One could say that I am celebrity obsessed. I read all the magazines. I peruse all the gossip sites. I watch all the shows. This obsession with celebrity began early.
There was that time that I was 12 and was in the Caribbean on vacation with my parents and I saw Jason Priestley. If you don’t know who Jason Priestley is, he played Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210. He walked by me and I heard someone say “Oh my god, it’s Jason Preistley.” I never ran so fast in my life, and I think I was wearing clogs. Unfortunately, he entered the casino, and given my age, I was not granted access. I begged my parents to stay in the lobby and wait for him to come out, but no, a childhood dream, squashed. And those few years that I worked at Long Island radio stations WBLI and WBAB and met a few people: BBMak, Pink, Lionel Richie, Joey McIntyre (of NKOTB) and Ozzy Osbourne.
The most recent of my brushes with celebrity comes in the form of Tweets. It is my love of Dave Matthews Band that brought me to Twitter in the first place. Word had it that @davejmatthews (Dave Matthews) was “tweeting” with his fans. @slessard (Stefan Lessard, Bass player) was also on there. One of my columns in TweetDeck is reserved strictly for celebrities. At first I just read what they were saying, but then I tried to tweet them often in the hopes that they will respond. And they have!!
Larry David (@Larry_David)
Now, the word is still out on whether this is actually Larry David, but for now I will give him the benefit of the doubt and include him on this list. I had experienced a LD moment at a Dr.’s office and tweeted him the pic. He responded with this tweet. This was when I had just joined and I remember how excited I was! I asked him if and when a new season was starting. And he replied AGAIN!!! It was months later that @jgarlin mentioned on his Twitter page that this was not Larry David. I was disappointed, but there were better celebrity tweets to come.
Dave Matthews (@DaveJMatthews)
I tweeted Dave ALL the time from when I started on Twitter and he never wrote back. He seemed to have a set group of fans that he conversed with. So, I decided to tweet my frustration. I guess I got his attention because he tweeted me back that night, not once, not twice, but three times! This was a week after Harry passed away and I don’t think I had smiled since. Dave definitely put a smile on my face that evening. Then, a few weeks later, Dave was tweeting non-stop. I tweeted to him, never thinking he would respond again. But, he did! That’s right, Dave Matthews tweeted me from his bathtub. I felt so special. The last time he tweeted me was in February. He had been missing for awhile, so I sent him a tweet. And he responded once more. When I first started following him, he had 12,000 followers. Now he has over 800,000. I’m not expecting to be heard now in a crowd of 800k, but I’ll let you know if I hear from him again.
P. Diddy (@iamdiddy)
I had never tweeted Diddy on Twitter. I always followed him and got a kick out of his motivational attitude. He sent this tweet. I thought this was hilarious and wrote back. I mean, everyone should know the proper Twitter terminology, right? Well, this was his response. LOL. I’m not gonna argue with the man, he is an entertainment mogul and all.
Xzibit (@MrXtothaZ)
You all know him. If you don’t know his music, you’ve seen him cracking jokes about people’s cars on “Pimp My Ride”. He is one of the best parts of that show. I started following him on Twitter and never responded to anything until he posted this tweet aimed at his new followers. Having been a dedicated follower from the very beginning, I took offense. X immediately responded to me. I could just hear him saying that!
Al Roker (@AlRoker)
My tweets with Al Roker came after my HORRIBLE experience at the Today Show when I went to see Dave Matthews Band perform there in June. You can read the entire story here. The story was brought to Al’s attention by my friend Louise (@lovelylu). She had sent him a link to my post and he responded something to the effect of “you can’t please everyone all of the time”. Due to Twitter’s search only going back so far, I don’t have the original tweet. Then, I tweeted this out to my tweeps. Well, Apparently this got Al’s attention, because he sent me this response. And this one. Shocked that he actually responded, I thanked him. And I got another response! I’m hoping that if DMB comes back to the Today Show, Al might remember me and get me a good view. A girl can dream can’t she?
So this should be a lesson to those of you following celebrities on Twitter: send them a tweet. Even though they might not follow all of us, they do respond. You never know. Find more celebrity tweets here. Even if they don’t respond, it’s really fun to listen in on what they are saying.
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