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.

@Mary46 I’ve worked with her, she’s just as lovely in real life and kind and appreciative of junior members of staff.

No idea the one that's been advertising 4 times a year for about the last 10 years!!

My experience also.
When I was 20 and a bit 'young and stupid' I worked for Xerox in telesales (😳🤦🏼‍♀️) and my supervisor, a woman, had a total dislike for me and I couldn't understand why. I thought she was really pretty, her make up was 👌🏼 she had a hubby, house, sadly had difficulty getting pregnant and I was compassionate to her. Although babies were far from my mind, I'm an empath and so I could feel her and now and again she let her guard down but generally she was not nice.
One of the guys said it's was because she was jealous of me! I was like not on your nelly, why the heck would she be jealous of me 🤷🏼‍♀️
But looking back, I see it

I was carefree with not much of a filter (I was diagnosed with combined ADHD last year) and danced to the beat of my own tune and people liked me for it.

She wasn't like that. But she wanted to be.

I remember getting my navel pierced and I showed the office manager who was this (I'm going to call a spade here) short fat gay man with queen issues who was mortified that I'd shown him 🤣🤣🤣 young and a bit stupid, see 🫣
I didn't know anything about office etiquette 🤭

Many people's won't get that but I do. 🐶

Ruby Wax appeared at a venue I work at. Can confirm she is a rude, selfish, spoilt, self indulgent cunt.

Sorry its viscountess rothermere (Claudia) that is the one alwsys advertising for grooms!! they own the daily mail newspaper.

I worked as a film publicist years ago and worked with a lot of US stars on press tours, junkets and premieres. My favourites were Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn. My ones to avoid were Kevin Spacey, Steven Seagal and Mark Wahlberg. Most of the directors were reasonable, nearly all of the producers were batshit crazy and every awkward entourage is awkward because of the star’s demands - the star must look down to earth at all costs.

Not where eagles dare but goodbye Mr chips, they got my mum to sit as a focal point as the scene was Peter o'toole taking a classroom of children off, but in fact no children were there just my mum in a seat for his direction, every time he did his lines shouting my mum laughed, in the end they had to remove her.
Also Roger Moore was a total all round lovely guy to work with .

I briefly met King Charles many years ago. When he was married to Diana. Couldn’t get over how handsome he was IRL!

the stories are true about Jason Manford. Slid into my DM’s trying to ‘meet for a coffee’ while he was married.

Shane Richie is a dog who followed my sister home from a gig.

Ronaldo has cut me up at roundabouts and he stepped on my daughter’s foot without saying sorry.

Paddy McGuiness is rude and full of himself.

The only celebs I’ve met who are nice are the guys from the impractical jokers, Damon Albarn from Blur and the OXO lady.

My Mum was on Trisha and said she was nice. Apparently Lorraine Kelly was not, nor that woman from 10 years younger.

My Dad used to work with Patricia Lumley and Hugh Grant and said they were lovely and polite. Mohammad Ali let my dad take a pic with him boxing and was a ‘nice chap’. But my favourite was Ricky Hatton. My Dad went to the same local, they bonded over boxing and snooker and when he was in hospital Ricky sent him a copy of his book which I thought was cute.

I worked for a TV channel & a few stand out lovely people were Dermot O’Leary, Darius Danesh & Lorraine Kelly.

Westlife were SO grumpy - I’m a fan so was gutted. They were on tour / tired etc but I was so disappointed ☹️

That's funny because my friend's dad was also a musician at that time and worked with Van the Man and said exactly the same! Must be true then!

Joanna Lumley?

Worked with loads over the years.
Holly - not nice at all. Cliquey and cold.
simon Cowell - very charming and polite.
sharon Osbourne- utterly utterly vile and mean spirited.
David B - hmm. Roving eye. Shifty and vein.
victoria - surrounded by awful people. Real food issues which makes her tricky. Drink problem too.
paddy McG - the worst talent I ever worked with.
davina - lovely and down to earth.
stella McCartney - ouch. Spiky.
jimmy Carr. - dark.
steve coogan - so charming. So sordid.
Gordon Ramsay - womaniser roaming eye for younger girls.
phil Schofield - unpleasant and sly
richard Madeley - yuck. Mean. Big ego. Boring as hell.
ainsley - uh oh. Another one for the ladies.
james corden - truly unpleasant and mean and fake.
Ryan Reynolds - rude and boring and very far from funny. Controlling.
Jack black - adorable.
Leo deception- overpaid and so inaccessible but polite.
liz Hurley - she was one of the no eye contact people believe it or not. Baffling. She’s C list at best.

