Most unpleasant celeb you've ever met?

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I met a well known mum of a celebrity today. I was offering to give her a hand as she had dropped some shopping on the way to her car.

She shouted 'Don't touch! It's fruit ' I said oh sorry, thought you needed a hand there. She said no, just don't touch. I'm fine.

I was shocked and walked off.

Have you ever met a celebrity that's been rude? Or sounded rude even if they weren't actually speaking to you?

Like it @ittakes2 , I'm wondering whether Carol Wright's reaction could be OCD. I have OCD and it sounds like a way I might have reacted when I've been very poorly with it in the past. Feeling scared and on edge from morning til night doesn't bring out the best in people generally. OCD triggers don't always make sense, and someone with contamination OCD may well be triggered by someone else touching their food.

Reading this thread makes me very glad not to be famous. We all have rare days when we're a bit of an arsehole, even if we're lovely most of the time!

PrtScn · 10/05/2022 12:54
When I worked in a shop Bruce Jones (was in Corrie), was quite rude to me. His friend was embarrassed and apologised.

in the late 90’s to mid 2000’s, Bruce Jones lived in Marple, Stockport, was regularly to be seen legless in the local pubs, usually rude and abusive and was eventually banned from most of them.

@Badbadbunny I'm so pleased to hear Olivia Newton-John is lovely in real life. I listened to her autobiography and she seemed like a complete sweetheart; a huge animal lover and her work for cancer care is really awe inspiring
This is such a great thread. I am kind of empathetic to the smiley, twinkly by trade kind of celebs such TV presenters and children's TV stars; it must be such a burden to be seen as nice all the time. I think it's easier to be a professional arsehole like Gordon Ramsey or Katie Hopkins, at least then you have scope to delight and surprise by actually being warm and friendly in RL!

Ainslie is a bit pervy. He was all over that young actress from Eastenders (blonde curly hair) on TV cooking show years ago. Can’t remember her name or the program. Was he Ready Steady Cook or Can’t Cook Won’t Cook?She was cringing away from him. I’ve not liked him for last 20+ years because of this.

Bruce Jones was just the same when he lived in North Wales before lockdown, don't know if he is still there but he was quite well know in local pubs.

Why am I not surprised at so many of the Coronation Street cast being so unpleasant?

Jodie Comer was a horrible school bully, I think it’s so funny how everyone loves her now when she used to be a real cow.

Yes, a few times. She is engaging, full of anecdotes and not immune to name dropping. She is not my bag really. I find the Hampstead, leftie clichés a bit trying.

Ben Fogle treated me like crap to try and make himself look like a gentleman. I was working in a junior role in TV, making drinks for guests etc, and he spoke to me like a servant ordering me to make drinks for the contributors in with him from his show - implying I hadn't offered them because they weren't celebs and he was the valiant gent standing up for them. It was not at all what had happened, I was just run ragged as ever, on a 50 hour a week job that paid less than my rent cost. I can just remember the way he looked at me and spoke to me to this day and what an unpleasant man I found him to be. Can you tell I'm still cross 15 years later?😂

Mariah Carey
Matthew McConaghy
Hugh Grant
Woody Harrelson
Micky Flannagan
Martine McCutcheon
Peter Crouch...all nice celebrities. Especially Peter crouch - we had a really nice chat at a bar at a gig we were both at.

Rude celebrity - Rochelle Humes. Very stuck up and rude, which is quite funny considering she's the least famous celebrity on my list.

Two nice ones: I was at a TV show filming, and we ended up sat on the front row. Lauren Laverne was one of the presenters, and she came over to us and just started chatting away. The other presenters completely ignored the entire audience, but she was lovely. Sadly I was just too start struck to chat back!

Earlier that day, as we were waiting in line to go into the studio, Richard Osman was hanging around (they were filming Pointless in the same building) and was being lovely and charming with people further up the queue. Sadly didn't make it as far down as us before he was required back on set.

I'd agree with a pp that the more long standing and solidly A-list a person is the less likely they are to be obnoxious. They pay other people to do that for them for one thing! And yes to the newly overnight famous people being the most difficult (often, not always), they were often the ones keeping us in the green room stupidly late drinking as much as they could get their hands on and keeping the chauffeurs waiting etc, not much class.

