How celebrity-adjacent are you?

Not even remotely, especially when it comes to actual celebrities

I'm a complete nonentity, and I like it that way

Assuming you're not a celebrity yourself.

Not a celebrity myself, but I have worked with some very famous names. I guess I'm about as adjacent as you can get. And I want to stay that way, so I'm not naming any names...

Acquainted with some / good friends with people who know several - so about 1 degree of separation.

The guy next door had a horse that was in a movie. I guess that she'd count as a celebrity. Elliot Page was in the same movie, back when her name was Ellen. I used to let her graze on my property. The horse, that is, not Ellen.

One or two degrees of separation, via a long time friend who is quite wealthy, from several celebrities, mostly B list and below but one or two A listers.

Several. My family has been in the business since the 50s.

Several of my best friends are good friends with Melissa Errico. EXCITING, right?!

Somewhat from friends and sports

My friend’s uncle is married to Candice Bergen. The actress, not the piece of shit Canadian politician.

I am an entertainment reporter in Los Angeles; I've met them all.

Some are nice. Some aren't. I wish I hadn't met some; I wouldn't trade meeting others for anything.

Social media has been a game changer; everyone's a reporter now. It's not the same. I won't do this much longer, I fear.

R11 Do you ever post any good gossip for us?

I’m the great grandson of a fairly famous Impressionist painter (whom I will not name).

My dad used to play tennis all the time with Fess Parker at his house in Santa Barbara. That's the only connection to an actor I think I have.

Do local weathergirls count?

If so, then I'm non-adjacent.

R10 Candice bergen is a lesbian. Your friend is likely gay if his uncle is gay.

I've always aspired to be a local weather girl and a Avon saleswoman, but it has been difficult because I'm a 69 year old man

A friend of mine won an Emmy in a category nobody cares about.

1 degree of separation from Joan Crawford

My Dad grew up and went to school with Albert Finney, they sort of kept in touch until my Dad died 20 years ago.

A friend from my early adulthood had attended the Queen's Christmas parties as a child, and his parents had attended the Queen's wedding.

A great grand uncle was the business partner of a very famous Broadway star of the early 20th century.

My pawnbroker boyfriend once took me to Merv Griffin's home in Trousdale Estates. .. And yes, Merv was wearing a kaftan.

While they went off to conduct some pawn business in another room, I sat at the dining room table with two shirtless rent boys. There was a third one in a tank top and short-shorts cooking out in the kitchen.

Needless to say, I felt overdressed for the occasion.

It's never too late, R17.

I have several friends and acquaintances in common with Tony Shalhoub. I only very slightly know him.

My stepbrother is a hairdresser to the stars. He invented a very famous hairdo for a TV character in the 90s.

I have worked with some very famous people in Los Angeles; sometimes these famous people did not want to stay and work with me. So I would get a court decree forcing them to stay.

The only 2 fights I ever got into in grade school were both sons of prominent mobsters. The principal was like you 2 should be friends and not fight. So he invited me over for a sleep over. My mom said over her dead body was going associate with those people. “But mom, they have a bowling alley in the basement !” didnt cut any ice with mom.

R25, the Rachel?

I blew Richard Speck.

I saw Barbra Streisand in concert once.

Fart adjacent. Because I can't give 2 shits.

I’m in California right now.

R24, please tell Tony I love him.

I live in a fancy building in West Hollywood.

Literally adjacent.

My best friend s related to a silent movie star who had a cameo in “Sunset Boulevard.”

Does regularly boning a television executive count? Probably not.

My mom babysat someone who later was a founding member of an American rock band who saw considerable success in the 80's and 90's.

Somewhat adjacent, because I've worked at non-public schools with celebs' kids (Timmy Brando, for one). I've met Gary Cole a few times.

I also met several celebs when I worked and lived in Studio City. Bed, Bath and Beyond seems to be their favorite store, for some reason.

My brother's friend has a dad who was in a 60s one hit wonder band

I met one of Al Gore's daughters (briefly) at a political event. Also briefly met former PA governor Ed Rendell at an event.

I met DL faves Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki at a convention

Went to high school with someone who was on a Netflix show (not in a major role, though)

I shook Bradley Whitford's hand

I know, mine are pretty lame

Very.

They are just people with jobs.

Many and nice, many are narcissistic and empty.

Most comedians I've ever met are nothing at all like their stage/screen personas. Many are palpably depressive and when they switch "on" it's a creepy transition and a sad one to see.

