For a few years of my life I had a standing happy hour at a bar in the building I worked in. I was out sipping a beer with my friends, and the trailer park boys walked in!

I’m a huge fan so I was starstruck. Eventually I worked up the nerve to say hello, and they were delightful and funny. Got a quick picture, wished them luck on their show, and I went back to leaving them be. 10/10, would bother again.

I saw Tom Green at a ski resort in Colorado sometime around 2005. We yelled at him from the lift, and he looked up at us then sped off down the hill.

Not really, but I did manage to meet a (semi-famous) professor that got popular because of his online math lessons on an expo. He isn’t that popular even within our country in general, but it’s still a flex if you tell it to like an highschool student lmao

I startled Paul F Tompkins at an improv show by bumping into him as we both rounded a corner. We spoke really briefly but he was funny, courteous and we both apologized for startling the other and I laughed at his good joke about it and he politely pretended to laugh at mine.

I saw a Sedin twin (no idea which one) and we gave the guy nod to each other as I biked past. Oh, and last year I saw Rick Tocchet during the playoff run (but he was on the phone and I didn’t want to bug the guy.)

The best one was Kyle Wellwood, who was a mediocre but adorable player. But I saw him at a DJ set where he was with some famous ufc guy and together they were with a half dozen women, none of whom were interested in Wellwood who sat around looking jealous and vaguely annoyed.

I made a big famous dude cry. I sat next to another famous dude and giggled with him at his performance. I once ran into the man I fantasized as The Gunslinger and said nothing.

Last year – Colin Farrell and Bryan Cranston hanging out at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights! Celebrity sighting in LA, of course lol. They were dressed real casual, one had a baseball cap on, and were being guided by staff. They’re not short but I remember thinking they looked shorter than expected. I saw them on the escalators going the other direction and had to do a double take. It took my brain a few extra seconds to fully process what I was seeing.

I thought, interesting pairing! Looked it up and learned they did the Total Recall (2012) remake together. Evidently they still hang out lol

The whole Manchester United squad in the early 2000’s. My granddad had a good job and an executive box at Old Trafford.

I also served the guy called Dave in the Royal Family (TV) show.

I also had a friend who worked for ITV and went to a party once and loads of TV celebs were there but didn’t really engage with them.

I met Matt Skiba from Alkaline trio and Blink 182 at a festival, he was running late to his set and had no clue where his set was lol, I had to direct him to his own show.

I once saw footballer John Barnes at a nightclub! I asked if he’d mind posing for a photo, he was so nice about it and got it done really quickly. He was obviously practiced. It was a really nice interaction he didn’t have to do.

I met Bruce Campbell at a book signing about 23 years ago. He was just as charming and funny in person as the characters he played. Very friendly and willing to talk for a bit with each fan. A real stand up guy all around.

Stumbled upon Jeremy Clarkson biking in a European capital. We instinctively approached him to just confirm if he was us, and he politely asked to not bother him because he was on holidays. We felt a little bad and of course left him alone. It must be a little sad to be famous and be recognized everywhere

I used to deliver the newspaper to Chris Farley’s parents. I saw him only once when he drove by on his way to their house, but he smiled and waved at me. Another time, I was out early delivering the Sunday paper, and a man jogging by waved to me. It took a bit longer, but I later recognized him as Tommy Thompson, the governor of Wisconsin, and later Health & Human Services secretary for Pres. Bush.

Oddly, his predecessor at HHS was Donna Shalala, who’d been here as chancellor of the university, so I may have seen her around, too. The most famous person that I’ve seen IRL was Cindy Crawford, but I didn’t interact. She walked by in a hallway at the student union, like a totally normal person.

I went to a lot of concerts in my life. I don’t want to meet them tho.

In Toronto I ran into Styx at the airport.

I mean it literally. I bounced off Tommy Shaw and kind of reeled into James Young. (Totally my fault.)

They were actually really nice, checking if I was OK and once it clicked who I was talking to, putting up with my squeeing fangurl behaviour. Both of us were waiting for our respective flights so I got to talk with them a good half-hour before my flight started boarding.

Not sure if this is in the spirit of the question or not but I saw Robert Downey Jr in real life, it was behind a barrier though, I think he was going to an opening of one of his movies. I was walking down the street and looked over because I saw a bunch of people standing behind the barrier and I was like “oh wow that’s Robert Downey Jr” and kept going.