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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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HellKitty · 20/04/2015 07:50

So jealous of the Alter Bridge hugs!
I need to know what was on Marilyn Manson's rider - tell!

DF worked with a lot of celebs. Norman Wisdom was indeed an arse, Harry Secombe was also working with him at the time and took the piss out of NW for his behaviour, he was disgusted. Apparently J S-P is great, he was always full of praise for her professionalism. I met her and she barked at me but I was only 15 and scared of my own shadow. He also rated Jim Davidson (!!!), he met Dawn French and thought she was awful and rude but the photographer with them asked her to pose and in a second she turned into her funny self.

Don Warrington (rising damp and EE) is lovely and polite and seems to have a wicked sense of humour.

And we (me and DP) were followed around while on holiday by people thinking he was Ross Noble. So any comments about how rude and sweary Ross Noble is/was, it's probably my DP.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2015 07:53

Wiener, you said Simon Pegg can piss off. I trotted up to him to say that my dd may have gotten a bit of sick on the back of his trousers (long story) but his agent just told to "Go. He isn't talking to anyone today. So no. He won't be doing photos or autographs. Leave quickly." Fine by me, hope the smell of puke made you and precious Simon green around the gills.

As I read that, it was the agent, not Simon Pegg himself, who gave you the brush off. Not really fair on that basis to blame SP. My impression is that some of the hangers on around celebrities become very self-important and protective and where people do get above themselves it's often because their inner circle has encouraged and enabled that behaviour.

If I ever had the good fortune to meet Anthony Head (I'm another of the few who haven't!) I'd be asking him about Cabin Pressure, as I've never seen Buffy. Smile

BabeRuthless · 20/04/2015 08:14

Some of my friends used to follow Oasis up and down the country and met them several times. Liam will do anything for a fan, always stops for an autograph and a photo and prefers to eat his lunch with the crew. Noel's different depending on what day you get him apparently. Some days he was really friendly and other days he would just walk past my friends and completely blank them.

Another friend did a couple of days work with 5 seconds of summer. All lovely lads, holding doors open, making sure everyone was ok etc. She was very impressed by how well mannered they were!

WhiffleSqueak · 20/04/2015 08:17

Ruthless, the Gallagher brothers often visit a pub near me and from what I've seen are very much as you describe. both are always happy to participate in a pub quiz with hapless locals though!

Bifflepants · 20/04/2015 08:21

So the winners are David Beckham and Anthony Head.

Libitina · 20/04/2015 08:30

One who often crops up on "Nastiest Celeb threads"is Cilla Black. Apparently she's vile. I've never met her so she could be lovely for all I know. Doubt it.

I know someone who regularly served her in the village newsagents and apparently she was never nice to them.
Sir John Mills was a real gentleman though.

Michael Palin is lovely too.

munchkin2902 · 20/04/2015 08:43

One of Trevor and Simon (I think Simon!) now owns a cafe up the road from me - they did a charity 'swing your pants' gig the other week. They seem lovely.

Jacana · 20/04/2015 09:05

This is a friend's tale but it's got intriguing possibilities I thought I'd share with you.

Back in the mid 60s she was living in Rome, the time of Spaghetti movies and she was a bit actress ,one that's part of crowd scenes.She met Clint Eastwood, he'd done the Rawhide series but then there was this big dip in his career before it then took off again. He made money by wearing a big cowboy hat, strumming a guitar in nightclubs and singing along(badly). this night he was broke,couldn't pay his pensione bill and hadn't anywhere to sleep . So my friend and her partner offered him couch space at theirs, they already had a girlfriend staying with them for a hol.

So the four of them went back and after more drinks my friend and partner went to bed. Clint propositioned the girlfriend, she said no. He asked her again, again she refused. He gave a big sigh then said "I never ask a girl a third time. You'll never know what you've missed" ShockGrin

Question, wtf do you think he did to make her 'experience' so special?? Grin

BodleianLibrarianook · 20/04/2015 09:12

I spent a day working at the ideal homes exhibition on the stand next to Colin and Justin. They were great fun, they kept winding up my male colleague by saying things like "Oh! Aren't you tall! Are you well proportioned?"

JammyGem · 20/04/2015 09:15

Met Rowan Atkinson a few years ago and was very disappointed - very rude grumpy man.

