Admittedly, in times when trash TV à la “Summer House of the Stars” or that jungle camp boom, one can argue about the term celebrity. Who is that? Never heard. Do you have to know them? But regardless of which Z celebrity or which glamor girl is shoving the fried kangaroo testicles into her mouth in the Australian jungle in lascivious disgust: yes, they still exist. The real celebrities. Faces or voices that almost everyone knows. The following thread from @suedallee and his followers tells of the strangest and nicest encounters with these famous people. Would you like autographs?
“The next one is on me,” said the young man, who asked me for a cigarette in English. “He easily passed as an Orlando Bloom double,” I told my husband that evening. The paper says Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry were in town for four days. No punchline.
— Hai 5 ???? (@suedallee) November 29, 2022
“Sorry!” reeves loudly from the crowd
I ran into Keanu Reeves in a crowd of people in front of a cinema in Berlin & he apologised. My girlfriend still hates me for it to this day. ????
— Icy Sky (@IcySky666) November 29, 2022
Off to the special train to Pankow
I was once sitting in Waren (M.) in the café next to Udo Lindenberg & found it impossible that people all stared at him. I then said aloud, “Can you please go on? All of us here just want to have a cup of coffee in peace.” When he then thanked me, I only noticed who was sitting there.
— Susan Bach (from the Home Office) November 29, 2022
S’ Gwandl does it Mandl
Mick Jagger was at the sausage stand in Vienna and the people in the photo with him didn’t recognize him. Only when it was in the newspaper. ????
— Ally Auner stands with Ukraine. ???????? (she/her) (@glamgeekgirl) November 29, 2022
Are you es?
Every once in a while someone who looks like Ben Kingsley shows up at my local bar. Even though he always denies it, I’m now sure he is.
He also only speaks English
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— Schnuppsi (@Schnuppsi) November 30, 2022
The litter box at the apartment door finally gave him away
My niece lives in Berlin and amusedly wrote in the family chat that she runs into Helge Schneider from time to time.
Until she found out he lives in her house. ^^
— Kante (@broaaaa) November 30, 2022
Kingsman – The red Ampel
I once went through a pedestrian traffic light in Böblingen when it was red and a black SUV with tinted windows had to be put on the brakes. Ralph Fiennes got out of the back, pointed a sift at me and shouted “Crucio”
— AI generated rampage (@komoediantin) November 30, 2022
In Her Majesty’s jogging suit
Pierce Brosnan once met me while jogging along the Baltic Sea on Usedom; it was cold, almost dark, snowing lightly, both with woolen hats, I looked at him in surprise, he grinned friendly and disappeared into the bar of the hotel where I was vacationing. I kept walking…
— Hedda Liedtke (@HeddaLiedtke) November 30, 2022
He certainly has his regular urinal there
At the Cologne airport, my husband came out of the men’s toilet and just said, “I think there was an actor standing next to me at the urinal!”. When said left the toilet, it turned out: it was Henning Baum ????
— *Conny* (@_ConnyB_) November 30, 2022
Film shoot or private?
In 2014 I was in Venice with my boyfriend. All hell broke loose on this large square with the church because a bridal couple came out of the church just after the wedding. The next day we read – it was George Clooney…
— Food for the first time (@food for the first time) November 30, 2022
His voice is and remains simply unmistakable
I asked a dog walker on the beach in Mallorca if the jellyfish in the sea are dangerous.
Only when he answered and I heard his voice did I realize that Martin Semmelrogge was standing in front of me.
“Nope. They just pinch a bit, the critters.”— ☕ (@RitaEnkle) November 30, 2022
Doesn’t he rather drive scooters?
I was recently standing at the intersection in Hamburg and said to my husband: Look, the gentleman in the car looks like HP Baxxter (English vintage car with right-hand drive). If he turns, let’s look at the license plate: it’s HP Baxxter. Like in a comic ????
— DiePinkeSo (@NasenbaerinSP) November 30, 2022
Walk carefully over seven bridges
My girlfriend once almost knocked over a very small man at Mallorca Airport because she urgently needed to go to the toilet. When she came back I said to her: “Congratulations, you almost killed Peter Maffay” ????
— Oliver Gehrung (@Liedermacher100) November 30, 2022
Didn’t he hold? (sorry!)
I’m on the phone around town. Greet an old acquaintance in passing. He kindly waved back. 10 minutes later I realized that I had greeted Manuel Neuer in a friendly way. ????????
— Menuka (@taracindy) November 30, 2022
Gandalf! ❤️
A few years ago I was walking along Mönckebergstraße in Hamburg and I had this weird thing with an older gentleman where you try to avoid each other at the same time, but at the same time you are in each other’s way and I had a Lord of the Rings shirt
— officially Gwen (@gwennoschmenno) November 29, 2022
and we tried to avoid each other but it didn’t work and I was totally confused and he pats me on the shoulder, says loudly and dramatically “You shall not pass!” laughs and moves on and I thought at that moment that this was strange to me looked familiar and
— officially Gwen (@gwennoschmenno) November 29, 2022
It took me a moment to realize that it was actually Sir Ian McKellen. He was in Hamburg for a film festival. I ran after him and even got an autograph. It was super cool.
— officially Gwen (@gwennoschmenno) November 29, 2022
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