Who is the most famous person you have ever spotted out an about?

[prairie_girl]

Local hockey, and football players.

My dads been in two theatrically released movies (before Covid) and a bunch of lifetime movies…he’s the most famous person I know lol

 

[ttintagel]

I literally ran into Bill Nye on the sidewalk once. I was passing him on the side where I have no peripheral vision, and I misjudged the distance. Neither of us was hurt, and he was really nice about it when i apologized.

 

[tasha99]

Robin Williams at 7-11 at 2 a.m. right after the bars closed in SF in the 80s. I was getting a burrito. He got beef jerky.

 

[zebrastreyepz]

Eddie Money at Water Tower Place in Chicago.

Malcolm Jamal-Warner at another mall in the Chicago area.

Garth Brooks used to shop at the Target where I worked.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Michael Jackson at EPCOT
Joe Rohde at Animal Kingdom

 

[PalmettoPath]

A Walt Disney World, it was Britney Spears. She crossed our path while heading to the grand reopening of the Hard Rock Disney Springs a few years ago. I casually posted it to Twitter, nothing thinking much about it, and then my phone exploded with over 20,000 views etc. That took me by surprise, lol.

Lots of others at other places (Prince in the Casino in Monaco, John Travolta and Rob Lowe in Vancouver), and many others in many places).

 

[disneychrista]

My daughter saw Mark Cuban exiting Radiator Springs Racers at California Adventure about 10 years ago.

 

[livih99]

Probably Adam Sandler. He films a movie around my hometown every like 5 years or so, so most people around have met him and some of my friends were extras in one of the movies. Super nice guy, always willing to stop and say hi

 

[RUDisney]

I saw Sylvester Stallone going into the Four Seasons in Philadelphia.

Not my story, but my neighbors. A man would come into her children's clothing store, looking like a bum, with his beat up guitar case. She got to talking to him. He was visiting family in the area. As they talked, it became lunch time and he asked if there was somewhere close where he could pick up lunch for both of them. She told him where to go and he came back with lunch. He would do this every now and then and they became friends.

As they got to know each other better, she felt bad for him. He must have been a poor musician. She was trying to find jobs for him to help him out.

When he died, it was broadcast on the news and that's when she found out he was Glenn Frey from the Eagles. It made her sad that her friend passed, but also embarrassed that she was trying to find gigs for this "poor" musician. She knew his full name, just not that he was famous.

 

[Donnainnj]

Jon Bon Jovi at a county park, park day. I also think I may have seen Bruce Springsteen on his motorcycle, but with the helmet I couldn't be sure.

 

[Boopuff]

In college, way back when, Huey Lewis and the News had just come onto the scene and were playing a concert at my college. I was in the hallway, and I hear someone ask "so what do you think of the band" and I turned and it was Huey!!! He was so nice. And back then we didn't have cell phones, so of course I never got a picture... sob...

 

[ajlsjl]

I saw Gary Sinise at an Off Kilter show in Epcot many, many years ago. Also walked past David Cook (American Idol winner) on Main Street also many years ago.

 

[Sweetpancake]

Christopher Plummer, we walked by him when my family and I were visiting Toronto many years ago. When I was in Vegas with my in laws, they saw Susan Lucci at the Wynn where we were staying.

 

[JLTraveling]

I literally ran into Bill Nye on the sidewalk once. I was passing him on the side where I have no peripheral vision, and I misjudged the distance. Neither of us was hurt, and he was really nice about it when i apologized.

My dad nearly took out all of Lynyrd Skynrd one time. My family was at the same hotel as them for a concert stop years ago. Dad was newly using an ECV at the time. When the elevator doors opened, he was so busy thinking about the scooter he forgot to see if anyone was getting off. You guessed it: The entire band was trying to exit as Dad rolled in....everyone was fine and they were too busy laughing to get mad. But talk about embarrassing!

 

[scrump]

Paul Newman lived in my town so we saw him and Joanne Woodward around fairly regularly. We also were behind Michael Douglas in line checking in at a restaurant a couple of years ago.

Wow, I am jealous of this one. I loved those two, individually and together. What a legendary marriage.

 

[scrump]

I almost ran right into Kevin Smith when he was filming a movie in my neighborhood. He came out of his trailer and had a billowing black trench coat on. I didn't realize who he was until he passed.

 

[DodgerGirl]

When Mom and I would go to Walmart we had an encounter with a celebrity there and it all started when my mom and I had just let Dad take a break in the magazine section and we headed to the music section and when Mom and I were shopping for CDs I happened to see a guy reach into the same cd rack I was browsing and our fingers nearly touched and once the guy had found his CDs he went to buy them at the counter and then left and as I bought my CDs I asked the clerk who the guy was and he replied "Mike Rowe" and my mother was surprised and Mike Rowe was a regular customer at our Walmart but that was the only time we saw him there. My mother always saw famous country singers when she used to work as a desk clerk at a hotel and she saw country singer Steve Wariner once and he wanted to form a friendship with her but she wasn't interested. But the funniest story she told me was that Hank Williams Jr. tried to become my mom's friend and would keep begging her until my mom got really rude and told him to stop bullying her but he wrote my mom a friendly apology letter while on tour and she never forgets that story and it always makes me laugh each time I hear it

 

[kimmar067]

...my DS and I spotted Slash [of Guns'n'Roses fame] at DHS - he walked right past us with a WDW VIP tour guide onto R'n'RC...

 

[kimmar067]

Years ago, when my 3 boys where little [my 28 y-o was 1-1/2 at the time] we were vacationing at the Condado Plaza in San jJan, PR. Larry Holmes and his manager were sitting at an outside patio table, waiting for their limo to pick them up to go to the airport. When I recognized him, we went over to say hello but not to bother him too much. He was so gracious, because other families with small children started going to him to also say hello. He wasn't angry or obnoxious at all - and posed for pics with a few of us. Unfortunately, we took a photo with a Polaroid camera, which faded over the years.