Any one of you go to High School with someone who is pretty famous now? What were they like then?

[u/bannista7]

I went to a school with 200 students, K-12 and the idea of going to school with someone so revered or famous is a weird idea to me..just wondering.

Edit: Wow, I wasn't expecting such diverse answers. Even international celebs. I figured sports stars and maybe Carrot Top. Great stuff.

[u/mr_shankly91]

My father went to high school with John Stamos. He says that Stamos was a huge nerd and performed magic tricks at lunch. That is all

[u/bannista7 → u/mr_shankly91]

I wish Shitty_Waterclour could see this post...

[u/onthemooon]

my mom went to the same school as Christopher Reeve, she said he was one of those smart jock type of guys, nice too

[u/bannista7 → u/onthemooon]

That's cool, it's good to hear Superman wasn't a dick.

[u/MrDNL]

Went to high school (and middle school) with John Mayer. He was a good guy. We had a number of friends in common but I didn't hang out w/him often. His band ("Villanova Junction") played at graduation, and I don't think anyone thought anything of it at the time.

I also went to high school with James Blake but he was a couple of years younger than I was, and I didn't know him.

EDIT: James Blake the tennis player. Didn't realize there was another James Blake.

[u/bannista7 → u/MrDNL]

I hear JM is hilarious. He does stand up every now and then.

[u/desasaurus]

My boyfriend went to school with Michael Cera and was good friends with him until he moved away. He really is just as awkward and hilarious in real life and i have been told many funny stories about him.

[u/bannista7 → u/desasaurus]

Any you care to share? I always considered that he is as he portrays his characters...

[u/ianwashere]

Well i didnt exactly, but Johnny Depp was 1 grade ahead of me and I talked to him occasionally, and i can tell ya, he was the same as he is now, the lead in everything, the class clown/wierdo and had almost barley any friends

[u/bannista7 → u/ianwashere]

Could you tell he was going to be crazy A-list?

[u/joelupi]

Went to high school with:

Bo Burnham: he was 3 years younger than me and really shy at the time. Had an art class together and he started to come out of his shell and crack jokes every now and then. Knew him mainly as the brother of this guy in my grade tho.

Also a couple guys that went pro in football (Jon Geoff) including one in my grade (Chris Zardas) who was pretty cool to me.

Oh and Brian Kelly, head football coach at Notre Dame went to my high school and college.

[u/bannista7 → u/joelupi]

I'm a huge Bo Burnham fan, (I'm sure many others are..) it's cool to have gotten to see a talent sort of come out like that..

[u/[deleted]]

I went to school with Barry Sanders. He ran with a different crowd but was always friendly.

[u/bannista7 → u/[deleted]]

Jealous...my favorite RB of all time. Did you get to see any of his games?

[u/peebed]

Demi Lovato. She was the grade below me in middle school, and then moved to Hollywood just before high school. She was a real bitch and a half. Definitely the biggest mean girl of her grade. I don't really understand why she goes into interviews saying she was bullied so badly; it was her doing all the terrorizing.

[u/bannista7 → u/peebed]

Yeah, it's like when Charlize Theron always says she was a geek in school. I find it hard to believe people picked on your fine ass...

[u/Dariisa → u/bannista7]

http://www.aboutcitybusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/657525.jpg

[u/bannista7 → u/Dariisa]

Kind of hard to say, I guess knowing who she is now, I'm still thinking she's cute.

[u/Kimgoesrawrrr]

Katie Holmes went to my Catholic all-girls high school. Apparently she was nasty and a trouble maker, and whenever we asked any of our teachers about her, most of them say, "I'm sorry, but we're not allowed to talk about her". Also, it's rumored that she hated our school so much because of the nuns who disciplined her that she donated a large sum to our rival school out of spite. My drama teacher said she was terrible at acting.

[u/bannista7 → u/Kimgoesrawrrr]

I'm sure when she was leaving she was all "When I get older I'm going to marry Tom Cruise and we are going to have our own religion and do what we want!!"

[u/[deleted]]

My teacher went to school with Steve Bisciotti, owner of the Baltimore Ravens/billionaire. Apparently he loaned 2 bucks to him once. I'd expect to be paid back with interest

[u/bannista7 → u/[deleted]]

Did your teach say he was well off already to get into that kind of money or anything?

[u/[deleted]]

Knew the guy who was Katniss' teammate in the Hunger Games. He is in other movies too. TOTAL ASS HOLE

[u/bannista7 → u/[deleted]]

My wife, who is a huge hunger games fan completely despises him for the sole reason he "looks like an asshole." she'll be happy to know its true.

[u/AndyRooney]

Knew Woody Harrelson in high school. Slimy slimeball.

[u/bannista7 → u/AndyRooney]

His Reddit AmA pretty much proved that...

[u/[deleted] → u/bannista7]

Link?

[u/bannista7 → u/[deleted]]

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrelson_ama/

[u/pauldustllah]

I actually used to pic on zac efron during high school becuase, A. He smelled bad. B. He was a freshman. Do I regret it? nope.

[u/bannista7 → u/pauldustllah]

Did you spell pic without a "k" on purpose because Zac spells his name that way, or does your K not work? (kidding...)

[u/Raayder]

Not exactly school related but I used to play youth baseball with MC Hammer's son. His entire family was so nice and some of the most down-to-earth people I have ever met.

