Celebrity Sightings

Intro

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• dressed down
• play it cool
• big deal
• at a loss for words

• spotlight
• setting
• run into
• spot

• day-to-day
• incognito

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Famous actors, musicians, and sports stars are regular people just like us, right? They don’t walk on water or fly or have any other magic powers. They just happen to have jobs that put them in the spotlight.

So why is it so exciting to have a celebrity sighting? Maybe it’s because we’re used to seeing celebrities on TV or in movies. In those settings, they don’t seem completely real. So it’s surprising and interesting to see them in the real world, doing ordinary things like buying milk or picking up their drycleaning.

Some people seem to have celebrity sightings all the time. It’s like they have some kind of radar for famous people. In the street, at the store, or on a plane, they’re always running into celebrities. Find out which famous people Devan and Beren have spotted.

Dialog

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Devan

Beren

Devan:  I was at the airport the other day, and I ran into an NBA player. I was really excited.

Beren:  Woah.

Devan:  And he was dressed totally incognito, dressed down, but I was the only one that recognized him. He just looked like a normal person. And I went up and I shook his hand and everything.

Beren:  Did you introduce yourself as a fan or were you playing it cool?

Devan:  I introduced myself as a fan, but I tried to play it cool. Have you ever had any celebrity sightings?

Beren:  I haven’t. Not like real celebrities. The celebrities I’ve seen are all kind of like lesser-known musicians where I’m kind of like, “Oh my God!”

Devan:  So it’s kind of a personal…a big deal for you, but not like a mass-recognized person.

Beren:  Yeah. And I’ve kind of decided the only person I really think I’d be at a loss for words in front of…Britney Spears, I decided.

Devan:  Yeah, it’d be crazy to see her in a normal setting, too, if you saw her shopping at the grocery store or just eating at a restaurant or something, you know? Like it’s one thing to see…like I saw Hillary Clinton drive past in a car with tinted windows and like 10 police cars and stuff once. But, you know, that was very much in the celebrity setting. It’d be crazy to see a celebrity in like…doing some typical day-to-day stuff.

Beren:  Totally.

 

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