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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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exmrs · 20/04/2015 10:25

Gok wan has lots of negative stories about him which is a shame as the image he gives out that he is in touch with normal people and wants to help them look their best

Jenda · 20/04/2015 10:28

Gok used to come into a shop I worked at in Brighton and he was always friendly. my friend and I ended up sitting next to him in a cafe and got giggly, he was very smiley.

YourBubzYourRulzHun · 20/04/2015 10:31

I've only ever encountered celebs on a good day obv as they've all been nice!
Lewis from Hollyoaks,Ben Hull I think is his name? At soft play place in Marlow, I was in his way and he was very polite.
Katie Price, met her in a pub toilets, drunk but really friendly and chatty
Tess Daly was at same playground as me and kids last summer, she was chatting to the kids about her dog when they asked if they could stroke her.
I know Ulrika Jonsson very well and she is absolutely lovely and her kids are so polite and well behaved.

Jenda · 20/04/2015 10:44

I also served Jodie Marsh who was lovely, Erin o Connor who is very striking and kept herself to herself, Emma Binton and Jade Jones, seemed nice but his mum was moody! Holly Willoughby with her sister, nice and quiet. My family have met a lot. Apparently Robbie Williams was lovely and down to earth, if you could get past his horrible entourage! Simon Cowell nice, Andrew Lloyd Webber very quiet, Mel Gibson lovely and would fly his elderly parents around in a private jet to sightsee, parents lovely too. Apparently Lewis Hamilton is brilliant, always comes in and chats to staff and does loads of children's charity work

namechangedalready · 20/04/2015 10:46

Stella macartney: rude and entitled
Ant and Dec: lovely ( met them when they were still PJ and Duncan)
Isabella Rossellini: odd, just odd
Jane Birkin: talked like a child in a whispery sing song voice, in french, despite me clearly being English and talking to her in English...tiresome
I'll see if I can think of some more

Jenda · 20/04/2015 10:49

Oh and Geri Halliwell. Relative met her and didn't realise who she was was but apparently she was very friendly and chatty and very unstarry

angelos02 · 20/04/2015 10:50

I think some people may just be caught on a bad day? Or if they've been badgered by strangers all day long it must do their heads in? It would drive me mad.

Abraid2 · 20/04/2015 10:53

Michael Gove was very kind and patient to my daughter when she bumped into him in London and wanted a selfie with him. She took the selfie into school with her and I just wonder how it went down with the teachers, though!

Toooldtobearsed · 20/04/2015 10:56

Norman Wisdom? I am shocked!
When my youngest DS was 6 years old and very precocious, he wrote to Norman Wisdom to ask him to donate something to raffle, to raise money for some good cause at school.
NW not only wrote back, but donated stuff (can't for the life of me remember what).
DS then chanced his luck by inviting him to visit the school.
He did. He sat for a good couple of hours reading books and examining artwork.
No fanfare, just a nice old man. He was lovely.

Tony Benn story. When I was very young I sat opposite him on a train. Had no idea who he was, but after chatting, he realised I only had money in my pocket for the bus fare at the other end. He bought me a sandwich and a coffee.
Fast forward fifteen years, yes, fifteen years and I met him again at a social event. We shook hands and he said to me 'train.......oh, many years ago..... cheese sandwich and a coffee?.....tooold???'
He must have had the most incredible memory to be able to recall a penniless student from donkeys years ago - even down to my name.
He was wrong though.
It was a tuna sandwich.

I was devastated when he died.

chocolateyay · 20/04/2015 10:57

I've seen poor slebs being hassled when trying to eat dinner with family, and I'm not sure I would be gracious with a mouthful of chicken thai rice. Some fans are quite pushy and aggressive.

I never recogise anyone or remember their name. I usually sat 'hello (insert name of mums friend, hairdresser, teacher etc), how's the are/leg/dog etc'.

There's a soap opera chappy (which i nevet watch),that I bump into a lot around here. He looks very 'normal' and Always gives a lovely smile and cheery 'hello'. I always think 'who the hell is that?' And smile and say hello back. Then I think 'oh, its him of the telly...'

YourBubzYourRulzHun · 20/04/2015 11:03

Ooh I forgot Johnny Ball, always very jolly, always says hello when I see him out and about as he lives across the road.

iHAVEtogetoutofhere · 20/04/2015 11:22

Bob Geldof was once pretty vile to my mum at a book signing.
told her to 'just fuck off, will you?' in front of the whole of WHSmith, Canterbury. She was Blush

Maybe it was payback.
Once, as a young child, I was aware that lots of grown ups were staring at another grown up in a restaurant. I asked my mum who it was and she said: 'oh, no one really, a bit of a 'has been'. The woman next to her turned and snarled: 'that's no has-been, that's my husband'.
I still don't know who he was! Grin

Mrsboathook · 20/04/2015 11:25

Tom hiddleston is a true gentleman.