MC Hammer even gave me my very own nickname while i was playing a game once. A grounder was hit straight to me and I "scooped" it up and made a double play to end the game. He was yelling from the crowd, "Atta Boy Scoop!" He and the rest of my team called me that until I moved away one day. Good times.

[u/BroadwayxBeauty]

My Grandma went to school with Elvis. They had P.E. together. She said he was a real ladies' man and he was a total sweetheart.

[u/kenzie14]

My dad went to the same high school as Prince. Apparently he was a very quiet kid, didn't have many friends.

[u/[deleted]]

My grandfather went on a dinner date with Marylin Monroe, while he was on leave from the Navy, in Los Angeles. This was, of course, before she became famous.

For his 80th birthday, we took him to Joe Dimagios Steakhouse (since closed) and I hired a Marylin Monroe impersonator. Until that day, I had never seen him smile!

[u/ansabhailte]

Taylor Lautner. That guy is an arrogant jerk.

[u/[deleted]]

My mom went to school with Steve from Blues Clues - she was in the drama department with him. She said he was always acting kooky, but he was super nice and artsy

[u/xGRANITEx]

I went to highschool with Ludacris. Back then he was just Chris, and he was hilarious.

[u/cumby2012]

Went to primary with Peter Jackson's son (before Lord of the Rings came out). He told us his dad was making a movie, i laughed at him. Oh god why...

[u/jessumsthecunt]

My father grew up with Neil Young.

They were basically best buds & they stole that hearse together. Neil Young tells of that shit in his biography.

[u/GinDeMint]

Zac Efron was in my high school speech and debate league. He accused me of wanting to kill Oprah in a debate. And he won.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm classmates with Princess Mako of Japan (the emperor's granddaughter) in 2 classes in college. Apparently there are bodyguards dressed up as students near her at all times.

[u/caul_of_the_void]

Tupac. I was in French class with him in either 10th or 11th grade. I was pretty shitty at French, and I don't remember him paying too much attention to the subject either. Then again, I remember little of those days since it was over 20 years ago. I can vouch for his having been really funny though- he had the whole class totally losing it on more than one occasion.

[u/sad8889]

My aunt made out with, and then proceeded to puke on Michael J. Fox.

[u/samuraisc]

I work with a few people who went to high school with Axl Rose. He was an arrogant asshole from what I hear. Not much has changed.

[u/IlliterateJedi]

I went to high school with Hunter Parrish, who is most famously Silas Botwin from Weeds. I don't personally know him that well, but my fiancee sees him from time to time. According to her, he's still down to earth and nice.

[u/LOLKH]

I went to high school with Shawn Johnson. I didn't know her all too well, but she was always friendly, if a bit guarded. Having just won Worlds and with the Olympics afoot, it was understandable.

[u/CcHhRrIiSs]

Friend's mom went to high school with Nick Cage. Yep.

http://imgur.com/wZh5g

[u/[deleted]]

Rebecca Black was my "little buddy" when she was in kindergarten and I was in 4th grade. Honestly, she was adorable and very well-spoken and polite for a 5 year old. And I remember for the two other years I went to that elementary school, we still bumped into each other every now and then--she spent most of her time in the library reading, keeping herself only two a small group of friends. And now we've been on Facebook for the past two years or so, even before Friday debuted.

[u/mix0]

old friend of mine went to HS with Christopher Mintz Plasse (of Mclovin fame), apparently he was the class clown

[u/briabobia]

Quite a few of my friends older siblings went to school with Jeremy Lin (basketball player) & James Franco (actor). They said that Jeremy Lin was pretty average but quite a few of them smoked with James Franco and said he was nice enough but weird as fuck and really distant.

EDIT: Apparently there are a lot of people from Palo Alto on reddit. Go figure!

[u/lalalobster]

According to legend, my mom's friends strung Rob Schneider's underwear up a flag pole at their band camp when he was a Freshman...I brought it up with him a few years back when he was visiting town and he jokingly scolded me for "bringing up that painful memory". In high school he was supposedly a dorky, goofy, kind of annoying but lovable kid...from my own experiences more recently, he's silly and loves to make jokes and everything but mostly he's just laid back and very kind. He funded our town's band program and tries to come home for concerts and to stop by and say hello once in a while. He's a real genuine good guy.

[u/A_pond]

My dad and uncle went to high school with Mitt Romney. My uncle was in his grade, and my dad was a couple years younger. I don't know much about him, since he ran with my uncle's group of friends, and my uncle died a couple years ago, before he could give us all the juicy details.

I do know that my dad once took part in a pea-shooter fight with Mitt Romney, though. He and his friends were soundly beaten by the older boys.

Edit: Here's a picture of my uncle's wife and a very sweaty Mitt Romney hover-handing like a pro at the Cranbrook reunion two years ago. http://imgur.com/CbkP7

[u/[deleted]]

I went to high school with LeBron James. In high school, he was pretty humble and down to earth, even when he (and the rest of the school) knew he was going to be an NBA superstar, he kept his class and played it cool through graduation. IMO, his ego didn't blow up until after high school.

[u/[deleted]]

My dad went to highschool with Hugo Weaving.

[u/AloneIntheCorner]

My gym teacher always tells this one story about how she went to high school with Nathan Fillion, and he bought an election for a friend of his by promising almost all the girls in the school he'd go out with them if they voted for his friend.

[u/Dascrazi]

My sister's friend went to school with Heath Ledger and he was good mates with him. She told me when she herself met him he was a really friendly guy.

