Jared from Subway heading to town

January 13, 2009 · By Dustin · 11 Comments

Do you like celebrities? Do you also like sandwiches? Like, of the $5 footlong variety? If so, you’ll do triple backflips over the news that Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle, the guy who lost 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches every day, is heading to town to visit with students at Owl Creek Elementary school.

Fogle travels the country speaking to kids about the importance of diet and exercise, and he’ll be in Fayetteville Tuesday, February 13th at 10:00 am to speak to some local kids.

Since Jared started speaking to schools around the country, he has spoken to more than 31,000 students. Those wishing they could kick it with Jared that do not attend Owl Creek elementary school though are out of luck. It’s a student assembly, and not open to the public.

Jared is tops in the regular-guy-gets-famous-for-something-kinda-weird category as far as celebrities go, and he’s been at it as the official spokesperson for Subway for about 9 years ever since he ended his Subway only diet in 1999.

Which got us thinking; Fayetteville is awesome, and from time to time, and especially during the Wal-Mart shareholders meeting, we get random celebrities in town for weird reasons. What are some Flyer readers stories on meeting / seeing random celebrities in Fayetteville.

I’ll go first. Years ago, I worked at a restaurant called Kirby’s (old school) and Tyra Banks came in to the restaurant during the shareholders meeting. Yup. Tyra Banks at Kirby’s. Weird.

Your turn. Go.

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By buboi on January 13th, 2009

Met Eric Johnson at Common Grounds, very nice guy.

By Wiff Rightly on January 13th, 2009

buboi - Did he ever stop and say “Hold up, bro. Watch this.” and then wail on some Cliffs of Dover? That’s what happens in my dreams when I meet him.

By buboi on January 13th, 2009

Wiff-No not Cliffs of Dover. The outro of Desert Rose.

By Total Bastard on January 13th, 2009

Back in the day before ubiquitous pay-at-the-pump, I sold Nolan Richardson a tank of Premium Unleaded.

By Decapitron on January 13th, 2009

A few years ago when I lived in a nowhere town in Illinois (Quincy), I met Jimmy Fallon at Steak N Shake.

I asked him why he was there and he said because they didn’t have Steak N Shakes in New York. He also signed a plate that they still have on display.

By Michael on January 13th, 2009

I have met Tom Pagnozzi (fantasy football drafts) and Herschel Walker. Had classes with Joe Johnson (not that he ever really showed up) and Matt Jones.

By the Steve on January 13th, 2009

Ha! I had French with Cedric Cobbs. Dude was in there a grand total of once.

By Duke McDingo on January 13th, 2009

I saw Nature Boy Rick Flair at a one of the strip clubs on College once.

Fan: What are you doing here!

Rick Flair: Drinking cold beer and looking at hot (expletive)!! Wooooooo!

At least I thought it was Rick Flair; I was really drunk. Could have been a guy talking like Rick Flair. Or maybe it was me acting like Rick Flair and me remembering in reverse… it happens.