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<h2>&quot;Celebrities...they&#39;re just like us,&quot; sort of?</h2><p>Hanging out with your friends at a restaurant and looking over at the next booth to see a movie star casually crushing a burger is normal in some cities, but when you&#39;re at a diner in a small town in the middle of the night, it can be an exciting and confusing experience. Anyone who has ever worked in customer service is familiar with at least one celebrity sighting whether it was just seeing their name come up on an order or having to serve their birthday party dishes that are not on the menu. Watch out, celebs, or you&#39;ll end up getting roasted on a waiter&#39;s TikTok for not leaving a decent tip.</p><p>While it&#39;s polite not to disturb someone&#39;s dinner or shopping experience by asking for a photo and an autograph, if a conversation happens naturally it&#39;ll definitely become one of your featured stories at future dinner parties. So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/npvjlm/who_is_the_most_famous_person_youve_spoken_to/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;Who is the most famous person you&rsquo;ve spoken to?&quot; people were ready to share stories of when they had a casual chat with a celebrity.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy Fieri... I was drunk, barhopping, it&#39;s like 10 pm and I&#39;m walking along to the next bar...and I&#39;m like, that guy looks like Guy Fieri. He&#39;s walking towards me. So as we pass, I give him a 2nd look and I&#39;m like, that guy actually really does look like Guy Fieri!</p> <p>So I pass him, and a second later I decide...there is no way that guy isn&#39;t Guy Fieri. So I turn around and shout &quot;hey, you&#39;re Guy Fieri!&quot; and he turns around and he&#39;s like &quot;yeah!&quot; and I respond &quot;that&#39;s cool!&quot; then I turn back and continue to where I was going because I realized I didn&#39;t really have anything more to say to him other than that...</p> <p>He was by himself too. No entourage, no crowd. Nothing. I guess he might have been scouting out food spots in the area or something. - xisnotx</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Neil Armstrong. I was at the NASA Museum at Cape Canaveral (British tourist) but I also happened to be a teacher. They have an Educators Only section, 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. - VorlongKing</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>Stan Lee. Met him at Comic-Con and the line to meet him got delayed because he took a nap - ineedaname-please</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was seeing a Broadway show with my mom in 1992. At intermission she found me in the downstairs lobby and excitedly said, &ldquo;I just saw Meryl Streep in the bathroom.&rdquo;</p> <p>I said &ldquo;Please tell me you didn&rsquo;t say anything to her and you just left her alone.&rdquo;</p> <p>She said, &ldquo;I was very good, and didn&rsquo;t say anything. Look, here she comes now.&rdquo;</p> <p>And I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad you didn&rsquo;t say anything to her...because that&rsquo;s Glenn Close.&rdquo; - TeddyBearRoosevelt</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I spoke with Bill Murray and his 4 or 5 boys (can&rsquo;t remember). I took their order when I worked at in-n-out burger.</p> <p>He was still the coolest dude in person. When they left after eating he turned towards me and gave me a sort of salute-wave - centraloragain</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Paul Rudd. At a convention. I gave him a cupcake. I&#39;d like to think he ate it. - JonSpangler</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>I made a ham sandwich for Larry Bird, twice.</p> <p>&ldquo;Mayo, mustard or hot peppers Mr. Bird?.&rdquo; - Bratney-Jo</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Amy Lee from Evanescence.</p> <p>I was working first aid at a gig and she came out after the show and started chatting to us while we were waiting for the venue to empty out and get the all clear to pack up our post.</p> <p>She was genuinely shocked to learn I was only 15 or 16 and gave me a hug &ldquo;for all my work helping their fans&rdquo;. - Voxael</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>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&#39;t think it was him since I wasn&#39;t in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn&#39;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, &quot;Has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead?&quot; He replied, &quot;I <em>am</em> the guy from Shaun of the Dead.&quot; - -EDgAR</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Gordon Ramsay told me to f*ck off after I said I prefer Jamie Oliver - PlantLeast</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>Shaq. Twice. Both at Universal Studios, once when I was on vacation there when I was 14 and then again when I lived in Orlando and I was 28. Very nice dude both times. - discostu81</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Jack Black! Was staying at a hotel I used to work at - RAM_592</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>George Clooney. I pissed him off by telling him he was great as Batman. He did not like that. -Allenrw3</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Bill Gates. Worked at Tulip computers back in the day and he was our biggest business partner. You know, computers coming up and Windows as an operating system. Genuinely nice guy and always greeted everyone.