Have You Ever Met a Celebrity?
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (139838)
United States
September 22, 2023 6:29am CST
In my teens I had an opportunity to meet a lot of DJs and visit the studio. I saw a lot of local celebrities going in and out of the building.
During my high school years I took classes in the summer at Cain Park Theater. Various celebrities would star in the shows there; and we, as students, got to spend a little bit of time with them. I met Bobby Vinton, Dion and Paul Peterson (who was very rude). I was backstage after one of Bobby's performances; and his friend, George Maharis, was there. I wish I could post pictures.
One of the execs from the local radio station got us backstage passes to the ALSAC Show in Cleveland. Bobby Vinton was there; and I shared pix from Cain Park with him. Danny Thomas was the host; and all the DJs from the local radio station were there and a lot of singing groups that you probably wouldn't recognize.
How about you? I know @FourWalls has met her share. What celebrities have you met?
Photo Credit: Bobby Vinton (I know it won't post.)
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21 responses
@LadyDuck (443722)
• Switzerland
22 Sep
I have met several, but those I loved more to meet were Sean Connery, who was a real gentleman. Then David Niven, Cary Grant, several other Hollywood actors who came to Monte Carlo to see Princess Grace Kelly. I met Grace Kelly, a beautiful woman with a big heart.
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@LadyDuck (443722)
• Switzerland
22 Sep
@Tampa_girl7 
They were all very nice people.
They were all very nice people.3 people like this
@Tampa_girl7 (48170)
• United States
22 Sep
I am so jealous Anna. I would have loved to meet any or all of them.
I would have loved to meet any or all of them.4 people like this
@Marilynda1225 (77885)
• United States
22 Sep
Wow Anna thats quite amazing that you met all those celebrities. Although I would have loved to meet all of them my favorite would have been Sean Connery. He was my movie star heart throb
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@moffittjc (115445)
• Gainesville, Florida
22 Sep
I met @FourWalls in person, that is the most famous celebrity of all!
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And 
You need to get out more often. 
@moffittjc (115445)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Sep
@LindaOHio If I ever meet you Linda, that would be two celebrities I have met in my lifetime!
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
I agree. Too bad we didn't make it down to FL. You could have met me!!!
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@AmbiePam (79930)
• United States
22 Sep
Those are pretty cool! The ones I have met aren’t well known in these day and times. I’ve met Ben Johnson, of old Westerns fame, a soap actor from As the World Turns, and Wanda Jackson. I was honored to meet Ben Johnson (didn’t know who he was at the time) and Wanda Jackson.
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@AmbiePam (79930)
• United States
23 Sep
@LindaOHio I thought you might know Wanda Jackson. I had no idea at the time who she was. It was only later I found out about her many accomplishments. I think @FourWalls might be one of two people on Mylot familiar with Wanda Jackson.
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@FourWalls (58889)
• United States
23 Sep
@AmbiePam — ooh, Wanda! I have a photo of her and me together. Can’t believe that she was 78 when I saw her and STILL knocked the walls down with her vocals!!!
@LindaOHio would probably remember “Let’s Have a Party” if she heard it.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
That was cool. I'm sorry but I don't know any of them.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48170)
• United States
22 Sep
I have met a few. The most famous was Oprah. She was very down to earth and briefly chatted with me and let us take photos. She is from a town about 40 mins from my Mississippi home. We have seen her several times.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48170)
• United States
22 Sep
@Marilynda1225 She did two visits that I recall that were free and I went. She gave an inspirational talk and answered questions from the audience. They both lasted about 2 hours. One was in her hometown and the other was at a school south of us. A handful of my family members and I went to both. They were both very enjoyable.
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@Marilynda1225 (77885)
• United States
22 Sep
I always loved Oprah and my friend and I always talked about getting tickets to her show when she was on tv. Of course we never did but I would have loved to have added that to my bucket list
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
@Tampa_girl7 That's amazing that you got to meet Oprah.
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@Dena91 (15116)
• United States
22 Sep
Jim O'Brien was a newscaster for ABC in Philadelphia when I was growing up. He also was a host of Dialing For Dollars, a game show we were a member of the audience for. He talked to everyone in the audience after the show. Sadly he was killed in a sky diving accident in 79 or 80.
Robert Woods and Andrea Evans who both stared on One Life To Live in the 80s. They came to the mall I was working at for a meet and greet.
