Karen's Celebrity Encounters
Mine and Cesar's celebrity
encounters first started in 2007. Our first red carpet premiere was in Hollywood in June of that year when we attended
the star studded premiere of Ocean's 13.
The movie stars Brad Pitt,
George Clooney and Matt Damon and all were in attendance including Angelina Jolie who was there with Brad.
We were fortunate enough
to be in the front row and met all the stars. Since then we have attended numerous premieres, concerts and awards shows
and I have had my photo taken with over 100 of them and have had the stars sign various pieces of paraphernalia.
The nicest stars I have met
are George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Matt Damon, Def Leppard, Snow Patrol, Paris Hilton, Jesica Alba and Jensen Ackles.
The worst are Robin Williams
(not so much a funny man in real life!) Billy Idol, Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland. All either refused to sign or were
just plain rude!
Below is a summary of
recent meetings.
December 2nd 2008
Cesar and I attended a charity
auction at a gallery next door to the LA INK shop owned by Kat Von D. Kat had sketched numerous portraits of her boyfriend
Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue fame.
The tattoo artists were present,
Corey Miller and Hannah Aitchison as was Nikki. Tom Araya from Slayer was also there even though he denied he was
said person and a weird conversation with him ensued! He eventually admitted he was Tom and signed and posed for a photo
Kat was present but was busy
filming in the shop.
December 7th 2008
Knotts Berry Farm had the
group Puddle of Mudd performing a free acoustic concert for the holidays. They performed half a dozen songs including
their smash hit "Blurry" and songs from their new album. After the show the singer Wes Scantlin signed autographs and
posed for photos, we got a cd signed and I had my photo taken with Wes.
December 11th 2008
Cesar and I received tickets
to see Snow Patrol at a chat show. The band was performing an oudoor mini concert. Tom Cruise was also appearing
on the show and signed autographs. Unfortunately we were in line for the concert so missed out on Tom but we had met
him twice before. Cesar and I were front row centre for the concert, Snow Patrol performed five songs and ended with
an amazing performance of "Chasing Cars".
After the show we went to
the place we always go to try and get autographs and the guys didn't disappoint. The singer Gary and the keyboard player
Tom came over and signed cd's and index cards for us and I had my photo taken with both. The guys were really nice and
hung out for quite a while, it was a good night!
January 8th 2009
Cesar and I attended the
premiere of the movie "My Bloody Valentine 3D" starring Jensen Ackles of Supernatural fame. We had a great
evening, we got to hang out with the likes of Jensen, Jessica Alba and Paris Hilton.
All in all we had ten celebrities
sign and pose for photos, these people were: Jensen Ackles, Jessica Alba, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Kerr Smith, Jaime King,
Frank Miller, Corey Haim, Katy Perry and Bruce Vilanch.
Everyone was great and very
friendly and we even got a pair of souvenir 3D glasses from the movie!
January 28th 2009
We went to the Kimmel show
to see the band Disturbed. We were front row off to the right so had a really good view. The band performed half
a dozen songs and then signed autographs and posed for photos afterwards.
February 14th 2009
We attended the Hollywood
Collector's Convention in Burbank on Valentine's Day. Amongst the celebrities attending were Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds,
Tony Curtis and Eric Roberts. I chatted and got autographed photos from the above mentioned plus Joan Collins, Robert
Picardo, Richard Kiel and Sean Kenney.
All the celebrities were
very accomodating and polite if not a little quirky. Joan Collins had her own room to sign in, I was told this was due
to the fact that she did not want the flourescent lights on. She was apparantly also complainig a lot that it was either
too hot or cold for her.
Debbie Reynolds was lovely
if not a little out of it, she seemed almost in a trance.
Tony Curtis was nice, everyone
who has seen the photo of him and me keep remarking that they did not know he was still alive!
Eric Roberts gave me a 10
dollar refund so I only paid ten dollars for his signed photo and to have my photo taken with him, bargain!
Richard Kiel I was shocked
to see was in a wheelchair so I never got to see his enormous height, he was very nice.
Sean Kenney from Star Trek
told me he became an actor whilst serving in the airforce. He was sent to Harrow in the UK and met a woman who was trying
to become an actress. He would read lines with her and picked up the acting bug!
Kevin Sorbo, of Hercules
fame, was charging 30 dollars for a signed photo and 20 to have your photo taken with him, total rip off, I got Carrie
Fisher and Debbie Reynolds combined for the 50 dollars he was charging. I noticed his table never had much activity.
