Rudest encounter with a celeb I've ever experienced

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Not that I've had many!

But Christian Bale was in London 'itsu' a few months back.

He was buying something but I'd just picked it out of the chilled section. I saw he went to reach out for it at the same time so offered it to him, as I liked something else anyway

His response? 'You've touched it. Why would I want it now?'

I was really shocked at how rude he was!

I met Nick Knowles and he was the loveliest man ever! He stopped to have a pic and a good old chat! Really nice guy!

@WineQueen that's so interesting. I've met many celebrities through work and Nick Knowles was the most rude and obnoxious I've met! It just goes to show I think that everyone has good days and bad days.

I'm looking forward to hearing that Harry Styles is an absolute cunt because he must get people clamouring to talk to him every minute of every day he's out in public.

@Summerslam you missed upthread then when someone said their photographer friend said he was rude However a friend of mine is an exec producer who worked with Harry fairly recently and said he was really charming, interesting and unassuming.

People who are saying it depends on the day as to how a celebrity is are ignoring the massive factor that it really depends on context and relationship.

I’ve been a professional adviser to one of the women on this thread who has had a mix of rude and lovely reviews, all for casual encounters. She was great to me, but she respected my opinion and skill set and knew that she could speak in absolute confidence. So of course she’d treat me with more respect but could also be herself and relax, which meant occasionally being grumpy as we all ate.

As we all are, not ate Although we did eat, including when she cooked me dinner at her house.

We could all be judged harshly on one day. The day one of my kids was hit by a car outside school I must have looked like I was insane. I am forever grateful that back then people didn't film everything. The day a man accidentally knocked a cup of coffee over me and I reacted by screaming abuse at him wasn't my finest hour. No one would know I was travelling home, bleeding and losing the much wanted baby I was carrying, they would probably have cut me a bit of slack if they'd known.

Mostly I'm very normal, chat to strangers, say nice things to kids but on those two occasions I really wasn't.

I am a bit skeptical of posts wherea celebrity is pronounced vile, rude or whatever with no context given. It is equally likely that the poster was being a pest or approached a celebrity in an inappropriate situation and was ignored or told to go away.

Think I’ve told this story before but

many years ago I went to the film set of Takin’ over the asylum that was being filmed to get Ken Stott autograph. He was lovely to but the up and coming star David Tennant the twat took the huff with me cos He thought I was ignoring him and I told him to stop acting like a child.
Ken then said well that’s told you then David and both roared with laughter and we went to the pub and got rather pissed.

i did meet Matt Smith too but that was so bloody embarrassing (at first) as I thought he was my son. At a wedding and grabbed his hand to tell him his dad was arriving late and he turn round and I went shit your not xxxx he roared with laughter. We chatted a wee bit till my lad came over and without missing a beat hi Matt, mum it’s time to go in dads already inside.

lads old job he’d meet famous or semi famous folks already and wasn’t star struck mostly. Also in his job it’s a sackable offence to ask for an autograph too whilst on shift. I get that who wants to be disturbed whilst eating and drinking, but some would be offended if you didn’t recognise them which he found hilarious as he couldn’t give a shit.

Pippa Middleton and Cherie Blair. Two of the most self absorbed women you can have the misfortune to come across

@Seiheiki how so?

Well exactly. I remember a guy rolling down his window and saying sarcastically 'you're welcome' when I didn't wave a Thank-you for him stopping to let me reverse out of a parking space.
I had actually spent the day sitting with my mother, who died the next day, and was in absolute agony begging and pleading for more pain relief. I was distraught and barely aware of him.
If I was a celebrity I'd probably be on this thread being described as rude, arrogant, entitled. You can't judge total strangers on one encounter and publicly malign them. It's very unfair.

I was an extra on a TV show with Matthew Macfadyen once. I was in the makeup trailer having my makeup done, and he came over to chat to the makeup artist (forcing himself into the middle of our conversation) but deliberately and very overtly pretended that I did not exist.

Literally, like, I was telling the MUA about an exhibition I'd seen at a museum and she was saying that it sounded really good, and the following conversation ensued:
MUA: Oh that exhibition sounds really good.
MM: What exhibition? (Bear in mind he'd heard me talk about it in detail.)
Me: It's an exhibition about such and such.
MM to MUA (blanking me): What exhibition, MUA?
MUA: Repeats what I've just said.
MM: Oh that sounds good, thanks for telling me, MUA. How long does it run till?
Me: Till end of next month.
MM: I could google it, if you don't know.
MUA: Till the end of next month.
MM: Thank you MUA.

