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.

That's as expected and I've heard that before. On the other hand I've had the pleasure of working in Prince William's environment a couple of times and he was an absolute delight and his staff were lovely and unpretentious.

DH has worked with dozens of celebrities, particularly UK actors, comedians & sportspeople.

His absolute favourites are Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong and Gina McKee, just all-round lovely people.

He said David Beckham is really nice and accommodating, but it’s difficult to have a conversation with him because he’s surrounded by people desperate to ‘manage’ his every interaction.

Worst was that fat bloke Chris who used to do the Radio One breakfast show years ago - obnoxiously arrogant, rude to everyone, turned up very, very late with no word of apology, and turns out was really shit at the job he was there to do.

A lot of comedians seem to be reserved, grumpy or shy, and can be quite difficult to work with.

IME, women were bitchy, both younger and older than me, regardless of the position, because they were in unhappy, unloving relationships, as I always were and looked happy with my life. Not my fault that they didn't have standards. I have also worked with many nice women too (again, regardless of their position and age)

This has always been my experience, I hate to say. I'm always surprised by sisterhood comments on MN, I don't find women supportive at all. My 2 daughter's experience has been the same, you are either in the clique or fair game.
I'm not an "all about the men" type of person, as quite frankly they can be horrific too, but generally they are upfront about it.
Not sure whether it's a ND thing as the girls in my family are all a bit quirky, me included, but women are ruthless towards anyone who doesn't quite fit, the gang mentality is awful. One of my daughters who is teaching says the playground behaviour extends into the staffroom and the nastiness is off the scale.
I have two good friends and I'm grateful for them, we have had similar experiences.
You see this type of behaviour often on MN.

I met Winona Ryder when they were filming “a scanner darkly” in Austin Texas, she was really nice.

I lost my son. It doesn't give me a free pass to be rude, even on a bad day.

Mr Tumble was terrible soon as the cameras were turned off when .y kids saw him. I've heard several special schools won't allow him on the building because the way he spoke to the children in between filming.

I met Andy Burnham at work, I was sat down and he was stood up. His luxurious body hair was poking out of the buttons of his shirt 😊

Not to add to the derail, but in my experience it’s women who go the extra mile for women, support them, encourage them, lift them up. Men will if it suits them or they get something from it ime. I do feel very sorry for you if you’ve somehow managed to swerve the millions of lovely women out there and only interacted with the unpleasant ones.

Was it Stacey Solomon?

It wasn't a shame he was cancelled. It was a shame that he came out some horrifically racist bollocks. He said among several other things slavery "was not genocide" because "otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn blacks in Africa or Britain would there? An awful lot of them survived."

I’ve had both male and female bosses. The women were much better bosses - more organised, more empathetic and less ego. Also they all looked at my face when talking to me . . .

I’ve seen various people say Danny Dyer is a really nice guy and far smarter/savvy than he lets on. He sounds like an intriguing guy who would be good to meet.

A friend of mine was in the Civil Service & worked in the department that Tony Benn was Minister for - she said he was lovely to work for, the nicest Minister she ever had.

I agree. He wasn’t cancelled. He got himself cancelled. What he said was appalling.

I’ve not worked with them but I once bumped into them coming out of a bar as I was going in. Marco Pierre white let the door go in my face. Gordon Ramsay rushed back, apologised for him and held the door open for me with a big smile.

Oh give over. Everyone has some grief from losing people close to them, it doesn’t tend to put them in a grumpy mood for the rest of time. It’s also no excuse to act like an arsehole towards other people.

I worked with his son, Hillary, when he was a minister and he was also very competent and lovely.

To back up the nice things said about Mick Jagger upthread - I know someone who provided services to his big busy Richmond household for decades.

He said from Jagger himself down to wives, ex wives, children, grandchildren everyone was pleasant and well-mannered.

You know how, on The Apprentice, Lord Sugar has two colleagues who each follow one of the teams around throughout the task weeks, and report their observations and the sales figures back to him before somebody is fired?

Well, by all accounts, Tim Campbell is a genuinely nice, really pleasant person...

I can quite believe that. Baroness Brady rarely cracks a smile.

I worked for a family who were good friends with Tom Hanks and Matthew McConaughey and met them often, both really lovely, funny, and down to earth.

Ruby Earring?

Shame it wasn't a patio.

This is from meetings, working with these people in various jobs and others I know who have worked with them.

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson is very standoffish, incredibly professional and doesn’t deviate from the her work.
Christopher Timothy is an interesting one as from the previous posts, he is either really polite and nice or incredibly bad tempered. Personally encountered him in both moods! I think like us all he has good and bad days. His wife however isn’t ever nice.
Nicholas Lyndhurst, painfully shy man, as it’s known he absolutely hates the spotlight, hates being recognised and approached, however he’s really lovely with children!
Elle Macpherson incredibly beautiful in real life and appeared genuinely caring. Did a lot of charity work behind the scenes in the 90’s.
Jonny Depp again back in the 90’s was a delight and did many great things for charity without the publicity.
Rowan Atkinson as above is very shy and reserved but polite if spoken to. He’s great to talk to about his passion for cars though!
And lastly Slash after GNR days, he appeared to have a genuine heart with an incredible soul.

I wasn't commenting on the reason he was cancelled- more the loss of an outstanding historian generally.

So maybe step down from that high horse.