David Walliams.

He is rude and dismissive unless you happen to be famous. Looks at you like you are the shit on his shoe.

DH has done a fair bit of work at concerts and said the rudest most entitled celeb he met was Justin Bieber and the nicest was Jess Glynn.

I used to see him on a fairly regular basis and he was always lovely and unassuming. At the time he was married to Heather who was much more caught up in the whole “don’t you know who I am” thing.

I don’t think it’s possible to really say what well known people are really like on a one off basis but over time with lots of interaction or working with them, then I think those reports are more accurate. I know I’m a grumpy person some times and if I was well known and approached when I was quietly going about my life I might not always perform that well either.

Barry Humphries. V rude man and blamed company I was working for at the time for a mistake his people had made. Never apologised. He split up with his wife not long after, but that’s really no excuse.

The total opposite to Richard Attenborough, who was Lord Attenborough by the time I met him. No airs at all and absolutely charming to everyone.

Ooh I forgot one; Henry Cavill is perfectly charming when he's doing public appearances, but I have it on good authority that he can be quite different when he's not.

Agree with PPs though, it's not really on to approach people going about their business asking for photos and autographs and then be offended when it's not warmly received.

The people I've met have either been because they've been because they've been a client of my work, because they've been working at a public event I've been at, or when I was younger at theatre stage doors (which I guess is half and half them being 'on' or 'off' duty). Jason Donovan was an arse at the Palladium stage door when I was about 8.

I've never approached somebody randomly in the street. Closest I got was tweeting that I'd seen Andi Peters in a restaurant. He replied very politely the next day😊

I remember going to the London palladium to see Cinderella when I was about 9 and they chose me and my sister to go on stage with Ronnie Corbett ( he was playing Buttons) as I went to walk up the steps to go on stage they pulled me back and said Ronnie Corbett did not want anyone taller than him, never liked him after that lol

*I work for a publishing house and had the pleasure (or would I thought would be an honour and a pleasure) of running our good friend JK through some of her edit notes.

Before she published The Casual Vacancy, there was a HUGE plot hole left in the book, which isn't particularly rare for our authors - we're all only human after all.

I brought it up with her, and she refused to accept that it was a problem, and when we pushed it she said we were free to rewrite that chapter if we wanted to, but she didn't see why she should.*

@LindaEllen As a reader of her Strike books, I find this EXTREMELY easy to believe. Each one has been an okay enough murder mystery stretched out to. 1,000 ridiculously padded round-the-houses pages. Every time, I think, bloody hell, you can just tell this woman doesn't listen to her editor/s.I can't believe someone hasn't tried to prune this down so it might be an overlong but still more suitable 500 pages.

Do politicians count? If so Margaret Hodge is rude, arrogant and speaks to people as if they're shit, and former MP Kate Hoey is no better. Actually, she's possibly worse.

Otoh, Denis Skinner, who comes across as grumpy and rude, seems really nice IRL.

Ricky Gervais and his wife are both lovely, impressive, private people. Nothing but nice things to say about them.

Our 8 yo DD struck up a conversation with a very attractive man whilst we were in a restaurant and she pottered over and started to chat.
My DH sat there dumbfounded as she chatted about finding an ammonite during the Easter hols.
I apologised to this beautiful man who was charm personified and later that evening he stopped and wished our daughter ‘ Happy fossil hunting DD name’ in a lovely Catalonian accent.
‘Twas Pep G.
DH massive Man City fan.

Not surprised about Rochelle at all, she comes across that way.

My nan met Graham Norton a few times and said he was an proper rude cunt which disappointed her a lot as she was a huge fan before meeting him

Jodie Comer was a horrible school bully, I think it’s so funny how everyone loves her now when she used to be a real cow.

This one has crushed me, @imperialminty. Dunno why because I kinda get the impression she could be bitchy (not in a psychopathic Villanelle way, just in a regular person way). I guess because I like her as an actress and she's so successful now. It's never nice when the bullies win.