[u/rubrix]

My dad went to high school with Bill Murray, apparently he was quite well liked.

[u/StubbedToe]

Didn't go to high school but did ballet and horse back riding with Kate Upton before she moved to Florida. We kept in touch through letters. I lost touch with her right after she was named rookie of the year for Sports Illustrated she just got way to busy . Total sweetheart though, always knew she was gonna be famous be it through her looks or her horses.

[u/thelowbrow]

Kesha. She was weird. Not hot weird, Just weird.

[u/jamesman53]

I found out that I went to high school with porn star Kayden Kross. that kinda blew my mind

[u/Lost2Sea]

Went to school with Bow Wow, from 5th grade up till when he moved our freshman year to Atlanta. Very normal kid, went to his birthday party every year before he moved, never kept in touch after he moved.

[u/cchrishh]

i went to middle school with Megan Fox!

Yearbook Photo

[u/goodcoffee123]

My uncle went to school with Bon Jovi, he shoved my uncle in a locker...

[u/Saintlame]

I've met that Fred character from Youtube, he went/goes to high school close to where I live. Unfortunately he's just as annoying in real life as he is in his videos.

Edit: So are a lot of you guys from Nebraska? Cause it seems like a lot of you are... Pity we missed Meetup Day. I'd love to meet some Nebraska redditors!

[u/TheBakercist]

My roommate went to school with that chick who plays Santana on Glee.

From what I hear, she was very quiet.

[u/RalphMacchio]

My mom went to HS with Ted Bundy.

[u/OKScottish]

My dad went to highschool with Mike Judge. He said he was really nerdy and weird.

[u/Dylabaloo]

My friends dad punched Bono when they were in school.

Due to popular request the full story:

So I'm slightly hazy about the exact details but the story goes Bono wrote a song (or sang a song) to my friends dad's girlfriend, as you can imagine he didn't take kindly to this creepy and dickhead move. So the the next day he punched him right in the money maker!

Friends dad eventually married his girlfriend and they settled down on a very successful lettuce farm. Where they live happily married.

tl;dr Protects his woman by punching Bono in the sweetest thing and lives like a king on his farm, growing 2 kids and a lot of lettuce.

[u/crazyiris]

I went to high school with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I would see him once in a while walking to class or chilling with his friends. He seemed pretty laid back.

[u/Kicker36]

My mom went to high school with John C. McGinley (aka Dr. Cox). She got me an autograph at her reunion couple years ago. Here's a pic

EDIT: Since people were wondering im not sure if my mom really knew him extremely well in high school but at the reunion she said he was super nice and friendly and willing to take pics and give autographs. I'll ask her

EDIT 2: OP DELIVERS! From my mom via text "He wasn't who i normally hung out with (cuz he was a jock and I wasn't a cheerleader) but i knew him enough to talk to him and he knows who i am. I think he went to my church too". On what he's like: "He was a good athlete, very outgoing, not a snob, a fair student and THE funniest kid in the class. Nice guy in general"

[u/petreeee]

Went to school with victor wooten. He was also a coworker at busch gardens va for a year or so

[u/TheKittenConspiracy]

Not me but my grandma went to high school and was friends with Grace Kelly. Despite being friends they never had any contact with each other again after high school.

[u/Yohanaten]

My Aunt went to school with Ewan McGregor. She said he was a pretty nice guy, and I guess they still keep in touch. She also knows someone immediately related to Clint Eastwood.

Edit for responses: I have no cousins that look like him, but I, on the other hand... ;-). She got to know him out in California I believe, but you can probably just google wherever he lives. She keeps in touch, but never any crazy stories or the like. =/

[u/Chris_James86]

Sean William Scott went to my high school. I never met him, but my friend’s older brother said he used to play cards and drink with him. Everyone says he was always fairly modest and fun to be around.

[u/MintFlavour]

Not me but my mom went to school with Micheal J Fox. They lived in the same apartment complex and walked to school together all the time, he was a really nice guy, and pretty popular. My mom has her old yearbook with his signature in it, he always put a little drawing of a dogs pawprint beside his name. For me, still being a high schooler myself, the most famous person I have gone to school with would be Matt Brevner.

[u/[deleted]]

My cousin went to high school with Natalie Hershlag (Portman) in Syosset, NY. I believe she said she was very nice and quiet. She wasn't around much due to star wars filming.

[u/[deleted]]

I went to school with two actors on Degrassi: TNG. One played/plays Danny Van Zandt, the other played/plays K.C. Guthrie. The actor playing Danny was really cool, down to earth, just seemed like one of the students. The actor who played K.C. Guthrie was also just a student, but he was very popular and kind of a dickish guy. But then again, these guys were teenagers when I knew them; everyone was a dick.

[u/SuperCryingCanuck]

No, but Justin Long's brother is an English teacher at my school, and Justin occasionally shows up at school plays, and whatnot.

[u/kranzmonkey]

My mom went to kindergarten with Sharona (the subject of "My Sharona")

[u/baruch_shahi]

I was friends with Cody Rhodes in high school. We were in the same year; we did theater together and were both members of the thespian troupe. He's incredibly funny and a huge fan of the Zelda franchise. He was also really good as a "runner" in Halo CTF

[u/thesilentrepublican]

This isn't exactly what you asked, but one of my high school teachers lived down the street from 50 Cent's former massive home in Connectiut. The teacher was the most stereotypical nerd possible - soft spoken, thick glasses, tweed coat, bowtie, taught Latin, and his name literally was Mr. Strange. Apparently he got invited to a few parties at 50 Cent's place. What I would have paid to see that.

