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Recently I was at Six Flags Over Georgia, enjoying my day, next in line for the Goliath. It had been a moderately busy day, and my friends and I had waited a while to board the roller coaster, and it was a hot day. Then, over the mic, they announce Papa John is here. Cool, yay, whatever. I'm ready for the cool wind, I'm burning up! Now, instead of allowing us who have waited to board, they let Papa John and his 20 crew members board!

Okay, I get to ride a little later. So Papa John is walking down the steps, and I run to catch up with him. I pull out paper and a pen and ask him to sign it. He looks me in the eye and says no. No one is even near us! The least he couldve done was signed my napkin. edit: This was just a starter for the thread. I'm only saying he was a dick for line jumping, I really didnt mind him signing my napkin.

Okay, so have any Celebrities ever been jerks or assholes to you? Share your experiences and discuss.
 
Just because he's famous it doesn't mean it's his job to sign your napkin. That is a sense of entitlement that people seem to have and it's not really cool.

Mind you, him line jumping isn't really cool either, but just because he was a dick it doesn't mean you deserve anything out of him; it just makes him a dick. Now that I think about it though, had he had to wait in line he would have been swarmed by mouth breathers and it would have ruined his experience. So perhaps the line jumping was the best for everyone; 3 minutes longer in line so that someones day isn't ruined by a shitload of teenagers with pens and napkins is worth it to me.
 
It is pretty sad how obsessed the world is with glamorizing people when someone who started a pizza chain is considered a celebrity.
 
I have no idea with Papa John is.

When I was younger and had a day off school I always used to go and watch the Toon train as their training HQ is only about a mile away from my house. One day the ball came flying over the fence and into a horde of hedges so I went off and fetched it. I had a brief crisis of morals as this was one of those top of the range footballs that cost around 50 quid and I knew that from this side of the fence if I'd ran off, they'd never have caught me but who steals from their own team? I threw it back over the fence and carried on watching...later on a staff member came over and thanked me and told me that if I came back tomorrow he'd let me into get a few autographs. So I brought one of those crappy 3 quid footballs from Sports World and I got Warren Barton, Rob Lee and a few others that I could care less about and was on my way out when the staff dude said 'has he got Alan's yet?' I just totally froze up...I imagine this is how a Christian would feel if he met God. He was every bit as friendly as you'd expect...a true rolemodel for all sportspersons.

The ball has long since got flat and the writing has smudged from years of laying around but it's still one of my most prized possessions. ^_^

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Well, i once found Sabrina Sabrok in the airport when i was going to a trip with the family. If you dont know who Sabrina Sabrok is, well, its the girl with tremendously big boobs lol
 
I met Drew Carey at my dad's work a couple weeks ago. He works at Microsoft, and apparently they're the biggest supporters of the Sounders FC around here; he owns like 54% of the team or something or other. He's actually a pretty nice guy though, my dad got his picture taken with him.

Something interesting- he's actually gotten laser eye surgery, but he keeps his glasses because it's part of his trademark. I think he looks really weird without them though. Probably the real reason.
 
Not really much of a celebrity I guess, well, maybe in Pennsylvania... but I see Joe Paterno all the time. He's usually just as grumpy as you'd expect an 80 year-old guy to be. In the same vein I see a lot of pro NFL players at PSU games, but for the most part they ignore people - you can't blame them.

My only other experience that I recall is when President Bush visited my town while he was campaigning, and I was in the front row (with my mom and like 3 other people) of the seats right above where he exited at the end, and he waved and gave me two thumbs up before he walked out. Unfortunately my camera was out of batteries, it would have made a great photo.
 
I used to intern at Interscope records and they had me working backstage on the MTV show TRL pretty often so I met a ton of celebrities last summer, although since I was backstage I wasn't allowed to ask any of them for their autographs. From being on TRL I met Will Ferrel, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, and a bunch of other not as famous but still recognizable people. Also pretty often I would be assigned to go around with a visiting artist's entourage and basically like be their bitch for the day and get them coffee or whatever they needed, but since I was in the new artist department most of those guys weren't so well known, although I did have a pretty good time spending the day with Kardinal Offishal who is the rapper who did that one song Dangerous with Akon - he had a whole like rap crew with him full of a bunch of gangsta guys who all introduced themselves as names like Solitayre or D7. I was also in an elevator with Nas once which was cool but we were going to different floors of the fuse building :(. I do think it's stupid how people fawn over celebrities, but from my experiences with the celebrities I met, most of them were very nice personable people, and they were all polite and for the most part friendly to me, which is saying something because I was pretty much just some random 16 year old kid following them around all day haha.
 
I ran into a couple porn-stars in my young years, but that's for another story.

I was at a Pizza Hut chain and I met pink. She's cool, she signed my napkin :)!
 