April 18th 2009
We went to Hollywood for
the Paley Festival at the Cinerama Dome. We were lucky enough to get into a Desperate Housewives event. There
we met James Denton (Mike) Kyle MacLachlan (Orson) Neal McDonough(Dave) Kathryn Joosten (Mrs. McCluskey and also the entertainment
reporter Terri Seymour.
April 25th 2009
We attended a Hollywood Convention
in Burbank. Amongst the celebrities were Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers) Erin Gray (Wilma from Buck Rogers) Tia
Carrere, Dawn Wells (Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island) and Richard Eden from the Robocop tv series.
May 30th 2009
We attended a charity yard
sale being held by Scott Baio and his wife. Amongst the atendees were, Scott, Jason Priestly, Larry Bird and Dannilynne,
Kristy Swanson, Doug Jones, Jeremy Jackson and the Clique Girlz.
We bought baby clothes which
had belonged to Scott's Baby, Jason's baby and Dannilynne (Anna Nicole Smith was her mum) We had the daddys sign them!
June 19th 2009
We attended an awards show
in Hollywood which was entitled "A Father's Day tribute to tv dads" This event featured famous dads from tv shows.
We managed to get Erin Moran, Jon Cryer, Bill Paxton, Adam Rich, Douglas Smith and Christine Lankin despite extra tight security.
June 27th 2009
We attended a free signing
by the Los Angeles Dodger James Loney at a BMW car dealership in LA. Cesar got him to sign a Dodger hat he had and we
were given a free photo for him to sign also. The car dealership also gave us free hot dogs (Dodger dogs!) and
soda whilst we were waiting, not a bad day!
July 18th 2009
We attended a convention
in Burbank. Amongst the celebrity attendees were Henry Winkler, Lou Ferigno, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Shannen Doherty,
Taylor Dayne, Davy Jones, Barry Williams, Chrstopher Knight, Susan Olsen, George Lazenby, Greg Evigan and Rosanna Arquette.
Henry Winkler was really
nice, he went around shaking everybody's hands whilst we were waiting in line and he wrote I was lovely on my photo, awwwww.
Lou Ferigno was HUGE!
His hands were like bear paws (so Cesar said!) He seemed shy though.
The Brady Bunch cast were
very chatty and eager to pose for photos and the Happy Days cast were all very nice especially Henry Winkler and Anson Williams
(Potsie).
August 1st 2009
We attended a celebrity golf
tournamnet held on Donald Trump's course in Malibu. The event was star studded and amongst the attendees were Don Johnson,
Michael Chiklis, Daniel Baldwin, Jonathan Banks, Rick Dees, Joe Mantegna, Ron Perlman and more. It was a lovely sunny
day, the golf course overlooked the ocean and it was a beautiful place. All the celebrities were very friendly and posed
for photos and signed autographs, some of them weren't too bad at playing golf either!
Don Johnson had a bit of
an attitude and said "Don't pull on me sweetheart" when I tugged his sleeve!
Rick Dees gave me an oven
glove which he signed "Karen, you are hot!" He also gave Cesar a t-shirt from his radio show.
Bailey Chase from Ugly Betty
managed to par his hole and when I congratulated him he said he had done it just for me...awwwww!
Michael Chiklis from the
Shield and Fantastic Four started speaking with an English accent (which was not good) when he heard me speak. He said
he liked spending time in England, obviously not enough judging by his accent attempt!
August 22nd 2009
We attended a classic car
show in Burbank and were pleased to see car enthusiast Jay Leno as a guest. He was happy to sign autographs and pose
for photos.
October 10th 2009
We attended the Hollywood
Show convention in Burbank. Amongst the celebrities in attendance were Sean Astin, Charisma Carpenter, Angela Cartwright,
Claudia Christian, Patrick Duffy, Richard Hatch, Margot Kidder, Peter Mayhew, Ray Park and Tiffany.
Everone was nice and friendly
especially Tiffany and Ray Parks (he happens to be English!) Ray asked me what I was doing in America and Cesar
told him he had kidnapped me to which he replied "That was a good kidnapping!"
Sean Astin heard my accent
and asked me what "shire" I was from referring to "Lord of the Rings" to which I replied "Yorkshire!" which he thought was
funny!.
Tiffany said she liked my
hair and said one of her favourite movies is "Calendar Girls" which is set in Yorkshire and asked me if all Yorkshire women
were like the characters in the movie!
November 11th 2009
We attended a dog adoption
event in Melrose, Hollywood. Amongst the attendees were Ed Begley Jr., Kelly Carlson, Jillian Clare, Carolyn Hennesy,
Greg Germann and Emmanuelle Vaugier. There were some really cute dogs up for adoption and I really wanted to take one
home but decided not to, maybe next time!