Very. However, it’s only to one celebrity but it’s been that way for over 30 years. Great paying gig, but can be stressful and demanding at times. I guess I’ll stay attached until one of us dies.

One of my 9th-grade English students is currently playing in the NBA. He was bright and a well-mannered nice kid.

I was on Jeopardy in 2002.

Somewhat. I'm a published writer. Nothing you would have heard of but i do get people asking me to sign their copies.

I used to work in Hampstead in London, which is popular with many celebrities. I saw lots of famous people just doing normal things, like shopping. Judi Dench struck me as having beautiful manners. They aren’t special, they are just well known.

Yes George Michael thanked me after I cranked him off on the heath.

I’ve stood in line at stage doors and events to meet actors and get their autographs, but that just makes me a fan.

[quote]the Rachel?

Yes, R25.

I attended the wrap party for Matt Sterling's porn classic "Spring Break."

They'd shot several of the scenes at my landlord's house. .. At that time, I lived in the guest house on the property, and while no scenes were filmed there, they'd taken over the common areas of the property, so we were all invited to the BBQ party to make up for the disruption. (This was back in the day when porn films took multiple days to film.) That final scene with the guy in the sling was filmed inside our garage, which they'd totally transformed into some kind of leather den. .. I couldn't do my laundry that day... lo!

One of my grandfather 's distant cousins adopted a boy who married Anita Bryant's aunt. No blood relation to me at all.

I was a call boy in LA for a minute and drilled a couple top line young producers.

I responded this morning but don't see it now. Weird. Anyway, I have several friends and acquaintances in common with Tony Shalhoub. I do not know him well at all but we've met a few times.

R50 I see it at R24?

I testified in court against Muriel. I had to enter the witness protection programme. That's close enough.

I know somebody who manages actors. I’ve met several of her clients. You’ve heard of them. A few are DL faves.

I've had disappearing posts as well

I'm friends with an extremely famous and praised for his methods Actor's adult children. As a clue, the actor has three names, oh, and their mother is also famous, she's a writer and director who comes from very famous lineage as well. I'm very close with a once Warhol superstar who has a son who still makes music and was recently up for a Grammyhe's won several of them over the years himself.

My best friend's husband, long dead, was a cousin of Patsy Cline.

I made Paula Deen laugh in a restaurant in New Orleans when I told her "they use a lot of butter here."

without being in new york or california, i might be considered exceptionally adjacent. sometimes i see my birthday noted on world of wonder.

For those who are connected, why can’t we get any good gossip anymore? It’s an anonymous board.

Bob Costas: pees sitting down

I know someone very high up in media circles. I get really good gossip. You would know him. He is very very connected and specializes in investigative pieces. I spill his info all the time on here. Lots of uk Goss especially the elite.

Clint Eastwood of all people.

This was about 40 years ago. I had more contact with Sondra Locke.

Eastwood was a humorless asshole.

I'm no star collector, or scene queen, but have certainly met quite a few famous people. I do have a costume designer friend who has given me some close proximity to several Hollywood figures, but that doesn't imply I've hung out with them socially. I've posted some quite harmless gossip here over the years however.

My sister once dated a former boyfriend and "almost fiancé" of Shannon Dougherty. He was a wealthy Greek heir to something or other.

My closest mate in the US was in the band The Dwarves

I've met Jada Pinkett Smith, John Mahoney, Alyssa Milano, Paloma Picasso, Lucien Freud, Ivan Boesky and his daughter, Julian Schnabel and his wife, David Hockney, and the French artist and filmmaker known as Unglee.

I've also met several more obscure pro athletes, and their WAGS.

I've also had SEVERAL female friends who have shagged innumerable rock stars over the past thirty years or so.

One of my neighbour's sons was a secret service member who guarded Geo W. I also know quite well one of his former speechwriters. She's provided me with a number of interesting takes on Laura Bush, as they got on quite well.

Growing up, I knew a girl who dated one of the band members in Cheap Trick, but I forget which one!

For a time, my costume designer friend's father managed Cheap Trick, amongst other notable bands.

I'm not really sure if this indeed qualifies as adjacent, but I think quite possibly so.

I forgot to add I've also met Timothy Leary in the 80s at a conference.

