Update: Now I can add one more: Chris March from last season's Project Runway was just in my office (in a leopard print blazer, no less). He said he had Christian Siriano's number on his cell...does this count as 1.5 star sightings?For someone living in Manhattan, my list of celebrity run-ins is pretty short. In the past 5 years I’ve:
1. Walked by
Famke Janssen, with her two equally tall and regal dogs shopping in Soho.
2. Had dinner with
Chien-Ming Wang.
3. Ran between
Joe Girardi and
Terry Francona's cars during the All-Star/Hall of Fame Parade.
4. Stumbled upon
Ramiele Mulabay in my work bathroom.
5. Maybe had
Derek Jeter's car drive by me -- It was this sporty Lexus with completely tinted windows with Yankees plates reading "CAPT02".
I'm proud to finally add one more to the list: NKOTB!
They were about to head into an interview at the WPIX studio this morning. Got a pic with Joey, but it's on some random chick's camera and she promised to email it to me. Only got good pics of Donny since I was too busy deleting old pics off my phone while Jordan and Joey were standing literally 2 ft in front of me. Doh!
What are your memorable celebrity sightings?
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Awww NKOTB, that brings back sixth grade memories. I saw Angelina Jolie with Maddox while vacationing in Vietnam........she was gorgeous! I have girl crushes on Angelina Jolie and Rachel McAdams.
chatted with goldie hawn after a kings game...
met various hockey players (gretzky, robitaille, mcsorley, etc.) but i'm not sure if they count as celebs to some people, haha...
saw kareem abdul jabbar gambling in vegas...
saw ashanti at pure in vegas.
my list sucks.
saw cameron diaz in at american eagle in nyc (she's super cool!).
lucy liu in LA
simon cowell in nyc
mandy moore in sf
boo...that's it.
random celeb sightings include: ethan hawke pushing a stroller in gramercy, tim duncan playing cards at mandalay bay, billy bob thorton at body english, heidi klum and seal zipping down soho in a convertible, sitting two seats away from sean connery in an off-off broadway play, julia stiles at the airport, patrick ewing at the movie theater, and some random b/c listers at bars and restaurants... usually, i'm pretty oblivious to the world that i don't notice them so someone always points them out. except for patrick ewing cuz he was ginormous.
Oh! I've seen-- and these are not all random haha-- Tyra Banks, Good Charlotte (the brothers), Nicole Richie, Nick Lachey's girlfriend, Vanessa (she is much prettier in person than in photo), Kathy Griffin, Pink's ex husband (forget his name) and Mandy Moore
Lebron James - he was waiting to get in the elevator when I was about to get out. Lebron's teammate, Varejao. Both at my work place.
Kelly McGillis (top gun) at the Wolf Trap lawn
Jeter's car???.....total envy..
I've seen Brooke Shields in SoHo and been to the after party of The Babysitter premiere with John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon, Katherine Waterston.
saw the actors from Law and Order SVU...i love NKOTB..lucky!!
@XXKimPossibleXX - ooh nice. i would have loved to see angelina in real life...just to see if she's real!
@GeLLiBeLLy - your list sucks? ok, i listed "maybe derek jeter's car".
Hmm... Met Sylvester Stallone in Japan while shopping around. That was forever ago when I was younger. Met Jackie Chan in Taiwan b/c my aunt knows him. I guess my aunt too since she used to be a huge movie/tv star in Asia when she was younger. Saw Sharon Stone at Banana Repulic in San Francisco shopping. Hmm... who else. That guy from the show 3rd Rock from the Sun, French Stewart, was at my grad school graduation in the Los Angeles area. Saw him once someone pointed him out. I think that's it? Oh, one more, Barry Bonds and his family was eating at the Valley Fair mall food court in Santa Clara, CA. They sat right next to me and my girlfriends. He was much thinner then.
OH, and I met Kenny Rogers at the Honolulu Int'l Airport in Hawaii. Man, I met all the older celebs. Heehee! Guess there's not that many stars in Northern Virginia, huh? I guess there are the politician celebs here...
