80 Regular People Who Had Celebrities Visit Their Homes Share What Happened

Emelio Estevez once came around to our house to try to borrow a football. His cousins lived around the corner from our house. I was too young to remember it but I went to high school with one of his more distant cousins.

Bradley Whitford recently filmed in a house a few doors down from us. He spent a lot of his downtime walking around the neighbourhood.

I was so desperate to engineer a meeting with him so I could invite him for a home cooked meal or offer for him to use our backyard patio if he needed some privacy (LOL)

The dog got more walks than you could imagine that month but alas I failed to meet him aside from one time I almost ran him over while he walked down the middle of the road with his headphones on.

A co-worker’s wife surprised him on his birthday by arranging for an appearance by John James, AKA. Jeff Colby on Dynasty. Jeff came into their home through their glass sliders and wished birthday boy happy birthday. BB was delighted. The once prime time soap star lived in the area and was more than happy to help out birthday boy’s Mrs.

I’m from a small town in North Carolina. In high school our rotary club had an exchange program for adults and I had the surreal experience of Tony Colman, the wealthiest member of the UK’s House of Commons, spending the week at my home. He was very down to earth. He talked about being tutored by CS Lewis at Cambridge, which sounded magical. This was pre-smart phones, so he was also worried about checking scores for his favorite football club (I wish I could remember which one) so he monopolized our computer lol.

Once I heard a bunch of commotion outside my street level apartment and when I finally looked outside James Franco was right outside my window. He looked a little bit startled when I moved the curtain so quickly. Turned there was a film shoot next door at the old timey ice-cream parlor.

I lived in Half Moon Bay CA. In the late 80s early 90’s. I had both John Lee Ho**er and Van Morrison come to my house at the beach. Later that evening, we went to the Boon Boom Room before John owned it. We were written up in Herb Caen, SF Chronicle back in the days. No pictures, no proof? Ha, I got lotsa pictures….

Is Reverend Horton Heat (and his band) a celebrity? They got kicked out of their hotel too early while they were on tour in my city and asked if they could shower at my apartment. I said sure and they spent a lot of time going through my vinyl collection saying that I had very good taste in music.

John Prine. My room-mate was in some sales business that Mr Prine was interested in. It was some vintage RnR stuff. I was asked to entertain him while she prepared. Why that wasn't done before, I never asked.

Now that I think about it, we (I) did the same with Stevie Ray Vaughn and his drummer.

Leon bridges came over to my apartment five years ago after we met on Raya. He played guitar for me and then we hooked up haha. He was weird.

Shirley MacLaine. My mom’s boyfriend was very close to her and she was doing a show with Frank Sinatra in the early 90s in our town. She came to our house and I was home and got to meet her. She told us she LOVED our basement and thought it was just fantastic. I can’t even tell you how average our wood paneled basement was - I mean - it was big and had a lot of storage room but it was nothing to get excited about.

She and my mom’s boyfriend were going to take a walk in the park by our house. Boyfriend invited me to tag along and as I was putting on my shoes, I hear the front door slam. She obviously didn’t not want a college student tagging along. I did get an autographed book out of the visit

It was cool to see Sinatra from the second row, though.

My mom thought she was a b***h. She spent more time with her. I agree!

My cousin was friend with the band Westlife growing up, they used to have jam sessions in my cousin's house before they formed.

Former Raiders QB Daryl Lamonica was a semi-regular at my grandparents’ house when I was growing up.

He had a cable access hunting/fishing show and my grandparents owned a small business making fishing lures that he was a fan of and they became friends. I actually went fishing with him once for one of his episodes. He taught me how to fire a gun that day as well (just some cans and stuff on the lakeside—I was like 12 at the time.).

Weirdly had a friendship with Davey Havok (AFI) in the mid 2010s, so much so that during one Coachella festival him and Jeffrey Starr (not sure how Davey was friends with him but whatever) came over to my parents place which was about 2 miles from the festival grounds for a party.


Never saw either of them after that except I ran into Davey at a Coachella fest after that when he was with his side project.

Not super famous but Cory Monteith from glee came over to dinner at my grandmas. His mom and my grandma were best friends. Rip both Cory and Anne.

Mike Myers visited our family afters hours in Toronto in the 90s, the after hours was in the Queen and Bathurst area.

Jonathan Brandis showed up at my sorority house on like 2001 or so cause one of my sisters said he could smoke up there. He seemed very aloof and not happy. Didn't stay long.

Florence Henderson (actress who played Carol Brady on the Brady Bunch) stayed a couple nights at my mom’s house.

Mom is terrible at telling stories, but as I understand it she was there shooting a movie or TV show. Very rural area, no regular accommodations for many miles. I have no idea how Mom got involved.

This would have been maybe 2015.

Back when David Archuleta was still Mormon my very Mormon mom hosted David and his mom.

My parents lived near Children's Hospital in LA and the Archuletas were meeting a sick kid and their family for a make a wish style afternoon.  My mom volunteered her condo for the meet up.

Drew Carey once randomly showed up to a raucous house party I was having.

Zach Braff knocked on our door in suburban Ohio, he was canvassing for Obama. We were not in any sort of prominent or fancy neighborhood, and he did the whole area from what I heard.

I remember him being super nice and well spoken on his talking points. Introduced himself as Zach and like one minute into the conversation we were like "wait, Zach *Braff*, right?".