I once met Vanilla Ice and didn’t know who he was.
It was when he started playing rock music under his real name.
I was bartending at the club they were playing in that night.
We had just opened and I’m setting up bar and he walks up and orders iirc a jack and coke.
I grab a glass and as I’m about to pour it ask if he wants to start a tab.
Says “I’m (vanilla ice real name)
Me: need a CC for the tab or cash
Vanilla jackass: dude I’m (vanilla ice real name)
Me: so what
Vanilla Jackass; I don’t pay for drinks
Me: at my bar you do
Vanilla jackass storms off to where his guys were setting up
Manager walks up
Me: is that shitty band getting free drinks tonight? The jackass singer seems to think they were
Manager : fuck no
I find out later that. It took it was vanilla ice lol, they ordered from the other bar that opened later all night instead of mine and tipped that bartender like shit hahaha.
On another note I have a famous cousin that everyone would know, and my brother is in the film industry and has worked on a lot of popular shit and we know people from that.