Jimmy Nesbit also very nice and funny.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2015 11:28

I've just remembered I did know an actor once, a good few years ago now, through our children's school. I had some dealings with him in difficult circumstances and found him very confrontational and unreasonable, but I suppose he had some mitigating circumstances. He is very well known in some circles - not a household name but brilliant in his own sphere, it would seem, given he won three Olivier awards.

Anyway, from time to time I look him up online to check he's still a long way away and not in the next street any more and whenever I do I see gushing remarks about what a lovely man he is and how nice he's been to some fan who's asked for an autograph etc etc. All I can say is I saw him off duty and got a very different impression.

EachandEveryone · 20/04/2015 11:28

Samuel L Jackson a legend and great to work with. I saw Gok at the theatre a nd he swanned around like a prima donna. Jonathon Ross I've heard from a friend is incredibly lovely. He once found her day dead in the street and picked it up and rang her doorbell with it. He also invites his neighbours to his amazing parties. He doesn't live in a a great big mansion just in a normal not cheap surburban neighbourhood. Ronnie Corbett is meant to be vile. I agree you can't judge people from a one minute meeting. I personally wouldn't approach anyone anyway. Lots of people on here have encountered people through work and I think that's more accurate.

I would've dropped my knickers for Dirty Harry Blush

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/04/2015 11:31

iHave, that reminds me of a story a former colleague told of chatting to some other regular commuters on her train, as they often did. For some reason one of the local TV newsreaders was mentioned. My colleague (who had a very big mouth, into which she often inserted her foot) said 'Well, there's a face for radio if ever there was one!' One of the other commuters then revealed that he was the newsreader's husband. Awkward.

FluffyTheEvilOne · 20/04/2015 11:43

I always think that there is, or should be, no requirement to be a 'people person' just because you're famous. The people getting good reviews consistently are those people who are just naturally gregarious and outgoing, getting energy from being around people. Most people (myself included) would actually find that really hard going; if I tried to be as upbeat and friendly as David Tennant or Anthony Head ALL THE TIME, especially with people I don't know approaching me and expecting a chat, autograph, photo, etc, I'd collapse of exhaustion in a week. Someone having a reputation for being a bit grumpy or withdrawn I have no problem with; I can be that way myself, under far less pressure, and so can many other people I know and we're still mostly good people, and not arrogant. Having said that, shouting or swearing, particularly at a child, inappropriate sexual behaviour, or having a conceited, superior attitude is inexcusable. Snapping at someone because they've invaded your personal space and it's the tenth time that's happened today I have some sympathy for!

It is interesting to see which names keep cropping up as examples of actual rudeness or arrogance; they're not always the ones you might expect.

Sansarya · 20/04/2015 11:49

LOL, GuiltyAsAGirlCanBe, a friend of mine was at university with Gok and claims to have once blown him!

Doggygirl · 20/04/2015 12:00

Annie Lennox - lovely lady.

Timmy Mallett (not that he is much of a celeb) was horrible.

Koalafications · 20/04/2015 12:06

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.

I don't think it's fair to blame Simon Pegg for that!

theknackster · 20/04/2015 12:08

We used the same nursery as Harry Kewell/Sheree Murphy...he was quiet, she was lovely.

Wayne Rooney was spectacularly tolerant of DS2 bending his ear with the usual DS2 stream of consciousness, and was lovely to all the other kids, when at a playbarn with his own lad.

BackCrackandNappySack · 20/04/2015 12:08

Completely agree Fluffy. Some people don't seem to understand that just because a person earns their living by doing something that makes them instantly recognisable they do become public property permanently on duty and ready to entertain 24/7 365 days a year! They are not at work! How would some of you lot like it if every time you tried to do your supermarket shopping or sitting in the dentist's waiting room or having a quiet meal out with friends some unknown randomer popped up and said 'ooh I recognise you, you work 3 floors below my office/you get my train to work/you are my GP/whatever, wanting to engage you in a conversation about your job, ask you a ton of invasive questions and then take your photo?! Shock

Being recognisable and deliberately courting attention and publicity are not the same thing.

BackCrackandNappySack · 20/04/2015 12:09

do NOT become public property

nickersinaknot · 20/04/2015 12:09

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rumbelina · 20/04/2015 12:12

I met Celia Imrie and Rik Mayall both briefly and happy to say they were charming and vivacious as I'd hoped.

My dad gave Martin Clunes a lift once and said he was lovely. They got on like a house on fire.

Sorry this thread is nastiest celebs but I don't know of any...

Oh yes I do, a friend did some work with Geri Halliwell and said she had a heart of ice.