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Loveaglassofsherry · 2025-01-15T18:09:08+00:00

I just met actor Irene Marot, who played Ron Dixon’s wife DD in Brookside, when she asked me for directions on a London street corner. Happy to report that she is absolutely delightful IRL. (I told her she looked familiar and she seemed surprised and chuffed that I had recognised her.) So, which “celebrities” (A-list or otherwise) have you met by chance in a “civilian” or daily life context. And what were they like?

CrowleyKitten · 17/01/2025 00:33

cafenoirbiscuit · 15/01/2025 22:02

Said it before but James May - just the loveliest man, and very patient with 2 9 year old boys. Humorous, kind and just so nice.
also Alice Roberts. She’s my fantasy BFF

I met James May, but don't really remember a lot about him. he was still a journalist at that point, and I was quite young. my Mum used to have an article each month in theTeddy Bear Times about her restorations, and he used to write it. he always seemed very nice, was quite often at get togethers at the shop where my mum did the monthly consultations about her restorations. the owner of the shop really fancied him.

Moonshine5 · 17/01/2025 00:37

Girasole02 · 15/01/2025 18:41

Johannes Radebe outside Asda. Sunshine in human form.

What a lovely compliment

CrowleyKitten · 17/01/2025 02:09

BobbySox71 · 16/01/2025 20:33

Loads of Irish rugby players including Jonny Sexton and Brian O’Driscoll. Tadhg Furlong was the funniest
Mary Berry
Terry Wogan
Catherine Fulvio (Irish tv chef), my brother is married to her sister

oh that reminds me, that's another Normal life thing. not a huge celeb, but my Uncles ex sister in Law wrote the Worst Witch books. the Murphys were all a bit odd though.

CrowleyKitten · 17/01/2025 02:20

GiddyRobin · 17/01/2025 00:11

Yes!! Jeremy Corbyn had to be the sweetest out of the lot. I offered him a handshake and he hugged me, then reminded me I had a hood as I was getting drenched in the rain.

Reece Shearsmith is really nice. He comes across as a bit cagey sometimes I think, and people have him pegged as a grump, but it couldn't have been the furthest from the truth in my experience. Quite shy actually. Showed me a picture of his Krampus decorations. 🤣 LoG is genius, as is Psychoville and Inside No. 9. Clever writers!

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I think a lot of Reeces characters are very sharp and irritable. but I remember a lot of his interactions with the Good Omens fandom, like posting lots of detail photographs of his costuming as Furfur (in most of his scenes it's quite gloomy and the finer details are easily missed) and he was so enthusiastic to share that with us. he clearly puts a lot of love into what he does, and appreciates that other people enjoy it.
I have SEEN him in real life, but not met him (League of Gentlemen Panto at the theatre)

TreacleTarcleSparkle · 17/01/2025 02:42

FatFiatMultiplaWhopper · 15/01/2025 21:45
Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey - expected JO to be lovely and GR to be a rude arsehole but it was the other way round.
Charlotte Hawkins from Good Morning Britain is really vile and actually quite vicious.

@FatFiatMultiplaWhopper
I always find it fascinating when I hear a certain famous /well known person but not ‘mega famous’ is really nasty or vile or vicious
It makes me wonder what did she do or say? Especially as she tries to come across as sickly sweet and a television girl next door sweetheart! The same goes for Lorraine Kelly and Katherine Jenkins .. both of them come over as soooo sweet but I’ve heard first hand that they too are meant to be nasty girls

The only very rude celeb i’ve worked with was Leslie Ash and she would bang her walking stick on the tables and furniture and wave it around to make demands or point at things or people instead of using her actual arm/hand/index finger to point (not that that would make it any more polite!) and she would just walk in and huff and puff, roll her eyes, sigh non stop like she hated to even breathe and just ‘be’ .. I honestly don’t know if she was in pain as that could only be an ‘excuse’ because I’ve never met anyone so angry, full of disdain , surly , snappy at everyone even to her personal friends .. just a horror and you’d leave feeling really depressed after spending any time with her .. even trying to smile at her or giving her a lovely compliment etc .. NOTHING worked and would be easier to get blood out of a stone than a smile out of her

FlawedStars · 17/01/2025 03:09

I worked at a naice resturant as a teen. Lily Allen and Thandi Newton- very stuck up and rude. Simon Mayo - extremely rude.
My favourites were Kirsty Allsop, Ian Weight and Jake Humphries. Jake his family were Incredibly kind and polite. I still think about Jake and his mum 17 years on!

