One of the subjects on The Daily Post was to talk about your first encounter with a celebrity… (you caught me; I went a few weeks back to find a fun one)… To be honest, I can’t for the life of me remember my very first encounter… so I’ll tell you about all of them!
Growing up, I had this huge obsession with meeting celebrities — and when I say “growing up,” I have to come clean… I still do.
Anyhoo, I feel like more celebrities held more free meet & greets than they do today, so I used to meet my favorites all the time.
Not in any order:
1) Avril Lavigne- Southpark Mall, OH: She held a free concert inside the mall and then, before getting on her tour bus, signed autographs for the (handful of) fans waiting outside of it (guilty). She was rather rude.
2) Ryan Cabrera- Southpark Mall, OH: He, too, held a free concert. After the show, if you purchased his new CD, you were able to stand in line and get his autograph and a picture. He was stuck up.
3) The Click Five- Southpark Mall, OH: This was probably my sophomore year of high school and one of my best friends and I went and listened to their show (awesome), bought a CD and had them sign it afterwards. They were so nice!
4) The Click Five- Southpark Mall, OH: This was probably two years after the previous time. They fired their old lead singer (as pictured above) and replaced him with a new one (pictured below.) My cousin and I met them and they were so super nice and awesome! They invited us to their show at HOB later that night and we went there too! And met them again after! They even invited us on their tour bus! We declined *slaps head* what were we thinking?
5) Teddy Geiger- House of Blues, OH: This was my first Teddy Geiger concert but my only time meeting him. After the show, he stuck around to meet his fans. I asked him out for coffee (I was 15). He agreed. My friends wouldn’t let me because they didn’t believe me. They pulled me to leave. As we were walking out the door, Teddy yelled “Hey, where are you going? I thought we were going out!” My friends will never hear the end of it (going on 6 years).
6) Trevor Crowe- Giant Eagle, North Olmsted: I love baseball, I love the Indians. You knew this already. I also love any chance to meet a player. Last year I went and embarrassed myself by going to the Trevor Crowe meet and greet. How did I embarrass myself, you ask. Well, I was an intern for the Indians last summer and I still went down to be a crazy fan. People I worked with saw me and made fun of me for quite some time. Totally worth it.
7) Tucker Max – Legacy Village, OH: I found out my then-favorite author, Tucker Max, was coming to do a signing for his book “Assholes Finish First.” Ok, if you have read that or “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell,” you know this guy is a total doucher, right? Wrong. In person he was, well, normal. Guys in the audience would stand up (he spoke for about a half hour before the signing) and would yell “You’re my hero! Because of you, I don’t believe in love!” And Tucker would reply, “Dude, I never told you not to believe in love,” and so on and so forth. He actually was decent, friendly and almost really nice. I was afraid he’d make fun of me or something went I went up to meet him, but he didn’t. The girl in front of me asked him to rate her (read his books if you don’t get that) and he did… Let’s just say he is honest.
As of right now, those are the only celebrity encounters I can think of. As I think of more, I promise I will keep you posted!
DREAM BIG 