What's the closest you are to a famous person?

"Rainbow" (rainbeaux) 06/18/2018 at 07:19 • Filed to: None

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As far as I’m aware, my closest link is that my first girlfriend’s family was good friends with Bonnie Zacherle, the inventor of the My Little Pony toys. I’m sure there’s someone more important that I’m not aware of, though.

Also interesting is that my grandpa’s good friend was on the Carpathia when it rescued the Titanic survivors.

But anyway, what about you guys? Does anyone know someone big on a personal level?

Edit: just remembered I went to middle school with the son of a member of Heatwave. I can’t remember who though.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 07:31

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Nowhere near celebrity... hopefully far enough back to avoid standing with my back to the wall when the revolution comes.

Berang > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 07:31

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jackie chan is my dad

Wobbles the Mind > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 07:44

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Im the biggest celebrity I know but I don’t really follow my work.

Svend > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 07:53

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The only famous person I know my family are related to is on my mother and grand father’s side, Laughton. The actor Charles Laughton is my great great uncle. He played Qasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and King Henry VIII is a couple of films but the film I enjoyed the most was when he played Sir Simon de Canterville, the ghost in The Canterville Ghost.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 07:57

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My grandfather painted the cover art for some board game back in the 60's that was put out by one of the big companies like Milton-Bradley

Spanfeller is a twat > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:06

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I personally know Mario Dominguez, the indicar driver but I think thats it

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:06

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I net Billy Mays a week before he overdosed and have seen Colbert multiple times in person

FSI > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:06

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I’m probably a descendant of Toussaint Charbonneau, the husband of Sacagawea.

shop-teacher > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:07

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My grandfather knew Bob Lutz back in the day.

I once met Mr. T at the car wash. This is back when the A-Team was still on the air, I was 5-years old. He was getting his red Rolls washed. His license plate was “MR T”

I was a huge A-Team fan, so I went up and talked to him. I can’t remember what he said, but he was nice to me.

Yeah, that’s about it.

Chinny Raccoon > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:18

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No one super famous. I do a lot of work for a UK TV presenters mum. A friend of mine is an old friend of one of the Houser brothers (can’t remember which). His parents were rocking 60's/70's London, so they’ve got some good stories.

Nibby > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 08:47

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one of my family friends wrote a book and was in the news a few years ago

i cannot speak more cause then it’ll be getting too close to home

one of my high school friends was a hall of fame NHL player’s daughter

Maxima Speed > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:20

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Ha ha ha haaa................... absolutely no one.

Captain of the Enterprise > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:22

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I met the mayor of Detroit one time.

Camshaft Chris: Skyline/McLaren/Porsche Fanboy > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:25

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Not sure of any relations by blood. But as far as family friends, my grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and new Fred Rogers (aka Mr. Rogers) really well, since he too was a Presbyterian minister. Then my mom went to high school with Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish fame (as well as his own solo career fame). And my dad sold the Trans Am he restored to one of the guys in Umphrey’s McGee, and they’ve become pretty good friends bonding over their love of Trans Ams.

bob and john > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:30

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my mom went to elementary and high school with Nadia Comaneci, the first gymnistt to get a perfect 10 in the olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci

smobgirl > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:50

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I taught at Kesha’s high school marching band...but not her section. And I know or taught a bunch of people who make a living playing music but none of them are radio famous...yet.

Urambo Tauro > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 09:57

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No real connections that I can think of, but my father once met Vince Gill & Amy Grant at a basketball game.

ttyymmnn > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 10:07

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On my mother’s side, I am related to Martha Washington (George Washington’s wife) and Calvin Coolidge. “Silent Cal” was famous for saying “The business of America is business,” his naps, and staring out the window. When informed of Coolidge’s death, the satirist and wit Dorothy Parker said, “How can they tell?”

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 10:11

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I have way more connections to niche “people of note” than I do to people who are traditionally famous in the general population. I have an uncle who’s good friends with a number of influential folk musicians (not quite the same thing as famous), I knew a girl who knows Warren Haynes, my dad’s cousin started a major biotech company, an uncle of mine was buddies with a Beach Boy, another uncle is famous... in South Korea, a friend of my dad knows Ray Stevens pretty well, my dad knew Billy Graham, and so on and so on.

