Funny Celebrity Moment

I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of celebrities. I am not a huge celebrity fan, but i do take notice, if i realize who they are. I just don't get all starry eyed. I treat them like I would treat anyone else.

The town i grew up in, or i should say lived the longest, was the home town of Jay Leno. I pulled a lobster out of a tank for him twice at my first job. Then going to school in New York and Chicago, I had more celebrity meetings at my work. I worked up the street from the Steppenwolf theater, so Ethan Hawke and John Malkovich showed up to my part time job to get coffee. Even shot the shit with "Doogie Howser" when i worked at Urban Outfitters in Boston. I was even kinda bitchy to him, but he played with my sarcasm, so he gets kudos. Worst celebrity was by far Arnold Schwarzenegger. He had some book for kids, teaching kids about fitness. He kept punching the woman next to him to tell her to send the next kid to get their photo with him. He was such a phony. Once the TV camera was there, he was Mr HEY I AM FUN and then he would be a total douche.

But by far, the best celebrity moment i had was one I had nothing to do with. I happened to witness it. The reason i tell this story is because i saw a yogurt ad with Richard Simmons on it and it reminded me of how funny this story is. I was in Barney's in New York. I wasn't living here yet but was just going around to nice stores and doing some dream shopping. So because i had never been there before, I was just wandering around slowly and taking in all the nice stuff. I started at the top and worked my way down. I got to the second floor where all the housewares was. I was wandering around and hear this voice. Kinda whiny and high pitched gay man. I turn the corner and there he was. Richard Simmons. He was shopping for China. Yes. You know... the fancy stuff you put out on holidays for people to eat on. I look at him and my eyes bug out. It wasn't that he was there and it wasn't that it was him. It was more of the fact that he was wearing the tanktop with glitter/rhinestones with the short shorts. He was wearing the typical Richard Simmons outfits that you would normally see him in. I mean really! Who would wear that to go shop for China! I was dying of laughter inside. But what made it even more perfect was some snotty woman felt the need to say something to me. She turns to me and says under her breath- I can't believe he left the house wearing that! YES! What a wonderful way to round out that experience.

That commercial just reminded me of that story.