Do you know someone who has become famous?
By dorannmwin
@dorannmwin (36392)
United States
March 11, 2010 12:40pm CST
The other day I was asking about celebrity crushes, and it reminded me of the fact that I went through school with a boy who is now a professional baseball player. That got me to thinking, I wonder if there are other people that know someone that was famous or that eventually became famous.
The person that I know is Austin Kearns, who is a professional baseball player, he started out on the Cincinnati Reds and was later traded to the Washington Nationals. He is a great person and growing up he always was a sweet boy.
So, tell me, do you know someone that is famous as well?
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17 responses
@pandaeyes (2065)
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12 Mar 10
I had Stuart Pierce in my primary and secondary school in the same year as me.
He is a footballer in the UK.
We also had Chris Evans at secondary school in the year above me, who is now a radio DJ.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
I don't know what it is about those individuals that go on to play professional sports, but I think because of the fact that I knew one of those kind of people they are especially near and dear to my heart.
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Mar 10
You are right. There are some sports that we choose to follow and some that we don't. Sometimes it is difficult to keep tabs on people as well.
@pandaeyes (2065)
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13 Mar 10
To be honest, I didn't realise the footballer was the same person as the little boy in school.
It was on a school forum that someone mentioned it and there was a picture of the 10 year old football team , with a few people I remembered . Under Stuarts name was (went on to become a famous footballer),he is manager for one of the big teams now I think but I don't really follow football.
@shekhartv (45)
• India
12 Mar 10
Hi I do not know someone who is really famous but I know someone who is becoming famous my wife! She is really a star hitherto unknown but soon to become known. She has one 4 gold medals in yoga competitions including national and international gold medals in Yoga. she is about 39 plus. But if you look at her she just looks like she is just 20!
@shekhartv (45)
• India
13 Mar 10
Thank you very much for your wishes. Sure there are competition in yoga esp in India.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Mar 10
That is so interesting. I am starting to like yoga because it is so relaxing for me.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
I hope that your wife has the best of luck with her yoga career. I didn't even know that there were competitions in yoga.
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
11 Mar 10
mmh not really famous...such i knew a person that was known in som antional media but it was not a positive person in fact he was mentioned just because he was a criminal..so...not a good story!!
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
12 Mar 10
Yes probably your story is much better!!In reality i don't know name of baseball player and team but i guess it is famous athlete in united states!!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Mar 10
I don't know that you would say that he was one of the most famous baseball players here in the United States, but he is famous around here mostly because of the fact that he is a hometown boy.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
No, that doesn't sound like a positive story at all. I'm sorry that the only person that you've ever known that has gotten television exposure is because of the fact that they didn't know how to behave.
@DarthJustice (2014)
• United States
12 Mar 10
Nope, I don't know anyone who has become famous. At least, I don't know anyone just yet! Not that I plan on it either though lol. But who knows. You never know how people's lives will play out.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
No, we don't have the foresight to know who or what we are going to encounter throughout our lives.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
12 Mar 10
There was a boy I went to school with that became a famous boxer later on but no I didn't know him personally or hang out like that. Maybe when my friends band gets big that will change.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
It seems that in a lot of situations the people that went to school with us that go on to become famous are simply classmates, not friends.
@sunkernjs (219)
• Philippines
12 Mar 10
Uhh, I know Manny Pacquiao! aside from he's based from a poor family he is truly a kind heart one that he pursued boxing to lift his family from the mud. He didn't dream of becoming what he is today and yet he is helping other people now.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
It is very beautiful and inspiring that he is helping people that are less fortunate than himself after his success.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That is really cool. The Santa Clause movies are awesome, they are really some of my holiday favorites.
@apocalypsereturns (368)
• India
11 Mar 10
I do know a person who got famous.
Well one of my schoolmates or i must say classmates made it as an actress in the bollywood movies , she was really good looking and we did suspect that she would be modeling even then.
I saw her in a few TV promos and then suddenlt there was a huge announcement and she got to do a movie with the best actor around Shahrukh khan .
Wll i am talking about Anushka sharma. Well she did get famous and i hope she continues on the track.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That is really cool. I too hope that she is able to continue on the track that she is on.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
Those are both pretty interesting stories. Thank you for sharing your experience.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That is really cool. I've never known anyone that became famous in the acting sense, although I did know some very talented people when I was in school.
