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I knew Robert Pattinson about 15 years ago. Nice guy, friendly, a lot of fun to be with. He lived by himself in the centre of Soho, London, in a tiny one-bed flat that I think he felt like the romantic vision of a starving artist, or at least wanted to.
He had a weird side. He’d say random, violent, depraved things. He was obsessed with Jack Nicholson. He never really gave a f-ck, he had confidence and he was always himself, and he knew he could be deliberately contradictory and he used that as a personality trope. But he was a good guy, and I get the impression he’s very comfortable with himself now that he has developed his career, that he acts very well, and that he can pick and choose his roles based upon what he wants to do and who he wants to work with.
Twilight for him was always a means to an end, and I think he worked it very much to his benefit, and didn’t compromise himself. —DaveBrubeckQuartet
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Bruno Mars’s mom was a bartender at a local karaoke dive bar that I was a regular at.
At the time, his biggest hit was the hook for “Billionaire” by Travie McCoy.
Anyway, she was selling tickets for an upcoming concert he was having and she asked our table if we wanted to buy some. My friend declined and she exclaimed “WHY NOT! HE’s MY SON!!!”
I ended up getting a couple of tickets despite not knowing any of Bruno Mars’s songs. It turned out to be one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. The guy knows how to put on a good live show.
The tickets were only $40 each I think. His opening act was a local group of large Polynesian men singing Motown who went by the name “Nesian 9”. They were pretty good too.
The next time he was in town for a concert, he had blown up and the tickets were going for $400. I would have loved to see him again, but not at that price…
His mom was really nice, down to earth, and a pretty good singer herself. RIP Bernie. At least she lived long enough to see her son’s success. —anonymous_potato
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My coworker’s dad grew up with Queen Latifah in North Jersey. His whole family loves her because they were about to lose their house, so she paid it off for them. They’ve never said a bad thing about her.
(Queen Latifah, if this gets back to you, thanks for what you did for your friends in NJ. Phil’s a really cool guy.) —sashimi_girl
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My grandmother and mum were really good friends with George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley from Wham! They got invited to concerts and got to sit in special seats etc.
And a few years ago me and my family stayed with Andrew Ridgeley in his guest house in Cornwall for a weekend. But, they seemed to me like they stayed really nice to my grandparents and mum. And Andrew Ridgeley was very kind to my family when we met him. —Zaja123123
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Kesha. Total nerd. 1600 on her SATs. Quiet. A bit of a social outcast. Nice, though. You could tell she cared about others and wouldn’t ever hurt a flea. —TheOftenNakedJason
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My brother used to play basketball with a bunch of people in high school, among those who would sometimes join in was Pete Davidson.
My brother said he got ripped on a ton and no one really liked him. But that might just be because he wasn’t great at basketball. —Super-Homework
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My 8th grade science teacher dated Bill Nye. Broke up with him because he didn’t like kids. —ExpiredPilot
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I went to high school with Post Malone. We graduated the same year. He always wore a suit to class and was that nerdy dedicated kid. Glad to see how his life turned out. I hoped nothing for the best for him and now I listen to him all the time haha. I’m just a rando to him though. We never really talked —MastahFred
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I went to high school with Emma Chamberlain. She was a huge bully in high school and pretty much a brat who thought she could get away with whatever she wanted (before she got famous). Her parents were divorced which led to them both always trying to be her friend and never actually parenting her, so they basically let her do whatever she wanted.
When she said that people from her high school made fun of her because she was “poor” and that the parking lot was all BMWs and range rovers I lost my mind because SHE was the bully in high school, and while the school definitely had some wealthy students it was mostly a middle-class crowd. —klay-stan
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I knew Cillain Murphy back in secondary school, we didn’t go to the same school but mingled a lot. He was a few years older than me.
Dude was super quite, but really damn friendly. I remember when he was cast in 28 Days Later and people were pretty hype for him, but a good few people didn’t think much of it. Once it came out though a lot of people changed their tune when they could see him actually act amazingly —Scinos2k
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I had a teacher who taught drake. Apparently he was a nice kid but then got really douchey when he started getting famous. —tryingmybset
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My father is a long-haul trucker, knew James Cameron in his 20s when he was a trucker too. Said the guy was always insanely smart and would go out and basically take every engine apart and put it back together so if you needed your rig fixing and he was around you’d search him out.
They stayed friends and we actually got to visit him in LA over Xmas once, now we live in Europe so don’t think they talk much, but he’s really smart, and intense, although not what I expected him to be like from the stories on his movies. —Patrick_B8man
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My best friend is cousins with Tyler Posey. She said he was a sweetheart before his Teen Wolf days and he still is now —RedFawn00
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This will probably get lost in the sea of comments, but my ex-boyfriend’s mom ran a pizza shop that P!nk worked at as a 16-year-old.
I guess she would always be singing randomly at work. She’d use spoons, utensils, anything she could find to use as a fake microphone. But she was a shitty worker and would straight up walk out on her shifts whenever she wanted without telling anyone and somehow not get fired for it? She just didn’t give af even back then. —StonedGardenGnome
