In 1997 I was at a concert with Michael Jackson in Gothenburg, Sweden.

In 2007 I saw Chinese president Hu Jintao in Gothenburg when he was present during a celebration of the trade between Sweden and China in the 18th century, which involved a ship modeled after an 18th century ship that traveled to China.

Michael 1997 in Amsterdam
Stevie Wonder 2008 in Rotterdam my dad and sister won backstage passes and told Stevie about me. So now we have like a huge picture with Stevie&my dad&sis on the wall.

Prince 1997
Prince 2004

Too many to count though

Isn't this the only one that matters though?

Prince, Mariah Carey and Gwen Stefani in concert.
But real live as in face to face, I use to work for the d-list actress Jane Seymour, and she always had a revolving door of d-list actresses walking through her door. I was not impressed, their beauty was all smoke and mirrors.

My live face to face is Gene Simmons... We chatted, he liked that our shirts were the same color, he hugged me, I got pictures! He really is a HUGE flirt!

Barack Obama, Prince, Rick James, Morris Day, etc., Larry King--(met and spoke to-very gentlemanly and honest), Derrick Rose-(shook his hand and spoke for a few minutes), Teena Marie, Don Johnson when he came to Georgetown, SC to film "Paradise."

More musicians...but I'm lazy today.

My husband has met Dr. J who was very friendly and kind to him.

I have seen Prince in concert, I think, 9 times now.

I have met UT Gov. John Huntsman and his wife.

I helped install the automated window coverings in Lars Ulrich's house, he even offered us the use of his hot tub...

been to plenty of different concerts, I've had KRS-ONE rap in my face...

I think you mean "met in person" not "saw in concert", right?

If so, my answers are President Ford, Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

Nothinbutjoy said:

I met Dr. J once, in 1976. It was a Rockets - 76ers playoff game. Back in those days, if you got there early enough and had the stones, you could sit on the floor, under the basket.

Which is what I did, for the sole purpose of shaking Dr. J's hand at half-time.

When he came back to the bench, I walked up behind him and said, "Dr. J! Dr. J!" I wanted to shake his hand.

He never even looked up, he just held up his fist, like "Right on".

I grabbed his fist, shook it, and said "Good luck!"

I was SUCH a goober.

one time i was in a bodega and lauren hutton and her son were there. my roommate and i were in line behind her when she paid, and when she left she forgot her purse at the cash register. so my roommate grabbed her purse and we chased her down the street, screaming "MISS HUTTON! LAUREN HUTTON! WE HAVE YOUR PURSE!!!" when she realized we weren't crazy stalkers and that we did, in fact, have her purse, she was very nice and grateful.

I forgot about meeting Scottie Pippen twice. The first time was at a club in Chicago. My brother was a bouncer/promoter and his girlfriend worked there also. He was in the VIP lounge and I went over to speak while my brother's girlfriend was serving him. He was a total dick and a bad tipper.

I met him again years later when I worked at Montgomery Ward. We sponsored the Bulls and he came to sign autographs. We'd catered a beautiful set-up with foods that we knew he liked. He came in and acted like he was so inconvenienced. After the signing he wouldn't even touch the food we'd spent hundreds of dollars to set up for him. He snubbed his nose at the food and walked out the service door with a towel over his head. Good for us, though...we got to eat it!

Chesney Hawkes, Magnus Magnusson and John Leslie.

Will there be prizes given out to those who've seen the best celebrities?

Zombiekitten
Dook

Michael Jackson - he was just walking around Universal Studios here in Orlando going from shop to shop with 4 big bodyguards and a crowd of dumbstruck people following him...two of those people being me and my best friend.

Prince - In concert in 2004

JC Chasez of Nsync - in a nightclub in Orlando.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar - in the same nightclub on the same night I saw JC...club was packed that night.

Shaq - at IHop...damn that's a ginormous man right there.

