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!

Denise welch, she wasn’t nice or rude

Diane Morgan (I think?) once spoke about being invited onto the set of the Victoria Wood Show by a friend who was in the cast, and she was briefly introduced to Victoria and was really starstruck and started gushing about how VW had been her childhood hero and inspiration to get into comedy - and Victoria cut her dead. Literally looked straight through her and acted like she hadn’t spoken and wasn’t in the room. Diane was totally mortified.

When I mentioned this on a previous thread, loads of people rushed to defend Victoria Wood - “She was famously shy”; “She was working”; “She was under a lot of pressure and responsible for the whole show”. Yeah … but even given all that, she was still a tiny bit of a cunt, wasn’t she?

I still love Victoria Wood, but that pops into my head every time I watch her.

Both very nice and friendly - Paul Whitehouse and Martin Shaw.

I met George Takei, Garrett Wang and Marina Sirtis at a Star Trek convention. All were lovely. Marina Sirtis is hilarious. Has a very strong London accent and would make a great landlady of the Queen Vic.

We met John Torode last year. Not very pleasant at all. Lisa Faulkner was lovely though.

Oh and met the then Prince Charles and Camilla at a work event. They were both very down to earth. Charles had a lovely handshake,firm, warm and dry!

My boyfriend at the time bumped into Robbie Williams in the DIY shop he was fitting a till into in London in the late 90's. He phoned me then asked Robbie if he'd say hello and he told my boyfriend to fuck off! I wasn't that bothered, Gary was my favourite anyway 🤣

Nah. Marmalade has a few hits of their own. Originally Dean Ford and The Gaylords . Those were innocent times!

I met Davina McCall once at a soft play when her older kids were young. We just chatted as two mums agreeing how horrible soft play is. She was lovely, totally normal and no airs or graces.

I get that people think famous people owe something to the public but I wish we didn’t get posts on these threads based on a single public interaction. I’m sure most recognisable people do do their best to be on good form when approached but with the best will in the world they can’t keep that up at all times.

Fair enough, if every single story about someone in this context is bad then maybe they are an arse. But you so often see people say ‘oh no, my Auntie Pam met him and said he was lovely and now I think differently about him’ and I think, poor sod, he put in the spadework with Auntie Pam one day just to have it all blown to pieces when someone shouted his catchphrase at him just after he’d got a parking ticket.

Iv shared these a few times on here but iv worked in background media for years and the ones that come to mind are..

Peter Andre.. sooo cheesy and smiley. Talks to you in a condescending way as if he is so much smarter than you. The ick personified.

Cat deeley .. shouting alot. Seemed very stressed

Ant and Dec. Dec was lovely,made time for the kids around...ant told him to hurry up and stop "wasting time" on the children

Graham Norton... Bubbly and clearly loves a wine. Watched him have 3 glasses in 45 minutes 🤣

David tennant... Biggest shame for me. Rude and pompous. Clicking his fingers and demanding. Met him twice and same experience unfortunately.

Taylor swift.. lovely. Expected a bit of a diva with a huge entourage. She showed up with her mum and publicist and let me call my niece to say hi to her. Very engaging to talk to which put me on edge! 🤣

Will mellor..a class act. Proper sweetheart and deserves the world.

Ariana grande ... Few years ago now she seemed very sweet but honestly very sad.

Dolly parton .. the sweetest person ever. Kept calling everyone darling 🤣

Jeremy clarkson .. rude. No surprise really. Assumed I wanted his autograph which I didn't even ask for and rolled his eyes when I said that's alright

Prince Charles visited my med school about 25 years ago (presumably to open a ward of something), and he was surprisingly lovely to what was basically a bunch of silly teenagers on a walkabout afterwards.

We would have been about the same age as his kids, and presumably he was used to having groups of their friends mucking about at home. “Jovial” is probably the best way to describe it. Bit awkward, like your dad trying to make a joke, but very friendly and warm.

I am a republican and was fully expecting him to be a massive twat (this was post-Diana and all of the books and interviews and stories about having a special valet to put his toothpaste on the brush for him, none of which showed him in a good light). But he was much better than I expected. I am still against the institution though.

Billy Connolly is nice & normal. I used to live near one of his properties. You would see him pop in to the local shop for milk. He would wave at the kids if he passed them on the school run on his trike. Came across as a genuinely nice chap.

