These people were in school with a celebrity

There's something funny about it: knowing a celebrity before they became famous. How brilliant is it if you played in the sandbox with Brad Pitt or danced with Gigi Hadid at your school party? The people below have come forward on Reddit with their stories, in response to the question: ‘Redditors who knew celebrities before they became famous, what was that like?’ I've of course compiled the best answers for you. With a healthy dose of jealousy, by the way.

- ‘My dad went to high school with Brad Pitt. He drew a picture of dog poop in his yearbook. Pitt wrote that it was his ‘trademark drawing.’

- ‘Zac Efron went to the high school next to mine. He dated a classmate of mine for a while; I remember he came to a few of our school parties. My wife was in the same year as him. He was a bit of a nerd, but a nice guy. Just a normal dude who suddenly became a mega-famous star out of nowhere.’

- ‘I went to the same high school as John Legend; he was a year above me. He was obviously very talented and had the lead role in almost every musical, won every talent show, and so on. But he was also incredibly nice and down-to-earth.’

- ‘Frank Abagnale is my father's cousin. We were at a wedding of a family member, and he told us: ‘Yeah, they're making a movie about my life. Leonardo DiCaprio is playing me.’ He's a pathological liar, so we just laughed at him. Then Catch Me If You Can suddenly came out.’

- ‘Kit ‘Jon Snow’ Harington went to the same college as I did, a year below me. A super chill guy and very shy. Seriously, the last person you would think would become famous.’

- ‘James Corden. My god, what a show-off.’

- ‘Kim Jong Il's grandson Kim Han Sol studied with me at the same university. I was in a few classes with him. He's very relaxed and a funny guy. I played table tennis against him and beat him.’

- ‘One of my teachers went to high school with Tupac. He said he was one of the worst womanizers he had ever met and that their English teacher was in love with him.’

- ‘I went to high school with Angelina Jolie. She was a weird, very weird girl and didn't seem to care what other people thought. I saw her once in LA, and when she saw me, she laughed, waved, and made an obscene gesture. Crazy person.’

- ‘My sister went to school with Demi Lovato. Back then, she was a complete bitch, worse than those girls in Mean Girls. She was a huge snob, wouldn't give you a second glance. Besides being a bitch, she was also incredibly rude and a bully. Then she went to film Camp Rock and never came back.’

- ‘I went to high school with Liam Hemsworth. He was very nice but didn't really have a personality and was quite unintelligent. His mother, on the other hand, was one of our teachers, and she was the prettiest and best teacher I ever had.’

- ‘I went to school with Justin Bieber. My only memories of him are that he tried to act so cool and picked fights with boys who were four years older than him. He also made fun of people with disabilities on the bus.’