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!

Alan Davies, sat next to him across the aisle on a plane once, quite a while ago. He was very sneery and took the mick out of me reading to my daughter. I didn't take to him and was surprised as I thought he would be nice in real life.

Yes Jimmy Carr! A close friend, very sweet, polite woman met him (when she'd paid a significant sum to see him live) and he was unbelievably rude and unpleasant, foul-mouthed. Truly obnoxious person.

I met Mark Knopfler a couple of times, in the course of my work, and he was lovely. I met Eric Clapton, same job, also Lovely. David Bowie was an absolute delight, very chatty and funny.

I found Tony Robinson to be quite abrasive, Phil Harding was downright rude and Professor Mick Aston was brilliant. Also guesting on Time Team, Sandi Toksvig who I would cross lava to chat to again, she was wonderful.

I also managed to have met, through work, Ainsley Harriott who was fantastic fun, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, very abrupt. I had no idea who he was and feel he was not happy about it. Ron Pearlman was very pleasant, Joanna Lumley was charming and seemed to be genuinely interested in people she was speaking to, as was George Harrison. I also met Jimmy Carr and am in the charming camp with him. Also Matt Baker in his Blue Peter days. Connie and the other woman were less friendly but Matt was engaging and really interested in everyone.

None of the work roles were wildly high powered, I am a contracting administrator who has had a few good breaks with some short term-contracts. Had some properly terrible ones too.

Su Pollard is exactly as you'd expect, mad! My (then) 2 year old barked at her and she barked back! She was wearing long fake plaits attached to an alice band. Quiet voice though.

On the flip side of that, my Dad, Husband and friend went on a tall ship sailing day many many years ago and James Martin was on there with a camera crew, and isolated himself away from everyone only appeared on deck to do a few bits to camera before hiding away again, the camera crew were lovely and chatted with everyone and joined in with everything until they were needed to film.

My cousin when he was about 7 met John major at a motorway service station. He was having his breakfast and my cousin walked up to him and asked for an autograph. His security started to move him but apparently John was really nice and friendly. I always have the spitting image John major when I hear his name so he was completely different to how I expected😂

DH nearly got punched by Mark Knopfler when he was about 17. It was at his uncle’s wedding (uncle had done some work for Knopfler) and DH decided to try and drunkenly tell Knopfler how much he loved Dire Straits. To be fair DH did say he’d probably have wanted to punch his annoying-drunk-teen-self as well!

Through work I met Rowan Atkinson, he was very quiet and came across almost shy. It was a brief interaction but thought he was very sweet.

Another was Keith Flint from the Prodigy. Also a very quiet and sweet individual.

Yes - Prunella Scales. Sat opposite her at a friend's wedding and next to her husband Jeremy West. Both utterly uninterested in me or any other civilian. Moaned to each other about the food, looked down her nose at anyone trying to start conversation, but lit up as soon as another famous actor appeared.

I had the opposite with him! Busy Starbucks and we were looking for a seat; he was at a table by himself and called over saying there was space at his table. We sat down (students at the time) and he made chit chat, asked us what we were studying and made some jokes. Was very personable and nice enough for random chit chat.

I met Lulu and she was unbelievably arrogant and kept talking about herself in the third person.
Oh and she has TERRIBLE skin!

Annie Lennox and Kate Bush. Annie was incredibly vain, Kate manipulative.

I met Vinnie Jones years ago in a local pub - he was absolutely lovely,
totally down to earth, friendly and funny! And absolutely massive, the screen doesn’t really show how tall and broad he is!

Another one: James Cracknell.

We stayed in a holiday property next door to him and his family, we shared some out door space with them so paths naturally crossed. Our DC were very similar ages but weren’t allowed anywhere near ours and we were generally treated with great disdain.

Different people I know have met and worked with Carol Klein and Alan Titchmarsh, both TV gardeners. I was shocked by what I heard about Carol--they said she was difficult and let professional colleagues down all the time by not turning up when she was supposed to. Nobody had a bad word to say about Alan and everyone loved him. I met Jane Goodall once who was lovely.

This is very outing for anyone that knows me but sod it!

I’ve met almost everyone from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly. I have been genuinely surprised by how friendly and nice all of them were. The ones that stood out as exceptionally nice were:

Nathan Fillion - just an absolute sweetheart
Alan Tudyk - spent ages asking me about my pregnancy despite it being an event for him and his colleagues
Morena Baccarin - similarly spent a while asking about my pregnancy too
Juliet Landau - kept saying how she loved my nickname and was going to tell one of the other cast members who shared the name when she got back
James Marsters - an absolute gentleman who didn’t rush anyone and made sure to see everyone waiting to meet him
Bailey Chase - made a huge effort to dress up really smartly for the photo shoot with fans despite a heavy party with the cast and fans the night before AND it turning out that he and the other guests had not been paid by the event organisers (in fact every single guest there that weekend was amazing despite this fact, unlike a certain David Boreanaz who wasn’t happy about something at another event and was a miserable twat the whole time)

I won’t called DB out as being awful though, as at another event he was charming, friendly, smiling, engaging - clearly had a bad day the first time round and we all have that occasionally!

Dawn French, was an utterly rude cow to me. I was so polite and doing my job wrapping her items (I worked in accessorize monsoon). Snatched the bag after throwing a debit card at me)

I was surprised myself, tbh. From what I'd seen of him I was expecting him to be a bit of a k**b. I mentioned an elderly relative being terminally ill and that she was a big fan of his Saturday shows. He then proceeded to do something entirely selfless, generous and thoughtful, for which I will be eternally grateful to him for the joy it brought to my relative. I couldn't hate him if I tried!

Maybe he was feeling seasick 😁

I can’t comment on Peter A but a friend of mine had a Saturday job in WHSmiths when Katie was doing a book tour for the novel with her name on the cover (which she cheerfully admitted in a TV interview she hadn’t read far less actually written).

Apparently she was lovely - personalised messages, stayed hours past the contracted time so nobody was disappointed, was really nice to even the most junior staff.

It makes me sad when I see how her life had ended up.

Ah bless you - I totally understand! No he’s not!

Name dropping, you say?

I've met Kate Bush professionally over the years (I'm also a fan, obviously) and she was always so humble and incredibly sweet. I have never heard anybody say anything bad about her, so this is surprising. In what way is she manipulative?

Annie Lennox is supposed to be another good 'un.

Rik Mayall. who was really interesting to talk to. It was just after the first series of the Young Ones and he said there was going to be a second series on Thursday nights.

We said oh pity as always out Thursdays and don't have a video.
Cue episode in the Young ones second series , "oh you've got a video,yes I've got a video,". Maybe we inspired it....
Anyway,he was a laugh and he then did his sneery f**k off and the Vs persona, which we did back , decent guy.

Vic Reeves came in very often to a bookshop I used to work in. Rude, entitled and his children were feral.