Comet33 · 17/01/2025 03:34

HoolieJem · 16/01/2025 09:52

I think you mean Jeremy Edwards :)

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Sheffield, surely?

sashh · 17/01/2025 03:38

CrowleyKitten · 17/01/2025 00:20

I always think Gordon Ramsey comes across very well. yes, he shouts and swears, but I always get the impression he genuinely wants the places and people he's helping to do well. it feels like he cares about them. and he's always so polite to the waiting staff, because he clearly appreciates the issues are back of house, and beyond their control. they're just doing their best.

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Watch him on 'Masterchef Junior', it's a US kids version and he is fabulous with the kids.

GiddyRobin · 17/01/2025 04:59

CrowleyKitten · 17/01/2025 02:20

I think a lot of Reeces characters are very sharp and irritable. but I remember a lot of his interactions with the Good Omens fandom, like posting lots of detail photographs of his costuming as Furfur (in most of his scenes it's quite gloomy and the finer details are easily missed) and he was so enthusiastic to share that with us. he clearly puts a lot of love into what he does, and appreciates that other people enjoy it.
I have SEEN him in real life, but not met him (League of Gentlemen Panto at the theatre)

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I think that's the thing, he gets quite involved with and excited by the projects he does, and it's actually refreshing to see someone share the ins and outs of it all. He recently played Norbot in Wallace & Gromit and spent so much time hyping it up! Also love his Christmas horror countdown. 🤣 The effort he puts in is brilliant! Would have loved to see the LoG panto! I bet the atmosphere was amazing!

GiddyRobin · 17/01/2025 05:02

CharlotteLightandDark · 16/01/2025 23:16

I would have absolutely loved this, I adore Reece Shearsmith, folklore and horror!

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Same here! It was brilliant, he was a really good conversationalist - one of those people who knows their stuff. I was surprised at the depth of knowledge he had about folklore too, definitely not just surface level - you can totally see why so many of the plots he's involved in are so eerie!

@70isaLimitNotaTarget Hahaa to be fair he did talk about Steve so I reckon he'd be well up for it! 😁

Jem57 · 17/01/2025 05:36

Noddy Holder,lovely person
Labi Siffri back in the day

lovelysunshine22 · 17/01/2025 05:40

Richard Branson....very polite and engaging
June Brown ( Dot Cotton)... lovely, very chatty and friendly
NEYO...polite, quiet and much smaller than i imagined
Ekin Sue...polite and quiet
Nancy Cartwright ( voice of Bart simpson)....very nice and friendly
Mark Billingham ( SAS who dares wins) very nice and polite and much more handsome than he looks on screen.
Prince Harry...rude, arrogant and dismissive

urghhh47 · 17/01/2025 05:50

Peter Mayhew (chubakka) - I used to serve him in the rugby club bar 30+ years ago. Very quiet man, very introverted but pleasant and polite. Huge!!! Esp to me as I am only 5'1".

Oz2025 · 17/01/2025 06:12

About 30 years ago I worked for a PR firm and they did a relaunch for a travel company and I ended up helping out. Jonathan Ross was one of them if the celebs they used. He was an absolute twat. Turned the charm on for all the public there for pictures, etc but then when speaking to us was vile. Couldn’t watch him on TV ever since.

madamepresident · 17/01/2025 06:24

I was waiting for a connection in Heathrow a few years ago and saw Anthea Turner - I was outside the shop she was in as my kids were only small at the time and I could see her walking around and looking around to see if anyone recognised her 😆

madamepresident · 17/01/2025 06:27

Also Dominic Cooper tried to bum a cigarette from DH when we were in Sri Lanka on holiday a few years ago. We'd already seen him round the pool earlier and took an instant dislike to him despite not knowing who he was because he was just being an awful show off. We didn't realise who he was still we got home and I saw him on the hotels social media 😆

Lifelover16 · 17/01/2025 06:45

peachystormy · 15/01/2025 22:03

Oh no ! What did he say to your daughters??

