Anybody else got like,, rlly random connections to famous ppl?? Like my older brothers were friends w Jennifer Lawrence when they were like 12 and I just found out I’m friends w the cousin of the girl who voiced honey lemon in big hero six like, idk what I’m supposed to do with either of these tid bits I feel like I was supposed to live my life in ignorance of them
my granda was in the IRA
my dad catered a party for Taylor Swift’s parents and heard her sing when she was like 10 I think
My cousin is dating the older brother of the lead actress in the new Pacific rim movie.
My coworker’s brother is college roommates with Matt Damon’s nephew
My great-grandmother was in a play with Basil Rathbone
My mom sat next to John Wayne on an airplane once and asked him to sign her Bible.
My 8th grade science teacher’s daughter was an actress and did those “Disney 411” bits. Hilary Duff slept over their house one time.
Oh! Just remembered! A substitute biology teacher in 8th grade spent an entire period gushing about his daughter, the actress. She was the brunette, glasses-wearing girl in the 2002 Spider-Man film who told Peter “don’t even think about it” on the bus.
I sang in a church choir with Lady Gaga’s uncle. My mom says he makes really strong pomegranate martinis.
My mom grew up next to Wayne Gretzsky’s wife’s grandmother.
so many, given what my mom does for a living, but i think my favorite truly random one is that i used to be kinda friendly with steve buscemi’s wife because she was good buddies with my boss at the time, and i met him a couple times
my mom got trapped on an elevator in philadelphia with robert redford.
my dad helped anderson cooper on a project in the early 2000s and helped with an event linda tripp was involved with
my great grandpa was also in the ira and one time my mom had tea with christian bale at his own house without realizing who he was
my grandpa worked for a high-end mens’ clothing store and sold suits to a ton of famous people… nixon, salvador dali… he knew cary grant really well, as in cary grant had his home phone number in case of any clothing emergencies.
also my dad sat behind mia farrow at mass once! it was in the midst of the whole woody allen court case and she wore sunglasses the whole time. they did the sign of peace.
My high school biology teacher went to school with Tom Hanks
My friends mom had a prosthetic mold of Matt Damon’s hand in the kitchen. Though thats because she worked in the industry, but i got to see matt Damon’s fake hand.
I have lots from working in film for that 2-3 year stint of my life (including: Jonathan Rhys Daives getting into an argument with me about sheep while we were both having a beer, ray liota awkwardly rubbing my shaved head, giving Selma Blair a gift for her baby, having oddly dad-esque conversations with David Hasslehoff) but out of all of these the one that always makes me ??? at myself cause the world is weird is this one time I was working on a fashion shoot at this mansion and it turned out it was Grimes’ mom’s house.
Oh also I have an actress I worked on a show with on my facebook and she randomly likes my posts sometimes and shes like… one of those actresses you have never heard of but has been in 200 things so you have Seen her. Oh also the female members of Mother Mother have worn my clothes, I forgot about that.
My brother is friends with Voltaire’s son Mars (the musician Voltaire, otherwise that would be really fucking odd), and my mom was hit on by Walter Koenig and James Doohan back when she worked at the local Trekkie conventions. Her boss at the time also lost a bet to James Doohan over a baseball game.
my high school math teacher is friends with the band Fun. like her husband went to college and is friends with Andrew Dost. they played at their wedding
My mom served Shaq in a burger king once; or rather, as a 5'2" woman, she says she served his belly button.
when I was in middle school I met gordon ramsey in the grand canyon parking lot and he was nice as hell
m. night shyamalan plays basketball with his buddies at the gym on the campus where my dad works. where my dad used to work, kenny chesney’s dad was on the athletic department staff.
I have had sex with the grandson of L. Ron Hubbard
My mom was in the Bahamas on her senior class trip and found out her sister was pregnant. She ran through the hotel and onto the beach shouting, “It’s a boy! It’s a boy!”
She sees Sean Connery on the beach (I’m assuming he was there while filming “Thunderball”) and she runs right up to him and goes, “JAMES, IT’S A BOY!”
My dad drank a bar in LA with Harry Dean Stanton.
My niece’s step-dad was a drummer with Nickelback
My dad met the Queen when he was a kid in the 50′s
A Nigerian man wrote a book that my grandfather was featured in, I can’t remember the title for the life of me tho
In the midst of losing my virginity on a sofa in Minneapolis, a punk band, fresh from their gig at the 7th street entry, walks into the house where my dude was living, turns on the lights and goes, “whoops sorry” then all troop upstairs to the room where they were sleeping. The band turned out to be Green Day. I never met them but my friend who was with them that night, said they were all super nice guys.
My great uncle had a scene in The Good Shepherd because Robert De Niro saw him and personally chose him to be in his film.
My friend dated the drummer in Dave Matthews Band. I’ve met him and was with her when he Facetimed her so I’ve technically facetimed with him
I went to school with Hillary Burton’s younger brother.
I worked for Alicia Silverstone’s mother-in-law.
I went to High School with one of the guys that did Super Troopers
Ed Herrmann (RIP) bought me a Jameson, neat, when he learned that I liked Irish whiskey, at the Purple Pub in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was as charming and polite as many of his characters.
More randomly: I went to high school with Suzanne Vega’s cousin.
I went to college with Lindsay Lohan’s fencing double from The Parent Trap.
My fiancé is two degrees away from Kevin Bacon.
