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You can’t always know what to expect when meeting a celebrity. And as some people have come to discover, bumping into a famous person isn’t always a pleasant experience. Plenty of celebrities seem to have developed a reputation for being A-class A-holes. Not too long ago, Bored Panda reported on 30 times people met stars who turned out to be very unpleasant people. Among the names on that list: Dr Phil, Kendall Jenner, Madonna, Adam Levine and Hailey Bieber.

Fortunately, there are some celebrities who haven’t let the fame and fortune go to their heads. They’re known as genuinely nice people who treat those around them with kindness, and bring a touch of wholesome goodness to this world.

When former Hollywood assistant Lauren Modery posted about her encounter with actor Jeff Goldblum, over 14,000 Threads users tapped the “love” button. Modery, who goes by @hipstercrite described Goldblum as “hands down one of the nicest celebrities”. Her post prompted other ordinary netizens to share their own wholesome celebrity encounters. Bored Panda has compiled a heartwarming list of posts and comments about the most amazing A-listers people have had the pleasure of meeting.

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Lauren Modery is the woman behind the original Threads post about Jeff Goldblum. Born in Central New York, her childhood obsession with film led her to Los Angeles at the age of 20, where she eventually landed a job as an assistant in Hollywood. But Modery soon learned that not all that glitters is gold.

As per her website Hypstercrite.com, she spent five years in denial, drowning her sorrows with drinks. “Having lost all her creativity and tired of living the plotline to ‘Swimming with Sharks’, she jumped in her car one day in 2008 and drove to Austin, Texas where she knew no one, had no job lined up and only $500 to her name,” reads the site.

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During her time in Hollywood, Modery got to meet some big names in the industry. And while she raved about Jeff Goldblum on Threads recently, even the nicest A-listers weren’t worth the young woman selling her soul. In the end, leaving Los Angeles turned out to be the best thing she could do…

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Modery is now married to a filmmaker, and recently had a baby. She works as a copywriter by day and a scriptwriter by night. According to her site, “her work has appeared in The Guardian, xoJane, AOL Travel, Austin Monthly, Austin Insider Mag, Spinner and Scoutmob.” And it doesn’t stop there.

“Her blog was selected by Blogger as ‘Blog of Note’ in 2009 and she was named Austin’s Blogger of the Year at the Austin Blogger Awards in 2010,” reads Hipstercrite.com. Modery has also won awards for a film she wrote and co-produced.

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Modery has previously written about the harassment she endured in Hollywood. “I was offered the job of personal assistant at 20 years old. I felt lucky for the opportunity. A small-town nerd and lover of the Marx Brothers and David Lynch somehow made it to Hollywood,” penned the former assistant.

“Male chauvinism was a foreign concept to me, having been raised by a strong-willed single mother and ambitious grandmother. Maybe this upbringing was damaging, for I wasn’t prepared for Hollywood’s gender divide and rampant sexism.”

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Modery goes on to detail some of the incidents she encountered, allegedly at the hands of some of the men she worked with in Hollywood. “Supervisor often talking to me about the size of my breasts,” writes Modery. “He’d regularly ask another female employee to lift up her shirt and give him a show.”

She then goes on to say that “none of these occurrences fazed me at the time. It was Hollywood after all. That’s just the way it is…”