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We were in a hotel having coffee, as was he and his wife and another woman.
My teenage daughters were desperate for a selfie with him, we waited until he’d finished his coffee and was about to leave and they said “excuse me, but please may we have a selfie?”. He refused, which was his right of course, but he told them they were bloody cheeky, and included his wife and the other woman who both berated my girls about how rude my they were to ask, how dare they even approach him and it was a bloody cheek. We were all absolutely astounded. I was too shocked to say anything and we just left (we are a quiet and reserved family) but I regret I didn’t have a sharp reply to give him.
None of us would have minded if he’d refused a selfie but to do so in such a way was really unreasonable. He’s obviously only pleasant when someone else is writing his lines.

CaraCameleon · 17/01/2025 06:49

TreacleTarcleSparkle · 16/01/2025 20:28

CollaterlieSistersSister · Today 18:28

** I’m surprised about Penny Lancaster. I don’t know her, but her PR do a sound job at making her seem down to earth - especially with the special constable role.

Known her for years pre Rod and since Rod to this day

She’s very down to earth in lots of ways and doesn’t show off and ram her life down others throats .. like it took her many years to go on social media and she could have easily shown off in a way to the nasty bullies who made her life hell .. she could’ve done the ‘look at me now’ thing but never has ! In fact she’s not bitter about them and doesn’t hold grudges .. almost like a child like innocence to her in lots of ways .. like an endearing naivety but that loveliness also can swing the other way and it’s no fault of hers it’s just her ‘way’

For example the lovely home she grew up in .. nicer than your average family home .. very nice and now she will say when visiting ‘wow I can’t believe I grew up in such a tiny house !’ (it’s not tiny!)
She’ll not understand why her friends from school days and still tight knit friends to this day.. how some of them can’t just ‘get up and go’ when it comes to ‘nipping to Portofino
She then will be totally baffled and confused as to why a small handful of her wonderful girlfriends don’t invite her to theirs .. and it’s not because they’re ‘ashamed’ of their normal average homes NOR would she judge their homes but the homes are worlds apart and she almost doesn’t know how to read the room … like it’s a ‘given’ that all the ladies have wealthy DHs doing their ‘City jobs’ and she doesn’t understand that while some of her friends look like they have idyllic lives they still have to budget , pay huge mortgages, come up with big sums when their horses are sick .. it’s like that’s ’their first works problems’ and her ‘first works problems’ are on different levels and she just doesn’t ‘get’ why on arriving to her buddy’s house there’s no cloakroom to take your coat and purse to .. if their range rover needs work done to it she doesn’t understand ‘why they just don’t scrap it and but a brand new shiny one’

If she invites you to lunch it’s in a lovely part of a top london hotel and the bill will be split and for fear of ‘embarrassment’ friends will politely make up white lies (Penny could pay the whole bill but a)friends wouldn’t DREAM of not paying their equal slice of the bill and b) It wouldn’t ever cross Pennys mind to ever foot the bill
and again this is not be wise she’s mean or anything ‘negative’ whatsoever she genuinely just doesn’t ’get it’ ..

I can’t see her getting on with colleagues or the public in her special constable role then!

XelaM · 17/01/2025 07:01

Lifelover16 · 17/01/2025 06:45

We were in a hotel having coffee, as was he and his wife and another woman.
My teenage daughters were desperate for a selfie with him, we waited until he’d finished his coffee and was about to leave and they said “excuse me, but please may we have a selfie?”. He refused, which was his right of course, but he told them they were bloody cheeky, and included his wife and the other woman who both berated my girls about how rude my they were to ask, how dare they even approach him and it was a bloody cheek. We were all absolutely astounded. I was too shocked to say anything and we just left (we are a quiet and reserved family) but I regret I didn’t have a sharp reply to give him.
None of us would have minded if he’d refused a selfie but to do so in such a way was really unreasonable. He’s obviously only pleasant when someone else is writing his lines.

