What celebrity did you know from high school, college etc. and what were they like?

swingit · 2013-11-10T12:54:20-08:00

I went to middle school and some of high school with Ione James. From what I remember her family had a lot of money and she had a real stick up her ass. She wasn't popular, she hung out mostly with the same couple of girls. The biggest story I really remember involving her wasn't even about her, but her friend Dani who got pregnant in sophomore year, that was a big gossip source for a bunch of bored teenagers. Other than that she was pretty into drama and our middle school (Brentwood) put on musicals in the spring and she was always trying to be involved if not starring in them even though she couldn't carry a tune to save her life. Surprising no one, she screeched all the way through those productions. She'd bring her guitar to school sometimes but I never knew if she had a reason for it, just that she looked like an idiot carrying it around. She joined drama club in high school, I guess she wanted to badly sing through showtunes some more. Then she told everyone she got a songwriting deal and was gonna become real famous and nobody believed her cuz we'd all heard her sing already so we figured we knew that was heading nowhere. Now I have to hear her singing all the damn time. Makes me feel like Clarice when Hannibal asks her if she can still hear the lambs screaming. I can still hear Ione screaming...every time I get in the car.

Tornadope · 2013-11-10T09:37:27-08:00

I went to high school with Ana King. Her name was Anastasie Schratter-Colvin here so everyone called her Annie and I don't think she liked it much. Mostly she just kept to herself because a lot of people picked on her for being Matilda and then for that really shitty kids movie she did right before we graduated. I remember there was this group of girls who would just kick the shit out of her and then joke about how she should just move them away with her mind. Right before we graduated she socked one of them in the face and then literally ran away to LA and then got all famous and shit and I'm pretty sure the girl who got punched is on crack now so I guess she won in the end. Her parents were notorious about covering shit up for her, like one year she got really high and crashed a car at a football game and no one ever heard about it again like it never happened. Nice enough girl, she just spent most of her time reading and looking like she'd rather be anywhere else. She was fucking hot though, like especially to my teenage self, if I had known how hot she'd be now I'd have kept her number or added her on Facebook or something. Oh, and one time she offered me a flask in History class but it turned out it just had Hawaiian Punch in it, which might be the weirdest thing she ever did actually. Like, what the fuck.

spinelli · 2013-11-10T08:39:27-08:00

I was a few years behind Oliver Cobb in HS. We weren't friends or anything but we did put on one drama production together. I was closer to his girlfriend as she was in all the plays/musicals and she was super sweet and probably the only reason he signed up at all. Oliver auditioned in their senior year when we did A Midsummer's Night Dream with a hilariously half-improvised doctor evil therapy monologue from Austin Powers. He was supposed to be Puck but he didn't show up to half of our rehearsals so our director ended up switching parts around so he was Snug. He was pretty funny/nice when he did show up but he mostly just stuck to hanging out with his girlfriend or the stage crew guys. I actually think he was around more once he was recast just because he could spend the time goofing off backstage which annoyed a few people in the cast but he gave me a slice of pizza once so I didn't care. Other than his monologue the only thing I can think of that would be interesting to share is when he spent one of our dress rehearsals taking notes to give everyone to improve their performances. Mine was to incorporate more of my character's tragic backstory into my performance - I was Cobweb. I had four lines. Apparently I had to work on better emoting the trials and tribulations of coming to terms with being bitten by a radioactive spider. I'm pretty sure he was high that day. He ended up dropping out of school with his girlfriend a little while later which I only knew about because she bailed on our musical to go try and become a famous singer. Was a weird surprise when Oliver was the one who ended up on television after that because she was definitely the more talented/driven one but I kind of wish I had saved those notes now.

SwiggleSwoo · 2013-11-10T13:18:59-08:00

James Fornarola dropped out during our freshman year of high school. I didn't really know him but neither did anyone else. He was as quiet and weird as you'd expect and didn't have any friends. I don't mean he and the other nerds sat at their table alone during lunch while everyone else threw food at them, I mean he didn't have ANY friends. Even the nerds hated him. What I heard was some guy pushed him down the stairs and he broke his arm but the school wouldn't do anything about it and that's why he left. Anyway it looks like he's doing fine now.

CheeseIsGod · 2013-11-10T09:19:10-08:00

I basically spent all my early teenage years with Declan McAlarney (the guy who just won all those awards for playing that scientist in the wheelchair to answer the â€˜who???â€™). We were both in the same school for fifth and sixth year in Dublin (the same ages as i believe second year of high school through graduation in the States - like 15-18 for reference). Anyway, i have to say i'm not sure i expected to say that I knew anyone who won Oscars and all that because I can remember him always being a pretty quiet kid. We had a couple of mutual friends so hung out when in the same circle at parties and stuff. I moved from outside the city so he knew a bunch of them longer than I did but I definitely have some old pictures from after school and whatnot with us both in them. He was always into acting then though too and had the lead in a couple of the school shows and even being involved in some city plays and stuff but never more than that. We went to different unis so we only saw each other a couple times on breaks, and still have some of the same friends. I've seen him once in awhile, couple times in Dublin when he's visiting his fam (including his mum who was my primary school teacher) and and I've never heard him bring up the fame thing at all or would even know he actually did anything with it to this level. I'm moving to London soon and I guess he heard through the grapevine about it and got in touch about what neighbourhood I'm looking in and stuff like that so that was cool of him.

