My stepfather is a celebrity in some way in Norway.
He is not a celebrity like a movie star or singer but in a different field, and he is hard to ignore/escape.
Some years ago i was in a florist course where i met a woman who was the sister of another celebrity.
Her brother has many merits on his list, he was in many fields, acting and in the same field as my stepfather.
Because of that i shunned her a bit which she noticed but didn`t understand. We didn`t confirm this knowledge between our relatives, and they didn`t know each other privately.
Yet they had been working in the similar field, so this was the only similarity they had.
Because of my hard time with the family i tried to avoid anyone who reminded me of my stepfather.
I didn`t ignore her, just a subtle avoidance which i much later realized the real reason for.
Since she was a recovered drug abuser, and a social person she took it bad, and responded by ignoring me.
I didn`t really ignore her, i was just not totally there for her. Holding back a little bit can have devastating results when the person you are holding "it" back from is someone who is used to being the centre of everybody`s attention(she was a model).
So it depends who you shun, when you shun and how you shun. I think my shunning was of the acceptable type because we went to course together and had other things to think about besides being best buddies all the time, but clearly she wasn`t just there to show off flowers...
so...