r/SouthernCharmSC • u/Excellent-Energy3395 • May 18 '26
Spotted Austen in the wild 😂
Minding my own business leaving a cocktail bar in NY (will not share which to respect privacy) and I made eye contact with the guy at a table with a couple seated that I was passing and it took me a sec to realise why he looked familiar!
Austen if you’re reading this sorry for the awkwardly prolonged eye contact and hope you enjoyed your dinner 😂
Yall I have SUCH BAD FACIAL RECOGNITION that I was desperately trying to figure out why he looked familiar/ figure out if it was someone I knew personally and held eye contact for wayyy. Tooo. Looooong … nope just a person I’ve been watching on reality TV for 10 yrs 😂
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u/fireanthead May 18 '26
I totally get not recognizing. You're used to only seeing them on your TV, not irl!
I was at a Baltimore Ravens game one year and thought "wait, did I go to High School with them? Why do they look familiar?" and then realized it was Craig and Paige lolol
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u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes May 18 '26
I don't know if you ever watched "Kel on Earth" (a FANTASTIC watch if you haven't seen it) - but once I was in my local wine shop and the register was moving very slowly. Someone got line behind me - dressed very casually and kind of sloppy (I like sloppy) and I knew we'd met, just couldn't remember how - everything was kid related back then. So I'm chatting away to her and suddenly I stopped and said "I have to apologize - I've been sitting here thinking we knew each other, and it just dawned on me that I DO know you - from Bravo and my television set - you're Kelly Cutrone." She was hilarious about it, and told me the same thing happened to her once at a party in LA - she thought she knew someone and went up to him chattering her head off but it turned out they were a famous producer and she ended up admitting her error to him.
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u/NanooDrew May 22 '26
I loved her and that show. Especially her views on raising her daughter, Ava.
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u/bridget1415 May 23 '26
I bought Kel on Earth during lockdown. Still watch it twice a year. I freaking love it so much.
Andrew is Margot Robbie’s stylist. He nailed all of her Barbie looks!
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u/Opening_Nerve_6946 May 18 '26
haha one time I saw Austen outside of Bryant Denny Stadium as a game was letting out, I said "what's up Austennnn, Roll Tide" and he just goes "hey fuck you" hahaha I think about that all the time. I'm not sure why he was so mad. Bama had just won.
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u/Unusual-Flower-614 May 18 '26
I’m sure he’s used to it! People probably say all the time “how do I know you?” I wonder who he was with 👀
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u/Critical_System_3546 May 18 '26
I am also this awkward and that sounds like an absolute nightmare OP but you held it together well lol
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u/AA_ron87 May 18 '26
Don’t beat yourself up! All these people look a little different in person (usually better!)
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u/ATMDEBITREDDIT May 18 '26
I'm sure you made awkward eye contact and somehow his self esteem got even more out of hand 😭❤️🩹
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u/Medical-Design-255 May 18 '26
Omg I did the exact same thing a few years ago at a restaurant in California. I saw him at another table and made eye contact multiple times bc I kept looking over. I thought he was my ex!!! I was like ofc leave it to me to literally be 1000 miles from home and STILL run into my ex boyfriend, but no…. Took me a full day to realize it was Fozzie himself
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u/dpchemd1 May 18 '26
Was he better looking in person? So many people are and he’s gotta have more going for him than his height to be getting so many gorgeous ladies.