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.

Gaiman's parents and one of his sisters are/were all very senior in Scientology. He grew up in East Grinstead, which is the home of the Scientologists in the UK. Being around a cult can't be conducive to a healthy upbringing and outlook on life.

Dunno you can call it "working with" but in my career I've met a lot of famous-ish people. Peter Hook was lovely though very sweary; Noel Gallagher was pretty nice too; the late Tony Wilson was amazing, same for John Peel. Adam Sandler is a nice guy, though the fame distortion around him is bonkers. Julia Stiles was brilliant (I think she thought I didn't know she was famous)--just had a normal chat. Katie Price (though in her Jordan persona) was very sweet too and hard working, in a situation where most people actually didn't really know or care who she was. People who were much less nice... Paul Weller (ugh, just awful); Van Morrison (a real meany and rude to staff); Orla Kiely (the epitome of nice to the important people, terrible to the minions); Liam Gallagher (no surprises I suppose). I'm not going to include Brian May exactly but the one time I was around him he was in a fury, but sort of had cause...My all time worst: Nicky Campbell. Obnoxious, thought he was much smarter than he was, and smelly... My favourite, just because I love her work so much, Yolandi Visser. Not remotely like her stage persona, very down to earth, polite to staff and strangers.

I'll defend to the death The Frog Chorus
and Imagine is sentimental bollocks (plus 'Imagine no possessions' from a guy who had a whole separate apartment for Yoko's fur coats).

I actually like that one and I don't like Christmas.

That's very sad to read.

Imagine is a dirge. But then I’m of the opinion that Lennon never wrote a truly great melody after the Beatles. Great songs yes, Melodies, no. <awaits flaming>

Yes! Imagine no possessions... the irony clangs loudly, every time I hear that mawkish rubbish....

Well, it doesn't for me. Good Omens was co-written in the late 1980s and published in 1990. At that time Gaiman was virtually unknown as a novelist. He was born in 1960 and Pratchett in 1948. They must have spent a bit of time together to be able to complete the project, but I don't see why that means Terry must have seen Gaiman acting inappropriately around women and kept quiet about it. They didn't collaborate again. I have no knowledge of whether they ever socialised.

One of the things I absolutely love about the Discworld books is how strong and well-realised the female characters are. I tried reading some of Gaiman's fiction a while back and gave up because I found it really sleazy. There's nothing sleazy about Good Omens, which I put down to the Pratchett contribution.

I imagine he’s very nice to the “right” people… but to all cast and crew he was just a complete d*. It’s stayed with me for many years, as it has with everyone else that I still know who were there. I hate seeing how fake he is on TV. Turn it straight over!

Not really worked for but my late mum was a receptionist at the Savoy hotel and she said Elizabeth Taylor and Gina Lollobrigida were really lovely, Kirk Douglas, obnoxious, cocky and conceited, Danny Kaye, Peter Cushing and Spencer Tracy- lovely, Ronald Regan- a crashing bore, Rock Hudson, quite tragic, he wore a corset either due to a bad back, expanding waistline or maybe x-dresser? Judy Garland, a sad mess, very insecure but nice. She would regularly ring mum for chats when mum was on night shift, and Judy had insomnia. Liza, her daughter was a precocious brat but quite amusing, would prank call mum. Marilyn Monroe, very ditzy and dizzy appearing, quite nice person, Zsa Zsa Gabor, horrible, whingeing diva, nearly got mum sacked, complaining constantly everything was "tarrible'" and mum retorted, "hmm like your acting"? Errol Flynn, tried his luck with mum unsuccessfully. He had that reputation.

What an incredible life your mum has at The Savoy. You’ve mentioned so many of my personal icons in your post ♥️

@RosaMoline Yes, she had an interesting life but just took it in her stride & wasn't particularly star-struck. I think the old Hollywood stars of yesteryear are very iconic and glamorous, oozing star quality. I had her Savoy uniform, it was a fabulous suit and used to wear it in my vintage period.

DH had Gordon Ramsey along to meet a group of his elderly service users a few years ago. He was absolutely lovely by all accounts.

i dont get the love in for mel gibson hes a known anti vaccer cc denier that is a racist who beat up his wife you cant blame alcohol on all that

I did chuckle at a brilliant gag they made on HIGNFY some years back, when they were talking about Liverpool John Lennon Airport and their slogan 'Above us only sky'.

They jokingly claimed that the baggage handlers had their own separate slogan, also from the same song: 'Imagine no possessions'

John Peel may well have come across as erudite and charming, but he was very well-known for his 'thing' for underage girls.

Well he stayed at a country hotel in a quiet area where family live to do a movie. He mixed with the locals, did a lot of walking around the area. He was lovely to all on and off set

I think he probably had his demons though. But has mellowed with age or meds.

We've a friend famous in art circles who goes months without a drink or recreational drugs, but when he falls off the wagon it's carnage. Luckily as he's aged mid forties now. It's far less often. He's done rehab a few times in the past

he hasn't mellowed at all go and look at Joe rogan podcast with him utter mad man

I wouldn't say it was very well known, though it has come out after his death.
They named a stage after him at Glastonbury then quietly renamed it recently.

Bet if he'd lived, he'd be banging on about climate change while flying to protests by private jet.

I don't know how to podcast.i

I've met Gaiman too and know quite a few people who know him reasonably well (socially, not professionally - albeit mostly quite a few years ago). There was no sense he was a sexual predator. Indeed, his vibe was very much the opposite and I know people who were certainly genuinely shocked (and at least one who still flat out doesn't believe the allegations).

I think "well known" is sort of fair... but not in some secret industry way. Peel was pretty open about it in both interviews and the way he behaved in his earlier years. Later on times changed and he recanted a little (claiming his 15 year old wife's parents had lied about her age for example.) He was not much different from other music industry people of his era from Elvis to Page, the Rolling Stones, Bowie etc. The age of consent was pretty much ignored in the 60s and 70s in that world.

I met Lando at a Silverstone event back when McLaren were NOT winning anything... He was very sweet, though it was only a brief chat. Bottom line is I'm sure most of us can think of some people who would probably say we're d**cks... a lot depends on very brief interactions.