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.

This thread has made me ponder what I would be like if I was famous. I think I would be vile! I am short tempered at times, get really ratty if I have not had enough sleep, have days where I just want to stay in my pjs and hide from the world and have a bit of a gob on me at times. I would hate to always have to be putting on my best "face" whenever I left my house to avoid things like "OOh we saw Lifeonmars100 in the local coffee shop and wow, she is one mean tempered nasty thing, only asked for a autograph and she turned her back on me". I wonder if the ones who are always lovely when out and about give themselves a little pep talk before they leave the house to remind them that all the good things about fame such as money and privilege, are worth being pestered and that it is a small price to pay for the good life. I am sure too that there are many who would be gutted if nobody recognised them when they were out and about

I worked with Jane Goldman for a few days a couple of decades ago! She was very pleasant and down to earth. Fabulous hair!

@FishOnTheTrain Don't worry. Someday, something will happen that will give her a firm dose of reality. Then she will pull her head out of her ass.

Stephanie Beecham and Naomi Campbell are, I'm told by cabin crew friends, a complete nightmare. Arrogant, very demanding and also rude to staff. Latter got banned from one airline for a while.

Gordon Ramsey is nothing like his on screen persona e.g Hells Kitchen. Very charming and likeable.

Met loads of famous people and stil do due to work. Nicest: Colin Firth Graham Norton Greg James Radiohead (really) Zoe Ball Naomi Watts George Michael (the best). Worst. Oh loads but Cilla Black the absolute worst. And I know she has fans on here but Meghan Markle was not so much horrible but completely over the top fake sweet. And to the Bob Geldof obsessed women boss hating poster who seems intent on hijacking the thread: I am a female boss myself. I can’t speak for my staff but I have never had complaints. I also have a female boss. You seem to be incredibly frustrated and out for a fight. Sad.

my sibling worked as a PA for one of the most famous supermodels NC. She was absolutely evil towards her and it was an awful time.

I don't want to get into a whole guessing routine, but do you mean Russell Crowe? Because he's both aussie & played Javert....although I don't think he's a musical theatre man & isn't his reputation a bit patchy?

I’ve worked with Freddie Flintoff. Lovely guy- no different to how he is on screen.

I'd assume this too, an influencer is someone who is just trying to get famous via social media, basically selling themselves which is fundamentally self absorbed. I'd assume most probably aren't the nicest people and have big ego. It's the ultimate 'get rich quick' scheme

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Celebs I've met through work have been lovely. Influencers, social media and reality TV- utterly vile

No. Australian. Wonderful singing voice. About 70 now, I think. Not a household name.

Nope just replying to all of the messages on here about bosses, saying that in my experience the behaviour of the boss is usually to do with their competence as a people manager not to do with their gender.

I replied to other people who have said that working with women is the worst experience they had, and observed that women that “hate working with women” are usually the problem.

If you took the message away that I wasn’t validating the OPs experience that was a misreading and possible projection on your part.

Mark Rylance was one of my teachers in drama school. He’s an absolute sweetheart. He taught that no matter what role one plays as an actor, there always needs to be that spark of joy, of playfulness … and he has it in spades. It’s been many years since I was in his company, but if he hasn’t changed -
back then he was playful, sensitive, kind and so lovely.

having been an actor, and remembering my hardest times I can say : don’t think an entire person is horrible if they snap at you while they’re working.
one of my most horrible jobs ever was one of my biggest roles - and I was basically physically abused. Constant tearing off pieces of my costume that had to be stuck to my skin, then adhering it back on (they were armbands), then tearing it off… for hours. They didn’t care that they were ripping off my skin and I was bleeding. They covered the bleeding bits with makeup.
actors become commodities, and it’s so soul-destroying.

it’s normal to be expected to do enormously taxing emotional scenes over and over … the crew wasting time joking and laughing did get a bit of a growl from me, I have to admit: I asked them to be quiet.
or when I had to run through and then give a fucking speech, I remember growling at people to stay out of the way or I would knock them down. I was pissed off and done- and I was also in an abusive relationship at the time, and starving myself.

so this is just to say: yes, there’s no excuse for being an asshole, but it happens. It happens when we’re in pain, hungry, exhausted, and deeply stressed.

also: I met Johnny Depp and he’s such a kind sweet person.

the late John Barton. Beautiful soul.

the Fiennes brothers - both so sweet and kind, very private.

David Bowie: was some kind of otherworldly angel, I swear.

the people I’ve met who have behaved like awful brats were influencers or the occasional old actor becoming irrelevant.
the influencers who were awful seemed like desperate people, maybe a bit too used to the awful things people can say on the internet …

Steve Martin: lovely, and actually hilarious just as a person :)

but the truth also is, I have some stories of awful behavior I don’t want to write here - I feel like people might have grown up since then, 20 years ago (or more)

Well you need to tell us now...

Completely agree about David Suchet, very unassuming and courteous.

Phillip Quest I think his name is

Also I love working with women. In my experience the abusive bosses were men.. so maybe it depends on the person, rather than their gender.

Yup … you are so wise. A person can only be considered a desired object for so long before becoming in dire need of peace and privacy.

Who is JHC???

I'm guessing not Jesus H. Christ..

Both of them or just him? I e always thought he seemed grim tbh

I sat down opposite Louis theroux in a coffee shop and chatted to him for about ten minutes. He was lovely but it felt like he was interviewing me a bit. I asked him about meeting Master P. We discussed the fact we were both moving to the same area. I really wish I'd got his number. Just for work purposes of course. He kind of seemed like he fancied me a bit but I could be very mistaken there.

Another vote for Tony Benn. KInd, considerate and absolutely fascinating, as was his wife.
Brian May - lovely man
Sir Patrick Moore - eccentric but generous, interesting, happy for visitors to roam free in his house which was packed with amazing artefacts from moon dust and antique globes to shot glasses! Woe betide anyone that tried to move his cat, Ptolemy, from his chair.
Tony Robinson. Simply the most ignorant, obnoxious, self-important, horrid little man that I have ever met. Don't mention his name to most archaeologists. Alice Roberts is quite the opposite.

Philip Quast! Gorgeous voice, very charismatic.