November 21st 2009
We attended the CNN Heroes
awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. We were lucky enough to get Terrence Howard, Felicity Huffman, William
H Macy and AnnaLynne Mccord before security told us not to approach the stars. Damned mall cops!
November 29th 2009
We attended the
Kodak Theatre for the show Dizzy Feet which featured stars from dance shows and movies. Amongst the people in attendance
were Mark Ballas, Lil C, Sheila E, Greg Evigan, Mitzi Gaynor, Robert Hoffman, Derek Hough, Rick Malambri, Gilles Marini, Matthew
Morrison, Kayla Radomski and Nick Zano.
February 13th 2010
The
first convention of 2010 we attended was the Hollywood Show in Burbank. Amongst the guests were Terminator stars
Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton and Robert Patrick. Also legendary stars Jane Russell, Ernest Borgnine and Richard Chamberlain.
We also got to meet Verne Troyer from the Austin Powers movies, Larry Hagman from Dallas fame, Lindsay Wagner from the Bionic
Woman and Stefanie Powers from Hart to Hart.
All the celebrities were
pleasant and approachable, Linda Hamilton grabbed my face and planted a kiss on my cheek. She said I had a lovely smile
and to keep on smiling, she was a lovely woman!
Robert Patrick was in a funny
mood and joked around with me (which Cesar did not like!)
Jane Russell exclaimed she
was eighty eight years old when I told her how good she looked!
Larry Hagman was sat in what
looked like a baby's high chair but adult sized, don't know if he had a disability, he was very friendly.
Stefanie Powers told me she
had a friend who owned a dance company in Yorkshire England when I told her I was from there. When she learned I was
English she began talking with a strange American/English accent, Cesar found this very amusing!
Verne Troyer was so tiny!
He told me he goes to England a lot for promotional purposes, I got a lot of comments on my English accent at this convention.
April 12th 2010
We went to see the band "Them
Crooked Vultures" which is a super group made up of Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin and
Josh Homme from Queens of the Stoneage. We were front row and the concert was very good, unfortunately the band would
not sign afterwards. The concert was at the Kimmel show and not all was lost as Nathan Fillion from "Castle" was there
and he was nice enough to sign autographs and pose for photos.
April 19th 2010
We attended a Cypress Hill
concert at the Kimmel show and met the band after the show, they were very nice and signed and posed for photos. Tom
Morello from Rage Against the Machine was also there playing with the band and he signed and posed for a photo as did rapper
Young De. I was also happy to meet Alex O'Loughlin from the show "Moonlight" and the upcoming movie "The Back Up Plan"
April 24th 2010
We attended the Hollywood
Show in Burbank. Amongst the celebrity guests we met were Emma Caulfield, Peter Fonda, Nicholas Hammond, Joe Lando,
Ralph Macchio, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal & Charlene Tilton.
All were extremely nice especially
Ryan O'Neal who was very down to earth and friendly unlike his daughter Tatum who was also there. We obtained a signed
photo from her but she would not pose for a photo with me! She would only pose for "professional photos" provided by
the venue.
Nicholas Hammond who played
Spiderman and was also in The Sound of Music was super nice, he had flown over from Australia to be at the show. Cesar
asked him if he could see through the eyes of the Spiderman suit and he said he could and that the lenses were tinted sunglasses.
He seemed genuinely surprised when we said we watched the Spiderman show when we were younger and said it meant a lot to him.
Charlene Tilton was very
chatty, she told me she had lived in Reading, England for a while and had done theatre and pantomime there. She said
she loved my glasses and the colour of my jacket!
Peter Fonda was a nice guy
he said he couldn't believe the Easy Rider movie was so long ago, he said he had more hair back then!
Joe Lando was nice, he asked
me where I was from and was shocked when I said England. Cesar told him the usual story that he had kidnapped me and
Joe said "I don't blame you!"
Ralph Macchio still looked
like he did when he was in The Karate Kid! He was a bit quiet, I don't think he has been in the limelight for a
while. Cesar asked him how he felt about the new Karate Kid movie and he said he didn't know, he hadn't seen it but
it should be interesting.
Emma Caulfield was nice,
she chatted about her time in Buffy and said she was doing something new.
May 12th 2010
We were out and about in
Hollywood and stumbled upon the cast of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition doing a charity event. Tracy Hutson, Ed Sanders
and Paul DiMeo were building a toy wood house outside of the Hollywood and Highland complex and all signed and posed
for a photo.
June 3rd 2010
We went to the Staples
Center for the first game of the Lakers v. Celtics final. We managed to get Donnie Wahlberg, Pat O'Brien and Rondell
Sheridan. We were snubbed by a myriad of stars including Sylvester Stallone and Stephen Spielberg. It is true
to say that if a celebrity is not working, i.e at a premiere or taping a chat show, they do not like to sign.
