People Who Had Totally Random Celebrity Encounters (16 Pics)

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Running into a celebrity is one of those rare occasions for most people, especially if you don't live in a big city or near a film and TV hotspot like New York, Hollywood, or Los Angeles. Sure, there are events, meet and greets, book signings, and similar, but the actual chances of just bumping into a celebrity totally unplanned are slim to none.

In this post we have a collection of people who ran into a celebrity totally impromptu, giving them the surprise of their lives. I actually had one of these chance encounters a few years back in 2012 when I bumped into rapper Lil' Dicky on a beach in San Francisco. Heck, my dog even ended up in his Kickstarter video.

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“My dad with David Bowie on vacation in Greece, 1988”

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“My stepdad did the all the flight rigging for Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies. He’s 70 this year and still going, strong as an ox. This is him with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis.”

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“One time I saw Samuel L. Jackson at an airport and he saw me and my cousin hovering around trying to work up the courage to ask him for a photo and then he came over to us and said, ‘Y’all want a photo?’”

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“In 1983, I was chosen along with 3 other students to interview Ozzy Osbourne for Newsday/Kidsday newspaper in NYC.”

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“I was lucky enough to pull over Al Pacino.”

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“My grandfather (right) with Elvis Presley (left) in post-war Germany, late 1950s”

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“My uncle photobombing Jimmy Carter, 1980”

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“My roommate’s mom dated James Gandolfini for a while in the 1980s.”

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“Mid-to-late 1970s, my dad graduating from a class taught by Chuck Norris”

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“My grandmother was an interpreter for Chuck Norris”

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“My girlfriend’s mom met Al Pacino.”

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“My mom interviewing Mick Jagger and Brian Jones for Tiger Beat Magazine in the late 1960s”

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“My cool mom partying with Robin Williams and Billy Crystal in LA in 1982”

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“My grandfather with Elvis Presley”

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“Shaquille O’Neal lifting me up by the neck (realistically, my arm) 15 minutes prior to playing a game of football with him”

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“My grandma always used to tell us about this kid that would sing at the resort on her vacations in Hawaii. Turns out that kid was Bruno Mars. 1990”