@much2say (53907)
• Los Angeles, California
11 Mar 10
Living where I live, there's always famous people about. I can think of many child actors I knew but weren't so famous later on . . . so that may not count here. As far as someone who I personally knew who "became" famous . . . let's see . . . I knew Leslie Boone . . . she became an actress with a big role in "Babes" and "Ed" (though I don't consider her real famous though). I just knew her throughout the school years - always involved in drama and school government. In the skating world, I knew Keauna McLaughlin (of McLaughlin/Brubaker, figure skating pairs) when she was so little . . . she was such a timid rink rat, but has blossomed into this beautiful girl who became 2008 and 2009 US National Champion with her partner. A couple other skaters I know may not be household names, but they may be known to those who follow skating closely - Bebe Liang and Danielle Kahle - I knew them when they were practicing as kids as well. Gosh, I'm drawing a blank on others . . . but like I said, there are many famous faces around "here"!
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
Yes, there are far more famous faces around other places. Here, there aren't a lot of famous faces around unless you happen to be one of the big horse racing events or such then there are famous people that come to visit.
@sleepylittlerose (1648)
• United States
11 Mar 10
I went to school with three guys that made it to the NFL. All three were pretty nice guys back then. I know that fame did not change one of them, the other two I am not sure about becuase I have not seen them since graduation.
My doctor's son plays professional baseball. He is in the Athletics assoctiation. Don't know that he has made it to the big leauges yet but he is good so hopefully one day soon he will be there.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
As far as professional baseball goes, there is a single A team here in Lexington that is associated with the Houston Astros, this year is their tenth season and some of the boys that have come out of the Legends are now on the major league teams, but I didn't know them personally.
@PocketRocketsAA (628)
• Philippines
11 Mar 10
Yeah, and I don't know if I'm fortunate or not, but this person happened to be my BOY FRIEND. It's crazy, I know. He was a normal guy when I met him but now he isn't so normal anymore. LOL. Good bye quiet life for us. Since he's from a prominent political family, he's famous now for being a young candidate running this coming elections. It's a weird feeling though but I guess I have to get used to it. LOL.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
As I don't understand politics, if it was me in that situation, I don't think that I would consider myself to be fortunate, but it is different for every person.
@imajoker (121)
• Finland
11 Mar 10
helo! no i do not know anyone who has become famous. im trying to, thought LOL. so if i ever get famous you people at least no one of them LOL...
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
Good point and good luck on being able to become famous.
@Chad525 (349)
• Canada
11 Mar 10
Yes. I went to school with a few guys who are now in a band called, "The Latency". They are absolutely huge up here in Canada and I wouldn't be suprised to see their fame take them into the States. They have already toured Canada and have opened up for some very big bands.
I've also known a TON of hockey players that are either now National Hockey League players, or are almost there. Almost too many to name.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That's really neat about the guys that are in the band. I wouldn't be that surprised either for them to have the opportunity to break into fame here in the states either.
It's also cool that you know a lot of hockey players as well, being from Kentucky, that isn't something that we see here very often.
@dawnald (85130)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Mar 10
Kinda sorta...
Remember the show "Three's Company"?
I knew this girl in Junior High, DeeAnn Harrison. DeeAnn had a younger sister named Jenny (Jennilee). Well after Susanne Somers left the show, they brought Jenny in as her cousin or something. She was only on the show for a year, I think, and I never saw her on TV again.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
That's pretty neat. I never really remember watching Three's Company, but I know that I did watch it some when I was younger.
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@phyrre (2317)
• United States
11 Mar 10
I don't yet know anyone who is famous, but if you give it a couple more years I'm sure at least one of the people I grew up with will make it. :) We're all still in the college phase right now.
I always thought it would be weird knowing someone famous and hearing what everyone's saying about them and all the gossip and knowing how they really are. I'd always feel the need to defend them fiercely if they were my friend or something and it'd be weird. Then I'd always wonder if I happened to see them while they were famous if they remembered me at all. What an awkward situation that would be if I went up to them to say hi and they had no idea who I was!
of course, I grew up in a school where we were the biggest graduating class with 95 people, so everyone in our grade knew each other, everyone in the grade above us, and everyone in the grade below us at the very least. XD
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 10
The idea of having gone to a school that small is weird for me. In fact, it was just the other day ago that I ran into someone that I went to high school with and she recognized me, but I had no clue who she was at first.