During a concert Billy Joel shook our hands. It was during a blizzard when I was in college in Boston. Hardly anyone went but those who did got up closer to the stage and he shook everyone's hand.
Those are the only celebrities I have met
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@snowy22315 (163304)
• United States
23 Sep
I thnk Jim O'Brien was the father of Peri Gilpin of Frasier fame.
@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
Dialing for Dollars sounds familiar to me. That was nice of Joel to make your concert special. Have a good weekend.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
DJs are always interesting people to meet.
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@celticeagle (151614)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Sep
I have met some local celebs but no national ones. I was surprised to get an email from a popular sci-fi author once year ago. Her name is Andre Norton and she wrote the Witch World series among other things. She was asking me to help her to publicize her newest book. I also got a picture and letter from Don Johnson. I told him he should do a cop series on TV and he did soon after that. Miami Vice.
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@celticeagle (151614)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Sep
@LindaOHio .......I was a member of a sci-fi book club and I wrote to her. She liked my letter and asked for my help.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
That's cool. How did Andre Norton know about you?
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@FourWalls (58889)
• United States
22 Sep
Lots of musicians and a few actors. The one I crow about is having met Harry Anderson when he was doing a comedy/magic tour during a Night Court summer hiatus. What a sweetheart!
The one I was brutally disappointed with was Bill Murray…he was a jerk. 
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@FourWalls (58889)
• United States
23 Sep
@LindaOHio — Kevin Costner and Donny Most were also at the same celebrity golf event, and they were terrific.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
I'm not surprised that Bill was a jerk.
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@LeaPea2417 (36005)
• Toccoa, Georgia
22 Sep
I met fitness guru Richard Simmons, clothes designer Calvin Klein and race car driver Bill Elliott.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
All cool. How did you meet Calvin Klein?
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@LeaPea2417 (36005)
• Toccoa, Georgia
23 Sep
@LindaOHio My childhood girl friend and I when we were in College, flew to Los Angeles during a Spring Break. Her brother lived there with his wife and daughter. So we stayed with them. We borrowed their car to site see. During the trip, we learned that Calvin Klein would be at one of the nearby Malls promoting a new clothing or cologne. It said he would be signing autographs. So we went, waited in line and said hi to him and one of his models who was a part of the event and got his autograph. He signed it on a flyer that promoted his new product.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
24 Sep
@LeaPea2417 That's cool. Have a good day.
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@1creekgirl (39071)
• United States
22 Sep
What an exciting time for you as a teenager! The only celebrity I ever met was Don Ho in his club in Waikiki on our honeymoon. He gave me a kiss and sang the Hawaiian Wedding song for us.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
Wow! That made your honeymoon all the more special!!!
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@1creekgirl (39071)
• United States
23 Sep
@LindaOHio It was unplanned, but very exciting.
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@Marilynda1225 (77885)
• United States
22 Sep
i was a big fan of Bobby Vinton. I haven't really met any celebrities but I did meet Soupy Sales and got to attend his show many times. The only other claim to fame is John Franco who was a baseball player for the Mets.
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@Marilynda1225 (77885)
• United States
23 Sep
@LindaOHio He was really nice and just as funny in person.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
I would have loved to have met Soupy Sales. I loved his shows.
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@Fleura (27688)
• United Kingdom
22 Sep
I would have said no, but I guess that depends how famous someone needs to be to count. I have met Michael Palin (comic actor, TV personality and writer) at a charity event, and Peter Duncan (TV presenter, actor and director) in the theatre. I was taught by Professor Sir Richard Southern (inventor of the technique of separating DNA known as Southern blotting) and I have served lunch to the Sultan of Perak, Malaysia.
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@FourWalls (58889)
• United States
22 Sep
Michael Palin definitely counts in my book!!!!
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@Fleura (27688)
• United Kingdom
22 Sep
@FourWalls Oh good, at least one you have heard of!
I have met a few authors as well actually, but they are probably not well known. Colin Dexter probably the most widely known.
And one of our neighbours is John Dewey, a key proponent of the theory of plate tectonics (but I suspect he isn't well known outside the field of geology!)
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
That's very cool, especially serving the Sultan!
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@TheHorse (196087)
• Walnut Creek, California
23 Sep
@LindaOHio She was a PR person at a horse place where I volunteered when I lived In in Santa Barbara. I trained a certain horse (Fleetwood) not to be afraid of the wheel chair ramp for when we did a promo thingie at local "big money"' horse show. She was nice, and more "petite" than I expected her to be. She was pretty, but pretty in the way I call "pretty by lack of imperfection."