DP used to spend a lot of time with the Middletons. Apparently Kate is very kind but very dim, Michael is a bit distant, Carole is an absolute arsehole, very manipulative and nasty to everyone until she wants something from them, James is up himself, and Pippa (who was rarely there) is an absolute sweetheart and the best of the bunch.

Tanith · 20/04/2015 09:19

I may have met loads of people, but I never realise until it's too late and DH hisses "Didn't you recognise him/her?!" Um, no...Blush

He has met Simon Cowell. Well, no - actually he delivered to Simon Cowell's home and saw the tail end of Simon Cowell scuttle into the bedroom.

Simon Cowell's amused partner gleefully informed DH that Simon was afraid of being recognised! Grin

Clawdy · 20/04/2015 09:28

Paul McCartney - lovely.
Dominic Monaghan - delightful.
Rik Mayall -lovely.
Gok Wan - totally up himself.

AldiQ7 · 20/04/2015 09:33

I don't actually really have any celebs to add, but I just had to come on and say that the image of Bono leaving a bar and blessing everyone as he left has really brightened up my day! I can so totally imagine it!

GuiltyAsAGirlCanBe · 20/04/2015 09:40

My ex flat-mate shagged Gok wan when he used to be fat. Apparently he was really vain even then, and spent hours "styling" himself for his Saturday job in habitat! Smile

GuiltyAsAGirlCanBe · 20/04/2015 09:41

I also saw Gok in a gay club. As soon as he arrived he was up on his tip toes looking around and waving at people that he knew with massive hand gestures just to make sure everyone knew he was there...

Idontseeanydragons · 20/04/2015 09:53

I think Steve Coogan has forgotten the old adage of being kind to the people you meet on the way up just in case you meet them on the way back down again.
He's spent years hiding where he grew up and pretending to be middle class (when he most definitely isn't). It's a pity really, I know an ex colleague of a member of his immediate family that one is apparently lovely and very down to earth!
Nice to read about the cbeebies cast, I follow Alex Winter on Twitter - he's very funny Grin

LiDLrichardsPistachioSack · 20/04/2015 09:58

I did Danny Devito's hair once (I know, weird) when he was in London performing in a play. He was absolutely lovely and chatted with everyone in the shop. he was very difficult to shampoo, he almost needed a booster seat at the basin

YouBetterWerk · 20/04/2015 10:02

David Miliband flirted with me quite a lot.

Make of that what you will.....Hmm

StoneFoxMama · 20/04/2015 10:05

Anthony Head lives here in Bath, or at least used to. My friend cheekily asked him if he'd like to go for a coffee, he was not impressed. But I'm sure he's lovely, my friend was being infantile.

My friends dad is Sean Bean, mum is

BackCrackandNappySack · 20/04/2015 10:08

I would quite like David Millband to flirt with me.

Ed Milliband not so much….

StoneFoxMama · 20/04/2015 10:13

Whoops, mum is the gorgeous Melanie Hill from Bread. Lovely people.

Marcus Mumford is an absolute gentleman who carried all my stuff around for me when we went out after one of his gigs and taught me how to play poker.

I used to play with Noel Edmonds kids in Devon when I was little, they had a playhouse for the kids on his property that was a real 2 bedroomed house, loads of horses which we rode all the time and he was always jetting in in his helicopter.

Keira knightley is a sweetheart

chocolateyay · 20/04/2015 10:21

We were in the park and Jeremy paxman was there, pacing up and down as if waiting for someone.

I just couldn't for tbe life of me remember his first name and whispered to DS (about 5 at the time) ' oh that's Paxman, who is on the tv' .

DS was in one if his 'everything is a joke' mode and yelled 'Batman? Thats batman? Doesn't look like batman to me. Too small...'

Batman sniggered.

Is anyone compiling a spreadsheet?

YouBetterWerk · 20/04/2015 10:21

I second Anthony Head though, met him years ago at a Buffy signing
because I was a massive nerd and he was absolutely delightful.

YouBetterWerk · 20/04/2015 10:23

BackCrack, he had a raw sexual magnetism it has to be said Blush

Tangofandango · 20/04/2015 10:23

A very well known radio/tv presenter/host, married with a family, often gets the same tube train as my son. Every time, he tries to chat my son up and asks him out. Son always says no but it doesn't stop the celeb trying. Would make a great expose for the papers!