July 18th 2010
We went to a flea market
hosted by radio D.J Rick Dees. Some celebrities in attendance were Scott Elrod, Kiko Ellsworth, Boxer Mia St. John,
Jenilee Harrison, Peter Kwong, Ken Davitan, Ice from American Gladiators and Kate Linder. All were very nice and friendly
and signed autographs and posed for pictures.
July 31st 2010
We attended a
celebrity golf tournament at Donald Trump's course in Malibu. Amongst those in attendance were Stephen
Bauer, Chad Everett, Miguel Ferrer, Willie Gault, Robert Hays, George Lopez, Mil Mascaras, Neal McDonough, Jack McGee,
Brandon Molale, Michael Ironside, Ron Perlman, Travis Shultz, Gary Valentine, Granville Van Dusen, Mykelti Williamson and
Luke Wilson.
Everyone was very nice and
all signed and posed for photos, no divas here!
Rick Dees was also there
and he remembered my name from our meeting at his flea market a few weeks ago, don't know if that is a good or bad thing!
October 9th 2010
We attended the
Hollywood show in Burbank, amongst the celebrities attending were Mickey
Dolenz, Barbara Eden, Sherilyn Fenn, Tippi Hedren, Nastassja Kinski, Martin Klebba, Billy J. Kramer, Denny Laine,
Ali MacGraw, Dale Midkiff, David Naughton and Peter Tork.
Everyone was very nice and
friendly especially Ali MacGraw and Nastassja Kinski. Ali and I chatted about England as she detected my accent and
I also told her what lipstick to buy as she was complaining that hers doesn't stay on for long! She also told me that
I was a "very beautiful woman" nice!
Nastassja was very friendly,
she gave me a hug and asked me to kiss her after the photo op, my husband complained that she never asked him to kiss her!
Barbara Eden looked the same
as when she was in I dream of Jeannie and had a very bubbly personality.
David Naughton from An American
Werewolf in London was surprised when I said I was from the same area where the movie was filmed. He did the hand thing
from the movie where he looks at it when he begins to change into the werewolf, funny!
Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork
were goofy, exactly as you would expect a Monkee to be!
Sherilyn Fenn told us that
she had a bad back as "some idiot" threw her across the room when she was filming a cable show and so asked me to kneel down
next to her when I was having a photo taken with her.
Tippi Hedren seemed bored,
Dale Midkiff was chatty, Billy J. Kramer and Denny Laine were quiet and Martin Klebba was talking in an English accent when
he heard mine.
October 19th 2010
We met Richie Sambora from
Bon Jovi and A.J Buckley from CSI New York at the Grove in Hollywood. Richie was the sweetest guy and signed and posed
for photos with all the fans. He signed 3 cds and an index card for me! We saw A.J when we were leaving the Grove,
he was eating at a restaurant and was nice enough to sign an autograph and pose for a photo.
October 27th 2010
We attended a mini concert
performed by "A Perfect Circle" at the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Afterwards we got autographs and photos from the guitarist
Billy Howerdel and bassist Matt McJunkins.
February 21st 2011
We headed off to the Grove
in Hollywood to try and get one of my favourite bands, 30 Seconds to Mars. We were in luck as we ran into Shannon Leto
very quickly and he signed two of my cds and posed for a photo. Tomo Milicevic arrived next and we missed the opportunity
to get him as he walked very quickly away to an Italian restaurant so we waited outside. Whilst we were waiting I saw
Jared Leto walking towards us but he turned into the restaurant too before we could get to him. The guys were at the
Grove to do an interview for the tv show "Extra" so we waited around until they had done their bit and then went to our usual
place to try and get them on the way out.
Tomo came out first and he
was nice enough to stop and sign then pose for a photo. Shannon came past us next but we had already got him so we just
said thanks and we waved and smiled. Cesar then spotted Jared who was practically running so I headed him off, he had
no choice but to stop as I was in the way! I asked if he would sign my cd so he grabbed the cd and marker and started
walking quickly away with me having to run after him. He then turned around and gave me back the cd after he signed,
I asked if he would pose for a photo but he ignored me and ran to his car, charming! Luckily my hubby had managed to
get a photo of us together when Jared reached for the cd. Beforehand I had said to my hubby that Jared was pretentious
and a snob so I was surprised he even signed!
