Famous people (besides NBA) you've randomly met or seen?

I think I saw Rick from Pawnstars on my flight to vegas...

 

Wrestler Booker T.

That's about it.

 

I met somebody from the Oilers once. Don't remember his name...

 

I saw elijah wood at the alamo drafthouse in austin... dude was pimpin in his cowboy boots and wrangler jeans, yeehaw!!!!

 

Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins, and Rollie Fingers. Three Hall of Fame pitchers at one Cubs spring training game.

They were all signing bats, balls, and other memorabilia to be raffled off during the game. Rollie still had his signature 'stache; he looked like he was still in game shape. I ended up getting a picture with Fergie Jenkins. Also asked Gaylord how many times he was caught doctoring the ball in his career.

And yes, the Cubs lost.

 

Meet Randomly..
Renee' Zellwegger - at the Babies 'R' Us in Lewisville..funny thing is my wife thought she knew her from college & kept asking her about it. She had no idea who it was until I told her.

Skunk boy - John Henson - met him at the Mirage hotel in Vegas back when he was hosting Talk Soup.

Through Work..
Roger Staubach
Drew Pearson
Chad Hennings
Josh Hamilton
Rocket Ishmail
Joel Osteen
Pat Boone
Jim Caviezel
Jim Kelly
The Machine Gun Preacher - Sam Childers (Gerard Butler is making a movie based on him, so he may not be very famous yet, but he may be soon)
Randy McIlvoy
Bill McCartney
Michael Waltrip
Bobby Labonte
David Ragan

 

Rob Thomas of Santana/matchbox twenty fame. Met him after a concert in Dallas. Super cool and has an uber hot wife.

Scotty Nguyen WSOP world champion. Met him playing cards in Oklahoma at a casino that sponsored him. Very gracious and had a trademark Michelob in his hands.

Several US Congressmen including John Lewis the day he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

 

several but two of the more funnier incidents

Cash Warren is a close friend of the owner of my company so Jessica Alba has come by on occasion when the two of them stop by to say hi to him. I was asked to come into the owners office to help with something one such time and I kept starting at Jessica to which the owner says "I know she is a pretty lady but you know she is married you can stop staring at her"

I was like damn we all had a good laugh at my expense, but Jessica was really nice.


Then I almost ran over Hayden Pannetiere (sp? the cheerleader from heroes)
i was driving down this back alley that runs parallel to a really busy street and she was walking across to her car and didnt see I was driving down the street and I had to slam on my brakes to stop. I wasnt going fast or anything since it was a back alley. But she got started when i stopped and looked at me and smile and she said she was sorry and wasnt paying attention. I asked her what DVDs she bought (she was coming out of the back entrance of a large DVD/blu-ray store) she said she got some criterion collection dvd she wanted.

 

Why did you stop?

 

I sat next to Orlando Bloom while waiting for a cab at the Chateau Marmont and didn't know it was him until I was getting in the cab.

 

Edward Maya - Haze last week at Aria. Was technically a concert (3 songs only) but my friends' table was right next to his.
Counting Crows lead singer - in Doubletree Guest Suites Galleria (first job managing National Car Rental within hotel)
Lil Wayne - Doubletree
Mannie Fresh - Doubletree
Baby - Doubletree
Trey Songz - Republika
Slim Thug - Republika
Tila Tequila - went to Hastings with her.
Mya - saw her at Hush back in the days.
Paul Wall - outside a club in downtown back in the days.
Method Man - Disney World - walking around in a David Carr jersey
Mario Lopez - Austin - waiting on valet.
Mister Belding (Dennis Haskins) - Baylor chapel.
Al Shearer (MTV VJ and in How High) - Playhouse (club) in LA
Deray Davis - Playhouse - mackin on a grenade and a half.
Faith Hill - Doubletree
Carl Lewis - Doubletree
Jeremy Wariner - Baylor
Mario Williams - clubs in Houston
Brian Cushing - Ditto
A few other Texans players - Ditto.

 

Scotty Nguyen? That's awesome. Did he ever tell you "you call and it's over baby"?

I met Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell several years ago at a movie theater he was promoting 300 the movie. I saw Natalie Portman one time in the library during college. One time I ran into Guy Fieri at the Back Bay Hilton. I told him that I loved his DD&D show, he was very friendly. In that vein I saw Rachel Ray, Ming Tsai and some other celebrity chefs having drinks at this bar in Boston.

That's all I can think of right now.

 

Pierce Brosnan

Sandra Bullock

Brandon Backe

George Bush sr

 

Met Ross Perot in the hallway as I was going between interviews at Dell Services earlier this year.

 

Bill f-ing Murray. Incredible nice and awesome

Bush Sr. & Barbara - sweet people.

Jimmy connors - I was young but seemed like a cool guy

Emmit Smith - relatively nice.

Joel Dreessen - funny guy

Kasey Studdard - quiet but nice


those are the ones i met ...seen a few others but i'm forgetting right now.

 

how'd I forget..

Bun B. really nice guy. Damn camera went dead when i tried to get a picture. Told him to say hi to Pimp...wish i would have told him to keep pimp on that drank.

 

Sorry to double up... met Lou Piniella at a bar in Danville CA in the early 80's. He was hitting on girls young enough to be his daughter, and in fact, stole one from one of the guys in my group. The WS ring he had one was flashed around pretty effectively that night

 

I know this is a basketball player but its a pretty cool story to tell. I met Shaquille O'Neal at all places in a SHONEYS INN in Houston like 10 years ago. We were there for my brothers AAU tourney. We get there and a guy tells us and says to go outside to look at his car. We see a green Bentley with a Chrome steering wheel with a huge Superman S in the middle. His seat was pushed all the way to the back seat where the backseat was taken out and had HUGE speakers all throughout the back. On the back of his Bentley he had another superman S on it and couldn't even get close to the car without a beep going off. So were hoping to actually somehow SEE Shaq. We go up to our room and people are in the lobby of that floor. There was people out in front of a door and im thinking NO WAY is this is room. It was.. room 312.. MY familys room was 316!!!! A day goes by and we hadn't seen him and at 1point we are getting off the elevator and there was a housekeeper about to knock on his door. I was with my parents and they said i could stay around to see if he came out. He walks out in his BRIEFS and looks into my eyes and he was the darkest and biggest dude i've ever seen. I looked past him and saw 2 beds pushed together long ways so his whole body could lay on the beds. (it was like a 10 ft bed when he put them together. Never got his autograph or anything but my bro met him. Heres what he told me.

He was with his friends on the team and they were staying on the same floor as well. He said they were acting up in the hall (at the time they were in 9th grade) and he came out of his room at this point was around 3 in the morning. He said him and his teammates ran to him and he was very nice and talked to them for a sec and then left. (one of the kids autographed a dollar bill and tried to give it to shaq and told him he would be famous like him one day haha). He said he left out and got in his car and left. My brother said his system was so loud when he was leaving the parking lot it shook the windows on the hotel. My dad actually has video footage of his car stashed away somewhere in our home video storage. Pretty crazy lol

 

lionel richie

hugh grant

paris hilton

earl campbell

joe jackson (michael jacksons dad)

tony robbins (at a head shop in amsterdam VERY random)

steffi graf