Reddit, what was your unexpected brush with a celebrity?

John Cusack cut me off while riding his moped in Chicago. I yelled at him and then he flipped me off. We had a moment.
— urbaneyezcom

I met David Bowie at a Circuit City about 11 years ago. He was in line behind me, and *he* started a conversation with *me*, which was pretty flippin' cool.
— purple-puppy

Not me but my grandma, who happens to be pretty well off, was having tea with a friend in the ritz hotel in London (a super expensive hotel). A woman who was sitting behind her and noticed my grandma had dropped her glasses so got her attention and gave the glasses back. My grandma (who is quite mad), proceeded to have a long conversation with the woman before returning to her tea. When the woman left, the waiter came over to my grandma only to tell her she had a 10 minute conversation with Victoria Beckham without realising, but she says she is really nice and talkative.
— Guruxion

I was walking home from an evening shift when I heard this Danish guy ask a group of guys for directions to a bar I walk past on my way home, so I offered to show him the way. Since I was tired, I honestly didn't pay much attention to him: I just thought since I'd pass the bar anyways I might as well show him the way. He started some small talk, asking if I knew Danish (since we learn it in school in my country) and then after a while I finally take a look at the guy and he looks really familiar, and I just straight out tell him so. "Well I'm an actor." Then I realize I was walking with Mads Mikkelsen. I was a bit embarrassed that I paid no attention to whom I was helping at first, but he was so nice I soon got over it.
— PhoebeFrost

My wife and I ran into Gary Busey on a secluded beach on our honeymoon. He looked mildly annoyed when he saw our camera but then pleasantly surprised when we asked him to take our picture instead of us taking his. He got all artsy and started asking us about the angle of the shot and what we wanted in the background, etc. It was fun. EDIT: Clarified that I was not on my honeymoon with Gary Busey.
— Great_Gogely_Mogely

One of the producers of Sharknado added me on Twitter. Yeah, that's right plebs, Sharknado.
— UhOhFeministOnReddit

My girlfriends sister sat next to Bono on an international flight and had no idea until the media started taking pictures after they all got off the flight. "Oh you're a musician? That's cool. I'm a school teacher."
— pineapple_catapult

Mine came in 1989, when I had won tickets to a pre-release screening to Back To The Future 3. I was in middle school and had won tickets through a call in radio program. The visual effects weren't complete yet, especially when Michael J. Fox was in the same scenes as two different characters. Anyway, my friend and I had snuck in our own snacks, the small individually wrapped mini-sized candy bars. We were making too much noise (we were 13, whaddya want?) when a man from the row behind us leaned in and told us to keep it down. After the movie my mom who watched it with us asked if we knew who that person was. It was Steven Spielberg who touched our shoulders and told us to shut up. My one brush with fame. Edit: detail
— sniker77

Carrie Fisher literally ran into me at a convention in 2010. She was shorter than I would have expected.
— KommandCBZhi

I ran into Matt Smith, one of the doctors from Doctor Who in Toronto. Like, I literally ran into him. Once I did, I just said sorry and moved on. I didn't even know it was him until one of my friends told me that it was.
— Zenderson1

Okay so there was a "private" concert in Rockefeller Center put on by Cheryl Crow. I'm walking by and Lance Armstrong gets out of a car and walks right the fuck into me. I was like, "excuse me!" albeit with a very "how rude" undertone and he just kept fucking walking. He may only have one ball but from this ten second interaction alone I feel qualified to say he's a huge dick.
— LittleMissIrony

Not quite me, but My Dad was in bar in spain when Picasso came in. My dad bought him a drink and he did a doodle on a beer mat for my Dad and signed it, and My Mum had a drink spilled on her by sir Laurence Olivier in the Drury lane Theatre. She never got the coat cleaned.
— KarmaBarmaid

I took a spin/yoga class with elijah wood. He got his butt handed to him. Even had to do girl push-ups
— Emperor_Aurelian

ran into guy fieri at an airport bar, he was having a good time. we talked for a while, he wasn't, like, plastered, but he was doing alright. seemed like a good guy i guess. he was on his way to cuba i think? i was waiting for a delayed flight.
— shorthanded

Well, I was at school. Then someone came in and said that Sir Ian McKellen was in the school. There was later an assembly, and there was Sir Ian McKellen.
— scottishdrunkard

Clark Gregg, aka Agent Coulson. During New York Comic Con 2011, my friend gave me a ticket to get autographs Cobie Smulders and Clark Gregg because he didn't want to go. They were there to promote The Avengers movie. After some debate, I decided to go. I met with them, got pictures with them and their autographs. Both were super cool and chill to talk with. Much later during the con, I was sitting around with my friends, and an entourage of media following Clark Gregg come walking by me. He stops and says "HEY, ltherapistl!" while waving at me. It's not much, but it was nice that despite all the people he met that day and his busy schedule, he still remembered who I was and made a bit of time to say hi.
— ltherapistl

I was at an airport urinal in Nashville and I glanced over to see Little Richard at the urinal next to me.
— mrguse

I was chilling with my friend at the airport waiting for our flight to Chicago. They just announced the *third* delay and everyone audibly groaned. I heard someone behind me say "let's just get a hotel and go home tomorrow chance." Chance? I turned around and realized I've been sitting back to back with Chance the Rapper and his squad for the last couple hours
— notenoughcharac

I was on a date with my fiancé and the second we stepped out of Central Park, Kim Kardashian got out of the car in front of us. Neither of us are fans, but my fiancé said "where's Kanye" in the most ridiculous funny voice which made her start laughing.
— twinkleturd

I saw Mandy Patinkin (aka Iñigo Montoya) in Grand Central subway station once. I saw him and just started beaming. I started heading his way (also happened to be my way). We locked eyes. He very deliberately changed direction to avoid me.
— stink3rbelle

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