John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn - when the were still married at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Harrison Ford - also at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Howie Dorough and AJ Mclean from the Backstreet Boys - at Howie's Lupus foundation concert a few years back...O-Town was there also, but they really were never that famous

Orlando gets alot of famous folk mainly because of Disney World and Universal Studios so you get to see how really uncool and normal they really are. My roommate used to work at the now closed Pleasure Island at Downtown Disney and she saw P!nk and Corey Hart get kicked out of a club and lose their hotel room key and had to call security to help them find it because they wouldn't leave her alone. She also got to watch as a very drunk John Stamos picked up 2 very young looking girls one night and saw Neil Patrick Harris making out with his boyfriend at a Cirque De Soliel show (she worked there too)...this was before he announced that he was gay, so when he finally came out publicly she laughed and said 'duh'.

I sat in a ski lift with Rob Schneider in Tahoe a couple of years back

Smoked a blunt with George Clinton just before his concert

Drank beers with Paul Weller after his concert

Drank beers with Erlend Oye (Kings Of Convenience) after their concert

Got a kiss on the cheek from Me'Shell Ndegeocello after her show

Shook hands with Prince after the Vegas NYE aftershow 2006/2007

These are a few, I'm not counting the concerts I have been to.
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Met or just saw live?

Met:
Regis Philbin in the Cayman Islands. My mom helped his daughter hold a turtle at the turtle farm. And he shouted "This woman is FEARLESS!" in that Regis shout he does.
Candy Dulfer
RuPaul (met, delivered a painting to him, sat and chatted a while, then did a recorded phone interviewed him a few years later).
Betsey Johnson (I bypassed her assistant and almost got inside her cab with her, I had a painting to sell dammit!). She was pretty cool.
Bette Midler She's like 2 feet tall and tiny-boned. I was totally starstruck and probably sounded like an idiot.
Tina Fey (several times when I sold art at an outdor market in NYC, she bought some art ) She is totally cool in person.
Fred Armisen (Tina Fey brought him to the market one day He was very cool also.)
Notorious NYC Ancorman Steve Bartelstein bought a "gay" Batman & Robin painting of mine at a market in the West Village. He was really good lookin in person.
Merle Ginsberg (selling art in the West Village)
Joy Behar chatted a while when I was selling art at a market in the Hamptons. Also very cool.

Obama-wilmington delaware rally
Prince- twice backstage lovesexy and musicology
Will Smith- part of his flunkie entourage growing up in philly
Rachael Ray -King of Prussia Mall (kinda thick with a booty, I'd hit it)
The Roots-now that they're on Jimmy Fallon's show they're a little famous
Mary J Blige- that woman has legs for days
Patti Labelle- did music with her son
Once i started working for Sony/Columbia, i was blessed to meet alot of known people but those right there are some im sure everyone would know

Just in the past year:

Bill Maher
Trent Reznor
Paul Rudd
Norm MacDonald
St. Paul
Stokely
Bruce Campbell

In the past

Prince (sorta)
Jenna Jameson
George Wallace
Robin Thicke

I've met too many artist too mention including Prince which was super cool. But if you want to count "world importance" I would say the last three American Presidents. Out of the three Pres Obama was the best! I already told the story here awhile back but we talked for a few minutes about official business and after that he gave a speech and we spoke briefly again but this time I got to be me and not the Air Force version that I had been earlier. I actually said in front of a large group of people, "Sir, we've been MySpace friends for a year now, how come no shout out?" Well the President smiles and says "Man, I'm sorry let me give you some love" and we actually did a fist pound that I got a picture of. Now that was super cool and compares with my Prince exp and being on stage with him. Pres. Obama is a bad mf!

mcmeekle said:

I can top that with a Jeremy Beadle and the missus of Paul Young at Stanstead airport

me and my mate actual got our picture taken with Jeremy



fortunately only you and about 3 other people on the org have a clue who we are talking about

RenHoek said:

NDRU said:

endymion said:

I think you win with Paul Young's wife!

Is Paul Young the singer from the 80's? Living in the love of the common peopleeee....

tinaz said:

But endymion didn't see him, just his wife.

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Was she there with Jeremy Beadle?



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angel345 said:

You mean Ice-T and Coco, right ?

Chuck D from Public Enemy. We were art majors at Adelphi University. He was rockin' the mic back then.

Howard Stern - I was at a couple of his book signings.

Jim Brown - same as Howard.
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johnart said: