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.

*Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g *
If you're right, l have a tale about that.
My ex worked in the theatre and tv (not onstage) and he told me a story about when TS was working on a stage version of Singing In The Rain.
Apparently he was so vile to the theatre crew that almost to a man, they peed in the big water tank which was used for the title song. My ex included.

*Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g *
One of my friends saw Alan Bennett at Leeds train station and plucked up the courage to say how much he loved his work.
A while later he got a lovely letter from Mr B, not just a note, a proper letter, thanking him for his kind words and wishing him well.
My friend was over the moon.

I used to work as a temp for Anthony Wedgwood Benn. What a fantastic man and boss. I worked in his Den with him. It was he who offered to make me a cuppa!! God rest his beautiful soul. And I also worked with Uri Geller on one of his books. Another lovely person, delightful, interesting, exciting. A gem of a human.

This is lovely.
My dad worked with Jo Strummer on a tour he did in the early 2000’s. On the first day of rehearsals he hugged my dad (who was totally star struck) and told him to enjoy himself. On the tour itself Jo was constantly stopping the tour bus picking people up to join them along the way, it was a big party the whole time. Top bloke.

I don't think poor mental health or addictions are an excuse for racism, including anti semitism, and homophobia to be honest.

Oh dear! It was hearing similar tales that made me wonder if it was TS, tbh.

Surely there wasn't much scope for them to show off their intellect to staff they come across if they were simply travelling from A to B? Even for most normal travellers, the time while waiting to board and take off etc is a nice opportunity to disengage your brain a bit, shut your eyes, gaze into the distance etc. (Unless they are business people and busily typing into their laptops) Everything's out of your hands, you're just waiting for ground staff and crew to do their thing, and for them to instruct you on what to do when.

For famous people who travel all the time they employ people to do the boring logistical organising for them so they can either switch off and rest or think about the job they're going to, learn their lines. Or maybe they've got the start of a new song idea in their heads and to onlookers would look zoned out if someone were to talk to them.

I often think of people who find fame at a young age and have every aspect of their lives managed from childhood eg globally famous bands. They travel the world and a team of people move them from place to place via planes, tour buses etc but they barely have time to do anything apart from rehearse, train, do promos, rinse and repeat.

Then people meet them and mock the fact they seem low in intellect, vacuous or spaced out. When are they expected to find the time to read and become beacons of intellect when they are trapped in that bubble. I feel like a zombie after travelling for work for 2 days so I can’t imagine life on the road for 300 and something days plus the daily intrusion and pressure.

By the time they get to 30, age out of the ideal boy band profile and are dumped by the record label they have no idea how the real world actually works. Hence all the public meltdowns you start to see from these former stars.

It can be if you suffer from paranoia and invasive thoughts. Not saying this is the case here though.

Eh, the loss of his daughter is very sad, but it was some time ago and is not a ticket to be an arsehole. If he is behaving like an arsehole at this stage it’s because he’s an arsehole not because he lost his daughter.

There's lots of info in the media if you search for it regarding Lennon's cruelty towards his first wife Cynthia, and their son Julian. He even failed to include Julian in his will.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool, and was furious when Liverpool airport was renamed after him in 2001.
He is still regarded as an iconic local legend, and a hero almost worthy of sainthood by many Liverpool folk, (and globally too), but whilst I was/am in awe of his musical talent, I couldn't stomach this adulation and worship of him.
Lennon had a pretty traumatic childhood, which returns us to the issue of whether tragedy gives people the right to behave like twats well into adulthood🤷🏻‍♀️

Hang on a minute @Kellybonita you are the bonkers person claiming that all women are horrible earlier on the thread - so all women are horrible but you can pony up an excuse for an (allegedly) horrible bloke you’ve never even met.

You need to sort the old internalised misogyny, it’ll do you an injury.

I know someone who worked for him and his wife and said they were both lovely and very good to said friend.

Poor guy. He will never live this incident down. Seems very OK to me. Maybe he was in a filthy mood that day or tired and exhausted or feeling unwell. Shame to be judged on just one incident

Who?

James Corden

Makes me think of when I saw Juan Mata boarding an easyJet flight. The crew asked him if he wanted to board ahead of everyone else but he said no, he’d wait in the queue like everyone else.

@katseyes7 who is ts please I've tried to Wade back and can't see the original reference

The naming the airport ‘John Lennon’ - agree. Always thought McCartney the more worthy recipient, but I like to think he declined; that he is humble in comparison to John. Prepared to be given a reality check 😉

Just to balance things up my Da said that Helen Shapiro was a total professional and was lovely to everyone.
Would love to have found out more but when I was younger I wasn't that interested and we lost him 10 years ago .

George Harrison for the airport?

I used to work in hotels and restaurants. I met Mel Gibson and he was just so funny and really genuine. I worked for a well known head chef (Neil Perry) in Australia who was so lovely and treated us all as if we were his family. I met Keanu Reeves in the restaurant and he was very kind and genuine, not demanding and just wanted to be private where no one could bother him. Pierce Brosnan on the other hand was rude to everyone and very arrogant.
Here, In England, I met Jean Christoff Novelli and he was so lovely and kind and all the staff in his restaurant said he was a joy to work with.

Tommy Steele.

I was once involved in helping backstage at a HS concert. Helen herself was very nice, but a couple of her band members were foul.

A company I work alongside is an events and conferences company etc. sometimes this involves high flying musicians/singers. I can’t remember the name of this particular rapper, well know in their circles but meant absolutely nothing to me 🤣. They were booked for a prestigious after party event but I do remember an item on their “rider” (which is their list of wants and needs that must be fulfilled at all costs 🙄) as being the supply of a cute puppy for them to play with in their spare time whilst on the premises…can you believe it, what a complete arse. Needless to say they were told, in no uncertain terms, that the provision of live animals would not be permitted on the premises!!!. Wish I could remember some other ones, there’s been some corkers over the years…..these celebs are on a totally different planet 🤪