March 10th 2011
We attended the premiere
of Lincoln Lawyer which stars Matthew Mcconaughey and Ryan Phillippe. I managed to get a photo with Ryan even though
he was moving quickly down the line and said no photos to everyone. I used my "I came all the way from England" line
which got him to stop! I also managed to get a photo with Michael Pena who was very gracious. Matthew on the other
hand was somewhat of a diva and would not sign, he just moved down the line and would only shake hands with everyone.
May 7th 2011
Today was free comic book
day in LA and we stumbled across Walter Koenig, Chekhov from Star Trek, Wil Wheaton, Wesley Crusher from Star Trek Next Generation
and Tom Kenny (the voice of Spongebob) doing free signings so I was very happy!
July 16th 2011
We attended the LAPD celebrity
golf tournament at Donald Trump's course at Rancho Palos Verdes. The celebrities were mainly the same ones as last year
so it was a pretty poor showing. The main stars Luke Wilson and Angie Everhart did not show, probably blaming "Carmageddon"
the 405 shut down over that weekend. That was no excuse as we travelled from the valley which is the same distance and
using the same routes.
The celebrities that stuck
out were Paula Trickey who said that everyone on the O.C sucked except Peter Gallagher and another actress whom I can't remember.
She said the rest were very self centered and stuck up.
Erik Estrada seemed drunk,
well that was the general opinion and when I approached him he practically groped me and planted a big wet kiss on my cheek/neck,
my husband was not best pleased!
July 17th 2011
We attended the Hollywood
Show and the cast of Dynasty was there which was a treat for me as I avidly watched that show as a teenager.
I had a long chat with Gordon
Thompson who played Adam Carrington and he told me he was 38 when he got the part and was playing a 24 year old. He
said Joan Collins was not pleased he got the part as he was too old! She also told him that her feelings towards him
were not maternal!
Maxwell Caulfield who played
Miles Colby was there and he informed me he had been on the soap Emmerdale which is filmed near where I lived in England and
that he had performed at the Darlington Civic Theatre which is about 12 miles from my old home. I did not know any of
this and so it was nice to talk about home! It's a small world!
I also got to meet three
of the child stars from Willy Wonka and Julie Dawn Cole "Veruka Salt" told me that she knew the small town I was from in England
as she had friends there and had attended her friend's wedding, small world again!
Adrian Paul from Highlander
looked pretty much the same, he had not aged much and was very nice, Billy Zane was as pretentious as I imagined he would
be and was not in the best shape.
September 1st 2011
We ventured to the Grove
in Hollywood as Cesar wanted to get the Laker Ron Artest. Unfortunately he cancelled but we did spot Dancing With The
Stars dancer Tony Dovolani so the day was not all lost.
September 7th 2011
We went to see 30 Seconds
to Mars at San Manuel Indian casino and bumped into KROQ DJ Stryker who was hosting.
December 31st 2011
We ventured over to Hollywood
on New Year's Eve only to find out the Lakers were in town and there was a game that day. We figured we would hang around
outside the venue to celebrity spot and luckily we managed to spot three, Dyan Cannon, Xzibit and Mario Lopez so not
a bad end to the year!
January 8th 2012
We went to watch a Laker's
game and ran into Laker's assistant coach and former player Darvin Ham and also newscaster and former Green Bay Packer Jim
Hill.
February 11th 2012
We attended the February
Hollywood show and met a few stars from the movies and the small screen. Firstly we queued for David Soul, Paul
Michael Glaser and Antonio Fargas from Starsky and Hutch. The line was long and the wait longer. Fargas was the
first to sign for me, he was actually a lot younger looking and in better shape than I thought he would be. People
were commenting on the fact that he looked not much older than when he was on the show. He let me take a photo with
him even though the guys weren't supposed to (more about that later).
Next was David Soul who was
not in good shape, he was definitely the worst of the three and was wearing an ugly Hawaiin shirt. There were signs
on his table stating that he would not be taking photos at the table with fans. If you wanted a photo with him you had to
get a professional one taken and pay 40 dollars. That was extreme so I passed and instead my husband covertly tried
to get me in a photo with him which he succeeded in doing. David told me that he is a citizen in the UK and has
been living there for fifteen years to which I replied I was a citizen here and had been here eleven years, ironic.
Paul Michael Glaser was last
and the same rules applied with the photos so once again my husband tried to get me in a shot with him. Paul was okay
until he tried to sell me his children's book to which I said I didn't have any kids and he asked in a rather shirty manner
if I had neices or nephews to which I said no so he waved me away, charming.
The best of the rest were
the Star Wars cast members, Billy Dee Williams, Jeremy Bulloch and Richard LeParmentier who were all nice. Bulloch told
me that he'd had the chance to live in LA in the 80s after I told him I had been living here for eleven years. He said
he didn't want to as he had kids at the time and didn't want to be auditioning for roles.