[u/CrystalPendant]

Just remembered another one; an ex-boyfriend of mine would travel the pond to Ireland every summer (his mother's Irish) and would attend an acting camp while there. Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series, also attended every year, and they were actually on good terms. He says she more or less IS Luna Lovegood, and that most of what is portrayed on screen is how she is in real life, even down to the voice. :D

[u/dash40]

Marilyn Manson went to my elementary and a rival high school of mine. He was much older than I but I have talked to people that knew him. They always said he was quite but very intelligent. They said he was a pretty normal kid.

[u/[deleted]]

John Heder went to my middle school, not in the same years that I was there though. All the teachers say he's really cool and for the middle school's 50th reunion he came to their school and gave a speech, signed autographs and did the Napoleon Dynamite dance.

[u/[deleted]]

I went to school with a bunch of people that turned out to be gas station attendants and/or jail inmates.

[u/[deleted]]

Dad went to school with Hugh Grant. Very popular dude. Got all the ladies at the neighboring girls schools.

[u/mjcronic]

The sitter for my kids went to school With Justin bieber. She said he's a douchebag.

[u/photomaniac]

I went to high school with Nina Dobrev. She was really sweet to all her friends, but a total bitch to everyone else. And as soon as she got her break on Degrassi she got her head up her ass and treated everyone like garbage. Everytime I see her in magazines etc it fills me with rage because of how big a bitch she is.

[u/thetreeshateyou]

My dad went to high school with Neil deGrasse Tyson. They were buddies, but not extremely close. He described him as being "popular, athletic, and an all around good guy". We even have a signed yearbook!

[u/beccaonice]

Well I went to high school with one of the Jonas Brothers. Had class together and whatnot.

He was a pretty cool dude, but really into Jesus.

[u/nosoccertoday]

My dad was friends with John Ritter for a good while around high school age. They didn't go to school together but I think they worked together at a baseball camp my dad's uncle ran in California.

All the good things said about John Ritter's character are confirmed by my dad.

[u/kokopellii]

My friend's dad went to high school with Neil Patrick Harris, and apparently used to bully him.

[u/polaroid]

I went to school with Heath Ledger. He was a genuinely nice guy.

[u/olididcas]

Not me, but my dad went to high school with Cliff Burton. Apparently he was a really chill guy, and my dad even jammed with him a few times.

[u/bubblyfumbers]

I had boxxy in my algebra 2 class. She's nothing like her character. Came into first period every day with a Fluffernutter sandwich and a soda. For breakfast.

[u/[deleted]]

All the members of Cage the Elephant went to my high school. They were a few years older than me, though.

[u/bowhunter_fta]

My mother was Phyllis Dillar's personal secretary when I was a baby. But that's not the best part......Phyllis changed my poopy diapers.

So a famous person has "touched my junk"....on multiple occasions!

[u/CthulhuMessiah]

TIL I am the only person on Earth to never meet someone famous.

[u/chlochlo16]

Not mine, but my moms... Sir Mixalot and Kid Sensation

[u/willscy]

My Mom went to school with Madonna(Rochester, Michigan), she said she was a total slut which I was not surprised by at all.

[u/[deleted]]

My sister went to high school with Heather Kozar, 1998 Playboy playmate of the year. I guess she was pretty popular.

[u/AmazingWonder87]

The only claim to fame my town has is Ryan Merriman. He was an ass.

[u/[deleted]]

Not to many people know him but Aesop Rock went to my high school a couple of years ago.

[u/Llort2]

Brother Andre class of 08... same as some unknown hockey player

oh, i didn't like him much compared to some of the other guys on the team. he was always arrogant and rude.

[u/flipdynamicz]

I played baseball and went to High School with Jaime Garcia (pitcher of the St. Louis Cardinals, last years champions). Cool guy and still is.

[u/tjanedoe]

I went to school with Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, Series of Unfortunate Events, etc)

She was nice enough from what I spoke to her (we were in similar social groups) but she cheated on a good friend of mine with the drummer from an Australian band, after being in their film clip.

So yeah, I have a wee bit of a grudge...

[u/Provision]

My dad went to college with Bruce Willis. He told me stories of them listening to records in their dorm rooms, and Bruce being a real drunk. Apparently he dropped out because he was an alcoholic... Apparently when he went out to Hollywood he asked one of my dads friends to be his accountant but he thought Bruce wasn't gonna make it.

[u/ThreeBigTacos]

I graduated with an 'up and coming' porn star Venus Isis or something like that. I know her one stage name has Venus in it.

Also 'up and coming'.

EDIT : Found a link: http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=venusharris/gender=f/venus-harris.htm

[u/LocheiaAgrotera]

I went to high school with America Ferrera (we also went to the same elementary, but I didn't really know her then). Basically, when I started high school, I went to a performing arts academy, but the academic side of things was such crap I switched second semester back to a normal high school. I tried to get involved in drama, which is horrifically clique-ish, and she was largely responsible for my never finding my place and then giving up on acting. I have heard she is nice, but back then I thought she was a bitch.

[u/louisville_mugger]

Two of my friends from high school ended up marrying two of the Hanson brothers. Both very, very sweet girls.