Do you realize how fucking annoying it must be to have strangers asking you to sign every little thing they own every day of your life? The fact that they even announced that would annoy me if I were him. Celebrity worship is an absolutely disgusting part of our society. Most of these people are nothing close to role models. Thank them for providing you with services that you enjoy, do not go crazy at them because they're well known.
 
I saw Tay Zonday in an airport and I just laughed and laughed and laughed. Poor guy.

@Firestorm: they appear to get over the annoyance. It's not like lasting fame comes to many people inadvertently. So I think they will just have to suck it up and get over it.
 
I would feel like a pawn asking someone an autograph. Doubting I ever will. I have very little interest in the star system anyway.
 
I met Yuri Lowenthal at a comic book expo, that guy is super cool ;~;

My cousins step-brother (though they don't ever see each other @_@) is the drummer for Gob and his dad was like, one of Jerry Garcias best friends, and one of the best mime artists in the world.

BUT I'VE NEVER MET ANY OF THEM ;~;
 
Firestorm said:
Do you realize how fucking annoying it must be to have strangers asking you to sign every little thing they own every day of your life? The fact that they even announced that would annoy me if I were him. Celebrity worship is an absolutely disgusting part of our society. Most of these people are nothing close to role models. Thank them for providing you with services that you enjoy, do not go crazy at them because they're well known.
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I have to agree with Firestorm on this one. We live in a society in which even the people who got fired to fame for some random reason are treated like gods, I mean, c´mon, what makes them different from most of us? Sure, most of the time they got millions, but some of them are real pieces of shit......and yes Paris Hilton, Im looking your way.

On the other hand, as Moormopid stated, the reason to let him skip the line was to avoid having him surrounded by teenagers with pens, which, by the way, God knows where they got them, asking for autographs, seriously, his job is.......well, I dont know what his job is, but signing autographs is not
 
Okay now I know who your talking about. It took me awhile to remember that 'celebrity'

Good pickles. Better pizza. Papa Johns. (winks)

That was the slogan right?
 
While I am still seeking out Jennifer Aniston, my mom has met a few "celebrities." She met Jerry Stiller (Ben Stiller's dad, Mr. Costanza from Seinfeld) and Heather Mills at her workplace. She's meeting the entire Harlem Wizards team next week which is pretty cool (I wish it was the Globetrotters but meh).
 
Living in London i have seen quite a few band members in the street, mainly small indie bands but i prefer it this way as i dislike "real" celebrities.

My experiences:

I saw Late of the Pier's whole band in a cafe. I used to love them but they are a bit shit now.

I saw The Horrors lead singer in "Synechdoche, New York", which is a must see I urge you to see it.
 
The Killers rented a house next door to me with a buddy of theirs and practiced there before becoming big. I dont really care for them much but thats pretty much all the celebrities I met. I would kill to meet any sports celebrity.. and maybe Johnny Depp..
 
I met Chick Hearn years ago. He was at the mall my mom and brother and I were going to to see a movie and he had a table set up and was giving out autographs and signing basketballs and anyhting people brought in. We got his autograph and got to shake his hand. It was pretty cool and he was pretty nice.
 
Duskie said:
Haha,i know right.The pizza isn't even that good anyway <_<;
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Sad thing is that Papa John's is good for my area's standards, there's nothing good here.

Anyway, more on-topic, my friend met Miley Cyrus when she came in to get her guitar fixed at a shop he works at, and my friend is definitely not the type to be treating celebrities above other people. I won't go into the somewhat long story into much detail, but she's quite rude. I also have another person who confirmed it from a different situation when there wasn't really any celebrity talk either.
 
i saw phillip seymour hoffman drunk at a restaraunt one time and i got a high five and my parents said we looked alike.

he put his arm around me and said 'you are now cursed with my success', and he chuckled to himself, saying that now his movies will bomb and i'll be cool or something

cool guy :D

EDIT: also a friend told me snoop dogg takes like 10 hits before passing
 
iKitsune said:
Living in London i have seen quite a few band members in the street, mainly small indie bands but i prefer it this way as i dislike "real" celebrities.

My experiences:

I saw Late of the Pier's whole band in a cafe. I used to love them but they are a bit shit now.

I saw The Horrors lead singer in "Synechdoche, New York", which is a must see I urge you to see it.
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you saw the horrors frontman i am very jealous!!!

unfortunately my only musician-related experiences are awful ones (not awful experiences, awful musicians heh). i work at a restaurant and recently we had motley crue come in (since they were playing in my city). apparently they tipped really well!

theory of a deadman came in too but really has anyone outside of canada even heard of them? they are terrible
 
Nate, I have seen Tay Zonday as well! I approached him and said "chocolate rain.." in a deep voice and he laughed then I asked him for his autograph (sort of joking) but I got it lol. I have also seen Tony Hawk and he was friendly / got his autograph
 
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