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

Alice Cooper stole my friend's Grandma's stereo after a gig in Rhode Island.

My mom had a story about Robert Redford showing up at the gas station she was at in small town middle of nowhere when he was "in his prime." Turned out he had a relative who lived in the area.

My great uncle was a guitar player and in a rockabilly band in the 50s and 60s and met a LOT of artists who later became very famous. The man played with the Beatles and Elvis and had lots of gold records on his wall- but his wife was with my mom at the gas station that day and it's all she would ever talk about.

Kurt Angle used to come over to our house weekly when my wife tutored his kids. He lived just a few houses from us so we saw him around often. He was pretty normal. Though once he was wearing a shirt with his own face on it so his wife was making fun of him.

In 2010 I used to live in the Arts District in Little Tokyo with a roommate who was sort of the unofficial mayor of the area. She knew everyone and had purchased our loft way before it became the over developed gentrified hellhole it became today. People came over all the time to play music, get their hair cut, or just hang out.

One day we were having breakfast and one of her friends with this late stage scenester hair cut and big black rimmed glasses, shows up to share some music he'd been working on. I thought his music sounded interesting but joked to him that it also sort of sounded like 'Optimus Prime farts' to me. At the time he lived at the Crazy Gideons warehouse across the street from us. Found out a couple years later that it was Skrillex.

Billie Jo Spears, a country singer with hits in the 60s/70s (Blanket on the Ground) was next door often as that was her sister's house and my sister and I were their main babysitters on Friday and Saturday nights.

Danny Vranes was at my home in the 2000's after he retired from playing for the Jazz. His son was in a cub scout pack my wife led.

Henry Cavill was a near miss - he visited our street a couple times back before Man of Steel. He trained for that roll with Gym Jones and the owners are our neighbors.

Another near miss - my daughter worked at a school for atypical children and was assigned to some children of a major hollywood a-lister. But I don't know who because she signed an NDA. It's been like a decade and she still won't even peep about who it was.

My ex-husband was friends with Mod Sun in his Four Letter Lie days, I think this was in about 2007 or 2008. He told the band they could stay at our apartment for a night while they were on tour. Mod Sun (I can't remember his real name) asked me what I was listening to in the morning and I told him Bigg Jus. He asked me if he could look through my music downloads (didn't have Spotify back then) on my laptop and I said sure. From what I could tell, it seemed like he only knew a few hip hop artists so I thought, maybe he'll find something he likes, nice to learn of a new musician or something.

Anyways something was holding them up from leaving and my ex told me they didn't want to leave until the "download finished". I was like what download... turns out Mod Sun took it upon himself to rip my entire collection of hip hop. All of it, from coast to coast, French and UK hip hop, every single file. I'm not a gatekeeper with music but what the actual f**k. At least ask??

A couple years later he was suddenly a hip hop act, which annoyed me a lot more than it should have.

Not my house but a classmate. We used to hang out with Ken Caminiti. Her dad was his sober sponsor.

Tony Hawk. He was in town and I knew him. He hung out for a while and then left. Nothing to write home about. Chatted with other friends hanging out.

Not me but my uncle and his family live in Winnetka and when they were shooting the beginning scenes of Oceans 12 they didn’t want to bother with trailers for just a few shots. they rented out space in peoples houses instead and his house ended up being where they put Clooney. He played horse with cousin between takes and allegedly still owes him $20.

I know an actor from the Star Trek franchise. Came over for a holiday party. Just hung out and ate snacks. Lovely person.

I live in Nashville, when he was first starting out Morgan Wallen was a friend of a friend and pre-gamed at my then place before going out, I didn’t really talk to him but for a while wished I had because later he blew up. Now I’m kinda glad I didn’t because he became super problematic. Nothing noteworthy happened but looking back probably a drinking problem then too, which I guess everyone knows now.

EDIT: also I almost forgot, Luke Combs too, he’s a good guy tho. We didn’t stay in touch but always liked him, funny guy and never inappropriate with me which I appreciated.

Gene Hackman visited our house while we were selling it and had an open house when I was a kid. I was at my soccer game and missed it.

Decades ago in the 70s my parents loved Bossa Nova and went to clubs a lot in LA. Made friends with a lot of the Brazilian musicians and would invite them over and feed them and have jam sessions in our tiny living room. Lots of big names you would probably know. I was too young to appreciate it.

Battle By The Bay/EVO SF2 Turbo champions used to surf my couch and b*m rides to swim in my pool. Chillest MFers imaginable until it came to gaming.

My cousin asked me to go out to a fancy dinner, blind date situation with her and her boyfriend. It was Arturo Gotti. This was in the early 90’s.

Damian Chapa’s father Rico dated my great aunt and visited my grandparents farm in southeast Ohio at the holidays.

Not my house, but...

My best friend's other childhood friend is married to Sean Schemmel (English voice of Goku). When I was tabling in Artist Alley for a while on the con circuit, we would usually see Sean a lot. He's... intense.

Mario Andretti had an older relative who lived across the street from us when I was little. He visited periodically, and occasionally came over to borrow our hedge clippers.

Fred Hutchinson was a close friend of my mother’s family. I remember him being at my house.

For people from Seattle, Royal Brougham once wrote a column at my house.