Twitter Users Are Sharing Their 'Most Mundane Celebrity Encounters'

Published on May 14, 2020

Things have been particularly boring lately, and with no music festivals or new movies to tweet about, people are coming up with new ways to entertain each other on social media. A Twitter user named @MavenofHonor asked Twitter users to share their most mundane celebrity encounters, and some of them are pretty funny. Here are some of the best ones we’ve found, from celebrities meeting other celebrities before they were famous to running into celebrities in odd places.

The original tweet
The time someone tried to outrun Seal at the gym.
One time when someone got side-eyed by Jake Gyllenhaal in a coffee shop.
https://twitter.com/_jrtxt/status/1260775818210365441?s=21
When someone found out that Danny DeVito is genuinely a nice guy.
Andy Milonakis shared the time he ran into Steve Carrell in a grocery store and it was really wholesome.
This girl that caught Justin and Hailey Bieber on a beach picnic.
One person had an awkward encounter with Alex Trebek at the 9/11 memorial.
Lin Manuel-Miranda admitted he once was too nervous to talk to Rick Moranis when they attended the same Bar Mitzvah.
One woman spray painted Sam Elliott’s hair
https://twitter.com/hairchoppr/status/1260995069688963072?s=21
We even found out that Meryl Streep does her own Apple Store runs
https://twitter.com/prolagus/status/1260949609809133569?s=21
…and we learned that Amy Adams also shops at the Rack with the rest of us.
Whether or not this one actually happened it’s one of the best on the thread because we can easily picture it.
https://twitter.com/bobbyfinger/status/1260727190448156673?s=21
When Abby Jacobson was just like the rest of us.
https://twitter.com/abbijacobson/status/1260798654580838402?s=21
Seth Rogen noticed he was the subject of many of them.
…and then sharing his own.
One person ran into Obama and didn’t recognize it.
https://twitter.com/scotia626/status/1260726680164827137?s=21
Jane Lynch recalled the time she almost ran over Diane Keaton, one of the few good boomers in the world.
This person that managed to catch an elusive George Lucas.
https://twitter.com/dirtydancing2hn/status/1260722969850056704?s=21
When Snoop Dogg proved himself to be a pacifist hero.
This person that is happy to report that Larry David is exactly who you think he’d be.
Someone who found Brittany Broski in her natural habitat.
https://twitter.com/kaitlynadams__/status/1261028297720332288?s=21
…and finally, a humble Bernie Sanders sitting with the rest of us on a commercial flight.

Julia Sachs is a former Managing Editor at Grit Daily. She covers technology, social media and disinformation. She is based in Utah and before the pandemic she liked to travel.

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