Have you ever met a celebrity? And did they act or look different to what you were expecting?

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

I met Chris Gascoigne once who played/plays? Peter Barlow in Corrie.Very short and quiety spoken.

I was on a course at the BBC around 1980 (Broadcasting House, W1A) and Tony Blackburn really gave me the eye (and leer) in the tea trolley queue. Reckon I could've had him. Like thousands of other women. 😂
Also DLT - Dave Lee Travers -- did that unleasant nudge, wink and giggle thing to his mates when I passed them on the stairs. No surprises there in the light of later revelations.
I was fairly, er, pneumatic then. Now I'm just fat.

I recently bumped into Bonnie Lanford near the theatre after I saw a show she was in. She was so lovely and stopped and had a good few minutes conversation with me even though she was tight on time in beween shows.

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The wonderful Sir Ian McKellan shared a table at Paddington station, absolutely charming and very friendly 😍

Somebody mentioned Jenny Eclair earlier... she lives locally and is a little bit mardy.

She once tried to steal a parking spot from me and uttered the immortal line: "don't you know who I am?"

My dc shouted out "no" from the passenger seat. Because they didn't know and she's not that famous.

Also local (until she moved): Olivia Colman. Absolutely lovely.

My SIL worked at the BBC around that time and was warned about him, they asked how old she was. When she said 19 she was told she'd be OK, she was too old for him!
It shows how his behaviour was well known throughout the organisation and was totally covered up, at the time and since.

John Aldridge and Roy Evans were nice. I met them at the Anfield Stadium as we went on a tour for my dad's birthday. I hate footy and didn't want to be there and told them both that, they were very understanding 😂

Morrissey - not had a conversation with him but jumped over the barrier at his concert and shook his hand, he sang to me (briefly). Was a great experience. I was actually surprised by how deep-set his eyes are, he really does look exactly the same as how he does on the Viva Hate album cover.

Justin Madders MP - really really horrid to me when I worked in retail!!

I met Grant Shapps when as the local MP he made a visit to a care home I was managing at the time. He was incredibly rude and kept asking the (male) marketing director who had come for the day questions-and routinely ignored me-despite the marketing director repeatedly telling him I was the person he needed to ask. And he was rude to his PA ordering her around like a skivvy. Very self important. My residents gave him short shrift as they didn't like the cut of his jib either.

Yes I met Morrissey too. He has amazing eyes - really blue too. He was very coy and bashful and rather cat-like.

A few but most recently Colin Firth. He was very polite and nice.

Not so much a celebrity but a (then) famous author. He was an utter dick.

So glad he's lovely. I have a secret crush on him. 😆

I believe you OP but interesting how she says she was the one that was bullied https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12864543/amp/Hannah-Waddingham-terribly-bullied-school-height.html

Actually, worked in a job with a lot of staff and where you’d routinely, usually briefly, deal with celebrities. A few from colleagues:
Nirvana, nice polite young men.
Noel Gallagher, polite, could have passed by unnoticed had he not been accompanied by Kate Moss!
Brandon Flowers, Very good natured when friend said he looked like he should be on TV. He said he was ‘a musician’ and she then asked if he was any good 😂
Ricky Wilson, bit drunk but apologised for being confused and was grateful for directions/offers of assistance.
Tom Hanks, loudly and cheerfully greeted someone by name who had helped him a few weeks prior: ‘hey, it’s Terry, nice to see you again’.
Jarvis Cocker, politely introduced himself by name as though no one knew who he was. Despite most of the room gawping at him.
Princess Anne, on being paid a compliment:’oh I do believe you’re taking the piss’ and laughed heartily.
John Hurt, made a point of stopping to compliment colleague effusively for his fairly routine job.
Gazza, said he was nervous about being alone in a waiting area and offered to pay for treats for staff if they would keep him company.
Kevin Costner, queued patiently but caused quite the stir with as more and more people recognised him.

My dad used to be involved in the music industry, around a lot of biggish 80s/90s bands as they were up and coming. It was always very fleeting interactions with them so never knew them as such, only negative thing he mentioned was the Gallaghers, he said they had an air of arrogance but overall were pleasant enough, but said a lot of people found them hard work.

I've met a few minor celebrities on nights out, no bad experiences. Saw Scarlet Moffat helping a drunk girl into a taxi.

My friend and her family met Peirs Morgan on holiday, bumped into him a few times, annoyingly said he was really pleasant and generous.

Princess Eugenie , I think it was. (The one who had scoliosis) came to visit my ward as we looked after children who had scoliosis repairs. She had asked to come
Apparently, and my colleagues said she was absolutely lovely. Really down to earth and chatted to everyone. And didn't mind getting baby slobber on her beautiful dress.

Who was it?

I forgot that Daniel O'Donnell came to visit one of our patients. She had special needs and had been in hospital for ages. She'd had tickets for his concert that evening, but could go, so he came to see her instead. Absolutely lovely man. He sang to her and was just really down to earth and lovely. His assistant asked where he could see a do or as she wanted him to be checked out prior to his concert. So our junior doctor saw him in a side room.

The nicest celebs I've ever worked with were Rylan, Andrew Scott, Anna Taylor Joy, and Sam Claflin.

The worst by a country mile were Matthew MacFayden (psycho, actively went out of his way to be cruel and abusive to extras knowing they couldn't push back) and Georgia Tennant (monitored Twitter obsessively and used sockpuppet accounts to see what was being said about her husband, and used to phone up the production company to have a good scream whenever she saw anything on Twitter that she didn't like, and was determined to push her kids into fame).

I'm around celebs all the time, must are just normal. I was at a party recently with Paapa Essiedu and Pearl Mackie and did not recognise either of them till afterwards. Just ordinary nice people.

As a 10 year old, I briefly met Rob Lowe, who was nice to us kids, and Boris Becker who wasn't so much. Perhaps he wasn't keen on kids.

As an adult, I briefly met one of the chemical brothers (the taller one) who was absolutely lovely, and Bobby Gillespie, who was an arse.

I've met Sid off Cbeebies (Sidney Sloane) a couple of times and he seemed an absolutely lovely man.

I met Linda Robson (birds of a feather) and Cerrie Burnell (Cbeebies presenter with one arm) and they both seemed really nice.

I once bumped into the actor who playes Phil Mitchell in a motorbike shop and greeted him warmly, as I would someone I know well, before realising I don't actually know him in real life. I bet famous people get that all the time!

Oh and Bertie Carvel is a total perv who tries to shag or arrange threesomes (with his wife) with every young-ish female fan who goes up to him.

Michel Roux is lovely, a true gent.

@theduchessofspork in your opinion / experience. I believe my family over some random on mumsnet

We were sitting outside a cafe in Sloane Square and a guy in leathers on a motorbike pulled up in the road just in front of our table and lifted his visor to look at something. It was Prince William.

Through work I've served lots of footballers, mostly Manchester City and Manchester United. I guess you can call them celebrities too? Most of them have been lovely, down to earth and 'normal' but there was one particular one that was the opposite 😂

Outside of work I met Gwen Stefani after her concert when I was a teenager. She was lovely.

Ricky Gervais I haven't met but I saw him a few months ago at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester. He was sat in the bar and looked up when I walked in (I was really heavily pregnant at the time haha). I'm guessing this is where he stays when he's in the city