“Dr Sir Brian May”. I’m a pedant so seeing his titles in the incorrect order, made my eye twitch 💐

When I was younger I was an actress & appeared for a season in a well known soap as well as several plays & pantos. I've worked with many famous people some of whom were w@nkers, others who were lovely.

Amongst the lovelies were June Whitfield - she was like everyone's favourite auntie, Roy Hudd - a very clever, funny & humble man & Wendy Richards who was very supportive & keen to help & advise a young actress. I won't mention the w@nkers as some of them still alive.

My late DH was a tour organiser for musicians, Daniel O'Donnell was his favourite - a genuinely nice, kind man who treated everyone with respect, was undemanding & loves to spend time with his fans & often had to be dragged away from the queue of people wanting to say hello & get his autograph hours after his performance as it was getting very late, he had to go to bed as had a very long journey to his next venue the following morning. Late DH was used to working with prima-donnas (again won't mention names) & Daniel O'Donnell was a breath of fresh air - so easy to work with.

This is an excellent point.

He is not a famous person but DH was once an expert witness at a very publicised murder trial. OMG I can't tell you how irritating it was for complete strangers to come up to us in the supermarket and start with the "I saw you on TV/in the newspaper" and then try to elicit snippets of information about the case not in the public domain (which DH could not comment on anyway). Even worse was on the maternity ward where the midwife was trying to point out an abnormality with newly born dd and trying to get the doctor to sign an urgent paediatric orthopaedic referral while the doctor was focussed only on DH and wittering "I saw you on TV" .... his own examination had missed the abnormality completely. I was severely p*ssed off.

I don't know how celebrities manage with it all the time.

Must admit I'd be similar.

Noo, say it isn't so! I had a lovely long chat to her when I was little, back in the very early days of Eastenders. Wendy was so kind to me and my friend and wanted to give us a tour of her dressing room, but Dad said we had to go. :( He knew her pretty well through work and apparently she always made a fuss of him too. He wasn't anyone important or famous, just did a boring technical behind the scenes job which sometimes took him to Elstree.

Oh I’m so pleased you said that, he’s coming to Swansea and I am really looking forward to it!

Also this thread has got me thinking… Diane Abbott is appalling. I saw her order a drink in the Strangers Bar in the House of Commons by clicking her fingers and shouting: “BOY!” at the bartender at the top of her voice. I knew her through work so it wasn’t terribly surprising, although it was disappointing.

But let’s even it out again… Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens). I met him at a Downing Street garden party and I plucked up my courage to say to him that ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’ was the song that got me through my divorce and I was amazed that he wrote it at the age of 17, what a talent. He responded: “What a generous thing to share. Thank you so much for telling me that it touched you, I’m really glad.” And we had a hug. What a gent.

Wendy Richard had an appalling reputation. I’m glad there are some positive stories!

Cherie Blair was rude and stuck up. She was surrounded by security detail and seemed very cold.

Nooooo 😢 bubble bursts

Jodie Prenger ( she played Nancy in Oliver after winning the TV show) was absolutely adorable. One of the nicest people I have ever met.
Little and Large were very nice too.
Bobby Ball swore at dh at a petrol station one night when dh made the mistake of looking at him.
Dh has met Ricky Wilson, said he was very down to earth.
He has been backstage drinking with Def Leppard, said they were all great and the lead singer gave dh and his mate a beer, and invited them to sit and chat with him.
He’s met Billy Ocean after his gig and said he was very unassuming and sat in the bar with the general public.
He’s met the band Saxon and they gave him free tickets to their next concert.
He’s also met Peter Kaye at a concert. Peter was stood behind him in the special guests section. Dh said when he looked at PK, PK went into full comedy mode, no airs and graces at all.
Dd has met Tyson Fury whilst she was working in hospitality. She said he wasn’t any bother at all and posed for a photograph with her.
I’ve met Rob & Lindsay Burrow. Rob was very ill, Lindsay is another truly wonderful person.

Re: Robbie Williams, years ago when Take That had just had their first hit, they played at a school disco, held at a local country club (it was a competition prize from the Radio 1 Roadshow). DS, then 16, attended and unwisely rested his hand on the front of the stage...Robbie Williams promptly stamped on it, accidentally I think/hope, as he said, "Sorry mate!" Then carried on dancing.

I took some school students to see her for a Q&A when she was pregnant with Leo. It was a hot day, she'd been on her feet all day in court and she was heavily pregnant. She was lovely to all the students, answering their questions and was very engaging about law and politics. She came across as very bright and very reflective.