Went to middle and high school with Halsey.
She was in the same grade as me.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
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1.Kit Jon Snow Harington went to the same Sixth Form College as me, year below me.
Super quiet and shy.
Literally the last person youd think would end up being famous.
2.I went to high school with Joe Keery.
3.I went to the same school as Dua Lipa for a year.
4.I went to high school with Hayden Christensen before he was in Star Wars.
He was artsy and seemed shy.
Spent his time in the drama department, and was a nice guy from every memory I have.
5.Went to high school with John Legend.
He was a year older than me.
He was clearly very talented, lead role in most school plays, musical acts at talent shows etc.
But he was basically just a really nice, humble guy.
I wasnt friends with him but I was an athlete who hung out with the theatre crowd.
I helped on set construction and sound for shows.
He was a basketball fan and came to most of our schools games.
His cousin was also on the team and a year younger than me.
6.Went to middle school with Raven-Symone (post-Cosby, pre-Thats So Raven).
7.I went to Northwestern w David Schwimmer.
He lived with my best friend in a house after graduating.
Too bad hes been so typecast now.
8.My Uncle went to the same High school as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears.
Apparently on the bus Jamie would hand out CDs of Britneys when she was first getting started with music.
Also one day he saw her crying on the bus because people were calling Britney a slut.
I pretty sure he hung out her house one time too, I think their parents were friends.
My cousins and I use to beg him tell us stories about Britney lol.
9.Zack Efron went to a neighboring high school.
He dated a girl from my school for a while, I remember him coming to some school dances.
My wife was also in his grade at his school.
He was a bit nerdy, but a nice guy.
Pretty much just a normal dude from nowhere that ended up mega famous.
10.Went to middle and high school with Halsey.
She was in the same grade as me.
11.Timothee Chalamet was a year above me.
I think I still have the old school newspapers that featured his comics.
I remember wondering if someone just stole his art and put it in the paper, but nope.
He even did an improv show at the school a couple years back.
13.I had a couple of classes in HS with the model Karlie Kloss.
A bit stuck up but she at least faked being nice most of the time.
15.Went to junior/high school with model Ashley Graham.
She was absolutely gorgeous then and now.
Further, she was approachable, had a great sense of humor and down to earth.
I was a geeky little guy, but she always was genuine and nice to me.
Thats stuck with me.
God was he a show-off.
17.Chloe Moretz is from my hometown but is a good bit younger than I am.
I was surprised when I heard that she was the one whod gotten famous out of them.
I dont mean to sound snarky, it really is a weird house.
18.In the words of my Year 12 Classics teacher:
Kylie Minogue was really smart and lovely.
Dannii Minogue was just lovely.
19.I went to a really small Catholic school with Bill Hader.
20.Went to school with the Youtuber Zoella.
She was kind of shy and not very confident.
She hung out with the popular girls but just sort of followed them around.
21.I have some friends who went to high school with Taylor Swift.
They said she was a total jerk all through high school and was Ms. Popular Cheerleader.
She tries to make it seem like she was bullied and everything, but its all one huge lie.
ETA: Her family was also loaded.
Her dad was in the private jet business and her family lived in a nice house on the lake.
22.Avril Lavigne was the bat girl for my baseball team.
23.I went to high school with Wayne Sermon, guitar player for Imagine Dragons.
Quiet kid, but always very humble and kind.
He could shred the guitar even then.
My sister has her school pic that says have a great year.
My sister said she was really nice.
She was cool, although very annoyed at me since I bugged her alot in elementary school.
Apparently he super nice and friendly, and was actually class president.
Even now, hes all those things, and still down-to-earth.
He did an interview with my schools newspaper, and was very humble.
Its pretty nice to see a guy so famous keep his roots.
27.Machine Gun Kelly went to my high school when I was there.
I saw him in the hallways, he liked to wear big white t-shirts.
She was beautiful and confident and extra and she LOVED herself.
And honestly, we loved her too.
Im am not at all surprised by her fame.
