27 Times People Encountered Celebrities But Found The Interaction Strange, As Shared On Twitter
Encountering a celebrity in a coffee shop, in an airport or at the beach is kind of a strange interaction because you recognize the famous person and actually know quite a bit about their lives and careers but they have no idea who you are.
But the fact that they don’t know you and still agree to talk to you, to take photos or sign an autograph makes the meet even more special. Of course, not all celebrity encounters are that wholesome and Bored Panda has a couple of articles about famous people being rude or disappointing in real life that you can find here and here.
This time we are looking at people’s experiences of encountering celebs that were really random and quite strange, leaving the fans either confused or fascinated by the weird behavior.
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The thread was started by Twitter user chase. who has over 80k people following his account wanting to hear what he has to say. He shares random thoughts, opinions on pop culture and his photos. His bio says “idk what I’m doing,” which probably resonates with a lot of people who thought they would have everything figured out when they grew up.
He decided to ask his followers what were their strangest interactions with celebrities either in real life or online and received quite a few interesting stories.
The Twitter user also had his own story and remembering it was actually what made him want to know other people’s experiences. Apparently, his friend’s classmate met Lorde once after she released her first album.
The friend met the singer at a coffee shop and he noticed that the girl’s purse was full of ring pops. Also, she was not willing to take pictures at that time because she was on a “private friendly vacation.”
But don’t you find it weird how we as humans tend to fixate on someone we don’t know and spend time and even money on this one-sided relationship? Well, you don’t need to find it weird, because it is actually quite natural that humans will always pay more attention to people at the top.
Psychologist James Houran goes as far as to say that celebrities act as a drug: “They're around us everywhere. They're an easy fix." Celebrities know that, so they give interviews, go to fan meets and create social media accounts to make themselves look more approachable.
You guys. This isn't a sad story. Robin Wright is Jewish. Not everyone celebrates Christmas. 🤦♀️
I am Catholic and I go to movies on Christmas day every year. Was always alone, until my daughter was born that is
Load More Replies...I spent a few Christmasses alone. They were peaceful and nice and full of what I want Christmas to be for me. :) I enjoyed these Christmasses so much! :)
I enjoy being with my cats and myself at home on Christmas since years now. Peace and Love and Happiness guaranteed!
Load More Replies...Pretty smart really, if a super recognizable celeb wanted to have a real cinema experience without being mobbed, Xmas would be a good time to do it. Saying that I’ve no idea who Robin Wright is
Jenny in Forest Gump. Buttercup in The Princess Bride. She is recently in a political drama whose name escapes me
Load More Replies...Aw that makes me sad. But you don't know. Maybe she just needed to get out of the house. Christmas can be a lot if you have a big family. A two hour breather is a good thing
This one is sad. Not eating all the popcorn, but being alone on Christmas.
Maybe it was just quiet time, away from everyone else, enjoying the cinema when it is not busy?
Load More Replies...While most people have a healthy admiration towards celebrities, some people might develop what's known as the "borderline pathological" stage. That is when they start to think that they have a personal relationship with the celebrity when they actually don’t.
The phenomenon of being highly involved in celebrities’ lives has been named celebrity worship syndrome in popular culture, wrongly interpreting the acronym CWS, which referred to the Celebrity Worship Scale. However, some behaviors do fall under the category of a syndrome, like being willing to commit crimes on behalf of a person or spending crazy amounts of money for common things a celebrity touched.
The right way. If someone happens to be famous, doesn't mean you should treat them any different. Give them an opportunity to just be without someone going for selfies and fawning over them when they're not working
Do you think people shouldn’t be as invested in famous people’s daily lives? Do you think it’s weird we can take a glimpse into how famous people live? Also, do you have any strange, random or awkward celebrity encounter stories? Let us know in the comments!
I mean - really. What is there to say? Nice weather we're having?