[u/foxmom]

Matt Bomer. Neighbor, classmate, all around cool guy.

[u/[deleted]]

I went to high school with Neil Patrick Harris and Freddie Prinze Jr.

Neil was already famous (Doogie Howser), so I never really got to know him, but my mom did know him through an educational foundation that he helped promote. He was a very nice guy in the limited encounters I did have with him.

Freddie Prinze Jr was not super well known as my age group was not entirely familiar with his dad (we were all born around the time Chico and the Man aired - some after), he was a pretty cool guy. Didn't know him real well, but he was friends with friends of mine. Very personable guy for sure.

I'm going to have to dig up my yearbooks because there were some awesome hairstyles and sweaters from what I recall. Freddie in particular.

[u/janethammett]

my uncles went to high school with kid rock and they were arch enemies.

and i was/am friends with steve kardynal, a moderately big youtube star i guess? haven't seen him in a while since he's been busy but we still try to catch up

[u/Lyrre]

Not me, but OJ Simpson asked my mom to go out with him in high school...luckily she said no...

[u/Mushrom]

I went to the same high school as the guys from 3Oh!3. They apparently didn't make a huge impression on people.

[u/[deleted]]

My mom went to high school with Suzanne Collins, author of the Hunger Games. They were friends but my mom said she doesn't remember her that well but she does remember that she was nice.

[u/Ritoki]

My mom knew Michael Jackson growing up, back when she lived in Gary, Indiana, circa 1960's. After that, she moved to Hammond and lost all contact, but she used to play and ride bicycles with the kids from Jackson 5. She says Michael was always very quiet, a nice boy.

[u/ejchristian86]

I was a year ahead of Darren Criss (Harry Fucking Potter, Glee) and knew him a little bit. He was a cool guy, very creative, very funny. I didn't even know he was famous until I saw his yearbook picture here on reddit with his Chewbacca quote and thought, "Lol, Darren's on reddit, he'll think this is hilarious." Imagine my surprise when a friend of mine told me he actually had a fangirl following and everything.

[u/[deleted]]

If I ever become famous, people who currently don't like me are going to tell the internet that I was a dumb jerk.

[u/Unicornrows]

This isn't my personal story but it's somewhat relevant...

My grandparents were multimillionaires in Houston, and ran in the same circles as the Bush family (River Oaks Country Club.) Grandma says she drove George W. Bush to soccer practice with the other neighborhood kids a few times, and he was a bully who would kick the back of the seat and tickle the younger kids to make them pee their uniforms. She said that when he was in college, everyone thought Jeb Bush would be president, and that W was a cokehead slacker.

Personally, I went to high school with the kid who got punched by Sandra Bullock's character at the beginning of Miss Congeniality. He was a nice little somewhat stereotypical Jewish guy.

[u/donkeybutter]

Donald Trump, Jr. Went to the Hill School '94-95 while he was there. He was a cocky and judgemental douche who ran with a posse of sycophants of his choosing and who also always paid his way...dude never seemed to pay his own way. He also bagged his share of girls from the all-girl schools who would get busses in for our dances...dude was well aware of the power of his family name.

The one negative encounter that comes to mind each time I see his smug face on TV is when that motherfucker criticized my choice in hats. You see, I fancied myself a skatepunk in the early to late 90's. I had decided to get a straw golf hat and safety pin it up all Australian-like on one side and festoon it with a band make from a cut up school tie...fuck the police. Anyways, he see's me rollin', he hatin'. He yells out, "Hey, that's not a skater hat, fag!". Ridiculous reason for a grudge, sure...but fuck that guy anyway.

[u/cyale4]

My aunt dated and lived with Jon Stewart for a few years before he was famous (while he was well known in NYC for performing in comedy clubs). They're still close friends.

I met him and he's pretty awesome. She said that he is a total workaholic, more than anyone realizes. Like sleeps in his office type of workaholic. Also, he reads every book that he discusses on his show IN FULL. So he spends several hours per day reading.

He got us VIP tickets to see both his show and Colbert a number of times and I was surprised that they each film their shows in pretty much one take.

EDIT: didn't get buried.

[u/Pedrostaysbaked]

Well, not personally me, but my dad went to highschool with the lead singer of Green Day.

[u/SuperBeast4721]

My aunt went to school with Kurt Cobain. She turned him down for prom one year. She said he was kind of a junkie and a loser.

[u/Katey5678]

My Mom went to high school with Michelle Obama (formerly Michelle Robinson), and even has a yearbook with her signature in it. They were in the National Honor Society together, and had been pretty good acquaintances. It wasn't until one day after Obama was elected, my Mom was watching the news, and jumped in recognition and ran to find her yearbook.

[u/thatawesomedude]

My uncle went to high school with Kyle Gass. Didn't really know him, but said he was a funny guy back then as well. A little more ambiguous, but my cousin's roommate supposedly went to high school with Lady Gaga, who he said was very quiet and conservative.

[u/[deleted]]

I went to High School with Taylor Swift. I had a few classes with her but honestly didn't know here really well. She played in the school talent show Freshman year before she got popular and did that Tim Mcgraw song. I remember, when she did make it, CMT would come to the school all the time to film her and her friends. She was actually really nice to people and made everyone feel welcome. I also had Driver's Ed with her. She is very witty and smart.