It was the most surreal conversation I've ever had in my life. It was exactly like when a toddler decides they're mad at mummy so pretends she's invisible.

Funnily enough I was later sitting in the makeup trailer but sort of hidden in a corner and MM came in to make a phone call thinking he was alone, and I heard some pretty damaging and scandalous things. Ha! But I never repeated them since they could hurt someone else.

I've always thought Matthew Macfadyen was a massive twat ever since.

A relative went to a concert and was sat close to Brian May and Anita Dobson and said they were both charm personified, friendly and just there as 'normal' attendees watching the show.

Lily Cole on the other hand, and this was in her early days so not at the height of her fame and celebrity, was rude, obnoxious and so far up her own arse she must have been able to see her own tonsils, very much don't you know who I am?.

As my relative noted the difference was stark.

That’s HILARIOUS

Remember when she tried to claim discrimination when a fancy restaurant wouldn't let her in wearing a hoody

I always got the impression that Matthew MacFadyen was a placid and inoffensive man. Made in the mould of an efficient but boring middle manager.

But what a weirdo!

Sorry about your mum, I've been there and remember the 3 hr drive home sobbing all the way. Not safe at all but I also had a sick child at home, not serious but she wanted her mum.

I did have a funny car one with an Irish actor whose name I can't remember. I was trying to reverse off my tight drive and someone had parked opposite so it was really difficult. I also had the slight distraction of a 2 year old with a broken leg in the back of the car, I was heading to A&E at the time. Well this guy didn't like waiting so he sounded his horn at me. I'd had enough and got out of the car and offered him the car keys and suggested if he was so clever maybe he'd like to do it for me. He looked terrified and wound his window up. It wasn't the moment to mess with me.

So actually 3 mad days out of 70 years but I'm sure the people involved wouldn't say anything nice about me.

This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard, what a dick.

Not surprising with John Terry though. He comes across very badly.

Do you think it would annoy him that I had no idea who he was? So I looked him up. I still have no idea who he is.

I saw Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket) at Caste Howard once. I clocked who she was, she noticed that I had noticed and just put her head down, her face almost begging me not to say anything.! Unusually for me in those days (I was very insensitive to the feelings of other people at the time) I kept quiet and only mentioned it to my husband once PR had moved away. She was obviously there on a private visit and didn't want publicity. She was SO tiny!

I would only judge a celebrity when they have been numerous criticisms of their behaviour
Cilla Black is one such person.
Mumsnetters have had not had anything good to say about Cilla Black which leaves one with the impression that she was indeed a vile individual.
However, there are some celebrities ( such as Victoria Beckam) where there have been conflicting views. Therefore, one is more likely to give them the benefit of the doubt

I met Steve Cram when I was a Gamesmaker at the Olympic Stadium and he was so rude and a bit of a dick to me.

It was a big rule that we weren't allowed to 'bother' celebrities and just treat them normally, so I did...but other fellow gamesmakers wanted to get their picture with him, and he obliged and they asked me to take the photo. I said 'say cheese' and he said in a horrible way...'uh I hate people saying say cheese, it really bugs me.' I get the guy is bothered for photos a lot but it was a fairly twatish thing to say to someone who was doing a favour. I watch athletics often but every time I do it reminds me what an arsehole he was to me!

Sara Cox in her laddete days. Had numerous encounters (I worked in music PR) and she was both a cheapskate and entitled. She may have grown out of it though

John Terry is the biggest arse wipe ever.
I am so not surprised that he did this.
How bloody awful

In contrast to Steve Cram I met David Wilkie at a kids swimming event, 2 of mine were keen swimmers. Unusually he approached me for a chat rather than me approaching the super star he was back then with all his Olympic medals. We had a nice chat. I was happy to chat, the star struck bit hit me as he walked away particularly when I saw the looks on the other mums' faces.

I also wondered why an alcoholic being drunk was funny but decided not to ask because the thread police would jump on me for "ruining" a light-hearted thread.

He can clearly be charming when he wants to be - I was very struck by his immediate change in demeanour when Boris turned up.

We had a debrief after the event and I mentioned to the organiser that we had some difficulty with Bercow and his wife and the response was “oh never mind them, it’s to be expected, they were worse last year”.

Tony Blair was notable for being exactly the same with the VIPs and the event volunteers - one of my colleagues cornered him to talk about Blair’s autobiography which he’d recently read (which was a bit of a breach of protocol on my colleague’s part, we weren’t there to chat) and Blair was very polite in engaging in conversation about it, despite the fact he would have been more than entitled to cut him off.