Love you, Pri!
29.I went to high school with Pink.
We had choir and theater together.
She was OK.
30.Ed Sheeran was a year below me in High School.
Generally OK kid, very good guitarist.
Got really into looping and pedal effects.
31.I went to high school with Kanye.
Contrary to popular belief, he wasnt an asshole.
He wasnt nice either Ill be honest.
I had only about 1 or 2 real interactions with him even though we had a few classes together.
He was just a straightforward, honest, but yet shy kid.
He used to sell candy or some shit in the hallways.
32.Frank Abagnale is my dads cousin.
Leonardo DiCaprio is playing me.
Hes a professional liar, so we all just laughed at him.
Then Catch Me If it’s possible for you to came out.
33.I lived in the dorms with Andy Samberg at UCSC freshman year.
I remember that he had a bunch of pretty cool hip hop and a record player in his room.
Our dorm was Cowell College and he performed a really bizarre rap at the talent show second semester.
I always win Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon because I appeared in a movie with him.
35.Didnt go to school with him but the youtuber Vitaly went to my school and had my multimedia class.
Our teacher showed us the videos he made there.
Also Bhad Bhabie showed us her new nipple piercings in 6th grade.
36.I was in Drakes class for grades 1-4.
We werent super tight, but we got along okay.
(Though he later seemed to grow into it, so good on him.)
But I will say that I am totally incapable of buying his stage persona.
I remember little Aubrey Graham as, if anything, kind of a goody-two-shoes.
37.Lena Dunham was very, very unfunny in middle/high school but otherwise just sort of awkward.
I dont get the impression she changed so much as people started listening to her.
38.I was on the wrestling team with Rachel Brosnahan.
She was always super chill and nice.
Always treated me with respect.
Much better actor than wrestler.
39.I went to high school with Emily Ratajkowski.
She is a year older than me and was in a grade above me.
We werent friends ourselves, but she was friends with a lot of people I was friends in.
In no way did I know her well, but i remember she was always smiling and very nice.
My high school was relaxed as fuck but he was the ultimate DGAF teacher.
He was a super nice guy, very very talented.
40.I went to high school with Calista Flockhart.
She was very nice, great student, great singer, nice, chill girl.
All the crap in the media about her weight and all of that?
She was always slender build, athletic.
She looks the same today as she did at Shawnee High School in 1983.
Good for you, Calista.
41.Kylie Jenner was a couple grades above me at a k-12 school we attended in SoCal.
This was in the late 2000s.
We chatted for a few minutes, and she was extremely kind and friendly.
For the next few months, wed frequently run into each other and exchange smiles and greetings.
It turns out she switched to home schooling at that point.
Looking back, it was all so surreal to me.
42.Not a personal one but my mothers friend circle was involved with Eminem obviously far before he was famous.
From what I was told, it was very bad lmao.
But being a master doesnt happen overnight.
43.I went to high school with Shawn White.
He wasnt ever around because he already had a bunch of contracts and was already traveling.
He also bought his mom a house at 15.
44.Shes not suuuuper famous yet but shes on the brink.
She was super nice and well liked by everyone.
Once we played a school talent show gig together, the highlight of my performance career!
Absolutely thrilled that shes doing so well for herself.
Our town is notorious for being kinda shitty so Im glad someone from there made something of themselves.
Literally the same person.
46.My husband knew Kevin McHale from Glee when he was a kid.
Said he was the quiet, artsy throw in but super talented.
48.My grandma went to the same high school as James Dean.
Said he was chill and charismatic.
Was kinda cocky as a result though because he KNEW he was hot stuff.
49.My ex-mother-in-law was close friends with Johnny Knoxville, except everyone around here calls him PJ.
He absolutely adores her father.
He used to wear a football helmet around for his stunt work or something like that.
Anywho, he came in town for his parents 50th and we were all invited.
This just cannot be said about PJ.
Hes just an all around nice guy from the sticks.
50.My dad went to school with Vanilla Ice, he said he was nice.