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Wow that's so rude. 😧

Brian Cox on the other hand didn't mind at all when my friend asked him for a selfie.

CaraCameleon · 17/01/2025 07:11

I actually think it’s rude to ask for a selfie. I just wouldn’t ever do it. It’s very intrusive. I do think just a nod and a hello are enough. I have been seated very close to two celebrities in the past and just ignored them. If they had been my idol I might have nodded, but never asked for a selfie!

Darlingx · 17/01/2025 08:22

Celebrity is a bizarre concept and some on here described as lovely in my experience have a completely different aura but we never know what they are going through that day or in their lives. I instead go by the volume of animal magnetism , presence and Tony Slattery who had very much fallen under the radar at the point he was on my bus journey was like something out of a dream. He exuded kindness, authenticity and dreamy dark handsome good looks. He was giving up his seat constantly for anyone more in need and seemed delighted to just be sharing a journey with us all on public transport. No wonder beautiful Mark was devoted to him for 40 years despite all his battles with mental Health. There was something quite beautiful about their love story. Wonderful docu on youtube he even top trumped Terence Stamp who was dapper in a red velvet jacket bus hopping and flirting with the lady driver magical 🤩RIP Tony

Flibberteegibbet · 17/01/2025 08:39

Jimmy Savile - he made my skin crawl and this was back in the 80s

Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee, both lovely and she is tiny!!

Ken Dodd, very quiet but again a lovely person

Robson Green - much shorter in real life than I expected. Seemed nice enough though

Joe Pasquale - nice guy, very funny and yes, he does always speak like that!

Karl Howman - didn’t speak at all, not sure if he was keeping himself to himself or ignorant!

Les Dennis - was getting loads of hassle for selfies etc but he was really nice to everyone

My two favourites though have to be Cathy Shipton (Duffy in Casualty). Made her a coffee in a mug and she was so grateful for a proper cuppa rather than a little cup! She met the puppy I had back then and loved fussing her and we just hung out and chatted for a bit.

Also Carrie Hope Fletcher - she’s such a genuine woman, fantastic role model and very talented. I could have talked to her for hours!

There are probably others but I can’t remember right now. I worked in a small theatre which is where I met most of them!

Middlemarch123 · 17/01/2025 08:50

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 16/01/2025 21:40

He was my childhood hero and I still would!

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He did a promotion that the PR company I worked for organised. This was back in the 80s, and the future Mrs Tennant was just a toddler, he was so proud of her. An absolute gentleman, got a peck on the cheek when he left! Very friendly and chatty, not flirty or creepy, just lovely. Still got a photo of us at the promotion, treasure it. Every time he’s on tv, I tell whoever’s here ‘did you know I met him’ which is met with eye rolling.

Marine30 · 17/01/2025 09:01

Rob Brydon - DS was playing rugby at his son’s school. Let the boys take a selfie with him, seemed a really nice guy.

Alan Davis, whilst on holiday. Very laid back and friendly - just as you see on TV.

Claudia Schiffer about 8 years ago at Heathrow. I didn’t speak to her but her hair and skin are amazing.

Marine30 · 17/01/2025 09:05

Darlingx · 17/01/2025 08:22

Celebrity is a bizarre concept and some on here described as lovely in my experience have a completely different aura but we never know what they are going through that day or in their lives. I instead go by the volume of animal magnetism , presence and Tony Slattery who had very much fallen under the radar at the point he was on my bus journey was like something out of a dream. He exuded kindness, authenticity and dreamy dark handsome good looks. He was giving up his seat constantly for anyone more in need and seemed delighted to just be sharing a journey with us all on public transport. No wonder beautiful Mark was devoted to him for 40 years despite all his battles with mental Health. There was something quite beautiful about their love story. Wonderful docu on youtube he even top trumped Terence Stamp who was dapper in a red velvet jacket bus hopping and flirting with the lady driver magical 🤩RIP Tony

It’s nice to hear this about Tony Slattery - a sad ending. I always thought he was such a handsome guy and he just exuded charm. I was really young when he was on TV but somehow he stood out. Then he disappeared for so many years. Reading about him I know why now. Tragic how childhood trauma never really goes away.