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.

My dad was a session musician in the 70s and 80s - most of the people he worked with were fine, BUT he didnt have a good word for Van Morrison.

I can confirm he is utterly vile. He made my whole team cry once. Just a pig.

Ummm sort of @Energe

Ah , see I cannot believe anyone would have a bad word to say about Dr Sir Brian May
Utterly unfeasibly intelligent brain the size of a planet
Does great things for his animal charity
Built his own blinking guitar aged 12

Smiled at me in London when I 'knew I knew him' and DH said " oh that's Brian May" and I was too shell shocked to do anything but stare, gobsmacked.
He did a really goofy grin at me ( heaven)

OK he wears clogs ( a lot in the old days) but we can let him off with that

An relative used to have lodgers in the 60s, who were frequently actors appearing at the local theatre. Family story had always been that Christopher Timothy was lovely.

He's old enough to be my father but I've got a bit of a crush on Robson Green!

Talking about Ed Sheeran (no I never met him) but reminds me of a black guy (actor? singer?) who was at a club and he emphasised that everyone in the club was black. He knew Ed Sheeran when he was no so well known. Ed Sheeran came on and played (I think) a ukelele and brought the house down!!!

This has just deeply depressed me he is my age 😭😃

@Coffeeishot sorry! 🤣

It's fiiine😃 actually googled him he's a few years older than me so I don't feel as bad!

I used to work with Andy (from CBeebies fame) and he is absolutely lovely, kind and professional.

Mr Tumble was a bit of a nightmare when it came to other staff but everything you see on TV with him and the kids is totally true - he’s amazing with them.

Claudia Winkleman was horrible to me but lovely to the contestants.

Josh Widdicombe did a speech at my workplace once and he was absolutely brilliant.

Vanessa Feltz was always very polite to people ‘below’ her - ie in much lower assistant type roles.

That was Jamie Foxx - I think he was his manager for a while.

I’ve nannied for two families that had a very famous parent. Honestly what struck me with both of them that they were just really very normal people! I was star struck for about 2 days but then you just forget that they are famous and they are just a normal person, wife/husband to their partner, parent to their child, a nice friend to me. Neither were demanding or diva like, despite being incredibly famous and rich. But then maybe that’s because I only saw them at home in their PJs, with no glitz or glam, just hanging out with their families. They might have been very different at work.

I know someone who worked for GP and CM when they lived in London and had Apple. Nothing truly awful, GP was demanding (but pretended to be normal and humble) and a night nurse and nanny moved in as soon as baby Apple was born. GP often tried to get celebrity discounts which didn’t always work as some people didn’t care.

I definitely agree with your last sentence. I often think if I had to swap lives with one of the Middleton sisters I’d pick Pippa. Ridiculously rich husband, and can do what she likes.

I worked on a deal (M&A) for a very famous billionaire. He works his team incredibly hard and has very high standards, as you’d expect, but socially he’s very polite and respectful. Some of my team got to ride in his private jet to a meeting (unfortunately I missed this!)

Re: Brian May
you obviously live VERY close to me!

That is utter bullshit.

The reason it happens is, when female celebrities are strong and assertive (as they have to be in a male dominated industry) they are Divas, they are bitches, they are difficult. Male celebrities are give more leeway, more benefit of the doubt and all they have to do it show a tiny bit of humanity and they are “so down to earth”

I worked at a couple of top level hotels/resorts which regularly had an array of famous people and the male celebrities caused more problems than the female ones (particularly for younger female staff) but largely, they were all decent people who just wanted to be left to themselves. Some had what seemed to be ridiculous requests, but management explained it to us, the silly little requests were things that were easy for them to check (e.g make sure you only leave the bathroom light on) because if the principle saw that was done, they could be fairly sure we’d read their brief properly for the things that did matter.

I have had a few celebrities as clients over the years. Some of the biggest arseholes I've ever had, particularly the lesser famous ones. The one proper worldwide famous one is ok actually and really quite ordinary.

Family member worked for Prince for some considerable time & said he was a bloody c*nt and b'stard. This family member doesn't normally say diddly squat about anyone. I met Prince's ex girlfriend, one of the Revolution and she was very nice as were her band.

Argh, I can't hear a bad word about Claudia! Hope she was just having an 'off' day...

My DD has worked with Molly Mae and says she’s really lovely.

I only know people who ‘know’ people and apparently Fern Britten is a sweetheart and so is Stephen Graham. Kate Bottley is just the same in real life as on tv. Greg Wallace was full of himself and Raymond Blanc nice enough. Chloe Madeley is nice too.

That chimes re: Marti Pellow. I had him removed from our hotel bar after he had a barney with his band mates about him being drunk. They left, he stayed and became hideously rude to us behind the bar. I called the bar manager and he was escorted back to his room. Give him his due, he apologised to us the next day.

There's a difference between being assertive and being a complete bitch.

You can be assertive without destroying another female.

Women ARE nasty to each other.

In my current workplace none of the male colleagues are arguing with each other. A lot of the female colleagues are arguing with each other.

Then the women never let the argument go. They pump it up and abuse the woman to other people working there.

I've seen women be vindictive and nasty to other women loads of times. And it all boils down to jealousy.

See the poster on here who said that she always prefers to have a male boss over a female boss

Are you nasty to other women?