When you went to school with a celebrity and they lie about their story

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I was listening to a pop star who was being interviewed and heard them tell some blatant lies about their background.

They claimed to never have gone to drama school or had any industry connections and miraculously was scouted.

I know this to be a complete lie. I was so surprised as to why they would lie this way. It makes no sense. It's been 20 years. No one cares that much so why lie... ?

I guess they were trying to flog something so maybe it the 'struggle story' sells better

I think she’s gone back to speaking with a Spanish accent. Her parents had a holiday home in Spain and she’d visited a few times, hence the accent 😂 I saw that clip with the cucumber recently. She was making something and she said with a Spanish accent, ‘erm, what is the English word for this???’ or something along those lines. Makes me laugh every time I see her on TV 🤭

I went to junior school (in a small village in Essex) with Jay Kay from Jamiroquai. My DM did an egg and spoon race with his DM Karen Kay who was a female impersonator (quite popular on TV at the time -1970's). It seems unbelievable now, looking back. Jason was just ordinary, obviously, he was young! There is no reference to this early life in anything I've read about him. Even my mates don't believe me, lol. One day I'd like to pluck up the courage to message him and say Hi.

Christian Bale? seems very down to earth.

Notes on a Scandal wasn't by Lionel Shriver, it was by Zoe Heller - but her other books include other novels.

I thought the celeb industry is designed to dumb down society. I thought it's the reason trashy and talentless people are constantly forced in our faces by the media, so young people don't want to do more than sell dumb stories about their designer handbag they can't pronounce the name of. Then they're rewarded, by being promoted more than they're worth. Such as if they were the worst ever England football captain, who single handedly had England kicked out the Euros for being only one to miss a penalty, they're still promoted as a great ex footballer, and their wife promoted as a real fashion designer, despite designs being horrible.
Even the meaning of style has been lowered to tacky looking orange women and men with neck tattoos, so those people can be promoted.
Most of the time they're so dumb, that despite giving their children an expensive education, they don't encourage them to do more than be sold into the talentless celeb industry to use for their own attention.

I'm glad we don't go so overboard here in Britain to treat actors as the most important people, like they do in the USA. I know they talk about the American dream, as dreams aren't real, but they see John Wayne as one of their heroes for his parts, but in real life he didn't get into the military. They also drove out Charlie Chaplain calling him a Communist, for speaking up for the poor, when he helped make Hollywood great. Most great Hollywood actors and comedians are British, like Stan Laurel and Vivienne Leigh, as they see it as a skill, than a way to be easily famous and afford plastic surgery to look fake.

Someone else suggested that and the poster snapped back, "Just so you can get some gossip?"
Err well...yes?! That's what the whole thread is 😂. Instead you get God knows how many vague posts and seventy people thinking they're the first person to say, 'Roxanne Pallett!'

Agree, sounds like Roxanne Pallett to me.

Surely the lying about their age to make them look younger is going to come back and bite them on the bum. As they start aging people are going to start commenting on how old they look for that age. I don't know about anyone else but I'd rather people think I looked good for my age than think I was younger but looking haggard.

1970s state school education must have been excellent in the UK, as the 80s had pop stars in their teens and early 20s who went to state schools in rough areas, who wrote songs and music that will be listened to until the end of time. Nowadays no matter where anybody is educated, they just manage to do karaoke on TV singing competitions, as a stepping stone for a talentless celeb career.
Although pop music used to be like folk music for the working class, as a way to have their say in society, and a shame it started getting taken over by public school people.

Sting comes from the north east, and now has a mansion type house in Wiltshire. Fields of Gold is about where he lives in Wiltshire.

I went to school with a well-known ‘farming influencer’. She’s known for being very down to earth and approachable and supportive and lovely, none of which I doubt is true. But she was also in a very cliquey group at school and once did something really very mean and humiliating to another girl in our class. Fair enough, we’ve all grown and matured since we were 14 years old, but….recently one of the other girls from the cliquey group made a post that mentioned lots of their memories together and she reposted it, specifically laughing at the really mean thing she had done.

But her followers wouldn’t really have had a clue because it was just one word in the post that was clearly referencing the incident, but without context would have gone over most peoples heads. Which made me think she hasn’t really grown and matured into the “be kind” persona she has made for herself.

Mine is an indirect one - my DB sat next to a celebrity for most of his secondary school days (alphabetically seated).
This person claimed he was bullied and picked on by the teachers with plenty of corporal punishment (this was fifty years ago) - not at abuse level though otherwise would have to be investigated and found not to be true. The person just got on with their work and was a quiet boy.

Why do these celebrities think that claiming they were abused or bullied makes them special? It’s so odd.

I took “female impersonator” slightly differently to the way you intended it and got very confused!

(Addressed to TheSikentSister - don’t think my quote worked).

Could it be I went to school had a happy time learnt stuff and did my homework doesn't sell autobiographies.
Schools in the 1950's and 60's did have some nasty teachers but in this case it didn't happen

It's so they are "relatble" and relatability sells .

My friend’s dad would have been your teacher at some stage then.

Pretty good idea who this is and I'm not surprised at all. Unpleasantness still seeps out of her.

Eh? Was she not actually his mum; or was it her dad who had 'transitioned'? Don't you have to actually be a male in order to be a female impersonator?!

@OnTheRightSideOfGeography - She was an Impersonator, don't know why I had to add 'female' lol. She did a cracking Maggie Thatcher.

@Olivegardenishome - Ah, so you know where it is I'm talking about and you believe me!

Ok, but imagine you now suddenly become very famous. Unless you left school very recently, have never moved away and come from the kind of place where most people don’t leave so you still see them around, how many of your former classmates, far less anyone in other years, will remember anything about you in any detail?

I left at 18, and even though my parents still live close to my old school and I occasionally see former classmates on the street, they’re just vaguely familiar faces. Often I couldn’t put a name to them. I certainly couldn’t have told you whether they were bullied at school or what their home life was like. And I have an excellent memory. This just doesn’t count as ‘relevant information’.

If I were a celebrity recounting my childhood in an interview, I’d be amazed if anyone in my class remembered anything that would either contradict it corroborate it.

It is, I'm outing myself as way too well-versed in her story (can you tell I didn't have much to do during lockdown), but it eventually emerged that the likely origins of her Born and Raised in Spain story were a few holiday trips to Majorca (a very touristy / expat-y Spanish island) that she had fond memories of

I think maybe it's necessary or at least a lot of pressure for women in media as I've heard directors, agencies etc directly eliminate you based on age