People On Twitter Are Sharing Their Most “Surreal” Celebrity Encounters
"Alanis Morissette once stole the bun I was trying to pick up in a communal lunch buffet line"
Television writer Mark De Angelis asked “What’s your most surreal celeb encounter?” on Twitter, and people are offering up the goods.
I don’t care who you are, or what you pretend, we absolutely all love to hear stories about celebrity encounters. Especially if they are weird or unusual in some way. Luckily for everyone who loves a bit of gossip, writer Mark De Angelis posed a question on Twitter, asking for people’s most surreal or weird celeb encounters.
What’s your most surreal celeb encounter?
In 2013, I got a job running lines with Kiefer Sutherland on the set of Pompeii. One day he just wanted to watch the movie Gladiator. So I sat in Kiefer’s trailer, watching an almost 3 hour film with him. We barely spoke. It was awesome.
— Mark De Angelis (@DeAngelisMark) February 22, 2020
A lot of the stories include movies and/or parties. I guess that’s where the celebs are!
I was 19, working at Canada Square. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman came in on a Friday night to watch City Slickers 2.
I was put in charge of seating them and getting their popcorn/pop.
They were very friendly, gracious.
Odd movie choice, tho.
— Matt Watts (@mattywatts) February 22, 2020
For whatever reason Nicole Scherzinger once attended the same birthday party I did, we danced with her, and she laughed at my boyfriend and I acting out the Beyoncé scene from Flavor of Love. It was a highlight of my life.
— Eduardo C Fonseca (@eduardocafo) February 22, 2020
And some are stories of unexpectedly coming face to face with a celeb.
Lucked into a free box seat ticket to the BBC proms at Royal Albert Hall, couldn’t find my seat, poked my head into the wrong box only to come face to face with Princess Diana.
— Joann BuckleyCollins (@JoannKBC) February 22, 2020
Sometimes literally.
I have lots but one of the weirdest, in retrospect, is that I had one of my first kisses with Charlie Sheen. He wasn’t so freaky then, so it was all good?.
— Cari Haim (@Cariteacher) February 22, 2020
And some involve the every day awkward interactions we have with other people, except this time the other person is famous.
In the 90s, @Alanis Morissette once stole the bun I was trying to pick up in a communal lunch buffet line at Ta2 (a Toronto audio house). Reached right in there under my hand and grabbed the fancy bun. I was all WHATTTTT and she was all OHHhhhhh.
— IanKiar (@IanKiarrrrrrr) February 22, 2020
After a gala concert, at the crowded party I’m pressed up sideways against the buffet. I’d just grabbed some crisps. Judi Dench appears.
Me: Hi
J: Hello
Me: (proffering) Do you want a cheese n’ onion crisp?
J – No. Thank you.
Me – (casual) Trying to give up?
J – (cheeky)
Me – …— Baby G (@dragisnodrag) February 22, 2020
I once stopped Kevin Costner from following me into my building. He was wearing a hat and sunglasses and was renting the penthouse but I wasn’t having it with his rif raf! He thanked me for the vigilante security, as we rode the elevator together haha
— ????Mark Ghanimé (@markghanime) February 22, 2020
I asked Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy to please move so I could grab my coat at what I believe was Danes’ brother’s wedding.
— Vote for Elizabeth Warren! (@thedealwithalex) February 22, 2020
There’s also some good old-fashioned perving encounters.
The first day I moved to toronto, I was walking down Harbord and saw a woman and thought to myself, ‘wow that woman is incredibly beautiful.’ And it was Meghan Markle.
— Kaianne Sie-Mah (@kaianne) February 22, 2020
Will Forte introduced himself as “Will” to me and I laughed in his face and said “ummmmm I know who you are” and walked away // made INTENSE eye contact at an intersection with Jeffrey Dean Morgan bc I couldn’t figure out why “that old man was so hot”
— Amanda Brooke Perrin (@brookeperrin) February 22, 2020
And some are truly, actually, surreal.
Was on a flight out of Toronto. Was watching just for laughs on the flight and it was Rowen Atkinson doing his bit about welcome to hell. Laughed out loud a few times and the guy next to me asked if I thought it was that funny. Turned to see Mr. Bean himself sitting next to me.
— Michael Janes (@janesmp1) February 22, 2020
So there you go, we can all hope that maybe one day we too can have a weird or awkward encounter with someone famous.