Being cool with a celeb

My best friend, Q-Boog, is a producer for a network. She works crazy hours, and rarely gets time off. But she enjoys her job, ahem, career.

A few years back, through work, she made friends with a wildly popular celebrity whose name I will not mention. They exchanged numbers, and actually started talking. He calls her whenever he comes to town.

Once, he dialed her while she was prepping for bed. He asked her if she'd come out to where he was. Already in her PJs, she declined. He told her he would gladly come to her and "get in his jammies with her." Of course, she said no.

They haven't seen each other since they met. They always miss each other. But every month, she tells me that "(INSERT CELEB'S NAME) called again." I get a grand laugh at knowing that they're "friends."

It makes you wonder how much celebs appreciate meeting someone who has no interest in their celebrity, but who wants to know them for who they are. You know, someone the celebrity can confide simple truths in, and still not worry about that friend leeching on for the ride.

It's also an opportunity for the celeb to prove to be human. Q-Boog's father recently had a heart attack. She flew home to be by his side. This celeb happened to be coming to her current town as she was leaving. He texted Q-Boog in hopes of meeting up, finally. She told him about her Pops and that she was back home. They'd missed each other again.

As any friend would, he sent along his well wishes. But get this, he has talked to her more during this time period than I have. This celeb knew she was flying home to be by his side before I did.

He has called her every day to check on her and her Pops, sometimes more than once a day. Yesterday, he called while she was chilling with her Pops. Her dad, who is at home and doing better every day, got so excited about the phone call that he actually started singing this celeb's latest hit song in the background.

I will not give away the celeb's identity by typing a lyric of the song. But just know this, you totally wouldn't expect this type of friendship from him. Well, maybe you would. Then again, you wouldn't.

For me, though, it's good to know a celeb like this dude has a real side, that he actually isn't full of himself and cares about people.