Haha, I call this my "Mick Jagger-theory". I don't want to meet Mick Jagger because if he is a jerk, or we don't get along, I would lose his music. That would be horrible. Mick Jagger and all the others can therefore live on TV, where they have been all my life.
I love to write, and I have done a little hobby journalism. Because of this, I have occasionally stumbled upon a few well-known academics. But I am the driest and most formal interviewer imaginable, so I don't expect to be remembered. Also, it was all in writing online, never face-to-face.