to say.

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    30 Times People Met Someone Famous And Didn't Even Realize Or Care I was in Tokyo Japan and was visiting the square cutout tower with my grandparents, we were trying to take a family picture when an American business man offered to take the picture for us, he did we said thank you, and afterwords as after he was going down the escalator one of his Asian entourage told us it was Jeb Bush. My grandparents nearly s**t themselves.

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    I was on my way to a Rams game, back when they played in St. Louis. I was headed for the Metrolink station, in the middle of a crowd of people who were all wearing Rams gear, and clearly going the same place I was.

    The station is right smack by Barnes-Jewish hospital, and we're walking by buildings that are part of the hospital complex or Wash U's medical campus. As I'm walking towards the stoop of a brownstone, I see someone step out, and react in surprise. I immediately recognized him as one of the team's defensive tackles, who was on IR at the time with a foot injury. He looked surprised to see the crowd, then worried, which I took to mean he was concerned he might get caught up by fans wanting to get autographs or take a photo.

    Nobody recognized him. They just kept walking by. I was going right by the steps where he was standing, so I stepped to the side and said, "Hey man, if you go back in and take a right, you'll be able to go out the north door, and there'll be less people there." He nodded, said "Thanks", and headed back inside.

    40 minutes later, and there he is on the sidelines, right in front of me.

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    #45

    Bumped into David Gilmour while walking down Newbury St the day after I saw him in concert. A bunch of apologies and we kept on our way. (Addit - TBH we were staring at the girl on his arm more than him)

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    I (almost literally) ran into Shaq at a small restaurant in LA. He was standing in the doorway. You know how some people are so tall you don't "see" them? So I'm exiting the doorway, and say "excuse me man" and he stepped aside so I could leave. He is one large human being.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband and I are both tall. I cannot tell you how many times people have almost run into us because they don't see us. I thought it was just a weird "us" thing. Is not seeing tall people an actual thing?

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    Ashley Tisdale. I was her waiter...a 36 year old guy who was the furthest thing from her "target market". I didn't let on that I knew her cause I didn't know who she was. Took care of her and her date the whole time. A couple of times when I was explaining the menu and asking if she'd been there before she had a smirk on her face. Looking back I guess she was probably thinking "I guess this guy doesn't know who I am." Later that night I was watching TV and there she was. I was like WTF?! I just waited on that girl tonight!? GF was like...yeah that's Ashley Tisdale.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She plays Rachel King in the newest installation of The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes.

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