Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownPeople Are Sharing Their "I Didn't Know I Met A Celebrity" Stories, And Woowwwwwww"And that's the story of how I didn't recognize Kylie Jenner at Disney World."by Lauren GarafanoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink A while back, we wrote about people who randomly met a celebrity and didn't realize it at first. Then, our readers shared a bunch of their own celebrity encounter stories. Here are the most interesting ones: The people who shared their stories allegedly speak from personal encounters. Obviously, we weren't there for these encounters, so feel free to take them with a grain of salt. 1. "My mom just casually became pool buddies with Pitbull when she was living in LA..." "She had absolutely no clue who he was and even asked him one day what he did for a living. He told her he was a rapper and went by Pitbull, and she said she would try to check out his music because she hadn't heard of him. Later, on the phone, she asked me if I'd ever heard of him. She would call him Armando and say he was very sweet and a gentleman."-laurabellejean Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images for Atlantis Paradise Island 2. "My grandma had been shopping in Rhode Island, and told me about some nice, young, blonde lady who'd helped her reach something off the top shelf..." "'She sings, but I've never heard of her. Your cousin said she recognized her, though.' It was Taylor Swift."-rebeccad9407 Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for The Recording Academy 3. "I used to work in a bank at a grocery store in Orange County, California. Once I was walking back from the bathroom and saw the floral department lady chatting with a tall guy with long dreadlocks and sunglasses on..." "I said hi to her but kept on my way before I realized the man she was talking to was Snoop Dogg. It turned out that the lady's son played on Snoop's sons' football team, and they had become good friends."-kimmmmmmm0520 Kayla Oaddams / WireImage 4. "I was at a convenience store in LA when me and a very nicely dressed gentleman walked up to the cashier at the same time to pay..." "It was nighttime, and he had his dark shades on and was talking on his phone. I gave him the 'after you' gesture, and he nodded and said, 'Thanks, buddy,' paid, and left. It wasn't until he was out of the store that I realized he was Jamie Foxx."-[deleted] Arturo Holmes / Getty Images for REFORM Alliance 5. "I was 10 years old in 2002 when my mom took me to the Bronx Zoo for the first time. It was a rainy day, so we practically had the whole place to ourselves except for three British kids running around, chaperoned by a woman..." "My mom quickly befriended the woman while I made like a kid and joined the hoard, looking at spiders and scorpions and sharing in the awe and excitement of the animals. About an hour after we said our goodbyes, my mother told me that the kid, Daniel Radcliffe, who I had been hanging out with had played Harry Potter in the movie that came out last year. I had thought he looked familiar."-Syntactic_Acrobatics Stefan Rousseau - PA Images / PA Images via Getty Images 6. "I was in line for a ride at Disney when the group of girls behind me started hysterically screaming and pointing..." "When I asked the girl who they were pointing at, she just gave me a funny look and got on the ride. And that's the story of how I didn't recognize Kylie Jenner at Disney World."-ashleyc4d46e38da Mike Coppola/MG25 / Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue 7. "My dad was at a beach on vacation in California. He bumped into this guy on the staircase, who had this total surfer dude look..." "They exchanged the usual 'sorry' before my dad walked away. He looked familiar to him, but it took him a second to realize who it was. His now ex-wife had a huge crush on said person at the time, and she looked back at my dad, in shock, and said, 'That was Keanu Reeves.'"-starcasmlol John Nacion / Variety via Getty Images 8. "My wife took my son to the zoo, and he wanted to read every little plaque in the reptile area. My wife was distracted for a moment, so he asked the nearest stranger to read the plaque for him..." "My wife turned around to see Scarlett Johansson happily reading the info to him."-mojomann128 Robert Kamau / GC Images 9. "My friend's mom owns a small Asian grocery store. Post Malone came walking in with his girlfriend, and my friend's mom had no idea who he was..." "A few cute things happened: 1. She was nervous because of his tattoos, but happy/not worried once he bought a lot of food. She had no idea he was a celebrity. 2. She gave him a free snack for buying so much food and told him to come back for lunchtime for cheap and tasty gyoza (he did come back the next day!).3. She was worried he would get mugged going to his car because of three big men outside, so she followed him outside (they were his bodyguards).4. She really liked his 'cool car' (it was a Lamborghini). When Post Malone came back t
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People Are Sharing Their "I Didn't Know I Met A Celebrity" Stories, And Woowwwwwww
October 18, 2025
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