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Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« on: January 07, 2016, 11:41:15 AM »
With so many people traveling on DDF all the time and a good % of them traveling in premium cabins, I wonder who and where people here have run into.

I myself haven't run into too many people yet.

Sebastian Kehl (big time German soccer player) LGA-PBI / Centurion Lounge
Maria Sharapova (Tennis player) JFK-TLV / AC lounge
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2016, 11:43:19 AM »
There's already a thread for famous people you've met.

http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=25659.0
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2016, 11:46:22 AM »
There's already a thread for famous people you've met.

http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=25659.0
i like benjies idea
many ppl have connections of various sorts that enable them to meet ppl
not nearly as exciting
this thread, however, is for randomly encountering famous ppl
i vote for it to stay

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2016, 11:47:23 AM »
I met Dr. Moose at the airport
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2016, 11:47:45 AM »
i like benjies idea
many ppl have connections of various sorts that enable them to meet ppl
not nearly as exciting
this thread, however, is for randomly encountering famous ppl
i vote for it to stay
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2016, 12:05:23 PM »
I met Mindy Kaling on an AA flight JFK-LAX in 2013. Shes was on the cast of The Office.

She was in F and I was in J. All I said was - "Oh, youre that girl from The Office, right?". She confirmed.

To be honest that was before lie-flat F or J on that route and F didnt impress me at all compared to J.

ETA- this year also saw  Joel McHale at AA lounge LAX. I thought he looked familiar but didnt figure it out until I was on the flight.
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2016, 12:13:16 PM »
I met Mindy Kaling on an AA flight JFK-LAX in 2013. Shes was on the cast of The Office.

She was in F and I was in J. All I said was - "Oh, youre that girl from The Office, right?". She confirmed.

To be honest that was before lie-flat F or J on that route and F didnt impress me at all compared to J.

ETA- this year also saw  Joel McHale at AA lounge LAX. I thought he looked familiar but didnt figure it our until I was on the flight.

Would not have recognized Joel McHale either. Mindy is pretty cool though.
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2016, 12:41:00 PM »
I met Mindy Kaling on an AA flight JFK-LAX in 2013. Shes was on the cast of The Office.

She was in F and I was in J. All I said was - "Oh, youre that girl from The Office, right?". She confirmed.

To be honest that was before lie-flat F or J on that route and F didnt impress me at all compared to J.

ETA- this year also saw  Joel McHale at AA lounge LAX. I thought he looked familiar but didnt figure it out until I was on the flight.
I met Mindy in line at Banana Republic. She was really nice and normal.

Eta: I totally met her first http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=25659.msg422205#msg422205 :P
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2016, 12:44:41 PM »




Sebastian Kehl (big time German soccer player)
How did you even know it was him? Follow soccer that much? Was a crowd around him?

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2016, 12:45:46 PM »
I saw Kareem Abdul Jabar at the Hertz at LAX.

He's quite unmistakable.

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2016, 01:02:26 PM »
How would I know how famous people look?  ;)

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2016, 01:03:46 PM »
John Grisham (author), Ed Koch, Dr. Ruth, Morgan Freeman

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2016, 02:14:29 PM »
I saw Kareem Abdul Jabar at the Hertz at LAX.

He's quite unmistakable.

My sister interviewed KAJ as part of her job :).

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2016, 03:25:46 PM »
DW and I met David Hasselhoff in the Star Gold Business Lounge in TBIT in LAX. DW got a picture with him, then turned around and started freaking out. She thought he'd walked away: he hadn't. She was really embarrassed. It gets better: He was seated a couple rows behind us on our LAX-FRA LH J flight.

We also met Wanda Sykes in US J PHL-LAX. She was in row 1, we were across the aisle in row 2. It's kind of a giveaway when you're wearing sunglasses on the plane (and you're not flying it).

Finally we met an old british actor that is on some TV show DW watches, but I can't remember his name now. We met him in LAX at baggage claim, so while not technically on the plane or in a lounge, it was in the airport.


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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2016, 03:49:02 PM »
Finally we met an old british actor that is on some TV show DW watches, but I can't remember his name now. We met him in LAX at baggage claim, so while not technically on the plane or in a lounge, it was in the airport.
David Mccallum. And he's Scottish  :P

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2016, 03:51:27 PM »
David Mccallum. And he's Scottish  :P
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2016, 03:53:57 PM »
John Grisham (author), Ed Koch, Dr. Ruth, Morgan Freeman
All "on the plane or in a lounge?"
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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2016, 09:25:35 PM »
All "on the plane or in a lounge?"
All at airport at different times but don't remember exactly where. It was many years ago.

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2016, 09:46:16 PM »
I met Dan from dansdeals.com in an AAdmirals club once. Does that count? :D

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Re: Famous people you have run into on the plane or in a lounge?
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2016, 10:26:14 PM »
I met Rabbi Ralbag.
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