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Lil Nas X was overcome with excitement upon meeting Hollywood star Will Ferrell backstage at his tour. A photo of the pair posing after Lil Nas X's show on his Long Live Montero world tour quickly went viral thanks to the rapper admitting how starstruck he was.
"WILL FERRELL CAME TO MY F***IN CONCERT ! nobody can tell me s**t," captioned the photo on tour.
But Lil Nas X is not the only celebrity to get overwhelmed at meeting another star. It seems plenty of A-listers are just like the rest of us and get starstruck when they see their favorite celebrity in real life.
From Sarah Paulson's iconic moment of gasping on the Met Gala red carpet when she spotted Madonna in 2017 to Harry Potter's Emma Watson freaking out when she met Celine Dion.
Here we take a look at the best moments of starstruck celebrities.
Cara Delevingne and Reese Witherspoon
The British model and Oscar winning actress have crossed paths many times over the years. But this sweet moment was captured at the 2015 MTV VMAs almost one year after Witherspoon gave Delevingne some boozy advice.
The tipsy actress struggled to pronounce Delevingne's surname in a elevator at the 2014 Met Gala and then passed on some words of wisdom.
"The important thing about a name for a girl is that a man can whisper it in his pillow," Witherspoon advised, and Delevingne later posted to her Instagram.
Celine Dion, Emma Watson and Dan Stevens
The Downton Abbey actor gushed over legendary singer Celine Dion alongside Emma Watson at the Beauty and the Beast premiere in 2017.
Dion performed "How Does a Moment Last Forever" for the live action Disney remake.
Stevens celebrated his brush with mega-fame by tweeting a photo of the trio meeting and captioning it with a single rose emoji.
Rita Ora and Jennifer Lopez
English singer Rita Ora could not believe her luck when she ran in to Jennifer Lopez at the 2014 MTV Music Video Awards.
The Black Widow singer gushed over J-Lo at the famous awards night.
Meryl Streep and Gina Rodriguez
Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez could not believe her luck as she walked ahead of the legendary Meryl Streep on the red carpet at the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The actress turned around to introduce Streep and bow in her glory.
Rodriguez later tweeted about the experience.
"I'm chill right? Like, this is chill, right?" she joked about her brush with a Hollywood A-Lister.
Scarlett Johansson and Judge Judy
Johansson admitted feeling "so starstruck" when she met TV judge, Judy Sheindlin, in a restaurant in late 2021.
"I couldn't believe it," she told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
"I was a little nervous. I mean, she's like an icon, obviously. I didn't know if she was gonna look at me and be like, 'Get away from my table, I'm here with my family,' and like, 'I'm Judge Judy, leave me alone!' But she wasn't like that."
Johansson added: "She was wonderful. And I was so relieved that she was a very nice person.
"She probably was, I think she was surprised that I was there, and I was very geeked out. I mean, I grew up with Judge Judy. She's amazing. She was very, very nice."
Sarah Paulson and Madonna
American Horror Story star Sarah Paulson served one of the most iconic moments in Met Gala history when she gasped in shock at spotting Madonna on the red carpet in 2017.
She opened up on the moment during an interview on the Graham Norton Show the following year.
"No one was taking my picture. I was like 'Wow, okay.' It was 'pictures, pictures, pictures' and I was like, 'Hello?' Nobody cared," she explained.
"I was wearing something nice, [but] I turned around and saw Madonna was standing there and everyone was taking her picture. Someone happened to snap my picture when I first saw her and that was unattractive."
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Shannon Power is a Greek-Australian reporter, but now calls London home. They have worked as across three continents in print, ... Read more