I’ve met and chatted with fame at cons, but that’s not really the same thing. Mark Meer, Christopher Judge, Sylvester McCoy, Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson...

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 10:12

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I’m told by my grandmother that we’re descendants of Brigham Young. Of course the dude had 56 kids, so we probably all are.

fintail > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 10:26

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I live a little over 2 miles from Bill Gates, that’s kind of close.

thejustache > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 10:29

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On a family level we have nobody famous unless you go back far enough that we’re related to Teddy Roosevelt. On a personal level as a musician I’ve gotten to know a decent amount of folk & bluegrass musicians that are big in what they do, but as they say bluegrass famous ain’t famous (or I’m out standing in my field). A few mentions in rolling stone, a guest spot on the tonight show once etc kind of famous, but still fun the couple of times a coworker or friend asks if I’ve heard of some band and I’m like “Oh yeah, I know them”. Other than that I met Saun White once when I was big into snowboarding, and have stood a few feet away from Travis Pastrana two different years at Climb to the Clouds. I had every opportunity to say hi, but both times I’ve been like what reason do I have to do so and what am I going to say that he hasn’t heard a million times from other fans?

RPM esq. > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:02

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The closest I come is probably that my uncle is a reasonably well-known artist. Otherwise, I knew Macklemore in high school (we went to different schools but had mutual friends), and my sister’s high school boyfriend went on to be a lottery pick in the NBA.

Some good one-off encounters too: Joe Perry from Aerosmith bought me a drink once, I sat next to E-40 on a plane (he drank red wine, which is perfect), and I played ping-pong with Marshawn Lynch.

E39, K5. Whatever it takes. > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:11

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Good friends with musician Liz Phair.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:28

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Recently at a restaurant I sat two tables over from Ron Rivera, head coach of the Carolina Panthers. I tried to ignore him, because I’m sure that’s what I’d want in his position. I’m sure I’ve been in similar situations with other pro athletes, but I didn’t recognize them.

Because of my work I have interacted with local politicians, some of who have gone on to national prominence, but who wouldn’t know me. Similarly, I went to middle school with a girl who went on to become a somewhat well-known movie actress.

This is kind of fun, and I could probably think of more, but my take-away is that the connections that we have with famous people show that they are all human, they live in the world, not *completely* apart from the rest of us, and it is kind of a small world.

Dusty Ventures > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:28

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I’m on a first name basis with the big names in North American rallying (Ken, Travis, etc). Beyond that, Wilt Chamberlain was my second or third cousin though I never got to meet him.

bob and john > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:33

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OH YEA, and if you got back far enough, APPERENTLY, I’m related to Vlad the impaler.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:49

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A friend used to do the hair of a ton of celebrities in Hollywood (last I checked, he still does, but it’s not the style of Angelinos to talk about it). When I lived in Los Angeles, I’m sure I came in contact with more famous people than I realized; we don’t really make any light of it there.

Family-wise, many branches have been involved in a lot of interesting stuff just outside of direct visibility. One of my cousins shows up in movie credits all the time, my father had a very strange job for about a decade in the 1980s-1990s, etc. We’re notorious behind-the-scenes people to the point that my dad (totally social and technically inept) was pushed into it when he was in high school because so many people at high high school knew the family name and assumed they were all that way. I’ve done tech stuff for large events as well.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 11:56

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My semi-distant cousin is a fairly well known figure skater who, let’s just say, almost had a bad knee injury a couple decades ago.

I’ve got a few others, but that’s probably the most relevant one that doesn’t involve just meeting/hanging out with widely known peoples.

feather-throttle-not-hair > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 14:02

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A dude i’ve been playing Forza with for like 6 years turned out to be Bob Hall, the guy credited with creating the original Miata.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rainbow 06/18/2018 at 14:20

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I’ve met Michael J Fox and Tony Shalhoub. My Mom has had Meg Ryan, Livingston Taylor, and the Farrelly brothers as clients. My sister spent an afternoon with the Obama girls. I live somewhere $$$.

Captain of the Enterprise > smobgirl 06/18/2018 at 17:38

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Yay for marching band. I marched and played Trombone in high school.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Rainbow 06/20/2018 at 18:28

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My dad went to highschool with the little brother of Kevin Cronin aka the lead singer of R.E.O. Speedwagon and would regularly eat dinner at their house. apparently hes now a meteorologist in wisconsin (the little brother that is)