@huinita - oh yea i saw a bunch of american idol contestants at the finale, but that's REALLY stretching it... maybe Z-celeb? haha.
i used to be so in love with donny. ew, what happened to him? when we were living in LA, we used to see celebrities all the time. my most memorable moment though is seeing madonna at her brother's restaurant (at least 5 yrs ago) and being unable to move, speak or breathe.
besides at concerts, shows, etc... my list of seeing celebs in public sucks too.
kim catrall having lunch across the room at alain ducasse in paris
conan o'brien having brunch a few tables away at telepan, uws
jessica simpson getting into a big black suv outside gramercy park hotel
(paparazzi said mischa barton was checking out too, but i didn't stick around to wait for her)
sarah jessica parker getting out of a limo going into BLT Prime
kelly rutherford (mom on gossip girl) on the same flight from Burbank to NYC
(she said "aww" to my baby when she saw her asleep in my sling!)
oh yea, katherine mcphee at tito's tacos in LA
most of my sightings revolve around food!
i saw denzel, christy turlington, marrisa hagarty (sp?), andy dick (in spain), kyan from queer eye and i think that's it...
ethan hawke walking around in chelsea.
chace crawford (i think that's his name - guy from Gossip Girl) - walking right past me in chelsea
beyonce at H&M on 5th
chatum tanning (i think that's his name - guy from dancing movie?) - filming off 6th & 30th
... this was fun. thanks for bringing back these memories!
- Hillary Swank shopping at Kmart (shortly after her first Oscar win, so she still had that really short haircut)
- Cynthia Nixon dining at the table next to us at Cafe des Artistes
- Patrick Swayze at Borders
I love celeb sightings in NYC!
Mike Myers right outside of Joe's Shanghai in New York.. and Lucy Liu on Broadway while waiting for Avenue Q to start... good times! lol
Jessica Biel walking in the village while texting, Mike Tyson at the car show @ Javitz center, Tom Cruise at the MI3 premiere..I think that's about it. I want to see more!
wow. you've seen it all. i've just seen one person so far and it's michael phelps from 2 weeks ago. i've just loaded his photos up actually.
sweet! celeb sightings are fun. i don't really care to meet most of the people, but just try for the heck of it. why not if i'm there, right?
my list is sorta long...
met: lindsay lohan, forrest whitaker, lindsay price, tamilyn tomita, russell wong, rex lee, muhammad ali, vladimir guerrero, rich harden, don mattingly, chris webber, kareem abdul jabbar, gordie howe, wayne gretzky, mike krzyzewski, george mikan, baron davis, lisa leslie, snow patrol, the kooks, adele, michael eisner, matt damon, tyra banks, run dmc, coolio, krs one, ghostface killah, the twins from america's next top model, yo yo ma, kronos quartet...
seen: eva mendes, david beckham, justin timberlake, joaquin phoenix, backstreet boys, sean paul, joe simpson (jessica's dad), jamie pressley, andy dick, krista allen.
anyhow, there are lots of others i'm forgetting (a lot of smaller name athletes and rock ppl), but those are some of the big names.
that's so awesome you met nkotb! that random chick better send you the pic...hehe! my fave celeb sighting was adam sandler~!
WOOHOO NKOTB!!!!
This is one of the many reasons why I love being a NYer
I worked for Radio City Music Hall and when they hosts awards shows at the venue, all the managers and some staff would get glammed up and be "seat warmers" so that there wouldn't be any empty seats in front when the camer spanned when those who would win go up and get awards. So I would run up and down the aisel just as the celebrity would get up and sit in their seat and then the star comes back, gives me a hug because their all excited for getting the award and take back their seats lol...So I've been a seat warmer for JLo, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dog, Britney Spears, Madonna...
And because of my pole danicng antics with SFactor I've met and had class with Heather Graham, Elizabeth Burkley, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson and Penelope Cruz
I've sat next to Chase Crawford at Rub
Obviously my obsession NKOTB
Nsync backstage at Jones Beach Theatre
My gf and her hubby owns Pink Elephant so I've met and seen a bunch of their celebrity friends.
Was at a dinner party with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillipe when they were still together...
Dr. Mehmet Oz is one of my companies advisors so I speak to him all the time
And I'm good friends with Paul van Dyke if that counts