Before she was famous she was a bit of a groupie for a South London band called The Ludes - I think she dated one or more of them at various points and was at every single gig they played. She was so annoying and took over the whole dance floor flailing about drunkenly and falling over. At one point I 'accidentally' stomped on her foot with my DMs - and she finally took the hint and stopped hogging the dance floor. I found her so annoying - and I was even more annoyed when she became successful and famous. Yes. I know I'm a petty b***h but I have some really nice qualities too, even if they're deeply hidden.
Got lost in Palos Verdes, (CA) stopped for an ice cream in the middle of a little hidden cul de sac. Got to chatting with a tiny woman (Big hat/sun glasses - no biggy. it was hot) We talked about boots, and ice cream. People waiting were just staring. As I left the shop I realized I'd been chatting with Michelle Pfeiffer. LOL
I'm very confused what this means. Could someone shorten it explain it better for me?
One thing I like about some of these is that people realize that you shouldn't bother someone you recognize as a celeb if you wouldn't interact with them if they were nobodies. I once was behind the former president of Finland in the grocery store cashier line. She bought food. Then I bought food. The End
Back when I was in college, Penn and Teller were performing in the same city as my campus. It just happened to fall on Parents Weekend, so the school bought a block of tickets for a discount, and since I used to do stage magic, my family and I got tickets and went. It was a great show, but afterwards, outside the theater, Penn was just hanging out. My dad and I walk over and start talking. He was very friendly, and supportive when I mentioned being an amateur magician himself. After a few minutes, we wrap up and he goes to go back in. Except when he tries the door, its locked. He rattles it a few times, and then you hear this little voice from off to the side as my mother yells out, "Use magic!" This explains my sense of humor.
They hung out after we saw them at their vegas show. We took a photo with them, and one accidentally ended up looking like Teller's head is growing out of my shoulder lol
Load More Replies...I was doing the walk of shame home from the West Village early in the morning of the gay pride parade in June 2011 and I realized I was walking behind Hugh Jackman. He was calmly shepherding his small children (including at least on a scooter) to a coffee shop and telling them about the history of Stonewall. I was enchanted.
These are just a bunch of nobodies with nothing to talk about. How did this get placed under the Funny tab?
I have had incredible luck as a young art student visiting NYC.....rubbed shoulders with Iggy Pop (!) my first trip to NYC (1984)...bought super pale foundation in a tiny makeup shop for goth punks/theatricals in Soho. My second trip, Spring of 85, I was hanging out in Washington square park with a friend (both of us glam/punks at the time) and we were gifted a six pack of expensive beer by a young black man who had paint splattered clothes and short dreadlocks...he introduced himself as Jean Michelle (!basquiat!!) so sweet and soft spoken, he stayed and chatted with us for about 20 minutes after we told him we were art students on a lark to the city....It wasn't until we got back to school that we heard he was one of the hottest painters in the world at that time. I think of those two encounters often...so sad that JMB left this world not long after...he was an incredible intuitive artist
I met Jackie Chan on the set for Shanghai Noon, filming the train stunt in Wayne Alberta. I was 13 and I remember being almost the same height. I was really excited but I could only say "hi". 5 years later in Drumheller Alberta again, and I'm drinking in the bar with my cousin. We decide as a family that we need groceries from the IGA next door to our hotel (not an IGA anymore but still a grocery store). We are walking through the store and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are grocery shopping. My cousin was so drunk he just kept telling Angelina how pretty he thought she was and I just laughed at him. They were there visiting while filming a movie in Edmonton. Unfortunately these are pre-smartphone times so no pics, only the memories. I had a physical photo of me with Jackie Chan at one point but idk where I've put that album.
I had the GREAT displeasure of cashiering for Sarah Palin at Wal-Mart back in 2006 or so. I lived in the same town she did. She was actually not too bad but her kids were HORRIBLE. Snobby little brats. Before anyone asks what she was doing in Wal-Mart, around that time Wasilla only had three major box stores and even the most entitled had to go there sometimes when the roads were too bad or it just isn't worth the 40 minute drive to Anchorage. We didn't even have Target yet.
