Anyone worked for someone famous?

[FishOnTheTrain]

I’m working in a company for an influencer/z list celeb. She’s well known in a certain group of people and hangs around with some pretty famous faces. She has her own fashion company.

I don’t report into her, but work closely with her and she is an utter bitch. The way she comes across on social media is so…different. Her intern films her for content daily and she puts on such a smiley show. When the camera is off, she’s rude, demanding, bitches about everyone in the team, including members of the team that go above and beyond to make her business a success and make her happy…I could go on.

she contradicts herself constantly, making me feel like I’m going mad. I know if I died tmrw she wouldn’t care. She cares only about herself and her success. She’s not even nice about her husband, who is such a lovely guy.

I want to get out this company asap. It’s just difficult to know where to go and what to do next so in the meantime…has anyone else experienced similar?

I have lost all respect for this woman. She is awful and everyone that works for her knows it.

@Harpey I wonder if this is the same person I've had the displeasure of encountering (MM). Complete toxic narcissist, and I felt so sorry for the string of men she left in her trail. Appalling woman, yet she seems so sweet and approachable on TV.

I've NC'd for this. And yes, it was a long time ago. I worked with (not for) David Attenborough. It was when 'Wildlife on One' was being put together. Which was his earliest foray into the natural world. I used to organise the scripts for his voice overs. And turn the pages as he narrated, and just generally ran around looking after him. We are talking late 70s here. And yes, he was lovely, a real gent!

@HeadNorth. Thank you. And all best wishes to you too. Xx

Because a lot of women feel they aren't good enough if they aren't like the celebrities they see in magazines, newspapers and TV - it can have a real impact on self-esteem. I've seen the reality of it and it's all clever photography and makeup artists! Even the billionaires who can afford the very best anti-aging lotions and potions age just the same in reality.

This is such a good post! The majority of negatives are about females - I think there is an unfair expectation on women to be overly nice, make an effort etc whereas noone notices when a bloke is blunt/not interested in conversation.

Society seems to feel women need to be ever so nice, grateful, humble and try to be everyone's friend.

That is NOT a dig at anyone posting (I love reading the gossip!) but it does highlight sone expectations around women that we would never expect from a male celebrity.

My colleague's niece worked for the Royal Family. Said that Prince Of Wales is polite but quiet and isn't friendly with the staff, Princess of Wales is really friendly and likes to enquire about staffs family/kids/interests etc. The kids are very cautious about chatting to general staff for security reasons.

Hillary Benn was the MP for the city centre where I worked. I work for a large public body, and one day after when we were very newsworthy and we'd had a massive battering in the media, he came in the tell us what a good job he thought we were doing. He was authentically nice. I gone across a lot of MPs in my work. He was a nice as it seems his dad was..

I’m noticing a bit of a trend whereby well bred people seem to treat people well but footballers who tend to be from peasant stock, get all hoity toity when they get a bob or two…

Prince Harry excepted!

Have you ever considered that the restaurant staff and other people that you can’t be bothered to be nice to may have also had difficult, sad and tragic events happen to them? And there you are making their life worse. Well done you.

I've worked with a few, a random one but sticks out to me as the nicest I've met is Jon Bentley.

2 out of the millions of female managers in the world is hardly a trend.

Doesn't Nadiya have a severe anxiety problem/diagnosis? Might explain behaviour in public. She did an amazing documentary on bbc.

Which "stock" are you from ?

Worked on James Whale's show
Lovely man, and always had my back

@FiercelyFree

The Human League - all friendly and down to earth.

I worked with Phil Oakey, when he was but a lad of 19, and before he became famous.
Happy to confirm he is an absolutely lovely man.

Definitely peasant, or below that, if possible!

Did he get cancelled?

I still can't believe the bbc etc continue to give Tennant a platform after his terrible comments on tv about Kemi Badenoch (I'm no Tory, but publically trying to silence a woman and then say she shouldn't exist is such clear entitled misogyny that i find it so odd it's been ignored.

Not surprised he's been described by some on here in such a negative way.

Same here. My friend who's a private pilot said Chris de Burgh was lovely.

Would love to know who this is, can we have a clue?

*Lazlothevampire *
I met both Liam and Noel Gallagher a few times (all l will say is that my ex lived near Liam and 'knew' him) and l agree with you.
Liam is the polar opposite of his public persona, he's very kind and generous, down to earth, and very funny. And absolutely adores his mam, who is the loveliest lady. She even sent me Christmas cards and a get well card when l was ill.
Noel could be fine or (shall l say) 'reserved' depending on the day. Maybe depending on how much his brother had wound him up that day as well....

Eddie Marsan - Really normal and lovely unassuming guy

Aiden Gillen - Lovely ! Very friendly

I saw a clip of Rowan Atkinson on Graham Norton a day or two ago relating an incident at an auto parts store where he was waiting at the counter when a man approached him and told him that “he had an uncanny resemblance to Mr. Bean.”
Atkinson told the man quietly, “well, actually, I AM Rowan Atkinson, the actor who portrays Mr. Bean.”
The man scoffed and laughed and said good one. You ALMOST look like Mr. Bean.
They argued back and forth for a few minutes, the man getting madder and madder and madder, until Atkinson gave up.
lol

They're both wonderful actors :)