Famous people you thought would be nice, but were tw*ts?

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Have you met someone famous and they turned out to be a bit of a twat?

I once met Steve Coogan (who I thought was hilarious as Alan Partridge) who was a sexist, lecherous buffoon IRL.

Share your tales!

Met Elizabeth Hurley once, she was really friendly!

Another reverse of the thread ask - Harry Styles. Won't say what, but we regularly attended the same activity, and he was really lovely - friendly, quiet, not a whiff of celeb arrogance about him. Very genuine.

You lucky thing, how lovely!

Nice. What a beautiful, romantic era that was.❤

@menopause59 I haven't RTFT but James Cordon's name usually comes up in these threads quite a lot. A relative has worked as an extra for years and used to really love him - until she actually met him. She said he treats everyone as if they're menials.

I’ve relayed these before - all positive in my case:

Davina M I know pretty well in a work capacity. She is bloody gorgeous - as she appears - full of energy and positivity- warm, not grand in the slightest and treats everyone on the programme she is involved with the same from the lowliest to the other celebs. Very funny and very sweary. Totally dotes on her kids and Michael.

Imelda Staunton - total sweetheart , again not grand at all, friendly and interested in others. And Jim Carter, warm and gentlemanly - shyer than Imelda.

Michael Ball - love love love.

Maggie Smith - grand and cool, somewhat unapproachable but I imagine shy - also loved her though and told she was acerbic, a good person and incredibly clever. A huge loss.

Paul McCartney - an absolute sweetheart.

Ken Dodd I knew pretty well. Very different to his stage persona. Quiet but drew people out of themselves. Really interested in other. Warm, thoughtful, intelligent, shy. Passionate about Liverpool. Not in the slightest bit grand - would carry his own props to his large car after shows and load of it up himself, and he and his then partner would stay at Premier Inn and similar level hotels. Another lovely man and very different to how I thought he would be.

@CatherineCawoodsbestie doesn’t suprise me at all on any of those - Paul I knew about as done stuff involving him

I keep thinking of more. Jill Dando once came to our workplace. It's always a bit of an eye-roll when people gush about someone being glowing or having an aura about them, but she absolutely did. Her smile lit up the room. Just beautiful. I would imagine similar to Princess Diana.

@littleredridinghelmet A lady I chat to at our weekly club was recently invited to a Tennis event at Wimbledon and Hugh Grant was there along with other celebs, they were playing matches with members of the public. (I think Judy Murray was there too, can't remember all the ones she said.)

Anyhoo, she said he was really lovely with them all, chatted to her and her son.
She also said he was an excellent tennis player and rather handsome too!
I do think he is a fine actor and sometimes people forget how many brilliant parts he has played.

Yes, one of my best friends worked as an intern for Bill Clinton and said he was incredibly charismatic. She said there wasn't a woman working in his offices who wouldn't have happily dropped their knickers for him at the very first chance they got. She said it was quite unsettling, the amount of charm he had.

She didn't sleep with him, by the way, much to her chagrin.

Someone close to me was interviewed by Andrew Neil as they are a specialist on a particular topic that was in the news at the time. Said he was a lech who asked her out to dinner when the interview ended.

Another was Will Carling. I wanted to crawl under the desk as my work colleague was fawning all over him and practically falling at his feet. It was so embarrassing. He came across as the strong, silent type, a bit brooding and hard to read, though not unpleasant at all.

I'm really enjoying him in his middle/late period: the Paddington films, Florence Foster Jenkins, A Very English Scandal…

@LittleBitofBread I saw Florence Foster Jenkins ages ago but it stayed with me because of Hugh Grant's performance.
Quite an odd film but I thought he was excellent in it.
Enjoy!

Gordon Ramsey was an absolute sweetheart. He ignored his very snotty PA's advice and posed for some lovely publicity shots with DH and me. Afterwards we had a quick drink with him and he was just lovely.

Jeremy Clarkson was an absolute gentleman when I sat next to him at a charity event. I had a nasty migraine come on very quickly and he couldn't have been kinder or more helpful.

Prince Charles was surprisingly affable and amusing when DH spent an afternoon with him at a media event supporting local farmers (or something). Once the initial protocols were done with (on first being introduced you had to bow your head and refer to him as Your Royal Highness, then after that you call him 'Sir') PC was actually very relaxed and good company. DH was very impressed at how perfectly ironed PC's shirt was!

However, 'professionally Northern' couple Tess Daly and Vernon Kay were bloody nightmares to deal with. Really snotty and VK reduced one of our members of staff to tears because he was so unfair and nasty. Oh and he was a right handsy twat too. Thought he was God's gift, despite him looking like the bastard love child of Wallace (from Wallace & Gromit) and a giraffe.

There are lots of accounts of bill clinton raping people.

Nasty man.

I once met Jake Canuso backstage at a concert, I mentioned that my daughter loved the TV show he was in, Benidorm and he insisted on doing a video for her, in character, as Mateo! He was lovely, funny, kind and gracious x

Really? I didn't know that?

He is excellent. Quite a sad character, very aware of the strange and sad position he is in, and genuinely loves Florence in his way. He plays it beautifully.

My Aunt was at Champneys at the same time as Cilla Black and was shocked at how rude and entitled she was to both staff and other guests. Just no need.

Ah that's good to know.

Has anyone met Ross Kemp ? I’m terrified of him and get scared whenever I see him on screen ! Tell me he’s nice really ?!!

He's one of DH's customers and he says he's lovely and his wife bakes nice cakes.

I've thought of a few more - Reggie Yates, effortlessly lovely and just genuinely interested in people, so nice to chinwag with. Betty Boothroyd, I had a tour of her private chambers and she was brilliant fun and so generous with her time.

Also Ian McKellen - I used to live near his pub and met him a handful of times and he was always very happy to chat if he was sitting at the bar. Simon Amstell used to come into our student union bar... and boy did we know it. Prickly and yet self-aggrandising at the same time - although I think he's had some mental health struggles since so maybe we should give him a pass.

DS worked with him earlier in the year and said he was fine. A little reserved but very amenable. Not terrifying at all!