Natasha Henstridge was nice,
Cesar told her that we watched her new show "The Secret Circle" and that she was really mean on the show. She said it
was the writer's fault and she was nice really! I was surprised at how tall she was when she stood to take a photo with
me.
Elizabeth Shannon was kooky,
looked like she'd had some work done on her face though which is a shame as she is still young.
Amber Benson who played Tara
on Buffy was only selling her new book and had one head shot photo, no Buffy photos which I thought was strange. She
took a photo with me although she said she wasn't supposed to, that seems to be the new mantra.
Olivia Brown and Saundra
Santiago from Miami Vice were sweethearts, Saundra said she had just taken the red eye from New York and was exhausted.
I took a photo with her and Olivia together.
Tom Feldon from Harry Potter
was funny, of course he was he is English! He kept calling me "my lovely" and we chatted about England, he seemed happy
to have another Brit to talk to.
May 8th 2012
We went to the Grove in Hollywood
and ran into Randy Jackson from American Idol and James Denton from Desperate Housewives fame. Both stopped to sin autographs
and take a photo with me.
July 28th 2012
We went to the Farmer's Classic
tennis tournament at UCLA and ran into former players Pam Shriver and Brad Gilbert who were commentating on matches, both
stopped to take photos with me.
August 4th 2012
We
attended the August Hollywood Show and met many stars of film and television. Ken Kerchaval, Steve Kanaly and Morgan Brittany
from the Dallas series were in attendance who were all very nice and chatty. Steve told me he
had family from England, Nottinghamshire. I think Morgan thought we didn't know who she was as she poined to her name
tag and said "that is me!" but we knew of course, who could forget her role as Katherine Wentworth in Dallas.
Alex
Meraz from Twilight looked bored when we went up to his table and was texting on his phone (very rude) but managed to put
it down and sign and take a photo. Todd Bridges from Diff'rent Strokes looked tired but was very nice and Taryn Manning
took a photo with me and told us she was going ot be in the next series of Hawaii five 0.
Christopher
Atkins from Blue Lagoon seemed mad at Brooke Shields as we told him that we had just seen the movie Retuen to Blue Lagoon
which he had a small part in and he said Brooke was asked to do it but she doesn't want anything to do with that movie
anymore. He then went on to say how the makers wanted to do a reunion a few years back and were going to fly them all
to the Island but she declined. He did not seem happy!!
Dean
Cain from Superman was sweet to everyone and took time to chat but Callum Blue from Smallville was the best. He is from England
and when he found out I was too he seemed very happy and admitted he was homesick especially as the Olympics were being held
in London where he is from. He seemed shocked that Cesar and I had been married for eight years and congratulated us
and said we were a cute couple.
August
11th 2012
We
attended a Rick Springfield concert and met the musicain Malina Moye who was very nice and signed and posed for photos after
the show. To meet Rick you had to pay for a meet and greet which was 300 dollars, I like the guy but not that much!
October
13th 2012
We attended a celebrity golf tournament in Los Angeles in October hosted
by the LAPD. Amongst the guests were Dolph Lundgren, Paula Abdul, Jack Nicholson, David Hasslehoff, Daryl Hannah, Vanessa
Marcil, Danny Masterson, C. Thomas Howell, Cheech Marin, Jake Johnson, The Bachelor Jake Pavelka, supermodel Joanna Kruppa
amongst others.
Jack Nicholson and David Hasslehoff obviously did not get the memo that they should be nice
to the fans as they ignored everyone and did their own thing. It was quite comical watching Jack and a group of autograph
hunters following him around trying to get any scraps he would throw and he ignored them the whole time.
The rest of the celebrities were very nice especially Dolph Lundgren, Rob Morrow, Jake Johnson
Daryl Hannah and Vanessa Marcil. Paula Abdul signed and posed for a photo with me but that was after I ignored a 400
pound six foot five police officer who was barking for everyone to stay away from her despite her wanting to sign. Yes
the police should be there for protection but some of them went overboard especially as the celebrities wanted to sign for
the fans. I noticed that too when a cop on a bicycle who was protecting Nicholson mowed down a fifteen year old
girl when the crowd went up to Jack after he had finished playing a hole. Her mother went crazy on the cop who
just ignored her and rode away, I would have taken his name and reported him. Anyway apart from overzealous cops and
some ignorant celebrities I had a great time!
December 4th 2012
We bumped into basketball player Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Scott Foley from the tv shows Survivor
and The Unit and Survivor host Jeff Probst at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. They were there for a Carole King event,
Jabbar was a jerk and wouldn't pose for a photo and actually glared at the camera but Scott and Jeff were lovely!
