Friday, April 1, 2011

You Call This a Celebrity Sighting?

Being the celebrity hound that I am, I was looking forward to seeing interesting people in Vancouver.  After all, several movies and TV shows are filmed there every year.  Also, I had Karen with me, who has a Rainman-like ability to remember faces and names of every actor from the stars to the extras of every film she's ever seen.

We had gone almost the whole trip without seeing "anybody" until our last night in Vancouver.   Our indulgent spa-afternoon complete, we decided to go to the hotel bar (more to come about that) for appetizers and libations.

Karen leaned over to me and said, "There are actors sitting at the bar."
"Oh, who?"
"Oh, just a couple of guys from that show, Psych."
"Uhhhh...never watched it.  I have seen commercials for it.  Is it still on?"

We leisurely finished our snacks and walked out.  As we passed this guy:

James Roday, who is the star of this show that is on the USA network (so what does that tell you?).  He looked up at us, smiled and said, "Hey."

Okay, James, you get one courtesy viewing of your show from me.  (New info:  Psych is one of Jordan's favorite shows.  Had I only remembered that, I would have autographs and pictures for her.)

I attribute it to low bar lighting, his having been at the bar and probably drinking, and the general friendliness of people in Canada.  His co-star, Dule Hill, was also at the bar, but he was turned away from us.

Celeb sighting #2 also would have completely eluded me if not for Karen's skills.  I was sitting with her at the gate for her flight out yesterday (she was leaving a little earlier than me), and there was this guy with very sparse hair with sticky-uppy cornrows, pulled up into a ponytail on the top of his head.  Karen said, "I think that's Coolio."  Yeah, I wouldn't know Coolio from Foolio, but okay, maybe so.  But then some girl came up to him and got a photo with him, and there was an airport security guy hovering around him, so yeah, it was Coolio.  As this is a family blog, I will not post the video Karen posted FB of Coolio's cooking show.  (But it was pretty hilarious.)

2 comments:

Tory said...
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Tory said...

"1,2,3 it's like ABC if hip hop didn't pay, I'd rock for free!"
-Coolio

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