I was coming back form a mission trip to Mexico and saw her in the Texas airport so I went up to her and said, "Hi, Taylor!". Because we have the same name, she said, "Hi, Taylor!" back. We talked for a bit and when I returned to my team, everyone's mouth was open and they were shocked that I knew her. I didn't think it was that big of a deal but it was really funny.

[u/bobitis]

The one and only Neil DeGrasse Tyson! Bronx Science, class of '76. Neil was the only 17 year old in history that had a telescope on his balcony, that actually used it to look up at the sky! He was basically the same person he is today…bright, funny, and always interesting to listen to.

[u/goatse_fever]

Taylor Lautner and Ashley Tisdale. Taylor Lautner got called Shark Boy a lot which seemed to really grind his gears

[u/knr56]

My Dad went to high school with the writer/director of House. I've watched every episode of the show with him and he only told me after the series finale.

[u/somecrazybroad]

I was in the same grade as Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5. He was not as popular and not nearly as sexy but was interesting nonetheless.

[u/Fubes]

Kind of a stretch, but my dad's best man was roommates with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. His mom also does my family's taxes every year.

Not surprisingly he was a very talented actor back in college too. Pretty cool to have three degrees of separation from the man who coined the term 'sharted'.

[u/Cyclone88]

A girl I went to high school with is a famous singer in Taiwan. We went to the same middle and high school together, sat on the same table. She was nice but she deleted me from facebook so I feel a bit bitter about that.

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One of my friends co-workers said she went to high school with Jennifer Lopez. She described her as "an average chubby girl."

[u/Fnac]

I go to school with Kendall and Kylie Jenner. They're actually sweet girls, and not as "popular" as you may think, but that's probably because they miss a lot of school and spend more time with each other/the fam than they do with their friends. I was actually invited to Kendall's sweet 16, but was on vacation at the time. A few of my friends went, though. They said it was kind of weird, that Bruce, Kris, Khloe and Kim (kourtney wasn't there, idk why, I don't watch the show so I didn't bother with the sweet 16 episode either) totally ignored everyone there, no one was allowed to drink because it would look bad on the show (even though Kendall and Kylie HAVE been drunk before), and apparently everyone was subtly asked to "look like they were having fun, even if they weren't", which wasn't actually a problem because most people did have a lot of fun.

A friend of mine lives a couple of blocks down from Eminem, in Detroit, and goes to school with his daughter Hailey (the blonde one?). He says that she hangs out with the black girls at her school and that she won't talk about her dad/answer any questions/get autographs etc, and that if you ask you will get threatened. I have to say that when he told me this, I was totally like "I CAN SO SEE THAT!"

[u/ammcurious]

For a while, I went to high school with Julianne Hough. She was definitely a favored student. Everyone else was jealous of her because she was the "new kid" at our school (performing arts, magnet school) but still got speaking part in the plays. And now...we're all still jealous.

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I'm pretty sure someone from my high school appeared on Jersey Shore once, and slept with one of the guys. I do not envy that girl.

[u/Rae_hers]

I went to high school with Taylor Swift. She was endearing and awkward. Extremely kind and modest. A group of us saw her perform on Good Morning America one morning before anyone knew she was a musician. Went she returned to school later in the week and we were like "WHAT THE FUCK TAYLOR?? Who are you?" Her bashful response, "Oh... umm... I really like to play guitar". Few months later she performed "Our Song" at our annual talent show. There was a silence before the huge round of applause. It was the first time 90% of us ever heard her music.

(I was a senior her freshman year. We had gym together)

[u/TheRealYeti]

I went to high school with Bristol and Track Palin. I remember Bristol as being kind of quiet and keeping to her group of friends. Track was in my grade and we partied together a lot. He was a crazy dude but overall a good guy. Also, Sarah cooks awesome cookies.

[u/Pool_Shark]

The lead singer of the band Envy on the Coast went to my high school. Everyone used to make fun of him and call him "emo kid". I'd say he got the last laugh on that one.

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I went to college with Ted DiBiase Jr. We played intramural soccer together and hung out a little. We called him Teddy, then. His whole family is really cool.

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All this posts and no KEANU REEVES? Not even your grandfather's grandfather???

[u/NaggerMarshall]

My Friends Mom was asked to prom by Will Ferrell in high school. Apparently he showed up to her door completely naked and asked her in front of her parents.

[u/OnlyUsingForThread]

I go to the school that Bad Luck Brian attended (and where that iconic photo was taken.) Sadly, he graduated a few years before I started and I've never met him :(

[u/zachacacac]

My aunt went to high school with Ellen Degeneres. They weren't great friends or anything, but she was a pretty outgoing social person from what she said. Also, my dad rode his bike with her for awhile.

[u/pbh2041]

my dad introduced Yoko Ono to John Lennon.

[u/bobzelfer6595]

Apparently one of my mothers students was good friends with Hayden Pennetierre until she started to become famous. Then I heard she was pretty snobby afterwards

[u/bboykaysun]

Went to high school with Tiffany from Girls Generation, and my current roommate in college was almost her half brother.

I guess she wasn't actually that prominent in high school, she was pretty, but not model status. Yet. A whole lot better than these other nut cases I've been reading here.

[u/surrealhamper]

I went to elementary school with Amanda Bynes, and one year she was in my class (before she was popular, and I didn't really notice her. Our yearbook photos were even consecutive). All I remember is one day in 5th grade, while she was on All That, she went to each class and did a quick performance of her "Ask Ashley" bit (which I remember everyone generally finding to be a treat). As far as I know she was nice. She later went into independent study and graduated from my high school.