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
24 Sep
@TheHorse Interesting. At least she was nice.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
How did you manage to meet Bo? Was she a "10"?
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@porwest (70386)
• United States
12 Oct
Not really, and never in person. I did see Richard Moll and Jamie Farr in an airport once, but never "ran into" them. I have worked with several that I suppose in a way you could call celebrities, when I was editor of FrightNet as Ivan S. Graves. Peter Straub, who wrote The Talismnan with Stephen King. T.M. Wright. Douglas Clegg. Michael Laimo. Greg Kihn of the song "Jeopardy" fame (yep, he was also a horror writer).
That being said, I am not a giddy person when it comes to celebrities. I tend to simply view them as regular people that more people simply know about because of what they do.
Besides, like Cindi Lauper once said on an episode of The Celebrity Apprentice when one of the other celebrity contestants was fit to be tied with her when she told her, "You were my idol when I was a teen," "If you want your idols to remain idols never meet them in person." I think there's some truth to that.
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
12 Oct
I enjoyed meeting celebrities, especially the ones that turned out to be nice people in person. In fact, everyone was nice except Paul Peterson. He was a real pain. Hope you have a good evening!!!
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
12 Oct
@porwest He played Jeff Stone on the Donna Reed Show. You might not be old enough to remember him. This picture is close to the age when I met him.
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@porwest (70386)
• United States
12 Oct
@LindaOHio Never heard of Paul Peterson. Of course, if you tell me who he is I'll probably be like, oh, THAT guy. lol
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@snowy22315 (163304)
• United States
22 Sep
I have met politicians living near the DC area for many years. The only real celebrity I saw in passing was Patti Labelle. The most famous politicos I talked to were Bob Dole and Janet Reno.
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@snowy22315 (163304)
• United States
23 Sep
@LindaOHio I guess...usually politiicans are not everyone's favorite people. My parents once shared an elevator in London with the rock group Poison,
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
24 Sep
@snowy22315 That's interesting. Have a good day.
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@vandana7 (97760)
• India
23 Sep
Yes. I met Amitabh Bachchan and Bachchan was not famous back then...does that qualify as meeting celebrity...
Then Helen ..a dancer in our films.
Then Sharmila Tagore, and Saif Ali Khan and Shashi Kapoor. All actors.
Not as much fun as meeting Vijaya Rajadhyaksha ..a writer of some repute.
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@vandana7 (97760)
• India
23 Sep
@LindaOHio You too have a good weekend Linda. :)
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
23 Sep
That's very cool. I hope you have a good weekend.
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@dgobucks226 (33640)
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26 Sep
Bobby Vinton Mr. Roses are Red my love, cool! Guess Paul was not acting when he was playing Jeff on the Donna Reed Show. He was a smart a**.
I have met a couple of sports celebs up close. Chris Everett and Martina Navratilova were playing in tournament at the Meadowlands at the time and me and my family were having Sunday brunch at the hotel they were staying at. Definitely star struck!
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
26 Sep
Yes, that sums up Paul quite nicely. Cool that you met Chris and Martina. I love tennis. Have a good day.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (78397)
• Rupert, Idaho
26 Sep
I can't say I know any of those names...but that is cool you got to meet them. I went to a concert of a country musician back in the 90's and got to go backstage and meet him after the show. Daryle Singletary
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@MommyOfEli2013 (78397)
• Rupert, Idaho
26 Sep
@LindaOHio I don't even remember it. Just know the story and that I got his autograph
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@sharonelton (21413)
• Lichfield, England
25 Sep
I met Sue Rinaldi from Christian pop group Heartbeat, I met Gareth Gates, I met the members of another Christian rock band, I nearly met Rick Wakeman, but I was too nervous to say Hi so I just walked passed, and I was less than a metre away from Martin Smith from Delirious? at a concert at Alton Towers when he came up to the barrier. Also, when I went to see Delirious? in Wolverhampton, we found their tour bus and we were standing over the road from it singing Delirious? songs like "Find Me In The River" while splashing in the water that was running in the gutter and making utter fools of ourselves! Then, one by one, they came out of the tour bus, waved at us, and then went into the venue! They'd been in there watching our every move and we didn't realise it!
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@LindaOHio (139838)
• United States
25 Sep
Good stories! Those are the memories that you won't forget.
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