Gordon Ramsay told me to fuck off after I said I prefer Jamie Oliver

My wife took my son to a local comic con 6 years ago while I had to work. Struck up a conversation about the weather with a nice older gentleman. Two days later she hears his voice on TV and says that guy sounds exactly like him. Proceeded to show her his picture and confirmed she chatted about the weather with Batman (Adam West)

Guy fieri… i was drunk, barhopping, its like 10pm. and i’m walking along to the next bar…and im like, that guy looks like guy fieri. he’s walking towards me. so as we pass, i give him a 2nd look and i’m like, that guy actually really does look like guy fieri! so i pass him, and a second later i decide…there is no way that guy isn’t guy fieri. so i turn around and shout “hey, you’re guy fieri!” and he turns around and he’s like “yeah!” and i respond “thats cool!” then i turn back and continue to where i was going because i realized i didn’t really have anything more to say to him other than that…

Carrie Fisher. I was wearing a red Darth Vader shirt that said ‘choking hazard’ and she laughed when she saw it, and said ‘I love your shirt!” I was trying not to gush, and asked her if I could pet her dog Gary. We chatted for a few, mostly about Gary. She was super warm, and funny.. it felt almost like talking to a sister rather then a film star.

Neil Armstrong. I was at the NASA Museum at Cape Canaveral (British tourist) but I also happened to be a teacher. They have an Education Centre, where teachers etc . . . can go and get loads of freebies for use in school. Whilst there, Neil Armstrong came in with his grandchildren and began greeting and chatting with people at random, including me. He was pleased to meet a British teacher of STEM and was a lovely bloke. Everyone (including me) was in awe. He made time for everyone, but mainly the kids who were there with their teachers. I got pics of kids just staring open mouthed in awe of him – after it was explained who he actually was!

I met Simon Pegg when I was working as a cashier at Borders and I love to share this story because he was such a nice and funny guy. It was like a Tuesday in the afternoon and the place was empty. He came up to my with some stationery and I started ringing him up. The entire time I was thinking he looked so much like him, but I didn’t think it was him since I wasn’t in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn’t filming a movie in Chicago, so it was a pretty quiet transaction. After it was done and I was handing him his bag with his stuff I jokingly said, “Has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead?” He replied, “I am the guy from Shaun of the Dead.”

George Clooney. I pissed him off by telling him he was great as Batman. He did not like that.

Bill Murray is my answer. He randomly showed up at one of our football games in college back in 2011 (I was in the marching band), and he “conducted” a song for us after the game and took pictures with each section of the band. He has absolutely no connection to our university, or the opposing one, so we were all super confused as to why he was even there (it was a home game for us, and the college I went to is in the middle of nowhere upstate NY). But he was super chill, if not a little eccentric (but aren’t most celebrities?)

I was in high school with Jared Leto, I spoke to him a few times and every time he acted like a bully. I would describe him as an asshat.

Paul Rudd. At a convention. I gave him a cupcake. I’d like to think he ate it.

Conan O’ Brien. I worked at Dodger Stadium selling beer for the 2018 World Series. He calls me over and bought a couple of beers. Looked at him and said “Well, I guess I don’t need to check your ID.” He said “That’s sweet”, and chuckled. He tipped me $10 too.

Kevin Bacon. Didn’t recognize it was him. Politely asked if his flight companion was Kyra Sedgwick whom I recognized (SMH). His expression was of mild surprise which then made me realize I was missing something.

Stan Lee. Met him at Comic-Con and the line to meet him got delayed because he took a nap.

Steve-O or Mitt Romney… kinda hitting both sides of the spectrum.

My wife came back from the grocery store of the tiny town we lived in and excitingly said she talked to the guy from Roots. I shrugged it off (I’ve never seen it). A while later we’re watching The Sandlot and when the kids meet the old blind man played by James Earl Jones she lights up “I talked to him! I met him!” “When did you meet him!?” “I told you,” she said, “he’s the guy from Roots.” I love my wife. She met Darth Vader but was excited because he was in Roots.

Michael Jackson. When I was little in the 80s my family lived in LA and I took dance classes at the same studio as Nicole Richie. One day her dad Lionel showed up to pick her up from class with his friend Michael. He looked exactly like he did on TV at the time with the military style jacket with a bunch of glittery stuff on it etc. I was too awestruck to say anything except hello. He was very quiet and polite.

I was seeing a Broadway show with my mom in 1992. At intermission she found me in the downstairs lobby and excitedly said, “I just saw Meryl Streep in the bathroom.” I said “Please tell me you didn’t say anything to her and you just left her alone.” She said, “I was very good, and didn’t say anything. Look, here she comes now.” And I said, “I’m glad you didn’t say anything to her…because that’s Glenn Close.”

Lady Gaga. Served her a drink at a Halloween party in a nightclub once when I was bartending. Great smile, very friendly, and a lot shorter in person than I would have thought. 10/10 would serve her a drink again.

Does a finger gun and a mouth click count from Danny DeVito on opposite moving sidewalks at LAX in the 90’s count?

Jason Statham. Went to cut a tree down at his London house. He yelled at us to be careful dragging branches down the side of his newly painted fence. To be fair he had a point.