I was in San Francisco, taking a bus to Haight Ashbury with my boyfriend. Someone on the bus started acting belligerent so the driver pulled over to call the cops. As we were disembarking, a fellow passenger quipped: "Wow, what an asshőle that guy was, huh?" It broke the tension and we all laughed. We turned to see who was talking to us. It was Penn Jillette!
It’s kinda fun to read about chance encounters with names you don’t recognize. I’m over here, “so glad you were excited!” but have no idea who most of these people are.
My dad use to be a concert promoter in the early 90's in Brazil. Once he brought The Exploited - an English punk band - and we've gone to a Chinese mafia restaurant and they made quite a mess on a massive food battle between them and I was laughing AF meanwhile everyone was just perplex with all that.
This one might only be interesting to local folks here in Toronto, but I had a sweet little encounter with Brian Linehan of "City Lights" fame (the BEST celeb interviews, look him up on YT, trust me) just before he was diagnosed with the cancer that took him out in 2004 way before his time. Went to my, so far, only TIFF premiere in 2000 ("The House of Mirth", major xphile here, I was there for Gillian Anderson). I was walking into the theatre and grabbed for the door being held open ahead of me. The man turned to make sure I'd made it through and I saw it was Brian. Using the front door like a normal person! I thanked him and said something about how much I enjoyed his work. He stopped in his tracks and said, "Thank you, that means a lot to me. Enjoy the movie!" and he was gone. Four years later and he was gone for good :-(
When my husband was a kid, he was playing ball with a friend near Del Mar beach. Desi Arnaz had a house in the area. The ball landed in Desi's back yard. Husband went to the door and Dezi was a grump about it (I get that, it's annoying.) But he seemed very miserable. He was wearing a silk robe and was smoking like a chimney. There were pictures all over the walls (despite the fact that he was married to someone else. ) He never got over his divorce with Lucy. I think I read that he was abusive. So sad.
I once met Harald Schmidt. "Who" do you ask? Well, that is what I asked to 50%of this postes, lol
I had seen and met a very famous country/pop singer a couple of times and went to see a show the night of my birthday. The night before I was going to watch a movie at 9:00, so I went to the McDonald's in the casino entrance to get some popcorn. I was returning to my room and in the foyer,
Kenny Rogers is too big for his pants. "big head guy. don't you know who i am?"
One thing I like about some of these is that people realize that you shouldn't bother someone you recognize as a celeb if you wouldn't interact with them if they were nobodies. I once was behind the former president of Finland in the grocery store cashier line. She bought food. Then I bought food. The End
Back when I was in college, Penn and Teller were performing in the same city as my campus. It just happened to fall on Parents Weekend, so the school bought a block of tickets for a discount, and since I used to do stage magic, my family and I got tickets and went. It was a great show, but afterwards, outside the theater, Penn was just hanging out. My dad and I walk over and start talking. He was very friendly, and supportive when I mentioned being an amateur magician himself. After a few minutes, we wrap up and he goes to go back in. Except when he tries the door, its locked. He rattles it a few times, and then you hear this little voice from off to the side as my mother yells out, "Use magic!" This explains my sense of humor.
They hung out after we saw them at their vegas show. We took a photo with them, and one accidentally ended up looking like Teller's head is growing out of my shoulder lol
Load More Replies...I was doing the walk of shame home from the West Village early in the morning of the gay pride parade in June 2011 and I realized I was walking behind Hugh Jackman. He was calmly shepherding his small children (including at least on a scooter) to a coffee shop and telling them about the history of Stonewall. I was enchanted.
These are just a bunch of nobodies with nothing to talk about. How did this get placed under the Funny tab?
I have had incredible luck as a young art student visiting NYC.....rubbed shoulders with Iggy Pop (!) my first trip to NYC (1984)...bought super pale foundation in a tiny makeup shop for goth punks/theatricals in Soho. My second trip, Spring of 85, I was hanging out in Washington square park with a friend (both of us glam/punks at the time) and we were gifted a six pack of expensive beer by a young black man who had paint splattered clothes and short dreadlocks...he introduced himself as Jean Michelle (!basquiat!!) so sweet and soft spoken, he stayed and chatted with us for about 20 minutes after we told him we were art students on a lark to the city....It wasn't until we got back to school that we heard he was one of the hottest painters in the world at that time. I think of those two encounters often...so sad that JMB left this world not long after...he was an incredible intuitive artist
I met Jackie Chan on the set for Shanghai Noon, filming the train stunt in Wayne Alberta. I was 13 and I remember being almost the same height. I was really excited but I could only say "hi". 5 years later in Drumheller Alberta again, and I'm drinking in the bar with my cousin. We decide as a family that we need groceries from the IGA next door to our hotel (not an IGA anymore but still a grocery store). We are walking through the store and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are grocery shopping. My cousin was so drunk he just kept telling Angelina how pretty he thought she was and I just laughed at him. They were there visiting while filming a movie in Edmonton. Unfortunately these are pre-smartphone times so no pics, only the memories. I had a physical photo of me with Jackie Chan at one point but idk where I've put that album.
I had the GREAT displeasure of cashiering for Sarah Palin at Wal-Mart back in 2006 or so. I lived in the same town she did. She was actually not too bad but her kids were HORRIBLE. Snobby little brats. Before anyone asks what she was doing in Wal-Mart, around that time Wasilla only had three major box stores and even the most entitled had to go there sometimes when the roads were too bad or it just isn't worth the 40 minute drive to Anchorage. We didn't even have Target yet.
I was in San Francisco, taking a bus to Haight Ashbury with my boyfriend. Someone on the bus started acting belligerent so the driver pulled over to call the cops. As we were disembarking, a fellow passenger quipped: "Wow, what an asshőle that guy was, huh?" It broke the tension and we all laughed. We turned to see who was talking to us. It was Penn Jillette!
It’s kinda fun to read about chance encounters with names you don’t recognize. I’m over here, “so glad you were excited!” but have no idea who most of these people are.
My dad use to be a concert promoter in the early 90's in Brazil. Once he brought The Exploited - an English punk band - and we've gone to a Chinese mafia restaurant and they made quite a mess on a massive food battle between them and I was laughing AF meanwhile everyone was just perplex with all that.
This one might only be interesting to local folks here in Toronto, but I had a sweet little encounter with Brian Linehan of "City Lights" fame (the BEST celeb interviews, look him up on YT, trust me) just before he was diagnosed with the cancer that took him out in 2004 way before his time. Went to my, so far, only TIFF premiere in 2000 ("The House of Mirth", major xphile here, I was there for Gillian Anderson). I was walking into the theatre and grabbed for the door being held open ahead of me. The man turned to make sure I'd made it through and I saw it was Brian. Using the front door like a normal person! I thanked him and said something about how much I enjoyed his work. He stopped in his tracks and said, "Thank you, that means a lot to me. Enjoy the movie!" and he was gone. Four years later and he was gone for good :-(
When my husband was a kid, he was playing ball with a friend near Del Mar beach. Desi Arnaz had a house in the area. The ball landed in Desi's back yard. Husband went to the door and Dezi was a grump about it (I get that, it's annoying.) But he seemed very miserable. He was wearing a silk robe and was smoking like a chimney. There were pictures all over the walls (despite the fact that he was married to someone else. ) He never got over his divorce with Lucy. I think I read that he was abusive. So sad.
I once met Harald Schmidt. "Who" do you ask? Well, that is what I asked to 50%of this postes, lol
I had seen and met a very famous country/pop singer a couple of times and went to see a show the night of my birthday. The night before I was going to watch a movie at 9:00, so I went to the McDonald's in the casino entrance to get some popcorn. I was returning to my room and in the foyer,
Kenny Rogers is too big for his pants. "big head guy. don't you know who i am?"