</p> <p>Was on a first name basis with him, he didn&#39;t want me to call him &quot;Mr Gates&quot; because it was too formal. Good memories of that place. - _Zyneh</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work at a resort were celebs would occasionally stay. Among the people I served were Brian Cranston, David Sedaris, the Avett Brothers, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Bruce Johnston from the Beach Boys, random U.S. Senators and professional athletes, and probably a lot of other people I didn&#39;t recognize. Each and every one of them were extremely kind with no trace of ego. Although some only ordered room service, and I understand that J-Lo was a bit of a diva, and James Franco can be sketchy af. I heard that Jerry Seinfeld was actually quite friendly. - Bokb3o</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Robin Williams.</p> <p>I was at Disneyland for the first time (I was like 4) and I was there with my mom and her friend. As we were getting on the Indiana Jones ride I got in the front behind the steering wheel and my mom sat next to me, Robin Williams cuts my mom&#39;s friend and sits behind me and puts a hand on my shoulder and leans over and asks me,</p> <p>&quot;Do you know how to drive this thing?&quot;</p> <p>I didn&#39;t know who he was at the time, my mom told me when I was older. - Betty_Is_Alone</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>Conan O&#39; 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 &quot;Well, I guess I don&#39;t need to check your ID.&quot; He said &quot;That&#39;s sweet&quot;, and chuckled. He tipped me $10 too. - lostintime2021</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Carrie Fisher was a dream to talk to even though it was so brief. She was ridiculously kind and caring and the world is a darker place without her in it. - Cheese_BasedLifeform</p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>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. - mox44ah</p> </blockquote><h2>20.</h2><blockquote> <p>Emma Watson. I worked at a store on Thayer Street in Providence, RI when she went to Brown. I also worked on the same street at my cousins pizza place that she loved. So I literally would see and talk to her multiple times a week! Super nice, quiet and polite. This was also the time where she would have a male friend go out with her and speak for her bc as soon as she opened her mouth you knew it was Hermione Granger from a mile away - Tokey_Loki</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>21.</h2><blockquote> <p>Eddie Izzard. (I&rsquo;m not 100% clear on the pronouns here so I&rsquo;m going to use &ldquo;they&rdquo;)</p> <p>Chatted to them after a stand up show. They asked me what&rsquo;s cool in the city and where is a good place to get a drink.</p> <p>My stupid dorky-21-year-old-queer-goth-self completely missed the opportunity to say &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll show you!&rdquo; and I got nervous and ran away instead. - DreyaNova</p> </blockquote><h2>22.</h2><blockquote> <p>I talked to Nicolas cage at a beach resort a decade ago. It was hard to notice him as he was in casual wear and didn&#39;t really stick out. - KGhaleon</p> </blockquote><h2>23.</h2><blockquote> <p>Danny DeVito. Was coincidentally standing behind his daughter Lucy DeVito in a line at McDonalds and out of nowhere Danny himself shows up right behind me walking up to his daughter. I was too scared to have a real conversation with him, so I simply yelled &quot;HELLO DANNY DEVITO&quot; at the top of my lungs to attract attention. He proceeded to yell hello back to me, and was then swarmed by the rest of the people in the restaurant because, you know, he&#39;s Danny DeVito. - Jayteabbott</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

23 people share stories of the most famous person they've ever spoken to.

&quot;Celebrities...they&#39;re just like us,&quot; sort of?Hanging out with your friends at a restaurant and looking over at the next booth to see a movie star casually crushing a burger is normal in some cities, but when you&#39;re at a diner in a small town in the middle of the night, it can be an exciting and confusing experience. Anyone who has ever worked in customer service is familiar with at least one celebrity sighting whether it was just seeing their name come up on an order or having to serve their birthday party dishes that are not on the menu. Watch out, celebs, or you&#39;ll end up getting roasted on a waiter&#39;s TikTok for not leaving a decent tip.While it&#39;s polite not to disturb someone&#39;s dinner or shopping experience by asking for a photo and an autograph, if a conversation happens naturally it&#39;ll definitely become one of your featured stories at future dinner parties. So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;Who is the most famous person you&rsquo;ve spoken to?&quot; people were ready to share stories of when they had a casual chat with a celebrity.1. Guy Fieri... I was drunk, barhopping, it&#39;s like 10 pm and I&#39;m walking along to the next bar...and I&#39;m like, that guy looks like Guy Fieri. He&#39;s walking towards me. So as we pass, I give him a 2nd look and I&#39;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&#39;t Guy Fieri. So I turn around and shout &quot;hey, you&#39;re Guy Fieri!&quot; and he turns around and he&#39;s like &quot;yeah!&quot; and I respond &quot;that&#39;s cool!&quot; then I turn back and continue to where I was going because I realized I didn&#39;t really have anything more to say to him other than that... He was by himself too. No entourage, no crowd. Nothing. I guess he might have been scouting out food spots in the area or something. - xisnotx 2. Neil Armstrong. I was at the NASA Museum at Cape Canaveral (British tourist) but I also happened to be a teacher. They have an Educators Only section, 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. - VorlongKing 3. Stan Lee. Met him at Comic-Con and the line to meet him got delayed because he took a nap - ineedaname-please 4. I was seeing a Broadway show with my mom in 1992. At intermission she found me in the downstairs lobby and excitedly said, &ldquo;I just saw Meryl Streep in the bathroom.