Playwright and screenwriter here, and a NYC resident for more than two decades. I know and have worked with a lot of bold-faced names. And have run into many such people randomly at functions and on the street and in the park. I'll never forget walking past Heath Ledger on 8th Avenue in midtown. The man literally glowed with charisma. What a loss.

Sex also makes strange bedfellows. I regret not taking up two offers with older gents that would have gotten me to dinners with some great people who are now gone. Ah, youth.

New Yorkers, especially Manhattanites, mostly do not realize there are celebrities in their midst almost all the time. They expect stars to be dressed to the nines and have entourages with them and paparazzi, when in truth they are likely just to be walking around like everyone else, though often with sunglasses. I wonder how much the stars liked all the masks. Let them be anonymous on the street again.

My great uncle was one of Helen Lawson's chorus boys. He was in Hit the Sky when Helen had Neely O'Hara shitcanned.

I've forgotten to mention that I once had the great displeasure selling some artwork to Judy Collins. Not a very nice lady, and I'm using that term very loosely.

Related marriage to Rick Perry

Once related by marriage to Gish sisters

R65 that's interesting you say that because I have family in Burbank and they say that "celebrities" are around all the time as well, you just don't really recognize them because they don't look like they do on-screen. My cousin worked in voice recording (he was part of a team that would record character voices for animated films and also voice-over recordings for live-action films and commercials) and almost every time they recorded some big celebrity, they looked absolutely nothing like they do when they're in a movie or on the red-carpet. The one I remember my cousin talking about was Geena Davis. She was practically unrecognizable to him without her glam/red carpet look.

On topic, while I am not celebrity adjacent, my cousin above definitely was (he no longer works in the industry). His father (my uncle) was a producer of animated films in Burbank/Hollywood so he also had regular interactions with the celebrity crowd. My uncle always said his least favorite part of his job was interacting with famous acting talent. However, he never really got into the "glam" part of Hollywood so he was never really star struck. I've posted a lot of gossip on here that I've heard from them throughout the years.

And although I am not celebrity adjacent, I am adjacent to a number of wealthy friends from families whose names are on products and services that are widely used across the globe. So while they're not celebrities in the Hollywood way, their names are definitely celebrated commercially by the public. There's really no gossip about them though, because they're really just boring people with everyday lives; they're just financially loaded.

5th gen Hollywood. When you see a movie star, you know it.

Bette and Robert Osborne at The Hamlet having dinner, customers pissed themselves.

C’mon, who knows Barry Weiss from Storage Wars? Anyone? He fascinates me.

I stepped on Gary Coleman once.

Robert Redford played my 2nd cousin in a film in the 70s

I drove Georgia Engel home from Sizzler in 1982.

My father went to school with Bing Crosby's sons. Apparently they were hellions. Bellarmine College Preparatory. My father being a poor boy had a scholarship. My mother worked in California as a PR person for a time and met Mel Torme , Bob Hope, and Richard Nixon among others.

And would that be "the Rachel" R25?

My godfather used to work in the music industry, and now works in the film industry. I occasionally share things that can’t be traced to him, because they’re usually pretty specific. He mostly likes to talk about producer and deals. He’s told me weeks before mass firings happen at different studios. He has been referred to as a Hollywood heavy hitter.

Barely at all.

Grew up in a house down the road from a world-famous name-brand racehorse stable & training centre, and also a world-famous brewery. A few classic 60s & 70s rockstars retired and lived out there last days in the same county, within hiking/cycling distance of where I lived.

My white Brit younger male cousin plays professional rugby for Duba! (yes they have a team, no I don’t know why), and the games he starts in are sometimes televised, so I suppose that’s a type of fame in the minds of sports fans. His father (my uncle) knows and works with many celebrities, though, as he works as a stunt coordinator in big movies shot in UAE—he’s met and driven for Tammy, Vin, Ye...

Oh, and my Arab BIL is technically some kind of Turkish royalty once-removed on his mother’s side. There’s a Crown Prince a handful of generations back in his lineage.

R62 was Sondra a lesbian? I ask because she admits she never had sex with her husband. I find that odd.

Years ago I read that Joan Crawford at one time lived in Lawton, Oklahoma when she was a child because her step father ran a local theater. Her former address was published so I googled it. In the early 60's our family rented a shabby house a few houses down from that said address. I remember that house very well because it had an enclosed screened front porch and seemed to me to be the nicest house on the block. It made a big impression on me even though I was only 2 - 4 years old at the time.

I know pro skater P-Rod's former nanny.