re: Celebrity story you viewed first hand.

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Taking an elevator up to the Casino floor with GF (no pics), doors open: BOOM! Sugar Ray Leonard RIGHT THERE for some reason -- looking shocked. No one else nearby. I immediately recognized him and said hello, extending my hand to shake his; he looked toward his two bodyguards as if asking with his eyes whether it was ok. And he did. Immediate Impression: Much smaller in person. No small talk.

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I met Sugar Ray Leonard at the airport in Syracuse. I said hi, Champ, he acknowledged my greeting and that was the extent of our interaction. He had two rather large gentlemen flanking him on either side.

Unfortunately my best story is a near miss. One night in about 1983 a friend asked me if I wanted to go see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in some small club in Phoenix. I declined because I had to study (probably the only time I let studying get in the way of anything). He ended up partying with them on their tour bus all night.

When I was a waiter I did however wait on Linda Ronstadt and her band one time and Doc Severnson another.

Summer of 2006 I just graduated high school and me and some buddies went to Seaside for vacation. We go out to the beach one day with an ice chest of beer and there is a man near 70 and another in his 40s sitting in chairs next to us. The man has a Saints visor on so we start shooting the shite

As time passes that day we end up getting shite faced together. His wife was playing with the young kids and she was pissed at him

Anyway, this continues for like 5 days. One night him and what turns out to be his father in law asked up to join them at Red Bar and we listened to music and drank together. We legit were bromance buds for a week

The last day I asked him what he did for a living :

New Saints head coach.

Yep, when he said his name was Sean I never thought anything of it and didn’t really recognize him at all at first because it wasn’t a big deal at the time

And when him and his wife got divorced years later it all made sense. They were always kissed at each other that trip

Funny thing to when we were out at red bar nobody came up and noticed him at all. So strange to think about now

My BIL was working a movie set that I got to be an extra in that Minka Kelly was staring in. Super friendly and approachable. Even more of a babe in real life.

Played golf at Bel-Air CC and Mike Dunleavy joined us on the back 9 then for dinner. Good dude. Thinks LeBron is a b and MJ is goat.

Met Bill Ackman on the floor of the NY stock exchange. Seemed like a pretty normal dude talking about how he had to go home and take care of his new baby who wasn’t sleeping. Had a pretty killer IWC pilot on.

Started pouring down rain at the PGA at Shoal Creek and I was running scorecards with my best friend at the time. Bottom drops out while we are xeroxing the cards, and in comes Jack, Arnie and Gary Player. So it was just us 5 in there for about 6-7 minutes. They were as nice as could be and signed autographs and just shot the shite. My dad was so jealous.

Sat next to Harvey Weinstein and Dennis hopper and Jeff Zucker at the Apollo Theater in NYC seeing the Gorillaz. Harvey was as obnoxious as you would imagine.

Got to go meet Wayne Gretzky underneath Bridgestone at a Preds game. He was super pissed that the Coyotes had lost. Very competitive dude. Saw Jeremy Roenig too, then a few months later ran in to him on a golf course in Simi Valley.

Watched Auburn win the natty in Vegas with Horry in 2010

The Rock was shooting a movie nearby and started coming into my gym early in the mornings (5am) before filming.

One day I was doing dumbbell bench presses and he came over to ask if he could borrow them when I was done. They were 70lbs. He took them from me and started doing bicep curls lol

I was like DAMN

He’s a super nice guy but much shorter in person than he looks on tv.

Christopher Plummer came to eat where I was working years ago. I did not serve him but he was very nice and quiet. He didn’t want any attention and was polite. He tipped the waitress well. The rest of the movie crew was at the bar and they were rowdy, but fun.

I went to IMG academies so I’m a bit skewed here but I went to Maria Sharapova’s 18th birthday party. She had won Wimbledon the summer before.
Worked out with Anna K as a 15 year old.
Played knock out with Vince Carter in 2005
Played golf with Freddy Adu still the largest calves I’ve ever seen on a human
Paula Creamer and I are still friends
Smoked cigars with Anthony Mackie recently

Does hearing Skip grumble something motivational at his baseball camp in the 80s count? I bet lots of us can claim that.

He's 5'11"