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!

A former colleague of mine went to see his show and afterwards went into the pub next door with her companions for a drink before going home. AD was also there having an after-show drink. She went over to tell him how much she'd enjoyed the show and he was horrible to her. She had been a big fan. She wasn't after that!

I was in London near a theatre she was performing in,the street was heaving and a man in front of me recognised her as she walked past. The pedestrian traffic almost carried her saying she fought her way back to chat to him and him get photos. I thought that was nice.

Lol at 'chronic condition' 😅

Bill Clinton -the man was tall, groomed and gleaming and elegant definitely a president. Had a great deal of charisma.
Tony Blair - oily as in his hands were really sweaty when I shook his -and he looked small and like he was from a charity shop compared to BC.

Years ago, about half a century, the group Marmalade came to play at our local theatre. My friend and I were at the bar before the gig and a couple of older men in denim jackets and flairs tried to buy us a drink and chat us up. We were 18 and laughed and walked off. Little did we know that these were members of the group we had paid to see! Still, make a good tale 50 years on. Anyone even heard of Marmalade?

I agree . There’s no proof that the poster has even met Famous Person X , never mind what they said or did. And that person would be blissfully unaware that apparently they told someone’s cousins brother to fuck off in Sainsburys.

That’s quite literally the point of this thread, isn’t it? So that’s not the gotcha you thought it was. OP explicitly asked for names of famous people, whereas I don’t go about in ordinary conversation discussing these people.

@Chicheguevara on previous threads there have been some — ahem, rather “hair raising” tales that MNers have had about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall … I’ll let others fill in!

Oh and I’ve remembered another one, possibly the rudest “celebrity” I’ve ever met: Phill Jupitus. I’ve met him a few times through friends and he’s an unremitting arsehole. I also once saw him at a music festival getting friendly with a woman who was most definitely not his (lovely, and disabled) wife.

Timothy West, not Jeremy. Was this possibly after she developed dementia?

@Cinaferna@Gall10 both Robert and Jimmy are very lovely genuine chaps as are Paul McCartney, Elton John and Peter Gabriel -

I got kicked out of my hospital room because his wife was booked in privately to have her baby, so I dislike him irrationally. (It was the early 90s in our local hospital,so it really wasn't that great.)

Yes Timothy sorry. It was over 25 years ago, so I dont think so.

@summertimeinLondon yep agreed!!

Mike from the oxo adverts.

was in panto with him as a child and he couldn’t have been less dismissive of the children if he tried!

Didn’t help when the review came out stating the child dancers were the best thing about it 🫣🤣

Someone who is as lovely as he appears on screen is Mr Motivator! Genuinely a warm funny and lovely guy.

Niall horan from one direction was a bit rude to me

I'm old enough to remember their version of Ob La Di Ob La Da!

That does not surprise me, she always looked massively sullen. Not surprised Arthur strayed in ‘enders 👀

Celebrities don't have to be nice.

I met niall horan from one direction and he was rude to me, but i did think that he might have been stressed and tired.

Edited - sorry replied to wrong post!

Timothy West. If you are going to slag off a dead person, at least get their name right.

Re. Prunella Scales, Danny Baker used to have a running joke on his radio show about someone "going right off the Prunella Scales" when they blew their top about something, such was her reputation for kicking off at people. I think someone on a phone in had been on the receiving end.

Re. Rik Mayall, sadly never met him personally but I think about this bloke on Twitter's story so much, it's the stupidest, funniest thing I have ever seen. What a guy! x.com/pineappleghost/status/1236232609543356416

Oh no that’s annoying! He was with his Dad when I met him, about 2001 and he was honestly so lovely!

Michael Rosen, he was so kind and a very good conversationalist. He made my day chatting whilst we waited. Love reading his books to my class and telling them I have met him.

i haven’t met too many celebrities but the reverse of the Op, I stood by Eric Cantona on a very long, unpleasant train journey. Not too long after his conviction and ban.
i expected him to be a complete twat after all the publicity and actually wouldn’t have blamed him in these circumstances (train was packed after several cancellations, it was boiling hot) but actually he was a complete gent. Stood up without complaint the whole journey and was polite and friendly to everybody who approached him for autographs.