This is super lukewarm 'tea' and probably not that interesting but I'll share anyway ...
Many, many, years ago I saw Jack Black walking down Lambton Quay, one of Wellington's (NZ) main shopping streets. He was with some other guys who I'm going to assume were actors but I didn't know who they were by sight. It was on a Sunday and very quiet - not many shops were open on Sundays back then. I thought he was a familiar face but couldn't place him and said "Hi!" with a big smile. "Well hello there," he said back with his American accent. He was really nice and stopped, but I kept walking because I just couldn't think where I knew him from and didn't want to sound silly
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. To think I could have met him, fallen in love, moved to Los Angeles and become Mrs Blackbird Black!
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In the late '90s I saw Ronan Keating, also walking down Lambton Quay, but on a Friday afternoon when there were heaps of people around. He'd been at a CD store signing stuff and was being chaperoned by a young lady who I guess was his PR. He didn't have a bodyguard with him which surprised me. I walked past him and smiled; he had a permanent smile on his face and looked really happy. He was shorter than I thought he would be and didn't have
presence like so many famous people have.
Duff McKagan (Guns 'n' Roses) and his wife Susan Holmes ('90s model) ... were seated at the table next to us in Melbourne (AU) a few years back. She was super nice. He was busy talking to a heap of guys. They had a LOT of security around them.
James Nesbitt and his family lived in Wellington (NZ) for a while when he was filming something, and sent his kids to the same school as a friend's kids. They weren't in the same class, but didn't receive any special treatment and were apparently really normal.
A lady I worked with many years ago had a year-long love affair with Orlando Bloom. He wanted to keep it on the downlow. She was extremely in love and thought he felt the same, but not long after he moved away - and didn't invite her to go with him - and then married Miranda Kerr.
Oooh - one more. James Cameron has a fancy property in the Wairarapa (lower North Island of NZ). Everyone who works for him and his wife is sworn to secrecy with very exhaustive NDAs, but a couple of people I know down that way have met him and said he's really nice. They apparently make an effort to go to some of the eateries and mix with locals.