This must be a different Diana Ross! When I worked in costume I had the misfortune of being her dresser. You weren’t allowed to directly speak to her and if anyone needed to it was through a curtain. She sacked
someone because she smoked. She is a massive diva

That’s the one sorry just been rewatching AbFab 🤣

I used to work in a venue that regularly hosted services attended by royals and politicians. The royals were all lovely, kind, caring and really interested in people. They would sit for hours talking to veterans. Eat very little and shake any hand put in front of them. This is right from the old queen down to minor royals like Kent’s and Gloucesters.

The politicians were a little more aware of themselves, but still polite enough. I’ve met a few others who have become famous for their efforts in war, like Johnson Beharry and Simon Weston and they were absolutely lovely people.

Makes you wonder why the Z listers need to be so vile.

My elder brother was in Bob's class at school. He was equally mean back then . Also, Paula talked about what a relief it was to be with Michael, because she " Didn't have to earn a living..,"

I worked in theatre and tv in my 20’s, met and worked with many. The most amazing was Richard Briers, flipping lovely!

I won’t list the not so nice ones, but there’s a reason I’m now a teacher and teenagers are easier to deal with than actors!

Not really celebs, but my aunt works with the Duke of Westminster's daughter (well, sister actually, but daughter of the previous Duke!) and raves on about how lovely, humble, and kind she is, and does such a lot of work for disadvantaged people, despite crazy amounts of wealth.
I've met Henry Winkler and he's absolutely lovely, also David Williams, despite what is normally said on here!

when ever someone makes any generalisation about all women I wonder if they realise what it actually implies about them...

one bad group/experience- at work/school/hobby - completely reasonable. I'm not denying some women are unpleasant, just like some men are, and if there are a group of them who take against you it's understandable that can be an unpleasant situation.

But if it's every workplace and every group of women you've known in every context, or every female manager (or even just most of them), then maybe you need to look at the common denominator? Because that has really not been my experience.

(and that's not saying that you must necessarily be a horrible person, but that there is probably a reason for getting such a reaction. Could be that something about you makes all other women jealous, or could just be as simple as you had one or two bad experiences with groups of women at a younger age, then (consciously or not), went into a new job being wary of them, acted (again possible not consciously) in a way that showed that, which said women picked up on and therefore reacted to themselves.

Or, in a less convoluted description - some women announce loudly that they much prefer men's company to women's because women are so bitchy and then are shocked and surprised when said women roll their eyes at them and don't fall over themselves to be friends....

It's very weird - nobody would ever dream of making generalisations about all children or all asian people or all french people or all muslims - but all women is okay....

I agree 100% with DeltaAlphaDelta79. I am a professional set designer and used to do lots with the up and coming plus the already made it's in the pop world. Best by far was Tina Turner, a true-ly genuine person. I won't mention the worst!

@Leafy3 , I has a huge crush on Robson when he was in casualty and soldier soldier. 😍

Technically I didn't work for him, but Lord Lichfield. I did work experience at Shugborough Farm in the 90's. Lord Lichfield lived in an apartment within Shugborough Hall. He liked to meet anyone who worked on the estate, which included me (even though I was only there for a week). I am ashamed to say, at 15, I didn't really know who he was. Despite this I was a little intimidated. He was very friendly and asked what I wanted to do when I was older(a vet at the time). He found out I liked horses and spoke about those. It was only on going home and my parents reaction that I started to appreciate who I had been talking to. Even then I didn't realise his links to the Royal Family. I look back and really appreciate that he took the time to speak to me (even if I didn't at the time). It's not everyone in his position that would.

@DearDeadrie are you sure re photo Def looks like eagles and Richard Burton