Hartfried · 2013-11-10T09:55:39-08:00

He wasn't in any of my classes but I lived in the same dorm as Ashton Campbell. I didn't know him too well but from what I saw he seemed funny, straight edge, really smart, and had a lot of girls hanging around him, but never did much with them. I don't know, from what I saw he seemed really socially awkward and the ladies never took the hint. I went to a few house parties he was at and he stood behind the booth most of the time. He would always tell everyone that he was going to write an off Broadway hip hop show and was going to marry Rosario Dawson but no one ever believed him. Around senior year he stopped going to parties and people were whispering that he was getting calls from some big people. When I saw him on Community I started wondering if he would eventually marry Rosario Dawson. Still holding out for that announcement.

bobbleburger · 2013-11-10T07:43:52-08:00

Went to high school with Adette Weiman for .5 seconds before she dropped out but for two weeks she was convinced my locker was someone else's and left some corny ass love notes for the dude. TWO WEEKS. Yeah, I probably should've told her sooner, but I really wanted to see how many cliches she could string together to form a paragraph. Spoiler alert: there is no limit. It's almost impressive. She's so cheesy I needed two bottles of cheap wine to read her notes.

skoobysnacks · 2013-11-10T08:05:08-08:00

I went to elementary and middle school with Spencer Darvey. I still can't believe this guy became an actor. How did that even happen?! He used think he could cure cancer, and now he's in The Hunger Games? What a joke. Spencer was absolutely INSUFFERABLE to everyone. He thought he was the smartest, never raised his hand before talking, laughed at anyone who got the wrong answer, and was basically satan. He purposely made other students feel stupid and inferior. There was one time when he made the biggest kid in our grade CRY for failing a test. He was a bully, but not in your typical "I'll take your lunch money" kind of way. I'm beyond amazed at how well he has the world convinced that he is just a "cute nerd". He plays it up for the media. And those glasses that he wears are 100% FAKE!!! You have no idea how many times he teased me for my glasses and bragged about his 20/20 vision. So don't fall for it!

funkechicken · 2013-11-10T08:05:08-08:00

I went to high school with Spencer Seale, from You're the Worst, Don't Trust the B, The Social Network, etc. It was an arts boarding school and even though we were in the same grade, we had different majors (mine was visual art, hers was theater). We mostly only had academic classes together and not very many at that so we weren't very close. But she would still say hi to me and make small talk when she saw me around. She'd just ask about how my art projects were going or how my weekend was, but she always sounded genuinely interested, which was cool of her considering we weren't really friends. And she was really talented. I watched some productions she was in and it doesn't surprise me that she ended up in Hollywood. I wish I had better or more scandalous stories to tell about her, but she struck me as mostly normal. Hope that hasn't changed much.

BlindMouse · 2013-11-10T12:37:28-08:00

One of my good friends at university was in the same theatre group as Desmund Rowe when they were teens. They stayed in touch after he did the Harry Potter films and we all went out clubbing together a few times. He definitely liked to party hard, drank a lot and flirted up a storm with everyone, and he wasn't the best dancer in the world. Goofy and charming guy overall. We went for kebab at 3AM once after a night out and he stood in the middle of the street belting "Sweet Caroline" at the top of his lungs. I think he still talks to my friend on occasion.

ShockRock · 2013-11-10T14:01:15-08:00

I went to middle school with Mava Szalinski (blogger/actress -- she's apparently going to be in the new DC comics movie) and it blows my mind every day that she's now kind of famous. Everybody knew she was going to fashion shows and doing movies back then because she'd be absent for weeks at a time, but nobody cared. She was easily the weirdest and most bullied person at our school, and I wondered all the time why she didn't just leave. She dressed like a homeless person and had really long hair that she dyed gray and combed over her face. She never talked to anyone, even the teachers, and she was always exempt from having to give presentations or read out loud. I went to school with her for three years and I literally never heard her speak once, so to see her in movies and on talk shows now is really jarring.

FewGewdMen · 2013-11-10T08:44:00-08:00

I was at NYU the same time Althea Alden (Ophelia) was there. I didn't really know her that well but my friend was in the music program with her and everyone thought she was kind of weird? Oh and she had a nose ring back then. Always wondered why she doesn't now.

Definite know it all, my friend used to call her Hermoine Granger because she had to chime in with her opinion about everything and she'd get in really heated debates with anyone who disagreed with her outside of class and yeah, she was really uptight. She was also a lot younger than everyone else (we all assumed she skipped grades or something) so it didn't really help her make friends. Anyway, I guess she just needed to get laid or something because she eventually started dating this girl in the drama department and kind of did a 360? Like she started going out with everyone, pretty much stopped going to class and generally was a hell of a lot nicer? Definite typical lesbian codependentness happening. I saw her at a funeral of one of our mutual friends a few years back. She didn't really talk to anyone except for the ex who was also there, but I didn't really go over because it was obviously a weird situation.

NuWavve · 2013-11-10T08:42:07-08:00

I was in the same form group as Claude Amick (a British musician.) I didn't know this until me and my friends saw her at Glastonbury last year. I remember her laying into a girl called Kelly in woodwork once by threatening her with a chisel and kids used to pick on her by calling her a lesbian, other than that she was forgettable.

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