February 2nd 2013
We attended the LA Celebrity Show which was held in Hollywood and met celebrities
such as Barbara Eden, Claudia Wells, Holly Marie
Combs, John Saxton, Lesley Ann Warren, Linda Blair, Loni Anderson, Michael Pare, Morgan Fairchild and Tippi Hedren.
March 4th 2013
We attended a tennis
tournament in LA featuring Pete Sampras and Novak Djokovic and met David Walton from New Girl and Keenen Ivory Wayans
from In Living Color.
July 27th 2013
We attended a classic car show in Burbank and ran into
Mario Lopez and Jay Leno who both posed for photos with me, There were also cars from the movies there, namely cars from Batman,
Dukes of Hazard, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Entourage and Grease
August 4th 2013
We
attended a free concert at the Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills by the DOORS guitarist Robby Krieger and his new band.
We got to meet him after the show and he signed my DOORS greatest hits cd and took a photo with me. We had actually
left and gone back to the car before we met him as we were waiting with a few others at the back door and a snotty woman came
out and said he was not going to sign so we should all go. We waited a little longer and then went to get the car and
drove back around about ten minutes later and saw flashes going off. We ditched the car at the side of the road
and ran to the door and lo and behold Robby was signing. We know by experience that when we are told by their entourage
that the star will not be signing it is usually to thin the crowd and then they will come out. We were glad that we
went back as there are only two DOORS members left. Robby was not only the guitarist but actually wrote some of their
songs including my favourite Light My Fire.
August 10th 2013
We
were at a McDonalds in Burbank and ran into r&b singer/actor Trevor Jackson who's new single "Drop it" is being used
in the new McDonald's monopoly promotion. He also starred in the tv show Eureka on the Syfy channel for two seasons.
Trevor was there to promote his new single and we got him to sign a poster he was giving away and I took a photo with him.
Hopefully he will become the next big thing!
August 12th 2013
We
went to the premiere of The Mortal Instruments at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood as I found out that one of my favourite actors
Aidan Turner who was in the BBC version of Being Human and who was also Kili in the Hobbit would be attending.
We did not anticipate it to be a big premiere so were shocked when we got there and there
was already a hundred plus fans in line, we had to get a ticket as only the first 200 people were being let in. Anyway
we waited in line for a couple of hours and eventually got into the red carpet area but we were way at the back so decided
to leave and go to the back of the dome as sometimes celebrities go in that way.
We actually got a few going in to see regular movies,
Jeff Goldblum, Emmanuelle Chriqui from Entourage and Josh Sussman from Glee. We also saw Quinten Tarantino who
I approached and was told basically to go away and that I was intruding into his personal life! His exact words were
"I am trying to live my life, leave me alone sweetheart!" Hmm why would you go to a cinema that was showing a
premiere that night if you did not want to be approached? I think he wanted to be asked for his autograph just so he
could show off for the mutantly tall woman he had with him. He is a nasty man who looks a lot like Frankenstein up close
and personal. I told my husband we should have followed him into the movie he was going to see, sit behind him and throw
popcorn at him all night ha!
We waited until the premiere was over as I was determined
to get Aidan and thankfully I saw him sneaking out and approached him. I told him I was a fan of Being Human and that
made him stop and he said "Being Human eh?" as he probably wasn't expecting that, he then signed two Hobbit cards I had and
took a photo with me, Cesar asked him what he thought of the American version of Being Human and he said it was good. After
that he ran off telling people he was in a hurry so he only signed for me.
We also got Hunter from the group AFI who are on
the soundtrack, Molly Quinn from Castle and Bella Thorne from Shake it Up so all in all we had a good night!
October 7th 2013
We
went to see one of Cesar's favourite bands KORN at the Kimmel show, the guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer came into the alley
at the end of the show to sign autographs and pose for photos, he was very nice
October 12th 2013
We
hopped on over to the Hollywood and Highland as Hugh Jackman was having a charity event so we figured he must have some famous
friends who might show up! The only A lister we managed to get was Terrence Howard who had signed for me a few years
ago, he always seems like he never wants to stop but does. We saw him wandering around later on in the evening with
a woman companion and they were making out near an elevator! We think he was slightly drunk as he was staggering slightly.
We also met Darren Criss from Glee, Nathan Parsons from General Hospital, Lorenzo Lamas, Nigel Lythgoe from So you think you
can dance and showbiz reporter Jeanne Wolf who were all nice.