&rdquo; I said &ldquo;Please tell me you didn&rsquo;t say anything to her and you just left her alone.&rdquo; She said, &ldquo;I was very good, and didn&rsquo;t say anything. Look, here she comes now.&rdquo; And I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad you didn&rsquo;t say anything to her...because that&rsquo;s Glenn Close.&rdquo; - TeddyBearRoosevelt 5. I spoke with Bill Murray and his 4 or 5 boys (can&rsquo;t remember). I took their order when I worked at in-n-out burger. He was still the coolest dude in person. When they left after eating he turned towards me and gave me a sort of salute-wave - centraloragain 6. Paul Rudd. At a convention. I gave him a cupcake. I&#39;d like to think he ate it. - JonSpangler 7. I made a ham sandwich for Larry Bird, twice. &ldquo;Mayo, mustard or hot peppers Mr. Bird?.&rdquo; - Bratney-Jo 8. Amy Lee from Evanescence. I was working first aid at a gig and she came out after the show and started chatting to us while we were waiting for the venue to empty out and get the all clear to pack up our post. She was genuinely shocked to learn I was only 15 or 16 and gave me a hug &ldquo;for all my work helping their fans&rdquo;. - Voxael 9. 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&#39;t think it was him since I wasn&#39;t in the UK and as far as I knew he wasn&#39;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, &quot;Has anyone told you that you look like the guy from Shaun of the Dead?&quot; He replied, &quot;I am the guy from Shaun of the Dead.&quot; - -EDgAR 10. Gordon Ramsay told me to f*ck off after I said I prefer Jamie Oliver - PlantLeast 11. Shaq. Twice. Both at Universal Studios, once when I was on vacation there when I was 14 and then again when I lived in Orlando and I was 28. Very nice dude both times. - discostu81 12. Jack Black! Was staying at a hotel I used to work at - RAM_592 13. George Clooney. I pissed him off by telling him he was great as Batman. He did not like that. -Allenrw3 14. Bill Gates. Worked at Tulip computers back in the day and he was our biggest business partner. You know, computers coming up and Windows as an operating system. Genuinely nice guy and always greeted everyone. Was on a first name basis with him, he didn&#39;t want me to call him &quot;Mr Gates&quot; because it was too formal. Good memories of that place. - _Zyneh 15. I used to work at a resort were celebs would occasionally stay. Among the people I served were Brian Cranston, David Sedaris, the Avett Brothers, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Bruce Johnston from the Beach Boys, random U.S. Senators and professional athletes, and probably a lot of other people I didn&#39;t recognize. Each and every one of them were extremely kind with no trace of ego. Although some only ordered room service, and I understand that J-Lo was a bit of a diva, and James Franco can be sketchy af. I heard that Jerry Seinfeld was actually quite friendly. - Bokb3o 16. Robin Williams. I was at Disneyland for the first time (I was like 4) and I was there with my mom and her friend. As we were getting on the Indiana Jones ride I got in the front behind the steering wheel and my mom sat next to me, Robin Williams cuts my mom&#39;s friend and sits behind me and puts a hand on my shoulder and leans over and asks me, &quot;Do you know how to drive this thing?&quot; I didn&#39;t know who he was at the time, my mom told me when I was older. - Betty_Is_Alone 17. Conan O&#39; 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 &quot;Well, I guess I don&#39;t need to check your ID.&quot; He said &quot;That&#39;s sweet&quot;, and chuckled. He tipped me $10 too. - lostintime2021 18. Carrie Fisher was a dream to talk to even though it was so brief. She was ridiculously kind and caring and the world is a darker place without her in it. - Cheese_BasedLifeform 19. 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. - mox44ah 20. Emma Watson. I worked at a store on Thayer Street in Providence, RI when she went to Brown. I also worked on the same street at my cousins pizza place that she loved. So I literally would see and talk to her multiple times a week! Super nice, quiet and polite. This was also the time where she would have a male friend go out with her and speak for her bc as soon as she opened her mouth you knew it was Hermione Granger from a mile away - Tokey_Loki 21. Eddie Izzard. (I&rsquo;m not 100% clear on the pronouns here so I&rsquo;m going to use &ldquo;they&rdquo;) Chatted to them after a stand up show. They asked me what&rsquo;s cool in the city and where is a good place to get a drink. My stupid dorky-21-year-old-queer-goth-self completely missed the opportunity to say &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll show you!&rdquo; and I got nervous and ran away instead. - DreyaNova 22. I talked to Nicolas cage at a beach resort a decade ago. It was hard to notice him as he was in casual wear and didn&#39;t really stick out. - KGhaleon 23. Danny DeVito. Was coincidentally standing behind his daughter Lucy DeVito in a line at McDonalds and out of nowhere Danny himself shows up right behind me walking up to his daughter. I was too scared to have a real conversation with him, so I simply yelled &quot;HELLO DANNY DEVITO&quot; at the top of my lungs to attract attention. He proceeded to yell hello back to me, and was then swarmed by the rest of the people in the restaurant because, you know, he&#39;s Danny DeVito. - Jayteabbott 

&quot;Celebrities...they&#39;re just like us,&quot; sort of?  Hanging out with your friends at a restaurant and looking over at the next booth to see a movie star casually crushing a burger is normal in some cities, but when you&#39;re at...