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?

Spot on. It's also not my experience of meeting her through work. She was lovely and not at all demanding. Bloody great, in fact. 😥

Every thread of this nature goes the same way. Usually you get three pages of people actually answering the question before somebody can restrain themselves no longer and feels the need to tell us that they once met Joanna Lumley or Michael Palin, always, always, Lumley and Palin, and they were lovely and delightful.
Why? The OP asked about rude celebrities! It’s almost as if people are so excited about their celeb encounter that they can’t stop themselves from dragging the thread off on a tangent so that they can show off.

Firstly, who made you the thread police? It would be a true bitch fest (or feet) if only grumps were named.

Secondly, do you never go on a night out and end it talking about something a million miles from where the conversation first started? Conversations twist and turn, nobody holds a stopwatch to say right, we shall talk about x subject and x subject only for the next 30 minutes, after which we shall talk about y.

Thirdly I think it's been really enlightening to see how many of these celebs have appeared in some posters' lists as being really rude and then being really nice in others'. It shows nothing is set in stone, celebs like the rest of us can be different people on different days.

He's a long dead celeb now (so I can say what I like), but a friend actually had Ian Dury spit at him when he asked for an autograph. This was obviously many years ago. I can also remember Warwick Davies as a little boy because he went to school with my brothers. He was a sweet child. Actually both these things happened in the 70s, so I am feeling rather old now!

You seem rather money obsessed @stopwaitingforpermissiontobeyou

Through work - meet lots of well know people so only the top and bottom ones are memorable

Awful
Eamon holmes
Dennis wise , Michael Owen , Wayne Rooney - In fact footballers generally
Cilla black
Prince Andrew

Especially Lovely
Mike Tyndall- Rugby players generally
Matt LeBlanc
John inverdale
Martin clunes
Harry Redknapp

Gary Neville - because I was working and he kept me waiting and I was really late getting home

Not really too much to do with this post but has anybody met Richard Madden(The Bodygaurd, Game of Thrones). I'd love to know if anyone has met him and what they thought of him, he seems really sweet and humble, also I reckon if I just looked at him i'd end up pregnant, so dreamy 😍

I hope you didn't! I wouldn't have.

Yes, this!

I met Mark Wright, he was lovely

I love her too. She cracks me up!

I can't comment on really rude celebs, but Phil Collins, Paul McCartney and Robert Watts (producer on Star Wars, Indiana Jones) were all very lovely. I used to see Paul quite often when I did a lot of sailing (we were at the same club). He was always very chatty. Robert Watts got really emotional when I told him how much his films meant to me as a kid, and how much my DC love his films now.

Well said @Gymnopedie

No not him 😅 I used to listen to Key 103 but don't remember him
You're in the right area though, Northwest England

I opened the door for Warwick Davies at Kings Cross and he was very polite. A few weeks later opened another door for him and he made a comment- so he remembered. Seemed a very nice man.

My Dad found George Best wandering in our garden one day. He was very charming apparently.

Another one who is often on the train. Very quiet. Smiles and says hello if people say hello to her

Again met Bobby Charlton at a family event. Totally charming and I believe that he helped a lot of fellow footballers out.

I have the autographs of John Noakes and Shep the dog
Both lovely
And David Bellamy- for some reason that I cant remember we were at his house and he and his wife were wonderfully bonkers.

😂

No, of course I wouldn't, but this thread is largely concerned with superficial, ships passing in the night kinds of encounters. This doesn't give a rounded perspective on who a person actually is (unlike the huge number of unanimous accounts of atrocious behaviour by a particular person that earns them the kind of reputation enjoyed by Cilla Black, for example).

I'd hate the idea of people knowing my face and complete strangers coming up to me in public, which is why I would never, ever do this to someone. Obviously not everyone feels that, given others apparently get angsty with the 'do you know who I am?' thing - do people actually say that by the way? - which is about the most cringe-making remark any human being can utter.

Personally I think anyone who actively chases fame must be nuts. I can imagine plenty that's worse, but it would be my idea of hell.

Ashamed to say, I moved straight away without question. Was in my early 20s, and quite surprised because I was just sat there quietly at the end of the night, waiting for my taxi. Had even been invited to sit there by one of the radio 1 group. What a gent! 😆

Oh, do you regularly join threads to contribute the opposite of what the OP asked or suggested, so that you can talk about yourself? I’ll look out for you.

A Mumsnet thread is not like a conversation that ‘twists and turns’. If they were, there would only be one Mumsnet thread, wouldn’t there?

I’ve touched a nerve with a few posters, I think. Carry on breathlessly telling us that you met Joanna Lumley and she was delightful, though!

Out of interest… what was your specific answer to the specific question (because you have made it clear that anything other than a specific answer and no deviation is… important to you 😂)

George was indeed lovely. He gave our mate the keys to his recording studio (including John Lennon's piano) so that he could make a demo. We once saw him, (from the pub opposite his house), talk to a girl in a wheelchair for a full ten minutes as his Starbucks got cold on the roof of his Ferrari. She left clutching a pile of signed albums and the biggest smile I've ever seen.