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Nastiest celebs...

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flamingoland · 19/04/2015 18:12

Very trivial discussion (so I know I am being unreasonable already Grin ), but I am reading a thread about nasty celebs from 2008 (google brought me there) and really enjoying the gossip... AIBU to ask who the nicest and vilest celebs are who you have met in real life?

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kissmethere · 20/04/2015 00:34

Oh yes spotted Daniel Radcliffe on my travels recently, he was in deep convo with an assistant I think so resisted asking for an autograph. Harry Potter fans in the family not happy about that.

GiddyOnZackHunt · 20/04/2015 00:39

English Rugby fans: I got spectacularly drunk with a few of them. Brian Moore, Jason Leonard and Dewi Morris were quite tolerant. Particularly Dewi Morris.

EachandEveryone · 20/04/2015 00:44

I've never heard a good word about Steve Coogan. I think we can safely say he's an arse. Emma Watson has diva tendancies and expects people to pick up after her. Michael Fassbender prefers to hang out drinking with the crew than with his fellow actors. He's meant to be a great laugh. John Snow and all the other youngsters from Game of Thrones are really casual off set and again like the company of the workers. Will Smith helped carry my granny's luggage once into a hotel and pressed the lift for her.

I would hate it if Paul O'Grady is horrible. Given who he hangs around with.

judydoes · 20/04/2015 00:45

This is a daft thing to say as I don't remember who it was, but backcrackandnappy my Mother is a house sales manager and one of her staff once had a celebrity come in at 5pm, just as he was closing the show home. He said 'Sorry, we're closed now', and the celebrity uttered those 'Do you know who I AM?!' words.

The sales rep said 'Dear god fella, you're in the wrong place! You need to go and see a psychiatrist, you've got a bit of a problem mate if you don't know who you are!!!'

BreakWindandFire · 20/04/2015 01:38

Anthony Head. A few years ago I was on a train with him from mid Wales to London (I think he was filming Dr Who) which broke down at Newport, Gwent. We were told we'd be stuck for hours so all the passengers piled into the Yates' Wine Lodge next to the station. The staff were gobsmacked that Giles from Buffy had wandered in and kept trying to buy him drinks, and he was lovely and kept insisting he should buy his own.

Ed Miliband and Justine - met them 'off duty' at a friend's party a few years ago and they were both lovely.

Richard Wilson (Victor Meldrew) - sweet man, not at all like Victor!

Charles Kennedy - lovely, but v drunk and incapable and clearly struggling at the time. Sad

Cherie Blair - said my DS was a 'beautiful baby' so of course she's fab and has exquisite taste Grin

Salman Rushdie - nice but shy.

Tessa Sanderson, my childhood sporting hero - met her twice and totally vile both times. So horrible to 'little people'. Definitely would fail the waitress test. Gutted. (I also admired Fatima Whitbred so will run away if I ever see her, as I now know you should never meet your heroes!)

Matthew Parris - Times journo, Polly Toynbee and Michael White Guardian journos, all lovely and very polite and professional. Witnessed Michael White (who is v small) step in to stop a large obnoxious drunk being abusive to the person serving him. More junior national newspaper journos can be a bit 'don't you know who I am?' but they were always great.

squoosh · 20/04/2015 01:43

Can we start a support thread for people who haven't met Anthony Head? Obviously there won't be many of us on it, but still.

Please do. I feel my lack of a charming Anthony Head encounter makes my life one that is only half lived.

fatowl · 20/04/2015 01:52

My Dsis is a childrens book illustrator and has met lots of authors

Jill Murphy - lovely
Terry Deary (Horrible Histories) - lovely
Michael Bond (Paddington) - lovely (my Dsis had had a few when when introduced to him and said "OMG I thought you were DEAD- he laughed apparently)

I was at Uni with David Walliams but can't remember him (so he must have been OK because I do remember the twats at uni)

I met Will and Kate - Properly lovely, they'd met my daughter earlier in the
day and made the connection without prompting which impressed me considering how many people they'd met that day.

My dad has met Princess Anne several times - lovely

My dad also know the man who played Les Battersby in Corrie- knob

I know lots of people who are Scout leaders and they all think Bear Grylls is a knob - flies in and out of events by helicopter, gets his photo taken with the scouts and then fucks off, never talks to anyone.

BreakWindandFire · 20/04/2015 01:58

I wish someone would say to me 'Do you know who I am?' So I could stare at then quizzically, and then go 'Er…no.'

I had someone do that when he didn't get his way. "Don't you know who I am?" When I said 'no' he yelled "I am the [quite minor job] at THE GUARDIAN and perhaps I will decide to WRITE AN ARTICLE about YOU in the NATIONAL PRESS about how YOU HAVE FAILED TO HELP ME."

He was a deluded and entitled tit, and absolutely no one would have heard of him. The Guardian expose of my general crapness has yet to appear in the national press 10 years on. I had to google him to see who the hell he was, and the only article I've seen by him in recent years was about his cool anti-establishment youth. Clearly followed by a prissy entitled middle age!

snozzlemaid · 20/04/2015 03:36

Aidan Turner was incredibly lovely and listened to my nervous/excited witterings like I was saying something really interesting (which I was not). A very polite gentleman, I'm pleased to say.

frankie001 · 20/04/2015 04:23

Forgot I've also met Theo Phaphitis, Barabara Windsor who were both lovely.