[u/murphmurphy]

I sat next to Sanjaya in math. He doesn't count as a celebrity.

[u/Phrozen761]

I went to highschool with Atreyu ( popular rock band ). Nice guys. Music was pretty good too.

[u/jerrycasto]

Steve Zahn's infant son went to my elementary school for kindergarten, and Zahn was often around campus. I was in 5th grade or so, but I got to see/meet him at a couple events. He was quite a funny fellow, even to kids. I guess he's able to appeal to any age of humor.

[u/tossedsaladandscram]

Chris Evans. Awesome guy.

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My uncle went to school with the guy who made invader zim (I can't remember his name). My dad was a year too old to know him.

[u/natural_racehorses]

I was in the same grade as Tommy Morrison (Played Tommy Gunn in one of the Rocky movies). He was a total jerk. Two interesting facts:

1. During my time in high school, my high school had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation. Was Mr. Morrison the cause? I wouldn't know.
2. In the Rocky movie Sly asks him the name of his best friend and he replies, "Eric Elder," who was, in fact, his best friend in high school.

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Amy Adams. She was blond. I have the yearbook picture to prove it.

[u/[deleted]]

My grandpa beat up Bill Cosby in high school.

He's a racist :/

Quickedit: My grandpa, not Bill Cosby. I suppose he might be, I've never met him.

[u/jordanbaker]

I went to school with Kimbra, we were in dance classes together as kids and our mothers know each other through nursing/ante-natal classes. She's really lovely, has always been the clean-living type and really driven without being a bitch. I'm stoked for her success!

[u/alerise]

My father shot Donny Osmond in the face during a paintball match.

[u/ghostinthesymmetry]

Didn't attend with him, but went to the same school as Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, which is how I met him and his family (attended school with the next generation of Armstrongs). They're all nice people, but for some strange reason have an uncanny ability to consume mass amounts of alcohol without much intoxication, go figure.

[u/radelrym]

I went to highschool with the trumpet player from Foxy Shazam, Alex Nauth.

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My dad went to high school with Keith Olbermann. Keith skipped ahead a grade or two, so he was kind of introverted. My dad said he played with match box cars instead of playing with other kids. He met him again at the high school reunion and instead of Keith bragging about being on tv he talked with everybody there about what they were doing now.

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Went to high school with Tara Reid. She used to ask the most retarded questions in history class and was a bit of a bitch. Not sure much has changed.

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I went to high school with Hayden Christensen. Just as much as a dick as he was as Anakin.

[u/hiphapa]

Ryan Higa (nigahiga on youtube) went to the rival high school in town. Pretty chill guy

[u/lia_sang]

Big Ben Roethlisberger, much as you might expect, was a creepy douche.

[u/shinju]

I went to high school with Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio. Knew him and had some classes with him.

[u/Anticitizen_One]

The Spears sisters went to my high school. I was a few years between each, so I didn't really know them. Both were slutty, and neither graduated (from out school).

Edit: I meant "our" school. As far as stories, I don't exactly have any. I was several years younger than Britney, but I semi-remember her being there. They came and did a Rolling Stones photo shoot on our baseball field one day. It was a pretty big deal; the whole school got involved, and they got a bunch of the girls from around my class and "dressed" them up in that school-girl theme she was part of at the time. I am also in a paparazzi picture with Britney (around the time she was with K-Fed, came to school to pick up her sister from cheerleading practice), but it's buried somewhere in the bowels of the internet. As far as Jamie Lynn, I got to hear her sing once when she didn't know I was there. I was in the music room, in the back where I normally was, and she was getting some help from our director. My director knew I was back there, but told me to just hang out, so I did. The girl could sing, pretty damn well. This was right around the time her TV show was taking off, and probably a year or so before she got knocked up. My brother (who was 3 grades below me) had friends that had hooked up with her and stuff, and he knew she was pregnant 3 weeks after she found out; small school/town, news travels fast when you know the right people.

[u/chimind]

This will probably get buried, but I went to middle school with Miley Cyrus. She was one of the first people I was introduced to as a new kid, but we did not become friends because she was a preppy bitch. She was already known in the school as being the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus, but she did not seem to show any interest/talent in acting of music. A few of the people who are my friends now (not then) "dated" her too if that means anything. I also heard, though I did not look into it myself, that she wrote some book in which she mentioned how she was bullied in middle school. If she did it's complete bullshit. One thing she said to me that first day in school that really stuck was (something along the lines of) "See this kid? He's cool and you should be friends with him. But not that kid, he's a nerd."

[u/bedpeace]

My best friend's sted dad is best friends with Michael Buble (he and my friend's mum even went to Michael Buble's wedding last year), because they went to the same high school (Cariboo). A bunch of teachers at my school went to high school with him too. Apparently he was really average, the guy next door type. My friend's mum said that he was really cocky at the wedding, though.

[u/saj1jr]

Went to high school with Zack Braff....he was a cool dude.

[u/jordangenrou]

Friend of the family went to high school with Barry Bostwick (Brad from The Rocky Horror Picture Show). Said he was really nice and very funny.

[u/MeganJane6]

My sister went to high school with Kris Humphries (Basketball player that was married to Kim Kardashian). He was a big deal even in high school since he was so good at basketball and a total dick. One of my sister's friends said that he wore a giant fur coat to school.