November 19th 2013
We
went to the Jimmy Kimmel show to see Daughtry as it was my birthday! Chris signed 3 cds after the show and I took a
blank birthday card with me and he signed that too. He also took a photo with me and wished me a happy birthday.
Afterwards we stumbled upon the end of a premiere which we found out later was for the Disney movie Frozen. We saw the
pros going after some people and found out they were Jonathan Groff from the movie and Stefanie Scott from Disney's A.N.T
Farm so I got my photo taken with the both of them. Jonathan was walking away and said no at first then I badgered him
and told him it was my birthday, he said he didn't believe me so I said I would show him my driving license! He
then said okay to the photo as I was persistent, ha. It was a super night!
March 22nd 2014
We
attended a Q&A session featuring stars from the tv shows The Vampire Diaries and the Originals. The main three actors
from The Vampire Diaries Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev were in attendance. Paul and Nina signed after
the event and Ian did although not many and I did not get my dvd signed by him. Most of the Originals appeared and signed
after the event except Charles Michael Davis and Daniel Gilles who only signed for a few people.
April 26th 2014
We ran into Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul
Ryan on our last day of vacation in Hawaii at Duke's in Waikiki! He was very nice and took photos with the patrons even
though he is a Republican!
May 25th 2014
We went to a Greek festival and ran into Bobby Shriver
the brother of Maria Shriver who is running for superintendent of Los Angeles. He was very nice and took a photo with
me.
May 31st 2014
We attended the annual LAPD golf tournament which this
year was held at a golf course in Pasadena. Dennis Quaid was this years host and a bevvy of stars from the world of sports
and film attended. We were lucky enough to meet nineteen people whom we have not met before and eight repeats.
Amongst the new celebrities were Dennis Quaid, Teri Hatcher, Bruce McGill, C.S. Lee, Anne-Marie Johnson, Danny Boy from House
of Pain, Nyambi Nyambi, Phillip P. Keene, Richard Karn, Najee De Tiege, Dennis Haysbert, Carl Weathers, Danny Trejo and
sporting stars Oscar de la Hoya, Jason and Jarron Collins, Grant Fuhr, Willie Gault and Tito Ortiz.
Oscar de la Hoya picked me out to make his shot for
him on the ninth hole! He said if I made it he would give me ringside tickets to a fight he was promoting in Vegas on
July 12th, my hubby nearly fainted on the spot! I missed the first shot as I was playing with his left handed putter
so I was given a righty instead and just missed the second go, everyone including Oscar thought it was in and I think he felt
bad so gave me another go and bingo, it went in! Oscar high fived me and walked back to my hubby with me and we gave Oscar
our details and he said someone from his company will be contacting us, it has been 3 days and we are still waiting!
All in all it was a great day, I got 19 new people and
27 in all with people we already had, cannot wait until next year!
June 8th 2014
We attended the annual Cops for tots car show held
by the LAPD at the Police Academy in LA. We ran into the ABC News traffic reporter Alysha Del Valle who was busy modelling
in front of the cars but she took a photo with me and told me I smelled so good! We also met and took photos with Matt
Burch and Froylan "Froy" Tercero from Operation Repo. We had met Sonia Pizarro also from Operation Repo the week before
at the LAPD celebrity golf tournament.
July 12th 2014
We went to Vegas for the Canello vs. Lara fight with
the free tickets Oscar de la Hoya gave us! All in all we saw about 10 fights as the show started at 2pm and ended after
10pm, the main fight was at about 7:30pm. we had awesome seats and had a thoroughly great time. There were a few
celebrities at the fight including Mike Tyson but he did not let anyone near him and the Mexican goalie from the World Cup.
We met some boxers after the fight including Badou Jack, Ishe Smith, Robert Garcia, Mikey Garcia plus boxing mogul Sam Watson
and Big Boy from Power 106.
November 10th 2014
We went to the Jimmy Kimmel show to see one of my childhood
bands Spandau Ballet! Tony Hadley and Gary Kemp came out to sign before the concert and then Martin Kemp and Steve Norman
came out after the show to sign my cd. The guys were really sweet and chatty and I spoke to Tony about England!
Afterwards we went over to the Kodak theatre as there was a premiere
on and as we were waiting for it to finish a guy came up to me and gave me his wristband to get into the after party at the
Roosevelt Hotel! I didn't go as Cesar wouldn't have been able to get in and I did not want to go in by myself!
Cesar kept saying I should go in and get him some food hehehe. Afterwards I thought we should have sold it to someone
who was waiting outside but that was when I got home so missed out! We also ran into the local ABC 7 news reporter Elex
Michaelson who was covering a story at the Kodak so I got a photo with him. All in all it was a good night.
