How to Meet Celebrities
Have you always wanted to meet a celebrity in person? Sometimes it just happens by chance, just like anyone we meet. For me, my childhood best friend’s aunt was dating Wayne Gretzky when he played for the Oilers so I got to spend some time around him, although I was like in female models kindergarten. I also happened to walk past Ozzy Osbourn in my hotel hallway in Vegas when I was on my way to the pool. I didn’t say anything to him, but I KNOW it was him!
Step1
Go where they go. Where do celebrities spend time? Shopping Montana Ave in Santa Monica? Eating out at El Sole? Hang out in well known celebrity venues in your area or when you travel to an area where you hope to spot a celeb. Keep your eyes open. But don’t go crazy when you do see one. Keep your cool and don’t be a psycho.
Step2
Get a cool job that will take you behind the scenes at red carpet events. Such a job could be a makeup artist, doing events from the Superbowl players wives makeup, to fashion shows, to New York Fashion Week, to doing the makeup of the wives of political candidates. Start out working in the makeup department of a high end retailer like Angstroms and work your butt off to be the best so you get assigned to better and better events.
Step3
Be a guest on their show or buy tickets to see them in performance. Always enter contests for VIP backstage passes. If it’s Simon, Randy and Paula you adore, audition for American Idol, even if you know they’ll insult you. If it’s a local celebrity you are fascinated with, show up at all their shows. Become a groupie. After a while, they might start to recognize you.
Step4
Go professional with your photography, film, business skills, etc. You can go to a school like Full Sail University where graduates have gone on to become a state manager for the likes of David Copperfield, Rascal Flatt, Cold play, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Paul McCartney. Grads from the Film Department have worked on creating movies such as Clover field, Pirates of the Carri bean, Sweet Home Alabama and the TV Series LOST. For a career in Film, Music, Show Production and Touring, and the Entertainment Business in General, this is a great place. Any of these jobs will put you in close proximity to many celebrities.
Step5
Get a job as a reporter, writer or personality for an entertainment based magazine or TV show where you’ll possibly have the opportunity to young female models interview and talk with famous people, or at least their representatives. If that is not possible, write to Ellen DeGeneres and beg her to take her with you to a red carpet event, or beg to do red carpet interviews. If she likes the request you send her, she’ll try to make it happen! Oprah is also another fairy godmother who will sometimes bring on guests who are a certain celebrity’s biggest fan and if it involves some life changing story, she’ll have them meet on the show.
