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Brush with Greatness... aka Celebrities at faire

Started by Capt Gabriela Fullpepper, July 01, 2008, 03:56:01 PM

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Lady Renee Buchanan

We haven't met any celebrities at any faire we've gone to, but we own a restaurant, where my husband is the chef.  At the end of the evening, he takes a walk around the dining room and chats with the diners that are there.  We have a lot of customers from the Chicago area, being in NW Illinois about 3 hours from Chicago, where the people come to spend the weekend.

Several times over the years at Bristol, strangers would come up to Steve and say to him, "Don't you own a restaurant in Galena?  We ate there --insert month and year --." 

This even happened to us while visiting the Brookfield Zoo once and also on a trip to Florida.
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Not a celebrity bu a reality TV player. A few years ago at Sterling, we saw Gunther ther guy who competed as one of the Gilligans on TBS reality series the Real Gilligans' Isle.

Now that I think about it. Since Dinner Impossible filmed at MDRF and as cast I was involved, I met the now infamous Chef Robert Irvine.
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Quote from: Marietta Graziella on July 02, 2008, 08:21:08 AM
LOL...

I think you mean Carlos Mencia, Mind of Mencia

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Don't know if it quite counts but Sen Norm Colman was on our flight to Denver when we visited CoRF.  Intoduced him to the bnoy, seemed pleasant enough.
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Come to think of it... at MNRF we brush with greatness almost every festival weekend.  Her name?   

Me the Great!

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I remember when the original Renaissance Faire was still in Agoura (north of Los Angeles), lots of stars came out. I saw Patrick Swayze, John Davidson (btw-I actually have a picture of him in a monk's robe....he use to promote/sell the wooden Castle game there), and people I can't remember their names. Once up there the rumor flew around that Michael Jackson was there dressed as a clown...ya right...I don't think so.....
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Quote from: RumbaRue on July 06, 2008, 12:16:22 PM
I remember when the original Renaissance Faire was still in Agoura (north of Los Angeles), lots of stars came out. I saw Patrick Swayze, John Davidson (btw-I actually have a picture of him in a monk's robe....he use to promote/sell the wooden Castle game there), and people I can't remember their names. Once up there the rumor flew around that Michael Jackson was there dressed as a clown...ya right...I don't think so.....


He need no dress lik eone, he already is one...

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Quote from: Lady_Glorianna on July 03, 2008, 07:54:48 PM
Now that I think about it. Since Dinner Impossible filmed at MDRF and as cast I was involved, I met the now infamous Chef Robert Irvine.

Oh that's cool, I watch that show sometimes.  I haven't seen the ren faire episode, though I did see one recently where he cooked at a Cival War reenactment. 

Why is Chef Robert Irvine "infamous"?

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Botch

in 2004 I was in the former Blue Planet at the time still owned by Lost Island at TRF.  It was a shop managed by Mike (I think that was his name, it's been a while) but some time during one of the faire days, a tall black man came in with an enterage of about 6 to 8 people.  He shopped around a bit and really liked the stuff in the shop.

Mike asked one of the people, "who is that guy?  is he famous or something?"  "He was the tall black pirate near the beginning of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, Curse of the Black Pearl."

Though I didn't recognize him as such, it was kind of funny that his co-horts followed him pretty much everywhere he went.  When he left, so did his buds. 

Oh, and Rudy T from the Houston Rockets was there too... but that was further back than that.  He had a big enterage too.  ...1997ish?

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WWE wrestler Al Snow came to Ky Highland Ren Faire last year with a couple busty blondes...Imagine that :)

Valiss

Quote from: captfletcher on July 07, 2008, 04:02:38 PM
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/taste/stories/DN-nf_tvchef_0221liv.State.Edition1.1026008.html

This pretty much sums it up.

That's too bad because he seems like a nice fellow on his show. 

Anyway, I don't think I've seen anyone famous so far at our faires.  I'm not sure I'd recognize anyone anyway, espcially if they were in costume.

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Hey Botch, are you sure it wasn't former Houston Rocket all-star Robert Reid? He comes every year, at least two weekends.
Really nice guy, by the way.
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