Wholesome Stories Of Celebrities Being Nice In Real Life
I guess sometimes it IS okay to meet your idols.
Sometimes meeting your favorite celebrities is a let down, other times it shows that they are actually just as cool in person as you imagined in your head, and in lots of cases, just a normal person doing normal things. So here are stories shared from the BuzzFeed Community about meeting a famous person that are as wholesome as your grandma making freshly baked cookies.
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“A number of years ago I was visiting LA with my now husband and we went to a nice restaurant in Malibu overlooking the ocean. I was buzzed from the champagne when I excused myself for the lady’s room which was more like a luxurious lounge than a bathroom. I walk in and stop at the mirror to check my reflection when I see the woman next to me is Jennifer Aniston! She looks over and says how much she likes my top. Because I’m buzzed I find myself going on and on about where I found it, how much I paid, what I liked and disliked about it, etc. She laughed and talked about her favorite top and how she ruined it and how my top looked a lot like it. She immediately put me at ease and we chatted, in the lady’s lounge, for a good 20 minutes, about clothes and shopping…
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…she gave me some good recommendations as to where to go and not pay a fortune. I think we would have spoken even longer had her friend not come in to see if she was okay. When she left the restaurant she stopped by my table and said how much she enjoyed talking to me. What a truly genuine and nice person she is!”
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“Me and a friend were outside a studio in South Bank in London behind a metal fence because One Direction were meant to be there for Alan Carr. After waiting outside for hours on end HARRY STYLES comes over. He was so polite and chatty and took pictures through the fence with everyone. When I asked for an autograph I didn’t have a pen and neither did he. He smiled and walked away and then came back a while later and asked if I had a pen yet, I hadn’t so he went away again. I didn’t expect him to come back but he did, with a pen, and signed my poster. Seriously so sweet.”
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“The first time I met Kelly Clarkson I went up to her and just stuck out my hand and tried to introduce myself and she said, ‘Oh no! I don’t shake hands,’ and I was so embarrassed and sad that she was so rude… until she basically screamed, ‘YOU BETTA HUG ME, BOY! I’m a hugger, come here!’ We talked for a good four to five minutes about our tattoos and hobbies. She was so chill and down to earth and she hugged me about four to five times (so basically one per minute) every time we discovered we had something in common. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but the next three times I saw her in concert she waved to me each time, then I was fortunate enough to talk to her again and she was like, ‘HEY YOU! How ya been?!’ And was just as nice and told my sister she loved her name and asked her about her boots (which she borrowed from my mom and were from the ’70s), which Kelly loved the throwback boots. Awesome woman!”
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“I met Drew Barrymore on a beach in Hawaii. Some friends of ours were renting a house three doors down from hers and it shared a small semi-private beach. We swam around with her daughter for a long time and she is the coolest little girl. You can tell her mom is raising her to be down-to-earth, not a spoiled rich kid by any means, and has great social skills for her age. Drew just sat her stuff down with my friends, and wished my husband and me a happy belated honeymoon. She’s exactly as quirky and sweet as you’d wish her to be.”
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“My friends and I saw Christopher Meloni at a brewery in Cincinnati. When we asked for a picture I awkwardly tried to give my phone to one of his companions. He said, ‘Here, let me, this is called a selfie,’ and took a perfect picture of our group!”
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“I met Jason Momoa at a con while waiting for an elevator. My face did something stupid, apparently, because he deadpanned, ‘I’m not that guy — I’m just a really good cosplayer,’ and then (good-naturedly) cracked up. I was in a wheelchair, and he refused to let me wheel into the elevator on my own, and helped me out of it when we got to my floor as well. I ended up squeaking out a request for a…
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