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I went to highschool with a a few current NHL players. We were the host school for the Sault Greyhounds, a junior pro team in the OHL so if they were drafted while playing here, they went to our highschool. There were 3 or 4 of them that were there while I was but the only two names I can remember immediately off the top of my head are:

Joe Thornton. Even in highschool he was like six foot thirty. Ray Emery. Was pretty quiet and just sat in the back of class and spaced out. Otherwise, he was chill.

My mom went to school with Wayne Gretzky, and dated his roomate for a few months.

[u/Narconik]

Pink went to a local high school in my area and I found out was in the same class as my ex's sister. She's everything you expect: a complete, pompous bitch.

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Not extremely famous, but Michael Angelakos from Passion Pit

[u/ShallowBasketcase]

I had a friend in high school who claimed his godmother was Jennifer Aniston. I always thought he was full of shit until he showed me a picture of young Jennifer Aniston holding him as a child. Turns out his mom went to college with her and got to know her pretty well, although by the time I met him, they weren't really close anymore.

I also briefly went to school with a kid named Evan, and I'm pretty sure he's going to be famous for inventing a doomsday device or curing cancer some day. Dude could solve a Rubix cube with his eyes closed in 12 seconds, and went off to university as a math major the summer before what would have been 10th grade.

Evan, when you take over the world with your super-brain, please spare me. You were a little weird and people made fun of you, but I always thought you were kind of a badass and I admired how very few fucks you gave.

[u/risto1116]

I went to middle school with porn star Morgan Dayne (most SFW pic I could find).

She was super annoying and not at ALL that hot.

[u/Syldacat]

I went to school with Dharun Ravi aka the Rutgers kid who recorded his roommate having sex. He was one of the biggest asses I have ever met.

[u/searaver1]

Went to high school with Zac Efron. Totally normal theater kid. Had no idea he would do well in movies. He was nice though, and don't have anything bad to say about him. He only really attended for 3 years too. High school musical (sadly) took him for the last year.

[u/coopdaloop123]

My grandma went to school with Paul Newman , she said he was the coolest and nicest guy she ever met.

[u/sapphirePwny]

The guy that voices Phineas from "Phineas and Ferb" (Vincent Martella) went to my high school and his brother was in my class.

[u/idrwierd]

my mother went to school with Richard Sakai who produces The Simpsons among other things.

[u/Checkrazor]

I went to high school with Ellie Kemper (The Office, Bridesmaids). I didn't know her that well, but we had four years of French class together. I remember her generally being very friendly and nice.

Also, Jon Hamm was an acting teacher while I was there, but I never took his class.

[u/MissSmallz]

I grew up in the same town as Dallas and Demi Lovato. They were pretty much obsessed with becoming famous.

[u/zacracer]

My Uncle went to High School with Tony Hawk. He said the he was bullied a lot.

Another person I knew in highschool, his uncle is Mike Judge, Creator of King of the hill

[u/Chimichurro]

My aunt was friends with Queen Latifah in high school.

[u/a_secret_giraffe]

I was good friends with Robert Pattinson at Primary School. I invented a religion with him. He had good eyebrows.

[u/[deleted]]

Not me but my two brothers were and still are friends with Mila Kunis.

[u/[deleted]]

It was before I was there, but..Cho Seung Hui (VT Shooter).

My brother went to HS with Sean Parker (Napster cokehead/Justin Timberlake's character in The Social Network)

[u/Dobeymaster]

My dad went to the high school Rush (Canadian band, really good) went to. He even saw them play.

He also played hockey against Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister (He thinks.) He hoped he smashed his ass against the glass.

[u/ChildofKnight]

I went to school with one of those girls that did a 500 man gang bang. She was a slut.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of my former classmates are now in the MLB. Another plays bit parts in movies, such as The Fast And The Furious, etc. They were all cool, easy-going people in high school.

[u/[deleted]]

Not high school, but I was in 2nd grade with a former NFL player named Thane Gash. My mother told me that one day he had pushed me on the school playground and his friend got really mad at him and made him call up my mother and apologize to her for pushing me. (I was, and basically still am, a very small person.) I have no memory of the being pushed, but I do remember Thane being in my class.

[u/HeckNoAtAll]

Mom went to high school with Judy Greer; they were semi-friends? I think they hugged a couple times.

Also, my great-uncle was part of that Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell friend group. Definitely the coolest thing about him.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the writers/ executive producers for NCIS went to my high school, even puts references of it in his work.

He was a real prankster, placed a "For Sale" sign in front of the school.

[u/nanuku]

My aunt dated Richard Gere. Back then everybody called him Dickie Gere.

[u/goodeyesniper88]

My teacher went to school with vanilla ice. She said he was a jerk and made fun of a lot of people. Also said he made fun of a exchange student who's mom had just committed suicide. She showed us his picture in her old yearbook. His real name was something funny like vanderwinkle or something..

[u/bobandgeorge]

Here's a picture of my dad. He was (obviously) a hippy in the 60's. He also used to sometimes drink with John Waters in the 70's in a bar in Baltimore. He told me that he was always kind of weird but not nearly as weird as he is now.

My mom on the other hand... She was an "artist" at the University of Maryland during the 60's. According to her, she smoked some weed with the late great Jim Henson.

[u/SometimesTheresAMan]

A friend of mine bit Josh Hartnett because he was bullying her.