Moanranger · 20/04/2015 04:26

Re " Do you know who I am?" , there was an incredibly funny video that went viral about a year ago, where an airline check in clerk, sick of getting this line, got on the airport loudspeaker & said" Attention. I have a gentleman here at my desk who does not know who he is. Can anyone be of assistance in identifying him?" That shut him up!
On the good guy front - Chris Packham, brilliant, articulate & incredibly generous with his time. A truly committed conservationist.
Zara Phillips: I was stewarding in the dressage arena at an international eventing competition - as you do - this can be stressful as judges want riders in the arena right on time, in order, & riders, esp the hotshot sleb ones can be a bit difficult with this, riding multiple horses, etc. Zara was one of the politest, most correct competitors I had to deal with, no dramas, no hassles, on time, no special pleading.
Mark Phillips (Zara's father, Princess Anne's ex) also genuine nice guy. He runs a show jumping clinic in UK twice a year - my daughter went last year - a superb & v encouraging coach.
I can believe Ricky Gervais is a knob. I saw a long video of him interviewing Gary Shandling ( US comic/writer & a personal hero) and Gervais was a world class ass. Shandling answered his dick- head questions, but looked at Gervais like something nasty stuck to the bottom of his shoe - and rightly so!
Finally, and I dined out on this one for awhile - my dinner with Ralph Fiennes: I was in a London restaurant at one of a series of two tops, and RF was sat diagonally to me. If I looked his way, he stared fiercely at me. My overall impression was he very odd & neurotic.

CheerfulYank · 20/04/2015 05:39

I want to meet Anthony Head. :(

I agree it's hard to tell just from meeting someone for a minute, but there is a difference between having a bad day and being completely up yourself.

I have no stories really. Lenny Kravitz waved to me once and Jace Everett (who sings the theme song to True Blood) kissed me once. We were in his tour ban thing. I told him to back off because I had a boyfriend and he smiled and said "okay" and then we talked about music for another half hour.

CheerfulYank · 20/04/2015 05:40

Tour van rather.

Also Sean Patrick Flanery (one of the Boondocks Saints) sent me a lovely supportive twitter message once.

BitOutOfPractice · 20/04/2015 05:45

Gordon Ramsay held a door open for me and apologised very charmingly for his friend who had barged past me to get through the door

Alistair Campbell. Lovely. Professional. And razor sharp

Welshwabbit · 20/04/2015 06:25

Forgot to say when I posted before - someone said Harriet Harman was unpleasant to their postman DH. I wasn't particularly a Harman fan but I met her a few years ago when she attended the funeral of a good friend's wife. She knew the couple fairly well (the wife had worked for her) and she was lovely at the funeral. She stayed for food afterwards and talked to everyone. So fair play.

123Jump · 20/04/2015 06:34

I had to google Anthony Head.Blush

StUmbrageinSkelt · 20/04/2015 06:44

Ainsley Harriott. He was lovely to my son, spent time talking to him and then asked permission to give him a very expensive knife that the wine and food show he was appearing at was promoting. He went over and above to make my son comfortable. He'd been one of my son's autistic obsessions for years.

ItsAllKickingOffPru · 20/04/2015 06:54

Anthony Horowitz - Backed out of a major library event where he was guest speaker with only a couple of hours notice as he had a radio interview. Years later visited a school and was rude, self-absorbed and showed no interest in any of the pupils who wanted to speak to him.

Jean Alexander - quiet, polite and refined.

BitOutOfPractice · 20/04/2015 07:01

Is Anthony Head ever at home?

MrsBattersby · 20/04/2015 07:13

Frank Bruno is a really nice guy, spent ages chatting to him

Barbara Windsor is a sweetheart

Karl Pilkington is exactly the same as he is on TV, very very nice and down to earth

Leigh Francis (Keith Lemon) is lovely, such a genuinely nice person, and so is his lovely wife!

Alter Bridge (American rock band) who are my favourite band were so sweet to me, they all gave me massive hugs Grin

I've met several WWE wrestlers as well, highlight being Shawn Michaels who was very patient and nice to me after I burst into tears at seeing him (overwhelmed 16 year old!!)

Oh my DM met Danny Dyer, he was pissed but chatty and very very nice to her

Haven't had a bad experience yet...!

PuntasticUsername · 20/04/2015 07:29

Oh oh oh, I know someone who used to work in the personal ad section of The Times and she spoke to Jack Dee when he rang up to have his daughter's birth announcement put in. Apparently he wasn't very nice - snappy and impatient - but then, new baby...

FuzzyWizard · 20/04/2015 07:30

How weird... I met Anthony Head once too... at Alton Towers. I didn't know who he was but he was lovely to my very excited buffy fan friends.

Becles · 20/04/2015 07:36

Dawndonnaagain

"beclescan confirm that Paxman is interesting, funny friendly and generous with his time. Dd 1got a selfish with him last year and he was fab"

EnvyEnvyEnvyEnvyEnvy

SheThinksShesPeople · 20/04/2015 07:38

Another confirmation that Pete Doherty is a wonderful person in real life.

Phillip Green on the other hand is top of my hate list. He was incredibly cruel to me once simply because it amused him.

Humansatnav · 20/04/2015 07:41

Tom O'Conner < comedian back in the day> is lovely. His dad was good friends with my grandad.
Bill something ( played Harry Cross in Brookside) ran down the platform to help me lift the pram onto a train in the early 90's -true gent.